Friday, September 21, 2012

Call to Artists - LACDA 2012 International Juried Competition

LACDA 2012 International Juried Competition

The winner of this competition will exhibit at our new 4,000 square foot location!

Jurors:
Peter Frank, Riverside Art Museum
Rex Bruce, L.A. Center for Digital Art

Enter our juried competition for digital art and photography. Entrants submit three JPEG files of original work. All styles of artwork and photography where digital processes of any kind were integral to the creation of the images are acceptable. The competition is international, open to all geographical locations.

Registration fee is $30US (three images).
Multiple entries permitted, additional $30 entry fee for each three images.

The selected winner receives 10 prints up to 44x60 inches on canvas or museum quality paper (approximately a $2,500-$3,000 value) to be shown in a solo exhibition in our main gallery from September 8-30, 2011. The show will be widely promoted and will include a reception for the artist.

Second place prizes: Ten second place winners will receive one print of their work up to 24x36 inches ($150-$200 in value) to be included in upcoming group exhibits. The ten second place winners will be scheduled into a group shows within twelve months of announcement of winners. Consideration is given to placing these works in shows appropriate to their style, genre and/or content. These shows will be widely promoted and will include a reception for the artists.

Special consideration will be given to all entrants for inclusion in future shows at LACDA. Many entrants from past competitions have already been included in our exhibits.

Deadline for entries: September 24, 2012
Winners Announced: October 1, 2012
Exhibit Dates: October 11-November 3, 2012
Artist's Reception: October 11, 7-9pm

The artist's reception will be in conjunction with the Downtown Art Walk attended by up to 20,000 gallery goers.

Registration fee is $30US.

Two easy steps to enter:

Register here:http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaid=232178

Upload here:http://lacda.com/upload.html

Online registration only.

For questions email us at lacda@lacda.com
No phone calls please.

Los Angeles Center For Digital Art107 West Fifth Street
Los Angeles, CA 90013
www.lacda.com

Amsterdam Showcase

Amsterdam Showcase Art Fair - Final Call

Amsterdam Showcase 1st December 2012
by Global Art Agency - FINAL CALL

Artist & Gallery, a great opportunity to exhibit in Amsterdam with some of the most talented artists worldwide

1st December, 2012 at De Oude Kerk

GAA Curators team are currently selecting artists & galleries for the upcoming Amsterdam Showcase event. An international exhibition of painting, illustration & photography held at the oldest and most beautiful church in Amsterdam. We are currently receiving a lot of press and promotion including to 1.300.000 ArtPrice members, 45.000 Schiphol Privium ClubLounge members, 10.000 ZieOudZuid Glossy Magazine members, Iamsterdam and more... With the prospect of welcoming thousands of day guests and hundreds of VIP Champagne Reception Private View guests, this is a unique and exclusive opportunity for you to exhibit your art at one of Amsterdam's historic treasures, where famous painter Rembrandt used to be a regular visitor! Limited availability and subject to a selection process. MORE INFORMATION

Global Art Awards
Enter or Vote for The Best Artist Award 2012, winners announced at Amsterdam Showcase Champagne Reception during the Global Art Awards ceremony. Enter/Vote Now!

www.amsterdamshowcase.com

Call to Artists - 24th Annual Manchester Fall Art and Craft Festival

CRAFTPRODUCERS

presents:

The 24th Annual

Manchester Fall Art and Craft Festival

Call to Artists

What: The 24th Annual Manchester Fall Art and Craft Festival

Where: A pristine Vermont field at Hunter Fairgrounds at Riley Rink in Manchester, VT

When: September 28, 29, & 30, 10-5 daily

NOTEWORTHY:

*There will be 175 artists and artisans

*Free camping with $5 showers

*Complimentary breakfast on Friday

*Cocktail party on Saturday

*Extensive advertising includes television, radio and print as well as direct mail and social media

*Pull up to tents for set up and break down

The Manchester Fall Art and Craft Festival kicks off Vermont's famous foliage season Tourists begin their annual foliage trek this weekend, so tourists abound. Along with a strong and loyal contingent of day trippers from the Albany-Saratoga Springs, NY area, the town is packed. There are numerous craft demonstrations to entertain and educate the public. While the focus is primarily on Art and craftwork, the ambience is festive. Great local food is served in a dining tent The Exhibitor tents are heated if necessary.

NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS

Applications available at www.craftproducers.com and go to EXHIBITOR INFO section

Deadline: Until full

Application Fee: $10

Booth Fee: A 10x10 inside the tent costs $625 with 400 watts of power. There is a NEW exhibitor discount of $100 for first time exhibitors. Outside spaces (15x10) cost $550. Power is available outside for an extra $50.

Notification: Upon receipt

Email questions to

info@craftproducers.com

or call (802) 425- 3399

Liquid Identities - Venice (Italy)

Liquid Identities | Venice (Italy)

Opening: September 28, 2012

Liquid Identities, an international video-art festival and photography exhibition, will be held in the city of Venice. The Scoletta di San Giovanni Battista e del SS. Sacramento in Bragora, the venue of the event, will open its doors on Friday, September 28, until Sunday, September 30. Fifty-seven artists, thirty-two video artists and twenty-five photo artists from different countries have been selected to be part of this project.

The selection has been based on the main concept of “Liquid Identities” based on fluidity, motion, changing networks and cities transformations. In contemporary society boundaries are getting more and more fleeting, and also the identity; what makes every person or place a recognizable entity, turns out fluid, multiple, making the cultural, religious, ethnic borders changeable too. This change, this mutation has allowed to cross the inside of the identities creating new possible crossings, new blends. And it’s just this “contemporaneity” that makes our civilization conceived as subjected to a process of continuous evolution and cultural hybridization. There is no more limit between an identity and the other one but it is possible to walk, to cross a passage and to find oneself halfway through it, in a non-place, in a non-identity. This project is about temporary roles in changing rules, thinking about liquid borders in new evolving worlds.

.organizer: International ArtExpo.curator: Luca Curci

.project coordinator: Biagio Ciraldo

.exhibition & screening places: Scoletta di San Giovanni Battista e del SS. Sacramento in Bragora, Venice
.dates: September 28-29-30, 2012

.opening: 28th of September, 2012 at Scoletta di San Giovanni Battista e del SS. Sacramento in Bragora at6:00 pm, Castello 3811/B - Campo della Bragora, Venice - Italy

.winners of Computer Graphic CompetitionJawshing Arthur Liou . USA | Christopher D’Andrea . USA | Marco De Gregorio . Spain | Kalos&Klio . Greece | KOI . Italy

International ArtExpo is a not for profit organization that provides a significant forum for cultural dialogue between all artists from different cultures and countries. We depend on the support of you. ArtExpo is grateful to all of the institutions, corporations, and individuals who support our efforts. We work with a number of national and international galleries as well as publishers, museums, curators and writers from all over the world. We help artists through solo and group exhibitions, gallery representation, magazine reviews and advertisements, press releases, internet promotion, as well as various curatorial projects.

more details
International ArtExpo
Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, 33
70122 Bari (Italy)
+39.0805234018
+39.3387574098
lucacurci@lucacurci.com
www.lucacurci.com/artexpo

Thursday, September 20, 2012

BARD’S FISHER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS PRESENTS AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE

American Ballet Theatre Orchestra to Accompany World-Class Dance Performance With Music by Henry Purcell, Philip Glass, and Antonín Dvořák

ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y. – The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts presents American Ballet Theatre (ABT) on Friday, October 5and Saturday, October 6 at 8 p.m., and Saturday, October 6 and Sunday, October 7 at 2 p.m. Showcasing the work of some of the foremost American choreographers, the program features Antony Tudor’s The Leaves Are Fading, José Limón’s The Moor’s Pavane, and Twyla Tharp’s In the Upper Room. The performances will be accompanied by the American Ballet Theatre Orchestra. Tickets are $20, $30, $40, and $50. To purchase tickets call the Fisher Center box office at 845-758-900, or go to fishercenter.bard.edu/.

“Once in a not too frequent while, there comes along an evening that reminds you why you’re in the theater in the first place, and why dance is not a luxury or a frill but a necessity of life. Such an evening was American Ballet Theatre.”
—Washington Post

Antony Tudor’s The Leaves Are Fading was created for American Ballet Theatre and is a haunting meditation of youthful romance and time’s bittersweet passing. For this work, Tudor has chosen primarily from Antonín Dvořák’s little-known work, Cypresses for string quartet, together with other chamber music for strings written by the composer in the 1880s. Set to Dvořák’s ravishing score, this was one of Tudor’s last ballets, and it remains one of the major works in the choreographer’s remarkable canon. It was given its world premiere on July 17, 1975, at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center, New York City.

Considered José Limón’s masterwork, The Moor’s Pavane beautifully distills in one act the passion and dramatic arc of Shakespeare’s Othello. Though subtitled “Variations on a Theme of Othello,” this dance is not intended as a choreographic version of Shakespeare’s play. In the form of a pavane and other dances of the high Renaissance, the legend is told of the hapless Moor, his wrongfully suspected wife, the Moor’s treacherous friend, and the friend’s wife. Performed to a stately Renaissance court dance, this psychological thriller inevitably reaches its heartbreaking climax as the noble Othello succumbs to Iago’s treachery. The four characters portray the tragedy of Everyman, and the ballet is timeless in its implications. Limón chose the music of Henry Purcell, arranged by Simon Sadoff, from “Abdelazer,” “The Gordian Knot Untied,” and the pavane from “Pavane and Chaconne for Strings.” The Moor’s Pavane was first performed at the Palmer Auditorium, Connecticut College, New London, Connecticut, at the Second American Dance Festival on August 17, 1949, and danced by José Limón (The Moor), Betty Jones (The Moor’s Wife), Lucas Hoving (His Friend), and Pauline Koner (His Friend’s Wife). It was first performed by American Ballet Theatre on June 27, 1970 at the New York State Theater and danced by Bruce Marks (The Moor), Royes Fernandez (His Friend), Sallie Wilson (His Friend’s Wife), and Toni Lander (The Moor’s Wife).

Accompanied by music by Philip Glass, Twyla Tharp’s In the Upper Room is a marathon of exhilarating locomotion. From precise geometric patterns to seemingly free-form motion, Tharp’s rigorous choreography demands something akin to Olympic perfection. First performed by Twyla Tharp Dance on August 26, 1986, at the Ravinia Festival, Highland Park, Illinois, it entered the repertory of American Ballet Theatre on December 10, 1988, at Segerstrom Hall at the Orange County Performing Arts Center, Costa Mesa, California.

American Ballet Theatre Principal Dancers performing are Roberto Bolle, Herman Cornejo, Marcelo Gomes, Julie Kent, Veronika Part, Xiomara Reyes, Polina Semionova, Hee Seo, andCory Stearns. Kevin McKenzie is the company’s artistic director.

About American Ballet Theatre

Recognized as one of the premier dance companies in the world, American Ballet Theatre brings the highest quality dance and dancers to audiences across the globe. Celebrating its role as America’s National Ballet Company®, ABT tours nationally and internationally, performing for more than 400,000 people annually. Since its founding in 1940, ABT developed a repertoire under the direction of Lucia Chase and Oliver Smith that honored the past while encouraging the development of the art form through the creation of new works. Classics from the 19th century such as Swan Lake, Giselle,and The Sleeping Beauty live side by side with seminal works of the early 20th century such asApollo, Les Sylphides, Jardin aux Lilas, and Rodeo, as well as such contemporary masterpieces asPush Comes to Shove and Airs. ABT has commissioned works by the great choreographic geniuses of the 20th century: George Balanchine, Antony Tudor, Jerome Robbins, Agnes de Mille, and Twyla Tharp, among others.

Under the artistic direction of former ABT Principal Dancer Kevin McKenzie, the Company remains steadfast in its vision as “American” and continues to bring the art of dance theater to the great stages of the world.

For tickets, phone the Fisher Center Box Office 845-758-7900, or visit www.fishercenter.bard.edu.

Programs and performances are subject to change.

To download high-resolution color photographs of American Ballet Theatre, click here, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/press/photos.php?group_id=756883.

For more information on American Ballet Theatre, please visit www.abt.org.

International Art Festival Opening Reception Tonight!

International Art Festival, Inc. is pleased to invite you to

an opening reception at 6pm on Thursday September 20, 2012

for an exhibition at the Museum of Russian Art

80 Grand Street Jersey City, NJ 07302

The museum is open Thursday - Sunday 2-6 PM and by appointment

from September 20 - October 4

We will honor the winners of our inaugural juried competition.

These outstanding artists represent diverse backgrounds and a wide variety of artistic styles:

Zeno Chen (Photography); Nicolas Zalevsky (Painting);

Joan Hus and Benjamin Sack (tied in Graphics).

Each artist will present a solo exhibition featuring the winning works and some additional works representing career highlights.

All works available for purchase

Joan Hus| Writing Space | Graphics

Nicholas Zalevsky | The Stairway Where My Brother Fractured a Finger | Painting

Zeno Chen | The Pretender | Photo

Benjamin Sack | Apollo and Dionysus | Graphics

International Art Festival, Inc. was established in 2012 for the purpose of identifying and jump-starting the careers of outstanding contemporary artists. Over the past few months, we received for consideration works from artists all over the world: from the United States, Europe, Asia, Australia, and the Middle East. The four award winners are great examples of dedication and creative achievement, and we hope you will be able to join us in honoring and supporting their achievement.

Thanks and best regards,

International Art Festival Committee

The Museum is located in the historic district of Jersey City,
walking distance to the PATH train or the Battery Park ferry.
Minutes away from Manhattan.

Directions

Contact for more information:

Margo Grant: (917) 449-2842, grantmargo@gmail.com

More information at: museumora@gmail.com

Support MoRA museum and it's programs.
Become a member!

Membership

Get more information by visiting our site www.moramuseum.org

Passion for Fashion - TODAY!

September 3^rd.Thursdays Celebrates FashionFeatures Second Annual Walk A Mile In Her Shoes Fundraiser

(Pittsfield, Mass.) Fashion shines in creative ways this week at the September 20^th 3^rd.Thursdays free street festival in downtown Pittsfield's Upstreet Cultural District, and everyone's invited!

WALK A MILE IN HER SHOES3rd.Thursdays is honored to host the second annual Walk A Mile in Her Shoes fundraiser for the Elizabeth Freeman Center, where men walk a mile in women's shoes to raise awareness and funds to fight domestic violence.

The Pittsfield Police and Fire Departments are in a contest to see who can field the most men walking, as well as collect the most funds and pledges. Both the Pittsfield High School and Taconic High School football teams will also be participating, along with the Pittsfield High School cross country team.

The fundraiser kicks off at 6pm at the foot of North Street near Park Square, whre the City Stage will be located this month. On site signups and pledges are welcome and there will be a selection of large women's shoes to wear for those who do not bring their own. Last year's Walk A Mile in Her Shoes fundraiser during 3^rd.Thursdays was a big success, with proceeds well exceeding the organizers' goals.

A CATWALK FASHION SHOW ON NORTH STREET
Palace Park (on North Street near Fenn) will sport a catwalk Thursday evening, featuring two different fashion shows, MCed and DJed by DJ BFG a/k/a Gabriel Squailia. Goodwill kicks things off showcasing affordable recycled fashion between 5pm & 6pm. At 6:30pm, the Upstreet Fashion Show will feature the fabulous clothing shops and designers, accessories and more found in downtown Pittsfield's shops and salons. Participating upstreet shops include Jess et Mia, Ancient Language Collection, Diedre's Special Day, Crispina, Bespoke, Kidding Around Consignment and many more!

EIGHTIES FASHION CONTEST AT THE BEACON CINEMAGet out your leg warmers and scrunchies and head over to the Beacon Cinema on Thursday for their eighties fashion contest, held just before their Throwback Thursdays screening of the eighties classic, Dirty Dancing, at 8pm. Movie tickets are just $5.

DONATE WINTER CLOTHING FOR NEW IMMIGRANTSThe Berkshire Immigrant Center is hosting a winter clothing drive to provide warm winter clothing for new immigrants, many who come ill-prepared for our New England winters. Bring your no longer needed sweaters, coats and other cozy items

Plus enjoy great live local music from the Sister City Jazz Ambassadors and Gaia Roots at the City Stage at North Street and Park Square; Johnny Pontoon plus a host of hula hoopers on the lawn of St. Joseph's Church; the young performers from Berkshire Rocks at Sottile Park; and Rock On students and teachers performing outside.

And the fun continues into the evening after 8pm with the local blues band Misty Blues at Spice Dragon, Rakish Paddy's Irish soul at Patrick's Pub, Billy Keane and the Misdemeanor Outlaws at Mission Bar & Tapas, a free screening of the NY Giants vs. Georgia Panthers football Game at the Beacon Cinema, and more. A full schedule of events and map is available online at www.discoverpittsfield.com and copies can be found throughout downtown Pittsfield's Upstreet Cultural District at local shops, restaurants and cultural hotspots.

3^rd.Thursdays is produced by the City of Pittsfield's Office of Cultural Development. Lead sponsors include Berkshire Gas, Berkshire Life-A Guardian Company, Greylock Federal Credit Union, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Lead downtown business partners include Persnickety Toys, the Berkshire Theatre Group, the Beacon Cinema, Barrington Stage Company, Berkshire Museum and Spice Dragon, along with dozens of other downtown partners.

The last 3^rd.Thursdays of 2012 will be held on Thursday, October 18^th with a Hometown Heroes & Superheroes costume theme for Halloween. For more information on 3^rd.Thursdays, please visitwww.discoverpittsfield.co m/3^rd.Thursdays, email thirdthursdayspittsfield@gmail.com or call 413-499-9348. 3^rd.Thursdays is held rain or shine and there is plenty of free parking throughout downtownPittsfield.

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