Design Beer Cans for Service Brewing!
An open call for artists.
Service Brewing Co.
Deadline for entries: January 23, 2024
Service Brewing is a veteran owned craft brewery located in historic Savannah, Georgia.
THE PROJECT:
Service Brewing is seeking an artist collaboration for a Double IPA Series that will launch in May of 2024 and will conclude in January of 2025. Three cans will depict illustrated scenes in a playful and imaginative way inspired by the Stargate Project, a secret U.S. Army unit established in 1978 by the Defense Intelligence Agency. This top secret project primarily involved the investigation of psychic abilities as a way for “remote viewing” to witness events taking place at great distances and to predict major world events. Each label should visually depict a chronological scene that can connect a “story” told on each of the three cans in the series. The storyline should be loosely based on the project to allow more room for imagination and conceptual designs.
DOUBLE IPA SERIES BEER NAMES:
Can 1: Mind Agent
Can 2: Tell Me What You See
Can 3: Foreseen Circumstances
STARGATE PROJECT / WHAT IS IT:
Psychic spies? Exploration in the psychic realm launched after many rumors began circulating about the Soviet Union investing tremendous amounts of funds into psychic warfare. So naturally, the United States began the journey to explore the psychic phenomena in the military. What came next was the fun word, psychoenergetics, to describe all the far-out ideas like “remote viewing,” the theory that a person could see what was happening in remote locations through their minds eye. This all began with the CIA in the 70’s then later transferred to the Defense Intelligence Agency so that the program could be refined to include other mental powers such as telekinesis, the ability to move objects at a distance. The program ended in 1995 and while some researchers say this program was success, others believe it was a waste of millions of dollars of government funds. Whichever it was, it did inspire some books as well as the 2009 George Clooney film, “The Men Who Stare at Goats.”
Portfolio Submissions are limited to 2-D works of art in categories including Illustration, Graphic Design, Drawing, Painting Mixed Media, Printmaking, and Digital Art. We are looking for styles that are playful and imaginative, that would stand out clearly on a display case or store shelf, and with the ability to reprint boldly.
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Awards & Prizes
One Winner of this Open Call will receive:
- Assigned three can illustrations for a total compensation of $1,500 ($500 for each completed work).
- Promotion on Artrepreneur's social media that reaches a global audience.
- Artist name on can as well as mentions on Service Brewing’s social media.
Application Instructions
Application Rules
Judging Criteria
- Submit up to 8 works
- You can apply only ONCE to this Open Call
GENERAL REQUIREMENTS:
- SUBMIT A MINIMUM OF 2 WORKS UP TO 8 WORKS.
- Please include a statement (at least a couple of sentences) to tell us why you’re excited to apply to this open call.
- Applicants must be 18 years or older.
- Submissions must be created by the applicant.
- Please only submit previously created works for this Open Call. We are not soliciting new work for the entries.
- You can submit work(s) created at any time during your creative career.
DEADLINE FOR PORTFOLIO ENTRIES: Jan 13th, 2024
- Winner will be notified on withing 3-4 weeks of open call close.
- Can designs will be posted on social media beginning in May 2024.
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Jurors
Masahito OnoMasahito Ono is a Japanese-born artist living and working in New York City. Ono creates installations, photographs and outer space projects that capture the transience of nature and human life. He endeavours to rediscover the questions of existence and culture by intertwining poetry, science, history and philosophy. Ono received his MFA from Parsons School of Design in 2015. Prior to relocating to New York, he was an international video journalist based in Asia. His works have been shown extensively around the world including: Unfinished Festival, Bucharest (2020, 22); Ars Electronica Festival, Linz (2020); Ford Foundation Live Gallery, New York (2019); 38th EVA International (Ireland’s Biennial of Contemporary Art), Limerick, (2018); among many others. In 2020, Ono participated in an international art payload, Sojourner 2020, organized by MIT Media Lab Space Exploration Initiative, and delivered his three artworks to the International Space Station in Low-Earth Orbit. He also participated in another art project for the ISS between February 2022 and January 2023, and the project has returned to the earth in preparation for its future flight to the moon.
Education:
2015 MFA Photography, Parsons School of Design
2005 BA Summa Com Laude, Film and Media Arts, Temple University
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