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, unless otherwise noted. 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, including video stills on our website Online Art Entries.

JURY RESULTS

Artists whose work has been selected for a juried exhibition will be listed by name on our: What's New Page.

How to Submit for Juried Competitions at WMG

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 $30.00 entry fee after we have completed the entry for you.

How to pay the Entry Fee

The entry fee for all juried group exhibitions is $30. You may submit up to three images plus one detail view per image.

You may pay with Credit Card from our Secure Page. Just indicate the title of the WMG exhibition that you wish to enter and complete the form. This service is especially helpful to all who live outside of the United States where other currencies are used. If you are using the WMG secure service please indicate in your mailed entry that you have prepaid the entry fee with your credit card.

You may pay with a check and/or money order (international money order if outside the US) and include it with your mailed slide entry to Woman Made Gallery, 685 N. Milwaukee Ave., Chicago, IL 60642.

You may be exempt from paying the entry fee or pay less if you cannot afford the full fee. Please let us know about that. To be able to pay or not has no influence on the juror's decision.

Please direct any questions in regards to Exhibitions and Workshops at WMG to: admin@womanmade.org

Call for Art

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.

Artwork is not insured while on exhibit at Woman Made Gallery. Accepted artists must take care of their own insurance needs while artwork is being shipped and on exhibit at Woman Made Gallery.

CALL FOR ARTWORK: The Photographic Self (pdf)
Exhibition Dates: September 6 - October 24, 2013
Invitation to all women artists worldwide to submit photography and photo-based work depicting the ‘Self’ (the work does not necessarily have to be a traditional portrait or self-representation.)
This exhibition is open to any form of photography, including traditional processes, digital and video. Also encouraged is artwork in other mediums- for example, artist books, sculpture, mixed media – where photography is an intrinsic element.
Online Entries Submit jpgs of up to three of your works on our website.
Mailed Entries Mail a cd with jpg images of up to three of your works, completed entry form, and a $30 entry fee to Woman Made Gallery, 685 N. Milwaukee Ave., Chicago, IL 60642.
Juror: Carla Williams
Carla Williams is a writer, editor, and photographer. She is author of numerous essays and articles about photography and is co-author of two histories of photography, including "The Black Female Body: A Photographic History" with Deborah Willis.
Williams is Assistant Professor at Rochester Institute of Technology and is editor of the Chroma book series for the California Institute of Integral Studies. For more information visit: www.carlagirl.net.
Final Entry Deadline: July 3, 2013
Notifications: July 17, 2013

CALL FOR ARTWORK: Of the Land (pdf)
Exhibition Dates: November 15 - December 22, 2013
Homeland/ Landscape/ Farmland/ Foreign Land/ Landless/ Living off the land/ This land is your land, this land is my land/ Land redistribution/ Landed:
Throughout history and across the world, the word ‘land’ has ranged in its connotations to connect with political and economic concepts, as well as emotional and romantic ones.
Some of these connections include ethnic or national identity, environmentalism, wealth and ownership, revolution and redistribution, food politics, ideas of home and community, inclusion and exclusion, and of course nature and physical earth itself.
How do artists express these concepts and use ideas of ‘Land’ to create their work? From landscape paintings to installations of soil and grass, WMG solicits work by artists of all genders working in all media for this exhibition.
Online Entries Submit jpgs of up to three of your works on our website.
Mailed Entries Mail a cd with jpg images of up to three of your works, completed entry form, and a $30 entry fee to Woman Made Gallery, 685 N. Milwaukee Ave., Chicago, IL 60642.
Juror: Heidi Norton
Heidi Norton received her BFA from University of Maryland and her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Norton had her first solo museum exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago in 2012. She was included in the show Snapshot at the Contemporary Art Museum in Baltimore, and has had solo exhibitions at Johalla Projects Chicago (2012), Northeastern Illinois University Chicago (2011), Ebersmoore Chicago (2011), and HungryMan San Francisco (2011). She has also been included in exhibitions at Western Exhibitions Chicago, NADA Miami, Mark Wolfe Contemporary San Francisco, NADA Hudson Invisible Exports, NEXT Art Fair Chicago, Monique Meloche Gallery Chicago, Andrew Rafacz Gallery Chicago, and the Knitting Factory New York. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Midwest Photography Project Museum of Contemporary Photography, and the Joyce Foundation. Norton is a professor of photography at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Northwestern University. Visit www.heidi-norton.com.
Entry Deadline: August 18, 2013
Notifications: August 31, 2013

CALL FOR ARTWORK: From the Earth (pdf)
Exhibition Dates: November 15 - December 22, 2013
The earliest crafts and functional objects were fabricated from locally available or traded natural (from the earth) materials: clay, wood, metal, fiber, stone, glass, leather, etc. This tradition continues today, enhanced by improved tools, techniques, processes.
We are seeking Illinois women artisans making functional and/or decorative objects made solely by the artist from natural materials. No synthetics, derivatives or combinations with the natural materials may be used. No commercial or mass-produced work. All work must be for sale. Your work must remain on display until January 8th.
Visit www.womanmade.org/entryform.html to submit your entry with digital files (jpgs) online, or complete this entry form and submit with your cd by mail. Entry Fee: $30 for images of up to 3 works including up to one detail view per work.
Online Entries Submit jpgs of up to three of your works on our website.
Mailed Entries Mail a cd with jpg images of up to three of your works, completed entry form, and a $30 entry fee to Woman Made Gallery, 685 N. Milwaukee Ave., Chicago, IL 60642.
Jurors: Carmen M. Perez and Mary Stoppert
Carmen M. Perez is an artist, and an Adult Educator for Chicago City Colleges. Perez received her B.A. in Art from Northeastern Illinois University. She exhibits her jewelry, sculpture, and drawings in galleries, art and craft fairs, and expositions in the U.S. and Canada. Her most recent exhibition was SOFA Chicago 2012. Together with Mary Stoppert she established WMG's Artisan Gallery in Spring 2005 and co-curated all the Artisan Gallery exhibitions through July 2008. She is a former Woman Made Gallery Board member and was involved in the WMG outreach program. Visit www.carmenmperez.com.
After earning her MFA in Sculpture at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Mary Stoppert was a Professor of Art at Northeastern IL University for 30 years, chairing the art dept. two years and serving as gallery director for fifteen years. Stoppert’s exhibition history includes the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, The Art Institute of Chicago and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. She is the recipient of many awards including an NEA grant, the Art Institute of Chicago’s John G. Curtis Prize and the Frank G. Logan Award. Her work is in many private and public collections including Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Cincinnati Museum of Art, and the State of Illinois. In addition Stoppert has served as an instrumental advisor, curator and mentor to Woman Made Gallery and gallery staff since its inception. Visit www.marystoppert.com.
Entry Deadline: August 18, 2013
Notifications: August 31, 2013

(image top right) 'Africa,' mixed media assemblage, 8.5 x 6.5 x 6.5 inches by Ursula Kammer-Fox
(image bottom right) 'Protection Garments for the Physically Delicate,' mixed materials: bubble wrap, snaps, steel and stainless steel by M.E. Ware