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Playfully sinister works by the Cameron Twins challenge our connections with our past selves

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Working across screen print, digital montage, photography, casting, sculpture and installation, the work of the Cameron Twins leans into a strong, garish aesthetic that plays with a bright and oversaturated colour palette. The result is a surreal juxtaposition of child-like naivety and chaotic imagery.

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May 2024 Opportunities: Open Calls, Residencies, and Grants for Artists

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Open Calls ArteAlta (International) This annual competition organized by Alina Art Foundation, Inarttendu, and the Council of the Region Valle d’Aosta invites artists to submit work across painting, sculpture, photography, mixed media, textiles, paper, and video related to the theme of Fear. Deadline: May 1, 2024.

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The best art books to enjoy in the summer of 2022

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Ranging from painting to photography, each takes a deep dive into its respective subject to help educate, inform and entertain you in equal measure. Philip Guston (1913-1980) was a Canadian American painter, printmaker, muralist and draftsman who's now considered one of the most important American painters of the 20th century.

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Humans and Animals Commune with Nature and the Cosmos in the Multidisciplinary Work of Kiki Smith

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Smith began examining themes relating to the body in the 1980s, spurred by the death of her father, who was also an artist, and the loss of her sister to AIDS. Acclaimed artist Kiki Smith completed the piece in 2022, and it’s one of the most recent works in which she honors the natural world and humanity’s role within it.

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August 2022 Opportunities: Open Calls, Residencies, and Grants for Artists

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This year’s theme is “Public Art IS Public Health.” Anyone working in intaglio, letterpress, papermaking, screen printing, darkroom photography, or ceramics is eligible. Artists of all disciplines interested in printmaking are eligible for this new fellowship from the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts.

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February 2024 Opportunities: Open Calls, Residencies, and Grants for Artists

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Open Calls Filter Photo Call for Exhibition Proposals (International) Filter Photo welcomes photography proposals of all types, whether traditional or experimental or from an emerging curator or a veteran artist. The grant fund was created to honor the memory and legacy of artist Susannah Kelly, who co-founded the galleries.

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January 2024 Opportunities: Open Calls, Residencies, and Grants for Artists

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Virgin Islands) This portrait competition is open to all media, including painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, printmaking, textiles, video, performance art, and digital or time-based art. Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition 2025 (United States, Puerto Rico, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, and the U.S.

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