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Call to Artists - Festival in the Park

Festival in the Park
Charlotte, NC 

Call to Artists

WHAT:  Fine Arts & Fine Crafts Festival and Traditional Arts & Crafts Festival

WHERE: Freedom Park, Charlotte, NC

WHEN: Friday through Sunday
           September 21 - 23, 2012
           Note: Hours vary; see artists prospectus for details

NOTEWORTHY:

*48th Annual Juried Festival.

*Separate areas for Fine Arts and Crafts (Artist's Walk) and Traditional Arts and Crafts (Festival Lake Walk).

*Limited to 180 artists in total.

*Jury/Booth Fees ($35/$350).  

*$4,000 total cash awards. 

*Priority spaces available for artists who will demonstrate their art or craft.

*Excellent artists' amenities, including free parking, private artists' hospitality area throughout show hours, discounted hotel accommodations.

*Strong community support.

*Electricity available to all booths at no charge.

*Drive-up to booth for setup and teardown.

*For more details about the show, click HERE
Since 1964, Festival in the Park has been bringing popular music, arts and crafts and family entertainment to Charlotteans and visitors from around the South.  Heavy community support over many decades produces return visitors every year as well as large crowds, offering exhibitors excellent sales opportunities. Known as Charlotte's "Granddaddy" arts and crafts event, the festival receives high-profit media attention to augment a well-orchestrated marketing program.


NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS:

Deadlines:
Artist's Walk: May 15, 2012 (postmarked)
Festival Lake Walk: July 16, 2012 (postmarked)

Notification:
Artist's Walk: June 1, 2012
Festival Lake Walk: July 30, 2012


For more details, artist's prospectus, and to apply, visit:
www.FESTIVALinthePARK.org
Email inquiries to:
festival@FESTIVALlinthePARK.org

You may also contact by telephone:
Julie Whitney Austin
Festival Director
704-338-1060

THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH | Imaginary Surrealism Takes the Stage in SoHo

Although life in the circus depends on discipline, struggle and sacrifice, it is divergent thinking that is the catalyst for the magic. This show is dedicated to the performer and the double lives they must lead. A new collection of paintings by Daniel Merriam depicts both the pain and pleasure of struggle not only in the circus, but also in the lives we lead in an urban society. The artist invites us to explore the pressures and and delicate balance that is required in order to remain above the chaos of every day life.  Just as the performer clings to the wire above the ever-present color and distractions, so must the viewer avoid mistakes by focusing on what matters most. The exhibition was inspired by one painting that the artist created in 2010 entitled The Greatest Show on Earth, in which a fantastical caged beast is on display in a coach embellished with Victorian era accoutrements. The creature is exquisite and bizarre, and has a presence that seems content to have launched a show to pleasure and entertain the viewer. "It has been said by many artists that art is often the result of a struggle. I can attest to this based on years of devoting my abilities to an art form heavily reliant on discipline. Both the body and the mind are fully employed in such an effort.  In my case it is the urge to create ever upstaged challenges both in my paintings and my real life as well, that gets me from frenzy to frustration to exhaustion.  I strive to work sculpturally and architecturally as I paint. Each time the environment becomes more of an obstacle as I encounter the physical limitations inherent with being human." Born in 1963 in a rural town in Maine, Daniel Merriam is one of seven artistic children. He taught himself to paint at a very young age, and used his art as a method of reflective play throughout his childhood. He went on to study mechanical and architectural design at Central Maine Vocational Technical Institute. While still in school, he applied his dimensional skills and passion for architecture to his family's design and construction business.In 1986, Merriam shifted his focus solely to fine art, and later that year had his first solo exhibition in Maine. Since then, his exhibitions throughout the United States & Europe  have been lauded and achieved critical acclaim. Merriam's work is included in countless private collections and in such public collections as The Riverside Museum of Art in California, The Gesundheit! Institute in Virginia, the Manhattan Club in New York, and the Merrill Lynch collection. The artist will attend the unveiling of the new works at an opening reception on May 26th from 6 to 8 pm. The reception is free and open to the public with RSVP requested to rsvp@afanyc.com. AFA is located at 54 Greene Street (corner of Broome Street), in the SoHo neighborhood of New York City. Hours are Monday - Saturday, 10am - 7pm and Sundays 11am - 6pm. To request more information contact Heidi Leigh at heidi@afanyc.com or 212.226.7374.

Call to Artists - Crafts and Fine Art Festival

Crafts and Fine Art Festival

at Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts & Sciences

 

Call to Artists

 

What: Crafts and Fine Arts Festival at the Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts &    Sciences

Where: LBI Foundation of the Arts & Sciences, Loveladies, NJ

When: July 21 & 22, 2012

NOTEWORTHY:
 

*Affluent Shoppers

*Bustling summer destination

*23rd Year

*Booth Sitters available during the show

*Friday Evening Set-up

A bustling summer vacation destination, Long Beach Island stretches for 18-miles off New Jersey's coastline in Ocean County, where tourists spend $715 million every summer on retail shopping. The Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts and Sciences (LBIF) is the island's cultural hub and an extraordinary location for a quality fine arts festival. The LBIF boasts over 700 dedicated family memberships, hosts fine art exhibitions year-round in its main gallery, and offers a variety of classes and programs. All of these programs attract over 60,000 visitors annually. 

NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS

Deadline: April 21, 2012

Notification: May 21, 2012

Applications available at  www.rencrafts.com

Email inquires to info@rencrafts.com

Celebrated Author Melissa Pritchard to Give Reading at Bard College

CELEBRATED AUTHOR MELISSA PRITCHARD TO GIVE READING AT

BARD COLLEGE ON MONDAY, APRIL 23

ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y. — On Monday, April 23, at Bard College, award-winning author Melissa Pritchard will read from her new fiction collection, The Odditorium. Pritchard will be introduced by novelist and Bard literature professor Bradford Morrow. The reading, presented by Morrow’s Innovative Contemporary Fiction Reading Series, takes place at 2:30 p.m. in Weis Cinema at the Bertelsmann Campus Center. It is free and open to the public; no reservations are required.

Melissa Pritchard is the nationally renowned author of four short story collections: The Odditorium,Spirit Seizures, The Instinct for Bliss, and Disappearing Ingenue, and three novels, Phoenix, Selene of the Spirits, and Late Bloomer. She is also the author of Devotedly, Virginia, a biography of Arizona philanthropist Virginia Galvin Piper. Spirit Seizures, a New York Times Notable Book, received both the Flannery O’Connor and Carl Sandburg awards. The Instinct for Bliss, also a New York Times Notable Book, received the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, and Disappearing Ingenue, a Doubleday “Fiction for the Rest of Us” selection, was chosen to appear on National Public Radio’s 2002 Summer Reading List.Selene of the Spirits was a Barnes and Noble “Discover Great New Writers” selection, and Late Bloomer, a 2004 Chicago Tribune Best Books of the Year selection described as “ravishing” in Vanity Fair, received a starred review in Publisher’s Weekly.

Pritchard’s short stories are frequently anthologized and cited in Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards,The Pushcart Prize, Best of the West, Best American Short Stories, the Prentice Hall Anthology of Women’s Literature, and numerous other anthologies and college textbooks. Pritchard’s fiction has appeared in more than fifty renowned literary journals, including The Paris Review, A Public Space, Agni,Ecotone, Southern Review, Gulf Coast, and Conjunctions, the innovative literary magazine published by Bard. Her book reviews, essays, and journalism pieces have appeared in O, the Oprah Winfrey magazine; The Nation; the New York Times Book Review; and Chicago Tribune Books. Her essay “A Solemn Pleasure,” published in Conjunctions: 51, The Death Issue, edited by Morrow and guest coeditorDavid Shields, has been reprinted in The Inevitable: Contemporary Writers Confront Death, W.W. Norton, 2011, also coedited by Morrow and Shields. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including, among others, fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Howard Foundation at Brown University, and the Illinois Arts Council. Pritchard teaches at Arizona State University and has served as judge for the Flannery O’Connor Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award. She is also the founder of the Ashton Goodman Grant, working with The Afghan Women’s Writing Project (www.awwproject.org) to provide funding for the education and literacy of Afghan women and girls.

For more information about this event, contact conjunctions@bard.edu or call 845-758-7054.

Call to Artists - Golden Fine Arts Festival

Golden Fine Arts Festival   

   

Photo by John Payne, 2012
                    Call to Artists

WHAT:  Golden Fine Arts Festival

WHERE: 11th Street in Historic Downtown Golden, Colorado  

WHEN: August 18 - 19, 2012
           10 a.m. to 5 p.m. both days   

NOTEWORTHY:

*Limited to 140 artist spaces
 
*Surveyed artists reported average sales of over $2000 in 9 categories
 
*Promotion includes:  Extensive newspaper advertising with ads in both the local papers and the Denver Post online; TV and radio; posters, handbills, large banners hung two weeks prior to event, directional signage during the weekend
 
*Total monetary awards of $2000 for first and second place, Best of Show and Best of Colorado, first place winners receiving automatic acceptance into the 2013 festival
 
*Booth fees are $295 for single 10x10, double booths are $590
 
*Artist amenities include an artist reception on Friday night for two, breakfast on Saturday and Sunday mornings, artist hospitality suite, booth sitters, night time security, early set-up on Friday.

The Golden Fine Arts Festival is put on by the Golden Chamber of Commerce and is now in its 22nd year. The show's goal is to present high-quality art in an accessible, beautiful atmosphere next to Clear Creek. Adjacent to the Festival is the Golden Farmers Market, an added draw for attendees as well as the Golden History Museums' Clear Creek History Park which features demonstrations of traditional craft during this weekend.  Musical entertainment, food, children's art zone, horse-drawn carriage rides all just a block west of Historic Downtown Golden.  Attendance is typically 35,000.  Space requests are honored as possible. 

Apply through application available on www.goldenfineartsfestival.org, with 3 digital images of work + one image of booth on CD.

Deadline to apply:  April 15, 2012 deadline, jury fee $25 per category, booth fee of $295 to be returned if not accepted.
                             
Notification:            May 15, 2012

Booth fee due:       With application

Information at:        www.goldenfineartsfestival.org 

For questions: contact Krista Braton,
email: info@goldencochamber.org 
phone: 303-279-3113

The Brodmann Areas: a new ballet from Norte Maar

The Brodmann Areas: a new ballet from Norte Maar   Apr 12-14 at 7:30pm Apr 15 at 2pm   Center for Performance Research 361 Manhattan Avenue, Brooklyn   Directions: L Train to Graham Avenue (3rd stop in Brooklyn). Exit right out of turnstile, Left down Graham Avenue, Left on Jackson Street, Right on Manhattan Avenue   Purchase Tickets

produced by Jason Andrew directed and choreographed by Julia K. Gleich musical direction by Ryan Francis décor and costumes by Tamara Gonzales with collaborating artists: Paul D’Agostino Lawrence Swan Audra Wolowiec Margo Wolowiec and others   danced by Dylan Crossman, Michelle Buckley, Jace Coronado, Morgan McEwen, and Abbey Roesner _______________ The Brodmann Areas is a new ballet that dives literally head first into the gaps and synapses that define the 52 areas designating the regions of the cerebral cortex of the brain. Read More=>

Beacon Open Studios Celebrates 4th Annual City-Wide Art Event

BEACON OPEN STUDIOS CELEBRATES

4TH ANNUAL CITY-WIDE ART EVENT APRIL 28 & 29

Popular "Truck City" Mobile Galleries Return for Year Two

Kick Off Event on April 27

April 2, 2012 - Beacon, NY -- Beacon Open Studios, the largest event of its kind in the Hudson Valley and growing, will hold its 4th annual city-wide event on Saturday and Sunday, April 28 & 29. This free event invites the public into local artists' studios, allowing visitors to meet them, view their past and current works-in-progress, and get an up-close look at the spaces in which they create. A diverse network of artists will be participating, from nationally and internationally exhibited names to exciting new faces of the Beacon art community. Visitors can begin their self-guided tour of Beacon Open Studios at the Kickoff Show at Hudson Beach Glass' upstairs gallery where they can see one work by each participating artist and pick up a free map to the studios.

Beacon Open Studios takes the unique approach that every artist should have the opportunity to publicly display their art, supported by promotion and events. Truck City, a pop-up open studio site introduced last year with great success returns this year at Spire Studios, 45 Beekman Street. Artists participating in Truck City will transform moving trucks into mobile galleries and installations, which will be open to visitors to explore during Beacon Open Studios hours-noon to 6pm.

Hudson Beach Glass, 162 Main Street, will host the Beacon Open Studios Kickoff Party on Friday April 27th, from 7 to 10pm. The annual Kickoff Party is a great opportunity for the public to meet local artists and participants in Beacon Open Studios and pick up the Open Studios catalog, which includes a map to all of the participating studios across town. Hudson Beach Glass is also home to the Kickoff Exhibition, which opens on April 14th and runs through April 30th, 10am to 6pm.

An established art destination, Beacon is the perfect venue for this exceptional event. Last year, Beacon Open Studios attracted more than eighty local artists and artisans. and hundreds of visitors. This year's event will showcase over 50 very talented individuals.

CALENDAR OF EVENTS

Saturday April 14th Kickoff Show open at Hudson Beach Glass 162 Main St.

Friday April 27thrd   Kickoff Party 7-10pm at Hudson Beach Glass 162 Main St.

Saturday & Sunday April 28-29th studios are open throughout the city of Beacon from noon to 6pm both days.

Beacon Open Studios is made possible with the support of the Beacon Arts Community Association and by a grant from the Dutchess County Arts Council.

A big thanks goes out to some local businesses for their loyal support of the arts in Beacon: Hudson Beach Glass, RiverWinds Gallery, Tas Kafe, Beacon Natural Market, Max's on Main, Newburgh Art Supply, and The Roundhouse.

Beacon Open Studios           

Contact: Theresa Goodman

beaconopenstudios@yahoo.com

www.beaconopenstudios.org           

Call to Artists - Hidden Cities - Istanbul

Call for Artists: Hidden Cities - Istanbul (Turkey) - May 10-12, 2012 Deadline: April 13, 2012 International ArtExpo is selecting all interesting video/short.films and photo works to include in the next 2012 Exhibition:   Hidden Cities - International Videoart Festival and Photo Exhibition at Koza Visual Culture and Arts Association in Istanbul, Turkey (May 10-12, 2012)   organizer: International ArtExpo curators: Luca Curci media partner: It’s LIQUID Group opening: May 10, 2012 at Koza Visual Culture and Arts Association in Istanbul, Turkey exhibition & screening places: Koza Visual Culture and Arts Association (Istanbul, Turkey) dates: May 10-12, 2012   The deadline for applications is April 13, 2012   The selections will be based on the main concept of “Hidden Cities” that analyses the hybridization of physical and social identities in the contemporary cities.   The number of works with which you can participate is unlimited. All video works must be on DVD (PAL or NTSC), no matter what the original source medium. The maximum length of videos should be 10 minutes. All photo works on every kind of support are accepted. The maximum dimensions allowed per each image are 100 cm per side.   Send your works submissions with a CV/biography, videography and some still images (only for videoartists) and some samples of photo works (only for artists) to:   Luca Curci Architects Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, 33 70122 Bari, Italy   The participation in International Videoart Festival and Photo Exhibition requires an entry fee for every artwork submitted and selected. Participation open to: professional artists, architects and designers, associate groups and studios.   International ArtExpo is a not for profit organization that provides a significant forum for cultural dialogue between all artists from different cultures and countries. We depend on the support of you. ArtExpo is grateful to all of the institutions, corporations, and individuals who support our efforts. We work with a number of national and international galleries as well as publishers, museums, curators and writers from all over the world. We help artists through solo and group exhibitions, gallery representation, magazine reviews and advertisements, press releases, internet promotion, as well as various curatorial projects.

International ArtExpo Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, 33 70122 Bari (Italy) +39.0805234018 +39.3387574098 lucacurci@lucacurci.com www.lucacurci.com/artexpo

Call to Artists - Youngstown State University 14th Annual Summer Festival of the Arts

Youngstown State University
presents:

   

 

14th Annual Summer Festival of the Arts
 Call to Artists

  

What: Fine Arts and Fine Crafts Festival

Where: Youngstown, OH at Youngstown State University

When: Saturday, July 7, 10:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.

          Sunday, July 8, 11:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Noteworthy:

• 14th Annual Event
• Limited to 80 juried fine artists or fine crafters
• Juried event. No buy/sell or rented tables
• Beautiful tree lined outdoor University atmosphere
• Drive-up loading and unloading
• Free artist parking and locked overnight storage
• 24/7 police beginning Friday, July 6
• Convenient restrooms, break area
• Strong and enthusiastic volunteer system
• Cash awards in seven categories
• Free artist breakfast and low cost on-campus housing
• Free admission for patrons
• Strong community support including an ethnic festival, performances, children's art tent,
• Participation and promotion by multiple University and community cultural and arts organizations adjacent to the Festival grounds, creating an entire weekend of activities
• Collaborative event featuring a live jazz concert on Saturday, July 7
• Promotion to the local and regional community via television, radio, newspaper advertising, social media and a newspaper insert containing the festival map and artist information
• Friday set up with volunteer help

The Summer Festival of the Arts, located since 1999 on YSU's campus, is a celebration of the performing and visual arts. A juried art show featuring the works of local, regional and national artists, this event welcomes up to 80 artists yearly. A full schedule of music, dance and theatrical performances throughout the festival grounds complements the art and attracts a diverse crowd. Other activities designed to enhance the Summer Festival of the Arts include the Festival of Nations, where ethnic groups comprising the cultures of those residing in the Mahoning Valley display artifacts and sell food; an extensive children's hands-on art tent; a silent auction, numerous displays and activities sponsored by community arts and cultural groups, a 5K race and, new last year and continuing this year, the Youngstown Jazz fest, a Saturday night jazz concert.

 

FEES AND APPLICATION INFORMATION: 

Jury fees $20 until April 6, then $30 until June 15. Booth fee is $100 for a 10' x 10' space, power available free.  

  

Applications available at www.ysu.edu/sfa 

Contact Lori A. Factor, lafactor@ysu.edu or 330-941-2307

C.K.Wilde - The Spirit of the Stairs

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Between Virtual and Virtuality - Mi Yuming Solo Exhibition

Between Reality and Virtuality

 
Mi Yuming Solo Exhibition
Exhibition May 3 - June 9, 2012
Opening Reception May 3, 6 - 8PM

ArtGate Gallery is pleased to announce Between Reality and Virtuality, a solo exhibition by Chinese photographic artist Mi Yuming. Between Reality and Virtuality blurs boundaries: the conventional photographs combined with contemporary digital techniques blur the boundary between photography and mixed media, while the surreal images question the line between reality and virtuality in our everyday lives. The exhibition will run from May 3 through June 9.

As inhabitants of a media-inundated world driven by consumerism, we are exposed to a constant stream of images, all of which are attempting to discreetly change the way we think. Mi Yuming invites the viewer to question whether their thoughts are affected by this manufactured reality, what is real and what is superficial. Her images are enlarged and exaggerated, a vivid combination of real life captured through a camera lens and a digitally created virtuality.  Mi’s virtual reality reveals her desire and struggle for individual existence.

Mi Yuming was born in 1978 in Tongliao, Inner Mongolia, China. She received an MFA from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. Between Reality and Virtuality marks her first solo show in New York.

Copyright ©2012 ArtGate Gallery, All rights reserved.

ArtGate Gallery
520W 27th St, Suite 101
New York, NY 10001
646-455-0986/0989

Our mailing address is:
info@artgateny.com

Call to Artists - Sioux City Art Center's ArtSplash

Sioux City Art Center's ArtSplash!

   

 
Call to Artists

What: 19th Annual Art Center's ArtSplash Fine Arts Festival

Where: Historic Grandview Park, Sioux City, Iowa

When: Saturday and Sunday, September 1 & 2, 2012

          Saturday, 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.

          Sunday, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

With a special shopping preview in the Artist Area Friday, August 31st, 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. for festival sponsors and patrons.

NOTEWORTHY:  

*Our 19th Year!  

*Jury Fee:  $25.00/ Booth Fee: $265.00  

*Cash Awards of over $3500!

*Comprehensive marketing campaign which includes TV, radio, local, social networking, postcards, posters, web campaigns, regional & national print media.  

*Other features of the festival include:  

Art activities for children

Family-centered main stage entertainment

Multiple food vendors on site

The Sioux City Art Center's ArtSplash cordially invites you to apply to be one of up to 100 exhibitors at our 2012 festival of the arts. ArtSplash enjoys an attendance of 35,000 visitors in the beautiful Grandview Park, home of the historic bandshell!  A celebration of the visual and performing arts, the three-day event gives patrons the unique opportunity to meet and purchase art from exhibiting artists. Our goal is to provide the tri-state area with a family-centered arts adventure of exceptional quality. Proceeds from ArtSplash help the Art Center Association of Sioux City fund education and exhibition programs at the Sioux City Art Center.

Grandview Park is easily accessed by traveling straight north through town from the main Interstate 29 exit servicing the downtown business district. City busses run to the Park during the festival.

Artist hospitality includes artist dinner party on Friday evening at the Sioux City Art Center, complimentary snacks and refreshments throughout the weekend, booth sitters, and volunteer help with load in and load out.  Overnight security is provided Friday and Saturday night.  

Application deadline: April 30, 2012

Notification no later than May 30, 2012

For more information visit www.siouxcityartcentor.org/artsplash or contact lverschoor@sioux-city.org

Applications are available at www.zapplication.org    

Email questions to artistinfo@woodlandsartsfestival.com

Or call 281-705-3882 to speak to Cynthia Reid, Artist Management