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Ephemera: The Power of Impermanence
Organization:
The Art Center Highland Park
Location
Highland Park, IL
Entry Fee
Paid Entry
Deadline
April 2, 2021
Exhibition
May 7
- Jun 12, 2021
The Art Center Highland Park (TAC) is looking forward to bringing the community together for an 'alive and well' art experience. For the last year, we have been extending work outwards into the community, from virtual exhibits to art in our windows. Now, we invite the talents of artists to fill our walls (and floors) with the many ephemeral art processes that span the range of impermanence.
The formal definition of ephemeral art includes, ?art that only occurs once, like a happening, and cannot be embodied in any lasting object to be shown in a museum or gallery.? However, The Art Center Highland Park is looking to take street art off the street and bring it into the galleries! TAC is searching for artists who would like to participate in this unique exhibit including art forms from chalk and graffiti, to video and performance. The amount of wall or floor space will depend on the number of artists, but we want to fill the center with art and energy.
We are also expanding in our definition, not only art that uses natural materials but art that may reflect the transient nature of things existing in the natural world.
A wide interpretation of the theme will be considered as we expand our definition to include art that reflects the transient nature of things existing in the natural world. It is not mandatory that work use ephemeral material if the work addresses or represents that which is ephemeral and/or impermanent.
Submit proposals on entrythingy.com with images, drawings, and/or plans. Please include descriptions in space allotted.
We will be filming the 'performance art' aspect to document the process and will schedule artists appropriately to accommodate for social distancing guidelines.
The exhibit will coincide with our annual benefit. Community members will also have the opportunity to share in the exhibit both within our galleries as well as extending into their own homes by purchasing chalk art kits, spreading creativity with chalk art!
Featured Artist/ Guest Juror Victoria Fuller
Chicago artist Victoria Fuller has an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and in 2020 She was awarded the Dean Alan Olson Purchase Award at the Rockford Art Museum and Best of Show in the 2021 Evanston and Vicinity Biennial. In 2019 she was awarded the DCASE Independent Artist Project Grant and an Illinois Arts Council CAAP Grant, in 2009. She also received fellowship awards from Illinois Arts Council and from the Colorado Council on the Arts and Humanities. She completed artist residencies at both Ragdale Foundation and at Sculpture Space. Her large-scale public sculpture ?Shoe of Shoes? is in the collection of Caleres Shoes in St. Louis. Her sculptures have been commissioned by Sound Transit in Seattle, Comed in Chicago, and Arts in Transit in St, Louis. Her large-scale public sculpture, titled ?Canoe Fan,? was purchased by the city of Ann Arbor and installed in Gallop Park. She has been featured in Sculpture Magazine, Bad at Sports, Hyperallergic, Scientific American Blog, Seattle Times, Chicago Tribune, and Western Art and Architecture Magazine.
The formal definition of ephemeral art includes, ?art that only occurs once, like a happening, and cannot be embodied in any lasting object to be shown in a museum or gallery.? However, The Art Center Highland Park is looking to take street art off the street and bring it into the galleries! TAC is searching for artists who would like to participate in this unique exhibit including art forms from chalk and graffiti, to video and performance. The amount of wall or floor space will depend on the number of artists, but we want to fill the center with art and energy.
We are also expanding in our definition, not only art that uses natural materials but art that may reflect the transient nature of things existing in the natural world.
A wide interpretation of the theme will be considered as we expand our definition to include art that reflects the transient nature of things existing in the natural world. It is not mandatory that work use ephemeral material if the work addresses or represents that which is ephemeral and/or impermanent.
Submit proposals on entrythingy.com with images, drawings, and/or plans. Please include descriptions in space allotted.
We will be filming the 'performance art' aspect to document the process and will schedule artists appropriately to accommodate for social distancing guidelines.
The exhibit will coincide with our annual benefit. Community members will also have the opportunity to share in the exhibit both within our galleries as well as extending into their own homes by purchasing chalk art kits, spreading creativity with chalk art!
Featured Artist/ Guest Juror Victoria Fuller
Chicago artist Victoria Fuller has an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and in 2020 She was awarded the Dean Alan Olson Purchase Award at the Rockford Art Museum and Best of Show in the 2021 Evanston and Vicinity Biennial. In 2019 she was awarded the DCASE Independent Artist Project Grant and an Illinois Arts Council CAAP Grant, in 2009. She also received fellowship awards from Illinois Arts Council and from the Colorado Council on the Arts and Humanities. She completed artist residencies at both Ragdale Foundation and at Sculpture Space. Her large-scale public sculpture ?Shoe of Shoes? is in the collection of Caleres Shoes in St. Louis. Her sculptures have been commissioned by Sound Transit in Seattle, Comed in Chicago, and Arts in Transit in St, Louis. Her large-scale public sculpture, titled ?Canoe Fan,? was purchased by the city of Ann Arbor and installed in Gallop Park. She has been featured in Sculpture Magazine, Bad at Sports, Hyperallergic, Scientific American Blog, Seattle Times, Chicago Tribune, and Western Art and Architecture Magazine.