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The Burchfield Penney Art Center announces a call for entries for Art in Craft Media 2015, on view Saturday, October 10, 2015, through Sunday, January 24, 2016, at the Burchfield Penney Art Center at Buffalo State College. Presented by the Sylvia L. Rosen Endowment for Fine Art in Craft Media, the 13th juried biennial exhibition celebrates and explores the contemporary work of fine artists of the region working with glass, wood, fiber, clay, and metal. Wayne Higby, artist and professor of ceramics at Alfred University, will select the works for the 2015 exhibition.

Eligibility
Artists must be current or past residents of Western New York state (Allegany, Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Erie, Genesee, Monroe, Niagara, Orleans, and Wyoming counties).

Works in clay, fiber, glass, metal, or wood that have been completed in the past two years will be considered.

Entry Guidelines
There is no entry fee. All entries must be submitted through Slideroom. Up to four works may be submitted, represented by one or two images for each.

Submissions should be in the format of digital images, 300 dpi at 4 x 6 inches (minimum), in either .tif or .jpg formats, uploaded via Slideroom. Each image must be clearly identified with the artist’s name and the work's title, date, medium, and size in inches (height x width x depth).

The artist's résumé should include the following: year of birth, education, selected recent exhibitions (include date, exhibition title, site, city, and state), collections, awards or honors, publications, and connection to Western New York.

Résumés and images from accepted artists will be filed in the Burchfield Penney archives.

Entries must be received by 5:00 p.m. Friday, May 29. Late or incomplete entries will not be considered.

Selection Process
Both traditional and contemporary works will be selected on the basis of quality, uniqueness, originality, and aesthetic integrity. All selections will be made by the 2015 juror, and all decisions are final. The Burchfield Penney curatorial staff has the right to remove any work that is not in proper presentable condition or is not as represented in the submission. Selected works must be available for the duration of the exhibition. Artists may not provide a substitute for a selected work.

2015 Juror
The juror for Art in Craft Media 2015 is ceramic artist and educator Wayne Higby, whose unique vision of the American landscape and its manifestation in work ranging from vessel form to tile, sculpture, and architectural installation has brought him international recognition. His work is held in the collections of numerous art museums around the world, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York; the Victoria and Albert Museum, in London; and the National Museum of Modern Art, in Tokyo. He is professor and Robert C. Turner Chair of Ceramic Art at the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, where he has also served as chair of the Division of Ceramic Art.

Purchase Award
One or more works will be selected for the permanent collection of the Burchfield Penney Art Center; up to $3,000 in purchase awards will be made. Artists whose works are purchased must transfer full title for the awarded work to the Burchfield Penney. One artist will be awarded the Langley Kenzie Prize, which includes a solo exhibition in the Sylvia L. Rosen Gallery at the Burchfield Penney in 2016.

The Sylvia L. Rosen Endowment
Sylvia L. Rosen is a respected potter and educator who taught ceramics at SUNY Buffalo State, the University at Buffalo, and Amherst Senior High School. In 1987, she and her husband, Nathan, created the Sylvia L. Rosen Endowment for Fine Art in Craft Media at the Burchfield Penney Art Center, which has made possible juried biennial craft art exhibitions with purchase awards, alternating with biennial craft art lectures by field specialists. The first exhibition took place in 1988. Since then, these events have been a major force in the advancement and recognition of craft media in Western New York.

For more information about the exhibition or submitting work, please contact Robert Cutrona, Burchfield Penney registrar.