KNOXVILLE – The Arts & Culture Alliance of Greater Knoxville announces a call for photographic works for its first annual Knoxville Photo 2013. This juried exhibition was developed to provide a forum for artists to compete on a national scale and display their work. Approximately 40-50 photographic works from both emerging and established artists will comprise the exhibition in the main gallery of the beautifully-restored Emporium Center at 100 S. Gay Street from July 5-26, 2013.
The Emporium is free and open to the public Monday-Friday, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM.
The deadline for entries to be received is midnight on Sunday, May 19, 2013.
The call for entries is open to all artists. Entries must be original works completed within the last two years in the following categories: The Human Experience; Our Earth; Travel; and Digital Imagination. The nonrefundable entry fee is $30 for up to three images ($20 for Arts & Culture Alliance members and students). Up to seven additional images may be submitted for $5/each ($4 for members/students). Apply online and/or download an application at www.knoxalliance.com/photo.html, or send an SASE to Suzanne Cada, Arts & Culture Alliance, PO Box 2506, Knoxville, TN 37901. Prizes include at least $600 in cash awards.
The Juror, R.L. Gibson, is a nationally-shown artist working and “living on vacation” in Gatlinburg, Tennessee with work in galleries from New York to Los Angeles. Gibson opened her newest Xerography series Psychomachia with Arizona artist Jerry Portelli. She is now working on a text series for show in 2013/2014. Gibson works almost exclusively as a Xerographist, producing complicated layered photographic compositions and then hand-transferring these images to a variety of substrates resulting in a unique monotype. In addition to producing her own work and work in collaboration with other artists, Gibson also runs ArtAndArtDeadlines.com, a fun and quirky, food-themed art blog that offers reviews of emerging artists, shows from great galleries, and FREE Art Deadlines and Calls for Entry as an artist’s resource. For more information on R.L. Gibson, visit www.rlgibson.com.
