Art Entry Forms & Applications

This page is intended to give artists a fast look at our upcoming exhibitions for which applications are required. Exhibitions are open to women from around the world. Some exhibitions are also open to entries by male artists. Artists may submit their entry with traditional slides, cd or video works by mail to: Woman Made Gallery, 685 N. Milwaukee Ave., Chicago, IL 60642. Artists may submit their entry with jpgs on our website Online Art Entries.

Please direct any questions about exhibitions and workshops to: exhibits@womanmade.org and about membership and links requests to: admin@womanmade.org. Please note that we include links to members' websites only.

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Artists may submit to any of our group shows with either slides or jpgs by mail or with jpgs on this website. If you wish to submit by mail, please print out and complete the entry form to mail with your slides or CD.

Important: While we tried to make our online art entry system as easy as possible, if you have problems because of your computer and/or technical limitations, please email your entry with jpgs with image information and related statement to gallery@womanmade.org and we do the work for you. We'll invoice you for the regular $24.00 entry fee after we have completed the entry for you.

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(right) 'Africa,' mixed media assemblage, 8.5 x 6.5 x 6.5 inches by Ursula Kammer-Fox

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Please note: By submitting their work to Woman Made Gallery exhibitions, all artists agree to allow reproduction of their slides, digital files and/or photographs taken of their art for educational, publicity, and archival purposes.

CALL FOR ARTWORK: Cultural Memory: Transdiasporic Art Practices
Exhibition Dates: September 4 - October 10, 2009
Submissions are invited from women artists whose works embody individual acts of memorialization and remembrance. The works can be about collective, familial or individual memories. The art objects could range from small mementos and intimate keepsakes to memorials that engage with collective memories of historical traumas. Please include a $24 entry fee, and a statement with your submissions framing your works in the context of cultural memory.
Transdiaspora Project is an on-going series of art exhibits that bring together artists from diverse locations and heritages around overarching themes. The Transdiaspora paradigm makes transverse and horizontal connections between artists of minoritarian communities as well as majoritarian populations.
Online Entries Submit jpgs of three of your works on our website.
Mailed Entries Mail slides or cd with images of three of your works, completed entry form and a $24 entry fee to Woman Made Gallery, 685 N. Milwaukee Ave., Chicago, IL 60642.
Juror: Pritika Chowdhry
Pritika Chowdhry explores cultural forms of memory and representations of historical trauma in her current work. Working in clay and fibers, Pritika creates sculptural installations that function as mobile memorials. Pritika has founded the Partition Memorial Project which exists as temporary art exhibits as well as a digital archive, www.partitionmemorialproject.org.
Pritika is the recipient of a Vilas International Travel Fellowship, an Edith and Sinaiko Frank Fellowship for a Woman in the Arts, a Wisconsin Arts Board grant, a City of Madison project grant, and a Dane County Commission grant. Pritika’s works are in the “Erasing Borders 2009” traveling exhibit organized by the Indo-American Arts Council, and will be shown at the Queens Museum, New York, the Aicon Gallery, Manhattan, the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, the Dowd Fine Arts Gallery in SUNY-Cortland, and the Gallery at Penn College, Pennsylvania. In addition, Pritika is showing her works in solo and group exhibits at the DoVA Temporary at the University of Chicago, the Brodsky Center in Rutgers University, Woman Made Gallery, ARC Gallery, both in Chicago, and the Class of 1925 Gallery in Madison, Wisconsin.
Born and brought up in India, Pritika moved to the U.S. in 1999. Pritika worked as a computer engineer for several years and then returned to school to do an MFA in Ceramics and Sculpture from University of Wisconsin, Madison. Visit: www.transdiaspora.org.
Final Entry Deadline: June 29, 2009
Notifications: July 8, 2009

CALL FOR ARTWORK: Mirando Al Sur: Looking South
Exhibition Dates: October 16 - November 12, 2009
Latin America’s diverse places, histories and cultures, and the artwork informed by them, are the influence for Looking South. The art of Latin America is heterogeneous; it cannot be defined by one style, or one subject matter. Ranging from muralism to print work, from graffiti to ceramics, we seek to display the rich and exciting ways art is in dialogue with Latin America. Looking South seeks submissions from women artists, not necessarily of Latin American decent, but influenced by Latin America.
Images of up to three artworks plus one detail image per artwork if needed. Please include an artist statement and a $24 entry fee.
Online Entries Submit jpgs of three of your works on our website.
Mailed Entries Mail slides or cd with images of three of your works, completed entry form and a $24 entry fee to Woman Made Gallery, 685 N. Milwaukee Ave., Chicago, IL 60642.
Juror: Dolores Mercado
Dolores Mercado is an artist, curator, and arts educator. Mercado studied at UNAM, La Esmeralda in Mexico City, and the University of Guadalajara. Her recent curatorial projects include Quilt Me A Story: Nuestros Relatos (Immigration Stories) and Women Artists of Modern Mexico: Frida’s Contemporaries. Her exhibition, Rostros y Crónicas / Women of Juarez, opens in October 2009. Currently, she is Associate Curator and Associate Director of Education at the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago.
Final Entry Deadline: July 31, 2009
Notifications: August 19, 2009

CALL FOR ARTWORK: Family Album
Exhibition Dates: November 20 - December 17, 2009
Family Album seeks to illustrate the multitudinous ways that family can be interpreted, through varied media and styles. Just as notions of family are malleable, the ways in which the idea of a “family album” is conceived are flexible and individual. Open to all art production showcasing an interpretation of family.
All selections will be based on originality, craftsmanship, quality, and professionalism of entry. Artwork may not exceed 72” horizontally, frame included. Please include an artist statement and a $24 entry fee.
Online Entries Submit jpgs of three of your works on our website.
Mailed Entries Mail slides or cd with images of three of your works, completed entry form and a $24 entry fee to Woman Made Gallery, 685 N. Milwaukee Ave., Chicago, IL 60642.
Juror: Karen Irvine
Karen Irvine is Curator of the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago. She is a part-time instructor of Photography at Columbia College Chicago.
Irvine received her MFA in Photography from FAMU, Prague, Czech Republic, and her Masters of Arts in Art History at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She has a BA in French and International Relations, an MFA in photography from FAMU, Prague, Czech Republic, and an MA in art history from the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Irvine has organized numerous exhibitions, including: Paul Shambroom: Evidence of Democracy; Alec Soth: Sleeping by the Mississippi; Shirana Shahbazi: Goftare Nik/Good Words; Jason Salavon; Audible Imagery: Sound and Photography, a group show investigating the role of hearing and seeing in perception; The Furtive Gaze, artists who use the camera as a surveillance instrument, and Camera/Action, on the relationship between performance art and photography as a record of experience.
Entry Deadline: September 10, 2009
Notifications: October 2, 2009

CALL FOR ARTWORK: Cross Pollination
Exhibition Dates: November 20 - December 17, 2009
Open to works in encaustic wax or encaustic as a component of mixed media, by women artists from the international community.
The honey bee is a wonderful team player (beeswax is the main element of the encaustic wax technique) and all of the worker bees are female! Cross Pollination honors these powerful "little women" and invites individual and collaborative creations.
Please include an artist statement and a $24 entry fee.
Online Entries Submit jpgs of three of your works on our website.
Mailed Entries Mail slides or cd with images of three of your works, completed entry form and a $24 entry fee to Woman Made Gallery, 685 N. Milwaukee Ave., Chicago, IL 60642.
Juror: Laurel Delaney
Traveling and experiencing other cultures has had a major impact on Laurel Delaney's art. With her recent move to Arizona she has embarked upon a new series of work influenced by the many Native American tribes in the region.
Delaney is an exhibiting artist and writer and volunteers in local art based outreach programs. She has a BA from Dominican University in River Forest and a BFA from the School of the Art Institute in Chicago. Delaney also teaches workshops in encaustic wax techniques as an affiliate of R&F Paints in Kingston, New York. For more information visit: www.laureldelaney.net.
Entry Deadline: September 10, 2009
Notifications: October 2, 2009