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SUMMER 2023 OPEN CALL

WACK!

Come on Philly, let’s get weird!

HOT•BED is excited to announce WACK!, the Summer 2023 open call celebrating our fifth anniversary. We are looking for art that celebrates the most important thing in life: our ability to express our individual uniqueness. Selected works will be exhibited from June 17th through August 12, 2023. 

Since its founding five years ago, HOT•BED has cultivated spaces where creativity flourishes. We provide the Philadelphia community with an environment of growth and enrichment carefully curated in our trademark biophilic space. Our goal is to help produce the next great idea. Our method? Leaning into the zany, the wild, the weird. 

When the world gets too weird to comprehend, art & design of the moment reflect that. Weirdness is becoming the new norm. In light of forced detachment from pre-COVID lives, we’re interested in gathering the latest perspectives on the new and unfamiliar. WACK! invites artists from Philadelphia to lean into the absurdity of our present moment. We encourage artists to fearlessly embrace how “wack” life in Philly has become and show us what wonderful things this weirdness creates.

Artists are invited to think creatively about topics of interest, which include but are not limited to:

  • Boldness

    • brightness, energy, innovation, shock, uniqueness

  • Magic

    • cosmologies, fantasy, mysteries, planets, space, stars, the unknown

  • Politics

    • climates/climate change, communities, cultures, current events, infrastructures, political undercurrents, uprisings

  • Surrealism

    • absurdity, bizarreness, chaos, confusion, humor, infinity, spirals

  • Weirdness

    • anomalies, resistance, newness, subversive behavior, surprises, the unexpected, the unfamiliar


Submission Guidelines

EXHIBITION AND SALES AGREEMENT

  • WACK! will run in Hot Bed’s Main Gallery from June 17, 2023 through August 12, 2023. 

  • Work must be able to fit into the physical space and through our door. Please inquire for details on specific measurements if you have any questions.

  • All mediums except performance will be considered.

  • All work must be available for sale and available to be displayed online and in the gallery for the duration of the exhibition.

  • Work must arrive framed, if applicable.

  • Commission for works sold will be split 50/50 between Hot Bed and the artist.

  • If your work is sold, the gallery will arrange shipping/delivering the work to the buyer after the exhibition concludes. Artist & Hot Bed will split the cost associated with shipping or delivering work to the buyer. 

REQUIRED MATERIALS

  • Your submission must be emailed to hello@hotbedphilly.com by Saturday, April 15th at 11:59 pm with the subject line “WACK SUBMISSION”. It must include:

    • 1.5mb 150 dpi .JPG images of each work submitted as an attachment or WeTransfer. We will consider up to five works per artist.

      • For 2D work, you may submit one image per work. For 3D work, you may submit up to three images per work. 

      • For moving image work, you may include an .mp4 file up to 90 seconds in length.

    • Confirmation that you have completed the submission form and paying the submission fee via the button below, which requires:

      • Your first and last name as it should appear in written material

      • Your Instagram handle and/or other social media handles

      • Your website, if applicable

      • Mailing address and phone number (only used in the event we need to contact you about your submission and/or finalize a sale)

      • A brief artist statement (50 - 100 words)

      • Didactic information for each work submitted, including:

        • Title (and coordinating image title)

        • Year of completion

        • Media

        • Dimensions

      • Submission Fee: $30-$50 sliding scale

    • Please submit your form & fee via the button below. Submission fees are non-refundable. 

By submitting to this open call you are agreeing to the terms as dictated above and on the form. Selected artists will sign an individualized artist agreement.

SUBMISSIONS ARE CLOSED

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The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University “Plastic-Free Philly” Lobby Installations

The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, HOT•BED and The Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA) of Philadelphia seeks 8 artists or artist teams to develop art installations to be displayed in prominent commercial lobbies across the city, during the summer of 2022. 

Guided by The Academy of Natural Sciences’ (ANS) objectives for the year, which has been deemed by ANS as “Water Year”, submitted art installations will call to mind the natural beauty of the Delaware River Watershed and will examine how our habits positively and negatively impact the ecosystem. The goal of each installation is to encourage people to stop using single-use plastic water bottles, as part of the Academy's "Plastic-Free Philly" campaign. Each installation will include signage with a QR code connecting visitors to ways they can participate.

Each artist selected will be awarded a $5,000 stipend for their participation.

Timeline

  • Call for Submissions goes live February 8, 2022

  • Call for Submissions closes March 15, 2022 at 11:59 PM

  • Selections announced April 1, 2022 (RESCHEDULED TO APRIL 8, 2022)

  • Art installations will be installed in late May 2022

  • Art installations open to the public for viewing June 3, 2022

  • Art installations close July 29, 2022

SUBMISSIONS CLOSED

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The 2022 Immersive Arts for Health Student Design Competition

The Jefferson Center of Immersive Arts for Health is a platform for collaborative teaching, research, and prototyping where dynamic and interactive design technologies fuse with patient experience. The Center is a multi-tiered cross-disciplinary approach dedicated to studying the impact of immersive art and design on healing and neurodiversity. This project is the result of a growing collaborative effort across 14 different academic, research, and clinical departments.

The 2022 Immersive Arts for Health Student Design Competition is a global competition that challenges students to apply their skills and creativity to use evidence-based research in order to drive innovation in designing immersive light installations that could have a positive impact on patient health.

This international competition is open to undergraduate and postgraduate students enrolled in any higher education institution, college or university during the Spring 2022 semester.

The top three winning entries will be produced by the competition sponsor and exhibited as immersive experiences at HOT•BED, in Philadelphia, PA in the Fall of 2022. Honorable mentions entries will be displayed digitally as well.

Timeline

Award Competition Brief goes live online January 6, 2022.

  • Additional resources on research, site models, tutorials and Zoom discussions will be available. Info session dates are forthcoming, please bookmark this page.

  • Guidelines will be provided by January 14, 2022.

Registration due by 11:59 PM EST on February 15 2022.

  • Students must be currently enrolled in a higher education institution, college or university during the Spring of 2022. A faculty member from their institution must sign the registration form.

Final submissions must be uploaded by 6 PM EST May 10, 2022.

REGISTRATION CLOSED

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Lino Kino is seeking submissions for the second iteration of LKTV, our internet art TV channel hosted on Twitch. The Open Call will run from June 1st to July 19th. We are seeking Live Show Proposals as well as Pre-Recorded Work to be broadcast on the channel from July 24th to August 21st, 2021. There is no fee to apply.

Live Shows can be produced in the LKTV studio located in the HOT•BED MICRO•GALLERY and broadcast live on our channel. Shows can be performance art, craft shows, call-in shows, live music – really anything you can imagine. Look here for some examples. If you’d like to produce a live show, send a brief proposal outlining: your idea, desired air date(s) between July 24th and August 21st, and the technical needs for your production to LINOKINOVIDEO@GMAIL.COM before July 19th, 2021

We will also be accepting pre-recorded work. Submit your experimental, documentary, or narrative video work to LINOKINOVIDEO@GMAIL.COM to be included in pre-recorded programming blocks that will be broadcast on our Twitch channel.

We’re looking forward to seeing everyone’s submissions. With your help, we can put together another exciting and vibrant month of programming. 

SUBMISSIONS CLOSED. THANK YOU TO ALL WHO APPLIED. DECISIONS HAVE BEEN MADE.

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We are pleased to announce an open call for SUMMERHOUSE, an exhibition of outdoor inspired and outdoor artworks evoking the ambiance of the summertime.

HOT•BED is creating an inner-city summer escape teeming with horticulture – bringing the essence of the outdoors inside. We are thrilled to present a place to explore, relax, and forget the bustle of the city amid lush greenery, seating arrangements and art with plenty of new plants to discover.

This exhibition celebrating the fun and playful feelings of summertime opens on June 19th and closes on August 21st.

2D and 3D works that incorporate nature, depict nature, or are meant to be exhibited in nature will be considered. Larger sculpture is encouraged.

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Saturday, May 15th, 2021, at 11:59 PM.

WORK DUE TO GALLERY: Saturday & Sunday, June 5-6, 2021 by 10 AM- 6:00 PM.

All work must arrive wired and/or ready to hang/display.

All work must be available for sale and available to be displayed online and in the gallery for the duration of the exhibition.

Submission Fees are accepted on a sliding scale, submission fees are used to help us cover the costs of putting on the show

SUBMISSIONS CLOSED. THANK YOU TO ALL WHO APPLIED. DECISIONS HAVE BEEN MADE.

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