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Entry Deadline
November 18, 2011

Stand Out Prints 2012: Highpoint's National Juried Exhibition

Highpoint Center for Printmaking is accepting submissions. Complete guidelines and an online application can be found at http://www.highpointprintmaking.org/submit/

November 22, 2011

The Human Experience

Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, WA is sponsoring a juried exhibit of hand-pulled prints. For a prospectus visit plu.edu/art/2012-national-print-exhibition

November 30, 2011

International Print Triennial - Kraków 2012

Open to all graphic artists regardless of techniques used or age. Download the Submission Form and Competition Rules at www.triennial.cracow.pl

January 2, 2012

Fade to Black, Small Print Competition is sponsored by Akua and held to highlight their selection of blacks and grays. Printmakers are invited to submit up to five prints using any printmaking process using Bone Transparent Black and/or, Graphite and/or, Paynes Gray and/or, Lamp Black and/or, Carbon Black and/or, Mars Faster Drying Black. Prizes include a one week workshop in Sante Fe, ink and paper. http://www.waterbasedinks.com/2012-small-print-competition

January 15, 2012

PROOF Studio Gallery in Ontario, Canada announces the 11th International Print Exhibition and Exchange celebrating the Chinese New Year. Open to printmakers from anywhere in the world. The submission deadline is January 15th, 2012. Find more information at http://www.yearofthedragonprintexhibition.blogspot.com/

February 2 - 25, 2012 Gallery 110 Annual Juried Exhibition

This annual exhibition showcases work by emerging and established artists. Gallery 110's location offers artists access to Seattle's Pioneer Square gallery district and First Thursday Art Walk. Works in two and three dimensions are welcome. For the prospectus, please go to gallery110.com/page/31024

Four Times Per Year International Print Center New York
IPCNY presents selections of current prints four times per year. These are juried shows.
www.ipcny.org/info/info_artists.htm
Yearly Nagasawa Art Park Artist-in-Residence Program in Japan accepts applications from printmakers interested in learning traditional watercolor woodblock printmaking. For information, go to www.endeavor.or.jp/nap/
Yearly

Mini Print International of Cadaques
The Mini Print International of Cadaqués is a print competition open to all printmaking techniques and tendencies, in which artists from all over the world participate.

http://www.miniprint.org/

Biennial event, held on even numbered years. Entries are accepted in the fall of the previous (odd numbered) year Pacific States Biennial National Print Exhibition
Held at the University of Hawai'i at Hilo, Campus Center Gallery, Hilo, HI.

For information go to www.uhh.hawaii.edu/~art/
Triennial, next exhibit will be in 2011 The Kochi International Triennial Exhibition of Prints is sponsored by the the Kochi Prefecture in Japan where unique kinds of handmade papers called Tosa Washi are made. While prints on all kinds of paper are accepted, those done on Tosa Washi are eligible for a special prize. For information about the exhibit and to purchase Tosa Washi, contact Hiromi Paper: store.hiromipaper.com.
Quadrennial, the next exhibit will be in 2011. Deadline for entries is July 30, 2010 KIWA (Kyoto International Woodprint Association) sponsors an unjuried exhibition every four years. In the last exhibition 222 artists from 37 countries participated. Prizes are given including one from McClain's. For information go to www.kiwa.net
  The Art Deadlines List is a subscription service that sends out artist opportunity announcements. To subscribe go to artdeadlineslist.com/subscribe
  The American Print Alliance makes a list of competitive exhibits available to subscribers of their magazine, Contemporary Impressions. Go to www.printalliance.org to subscribe.
  Exchange Partners in Print is an Australian based non-profit artist run organization for printmakers, photographers and all media artists who want to share their work and ideas. They have been organizing print exchange portfolios since 1992. Exchange Partners in Print welcomes Australian and overseas printmakers, photographers, media artists and designers. Their web site is www.pnp.org.au/default.aspx