LACDA Call for Entries: DigitalArt.LA

Posted by kathryn on July 26th, 2010

The L.A. Center for Digital Art announces an international call to artists (http://lacda.com/juried/juriedshow.html). All styles of artwork where digital processes of any kind were integral to their creation are acceptable: digital images of any kind, digital photography, 3D and all other digital video animations, short experimental time based video, video loops, mobile media, interactive media, and internet art (net.art).

The selected winners will be exhibited as the central focus of the “DigitalArt.LA” expo in a large group exhibit at the LACDA gallery (selected net.art entries will be exhibited on our websites). The show will be widely promoted and will include a reception for the artists. The expo screenings, exhibits and events are throughout the day and evening on September 9, 2010 (concurrent with and promoted by the Downtown Art Walk and the Downtown Film Festival Los Angeles). The winners exhibit will remain in the gallery September 9 – October 2, 2010.

Deadline for entries: August 16, 2010
Winners announced: August 23, 2010
Exhibit Dates: September 9 – October 2, 2010
Reception for the artists: Thursday September 9, 2010 7-9pm in conjunction with Downtown Art Walk, Downtown Film Festival L.A. and DigitalArt.LA

Festival L.A. and DigitalArt.LADigital Art L.A. Expo Participants:
iotaCenter · UCR ARTSblock | California Museum of Photography · Dance Camera West · Downtown Film Festival – Los Angeles · Orange County Center for Contemporary Art · Vortex Immersion Media · Downtown Art Walk Los Angeles · L.A. Center Studios · Rosslyn Gallery · Rowan Gallery · Julie Rico Gallery · The Museum of Hyperreal Art (MOHA) · CB1 Gallery· Pop-Lock Gallery · El Nopal Press Gallery · Artillery Magazine · Coagula Art Journal · Fabrik Magazine · AbsoluteArts.com· Peter Frank, Riverside Art Museum

Online registration only. Video, interactive and new media are accepted by DVD/CD. Internet art (net.art) entries are viewed at their original URL. Still image entries are acceped by jpeg upload. Still image winners are printed by the gallery for exhibition to eliminate the need for shipping, especially for international artists. Complete details and submission information: http://lacda.com/juried/juriedshow.html

Jurors:
Peter Frank, Curator, Riverside Art Musuem
Rex Bruce: Director, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art

For questions email us at: lacda@lacda.com. No phone calls please.

Prospectus: http://lacda.com/juried/juriedshow.html

Direct link for registration: www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaid=206814

Montalvo: Sculpture on the Grounds, July 23rd

Posted by kathryn on July 11th, 2010

Lucas Artist in Residence: Ann Weber

Mark Your Calendar!

Join us on July 23

Opening Party for Sculpture on the Grounds

Sculptural works by Bay Area artists David Middlebrook, Ann Weber, and Ali Naschke-Messing will be celebrated on July 23 with an opening party for Natural and Creative Capital, Montalvo’s thematic arts program that will explore issues of sustainability in our natural and creative environments. These works are part of Montalvo’s Sculpture on the Grounds program, and will be on view through October 2010.

The Opening Party will include live music, performances, food & libations. A special Members Only reception will begin the evening from 6pm – 7pm, after which the public is invited to attend from 7pm – 9pm. Join now and come early! Click here!

Free Admission; No-host Bar. RSVP encouraged, but not required. Call 408-961-5858 Monday-Friday, 10am-4pm.

This event is funded in part by Applied Materials Excellence in the Arts Grants, a program of Arts Council Silicon Valley.

Mark Your Calendar!
Join us on July 23
Opening Party for Sculpture on the Grounds

Beverly Rayner in “Valley of the Dolls” Exhibition

Posted by kathryn on July 11th, 2010

Beverly Rayner will have a new piece in this group show at Walter Maciel Gallery in Los Angeles. It opens July 10, with a reception from 6-8. It runs to August 10.

for more information view:

www.waltermacielgallery.com

Greg Miller at William Turner Gallery

Posted by kathryn on July 11th, 2010

GREG MILLER

THE GET GO

RECEPTION: Saturday July 10, 6:30 – 8:30 PM

JULY 10 – SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

William Turner Gallery
2525 Michigan Avenue E-1
Santa Monica, CA 90404

Ph: 310-453-0909
www.williamturnergallery.com

Autographed copies of Greg Miller’s new book “The Get Go” will be available for sale during the opening reception.

There will also be a limited addition poster, and signed catalogs available at the opening for purchase.  Should you like to reserve a copy of the catalog or poster, please contact Rob Brander:  rbrander@mac.com.

Center for Fine Art Photography: Call for Entries

Posted by kathryn on July 11th, 2010

Juror: Christa Dix, Founder and Director of wall space gallery
Submission Deadline: July 13, 2010

The Center is currently celebrating the low-tech processes and is interested in exhibiting the best low-tech images that photographers are producing. This call is open to all subjects and styles of photography that include a low tech means of image making or printing. This includes, but is not limited to; toy, Holga and Diana cameras, Pinhole, Wet Plate Collodian, Photograms, Callotypes, Cyanotypes, Polaroid and other traditional processes.

Awards include a Juror’s Award, Director’s Award, 2 liveBooksWebsite Awards, 2 Blurb Book Awards and an Honorable Mention Award. All artists selected will be included in our gallery exhibition as well as in the online gallery.

Argos Gallery: Call for Entries

Posted by kathryn on July 11th, 2010

Argos Gallery is an independent organization formed by a group of
art professionals, devoted to the care, counseling and dissemination of
professional contemporary artists from around the world.

Our goal is to discover, support and promote artists whose speeches
that are considered trendsetters of today’s art. We seek to connect
these international artists and establish a long-term relationship.

In this opportunity, Argos Gallery, is inviting to the first edition
of Global Faces of Contemporary Art who seek to give a contribution to
the art world,facilitating the dispersion of the global art
discourses, providing a bibliographic source for future generations,
promoting the quality and consistency of the artistic production and
strengthening the ties between all kind of professionals involved with
art and culture around the world.
We are calling contemporary artists of all nationalities, without
exception of categories or mediums. To participate in our search of
the new names of contemporary avant-garde art, both current and future
generations

The rules, terms and conditions and application form, would be
available online from June 25, 2010 on the gallery website:
www.argosgallery.com and would be closed on October 01,
2010. Starting on October 25, 2010 the jury will be notifying
individually the selected artists.

The selected artists will be exhibited in our online gallery, will
receive a one year tutoring by our advisers, will have international
publicity and will be part of our biannual art catalog that will be
distributed among the major galleries and museums around the world.

The jury will select from digital applications, there are no
limitations, but some essential aspects to consider are:

- Work must be original
- Presentation care
- Consistency and coherence in the working process
- Quality of Representation: The photographs and / or work templates
must have a
resolution of 300 dpi,
- Details annexes will be valued.

Registration fee: 30 us$
More information on the website: www.argosgallery.com

New Life Residency: Spain

Posted by kathryn on July 11th, 2010

THE WORLD’S FIRST NON-VISUAL RESIDENCY

NEW LIFE RESIDENCY is the world’s first non-visual residency program for
artists. The residency is organized by Wooloo as a work of Manifesta 8, the
European Biennial of Contemporary Art, and will take place this fall in the
Region of Murcia, Spain.

For one week each, five artists will be selected to live and work in a dark,
visually distorted exhibition space. To support them in their life and work
for the week, the artist will collaborate with a local Murcian assistant who
is blind.

In cooperation with her/his assistant, the artist will use the one-week
residency to create a guided tour of the non-visual space and experience in
which s/he is living. The blind assistant will be the guide of this tour in
darkness and the tour will be open to the biennial audience.
Additional to the guided tour, the five selected concept proposals will
furthermore be exhibited in one of the main museum locations of Manifesta 8
and will be on view throughout the biennial from September 30th, 2010
(preview) to January 9th, 2011.

The five residency periods are:
September 27th to October 2nd, 2010
October 4th to October 9th, 2010
October 11th to October 16th, 2010
October 18th to October 23th, 2010
October 25th to October 30th, 2010

Artists are invited to apply for participation in the residency at
www.wooloo.org/residency

The deadline for work proposals is AUGUST 15th, 2010.

ABOUT WOOLOO
Wooloo (founded 2002) is a networked artist group operating through the
online community www.wooloo.org.

http://www.wooloo.org/

Mixing digital communication with physical participation, Wooloo has
developed a working method based on the advocacy of collectivity. While the
Wooloo website currently connects the resources of more than 13.000 cultural
producers in 140 countries, the group’s various projects function as social
experiments in direct collectivism.

Wooloo projects have been presented in such places as Artists Space (USA),
Basel Kunsthalle (Switzerland) and the Third Guangzhou Triennial (China).

For more information, please see: www.wooloo.org and
www.wooloo.org/residency or contact Sixten Kai Nielsen, +45 6166 1566,
contact@wooloo.org

CAL IF OR NIA submissions due July 29th

Posted by kathryn on July 11th, 2010

The Cabrillo Gallery seeks entries for CAL IF OR NIA: All Media Juried Exhibition open to California artists working in any medium. One artist will be selected for a solo exhibition in the gallery during the 2012-2013 academic year and two cash awards will be presented. Selected works will be exhibited August 30 – September 24, 2010.
Deadline for submissions is July 29, 2010. Download the prospectus from the Cabrillo Gallery: www.cabrillo.edu/services/artgallery/

GUEST CURATORS
Ruth Braunstein, Owner & Shannon Trimble, Director of the Braunstein/Quay Gallery

Located in the South of Market Area (SOMA), Braunstein/Quay Gallery is one of oldest galleries in San Francisco, founded in 1961, and recognized as a leader in the discovery and promotion of regional artistic talent. The gallery was the first in the Bay Area to exhibit ceramics in a gallery environment. Long time associates of the gallery are John Altoon, Robert Brady, Mary Snowden, Peter Voulkos, and Richard Shaw.
www.bquayartgallery.com/

SJMOA: Sandow Birk at Camera 12 Cinema, July 17th

Posted by kathryn on July 11th, 2010



MACLA Updates: Summer Programs

Posted by kathryn on July 11th, 2010

¡REBELATE!
A Printmaking Workshop
with Melanie Cervantes and Jesus Barraza of Dignidad Rebelde
July 24, 1-3pm at MACLA

Join us for this exciting hands on-art making opportunity. Learn the fine art of printmaking with artist-activists Jesus Barraza and Melanie Cervantes. Don’t miss the opportunity to work with these two fabulous artists featured in The Art of Politics: Three Generations of Political Printmaking in the Bay Area.

Jesus Barraza and Melanie Cervantes will kick the workshop off with a slideshow presentation that discusses the role of art and culture in community transformation and movement building. Participants will bring their ideas and passions to life by creating their own unique work of art.

Space is Limited – Sign Up Now!
Workshop is $30 per person with limited scholarships available. Please call Felicia Salinas at (408) 998-2808 to register.


Congratulations to our own Melissa Lozano; selected as a Chicana/Latina Foundation Scholarship Awardee!

Melissa Lozano, an artist with a long association with MACLA, just received a Chicana/Latina Foundation award.  Melissa leads our poetry slam workshops to prep MACLA’s teens to compete at  Youth Speaks Brave New Voices and teaches for ¿Que Onda? our summer youth arts program.  Born and raised in San Jose, Melissa is an English Literature major at Mills College with a love for economics and an avid poet. She’ll graduate in May 2012 with a Masters in Business Administration. Congratulations Melissa!

Modesto Covarrubias, Liminal, 2010

Please join us on Thursday, June 10, 7-9pm for a conversation with Liminal Artist, Modesto Covarrubias

Reflecting his background in architecture, Modesto Covarrubias’ work is an investigation into the physical, psychological, and emotional connection to environments. He is interested in how a space can alter and be altered by one’s own mental state. He works in a broad range of media: photography, painting, installation, printmaking, and performance.

In April 2010, Covarrubias installed Liminal, an immersive site-specific installation created specifically for the ICA in direct reaction to the gallery’s architecture and siting.

Modesto recently completed his ICA Print Center residency – creating a print project that includes an edition of photopolymer and intaglio prints inspired and informed by Liminal. This exquisite series of prints will be on view in the gallery on Thursday evening.

A San Jose-native who lives and works in Berkeley, Covarrubias received an MFA in Studio Art from Mills College/2009 and a BFA in Photography from the San Francisco Art Institute. Covarrubias’ work has been exhibited throughout the Bay Area and internationally.

We hope you are able to join us for this fun and informative evening. Please feel free to bring a friend or two!

Talking Art is a series of salon-style discussions held monthly at the ICA. Admission is free for ICA members; $5 non members; $2 students.
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In the weeks ahead:

Sign up for Print Center Workshops! Fun for novices and pros alike!

June 26 & 27: The Portrait and Figure in Relief with Andy Muonio
July 7, 10 & 17: Introduction to Photopolymer Intaglio with Fanny Retsek
July 18: Monotype with Fanny Retsek

And coming really soon:

Our new website! We love it. We hope you will too. Stay tuned for more details.

The Palo Alto Art Center and the Djerassi Resident Artists Program present

Engaging Perception

The second of six exciting programs in the 2010 series
WHERE ART ORIGINATES: ARTISTS & THE CREATIVE PROCESS

Thursday, June 10, 7 p.m.
Palo Alto Art Center Auditorium

FREE ADMISSION

Timothy Braun is a writer living in Austin, TX.  He has received fellowships at the Edward Albee Foundation, MacDowell Colony, Ucross Foundation, and a Warhol fellowship at the Santa Fe Art Institute, among others. He was an artist-in-residence at HERE Arts Center from 2005-06. Braun blogs for Culturebot, and the Travel Channel. His plays have been published by Audience, The Columbia Review, Euphony, Playscripts, and Paper Wall.

As an artist in Thailand for the past decade and now in the US, Bundith Phumsombatlert has reflected on ever-changing social, economic, and political situations, particularly in the framework of globalization. He seeks to analyze and synthesize these issues within the context of history to form art that rethinks Thai identity in the world. Working in a range of materials, from hand-made printmaking and multiple sculptures to interactive installations controlled by computer systems, he seeks a conceptual and aesthetic space between visual art and media art.

You are invited to participate in Artists Wanted’s annual photography competition: EXPOSURE. This opportunity is open to photographers of all backgrounds – everyone who participates will receive a portfolio and rewards from our sponsors. One winner as selected by our influential judges will have their work made famous. Photographers, this is your moment.

Your Extended Deadline is Monday, June 7th.
Send us your best work now at:
www.artistswanted.org

Our panel of judges including acclaimed photographer & filmmaker Lauren Greenfield, New York Times Photo Editor Maura Foley, MoMA Curator Nora Lawrence and JPG Magazine Founders Derek Powazek & Heather Powazek Champ, will choose one photographer for the Grand Prize:
$10,000 cash *AND* 1-year FREE living at a $1.2 million apartment at The Edge in New York City
A Major Manhattan Gallery Reception. Our gallery openings usually attract over 1,000 art enthusiasts and press.
Airfare & shipping of you work to and from New York City for the event.
An international publicity campaign, making your photos famous.

The public will also cast their vote and the highest rated portfolio will receive the People’s Choice Award:
$2,000 in cash
A Manhattan gallery reception
Airfare & shipping to and from New York City for the event

All participants will receive:
An online portfolio searchable by gallerists, press and commercial buyers; A free digital subscription to JPG Magazine; $100 in discounts and credits from Zipcar.com; and discounts and freebies from our generous sponsors.

What is this all about?
Our goal is simple, to find new talent and expose it to the world. Artists Wanted was formed a few years ago by a few creatives working in Brooklyn. Our first hand experience in the art world was the inspiration for creating this bold new platform for finding your talent and connecting you to the larger art world. Beyond the main winners we look for opportunities for everyone who enters. Your portfolio is yours to share with the world and our artist search engine will also bring constant attention to your work.

What do I get by entering?
You receive an online portfolio of your work that you can use to share your images with the world. You can edit it as much as you like and the are no recurring costs. Further, you keep the sales rights to all your images. Our artist search engine will connect interested collectors, gallerists and art enthusiasts to what you create.
Click here to give it a try.

Everyone who enters will also receive a free digital subscription to JPG Magazine, $100 in discounts and credits from Zipcar.com, and other discounts and freebies from our generous sponsors.

Who is eligible to enter?
Photographers of all levels and styles are invited to participate. Our last open-call received entries from over 70 countries. By participating in this competition you are joining an international conversation about photography, art and the power of the image.

This is your opportunity to capture the moment and share your talent with the world. Send us your most powerful photographs:
www.artistswanted.org

Naglee Park Open Studios: Sunday June 6th !

Posted by kathryn on June 3rd, 2010

You are Invited to
Naglee Park Open Studios, Sunday June 6
11AM to 5PM
in Historic Naglee Park
Admission: Free!!!

Event Programs and Maps Available Day of the Event at:
House of Bagels and The Naglee Park Garage

both located at, 505 E San Carlos Street (at South 11th Street)

Meet Naglee Park Artists

Have you ever wondered about that house with the terrific artwork in the yard? Naglee Park is home to a wide range of artists including potters, painters, photographers and artists working in mosaic and mixed media on wood or canvas. Come walk the neighborhood and meet the artists living among us.

See Their Artwork

During Naglee Park Open Studios, our local artists are opening their studios and sharing their work. Most artists’ work will be displayed in the studio in which it was created. While touring the studios, you may find a new treasure; many of the pieces will be available for sale.

Spend a Nice Sunday Afternoon in Historic Naglee Park

Our beautifully restored vintage homes are just one of the things that make Naglee Park unique. Naglee Park is also filled with gifted artists. Join us and enjoy a summer afternoon in our neighborhood while exploring the artistic side of Naglee Park!

Help Spread the Word

For more Information, Website and Artist List please view:

www.NagleePark.org

Email NPOS@NagleePark.org

Art Ark: Illuminated Ark with Shadow Puppets

Posted by kathryn on June 3rd, 2010

ART ARK GALLERY HAS MOBILIZED!

In participation with the Sub Zero Art Festival this Friday, June 4th from 6pm -12 midnight
on So. First St. in the downtown SOFA district of San Jose between San Carlos and Williams St…..

ART ARK GALLERY WILL BE REPRESENTED BY AN
18′ LONG, 13′ TALL, 6′ WIDE
ILLUMINATED ARK EQUIPPED WITH SHADOW PUPPETS

Hope you’ll come out and enjoy the festival!
http://www.subzerofestival.com/