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**CALL FOR MASK ARTISTS!!!!** Posted: 3/23/2010 4:42:42 PM

MAY 2010 SHOW – MASQUERADE

Curator & Founder of the Urban Individualists has an open call to artists of all 2D and 3D mediums. Title and Theme of show is Masquerade, show will take place in May 2010 at The Gallery 101 in Fort Lauderdale.

“Masquerade” Artworks will showcase masks depicting an artistic rendition of the “Carnival, Ceremonial, Spiritual and Traditional including masks people put on each day as a disguise or a false outward show. The exhibit is sure to be an original and uniquely vibrant and colorful show. It will represent masks of many sorts and some will be of the “unexpected an expected” “traditional and non-traditional”.

A Mask is a form of disguise. It is an object that is frequently worn over or in front of the face to hide the identity of a person and by its own features to establish another being. This essential characteristic of hiding and revealing personalities or moods is common to all masks. As cultural objects they have been used throughout the world in all periods since the Stone Age and have been as varied in appearance as in their use and symbolism.

The opening reception will be a “masked gathering” a “masquerade ball” multimedia art reception.
Fee: $25 US non-refundable for up to 1 image submission and $10 each image thereafter up to a total of 3 images. Works will be juried by The Gallery 101 and The Urban Individualists. Please submit image for review in jpeg only via email size to Helene Ruiz the Founder of The Urban Individualists at ruizhelene@aol.com. Submissions will not be reviewed without fee which is payable via PayPal to: donations@theurbanindividualists.org be sure to subject your payments “fee for submission “masquerade”. Be sure to include your contact info.
The deadline for submissions is April 2nd, 2010. You will be contacted with via email notifying you if your work has been accepted into the show.

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