Via Florida Craftsmen:

Call to Artists & Workshop Announcement

Paper: Off & On the Wall

Introduction: Florida Craftsmen presents Off & On the Wall, a national juried and invitational exhibition of original wallpaper designs. Starting in 2007 with the highly successful At Home with Crafts, and following in 2008 with Architectural Details and Other Decorative Crafts, Florida Craftsmen plans a yearly exhibition dedicated to the artists’ unique contribution to the building, interiors and life style industries.

Call to Artists

Exhibition: Paper: Off & On The Wall

Dates: May 29-July 24, 2009

Description: A national juried and invitational exhibition of original wallpaper designs: includes handmade or original design commercially printed wallpaper.

Curated in collaboration with: Megan Aquilina, Managing Editor of Home Miami Magazine

Submission requirements and fees: Artists submit a digital file in jpeg format of the wallpaper design. The submission fee is $25.00. Fee is waived for workshop participants.

Deadlines:

Item Date

* Exhibition Dates May 29 - July 24, 2009

* Digital File Samples Due to FC Mon April 6

* Acceptance Letters out Tues April 21

* Wallpaper due to FC Fri May 8

Acceptable formats include: Roll minimum of 8 foot drop or

properly mounted and ready to install

3 repeat minimum wallpaper sample

* Work available for pick up July 27

Shipping: At the artists expense

Insurance: In house insurance provided by Florida Craftsmen, Inc.

Related Workshop: On & Off the Wall- The Works

Workshop Description: Explore processes of transforming your own original ideas, motifs and aesthetic vocabulary into surprising and unique applications for artist created wallpaper designs–and beyond. Consider the crossover possibilities of handmade or commercially printed wallpaper. Think of wallpaper as visual form, stimulant, environment – not backdrop!

Leader: Dolores Coe, visual artist and former faculty and Director of the Core Studio Program at Ringling College of Art and Design. She has taught a variety of courses spanning drawing, painting, design & digital/time- based media.

Location: ArtLofts @ Florida Craftsmen, Creative Assets Conference Room

Date: Saturday, March 7. 2009

Time: 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.

Program:

10 a.m. Working the Wall-Intro to contemporary exhibitions, venues and artist applications; Survey & Ideas

10:30 a.m. Design Techniques: Creating Modules, Motifs, Patterns, Color Ideas & Guerilla Actions

12 p.m. Lunch and peer exchange

1-3 p.m. Creating & transforming designs and ideas into digital and/or traditional formats; preparing for reproduction

Outcome: Explore hands on conceptual design techniques

Learn how to transform ideas and imagery into digital formats appropriate for wallpaper design

Increased knowledge of available resources

Materials: Bring: A single representative sample of your work

(For example: drawing, photograph, painting, ceramic patterns, fused glass, weavings and original collages)

A motif, design, drawing element or symbol— you use in your work, if desired

If available, straight edge, exacto knife or scissors, pencil

Laptop: Not required but desirable if available

Mediums: Any

Workshop Fee*: Members $130-Non-Members $150 payable at time of reservation-non-refundable

*Includes application fee for the juried exhibition

Box Lunch: Included

Capacity: Reserve soon. 15 participants only. First come, first serve.

Reserved by: February 13

Contact: Elizabeth Kozlowski, Galleries Manager

Elizabeth.kozlowski@floridacraftsmen.net

727.821.7391

Let us know: Will you bring your own laptop? The image software you use?

What is your medium?

Would you be interested in a follow-up workshop on expanded concepts, applications and aesthetics?