Artisan Gallery - Physicality: Body, Shape, Form (Click Here for an online preview of this exhibit)

Elements of body, shape, and form are the foundations of exquisite design. Physicality: Body, Shape, Form includes submissions that investigate the essence of these foundations through conceptual, decorative, or functional objects.

Entry Due Date†: February 18, 2009
Notifications Sent: March 11, 2009
Hand-deliver Work: April 22, 23, 24 / 12-7pm
Shipped Work to Arrive: April 22, 23, 24 / 12-7pm
Exhibition Dates: May 1 - July 23, 2009
Opening Reception: May 1, 2009
Pick Up Work: July 24 / noon-7pm
UPS Pick Up Date‡: July 29, 2009

Juror(s): Margaret Denny - Artisan Gallery Curator
Margaret Denny is a Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her dissertation, From Commerce to Art: American Women Photographers, 1850-1900, investigates women’s experience as fine art photographers and professional studio photographers in the early days of the medium.

She teaches at both Columbia College and the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her recent publications include essays in the anthology The Spaces and Places of Fashion 1800-2007 and the Journal of Illinois History. Denny is a former Terra Foundation fellow and has worked at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum. For the Terra, she curated "En Plein Air, American Artists in Giverny" in 2003.

Her Mark 2010 (Click Here for an online preview of this exhibit)

Entry Due Date†: March 12, 2009 - Extended
Notifications Sent: March 25, 2009
Hand-deliver Work: July 22-24, noon-7 pm
Shipped Work to Arrive: July 22-24, noon-7 pm
Exhibition Dates: July 31 - August 27, 2009
Opening Reception: July 31, noon-7 pm
Pick Up Work: August 28, noon-7 pm
UPS Pick Up Date‡: September 2, noon-7 pm

Juror(s): Maria Elena Buszek
Maria Elena Buszek is an assistant professor of art history at the Kansas City Art Institute. Her curatorial experience began at MoMA in NYC and LACMA in LA. She has curated exhibitions for the Charlotte Street Awards, Greenlease Gallery, Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, and The Cube. She is working on the traveling exhibition Raised in Craftivity, opening at the Wignall Museum in 2009. Recent publications include Pin-Up Grrrls: Feminism, Sexuality, Popular Culture (Duke University Press, 2006) and Blaze: Discourse on Art, Women, and Feminism (Cambridge Scholar' Press, 2007). She is a contributor to journal BUST and Kansas City's Review. For more information visit www.mariabuszek.com.

Interactive (Click Here for an online preview of this exhibit)

"Long before interactive meant sitting in front of a computer, artists were making books, toys, games, installations and other work that invited participation from the viewer." For this exhibition, curated by Karen Hanmer, Woman Made Gallery sought work that the viewer will handle, play with, modify, or physically interact with in some way.

Entry Due Date†: March 31, 2009 - Extended
Notifications Sent: April 12, 2009
Hand-deliver Work: June 10, 11, 12 / 12-7pm
Shipped Work to Arrive: June 10, 11, 12 / 12-7pm
Exhibition Dates: June 19 - July 23, 2009
Opening Reception: June 19, 2009 / 6-9pm
Pick Up Work: July 24 / noon-7pm
UPS Pick Up Date‡: July 29, 2009

Juror(s): Karen Hanmer
Chicago book and installation artist Karen Hanmer’s intimate, playful works fragment and layer text and image to intertwine memory, cultural history, and the history of science. Her work weds the ancient act of book binding with the high-tech use of the computer to aid her process.

She exhibits widely, and her work is included in collections ranging from Stanford University and Tate Britain to National Museum of Women in the Arts and Graceland. Hanmer holds a degree in Economics from Northwestern University. She is Exhibitions Chair for the Guild of Book Workers, and serves on the editorial board of The Bonefolder, the peer reviewed online book arts journal. Visit: www.karenhanmer.com

Annual Members Show

Open to all artists who are members of Woman Made Gallery. All themes, styles, and media will be considered. Artists must submit professional images of exactly THREE WORKS executed during the last two years that have not been previously exhibited at WMG.

All selections will be based on originality, craftsmanship, quality, and professionalism of entry. Artwork may not exceed 48” horizontally, frame included. Include artist statement and $24 entry fee.

Entry Due Date†: May 21, 2009 - Extended
Notifications Sent: June 5, 2009
Hand-deliver Work: July 22, 23, 24 / 12-7pm
Shipped Work to Arrive: July 22, 23, 24 / 12-7pm
Exhibition Dates: July 31 - August 27, 2009
Opening Reception: July 31, 2009 / 6-9pm
Pick Up Work: August 28 / noon-7pm
UPS Pick Up Date‡: September 2, 2009

Juror(s): Judithe Hernández
Judithe Hernández’s was a founding members of the Chicano Art and Los Angeles Mural Movements of the 1960's. Regarded as one of the important visual artists of the period, she was also the only female member of the seminal and influential East Los Angeles artist collective, Los Four, who broke the museum barrier with the first major exhibition of Chicano art in the United States. Her works are part of several important public and private collections, among them: the Bank of America Corporate Collection, the State of California Collection, and the National Museum of Mexican Art. Her extensive exhibition record includes the ground-breaking first exhibition of contemporary Chicano art in Europe: Le Démon des Anges. Among her many public works is the Los Angeles Bicentennial Mural (1981) commissioned by the City of Los Angeles to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the city's founding in 1781.

In contrast to her public art, her studio work has always been pastel on paper. Commenting upon her work in the Aztlan Journal (Fall 2008), Dr. Chon Noriega of the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center wrote, “Judithe Hernández’s vibrant pastel drawings illustrate the formation of a unique political aesthetic and Chicana/o consciousness that continues to inform her work in provocative and stunning ways”. In 2010, she will have solo exhibitions at the National Museum of Mexican Art and Woman Made Gallery. Visit: www.jhnartestudio.com

Artisan Gallery - Materiality: Emphasis on the Media

This exhibition focuses on the materials from which art objects are created. With a desire to showcase multitude of materials from which craft objects are made, the Artisan Gallery seeks entries from women artists whose material takes precedence in the design; inspiring awe in the tactile qualities of the work. Materiality highlights these substances: the cool smooth surface of glass, the ruggedness of clay, colorful and textural fabric, and the richness of metal. Open to all craft production – decorative, functional, or conceptual.
Images of up to three artworks plus one detail image per artwork if needed. Include artist statement and $24 entry fee.

Entry Due Date†: May 29, 2009
Notifications Sent: June 12, 2009
Hand-deliver Work: July 22, 23, 24 / 12-7pm
Shipped Work to Arrive: July 22, 23, 24 / 12-7pm
Exhibition Dates: July 31 - October 10, 2009
Opening Reception: July 31, 2009 / 6-9pm
Pick Up Work: October 11 / 12-4pm
UPS Pick Up Date‡: October 14 / noon-7pm

Juror(s): Margaret Denny - Artisan Gallery Curator
Margaret Denny is a Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her dissertation, From Commerce to Art: American Women Photographers, 1850-1900, investigates women’s experience as fine art photographers and professional studio photographers in the early days of the medium.

She teaches at both Columbia College and the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her recent publications include essays in the anthology, The Spaces and Places of Fashion 1800-2007 and the Journal of Illinois History. Denny is a former Terra Foundation fellow and has worked at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum. For the Terra, she curated En Plein Air, American Artists in Giverny in 2003.

Cultural Memory: Transdiasporic Art Practices

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 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. Digital archives of previous Transdiaspora exhibits are available at www.transdiaspora.org.
Images of up to three artworks plus one detail image per artwork if needed. Please include an artist statement and a $24 entry fee.

Entry Due Date†: June 29, 2009
Notifications Sent: July 8, 2009
Hand-deliver Work: Aug. 26, 27, 28 / 12-7pm
Shipped Work to Arrive: Aug. 26, 27, 28 / 12-7pm
Exhibition Dates: September 4 - October 10, 2009
Opening Reception: Sept. 4, 2009 / 6-9pm
Pick Up Work: October 11 / noon-4pm
UPS Pick Up Date‡: October 14 / noon-7pm

Juror(s): 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.

Mirando Al Sur: Looking South

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.

Entry Due Date†: July 31, 2009
Notifications Sent: August 19, 2009
Hand-deliver Work: October 7, 8, 9 / 12-7pm
Shipped Work to Arrive: October 7, 8, 9 / 12-7pm
Exhibition Dates: October 16 - November 12, 2009
Opening Reception: November 20 / 6-9pm
Pick Up Work: November 13 / 12-7pm
UPS Pick Up Date‡: November 18, 2009

Juror(s): 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.

Artisan Gallery - Invitational

Select artisans exhibit their work.

Entry Due Date†: August 14, 2009
Notifications Sent: September 3, 2009
Hand-deliver Work: October 7, 8, 9 / 12-7pm
Shipped Work to Arrive: October 7, 8, 9 / 12-7pm
Exhibition Dates: October 16 - December 17, 2009
Opening Reception: October 16 / 6-9pm
Pick Up Work: December 18 / 12-7pm
UPS Pick Up Date‡: December 23 / 12-7pm

Juror(s): Margaret Denny

Family Album

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.

Entry Due Date†: September 10, 2009
Notifications Sent: October 2, 2009
Hand-deliver Work: Nov. 11-13, 09 / 12-7pm
Shipped Work to Arrive: Nov. 11-13, 09 / 12-7pm
Exhibition Dates: November 20 - December 17, 2009
Opening Reception: November 20 / 6-9pm
Pick Up Work: December 18, 12-7pm
UPS Pick Up Date‡: December 23, 2009 / 12-7pm

Juror(s): 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.

Cross Pollination

Open to up to three 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.

Entry Due Date†: September 10, 2009
Notifications Sent: October 2, 2009
Hand-deliver Work: Nov. 11, 12, 13 / 12-7pm
Shipped Work to Arrive: Nov. 11, 12, 13 / 12-7pm
Exhibition Dates: November 20 - December 17, 2009
Opening Reception: Nov. 20, 2009 / 6-9pm
Pick Up Work: December 18 / noon-7pm
UPS Pick Up Date‡: December 22, 2009

Juror(s): 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.