EMULSION – East City Art’s First Annual Regional Juried Show – Call for Entry

Phil Hutinet – Editor-in-Chief at East City Arts announced their first annual regional juried show called “Emulsion”.


EMULSION
The First Annual East City Art Regional Juried Show

Prizes
$1,250 First Place Prize
$750 Second Place Prize
$500 Third Place Prize

Entry Fee
An entry fee of $35 made out to East City Art Media LLC is required
The entry fee must accompany the application for it to be considered complete.

Location
Gallery O on H located at 1354 H Street NE in the heart of the Atlas Entertainment District

Exhibition Dates
Opening Reception Saturday November 9, 2013
Exhibition on view from November 9, 2013 through January 14, 2014

Juror
Lauren Gentile

Contact
For all inquiries please direct emails to editor@eastcityart.com

EMULSION
This call for entry is open to all residents of the Washington-Baltimore combined statistical metropolitan area as defined by the US Census. This is an opportunity for artists from the central Mid-Atlantic to showcase the extraordinary diversity in regional contemporary art.

An emulsion combines two seemingly incompatible ingredients to produce a third yet entirely new substance.  In this spirit, East City Art’s EMULSION seeks to combine the culturally different yet geographically close regions of Washington and Baltimore and to combine a wide array of art forms and mediums from two-dimensional work to performance based pieces.
East City Art envisions EMULSION as an annual event that will exhibit the brightest talent from the Mid-Atlantic region.  We expect EMULSION to grow over time to include more entries, an increase in prize money and visibility beyond the Mid-Atlantic to the national and international level.


About Juror Lauren Gentile
Lauren Gentile, founder of Contemporary Wing, has produced major exhibitions of historically significant artists including the 30 Americans artists, Shepard Fairey, the Guerrilla Girls, and JR, among others. While supporting the artists of today, she has helped nurture such emerging talent as GAIA, Hedieh Javanshir Ilchi, and Cheryl Pope. She holds an M.A. in art business from Sotheby’s Institute London and B.A. degrees in art theory and criticism, art history and international studies from the School of the Art Institute in Chicago, DePaul University, the University of Florence and the Goethe Institute.  Her private sector career includes work with art hedge funds and as director of sales in auction houses and galleries specializing in a variety of markets.

Phil said that he envisions EMULSION growing every year, with the opportunity to show the finalists in two or more locations. Get going!

Important Dates

  • September 9, 2013 – Deadline for entries (must be postmarked by that date)
  • September 27, 2013 – Notification of accepted artists completed
  • October 5, 2013 – Last day to respond to notification
  • October 7, 3013 – Acceptance list published on East City Art
  • October 26-27, 2013– Artwork delivered to gallery
  • November 2-3, 2013 – Work Installed by East City Art and Gallery O on H staff
  • November 9, 2013 – Show opens to the public
  • January 17, 2014 – Exhibition closes
  • January 18-19, 2014 – De-installation/Artist Pick-up artwork

    To jump to the prospectus pdf and more info on the opportunity:

    http://www.eastcityart.com/2013/07/26/calls-for-entry-emulsion-the-first-annual-east-city-art-regional-juried-show/

Roll-up your glass! How warm and hot glass can live in harmony.

Some pix of the great work made by the roll-up class – where the students made a fused glass panel here at the Washington Glass School, and the following week, the class was held at DC Glass Works, where the fused panel gets…. well… rolled-up and blown into vessel shapes.

The rollup class gets a history of the process from Audrey Wilson

This process gets all the benefits of fused glass— creating differing inside and outside imagery, precise color placement, and full cross-sections of color. 

The flat fused panels get rolled up and blown.
Audrey and Dave working in the DC Glassworks hotshop.
This fused panel…
…became this sweet vessel.
Betsy Mead’s fused glass artwork transformed…
…into 3-D sculpture.
Tracy Benson’s fish panel flat…
…now ready to hold sharks and mermaids!
The blown work getting ready for the anneal cycle at the hot shop.

 A great class and a great time!