Howard County Center for the Arts Seeks Artists for ART MARYLAND 2012
By: Kelsey Denette Jun. 05, 2012
The Howard County Center for the Arts, a 27,000 square foot community facility located in Ellicott City, Maryland, is seeking proposals from artists for Art Maryland 2012, a biennial multi-media juried exhibit. The juror for Art Maryland 2012 is Philippa Hughes, Founder and Chief Contrarian of The Pink Line Project. A minimum of $1,000 will be awarded by the juror. The exhibit will be on view from October 26 – December 14, 2012 with a reception and remarks by Ms. Hughes on October 26 from 6-8pm.
Entry is open to all artists 18 years or older, residing in Maryland or within a 100-mile radius of Ellicott City, MD. Artists may submit digital images of up to three works completed in the last two years and not exhibited previously in the HCCA galleries. All work must fit through a standard doorway measuring 54" x 80" and fit appropriately in the HCCA galleries. The Center's two galleries total over 2000 square feet, with 9 ½ foot high walls, professional track lighting and hardwood floors. There is a $25 Art Maryland entry fee. The fee is waived for current Howard County Arts Council members.
Art Maryland 2012 is the eighteenth multi-media statewide juried exhibit sponsored by the Howard County Arts Council. The exhibit began in 1984 as Maryland's Best, an annual show running through 1989 and open to all Maryland artists. In 1990, when the show became a biennial, its name was changed to Art Maryland. Since the Baltimore Museum of Art ended its Maryland biennial exhibits in the early 1990s, Art Maryland has been a premier juried showcase for artists in the region. In 2000, Art Maryland expanded to include Delaware and Southeastern Pennsylvania in addition to Maryland, Virginia, and Washington D.C.
Past jurors have included Brian Wallis, then Senior Editor for Art in America; Ned Rifkin, then Chief Curator of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; David Levy, then President and Director of the Corcoran Gallery; Doreen Bolger, Director of the Baltimore Museum of Art; Susan Rosenberg, Assistant Curator for Modern and Contemporary Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art; Jay Fisher, Deputy Director of Curatorial Affairs and Senior Curator of Prints, Drawings & Photographs, The Baltimore Museum of Art; Stephen Bennett Phillips, Curator at the Phillips Collection in Washington DC; Dr. Gary Vikan, Director of The Walters Art Museum; Dr. Leslie King Hammond, Graduate Dean, Emeritus, Director, Center for Race and Culture at Maryland Institute College of Art; and Jack Rasmussen, Director & Curator, American University Museum, Katzen Arts Center.
For entry details or more information call 410-313-2787, email info@hocoarts.org or visit www.hocoarts.org. Entry deadline: August 31 at 5 PM.
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