CALLS FOR ARTISTS

Pittsburgh Filmmakers/Pittsburgh Center for the Arts (PF/PCA) provides opportunities and environments that encourage an open exchange of images and ideas to foster our vibrant community of artists. In addition to PF/PCA's calls for artists, we also list calls from affiliated groups and other venues. To request your call to be listed, please email jasdeep@pittsburgharts.org or rcooper@pittsburgharts.org.


Video, Film, & Animation - PF/PCA Members

May 11 - July 22
Deadline: 
March 16

PF/PCA members are invited to apply for a group exhibition in the Video Room at PCA during the 2012 calendar year. This opportunity is open to artists with a current membership working in video, film or animation.

Submission Deadline: Proposals must be post marked or delivered by March 16, 2012.

Exhibition Dates: May 11 – July 22, 2012

Tone it UP! Pittsburgh Society of Artists

May 11 - July 11
Deadline: 
March 16

In light of the recent heated political discourse and violence like the shootings in Arizona this past year and the Occupy Movement, government and media have suggested that we the public need to "Tone it DOWN." In response to this, Pittsburgh Society of Artists presents an exhibition asking artists to Tone It UP! PSA challenges our members and members of the other guilds to step outside of their comfort zones, pump up the volume and be loud by creating works that express what you the members are truly passionate about. The subject might be political, environmental,

Lenses and Filters: A view through the Needle’s Eye Presented by the Fiberarts Guild of Pittsburgh

May 11 - July 22
Deadline: 
March 12

How we, as artists, perceive the world affects that which we create. Do we observe the world through rose‐colored glasses? Do we use blinders? Do we dare take a look at the unfiltered reality of that which we experience or perceive? We may look through a microscope or telescope. We may peer through a wide lens, or perhaps instead focus on the smallest detail. We may interpret our vision using pencil, paintbrush, sewing or knitting needle, crochet hook, dye pot, loom or technology. Our work may be large or small, portrait or landscape, realistic or abstract, flat or 3 dimensional.

2012: END OF TIME - Pittsburgh Print Group

May 11 - July 22
Deadline: 
March 1

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December 2012 marks the conclusion of a b’ak’tun; a time period in the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar which was used in Central America prior to the arrival of Europeans. The creation accounts of the Maya refer to cycles of  creation or world ages. The previous world ages ended after 13 b’ak’tuns, or roughly 5,125 years. According to the Maya Long Count calendar, the fourth world, our world, will have reached the end of its thirteenth b’ak’tun on December 21, 2012.
 

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