Call to Artists - Marion Arts Festival

Marion Arts Festival 2013   

    

 Call to Artists

Click HERE to Watch a Video About This Festival!

WHAT: One of the nation's top one-day fine arts and fine crafts festivals

   

WHERE: Marion, Iowa (Cedar Rapids Metro)

WHEN: Saturday

           May 18, 2013 

           9 a.m. -  5 p.m.

NOTEWORTHY: 

*21st Annual Event. 

*Limited to 50 artists. 

*Estimated attendance: 18,000. 

*Jury/Booth Fees ($25/$225). 

*Named among the Top 25 festivals for 2012 by Art Fair Source Book. 

*Cash awards totaling $2,500. 

*Friday set-up. 

*Artist amenities include: artist's reception; convenient, free parking; overnight security; booth sitters and "energetic volunteers". 

*Extensive event marketing, including posters, billboards, newspaper, TV, radio and full-color program distributed to 80,000 area households.

Marion, Iowa, is a "vintage uptown" type of community, and a part of the Cedar Rapids 

metro area. Our show is regional, one-day, intimate and purposeful, with the mission 

to be an event through which you will thrive. (Here, we're obligated to insert that 

we're volunteer-driven, admittedly hokey and maybe a more than a little mom-and-pop). 

There are no bands, there is no beer...our festival is about the art (we do, however, 

cop to felafel). 

We're one of the most artist-profitable festivals in he country! The Art Fair 

Source Book named the Marion Arts Festival among the Top 25 events in the nation

for 2012 (#17 in fine art; #24 in fine craft).

NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS:  

Deadline:  

January 15, 2013 

Application through www.zapplication.org

Notification: 

February 19, 2012, via email 

For more details, please visit: www.marionartsfestival.com 

Email inquiries to: 

MAFDirector@marioncc.org 

Culturespaces receives ISO 9001 certification

Artists Reception & Book Signing

Joséphine Sacabo - Nocturnes

Nocturnes $125

Oyemé con Los Ojos $75

Shelby Lee Adams - Salt and Truth

Salt and Truth $60

Louviere + Vanessa - Stratum Lucidum  - Moonshine

Instinct/Extinct $19.95

Coincidence $19.95

Keith Carter - Natural Histories - Imagining Paradise

Fireflies $60

A Certain Alchemy $60

Artists Reception and Book Signing:

Saturday, December 1, 8pm-10pm

Celebrating PhotoNOLA 2012 

A Gallery for Fine Photography

241 Chartres Street

Artist Reception and Book Signing:

Saturday, December 1, 8pm-10pm

Celebrating PhotoNOLA 2012

View Inventory at www.agallery.com

joshuamann@att.net    

www.agallery.com

504-568-1313

Joshua Mann Pailet, Chief

Edward R. Hébert, Director

A Gallery for Fine Photography/ Fine Photos, Inc

www.agallery.com

New Orleans

Call to Artists - Smoky Hill River Festival

37th SMOKY HILL RIVER FESTIVAL  

Celebrating Artists, Celebrating Excellence!  

Call To Artists

Fine Art Show, June 8 & 9  

Four Rivers Craft Show, June 7, 8 & 9 

What: 37th Smoky Hill River Festival

    Presented by Salina Arts & Humanities   

Where: Oakdale Park, Salina, KS (730 Oakdale Drive) 

When: Four Rivers Craft Show, June 7, 8 & 9 

           Fine Art Show, June 8 & 9 

Noteworthy:   

• Over half-a-million dollars in sales annually, with record high sales the past three years!  
• Ranked in the top 100 art fairs in the country and one of the finest in the central midwest. Kansas' finest!
• 90 exhibitors in the Fine Art Show
• 50 exhibitors in the Four Rivers Craft Show
• Very high quality juried shows - long standing tradition of excellence
• Knowledgeable patrons and a sophisticated buying audience  
• Weekend attendance of 75,000 drawing patrons from the region and across the country
• $130,000+ Art Patron Program - Fine Art Show
• $9500 cash Jurors' Merit & Purchase Awards - Fine Art Show
• $1800 cash Jurors' Merit Awards - Four Rivers Craft Show
• Outstanding organization 
• Reasonable booth fees and jury fee
• Exceptional show layout
• Access to discounted lodging
• 24 hour security 
• Great artist amenities: booth sitters, water/tea/coffee brought to booth, assistance with unload and loading, Artists' Reception, Artists' Breakfast, free reserved parking within the event for inventory access
• Presented with an arts-based mission by the acclaimed Salina Arts & Humanities 
• Both show applications are easily accessed online at www.zapplication.org, or the Festival website, www.riverfestival.com if opting to submit by mail. 

   

An Arts Festival Like None Other! 

The first breath of summer marks the arrival of the highly anticipated and award winning Smoky Hill River Festival, one of the top festivals in the Central United States and Kansas' finest! The dynamic cultural life of Salina has been celebrated at the Festival for now approaching 37 years, drawing people together to commemorate this place - through art, artistry and artists - and through the joy of marking time with one another. Sponsored by the Salina Arts & Humanities, the Festival honors its Mission -(to change lives and build community through the power of the arts). The mission becomes reality it its evident commitment to quality, education, and exchange.

The Festival presents a sophisticated palette of events: exceptional fine art and contemporary craft, art installations, superb entertainment, and interactive arts experiences for all ages. Salina is widely acknowledged as an Outstanding Arts Community...where recognition at national levels is a frequent occurrence within its remarkable array of established cultural organizations and offerings...where art and culture are a $23 million industry annually. A model in its rich cultural landscape, Salina is a vibrant example of a community that grows, thrives and reaches for the future, through the arts.

Community ownership is exemplified in the commitment of over 2,000 enthusiastic volunteers and an extensive base of financial support. 75,000 attendees enjoy the artistic excellence and outstanding hospitality which continue to define the event. Outstanding artist amenities, a highly successful Art Patron Program and a knowledgeable and enthusiastic buying audience set the tone for a quality exhibiting experience

We welcome your application to the Fine Art Show (90 exhibitors) and Four Rivers Craft Show (50 exhibitors). These two outstanding venues are highly acclaimed among artists for incredible organization, quality of exhibition, artist hospitality, sales promotion, and community support. The Festival has earned a stellar reputation as an award winning and well juried visual arts venue. Both shows are recognized by many artists' resource publications online and in print, including ArtFair SourceBook, The Crafts Report, and Sunshine Artist, with extensive statewide and regional marketing.

Experience a "pleasant surprise" - the unmistakable spirit of the Smoky Hill River Festival - An Arts Festival Like None Other!

THE FESTIVAL MISSION: (To celebrate the arts and this community through a festival accessible to anyone - physically, psychologically, and economically)

DEADLINE:  February 15, 2013

NOTIFICATION:  March 13, 2013

BOOTH FEE DUE:  April 15, 2013

APPLICATIONS:

www.riverfestival.com 

     www.zapplication.org 

CONTACT:

Karla Prickett, Visual Arts Director

karla.prickett@salina.org 

785-309-5770 ext. 2306

International Light Artist - Xenia Lassen

INTERNATIONAL LIGHT ARTIST XENIA LASSEN THE CLOSING OF THE INSTALLATION Ends November 25, 2012 By Appointment for Serious Inquiries Only 619-531-8996 White Box Contemporary WHITE BOX CONTEMPORARY 1040 7th Avenue San Diego, California 92101

Call to Artists - Leesburg Art Festival

Leesburg Art Festival

   

 

Call to Artists

WHAT: 36th Annual Leesburg Art Festival

WHERE: Historic Downtown Leesburg, Florida

WHEN: March 2 and 3, 2013

           Saturday and Sunday, 10:00am to 5:00pm

  

NOTEWORTHY:

• Limited to 125 juried artists
• Event is publicized on TV, radio, newspapers, magazines and social media
• Awards to Artists totals $5,750:  Grand Prize:  $1,500, First Place:  $750, 2-D Judge's Choice:  $500, 3-D Judge's Choice:  $500, Special Awards:  $250 (10 each, without regard to category)
• Jury fee:  $25
• Booth fees begin at $150
• Artist amenities:  Block captains/booth sitting, free water deliveries, free coffee, free artist dinner on Saturday night with free beer and wine
• Collector's Circle prepurchase program
• "Walk with the Expert" program brings patrons directly to your booth
• Drive in loading and unloading
• Convenient, free artist and RV parking
• Website:   www.LeesburgArtFestival.com

 

Leesburg Art Festival celebrates 36 years of bringing fine art and artists to Leesburg, Florida.  This popular show, geographically located in the center of the state, is easily accessible from both east and west coasts and northern and southern regions.  Proceeds from this festival provide educational opportunities in the arts for all ages, cultural events for the community and a gathering place for local artists, artisans, musicians and appreciative audiences through the year round programs of the Leesburg Center for the Arts.   

NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS:

Deadline:  December 1, 2012

Notification:  December 31, 2012

Fees due:  January 11, 2013

Apply at

www.zapplication.org 

For more information, call the Leesburg Center for the Arts at 352-365-0232.

NEW PARRISH ART MUSEUM TO OPEN WITH FIRST-EVER INSTALLATION OF WORKS FROM THE PARRISH’S COLLECTION

NEW PARRISH ART MUSEUM TO OPEN WITH FIRST-EVER
INSTALLATION OF WORKS FROM THE PARRISH’S COLLECTION

Skylit Galleries Showcase American Art from Mid-1800s to Present
SOUTHAMPTON, NY 5/22/2012 — The Parrish Art Museum will open the doors
to its new building in Water Mill on November 10, 2012, with installations of works
from its outstanding permanent collection on view for the first time in its 115-year
history. Ranging in date from the nineteenth century to the present, the Parrish’s
holdings include more than 2,600 paintings, sculptures, and works on paper by
many of America’s most influential artists.

The inaugural installation of the collection in the Parrish’s new building,
established in a series of skylit rooms, will focus on the leading characteristics of
the Museum’s permanent collection. Each gallery will provide a narrative framework
within which visitors can see and experience masterworks of art, organized to
convey and celebrate the story of America’s most enduring and influential artists’
colony: Eastern Long Island. The four overarching concepts that provide the
foundation for this installation are: 1) highlighting the strengths of the Museum’s
in-depth holdings; 2) exploring specific relevant themes; 3) focusing on an
individual artist and his or her studio practice; and 4) presenting a cohesive
narrative of American art, with particular attention to important movements in art
history as they have developed among this unprecedented group of artists.
Viewed as a changing portfolio rather than a fixed presentation, the
installation will begin with art from the 1970s to the present, bringing to the fore
the brightest exemplars of artists working today on the East End, including many of
the so-called Process generation such as Chuck Close, Lynda Benglis, Mary
Heilmann, Malcolm Morley, Alan Shields, Keith Sonnier, and Joe Zucker, as well as
those succeeding artists who returned to figuration, including Ross Bleckner, April
Gornik, and Donald Sultan.

A gallery dedicated to the Parrish’s strong holdings in landscape paintings will
take as its theme American Views, bringing together works by nineteenth-century
masters including William Merritt Chase, Childe Hassam, John Frederick
Twachtman, and twentieth-century practitioners including Jane Freilicher, Sheridan
Lord, and Jane Wilson.

The Parrish’s in-depth holdings of two preeminent American artists, William
Merritt Chase and Fairfield Porter, are surveyed in adjoining galleries. Chase was a
portraitist and landscape artist virtually unequaled in his day, and the gallery will
feature several masterworks as well as photographs from the Museum’s extensive
William Merritt Chase Archives. Also included will be a range of works by Porter, the
preeminent twentieth-century realist painter, who moved to Southampton in 1949.
In his writings as art critic, Porter expressed his admiration for the Abstract
Expressionists, particularly Willem de Kooning, yet maintained a steadfast figurative
vision throughout his work. Several of his paintings illuminate the inspiration he
found in the surrounding landscape of the East End and among his friends and
colleagues. As with Chase’s work, Porter’s creative approach will be framed by
archival materials, including sketchbooks and photographs. The Museum has
published a fully illustrated and highly informative book, Fairfield Porter Raw:
The Creative Process of an American Master, that will be available through the
Museum store.

Esteban Vicente: Portrait of the Artist is the first in a series of gallery
installations that will pinpoint a single artist and his studio practice. This lyrical
abstractionist arrived in America in 1936, schooled in the old world academic
tradition of his native Spain and fresh from a sojourn in the heady milieu of 1920s
Paris. Yet his openness to new influences and to new friendships, including those
with artists Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, and Mark Rothko, assured his
critical role in the evolution of Abstract-Expressionist discourse in 1940s and 50s
New York. Paintings and works on paper, along with ancillary materials to further
illuminate Vicente’s life and career, will be on view.

In the Company of Friends will look at creativity and connectivity among
artists who came to prominence in the 1950s and 60s, when the response to
Abstract Expressionism took a multiplicity of forms, including Minimalism and Pop.
Works by Dan Flavin, Roy Lichtenstein, Alfonso Ossorio, Larry Rivers, and Leon Polk
Smith will be featured.

The interior Spine Galleries run the length of the exhibition space and provide
an intimate setting for viewing smaller-scaled works on paper and the opportunity
to focus in on a variety of themes. The Artist in the Studio will bring together
images that convey the nexus of creative activity in photographs of William Merritt
Chase, Fairfield Porter, and Roy Lichtenstein, among others.

In Jean-Luc Mylane the focus will be on a suite of the well-known French
photographer’s recent photographs of the Texas landscape and its avian inhabitants
that links the plein-air tradition to thoroughly contemporary practice.
The light and landscape of Eastern Long Island have drawn artists to the
region since the Long Island Railroad extended its service to Southampton in 1870.
Members of New York’s Tile Club visited Bridgehampton, East Hampton, Montauk,
Greenport, and Shelter Island in 1878, and William Merritt Chase established the
Shinnecock Hills Summer School of Art, the first school in America devoted to pleinair
painting, in 1891.

World War II saw the departure of many notable artists from Europe to the
United States, and many of these émigrés, among them Max Ernst, André Breton,
and Marcel Duchamp, visited the East End. American artists of the New York School
followed, such as Robert Motherwell, Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, Willem de
Kooning, and Esteban Vicente. For the past 60 years, the East End has been home
to a veritable pantheon of modern and contemporary artists, among them Fairfield
Porter, Larry Rivers, Jane Freilicher, Roy Lichtenstein, April Gornik, Cindy Sherman,
Eric Fischl, Ross Bleckner, and Dorothea Rockburne.

The Parrish’s core mission is to celebrate the art of Eastern Long Island, both
past and present, and its profound influence on the modern visual imagination. The
Museum’s holdings, which include important works by the abovementioned and
other seminal artists who have lived and worked in the region, reflect this objective.
Images, left to right:
William Merritt Chase (1849-1916), The Bayberry Bush (Chase Homestead in Shinnecock
Hills), ca. 1895. Oil on canvas, 25 1/2 x 33 1/8 inches. Parrish Art Museum, Gift of Mrs.
Robert Malcolm Littlejohn, Littlejohn Collection.

Fairfield Porter (1907-1975), Anne in a Striped Dress, 1967. Oil on canvas, 60 x 48 inches.
Parrish Art Museum, Gift of the Estate of Fairfield Porter.

Willem de Kooning (1904-1997), XXXVIII, 1983. Oil on canvas, 70 x 80 inches. Parrish Art
Museum, Museum Purchase, Ahmet and Mica Ertegun Fund, Mrs. Lawrence B. Dunham
Fund, in Memory of Lilian Haines Crittenden, and Alice Crocker Bequest Fund, and with
funds from Ambassador and Mrs. Ronald Lauder, and Ahmet and Mica Ertegun. © The
Willem de Kooning Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

The Museum's programs are made possible, in part, with public funds from the New York
State Council on the Arts, celebrating 50 years of building strong, creative communities in
New York State's 62 counties, and the property taxpayers from the Southampton School
District and the Tuckahoe Common School District.

About the Parrish Art Museum
The Parrish Art Museum is located in Southampton, New York. Founded in 1897, the
Museum celebrates the artistic legacy of Long Island’s East End, one of America’s most vital
creative centers. Since the mid-1950s the Museum has grown from a small village art
gallery into an important art museum with a collection of more than 2,600 works of art from
the nineteenth century to the present. It includes such contemporary painters and sculptors
as John Chamberlain, Chuck Close, Eric Fischl, April Gornik, Elizabeth Peyton, as well as
such masters as Dan Flavin, Roy Lichtenstein, Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, and Willem de
Kooning. The Parrish houses important collections of works by the American Impressionist
William Merritt Chase and the post-war American realist Fairfield Porter. A vital cultural
resource serving a diverse audience, the Parrish organizes and presents changing
exhibitions and offers a dynamic schedule of creative and engaging public programs
including lectures, films, performances, concerts, and studio classes for all ages. On July 19,
2010, the Parrish broke ground on a new building designed by internationally acclaimed
Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron. The 34,400-square-foot facility will triple the
Museum’s current exhibition space and allow for the simultaneous presentation of loan
exhibitions and installations drawn from the permanent collection. The new building opens
November 10, 2012.