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Sebastopol Center for the Arts is looking for artwork submissions for three upcoming exhibitions. See sebarts.org for a prospectus on each of these exciting shows!

1. “Play it again, Sam” Juried Exhibition of Collage, Assemblage and Recycled Art July 31 – August 30, 2014
Sharon Spain serves as curator for Recology San Francisco’s Artist in Residence Program. The Program’s mission is to educate the public about recycling and resource conservation by enabling artists to make art “at the dump,” providing tours to students and adults, and programming off-site exhibitions. Before coming to Recology, Spain was the associate director of the Asian American Art Project at Stanford University, the managing editor of Asian American Art: A History, 1850-1970 (Stanford University Press, 2008), and a contributor to the de Young Museum catalog, Asian/American/Modern Art (2008). She has worked for the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery and San Francisco State University Fine Arts Gallery. Deadline for submitting work online or hand-deliver: July 7, 3-6 pm

Call for artwork
– that reflects the idea and concept of recycling
– that evolves from a found or discarded item
– that fits the phrase “one man’s junk is another man’s treasure”

2. Are you IN? INfluenced & INspired by…Big Ideas 1950 – 1970: Influences in modern Ceramics September 11 – October 25, 2014
Curators/Jurors:
Robert Brent, Founder, Brent Equipment
Bill Geisinger, Emeritus Professor of Ceramics, De Anza College
Joel Bennett, Ceramics Instructor, Santa Rosa Junior College
Dane Cloutier, Art Dealer, Historian, Writer and Consultant on Ceramic Art

This exhibit focuses on clay works of current ceramic artists who were influenced by thirteen seminal artists from the ’50s and ’60s. Robert Arneson, Carlton Ball, Shoji Hamada,Vivika & Otto Heino, Bernard Leach, James Lovera, Glenn Lukens, Gertrud & Otto Natzler,Richard Shaw, Paul Soldner, Toshiko Takaezu, Peter Voulkos, and Marguerite Wildenhain, artists who introduced thought and design in sculpture and functional ware that has continued through generations of teachers and students. One work by each of these ground breaking artists will be featured in the show, along with pieces by or graphic representations of the work of many other important artists of the period.

Jurors will be looking for how these influences continue to show in current work, from subtle to obvious connections. Pieces will be selected and displayed alongside the influential works to illustrate their association. Sixty to eighty juried pieces will be accepted for the show, which will be mounted on fine furniture, as it might be in the home of a collector who appreciates craftsmanship.

The call for submissions will be broadly publicized nationally and internationally, and all submissions will be electronic to make the selection process equal for all. Artists are urged to enter work which is innovative in concept and approach, whether abstract or representational, functional or sculptural. Deadline for submitting work: July 10, 2014

3. BEASTIES! Juried Exhibition October 30 – December 6, 2014

Call for artwork featuring animals large or small from any kingdom, real or born in the realm of your imagination. Think also animal-like creatures, prehistoric, realistic to futuristic and expressions of your ‘wild side’, your fears or dreams. Open to any medium; 2 or 3 dimensional, film, costume or performance. Deadline for submitting work, online or hand-delivered: September 22, 3-6 pm