Call for Events and Call for Instructors
Complete listing of requests for submissions to textile competitions, exhibits, conference workshop proposals, and academic papers. Calls for entries and calls for instructors are added on a regular basis. If your event is not shown here, please add the information directly using the Add Event link.
Call to Artists for Fiber Art
January 5, 2010 through May 3, 2010
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Deadline May 3, 2010. Central Oregon Community College has an exceptional opportunity for the members of the Fiber Arts Guild to participate in the “Call to Artists” for an interior fiber art piece for the new Campus Center building. Mary Beth Hamilton by phone 541.383.7564.
A Fashion Fiesta - Vancouver Island Fibre Arts Showcase
February 13, 2010 through May 15, 2010
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Vancouver Island Conference Centre, Vancouver, Canada. September 10-11. Open to all fibre artists. Group work (maximum of 3 people) will be accepted. Entries must have been completed in the last three years. All textile cloth must have elements of handmade. $20 fee/entry. Must be received by May 15.
group show "Pocket"
March 4, 2010 through March 27, 2010
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Group fibers and textile show to be exhibited March 2010. Juried. No entry fee. Deadline for entries December 1, 2009. All fibers materials and techniques welcome, especially contemporary. Two- and three-dimensional. Theme: pocket. Pocket money, pocketbook, pocket veto, deep pockets, pocket bread, hip pocket, pocket-full-of-miracles, etc. No size restriction, but gallery is small. Send information, plus full-size and detail images of submissions(photos or cd) with SASE to Beet Gallery, PMB #312, 1720 NW Lovejoy, Portland, OR, 97209, or email to beetgallery@msn.com. 503.224.5000.
Punta Gorda Fine Arts & Fine Crafts Show
March 11, 2010 through March 12, 2010
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Views of Charlotte Harbor and loads of buyers in the midst of historic Punta Gorda always leave the nearly 80 exhibitors happy at Gilchrist Park. This juried show is one of the Gulf Coast's best. For more information about it, please visit the Community Affair web site.
7th Annual Italian Fest Fine Arts & Fine Crafts Show
March 17, 2010 through March 18, 2010
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Huge crowds always come for this festive juried show. Italian food catered by the Italian American Club draws from Naples, Bonita Springs, Marco Island and Fort Myers is almost as big a draw as the nearly 100 exhibitors at the site. For more information, visit the Community Affair web site.
Coquina Fine Arts & Fine Crafts Show
March 24, 2010 through March 25, 2010
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Location, crowds and heavy advertising make this a favorite mid-week show for the almost 100 exhibitors. Right on the Gulf of Mexico, the park-like setting only enhances this juried show. For more information, visit the Community Affair web site.
A Stitch Apart: A Juried Fiber Art Competition
March 27, 2010 through March 28, 2010
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A Stitch Apart features all forms of fiber art and will be judged on the message, emotion or meaning communicated by the piece. The show boasts 1,000 visitors for the weekend, and the Fiber Art Competition will present five awards totaling $500. Entry form, available at www.eastendstudiogallery.com, must be RECEIVED by March 7, 2010.
Savannah Fine Arts & Fine Crafts Show
May 9, 2010 through May 10, 2010
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This juried show takes place in Rousakis Plaza along historic River Street, the most frequented spot in the city for tourists and locals. There is only room for 80 exhibitors and spaces are expected to go quickly. For more information, please visit the Community Affair web site.
1st Annual Charleston Tanger Show
May 13, 2010 through May 14, 2010
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Less than 30 minutes from Community Affair's Savannah show a few days earlier this same week on Sunday/Monday, this massively popular location has already attracted a large number of applications for exhibit spots. Like all Community Affair shows, it is juried. For more information, please visit the Community Affair web site.
Pushing the Limits 2010
May 28, 2010 through June 20, 2010
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"Pushing the Limits" 2010 Call for entries. Entry fee $20.00 for three images. Juried. Deadline March 1st. An exhibit of contemporary fiber art, artspace gallery seeks to exhibit fiber art which is contemporary in nature and invites submissions that reflect a wide range of works related to the fiber medium. The exhibit will be open to the public May 28 - June 20, 2010 at artspace, Richmond, Virgina. This show coincides with Virginia's Minds Wide Open initiative to recognize "Women in the Arts". For more information go to the artspace website www.artspacegallery.org/.
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