Wide Open 10 – National Juried Art Show

Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition (BWAC )

Entry Deadline: Feb. 24

481 Van Brunt Street, Door 7
Brooklyn, NY 11231

http://bwac.org/

The Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition (BWAC) is excited to announce our tenth annual national juried art show, Wide Open 10, opening May 11, 2019. Our prestigious juror is Ylinka Barotto, an Assistant Curator at the Guggenheim Museum. With her guidance and selections, we look forward to another spectacular show.

The broad theme of Wide Open 10 encompasses all the possibilities of knowledge and freedom and love – wide open spaces…arms wide open…eyes wide open – but as with all things, there is the inevitable opposite – wide open to attack…corruption…failure. What kind of fantasy is this? What does it really indicate? This juried show looks to explore the idea of “wide open” in all the hidden niches of our collective psyche.

Ours is a truly unique gallery – a massive Civil War-era warehouse on the Red Hook waterfront in Brooklyn, NY. Its enormous space affords us the opportunity to exhibit really huge work, and we welcome it. BWAC’s curators will be using 8,000 square feet for this show, and look forward to exhibiting artist’s work from all around the country, work in all sizes, subjects, and media, except film (it’s almost completely wide open).

About The Juror
Ylinka Barottois an Assistant Curator at the Guggenheim Museum. Ms. Barotto has assisted on such large-scale modern and postwar retrospective exhibitions as Alberto Burri: The Trauma of Painting (2015); Moholy-Nagy: Future Present (2016); Visionaries: Creating a Modern Guggenheim, which showcased masterworks from the Guggenheim’s modern collection (2017); and Mystical Symbolism; The Salon de la Rose+Croix in Paris, 1892-1897 (2017, for which she contributed to the catalog with entries on many of the show’s artists. More recently, she has provided curatorial support for Danh Vo: Take My Breath Away (2018). In addition to her involvement with the exhibition program, Barotto is one of the organizing curators for the museum’s Young Collectors Council, which acquires the work of emerging artists for the museum’s permanent collection.
Barotto received an MA in curatorial and museum studies at Accademia de Belle Arti di Brera in Milan and is currently working toward an MA in art history at Hunter College of the City University of New York with a focus on postwar and contemporary feminism.

Call to Artists for Submissions
Submission Deadline: Early Bird February 4th or Final Application Deadline February 24, 2019.
Gallery Exhibition Dates: May 11 – July 7, 2019 weekends 1-6P.M.
Opening Reception: Saturday, May 11, 2019 from 1-6 P.M.

$3000 in Cash Awards
BEST of SHOW GOLD: $1000
BEST of SHOW SILVER: $500
PEOPLES’ CHOICE: $250
CURATORS’ CHOICE: $250

CERTIFICATE of RECOGNITION: $1000 ($100 to each of ten winners.)

ELIGIBILITY: This call for submission is open to all residents of the U.S. and its Territories 18 years of age or older. This is a juried exhibition for artists working in all traditional and non-traditional 2D and 3D media, including film/video when part of an installation.

SUBMISSIONS AND FEES: Only original works may be submitted.
Early Bird Submissions (through midnight, February 4, 2019): $50 for up to three (3) images plus $6.00 for each additional image.
Submissions between February 5th and midnight February 24, 2019: $70 for up to three (3) images plus $6.00 for each additional image.
All entries must be registered/received by midnight, February 24, 2019. All entry fees are non-refundable.

Submissions are on-line only; see full prospectus: http://bwac.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Wide-Open-10-prospectus-12-11-18.pdf

CONTACT/QUESTIONS: Please direct all questions to [email protected]

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