Washington Printmaker’s Gallery has their Excellence in Printmaking competition wrapping up in a couple of weeks. Take your winter break and submit! The cost of entry is $15. From their site:
Exhibition and Awards
This first Excellence in Printmaking Exhibition will include 40 works, on view at Washington Printmakers Gallery in February 2011 (see important dates, below). Prizes will be awarded to three outstanding printmakers from within the exhibition.
First Prize:
A monetary award of $500, one year membership in the Washington Print Club (WPC); an article about the prizewinner (including reproduction of one of the winner’s print) in the WPC Quarterly, one year’s subscription to the Quarterly for the student’s art department.
Second Prize:
A one year gift membership to the Washington Print Club and a $50 gift certificate to Plaza Art Supplies.
Third Prize:
A one-year gift membership to the Washington Print Club and a $25 gift certificate to Plaza Art Supplies.
Eligibility
A Student Applicant should be:
an undergraduate no more than four semesters (40 credits) from graduation, or
a MFA degree candidate
a declared major or minor in printmaking, or have taken at least 2 courses in printmaking studies.
at an institution in the greater Mid-Atlantic States (Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia)
Important Dates
12/31/10, 11:59 pm: Deadline for entry submission
1/12/11: Notifications of acceptance sent out
1/23/11: All accepted artwork and additional documentation must be delivered no later than 5 pm to the gallery (address below). HAND DELIVERY ENCOURAGED, all shipping expenses responsibility of the artist.
2/1/11 – 2/27/11: Excellence in Printmaking Exhibition, Award ceremony/receptions TBA.
3/1/11-3/6/11: Pick-up and shipment of artworks. All shipping expenses responsibility of the artist.
Department — KVH @ 2:08 pm, Thursday, December 9th, 2010
I thought you’d all like to know the end of semester hours. It’s a particularly FAST end to the semester this year, so read carefully.
Classes end in Dolphin on Friday, December 17th.
Campus CLOSES (all of it, including housing) on Sunday, Dec. 19th. Yeah. SUPER FAST.
We need class drawer and locker EMPTIED by Sunday, Dec. 19th by 8 PM. The only exception to this rule is the Major and Concentrator drawers located on the first floor.
Do not think you can push it back a day or two. Your cards turn back into a pumpkin at 8 PM on Sunday, Dec. 19th.
SCREENPRINTERS – You must take every single one of your screens home. This is a zero-exception rule this time. We have approximately a zillion people taking screenprinting in the spring and we’re starting with a clean slate. You can bring your screen back in January. Any and all screens left in the department over break will be ruthlessly taken over by the department. Genuinely, no exceptions here.
We strongly recommend you clean your drawer out throughout the week as your critiques end. It will save the madness and any crazy last minute problems that might arise next weekend.
The shop will be closed until classes resume in January.
Have a fantastic break, and come back ready to rock and roll like champions.
