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5th International Combined Caucus Juried Exhibition

LGBTQ, Multi-Cultural, and Women’s Caucuses of SPE

Society for Photographic Education   /   Deadline: 01/22/17

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The 5th International SPE Combined Caucus Juried Exhibition is organized in conjunction with the 2017 SPE National Conference, “Family Values”. In keeping with last year’s approach, this year’s exhibition will be held as a slideshow projection at the Hilton Orlando! This non-traditional exhibition will be on view with a reception on Saturday, March 11th, from 8-10pm. A catalogue will accompany the exhibition. Renee Cox is this year’s juror. She will select artworks reflecting the diversity of the three caucuses. There is no theme. For further information on the caucus missions, please visit: www.spenational.org/about/caucuses.

Location

Orlando, Florida

Fees

$25 for up to 5 images. Payments can be made here: https://www.spenational.org/shop

Eligibility

This juried exhibition is open to LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer), Multicultural, and Women’s Caucus members holding current membership in SPE. Anyone having a genuine interest in the mission of any or all caucuses is encouraged to join. All works must be created by current caucus members in the last five years and must be original. Works accepted for, or exhibited in, an SPE sponsored show within the last five years are not eligible for submission.

Requirements

Entry Guidelines

Entries will be submitted and juried through the SPE Exhibition Committee. To submit work for consideration you will need to email images to specaucus@gmail.com. Images should be a maximum of 2100 pixels on the longest side. jpg format is required. Please follow the instructions below:

1. Go to: https://www.spenational.org/shop and add a Qty. of 1 for the "2017 All Caucus Exhibition" to pay for your entry.

2. Upon receipt of your entry fee confirmation email, check your inbox and FORWARD the receipt to specaucus@gmail.com along with the following information in the body of your message:

- APPLICATION 2017: SPE Combined Caucus Juried Show
- Full name
- Email address
- Mailing address
- Caucus that you belong to
- List of titles for images attached with filenames: lastname.firstname.#(1-5)title.jpg (ex. Random Title: Rollins.Logan.01random.title.jpg)
- Dimensions of piece (Height x Width)

3. Attach up to 5 images. Images should be a maximum of 2100 pixels on the longest side in .jpg format. (Make sure that the images correspond to the list of titles in the body of the email)

4. Attach your Artist Statement: You must include an artist statement. Your application WILL NOT be reviewed without an artist statement, brief or otherwise. Please make this 600 words max in .pdf format.

5. Within one week after the deadline, you should receive a submission confirmation email from a representative of SPE Exhibition Committee. If you do not receive this email, email us immediately at specaucus@gmail.com

Deadline for Submissions: Please read carefully, it’s your checklist:

1. Your Application Packet must be emailed by January 22, 2017 at 11:59 pm Pacific Standard Time.

2. You must submit payment by January 22, 2017 at 11:59 pm Pacific Standard Time. (no refunds)

3. Incomplete applications, those without payment, late submissions, or those without current membership will not be considered.

Considerations

You will be notified of selection by the first week of February via email. If your work is selected, an email will be delivered with further instructions. All accepted artworks will be reproduced in a professionally printed catalogue with an introduction/commentary. Entrants’ submission qualifies an agreement of participation. If this exhibition travels to other venues, you will be notified of the arrangements and given the choice to participate. Thank you for your continuing contribution to SPE and the caucuses!

Evaluation Criteria

We are pleased to announce Renee Cox as the 5th International SPE Combined Caucus Exhibition juror.

A deliberate force in the landscape of contemporary American art for the last three decades, Renee Cox is a photographer and mixed media artist. Where the body is concerned, particularly the black woman's body, Cox's gaze has remained at a focused intensity, framing her characteristic self-portraits as poignant arguments on race, desire, religion, feminism, and visual and cultural aesthetics. Cox's work is always more directly aimed at imagining a new consciousness.

Born in Jamaica before relocating early to New York, Cox studied film at Syracuse University and photography at SVA, and she participated in the Whitney Independent Study program in 1992. Her work has been featured at the Perez Art Museum Miami (2014), The Studio Museum in Harlem (2012), the Spelman Museum of Fine Art (2013), the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art (2008), the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke (2006), as a part of the Jamaican Biennale (2006), the Brooklyn Museum (2001), the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) Boston (1996), and the Whitney Museum of American Art (1993), among others. Now, turned away from the study of her own body via the self-portrait, Cox's current work nevertheless re-interrogates the possibilities of portraiture itself in her latest series, "Soul Culture," a kind of homage to digital culture as much as ancient forms.

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