A Singular Creation Art Community Newsletter - March 9, 2009 | View This Newsletter Online Here
Hello all. We have some great stuff coming your way in the upcoming months. We have been busy planning some new site updates that we will be sharing soon. But for this newsletter, we have some new contests and opportunities that you will not want to miss out on. Plus, our annual competition is coming to an end. You only have another week to enter. So please support this community by entering. my very best regards,
Joe Barrouk (AKA Singular) - A Singular Creation founder
A Singular Creation 3rd Annual Online Art and Photography Competition
A Singular Creation 3rd Annual Art Competition | Deadline - Saturday, March 14
A Singular Creation (ASC) is proud to present our 3rd Annual Art Competition. The competition is open to all artists worldwide, working in any media, excluding video. We will award large cash prizes and publication awards - as well as promote all artists heavily on our site. All artists' portfolios will remain on our site permanently. The competition will be juried by ASC founder, along with a small panel of ASC judges.

Prospectus: www.asingularcreation.com/art-competition.htm
The following are featured art contests, opportunities and other art events from our art list.
Free Monthly Online Art Contests for Cash Prizes
Compete with other artists in our free monthly online art contests for cash and other great prizes. A Singular Creation provides a free online venue to showcase your art and photography. All winners will also be featured on our website and in our e-newsletters sent to over 5500 subscribers.

Bigger is Better :: Contest Is Open
Contest is open to all media in which your subject matter is big. Could be mountains, buildings, trees, people, eys, insects or anything else you can make big.
  • Prize: 50 cash prize donated by A Singular Creation
  • Open for Submissions: February 15 - March 14, 2009
  • Phase 1 Voting: March 15 - 22, 2009
  • Phase 2 Voting: March 23 - April 8, 2009
  • Phase 3 Voting: April 9 - 10, 2009
[ Enter Contests Here ]

The 24th Chelsea International Fine Art Competition | Tuesday, March 10
Agora Gallery announces a call to artists for The 2009 Chelsea International Fine Art Competition. Awards valued at $38,000 distributed as follows: exhibition at the Chelsea gallery, cash awards, Internet exposure and publicity in ARTisSpectrum magazine.

Enter online: www.agora-gallery.com/competition/art_contest_main.aspx

Inaugural Exhibition: Still Point I - Call for Entries | Monday, March 16
Still Point Art Gallery invites submissions from emerging and established artists for its inaugural exhibition: Still Point I. This exhibition has no subject restrictions, but will explore those things that as artists we hold still. Open to artists 18 years of age or older living in the United States who submit original artwork in any medium except video and wearable art. Three Artists of Distinction will be chosen to participate in a group show in 2010.

Prospectus: www.stillpointartgallery.com/index.php?action=prospects

11th Annual Judeo-Christian Online International Art Exhibition | Tuesday, March 24
The Upstream People Gallery presents an exhibition with 12 month's gallery representation, from April 1, 2009 through March 31, 2010, with approximately 900,000 hits each month. Open to all artists worldwide. Original artwork in all media and forms representing biblical themes such as faith, hope, love, beauty, peace, creation; inspired from prayer and works that inspire and lift hearts.

Cash Awards of Excellence and Special Recognitions will be given at the juror's discretion; the amounts and number of which is determined by the entries and their quality. Specially recognized artists will be reviewed in the juror's statement published worldwide and sent in a press release to the artist's local newspaper(s).

Artists get a dicounted entry fee if submitted by our early deadline of March 8, 2009. The final deadline is March 24, 2009. Prospectus: www.upstreampeoplegallery.com

Visual Arts Alliance 26th Juried Open Exhibition | Friday, March 27
26th Juried Open Exhibition to be held May 11 – June 5, 2009 in Houston, TX. Open to US artists 18+. Original works in all media except audio, video or performance art. $2,500+ in cash and prizes.

For prospectus, send SASE to Ann McBride, 2807 Triway Ln., Houston, TX 77043, or email annmcbride1@sbcglobal.net or download from our web site: www.visualartsalliance.org/prospectus


ARTROM Gallery, TOPTEN, IN VISION International Art Competition | Tuesday, March 31
IN VISION, a TOPTEN International Art Competition is for artists working within the genre of Visionary, Fantasy, Mystical, Sci Fi, Surrealism or artists that feel their work stretches and pushes the parameters of our imagination. Artists working in these styles tend to express themselves through a creative process which transcends the physical world and portrays a wider vision of awareness.

Prospectus:
www.artromgallery.com/competition_calendar1.htm

The Art Interview - 16th International Online Artist Competition | Tuesday, March 31

The Art Interview - 16th International Online Artist Competition is a quarterly, international, juried exhibition of paintings, drawings and sculptures in any medium. It is open to all living artists worldwide aged 16 and up. A European gallery exhibition and a total of 17,000 Euros in cash may be awarded each quarter to the first, second and third place winners. First place winners receive up to 10,000 Euros plus a featured interview in Art Interview Online Magazine. The competition is run completely over the Internet, which eliminates the need for you to send slides or arrange for physical transportation of your artworks. Gain international recognition for your artwork and be interviewed along with the world's top artists, curators and gallery owners in Art Interview Online Magazine.

Read more information on the competition and how to enter it at www.art-interview.com


Direct Art Volume 16 - Call for Entries | Tuesday, March 31
The Annual International Publication Competition for publication in Volume 16 of Direct Art Magazine, Fall/Winter 2009 issue. Direct Art is distributed in the US by COMAG Marketing Group, the distributors of Art News and Art in America, to bookstores throughout the US including Barnes and Nobles and Borders. The competition is open to all artists working in any media. The twenty six awards include the covers of magazine, feature articles and full page displays.

Prospectus: www.slowart.com/prospectus/spring.htm

The Richeson 75 International Still Life & Floral 2009 Art Competition | Thursday, April 9
Richeson School of Art & Gallery, a division of Jack Richeson & Co., Inc., is proud to announce the Richeson 75 Still Life & Floral Competition 2009. Seventy-five two-dimensional works of art and several alternates will be selected to represent the finest examples of painting and drawing being produced by today’s visual artists. The following prizes will be awarded:

Best In Show - $3,000. First Place in each category will receive a $1000 certificate for art materials from Jack Richeson & Co., Inc. Second Place Award in each category will receive a $500 certificate for art materials from Jack Richeson & Co., Inc. 75 Finalists and a number of
alternates will be selected and invited to participate in the exhibit at the Richeson Gallery in Kimberly, Wisconsin from June 8-May 21, 2009.

The Richeson 75: Still Life & Floral Competition is open to all artists over age 18. All work entered must be original in concept/execution and have been created since January 1, 2007. 2-D Art in the following categories is eligible: Oils, Oil Pastel/Paintstiks; Pastels & Drawing/Dry Media and Water Media/Other (Printmaking, Mixed Media etc.). No photography, electronic/computer generated art or 3-D.

Website: www.richeson75.com/callforentries.html
Prospectus: www.richeson75.com/prospectus/r75_stillife_09.pdf

Call For Entries - Art House Open Projects | Wednesday, April 15
The Canvas Project - Your work at the world's busiest airport! Sign up to receive 5 3''x3'' canvases and a list of 5 user generated words that you are to interpret onto each canvas. The goal of the exhibition is to create a visual encyclopedia using mini canvases and artists from all over the world. At least one of your canvases will be published in an Art House book and one will be on display at the worlds busiest airport, The Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.

Take part in this project to not only help gain exposure for yourself, but also to push your creative ideas out. Everyone who signs up and sends back their work will be included in the book and the exhibition. We do not jury any of the work. Art House is all about community and you don't have to be a professional artist to participate in the exhibition. This project is about being creative and inspiring yourself and others. We want to bring artists together and give everyone a chance to show in galleries and other venues across the country!

To sign up to participate, visit www.arthousecoop.com/canvasproject

Photography From The Future - Call for Entries | Wednesday, April 15
Astronaut Elephant, Photography from the Future is an Online Gallery that sells, licenses, and exhibits artworks that portray life in the future. The artists are fine art photographers, commercial photographers and amateur photographers residing in the United States. This online gallery welcomes artwork within the futuristic theme including inspirations, deviations, distortions, embellishments, modernizations, montages, composites, retouches, hand colored, simplifications, and new standards of future imaginary faces, bodies, fashions, lifestyles, animals, creatures, robots, cities, architecture, spaces, vehicles, nature, the universe, extraterrestrials, stars in outer space, and life on other planets. Astronaut Elephant does not seek a specific genre.

This online gallery intends to explore extremes of futurism. All artworks are selected by Helena Cristina Henriques for Astronaut Elephant, Photography from the Future Online Fine Art Gallery. $25 per image submitted. 20 images max accepted. Images mailed in a CD. No email submittions accepted. Please read all conditions that apply.

Prospectus: www.astronautelephant.com/AEG-info.pdf

27th Annual Juried Exhibition - Open to All Media | Saturday, April 18
Pleiades Gallery, located in the prime Chelsea art location, is having its 27th Annual Juried Exhibition, open to all media. This year's juror is Nat Trotman, Assistant Curator at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Please download the prospectus from www.pleiadesgallery.com/juried.html

For further information, call Pleiades Gallery at 646-230-0056. We are located at 530 West 25th St., New York, NY 10001-5516.

11th Annual Contemporary Art Juried Online International Art Exhibition | Friday, April 24
The Upstream People Gallery presents an exhibition with 12 month's gallery representation, from May 1, 2009 through April 30, 2010, with approximately 900,000 hits each month. Open to all contemporary artists worldwide with original 2-Dimensional and 3-Dimensional artwork in all media and creative processes. Global art, installations, post-modernist art, etc., are most welcome.

Cash Awards of Excellence and Special Recognitions will be given at the juror's discretion; the amounts and number of which is determined by the entries and their quality. Specially recognized artists will be reviewed in the juror's statement published worldwide and sent in a press release to the artist's local newspaper(s).

Artists get a dicounted entry fee if submitted by our early deadline of April 8, 2009. The final deadline is April 24, 2009. Prospectus: www.upstreampeoplegallery.com/schedule/prospectus.asp?XD=5/1/2009

Pagosa Springs Arts Council 6th Annual Juried Exhibition: A Regional Art Competition | Friday, April 24
  Open to all artists 18+ residing in the Four Corners states; Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah. Open to artists working in any media excluding functional crafts, photography, video, film, other electronic works, and performance or installation art. The exhibit runs June 25 to July 21, 2009 at Pagosa Springs Arts Council's Town Park Gallery, 315 Hermosa Street, Pagosa Springs, Colorado 81147.

Cash awards: $1,500 total for 1st, 2nd and 3rd Place and People's Choice award. Entry Fees: PSAC members - $20 for one or two entries. Nonmembers - $25 for one or two entries.

Prospectus: www.pagosa-arts.com/events.html. For more information, contact Roxanne Schick at psac@centurytel.net or (970)264-5020.

Best of Worldwide Artists & Artisans Art Book Competitions | Sunday, April 26
Bestofartists.com and Kennedy Publishing is proud to announce the Best of Worldwide Volume I book series. 15 art book competitions each dedicated to a single medium or genre. Open to all artists. Selected artists will receive a Two Page Full Color Layout of their work (2-4 images) and their contact information in a beautiful Best of book. Plus much more. $40.00 for 10 images.

For more information, visit www.bestofartists.com or send a SASE to: Kennedy Publishing - 5251-18 John Tyler Highway #311, Williamsburg, VA 23185.

Call For Artists - West Region | Thursday, April 30
This competiton is open to all artists in the following states: AZ, CO, ID, MT, NE, NV, KS, ND, NM, OK, SD, TX, UT, WY (other areas, view website below). Open Studios Competitions are conducted annually in each of 6 regions of the country. Competitions lead to publication in our bimonthly New American Paintings which, juried by curators from prominent museums, has extended the reach of artists and expanded the resources of collectors since 1993. All styles: painting, drawing, monoprints/types, mixed media; 2-D only.

Submission Checklist: 4 35mm slides OR 4 printouts (any size; no discs please), resume (with contact info), $35 entry fee and SASE to: Open Studios Press, 450 Harrison Ave #304, Boston, MA 02118.

Event Web Page: www.newamericanpaintings.com/artistinfo.htm

Digital Art Competition - Online | Monday, May 11
Creative artists from every corner of the world are invited to submit their "kicklights" -- a new form of digital art. Take any YouTube video and add graphic art "kicks" to it. This is what online video should be, and you'll be part of creating the future. $250 weekly prizes leading to a $2,500 Grand Prize!

Web site: www.kicklight.com

Open Portfolio Review | Saturday, May 16
Infusion Gallery Los Angeles seeking artist for representation. Portfolio review. Infusion Gallery is located in heart of downtown Los Angeles in the Gallery Row arts district. The gallery is in close proximity to the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Museum Of Neon Art, the Disney Center, and the Staples Center. Prospectus: www.infusiongallery.com/portfolio_review.html

Infusion Gallery
719 S. Spring St - Los Angeles, CA 90014
213-683-8827
gallery hours: 12-6 Wednesday - Saturday

24th Annual Conservatory Art Classic Juried Art Show | Saturday, June 13
The Bosque Conservatory Art Council announces a Call for Entries for its National Juried Art Show. Monetary awards total $14,500, including a $5,000 purchase award. $15.00 per entry. Online, CD, or slide entries accepted. Slides will be scanned and entered through the online entry system. Artists 18+ are eligible. Exhibition dates September 12-27. Judge: Joshua Rose, Editor of Western Art Collector. For prospectus, visit or web site at: www.bosqueconservatory.com or SASE to the address below.

Prospectus: www.bosqueconservatory.com/artclassic.aspx
Art Classic - Box 502 - Clifton, TX 76634
art@bosqueconservatory.com or 254.386.6049

Call for Entries: 109th Philadelphia Water Color Society International Exhibition of Works on Paper | Monday, June 22
Include pastel, water media, drawings, original hand pulled prints. Show dates: October 3 - December 18, 2009 - Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art at Ursinus College, Collegeville, Pa. 2 entries: $15 for members $45 for nonmembers. Selection Juror: Stephen Quiller, AWS df. Awards Juror: Stephen Doherty. Prizes over $6,000.

For prospectus, download from www.pwcsociety.org or send SASE to PWCS Entries, 916 Sage Road, West Chester, Pa 19382.

The following is a random sample of more upcoming art contests, opportunities and events from our web site.
  • Abstract EXPOsure Online Juried Exhibition - Sunday, March 15, 2009
  • Break the Silence Community Project - Sunday, March 15, 2009
  • Lotta Art - Call for Artists - Solo Exhibitions Competition - Friday, March 20, 2009
  • Places and Spaces - Saturday, March 28, 2009
  • 15th Juried Exhibition - Tuesday, March 31, 2009
  • Marin Arts Council Public Art Installation Job - Tuesday, March 31, 2009
  • National Exhibit of Wind Art at WINDPOWER 2009 Conference and Exhibition - Wednesday, April 1, 2009
  • Open Figure Drawing Poster Contest - Wednesday, April 1, 2009
  • Twisted Spurs - National Exhibition juried by Angel Quesada - Wednesday, April 1, 2009
  • Gardens of the Garden State Exhibit - Friday, April 10, 2009
  • 50 Artists, 50 States, 50 Mediums - Wednesday, April 15, 2009