Raw Data: MCAD Students Print Exhibition

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS- Raw Data: MCAD Students Print Exhibition   

Exhibition runs: October 13-October 31, 2010 

Organized by Natasha Pestich, Assistant Professor in Print Paper Book Area, MCAD  

and Diana Eicher, Print Shop Studio Coordinator in Print Paper Book Area, MCAD  

Jurors: Kerry Morgan, Director of the Gallery and Exhibition Programs at MCAD, Natasha Pestich, 

Assistant Professor, Diana Eicher, Print Shop Studio Coordinator 

The Print Paper Book Area in the Department of Fine Arts is pleased to announce a CALL FOR 

SUBMISSIONS of print-based works (prints, books, objects, installations, new media that fits criteria) to 

be considered for the exhibition entitled Raw Data opening in October 2010 in MCAD Gallery 215 

(hallway gallery outside Emeritus conference room). This exhibition will be in conjunction with the Mid- 

America Printmaking Conference, New World/ Old World.  

Description of exhibition theme: 

Raw Data refers to compiled information that has yet to be processed or analyzed. Using this idea as a 

starting point, we encourage artwork that takes an inventive approach to the materials, metaphors and/or 

processes of printmaking. In keeping with the overall conference theme, New World/Old World, we are 

interested in how older techniques and concepts related to printmaking are reinvented and redefined today. 

We are also interested in how new technologies influence the practice and reception of print.  

Criteria for selection: 

1. Prints made by conventional or digital processes are eligible; 3-D works, installation, performance 

or video is acceptable providing it relates to printmaking. 

2. Submissions must fit the theme Raw Data. 

3. Finished work OR proposals are welcome. Proposals must include 3 examples of past work, a 

clear plan with dimensions of proposed work, sketches that address where the work will be in the 

gallery.  

4. Must be currently enrolled at MCAD this semester, students graduating this May are eligible. 

Submission Guidelines: 

• Materials must be received by Monday, May 3, 5:00 p.m. 

• Provide images of finished work (with accompanying checklist with title, date, medium, and 

dimensions) and/or proposals in digital format on a CD (or DVDs) labeled with the submitter's 

name, email, and phone number. Discs can be left in MCAD Gallery mailbox (Director Kerry 

Morgan’s mailbox). 

• Image Requirements:  jpg images, sample video must be less than 2 min. and 20 MB. You may 

submit 3 works in total (each work can have up to 2 detail shots if necessary) 

Selection Process: 

Selections will be announced by the end of the day on Friday, May 7 via email. Artists selected will be 

responsible for the presentation and delivery of their work. Where and when to drop off work in fall of 

2010 will be announced. Please forward all questions to: Natasha at natasha_pestich@mcad.edu. 

DEADLINE: MAY 3RD, 2010, at 5 p.m.