South Miami Rotary Art Festival

    

South Miami Rotary
Art Festival  

   

 
Call to Artists

Deadline Approaching  -  October 29, 2011   

What: South Miami Rotary Art Festival 

Where: Downtown South Miami on Sunset Drive between Red Road and US#1

When: February 25-26, 2012, Saturday and Sunday, 10 AM - 6 PM

General information:

*Fees: Application - $30

          Booths - $295, $350,& $395

*Drive-up to booth space for load in and out

*Coffee and donuts Saturday morning

*Booth sitters available

*Prizes - $3,250

*Cost to public: Free admission  

Festival Timeline:

Deadline - Oct. 29, 2011

Notificationemailed - Nov. 19, 2011

Booth fee due - Dec. 17, 2011

Refund deadline - Jan. 7, 2012  

Festival setup - Feb. 25, 2012, 6 AM

Festival breakdown - Feb. 26, 6 PM-8 PM

 

  

This is the 28th annual festival presented by the Rotary Club of South Miami on the main street of vibrant downtown South Miami. In an area of unique shops and restaurants with high pedestrian traffic, the show attracts approximately 30,000 visitors. There is free artist parking nearby, ample on street and garage parking for visitors, and fine South Florida weather,

Advertising includes newspaper, radio, magazine, online, street banners, pole banners and social media. The festival program is a newspaper insert distributed one week in advance as well as at the festival.

The Rotary volunteers are available throughout the show to assist exhibitors and provide booth sitting.       

Apply at www.zapplicaton.org

Visit us at www.southmiamiartfest.org

Email questions to info@southmiamiartfest.org

  

 

 

Nassau County Museum of Art Reopening December 10

December 2011/January 2012

Closed for Show Change November 28—December 9
Reopening December 10


 

EXHIBITIONS


Opening December 10, 2011

December 10, 2011 though March 18, 2012
The Paintings of Louis Comfort Tiffany: Works from a Long Island Collection
Drawn from an important Long Island collection, this major exhibition showcases approximately 125 oils and works on paper by Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848-1933), an American artist most closely associated with the Art Nouveau and Aesthetic movements. Centered on Tiffany’s paintings, which he created for himself to memorialize his travels and surroundings, The Paintings of Louis Comfort Tiffany offers an uncommon glimpse into the artist’s personal world and travels. The exhibition, the first in the metropolitan area since 1979 to focus on Tiffany’s paintings, also includes some examples of Tiffany’s decorative arts, especially stained glass lamps and windows.


ON THE GROUNDS
Ongoing

Sculpture Park
More than 50 works, many of them monumental in size, by renowned artists including Fernando Botero, Tom Otterness, George Rickey and Mark DiSuvero among others are situated to interact with nature on the museum’s magnificent 145-acre property.

Walking Trails
The museum’s 145 acres include many marked nature trails through the woods, perfect for family hikes or independent exploration.

Gardens
From restored Formal Gardens of historic importance to quiet little nooks for dreaming away an afternoon, the museum’s 145 acre property features many lush examples of horticultural arts. Come view our expanded gardens and beautiful new path to the museum.



EVENTS


FOR THE FAMILY
Sundays from 1 p.m.
December 11 & 18
January 8, 15, 22 & 29
Family Sundays at the Museum
Now there's even more reason for families to plan the weekend around a visit to Nassau County Museum of Art. Each Sunday the museum offers a 1 p.m. docent-led family walk-through of the exhibition and, beginning at 1:30 p.m., supervised art activities for the whole family. Special family guides of the main exhibition are available in the galleries. Family Sundays at the Museum are free with museum admission. Weekend parking fee is $2 (members free). Family Sundays are held in the museum’s main building, the Arnold & Joan Saltzman Fine Art Building.

Art Accelerating Art

Christian Marclay - Ephemera

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	Christian Marclay - Ephemera Opening on Saturday October 8, 2011 from 2 pm to 8 pm Exhibition from Saturday October 8 to Saturday October 15, 2011 Ephemera is the result of the long-term accumulation of eclectic and decorative musical notations, gleaned from here and there in various advertisements, illustrations, menus, candy wrappings etc. These ephemera have been assembled, and then photographed and reproduced in a series of 28 folios. From this ensemble of printed motifs, Christian Marclay has created a musical score named Ephemera, which is intended to be played by professional musicians.  For the exhibition of this work, mfc-michèle didier has planned a display that will render the work's whole musical dimension.  Ephemera 28 folios 40 x 60 cm each Limited edition of 90 numbered and signed copies and 10 artist's proofs Produced and published in 2009 by mfc-michèle didier  ©2009 Christian Marclay and mfc-michèle didier Price per unit: 2600 € Please find the technical file with complementary information here. To order the book, please visit our website our send us an email: info@micheledidier.com
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Artist Henry Asencio Figurative Drama

Artist Henry Asencio
Figurative Drama

Over 20 New Original Works

October 7^th & 8^th 2011

At Galeria del Mar – 9 King Street

Friday, October 7^th
11:00am – 6:00pm
Exhibition Opening DayPlease note: The gallery will close early on Friday due to a special event.

Saturday, October 8^th
1:00pm – 4:00pm
Artist Meet & Greet – Open to the Public

Collectors of fine art are given the rare opportunity to acquire and meet arguably one of the most sought after and collected artists of our time. You will find masterpieces from Asencio around the globe; heads of state, Saudi sheiks, movie stars, sports icons and corporate giants have all come to realize the joy of collecting fine works of art created by Asencio. Comparisons are often made to the great masters before him such as Willem de Kooning, Lucien Freud, Gustav Klimt and Pablo Picasso. Asencio’s masterful works of art have indeed plucked at the heart strings of art collectors. Powerful brush strokes charged with dancing light and brilliant hues. His masterful use of the brush and pallet knife, his brilliant juxtaposition of colors, the passionate reds, use of shadow and light, all create tension and expectation. Asencio brings to us the glorious human form, sensual, respectfully rendered, a celebration of the divine creation. As you gaze at his masterful works, you are transported to a place where the world is as it should be..... Filled with color, beauty and warmth. This is Asencio’s world, and he invites you to be part of it! —

Gallery Hours:

Sun – Thurs 10:30am – 6:30

Friday & Saturday 10:30am – 10:00pm

Call the gallery for more event information: 904-829-2120

HIGHLY ACCLAIMED AUTHOR JOYCE CAROL OATES WILL GIVE A READING AT BARD COLLEGE ON MONDAY, OCTOBER 3

HIGHLY ACCLAIMED AUTHOR JOYCE CAROL OATES

WILL GIVE A READING AT BARD COLLEGE ON MONDAY, OCTOBER 3

 

 

ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y.—Joyce Carol Oates, one of the country's most influential authors of fiction and essays, winner of the National Book Award, and author of We Were the Mulvaneys, Blonde, and A Widow’s Story, will read from her recent book, Sourland, at Bard College on Monday, October 3. The New York Times said that Sourland “could be used as a master class in the art of pure suspenseful storytelling.” Oates will be introduced by novelist and Bard literature professor Bradford Morrow. The reading, presented as part of Morrow’s Innovative Contemporary Fiction Reading Series, takes place at 4 p.m. in Olin Auditorium. It is free and open to the public; no reservations are required.

Joyce Carol Oates is the author of more than 50 novels. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including the national bestsellers We Were the Mulvaneys and Blonde (a finalist for the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize), and the New York Times bestsellers The Falls (winner of the 2005 Prix Femina Etranger) and The Gravedigger’s Daughter. Her many literary awards include the National Book Award, PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction, O. Henry Prize for continued achievement in the short story, and the Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement. She is the Roger S. Berlind ’52 Professor in the Humanities at Princeton University and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978. She received the Common Wealth Award for Distinguished Service in Literature in 2003, the Chicago Tribune Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006, and the National Humanities Medal in 2010. 

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

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Konstantin Dimopoulos - The Shower Room

 

Konstantin Dimopoulos - The Shower Room

 

Until 8 October 2011 at the Conny Dietzschold Gallery, Sydney - Australia

 

‘Transformation’ is the focus of this new installation by Konstantin Dimopoulos. The black-and-white Bergman-like images, seemingly crafted from some Nordic or Barbaric lands, are transplanted effortlessly here in this Antipodean landscape. In The Shower Room, Dimopoulos creates a series of modular shower units, five in total. Each stand-alone work is 3 meters in height, made of black steel, with a shower unit held on five stem pediments. The dark spider-like legs, long and extended, splay outwards from the centre of the shower, each leg sitting on castors that allow them to move freely. Their mobility is a statement in itself, the portability of ideas.

 

These industrial fittings originally designed for a domestic setting are now transformed to some other purpose, some political convenience. Conceived to cleanse the living, brutal pieces of the ordinary, that transform the day-to-day bathroom shower to something more malevolent. Statements of man’s creative imagination. These showers have a similarity to the showers we know and use. And yet our memory tells us that we have seen these images before within a different context. They stand like black triffids in rows, waiting to be activated. Their long necks curving down, with shards of white lines raining out from their steel perforated shower heads towards the floor.

 

In the smaller gallery, we see another installation The Bed–Sitting Room. To one side of the room sits a black iron bed. Again the idea of transformation and memory is brought into play. We have seen this room before but something has changed. The bed seems strangely altered, stretched and emaciated.  On the wall a drawing of a family portrait from a wedding is slightly off-center, tilted, so that you want to go up and straighten it. While on a shelf metronome-like units keep time. The transformation and monotone nature of these works, the black and white pastiche of colour within the gallery suggest something more of a collective memory exploring the synapses of a common consciousness.

www.connydietzscholdgallery.com
www.kondimopoulos.com/theshowerroom