Call for Entries: Savage Gardens, The Real and Imaginary World of Carnivorous Plants

Call for Entries

Savage Gardens
The Real and Imaginary World of Carnivorous Plants
July 10, 2010 – November 14, 2010

Juried and Site-Specific Commissioned Art
Inspired by Carnivorous Plants

Deadline for Submission: April 30, 2010

Juried Art: Artists working in any media are invited to submit existing artwork or proposals for new artwork. The juror will consider creativity and aesthetics, appropriateness of concept, maintenance, and public safety. Use of recycled materials is encouraged, but is not required.

Site-Specific Commissioned Art: Artists are invited to submit a proposal for a commissioned artwork. The juror will consider creativity and aesthetics, appropriateness of concept, maintenance, public safety, and price. Commissioned artists may be awarded up to $10,000, which shall cover materials, labor, delivery, installation, and removal.

For more information, please visit: http://www.fpconservatory.org/savagegardens.htm

Juror:
Jean Pitman, visual artist
Educator for Youth Programs
Wexner Center for the Arts

Jean Pitman is a visual artist, educator, curator and contemporary arts advocate who recently relocated to Columbus from Honolulu. She has lived and worked in New York, Minneapolis, rural Wisconsin, Helsinki, rural Ireland, Manchester (UK) and Vilnius. Jean completed her BFA in Sculpture and Performance Art at the Minneapolis College of Art & Design, and an Interdisciplinary MFA and Graduate Certificate in Museum Studies and Visual Culture Studies at the University of Hawai’i. She also conducted graduate studies in Landscape Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School.

Her diverse art work and projects have been exhibited widely and featured in publications such as Sculpture, A Publication of the International Sculpture Center, Espace Sculpture (Quebec), and Learning Through the Arts, A guide to the National Endowment for the Arts and Arts Education. Jean was a member of the curatorial team at The Soap Factory in Minneapolis for 7 years (www.soapfactory.org). She has completed several outdoor and indoor temporary, permanent and semi-permanent sculpture commissions herself, and has served on juries for numerous exhibitions and sculpture parks.

A project/process oriented community-based worker, she is presently the Educator for Youth Programs at the Wexner Center for the Arts specializing in working with teens. She believes that basic tools of self-determination lie at the heart of many of today’s contemporary art practices making them highly relevant for us all.


Questions?
Contact:
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