Gallery Blog #6 Press Release

Montana State University Billings Outer Gallery presents

Perfect Imperfections


April 17, 2017 – May 5, 2017

Reception April 20^th, 5–7pm, 1^st Floor of Liberal Arts Building, MSUB Campus

Featuring a display of art that confronts body insecurities and challenges the viewer to face their own vulnerabilities and accept who they are. Perfect Imperfections is created with the intent to help each person realize that they are not alone in the world when it come to feeling imperfect and that each person eventually needs to write that imperfection down and throw it away so it no longer hinders the viewers life. Artist Stephanie Slavin will be addressing her own imperfections and more in this display.

There will be a catered artist reception from 5–7pm on April 20th in the Montana State University Billings Outer Gallery located on the first floor of the Liberal Arts Building.

Gallery hours are 8am–4pm, Monday through Friday. The exhibition and reception are free and open to the public.

Gallery Blog #5 Exhibition Call

Step 1:
Review each of these sites and take careful notes about the structure of the calls. Print out the calls and highlight significant information.

http://maep.mnartists.org

http://box13artspace.com/proposals/

http://www.akimbo.ca/submissions/?id=18558

Step 2:
What information is found in each of these calls?
Each of the calls tells what they require from artists to be accepted, very specific sizes, titles, length of bio and formats as well as the amounts of visual entries.

What information is found in each of these calls?
akimbo asks for a proposal which requires a CV, visual representations, and a link to the artists website. Whereas the other two ask for resumes, artist statements, a proposal, and digital samples of the artists work.

Consider the design choices in each call. Name one positive aspect of each of the call’s organization of information and one negative aspect. How does the design relate to/reflect the content of the call?
akimbo: I don't like that akimbo can be slightly difficult to navigate however I like that it offers the availability to look up other exhibitions and call for submissions.

Box 13: I don't like that you have to email your proposal to a specific email. I like however that it is an artist run exhibit.

Minnesota Artists: I don't like that you have to create an account to submit a proposal. I like however that the gallery offers sketched up images of the gallery space.

Step 3:
Devise a template for a call for Northcutt Steele Gallery exhibitions (fall 2017) at Northcutt Steele Gallery. Focus on the structural elements of the call. Do your best by emulating the other calls you have reviewed and we will discuss in person what we might want to keep and eliminate.

Northcutt Steele Gallery

Call for Art 2017

• Deadline for entries: February 17th, 2017 - March 17th, 2017 at Midnight (MTS)

• Notification: March 24th, 2017

• Delivery Date: 31st. 2017 from 9am - 4pm (MTS)

• Reception: April 20th, 2017 from 5:00 - 7:00pm (MTS

• Pick-Up: May 4th, 2017 from 9am - 4pm (MTS)


Juror: Dean Adams, MSU School of Art Faculty → Here

The MSU Billings Art Department is now accepting submissions for our annual Juried Student Exhibition. This event highlights the artistic talents of MSU Billings students in a juried exhibition at the Northcutt Steele Gallery.

Submission Criteria:

1). Artist Statement in a PDF file (500 words or less)
2). CV should be submitted in a PDF
       - No more than 2 pages
3). No more than 10 digital images in .jpg format
      -Images should be named: lastname_firstname_title_medium_date.jpg
      -Images should not be larger than 1MB 

      -One submission can have multiple photos

            -Can be a series of photos

            -Or images of the same object from different perspectives
      -Videos cannot be longer than 5 minutes
4). Corresponding list of submitted images in a PDF
5). Pieces must be presentation ready by delivery date
     - Sculpture pieces cannot be bigger than 7' by 7' and no heavier than 75 lbs
6). Submission can be submitted through here

Questions or Concerns? 

Contact Exhibition Director Dr. Leanne Gilbertson

Phone: (406) 657-2903 

Email: Leanne.Gilbertson@msubillings.edu 

Address: Liberal Arts Building, 1st Floor

1500 University Drive

Billings, MT 59101

Gallery Blog #4 Gallery Label Update

Artist: Stephanie Slavin

Title: They Leave Their Marks

Date: 2016

Medium: Photography

Dimensions: 24" x 36"

“The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body.” – Unknown

The photograph, They Leave Their Marks, conveys the pain and memory of verbal bullying. You can’t always see the hurtful words people use, like a bruise or a broken bone but they exist long past the point they were used. Eventually words can become a label that becomes associated with a person, something that makes people begin to see the label rather than the person. So the question becomes how do you heal from this verbal wound and how do you escape the label?

Gallery Post #3 Gallery Label

Artist name: Stephanie Slavin

Title: They Leave Their Marks

Date: 2016

Medium: Photography

Dimensions: 24" x 36"

Humans can be very cruel to one another; getting satisfaction out of making somebody else's life miserable and taking their mind off their own personal issues. Over time this cruelty sticks to a person and follows them throughout life like a haunting shadow. Words are some of the worst ways humans can be cruel, using them to mock and humiliate each other. Over time a person has to confront this pain of being mocked and learns to let got and embrace their pain.