Submissions

CURRENT SUBMISSIONS

So many wonderous and magical things are taking shape for U*Space that it is hard for us to know where we should begin.

We've revamped our submission policy so that we are in a better position to help showcase an even broader range of artists. Submissions will now be listed as open calls. This means any artist may visit our submission page and see what exhibition projects we are currently accepting work for.

Artists should then follow the simple instructions and wait to hear back from us. If an artist is accepted their name will be added to the exhibit list.

Exhibitions will be listed as CLOSED once we have accepted a number of artists.

Continuing to uphold our mission that original art should not only be accessible visually but financially as well, please note that we do take into consideration the reality of price points when selecting works for exhibition. Each submission will list a price range artist should take into consideration.

Concerning the sales of your artwork, we have retained our not-for-profit pay scale: 70% goes to you the artist & 30% goes to us to cover the expenses of running a public gallery.

Exhibited artists may also be offered the opportunity to show with U*Space on a continual basis through gallery representation.

THE STRANGEST THING I'VE EVER HEARD

Artworks based on unfounded narratives.

In the past, they were called folk or old wives tales. Today we call them urban myths or legends. Some grow larger than life, while others keep a watchful eye on a small group of people who find themselves haunted by them.

We all act as continuums for community & cultural narrations that are all too often never researched or questioned for accuracy or truth. Yet we keep them alive by telling others, who tell others. What is their strange power? We tell them publicly, often at the risk of being made out to be liars. We will often continue telling them, even after their truth is discovered to be unfounded. Why? What is it, that compels us to tell something over and over again? What do we get out of telling it? Do we tell them as a means of spreading propaganda? Could it be that reality is much harder to face, so we use them to mask our own denial? The Strangest Thing I've Ever Heard revisits these tales and allows us for the first time to reexamine their importance or lack there of, in present day society.

ELIGIBILITY:

Open to all artists.

All Mediums allowed.

Submit text of narrative first via email. If accepted you will receive a questionnaire to be completed for the program.

Art work price range: $35 - $1500

Please submit example jpeg images of your work along with other blah blah information to submissions@uspacegallery.com

The THE STRANGEST THING I'VE EVER HEARD exhibition will be accompanied by a limited Edition catalog containing the artwork, bio, & the actual tale.

ALL ARTISTS ACCEPTED WILL RECEIVE ONE FREE COMPLIMENTARY PROGRAM.

CURRENT LIST OF ARTISTS ACCEPTED:

Christina Brown

Ashleigh Fedo

Katie Jones

Nicole Pritchett

Caroline Pyle

Jesse Reno

Saudade

Keisha Shipp

Tamina M

RT Vegas

BODY MAPS:
HOW I CAME TO LOVE MYSELF BY LEARNING TO LOVE THE MOLE ON MY NOSE
If a dead man in fact tells no tales, then why through the modern use of forensic medicine have we been able to successfully reconstruct events about an individuals life hundreds of thousands of years long after they have left us? BODY MAP is unlike any exhibit we've done before. If art is about revealing oneself then we've just hit the motherlode.

U*Space Gallery is proud to present a show that we hope will help many people to realize the healing power of art. Each true to life size map will act as a mirror for self examination. We have become lost with our own layers of false identity. Hiding behind the fact that for most of us, less than 25% of what makes us who we are is visible which means the other 75% is internal. Remaining for the most part, a buried secret that many of us will take to our graves.

ELIGIBILITY:

Open to all artists.

Works should be on paper or canvas or plastics for flexiblity due to thir size. (but will consider other materials) One map only.

Artist must use an outline of their own body to create a highly personal/metaphysical true to life sized portrait. Body Map should also bear your name, place, and the date of your birth, as well as the actual handprints and the footprints of its maker. On each map should be found representations of makers wounds, bumps, scars, marks, scratches, and or remnants of internal viruses or diseases (example chicken pox or measle scars) etc. Only words of the utmost importance to helping tell one's powerful story may be incorporated into the map.

Art work price range: Priceless (if you must put a price go ahead)

Please submit example jpeg images of your work along with other blah blah information to submissions@uspacegallery.com

The BODY MAPS exhibition will be accompanied by a limited Edition Book containing the artwork, bio, & artist experience of making such a personal work for public display. Art has the power to heal and this is the show that screams it loud and clear.

ALL ARTISTS ACCEPTED RECEIVE ONE FREE COMPLIMENTARY BOOK.

CURRENT LIST OF ARTISTS ACCEPTED:

Eugene W.R. Campbell Jr.

David Dumoor

Shanequa Gay

TeMika Grooms Jarrett

Ara Keys

Donna LoGrasso

Nicole Pritchett

Sankofa Selessie

Sydnei Smith-Jordan

Terumi

Carol Yee-Blake

Salum Kambi

ADVISE FOR YOUNG MOTHERS TO BE
Between 1991 and 2005 the teen birth rate decreased 34% to a record low. Between 2005 and 2006 the teen birth rate increased 3%-the first increase in 15 years. The breakdown between teen and adult as begun...

There is something a buzz in the air. Everywhere we turn it seems people are dying to give advise. Whether we want it or not. A stranger at a bus stop. Unsolicited text. Emails. The guy we meet while standing in a line for tickets. Talk shows, the news, magazines, friends, family, coworkers, religious groups, conservatives, liberals, fanatics, even strangers. No matter how we try and shut them out, the advise just keeps a comin' (Some of it good, much of it bad, and some of it just plain ridiculous.) Why this sudden need to expound?

ADVISE FOR YOUNG MOTHERS TO BE gives each artist the chance to interpret the power of giving advise through visuals. Let's face it, our responses are motivated by many different things most of which are personal. So why not add your two cents to the slush pile.

ELIGIBILITY:

Open to all artists.

All works shall be titled: My Advise For Young Mothers To Be Is... etc.

All Mediums welcome and may range from the serious to the satirical.

Art work price range: $35 - $2000

Please submit jpeg images of your work along with other blah blah information to submissions@uspacegallery.com

The ADVISE FOR YOUNG MOTHERS TO BE exhibition will be accompanied by a limited Edition catalog containing the artwork and artist info.

ALL ARTISTS ACCEPTED RECEIVE ONE FREE COMPLIMENTARY COPY.

CURRENT LIST OF ARTISTS ACCEPTED:

Michelle Brotherton

Shanequa Gay

Ara Keys

Caroline Pyle

Antoine Williams

HAVING SAVED MYSELF FOR YOU

Featuring a whole slew of artists who have done just that.

U*Space loves giving artists the opportunity to experience first hand the confidence rush all artists receive upon discovering that someone else besides their friends & family appreciate that thing they do called art.

ELIGIBILITY:

Any first timer - Sorry, (virgin) public exhibitors only.

All Mediums allowed.

Price range level: $35 - $650

So what excuse does your best friend have now for keeping all that work locked away in the closet?

Please submit jpeg images of your work along with other blah blah information to submissions@uspacegallery.com
CURRENT LIST OF ARTISTS ACCEPTED:

Tyler Clark

Seth Czaplewski

Tracy Reese

Weston Packard

Jeff Story

STRAIGHT

The LINE Exhibition

"All My Lfe I Have Sought The Simplicity of A Single Line" - ANTOINE WATTEAU

Artists are asked to create a work of art which uses a single centralized straight line to further advance the works narrative.

ELIGIBILITY:

Open to all artists.

All Mediums accepted.

Art work price range: $35 - $1000

Please submit example jpeg images of your work along with other blah blah information to submissions@uspacegallery.com
CURRENT LIST OF ARTISTS ACCEPTED:

billy bob beamer

Jarrett Burch

Nicole Pritchett

Sankofa Selassie

Keisha Shipp

TEJ

TWENTY-FOUR MOMENTS OF BEING

There are twenty-four hours in a day. Twenty-four frames to a film. Twenty-four frames are needed for one second of film. Cinema Verite literally means �filmed truth� and is a style of film making developed by French film directors in the 1960�s. Cinema verite is a part of the broader artistic tradition of realism and the cinematic tradition of documentary film making.

These realistic traditions are aimed at showing man�s real situation in life rather than at providing him with an escapist Hollywood fantasy experience which and audience will enjoy and pay for, coming out in very large numbers. Cinema verite try's to show man as he is and the world as it is because the film maker often has a social conscience and sometimes a political agenda. Its purpose is to enlighten its audience, to show them the truth as the director sees it, so that the audience will have the information they need to live better lives or to, in some cases, to take political action to right the wrongs the film maker often exposes.

Artists are asked to tell a powerful story using 24 frames (canvas') Please note that each frame can be no larger than 4 x 4 inches.

ELIGIBILITY:

Open to all artists.

All Mediums accepted.

Art work price range: $35 - $1000

Please submit example jpeg images of your work along with other blah blah information to submissions@uspacegallery.com

CURRENT LIST OF ARTISTS ACCEPTED:

Michelle Brotherton

Sankofa Selassie

Saudade

Shanequa Gay

Writers, poets, playwrights, orators, musicians, composers, vocalists, film directors, & all other types of aural artists please visit our *ARTLAB section to learn about available opportunities.