The Dialogue

The Dialogue       The MCA Chicago's annual conversation on museums, diversity, and inclusion   September 7, 2011, 6 pm
The Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Chicago, presents the fourth year of The Dialogue, the MCA's annual conversation on museums, diversity, and inclusion on Wednesday, September 7, 2011 at 6 pm. This seminal fall event turns the MCA Theater into a live chat room as the panelists and audience delve into pressing issues of diversity and inclusion facing museums today. This year's focus is on Millennials, the generation born between 1980 and the early 90s, and the profound shifts happening as they come of age, related to self-identity, race, and culture. The Dialogue's panel discussion features Hennessy Youngman (Jayson Musson), YouTube's most followed art theorist; Chicago's Commissioner of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, Michelle T. Boone; and MCA Curator Naomi Beckwith. As the Millennials influence and impact culture, museums and cultural organizations need to understand the changes and their implications to develop a new sense of where and how people produce and engage with art. This may mean that museums should not only rethink who and what they present but also the very ideologies that underlie the collecting, presenting, and interpretive activities. New ethnographic research on Chicago Millennials will be shared by the Museums in the Park Marketing Committee, and audience members are welcome to live tweet during the program. The Dialogue takes place in the MCA Theater. Tickets for the program and dinner reception are $35; the program alone is $10, students $6, available at the MCA Box Office at 312.397.4010 or www.mcachicago.org.  Audience members can follow @mcachicago and use #1thedialogue when tweeting about the program. A live Twitter feed of comments will be featured on mcachicago.org.
Speakers: Jayson Musson Musson is a Philadelphia-based artist whose work across media often deploys satire in the service of art-historical and political critique. Musson is best known for his fictional persona, Hennessy Youngman, a hip-hop-inflected art theorist with an acerbic wit. Described in Art in America as "Ali G with an MFA," Hennessy Youngman has become an online sensation with his periodic video blogs on art history and art making. Michelle T. Boone Boone is the newly appointed commissioner of Chicago's Department of Cultural Affairs, which presents and promotes high-quality free festivals, exhibitions, performances, and holiday celebrations each year in parks, the Chicago Cultural Center, and other venues throughout the city. Most recently, Boone was the senior program officer for culture at The Joyce Foundation in Chicago, responsible for distributing nearly $2 million annually to arts and cultural institutions in major Midwestern cities. Naomi Beckwith Beckwith is Curator at the MCA Chicago and is focused on conceptual practices in contemporary art. Her Master's thesis on Adrian Piper and Carrie Mae Weems earned Distinction from the Courtauld Institute of Art in London. Prior to joining the MCA, Beckwith was the Associate Curator at The Studio Museum in Harlem, and worked at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania, and at the Whitney Museum Independent Study program.

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Catskill's 4th Annual Art Tour

Catskill’s 4^th Annual Art Tour




“Catskill Fringe”

You are cordially invited to join us as Catskill puts its best foot forward during its annual Studio and Gallery Tour.

M Gallery will be celebrating the work of several local artists whose studios are not currently available to the public as well as regional artists outside of town whose talents focus on the beautiful surroundings which we call home.

Open House:

Saturday, September 10, 2011   (11:00am  -5:00pm)
and
Sunday, September 11, 2011   (11:00am  - 4:00pm)

Support the arts.  More information 518-943-0380 or visit our website, www.mgallery-online.com.

ArtFest Fort Myers 2012

ArtFest Fort Myers 2012

Southwest Florida's Premier Art Festival   

Call to Artists  

WHAT: 12th Annual Juried Fine Art Festival

WHEN:  February 4 - 5, 2012

              Saturday & Sunday

              9 a.m. - 5 p.m. 

WHERE:  Downtown Fort Myers Riverfront, Fort Myers, FL

NOTEWORTHY:

• 215 participating artists. 
• Jury/Booth Fee $35/$370 - Double booths available $740 - Numerous             corner booths also offered at no extra cost
• Award winning marketing program valued at $150,000 and designed to target art buying patrons.
• $5,000 in award money plus "invited status" for following year.
• Commemorative poster and t-shirt image selected from a festival artist.
• Opportunity to advertise in festival publications.
• Option to participate in Friday Night Opening Party.
• Artist amenities including drive up access for Friday set up, booth sitters, complimentary breakfast, indoor restrooms, behind booth storage, reserved artist parking on festival site & discounted hotel rates.
• Five-member jury panel changes each year, creating a show with approximately 90% new artists annually.
• For additional details, visit www.ArtFestFortMyers.com 

Each February, over 60,000 art lovers and collectors attend ArtFest Fort Myers to enjoy and purchase the work of 215 fabulous artists from across the country. Our downtown riverfront park and yacht basin are the perfect backdrop as artists booths line the wide boulevard, without the interference of food, sponsors or loud music. New and cutting edge art combines with more traditional work to create an amazing outdoor selling gallery, with no dead end artist spaces allowed!  A true community event, our team of professional staff, with exceptional attention to detail, and 300 dedicated volunteers focus on a successful weekend for you. Apply now and make ArtFest Fort Myers a part of your Florida winter season!

NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS:  

Application deadline: 

September 14 on www.zapplication.org 

Notification:

October 17, 2011

Booth Fees Due:

November 1, 2011

Email inquiries to: 

Jeanne.Seehaver@ArtFestFortMyers.com

Or call 239-768-3602

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.  

For more information, please visit:   www.theartfestivalnewsletter.com 

We also invite you to visit the incredible homepage for artists: www.art-linx.com

12 Painters 12 Hours

12 painters working in the same 12 hours of the same day in the same city.    Opening Reception: Thursday, September 1 · 6:00pm - 9:00pm Also open Friday, September 2nd 10am-7pm Show will be open to the public for 12 hours. Featuring: Polly Shindler. Michael Brennan. Jason Stopa. Kelly Worman. Francine Tint. Will Hutnick. Angela Jann. Michael Hyder. Scott Malbaurn. Janean Hearn. Chelsea Mason. Nat Meade.    Curated by Kelly Worman      Valentina Battler  Art of Ink Painting - Music of Silence Opening reception, Thursday September 8, 2011 Show runs September 7 - 12

508-526 West 26th Street, 9E-9F  New York, NY 10001  info@roguespacechelsea.com   www.roguespacechelsea.com

Jenny Snider

Jenny Snider

Big City, 2004-07, acrylic, watercolor, pencil, on linen, 7 x 6 feet

Each year, the Rome Prize is awarded to thirty emerging artists and scholars in the early or middle stages of their careers who represent the highest standard of excellence in the arts and humanities. Rome Prize winners are provided with a stipend, meals, a bedroom with private bath, and a study or studio. Fellowships generally begin at the Academy in early September and end in early August.



Ms. Snider will be leaving for Rome in September for an eleven month Rome Prize Fellowship.

"I will start my research on the second floor of the Museo Nazionale Romano-Palazzo Massimo alle Terme, paying special attention to the restored frescos of Livia's dining room, and the "black room" frescos from the original Villa Farnesina. I am expecting my research and long walks in Rome to yield much new subject matter, as well as rich inspiration for surface and color. I expect my love and knowledge of Italian film, especially from the nineteen-forties, fifties and sixties, to become part of my narrative. Just as the great Soviet Constructivists became part of my Eisenstein narrative, I expect Livia, Augustus, et al to be joined by Fellini, a great artist whose work was 'beyond category'."

www.johndavisgallery.com

or contact John Davis directly at 518.828.5907 or via e-mail: art@johndavisgallery.com.

cutlog Photo First Edition

cutlog Photo first edition,
November 10-12, 2011
 
The selection is still open!
please subscribe to info@cutlog.org

After two successful years, cutlog isn’t only about to hold its third edition – it is also getting ready to launch its first international fair dedicated to photography. From November 10 to 12, 2011, cutlog Photo will take place under the dome of the Paris Bourse de Commerce, France’s historical equivalent of Wall Street, and will present a selection of international galleries and artists specialized in photography. cutlog Photo will be held in parallel to Paris’ other established photography fair, which brings the world’s leading professionals and specialists to Paris for the middle week in November. cutlog Photo is an independent, trend-setting alternative and acts as a continuation of cutlog’s Contemporary Art fair.  Both events offer a fresh vision in their field of creation thanks to the selection of cutting-edge galleries and cutlog’s committee of professionals that hand picks them.

In an effort to offer a fresh and innovative vision of photography, cutlog Photo creates the « Publisher square » and will present a selection of publishing houses.

To participate: editeur@cutlog.org

PRIZE:
Higgins / cutlog Prize: the Publisher Higgins and the Auer Foundation will select 5 participating photographers from the fair.

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC:
An International competition will lead to the publication of the sixth portfolio.


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