OCEANSIDE — Oceanside Museum of Art announces a Call for Entry for “California Dreaming: An International Portrait of Southern California.” The juried exhibition is being co-curated under the leadership of Executive Director Daniel Foster with Drew Oberjuerge, executive director of the Riverside Art Museum and Alfio Borghese, Gallery Director of the Palazzo della Provincia di Frosinone in Frosinone, Italy.
Submissions are open to all visual artists working two-dimensionally in any medium. Entries will be accepted at onlinejuriedshows.com, which includes a detailed prospectus with guidelines for the exhibition and instructions for entry. The final deadline for entries is July 18.
Approximately 50 works will be selected for the exhibition that will travel sequentially to the three participating museums from October 2014 to July 2015. In addition, OMA will host an eight-day Italy Art Adventure, including an exclusive tour of the Borghese Gallery in Rome and a behind-the-scenes view of the “California Dreaming” exhibition at the Il Palazzo della Provincia di Frosinone. The tour, Oct. 20 through Oct. 28, will visit cultural landmarks in Florence and Rome with lodging at a villa in the hills. Information is available at oma-online.org.
The mission of Oceanside Museum of Art is to educate and inspire the public through a diverse range of engaging exhibitions and programs that connect people with regional, as well as national and global, artists and art forms of the 20th and 21st centuries.