Open Call - Student Art Exhibition

GALLERY AT BELMONT VILLAGE ALBANY

A retirement community for older adults, in affiliation with the University of California, Berkeley

 
Call for proposals of student art work

All UC Berkeley Art Practice students are invited to propose artwork that meets the criteria below for exhibition at Belmont Village Albany, a UC Berkeley-affiliated, senior living community.

This is the second bi-annual (spring and fall) UC Berkeley Student Art Exhibit, a partnership of the UC Berkeley Retirement Center, Belmont Village Albany and the UC Berkeley Art Practice Department.   

Selected submissions will be featured in the Town Hall Gallery. Additionally artists will be invited to present their art at reception on November 8, 2018 and join in conversations with elders to discuss submitted artwork in a meaningful way.

Belmont Village Albany is primarily home to Cal Emeriti, retirees, alumni, families of current faculty and staff, residents of Albany.  The goal of UC Berkeley and Belmont Village is to weave in the "DNA" of UC Berkeley into the community.   This gallery space in the Town Hall is dedicated to embracing the culture of the Cal campus and surrounding community. 

EXHIBIT GUIDELINES

  1. Medium: Must be able to wall hang. This includes single pieces or pieces that have several components, such as a triptych or a series
  2. Subject Matter: No restriction
  3. Installation: Submissions must be gallery ready
  4. Availability: Selected art will be on display at Belmont Village from November 2018 - April 2019
  5. Submission Criteria:  Students may make multiple submissions (max: 3); submissions from undergraduate and MFA students welcome


SCHEDULE

Exhibition Dates: November 8  2018 - April 2019

Call for proposals start date: Friday, September 14

Submission deadline: Monday, October 15 (extended deadline)

Selections announced:  Week of October 29

Submissions collected from artists:  By Wednesday, November 7

Artist's reception/discussion: Thursday, November 8th, 4:30 - 6:30 p.m. , Artist introductions at 5 p.m.

SUBMISSION MATERIALS 

Contact info Name, email, phone, graduate/undergraduate, school year 

Proposal Text ≤ 200 words
Describe your artwork or creative project and why it fits this venue, broadly defined.

Installation Needs ≤ 100 words
Describe any special materials you may need for installation. Artwork must be able to be wall-hung. Unframed art may be displayed. Belmont Village will provide $50 to each selected artist to help off-set any associated costs. No objects hanging from the ceiling (including but not limited to fire, or animals).

Images  ≤ 10MB each 
If no image of proposed work, include proposal sketch.  Include short one-sentence description of each image, size of work, and medium. 


ONLINE SUBMISSION FORM
Complete online submission form here: https://goo.gl/forms/vFXh4D0oAGSS6Iti2

More information about Belmont Village Albany: http://albany.belmontvillage.com/

Questions? Email: cary.sweeney@berkeley.edu, Retirement Center Director


JURORS

Patrick Cullinane, Retiree, UC Berkeley
Patrick Cullinane retired in 2014 as Director of the Retirement Center at the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to UC Berkeley, Patrick directed special projects at the American Society on Aging. Over his 46 professional years Patrick has addressed many issues affecting older populations and rural health and mental health needs. Patrick holds a master's in community development from Southern Illinois University and a bachelor's in psychology from St. Louis University.

Edith Garcia, Lecturer UCB Art Practice
Edith Garcia's work draws you into an alluring world of installation and sculpture. She focuses on the unique individual experiences throughout our lifetimes, the minimal occurrences that transpire each day, addressing contemporaneous issues specific to the human condition and grafts them into site-specific installations and objects. Her body of work has been exhibited throughout North America, Mexico and Europe, in spaces such as the Gimpel Fils, London, Escuela Nacional de Artes Plasticas, Mexico City and is included in the permanent Sculpture Garden of the Archie Bray Foundation, Montana. Garcia is strongly engaged in the critical research of drawing and sculpture with curatorial projects, publishing and creating works that reflect this passion. Garcia received her BFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, MFA from the California College of the Arts and MPhil at the Royal College of Art in London working on research focusing around: The Absence and Presence of the Human Form in Ceramic Sculpture-Where is the Vanishing Point. And she has had first major publication Ceramics and the Human Figure released worldwide by A&C Black Visual Arts (Bloomsbury). More information at www.edithgarciastudio.com.

Anahita Hekmat, Lecturer, UCB Art Practice

Anahita Hekmat is a new media artist. She uses a wide range of media such as drawing, installation, video, sound, urban setups, websites, and locative media. Her actual body of work is formed mainly around the notion of space and its interaction with the personal and collective memory. She is working both solo and in collaborative projects to create the Multidisciplinary Multimedia experiences. She is a founder member of New Media Society in Tehran and co-organizer of Sessions Program with Beta-Local in Porto Rico. She was among the first researchers at EnsadLab Innovation laboratories in Paris. Her work has been shown in various art galleries and spaces such as Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Strasbourg, International Cité des Arts, Le 104 in Paris, Casa Blanca Museum of San Juan, Iranian's Artist's Forum, Aran Gallery in Tehran, and many film festivals such as Rotterdam, Vidéoformes, Oslo, Athene or Beijing Independent.

Liz Linden, Lecturer, UCB Art Practice
Liz Linden is an artist based in Berkeley, California. She received a BA in Literature from Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut in 2002 and was a studio artist in the Whitney Independent Study Program in New York City from 2008 to 2009. She received a PhD in Visual Art at the University of Wollongong in 2018. Linden’s work is exhibited in museums and galleries internationally and in 2017 she had a solo exhibition, Damaged Goods (2017) at Cleopatra’s in New York and a live public performance, TELETHON (2017) with Jen Kennedy at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. Her critical writing appears in catalogs, art magazines, and in peer-reviewed journals including recent and forthcoming issues of Art Journal, Third Text, and Camera Obscura.  http://lizlinden.com


Patricia Will, Founder & CEO, Belmont Village Senior Living

Patricia Will founded Belmont Village Senior Living in 1997 as an affiliate of Security Capital Group. Prior to founding Belmont, Mrs. Will served in an executive capacity in real estate and healthcare for more than 15 years. As Vice President and Partner at Mischer Development, she developed several million square feet of commercial and medical projects. In 1994, she co-founded a medical development company, which provided the launch pad for Belmont Village. Mrs. Will serves as the leading industry trade group board member of numerous academic and charitable institutions, including the Davis School of Gerontology at USC and Argentum. Mrs. Will earned an MBA with distinction from Harvard Business School and a Bachelor of Arts degree, Phi Beta Kappa, from Reed College, Portland, Oregon.