Anacostia Community Museum Call for EotR Artist Submissions

Call for Artist Submissions

Citified (the Online Exhibition)

By the Anacostia Community Museum, Smithsonian Institution

Online beginning April 1, 2012

Call & Response: Community and Creativity is an Anacostia Community Museum arts initiative that explores themes of creativity, identity, and community. Citified, an online exhibition and component of the larger Call & Response project, seeks to give the audience a glimpse inside the daily creativity of the Anacostia community—through the lens of visual art and crafts—while introducing individuals to the creativity found within Ward 7 and Ward 8.

Visual artists and craftspeople are asked to submit an example of their works of art, craft, or other creations. Please see “Submission Guidelines”’ below. You may photograph your work via digital camera (72dpi) or camera phone, or send in printed photos of your creations via postal mail.

Please submit materials via e-mail to Tanekeya Word, wordts@si.edu, with “Citified Submission” as the subject, or via postal mail at the address listed below. Upon receipt and review of your work you will receive an e-mail confirmation with further instructions.

Deadline for submissions:
July 1, 2011

Exhibition dates:
April 1, 2012–August 5, 2012

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Eligibility:
We are seeking creative works from visual artists and craftspeople located in Wards 7 and 8 in Washington, DC. Examples of workeligible for submission include: visual art (i.e., painting, photography, illustration, sculpture, tattoos [tattoo artists must submit photographs of work or designs]) and crafts (quilts, dolls, basket weaving, and more).

For more information or questions, contact Tanekeya Word, Assistant Digital Curator, at 202-633-4834 or wordts@si.edu. Please consult the museum’s website at http://anacostia.si.edu/

MAILING ADDRESS

Attn: Tanekeya Word (“Citified”)
Anacostia Community Museum
1901 Fort Place, SE
Washington, DC 20020