Calls for Entries

SUBVERSIVE STITCHING: Feminist Artists with a Needle

Organized by Through the Flower
Juried by Artist Judy Chicago & Laura Addison, Curator of Contemporary Art, New Mexico Museum of Art.
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Call for art in all needlework and textile media from artists' who reside in New Mexico. Works submitted should include a focus on gender. One winner will be awarded a $500 cash prize.

Entry deadline: October 16, 2009
Notice of inclusion: November 20, 2009

Exhibition dates:
January 23, 2010 - May 31, 2010
Through the Flower in Belen, NM and online at www.throughtheflower.org.

Please submit images of three works with at least one detail of each piece and one page double spaced artist statement. Entry fee $25.00

Please contact Through the Flower for entry form at 505.864.4080 or visit the Feminist art section at www.throughtheflower.org to download application.

Juror:Judy Chicago
Judy Chicago's legacy as an artist is inseparable from her pioneering role in Feminist art and education. The Dinner Party, The Birth Project and the Holocaust Project, are monumental collaborative works which explored her deepening feminist vision. Chicago's reputation as a major influence on postmodern art stems from the maturing of a younger generation of artists and scholars who viewed and studied her milestone feminist projects.

Juror: Laura Addison
Laura Addison is the curator of contemporary art at the New Mexico Museum of Art, a position she has held since 2001. Among the exhibitions she has curated are Mind over Matter: Reworking Women's Work; Embodied: Seven Studies in Video; Constellation; The Art & Artifice of Science; and Flux: Reflections on Contemporary Glass. Her professional experience also includes work in the publishing and gallery industries. She holds a B.A. from Cornell University, and an M.A. from University of New Mexico, where one of her areas of focus was the confluence of gender, performance and revolution.

Through the Flower is a non-profit Feminist art organization founded by Judy Chicago in 1978. Our mission is to educate a broad public about the importance of art and its power in countering the erasure of women's achievements.




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