Call for ART! Hardscapes

Confluence Gallery and Art Center

A Call To Artists: Hardscapes

Hello Artists,

We invite you to contribute to our HARDSCAPES show at the Confluence Gallery in Twisp, WA. The show will open on July 18th and will run thru August 22, 2015.

Hardscapes: The anti-landscape; what humans do to alter the natural landscape.
In the practice of landscape design, the hardscape is the nonliving or man-made fixtures of a planned outdoor area. 

We invite artists to take a deeper look at how humans invent, design, and engineer structures and systems that alter the natural world around us. The beautiful and the ugly.


How do we rearrange the earth to fulfill our human needs?

Do we choose to work with or against the natural world?

How do we fence out or defend against the threats, real or perceived, of nature.

How can we take up space in harmony with the earth? Is it even possible?

Here are the rules - Submit up to 4 pieces.

Each piece must be:

- Your own original work.

- Available for sale.

- Created in the last 3 years.

- Never previously been shown in the Methow Valley area. 

- Any Size (or give size parameters if appropriate)

- Any Medium

- Ready for hanging with appropriate hardware/wire secured to work (works without hanging hardware will not be hung)


Please note the curator(s) have the right to refuse work , even after work is delivered to the gallery, if it does not contribute to the direction, cohesiveness, or available space of the show. We are looking for high quality execution and thoughtful content that contribute to the vision of the show as stated above. 

Deadlines:

- Intent to Submit by May 1, 2015 send Artist Bio and sample of work 

  to salyna@confluencegallery.com

-Jpegs of work or work in progress by June 1, 2015 

- Artist Statement and Bio by July 1, 2015 (in email or word doc only, no pdf's or handwritten statements please).

- Completed works, Inventory Sheet and Confluence Gallery Contract by July 11, 2015

·-Show Opening July 18th, 2015 4pm – 8pm. All artists are encouraged to attend.

- Show Closes August 22, 2015. Work will be available for pick up after 3pm.


The Confluence Gallery and Art Center is a non-profit gallery. All shipping costs to and from the gallery of unsold works is each artist's responsibility. See Confluence Gallery Shipping Procedures form for details.

Please feel free to email us directly at salyna@confluencegallery or call Executive Director Salyna Gracie at the Confluence Gallery (509) 997-2787 if you have any questions about the show or the requirements. We are looking forward to hearing from you.


Sincerely,

Salyna Gracie and Mare Nemeth, curators