The Queer Arts Festival 2012 is happy to again present the Pride in Art Community Show! In the Great Hall of the Roundhouse, outside the main Exhibition Hall, the PiA Community Show will exhibit visual art works by queer artists in any medium. Works for the Community Show need not be themed.
Belle Ancell PhotographyWhere: The Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre (at Davie/Pacific), Vancouver, BC
When: July 31 – August 18, 2012
Deadline for Submissions: May 15, 2012
Pride in Art Community Show Great Hall specs:
- 25 Hanging places: silver hooks at 7′ high, work must be no wider than 30″ All wall-mounted works must be professionally presented and ready to hang
- Plinths: 24″ sq 4 ft high, or 16″ sq 3 feet high
- 2 glass shelving unit glass display cases, 16″ square
- please note: the policy of the Roundhouse is that in the Great Hall, because it is not “private” in any way, frontal nudity or sexually overt work is not permitted. Works of that nature are, however, permitted in the Exhibition Hall. Obviously, there is room for interpretation in the policy, and the Roundhouse Programmers exercise their discretion in the application of the rules. The Great Hall is a pass-through space that young children and parents use frequently, hence the policy. Sorry about that, it’s Roundhouse policy not QAF, ’cause, well, you know, we like genitals and sex.
Submission Checklist:
- Completed Submission form
- Digital images of artwork(s) being submitted for consideration. Format: CD or JPG (no larger than 200 kb per image). All image files must be clearly labeled with artist name, work title, and year of creation, or the submission will not be accepted.
- Email submissions only. Please make an attachment of all your materials with your name as part of the tittle; (name_resume.doc)
- Submission fee of $15, which helps defray presentation costs for the exhibition and includes Pride in Art Society membership
- Résumé or CV
- Bio
- Artist Statement
No one will be turned away for lack of funds. Payment may be made by Paypal (below), or cheque or money order payable to the Pride in Art Society.
Prepare your package, and submit to email Submissions will not be returned.
Please allow 8 weeks for a response.
Our 2012 theme, “Random Acts Of Queerness”, commemorates the centenary of the experimental multidisciplinary queer artist John Cage (1912-1992). A pioneer of Experimental Music, Cage is best known for championing Indeterminacy: a philosophy that opens up artistic practice to include the random as a way of radically breaking with tradition, convention and habit.
Cage said, “Indeterminacy in art is made not as an attempt to bring order out of chaos nor to suggest improvements in creation, but simply a way of waking up to the very life we’re living.” Cage’s multidisciplinary artistic practice, experimental approach, and openly queer life elegantly exemplify QAF’s mandate and values.
Again, works for the Community Show need NOT be themed.
