Art Competition - For a Juried Exhibition about Fire
Fire has always been seen as the creator and the destroyer. In our modern day world, our language reflects the means of controlling fire’s destructive power: fire trucks, fire drills, fire escapes, and fire extinguishers. Despite the risk of fire’s rampage, however, it is as beneficial as it is dangerous. Fire provides heat for cooking, manufacturing, comfort, and incandescence for light. Certain creative/technological pursuits such as metallurgy, pyrography, ceramics, and glass working are enabled by fire.
Fire burns parallel to humans and has come to symbolize parts of our culture outside of utility. Anger, the feeling that triggers our adrenaline and brings heat to our faces, finds metaphor in fire’s uncontrollable spread. Anxiety, stress, or embarrassment plunge us into the sensation of boiling air. The formal qualities of colors can emulate and even inspire ‘hot’ feelings, with warm reds and oranges representing and even feeding irritability, hunger, and arousal. Heat has emotional reality, as well as physical.
Includes honorarium of $50 for each exhibiting artist, and Grand Jury Award of $1,000 for one jury-selected work from among the exhibits on view.
$45 for up to three entries. $5 per each additional entry.
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