OPEN CALL – Drugstore Beetle (Sitodrepa Paniceum) II
Exhibition Dates: January 28, 2013 – April 14, 2013
Artists, collectors, curators, writers, scientists, and others are invited to participate in Drugstore Beetle II, an artwork organized by David Horvitz. All works submitted will be printed in color on size 8.5 x 11 inch cardstock and placed in a four-flap folder and gifted to the Special Collections Library at California State University, Long Beach. After being officially gifted and accepted, the works will be accessible for viewing and potentially loaned for future exhibitions. Works will be accepted until midnight PST on January 18, 2013.
Drugstore Beetle II is offered as a part of educational programming for the exhibition Significant Ordinaries, organized by students of the Museum Studies Program at the University Art Museum (UAM), California State University Long Beach (CSULB). This folio of artworks will be available for viewing in CSULB’s Special Collection Library for the duration of the exhibition. Drugstore Beetle II is also a digital project, in keeping with the shift of libraries to digital archives; an archive will also be made of all of the works submitted. The digital versions of artworks will be published on the project’s website, social media outlets, and potentially displayed on video monitors in the campus library.
Drugstore Beetle (Sitodrepa Paniceum) II is an artwork by David Horvitz done in collaboration with curators in the Certificate Program in Museum & Curatorial Studies at CSULB.
Please email submission to: drugstorebeetle2@gmail.com
Format: 1 (one) JPG or 1 (one) PDF - (we will only accept one submitted artwork per person)
Size: 8.5 x 11 inches or smaller. 300dpi and CMYK. (flattened images on one layer please.)
Include: Your Full Name, Date if Applicable, and Title of artwork and a link to your artwork, website, blog, etc.
Theme: We encourage conceptually based artworks.
Review Process: All works submitted will be accepted.
Cost: Free
Deadline: 12:00 (midnight) PST, January 18, 2013.
Where: University Library - Special Collections, California State University, Long Beach.
Special Collections Library Hours: Monday-Thursday, 8am-12pm, 1-5pm; and Friday, 8am-12pm.
Exhibition Dates for Drugstore Beetle II: – January 28, 2013 – April 14, 2013.
Contact: David De Boer, Mary Grace Sanchez, Eamonn Fox, co-curators of Significant Ordinaries.
Email: drugstorebeetle2@gmail.com
Web: www.drugstorebeetle2.tumblr.com
Please Note: By sending a version of your work to the abovementioned address, you recognize and allow the organizers of Significant Ordinaries, or anyone affiliated with the exhibition, to print your work, place it in a four-flap folder, gift this one printed version of your work to the Special Collections Library, CSULB, post a picture of your work on this site, share digital images of your work on social media sites, and allow an image of the work you submitted to be played in a slide-show on a video monitor at CSULB. This is for promotional use only and no profit will be made from your work. Your work will not be altered. There is no submission fee.
For more information please visit: www.drugstorebeetle2.tumblr.com
ABOUT DAVID HORVITZ AND HIS PROJECT
In 2010, David Horvitz commissioned artworks from twenty-seven different artists and placed these works in a four-flap folder - an archival folio used by librarian to contain loose documents. Originally making 30 editions of this work, Horvitz’s curatorial process involved: making an exhibition-ready “book,” assigning it an International Standard Book Number (ISBN), and gifting copies to various institutions around the world. Similar to the insect suggested obliquely in the project’s title, the editions have an invasive nature. Through its acceptance into a library archive, each edition of Drugstore Beetle (Sitodrepa Paniceum) becomes part of that institution.
The curators of Significant Ordinaries are borrowing an original version of Drugstore Beetle (Sitodrepa Paniceum) for the main portion of their exhibition at the University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach. Significant Ordinaries explores diverse acts of presentation as ways of making art. Showing artwork by David Horvitz, Louise Lawler, William Leavitt, Jeffrey Vallance, and Mark Wyse to suggest how different approaches to curatorial selection and display are situated in the broader field of creative artistic process.
As part of the Significant Ordinaries educational programming, Horvitz’s Drugstore Beetle (Sitodrepa Paniceum) II will be available for viewing in CSULB’s Special Collection Library for the duration of the exhibit – January 28, 2013 – April 14, 2013.
ABOUT MUSEUM & CURATORIAL STUDIES AT CSULB
The CSULB School of Art offers Certificate Program in Museum & Curatorial Studies. With an emphasis on contemporary art, the program combines a dynamic course of study in art history and theory with hands-on practice of gallery and museum work. The certificate can be pursued on its own or as a complement to the M.A. or M.F.A. degree. It is primarily directed toward graduate students in Art History and the visual arts, but students in other fields are encouraged to apply. For more information about the CSULB School of Arts and the Certificate Program in Museum & Curatorial Studies, please visit our website at http://art.csulb.edu/home/