Wednesday, October 26, 2011

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

Two Interviews From The Hamptons International Film Festival

Allegra LaViola Gallery - Die Like You Really Mean It

Allegra LaViola Gallery

Erik Benson, Paul Brainard, Pia Dehne, Hiroyuki Hamada, Elizabeth Huey, Erika Keck,
Emily Noelle Lambert, Frank Lentini, Eddie Martinez, Brian Montuori, Bryan Osburn, Kanishka Raja, Erika Ranee, Tom Sanford, Christopher Saunders, Kristen Schiele, Ryan Schneider, Oliver Warden, Frank Webster, Eric White and Doug Young

October 26 – December 3, 2011
Opening Reception: October 26, 6-9PM

Allegra LaViola Gallery is pleased to present Die Like You Really Mean It, a group exhibition on view from October 26 – December 3. The exhibition is curated by artists Paul Brainard and Frank Webster and features new paintings and sculpture by over twenty artists living in the New York metro area.

The curators have assembled an energetic and dynamic show, where each work registers as a highly charged expression of the individual artist. Brainard and Webster have maintained a special interest in choosing works that register not as intentionally ironic but rather as sincerely and at times viscerally rendered. This exhibition celebrates painting as a healthy, living, and variegated mode of art making in New York.

The works included in this exhibition are often resistant to purely formalist and conceptual concerns, engaging themes that extend beyond the material media of painting. Figurative and scenic elements may invite narrative readings while color is used forcefully, liberally, or selectively. The expressive qualities of color among the works range widely from Oliver Warden’s transformative explosions of color, to Hiroyuki Hamada’s restrained, bi-chromatic capsule-like wall reliefs. Also of concern among the works is the relationship between the human being and its environment, exemplified by Erik Benson and Kristen Schiele’s depictions of inhabited indoor and outdoor settings, Pia Dehne’s complex compositions in which figure and ground are enmeshed through lyrical patterns of line and geometry, and Kanishka Raja’s use of pattern to unite various specific locations depicted in the same visual space.

Atypically, this show exalts in its contrasts. The works of Chris Saunders and Brian Montuori could best sum this up. Saunder’s paintings are slick and calm on the surface but belie an unsettling and subversive content, while Montuori’s vision is a veritable disgorgement of expressionist storm and bluster. Each artist pushes the medium with equal passion, but in radically different directions, with starkly different results. This passion however is one thing all of the artists in Die Like You Really Mean It share in common.

—Paul Brainard, Kristen Lorello and Frank Webster

Allegra LaViola Gallery | 179 East Broadway | New York, NY 10002
T917.463.3901E gallery@allegralaviola.com
www.allegralaviola.com

Q & A with Miguel Gonçalves Mendes

Q & A with Miguel Gonçalves Mendes, Director of the Documentary "José & Pilar"

As part of Saramago's Week in New York

Thursday, October 27, 8:30pm at Rooster Gallery

190 Orchard Street, Manhattan

Followed by Iberian Screening featuring Portuguese & Spanish Short Films

10pm at Anthology Film Archives

32 Second Avenue, Manhattan

For additional information please visit: www.roostergallery.com

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

A Dickens Store

A Dickens Store!
Nov. & Dec.

We are still taking applications for our
Pearl Street Mall Location!

"You set it up... We do all the rest!

*Spaces 4' X 8' to 6' X 8'

*Cost $400 - $600 and only a 30% commission.

*The Pearl Street Mall gets 10,000 people a day. We're in the center of the mall.

*You set your booth up and we run it like a fine arts & crafts gallery.

*Vendors do not need to be at the store at all, but are welcomed to man their booths at their leisure!

*We're there 7 days a week 10 - 12 hours a day selling your products during the busiest time of the year!

*We are all artists and craftspersons that started this, so we know what you need!... see more photos and apply online!

Trick or Treat SPECIAL: Mention this ad and get $100 Off your Booth Fee if signed up by Halloween!!!!

BOO! Humbug! A deal even Scrooge would love!

For More info Call or check out our website below!

Booths will fill up fast so sign up over the phone.

www.dickensstore.com

Tim Newberg

A Dickens Store

1107 12th St #233

Boulder, CO 80302

303 990-9177