Create! Magazine Call For Art Issue #38 Juried by Maria Brito

Create! Magazine is thrilled to announce an open for international print issue #38, juried by Maria Brito.

Get your work in front of a leading contemporary art advisor, entrepreneur, author and curator.

We are thrilled to announce an open call for entries curated by Maria Brito for print issue #38, due out by the end of summer 2023. 

As an artist, you know how important it is to get your work in front of new audiences, curators and leaders in the art world, which is why we are so passionate about creating these opportunities to help you to do just that. 

This issue will feature the work of selected artists working in a wide array of media, disciplines and creative backgrounds.

Link to form:

https://www.createmagazine.com/call-for-art

GUEST CURATOR:

Maria Brito is an award-winning New York-based contemporary art advisor, entrepreneur, author and curator.

Her bestselling book “How Creativity Rules The World” was published by HarperCollins Leadership in March 2022 and was the winner of the International Book Awards in the Business and Entrepreneurship categories as well as chosen by Next Big Idea Club as one of the best business and creativity books of the year.

Brito was selected by Complex Magazine as one of the 20 Power Players in the Art World and in 2020 she was named by ARTNEWS as one of the visionaries who gets to shape the art world.

A Harvard graduate, originally from Venezuela, her first monograph “Out There” published by Pointed Leaf Press in 2013, was the recipient of the USA Best Book Awards in both the Art and Design Categories.

She has written for publications such as Huffington Post, Elle, Forbes, Artnet, Cultured Magazine, Departures, and the Gulf Coast Journal of Literature and Fine Arts from the University of Houston, Texas. For several years, Maria has taught her creativity course in companies and, in 2019, she launched “Jumpstart”, an online program on creativity for entrepreneurs based on years of research and observation in both the areas of business and art.

She has worked on product collaborations with artists such as Kenny Scharf, Erik Parker, Katherine Bernhardt, Assume Vivid Astro Focus, Nir Hod and many more. In 2016, Maria curated “Greek Gotham” presented at Dio Horia, Mykonos with the participation of sixteen New York-based artists including KAWS, Austin Lee, Nina Chanel Abney and Raul de Nieves.  A full-color catalogue with an introduction by Jeffrey Deitch was written and designed by Maria to commemorate this exhibition. In 2019 she created and hosted "The "C" Files with Maria Brito", a TV and streaming series for PBS's new station "ALL ARTS".  The same year she also curated two exhibitions: “The Thousand and One Nights,” the inaugural show of Artual Gallery in Beirut, Lebanon with seven American artists including Holly Coulis, Allison Zuckerman and Rosson Crow and "MUSE", Shona McAndrew's first New York City exhibition at CHART Gallery in Tribeca.  

Maria and her projects have been featured extensively in national and international publications including The New York Times Style Section, T: The New York Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, The Huffington Post, W Magazine, ELLE Magazine, Harper’s Bazaar, Time Magazine, New York Magazine, The New York Observer, The Daily Beast, The Economist, Interview Magazine, VOGUE Italia, VOGUE Mexico, VOGUE  Latin America, VOGUE Brazil, VOGUE China, VOGUE.com, ELLE Décor Spain, Departures, Forbes, Blouin ArtINFO, Hamptons Magazine, Condé Nast Traveler, Architectural Digest, Modern Luxury, Refinery29, goop, Billboard, Marie Claire Australia, Marie Claire Spain, Allure, The Coveteur, House Magazine, House Beautiful, Buro 24/7, Latina, Modern Magazine, and more.

Her TEDx Talk “NFTs, Graffiti and Sedition: How Artists Invent The Future” was presented at The Ford Center at The University of Mississippi in 2022.