Sunday, February 19, 2012

Call to Artists - 4th Annual Granville Art Affair & Wine Festival 5th Annual Dublin Art Fair

Grand Scheme Promotions, LLC
presents
Two Columbus, Ohio, Area Shows
   
 
4th Annual Granville Art Affair & Wine Festival  5th Annual Dublin Art Fair  
Call to Artists

WHAT:  Two unique, fine art and craft events with extended venue appeal

WHERE: Granville Art Affair & Wine Festival
             Great Lawn, Bryn Du Mansion, Granville, Ohio

             Dublin Art Fair
             Front Lawn of Sells Middle & Indian Run Elementary Schools near
             Downtown, Historic Dublin, Ohio

WHEN:   Granville Show:  Saturday & Sunday, June 9-10, 2012
             Dublin Show:      Friday Evening & Saturday, July 6-7, 2012

NOTEWORTHY:
  • Two separately juried events.  Artists may apply to one or both shows.  Multiple show discount applies to artists participating in both events.
  • Desirable artist participation sought for both shows is 100
  • Jury/booth Fees:
            Granville:            ($10/$150)
            Dublin:                ($10/$125)
            (If applying to both shows, only ONE jury fee is necessary.  Artists are
            limited to not more than two media for consideration in shows.)
  • Artist amenities include:  convenient, free parking; overnight security; booth sitters; complimentary Saturday mini-breakfast/coffee; and bottled water. 
  • Event marketing includes:  full-color, direct mail postcard to 20,000+ select homes and past event visitors; magazine; newspaper; Facebook; full-color posters and more reaching more than 100,000 homes.
  • Wine festival tickets sold more than doubled in 2011 as compared to tickets sold for the inaugural event in 2010. 

Granville Art Affair & Wine Festival
Licking County's largest juried art festival located on the Great Lawn of the Bryn Du Mansion in historic Granville.  This unique show features a hands-on art project tent for all ages hosted by the Granville Studio of Visual Arts, live entertainment, refreshments, and Sunday polo match. Art Affair activities are FREE both days. Saturday's show features Granville Rotary Club's Wine Festival from 1-5 p.m. offering international wine tasting, food sampling and Belgian Beer Garden.  Wine Festival and Belgian Beer Garden  require ticket purchase and represent the Rotary Club's largest yearly fundraiser.  Wine Festival participants are permitted to peruse and shop artist booths with wine glass in hand.  New for 2012 are Featured Artist Demonstrations/Seminars sponsored by  The Works: Ohio Center for History, Art and Technology on Sunday.   Granville Art Affair & Wine Festival is presented by Grand Scheme Promotions LLC and the Granville Rotary Club.
                                         
Dublin Art Fair
Located on the front  lawn of Sells Middle School and Indian Run Elementary School off of the US 33-SR 161-Bridge Street exit in Dublin, Ohio.  This highly visible show benefits from a significant volume of drive-by  traffic in the desirable historic district of Dublin.  New dates this year coincide with the Arthritis Foundation Classic Car Show & Cruise-In (www.arthritisautoshow.com) held less than 1 mile from show site.  Free trolley rides between the Art Show and Car Show will increase attendance significantly.  Fine art, live entertainment,  fine food and an art project activity tent for all ages make this art fair a popular one.  Show site for 2012 will expand allowing more space between/around individual artist booth spaces.   The Dublin Art Fair is presented by the Dublin  Area Art League and Grand Scheme Promotions LLC.



NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS:     

Deadline:
March 31, 2012 for BOTH shows

Notification:
April 15, 2012, via email

For more details on these events visit:

Apply on line at:

Email inquiries to:
grandscheme@roadrunner.com

You may also contact by telephone:
(614)579-5743   

Rashid Johnson - Message to Our Folks







Rashid Johnson:
Message to Our Folks

April 14 - August 5, 2012












This spring, the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Chicago presents Rashid Johnson: Message to Our Folks, the first major solo exhibition for Johnson, who is a preeminent artist in the post-media generation. A former Chicagoan and alumni of the MCA's UBS 12 x 12 exhibition series, Johnson explores the complexities and contradictions of black identity, rooted in his individual experience, through photographs, sculptures, videos, installations, and paintings. On view April 14 to August 5, 2012, this exhibition is organized by Julie Rodrigues Widholm, MCA Pamela Alper Associate Curator, and includes thirteen years of Johnson's work with an emphasis on major works from the last five years.

Throughout his work, Johnson evokes shared cultural memories by referencing creative and intellectual black figures whose impact has transcended black communities. The exhibition fosters a dialogue by inviting viewers' free associations with familiar figures -- such as W.E.B. DuBois, Sun Ra, Miles Davis, and Public Enemy -- and everyday objects that appear in the work, including plants, mirrors, rugs, record albums, CB radios, shea butter, and books. The title of the exhibition is based on a 1969 album by the avant-garde group Art Ensemble of Chicago, who performed with a variety of found percussive objects and spanned musical styles to radically redefine the rules of jazz.

The conceptually loaded and visually compelling works also allude to alchemy and transformation through different media that hold their own significance and symbolism. He prefers to create a sense of wonder in the unknown rather than present a concrete understanding of his art. The exhibition also presents examples from ongoing bodies of Johnson's work such as Cosmic Slops, abstract paintings made with melted black soap and wax; The New Negro Escapist Social and Athletic Club, portraits of members of a fictional black bourgeois secret society; recent "shelf sculptures" featuring found objects, such as The Shuttle (2010) and Triple Consciousness (2009); and early photographs of homeless men made using the nineteenth-century Vandyke brown printing process.

Johnson was born in Chicago in 1977 and currently lives in New York. He has a BFA in photography from Columbia College and attended graduate school at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His work is in the collections of the MCA Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, Whitney Museum of American Art, Seattle Art Museum, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Detroit Institute of Art, and Los Angeles County Museum of Art. His work has been featured in major group exhibitions including 30 Americans: The Rubell Collection (2008); Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self at the International Center of Photography (2003); and Freestyle at the Studio Museum in Harlem (2001); and in 2011 was featured in the International Pavilion of the 54th Venice Biennale. He is one of the nominees for the Guggenheim's Hugo Boss Prize in 2012.










Catalogue
A 96-page, fully illustrated hardcover catalogue provides new scholarship on the social, cultural, and artistic significance of Johnson's work. It includes an excerpt from Paul Beatty's The White Boy Shuffle, and essays by the exhibition curator Julie Rodrigues Widholm, University of Chicago PhD candidate Ian Bourland, and cultural critic and writer Touré.

Rashid Johnson in Conversation with
Julie Rodrigues Widholm
Saturday, April 14, 2012, 10:30 am, Free with suggested museum admission
Artist Rashid Johnson and Julie Rodrigues Widholm have a conversation in the gallery about Rashid's work and ideas.

Curator Tour
Tuesday, April 24, 2012, noon
Tour of the exhibition led by Julie Rodrigues Widholm.

Call to Artists - Westmoreland Arts & Heritage Festival


Westmoreland Arts & Heritage Festival  
 
2012 Artists Market
Call to Artists


What: Art and Craft Market at the 38th Annual Westmoreland Arts & Heritage Festival

Where: Twin Lakes Park, near Greensburg, PA

When: Thursday, Friday, Saturday & Sunday,
           July 5, 6, 7 & 8,
           11 a.m. to 8 p.m. each day

Noteworthy:

*38th Annual event

*Attendance of over 160,000 visitors

*Jury/Booth Fees: $25/$375

*Designated artist parking area

*Promoted extensively through print, broadcast, television and social media.

*Performances on four stages and 40 food booths draw visitors from across the region

*Set up can begin as early as Monday

The Westmoreland Arts & Heritage Festival is located on eight beautiful acres of Westmoreland County's Twin Lakes Park, near Greensburg, PA. The Festival is just an hour's drive from Pittsburgh and attracts many tourists looking for a weekend escape to the country. The Festival has become a Fourth of July tradition for many families in the region and features a juried art show, live performances and heritage presentations in addition to the Artist Market, making the Festival the largest event of its kind in Westmoreland County.

NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS:

Deadline:  March 1, 2012

Notification: Before April 30, 2012

Booth Fee due:  With application. Check(s) are not cashed until acceptance is determined after March 1. If not accepted, check(s) will be returned.

For more details, artist's prospectus, and to apply, visit: www.ArtsAndHeritage.com

Direct link to prospectus: http://www.artsandheritage.com/Downloads/Artist%20Market%20App%202012.pdf

Email inquiries to:  info@artsandheritage.com 

You may also contact:
Adam J. Shaffer - Executive Director
adam@artsandheritage.com
724-834-7474 (phone)
724-850-7474 (FAX)

Stockholm Independent Art Fair



SUPERMARKET 2012 - Stockholm Independent Art Fair
Kulturhuset, Stockholm 17–19 February 2012
 
Press Preview
Performance Art Stage RED SPOT, 3rd floor (Hörsalen), Kulturhuset.
Thursday 16 February, 11 am–1 pm.
Accreditation: 
accred@supermarketartfair.com
 
The international art fair created and managed by artists where hundreds of artists from over 30 countries show the latest tendencies in contemporary art. Performance art, photography, painting, video and more. This year it again occupies Kulturhuset for a couple of rowdy days in mid-February, in the apocalyptic year 2012.
 
On the programme: Seminar Programme TALKS, Performance Art Stage RED SPOT, Special Exhibition “6 Euro Budget”, Network Meetings and much more. SUPERMARKET ART MAGAZINE 2nd issue is released including the catalogue. This year’s theme - The waiting room of Eternity - is dealing with the concept of how to value art and the apocalyptic concerns of our time.
 
Artist-run spaces from Albania, Australia, Austria, Bosnia, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Greece, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Serbia, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK and USA.
 
Contact:
Pontus Raud, Project Manager
+46 73 999 34 29
pontus@supermarketartfair.com
Andreas Ribbung, Project Manager

RICHARD FRANKLIN Feb 16 - March 16

  RICHARD FRANKLIN 
Feb 16 - March 16



View the Amazing work by 
English Photographer 
 
Richard Franklin

 WHITE BOX CONTEMPORARY
1040 7th Avenue
San Diego, CA 92101

Meet the Artist
MARCH 10, 2012
7 pm

RSVP

Korean Art Show 2012


K-Artists in New York is a great opportunity to see art created by Korean artists living and working in New York City. The exhibition provides a survey of the current practices seen in Korean contemporary art and allows us to contextualize Korean art within a larger global setting during Armory Week.

For more information, please visit: www.koreanartshow.com or email koreanartshow@kiaf.org
 
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Image: Changha Hwang, Same Same, 2010 (Acrylic paint on cotton canvas). 

K-Artists in New York

March 8-11, 2012
Preview: March 7, 2012, 3pm to 9pm
at Korean Art Show NY | 82 Mercer NYC

Korean Art Show (March 8-11) is proud to announce its special exhibition K-Artists in New York which presents the work of seven Korean contemporary artists who have had a foothold in New York City, the center and the hub of the contemporary art scene, for over a decade.

With South Korea’s recent economic growth and rise in international status, new artistic and cultural developments are taking place. These developments continue to draw attention and curiosity from international audiences and as a result, a new wave of Korean art and culture is developing abroad. Korean artists are beginning to make a name for themselves outside of their own country.

The seven-selected artists for K-Artists in New York (Buhm Hong, Changha Hwang, Haeri Yoo, Hyungsub Shin, Ok Hyun Ahn, Heesub Yoon, and Youngsuk Suh) are of Korean descent and have social and emotional ties to their home-land, but have instead chosen to build a unique artistic foundation here in New York City.

Bucharest Biennale 5







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The appointed curator of BB5 announced the list of the participant artists and the venues.

Thursday, February 16, 2012, Anne Barlow, the appointed curator of BUCHAREST BIENNALE 5, announced in a press conference the list of participating artists, the venues and new details about the concept of BUCHAREST BIENNALE 5 - Bucharest International Biennial for Contemporary Art.

BUCHAREST BIENNALE 5, May 25 - July 22, 2012
PREVIEW DAY: May 24, 2012

TACTICS FOR THE HERE AND NOW 

Within the current context of the shifting nature of politics, economics, and culture—conditions that are increasingly referred to as "precarious" times—artists often have to negotiate risky positions, contested territories, or situations in which cultural activity interacts with, or provides a counterpoint to, conditions of flux.  Bucharest Biennale 5 profiles the work of artists whose agency lies less in overt statements, but rather in investigative or informal strategies that possess their own kind of power.
For more details please visit: http://bucharestbiennale.org/concept.html