Habitat California: Flora & Fauna

Habitat California: Flora & Fauna
February 8 – April 18, 2020
Traditional and Digital Media Juried Exhibition
Palos Verdes Art Center  (pvartcenter.org)
Juror: Tulsa Kinney, Editor of Artillery (artillerymag.com)

 This invitational and juried all-media exhibition focuses on the plants and wildlife of California in the shifting ecosystems they inhabit. Entry is not restricted to California-based artists. Traditional media including painting en plein air is welcome, as well as sculpture, photography, video, and new media including VR (virtual reality), AR (augmented reality), and internet-based art.

Welcome areas of inquiry include, but are not limited to:
* Continuing the California Landscape and California Impressionist traditions.
* The intersections of urban, suburban, and wildlife habitats.
* The effects of climate change on wildlife and botanical habitat and species.
* Explorations in new media featuring California flora and fauna.

 Contemporary juried-in works will be accompanied by works by select invited artists, as well as historic pieces by noted California painters.

 Juror: Tulsa Kinney is the editor and co-founder of Artillery, a contemporary art magazine based in Los Angeles established in 2006. She received her MFA at USC in 1988 and has been in numerous solo and group art exhibitions for over two decades. At that time she was teaching digital imaging at various Southern California colleges along with her graphic design career at the LA Weekly. Tulsa started writing about 20 years ago and her articles have been published in the Los Angeles Times and LA Weekly. She continues to write about art and stay deeply immersed in the contemporary art world.

Application Deadline: December 31, 2019
Jury Dates: January 2 – 7, 2020
Artist Notification: January 8, 2020