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I'm pleased with the cohesiveness of the group of art works I was able to enter.
Gallery Seven in Lockport, IL Important Dates: September 7-9: Notification of selected works via e-mail September 23-26: Delivery of Work September 30: “Illiart” opens October 3: Opening Reception 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. October31: “Illiart” Closes Uh-oh-- "Work that requires special installation or instructions will NOT be accepted." Reader, the show accepts every media except video and film, so I don't know what they are going to do for installation art pieces. Most sculpture is somewhat challenging to display. Anyway, it is in the jurors hands now. Jurors are people with their own tastes, skill levels, pet media and their own ideas for what kind of show they want they want to build. So, I started editing some of my portfolio archive photos in Lightroom. After a couple of days of tutorials and videos, they are a hair better. I am still learning the program. I am trying to create a few good-enough pictures to post to Behance and hopefully make some connections there. The ultimate goal is to connect with architects.
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s"Annually, Union Street Gallery in Chicago Heights hosts an exhibition that invites members of our community (consisting of volunteers, studio artists, guild artists, general members, and visitors) to submit work that they would like to have showcased. Please submit work up until July 14th at 11:59 PM and decisions will be announced on July 15th. There is no fee for applying to be in the exhibition, but if accepted there is a $20 hanging or set-up fee (unless you are a current member of the Guild or a current Studio Artist in one of our spaces). Payments are to be processed in person at the point of drop-off unless otherwise discussed. The exhibition is set from July 22nd to August 19, 2021. Finally, there is no set theme for this year's Invitational exhibition, so please create work around themes that are of interest to you as individual artists. Artists may apply with almost any media of work, except for sound and video." I submitted the piece below for consideration for the show.    Submitted three pieces today for Side Street Studio Arts' "Off the Wall" exhibition for later this summer. I offered to do a site-specific Outgrowth installation. I'd love to show that. The fun part would be working with a random space they allot to me. If accepted, it would be Outgrowth 3.
"OFF THE WALL is for non-traditional and alternative 3D works that utilize conventional and non-conventional installation procedures. Architectural, 3D printed, textiles, kinetic works, clay, ironwork... ... any artwork in the Third Dimension may be submitted. This exhibit will be juried. This exhibit is open to the public August 6 - 29, with an Opening Reception Friday, August 6 from 6-9pm. Submissions must be received by Sunday, July 25th @ midnight. No late submissions will be accepted. Accepted artists will be notified via email by Wednesday the 28th of July. Please complete the submission form below. Submission images must be sent through this application. Submissions will be limited to 3 works or less, including sets." Goldilocks Panopticon 1, 2021, is a woven glass and reflective bead tile mosaic on a full dome security mirror with optional chain for suspending it from a ceiling or beam. It is part of the Panoption series. I am working on a 36" GP2. Below are some WIP shots:   There are two more Goldilocks spinoffs. One is a vase still in progress and this little study was given as a birthday gift.  I applied to Harper College's Small Works show. I didn't get in the last time I tried 3 or 4 years ago. We'll see. Galleries only have so many pedestals to go around. Oh, I forgot. This is the place that notifies the artists by posting accepted works on a web page instead of an email notification. Right.
Call for Artists and 2021 Exhibition Calendar
Online Entry and DetailsELIGIBILITY AND MEDIA
All Small Works entries will be judged from digital files. Before entering, prepare the following: 1. Required Artwork Information for each entry:
Accepted entries will be posted on this web page by July 30, 2021. Individual notification will NOT be sent. Please check this webpage for the jury results. ACCEPTED WORK Presentation: All works must be delivered to Harper ready for hanging/ installation/display. For framed work, use Plexiglas only. Original work not accurately represented by the digital file may be declined at the discretion of the Juror. All work will be insured during the exhibition for the artist’s stated valuation. Shipping: Work must be shipped in sturdy, reusable cardboard containers to arrive at Harper College no later than August 24, 2021. In-person deliveries for local artists may be arranged during August, pending campus safety protocols. DO NOT use loose Styrofoam “peanut” packing. Works should not require special handling or instructions. RETURN OF ACCEPTED WORK Works will be returned in original containers via UPS as soon as possible after the close of the exhibition. The Exhibition will pay for return shipping, insuring containers per stated valuations. CATALOG, SALES AND REPRODUCTION In conjunction with the Small Works exhibition, a color catalog will be produced. Each participating artist will receive catalogs by mail after the exhibition closes. Harper College will not retain commission on sales. Consent to reproduction for publicity purposes for this or future Harper national exhibitions is considered granted.  astrophotography by TechnoBill/BillD at billd.net Oh. There are so many gorgeous and detailed images of the sun coming in that show the sun with a shaggy texture. I'm having flashbacks of goldenrod shag carpets from my childhood. I realize that this isn't the actual appearance and color of the sun due to filters...but I'm the artist and I'm running with it. I am in the middle of a large study in which I am working out how best to capture shagadelic luminosity. I also did a small study with mistakenly purchased silver-lined beads where I experimented with expanding the hexagon weave as large as I could before losing control of it. (Note to self--four strands of embroidery floss when weaving with only glass 6/0 beads; three strands are too loose and floppy). The small study is on a large glass charger. It is a birthday present. The larger 3-d study is on a 26" full-dome security mirror. I tried baby bear with mama bear tiles and spaced the tiles out more so that I could do more of a negative space treatment. I'm not very pleased with the mama bear tiles because the design gets more angular when beyond the first row. The surface of the sun doesn't have angles. I'm want the geometric negative space, but not in the beadwork which is too obvious. I wanted to incorporate second-hand beads into the project. A lot of people are selling off extra 11 or 10/0 yellow beads. So I have a bunch of those and I'm going to start adding those in the next couple of days. I started doing this with the smaller beads on Honeymoon and I loved it. My only concern is that by placing the beads hole side up I won't get the shaggy texture I want. Then I will have to switch over to placing them in whole rows from the needle. The downside of that is that the design will be more opaque with less mirror shining through and I will use more beads. I might try weaving the mama bears with only six reflective beads in the center. Then placing reflective beads in an arc through some of the woven voids and then continuing that line into the negative space to join it up with one from another tile. Yep. Blogging is magic. Oo. I just looked at a mama bear and traced it out with my finger. It will work! That's how I'm going to do the next piece. The 36" full dome bought surplus is here. It came in a very battered box that was barely taped shut, but it's fine for my purposes. Design note: I used a variety of thread colors and I really like the school bus yellow/orange. It gives the design more depth somewhat like the image below with the orange base color with yellow highlights. The thread color does a lot of visual heavy lifting in that it makes the piece more variegated, painterly, deep and less boring. Color-wise I keep going back and forth. I think I want to make a yellow/white sun with a mix of white and yellow reflective beads and then I see these gorgeous solar astronomy images and I revert back to all yellow.  Above is one of Andrew McCarthy's solar astrophotographs. He's on Twitter and Instagram as @CosmicBackground. He has takes astro photos from his back yard in California. He sells his images as printed or digital merch.
 I used this bead weaving pattern for Juicy Sunrise, Blue Star, Black Star, Honeymoon Panopticon, Oceanic Panopticon, and now I'm working on a sun panopticon. It's versatile. The center areas of the hexagon let the underlying color or mirror come through and I can use fewer beads. The small one of 42 beads takes about 12 minutes to make. The middle one with 90 beads takes about 23 minutes. Each size up is another layer out from the center. I don't have a name for this piece yet. Maybe Goldilocks? I don't know. For now I'm doing a study on a 26" full dome mirror. This is the pattern for the baby bear and mama bear tiles. Papa bear is just more of the same. I'm blogging this so I have a record of what pattern I used for what with instructions. I'm using 4mm reflective acrylic miracle beads and size 6/0 glass seed beads to get the spiral design of the secondary pattern. If you don't want a secondary pattern, use one type of bead and ignore the R's and G's. R means "reflective" and G means "glass" to get this secondary pattern. Start with a 54" piece of thread on a beading needle. I like a three strands of waxed embroidery thread. I like to use lip balm for wax. (It tames the cotton fibers and reduces annoying kinking and knotting.) Use whatever you like. I only use embroidery thread for interior pieces. Use whatever you like. Add G, R, G and make a knot. Weave back through one of the yellows. (3 beads ring) Add R, G Weave through the middle previous G bead, then weave back through both of this R and G. (5 beads) AddG, R Weave back through previous G bead. (7 beads) Add R, G Weave back through previous G, then back through this R & G (9 beads) Add G, R Weave back through previous G, then back through this G. (11 beads) Add R Weave back through first and last Gs to make a ring with 6 glass beads in the center and 6 reflective beads on the outside. Weave back again through this R. This is your first hexagon ring. (12 beads) Add R, G Weave back through previous R, then back through this R. (14 beads) Add G, R Weave back through previous R, then back through this G and R. (16 beads) Add G, R Weave back through previous R, then back through G. (18 beads) Add R Weave back through outside of nearest R on center ring and back up through this G. This closes the 2nd ring. Weave back through R. (19 beads) Add R, G Weave back through previous R then back through this R. (21 beads) Add R, G Weave back through previous R, then back through this R and G. Weave through nearest R on center ring. This closes the 3rd ring. (23 beads) Add R Weave back through previous G and R, then back through this R. (24 beads) Add G, R Weave back through previous R, then back through this G and R. (26 beads) Add G, R Weave back through previous R, then back through G) (28 beads) Add R Weave down into the nearest R on the center ring and back through previous G. Weave back through this R. This closes the 4th ring. (29 beads) Add R, G Weave back through previous R, then back through this R. (31 beads) Add R, G Weave back through R and G. Weave through nearest R on center ring. This closes the 5th ring. (33 beads) Add R Weave back through previous G, R, then back through this R. (34 beads) Add G, R Weave back through G and R. (36 beads) Add G, R Weave back through previous R, then back through this G. (38 beads) Add R Weave through nearest R on center ring, then back through previous G and R. This closes the 6th ring. (39 beads) Add R, G Weave back through previous R, then back through this R. (41 beads) Add R Weave through the adjacent Y, then back up through previous R and this R. This closes the 7th ring. (42 beads) This is the baby bear hexatile. You can also make a heart shape by stopping after closing the third ring. (I used this for Honeymoon Panopticon.) Now to complete the mama bear layer... Add R, G Weave back through previous R, then back through this R. (44 beads) Add G, R Weave back through previous R, then back through G and R. Weave through the nearest G on the baby bear row. This closes the 8th ring. (46 beads) Add R Weave back through previous R, then through G that closes the ring. Weave back through this R. (47 beads) Add R, G Weave back through previous R, then through this R, G. (49 beads) Add G, G Weave through previous Y, then back through second G. (51 beads) Add R Weave through nearest R on baby bear row, then back through previous G. Weave back through R. This closes the 9th ring. (52 beads) Add R, G Weave through previous R, then back through R. (54 beads) Add R Weave through G in the center, then back through previous R and this R. This closes the 10th ring. (55 beads) Add G, R Weave through previous R, then back through this G (57 beads) Add G, G Weave through previous G, then back through both this G, G. Weave through R on baby bear. This closes the 11th ring. (59 beads) Add R Weave through previous G, R, then through this R. (60 beads) Add G, R Weave through previous R and this G, R. Weave through G on baby bear. This closes the 12th ring. (62 beads) Add R Weave through previous R, G, then through this R. (63 beads) Add R, G Weave through previous R, then through R, G (65 beads) Add G, G Weave through previous G, then through nearest of these G's. (67 beads) Add R Weave through center R, then through previous G, R. This closes the 13th ring. (68 beads) Add R, G Weave through previous R, then through this R. (70 beads) Add R Weave through G on baby bear, through previous R and this R. This closes the 14th ring. (71 beads) Add G, R Weave through previous R, then through this G. (73 beads) Add G, G Weave through previous G, then through both G, G, then through R on baby bear. This closes the 15th ring. (75 beads) Add R Weave through previous G, R, then through this R. (76 beads) Add G, R Weave through previous R, then through this G and R. Weave through G on baby bear. This closes the 16th ring. (78 beads) Add R Weave back through R, then weave through prev. G and this R. (79 beads) Add R, G Weave through previous R, then back through this R, G. (81 beads) Add G, G Weave through previous G, then through this Y (83 beads) Add R Weave through R on baby bear, then through previous G, then this R. This closes the 17th ring. (84 beads) Add R, G Weave through previous R, then back through this R. (86 beads) Add R Weave though G on baby bear, then through previous R, then this R. This closes the 18th ring. (87 beads) Add G, R Weave through previous R, then through this G. (89 beads) Add G Weave through the old G, then back through this G. This closes the 19th ring. (90 beads) Weave through several more beads then cut the thread.  Oceanic Panopticon, woven glass and reflective bead mosaic, 48x48x10, 2021, 7000  Flat Earth, woven glass bead mosaic on a preowned glass bowl, 12x12x2", 2018, 900  Solar Panels, bead mosaic on panels with solar light elements, 30x80x5, 2019, 7000 OUR PLANET: OURSELVESDEADLINE - MAY 16, 2021 Spring is here! And the beauty of our natural world is ever more apparent. Green shoots are poking through the crust, and once again the earth is warming in the sun. However “the warming earth” carries a more somber message as well—a reminder of the fruits of our greed, the fragility of our planet, the reality of our losses. And, as we face the urgency to respond, we seek to raise our artistic voices -- to celebrate, to mourn, to activate, and to contemplate how we live together in relationship to this one planet we must all share and nurture. We welcome all applications to our next juried show “Our Planet: Ourselves”, which will give expression to these messages. All media is accepted, including video, performance and sound; and all artists’ work will be considered. Due to space limitations no large projections or media-based installations will be accepted. Three “juror awards” will be selected for a small monetary award ($100 each); and awarded work will be featured on the ARC website. The exhibition will run from June 24 - August 14, 2021. This time frame is equal to two ARC Gallery exhibition months - so more opportunity for your work to be viewed! We encourage everyone to enter (details below). Exhibition contingency plans: At this time, we plan to have an actual exhibition at the gallery. There will be no in-person opening, though we will have a virtual opening event on Zoom (parameters to be determined). The gallery will be open, but both hours and visitors will be somewhat restricted until it is safe to do otherwise. IF the city closes all businesses again due to COVID-19, the gallery will be closed, but we will have the entire show online visible to everyone who visits our website and social media sites; and we will send out a link to everyone on our mailing list, potentially around 4000+ viewers. All artists exhibiting will be identified, along with their work and their statement. COVID Gallery hours are: Fridays, 3-7; Saturdays and Sundays, 12-4. Masks for all visitors are required and no more than 6 people will be allowed in the gallery at one time. Calendar, Eligibility and FeesExhibition Dates: Fri, June 25 - Sat, Aug 14, 2021 Virtual Opening Reception: Sat, June 26, 4pm - 6pm Pick-Up Work at Gallery: Sat, Aug 14, 12:00pm – 4:00pm Shipped Work Return Date: Fri, Aug 21, 2021 *Pre-Paid FedEx or UPS label is required.* Do not use the U.S. Postal Service. ELIGIBILITY: Original works created within the last 5 years. All mediums and materials will be considered in addition to video and performance based arts. No projections or media installations will be accepted for this show due to space limitations. Open to all artists, national and international. Gallery’s email is: info@arcgallery.org EXHIBITION AND DELIVERY REQUIREMENTS: • Work must arrive by scheduled dates or will not be hung. • A label must be attached to the back/bottom of each work with name, title, medium and price. • Work must be presented in a manner appropriate to the artwork and be equipped for presentation. If work isn’t shown in the traditional gallery sense; it should still able to be displayed in a professional manner by gallery installers per artist specifications. • Images of accepted works may be used at the sole discretion of ARC for promotional purposes including but not limited to invitations, postcards, and website. Image will include attribution. ACCEPTED WORK: SHIPPING AND DELIVERY RETURN With the exception of hand-delivered and picked-up work, all work shipped to and from the gallery must be paid ahead-of-time by the artist. QUESTIONS: Please feel free to contact gallery, during gallery hours, should you have any questions about show, submitting work, or prospectus. ARC Gallery and Educational Foundation COVID Gallery Hours: Open Fri - 3-7pm, Sat & Sun - 12-4pm; Closed Mon-Thurs. 1463 W. Chicago Ave 1st floor Chicago, Illinois 60642 312 877-5760 info@arcgallery.org Added June 2, 2021: Jane Stevens accepted "Flat Earth" for this show. Calendar Work Delivered to ARC: Wed, Thurs, Fri, Sat June 16-19, 2021 (Wed & Thurs 12-4pm, Fri 3-7pm, Sat 12-4.) Exhibition Dates: Fri, June 25 - Sat, Aug 14, 2021 Virtual Opening Reception: Sat, June 26, 4pm - 5pm Pick-Up Work at Gallery: Sat, Aug 14, 4:00pm – 6:00pm Shipped Work Return Date: Fri, Aug 21, 2021 *Pre-Paid FedEx or UPS label is required.* Do not use the U.S. Postal Service. 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