Call for Artist Submissions
Margins & Peripheries
The Durham Art Gallery's
2025 Juried Exhibition & Fundraiser
Deadline December 20, 2024
Margins & Peripheries
Edges or borders.
The fringe, limit or boundary.
The outer limits, the outskirts or the perimeter.
Inspired by the boundless possibilities that shimmer in the margins of daily life, this exhibition invites artists to explore the peripheries of conventionality, and the marginalia of the mundane. We encourage artists to walk in another person’s shoes, to consider how our experiences might be altered by unfamiliar perspectives. What happens when your unique point of view or attitude shifts? How does an experience change when seen from unexpected perspectives? How can an altered vantage point reframe a narrative?
This call for creative submissions is a challenge to artists to make work that conveys the unexpected complexities that lurk beyond the boundaries of words, labels or names. We invite you to dive into the marginalia and share your creative interpretation.
*SCROLL DOWN TO FIND* SUBMISSION FORM
Eligibility:
Submission Checklist:
Important Dates:
Prize Categories:
Submission Fees:
--All artworks must be original & must have been created within the past
three (3) years.
--Artwork must be ready to hang or install in the gallery.
--All media welcome.
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Send completed applications to: info@durhamartgallery.com with the subject line "Juried Exhibition Submission"
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Completed the submission form.
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Up to three (3) quality photos in (.jpg format) of the submitted artwork responding to the exhibition theme ‘, labeled (ex. Smith_John1.jpg, Smith_John2.jpg, Smith_John3.jpg).
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Submit exhibition/fundraising fee.
Submission Deadline: December 20th, 2024
Notification of selected artwork by: January 15th -16th, 2025
Delivery of selected artwork to the gallery: between 12- 4pm on the following dates: January 30th 31st, & February 1st, 2025
Exhibition dates: February 8th to April 6th, 2025
Pickup of artwork at the gallery: between 12- 4pm on April 10th ,11th, 12th
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Best of Show
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Photography/video
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Works on Paper
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Painting
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Mixed-Media
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Fiber/Textiles
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3D
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People's Choice
MEMBERS NON-MEMBERS
1 artwork ................. $20 ................................................ $30 ...............
2 artworks ................ $30 ................................................ $45 ...............
3 artworks ................ $40 ................................................ $55 ................
Jury:
Shannon Bridgeman
Corrina Ghaznavi
Clayton Windatt
Shannon Bingeman is a curator based in southern Ontario. She received her Honours BA from the University of Waterloo (2011) and her MA in art history from Carleton University (2013). She has worked as an arts professional throughout Ontario and Alberta for over 15 years at organizations such as the Canadian Clay & Glass Gallery (Waterloo), the McMichael Canadian Art Collection (Kleinberg), the National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa) and the Esplanade Arts & Heritage Centre (Medicine Hat). In 2015, she was awarded an Emerging Curator Fellowship from the Alberta Foundation for the Arts and worked as a curator and program manager for their Travelling Exhibition Program. Bingeman is currently the Curator of Exhibitions & Collections at the Tom Thomson Art Gallery in Owen Sound, ON.
Corinna Ghaznavi is an independent curator and freelance writer. Since 1997 she has curated exhibitions across Canada. Her writing has been published in Canadian and European art magazines as well as in numerous exhibition catalogues. In 2011 she completed her PhD, which focused on the question of the animal in contemporary art. Ghaznavi was the Artistic Director of the Fabulous Festival of Fringe Film between 2012 and 2015 in Durham Ontario, and Public Art Coordinator for the City of Markham, Ontario between 2013 and 2017. She has taught art history, theory, and curatorial practices at Georgian College, University of Western Ontario, Sheridan College and the Ontario College of Art and Design University. Ghaznavi lives and works in Grey County, Ontario, Canada.
Clayton Windatt is a Métis, non–binary multi-artist living with a history of working in artist-run culture and community arts. A former Executive Director of the Aboriginal Curatorial Collective, Clayton is a writer, filmmaker and visual-media artist who works with colleges and universities, arts magazines, councils and organizations as a critic, columnist, and consultant. His films have been featured by ImagineNative and the Toronto International Film Festival, and he recently received commissions from the National Film Board of Canada. He is also a faculty member at OCAD University