Old Florida Celebration of the Arts Join Us at the 50th Annual Spring Arts Festival in Cedar Key, FL

Old Florida Celebration of the Arts Join Us at the 50th Annual Spring Arts Festival in Cedar Key, FL          Call to Artists What:  50th Old Florida Celebration of the Arts    Where: Historic Second Street, 60 miles SW of Gainesville, FL, at the end of SR 24     When: April 12-13, 2014, 10 AM - 5 PM NOTEWORTHY: 120 Fine Artists and Craftsman showcase their work on 2nd Street   $14,000 in Prizes and Purchase Awards Annual event draws over 20,000 visitors each year Complimentary full breakfast on Saturday and continental breakfast on Sunday Artists' Reception and Awards Ceremony with food & beverages SaturdayEvening $32 Entry Fee (waved for previous year's winners) $165 Booth Fee (10' deep by 12' wide) - double spaces available Great, local food served by non-profit organizations in Cedar Key's City Park on the Gulf: including famous Cedar Key steamed clams, fried oysters, homemade crab cakes and desserts, freshly squeezed lemonade, & more. Music and children's art activities make this an event to remember. The town of Cedar Key sits on one of several islands in the Suwannee National Wildlife Refuge. This historic fishing village has long been a haven for artists and nature lovers. You can experience the magic of our community on April 12 & 13, while also connecting with two larger festivals in NW Florida on the weekend before (Santa Fe Spring Arts Festival, Gainesville) & the weekend after (Mainsail Arts Festival, Tampa/St Pete). Experience the tranquil beauty of Florida's Nature Coast and the unmatchable hospitality of Cedar Key's historic community of artists, fisherman, and creative, eclectic people. Now Accepting Applications via www.zapplicaton.org   Application Deadline - December 1, 2013 Notifications Emailed - January 1, 2014 Acceptance of Invitation and Booth Fees Due - February 1, 2014      Website: www.cedarkeyartsfestival.com  Phone: 352-543-5400 Email: cedarkeyartsfestival@gmail.com       This call to artists is brought to you as a service of The Art Festival Newsletter, the nation's only quarterly newsletter dedicated to the success of art festival artists. Please visit us at:  www.theartfestivalnewsletter.com We invite you to visit the incredible homepage for artists:  www.Art-Linx.com Searching for festivals? Visit www.theartfestivaldirectory.com #fineartmagazine

Art & Apples Festival

Art & Apples Festival         Call to Artists WHAT: Juried Fine Art Fair    WHERE: Rochester Municipal Park, Rochester, Michigan       WHEN: Friday, September 5, 4pm-7:30pm,              Saturday, September 6,9am7:30pm,                           Sunday, September 7, 9am-4pm              NOTEWORTHY:    *Presented by Paint Creek Center for the Arts, a nonprofit art center, the Art & Apples Festival is Michigan's second largest juried fine art festival with an average attendance of over 150,000 festival-goers and 290 artists from across the country.   *Now using Zapplication. Please visit zapplication.org to apply *Celebrating 49 years in 2014 * Ranked 13th in the nation on Sunshine Artist Magazine's "200 Best" Fine Art & Design List *Average sales in 2012 were $5,020 *$5,000 in award money; $1,500 Grand Award, 5 Awards of Excellence $500 each. *Held annually the weekend following Labor Day in Rochester's 30-acre Municipal Park. *Artist amenities include: 24-hour security, booth sitting, artist care packages,Saturday & Sunday Artist Hospitality Tent featuring free coffee and donuts, ability to drive into park and unload right next to booth space, parking within walking distance to park and complimentary shuttle service to all artists. *Application fee $30 *Booth fees: Single (11'x15') $425; Double (22'x15') $650; Corner additional $100; Electricity additional $60   Since 1982, Paint Creek Center for the Arts has been dedicated to promoting the arts and artistic excellence through a full range of cultural programs including exhibitions, studio art classes, outreach programs, community involvement projects, and the Art & Apples Festival. Paint Creek Center for the Art's mission is to enhance life in the region by promoting, encouraging and creating opportunities to participate in and appreciate the arts.  NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS:      Deadline: February 28, 2014   Notification Date: March 17, 2014 Booth Fee Due: June 14, 2014 (postmark date) Refund Deadline: June 30, 2014 To apply, please visit www.zapplication.org or visit www.ArtandApples.com to download and mail an application.  Or please feel free to contact Laura Bates, Festival Director, at 248-651-4110 orlbates@pccart.org         This call to artists is brought to you as a service of The Art Festival Newsletter, the nation's only quarterly newsletter dedicated to the success of art festival artists. Please visit us at:  www.theartfestivalnewsletter.com We invite you to visit the incredible homepage for artists:  www.Art-Linx.com Searching for festivals? Visit www.theartfestivaldirectory.com#fineartmagazine

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Call for Artists: BORDERLAND – The entropy of identities Nottingham (UK) 2013

Call for Artists: BORDERLAND – The entropy of identities Nottingham (UK) 2013International Video-Art screening Deadline: December 07, 2013 International ArtExpo is selecting all interesting video/short films to include in “BORDERLAND – The entropy of identities” international video art screening which will be held in Nottingham (UK), at Nottingham Playhouse, from the 13th to the 26th of January 2014. Entropy is conceptually defined as the measure of the level of disorder in a changing system. Starting from this fascinating concept, each person can be considered as a changing system, as the same as for a specific culture, city or country, until the whole universe. All these systems are subjected to a process of continuous inner evolution which overcome their own boundaries to contaminate and crossbreed each others. Borders of this evolving systems get more and more fleeting, and their identities turn out fluid, multiple and changeable. These continue changes find in the inevitability of evolution their measure of order. Nottingham Playhouse has been one of the United Kingdom’s leading producing theatres since its foundation in 1948. Touring work nationally and internationally, the Playhouse remains firmly rooted in its vibrant home city, where its spacious modernist building – fronted by Anish Kapoor’s “Sky Mirror” – is one of the region’s most popular landmarks. Thanks to the programme “Digital Stage” curated by The Cutting Room innovative digital artworks have been brought to Nottingham Playhouse, offering an alternative viewpoint to Nottingham Playhouse’s artistic programme. The deadline for applications is December 07, 2013. The event is open to video-art only. To take part in the selection, send your videos’ submissions with a CV/biography, videography and some still images via email to lucacurci@lucacurci.com or via mail to: International ArtExpoCorso Vittorio Emanuele II, 33 70122 Bari, Italy The number of works you can submit is free and unlimited. The participation in the International Art Festival requires an entry fee only for selected artworks. Participation open to: artists, architects and designers, associate groups and studios. International ArtExpo is an art organization that provides a significant forum for cultural dialogue between all artists from different cultures and countries. ArtExpo is grateful to all of the institutions, corporations, and individuals who support our artistic projects. We work with a number of national and international galleries as well as publishers, museums, curators and critics 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.

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Public: An expanded sector brings the work of 24 artists to Collins Park

Public: An expanded sector brings the work of 24 artists to Collins Park 

Curated under the theme 'Social Animals' by Nicholas Baume, Director and Chief Curator of Public Art Fund, the artworks selected for this year’s Public sector will transform Collins Park into an outdoor exhibition space. Public, a sector of Art Basel's Miami Beach show, features over 30 large-scale sculptures and installations by leading and emerging international artists, including Olaf Breuning, Sam Falls, Jeppe Hein, Thomas Houseago, Alicja Kwade, Richard Long, Santiago Roose, Oscar Tuazon, and Ursula von Rydingsvard. For the third straight year the sector is produced in partnership with the Bass Museum of Art. A selection of artworks will continue to be installed in Collins Park through March 2014. The Public sector’s opening night on Wednesday, December 4 will include a special program of performances, free of charge and open to the public. 

The theme 'Social Animals' has its origins in Aristotle's observations about the nature of human beings. Set within the cityscape of Miami Beach, this year’s edition of Public seeks to turn a grouping of separate works by multiple artists into a temporary community of its own, with works in conversation and in dialog with each other – such as Sam Falls’ powder-coated aluminum installation with a master work by Charlotte Posenenske – as well as with the location – evident in Michelle Lopez’s towering site-specific structure. 

Drawing on his experience of injecting public art within the urban landscape, Nicholas Baume’s selection works to activate the public park as a place for social interactions and as an extension of the diverse exchanges that take place in the environment of the art fair. In this context, Public presents Phil Wagner’s diptych of opposing chairs, large-scale sculptures by Mark di Suvero and Oscar Tuazon, and two urban structures built from concrete, wood, and metal mesh by Santiago Roose. Alicja Kwade’s large-scale steel sculpture reimagines the border lines between time zones as a global electrocardiograph. 

The sector’s title likewise links to the hand-worked surfaces and textures of many of the work’s figurative and organic forms. The varied works of Huma Bhabha, Olaf Breuning, Aaron Curry, Tom Friedman, Thomas Houseago, Matthew Monahan, Tony Tasset and Pascale Marthine Tayou incorporate figurative elements, at times alluding to Modernist and ancient totems. The use of natural materials is seen in Carol Bove’s open-form sculpture in petrified wood and steel, Jeppe Hein’s series of 'rooms' shaped by water, and Richard Long’s 12-foot-diameter installation in Dartmoor Granite, while Ursula von Rydingsvard’s composition of cut, stacked and sculptured cedar beams transforms solid material into gestural form. Mungo Thomson’s audio recording of professional musicians imitating the sound of crickets is played on outdoor speakers. 

Symbols of popular culture are reused and repositioned to engage with the audience, as in Scott Reeder’s three-dimensional installation of the words 'Real Fake' and Matias Faldbakken’s adaptation of the original Peterbilt 281 big rig truck which appeared in Steven Spielberg’s first feature film 'Duel' (1971). Maarten Vanden Eynde’s composition of oil peak sculptures in bronze is based on the production rates of individual oil wells and the combined production rate of a field of related oil wells. 

A selection of works from Public will remain installed in Collins Park for an extended run through March 2014 via tc: temporary contemporary. The city-wide temporary, public art program was initiated by the Bass Museum of Art in partnership with the City of Miami Beach in 2012. It seeks to activate the urban landscape with art and engage with residents, visitors and passers-by to encourage interactions with the city and its communities. tc: temporary contemporary is made possible through the support of The City of Miami Beach, ArtPlace, National Endowment for the Arts, Knight Foundation and Funding Arts Network, Inc. 

For Public Opening Night on Wednesday, Kate Gilmore has created 'Only One Like You', a new performance that builds on themes introduced in her 2011 Public Art Fund project. In this large-scale performance, lining both sides of the central axis through the park, performers, who will share a number of physical characteristics, will stand on individual pedestals, wielding sledgehammers, and pounding metal cubes, creating in the process a series of destroyed sculptures. Taking the basic elements of human presence and bodily movement as his raw materials, Ryan McNamara’s new performance 'Uncanny Liquidity' intends to tweak perceptions and provoke curiosity. Two performers are placed in Collins Park, dressed to blend into the crowd. Their subtle movements betray the fact that something is not quite right, prompting visitors to observe them more closely. As the night goes on, their difference from the rest of the crowd grows more acute. For 'Smoke Grid' Olaf Breuning will simultaneously set off smoke canisters to create a sea of colored smoke. The installation transforms its environment into a swirling painterly mass of color and movement, generating unique visual effects as the smoke and pigment erupt and disperse. A new sound installation by Mungo Thomson will be created that evening. Four musicians playing different instruments – clarinet, flute, violin and percussion – will imitate the song of crickets. Recordings of the performance will be played in Collins Park throughout the rest of the week. For the fourth performance of the evening, entitled 'Santa Confessional', David Colman installs a classic Catholic confessional within Collins Park for people to confess their sins and ask for absolution. Instead of the booth being fully enclosed like a classic confessional, open-air windows cut into the design, creating a tension between yesterday’s private practice of confessing in secret and today’s more performative and secular version of confession. 

Public Opening Night, which is free and open to the public, takes place in Collins Park on Wednesday, December 4, from 8.30pm to 10pm. The Public sector is also free of charge and open to the public from December 4 to December 8. 

Collins Park is located between 21st & 22nd Street, in close proximity of the exhibition halls within the Miami Beach Convention Center and adjacent to The Bass Museum of Art. 

On Thursday, December 5, from 2pm to 3pm, Art Basel's Salon program will see Nicholas Baume in conversation with Kate Gilmore, Alicja Kwade and Mungo Thomson. The talk takes place in the Hall C auditorium of the Miami Beach Convention Center. Art Basel entry tickets include admission to Salon. 

List of 2013 Public artworks: 

Huma Bhabha | 'God of Some Things', 2011 | Salon 94 

Carole Bove | 'Flora’s Garden I', 2012 | David Zwirner 

Olaf Breuning | 'Dreams/Dirt'; 'There is Absolutely Nothing to Find Up There'; 'I Don't Want to Go This Way', 2013 | Metro Pictures 

Aaron Curry | 'Untitled', 2013 | David Kordansky Gallery 

Mark di Suvero | 'Exemplar', 1979 | Paula Cooper Gallery 

Matias Faldbakken | 'Untitled (Duel Truck)', 2013 | Simon Lee Gallery | Paula Cooper Gallery 

Sam Falls | 'Untitled', 2013 | Galerie Eva Presenhuber 

Tom Friedman | 'Untitled (peeing figure)', 2012; 'Huddle', 2013 | Luhring Augustine | Stephen Friedman Gallery 

Jeppe Hein | 'Appearing Rooms', 2004 | 303 Gallery | Johann König | Galleri Nicolai Wallner 

Thomas Houseago | 'Striding Figure (Rome I)', 2013; 'Studio Seat I', 2011; 'Studio Seat II', 2012; 'Yet to be Titled (Chaise)', 2012 | Gagosian Gallery 

Alicja Kwade | 'Pulse of Time', 2013 | Johann König | kamel mennour 

Richard Long | 'Higher White Tor Circle', 1996 | Sperone Westwater 

Michelle Lopez | 'Blue Angel II', 2013 | Simon Preston Gallery 

Matthew Monahan | 'A Lifer', 2013 | Anton Kern Gallery 

Charlotte Posenenske | 'Vierkantrohre Serie D', 1967 – 2013 | Mehdi Chouakri | Peter Freeman 

Scott Reeder | 'Real Fake', 2013 | Kavi Gupta Chicago/Berlin 

Santiago Roose | 'Theoretically Stable System', 2013 | 80M2 Livia Benavides 

Tony Tasset | 'Bear', 2013 | Kavi Gupta Chicago/Berlin 

Pascale Marthine Tayou | 'Tug of War', 2007 – 2010 | Galleria Continua 

Mungo Thomson | 'Cricket Solo for Clarinet', 'Cricket Solo for Violin', 'Cricket Solo for Flute', 'Cricket Solo for Percussion', 2013 | galerie frank elbaz 

Oscar Tuazon | 'Untitled', 2013 | Galerie Eva Presenhuber 

Maarten Vanden Eynde | 'Oil Peaks', 2010 – 2013 | Meessen De Clercq 

Ursula von Rydingsvard | 'Lub Też', 2013 | Galerie Lelong 

Phil Wagner | 'Let Us Rejoice', 2013 | Untitled 

List of performances taking place during Public Opening Night: 

Olaf Breuning l 'Smoke Grid', 2013 

David Colman l 'Santa Confessional', 2013 

Kate Gilmore l 'Only One Like You', 2013 

Ryan McNamara | 'Uncanny Liquidity', 2013 

Mungo Thomson l 'Crickets Solo for Clarinet'; 'Violin'; 'Flute'; 'Percussion', 2013 

More information on the sector is available at artbasel.com/miamibeach/public.

Important Dates

Opening Day of Art Basel in Miami Beach (by invitation only): 

Wednesday, December 4, 2013 

Public Show Dates: Thursday, December 5 to Sunday, December 8, 2013 

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The Third Line at Abu Dhabi Art

Tarek Al-Ghoussein, (In) Consideration of Myths 1257, 2013, Chromogenic Print, 60 x 90 cm The Third Line at Abu Dhabi Art Booth H1-12 November 20 - 23, 2013 The Third Line is pleased to be returning to the 5th edition of Abu Dhabi Art and will be exhibiting works by Rana Begum, Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, Tarek Al-Ghoussein, Babak Golkar, Sherin Guirguis, Sahand Hesamiyan, Pouran Jinchi and Farhad Moshiri. Works by Hassan Hajjaj and Sahand Hesamiyan will also be included in the Beyond Section of the fair. #fineartmagazine

DREAMS LIVED/DREAMS SHATTERED: MLK, JFK 50 YEARS LATER The Work of FIT Graduate Illustration Program Students and Faculty The Museum at FIT

DREAMS LIVED/DREAMS SHATTERED: MLK, JFK 50 YEARS LATER

The Work of FIT Graduate Illustration Program Students and Faculty

The Museum at FIT

Seventh Avenue at 27 Street

OPENING RECEPTION TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 6:00-8:00 PM

On View Through December 7

Many of the students of the FIT graduate program in Illustration whose art hangs in The Museum at FIT in honor of the 50^th anniversary of the deaths of President John F. Kennedy and Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., do not remember those seminal events from personal experience, but one wouldn’t know it from looking at their work. The exhibition, Dreams Lived/Dreams Shattered: MLK, JFK 50 Years Later, on view throughDecember 7, includes the illustrations of 24 students in FIT’s Masters of Fine Arts program in Illustration and five faculty members, along with powerful personal statements about the pieces.

The works range in media from scratchboard and canvas to pen and ink, clay sculpture, and digital print.

“I like bringing the culture of our times to our work,” said Melanie Reim, chair and associate professor, Master of Fine Art program in Illustration. “It’s important to remember that visual interpretations are potent, powerful ways of assigning a feeling to the written word, and in today’s world the illustrator is more powerful than ever with the combination of media they have at their disposal.”

In order to deepen the students’ understanding of these two seminal events in America’s history, Daniel Levinson Wilk, associate professor, American History, provided background, and Matthew Petrunia, associate professor, English and Speech, followed with the key aspects of great speeches. The students were then asked to interpret the events of half a century ago in any way they chose.

A number of the students expanded on Kennedy’s and King’s lives – and their untimely deaths – to examine broader social issues. In Put Them Where We Can’t See Them, Donna Choi considers the fact that the United States makes up five percent of the world’s population, yet comprises twenty-five percent of its incarcerated population. Within this population, she states, African-Americans are disproportionately targeted and punished for nonviolent drug offenses.

Minjung Kim was inspired by the legacy of President Kennedy’s passing of the Civil Rights Act, choosing to express herself artistically with a medical illustration. 

Nicholas Block writes that his piece has to do with the nature of dreams, which have the potential to inspire and cause action. “Martin Luther King used his ‘dream’ as the basis for a movement toward his vision of a better world.”

Bruno Nadalin used the metaphor of Hurricane Katrina and the rooftops of New Orleans to represent the “lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity” that Dr. King spoke of in his “I Have a Dream” speech.

The Fashion Institute of Technology, a college of the State University of New York, has been a leader in career education in art, design, business, and technology for nearly 70 years. With a curriculum that provides a singular blend of hands-on, practical experience, classroom study, and a firm grounding in the liberal arts, FIT offers a wide range of outstanding programs that are affordable and relevant to today’s rapidly changing industries. The college offers more than 45 majors and grants AAS, BFA, BS, MA, MFA, and MPS degrees, preparing students for professional success and leadership in the global marketplace. Visit fitnyc.edu.

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Please join The Butcher's Daughter in congratulating Kevin Beasley for his inclusion in the 2014 Whitney Biennial Mar 7 - May 25, 2014

Untitled (Wrong), 2013 (detail) 30 x 25 x 20" resin, body pillows, t-shirt, hooded sweatshirt Please join The Butcher's Daughter in congratulating Kevin Beasley for his inclusion in the       2014 Whitney Biennial Mar 7 - May 25, 2014  Curated by Stuart Comer currently Chief Curator of Media and Performance Art at MoMA, Anthony Elms, Associate Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, and Michelle Grabner, Professor and Chair of the Painting Institute, Chicago >> http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/2014Biennial >> "The 2014 Whitney Biennial is Taking Shape", Carol Vogel, New York Times, November 14, 2013 Untitled (swallow), 2013 (dual perspective)  foam 10 x 12" private collection Other upcoming exhibitions and performances include: Queens Museum of Art, New York, NY Queens International 2013 November 9 2013 - January 19 2014 >> http://www.queensmuseum.org/11054/queens-international-2013 >> "A Local Place for a Global Neighborhood", Holland Cotter, The New York Times, November 7, 2014  Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Collaborative Lecture Performance with Fred Moten March 26 2014 The Butcher's Daughter, Detroit, MI   Solo Exhibition April 4 - May 25 2014 Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, OH And in My Dream I Was Rolling on the Floor Residency April 6-13 2014 | Performance April 12 2014 The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN Sound Horizon Performance in-conjunction with Jim Hodges: Give More Than You Take May 8 2014 The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY Artist-in-Residence 2013-2014 Exhibition July 2014 >> http://www.studiomuseum.org/press        Untitled (Helmet), 2013 foam, spray paint, resin, t-shirt 12 x 14 x 20" private collection Kevin Beasley was born in Lynchburg, Virginia, in 1985. He holds an MFA from Yale University (2012) and received a BFA from the College for Creative Studies in Detroit (2007). He has exhibited nationally with The Butcher's Daughter (Detroit, MI) in group shows in Los Angeles, throughout Michigan, and New York.   Beasley's recent exhibitions include "Fore" at The Studio Museum in Harlem (2012-13), "Some Sweet Day" at the Museum of Modern Art (2012) and "An All Day Event, The End" at Danspace (2012).   Beasley has recently completed a fellowship for the International Studio & Curatorial Program in Brooklyn, NY and he will be the artist in residence at The Studio Museum in Harlem for 2013-2014.   He currently lives and works in New York City.  |||   |||   |||   |||   |||   |||   |||  |||   For details related to art, performance, or upcoming events, please email info@thebutchersdaughtergallery.com  |||   |||   |||   |||   |||   |||   |||  ||| T 248 890 6536 || info@thebutchersdaughtergallery.com www.thebutchersdaughtergallery.com      #fineartmagazine

Closing Reception Saturday November 16, 3-6pm.

Closing Reception Saturday November 16, 3-6pm. 

We look forward seeing you there! 

All my best,

Elga Wimmer

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Elga Wimmer PCC
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BRICKBOTTOM WILL HAVE OPEN STUDIOS, SATURDAY AND SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 23RD AND 24TH, 12 TO 6 PM.

 

BRICKBOTTOM WILL HAVE OPEN STUDIOS, SATURDAY AND SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 23RD AND 24TH, 12 TO 6 PM.

Wally Gilbert will show in C319.

Celia Gilbert will show in C207.

	Brickbottom Open Studios Our 26th Annual Open Studios Event will take place the weekend before Thanksgiving, Saturday and Sunday, November 23-24, 2013, from noon to 6pm. 1 Fitchburg Street, Somerville, MA 02143 Over 60 artists will be showing at Brickbottom and, just two blocks away, more than 50 artists will be showing at Joy Street Studios. Don't miss it. See both up-and-coming and established artists' artwork in the studios where they were created. All media are represented from painting and sculpture to photography, digital art and environmental and performance art. Genres range from abstract to realistic and everything in between. Glass blowing, ceramics, printmaking, animation, sound, theatre and music will round out the multi-media event.

 

We hope to see you there.

Wally will show black and white prints, color images on LED light-frames, and new prints, including "A View from Heaven" #1

Celia will show Oils and Acrylics and new work, including "The Death of Saint Bean"

 

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