Houston, TX – Houston Center for Photography (HCP) announces the 2008 Photography Fellowship Competition. Two fellowship recipients will be awarded $2,000 each, with one Houston-based artist designated as a recipient of the Carol Crow Memorial Fellowship. Each winner will have a solo-exhibition at HCP in the summer of 2008. Anjali Gupta, critic, videographer and Editor-in-Chief of Art Lies magazine and Rachel Cook, artist, curator and Editor-in-Chief of Glasstire, will jury the fellowship selection. Application postmarked deadline is Monday, October 22.
The Fellowship competition is geared towards the completion and presentation of new work; submissions of work-in-progress are acceptable. The competition is open to all photographic, film/video, and lens-based work, including installation. One fellowship will be awarded to an artist residing within a 100-mile radius of Houston (including the Beaumont, Galveston, and College Station areas). A second fellowship will be awarded to an artist living anywhere in the U.S. or abroad.
Please visit www.hcponline.org and visit the “opportunities” section of the website for further details on how to submit. PDF forms can be downloaded from the website, or submissions may be sent electronically to ebony@hcponline.org.
Upcoming Events at HCP
Saturday, October 27, 12-8pm - HCP’s Annual Print Sale – Start your Holiday shopping with a selection prints by 25 artists from across the Houston area!
Friday, November 2, 6-8pm – Opening reception for Carlos and Jason Sanchez’s exhibition Reality Interrupted: The Cinematic Work of the Sanchez Brothers and Michele Grinstead and Nancy O’Connor’s multi-media installation Marking Time: Victoria, TX. All artists will be in attendance.