Woman Made Gallery: Call for Art

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 60622. 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.

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.

To print out the entry form, please click on the title of the exhibition/activity you are interested in to download the entry form in pdf Adobe Acrobat format. The Adobe Acrobat Reader is available for FREE from their web site. Click here if you want to download Adobe Acrobat Reader now.

If you are unable to download the guidelines in pdf format, you may use our generic Entry Form for any of the listed exhibitions. Make sure you read the tips & submission Guidelines.

You may submit work for exhibitions with jpgs on our website. Visit the Online Art Entries to submit for any of our exhibitions listed on this page.

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 to gallery@womanmade.org and we do the work for you. The art entry fee for this service is $24. We will invoice you after we have completed the entry for you.

The regular entry fee for all juried group exhibitions is $24 for up to three images plus one detail view per image.

You may pay with Visa or Mastercard from our Secure Page. Just indicate the title of the WMG exhibition that you wish to enter and complete the form. This service is especially helpful to all who live outside of the United States where other currencies are used. If you are using the WMG secure service please indicate in your mailed entry that you have prepaid the entry fee with your credit card.

You may pay with a check and/or money order (international money order if outside the US) and include it with your mailed slide entry to Woman Made Gallery, 685 N. Milwaukee Ave., Chicago, IL 60622-8021.

You may be exempt from paying the entry fee or pay less if you cannot afford the full fee. Please let us know about that. Paying or not has no influence on the juror's decision.

Please direct any questions in regards to Exhibitions and Workshops at WMG to: exhibits@womanmade.org

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

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: Annual Members Show
Exhibition Dates: August 1 - 28, 2008
All artists, women and men, who are members of Woman Made Gallery by Entry Due Date are eligible to enter work into the Annual Members Show. Inclusion of work is not guaranteed and solely up to the juror. The exhibition is open to artwork in all media except performance. Artists must submit professional slides of exactly THREE WORKS executed during the last two years that have not been previously exhibited at WMG. Due to space limitations, jurors will not be able to choose more than 50 artworks. All selections will be based on originality, craftsmanship, quality and professionalism of entry. Artwork in all media, except installation and performance is encouraged. Artwork may not exceed 48 horizontally, frame included. Entry Fee: $24.
Online Entries Submit jpgs of three of your works on our website.
Mailed Entries Mail slides, video/dvd, 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 60622
Juror: Corinne D. Peterson
Corinne D. Peterson is a Chicago artist who divides her time between studio work, commissions, teaching, and community public art. Her primary medium is clay, but she also uses bronze, encaustic, and found objects. She exhibits her work nationally in solo and group exhibitions. Awards include Hopes and Dreams, 2004 Skyline Award: grand prize for tile design, Chicago Tile Institute of the International Masonry Institute and Hopes and Dreams, Public Art Award, Chicago Bar Association: Young Lawyer's Section Creative Arts Committee, 2003. Petersons work is shown at Lillstreet Art Gallery and Perimeter Gallery in Chicago.
FINAL Entry Deadline: May 24, 2008
Notifications: June 4, 2008

CALL FOR ARTWORK: One Planet, One Experiment
Exhibition Dates: September 5 October 2, 2008
*The title of this exhibition "One Planet, One Experiment" is inspired by E.O. Wilson (Edward Osborne Wilson,) US entomologist, ecologist and sociobiologist (1929.) In The Diversity of Life (1992) and The Future of Life (2001), Wilson examined the threat to biodiversity posed by human activity.
The idea of our planet as an experiment isn't how we usually think of it. Woman Made Gallery invites environmentally themed work in any media except video by women from the international community. 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 60622
Jurors: Lynda Cole and Leslie Sobel
Lynda Cole received a B.S. in Textiles and Clothing Design from Michigan State University after which she lived and worked in New York City. She attended the University of Michigan to study Botany. From 1976 to 1990 she ran her own landscaping company. From 1990 to 1995 she lived in England experimenting with 3-D forms made of new materials and developing her art. She shows work nationally and is a member of WSG Gallery in Ann Arbor, MI.
Leslie Sobel is an artist working with her relationship to the natural world. She is interested in the intersection between artistic, personal understanding and scientific knowledge. Her work incorporates data and scientific visualization alongside painting, words and mixed media. She exhibits her work nationally and has most recently curated H2O, a digital & mixed media group exhibition. She is one of the founders of the Art Alchemists, a collective of artists who use digital technology in some aspect of their art making.
FINAL Entry Deadline: June 18, 2008
Notifications: June 30, 2008

Awards: 1st Prize: Solo Show at WMG; 2nd Prize: Website with 20 images at www.womanmade.net; 3rd Prize: Gallery Membership.
Award Juror: Cindy Melk, H2O Plus founder and CEO

Each year WMG publishes "Her Mark," a compilation of art and poetry by 42 women. We'll post the entry form with details here by August 2008. The entry deadline for "Her Mark 2010" is in March 2009.

Object of Desire
October 10 November 13, 2008
Entry Deadline: August 5, 2008
Juror: Claire Wolf Krantz

Entry guidelines will be posted at least three months before each entry deadline.