The Art-Esencia project opens its call entitled Strangers in Paradise with the objective of showing new perspectives on living, feeling and perceiving womanhood through the lenses of gender and migration, to promote a dialogue between art and society.
The call is open to anyone without restrictions of age, gender or nationality.
Proposals must be submitted in the size of a 10 x 15 cm (4 x 6 in.) postcard. The theme must reflect the title Strangers in Paradise: Women and Migration. Candidates may rely on any technique. The proposals submitted must be original works created in the artistic disciplines of painting, drawing, photography, digital art, collage, calligraphy, mixed media and/or just texts. Each participant may submit up to 2 postcards that include the author's information on the back of each one.
For the online galleries, candidates must send a 900 x 600 dpi (JPG), or an approximately 200 KB image, to the following email address: proyectoartesencia@gmail.com. They must also include their name, nationality, email address and website. All participants will receive a participation and exhibition certificate.
The postcards will be exhibited in The Netherlands at the Centro Cultural Hispanohablantes in Amsterdam during the month of November of 2013, to mark the No Violence Against Women month. Additionally, the works will also be exhibited in the institution's social networks.
The postcards submitted will become part of the Art-Esencia Female Collective collection. The collection currently consists of nearly 2000 artworks that have been exhibited in several cities and cultural centers in Spain and Colombia. All postcards submitted will be exhibited during the next national and international invitations that the collective receives during the following months.
Participants have until October 31, 2013 to send all their material to: Centro Cultural de Hispanohablantes. Willem Schoutenstraat 1ª, Amsterdam 1057 DL, The Netherlands. The entering fee to participate is 6 euros.
To learn about the complete rules, visit: http://proyectoart-esencia.blogspot.com/2013/08/convocatoria-abierta-extranas-en-el.html