The Seabury – Western Art Gallery is accepting submissions of original fine art for mid-May-June-July 2008 show showcasing personal and communal transitions. Transitions engender growth and change. They challenge our assumptions about relationships, values and priorities. Some transitions occur within a religious or spiritual framework, some in a cultural context, while others happen in isolation. The artist should consider how transitions provide courage for the future and help celebrate the past. Themes may include but not limited to: journey, community, empowerment, struggle, liberation.

Artists may submit up to 10 slides or 300 dpi. jpgs and should include a list of slide or file descriptions with title of artwork, dimensions, date, format and price. Artists should also include a biography and artist statement.

Located on the North Shore of Chicago in the diverse and dynamic city of Evanston, Seabury-Western Theological Seminary is itself in the midst of a transition to offer more forward-looking theological education in a rapidly changing context. As it reinvents itself it seeks to partner with visual artists who can offer challenge and encouragement for transition through their work.

Deadline for submissions is March 31, 2008. There is a $15 entry fee. Submissions will be accepted through snail mail only and must include a SASE if you would like items returned. No e-mail submissions will be considered.

Upon acceptance, the gallery will negotiate delivery/pickup with the artist. Mail to: Seabury-Western Theological Seminary ATTN: Arts Coordinator, 2122 Sheridan Rd., Evanston, IL. 60201. For more information contact: Tyrone Fowlkes at 847.328.9300 or email: tyrone.fowlkes@seabury.edu.

A new exhibit, sponsored by ECVA New Jersey, opens February 3, 2008. Featuring drawings and paintings by Eileen Kennedy, the exhibit is a culmination of four years’ work. The exhibition’s main feature comprises fourteen oil paintings based on the Christian visual narrative tradition that depicts the last hours of the life of Christ. The paintings are arranged in a cruciform measuring 12 feet wide and 6 feet high. Also on display are intricate drawings made in preparation for the work.

ECVA Chair Ruth Councell states, “we hope that this exhibition will enhance the experience of Lent for the Cathedral Congregation, the wider Diocesan family, members of other area churches, and the public.”

The Gallery at St. John's is accepting original artwork in 2-dimensional media by men & women of all faiths.  February's theme is Amor Vincit Omnia (Love Conquers All).  For more information, e-mail artatstjohns@gmail.com to receive the prospectus.  Submit slides or digital files on CD by January 14th.  Artwork accepted must be received by January 30th.  Opening will be Saturday, February 2nd.  The exhibition will run until the end of February.  You may submit up to 4 works.  There is no entry fee.
To be considered for a solo show in 2008, please contact artatstjohns@gmail.com for more information.

New gallery space at St. John's in Kingston, New York, extends a Call for original artwork in all two-dimensional media by men & women all faiths that addresses this spiritual theme of Desert:

I made a journey through the desert of your love
Searching for some hint that you might join me.
I saw in every home I passed along the way
The corpses scattered of those who went before me.
- #1854: From Rumi's Kolliyaat-e Shams-e Tabrizi
Edited by Badiozzaman Forouzanfar (Tehran, Amir Kabir, 1988).

The deadline for submissions is Friday, December 14, 2007.  Artists may submit up to four works of art. Submissions can be either digital files on CD or slides. There is no entry fee.  Exhibition opens Saturday, January 5, 2008, and will run through the month of January, 2008.  For the prospectus, please email artatstjohns@gmail.com.

New gallery space at St. John's in Kingston, New York, extends a Call for original artwork in all 2-dimensional media by men & women all faiths that addresses this spiritual theme of Wating:
It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet."
–Franz Kafka

The deadline for submission is Friday, November 16, 2007.  Artists may submit up to 4 works of art. Submissions can be either digital files on CD or slides. There is no entry fee.  Exhibition opens Saturday, December 1st & will run through the month of December, 2007.

Call to Artists: Silence
Deadline: October 26th, 2007
CR Gallery at the Episcopal Church of the Redeemer in Kenmore, Washington invites artists to submit original 2-dimensional works of art that explore the theme of silence for a juried exhibition which will be on display December 2, 2007 - February 2, 2008. The entry fee is $15 (USD) for up to 3 images, payable via PayPal. Submit up to 3 jpegs via e-mail to arts@redeemer-kenmore.org. Please include your name, contact information, and a few words about your work. Also include title, medium, framed dimensions, and retail price of each image submitted. Submission deadline is October 26th. The work will then be juried and acceptance notifications and delivery instructions will be sent out via e-mail by November 2nd. For work that must be shipped, all shipping costs will be the responsibility of the artist.

For more information, and PayPal payment link, see our full prospectus at http://redeemer-kenmore.org/artsblog/call-to-artists-silence/ , or e-mail Angela at arts@redeemer-kenmore.org if you have any questions.

ECVA and the Episcopal Church have collaborated to create a gallery of artwork titled "Saints & Family"  introduced on the Episcopal Church web site homepage. 

Bowie Snodgrass, Web Content Editor at the Episcopal Church Center, summarizes the purpose of the exhibition in an Episcopal Life Online article by Jerry Hames titled New art gallery, 'Saints & Family,' launched on Episcopal Church web site.  She said "The artists' subjects call us to listen to the wisdom of generations, inspire us to find Christ in our own lives and transcend time, inviting us into a spiritual encounter." Describing the goal of providing visual images  appealing to first-time visitors to the church's web site,  Snodgrass said "We hope visitors will be moved by the images in some small way and that they will resonate with their religious past."

Brie Dodson, ECVA Director of Communications, points out in the ELO article that "Saints & Family" is important to ECVA members because it continues the collaboration between ECVA and the church's Office of Communication.  Such collaboration provides a significant opportunity for ECVA to engage in its mission of encouraging visual arts in the the church.

The Anglican Communion seeks art from members of the Communion for its 2007 Christmas card.   The theme is Anything Advent, Christmas or Epiphany.  The deadline is July 7, 2007.  Send a copy of the original artwork (any genre) either by e-mail to jim.rosenthal@aco.org or by mail to Anglican Episcopal World, 16 Tavistock Crescent, London W11 1APUK.  A special prize will be awarded. 

The Foundation for Sacred Arts is a Catholic nonprofit organization whose mission is to seek to stimulate a movement in the fine arts by inspiring those with artistic talent to create works of truth, beauty and goodness and to renew the cultural fabric of the modern world and to bring people to encounter Christ. 

The Foundation's second annual traveling exhibit, Redeeming Beauty:  Religious Works of Contemporary Artists, will be seen July 2007 - December 2008.  For more information contact  rachelross@thesacredarts.org.