July 16, 2008: Community Events + Opportunities

Continuing This Month

Call-for-entries:
Aperture Portfolio Prize

to July 11, 2008

The Aperture Portfolio Prize is now accepting submissions through July 11, 2008. The Aperture Portfolio Prize is an online portfolio review with a $2,500 cash prize and the only way to ensure that your work is seen by Aperture's book and magazine editors. For details visit www.aperture.org/apertureprize

Grafica Politica #2, call-for-entries:
a response to the Republican Convention in MN

to August 30, 2008

Grupo Soap del Corazon (www.myspace.com/gruposoapdelcorazon) is organizing an international poster project, to take place on the streets of your town (wherever you are) and on the streets of our town. They are hoping to inspire posters and postering throughout the world, and also throughout the U.S. Here's how you can participate:

1. Make a poster. Anything you want expressing your viewpoint on the coming U.S. election, the Republican Convention, the state of the United States, it's role in the world, and the state of that world.
2.Create the poster any way you want.
3. Minimum size for the poster is 11"x17"
4. You must print a minimum run of 8 posters. The posters must be multi-run prints: one-of-a-kind artworks will not be accepted. A minimum of 5 must be placed out in your community, on walls, on telephone poles, in windows, etc.
5. A minimum of 3 of the posters must be sent to Grupo Soap del Corazon and arrive by August 30, 2008. 1 poster will be in an art exhibit that we create and, later, our archive. 1 poster will be sent to the Center for the Study of Political Graphics. The rest will be used to poster the streets of the Twin Cities before, during, and after the Republican Convention.
6. To be part of this effort, you must also send us at least one digital image of your poster on walls, telephone poles, etc in YOUR community. Send them to artjones@bitstream.net.
7. Digital images of all posters posted out in your community will be put up on our website.
8. There will be an exhibition of ALL the posters, most likely opening in October for the end of the campaign. Right now we are in negotiations with the California Gallery in Northeast Minneapolis. We will announce the show on our website by September 15th, 2008.
9. Send you posters to: Grafica Politica #2, Grupo Soap del Corazon, c/o Douglas Padilla, 304 2nd Street NE, Minneapolis, MN, 55413
10. Please spread the word. Email around to other artists and encourage them to participate. We especially urge you to encourage artists in countries outside the USA - we want the world's voices to be heard here.
11. We will pay special attention to anyone who organizes a group of artists and sends in digital and posters as a group. Additionally, groups will get extra acknowledgment in the exhibition.