Open Call: Queer Ecologies
The exhibition is an exchange between two artist-run spaces, Purple Window Gallery (Chicago, IL) and Beco Gallery (Kansas City, KS). The show will be hosted by Purple Window Gallery and curated by Beco Gallery
We are interested in how midwestern artists are looking to other species as inspiration and possible relief from the very binary and heteronormative human realm. The curatorial statement will be further guided by the artists and works selected.
Submissions are due November 16, 2024 @ 11:59pm. Artists will be notified by December 10, 2024.
Exhibitions Dates: February 8, 2025 - February 28, 2025
Open Call: Juicy
Purple Window Gallery invites you to enter Juicy, an international juried painting exhibition that seeks to celebrate the formal qualities of the painted medium. Subject matter may be figurative, non-objective, and everything in between. Work may not exceed 72 inches (183 cm) in any direction. Works may be listed as not for sale. If listed for sale, artist receives 60%.
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Juror: David Linnewah of Studio Break Gallery and Podcast
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Submissions are due by January 19, 2025 @ midnight CST. Artists will be notified by February 10, 2025.
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$5 to submit 3 paintings. All proceeds will be distributed as follows: The ACLU-40%, 1st place-30%, 2nd place-20%, and 3rd place-10%. Submissions without payment might not be considered. Those who would like to apply but are experiencing financial hardship should contact Natalie Pivoney at nrpivoney@gmail.com.
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Exhibition Dates: March 8, 2025 - March 28, 2025
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Open Call: Queer Joy
Purple Window Gallery is excited to share an open call for works celebrating Queer Joy. Selected works will exhibit in our March exhibition titled "Queer Joy". The show will compose of varying mediums that serves to elevate artists of the LGBTQIA+ community who make work that is joyful, colorful, and refuses to let the bigotry steal their sunshine. This joy is an important act of resistance we'd like to be celebrated.
(The opening is slated to take place on March 1st). Please fill out the following form to submit work for consideration.
Deadline to apply: Friday, February 9th
Installation: Saturday, February 25th. Opening Reception: Friday, March 1st.
Possible Closing Reception/Performance: TBD. Exhibition run: March 1st - March 29th, 2024.
*Link to Google Form for Submissions*
Open Call: Fuzz
Purple Window Gallery is excited to share an open call for fiber art and textile-based artworks. Selected works will exhibit in our November exhibition titled "Fuzz". The show will compose of a maximalist, salon-style exhibition that serves as a rich installation as well as sound baffling to create an ideal environment for sound art performances (slated to take place on November 18th). Please fill out the following form to submit work for consideration.
Deadline to apply: Friday, October 27.
Installation: Saturday, November 4.
Opening Reception: Friday, November 10.
Sound Art Performance: TBA (Potentially Saturday, November 18).
Exhibition run: November 10 - December 1, 2023.
PURPLE WINDOW invites you to participate in a mail art initiative to support the United States Postal Service.
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Participating artists will receive a pre-stamped envelope with a postcard in the mail. Write a message, share a drawing, compose a poem, etc. on the postcard and send it to a loved one. We ask the final recipients to share an image of their postcard with the hashtags and tag #hellousps #purplewindowgallery @purplewindowgallery
Please fill out your name and mailing address in this google form and we will send you an envelope with a pre-stamped postcard shortly.
The postcard design is a callback to our recent project Hello Neighbor by Purple Window, which calls for artists to exhibit work within their home windows and border their windows with purple tape. For Hello USPS, we have incorporated the purple tape border on the front of the postcard where artists can compose their own artwork.
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Modify the postcard however you'd like: collage, draw, paint, embroider, compose a poem, etc. and share with whomever.
Recipients of the mail art are asked to post a photo on Instagram with the hashtags and tag #hellousps #puruplewindowgallery @purplewindowgallery and we'll repost from our account.
If able, please consider contributing to our stamp fund by venmoing $5-10+ to @purplewindowgallery.
Please note that monetary donations are not required for participation but are greatly appreciated.
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Interested in participating in this mail art initiative? Have any questions for us?
Email purplewindowgallery@gmail.com for more details.
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PURPLE WINDOW invites you to take part in a public art initiative - making private spaces public through works of art. We are initiating a series of satellite exhibitions called Hello Neighbor by Purple Window. This initiative calls for participants to use domestic windows to showcase artwork to the outside world. We propose this as an ongoing curatorial project during the C-19 pandemic world-wide.
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We are calling artists, designers, curators, and those willing to share their windows to participate. One parameter of the exhibition is to outline the glass of each window with purple tape and exhibit artwork within the window pane. Installations will be up to the discretion of each participant.
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Please share our open call with anyone who might be interested in taking part in this satellite exhibition and movement to connect with our community during this time of isolation.
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Long term plans include an exhibition in our Chicago gallery space incorporating installations, photography, and documentation footage of this project in its many forms. Additionally, we will make a catalog book composed of documentation images, artist statements, and personal narratives regarding this project and the effect C-19 has had on our community and day-to-day lives.
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Purple Window exhibitions will take place across the United States in Illinois, Washington, West Virginia, Indiana, Iowa, California, Arizona, North Carolina, Ohio, Massachusetts and New York. Exhibitions will take place outside of the US in England, France, Italy, Brazil, Mexico, and Australia.
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Interested in bringing the exhibition to your neighborhood?
Email purplewindowgallery@gmail.com for more details.
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