PHOTOVOX September 2024

Virtual Presentation

“Finding and Evaluating Open Calls” with Aidan Avery

SPEAKER | Aidan Avery

WHEN | Wednesday, September 11, 2024 at 6:30PM (MST)

WHERE | ONLINE (through Zoom – link in registration email)

COST | Free for CPAC members; $10 for non-members

ABOUT | Finding and submitting work to open calls can be a discouraging and often confusing process for artists looking to share work with galleries or jurors. Join us for a presentation to help simplify the process. This month’s speaker, Aidan Avery has blazed a trail for artists and photographers looking to connect with gallerists, curators and other professionals in the photo arts industry through his weekly newsletter, The Open Call List, a carefully compiled list of open call opportunities for photographers, as well as of artist-friendly exhibitions, grants, fellowships, residencies, scholarships, jobs, and more. As an artist himself, Avery understands the headache that come with the necessary, non-creative side of artistic practice, and has developed a solution to share. His talk will go in-depth on the following: how to find open call resources and opportunities in the photo industry, as well as how (and by what criteria) to evaluate those calls to make sure that they are favorable, or artist-friendly, rather than exploitative.

MEET THE SPEAKER

Aidan Avery is a photographer and educator based in Tucson, Arizona. He has received an MFA from the University of Arizona (2023) and a BA from Seattle University (2018). Avery has exhibited photographic work in galleries across the US and received awards and grants, including the Big Sky Film Grant, for his work across photography, documentary film, and education. He currently works at the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, Arizona and writes The Open Call List, a weekly newsletter that compiles and shares artist-friendly open calls in the photo arts industry.

ABOUT PHOTOVOX

PhotoVox is a monthly program offered by the Colorado Photographic Arts Center to help you strengthen your artistic voice with the support of other photographers and artists in the Denver Metro community. Meetings are held monthly at either CPAC’s downtown gallery or virtually on Zoom, and feature discussions led by local arts and community leaders. Three sessions per year are dedicated to portfolio sharing.