INFOCUS Sydney Zuber Award. Call for Photographers - Deadline: March 15th, 2015

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INFOCUS
Sydney Zuber Award
Call for Photographers - Deadline: March 15th, 2015


INFOCUS, the photography support organization of Phoenix Art Museum, is calling for entries for the first INFOCUS Sidney Zuber Award. The award will be granted biennially to an emerging or early career photographer who demonstrates artistic promise. The competition is open to photographers who are residents of the United States, working in all photographic media and styles.

Award
The artist selected for the INFOCUS Sidney Zuber Award will receive an unrestricted cash award of $5,000. Artworks by the winning photographer as well as those by artists receiving Honorable Mention will be displayed for up to two months at Phoenix Art Museum. The award winner will also be honored at a reception at the Museum on May 20, 2015, and will be reimbursed up to $1500 for travel expenses to attend. Selected artist(s) will be featured in INFOCUS event announcements and social media promotion by both Rebecca Senf and the INFOCUS organization, and will have their websites (if available) linked from the INFOCUS Sidney Zuber Award web page.

Important Dates
  • Entry period: January 7, 2015 - March 15, 2015
  • Judging: March 16 - April 15, 2015
  • Award Ceremony: May 20, 2015
  • Exhibition: up to 2 months at Phoenix Art Museum between May 20, 2015 and January 15, 2016
Jurors
The competition will be judged by three curators including Rebecca Senf, the Norton Family Curator at Phoenix Art Museum; Joshua Chuang, Chief Curator at the Center for Creative Photography; and a third juror to be announced. Jurors will select one photographer as the INFOCUS Sidney Zuber Award winner, and may identify one or more additional artists for Honorable Mention.

Rebecca Senf is the Norton Family Curator of Photography, a joint appointment at the Center for Creative Photography and Phoenix Art Museum. Since the photography collection at Phoenix Art Museum is drawn, on a loan basis, from the Center for Creative Photography, Ms. Senf serves as the liaison, bringing the Center’s collection to the public in Phoenix. Ms. Senf earned a Ph.D. in Art History at Boston University. In Boston she worked on the Museum of Fine Arts major exhibition of Ansel Adams works from The Lane Collection, for which she also co-authored the exhibition catalogue. In October of 2012, her book Reconstructing the View: The Grand Canyon Photographs of Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe was released by University of California Press. Her most recent exhibition, All That Glitters is Not Gold: Platinum Photography from the Center for Creative Photography, is currently on display at Phoenix Art Museum.

Joshua Chuang is the Chief Curator at the Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona. The Center is recognized as one of the world's finest academic art museums and study centers for the history of photography. It holds the archive collections of Ansel Adams, Wynn Bullock, Harry Callahan, Aaron Siskind, and Frederick Sommer—as well as many of the most recognizable names in 20th century North American photography, including W. Eugene Smith, Lola Alvarez Bravo, Edward Weston, and Garry Winogrand. Mr. Chuang received his undergraduate degree in studio art from Dartmouth College, and an M.B.A. from the Yale School of Management. While pursuing his own photography, he held positions at Howard Greenberg Gallery and Pace/MacGill Gallery, where he worked with William Christenberry, Robert Frank, Emmet Gowin, and Judith Joy Ross, among others. He began working at the Yale University Art Gallery in 2004 and was named Assistant Curator of Photographs in 2007. He was promoted to Associate Curator of Photography and Digital Media at the Gallery in 2012.

A third juror is being selected.

About the Dr. Sidney Zuber Memorial Fund
The Dr. Sidney Zuber Memorial Fund honors the memory of one of our INFOCUS founders, who was a great friend to photography. The fund is set aside specifically to support emerging photographers. INFOCUS co-founder Judy Zuber recalls that her husband loved to seek out photography galleries wherever they traveled, and he dreamed of finding a way to help struggling artists show their work.
Now, for the first time in 2015, INFOCUS and Mrs. Zuber will be carrying on Dr. Zuber's wishes with the INFOCUS Sidney Zuber Award, which will be granted bienially from this fund.

For More Information: http://infocus-phxart.org/ZuberAward/

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