Call for Entries: "Open/Closed", 2025 POP Exhibition and Auction
Submission Period: December 1, 2024 to January 15, 2025.
The Professional Outreach Program (POP) is pleased to announce the theme for its 19th annual show and auction: Open/Closed, an exhibition of boxes. Each year, these shows have featured an exciting mix of excellent work created by a roster of national and international established and emerging artists.
POP themes are chosen to provide a dynamic springboard for creative ideas and a showcase for extraordinary small-scale work. Psychology has shown that limits spur creative thinking, and the format of the box and limitation in size (6"x 6"x 6", or 15cm x 15cm x 15cm) provide creative constraints that we hope will spark your imagination and ingenuity.
Woodturning has long been associated with vessels and containers, and this theme offers so much to explore: themes of privacy, enclosure, preciousness, practicality, history, the polarity of open and closed, the secret and the secret revealed.
Entry fee is $25 for up to three pieces.
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Call for Entries: "Beginnings", 2025 AAW Member Exhibition
Submission Period: January 1, 2025 to March 15, 2025
The theme for the 2025 AAW member show is "Beginnings". Each year, our goal is to host a Symposium exhibition that showcases and celebrates the full scope of excellent work being created by our members, from skillfully-crafted traditional turnings to innovative sculptures that push the boundaries.
This year's theme also reflects our Symposium host state of Minnesota, home to the headwaters of the Mississippi River.
As always, artists are encouraged to interpret the theme for themselves. When you think of a beginning, what comes to mind?
Do you already have a piece that reflects the theme perfectly? If it was made between March of 2023 and March of 2025 it is eligible!
Entry fee is $25 for up to three pieces.
Learn more here.
CLOSED: Call for Demonstrators for the 2025 AAW International Woodturning Symposium
Applications were accepted May 1, 2024 through August 1, 2024.
Learn more about the AAW Symposium here.