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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