Prospectus

Call for Entries:

“Back to the Future”

Inventions, alchemy, robots, modernity, science fiction, artificial intelligence, undiscovered life forms.  

This juried exhibition aims to explore these topics and how they can be manifested through diverse artistic practices and materials. We invite artists of all media to interpret the path of our ever changing world and their own visions of the future.  Artists are free to investigate past predictions of the future, that have failed or have yet to pass, as well as to create their own predictions.  We are interested in work that is both playful and work that reflects seriously upon the social and political climate ahead of us.

Texas A&M International University is accepting art works in any media to be juried into the “Back to the Future” exhibition at the Center of Fine and Performing Arts Gallery. The exhibition will be held from March 5th - April 6th 2012. Artists are invited to submit up to three works for consideration by November 1, 2011. Notification date is after November 30, 2011.

2011-2012 Calendar

ELIGIBILITY
Open to all professional artists working in any media except 'Photography'. All artwork must be original and completed within the last three years. All artists must be at least 18 years of age.

ENTRIES
Each artist may submit three entries. Each work may be represented by up to three separate images: two full views and one detail.

All works will be juried digitally on-line. All submissions will be received by at www.juriedartservices.com for full user friendly application process and communication.

ENTRY FEE
Digital Entry: $25.00 PayPal online payment with on-line application

If not paying  online, make check payable to CFPA Gallery Texas &M International University and Mail Payment to: David Bogus, Assistant Professor of Art, Attn: Back to the Future, CFPA 233C 5201 University Boulevard, Laredo, TX 78041; 956-326-3079.

david.bogus@tamiu.edu

DIGITAL ENTRY
TAMIU recommends sending digital images (1400 x 2200 pixels) – Jpeg file format.

CONDITIONS

All work must have been completed within the past three years. Texas A&M International University reserves the right to reject entries that do not meet the requirements. Shipped work that differs from work accepted from submitted slides will be disqualified. Work damaged in shipping will regretfully not be presented. All accepted work must have proper identification. No accepted work may be picked up before the closing of the exhibition.

SHIPPING
All shipping to and from Texas A&M International University and shipping insurance costs are the responsibility of the artist. Work may be sent by the artists desired carrier (UPS or FedEx is preferred) or hand-delivered from February 27- March 2nd 2012, Monday – Friday from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm. Registered mail or shipping excessively large freight, please contact Texas A&M International University prior to shipping. All work will be returned in accordance of our shipping policy. Our full shipping policy and checklist is available by request and will be sent to accepted artists. Ship/Hand Deliver to: David Bogus, Assistant Professor of Art, CFPA 233C 5201 University Boulevard, Laredo, TX 78041; 956-326-3079. Attn: Back to the Future

HAND DELIVERY
Artist is responsible for hand delivered art. Please notify the office in advance if additional assistance is needed with delivery into gallery.

SALES/ INSURANCE
Please note that price of entry may not be changed after it is set. Texas A&M International University will retain 35% commission of the sale price. All work will be insured while in the Texas A&M International University facility. Texas A&M International University will not be responsible for loss or damage to work in transit to and from Texas A&M International University. Texas A&M International University is not responsible for loss, theft or damaged work after 30 days of the last day of show due to artist failing to retrieve exhibition work.

PUBLICITY

Texas A&M International University reserves the right to photograph entries for the purposes of documentation, education and publicity. Accepted artists are encouraged to send to Texas A&M International University, a resume, artist statement , brochures, and additional photographic materials (photos, slides or digital) of the accepted work for use in promoting the exhibition.

JUROR 

Bruce Helander, Fmr. provost of RISD, artist (in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan, Guggenheim, LACMA & 60 other museums) and critic/curator.

Bruce Helander is an artist whose specialty is collage and assemblage. He is also a well-known curator and art critic. He has a master’s degree in painting from the prestigious Rhode Island School of Design, where he later became the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs of the college. He is a fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts and recently won the South Florida Cultural Consortium fellowship for professional achievement in the visual arts.

Helander arrived in Palm Beach in 1982 from New York City, where he published Art Express magazine. He quickly established a cutting edge gallery on Worth Avenue that thrived for thirteen years. During that time he opened a second gallery on West Broadway in New York City. He was also a commissioner for ARCOM in Palm Beach and the vice-president of the Worth Avenue Association. He is active in the south Florida art scene and was on the board of directors at the Armory Art Center and later was the Director of Exhibitions there.

City Link magazine called Bruce Helander “Arguably the most recognized and successful collage artist in the country...” and Kenworth Moffett, former director, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale said in Gold Coast magazine that “If there was a Pulitzer Prize for collage, Helander would surely win it.”

His work is in over fifty museum collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, the Smithsonian, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and most recently, the Whitney Museum of American Art and Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Los Angeles.

His collages appear in Jazziz, The New Yorker and Palm Beach Illustrated magazines, among others.

He has written extensively on contemporary art and has written over 150 published reviews. He has an enthusiastic following for his monthly columns in Art of the Times magazine, Art and Living magazine (Los Angeles) and ARTnews. Star Group International just published his book of reviews, titled Learning to See—An Artist’s View on Contemporary Artists from Artschwager to Zakanitch, of forty of his favorite reviews.

As a curator, Helander has coordinated over eighty exhibitions of contemporary works. He has organized one-man shows for legendary artists such as Robert Rauschenberg, James Rosenquist, John Chamberlain, Duane Hanson, Larry Poons, Jules Olitski, Dale Chihuly and Kenneth Noland, among others. Helander’s written observations about art are unusual in that very few art writers are also artists—in this case, with an academic background, extensive gallery and publishing experience and regular exhibit of his work.