ARTEXPO NEW YORK 2012
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| Alex Fishgoyt at his Booth at Artexpo |
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| Arte-Argentino.Org Directors and Adriana Trotta Argentine Deputy Consul |
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| Linda Calvert Jacobson, American Artist |
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| Pasquale Cuppari |
Monday, April 9, 2012
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Saturday, April 7, 2012
Call to Artists - Festival in the Park
Festival in the Park
Charlotte, NC
Charlotte, NC
Call to Artists
WHAT: Fine Arts & Fine Crafts Festival and Traditional Arts & Crafts Festival
WHERE: Freedom Park, Charlotte, NC
WHEN: Friday through Sunday
September 21 - 23, 2012
Note: Hours vary; see artists prospectus for details
NOTEWORTHY:
*48th Annual Juried Festival.
*Separate areas for Fine Arts and Crafts (Artist's Walk) and Traditional Arts and Crafts (Festival Lake Walk).
*Limited to 180 artists in total.
*Jury/Booth Fees ($35/$350).
*$4,000 total cash awards.
*Priority spaces available for artists who will demonstrate their art or craft.
*Excellent artists' amenities, including free parking, private artists' hospitality area throughout show hours, discounted hotel accommodations.
*Strong community support.
*Electricity available to all booths at no charge.
*Drive-up to booth for setup and teardown.
*For more details about the show, click HERE
Since 1964, Festival in the Park has been bringing popular music, arts and crafts and family entertainment to Charlotteans and visitors from around the South. Heavy community support over many decades produces return visitors every year as well as large crowds, offering exhibitors excellent sales opportunities. Known as Charlotte's "Granddaddy" arts and crafts event, the festival receives high-profit media attention to augment a well-orchestrated marketing program.
NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS:
Deadlines:
Artist's Walk: May 15, 2012 (postmarked)
Festival Lake Walk: July 16, 2012 (postmarked)
Notification:
Artist's Walk: June 1, 2012
Festival Lake Walk: July 30, 2012
For more details, artist's prospectus, and to apply, visit:
www.FESTIVALinthePARK.org
Email inquiries to:
festival@FESTIVALlinthePARK.
You may also contact by telephone:
Julie Whitney Austin
Festival Director
704-338-1060
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH | Imaginary Surrealism Takes the Stage in SoHo
 A new collection of paintings by Daniel Merriam depicts both the pain and pleasure of struggle not only in the circus, but also in the lives we lead in an urban society. The artist invites us to explore the pressures and and delicate balance that is required in order to remain above the chaos of every day life. Just as the performer clings to the wire above the ever-present color and distractions, so must the viewer avoid mistakes by focusing on what matters most. 
"It has been said by many artists that art is often the result of a struggle. I can attest to this based on years of devoting my abilities to an art form heavily reliant on discipline. Both the body and the mind are fully employed in such an effort. In my case it is the urge to create ever upstaged challenges both in my paintings and my real life as well, that gets me from frenzy to frustration to exhaustion. I strive to work sculpturally and architecturally as I paint. Each time the environment becomes more of an obstacle as I encounter the physical limitations inherent with being human."
Born in 1963 in a rural town in Maine, Daniel Merriam is one of seven artistic children. He taught himself to paint at a very young age, and used his art as a method of reflective play throughout his childhood. He went on to study mechanical and architectural design at Central Maine Vocational Technical Institute. While still in school, he applied his dimensional skills and passion for architecture to his family's design and construction business.In 1986, Merriam shifted his focus solely to fine art, and later that year had his first solo exhibition in Maine. Since then, his exhibitions throughout the United States & Europe have been lauded and achieved critical acclaim. Merriam's work is included in countless private collections and in such public collections as The Riverside Museum of Art in California, The Gesundheit! Institute in Virginia, the Manhattan Club in New York, and the Merrill Lynch collection.
The artist will attend the unveiling of the new works at an opening reception on May 26th from 6 to 8 pm. The reception is free and open to the public with RSVP requested to rsvp@afanyc.com.
AFA is located at 54 Greene Street (corner of Broome Street), in the SoHo neighborhood of New York City. Hours are Monday - Saturday, 10am - 7pm and Sundays 11am - 6pm. To request more information contact Heidi Leigh at heidi@afanyc.com or 212.226.7374.
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Call to Artists - Crafts and Fine Art Festival
Crafts and Fine Art Festival
at Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts & Sciences
Call to Artists
What: Crafts and Fine Arts Festival at the Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts & Sciences
Where: LBI Foundation of the Arts & Sciences, Loveladies, NJ
When: July 21 & 22, 2012
NOTEWORTHY:
*Affluent Shoppers
*Bustling summer destination
*23rd Year
*Booth Sitters available during the show
*Friday Evening Set-up
A bustling summer vacation destination, Long Beach Island stretches for 18-miles off New Jersey's coastline in Ocean County, where tourists spend $715 million every summer on retail shopping. The Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts and Sciences (LBIF) is the island's cultural hub and an extraordinary location for a quality fine arts festival. The LBIF boasts over 700 dedicated family memberships, hosts fine art exhibitions year-round in its main gallery, and offers a variety of classes and programs. All of these programs attract over 60,000 visitors annually.
NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS
Deadline: April 21, 2012
Notification: May 21, 2012
Applications available at www.rencrafts.com
Email inquires to info@rencrafts.com
Celebrated Author Melissa Pritchard to Give Reading at Bard College
CELEBRATED AUTHOR MELISSA PRITCHARD TO GIVE READING AT
BARD COLLEGE ON MONDAY, APRIL 23
ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y. — On Monday, April 23, at Bard College, award-winning author Melissa Pritchard will read from her new fiction collection, The Odditorium. Pritchard will be introduced by novelist and Bard literature professor Bradford Morrow. The reading, presented by Morrow’s Innovative Contemporary Fiction Reading Series, takes place at 2:30 p.m. in Weis Cinema at the Bertelsmann Campus Center. It is free and open to the public; no reservations are required.
Melissa Pritchard is the nationally renowned author of four short story collections: The Odditorium,Spirit Seizures, The Instinct for Bliss, and Disappearing Ingenue, and three novels, Phoenix, Selene of the Spirits, and Late Bloomer. She is also the author of Devotedly, Virginia, a biography of Arizona philanthropist Virginia Galvin Piper. Spirit Seizures, a New York Times Notable Book, received both the Flannery O’Connor and Carl Sandburg awards. The Instinct for Bliss, also a New York Times Notable Book, received the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, and Disappearing Ingenue, a Doubleday “Fiction for the Rest of Us” selection, was chosen to appear on National Public Radio’s 2002 Summer Reading List.Selene of the Spirits was a Barnes and Noble “Discover Great New Writers” selection, and Late Bloomer, a 2004 Chicago Tribune Best Books of the Year selection described as “ravishing” in Vanity Fair, received a starred review in Publisher’s Weekly.
Pritchard’s short stories are frequently anthologized and cited in Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards,The Pushcart Prize, Best of the West, Best American Short Stories, the Prentice Hall Anthology of Women’s Literature, and numerous other anthologies and college textbooks. Pritchard’s fiction has appeared in more than fifty renowned literary journals, including The Paris Review, A Public Space, Agni,Ecotone, Southern Review, Gulf Coast, and Conjunctions, the innovative literary magazine published by Bard. Her book reviews, essays, and journalism pieces have appeared in O, the Oprah Winfrey magazine; The Nation; the New York Times Book Review; and Chicago Tribune Books. Her essay “A Solemn Pleasure,” published in Conjunctions: 51, The Death Issue, edited by Morrow and guest coeditorDavid Shields, has been reprinted in The Inevitable: Contemporary Writers Confront Death, W.W. Norton, 2011, also coedited by Morrow and Shields. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including, among others, fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Howard Foundation at Brown University, and the Illinois Arts Council. Pritchard teaches at Arizona State University and has served as judge for the Flannery O’Connor Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award. She is also the founder of the Ashton Goodman Grant, working with The Afghan Women’s Writing Project (www.awwproject.org) to provide funding for the education and literacy of Afghan women and girls.
For more information about this event, contact conjunctions@bard.edu or call 845-758-7054.
Friday, April 6, 2012
Call to Artists - Golden Fine Arts Festival
Golden Fine Arts Festival
Photo by John Payne, 2012
Call to Artists
Call to Artists
WHAT: Golden Fine Arts Festival
WHERE: 11th Street in Historic Downtown Golden, Colorado
WHEN: August 18 - 19, 2012
10 a.m. to 5 p.m. both days
NOTEWORTHY:
*Limited to 140 artist spaces
*Surveyed artists reported average sales of over $2000 in 9 categories
*Promotion includes: Extensive newspaper advertising with ads in both the local papers and the Denver Post online; TV and radio; posters, handbills, large banners hung two weeks prior to event, directional signage during the weekend
*Total monetary awards of $2000 for first and second place, Best of Show and Best of Colorado, first place winners receiving automatic acceptance into the 2013 festival
*Booth fees are $295 for single 10x10, double booths are $590
*Artist amenities include an artist reception on Friday night for two, breakfast on Saturday and Sunday mornings, artist hospitality suite, booth sitters, night time security, early set-up on Friday.
The Golden Fine Arts Festival is put on by the Golden Chamber of Commerce and is now in its 22nd year. The show's goal is to present high-quality art in an accessible, beautiful atmosphere next to Clear Creek. Adjacent to the Festival is the Golden Farmers Market, an added draw for attendees as well as the Golden History Museums' Clear Creek History Park which features demonstrations of traditional craft during this weekend. Musical entertainment, food, children's art zone, horse-drawn carriage rides all just a block west of Historic Downtown Golden. Attendance is typically 35,000. Space requests are honored as possible.
Apply through application available on www.goldenfineartsfestival.org
Deadline to apply: April 15, 2012 deadline, jury fee $25 per category, booth fee of $295 to be returned if not accepted.
Notification: May 15, 2012
Booth fee due: With application
Information at: www.
For questions: contact Krista Braton,
email: info@goldencochamber.
phone: 303-279-3113
The Brodmann Areas: a new ballet from Norte Maar
Apr 12-14 at 7:30pm
Apr 15 at 2pm
Center for Performance Research
361 Manhattan Avenue, Brooklyn
Directions: L Train to Graham Avenue (3rd stop in
Brooklyn). Exit right out of turnstile, Left down Graham Avenue, Left on
Jackson Street, Right on Manhattan Avenue
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