TBBCA Open Call to Tampa Bay Artists!
TBBCA is thrilled to pARTner with Hyde Park Village and invite members of the local arts community to digitally submit original artwork to TBBCA for a special competition. Subject matter of submitted artwork should be inspired by the art of Deborah Kass, as represented in Hyde Park Village’s “Public Art Initiative” new banner installation. A panel of expert judges will select 10 artists from the submissions received. A poster copy of each of the 10 winning artists’ digital submissions will be publicly displayed at TBBCA Cultural Encounter with pARTner Hyde Park Village on Thursday, June 25, 2015. One winning artist will be awarded prize money of $250.
TBBCA and pARTner Hyde Park Village are sponsoring this Call to Artists and June 25th Cultural Encounter with the goal to generate awareness and appreciation of public art and of artists’ talent by integrating local and emerging Tampa Bay artists with Hyde Park Village’s art by Deborah Kass new public banner installation. This special event will be open to the public and press. Special guest and TBBCA IMPACT Awards 2015 “Patron of Culture & the Arts” honoree will be announced and introduced. The announcements, art display and prize awarding will be followed by a reception at Piquant restaurant in Hyde Park Village.
Deborah Kass (B. 1952) lives and works in Brooklyn. Kass employs the visual motifs of post-war painting to explore the intersection of politics, popular culture, art history and personal identity. Her work is in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; The Jewish Museum, New York; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; The National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C. as well as numerous public and private collections. A mid-career retrospective Deborah Kass, Before and Happily Ever After was presented at The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in fall 2012. Kass is represented by Vincent Fremont and the Paul Kasmin Gallery.
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