Call for Artists 

Visual Messages – An International Online Juried Art Exhibition

Presented in conjunction with the International Visual Literacy Association Annual Conference,
Visual Literacy in the Virtual Realm, to be held online on September 25 and 26th, 2020. 

Visual Messages is the first international online juried virtual/visual art exhibition presented by the International Visual Literacy Association (IVLA). It is a response to the need to continue to promote the arts during the COVID-19 pandemic and to strengthen visual literacy in the virtual realm. Visual Messages is open to 2D works, including but not limited to painting, drawing, photography, prints, collage, screen art, and related digital media. The exhibition will be publicly available on the KunstMatrix online exhibition platform, in which IVLA will feature its 3D virtual gallery space. The jurors will present a virtual tour of the exhibition during the International Visual Literacy Association’s annual conference in September 2020. 

It is free to enter. Selected artists are required to register for the conference to present their works in the online exhibition. The exhibition is open to emerging as well as established artists. To learn more about the conference, visit https://ivla.org/conference.

Jurors

Visual Messages will be juried by Peter Capreau, curator, Museum Leuven (Belgium); Petronio Bendito, designer, artist and curator, Purdue University (USA); and Dana Statton Thompson, Vice-President of IVLA. 

About the IVLA Conference

The International Visual Literacy Association (IVLA) was founded by John Debes of Kodak and Clarence Williams of the University of Rochester.  Lida Cochrane, an early and long time member, recalled that Debes was writing programs at Kodak expounding the ideas that “visuals are a language … in order to use and create pictures … you are using a language and…visual literacy then came into being.” In 1968, Debes and Williams, along with a selected group of people interested in various aspects of visuals in education and communication met to plan a conference on visual literacy. This group initiated IVLA with the first conference in March 1969, when about 350 people from many disciplines gathered in Rochester to present papers and discuss their theories and applications of visuals. Since then, the association members and participants have traveled the world. Symposia and then conferences have been held each year and starting in 2001, the annual conference became truly international when it began to travel outside the US every third year. Conferences have been hosted in England, Sweden, South Africa, Cyprus, Brazil, Canada, among others, and many states in the U.S. Visual Literacy in the Virtual Realm: 2020  is our first virtual conference.

Conference and Exhibition Information

Entry Fee: Free
Entry Deadline: August 9, 2020
Contact Email:  info@ivla.org
Jurors’ Virtual Tour: TBD (During IVLA conference).
Conference Website: https://ivla.org/conference

Qualification and Requirements

• Artists 18 years and older are eligible. 
• Entries must have been created within the last three years. 

• Artists must provide professional quality images of the works depicted. 

• Entries must have not been displayed in previous online exhibition(s).

• Physical and digital works are accepted, including but not limited to painting, drawing, photography, prints, collage, screen art, and related digital media.

• Works for sale are accepted, but not required (IVLA does not facilitate sales transactions or retain a commission. Indicate in the application form if work is for sale). 

• Artists must sign and submit the copyright release as part of the submission form below. 

• Current IVLA membership is not required to participate at the Annual Conference as a presenter or an exhibiting artist; however, it is strongly encouraged. IVLA membership information is available here.
• Selected artists are required to register for the conference to present their works in the online exhibition. Registration for the conference is $60 (The conference registration link will be available in early August.)

Work Submission Requirements

• Submit up to three entries per artists

• jpg or png, up to 5 MB each image (see http://bulkresizephotos.com/).
  Please do not exceed the maximum file size of 5 MB.No watermarks, no frames

• Specify the medium in the label (e.g. MillerJoe _01_Drawing)
• Follow this model to label jpg/png submissions:
  LastNameFirstName _01_Medium.jpg
  LastNameFirstName_02_Medium.jpg
  LastNameFirstName_03_Medium.jpg

Calendar
August 9, 2020:  Deadline for entries – info@ivla.org

August 31, 2020: Artists will be notified of acceptance by email. If you do not receive your notification by the notification date, please contact IVLA at: info@ivla.org

September 25, 2020:  Accepted entries posted on IVLA online gallery by this date

September 25, 2020: Online exhibition officially opens.

Awards and Honorable Mentions

First prize: $200; Second prize: $150; and Third prize: $100.
Honorable mentions.
 
APPLY BY EMAIL  

To apply, send the form below (copy and paste) with your information and image attachments to:  info@ivla.org

Email Subject: LastName_FirstName IVLA Exhibition Submission

VISUAL MESSAGES / SUBMISSION FORM

 

Note: Please copy and paste the form below in the content area of your email. Do not send a PDF version of this form. Make sure the labels below match the labels of your submitted digital files.

Artist Name: 

Contact Information: (Email)
Nationality:
Website: (Optional)
Artist Statement: (This will appear on the wall label next to your work. 500 words max. No exception, please)

Entry 01

Title of the Work:
Submission Label: (Follow the model LastNameFirstName _01_ Medium.jpg)
Medium:
Date: (The year the work was created)
Dimensions: (Specify height, width, and depth (if applicable) or indicate “Dimensions Variable,” which is used “for designating the size of an art object which varies or cannot be physically bounded”–New Museum Digital Archive)
Caption: (Describe the work and its conceptual framework. This information appears on the wall label next to the work. 100 words max.)
Sale: Yes/No (Indicate if work is for sale or not)
Contact information for sale: (Specify email)

Entry 02

Title of the Work:
Submission Label: (Follow the model LastNameFirstName _02_ Medium.jpg)
Medium:
Date: (The year the work was created)
Dimensions: (Specify height, width, and depth (if applicable) or indicate “Dimensions Variable,” which is used “for designating the size of an art object which varies or cannot be physically bounded”–New Museum Digital Archive)
Caption: (Describe the work and its conceptual framework. This information appears on the wall label next to the work. 100 words max.)
Sale: Yes/No (Indicate if work is for sale or not)
Contact information for sale: (Specify email)

Entry 03

Title of the Work:
Submission Label:  (Follow the model LastNameFirstName _03_ Medium.jpg)
Medium:
Date: (The year the work was created)
Dimensions: (Specify height, width, and depth (if applicable) or indicate “Dimensions Variable,” which is used “for designating the size of an art object which varies or cannot be physically bounded”–New Museum Digital Archive)
Caption: (Describe the work and its conceptual framework. This information appears on the wall label next to the work. 100 words max.)
Sale: Yes/No (Indicate if work is for sale or not)
Contact information for sale: (Specify email)

AGREEMENT and DISCLOSURE
[  ] I agree that my submission(s) to Visual Messages constitutes an agreement with all conditions of this show. IVLA reserves the right to reproduce accepted work for publicity purposes.
[  ] Mark an x on this box to indicate that you are over 18 years old and that you give IVLA the rights to reproduce your work online.
[  ] Email in lieu of a signature.