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

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New Beginnings at Montalvo

Bronze sculpture by David Middlebrook defies gravity on Montalvo Grounds.

In a spirited celebration of interactive arts in lovely summer weather, the grounds in front of Montalvo’s main facilities in the Phelan Mansion were the inauguration site of outdoor sculpture installations by Ann Weber, David Middlebrook and Ali Naschke-Messing on Friday, July 23, 2010.  Music and poetry contributed to the events of the evening. Programs Director Kelly Sicat took visitors on a guided tour of the sculptural works, inviting the artists to talk about each piece with her.  She explained that although some of the work is inherently impermanent she hopes this exhibition sows the seeds of an eventual sculpture garden.  For the future, Montalvo wants more interface of the arts with the grounds.

Ann Weber’s woven sculpture sits near the discovery site of the small cones that were their inspiration.

Ann Weber, as a resident at Montalvo, wove her forms out of strips of corrugated cardboard and modeled their shapes after small nuts and seed pods she found on the grounds. Weber had asked staff to save as much discarded cardboard as they could get their hands on for her before her arrival.  Coming from the Midwest, she says she is used to “making a silk purse from a sow’s ear.”  Her background in ceramics drew her naturally to the organic spherical and cylindrical forms she found under the trees.  A steel matrix beneath the surface maintains the structural integrity of each sculpture.  During the residency, Weber began looking in to the history of James Phelan (the Senator who bequeathed his estate to the arts) and learned of his status as an amateur poet. She named her sculptures after some of his favorite poems. While earlier public works were executed in weather resistant fiberglass and epoxy, these woven cardboard pieces are simply shellacked and exposed to the elements.  Weber is ambivalent about eventually allowing this series to disintegrate and return to the earth.

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A CHILD’S WORLD at THE TRITON MUSEUM

Mary Snowden’s Picnic by the Seashore, 2006

How much do you remember of your impressions of the world when you were a child?  Was your childhood one of innocence and fun, or was it full of mysteries, scary stuff, temptations and prohibitions because you were small?  The Exhibition, A Child’s World at the Triton Museum of Art, explores these and many more possibilities through the work of a number of adult artists who recall their own childhood, evoke childhood, express themselves with a veneer of childlike creations, satire the political world with reminders of corruption cloaked in fake innocence, and sometimes depict childhood as anything but innocent.  The exhibition is rich with insight, witty observations and a fascinating array of approaches in terms of craft. (more…)

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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

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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

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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.

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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.

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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

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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

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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/

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¡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!

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