About The Gallery
Flamenco and Duende in the Arts is an exciting new Online Art Gallery that will showcase fine art that evokes and reflects duende and flamenco. Jason Engelund, el Pintor, director of SF Flamenco says, on the subject of exploring this exciting topic in the arts: "There is a long tradition of duende and flamenco being shown in painting, sculpture, photography and many art forms. I am hoping to gather art from artists in all parts of the world to show the universal human emotions that make flamenco. Seeing the art together one can see so many reflections of flamenco culture, the colors of Andalucía, the intensity and types of emotions, and history of flamenco."
Jason Engelund was honored as being the Official Visual Artist for the first Northwest Flamenco Festival in Portland Oregon 2005. Engelund has been painting duende, flamenco and the bullfight since 1995. He has lectured on cultural aesthetics, duende and flamenco. A founding staff member of the California College of the Arts Center for Art and Public Life, he works to support cultural arts. Engelund was the founding director, and former editor of SF Flamenco, the San Francisco Bay Area online flamenco magazine.
Painting by Jason Engelund
Painting by Wil Van der Laan
SF Flamenco invites visual artists and art collectors of all mediums to submit artwork to "Flamenco and Duende in the Arts."
Artists whose work explores, illustrates, or reflects the aesthetic of flamenco arts, history or culture, and/or explores or evokes the aesthetic inspiration Duende are welcome to submit their work. Collectors who own original artworks of historical relevance within flamenco or duende are strongly encouraged to submit work from their collection.
Submissions will be reviewed for selection. Select artworks will be showcased in the online website gallery, spotlighted through feature news articles and published under "Flamenco and Duende in the Arts".
* This is a competitive selection and not all work will be included in the publication or online.
ELIGIBILITYThe call for submissions is open to all professional and amateur artists working with themes of flamenco, duende or both.
HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR WORK
Please include all entry materials. Entries that are incomplete will not be considered. Please do not send original work. Submissions will not be returned. Images are to be sent as tiffs/jpegs by email. If the file sizes are too large, yousendit.com is a great utility to use to send a ZIP.
Email the following to sfflamenco@gmail.com:
Name
Mailing address (optional)
Phone (optional)
Artist Bio
Artistic statement about the work
3-10 images, good quality 200-300 dpi TIFF or JPEG files. Please include a caption for each image, title, size, material, date created, any additional info
Print and sign or electronically sign and include the media release form
By submitting their work, the artists agree to retain all rights and responsibilities for any and all images submitted to SF Flamenco. Arvind Thyagarajan and SF Flamenco are not responsible for material submitted or published, and reserve the right to use images in the publishing of web and print material, with the proper credit assigned and displayed. For questions and comments please email: sfflamenco@gmail.com