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Toxic Landscapes: Artists Examine the Environment

Submission Guidelines

Open Call to US Artists and Photographers

A juried exhibition of US artists to be presented in Havana, Cuba from July - September, 2001, with a special exhibit of photographs from the archives of GREENPEACE INTERNATIONAL.

Cosponsored by the Puffin Foundation Ltd. and IFCO/Pastors for Peace at the invitation of the Cuban National Union of Artists and Writers (UNEAC)

The Puffin Foundation Ltd. and IFCO/Pastors for Peace are pleased to sponsor TOXIC LANDSCAPES, an exhibition of US artists to be presented at the Center for the Development of Fine Arts in Old Havana, Cuba. Toxic Landscapes opens in Cuba on July 3, 2001 and will be on display until September 1, 2001.

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Statement:
As artists from the developed world, we look around us and take measure of the cost of this development - for our water, our earth, our food supply, our air, our bodies, and our social relationships. The pollution wrought by industrialization has brought us to the precipice of a global environmental catastrophe. While all of us are at risk, Third World people, the poor, and people of color in the US live in the areas of greatest toxic exposure, suffering the most direct harm.

The landscape has traditionally been a means for artists to celebrate the grandeur and the sublime beauty of our earth. In this age, the landscape is rapidly becoming a means for preserving a record of what could be irretrievably lost to us - just as John James Audubon's prints were destined to serve as a chronicle of now-extinct species.

We seek to create an exhibition that begins with the landscape - the damaged and the pristine - but that also moves substantially beyond this form to address the issues of urban environmental racism, environmental justice, and environmental activism. The Puffin Foundation and IFCO/Pastors for Peace are issuing an open call to artists to submit work for this historic exchange with the Cuban people.

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Eligible Works:
Due to the logistics of transporting art to and from Cuba, we are only able to accept works in the following formats: * acrylics or oils on unstretched canvas * ink drawings on paper or vellum * prints on paper * photographs Artwork must be no larger than 30" x 40"

What to Send:
Artists should submit no more than three (3) works for consideration in the form of 35mm slides in standard 2" x 2" cardboard or thin plastic mounts. On each slide print your Name, Title of Work, Medium, Size and indicate "TOP". The Puffin Foundation and IFCO/Pastors for Peace will exercise the right to reject any work that is not accurately represented by the submitted slide.

Submission Deadline
Submissions must be received by 3:00 p.m., Friday March 2, 2001.

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Where to Send Submissions:
Toxic Landscapes The Puffin Foundation Ltd. 20 E. Oakdene Avenue Teaneck, NJ 07666-4111 JURY The Puffin Foundation Board of Directors and IFCO/Pastors for Peace will be joined by a panel of distinguished artists, art professors, and art critics to review the submitted works. Decisions will be made and notification sent by March 16, 2001.

Accepted Work:
Selected work must be delivered to: Toxic Landscapes The Puffin Foundation 20 E. Oakdene Avenue Teaneck, NJ 07666 All work must be unframed and canvases must be unstretched.

Shipped Work:
Work must be received by Friday, April 20, 2001. Works must be shipped prepaid in a sturdy, reusable container. Work will be returned to the artists approximately 30-60 days after the close of the exhibition.

Questions?
If you have any questions regarding this exhibition or regarding possible submissions, please call Tim Blunk or Mary Taylor at 201-836-8923; e-mail: puffinpress@mindspring.com.

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