Exhibitions

2ND BIENNIAL
INTERNATIONAL PRINT COMPETITION
AND EXHIBITION
May 20- September 5, 2010

The square format was uncommon in art until the advent of 20th-century abstraction. Rectangular horizontal and vertical shapes for landscape and portraiture, respectively, were, and in fact still are, the norm. For one thing, composing in the square is an artistic challenge.

Footprint International 2010 presents an opportunity for contemporary printmakers to address the square in 12 inches by 12 inches (30.5 x 30.5 cm). Footprint International is held every other year, alternating with CCP’s biennial International Miniature Print Competition.

Eligibility: All fine-art printmaking mediums, including woodcut, intaglio, lithography, silkscreen, monotype, and original digital media. (No drawings, photographs, or direct reproductions are eligible.) Art must be hand-pulled and generated on stone, block, or plate using printing process. Computer generated art is eligible only if it incorporates other methods of handpulled printing or handwork. Image size must be exactly 12 x 12 inches (30.5 x 30.5 cm). The image may bleed; outside dimensions of the printing paper may not exceed 18 x 18 inches (45.7 x 45.7 cm). Paper beyond these dimensions on accepted prints will be trimmed to the dimensions required for the exhibition. Only two-dimensional works will be accepted.