Woman Made Gallery: Call for Art

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. 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.

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

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.

To print out the entry form, please click on the title of the exhibition/activity you are interested in to download the entry form in pdf Adobe Acrobat format. The Adobe Acrobat Reader is available for FREE from their web site. Click here if you want to download Adobe Acrobat Reader now.

If you are unable to download the guidelines in pdf format, you may use our generic Entry Form for any of the listed exhibitions. Make sure you read the tips & submission Guidelines.

You may submit work for exhibitions with jpgs on our website. Visit the Online Art Entries to submit for any of our exhibitions listed on this page.

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.

The regular entry fee for all juried group exhibitions has gone up to $30 starting for all 2010 exhibitions. 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: exhibits@womanmade.org

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

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: Beyond Audubon (pdf)
Exhibition Dates: May 7 June 30, 2010
Invitation to women artists worldwide to submit artwork that applauds, challenges or transcends the bird illustrations of John James Audubon. All styles and media will be considered for this juried exhibition.
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 $30 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 $30 entry fee to Woman Made Gallery, 685 N. Milwaukee Ave., Chicago, IL 60642.
Juror: Karen Bondarchuk
Karen Bondarchuk received her MFA in sculpture from The Ohio State University, and her BFA in sculpture and video from NSCAD University in Halifax, Canada. She is Assistant Professor of Art at the Gwen Frostic School of Art at Western Michigan University. Her artwork includes sculpture, kinetics, bookmaking, drawing, video and performance, and incorporates a wide array of materials from wool to scavenged tires to bagpipes. Her current work explores the level of artificiality that defines our relationship with the wild, and the reality that most close encounters with wildlife are by human design. Bondarchuk has exhibited and performed in the United States, Canada, Italy, and England, and her work is in the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Canada and numerous private collections. For more information visit www.karenbondarchuk.com.
Entry Deadline: February 10, 2010
Notifications: March 3, 2010

CALL FOR ARTWORK: Category: Printmaking (pdf)
Exhibition Dates: July 9 - August 26, 2010
Invitation to women artists worldwide to submit artwork that challenges the boundaries of traditional handprint media, including intaglio, lithography, relief, monoprint and silkscreen. Please include an artist statement and a $30 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 $30 entry fee to Woman Made Gallery, 685 N. Milwaukee Ave., Chicago, IL 60642.
Juror: Debora Wood
Debora Wood is senior curator at the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, where she takes the leading role in developing the Museums exhibitions and collections. She has been at the Block Museum since 1999 and her area of focus is in twentieth-century art and the history and study of prints. Wood has a BFA from Cornell University and an MFA in printmaking from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is author of the exhibition catalogues for Imaging by Numbers (2008) and Marion Mahony Griffin (2005), and contributing author to catalogue Paths to the Press: Printmaking and American Women Artists, 19101960 (2006).
Entry Deadline: March 17, 2010
Notifications: April 14, 2010

CALL FOR ARTWORK: Mothers (pdf)
Exhibition Dates: November 5 December 23, 2010
Mothers seeks work by women in all media that addresses the culturally ubiquitous role of motherhood, historically under-represented in visual art. Mothers encourages multivalent understandings of this rich topic. Submissions might speak to personal experiences (as a mother or as related to a mother), social constructions of motherhood, the balance of home and work, the politicization of mothers, pregnancy, breastfeeding, childbirth, bodily transformation, miscarriage, loss, fertility/infertility, or other points of entry. Open to all forms of art that investigate the theme of Mothers. Please include an artist statement and a $30 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 $30 entry fee to Woman Made Gallery, 685 N. Milwaukee Ave., Chicago, IL 60642.
Juror: Rachel Epp Buller
Rachel Epp Buller, Ph.D., is a feminist-art historian-printmaker-mama of three whose art and scholarship investigate this balancing act. Her prints have been exhibited in solo and group and shows in Kansas City, Chicago, New York City, and elsewhere and she lectures and publishes widely on issues of motherhood and the maternal body in contemporary art. Her art writing and criticism appears in journals such as Review, Womans Art Journal, German Studies Review, and the Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering, in essay collections such as Mothering in the Third Wave (2008), and the forthcoming Mothers Creating / Writings Lives: Motherhood Memoirs, and Being and Thinking as an Academic Mother, and in her own forthcoming book, Reconciling Art and Motherhood. She has worked for the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Spencer Museum of Art, and currently teaches at Bethel College in Kansas.
Entry Deadline: August 11, 2010
Notifications: September 8, 2010