The Westport Arts Center (Connecticut) is inviting artists to submit work for a new juried exhibition in 2008 that will explore the significance of water. “The Paradox of Water,” juried by Mary Sabbatino, will open in March 2008. Artists must submit entry forms including an entry fee of $30. Each artist may submit from one to four artworks in any media for consideration.

Deadline is 11 January 2008. Entry forms and more information about “The Paradox of Water” exhibition are available on WAC’s website.

This competition celebrates the very essence of the creativity that defines digital art - the ability to create artistically and technically excellent images of things that are impossible in the real world. Digital artists don’t have any barriers to realizing their wildest ideas. They can build whole virtual worlds and render them in a way that makes them almost tangible and embodied with life.

Artists are challenged to create images of the most Amazing Creations. We want to see images that capture the essence of something that could only exist in a virtual world. This embodies the most powerful attraction of digital art - its ability to create truly amazing things that can not exist in the real world. But, they don’t want fantasy creatures, games characters, etc.

Over $21,000 in prizes total. Entrants must be members of CGTalk or CGSociety (so join, already!). Images must be uploaded prior to 7 January 2008. Visit the site to learn more.

At Right: Image from Think and Ask.

The call goes out internationally to both soldiers and civilians for video, audio, photography, drawing, painting, sculpture, installation and the written word. The show will be shown simultaneously in the Pawtucket Armory, Machines With Magnets and the Cable Car Cinema, in Pawtucket and Providence, Rhode Island, from 5-30 March 2008. These first venues are a 2000sq. ft. gallery and two screening rooms. The show may travel. The show may continue as a website, book and as a DVD.

Through the universal language of art, the exhibition seeks to give a human face to the complex conflict in Iraq and to engage those who have unconsciously cocooned themselves from the fearsome reality of the war. We ask the questions: What does it mean to experience this war firsthand, in combat, or as an Iraqi civilian? What does it mean to experience it from a distance, or on television? How can we in America reconnect to the reality of war? Are there shared visions of peace despite cultural and religious differences? The work will be selected on artistic merit and look to include as many perspectives as possible, beyond politics.

Entries are due by 12 January 2008. Visit the site to learn more.

Via: Make Art Like You Care

In addition to the “Digital Arts Challenge,” BKFK is launching three other competitions: “The Signature Style Challenge” seeks teen fashion designers, “The Sports Evolution Challenge” seeks new ideas for fitness and sporting goods, and “The Going Green Challenge” seeks eco-friendly product ideas to help the environment. Read on to learn more…

By Kids For Kids (BKFK) and the Pearson Foundation today announced the “Digital Arts Challenge,” a nationwide digital arts competition created to recognize and reward exceptional young storytellers who make use of digital technologies.

Sponsored by The Pearson Foundation’s Digital Arts Alliance, the Challenge gives teens the chance to share ideas using digital video and other new forms of digital expression. The winning contestant will receive a cash prize of $10,000 and will be hosted for a day by Pearson publishing businesses in New York City.

Young people who visit www.bkfk.com, the newly upgraded teen creativity website, are invited to submit personal stories that share their experiences as teenagers coming of age in the 21st century. All teens 19 years of age and under are eligible to participate, and are encouraged to submit digital and visual creations of all kinds. Entries must be submitted by 31 December to www.bkfk.com.
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Starting 22nd August till 31st August 2008 “ARTRMX COLOGNE VOL.01″ is a topic based art festival that presents contemporary photography, street art, painting, graphics and video art in an extraordinary frame - a platform for lively exchanges between international artists, collectors, gallery-owners and art interested people.

The “ARTRMX COLOGNE VOL.01″ exhibitions take place in different off-locations (such as apartments, empty buildings or lofts) throughout Cologne. To participate in these exhibitions, the artrmx e. V. invites young artists to send in their work or their series in
regards to the given subject for 2008 “WHERE IS MY MIND?” In collaboration with artistic advisers, the artrmx e. V. will assemble and distribute the work among the different exhibition spaces.

Entry deadline for this provocative competition is 15 April 2008. Genres permitted include: photography, street art, painting, graphics and video art. Visit the site to learn more about the competition, the judges, and the venue.

NanoArt is a new art form where micro or nanosculptures created by artists or scientists through chemical or/and physical processes are visualized with powerful research tools like Scanning Electron Microscopes. The monochromatic electron microscope scans are processed further using different artistic techniques to create pieces of art that can be showcased for the general public.

Because this is a new art form, nanoart21.org founded by artists/scientist Cris Orfescu (www.crisorfescu.com) will provide 3 high resolution monochromatic electron scans for competitors to choose from. The participating artists will have to alter this image in any artistic way to finish the artistic-scientific process and create a NanoArt work. The artists or scientists are encouraged to participate with their own image as long as this visualizes micro or nano structures.

The worldwide competition NanoArt 2007 is open to all artists 18 years and older. Online voting will open 1 January 2008 through 31 March 2008. This seems to be a fascinating project, and the first 10 winners will be exhibited on nanoart21.org site for one full year and will be invited to exhibit at the second edition of The International Festival of NanoArt. The first edition of the festival was hosted in May 2007 by Kotka Photographic Center, in Finland. Deadline is 31 December, 2007. Visit the site to snag the images and to learn more about this contest.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) invites college students from the arts, including industrial design, architecture, computer design, and the fine arts, to submit their work on the theme: Life and Work on the Moon.

The art contest gives students and faculty an opportunity to form an inter-disciplinary team to collaborate with science and engineering departments, either at their institution or other institutions, to produce the most well-informed art work possible. One suggestion is that the art project be a for-credit semester long effort and include consultations with science departments to develop the final entry.

Entries will be accepted in three major categories: two-dimensional, three dimensional, and digital. Each category will have pre-determined size limits. Contest opens in August 2007 and all entries are due no later than 1 December 2007. Visit NASA for details.