Calls for Entry - Portfolio Showcase Volume 3 - The Center for Fine Art Photography

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Jessica Hines

Fifteen photographers will be chosen to display their
twelve-image portfolio in The Center for Fine Art Photography’s Portfolio ShowCase Volume 4: Book and Online Exhibition. The show will be featured on the Center’s web site at www.c4fap.org on March 1, 2010 and will remain online for the next two years. The awarded Solo Exhibition at the Center will open on Friday, May 7, 2010, during which time Juror, Katherine Ware will be in attendance and signing books. On Saturday, May 8, 2010, Ms. Ware will be offering portfolio reviews and giving a public talk that evening.

Theme: Open - There is no theme for this exhibition.
The images will be evaluated as a cohesive body of work, rather than individual images.

The Center for Fine Art Photography invites photographers working in all mediums, styles and schools of thought to participate in this exhibition. Traditional, contemporary, avant-garde, creative and experimental works that include old and new processes, mixed techniques, and challenging personal, emotional or political statements are welcome. The exhibition is open world wide to all professional and amateur photographers working with digital or traditional photography or combinations of both.

Juror: Katherine Ware is Curator of Photography at the New Mexico Museum of Art in Santa Fe. She previously served as Curator of Photographs at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, where she served as curator and author of Elemental Landscapes: Photographs by Harry Callahan. Ms. Ware served as Assistant Curator in the Department of Photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum during the 1990s and organized the traveling exhibitions including, A Practical Dreamer: The Photographs of Man Ray. She has also worked with the photography collection at the Oakland Museum of California and began her career at the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service in Washington, D.C. She is a frequent juror and reviewer of contemporary photography and has written essays on the art of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Awards:

This exhibition provides opportunities for artists to be published, and present their work to an international audience of collectors, curators, art consultants and others who appreciate photography.

Juror’s Selection – Book Cover Award: The Juror will select one portfolio to be the first presented in the publication Portfolio ShowCase Volume 4, with one of the artist’s images selected for the cover.
Exhibition Award: One photographer will be chosen to display their portfolio in the Center’s South Gallery, May 7 – 29. This Award comes with a $500.00 stipend.
Director’s Selection Award: - $300.00
Portfolio Reviews: All fifteen selected photographers will be offered a portfolio review by Katherine Ware at the Center on May 8, 2010.
Book: All fifteen selected portfolios will be featured in the Portfolio ShowCase Volume 4 which will include the artists’ portraits, statements and contact information. Each artist will receive one complimentary book, with the option to purchase additional books. The book will be signed and include an introduction by the Juror.
Online Exhibition: All fifteen selected artists will be featured on the Center's web site starting on March 1, 2010 as well as for an additional two years in the Center’s Previous Exhibitions section.

Important Dates:

Entries Due: December, 29, 2009
Notification: January 29, 2010
Exhibition Featured Online: March 1, 2010
Solo Exhibition in the Center’s South Gallery: May 7 – 29, 2010
Juror, Katherine Ware Portfolio Reviews and Public Talk: May 7-9, 2010
Book Release and Signing with Katherine Ware: May 7, 2010

Entry Fee:

The entry fee for this call for entry is $65.00 for Members and $85.00 for Non-Members for the first body of work (12 images). Each additional portfolio, regardless of membership, is $85.00 and there is no limit to the number of portfolios.

Please retain for your information until after announcement of the jury selection.