CALL TO ARTISTS!

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Call for Work:  "Turn On A Dime"

Your mother always told you to "never put money in your mouth, you don't
know where that's been." Well, what if we did know where that spare
change, that lint-encrusted jingling at the bottom of your pocket, had
been?  The Nave Gallery would like to ask artists to help us ponder the
adventures of Lincoln, Washington and Roosevelt.

We seek installation and 2D artists whose work includes and/or addresses
the matter of pocket change. In 2000, the U.S. Mint produced approximately
28 billion coins for general circulation. A large number of these end up
in jars and drawers in people's homes. For this fundraising exhibit to
celebrate its 4th birthday, The Nave Gallery is hosting a show built
around these out-of-circulation coins and the adventures they inspire.

If a dime can be in your pocket today and in California tomorrow, who can
imagine where else it has been, what it has seen, and what adventures it
has had? The life of a penny, the biography of a nickel, may contain many
untold chapters. Artists are invited to help us explore these day-to-day
mysteries.  If you can think from the perspective of your pocket change,
please share it with us.

We especially seek installation artists to create environments to interact
with a conveyor belt being constructed on which gallery visitors will be
asked to deposit their spare change.  We ask that the work of each artist
take the change through their imagined travels, each piece creatively
built around, interacting, or relating to the experience of the loose
money. The use of mechanical and or/interactive pieces  is encouraged;
however, all media are accepted, including video and animation.

Please submit a sketch of the environment you envision, proposed
dimensions, and 150 words describing the work and why it fits into the
"Turn On A Dime" theme. Also include: a resume, statement, and up to 5
images (slides or JPEGs on CD with accompanying image list), and an SASE
if you would like your materials returned to:
The Nave Gallery, Clarendon Hill Presbyterian Church, 155 Powderhouse
Blvd, Somerville, MA 02144

The exhibition will be held at the Nave Gallery, in Somerville, MA, from
May 2-25, 2008 and will be up during Somerville Open Studios.
Deadline: 1 April 2008.

No submission fee