Announcing the Early Bird Draw Winners in the Call to Submit for Studio By Design’s 2nd annual FORMS, FACES & SPACES, figuratively speaking! exhibition hanging concurrently in two galleries, May 2-28, 2023.
Deadline to submit is March 27 at midnight!
From the Press Release:
“Sherry Prenevost has won the Featured Photographer Placard and Christina Newlove the Featured Artist Placard, a short artist bio with headshot. Fourteen people were early birds, including Sandra Robson, Laura Beaton, Pat Hertzberg, Helen Duplassie, Monique Campbell, Katie Wyse, Pema Hou, and the list goes on folks!
The show will hang concurrently in the Lower Sisnett Lobby of the Halton Hills Culture Centre in Georgetown and in the Falls Gallery at the Alto Mill Arts Centre in Alton (Caledon), both renown tourist destination areas, as satellite sites with the world’s largest photography event. The Call to Submit is open through March 27 at midnight with a growing roster of established,
emergent, and mid-career artists and photographers excited to be part of this show.
Jurors Judy Daley, recently retired from a rich curatorial career and now focused on her own arts practice, and Fausta Facciponte, photographer, artist, and professor with an active creative practice, will select pieces from photography and other fine art, both two and three dimensional.
The CONTACT has a rich tradition in collaboration in the arts field, which is something that Studio By Design’s principal, Connie Munson, is proud to foster with this show. A full schedule of events creates a tapestry of arts and cultural performances as the backdrop to the photography and other fine art for visitors to enjoy every weekend at both galleries.
The Schedule of Events continues to fill out with two presentations with Robert Steven, Executive Director of the Portrait Gallery of Canada; In conversation with … will be an informal afternoon discussion with a group of portrait artists and studio photographers with another weekend focusing on an exploration of The role of art in building community.
Opening Receptions and Awards Ceremonies will be held at each gallery along with the Honorable Mayors Ann Lawlor of Georgetown and Annette Groves of Caledon in attendance to present their awards. Weekly prize draws for visitors who get their weekly passport stamped at both galleries provides additional incentive to make that short jaunt up into the hills to enjoy the
events and show at both locations.
Photographers and artists are encouraged to explore the theme by showing their answers to the age old questions of “Who am I?” and “What does it mean to be human?” This exhibit celebrates our commonalities as people uniquely different yet profoundly the same – how we inhabit our space and interact with people in our daily lives, our impact on the natural
environment, and how we gather and form in community.
More information at https://www.studiobydesign.ca/scotiabank-contact-festival-2023 for the submission package and show’s theme or contact Connie Munson at mnfsgforcontact23@gmail.com”
