Hi everyone!
I come to you today with a huge exciting announcement. Next year, April 26th – 27th, I’m co-curating an art show for asexual identifying artists. Next April, there is going to be an international asexual conference in Canada entitled, “Unthinking Sex, Imagining Asexuality: Intersectional and Interdisciplinary Perspectives.” As part of the conference, there’s going to be an art show in a gallery featuring the work of asexual-identifying artists. This would be an amazing thing to put on your resume. We’re also going to have a table to display books and zines written by asexual writers.
I am super excited to have been offered this opportunity and I hope that some of you will consider submitting work. I have interviewed so many talented artists and I’d love to show off your work to the world.
My co-curator, Heather, and I have written up the following call for artists. I’m looking forward to hearing from many of you.
CALL FOR ARTISTS
The inaugural international conference “Unthinking Sex, Imagining Asexuality: Intersectional and Interdisciplinary Perspectives” will be held April 26-27, 2019 at Simon Fraser University’s Harbour Centre Campus in Vancouver, located on unceded Coast Salish Territory, the traditional territories of Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations. We are excited to announce an Asexual Art Show to be held in tandem at a local gallery in Vancouver, and we want your work!
Submissions will be received up to 12:00pm (Pacific Standard Time) on:
Tuesday, January 1, 2019
Eligibility:
- To apply to this Call for Artists you must be someone who self-identifies as asexual and/or aromantic (including gray-asexual, demisexual, or on the ace spectrum).
- You must be someone who creates art, broadly understood (including, but not limited to: painting, digitized art, visual poetry, mixed media, photography, drawing, printmaking, etc.).
- Authors and zine-makers are also welcome to submit work (there will be a table to display written works by ace-identifying creators).
Details:
- This exhibition does not charge exhibiting artists to display their works.
- Unfortunately, due to the size and nature of our gallery space, we are unable to accept any sculptures or installation art. Please only submit 2D, and/or ready wall-mounted 3D works.
Application:
- Attach to email no more than 5 images of your work (.jpg format- 300 dpi, no more than a total of 5MB).
- Should you be submitting more than one work for consideration, please provide only 2-3 images of each work.
- Proposed artwork must include title, material(s), dimensions, and date.
- Please include a short bio (75 words max).
- Please also include an artist statement that provides an introduction to your practice and artworks submitted (250 words max).
- Selected artists are responsible for delivery, or shipment (as well as return shipping), of their works. Low-income artists, or artists that need financial assistance to participate, may be eligible for financial support.
- Artwork must be ready to display (printed, ready-mounted, or framed).
All submissions must be in pdf format and emailed to aceartshow[at]gmail[dot]com by January 1, 2019 at noon. Artists will be notified no later than February 15, 2019 if their submission has been accepted for the art show.
Contact:
Should you have any questions regarding the conference or your application, please direct them to Lauren Jankowski and Heather Prost at aceartshow[at]gmail[dot]com
I will periodically reblog this to remind artists who follow this site as well as for anyone who may miss it the first time around.
Thanks, everyone!
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I wish I had the money and time to attend, but meh. I’d be sleeping the first day from a ten hour jetlag. *Sigh*
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You could still submit art if you like. You don’t have to be in attendance for your art to be on display 🙂
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Eh … as a writer I’d actually be more interested in attending than in submitting.
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Is there more information about the conference itself available anywhere?
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I’m not sure if there’s a website, but if you want more information, you can contact the organizers: Ela (eprzyca@yahoo.ca) and KJ (kj.cerankowski@oberlin.edu)
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