2011 Skywards Future Artists Competition – Calling Budding Artists!

As part of its continuing initiative to support the arts, Skywards, Emirates award-winning frequent flyer programme, is searching for emerging artists. Whether a young art student just entering the field or an experienced artist who has never exhibited their work, Skywards wants to give artists worldwide the opportunity to showcase their work. The competition is open to all artists, regardless of medium: sculpture, photography and paintings are welcome.Three winning entries will be chosen and the image of the selected artwork will be used on the Skywards membership cards in 2012, as well as in all supporting online and offline communications and promotional material. In addition to the year-long global exposure of their art and name on the Skywards membership cards, the three winners will receive a commission of US$5000 and will be flown to Dubai in order to display their work at the Art Dubai. Art Dubai is the leading contemporary art fair in the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia and is attended by art critics, collectors and gallery owners from around the world.Judging will be conducted by a panel of highly regarded industry professionals, experts, and Skywards members and will look for creative merit, technical excellence and suitability for end use.Details on the competition can be found at www.skywardsfutureartists.com The deadline for submitting artwork is July 14, 2011.

Call for entry: Daiwa Foundation Art Prize 2012

Deadline: 26 September 2011 Artists are invited to submit work for the 2012 Daiwa Foundation Art Prize Following the success of its inaugural year, The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation is delighted to announce the second Daiwa Foundation Art Prize. The selection panel will include: Martin Gayford, Art Critic and author
Mami Kataoka, Senior curator, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
Grayson Perry, Artist and 2003 Turner Prize winner
Masami Shiraishi, Director, Scai the Bathhouse, Tokyo
Jonathan Watkins (Chair), Director of Ikon Gallery, Birmingham The Daiwa Foundation Art Prize is an open submission prize which offers a British artist a first solo exhibition in Japan. In its inaugural year, the prize resulted in a solo show at the Tomio Koyama Gallery in Tokyo for Marcus Coates. Scai the Bathhouse in Tokyo will be the partner organisation for the 2012 exhibition. In addition, the winner will be awarded a £5,000 participation fee plus travel and accommodation costs for a 7 day period in Japan to coincide with the opening of the exhibition in Autumn 2012. The Prize is open to British artists resident in the UK who have neither had nor are planning a solo exhibition in Japan. The Prize is open to artists working in any medium including painting, photography, print, drawing, sculpture, ceramics, installation and moving image. Deadline for applications: Monday 26 September 2011 Artists must submit a current CV, personal statement, documentation and images of four recent works and a completed entry form, downloadable from: www.parkerharris.co.uk/artists/downloads For further information and to apply contact the project coordinators, Parker Harris: T. 01372 462190
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Call for entries: 2nd International Ceramic Triennial, 2012

II. International Triennial of Ceramics Unicum 2012

Deadline: 31 October, 2011 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE OF INTERNATIONAL TRIENNlAL OF CERAMICS UNICUM 2012 within ZDSLU (Association of the Slovene Fine Arts Societies) and in cooperation with European Cultural and Technological Centre (EKTC) Maribor is setting up II. International Triennial of Ceramics Unicum 2012 and parallel events all over Slovenia. The emphasis is on popularization as well as presentation of contemporary ceramics as an independent area in the field of artistic creation. Triennial is connection between international and Slovene space and it gives fresh insight into artistic ceramics. Its intention is to search through elementary artistic research in connection with contemporary though; the character of contemporaneity is given by individualism, development of personal artistic language and enriched by traditional influences of old technologies. II. International Triennial of Ceramics Unicum 2012 contains competitive part and accompanying events and exhibitions. COMPETITION RULES
Call for applications is international and public.
Any individual artist or group of artists who work in this media (ceramics) may participate in the II. International Triennial of Ceramics Unicum 2012.
Members of the organizing committee, international jury and invited authors are not allowed to take part in the competitive part of triennial.
Each participant is allowed to submit up to three entries among which the international jury will make the selection.
Artworks without any ceramic techniques, technologies or approaches will be rejected. Ceramic artworks can include other materials which must not predominate.
By applying the artist assures that each ceramic artwork was created within last three years.
Costs of sending and returning artworks are author’s responsibility. Further information and Application requirements:
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Central Time Ceramics: Call For Entries

Announcing the 3rd Biennial Central Time Ceramics juried exhibition! The show will be judged by Delores Fortuna, MFA, a ceramicist with over 30 years of experience. This exhibition is open to all ceramic artists over the age of 18, who currently reside in the Central Time Zone. For entry details and exhibition information visit the Call For Entries page. Or download the prospectus.November 11, 2011 – Postmark
Deadline for Entries
January 13, 2012 – Artists Notified of
Acceptance
February 6, 2012 – All Accepted
Work Due at Bradley
February 27, 2012 – Show Opens
March 23, 2012 – Show Closes
April 22, 2012 – Deadline for Pick up/
Return of Work
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Call for entries: The Clunes Ceramic Award

11 Sept – 2 Oct 2011

The Clunes Ceramic Award: $5,000
The People’s Choice Award: $1,000
Recognition Awards

* All works are for sale The Clunes Ceramic Award is an initiative of Creative Clunes Inc. in partnership with the Art Gallery of Ballarat and the Castlemaine Art Gallery and Historical Museum. The extremely successful inaugural award, in 2010, attracted over 120 entries. The success of the Ceramic Award has ensured its continuation well into the future. In 2010, the winning work by Neville French, ‘Mungo light 3’ was acquired by the Art Gallery of Ballarat for the Permanent Collection. A high commendation was awarded to Phil Elson for his work, In the Brooding Colours of the Late Afternoon Across the Basque. Kim-Anh Nguyen won the ‘Hair Off Bellair’ People’s Choice Award of $1000 for Spinifex Family. Recognition Awards were also presented to Amy Kennedy for her work Vibration Series and to Jane Walton for Lost or Found. In 2011, the winning entry will be acquired by the Castlemaine Art Gallery and Historical Museum.

Where:

The 2011 Clunes Ceramic Award exhibition will be held at the Union Bank Arts Centre,
22 Fraser Street, Clunes, Victoria, 3370.

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