Art Entry Forms & Applications

This page is intended to give artists a fast look at our upcoming exhibitions for which applications are required. Exhibitions are open to women from around the world. Some exhibitions are also open to entries by male artists. Artists may submit their entry with traditional slides, cd or video works by mail to: Woman Made Gallery, 685 N. Milwaukee Ave., Chicago, IL 60642. Artists may submit their entry with jpgs on our website Online Art Entries.

Please direct any questions about exhibitions and workshops to: exhibits@womanmade.org and about membership and links requests to: admin@womanmade.org. Please note that we include links to members' websites only.

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How to Submit for Juried Competitions

Artists may submit to any of our group shows with either slides or jpgs by mail or with jpgs on this website. If you wish to submit by mail, please print out and complete the entry form to mail with your slides or CD.

Important: While we tried to make our online art entry system as easy as possible, if you have problems because of your computer and/or technical limitations, please email your entry with jpgs with image information and related statement to gallery@womanmade.org and we do the work for you. We'll invoice you for the regular $24.00 entry fee after we have completed the entry for you.

How to pay the Entry Fee

(right) 'Africa,' mixed media assemblage, 8.5 x 6.5 x 6.5 inches by Ursula Kammer-Fox

Call for Art

Please note: By submitting their work to Woman Made Gallery exhibitions, all artists agree to allow reproduction of their slides, digital files and/or photographs taken of their art for educational, publicity, and archival purposes.

CALL FOR ARTWORK: The Emotional Body
Exhibition Dates: May 1 – June 11, 2009
Open to women artists from the international community whose work is concerned with the emotional reality of womanhood. We invite submissions that portray “The Emotional Body” of a woman’s journey in search of the boundaries of body, personality, and strength. We invite works that render “the body” expressively, relying on compositional and figurative dramatizations: works that focus on the complexity and significance of a woman’s journey to emotional independence and works that recognize the richness of her life. Images of up to three artworks plus one detail image per submission if needed. Please include a statement about the submitted work and a $24 entry fee.
Online Entries Submit jpgs of three of your works on our website.
Mailed Entries Mail slides or cd with images of three of your works, completed entry form and a $24 entry fee to Woman Made Gallery, 685 N. Milwaukee Ave., Chicago, IL 60642
Juror: Elzbieta (Elka) Kazmierczak
Kazmierczak is a printmaker, book artist, and designer who emigrated from Poland in 1990. She is a fellow of the Polish Ministry of Culture and Art (1987/88). For seven years she was Head of the Illustration Program at the University at Buffalo, NY. She is currently studying for a doctorate in Art Education at the University of Illinois. Kazmierczak is interested in using creativity for empowerment of women. She has founded Art for Empowerment program at The Women’s Center (Carbondale, IL) for survivors of violence and organized exhibitions of survivors’ art. She has also published a book “Art of Survival: Women, Healing, and the Arts” - available at www.art4e.org. Visit: www.elkadesigns.com.
Entry Deadline: February 13, 2009
Notifications: March 4, 2009

CALL FOR ARTWORK: Interactive
Exhibition Dates: June 19 - July 23, 2009
Open to artwork in all media, except *electronics, by women artists from the international community. “Long before interactive meant sitting in front of a computer, artists were making books, toys, games, installations and other work that invited participation from the viewer. For this exhibition Woman Made Gallery is seeking work that the viewer will handle, play with, modify, or physically interact with in some way.”
*Computers may only be used as a tool in producing the physical work.
Images of up to three artworks plus one detail image per submission if needed. Please include a statement about the submitted work and a $24 entry fee.
Online Entries Submit jpgs of three of your works on our website.
Mailed Entries Mail slides or cd with images of three of your works, completed entry form and a $24 entry fee to Woman Made Gallery, 685 N. Milwaukee Ave., Chicago, IL 60642
Juror: Karen Hanmer
Chicago book and installation artist Karen Hanmer’s intimate, playful works fragment and layer text and image to intertwine memory, cultural history, and the history of science. Her work weds the ancient act of book binding with the high tech use of the computer to aid her process. She exhibits widely, and her work is included in collections ranging from Stanford University and Tate Britain to National Museum of Women in the Arts and Graceland. Hanmer holds a degree in Economics from Northwestern University. She is Exhibitions Chair for the Guild of Book Workers, and serves on the editorial board of The Bonefolder, the peer reviewed online book arts journal. Visit: www.karenhanmer.com.
Entry Deadline: March 18, 2009
Notifications: April 8, 2009

Her Mark 2010

Calendar
March 6, 2009 - Final Entry Due Date
March 25, 2009 - Notifications Sent
July 31, 2009 - Her Mark Available
July 31 - August 27 - Exhibition
Sunday, August 2, 2009 Release Party & Reading 2-4pm
Entry fee: $24 for images of up to three artworks

Online Entries Submit jpgs of three of your works on our website.
Mailed Entries Mail slides or cd with images of three of your works, completed entry form and a $24 entry fee to Woman Made Gallery, 685 N. Milwaukee Ave., Chicago, IL 60642

Calendar
March 6, 2009 - Final Entry Due Date
March 25, 2009 - Notifications Sent
July 31, 2009 - Her Mark Available
July 31 - August 27 - Exhibition
Sunday, August 2, 2009 Release Party & Reading 2-4pm
Entry fee: $10 for up to three poems

Emailed Entries Submit up to three poems with your complete contact information by email to gallery@womanmade.org. You'll receive acknowledgment and an invoice for the $10 entry fee.
Mailed Entries Mail your completed entry form with up to three poems and a $10 entry fee to Woman Made Gallery, 685 N. Milwaukee Ave., Chicago, IL 60642