CALL FOR ENTRIES // Curate NYC Seeks Artists for Second Annual Citywide Competition

Visual artists, listen up:

Are you interested in exhibiting your work in NYC galleries and getting in front of the eyes of curators? Then you might want to submit your work to Curate NYC, a city-wide competition presented by the New York City Economic Development Corporation and the nonprofit arts organization Full Spectrum Experience, Inc.

Last year Curate NYC's inaugural competition received close to 1,200 submissions and recognized the work of artists like painter Jennifer Delilah and photographer Alexandra Henry. This year's competition will expand to showcase artwork in even more venues around the city and allow artists to sell their work through the Curate NYC website. A juried selection of the top 150 entries will be exhibited as museum-quality postcard reproductions at the Rush Art Gallery & Resource Center in Manhattan from December 1-10. After that, selected postcards, along with actual artwork by additional Curate NYC artists, will be exhibited at galleries in all of five boroughs, including Like the Spice in Williamsburg and Crossing Art in Queens.

In addition to those exhibitions, the artwork, profile and weblink for every applicant will be published on the Curate NYC website, where art professionals and the general public can check it out. There will also be a series of special online exhibitions selected by curators like Kevin Stayton of the Brooklyn Museum, Eric C. Shiner of The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, and Lowery Stokes Sims of The Museum of Arts and Design.

The submission deadline is October 31. For more info, head on over to the Curate NYC website now.

-- John Ruscher