Internet MFA Call for Artists – At Play 2025
Opportunity Description
International Deadline: April 23, 2025 – All good things don’t really have to come to an end, re-live your happiest moments within your art! Remember those hot summer days at the pool? Or the sandcastles you built with friends as kids? Art is the best way to preserve these memories, as you can paint, sculpt, or digitalize your happiest moments. Take some time to tap into your inner child and paint when you or others were “At Play”.
Any original 2D or 3D work that follows our exhibition guidelines will be considered. This includes works selected by the juror which will be exhibited in Maryland Federation of Art’s (MFA) first At Play Exhibition through our Virtual Gallery from June 16 – July 31, 2025.
ELIGIBILITY
Entry will be open to all artists residing internationally. All entries must be original and completed solely by the artist’s hand. A maximum of 6 original works created within the past 3 years may be entered.
JUROR
Lyndon Barrois Jr. (b. New Orleans, LA) is an artist based in Pittsburgh, PA and an Assistant Professor of Art at Carnegie Mellon University. He is half of LAB-D, with artist Addoley Dzegede, with whom he has collaboratively staged four exhibitions, and co-authored a book of essays (Elleboog, at the Jan van Eyck Academie in 2019).
He uses cinema as a means to travel both temporally and geographically, bringing to mind ideas of anachronism, simultaneity, and reanimation. Looking at branding strategies of old cinema—along with the phased-out profession of shooting film stills—he considers these methods ways to represent a film that has yet to be seen. He is currently undergoing a project that uses the heist film and museum context to contend with legacies of colonial extraction. Another ongoing body of work investigates how fashion images function as constructed figments of the imagination onto which we project our desires and lived realities. In various ways, Barrois navigates questions around color, control, taste, waste, and the layering of information… see more
AWARD
Cash awards presented by the juror total $500.
ENTRY FEE
A maximum of 6 original works created within the past 3 years may be entered.
1 or 2 entries $45 (MFA Members $30). Up to 4 additional entries $6.75 each (MFA Members $4.50). Entry fees are non-refundable.
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SALES
Work must be for sale. Artists will retain 80% from sales (85% for MFA Members). MFA will retain 20% commission (15% for MFA Members at the time of the sale) on and work sold through MFA.
DATES
- Feb 25 Online Entry Opens for Submissions
- Apr 23 Entry Deadline
- May 22 Notification @ 5 PM
- Jun 16 Exhibition Opens
- Jul 1 Awards Announced @ 5 PM
- Jul 31 Last Day of the Exhibition
About:
The MFA incorporated as a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization in 1968 and, through the hard work of a growing and enthusiastic membership, opened the Circle Gallery located at 18 State Circle, just steps away from the State House in Annapolis. The gallery is located in a restored loft space in the heart of the Annapolis Historic District and has been operating continuously since opening its doors. The MFA has also reached out beyond its doors through its Alternate Space efforts, often bringing art to unexpected places.
Maryland Federation of Art
18 State Circle
Annapolis, MD 21401
t: 410 268 4566
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