Houlihan's Call for Artists

I hope some of my U.S. artist friends have a little something to submit for this.  Here is the link for the rest of the information.  Let me know how it works out!

Call For Entries The 7th Annual Halstead Grant for Silver Jewelry Designers

This is a reprint from the Halstead Grant Website.


Prescott, AZ – February 8, 2012 – Halstead Bead Inc invites new silver jewelry designers to enter its 7th annual grant competition for artisans in the industry. The winner of the 2012 business development grant will receive a prize package including $6,000 in cash and merchandise.

The focus on silver is new to the grant in 2012. Previously the competition was open to all materials in the bridge jewelry segment. “But that segment is now hazier than ever before due to volatile metal costs and shifting sales channels,” explained program coordinator Hilary Halstead Scott. “Requiring the primary material to be silver clarifies eligibility and provides an exclusive opportunity for silver artists,” she continued.

Designers using jewelry making techniques such as metalsmithing, metal clay, wire work or beading are eligible to enter the competition. Other accent materials are welcome, but the artist’s primary metal medium should be silver. Candidates must be US citizens who began their businesses within the last three years.

Complete eligibility requirements and the submission checklist are on The Halstead Grant Application PDF. Candidates are required to submit a design portfolio, résumé and answers to several business planning questions. Applications may be submitted between April 15 and June 9, 2012.

The grant sponsor, Halstead Bead, Inc., is one of North America’s leading distributors of jewelry supplies. The firm was established in 1973 and is trusted by thousands of jewelry design businesses and manufacturers around the globe. Halstead Bead, Inc. specializes in wholesale findings, chain and metal for silver jewelers.


There are hints and tips, lists of winners and finalists and all kinds of wonderful information on the original website... right here.  Good luck!!

Juried Glass Show Call For Entries - Minnestrista

GLASS: A JURIED ART SHOW

ENTRY DEADLINE:   FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24

PRESENTED BY: MINNETRISTA WITH THE MARILYN K. GLICK CENTER FOR GLASS AT BALL STATE UNIVERSITY.

EXHIBITION DATES: MAY 12 THROUGH AUGUST 12, 2012

LOCATION: 1200 N. MINNETRISTA PARKWAY, MUNCIE, IN 47303

i saw this call for artists and thought I'd spread the word.  I know some of you have the chops for a show like this.  Here are all the details.  And let me know if you get in.  It looks amazing!

Calling All Artists...

As a glass artist and having friends who work in various mediums, I wanted to share this Call For Artists.  I hope some of us enter and wouldn't it be fun, if one of us won it?  This one touches lives.

Best of luck to you all.  -- Marcy

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Evergreen Fine Art Gallery, located in beautiful Evergreen, Colorado, is proud to present our first annual competition to design our beloved Evergreen Angel™. Evergreen Fine Art is in its 20th year of designing the Hospice Angel. This year we are doing something exciting and opening it up as a contest for artists.

The Evergreen Angel™ is a cherished collectable known throughout the country. It is purchased for everything from births, celebrations, graduations; for mothers, fathers, daughters, sons, those who need hope and comfort; cancer survivors; as a memory keep- sake for a loved one. This little angel has come to symbolize strength, hope and celebration. It has touched so many universally and has benefited Hospice for over 20 years. This year we would like to give artists the opportunity to design the angel. After being selected, the design will be transferred into a mould and cast as a piece of fine sterling silver (or by special order, gold) to become a cherished collectable. All work is done in the United States.

Click Here for Online Info and Entry Form
Submission Guidelines: 
There is a non-refundable entry fee of $25.00 for each submission. 
All submissions must be legible drawings, showing as many views of the image as possible. 
All submissions must be provided as: 
1) jpegs on CD (72ppl, 10 x 12 image size) 
OR
2) artists may submit images via email (limit image to 620 pixels on the longest side) to Evergreen Fine Art at efa@evergreenfineart.com, attention Evergreen Angel Competition OR 
3) mail your submission to Evergreen Fine Art, Attention: Evergreen Angel Competition, 3042 Evergreen Parkway, Evergreen, CO 80439. 

The gallery cannot accept submissions in person,
nor inquiries about the status of entries. 

The design should allow for a sterling silver angel as well as a sterling silver limited 
edition angel with a gemstone. Go to our website at Evergreenfineart.com and look 
under the Evergreen Angel tab to view previous angels. The finished angel will be 
1 inch tall and no more than ¾ inch wide at the base. Four millimeter gems are used 
in the limited edition angels. 

Eligibility: Participants must be legal residents of the United States and cannot be employees or immediate family members of an employee of Southwest Art Magazine, 
FW Media, or Evergreen Fine Art Gallery. Participants must be 18 year of age or older 
at the time of submission. 

Winner Awards: The winner will garner national attention. 
Southwest Art Magazine is a Sponsor of this competition. 
The winner of this competition will receive the following: 

The winning design will be unveiled at an Angel Tea 
September at the gallery on September 21, 2012 The 
winning Angel will be unveiled nationally on the Back Cover 
of the October 2012 Issue of Southwest Art Magazine
The artist will receive a Full Page award ad from 
Southwest Art Magazine (valued at 3,150.00) 

The winner will receive a $500.00 cash award price 

The winner will also receive six 2012 Evergreen Angels 
(three sterling silver and three sterling silver limited editions with gemstones). 

PLEASE NOTE: your entry will not be returned to you and is for jurying purposes only. After the selection is completed all entries other than the winning entry will be destroyed. The rights to the winning image will belong to Evergreen Fine Art Gallery. In the event of similarity or duplication, earliest receipt shall prevail. 

Jurors: Editors, Southwest Art Magazine/ Owners, Evergreen Fine Art Gallery 

ENTRY DEADLINE: January 31, 2012 
NOTIFICATION DATE FOR WINNER: April 1st 2012. 
The winning Angel will be announced on the Evergreen Fine Art Website:www.evergreenfineart.com on April 1, 2012.

Contest Rules: All work must be original . Materials cannot violate trademarks, copyrights, and/or rights of privacy or publicity; applicable federal, state, and local laws, rules, and regulations must be complied with; and rights of the materials must not have not been previously given to other people, organizations, or businesses. By submitting a design, entrant warrants and represents that the entry does not contain copyrighted, branded, and/or trademarked materials without written permission. If entries contain copyrighted, branded, and/or trademarked materials without proper written permission, they will be disqualified.
This contest is void where prohibited and is subject to all applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations. Awards are nontransferable, not substitutable, nor redeemable, except at the sole discretion of Evergreen Fine Art Gallery.
Entrant indemnifies and holds Evergreen Fine Art Gallery, its officers, directors and agents harmless from any and all liability arising from, or relating to, the judging or handling of the design submitted and conducting , sponsoring and advertising the event. By entering the contest, entrant grants Evergreen Fine Art a royalty-free worldwide, perpetual, non-exclusive license to display, distribute, reproduce and create derivative works of the entries, in whole or in part, and the designer's name and photograph in any media now existing or subsequently developed for any educational, promotional, publicity, exhibition, and all other standard purposes. Evergreen Fine Art Gallery will not be required to pay any additional consideration or seek any additional approval in connection with such uses.

Beads in Space..Part Deux

Ready for another chance at getting your lampwork beads in outer space?  Mission Endeavour Contest is now announced.  Beads need to be at Beads of Courage headquarters by February 26.  Click here for all the details,'
ps...Like that little yellow alien?  That was one of my beads that went into space on a previous NASA mission. Replicas of the beads in space are available for sale through Beads of Courage.

ISGB - Call For Artists - "Surface"

The ISGB sent out the following information for a member show.  If you want to join the ISGB, it's easy.  http://www.isgb.org.  Belonging and entering this show, is one of their  wonderful member benefits.

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ISGB invites its members to create a bead that answers one of two questions: What lies beneath? When is it actually what is on the outside that counts?



Surface is a juried exhibit that will open at the 2011 Bead&Button Show in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Designed especially for the Show, it is another part of the continuing relationship between Bead&Button, ISGB, artists, students, collectors, exhibitors and writers who come together for this amazing annual event in celebration of the many facets of art that unite us all. Surface represents the ISGB's fifth year of presenting extraordinary glass exhibitions with the Bead&Button Show.


The deadline is March 1. To apply, artists should send a completed application, entry fee, and digital image of their bead. Artists may submit as many beads as they like for the competition, however a maximum of one bead per artist will be selected for the final exhibit. Artists will be notified of acceptance by March 30 and winning entries need to be received no later than April 13. Please email Sarah Riggle, ISGB Administrator or call 614-222-2243.


Click here for the Application Form and additional details.

Artists Wanted!

I just found out about www.ArtistsWanted.org has a quick deadline of this Friday for their all artist medium call to artists. Here is the link.

"During the first week of March, New York City will host artists, galleries, critics and curators from all over the world. Let this be your opportunity to shine in the spotlight of a feature booth at SCOPE, the premier showcase for international emerging contemporary art and one of the most influential presences in the expanding global art market." says the website.

Check it out and see if it's something you want to try.

Glass Arts Festival Call For Artists

Here's a Call for Artists that I just saw. I thought that it sounded like a fun one for everyone to know about...

CALL FOR ARTISTS AND VENDORS: Entries are now being accepted for "Transcendence - The Magic of Glass", a JURIED CONTEMPORARY GLASS ART EXHIBITION in Sequim, WA, September 1-25, 2010. This show is part of the GLASS ART FESTIVAL and hosted by the MAC, Museum & Arts Center in the Sequim-Dungeness Valley. Entries may be shipped. Full details will accompany notification of acceptance into the exhibition.

This juried exhibition is for artists working in any area of glass art including, but not limited to, blown, cast, fused, kiln-formed, torchworked, pate de verre, stained, mosaic, or sand-carved glass. Mixed media entries are welcome.

Entry deadline is July 9. Entry fee is $20 for 1st, $5 each additional, up to a total of 5 entries. Entries may be for sale, but need not be. Awards totaling more than $1000.

For more details about the Show and the Festival, and to view/download a prospectus or a vendor packet, visit www.glassartfestival.org or emailinfo@glassartfestival.org.

US Mint Call for Artists

Did you see this call for artists?

The United States Mint is looking for American professional artists to help design coins, certificates of authenticity and promotional materials.

Wouldn't that be sweet, having a coin in circulation that you designed? Here is the link for more information on the program. And if you are chosen...PLEASE let me know. That would be so exciting to hear about.

Contests and Fun Stuff in the Glass World

This is my "Breezy" entry for Mary Lockwood's Glass Olympics. We are to interpret Spring, as a theme. If you have a minute, could you please go and comment on it? We need to get that ball rolling, so other visitors will do it too. And check out all the entries. There are beauties.

Fire Mountain Gems is hosting their 2009 Beading Contest. There are all kinds of categories, but of course I'll focus on the glass one, which includes lampwork. Here's what it says:
Glass: Calling all glass! Create masterful art and jewelry pieces with Czech fire-polished, Czech pressed glass, opalite, goldstone, rainbow "stone," bumpy beads, lampworked glass, liquid glass, dichroic glass and glass components ... the Fire Mountain Gems and Beads Jewelry Maker's Comprehensive Catalog's the limit! Due by April 15th. Be sure to read all the rules, because there are some. A certain percentage of your jewelry needs to be made from Fire Mountain products, etc.

Due by April 1st, is the Annealer Magazine's "In Time for the Holidays" contest. There are two glass related categories including beads and off mandrel pieces. You'll need to read the extensive, but very easy to understand rules for it. Come on, why not! (and here's the Annealer's facebook link too.

If you know of other contests or call for artists, please post them in the comments section.  I know there are a lot more out there.  Thanks!