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CENTER’s 2022 Project Grants, Awards, Exhibition & Review Santa Fe Call for Entries
CENTER’s once annual Call for Entries to photographers and lens-based artists worldwide is closing soon! Apply online today for the Project Grants, Awards, Exhibition, and Portfolio Reviews – www.visitcenter.org
// EXTENDED SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 03.06.2022
• The PROJECT DEVELOPMENT GRANT supports a work-in-progress.
SUBMIT: 6-10 images and a project statement limited to 325-words
JUROR: Karen Irvine – Museum of Contemporary Photography
PACKAGE: $5,000, Mentorship, Professional Development Workshop Admission, Group Winners Exhibition, Review Santa Fe Admission and Project Presentation, Featured Publication with Lenscratch, Featureshoot (and others), and much more!
• The ME&EVE GRANT provides financial support to a female-identified, non-binary, transgender, or gender non-conforming photographer, 40 years of age and over.
SUBMIT: 15-20 images and a project statement limited to 325-words
JUROR: Sarah Leen – The Visual Thinking Collective
PACKAGE: $1,000, Mentorship, Professional Development Workshop Admission, Group Winners Exhibition, Review Santa Fe Admission and Project Presentation, Featured Publication with Lenscratch, Featureshoot (and others), and much more!
• The PROJECT LAUNCH GRANT supports a complete or nearly completed series.
SUBMIT: 15-20 images and a project statement limited to 325-words
JUROR: Grace Deveney – Art Institute of Chicago
PACKAGE: $5,000, Mentorship, Professional Development Workshop Admission, Group Winners Exhibition, Review Santa Fe Admission and Project Presentation, Featured Publication with Lenscratch, Featureshoot (and others), and much more!
• THE THREE CENTER AWARDS recognize outstanding images, singular or part of a series, in three categories: Personal, Social, and Environmental. A broad and inclusive interpretation of the themes is highly encouraged.
SUBMIT: Up to 6 images and a project statement limited to 325-words
PERSONAL JUROR: Danyelle Means – Center for Contemporary Arts
SOCIAL JUROR: Jess T. Dugan – Strange Fire Collective
ENVIRONMENTAL JUROR: Paula L. Trotto – Environmental Defense Fund
PACKAGE: Group Winners Exhibition, Mentorship, Review Santa Fe Admission and Project Presentation, Featured Publication with Lenscratch, Featureshoot (and others), and much more!
• THE EXCELLENCE IN MULTIMEDIA STORYTELLING AWARD recognizes outstanding storytellers using lens-based media to create narrative-driven projects.
SUBMIT: Up to 6 files and a project statement limited to 325-words
JUROR: Mary Anne Redding – Turchin Center for the Visual Arts
PACKAGE: Group Winners Exhibition, Mentorship, Review Santa Fe Admission and Project Presentation, Featured Publication with Lenscratch, Featureshoot (and others), and much more!
• CENTER’s premier juried portfolio review event, the REVIEW SANTA FE: PORTFOLIO REVIEWS and conference is for photographers and lens-based artists seeking audience expansion, critical discussion, and community connection. The review event is scheduled to take place Nov. 17 – 20, 2022.
Scholarships and payment plans are available to invited photographers.
SUBMIT: 15-20 images and a project statement limited to 325-words
PACKAGE: Portfolio Reviews, Inclusion in the Review Santa Fe 100 Photographers Listing, participation in the Portfolio Walk, access to Photographer and Scholar Presentations, Panel Discussions, and other public programs. Reviewers are selected two weeks before the event.
Have any questions? Please contact us at [email protected].
Contest Prize & TERMS
AWARD PACKAGES: Group Winners Exhibition, Mentorship, Review Santa Fe Admission and Project Presentation, Featured Publication with Lenscratch, Featureshoot, and other CENTER Partners, and much more!
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COPYRIGHT: The artists always retain any and all rights to their submitted and shared images. USAGE RIGHTS: The artist always retains the rights to their submitted images. By completing the application, the photographer grants CENTER permission, upon receiving an Award, Grant, or invitation to Review Santa Fe, to reproduce works from their submitted materials in connection with the administration, judging, and promotion of CENTER, the Awards, Grants, portfolio review events and other programs. Permissible uses of the images submitted shall include their reproduction, distribution, and display in CENTER exhibitions, multimedia presentations, and printed materials related to the promotion of CENTER and the Awards, Grants, and events. CENTER shall have the right to grant permissions to the press and publicity agents in connection with the promotion of the CENTER Awards, exhibitions, and related events. All promotional pieces include credit to the photographer.
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