MESH Open Call Deadline

MESH Open Call for Artists

Deadline to apply: January 31, 2024 | Fee: $35.00

Pyramid Atlantic Art Center and partners announce Mesh, a nationally open, competitive, juried exhibit.

Jurors will emphasize the creative applications of the fine art of screenprinting, in its pure traditional form and in its intersections with other techniques.

Awards to recognize excellence among the entries include $1000 from Pyramid Atlantic Art Center for Best Overall Entry; $1000 from The Washington Print Club for Best Work on Paper; and $1000 from The Washington Print Foundation for Most Innovative Entry.

Juror information will be announced shortly.

The fine art of screenprinting has primitive antecedents in prehistoric cave wall stenciled imagery. In modern times renowned artists such as Warhol, Lichtenstein have used stencil material attached to or embedded in mesh of fiber, metal, or synthetic plastic filaments. The process has been applied in decorative arts, textile printing, advertising posters, as well as street and political art. Screenprinting has a widespread current presence in commercial signage, t-shirts, ceramics, furniture, and packaging. MESH calls on artists to consider the history of screenprinting, its technical contexts, and its diverse applications. While not excluding traditional screenprinting, the exhibition also encourages all work that might creatively intersect—or mesh—with screenprinting. MESH opens the door, wide, for crossover work that utilizes screenprinting processes.

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