OPEN CALL

TOUCH / HOLD

A Juried Photography Show, Jan 14 - Feb 11, 2023

Entry Deadline: December 23rd, 2022 at Midnight

Notification of Accepted Works: January 3, 2023

As we mostly resume our post-Covid lives, the joy of personal contact becomes apparent.  In addition, physical bonds can occur between humans, animals, trees and plants, inanimate objects or in combination.  We’re looking for images that express touching, holding, literally, figuratively and imaginatively. Original images created from any photographic process are eligible.

Jurors: Bruce Cohn & Gina Cioffi Loud

Bruce Cohn: Originally from Brooklyn, Bruce moved from Staten Island to Atlantic Highlands, NJ, four years ago. He has been involved with photography since age eleven and continued his interest through high school and college. He became a wedding photographer and videographer and had the opportunity to teach digital, 35mm black and white film and pinhole photography at Totten Intermediate School, Staten Island and wrote a “Photography Curriculum Guide for Middle Schools”. He was a volunteer and board member at the Alice Austen House Museum, Staten Island, NY.

Bruce has exhibited at the Michael Ingbar Gallery, the International Center of Photography, the Umbrella Arts Gallery, the Fountain House Gallery, all in NYC and the Atlantic Highlands Arts Council and Canterbury Juried Art Show, in NJ. His photos have been published in the Staten Island Advance, Metropolis and the New York Times magazines.

He received his BFA from Pratt Institute, MS from Richmond College and has taken photo courses and workshops with Eugene Richards, Willis ”Buzz” Hartshorn and Harvey Stein. Bruce has more recently photographed in Argentina, Morocco, Greece, India, Mexico and New Mexico. He plans to photograph again in India, February 2023.

Gina Cioffi Loud: “We have the great fortune of living at a time when most of the world has access to a device that can make an image and we have options to expose that image and reveal what we hold sacred, profound, amusing, appalling, refined.   Our photos say we were here, this is what we witnessed, this is how we felt.  How I choose to tell an illuminated story is an essential pleasure.”

Gina’s introduction to poetic storytelling through photography began with at Maine Media Workshop studying with Thatcher Hullerman Cook, Mentorship with Nina Davenport, and Michel Negroponte at the Vermont College of Fine Arts, and continued locally with Michael Miller at Visions Workshops. Her work has been shown at Atlantic Highlands Art Council, Second Story Art Gallery, Atlantic Highlands, where she had a solo show “DoubleTake” and organized the community photography and storytelling show “Vignettes”.  At the Belmar Arts Council, Gina has been recognized with Best in Show among other awards in annual juried photo shows.

A patient advocate working in a public policy role on behalf of the rare disease community, she received a JD from Catholic University and holds a BA from St. Mary’s College of California majoring in the Great Books. At the Vermont College of Arts, she was enrolled for three residences in the MFA Film program.

Eligible Works: The exhibition is open to New Jersey artists, 18 years and older. Artwork submitted must be original creations of the exhibiting artist and must be for sale. Two dimensional work must be properly framed with secure wire for hanging, with clean, undamaged frames (and matting if included). No sawtooth hangers or sandwich frames. Maximum frame size should be 24” on the longest side.

Submissions must be sent digitally through the Airtable Submission form.  All entries must be in JPEG format, RGB, 1200 pixels or more on the longest dimension, 300dpi and file size not to exceed 2MB. Artists may submit up to three pieces for their submission fee of $25 or $35.

Name your JPEG file as follows:

Last Name_First Name_entry #_Title_Size in inches_Price_Medium.jpg 

For example: Doe_Jane_1_SummerScene_13Wx20H_$345_watercolor.jpg 

Artworks must not have been previously exhibited at the AHArts and all artwork must be for sale during the exhibit.

Entry Fee: Artists may submit up to three artworks with their submission fee.

$25 for AHArts Members and $35 for Non-members

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