| 10th Annual Texas Juried Exhibition, $15,000 total in awards and more! Call Deadline: May 2, 2023 Exhibition Dates: June 24 – August 26, 2023 Opening Reception: Saturday, June 24, 2023 4-7pm |
| Artspace111 is pleased to announce an open call for submissions for the Artspace111 10th Annual Texas Juried Exhibition. Marking the 10th anniversary of the exhibition, Artspace111 is announcing a $10,000 Top Prize which will be awarded to the artist selected for the best work in show. Submissions will be juried by 3 Jurors; Vicki Meek, Artist, Independent Curator and Writer, and the 2021 Texas Artist of the Year; Clare Milliken, Assistant Curator at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth; and Luis Purón, Executive Director of the Rockport Center for the Arts. The competition includes eligibility for 2D and 3D artwork. The exhibition will be open at Artspace111 June 24 – August 26, 2023 with an opening reception on the evening of Saturday, June 24, 2023. The deadline for entries is Tuesday, May 2, 2023. Contemporary 2D and 3D works that follow the requirements detailed in the prospectus are eligible for acceptance, artwork selected by the jurors from the eligible submissions will be included in the 10th Annual Texas Juried Exhibition at Artspace111 and are eligible for cash awards. A total of $15,000 will be awarded to the best works in show, and in addition to $10,000, the “Top Prize” will include the opportunity to exhibit at Artspace111 in a separate solo or group exhibition in 2023-2024. In addition, Artspace111 will again host the Texas Now Online Showcase following the 10th Annual Texas Juried Exhibition for all entrants who apply to the 10th Annual Texas Juried Exhibition. See full prospectus for all details. |
| Awards announcement at the 9th Annual Texas Juried Exhibition in 2022 with Juror Daisha Board |
| “This is my favorite time of year – when art and artists from across Texas come together at Artspace111. This year marks a special milestone for the Texas Juried Exhibition, and we are excited to bring three influential jurors to the table to award one of the largest art prizes in Texas. – Margery Gossett, Gallery Owner and Director, Artspace111 |
| About The Jurors |
| Vicki Meek Independent Curator and Writer, and the 2021 Texas Artist of the Year |
 Vicki Meek, born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is a nationally recognized artist who has exhibited widely. Meek is in the permanent collections of the African American Museum in Dallas, The Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Fort Wayne Museum of Art in Indiana, Paul Quinn College in Dallas, Serie Art Project in Austin and Norwalk Community College in Norwalk, Connecticut. She was awarded three public arts commissions with the Dallas Area Rapid Transit Art Program and was co-artist on the largest public art project in Dallas, the Dallas Convention Center Public Art Project. Meek was selected as one of ten national artists to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the Nasher Sculpture Center with the commissioning of a site-specific installation. Meek’s retrospective “Vicki Meek: 3 Decades of Social Commentary” opened in November 2019 at Houston Museum of African American Culture and marked the end of her concentrating solely on her installation practice as she moves into creating work using video as the primary medium. She dubs these new works video comments since they are no more than 8 minutes in length and are done in a series format. Vicki Meek has been awarded a number of grants and honors including National Endowment for the Arts NFRIG Grant, Dallas Observer MasterMind Award, Dallas Museum of Art Otis and Velma Davis Dozier Travel Grant, Texas Black Filmmakers Mission Award, Women of Visionary Influence Mentor Award, Dallas Women’s Foundation Maura Award, nominated for the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award, the African American Museum at Dallas A. Maceo Smith Award for Cultural Achievement and was selected as the 2021 Texas Artist of the Year by Art League of Houston. In addition to having a studio practice, Vicki Meek is an independent curator and writes cultural criticism for Dallas Weekly with her blog Art & Racenotes (http://artracenotes. blogspot.com) and also wrote a monthly column, ARTiculate for TheaterJones, an online performing arts magazine. Meek was an adjunct faculty member for UMass Arts Extension Program in Amherst, Massachusetts where she taught a course in Cultural Equity in the Arts. With over 40+ years of arts administrative experience that includes working as a senior program administrator for a state arts agency, a local arts agency and running a non-profit visual arts center, after 20 years, Vicki Meek retired in March 2016 as the Manager of the South Dallas Cultural Center in Dallas. She served on the board of National Performance Network/Visual Artists Network 2008-15 and was Chair from 2012-2014. In 2016, Meek was selected to be a Fellow in the Intercultural Leadership Institute and also became a Voting Member of Alternate Roots, a national artist service organization. Vicki Meek currently spends time as Chief Operating Officer and Board Member of USEKLA: Center for Creative Investigation, a non-profit retreat for creatives in Costa Rica founded by internationally acclaimed performance artist Elia Arce. She is also Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson’s at-large appointment to the Arts and Culture Commission and the Public Art Committee. Meek is represented by Talley Dunn Gallery in Dallas, Texas. |
| Clare Milliken Assistant Curator at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth |
 Clare Milliken is the Assistant Curator at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. Since joining in March 2022, she has contributed to texts for the exhibitions Modern Masters: A Tribute to Anne W. Marion and I’ll Be Your Mirror: Art and the Digital Screen. In the future, she looks forward to curating exhibitions focusing on early and mid-career artists. Her first show with the Modern will open in 2024. Before coming to the Modern, Milliken was the Curator at the Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas. She was instrumental in launching the foundation’s exhibition space in October 2021. Having an in-depth knowledge of the collection, Milliken worked alongside guest curator Aindrea Emelife on the inaugural exhibition, Black Bodies, White Spaces: Invisibility & Hypervisibility. The exhibition—which featured paintings by Amoako Boafo, Jordan Casteel, Deborah Roberts, Amy Sherald, and Henry Taylor– explored how Black artists use the pictorial language of figuration to discuss, critique, and engage with the complexities surrounding Black identity. Before her departure to join the Modern, Milliken curated Women of Now: Dialogues of Memory, Place & Identity. This group exhibition explored how emerging women artists synthesize a sense of place, memory, and identity to shape a discourse on the contemporary female experience. The exhibition featured artists including Ana Benaroya, Rachel Jones, Hannah Levy, Jenny Morgan, and Anna Park. Before returning to her native Texas in 2020, Milliken spent six years in New York. After graduate school, she worked at Phillips Auctioneers for three and half years in the Photographs Specialists department. Responsible for cataloguing the department’s consigned artworks, Milliken researched and inspected more than 1,500 photographs, including works by Diane Arbus, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Sally Mann, Robert Mapplethorpe, Irving Penn, Man Ray, Cindy Sherman, and Hannah Wilke. While earning a master’s degree in contemporary art history from Sotheby’s Institute of Art in New York, Milliken interned at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in the exhibition management department, working on exhibitions including the Doris Salcedo and Agnes Martin retrospectives. |
| Luis Purón Executive Director, Rockport Center For The Arts |
 Since 2015, Luis Purón has been the Executive Director at Rockport Center for the Arts. The hallmarks of his tenure are the creation of new programs for the visual arts, arts education, as well as new festivals and fairs that promote cultural tourism and economic development. After the storm of 2017, which destroyed the art center building located near Aransas Bay, the Board of Directors, Purón and his staff restored operations quickly; never canceling any programs or events. Despite not having a building, Rockport Center for the Arts hosted the prestigious, international traveling exhibit Birds in Art 34 days after Hurricane Harvey by partnering with the Art Museum of South Texas in Corpus Christi. In 2018, the Board, aided by Purón were instrumental in launching a successful $ 12.5M capital campaign. Purón also worked with local entities, Aransas County Long Term Recovery and the City of Rockport to procure a $5M grant from the federal government to build a more resilient art center, restore its sculpture garden and add a venue center to the program. The venue center was branded as The Rockport Conference Center in 2022. On March 31, 2021, to make way for construction, Purón worked with the City of Rockport, the Federal Government, and local and state history groups to relocate the beloved Kline’s Cafe. Rockport Center for the Arts funded the relocation of the building as part of the capital project. Construction on the 1.2-acre campus started the next day and it ended December 10, 2022. Over 700 people attended the grand opening. |
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 About Artspace111 Located in downtown Fort Worth, Texas, Artspace111 specializes in the exhibition of Contemporary Texas Art. In 1980, twin brothers Daniel and Dennis Blagg established Artspace111, converting a historic 1911 building into artist studios and a small gallery space in order to support and celebrate the work of local artists. In 2007, Margery Gossett and William Grella became the Owner/Directors of Artspace111 and further developed the gallery into a celebrated and distinguished 3,000-square-foot art gallery. In addition to the year-round schedule of solo and group exhibitions, Artspace111 designs corporate and private art collections for clients throughout the country and hosts special events in its distinctive gallery and sculpture gardens. Artspace111 is dedicated to making contemporary art approachable to individuals of all ages. |
