open call Archives - Blackpool Social Club

29 Sep

Open Call: Photoworks Weekender

Claire Griffiths0 CommentsOpportunitiesart and photography, open call

This year UK development agency Photoworks has been hosting Photography Socials at Blackpool Community Darkroom. Now they're on the hunt for new photography champions in the town. Situated upstairs at Aunty Social on the second to last Thursday of each month, everyone is warmly welcomed to the current Photoworks-supported Photography Socials at Blackpool Community Darkroom. Local photographers Donna Hannigan, Helen Kay, Herny Iddon, and Claire Griffiths run the events which aim to explore how we might platform the strong relationship Blackpool has with the accessible creative act of the photographic image. Since the dawn of the picture postcard where Blackpool…

Grundy Art Gallery: Show your work at OPEN 2022

Catherine Mugonyi0 CommentsLocal News, OpportunitiesArt, artist, call out, callout, Exhibition, open call, The Grundy Art Gallery

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] After last year’s online only exhibition, OPEN 2022 is set to return to Blackpool's Grundy Art Gallery. In line with Grundy’s founding principles of showing the ‘art of the day’ and echoing Blackpool’s motto of ‘progress’, the gallery is looking for artworks that have been created within the last 12 months and that have never been shown at the Grundy Art Gallery before. The exhibition aims to be illustrative of the diverse range of artwork being produced throughout Blackpool and the Fylde Coast today.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_single_image image="31534" img_size="medium"][/vc_column][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]Once again they have decided to waive the submission fee for artworks…

Open Call: Seaside Stories Exhibition at Hive

Catherine Mugonyi0 CommentsLocal News, OpportunitiesExhibition, open call

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Preparations are underway for a new art exhibition opening at Hive later this month. From 19 August to 6 October 2021, Hive Arts is hosting an open exhibition called Seaside Stories which will showcase the amazingly diverse talents of Blackpool-based artists. This exhibition is open to any artists based in the FY area, so even if you are not part of the Hive Arts collective, you are still very welcome to submit a piece for display. [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] If you would like to be part of the exhibition: The theme is "Seaside" Your work must be ready to hang…