The Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA)–formerly known as the Contemporary Art Center of Virginia–is issuing a call for submissions for its annual Juried Exhibition, New Waves. Applications are limited to Virginia residents and will be accepted from 9 am, November 1, 2011 to midnight, January 15, 2012. The juror this year is Lane Relyea.
“Dr. Relyea is Associate Professor of Art Theory & Practice at Northwestern University and editor-designate of Art Journal (beginning July 2012). His essays and reviews have appeared in numerous magazines including Artforum, Afterall, Parkett, Frieze, Art in America and Flash Art. He has written monographs on several artists, and contributed to such exhibition catalogs as Helter Skelter and Public Offerings. He taught at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, where he joined the faculty in 1991. In 2001 he was appointed director of the Core Program and Art History at the Glassell School of Art in Houston, Texas. His book D.I.Y. Culture Industry: Signifying Practices Social Networks and Other Instrumentalizations of Everyday Art is forthcoming from MIT Press in 2012.”
This is a great chance for contemporary Virginia artists to get some wider recognition and exposure. More info on New Waves 2012 can be found HERE and the application itself can be found HERE. Any questions can be addressed to Heather Hakimzadeh, Associate Curator at MOCA, by email (Heather@VirginiaMOCA.org) or phone (757.425.0000 x.27). Get submitting folks!
