MF Gallery - See You in Hell 2

“SEE YOU IN HELL 2”

Opening Saturday May 12th, 7-10pm

MF Gallery: 213 Bond St. Brooklyn, NY 11217

CONTACT: Martina Secondo Russo (917)446-8681 info@MFgallery.net

Just before 6-6-06, MF Gallery welcomed the "end of the world" with an apocalyptic group show called "See You In Hell"... Now, as we prepare for the "end" of the Mayan calendar, MF Gallery is putting together another group show of apocalyptic proportions... 

Over 50 of the best underground pop artists from around the world were asked to submit artwork. The pieces exhibited are their interpretations of the themes of  "apocalypse", "end/ beginning", “rebirth” etc...

Artists include: Drew Maillard, Moses Jaen, Enrico Macchiavello, Angie Mason, Frank Russo, Martina Secondo Russo, Shannon Daugherty, Kirsten Flaherty, Fernando Carpaneda, Michael Nirenberg, Lou Rusconi, Dave Brockie, Jeff Owens, Alexandre Boisseau, Christina Graf, Angel "Mud" Perez, Scarecrowoven, Mark Elliot, Bruce Parker, Phillo Rossi Cremisi, Erica Doll, Rudy Fig, Nathaniel, Groppe, Bianca Panzram, Anonymous Art, Pasquale Reca, John Russo, Alex Kirzhner, Daniel Caspera, Matthew Pleva, Rodrigo Melo, Eric Richardson, Anna Melo, Mal Ojo, Cory Benhatzel, Silvano Galifi, Joe Simko, Jeff Zornow, Alex Kirzhner, Annie Hunter, Corey Urlacher, Lawrence Van Abbema, Johanna O'Donnell, PJ McQuade, Vinney Cavallo, Sergio Zuniga, Davis Bradley & many more!

The show will open on Saturday, May 12^th from 7 to 10pm. Many of the artists will be in attendance. Admission is free and open to all ages and refreshments will be served.

All of the art in “See You In Hell 2” will also be available for viewing and purchasing online at: http://mfgallery.net/SYIH2/SYIH2.html

MF Gallery is located at 213 Bond Street, between Butler and Baltic Streets in the Gowanus area of Brooklyn, NY. Take the A or G to Hoyt/ Schermerhorn, the F or G to Bergen, or the R to Union.

Contact Martina Secondo Russo at (917)446-8681 or info@MFgallery.net for appointments to see the show, to request high resolution images, for general questions or press inquiries.

Call to Artists - Park Your Art Contest 2012!

 

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Call to Artists - Strawberry Days Festival

Strawberry Days Festival 

  

  

Call to Artists

WHAT:  115th Annual Strawberry Days Festival

  

WHERE: Sayre (Strawberry) Park, Glenwood Springs, CO

  

WHEN: June 15-17, 2012

Strawberry Days has been entertaining generations for more than 100 years. The festival features a FamilyFest area with interactive, entertaining and creative experiences for the kids; an arts and crafts fair and food court; an old-fashioned carnival; a parade down Grand Avenue and a full entertainment line-up.  Of course, we'll still serve free strawberries and ice cream on Saturday, just like we've been doing for the past century.

NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS:

  

Deadline:

April 15, 2012 

  

Notification:

April 30, 2012 

  

For more details or to download an application, visit:

www.strawberrydaysfestival.com

Email inquiries to:

strawberrydays@glenwoodchamber.com 

You may also contact by telephone:

Angie Anderson

Glenwood Springs Chamber Resort Association

(970) 945-6589

Carla Goldberg - Opening Reception

bau 88 

A Solo Exhibition

of New Works by

Carla Goldberg 

at beacon artist union
(bau gallery) 

161 Main Street Beacon, NY 

Exhibition runs Sat. April 14th
thru Sun. May 6

Opening Reception for the Artist

Saturday April 14th
6pm to 9pm

Sonia Stanyard - Nurtured Landscapes

OPENING INVITATION
Saturday 14th April 2012 at 6.00 pm

Sonia Stanyard | Nurtured Landscapes
Winner of the Special Prize De Faveri Arte + Lab 612 XL
at the 5th International Arte Laguna Prize

Gallery De Faveri Artecontemporanea + Lab 610 XL
at Spazio Paraggi - Treviso

"... Sonia Stanyard has choosen the combination of an intense technique and of a point of view of both domestic and wild ..." (Viviana Siviero)

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More Great Pics From Artexpo New York 2012

ARTEXPO NEW YORK 2012

Alex Fishgoyt at his Booth at Artexpo

Arte-Argentino.Org Directors and Adriana Trotta Argentine Deputy Consul

  Linda Calvert Jacobson, American Artist

Pasquale Cuppari

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