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BLINK creates a unique –and FREE – opportunity to experience some of world’s most innovative and engaging art throughout the city center, for both art lovers and artists.
Now you have a chance to be a part of it!
Ready to be a part of BLINK? Deadline to apply is Dec.15, 2023
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With the 2024 edition of BLINK scheduled for Oct. 17–20, BLINK, Illuminated by ArtsWave is looking for artists to make the Queen City shine. As one of the most transformative art events in the country, and the nation’s largest light, art, and projection mapping experience, the BLINK call to artists invites visionaries to join the experience.
Artists across all media are invited to submit, whether they be local luminaries or worldwide visionaries. Artists who work in projection mapping and digital animation, mural painting, and lighted installations are invited to participate in the collaborative effort that makes BLINK possible.
Last year's incredible contributors included Mz.Icar Collective and Kendra Stepp-Davis’s The Full Set: Their Flowers Edition, which took the concept of nail art and quite literally elevated it with a sculpture that towered above eager viewers, to Faith XLVII and Inka Kendzia’s collaboration, which showed the artist’s existing 2019 mural in a new light, the results are mind-blowing. With work from Portuguese visual artist and illustrator Add Fuel, Afro-surrealist visual artist Vince Fraser with Underworld Black Arts Festival and Napoleon Maddox, and iconic visual artist Shantell Martin partnering with ArtWorks youth apprentice artists to create a new mural near historic Findlay Market. Cincinnati-based artist Michael Coppage worked in collaboration with Jason Snell to illuminate a projection installation of Coppage’s Black Box series on the side of the Weston Gallery.
BLINK 2022 was an impressive display, foreshadowing what is to come next year. With both a commitment to community and a global perspective, the event highlighted incredible local talent including Jenny Ustick’s mural honoring the 33-year Sister City Partnership between Cincinnati and Kharkiv, Ukraine, a brand new mural by Max Sansing with a projection component by Chaske Haverkos, and Lindz and Lamb’s ode to the Bengals in Findlay Market.
BLINK provides the opportunity to showcase work to a vast and diverse audience, engage with a dynamic community, and enrich the Cincinnati cityscape, adding value to the traditional experience of showing work. With no application fee, this is the ideal opportunity for artists from all walks of life to embark on a new creative journey.