The
MFA: NOW exhibition will highlight exceptional photographic, video, and
book works by MFA students from the Northeast. This exhibition is in
connection with the 50th anniversary of the Society of Photographic Education as part of SPE's Northeast Regional Conference: Expansion held at Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY Nov 1-3, 2012. The exhibition will be installed in VSW's Siskind Gallery.
The
reception for the exhibition on November 2, 2012, will be the closing
event of the SPE NE conference as well as be open to the public and part
of Rochester, NY's First Friday exhibition network for November 2012.
Exhibition website:
EXHIBITION GUIDELINES
Deadline for Entry: August 17, 2012
Accepted Artists Notified: September 10, 2012
Deadline for Delivery of Accepted Artwork: October 1, 2012
Exhibition Dates: October 20 - November 18, 2012
Exhibition Reception: November 2, 2012
Accepted Artists Notified: September 10, 2012
Deadline for Delivery of Accepted Artwork: October 1, 2012
Exhibition Dates: October 20 - November 18, 2012
Exhibition Reception: November 2, 2012
This
call is open to MFA students working in Photography, the Moving Image
and/or Books who will be enrolled in MFA programs during the 2012 - 2013
academic year. Students must be enrolled in program in one of the
following sates: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New
York, Rhode Island, and Vermont.
The
juror will be selecting a body of work for display. The final
presentation dimensions of the submitted work and artist statement are
required at the time of submission.
The
application fee is $30.00 to submit 1-5 images from the body of work or
up to 3 video clips. Each video submission is to be no longer than 3
minutes in length.
It
is the responsibility of the participant to pay for shipping +
insurance, both ways. Insurance during the time of exhibition is not
required. For photographic installation work detailed installation
directions are required upon delivery.
All applications must be submitted through CaFE Call for Entry. To apply for the MFA Now Exhibition pleaseclick here.
Lisa
Sutcliffe has been Assistant Curator at SFMOMA since April of 2007. She
works on permanent collection rotations, special exhibitions, and
photography acquisitions. From 2006-2007, Ms. Sutcliffe was the Koch
Curatorial Fellow at the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, where she
co-curated group exhibitions of contemporary art and photography from
New England.
VSW'S SISKIND GALLERY
Visual
Studies Workshop's Siskind Gallery is in Rochester, NY's Neighborhood
of the Arts and Museum District. It is an expansive, six thousand square
foot exhibition space with an adjacent media projection room. The
Siskind Gallery has been the site of hundreds of international
exhibitions by media artists presenting cross-disciplinary ideas through
photography, video, film, audio, books-as-art, new media, and
installation art since the 1970s.
Recent
exhibitions in the Siskind Gallery include, in 2008 "John Wood: On the
Edge of Clear Meaning," in partnership with the George Eastman House,
University of Rochester's Memorial Art Gallery, the International Center
of Photography and NYU's Grey Art Gallery; in 2009 "Result Zero:
Photographs by Khiang Hei of the 1989 Tiananmen Square Student Protests
commemorating the 20th Anniversary of that historic event; in 2010
"Everything in Time: Maximalist Works by Media Artists," with work by
English artist Fiona Banner, renowned conceptual poet and founder of
ubuweb Kenneth Goldsmith, and emerging artist Aspen Mays; and in 2011,
"Transitions-Rochester," with photographic and video documentation of
the city of Rochester by Dutch photographers Theo Baart, Cary Markerink,
and Andrea Stultiens, photographers Gregory Halpern and Oscar Palacio, a
sound installation by Jason Bernagozzi, and a mural by graffiti artists
the FUA Krew amongst others.
For questions please contact Christine Shank, exhibition coordinator, at