Call for Submissions - Woodland Cultural Centre

Invitation for Indigenous Artists
To exhibit in the IMAGO MUNDI NATIVE ART PROJECT, FONDAZIONE BENETTON STUDI E RICERCHE, TREVISO, ITALY - www.imagomundiart.com
Curator Jennifer Karch Verzè
Submit call for Native Artists. For professional, non-professional, emerging artists and students. Submission is free. The collection is composed of
210 Native Artists from Canada and the United States.
Imago Mundi is a non-profit, cultural, democratic and global project that looks to the new frontiers of art - personalities, countries, emerging
landscapes, languages and different cultures - to foster openness towards the world and new horizons and the coexistence of expressive
diversity. This amazing project of Luciano Benetton of the Fondazione Benetton Studi e Ricerche, Treviso, Italy aims to collect works of art of
established and emerging artists from countries around the world.
Theme: Maximum freedom of expression, any theme.
Format: 10 x 12 cm (3.9 x 4.7”) We supply the specially made canvases upon
acceptance of the project. You supply the artwork.
Media: Open- Painting, printing, drawing, photography, sculpture, collage,
printmaking, mixed media, textile, ceramic, installation or any other visual art
form can be submitted. Special supports will be given for sculpture, carving,
construction, ceramic, assemblage, mixed media, craft and design.
Requirements: A brief artist bio/statement with lists of exhibitions and
curriculum - up to 200 words. The back of the work must indicate your full
name, the title of the work, date, location and Indian Band, Territory or Nation.
The participating artists are engaged on a voluntary basis and without
financial reward.
Submission Deadline: Final date August 31, 2014. The works will be
personally picked up by the Curator.
Catalogue: A catalogue will be produced by the Luciano Benetton
Collection in Italian and English with full colour photographs of the front
and back of the art works. A full biography of the artists will accompany
the works in the catalogue and website portal
http://www.imagomundiart.com/home/. Three critical essays will be
included, along with a text by Luciano Benetton.
The Imago Mundi Project:
Luciano Benetton has already collected over 6000 works of art from many countries (Latin America,
Eastern Europe, Russia, China and Mongolia) and his aim is to arrive at having 10,000 works of art by
artists from over 60 countries by 2016, which will be exhibited around the world, catalogued and
showcased on http://www.imagomundiart.com/home/. His expert curators are concentrating on Africa
and I also curated the Collection of Namibia with 141 works of art. An exhibition of the collections of
South Korea, Australia, United States, India and Australia was exhibited at the Fondazione Querini
Stampalia in Venice in connection with the Venice Art Biennale from August 28 to October 27, 2013.
Watch the video of Benetton at the exhibtion in Venice:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oDwkmnKbxg
For more information write: Jennifer Karch Verzè, Curator, Imago Mundi, Artist and Art Educator from Verona, Italy at
[email protected]
Jennifer will be in Canada and the USA from July 11 to August 28th to curate the Imago Mundi Native Art Collection.