Sunday, August 17, 2014

CALL FOR ENTRY: 2015 – 2018 SGCI Traveling Prints and Drawings Exhibition



Eligibility: Original 2-dimensional prints and drawings by any member of SGC International in good standing, completed since 2012.  Size of works must fit into one of the following frame sizes (16 x 20, 20 x 25 or 28 x 36 inches). These restrictions are in place to minimize shipment costs for exhibition hosts.  Works selected for the exhibition will premiere at the SGC International Conference in Knoxville, Tennessee in March 2015 and will then travel through the United States for three years. New memberships are welcome.

Juror: Ruth Weisberg.

Ruth Weisberg is Professor of Fine Arts and former Dean at the USC Roski School, is currently the Director of the USC Initiative for Israeli Arts and Humanities. Weisberg has had over 80 one-person and 190 group exhibitions and is author of the influential 1986  Tamarind Papers essay “The Syntax of the Print.” Her work is in sixty major Museum collections including The Art Institute of Chicago; The Biblioteque Nationale of France, Paris; Istituto Nationale per la Grafica, Rome; Detroit Institute of Arts; The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Norwegian National Museum, Oslo; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; National Gallery, Washington, D.C. and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Weisberg received her M.A. from the University of Michigan, and her Laurea in Painting and Printmaking from the Academia di Belle Arti, Perugia, Italy.

Entry Procedures: A non-refundable entry fee of $35 for up to three entries. It must be noted on application as to which frame sizes the work will fit (16 x 20, 20 x 25 or 28 x 36 inches). Note: typically an appropriate frame size allows for a space of 2-4 inches on each of the print for matting.

All entries are to be completed online through the CaFÉ website:  https://www.callforentry.org/ 

Submissions are accepted through Wednesday, October 1, 2014 (midnight, Mountain Standard Time).

For more information on the 2015 SGCI Confrence in Knoxville, TN, March 18-21, 2015, 
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