Please check the Artspace111 website in early 2024 for information on the 11th Annual Texas Juried Exhibition.
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Announcing a Top Prize of $10,000
Artspace111 is pleased to announce an open call for submissions for the Artspace111 10th Annual Texas Juried Exhibition. Marking the 10th anniversary of the exhibition, Artspace111 is announcing a $10,000 Top Prize which will be awarded to the artist selected for the best work in show. Submissions will be juried by 3 Jurors; Vicki Meek, Artist, Independent Curator and Writer, and the 2021 Texas Artist of the Year, Clare Milliken, Assistant Curator at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, and Luis Puron, Executive Director of the Rockport Center for the Arts. The competition includes eligibility for 2D and 3D artwork. The exhibition will be open at Artspace111 June 24 - August 26, 2023 with an opening reception on the evening of Saturday, June 24, 2023. Due date for entries is Tuesday, May 2, 2023. Contemporary 2D and 3D works that follow the requirements detailed in the prospectus are eligible for acceptance, artwork selected by the jurors from the eligible submissions will be included in the 10th Annual Texas Juried Exhibition at Artspace111 and are eligible for cash awards. A total of $15,000 will be awarded to the best works in show, and in addition to $10,000, the Top Prize will include the opportunity to exhibit at Artspace111 in a separate solo or group exhibition in 2023-2024. *Benefit for ALL Entrants: All entrants will be included in the Texas Now Online Showcase.
In addition, $5.00 from each submission will be donated to the Tarrant Area Food Bank. In 2022, entrants to the Texas Juried Exhibition raised enough money to provide 15,000 meals to the Tarrant Area Food Bank. Read more about their work here: https://tafb.org/
See full prospectus below for more information.
Image above: Awards announcement at the opening reception of the 9th Texas Juried Exhibition
The 10th Annual Texas Juried Exhibition (10TJE) is a competitive juried exhibition open to Texas based artists that begins with an online call for artwork. Submitted artwork is juried and the selected artwork is displayed at Artspace111. The timeline and requirements to submit are as follows:
Timeline & Important Dates
10TJE Jurors
Vicki Meek, Artist, Independent Curator and Writer, 2021 Texas Artist of the Year
Clare Milliken, Assistant Curator, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
Luis Purón, Executive Director, Rockport Center For The Arts
Prizes
Entry Fee
$35 for one image, additional entries $5.00 each, limit 6.
Note to artists: Artcall.org requires that artists pay the entry fee up front, before uploading works.
Sales Of Artwork
All submitted works must be for sale. Proceeds from the sale of artworks in the exhibition will be split 50% to the artist/ 50% with the gallery, meaning the gallery will retain 50% commission on any work sold while on display at Artspace111. The gallery has up to 30 days after the exhibition closes to submit payment to artists whose works have sold.
Pricing Of Artwork
Note to Artists: The gallery will use the price submitted as the RETAIL price for the artwork, while the artwork is on display at Artspace111. Keep in mind the retail price will be split 50/50%.
2D Eligibility & Medium
3D Eligibility & Medium
Insurance & Liability
Shipping/ Installation Requirements
Additional Benefits
Artists Supporting the Tarrant Area Food Bank
$5.00 from each submission will be donated to the Tarrant Area Food Bank. In 2022, entrants to the Texas Juried Exhibition raised enough money to provide 15,000 meals to the Tarrant Area Food Bank.
Texas Now Online Showcase | Online Exhibition | Additional Opportunity for All 10TJE Entrants
To support Texas artists, every artwork entered for consideration to the 10th Annual Texas Juried Exhibition will have the opportunity to be included in Artspace111’s TEXAS NOW online showcase, regardless if the artist’s work gets accepted into the 10th Annual Texas Juried Exhibition. This online sale called TEXAS NOW Online Showcase will take place after the completion of the 10th Annual Texas Juried Exhibition from September 1 - 30, 2023. During the Texas Now Online Showcase, collectors may browse and purchase artwork directly from the Artspace111 website and it will be promoted heavily to our network of art collectors. Our intent is to give all those who enter the call a platform through Artspace111 to make art sales. Artists shall receive 70% of the proceeds of a sale, and will be responsible for the delivery or shipment of the artwork to the client. This additional opportunity is optional, and artists may opt in during the submission process. With this in mind, please make sure the images you submit or have submitted are of the highest quality, the images you submit will represent your work online.
Questions?
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About The Jurors
Vicki Meek, Artist, Independent Curator and Writer, 2021 Texas Artist of the Year
Vicki Meek, born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is a nationally recognized artist who has exhibited widely. Meek is in the permanent collections of the African American Museum in Dallas, The Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Fort Wayne Museum of Art in Indiana, Paul Quinn College in Dallas, Serie Art Project in Austin and Norwalk Community College in Norwalk, Connecticut. She was awarded three public arts commissions with the Dallas Area Rapid Transit Art Program and was co-artist on the largest public art project in Dallas, the Dallas Convention Center Public Art Project.
Meek was selected as one of ten national artists to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the Nasher Sculpture Center with the commissioning of a site-specific installation. Meek’s retrospective “Vicki Meek: 3 Decades of Social Commentary” opened in November 2019 at Houston Museum of African American Culture and marked the end of her concentrating solely on her installation practice as she moves into creating work using video as the primary medium. She dubs these new works video comments since they are no more than 8 minutes in length and are done in a series format.
In addition to having a studio practice, Vicki Meek is an independent curator and writes cultural criticism for Dallas Weekly with her blog Art & Race notes (http://artracenotes.blogspot.com) and also wrote a monthly column, ARTiculate for Theater Jones, an online performing arts magazine.
Meek was an adjunct faculty member for UMass Arts Extension Program in Amherst, Massachusetts where she taught a course in Cultural Equity in the Arts. With over 40+ years of arts administrative experience that includes working as a senior program administrator for a state arts agency, a local arts agency and running a non-profit visual arts center, after 20 years, Vicki Meek retired in March 2016 as the Manager of the South Dallas Cultural Center in Dallas. She served on the board of National Performance Network/Visual Artists Network 2008-15 and was Chair from 2012-2014. In 2016, Meek was selected to be a Fellow in the Intercultural Leadership Institute and also became a Voting Member of Alternate Roots, a national artist service organization.
Vicki Meek currently spends time as Chief Operating Officer and Board Member of USEKLA: Center for Creative Investigation, a non-profit retreat for creatives in Costa Rica founded by internationally acclaimed performance artist Elia Arce. She is also Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson’s at-large appointment to the Arts and Culture Commission and the Public Art Committee. Meek is represented by Talley Dunn Gallery in Dallas, Texas.
Clare Milliken, Assistant Curator, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
Clare Milliken is the Assistant Curator at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. Since joining in March 2022, she has contributed to texts for the exhibitions Modern Masters: A Tribute to Anne W. Marion and I’ll Be Your Mirror: Art and the Digital Screen. In the future, she looks forward to curating exhibitions focusing on early and mid-career artists. Her first show with the Modern will open in 2024.
Before coming to the Modern, Milliken was the Curator at the Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas. She was instrumental in launching the foundation’s exhibition space in October 2021. Having an in-depth knowledge of the collection, Milliken worked alongside guest curator Aindrea Emelife on the inaugural exhibition, Black Bodies, White Spaces: Invisibility & Hypervisibility. The exhibition—which featured paintings by Amoako Boafo, Jordan Casteel, Deborah Roberts, Amy Sherald, and Henry Taylor– explored how Black artists use the pictorial language of figuration to discuss, critique, and engage with the complexities surrounding Black identity. Before her departure to join the Modern, Milliken curated Women of Now: Dialogues of Memory, Place & Identity. This group exhibition explored how emerging women artists synthesize a sense of place, memory, and identity to shape a discourse on the contemporary female experience. The exhibition featured artists including Ana Benaroya, Rachel Jones, Hannah Levy, Jenny Morgan, and Anna Park.
Before returning to her native Texas in 2020, Milliken spent six years in New York. After graduate school, she worked at Phillips Auctioneers for three and half years in the Photographs Specialists department. Responsible for cataloguing the department’s consigned artworks, Milliken researched and inspected more than 1,500 photographs, including works by Diane Arbus, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Sally Mann, Robert Mapplethorpe, Irving Penn, Man Ray, Cindy Sherman, and Hannah Wilke. While earning a master’s degree in contemporary art history from Sotheby’s Institute of Art in New York, Milliken interned at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in the exhibition management department, working on exhibitions including the Doris Salcedo and Agnes Martin retrospectives.
Luis Purón, Executive Director, Rockport Center For The Arts
Since 2015, Luis Purón has been the Executive Director at Rockport Center for the Arts. The hallmarks of his tenure are the creation of new programs for the visual arts, arts education, as well as new festivals and fairs that promote cultural tourism and economic development. After the storm of 2017, which destroyed the art center building located near Aransas Bay, the Board of Directors, Purón and his staff restored operations quickly; never canceling any programs or events. Despite not having a building, Rockport Center for the Arts hosted the prestigious, international traveling exhibit Birds in Art 34 days after Hurricane Harvey by partnering with the Art Museum of South Texas in Corpus Christi. In 2018, the Board, aided by Purón were instrumental in launching a successful $ 12.5M capital campaign. Purón also worked with local entities, Aransas County Long Term Recovery and the City of Rockport to procure a $5M grant from the federal government to build a more resilient art center, restore its sculpture garden and add a venue center to the program. The venue center was branded as The Rockport Conference Center in 2022. On March 31, 2021, to make way for construction, Purón worked with the City of Rockport, the Federal Government, and local and state history groups to relocate the beloved Kline’s Cafe. Rockport Center for the Arts funded the relocation of the building as part of the capital project. Construction on the 1.2-acre campus started the next day and it ended December 10, 2022. Over 700 people attended the grand opening.
Questions?
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