THE PRINT CENTER 93rd ANNUAL International Competition

THE PRINT CENTER

93rd ANNUAL International Competition

BRIEF

CALL FOR ENTRIES

The Print Center is very pleased to announce the 93rd ANNUAL International Competition juried by José Diaz and Lisa Sutcliffe. Diaz is the Chief Curator at The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh. Lisa Sutcliffe is the Curator of Photography and Media Arts, Milwaukee Art Museum.

The ANNUAL is one of the oldest and most prestigious competitions in the United States. The Print Center is particularly interested in highlighting local, national and international artists who utilize photography and printmaking in new and intriguing ways, both in content and process.

Any artist using Photography and/or Printmaking as critical components in their work can enter. Artists whose work pushes the boundaries of traditional photographic and printmaking practices are encouraged to enter.

SCHEDULE

Deadline

June 12, 2018, 11:59pm (EST)

Calendar

Entry Deadline: June 12, 2018, 11:59 PM (EST)

Notification (by email): September 5, 2018

Solo Exhibitions: January – April 2019

Online Exhibition: Begins January 2019

AWARDS

Awards + Prizes

Three solo exhibitions at The Print Center
Online Exhibition
Stinnett Philadelphia Museum of Art Collection Award
Michener Art Museum Photography Patrons Circle Purchase Prize
Two-Year Print Center Gallery Store contract
NEW PRIZE: Awagami Paper Award
Over $2,000 in other purchase, cash and material prizes

FEES

Entry Fee – $45

JURY

José Diaz , a native of Miami, is the Chief Curator at The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, and a 2018 fellow at the Center for Curatorial Leadership (CCL). Diaz focuses on the life and legacy of Andy Warhol. He recently curated the first museum solo exhibition of Iranian artist Farhad Moshiri. Prior to joining The Andy Warhol Museum, he was the Curator of Exhibitions at the Bass Museum of Art in Miami Beach where he curated artist commissions by Athi-Patra Ruga, Sylvie Fleury, the exhibition GOLD and organized One Way: Peter Marino. He has worked at the Tate Liverpool and the Liverpool Biennial. Diaz received a MA in Cultural History from the University of Liverpool, and a BA in Art History from San Francisco State University. In 2003 Diaz tenured as a Curatorial Intern at The Rubell Family Collection and launched a nomadic curatorial project called Worm-Hole Laboratory.

Lisa Sutcliffe is Curator of Photography and Media Arts at the Milwaukee Art Museum, where she oversees the Museum’s Herzfeld Center for Photography and Media Arts. She has organized several exhibitions for Milwaukee, including Postcards from America: Milwaukee (2014); Rineke Dijkstra: Rehearsals (2016); Penelope Umbrico: Future Perfect (2016); and Paul Druecke: A Social Event Archive, 1997–2007 (2017). From 2007-2012 she served as Assistant Curator in the Photography Department at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), where she organized Naoya Hatakeyama: Natural Stories (2012) in association with the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, and The Provoke Era: Postwar Japanese Photography (2009), the first survey of SFMOMA’s internationally renowned collection of Japanese photography. She holds an MA in the History of Art from Boston University, where she specialized in the History of Photography, and a BA in Art History from Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA.