I’ve gathered recent postings of interesting contests and places to display photography, because it’s often hard to find notices of gallery shows, competitions and business opportunities for photo work - not commissioned portraiture, weddings or web commercials. All these offerings are listed on a relatively new web clearing house called Café.
Café is “the art of online calls for entry”, which has afforded me a number of valid, and valuable, venues and favorable possibilities. Click here for the Café website; it costs nothing to become a member to receive notifications as well as a very simple on line entry system and maintain a personal library of imagery. Callforentry.org
Read at bottom for information about WESTAF, the parent organization of Café.
Camera Club of New York (CCNY) 2013 Darkroom Residency Program
DEADLINE: 12/13/2012 no fee
CCNY invites emerging photographers living in New York City to apply for the 2013 Darkroom Residency Program. The CCNY Darkroom Residency offers local photographers much-needed workspace in New York City as well as access to the CCNY community and programs. Application Deadline EXTENDED: Thursday, December 13, 2012 at 11:59pm. Benefits are workspace, free admission to sponsored events, stipend, exhibition space.
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Art of Fashion - Photography
DEADLINE: 12/15/2012
Jury Fee: $5.00
This call is open to photographers that reside in the state of Alaska at least three months of the year. We're looking for photographs that illustrate all of the spectrums of art that go into fashion photography, including but not limited to: photography, modeling, hair, makeup, and clothing design. Publication in F magazine.
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Atlanta Celebrates Photography (ACP) Public Art 2013
no residency requirement
Entry Deadline: 1/21/13
Atlanta Celebrates Photography is seeking proposals for an innovative, temporary, lens-based public project. The acclaimed ACP Public Art program, an integral component of the annual October ACP festival, has featured temporary projects in a variety of diverse locations throughout Atlanta. It is significant in its ability to reach beyond the audience of traditional art venues and for its ability to expand the way its audience considers and perceives photography and “lens-based” media. Please see included "site plan" pdf for a review of past ACP commission winning projects.
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Blue Sky 2013 Pacific Northwest Photography Viewing Drawers
eligibility Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, British Columbia, Alaska
Entry Deadline: 12/21/12
Blue Sky established the Pacific Northwest Photography Viewing Drawers (“the Drawers”) program in 2007 to feature a juried public archive of original prints by contemporary photographers based in the region. Visitors to Blue Sky’s galleries in Portland are welcome to enjoy work in the Drawers by simply opening any one of the archival flatfiles, or by asking the Gallery Attendant for assistance. The Drawers program has quickly become a favorite aspect of Blue Sky’s ongoing programming, available to approximately 25,000 visitors annually.
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CSArt Colorado: Community Supported Art Colorado
Fee: $20.00 (CSArt Colorado: Community Supported Art Colorado)
Entry Deadline: 1/7/13
all art media, music, performance eligible
Denver Botanic Gardens and Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art are proud to present Community Supported Art Colorado (CSArt Colorado). Through a buy-local, share-based membership, CSArt Colorado brings artists and art lovers together. Selected by curators from Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art and Denver Botanic Gardens, the featured artworks will be in a range of media and allow for people to easily discover artists. Modeled closely on agricultural CSAs that link local food growers with local consumers, the CSArt program has gained awareness thanks to the work of St. Paul-based Springboard for the Arts. CSArt Colorado creates dynamic opportunities for residents to support their local arts and business communities through a share-based collective that encourages artistic production and creates new economic opportunities.
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New Orleans Jazz Fest Volunteer Photographers 2013
Entry Deadline: 12/31/12
The Volunteer Photographer Program is a community outreach project of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation’s Archive. The mission of the program is to provide documentation of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival for the Foundation Archive.
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Nine Dot Arts Artist Database
Entry Deadline: Rolling
NINE dot ARTS is a corporate art consulting firm based in Denver, CO. We find and secure artwork for corporate clients such as hotels, hospitals, and private offices. We are building our new artist database and are open for submissions from both existing and new artists.
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Nude Attitude
Fee: $40.00 (Entry Fee - Nude Attitude)
Entry Deadline: 1/1/13
Nude Attitude, is a first year event. Genre’s accepted range from sculpture, mixed media, metal, oil, acrylic, watercolor, digital, photography, glass, woodcraft, found object and film – contemporary to traditional, abstract interpretations to literal. Nude Attitude is a juried exhibit with a fully quipped sales desk and dedicated gallery sales team. The gallery accepts MC/ Visa.
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also Nude Nite Orlando
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also Nude Nite Tampa
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Tubac Center of the Arts: Border Celebrations
Border Celebrations - an international juried exhibit invites artists to submit work that celebrates life in border areas - open to all media. Call for Entry is highlighting the experience of living, working and dealing with multi-national concerns in proximity to cross-cultural, linguistic and political borders
Fee: $35.00 (Tubac Center of the Arts: Border Celebrations)
Entry Deadline: 1/24/13
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Womens Works 2013
Fee: $35.00 (Application Fees - Womens Works 2013)
Entry Deadline: 1/19/13
Women’s Works™ is a juried fine art exhibit, celebrating women artists and is presented annually by the Northwest Area Arts Council. Women’s Works™ provides an opportunity to showcase the creative artwork of women artists in North America and Internationally. This is the 26th Anniversary of Women's Works. Please visit: www.womensworks.net for information about upcoming events for women artists and dates for the Women's Works show. You can also visit the Northwest Area Arts Council web site at: http://www.naac4art.org for additional information. WW2013 will be updated as time progresses and the jurors and judge will be added shortly. Please refer to womensworks.net for updates.
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About WESTAF: Mission and Profile
Celebrating the Western Imagination through the Arts
(reprinted from the WESTAF website)
"The Western States Arts Federation (WESTAF) is a regional non-profit arts service organization dedicated to the creative advancement and preservation of the arts.
WESTAF encourages the creative development and preservation of the arts regionally and through a national network of clients and alliances. WESTAF fulfills its mission to strengthen the financial, organizational, and cultural policy infrastructure of the arts in the West by developing and providing innovative programs and services, technology solutions, funding opportunities, advocacy and cultural policy work, and other services.
Founded in 1974, WESTAF is located in Denver and is governed by a 22-member board of trustees that comprises arts leaders in the West. WESTAF serves the largest constituent territory of the six U.S. regional arts organizations that includes the state arts agencies, artists, and arts organizations of Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming.
WESTAF regularly convenes experts and leaders to address critical issues affecting arts and culture. In 2008, WESTAF held a seminar on cultural taxing districts in Seattle, Washington, followed by a symposium on economic development and the creative economy in San Diego, California. In 2009, WESTAF convened a symposium on new arguments for the arts in Aspen, Colorado, at the Aspen Institute. In 2010, WESTAF convened a symposium of leaders in the art fair field about the status of the field today during the second annual ZAPP® Conference,which it also organized. Additionally, WESTAF's multicultural task force, established in 2000, meets regularly to provide inspiration and guidance for the organization’s commitment to multicultural policies and values.
WESTAF is an experienced developer of technology systems that benefit the arts and creative industries. These systems include GO:GrantsOnline™, a fully customizable, robust, and flexible online grants management system; the Public Art Archive™, a searchable national online database of public art; CallforEntry.org™ (CaFÉ™), an online application and adjudication management system used by public art programs, galleries, museums, and educational institutions to manage public art commissions, exhibitions, fellowships, and visual art competitions; ArtJob.org, an online arts job bank that lists national opportunities for arts administrators and others as well as internships, grants, public art projects, and residencies; ArtistsRegister.com, an online gallery that allows visual artists to showcase their work and connect with private collectors, gallery owners, interior designers, corporate art buyers, public art administrators, and general art enthusiasts; ZAPPlication.org®, an online application and adjudication management system used by more than 400 art fairs, festivals, and shows; and CreativeSpaceAgent™, an online system that matches artists, musicians, and other creative people seeking studio, rehearsal, or performance space with those offering spaces for lease or purchase (currently deployed in the Denver metro area). WESTAF is also the creator and purveyor of the research-based Creative Vitality™ Index (CVI™), a sophisticated creative economy report that measures and provides highly reliable and comparable data about the health and vitality of an area's creative sector, including for-profit and non-profit endeavors, businesses, and organizations.
As a progressive and evolving organization, WESTAF initiates new programs and projects regularly and is proud to have artists, musicians, and arts administrators on staff. WESTAF remains committed to the improvement of the the capacity and quality of public funding of the arts by the state arts agencies of the West. Position papers, advisory research, and professional development services are regularly provided to these agencies. WESTAF is funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts."
(all information in this article is selected from the Café and WESTAF sites who are the managers and verifiers of content and copyright)