2013 Jack & Gertrude Murphy and the Edwin Anthony & Adelaine Bordeaux Cadogan Contemporary Art Awards Application Guidelines

The deadline for online submission of the 2013 Murphy and Cadogan Contemporary Art Awards is Monday, May 6, 2013 at 11:59 pm PST. Please read below for complete information about the awards process.

The Awards

The Murphy and Cadogan Contemporary Art Awards are scholarships of $4,000 available to Bay Area fine arts MFA students to underwrite tuition for their continued academic study. The funds are sent in the student’s name directly to the financial aid office of her or his university.  These fellowships assist local artists enrolled in an MFA program at qualifying institutions in developing and exploring their artistic potential in digital art, hybrid practice, installation, mixed media, painting, photography, sculpture, video and filmmaking. Work will be judged by a panel of art professionals. The judges’ decisions are final and will be based solely on merit. There is no entry fee for the competition.

Exhibition

The students who are selected to receive the Murphy and Cadogan Contemporary Art Awards will all be honored with an exhibition of their work at SOMArts Gallery from September 3 – October 1, 2013.

Deadline and Notification

The deadline to submit an applications is Monday, May 6, 2013 by 11:59pm PST. Applications must be submitted online.
Please access our online application through Submittable.com. Awards will be announced by June 30, 2013. Good Luck!

Eligibility

Applicants must be fine arts MFA students actively pursuing a graduate degree at the Academy of Art University, California College of the Arts, Mills College, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco State University, Stanford University, or the University of California, Berkeley.

Students must have completed at least one semester of graduate study as of January 31, 2013, and must be continuously enrolled in the same program and in good standing through December 31, 2013. The award funds will be sent to the student’s financial aid account via the school’s financial aid office. Fellowship award recipients may be required to provide proof of continuing school enrollment through December 31, 2013. We will accept only recent artwork samples that have been completed by the student after May 6, 2011. Previous winners of Murphy or Cadogan Fellowships may not apply again.

Submitting Work Samples

We will accept only recent artwork samples that have been completed by the student after May 6, 2011. All work samples must be submitted using the online application on Submittable.com to be considered for the award.  Original artwork and/or slides will not be accepted. If you have a work sample that cannot be submitted online, please contact us.

For Visual Artists

Work must be created solely by the applicant; collaborations are not accepted. All samples must uploaded through the application on Submittable.com in the form of JPGs or PDFs. Applicants may submit a total of ten images, numbered in the order they want the work adjudicated. Each image should be saved with the following naming convention: viewing order, and the artist’s name (e.g. “01Evans, 02Evans, etc.”). Individual images should be 1MB or less in size.

Artists may submit a combination of still images and audio or video samples. 1 minute of time-based media is equal to 2 images (i.e., you can submit 2 minutes of audio and 6 images, 3 minutes of audio and 4 images, etc.), not to exceed 5 minutes of time-based media.

Work Sample List – Visual Artists

Applicants must upload a one-page PDF document with a numbered work sample list. This document should indicate the following for each work submitted:

  • Name of saved image (e.g. “01Evans, 02Evans, etc.”)
  • Title of work (if any)
  • Medium
  • Size (width/height/depth)
  • Date of completion

SAMPLE:

Image Title Medium Size Date of Completion
1. 01 Evans  Untitled Oil on canvas 12×12 November 2012
2. 02 Evans Summer in Yellow Oil on canvas 12×12 July 2012
3. 03 Evans Kat Melody Acrylic on paper 12×12 December 2012
4. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpfAYSqDdyg I believe I can fly sloth Video 0:47 June 2011

 

For Film, Video, and Digital Artists

We are interested in seeing the singular artistic vision of all applicants.  For this reason, film, digital, and video artists may only submit works over which they exercised complete artistic control.  You may have technical collaborators (sound engineers, film processing, actors, etc.), but you may not submit works where other artists had a major role in shaping the work.  Works may be disqualified if the artist did not exercise complete artistic control.  Video submissions may be comprised of either one complete short, an excerpt of a longer work, or a combination of clips.  If you submit two or more short works, they must be edited into a single clip with a clear division between each segment. You may submit a maximum of five minutes of work.

Work List – Film/Video Artists

Applicants must upload a one-page PDF document with a numbered work sample list. This document should indicate the following for each work submitted:

  • URL to video sample
  • Title of work (if any)
  • Total running time of each submission
  • Nature of each segment e.g. complete piece or excerpt. If you submit an excerpt you may provide a once sentence description of work.
  • Date of completion

SAMPLE:

Image Title Nature of Sample
 Size Date of Completion
1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpfAYSqDdyg I believe I can fly Complete short 0:32 July 2011
2.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHT1nAX46dM Cat Mother Complete short 2:06 September 2012
3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TABpdhSq1kw After lunch This 30 second clip is from one of a series of four shorts on a study of movement in the workplace. 2:53 February 2012
4. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-AgydAVh5k Birds of a feather This is a 20-second excerpt from a study of professional animals based on the South America. 20:06 January 2013

Questions

Please direct any questions to Jaime Cortez at jcortez@sff.org (preferred) or phone him at 415-733-8528. Note that Jaime is only in the office Monday-Wednesday, so he may not be able to respond immediately if you call on a Thursday or Friday. If you have an urgent concern and Jaime is not available, please contact Marta Martinez at mmartinez@sff.org or phone her at 415-733-8508.