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SPE 2017 Midwest Chapter Members Exhibition Juried Show

SPE Midwest Chapter   /   Deadline: 07/24/17

The Society for Photographic Education Midwest Chapter seeks submissions for the annual Members Exhibition. This juried show is intended to highlight the unique environmental and cultural character of the Midwest in its diverse expression, cultural insight, and experimental practice. The exhibition will take place at the Contemporary Art Center (CAC) in Peoria, Illinois. The CAC is a non-profit, 14,000-square-foot facility on the 2nd and 3rd floors of a renovated warehouse located in Peoria’s Riverfront district. The Members Exhibition will take place in collaboration with Developing Spaces/Places, the 2017 SPE Midwest Chapter Conference in Peoria, IL.

Location

Contemporary Art Center (CAC) in Peoria, Illinois

Fees

$25 - www.spenational.org/shop

Eligibility

This exhibition is open to all SPE Midwest Chapter members except Student Members. Student Members please see the call for the Juried Student Exhibition at the Peoria Public Library and Project 1612.

Requirements

Entry Guidelines
All submissions will be accepted by email only to MWSPEmembers@gmail.com. Photographers may submit up to three works. Please size all images to 1400 pixels on the longest side with a resolution of 72 dpi. Submission email should include:
- an image list with titles corresponding to the attached images, size (print and final frame size required), medium, and date for each of the submissions
- a brief artist statement (max. 300 words)
- a screenshot or pdf receipt of payment submitted on the SPE website (see below for entry fee details)

Submission Checklist:
- Submission deadline is Monday, July 24, 2017.
- Review all email submission details - be sure to include an image list as well as properly labeled and sized images.
- Entry fee receipt from payment made on www.spenational.org/shop
- Incomplete applications, late submissions, and/or those without current SPE membership will not be considered.

Considerations

Important Dates:

- Submission deadline: Monday, July 24, 2017.
- Notification to artists: Tuesday, August 1, 2017
- All works must arrive to CAC no later than Friday, August 25, 2017
- Exhibition dates: September 1st - October 20, 2017
- Opening Reception: September 9, 2017 6:30-8:30 p.m.
- MWSPE Conference Gallery Crawl Reception: October 13, 2017 8:00-9:30 p.m.
- MWSPE Conference: October 12 - October 15, 2017

All work should have hardware and be ready to hang (i.e., wired). Pushpins, rare earth magnets, or other hanging methods will not be accepted. Artists will be responsible for shipping of their work to and from the exhibition. All work should be mailed in reusable shipping containers along with a pre-paid return shipping label from UPS or FedEx. The exhibition venues nor SPE will not be responsible for shipping charges. All works will be insured while installed in the gallery. It is the photographer’s responsibility to cover insurance during transit.

Evaluation Criteria

You will be notified of selection on or before Tuesday, August 1st, 2017. If your work is selected, you will be responsible for proper presentation and shipping to and from the exhibition venue. Work must arrive by Friday, August 25, 2017.

Jurors

Marivi Ortiz, known to most as Mari, is a Chicago based professional photographer, photo editor and Co-Chair of the SPE Multi-Cultural Caucus. Prevalent themes in her work include the desire for connection, identity construction, personal loss, and trauma survival. She completed an artist residency at A Long Walk Home, Inc. (ALWH), a Chicago-based national non-profit that uses art to educate, inspire, and mobilize young people to end violence against girls and women.

Mari’s work has been shown at numerous museums and galleries, including Chiang Mai Photo Festival, (Chiang Mai Thailand), Northlight Gallery, Arizona State University (Tempe, Arizona), The Center for Fine Art Photography (Fort Collins, Colorado), POKE Artists and Online Social Media at FotoFest (Houston, Texas), 33 Contemporary Gallery (Chicago, Illinois)., Women’s Caucus for Art (Chicago, Illinois), and ARC Gallery (Chicago, Illinois). She received her MFA at the University of Illinois at Chicago and is the recipient of grants from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Marico Fayre is a photographic artist and visual poet whose work explores personal metaphor, notions of home, vulnerability, mental illness, LGBTQ identity, the search for community and belonging, and a deep curiosity about shared experience of creating and experiencing art. Marico’s work has been exhibited internationally, including Newspace Center for Photography (Portland, OR), Center for Fine Art Photography (Fort Collins, CO), RayKo Photo Center (San Francisco, CA), 625 Sutter Gallery (San Francisco, CA), Gotham Arts Salon (New York, NY), Brooklyn Pride Center (Brooklyn, NY), PhotoPlace Gallery (Middlebury, VT), Lightbox Gallery (Astoria, OR), and Bellas Artes (San Miguel de Allende, Mexico). Her images have been published in Diffusion Magazine, Shots Magazine, Color Magazine, ToneLit, Method Press, 5x5 Magazine, online for Vogue Italia, and VJC - Journal on Images and Culture. She is one of the founding members of Small Talk Collective, a group of seven women photographers based in Portland, Oregon, and she works with non-profit organizations in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, her other (unofficial) home. Marico currently teaches in the graduate photography program at the Academy of Art University.  

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