Call for entries: 2018 Screenprint Biennial

2018 Screenprint Biennial

Deadline for email submissions: Friday, January 15, 2018 at 11:59PM EST

The 2018 Screenprint Biennial seeks to showcase a range of screenprint-based art applications, from framed editioned prints to installation, sculpture, video, ephemera, and posters. This exhibition will in no way seek to act as a survey or “who’s-who” of screenprinting, but will assemble an exhibition that is consistent in highlighting artists who utilize adventurous, relevant, and passionate takes on the screenprinted medium. The Screenprint Biennial is announcing its open call for submissions. Submissions involving video, performance, sculpture, social practice, alternative substrates and processes, and collaboration are encouraged.

The exhibition is scheduled to premiere at the Opalka Gallery in Albany, NY. Located at the Sage Colleges, the Opalka Gallery’s primary focus is on modern and contemporary art and design from nationally recognized artists.

Internship Available spring 2018

An internship at P.R.I.N.T Press is available to a UNT BFA candidate / Printmaking major for spring semester 2018. It requires 10 hours per week for 3 credit hours. Duties include assisting staff and visiting artists on special projects and events.

For more information, contact Lari Gibbons, professor and director of P.R.I.N.T Press.

Former and current interns include . . .
Annavittoria Connor
Samuel Cowan (2016) (2017)
Jaime Durham
Nathan Eclavea
Eileen Fritz
Leigh Garcia
Jessica Gengenbach

Su Tran

From the Registrar's Schedule of Classes and official Course Catalogue:
ART 4450.753
PROF INTERNSHIP
(26294) CRE V
3 hours
In-training programs offered in cooperation with approved business and professional houses. Students wishing credit must have instructor approve plan. Term reports required of students and employers.
Prerequisite(s): Junior standing. May be repeated for credit.

Call for submissions: the North Texas Review

The North Texas Review (NTR) is an annual student-driven literary journal at the University of North Texas (UNT). NTR showcases the best artistic and literary talent of UNT students, bringing together individuals from all disciplines in both our staff and our contributors. Any student enrolled at UNT during the Fall 2016 semester can submit to NTR.  NTR accepts submissions of: art, play scripts, poetry, screenplays, short creative non-fiction, short fiction

NTR is now accepting submissions for the 2017 edition.
The deadline to submit is December 16, 2016.
For more information, visit our Submissions page:  http://ntr.unt.edu/

Now accepting applications for UNT's MFA in Studio Art with a concentration in Printmaking

The MFA in Studio Art with a concentration in Printmaking at the University of North Texas is accepting applications to begin course work in Fall 2018.

*Deadline for Priority Consideration is January 5, 2018 (for enrolling in Fall 2018).

Late applications will be reviewed for acceptance until mid-February, but with fewer opportunities for Scholarships and Graduate Assistantships. Please contact the Printmaking Area Coordinator, Andrew DeCaen (andrew.decaen@unt.edu) for more details about the Printmaking program or to set up a tour of the studios.

About the Printmaking Program

The printmaking area averages six MFA printmaking candidates and twenty BFA undergraduates from a variety of artistic and geographic backgrounds.  Graduate students are mentored to develop conceptual, formal and technical proficiency through studio practice, critical dialog, and community engagement.  Candidates build professional experience by participating in exhibitions, portfolio exchanges, and collaborations with visiting artists, printmaking conferences, workshops, and other professional activities.

NT Digital Fabrication call for entries: deadline 15 December

Join us tonight for our BFA Senior Exhibition Reception:  5-7pm in the Lightwell Gallery!

Call for Entries: Graduate Pathways

Call for Entries: Graduate Pathways
Date: Jan/19/18 – 2/15/18
Lakeview Gallery, Tarrant County College Northwest

4801 Marine Creek Blvd. 

Fort Worth, TX

Featuring: Select UNT, TCU, UTA and TWU Graduate Students

The Graduate Pathways exhibition will showcase select graduate student work from University of North Texas, Texas Christian University, University of Texas at Arlington, and Texas Woman’s University. This exhibition strives to inspire future graduates from Tarrant County College Northwest to start their path to higher education in Visual Arts. Through their artwork and artist talk, graduate students can share their experiences with our students considering their options in the Visual Art field.

RAW MATERIALS: CVAD FACULTY + STAFF AT WORK

RAW MATERIALS: CVAD FACULTY + STAFF AT WORK
Nov 17 - Dec 13, 2017 
UNT ON THE SQUARE
Curated by Binod Shrestha, Gabs Duggen, Martin Back, and Jim Burton

Reception: Friday, Nov 17, 5-7pm

May-mester course: Art on Location in New York

Art on Location in New York

May 20-28, 2018 (Maymester)
Taught by Jim Burton (Drawing and Painting), Alicia Eggert (Sculpture) and Liss LaFleur (New Media)

Informational Meeetings: 

Tuesday, November 14th at 5pm in Art 108 (Sculpture classroom)

Monday, February 12th at 5pm in Art 108 (Sculpture Classroom)

This course counts as a 4000- or 5000-level Studio Art Elective and is open to both
undergraduate and graduate students. We will be taking three sections of 14 students to
New York City for 8 days. We will visit major museums and galleries, and conduct studio
visits with emerging and established artists living and working in New York. The Art on
Location course has proven to be a wonderful experience for all studio artists and marks a
seminal time in their student careers.

Fort Worth Public Art Communications Internship Opportunity

 Fort Worth Public Art Communications Internship

Fort Worth Public Art is a City of Fort Worth program advised by the Fort Worth Art Commission and managed by the Arts Council of Fort Worth. The FWPA Collection includes over 100 commissioned, acquired and donated artworks located throughout the city. In addition, over 60 public art projects are currently in progress. 

Internship Summary: 

Fort Worth Public Art is seeking a driven, reliable intern to aid staff members in creative and administrative tasks beginning in January and ending in May. Ideal candidates will possess strong enthusiasm for public art and community and an interest in gaining valuable experience with a Municipal Public Art Program. 

Selected applicants will have the unique opportunity to learn how a municipal percent for art program operates. Interns will learn from a variety of ongoing permanent public art projects and gain hands-on experience assisting with community outreach. Interns will participate in creating and implementing creative outreach projects, such as tours, events, and social media campaigns. Other duties will include writing, editing, and creating content for digital and print marketing, assisting with meetings and events, and other daily tasks associated with the program. 

Internships are unpaid and schedules are flexible, generally 10-20 hours per week. Some nights and weekends may be required, including Art Commission Meetings, which are held the second Monday of every month, at 5:30 PM. 

Qualifications: 

- Strong writing skills, including proofreading skills, with a demonstrated command of the English language (including grammar, punctuation and spelling) 

- Academic focus in the visual arts, arts education, art history, arts administration, journalism, public relations, marketing, or a related field 

- Knowledge and experience in Microsoft Office Suite 

- Knowledge and experience in Adobe Creative Suite and/or photography skills a plus 

- Availability to assist staff at periodic evening and/or weekend events, as needed 

- Strong attention to detail 

To apply, send a cover letter, resume and one reference to talkto@fwpublicart.org. 

Application Deadline: December 8, 2017 

Barbara Petter Putnam at the University of Dallas Upper Gallery

Barbara Petter Putnam

University of Dallas Upper Gallery

Nov 6-17, 2017

Reception and Artist Talk: Friday, November 10th from 5-7pm. 

Autopraxeology (professional Practice Exhibition)

Autopraxeology 
November 8th - 11th, 2017 at the Lightwell Gallery
CVAD ART BUILDING FIRST FLOOR
1201 W. MULBERRY ST. DENTON, TX 76201

Praxeology is the study of aspects of human action. This show, put together by the 2017 Fall Professional Practice class, is concerned with aspects of one's self, internal reflection, and interaction with the world. Come and explore the different perceptions of our class's unique and talented artists. These students utilize different media to portray their idea of self.

Featured Artists:

EPIC Artist Residency Application Deadline Nov 15

The EPIC Artist Residency is part of a dynamic new community center in the city of Grand Prairie, TX. The residency includes a 600sf art studio, private fully-furnished 700sf studio apartment on site, a $1500 a month stipend, as well as a membership to the EPIC.  Residents become part of a dynamic community center in the City of Grand Prairie Parks, Arts, and Recreation.

Program PeriodThe inaugural residency is from March 1, 2017- May 1, 2018.
Note: If residence is needed prior, arrangements can be made to accommodate the artist beginning January 1 in a furnished cottage in Grand Prairie. The city of Grand Prairie will provide moving expenses to the cottage and into the residency.

About the Program UNT Department of Studio Art in partnership with the city of Grand Prairie, TX, will support one post graduate from the department’s MFA program to further the enrichment of culture and the arts at the center. Graduates of CVAD’s MFA program will work and live on the premises for the duration of the residency, and participate in a minimum of one monthly public engagement to be arranged with the programming director. Artists will have access will to a small kiln, darkroom, recording studio, greenhouse and two community art studios. The studio is equipped with furniture and the center will work to support the artist once selected.

Core Talk: Jay Bailey

Triumph and the Gorgon, acrylic on stretched canvas

CORE TALK  (Visiting artist’s Lecture)

Jay Bailey

Friday November 3: 9-9:50 in the Lyceum; 10-10:50 in GAB 104
 http://jaybailey.com/

UNT PRINTMAKING AT Cedars Art House

Cedars Art House Open Studios Event
November 18, 2017 from 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. 

More details available at cedarsopenstudios.com or http://cedarsarthouse.com/cedars-open-studios/

Drop by and see work from five local artists (below) as you experience what the eclectic Cedars neighborhood of Dallas has to offer. Explore art from a variety of neighborhood studios and galleries.

Eben Lee Hall (UNT MFA, Sculpture, 2016)
Thomas Menikos (UNT BFA, Printmaking, 2013)
David Villegas (UNT MFA, Printmaking 2017)
Jordan Kile
Mikki Mallow

Call for entries: the Contemporary Print

PrintAustin invites you to enter our 5th annual juried international exhibition “The Contemporary Print” to be held at O2 Gallery at Flatbed Press Headquarters during PrintAustin 2018.

The Contemporary Print exhibition is a survey of the traditions and the innovations of contemporary printmaking happening today. While non-traditional or digital output is accepted as a print element, submissions must utilize traditional print media as their primary technique including: Lithography, Relief, Intaglio, Silkscreen, Photo Polymer Plate and Monotype. Solely Digital and Photographic Prints are not eligible but feel free to contact us with any questions

Organizer: PRINTAUSTIN Collective
Venue: The Contemporary Print held at O2 Space @ Flatbed Press Headquarters Austin, Texas
January 20 –February 17, 2018
Opening Reception: January 20, 6-8pm

JUROR: This is the first time The Contemporary Print will be accepting international artists and we are excited to have our first juror from the United Kingdom. Dr. Paul Laidler is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Fine Print Research (CFPR) and Senior Lecturer in BA Illustration / MA Multidisciplinary Printmaking, University of the West England, Bristol, United Kingdom. The main focus of Paul’s academic activities stems from the close relationships that exist between technology, ideas and making in the graphic arts – particularly in the area of digitally-mediated print and its many offshoots. He contributes to critical discourse in print as a curator and arts writer, and is an associate editor for the Intellect Journal ‘Drawing Research Theory and Practice’. His research explores the impact of digital technology within the field of fine art printmaking, focusing on the advantages of using the traditional collaborative print studio model when generating and realising physical artefacts in the digital age. Over the years Paul has worked on print projects for artists such as Richard Hamilton, Lesley Dill, Joe Tilson, Gordon Cheung and Stanley Donwood.

More info at https://www.callforentry.org/festivals_unique_info.php?ID=4668

Registration Spring 2018 Printmaking Classes (updated)

...Not that kind of registration...

Are you thinking about registration for your Spring 2018 semester or beyond? 

There are a few things you should know:

Spring 2018: Printmaking classes will be available by permission code to Printmaking Grads, Majors, and Pre-majors in the second week of October. The permission codes will go void November 6. At that point the classes will be open to all CVAD majors without permission codes.

Spring 2018: the History of Printmaking class has been postponed until Spring 2019 to coincide with the SGCI conference.  If you are planning to graduate before Spring 2019, and have not yet taken the class, then you may look for another 4000-level Art History class and get approval for a course substitution OR you may request from Dr. Kelly Donahue-Wallace a Special Problems in the History of Printmaking… A special problems class in art history is readings, papers, and individual discussions with the professor.

Summer 2018: Printmaking classes: There will be very few classes offered in Printmaking and Studio Art.  We do hope to offer a Summer 5 Week 2 class in Artist’s Books. This will be unrestricted registration (no permission codes).  It may fill very fast.  Students who have not yet passed BFA Entry Review should not take any printmaking classes in the summer.

Cameron Tanner in 6th

Cameron Tanner (BFA 2017) is featured in the BFA Professional Practice class exhibition:

 6th
Cora Stafford Gallery,
October 11-15
Opening Reception October 12, 6-8pm

Introducing the "Chunk" litho pencil holder

Introducing "THE CHUNK"
Printmaking Tech Thomas Menikos has designed a litho pencil lead holder to be 3d printed at the CVAD computer lab.  Students may go to the lab and print the file named "THE CHUNK" on the TAZ-LUBOT.  It takes about 1.5 hours to print in a color of your choice.  The hexagonal design is comfy and it has a nice little clip to fit on your apron pocket!

Artists' Book Competition Call for Entries - UNT Special Collections

UNT Special Collections would like to announce a call for entries for the 10th Biennial Artists' Book Competition. The purpose of this competition is to encourage the development of students' work in the medium of artists' books, to foster the creation of artists' books, to reward excellence and creativity in the medium, and to build the collection of artists' books in the UNT Libraries' Special Collections.

Entries will be accepted in two categories: a Student Purchase Prize category and a Non-Student category. One winner will be selected from each category, but the $400 purchase award will only be given to the winner of the student category. Honorable mention awards will be given in each category, at the discretion of the jurors. Additional entries from both categories may be selected for purchase, dependent upon availability and budget restrictions of UNT Special Collections. All entries must have been created within the last two years to be eligible.

Works must be delivered to Willis Library December 4-15, 2017.

An exhibit of all entries will be on display in Willis Library from January 8-March 9, 2018.

For further information about eligibility, entry procedures, and entry forms, please visit the Call for Entries event page. Any questions regarding the competition and exhibit can be directed to Mandy.Rausch@unt.edu.

To view past competition winners, visit the Artists' Book Competition online exhibit.

If you have any questions, please contact us at 940-565-2769 or specialcollections@unt.edu.