Sunday, December 7, 2014

Scholarships available MFA program

Miami University in Oxford, Ohio (located forty miles from Cincinnati)
 60 credit hours MFA
• Concentrations in ceramics, metals, painting, printmaking and sculpture
• Opportunities to teach foundations and entry level media 
• Competitively awarded graduate assistantships include tuition, fee waiver and stipend  (2014-15 academic year plus summer= $13,950.00) 
• Program offers a balance of theory and practice
• Cross-disciplinary engagement is encouraged
Application deadline: February 1
For additional information contact: Ellen Price, Graduate Director, priceej@miamioh.edu 
And visit us at:

Monday, November 3, 2014

Statement to read Sue Saxon

Your name

1996
flour, kosher salt, 5m x 5m 
your name references a landscape of desert and ocean; passage across continents (my parents’ migration from Europe to Australia), the water’s edge (the beach, yearned for in New York where the work was created). Kosher salt is considered to be ‘purer’ than ordinary salt and is used in the process of purifying (koshering) meat, and also in ordinary cooking. I chose salt and flour for their colour, texture, domestic and symbolic properties. After all, cooking and eating play paramount roles in Jewish culture, expressions of love often channelled through food.
The ridges, resembling sand dunes or waves were created by pressing my fingertips into the flour, the symbols which appear to be at the mercy of the tide’s ebb and flow are taken from Eastern European tombstones. Some define the interred by their profession (the scissors representing a tailor), or inherited status (the hands in a pose of benediction indicate that the person descended from Aaron, the high priest).
The Hebrew word ‘shimecha’ –‘ש מ ך’ means ‘your name’, and can be understood on many levels. Your name goes forward into the world representing you and remains behind after you; when you imagine a loved one, you might say their name to draw their presence closer. your name also addresses the Jewish God, whose name it is forbidden to utter, in and for whose name, so many have died. your name is question, meditation and accusation, expressing my own uncertainty about God’s existence.

Enda O’Donoghue statement

Enda O’Donoghue’s work presents a forensic interest into the construction, the language and the mediated world of digital images together with an ongoing dialogue with the medium and process of painting. Hovering between the realms of abstraction and representation, between the mathematical encoded and the organic, O’Donoghue’s paintings are the result of a process which is highly analytical and methodical and yet inviting of errors, misalignments and glitches. The imagery comes almost exclusively from found photographs sourced from the Internet, where he plays with random throw-away moments of everyday life, merging them together in various interconnected themes. In O’Donoghue’s work, the painterliness of his technique works with the disposable nature of his subjects to make the work sometimes poignant and melancholic, or alternatively brittle and harsh. His work is deeply influenced by the digital high speed reality we now live in and he transports these seemingly meaningless sound-bite images from a place of apparent futility to one that questions and searches for meaning through the transformative act of painting.

Enda O’Donoghue was born in Ireland in 1973 and has been living and working in Berlin since 2002. He completed a degree in painting at the Limerick School of Art and Design followed by a Masters in Interactive Media at the University of Limerick.
O’Donoghue has taken part in numerous international group exhibitions, including shows at Liebkranz Galerie, Berlin (2012), Meter Room, Coventry (2012), The Moscow Museum of Modern Art (2011), Expo in Shanghai (2010), Universal Cube, Leipzig (2008), Four Gallery, Dublin (2006), Overgaden, Institute for Contemporary Art, Copenhagen (2006) and a number of solo shows in Berlin, Ireland and in 2009 a solo exhibition in New York. In 2012 his work was presented in a major solo exhibition at the Limerick City Gallery of Art, Ireland and he has recently been awarded a residency at the Golden Foundation in New York state. He has also curated a number of group exhibitions, most recently an exhibition presenting a selection of Berlin based Irish artists at Grimmmuseum in Berlin which toured to the Galway Arts Centre, Ireland in 2013.
http://www.endaodonoghue.com/about

Thursday, October 30, 2014

Professional practices course

TD300 P2 Professional Practices is considered a studio electivefor upper-level students. In other words, TD300 is placed on students' Projection Sheets under studio electives. The course does NOT qualify as a liberal studies elective.

Current Juniors and Seniors are encouraged to enroll in the course. In the future, all undergraduate students will be required to complete the Professional Practices course.

--
Sean Scott
Registrar

Monday, October 20, 2014

How to write a resume

Links to look for information on how to write a resume

http://www.collegeart.org/guidelines/resume

http://www.careereducation.columbia.edu/resources/tipsheets/resumes-and-cvs-for-artists

http://www.artpromotivate.com/2012/03/how-to-create-artist-resume.html

What to avoid in a resume
http://typesofaid.com/article/85

Wednesday, September 17, 2014

If you happen to be in NJC


Katherine Tzu-Lan Mann, Untitled, 2014, acrylic, sumi ink, and screenprint, 16.5" x 15.5" sheet
  
    Treasure Island    
Curated by Julie Chae
     
Opening reception: Wednesday, October 1st, 6-8pm On view through November 9, 2014
  
  
Lower East Side Printshop is pleased to present Treasure Island guest curated byNYC/DC-based curator and writer Julie Chae. The exhibition will be on view at the Printshop from October 1 - November 9, 2014 with a public reception on Wednesday, October 1, from 6-8pm.

Treasure Island alludes to the high seas explorations that took place during the Age of Enlightenment on through the Romantic Era, the navigating and mapping through dangerous waters to discover strange new worlds, peoples, and goods. The discoveries made during these times allowed Europe to make advances in science and technology, paving the way for industrialization and eventual modernization. These advances also involved subjugating prior inhabitants and colonizing these lands, which greatly increased the wealth and power of the European countries. Sunsets, beaches, ships and nautical apparatuses like ropes and maps appear in Treasure Island along with images reflecting what was lost due to imperialism. Treasure Island includes works by: Theresa Bloise, Amanda Church, Amy Friedberg, Esperanza Mayobre, Ali Medina, Bundith Phunsombatlert, Felix Plaza, Paul Shore, Katherine Tzu-Lan Mann, Juana Valdes, Daniel Vasquez, Liz Zanis, and Anya Zelinska.

The title for this exhibition comes from Robert Louis Stevenson's 1883 children's novel of the same name and a tale of moral ambiguity. In this seafaring adventure set in the 1700s, men and boys sail on a ship mostly crewed by disguised pirates to an island in search of buried treasure, using a found map marked in red ink with three crosses and the words: Bulk of treasure here.


About the Artists
THERESA BLOISE (b.1978, Boston, MA; lives and works in New York, NY) received her BFA from Rhode Island School of Design. Select exhibitions include Grin, Providence, RI; Governor's Island, New York, NY; Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY; and Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY. She has been awarded fellowships from New York Foundation for the Arts, MacDowell Colony, and Artist in the Marketplace, Bronx Museum of the Arts.

AMANDA CHURCH (b. 1960, Poughkeepsie, NY; lives and works in New York, NY) received her BA from Bennington College, VT. Select solo and group exhibitions include Land of Tomorrow, Louisville, KY; Jancar Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Michael Steinberg Fine Art, New York, NY; Artek Contemporaries, New York, NY; Galerie de Tableau, Marseille, France; and Clifford Smith Gallery, Boston, MA. Her work is included in the collections of the New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ; The Chambers Hotel, NY; and Bondardo Communications, Milan, Italy.

AMY FRIEDBERG (b. 1972, Philadelphia, PA; lives and works in Hermosa Beach, CA) received her BFA in sculpture from the Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA. Select solo and group exhibitions include Cheltenham Center for the Arts, Cheltenham, Pa; Elkins Gallery, Elkins Park, PA; Penrose Gallery, Elkins Park, PA; Temple Rome Gallery, Rome, Italy, and Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia, PA.

ESPERANZA MAYOBRE (b. 1974, Caracas, Venezuela; lives and works in Brooklyn, NY) received her BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Select solo and group exhibitions include Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY; Centro Cultural La Caja Chacao, Caracas, Venezuela; Boston Museum of Fine Arts; Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY; and The Elizabeth Foundation, New York, NY. She has been awarded the NYU Visiting Artist Program, and the Artist in the Marketplace Fellowship at The Bronx Museum of the Arts.

ALI MEDINA (b. 1990, Brooklyn, NY; lives and works in Brooklyn, NY) received her BA from Bard College. Select exhibitions include a solo exhibition at a pop up space, Brooklyn, NY; and group exhibitions at Essie Green Galleries, Harlem, NY and Brooklyn, NY. She has worked in several printshops and has been exploring monoprinting while in residence at the Printshop.
BUNDITH PHUNSOMBATLERT (b. 1972, Bangkok, Thailand; lives and works in New York, NY) received his MFA from Rhode Island School of Design, and his BFA from Silpakorn University, Thailand. Select solo exhibitions include Flushing Meadows Corona Park/Queens Museum, New York, NY; Location One, New York, NY; and The National Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand. He is the recipient of the New York State Council on the Arts Grant and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant; and is the Grand Prize winner of the Toshiba Brings Good Things to Life Art Competition, Thailand.

FELIX PLAZA (b. 1946, Santurce, Puerto Rico; lives and works in New York, NY) received a Fine Art Certificate from New York Phoenix School of Design. Select solo and group exhibitions include Exit Art, New York, NY; 2B Gallery, Budapest, Hungary; Dieu Donne, New York, NY; Brooklyn Public Library, NY; and Donnell Library, NY. He is a former participant of Printline Exchange Residency, Belgrade, Yugoslavia and has work included in many private collections.

PAUL SHORE (b. 1955, Pittsburgh, PA; lives and works in New York, NY) received his MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art, and his BFA from Eastern Michigan University. Select solo and group exhibitions include Jason McCoy Gallery, New York, NY; Columbia University, Italian Academy, New York, NY; Arkansas Art Center, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA; and DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA. His work is included in the collections of Museum of Modern Art, NY; Brooklyn Museum, NY; Detroit Institute of Arts, MI; and the New York Public Library.

KATHERINE TZU-LAN MANN (b. 1983, Madison, WI; lives and works in New York, NY) received her MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art, and her BA from Brown University. Select solo and group exhibitions include Grace Teshima Gallery, Paris, France; Gallery nine5, New York, NY; Kashya Hildebrand Gallerie, Zurich, Switzerland; and Project 4 Gallery, Washington, DC. She has been awarded Best in Show at the Rawls Museum, VA, and is the recipient of the Fulbright Grant: Taiwan.

JUANA VALDES (b. in Cabañas, Pinar Del Rio, Cuba) received her MFA from the School of Visual Arts, and Her BFA in sculpture at Parsons School of Design. Select solo and group exhibitions include Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning, NY; Paul Sharpe Contemporary Art, New York, NY; Diaspora Vibe Gallery, Miami, FL; Begane Grond Kunstcentrum, Utrecht, Netherlands; and Boricua College Art Gallery, NY. Her work is included in the collections of The Newark Museum, NJ; European Ceramic Work Center, NL; and Nohra Haime Gallery, NY. She currently teaches at Florida Atlantic University, Visual Arts Department.

DANIEL VASQUEZ (b. 1983, El Salvador; lives and works in New York, NY) received his BA from Rowan University. Select exhibitions include Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, NJ and Studio 1950, New York, NY. He is the recipient of the Gowanus Studio Space Residency.

LIZ ZANIS (b. 1980, Morristown, NJ; lives and works in New York) received her BA from Rhode Island School of Design. Group exhibitions include Camel Art Space, Brooklyn, NY; C.G. Boerner, New York, NY; International Print Center New York, NY; Islip Art Museum, NY; and Queens Museum of Art, NY. She is a recipient of Swing Space Residency, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council; Geraldine R. Dodge Residency; Women's Studio Workshop Residency, the Printshop's Keyholder Residency; and is included in collections of Cleveland Institute of Art, The Center of Book Arts and more.

ANYA ZELINSKA (b. 1988, Khmelnytsky, Ukraine; lives and works in New York, NY) received her Associate in Applied Science from the Fashion Institute of Technology, NY, and her BA from The National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Kyiv, Ukraine. Select group exhibitions include Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance, and RAW Natural Born Artists, Brooklyn Night Bazaar, NY.

About the Curator
Julie Chae is a NYC/DC-based curator and writer. A graduate of Williams College and University of Virginia School of Law, Chae has studied art history at the graduate level focusing on modern/contemporary and Asian art, and her background also includes working on free speech rights issues for artists, writers and teachers at the ACLU's Arts Censorship Project. Recent curatorial projects by Chae include Jacolby Satterwhite for the Washington Project for the Arts at the art collectors Don and Mera Rubell's Capitol Skyline Hotel, Ctrl+P: New Directions in Printmaking at the Arlington Arts Center, Melissa Brown: Dotto Lotto at Winkleman Gallery's Curatorial Research Project and Blow Me Away: Works on Paper by Brian Chippendale, Jungil Hong, Kevin Hooyman, et al. She is currently co-curating a collaboration for Washington Performing Arts between DC visual artists and Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble (forthcoming February-March 2015). For more information, see http://www.huffingtonpost.com/julie-chae/ and http://juliechaeprojects.com.


 
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Monday, August 25, 2014

Writing lab information

This semester, I will be taking over John Avis' role as the undergraduate writing tutor.  In addition to my BFA and MFA, I also have a BA in English, with professional experience in technical writing and tutoring college and high school students of all levels.  This is also my second semester as an academic tutor here at MCA, and I know many of our students already.   I truly enjoy working with students to support them and help them be better writers!

You may refer students from ANY class for writing support.  Feel free to contact me about assignments or students.  I will track students who seek support and will communicate anything necessary with the appropriate faculty.

Writing Support is now located in the Student Achievement area in Room 024.  
My hours are Monday 10:00-1:00, Wednesday 10:00-1:00 and Friday 9:00-1:00.  Students can drop in or email me for an appointment.
Justin Bowles
Student Achievement Center Advisor

1930 Poplar Ave.  Memphis, TN  38104
901.272.5100 (main)
901.272.5181 (direct)

Juried show

2015 Delta National Small Prints Exhibition
Bradbury Gallery

Call For Entries Accepted Online Only
Deadline: October 19, 2014
Exhibition Dates: January 29 - February 27, 2015
Juror: Ruth Lingen, Director of Pace Paper in Brooklyn, New York
Awards: Will be made at the discretion of the juror

Entry Information: In an attempt to be eco-friendly, our Call For
Entries is available online only. We will not mail a form to you. For
a link to the online entry form and exhibition guidelines visit:
www.bradburygalfery.com<http://www.bradburygalfery.com>
or go directly to: https://www.formstack.com/forms/DNSPE-20 15entryform

Contact Us: For more information email us atdnspe@astate.edu<mailto:dnspe@astate.edu>
Or call us at 870 972 2567

Thursday, August 21, 2014

#itsnotwarming

Greetings, everyone - I hope you are all having a great start to the new school year! I am hoping to enlist your help in a special project.

MCA has been invited by David Rhodes, president of the School of Visual Arts in New York, to participate in a campaign created by design legend Milton Glaser, a longtime SVA faculty member.

Glaser, designer of the famous ‘I Love New York’ logo has designed the “It’s not warming. It’s dying.” campaign to focus attention on climate change and shift the language surrounding the issue from the benign sounding “global warming” to words that better convey the urgency of the current situation. We are joining in this effort with other AICAD institutions across the country.

Black and green buttons, designed to suggest a view of Earth from outer space with only a narrow band of life remaining, will be distributed on campus next week. The idea is to wear your button, encourage others to wear theirs and spread the word on social media with the hashtag #itsnotwarming. You can also follow the campaign on Twitter (@itsnotwarming). Please help spread the word and encourage student participation.

Additional buttons are available from itsnotwarming.com for $5.00 for 5 buttons.

Thanks for your help and support!


Carrie Corbett
Director of College Communications

Tuesday, August 19, 2014

ART ON FIRE

Don’t hesitate to ask, or you can always call our Art on Fire coordinator, Sarah Lorenz, and 761-5250, ext. 103.

Dear art student,

On Friday, October 25, 2014, the Dixon Gallery and Gardens will hold its fifth annual Art on Fire.  This event benefits our ongoing effort to offer accessible educational programming for youth and adults throughout the Mid-South. We greatly appreciate your contribution to the Art on Fire auction and would like to further describe the program for this year.

In order to streamline the process, the Dixon will provide each participating student with a canvas, measuring 16 x 20 inches. We encourage the student to consider themes that will appeal to the Dixon’s audience and request that each submission be valued at a minimum of $100, which is the opening bid for all submitted art. If a submission receives a bid at our auction, the Dixon will provide the student with $50 in the weeks following the event.

Please have submissions ready by Wednesday, October 1st and contact Sarah Lorenz at SLorenz@dixon.org regarding delivery to the Dixon. If a submission does not sell at this year’s action, you may pick up your artwork between October 28th through November 1st. Please note that the Dixon has the right to accept and refuse any submissions, and feel free to contact us with any questions.

Sincerely,


Sarah Lorenz
Development Associate

Signed:


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Date                                                    School/professor


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Phone number                                     Email address


Mailing address: ___________________________________________


Residency

Auckland Print Studio is pleased to announce the open call for our 5th International Artist in Residence programme. 

Residency dates: 8th December 2014 - 18th January 2015 (6 week residency with the option to stay in the accommodation until the 7th February).
Deadline: 30th September 2014
Notification: 13th October 2014

Application and Residency Information

Please feel free to forward this call or post where relevant. 

Regards,
John
Previous Artists in Residence:
2010: Ayanah Moor
2011: John McKaig
2012: Rex Kalehoff
2013: Zuza Kosinska

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Auckland Print Studio // John and Pepe // +6421 081 77611 // 
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Greetings,
Please take a look at the attached prospectus for PRINTWORK 2014, a national juried exhibition at Artists Image Resource in Pittsburgh.

We are proud to announce that the juror for our annual juried exhibition is Bill Fick.

$500 first place award in addition to other cash awards.

AIR Director Robert Beckman will choose one artist to be invited to have a solo exhibition at Artists Image Resource during the PRINTWORK 2015 exhibition.

Postmarked deadline for submission is Sept. 27 2014.

Email and regular mail submissions accepted, details are on the attached prospectus.

If you have questions contact:
Joseph Lupo
Associate Professor of Art
West Virginia University
Joseph.Lupo@mail.wvu.edu



PROSPECTUS AT MCA PRINTMAKING STUDIO
Prof. Davila

Saturday, August 9, 2014


Guidelines

2015 NICHE Awards Guidelines

Entries for the 2015 NICHE Awards will be accepted from
April 14, 2014, to August 18, 2014.

The NICHE Awards competition is open to professional craft artists ages 21 and older who reside in America or Canada and are actively involved in the design and production of craft work supplied to galleries and/or craft stores. All work must have been made and finished in the United States or Canada. Work produced or finished in secondary studios in other countries may not be submitted.
The NICHE Awards Student competition is open to any craft student attending an American or Canadian undergraduate, graduate or certificate arts program, and the work itself must have been produced in the United States or Canada while the student was attending the arts program. Student artists may enter as a student for up to one (1) year after graduation; however, the work submitted must have been produced while an artist was still a student.
The 2015 NICHE Awards competition seeks NEW WORK in all categories, whether student or professional.  Submitted work must have been designed, produced or introduced afterOctober 1, 2013 to be eligible. Work previously submitted to the competition will not be accepted. All work must be designed and made by the artist or a collaboration of artists, with all collaborators identified.

HOW TO APPLY:

The only way to enter the 2015 NICHE Awards or 2015 NICHE Student Awards is by completing an application online. Paper applications will not be accepted.
One application (and one fee) enables you to submit three pieces of work. Only one application is allowed per artist. Each application allows for up to three pieces of work to be submitted. Artists who submit more than one application or more than three pieces will be disqualified.
No more than two pieces may be submitted in any single category. If you submit three pieces, the third piece must be entered in a different category.  You may choose to submit artworks in three different categories if you wish.
The competition is judged on a per piece basis, not on an application or portfolio basis. It is therefore possible to be a two-time or three-time finalist or winner in a given year.
Artists may enter in either the professional division or student division, but not in both in a given year.
Entries must be submitted by the artist in the artist’s name, not in the name of a company or school. A piece submitted as a collaboration must name all collaborators, and can be submitted only once  and in only one application (in other words, collaborators should not submit separate applications using the same work of art).
No additional images showing detail will be accepted for jurying. The image photo submitted may be enlarged by the judges to see detail. Each image must show a separate piece of work and show the work in its entirety.
One piece, one category: An artwork can be entered only one time in one category.
Assemblages and installation art will not be accepted in any category: The mission of the NICHE Awards is to identify the best of fine craft artworks and products, which are collectible in quality and design and suitable for the consumer market. The sponsor of the competition is NICHE magazine, the trade magazine for retailers of fine craft and artist-made products who buy wholesale.
NICHE magazine reserves the right to merge categories that do not accrue an appropriate number of applications. Also, the judges reserve the right to shift a piece to a different category, and to combine, create or eliminate categories.
The cost to enter is $40 for professionals, $20 for professionals who will be exhibiting at American Made Show in 2015, and $18 for students.
The application fee can be paid by credit card, check or money order. First submit your artwork through our contest application website. Then make your payment. To make a payment by credit card, please use our secure payment site. The link to the payment site will be given upon completion of your application.
Please make checks and money orders payable to: The Rosen Group/NICHE Awards and write the applicant’s name on the memo line. Please mail checks and money orders to:
The Rosen Group/NICHE Awards
3000 Chestnut Ave., Ste. 300
Baltimore MD 21211

Applicants will receive an email notification when their payment has been processed and their application is accepted.
Payments sent by mail must be postmarked by August 18, 2014. Unpaid applications will be deleted from the competition.
NICHE magazine accepts only digital images for the 2015 NICHE Awards and 2015 NICHE Student Awards. There is no paper application.
Images must be in JPEG format, 300 dpi and approximately 4×6 inches (1200×1800 pixels) in size. Images not meeting these standards will not be reviewed.
Artist renderings or sketches and digitally created images will not be accepted. The photo should represent a piece as it actually looks.
Images submitted are understood to be the property of the artist with the right to use them for unlimited publication. All photography credits (when applicable) must be submitted with the application.
Artists participating in the competition agree and accept that all images submitted to the competition may be used by NICHE magazine in upcoming issues and for other promotional purposes, including publication in any media, printed or online, including books about the NICHE Awards.

SUGGESTIONS FOR APPLICANTS

  • Apply for all protections necessary (e.g. copyright, patent or photographer’s release).
  • Submit high-quality images with a plain background. Evenly distribute lighting from at least three light sources so that no shadows are cast. Hire a professional photographer to photograph your work whenever possible.
  • Present fashions as worn by professional models.
  • Photograph jewelry alone, not worn by a model. Use a solid, neutral (preferably white) non-textured background.
Each entry is judged individually. The judges’ scores are not cumulative per application, but reflect their decisions per individual image entry. The work is judged on the following:
  • Technical excellence, both in surface design and form
  • A distinct quality of unique, original and creative thought
  • Market viability (professional entries only)
Decisions of the judges will be final. Notifications will be sent to finalists in October 2014.  There are typically several finalists and one winner per category. The number of finalists per category is determined by the volume of submissions within that category. Judges reserve the right to award a tie.
Finalists will receive an awards certificate, a listing in NICHE magazine (professionals only) and a listing in the printed Buyers Guide of American Made Show, January 2015.
Finalists will also be invited to display their piece in a special exhibit at American Made Show in Washington, D.C. The artists are responsible for dropping off and picking up their work. Finalists who cannot deliver and pick up their work have the option of sending a framed photograph of the piece. If the finalist’s piece is no longer in the artist’s possession (for example, if the piece has been sold, the artist may submit it with the written permission of the owner, or may submit a photograph). Participating in the display exposes the finalists’ work to thousands of retailers from across the country; any offers of purchase are to be negotiated directly between the artist and customer following the trade show. All pieces must remain in the display for the duration of the exhibition. All artists who participate in the display do so at their own risk of damage, accident or loss.
Winners will be announced at a ceremony held during the American Made Show in 2015.
Winners will receive an awards certificate, trophy, listing on the NICHE Awards website and a listing in the Spring 2015 edition of NICHE magazine.
Information about the ceremony and special display will be included in the finalists’ promotional packets.