The National Weather Center at the University of Oklahoma will be teaming up with the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art and the Norman Arts Council to explore the theme of weather in art.
The “National Weather Center Biennale,” which will open on April 22, 2013, is a national juried exhibition that will feature art inspired by weather.
“Art reflects the human relationship with the environment and particularly with weather,” said Berrien Moore, director of the National Weather Center.
“(From) lightning bolts and cloud imagery in Native American pottery, the skies and atmospheres of Georgia O'Keeffe, to the Clearing Storm, Sonoma County Hills of Ansel Adams, weather vibrates through art. We are delighted to invite artists to the first ‘National Weather Center Biennale,' art's window on the impact of weather on the human experience.”
Moore also is the dean of the OU College of Atmospheric and Geographic Sciences and vice president of Weather and Climate Programs and Chesapeake Energy Corporation Chair in Climate Studies.
The “National Weather Center Biennale” is open to artists of any nationality over the age of 18.
Registration begins April 22 at www.nwcbiennale.org.
Artists may enter up to three works in any combination of categories.
The entry fee is $25 for the first entry and $10 for each subsequent entry. Registration closes Oct. 1.
Works selected for an exhibition to be held in 2013 will be notified in late 2012.
The exhibition of selected works, including the prize winners, will open to the public on Earth Day, April 22, 2013, at the National Weather Center and will close June 2.
“The University of Oklahoma's mission of education is clearly reflected both in the quality of art and programming at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art and in the global integrity and technological advances of the National Weather Center,” said Ghislain d'Humieres, director of the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art.
“The ‘National Weather Center Biennale' unites visual art with weather in a truly unique, interdisciplinary collaboration supported by OU President David L. Boren.”
Alan Atkinson, an art instructor at OU, will serve as exhibition curator. Joining Atkinson as initial jurors will be Moore and Erinn Gavaghan, executive director of the Norman Arts Council.
The initial judges will select 100 works from the submitted art entries for the exhibition.
Three nationally renowned guest jurors representing meteorology, contemporary art museums and current artists will then select the winning pieces from each of the three categories.
The work chosen as Best in Show will receive $10,000.
First place winners in painting, works on paper and photography will each receive $5,000.
Contact
For more information, go to the National Weather Center's website at www.nwc.ou.edu, the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art's site at www.ou.edu/fjjma, or the Norman Arts Council's website at www.normanarts.org.
