Bridgeport Art Center’s 4th Annual Art Competition – Call for Entries

Bridgeport Art Center announces a CALL FOR ENTRIES to a juried art competition and exhibition that will take place in its Fourth Floor Art Gallery in a 100-year old refurbished historic building located in Bridgeport, 5 miles south of downtown Chicago. The Annual Art Competition was created to showcase the exceptional talents and abilities of Bridgeport and Chicago area artists.

ELIGIBILITY

The competition is open to all artists, aged 18 and over, who live or have studios within a 150-mile radius of Chicago. Work must have been created within the last three years. The competition accepts a broad spectrum of art media and styles. Not eligible are functional pottery, jewelry, clothing, accessories, furniture, other primarily functional art, or time-art such as video and film. Artworks may be submitted in the following media:

Painting (oil, acrylic, watercolor, etc.)
Sculpture and 3-D work
Drawing, graphics
Photography, photo-based work
Assemblage, mixed media

APPLICATION DEADLINE: JANUARY 30, 2016

NOTIFICATIONS: February 14, 2016
ARTWORK DELIVERY DEADLINE: February 20 and 21, 2016
Opening and awards presentation:
EXHIBITION DATES: February 26 – April 1, 2016
AWARDS CEREMONY: February 26, 2016, 7-10PM

HOW TO APPLY

1. DOWNLOAD APPLICATION (PDF) and fill it out. Send this application with your check.
2. SUBMIT 3 DIGITAL IMAGES TO BRIDGEPORTART@GMAIL.COM: Each entry must be saved with a file name that includes: the artists’ initials, title, corresponding number of your written description example GMH_titlename_3. Entries must be high resolution comparable to 300 dpi at 4”x 5.”or 72 dpi, 1024pixels in height or width. Entries must be a JPEG document. Do not include details or additional views, unless they are one of the 3 entries.
3. MAIL A CHECK for $35.00 and your application, postmarked by January 30, 2016 to:
Bridgeport Art Center
Art Competition
1200 W. 35th
Chicago, IL 60609
Contact information: 773-247-3000 BRIDGEPORTART@GMAIL.COM

AWARDS

The Competition will award $3,000 in prizes to winners in several categories, including:

Best of Show ($1,000)
Second Prize ($400)
Third Prize ($200)
Best Three-Dimensional Work ($1st – $300; 2nd – $250)
Best Representational Work ($1st – $300; 2nd – $250)
Best Photo or Photo-Based Work ($1st – $300)

JURORS

MARY ELLEN CROTEAU - Mary Ellen Croteau received a BFA from University of Illinois at Chicago at Chicago in 1990 and an MFA from Rutgers University in 1998. She has lectured and exhibited internationally, and her art has won numerous awards and has been reviewed and reproduced worldwide in books, magazines and TV.
Since 2003, she has run a window gallery in Chicago, Art On Armitage, bringing fine art into the Chicago streetscape where passers-by can see work by contemporary artists of many disciplines, from many countries.
WILLIAM LIEBERMAN - Since the 1970s, Zolla/Lieberman Gallery has been a top venue for contemporary art in Chicago. In 1976, Zolla/Lieberman Gallery moved to a converted loft space in a then desolate industrial neighborhood and founded the area that is now known as the River North Gallery District. Today, at their current location at 325 W. Huron St., William Lieberman continues to maintain the aesthetic quality of contemporary artwork that the history of the gallery had established since its opening.

File Attachment: