Call for Work: PAPERWORKS at Manifest Gallery

Paper is one of the first areas of creative possibility that we encounter.

It is a surface made of pulped cellulose, created to take on marks, incisions, and material. It carries between us our messages, sketches, lists, and sums—all forms of externalized memory, thoughts, emotions and knowledge. It is bound into books and packed into clean sheaves. Stacks of paper clutters desks, fill spiral journals crammed into backpacks. Wads of tissue-thin paper napkins wait at the bottom of fast food bags to wipe away crumbs and be thrown away. Beautiful paper, special paper, waits in files and drawers for the right project.

With the right marks adorning its face, paper can become precious. Duplicated enough, it becomes essentially, and importantly, disposable.

Beyond its use as a surface, it can be folded, molded, out of its flatness into an object, a somethingin its own right, and not just a vehicle. Great satisfaction is found in pressing paper’s folded edge into a crease. There is beauty in the sound of it slicing.

Paper exists in extremes, as the most disposable of trash to something exquisite, preserved, and sacred. We enrich and destroy paper, and it allows us to shape it into many things.

PAPERWORKS is an exhibit of works on paper, of paper, and about paper in all of its uses.

An International Call for Works on, of, or About Paper at Manifest Gallery in Cincinnati, Ohio

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: October 15, 2023

For more information about this opportunity, visit Manifest Gallery’s website, here.

Thanks to Professor John Ferry for passing on this opportunity.

STUDENT COMPETITIONS FOR FALL 2023

Thanks to the information provided by Assistant Professor Rahele Jomepour Bell, we are pleased to announce that there are multiple competitions for our Illustration students to take part in for this upcoming fall semester. Both of the competitions are listed below. Check it out!

SILENT BOOK CONTEST 2024 - GIANNI DE CONNO AWARD

INTERNATIONAL CONTEST FOR ILLUSTRATED BOOKS WITHOUT WORDS

Illustration by Gianni De Conno

The Silent Book Contest will give a prize money and publication to an original illustrated and unpublished book project that has been created and produced exclusively through narration by illustrated images. Given that the illustrated book and the visual language of illustrations and pictures is in no way secondary to written language, with a universal power and potential that supersedes any barrier of language or genre, the Silent Book Contest competition invites authors and illustrators to think up and design a book conceived exclusively for the telling of a story through illustrated images, on any subject and intended for a wide and diverse section of the reading public, regardless of genre or age. Among the books sent to the competition, an International Jury will select the finalists to be announced and exhibited at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair and at the Salone Internazionale del Libro of Turin. The author of the book project selected as the winner by the International Jury will receive a monetary prize of Euro 4,000 as advance for copyright with publishing agreement. The winning book project will be published by Carthusia Edizioni. 

For more information visit their website here: https://silentbookcontest.com/about/

Narrative Art Award For The Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators

The 2022 SCBWI competition winner Annie Herzig

Each year, a rotating panel of judges will provide an assignment and will judge the submissions. The theme and specific assignment will change year to year, but the general goal will be to show sequence and narrative. The prize is an all-expense-paid trip to the SCBWI New York Winter Conference. The winning illustrations will be displayed during the New York Portfolio Showcase (in conjunction with the conference). We will also have an online gallery displaying the submissions to the award for any member who submitted to the award and wants to participate.

Submissions for 2023 will reopen from October 1 through October 31, 2023. The prompt will be announced soon.

Student Membership for SCBWI is $25 a year.

For more information, visit their website, here: https://www.scbwi.org/awards-and-grants/for-illustrators/narrative-art-award