Call for art

 

Art With A Message


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The arc of history bends toward justice. Messaged art just speeds things along. Art with sharp, implied and/or focused messages can afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted. Messaged art helps us to envision a future free from the unconscionable tyranny of blind ignorance, oppression and mindless discrimination. The late Carrie Fisher said, “Take your broken heart and make it into art.” OCCCA invites artists to submit their art for a wide-ranging exhibition of text, symbols, posters, placards, videos, photography, paintings, sculptures, functional objects, installations, and new media projects.

Juror: Nicolas Orozco-Valdivia Nicolas Orozco-Valdivia has worked with the Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College, where he has been a curatorial and research assistant. Orozco-Valdivia has curated or co-curated over a dozen contemporary art shows in Los Angeles. They span from his first show, Labor and Photography, which opened at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) in 2017 and grew out of his experience as an Andrew W. Mellon Undergraduate Curatorial Fellow at the museum, to several shows at The Mistake Room, a nonprofit art space in Los Angeles, where he was an assistant curator and is now a curator at large.

An Open Call for Art from OCCCA

In ART WITH A MESSAGE, strength, beauty and truth walk hand in hand in hand. They can be packed with powerful visual inspirations and provocations in a wide range of styles covering a vast array of themes. ART WITH A MESSAGE, can awaken the conscience of the world, celebrating diversity, tolerance and art’s ineluctable promise of happiness. Free expression and topicality are traditions at OCCCA, an artist-run alternative space serving the contemporary art scene since 1980.

— Text Inspired in 2024,
authored in 2017 by the Late and Revered Rob Mintz



 

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DEADLINE FOR ENTRIES: May 30th, 2024.

T I M E L I N E:
Entry deadline:May 30th, 2024
Notification of accepted entries: June 7, 2024.

Pickup of artwork after the exhibition: Saturday August 24, 2024 between 5-7 p.m. and Sunday August 25, 2024 between 12:00-3:00 p.m.
Exhibition opens July 6, 2024 through August 24, 2024
Pickup of artwork by March 24, 2024


 


 

Entry Instructions:

Categories: All media welcome, including drawing, painting, sculpture, assemblage, photography, video, installations, functional objects, fashion and craft.

Entry Instructions:
This open call for art is open to all artists without regional restrictions.


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DEADLINE FOR ENTRIES: May 30th, 2024.
T I M E L I N E
Entry deadline:May 30th, 2024
Notification of accepted entries: June 7, 2024.

Pickup of artwork after the exhibition: Saturday August 24, 2024 between 5-7 p.m. and Sunday August 25, 2024 between 12:00-3:00 p.m.

Exhibition opens July 6, 2024 through August 24, 2024.

Upload images of your work as JPGs.

For video entries, upload in mp3, mov, mp4 and wmv formats only. If selected, the artist must send the video on a USB thumb drive , to enable OCCCA to easily display it during the exhibition.

OPEN CALL FOR ART TERMS OF AGREEMENT
ORANGE COUNTY CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART (OCCCA)
117 N. Sycamore Street,
Santa Ana, CA 92701
715-667-1517
info.OCCCA@gmail.com

Entry Fee: Minimum: $45.00 for up to three JPGs. $90.00 for six JPGs. Maximum allowed: nine JPGs for $100.00. (A savings of $35.00)

(All entry fees help support OCCCA, an artist-run, non-profit arts organization, serving the community since 1980.)


Entry Method:

Online only via the EntryThingy website.

Participating artists hereby release OCCCA, its members, agents and officers from all liability, damages, or injury while on OCCCA premises. 

 

   
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