CALL FOR ARTISTS: VISIONS – Bogotà

CALL FOR ARTISTS: VISIONS – Bogotà
Jorge Jurado Gallery, Bogotà | August 1-22, 2018

Deadline: July 15, 2018

ITSLIQUID GROUP, in collaboration with Jorge Jurado Gallery, is proud to announce the CALL FOR ARTISTS for VISIONS, ITS LIQUID International Art Show of photography, painting, video art, installation and performance art, that will be held in Bogotà, at Jorge Jurado Gallery, from August 01, 2018 August 22, 2018.

VISIONS – Bogotà is organized and curated by Arch. Luca Curci (founder and director of THE ROOM Contemporary Art Space and ITSLIQUID GROUP).

Selection is open to video art, photography, painting, sculpture/installation, art performance and experimental dance. Artists, photographers, video makers and performers are invited to submit their works and projects by e-mail to lucacurci@lucacurci.com


VISIONS aims to explore all different facets of social, physical and cultural identities of our contemporary societies. Every day we deal with a multitude of different identities and roles: we face the public life creating and adapting our social identities; our body and aesthetic tastes modify and are modified by our physical and sexual identities; our whole being evolves as well as contemporary cultures and modern cities do in order to create new compound and exchange possibilities for new “liquid identities” in “liquid cities“.

Deadline for applications is July 15, 2018 (11.59 PM of your local time)

For more information or to take part in the selection send an e-mail to lucacurci@lucacurci.com

Artists interested in taking part in our shows, are free to be sponsored and supported by institutions, organizations, governments and their representers; the logos of their sponsors will be included in all the communication (digital and print) of the events. Artists are free to take part in one or more of the programmed events.

The number of works you can submit is unlimited. The participation in the festival requires an entry fee only for selected artworks. Participation is opened to: artists, photographers, video makers, performers, architects and designers, associate groups and studios.

To take part in the selection, send your works’ submissions with a CV/biography, some still images (for video-art), links of projects/videos/films/performances and pictures of artworks and architectural projects by e-mail to lucacurci@lucacurci.com

more. www.itsliquid.com


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Location:Bogota

Blue Roof Studios Arts Festival: A Day of Encounters and Discovery

Blue Roof Studios Arts Festival: A Day of Encounters and Discovery
Saturday, June 23, 12:00pm to 5:00pm

(Los Angeles, CA) June, 2018: Blue Roof Studios is pleased to announce Blue Roof Studios Arts Festival, celebrating the summer solstice, will take place on Saturday, June 23 from 12pm to 5pm, at 7329 S Broadway. The festival highlights the richness and diversity of the arts in South Los Angeles and beyond, reflecting Blue Roof Studio’s commitment to fostering and amplifying creativity, connection, and inclusion within the community.

Blue Roof Studios and festival founder Galia Linn describes the vision of the festival, “In the current climate of increased tension and isolation, melting away the barriers is the duty of those who care. We come together and see each other in a joint celebration of art.”

Offering an immersive multidisciplinary art experiences the day will feature artwork by over 60 artists and 20 artisans reflecting the diversity of Blue Roof Studios’ neighborhood as well as greater Los Angeles. Local tacos, homemade popsicles, pizza by Delicious Pizza and other culinary treats will be offered by neighborhood businesses and community members as well vendors from the greater LA area.


Spreading over Broadway avenue sidewalk, Blue Roof’s parking lot and the entire building - The day’s rich assortment of offerings will be a drum circle lead by master drummer Aboubacar Kouyate – whos talking drum can be heard on the Black Panther soundtrack; free cooking demonstrations by RootDown LA; music by local DJ Joaquin Romero /DJ Wordamouph; a participatory performance utilizing three rocking chairs and three people by interdisciplinary performer Nehara Kalev; an Art Makers Bazaar curated by Kaleidoscope Kollective featuring handmade clothing, henna tattoos, unique objects and work by local and LA-based artists and artisans such as Alexandra Grant X-Artists’ Books and GrantLOVE project; art workshops by Barnsdall Arts; CAAM, and Blue Roof Studios resident Beverly Morrison.

The art installations will include: RADIANT a group exhibition curated by Leonardo Bravo / Big City Forum celebrating how we honor the light, our connection to the earth, the sun, and to each other; an exhibit curated by Bettina Hubby from Curatorial Hub featuring a diverse selection of works under $500 by well-known and emerging artists from Los Angeles and beyond; and Kristine Schomaker of Shoebox PR will curate “IMAGINE” a show of works by artists from her community of artists. In addition, Blue Roof Studios resident artists Diana Sanchez, Terri Klass, Jacqueline Palafox, Zemer Peled and Beverly Morrison will open their studios for the event. Guest artists Corazon Del Sol, Marguerite Drexel and Linda Franke will collaborate on an installation for the festival.

About Blue Roof Studios
Founded in 2016 by artist Galia Linn, Blue Roof Studios is a new multidisciplinary art hub located in South Los Angeles that offers a place for artists to work in an environment that fosters creativity and community. We are dedicated to developing long-term relationships, opening doors to meaningful experiences in the arts, growing accessible programs such as free art workshops, screenings, artist talks, exhibitions, and festivals.

The Blue Roof Studios Arts Festival is funded in part by the LA Department of Cultural Affairs, CANNDU/Empower LA, LACI CleanTech incubator, Maker City LA, and the generous support of friends of Blue Roof Studios. Additional support provided by Councilman Curren D. Price, Jr., the California African American Museum, BardoLA, On Broadway Tattoos and social.experiment.

For more information and a complete list of participants and schedule of events,
visit https://www.blueroofstudios.org/blue-roof-studios-arts-festival/
Diana Sanchez: blueroofstudios6@gmail.com
Follow us on: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BRSarts/
Instagram: @blueroofstudios


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Location:Los Angeles

Art in Public Places Unveils Newly-restored, Iconic East Austin Mural

AUSTIN ART IN PUBLIC PLACES UNVEILS RESTORED MURAL AT HOLLY SHORES
Arte Texas recreates iconic East Austin mural with help from neighborhood youth


AUSTIN, TX—June 5, 2018—The City of Austin’s Art in Public Places Program, part of the Cultural Arts Division of the Economic Development Department, announces the restoration of For La Raza, an iconic East Austin mural celebrating the Chicano heritage of the Holly Shores neighborhood. Originally created in 1992 by community muralists Robert Herrera and Oscar Cortez, the mural was recently restored as part of the City of Austin Parks and Recreation Department’s Holly Shores Master Plan, Phase 1 implementation. The project will be celebrated at a free, public event on July 21, 2018, 11 AM – 1 PM at 2215 Riverview Street, Austin, Texas. All are welcome.

“The restoration of this beloved artwork simultaneously honors the history of the Holly Shores neighborhood while also looking towards its future,” said Sue Lambe, Manager of the Art in Public Places Program. “Representing multiple generations and artistic styles, the new mural celebrates the distinguished heritage of the community and reflects its values and character.”

First painted by Herrera and Cortez in 1992, For La Raza is one of several murals sited on the exterior wall of the decommissioned Holly Street Power Plant near the Holly Shores and Festival Beach area in east Austin. Over the years, the mural fell into disrepair, with much of its vibrant imagery—including Aztec gods and symbols of Mexican history and identity— having faded or been painted over or “tagged” by other artists. As part of the Phase 1 implementation of the Holly Shores Master Plan, the Parks and Recreation Department worked with Art in Public Places and the community to identify historic murals at the Power Plant in need of restoration. For La Raza was selected as the first mural to be addressed.

Arte Texas —a community organization working to save historic murals in east Austin and execute new ones, which includes Herrera and Cortez — was commissioned to develop a restoration plan that would once again make the mural a point of pride for the neighborhood. As part of that process, the artists introduced a new generation to the mural painting tradition. In addition to meeting with neighborhood groups and associations, Arte Texas worked with students from the eastside community. Under Herrera’s leadership, the youth were instructed on the process of mural painting and its history and significance in the Mexican-American tradition. They were also given an opportunity to paint sections of the wall, resulting in a unique artistic collaboration blending generations from across the community.

“This mural represents the strength of our people and serves as a cherished cultural expression of our survival as Mexican Americans and Chicanos,” said Bertha Delgado, Founder and Executive Director of Arte Texas.

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City of Austin Cultural Arts Division
The Cultural Arts Division of the Economic Development Department provides leadership and management for the City’s cultural arts programs and for the development of arts and cultural industries. The Cultural Arts Division is responsible for the Cultural Arts Funding Programs, Art in Public Places Program, community-based arts development, and programs to assist the development of film and creative industries in Austin.

Founded in 1985, the Art in Public Places (AIPP) program acquires and maintains works of art for City facilities and parks through commissions, donations, and loans for the cultural enrichment of Austin’s community. By City ordinance, AIPP allocates 2% of eligible capital improvement project funding to the acquisition of site-specific public artwork. 2015 marks the 30th Anniversary of the AIPP program in Austin, the first municipality in Texas to make a commitment to include works of art in construction projects. For more information, visit www.austincreates.com.
Since 1928, the Austin Parks and Recreation Department (PARD) has been the trusted steward of the City of Austin’s public lands. PARD protects and maintains parkland and Austin’s urban forest, preserves trails and offers a variety of sports, recreation, educational enrichment, arts programs, cultural opportunities, nature and aquatic activities. PARD is as diverse as the community it serves. PARD strives to honor the past while embracing the challenges of the future, and to serve an entire community while maintaining meaningful connections with individual participants.


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Location:Austin

Art Colony Association Awards $28,000 in Donations to 2018 Bayou City Art Festival Memorial Park Beneficiaries

Art Colony Association Awards $28,000 in Donations to
2018 Bayou City Art Festival Memorial Park Beneficiaries

Proceeds from the three-day outdoor fine art festival benefits seven Houston charities

HOUSTON, June 11, 2018 – The Art Colony Association, Inc. (ACA), awarded $28,000 in donations to the seven beneficiaries from Bayou City Art Festival Memorial Park, which was held March 23-25, 2018.

“It is amazing to see the support from our patrons and sponsors grow every year to help us continue to raise funds for worthy causes,” said Joe Pogge, President of the Art Colony Association. “We are happy to give back to the community that supports our festivals and we love to be a part of our non-profit partners as they support Houstonians.”

Each non-profit provided volunteers and had the option to host an art station in the Direct Energy Children’s Creative Zone. The seven non-profit partners that benefited from the 2018 Bayou City Art Festival Memorial Park included:

● A Cause to Give us Paws
● Avenue 360: Health & Wellness
● Fresh Arts
● Houston Arboretum & Nature Center
● Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
● The Arc of Greater Houston
● The University of Houston – Clear Lake Art Gallery

ACA has provided a venue for more than 20,000 artists to showcase their work to thousands of art lovers from all over the world at Bayou City Art Festival Memorial Park in the spring and Bayou City Art Festival Downtown in the fall. For every festival, a new jury selects participating artists, some new and some returning. This creates a fresh and different festival year after year. Patrons have the opportunity to personally meet the artists, view original works, and purchase world class art. A percentage of proceeds from Bayou City Art Festival benefits its local non-profit partners. Over the past 47 years, Bayou City Art Festival has raised over $3.6 million in support of local non-profit organizations.

On Saturday and Sunday, October 13-14, 2018, ACA will celebrate 47 years of fine art and giving back as it spotlights 300 artists at Bayou City Art Festival in Downtown Houston. The weekend gallery will transform the streets of Downtown Houston into artistic avenues filled with live entertainment, beverages, food trucks, and much more.

Local non-profit organizations interested in becoming a partner for Bayou City Art Festival Downtown this fall can submit an online application here beginning July 2, 2018. Deadline to apply is July 13, 2018.

Online tickets and discounted general admission tickets will be available soon. For updates on social media, follow the official event hashtags #HouArtFest and #BCAF, like the Facebook page, or follow on Twitter and Instagram. Also, subscribe to our newsletter here.

About Bayou City Art Festival:
Entering its 47th year in 2018, the Art Colony Association has raised more than $3.6 million for local non-profit programs through the festivals. A percentage of the proceeds support local art organizations and nonprofits. The festivals are funded in part by grants from the City of Houston through the Houston Arts Alliance, corporate sponsorships, private contributions, in-kind support and volunteer assistance. Volunteer and sponsorship opportunities are available. For more information, please visit www.artcolonyassociation.org.


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Location:Houston

LINDA SUE PRICE’S NEW MIXED-MEDIA WORKS EXAMINE POWER AND VULNERABILITY

“CONNECTIONS” OPENING AT TAG GALLERY WITH A RECEPTION ON JUNE 16TH, 2018, 5-8 PM
EXHIBIT ON VIEW JUNE 12TH-JULY 7TH, 2018

TAG GALLERY
5458 WILSHIRE BLVD., LOS ANGELES, CA 90036
GALLERY HOURS: TUES-SAT. 11-5 PM

(Los Angeles, California) – TAG Gallery is pleased to feature two bodies of mixed media works by L.A. artist Linda Sue Price. The artist’s works capitalize on an economy of material in reflecting issues surrounding our current socio-political climate. Specifically, Price explores themes of dividedness, interconnectedness, and spiritualism, combining photographic portraiture, chain, textiles representing each of the seven continents, and prominently, the yin-yang symbol made from neon-lit tubing.

In Price’s series Connections, the works’ underlying grid of crowdsourced portraits represents California’s diverse demographics and include those in her Los Angeles community and California residents at large. The artist’s highlighting of differences in race, gender, age, and orientation grounds her works in the traditions of social realism in their emphasis on the ‘average’ Californian. In her series Continents, the works alternately combine indigenous textiles worldwide. Both of the artist’s bodies of work relate humanity’s concerns from local, global, and cosmic vantages.

Price’s works trace current tensions facing humanity and are expressed between optimistic images of family, community, or symbols of culture, and affixed chain link that surrounds each piece. Through the artist’s juxtaposing of photographs and chain links, Price examines borders as objects of both protection and confinement and makes ambiguous the relationships between fragility and strength. Price’s use of the yin-yang symbols are ever-present reminders of the light and dark forces inherent in the laws of nature and invites contemplation about humanity’s role in the small and biggest pictures.

Linda Sue Price lives and works in Los Angeles County, California. Price is known for injecting her personal reflections to stimulate emotion and to manipulate how neon is perceived as a medium. She began studying neon as a medium under Michael Flechtner at the Museum of Neon Art in 2004. There she developed her unique style of bending. Elements of historic neon signs, abstract expressionism, pop art, social realism and graphic design influence Linda Sue Price’s work.

Recent exhibitions include the Museum of Neon Art, Artshare LA, San Joaquin Delta College and Art Exchange in Southern California as well as The Midway Gallery in San Francisco. She has had solo shows at TAG Gallery in Los Angeles. Price shows yearly in a two-person exhibit at the Fine Arts Building in Downtown Los Angeles with Michael Flechtner. Price will be showing at Eastern Projects in Chinatown in July, the Brand Library in Glendale and LA Artcore in 2020. She serves as an advisory board member for the Museum of Neon Art in Glendale, California.

Linda Sue Price has been written about in Los Angeles Magazine, Art and Cake, Diversions LA, We Choose Art, Fabrik Media, Artscene, Santa Monica Mirror, the Daily Times and the Long Beach Post.

Exhibit runs from June 12TH-July 7TH, 2018

TAG Gallery is located at 5458 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90036
Tues-Saturday 11-5 p.m


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Location:Los Angels

Opening Tomorrow: Vera Barnett and Trish Nickell Exhibitions at VHG

Dear Valley House Friend,

Please join us at these exhibitions and events!

Join us tomorrow, Saturday, June 9, 6:00pm-8:00pm, for the opening reception for two exhibitions: Vera Barnett: Home, and Trish Nickell: Points of View. Trish Nickell will give an Artist Talk on Saturday, June 16, 11:00am. Vera Barnett will give an Artist Talk on Saturday, June 23, 11:00am. Continue reading to learn more about each exhibition. View images of work in both exhibitions at www.valleyhouse.com

VERA BARNETT, HOME:

Vera Barnett developed three distinct series of paintings to embody the meaning of an artistic and domestic life at Home - Portraits, Still Lifes, and Pets. Each series is anchored by a larger thematic painting and surrounded by miniature paintings - all created in a two-step process. First, Barnett fabricates her subject as a stage set made of cardboard, sewn fabric, and found objects. Then, she makes a painting from her construction in a trompe l’oeil manner.

Her series of Portraits represents family life - herself, her son, and grandchildren. Childlike sketches on cardboard easels reference the budding of an artist's self-knowledge. At the age of 3, Barnett decided to be an artist, and still has vivid recall of the drawings she saw and made before entering kindergarten.

Barnett's Still Life paintings embody the things we bring into our home. However, with an irreverent eye, Barnett selects everyday objects which remind her of other things: a pepper under a light bulb becomes a reclining sunbather and a radish becomes a plumed bird.

In the playful series of Pets entitled "When the Cat's Away" we see that our homes are never truly asleep and often beyond our control. Barnett says, "You may own your home, but other life forms share your house. While my husband's cat Taco is asleep, I imagine lively mice beginning to play in a halo of small paintings."

Vera Barnett earned a 4-year certificate at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia in 1981. In the mid-1980's, Vera Barnett and her husband, artist Jack Barnett, moved to Grandview, Texas. This is her third solo exhibition at Valley House Gallery.

TRISH NICKELL, POINTS OF VIEW:

For artist Trish Nickell, life took a dramatic turn when she and her husband, David Szafranski, moved to Paris in 1996. Their planned year in France extended to a stay of 12 years. When they returned in 2008, they settled in Portland, Oregon, influencing Nickell to include views of the Northwest coast along with the French landscapes already inspiring her.

Trish Nickell was born in Dallas, and grew up in the Park Cities, graduating from Highland Park High School in 1965. In 1968, Nickell earned a BA from University of North Texas, and in 1986 a MA from University of Dallas, followed by a MFA in 1988, also from UD. Independent study with artist John Evans was crucial to her development.

About her work, Trish Nickell says:

"Occasionally Nature gifts our eyes with a fleeting moment of beauty. As Pierre Bonnard said, 'Art begins in the sensation of being overwhelmed by the beauty of Nature.' That is where my new paintings begin.

The views I choose to depict are derived from moments when Nature presents itself completely unsolicited with a certain light, a certain combination of colors exploding before me. I see all parts of the field of vision equally and simultaneously. The whole view is unique. It's not about one exceptional area within the whole. These views have a sense of solitude, but that solitude liberates the imagination and invites meditation. They may seem quotidian, but with closer awareness, abundant richness reveals itself.

My friend and mentor John Evans says, 'All my paintings are of worlds where I want to be.' My paintings are also places in which I want to be, and I hope each viewer wants to enter the space depicted. Nature is perfection that cannot be duplicated. However, I take Nature's beauty and expansiveness into myself, allowing it to change and transform my work."

Both exhibitions will be on view through July 7, 2018.

See you Sunday at CADD FUNd. Visit us soon at Valley House!

Cheryl and Kevin Vogel
Laura Green
Valley House Gallery & Sculpture Garden
6616 Spring Valley Road, Dallas, Texas 75254
972-239-2441

Hours: 10:00am-5:00pm, Monday- Saturday



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Location:Dallas

Fiaticorti Film Festival: entries open to the 19th edition

Applications are now open for the 19th edition of Fiaticorti, the international short film festival based in Istana, Treviso, Italy. The call for entries is open until August 3, 2018.

The Festival is organized by the Municipality of Istrana (TV) and designed by a group of young people under 30 years of age.

The 19th edition is divided into three sections:

• Fiaticorti: dedicated to national and international short films;

• Fiaticomici: dedicated to short films belonging to the genres of comedy, satire or slapstick;

• FiatiVeneti: dedicated to short films by filmmakers living in Veneto, Italy.


The theme is free for all sections. Only short films made after January 1, 2017 and with a maximum running time of 20 minutes are admitted to the competition. Works already presented to other competitions are admitted as well.

In order to participate it is necessary to fill in the entry form and send it to info@fiaticorti.it by August 3, 2018.

The artistic direction will select the 24 films that will be screened during the festival and that will compete to get to the suggestive awarding ceremony, which will take place in an exceptional location: the cinema theatre of the military airport of Istrana!

Among the selected short films, the Jury will identify the winners of the Fiaticorti Award for the best short film, the Fiaticorti Award for the best short film in the Fiaticomici section, the FiatiVeneti Award and the Fiaticorti Award for the best actor/actress.

The best short film in the Fiaticorti section will win prize money of € 500 euros.

Among the jurors there is Umberto Curi, film philosopher and university professor who was also a member of the Board of Directors of the Venice Biennale.

http://www.fiaticorti.it/eng/submission.html



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Location:Italy

Four Women + CADD FUNd

Dear Valley House Friend,

Please join us for the following events and exhibitions!

This Saturday, June 2, 1:00pm-5:00pm, Anne Weary will be in the gallery, on the final day of her exhibition, True to Nature. Stop by to meet Anne and see her exhibition. About the inspiration for her drawings, Anne Weary says, "I cannot resist the beauty and atmosphere of the woods – unspoiled and untouched by humankind."

Also, Saturday is the last chance to see Brooklyn-based artist Allison Gildersleeve's exhibition, High Frequency. About her paintings and ink drawings, Allison Gildersleeve says, "I'm interested in the point where imagery breaks down into abstraction, but not completely – I always want to catch it before the sensation of place dissolves into pure mark making."

Both exhibitions are on view today, Friday, and Saturday, 10:00am-5:00pm.

Please join us Saturday, June 9, 6:00pm-8:00pm, for the opening reception for two exhibitions, Vera Barnett: Home, and Trish Nickell: Points of View. Trish Nickell will give an Artist Talk on Saturday, June 16, 11:00am. Vera Barnett will give an Artist Talk on Saturday, June 23, 11:00am.

View images of work in all four exhibitions at www.valleyhouse.com

On June 10, at 5:00pm, celebrate creativity and community at a Sunday evening soup supper at this year's CADD FUNd at 3015 at Trinity Groves. CADD FUNd will be a fast-paced evening with six finalists sharing innovative ideas about potential artistic projects. CADD FUNd will make possible a high-impact idea that needs the support of the DFW arts community. Funds are raised by ticket sales and will be awarded to the winner chosen by the audience. Tickets are $40 and may be purchased at www.caddallas.net

In case you missed our recent email detailing additional upcoming events, visit http://www.valleyhouse.com/main.asp?page=62 to catch up on all the latest happenings!

THANK YOU for staying in touch. We look forward to seeing you soon!


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Location:Dallas

Contemporary Art Dealers of Dallas Present CADD FUNd 2018

Contemporary Art Dealers of Dallas
Present

CADD FUNd 2018

Sunday, June 10th
5:00 – 7:30 pm

3015 AT TRINITY GROVES
3015 Gulden Lane
Dallas, Texas 75212



Contemporary Art Dealers of Dallas will again celebrate creativity and community with a Sunday Soup Supper on June 10th at 3015 at Trinity Groves. CADD FUNd will be a fun, fast-paced evening of sharing innovative ideas about potential artistic projects. CADD FUNd will make possible a high-impact idea that needs the support of the DFW arts community.

The idea for the annual CADD FUNd was inspired by similar events throughout the United States such as Feast in Brooklyn, Incubate in Chicago and Spread in Santa Fe. Over the past several years, numerous organizations have taken the basic premise of a Sunday soup dinner - collect creative proposals, invite the public to pay, eat, and listen, and then democratically vote for a winner - and adapted it to their own local purposes.

CADD FUNd 2018 will be awarded to one of these finalists:

Nida Bangash, SMU
Heather Charlet, UTD
Chris Evans, UNT
Barbara Horlander, TCU
Sara Rastegarpouyani, UTA
James Talambas, UTA

The six finalists will be selected from all of the applicants by three esteemed jurors; Amy Lewis Hofland, Director of the Crow Collection of Asian Art; Maggie Adler, Associate Curator of the Amon Carter Museum of American Art; and Phillip Collins, Curator, Scholar, and former Chief Curator at the African American Museum in Dallas.

During the event on June 10th, the finalists will present short proposals for original and yet-to-be-realized new projects. Members of the audience will have an opportunity to ask questions and then the audience participants will vote for their favorite project. Last year’s winner, Spencer Evans, will also give a short presentation during the event. After a short recess to tally the votes, the winner of CADD FUNd 2018 will be announced!

The CADD FUNd is $2500 - $7500 + and beyond. Funds are raised by ticket sales and will go to the winner chosen by the audience.

Tickets are $40 per person and are on sale now.

Tickets will not be available at the door. In an effort to make CADD FUNd 2018 as accessible as possible for the students and artists, $10 of each ticket sold will be applied to jurors’ fees and administrative costs in lieu of charging application fees.

While CADD FUNd is about raising much-needed cash, we hope that it will also be a forum to discuss the many other needs and resources that help make projects happen.

For information about the event & sponsorship opportunities contact: Cohndrennan@gmail.com


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Location:Dallas

Call to Artists Texas

Tito's Prize
Open Call: April 24 - May 31, 2018



Big Medium is now accepting applications for the second annual Tito's Prize! Austin artists are invited to apply until May 31. Please review the full guidelines before applying.

The Tito’s Prize is funded by a generous gift from Tito’s Handmade Vodka and facilitated by Big Medium. The award includes a solo exhibition during the 2018 East Austin Studio Tour in the Big Medium Gallery at Canopy. This opportunity is available to any artist living and working in Austin. For this purpose, Austin is defined as the area contained within the ten city council districts. Artists working in any artistic media and at any stage in their career are eligible.

A three member curatorial panel will unanimously select the prize-winning artist. The curatorial panel includes Andrea Mellard, Director of Public Programs & Community Engagement at The Contemporary Austin; Dennis Nance, Galveston Arts Center Curator and artist; and Veronica Roberts, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Blanton Museum of Art.

The winner of the Tito’s Prize will be announced July 17, 2018. The winning artist’s solo exhibition will open on October 19 in the Big Medium Gallery and run through the 2018 East Austin Studio Tour, closing on November 18.

Apply here

bigmedium.org/titosprize.html


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Location:Texas

Jieun Beth: Innocence in Silence

Jieun Beth: Innocence in Silence
June 1 - July 7

Opening Reception: Friday, June 1, 7-10pm

Address: 916 Springdale Rd, Bldg 2, #101
Gallery hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 12-6pm

Join us on Friday, June 1 for the opening of Innocence in Silence. Our third exhibition of 2018 features Jieun Beth in a solo show guest curated by Oliver Franklin.

Pairing an image of a shirt with an individual’s obituary, Innocence in Silence portrays the traces of a body and the memory of a personhood. Once used as an expression of individuality and a representation of self, the images and descriptions now remain as a relic and history. It is a reminder of the ultimate vacancy of our body, the influence of perception and the idea of an identity to encourage the reflection of one’s intention in life.

Jieun Beth (b. Texas, 1987) was born in the U.S. and grew up in South Korea, Canada, and France; living in twelve different cities and growing up with diverse influences motivated her artistic direction. She graduated with her MFA in Studio Art at the University of Texas at Austin in 2013 and received her BFA in Painting at the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2009. She explores the idea of personal identity and examines the influence of the body, memory and transience of life on the understanding of one’s identity.

Oliver Franklin has curated storytelling experiences in multiple media for over twenty years. Currently the Director of The Elisabet Ney Museum, Franklin has also worked at the Harry Ransom Center, Republic of Texas Museum, the Museum of South Texas and the Texas Historical Foundation.

jieunbeth.com


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Location:Austin Texas

Austin joins global cities for Leadership Exchange Program addressing urban affordability for the creative sector

AUSTIN, TX—May 21, 2018—This June, representatives from the City of Austin’s Economic Development Department will join cultural leaders from around the world to explore and address global challenges facing creative communities. Funded by an award from Bloomberg Philanthropies and Google Arts & Culture, staffers from Austin’s Cultural Arts and Global Business Divisions will participate in the first-ever Leadership Exchange Program, an initiative of the World Cities Culture Forum (WCCF) of which Austin is a member. Hosted in Toronto and led by the non-profit creative placemaking organization Artscape, the Exchange will bring together thought leaders from Austin, Amsterdam, London, New York, San Francisco, Sydney and Warsaw. The cities will explore urban affordability for the creative sector and establish global best practices for retaining and growing affordable creative spaces.

“The City of Austin recognizes the affordability crisis facing our citizens, including those in our creative community, and has identified this issue as a key priority,” said Meghan Wells, Manager of Austin’s Cultural Arts Division. “Participation in the Leadership Exchange Program will enable us to address this challenge with an eye toward what is working in other cities and develop creative solutions to add to our strategies and resources.”

Kate Levin, Chair of the Leadership Exchange Jury and program lead for Bloomberg Philanthropies Arts, added, “By creating the opportunity for cities to learn firsthand about the activities and approaches of their peers, the Leadership Exchange Program will advance the unique capacity of the creative sector in addressing civic issues.”

Cities are laboratories for the development of creative solutions. As Mayors around the world invest in cultural projects ranging from cultural facilities and arts programming, to affordable workspace, tourism, engagement and sustainability, the Leadership Exchange Program is an unparalleled opportunity to bring cities together for peer-to-peer learning. Members of WCCF are united in the belief that culture plays a critical role in addressing challenges facing creative communities, and the Leadership Exchange Program will be a catalyst for positive change globally.

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City of Austin Cultural Arts Division
The Cultural Arts Division of the Economic Development Department provides leadership and management for the City’s cultural arts programs and for the development of arts and cultural industries. The Cultural Arts Division is responsible for the Cultural Arts Funding Programs, Art in Public Places Program, community-based arts development, and programs to assist the development of film and creative industries in Austin.

About World Cities Culture Forum
The World Cities Culture Forum is a leading collaborative network of 35 world cities who believe culture is the golden threat for urban policy. It brings together city leaders to share, debate and inspire each other. The Forum publishes the world’s most comprehensive data on culture and cities, carries our research on new policy trends and convenes themed symposia, regional summits and workshops including an annual World Cities Culture Summit hosted on a rotating basis by member cities. In 2018, the Summit will be held in San Francisco. The World Cities Culture Forum is an initiative of the Mayor of London, organized and coordinated by BOP Consulting. For more information about the forum and the summit, visit www.worldcitiescultureforum.com.

About Bloomberg Philanthropies
Bloomberg Philanthropies works in over 120 countries around the world to ensure better, longer lives for the greatest number of people. The organization focuses on five key areas for creating lasting change: Arts, Education, Environment, Government Innovation, and Public Health. Bloomberg Philanthropies encompasses all of Michael R. Bloomberg’s charitable activities, including his foundation and his personal giving. In 2017, Bloomberg Philanthropies distributed $702 million. For more information, please visit www.bloomberg.org.
About Google Arts & Culture
Google Arts & Culture is an innovation partner for cultural institutions. The team provides technologies that help preserve and share culture and allow curators to create engaging exhibitions online and offline, in museums. The Google Arts & Culture app is free and available on the web, on iOS and Android, allowing users to explore exhibitions from over a thousand museums.




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Location:Austin

CADD FUND 2018 Announces Finalists for June 10th event

Contemporary Art Dealers of Dallas
Present

CADD FUNd 2018

Sunday, June 10th
5:00 – 7:30 pm

3015 AT TRINITY GROVES
3015 Gulden Lane
Dallas, Texas 75212



Contemporary Art Dealers of Dallas will again celebrate creativity and community with a Sunday Soup Supper on June 10th at 3015 at Trinity Groves. CADD FUNd will be a fun, fast-paced evening of sharing innovative ideas about potential artistic projects. CADD FUNd will make possible a high-impact idea that needs the support of the DFW arts community.

The idea for the annual CADD FUNd was inspired by similar events throughout the United States such as Feast in Brooklyn, Incubate in Chicago and Spread in Santa Fe. Over the past several years, numerous organizations have taken the basic premise of a Sunday soup dinner - collect creative proposals, invite the public to pay, eat, and listen, and then democratically vote for a winner - and adapted it to their own local purposes.

This year's CADD FUNd will be awarded to one of these six finalists:

Nida Bangash, SMU
Heather Charlet, UTD
Chris Evans, UNT
Barbara Horlander, TCU
Sara Rastegarpouyani, UTD
James Talambas, UTA

The six finalists will be selected from all of the applicants by three esteemed jurors; Amy Lewis Hofland, Director of the Crow Collection of Asian Art; Maggie Adler, Associate Curator of the Amon Carter Museum of American Art; and Phillip Collins, Curator, Scholar, and former Chief Curator at the African American Museum in Dallas.

During the event on June 10th, the finalists will present short proposals for original and yet-to-be-realized new projects. Members of the audience will have an opportunity to ask questions and then the audience participants will vote for their favorite project. Last year’s winner, Spencer Evans, will also give a short presentation during the event. After a short recess to tally the votes, the winner of CADD FUNd 2018 will be announced!

The CADD FUNd is $2500 - $7500 + and beyond. Funds are raised by ticket sales and will go to the winner chosen by the audience.

Tickets are $40 per person and are on sale now.

Tickets will not be available at the door. In an effort to make CADD FUNd 2018 as accessible as possible for the students and artists, $10 of each ticket sold will be applied to jurors’ fees and administrative costs in lieu of charging application fees.

While CADD FUNd is about raising much-needed cash, we hope that it will also be a forum to discuss the many other needs and resources that help make projects happen.



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Location:Dallas

Call for Entries Open for 2018 Art of Peace – Tyler Visual Art Exhibit

(TYLER, TX) - Entries now are being accepted for the Sowing Seeds of Peace Visual Art Exhibit as part of the Art of Peace – Tyler celebration, a citywide commemoration of the United Nations International Day of Peace, Sept. 21.
“Art of Peace – Tyler is happy to once again to partner with the Tyler Museum of Art to invite regional artists to offer their creative responses to the idea of peace and to our 2018 theme, Sowing Seeds of Peace,” said Anne McCrady, co-founder and co-director of the peace event.
The visual art show will be presented as a juried exhibit in the museum’s education classroom Sept. 16-23, at the Tyler Museum of Art, 1300 S. Mahon Ave. on the Tyler Junior College main campus. The exhibit will be open to the public and admission is free.
The jury for selection will consist of members of the Art of Peace - Tyler committee and TMA representatives. The jury has the option to select up to two works per artist for inclusion in the show. Past exhibits have included the work of artists from Austin, Dallas, Lubbock and the East Texas area.
“We are privileged that the Art of Peace - Tyler committee once again has asked us to be the host venue for this exhibition,” TMA Executive Director Chris Leahy said. “The work we have seen over the past four years of our partnership has grown increasingly more dynamic and accomplished, and we are proud to have the opportunity to participate in such a great community event.”
Entry deadline for the visual art show is July 31. For more information about Art of Peace – Tyler events, visit www.tylerpeace.com. For questions about the art exhibition, e-mail artofpeaceart@gmail.com or call Mrs. McCrady at (903) 658-5645.


SUBMISSIONS
· Artists must be older than 18 and reside in Texas
· Entry deadline is Tuesday, July 31, 2018. Entries received, whether by mail or e-mail, after midnight July 31 will not be accepted
· Works in all media are eligible, provided they can be juried by digital image. These include painting, drawing, printmaking, photography/digital media, sculpture, mixed media and fine craft (wood, metal, clay, fiber, glass)
· Artwork should relate to the 2018 theme, Sowing Seeds of Peace, as a metaphor for the creative endeavor of peace work.
· Artwork must be able to fit through a regular-sized doorway
· Works chosen must be finished, dry and ready to exhibit
· Each artist may submit two pieces of art. Artists’ submission must consist of:
o Three high-quality digital JPEG images of each proposed work, each clearly labeled: Artist Last Name-Title-View. If mailed CD is to be returned, artists should include a self-addressed, stamped envelope
o A description of each work that includes title, media, size and description
o Artist CV or résumé with contact information including Website, e-mail, phone
and mailing address
· Artists should e-mail digital images, descriptions of work, CV and artist information to artofpeaceart@gmail.com or mail a CD with information packet to: Art of Peace – Tyler Exhibit Committee, Tyler Museum of Art, 1300 S. Mahon Ave, Tyler, TX 75701
ARTWORK IMAGES
“Since jury selection uses images of the artwork, artists should send high-quality images that represent their pieces as accurately and professionally as possible,” Mrs. McCrady said. Artists must submit images as JPEG files. Art of Peace - Tyler reserves the right to reproduce artwork images of accepted entries for promotion of the exhibition in the media.
The TMA does not allow art sales on the premises. However, given artist permission, guests will be provided with names of artists and selected contact information, she said. Visitors who wish to purchase artwork may contact the artist directly regarding a sale after the close of the show.


INSURANCE
The TMA will insure exhibited works from the time of their safe arrival at the Museum until they are returned to the artist, for the insurance values indicated on the entry form. Insurance values will correspond with the demonstrable fair market value of the work. Details of the insurance coverage are addressed in the final loan agreement for selected works. Submission of an entry to the exhibition constitutes agreement on the part of the entrant to the conditions set forth in the competition.
EXHIBITION CALENDAR
Tuesday, May 1 — Entries open
Tuesday, July 31 — Entry deadline (must be received by midnight)
Friday, August 31 — Artist notification of jury’s selections
Tuesday, Sept. 11 & Wednesday, Sept. 12 — Receipt of artwork for show, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
Sunday, Sept. 16 — Exhibition opens to the public
Monday, Sept. 17 — Museum closed
Sunday, Sept. 23 — Artist reception, 3 p.m.; program, 3:30 p.m.; artwork pickup, 5 p.m; exhibit closes.
Tuesday, Sept. 25 — Final day to pick up artwork, 9:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m.
Sept. 14 - 23 — 2017 Art of Peace Tyler events








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Location:Tyler Texas

"LA COUNTY ARBORETUM” - A SPECIAL COMMISSION FROM LA METRO TO BRING ART TO THE STREETS

“LA COUNTY ARBORETUM” - A SPECIAL COMMISSION FROM LA METRO TO BRING ART TO THE STREETS


ARTIST KAREN HOCHMAN BROWN COMMISSIONED BY LA METRO TO CREATE WORK FOR THEIR "THROUGH THE EYES OF ARTISTS" POSTER PROJECT FOR DISPLAY ON BUSES AND RAIL MAY 7 TO JULY 1, 2018

POSTER SIGNING AT THE LA COUNTY ARBORETUM ON MAY 15TH, 11 AM-1 PM

(Los Angeles, California) – It has been an eventful year for LA Artist Karen Hochman Brown. The digital artist currently has a solo show on view at The Main in Santa Clarita and the Jewish Federation in Monrovia. She recently concluded her artist residency at the Crain Art Gallery in San Marino, plus she has two upcoming solo exhibitions scheduled at the Museum of Art and History in Lancaster and the California Center for Photographic and Digital Arts in Santa Ana.

Hochman Brown continues the wave of interest in her work with a commission for a poster on the buses and trains of the LA Metro. On view throughout Los Angeles from May 7 to July 1, 2018, the artist’s work weaves imagery of train tracks, aloe blooms, and peacock feathers. Drawing from elements one might find at the Arboretum, Hochman Brown comments, "I was inspired by many non-native species co-existing in harmony, much like the kaleidoscope of people from across the globe who live in Los Angeles County.”

Hochman Brown’s inspired art has redefined the possibilities of abstraction with digital media and continues that development in Shoreline Symmetries at The Main gallery space in Santa Clarita. The artist has departed from purely abstract compositions to examine her techniques among landscapes. To this end, Hochman Brown has envisioned the landscape as hyperreal, otherworldly, and defying of natural phenomena.

In previous work, the artist engaged questions about cultural identity. Her works referenced Judaic iconography with their six-point structures and formed the basis of the artist’s technical, expressive, and conceptual investigations. Currently, Hochman Brown’s subject has evolved to a broader consideration of the natural world and its irreducible makeup of fractal geometries. Comprised of multiple layers of floral imagery, Hochman Brown isolates and pieces together their disparate elements into abstracted kaleidoscopic tapestries. The artist’s painterly process utilizes various digital photographic editing tools and software in her meticulous manipulations of tonality, brightness, and saturation to create an illusion of depth.

Karen Hochman Brown received her B.A. in Art from Pitzer College, has continued to study math, and did post-graduate work at California College of the Arts and Crafts where her master’s thesis introduced Construction Geometry via Art, a Junior High School curriculum she taught at Pasadena Waldorf School. She continued to study the interconnections of math and art via technology at UCLA studying graphic design in late-nineties. Her work has been widely exhibited in California and the United States.

The LA County Arboretum is located at 301 North Baldwin Ave, Arcadia, CA 91007.

POSTER SIGNING AT THE LA COUNTY ARBORETUM ON MAY 15TH, 11 AM-1 PM

Images pictured by Karen Hochman Brown:
Top: “Arboretum Mandala”

Additional and high-res mages: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/jz5h1aa4xopzn3a/AAAG1CNdVqcZGUDR8dm2c7Oia?dl=0


KAREN HOCHMAN BROWN
Showing this spring;


Shoreline Symmetries
4/16/18 through 5/11/18
The Main Gallery — Santa Clarita, CA
Artist reception 4/19/18 – 7:00-10:00 PM

The Seven Species
3/1/18 though 5/31/18
Jewish Federation — Monrovia, CA

Abstraction
3/31/18 through 4/30/18
Art@The Six — Calabasas, CA
Artist Reception 4/11/18 @7:30 PM
Through the Eyes of Artists



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Location:Los Angeles

TPS 27 Photography Exhibition - Gallery reception at the Bath House Cultural Center

Exhibition Dates: May 5-June 2, 2018

Reception: Saturday, May 5, 2018 (7-9 PM)

Featuring live music by Mack Price

The Texas Photographic Society presents TPS 27: The International Competition. This annual photography exhibition, now in its 27th year, was juried by Kate Breakey, renowned visual artist based in Arizona. The show is opened-themed and highlights fifty images by 43 artists from 18 U.S. states as well as Canada.


After the show at the Bath House, TPS 27 is set to travel to The Center for Contemporary Arts in Abilene, Texas, as well as Options Gallery at Odessa College in Odessa, Texas, over the course of the next year.

Participating Artists: Linda Alterwitz, Zia Ayub, Anne Berry, Victoria Bracken, Joel Butler, James Cooper, Anastasia Davis, Patricia de Ocio Dudley, David Dennard, Chance DeVille, Norm Diamond, Haakon Donnelly, Anne Eder, Thomas Foster, Steffani Frideres, Nadide Goksun, Diana Nicholette Jeon, April Kao, Eleanor Kerr, Karen Klinedinst, Kendra Laflin, Irwin Lightstone, Marilyn Maxwell, Calli McCaw, Christine Meytras, Robert Moore, Linda M. Morrow, Dale Niles, George Nobechi, Andrew Ortiz, Neal Panton, Sirous Partovi, Justin Ruiz, Joshua Sariñana, Catherine W. Singer, Peter Stern, Peter Stitt, JP Terlizzi, Beckwith Thompson, Ashton Thornhill, Mark Vitaris, Lynn Whitney, and Clifford Wright.


Art, Art, and more Art

Location:Dallas

Opening reception: What is the opposite of a computer

– Opening date: May 5, 2018
– Closing date: May 27th, 2018
– Reception date/time:Saturday, May 5, 2018 4:00 - 7:00 pm

Inner Space: a chamber gallery
7923 Mohawk Dr. Dallas, TX 75235
972-567-5801
http://innerspace175.wixsite.com/chamber


– Participating Artists
Ashlyn Lee - Dallas, TX - http://www.ashlynlee.org/
Lauren Cardenas- Reno, NV - http://lauren-cardenas.com/
Megan Mueller - Los Angeles, CA - https://www.meganmueller.com/
Simon Welch -Strasbourg, France - http://welchsimon66.wixsite.com/simon-welch-films
Meredith Cawley - Dallas, TX - https://www.meredithcawley.com/

Exhibit title: What is the opposite of a computer

As we upload our memories, hopes and dreams in an attempt to escape our mortal flesh, stitching together bits from Instagram/ Twitter/Snapchat to the next hot app of the minute, embedding ourselves to the eternal interwebs - we stare into the flickering blue depths of HEV, a Frankenstein - our avatar stares back and reaches outward for connection. These incorporeal beings are straining for touch, deprived of body and thus of all sense organs. In a state of desolate loneliness, our human desire for meaning is reduced to existential anxiety. With every memory we share digital decay, begins a single bit that changes from 0 to 1, every repost - another two; three bits are flipped and the digital self does not endure. As Hume put it, “nothing but a bundle of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity.”


Closing Reception: Sunday, May 27, 2018 2:00 - 5:00 pm


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Location:Dallas

Scott Froschauer's new solo exhibition confronts divisiveness in America

“ECHO ENIGMA” – SCOTT FROSCHAUER’S NEW SOLO EXHIBITION CONFRONTS DIVISIVENESS IN AMERICA

OPENING AT ARK GALLERY AND STUDIOS WITH A RECEPTION APRIL 29TH, 3-6 P.M.

TO BE FOLLOWED BY:
AN ARTIST TALK SUNDAY, MAY 20TH, 3-5 P.M.
ALTADENA OPEN STUDIOS TOUR, JUNE 3RD 11-5 P.M.
CLOSING RECEPTION ON JUNE 10TH, 2-5 P.M.

(Los Angeles, California) Ark Gallery and Studios is pleased to present a solo exhibit with Los Angeles multimedia artist Scott Froschauer. The artist explores themes of social connectivity, community and complexity. Froschauer gained notoriety with his “The Word on The Street” series of subversively positive street signs.

In Froschauer’s latest exhibit at ARK, the artist reflects on America’s increasingly polarized climate, etching distressed mirrors with portraits of various historical American figures. The artist injects elements that complicate otherwise one-dimensional narratives. He states that, “Deciding how to categorize them becomes more of a statement about the viewer, who is reflected in the distressed surface of each piece.” Hero and villain become blurred in the complex reality of the subjects humanity.

That complexity becomes the underlying fabric of the shows centerpiece. The exhibit’s focal point is a model for a large-scale artwork entitled United Divider that proposes a size of 15 feet tall by 20 feet long. Reminiscent of Richard Serra’s Tilted Arc that infamously overtook Federal Plaza in New York in the 1980’s, the 120-foot-long curved steel panel divided an otherwise open public space and was eventually taken down due to public outcry. Froschauer proposes a monument of polished stainless steel, waving, and etched with the likeness of the American flag. When viewed up close, the flag’s stars and stripes consist of lines of text bearing the names of historical Americans, human beings who we might find ourselves simplifying into heroes or villains, but which are actually more complex. Again, the polished surface reminds the viewer that their impression of these individuals is more of a reflection of their own preconceptions. Froschauer comments, “The epic scale of this piece gives it a stance as a wall, separating those who might stand on either side of it. The reflective quality of the piece denotes that this idea of America is a reflection of all who observe it. The symbol of the flag brings us all together and tears us all apart. It is the United Divider.”

Several related events will follow the April 29th opening from 3-6 p.m. including a May 20th artist talk from 3-5 p.m., an Altadena Open Studios Tour day on 3rd from 11-5 p.m., and a closing reception on June 10th from 2-5 p.m.

Ark Gallery and Studios is located at 2599 Fair Oaks Ave., Altadena, CA 91001


Image pictured, by Scott Froschauer:
Top: “United Divider”, 2018



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Location:Los Angeles

$15,000 Tito’s Prize Available for One Austin Artist

$15,000 Tito’s Prize Available for One Austin Artist
Open Call: April 24 - May 31, 2018

Big Medium is now accepting applications for the second annual Tito's Prize! Austin artists are invited to apply online at bigmedium.org/titosprize.html until May 31.


The Tito’s Prize is funded by a generous gift from Tito’s Handmade Vodka and facilitated by Big Medium. The award includes a solo exhibition during the 2018 East Austin Studio Tour in the Big Medium Gallery at Canopy.

This opportunity is available to any artist living and working in Austin. For this purpose, Austin is defined as the area contained within the ten city council districts. Artists working in any artistic media and at any stage in their career are eligible. A four member curatorial panel will unanimously select the prize-winning artist.

“We're proud to be partnering with Big Medium for the second year in a row. We invite our fans to join us in supporting and cultivating creativity in the community. At Tito’s Handmade Vodka we take great pride in our creative community and those organizations such as Big Medium that help support and cultivate that creativity.” – Zack Flores, Director of Philanthropic Programming at Tito's Handmade Vodka

The winner of the Tito’s Prize will be announced July 17, 2018. The winning artist’s solo exhibition will open on October 19 in the Big Medium Gallery and run through the 2018 East Austin Studio Tour, closing on November 18.


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Location:Austin

Save the Date! Consulate General of Mexico in Dallas celebrates 100 years with robotics for children and youth

Save the Date! Consulate General of Mexico in Dallas celebrates 100 years with robotics for children and youth



To celebrate its Centennial (1918-2018), the General Consulate of Mexico in Dallas invites the public to the interactive event RobotiX Summer Camp: a robotics and STEM education program (science, technology, engineering and mathematics), with fun challenges for children and youth participants.

The RobotiX demonstration will be held on Thursday April 26th at 6:30 pm at the Consulate General of Mexico in Dallas, aiming to provide opportunities in the field of robotics to the children, youth and educators through the School Districts and Community Organizations in the North Region of Texas.

The event will present the RobotiX in the Box Program, a model that transforms classrooms in technologic labs, ideal for K-12 schools.

The RobotiX educational model has been proved in more than a thousand educational centers in Mexico, impacting more than 170 thousand children and youth.

Join us!


http://www.soyrobotix.com/
https://www.facebook.com/SoyRobotiX.fans/
https://twitter.com/SoyRobotiX
https://www.youtube.com/user/MicrobotiX



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Location:Dallas

Call for Sculptors! Entries open for "ScoglieraViva. Sculpting the Sea", international outdoor sculpture competition

Call for Sculptors! Entries open for "ScoglieraViva. Sculpting the Sea", international outdoor sculpture competition


Deadline 15 May, free application worldwide

Entries are open to "ScoglieraViva. Sculpting the Sea", international outdoor sculpture prize with free participation until 15 May 2018.

The competition, now in its 19th edition, features the direct intervention of sculptors on the cliffs in the town of Caorle, near Venice, Italy. The sculptures turn the cliff into a real open-air contemporary art gallery, whose changes will be given by time and natural agents.

The theme is free: every artist can freely choose the subject of his/her work, which will be carved on the large rocks of Euganean trachyte in Caorle by the 3 winning artists, selected by the Jury. The works will be made in the days between 21 June and 30 June 2018. The winning artworks will be presented to the public on the evening of June 30 in Caorle's town centre.

The contest sees the awarding of 3 cash prizes of € 2,000 for each of the 3 winning artists. Board and lodging are also included during the stay at the City of Caorle, from 21 to 30 June 2018, for the creation of the work on site.

The selection of the submitted projects will be made by an Awarding Jury including some prestigious names in the international Contemporary Art scene:
Paolo De Grandis (Venice, Italy | Curator and Organizer of Exhibitions)
Simone Pallotta (Rome, Italy | Curator of Public and Urban Art)
Matteo Zauli (Faenza, Italy | Director at Carlo Zauli Museum)

Eligibility: sculptors from all over the world, with no restrictions in terms of age, sex or other qualifications

Contest terms >>>

Free application until May 15, 2018, FILL IN THE ONLINE FORM >>>

Discover more on the town of Caorle >>>

Contact and information
tel. +39 041 5937242
info@scoglieraviva.com
https://scoglieraviva.com/en/


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Art Students to Receive 2018 DADA Scholarship Awards & Exhibition

The 2018 DADA Scholarship Awards & Exhibition,
Opening Reception and Ceremony

The Dallas Art Dealers Association (DADA) will honor 14 Booker T. Washington High School visual art students on May 10 from 6-8 p.m. Join DADA to celebrate talented young artists at the Awards & Exhibition - Opening Ceremony at One Arts in the Dallas Arts District. The Exhibition will be on view May 6-18.

With additional gifts and prominent exposure, the Edith Baker Art Scholarship is expanding its artistic influence. "My goal is to give young artists the opportunity for recognition, exhibition and scholarship," says Baker. "We created the scholarship in 2005 to give young artists access to mentors and funding to help them pursue higher education in art." The Edith Baker Art Scholarship is a $5,000 award. Further enhancing the program is an additional award funded by gallery owners Kenneth Craighead and Steve Green. The Craighead Green Fund for the Arts awards a $2,500 scholarship to inspire a young artist a career in art. DADA Excellence in Art award - $1,000.

Selected works are based on artistic originality, technique, presentation, and evidence of personal vision or voice. Three artists, whose work exemplifies confidence in their craft and a vision of their future goals will be awarded scholarships toward higher education in the visual arts.

Featured Artists:

Conner Chase
Connor Coleman
Lily Edwards
Cameron Eisenberg
Angie Fuentes
Wells Goetzmann
Molly Mitchell
Bernadette Negrete
Gabriela Noriega
James Page
Finn Segal
Daniela Segovia
Terrance Suber
Benjamin Vega

"With the help of DADA Friends and other sponsors, we continue to enhance the scope of the awards both in gifts and outreach," stated Cathy Drennan, Executive Director of DADA. Adding more scholarships is the goal to provide young artists the opportunity to pursue a career in art. It is third year showcasing the student work at One Arts, thanks to the generosity of the Billingsley Co and Hamilton Sneed."

Our prestigious jurors, Winter Rusiloski, Professor of Painting at Baylor University; Mary Tomás - artist and owner Mary Tomás Gallery; and Kenneth Craighead - designer and owner Craighead Green Gallery. Additional thanks to scholarship committee, Rini Andres, Alberto Tomas and BTW visual arts coordinator,Kyle Clark. And special thank you to our Sponsor Terri Provencal and PATRON Magazine.

DADA - Dallas Art Dealers Association
The Dallas Art Dealers Association, an affiliation of established independent gallery owners and nonprofit art organizations in the Dallas metropolitan area, is dedicated to enriching the lives of the public through visual art.


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Location:Dallas

Call For Artists: Bayou City Art Festival Downtown 2018

Call For Artists: Bayou City Art Festival Downtown 2018

HOUSTON (April 10, 2018) – Bayou City Art Festival, produced by the Art Colony Association, Inc. (ACA) and benefiting Houston non-profits, is inviting artists from around the world to submit applications and have the opportunity to showcase their art at one of the nation’s premier outdoor fine art events on Saturday and Sunday, October 13-14, 2018. The artist application deadline for Bayou City Art Festival Downtown is Sunday, June 3, 2018 at midnight CST.

“We are always excited to see what artists have to offer and are always in awe with the work that they present,” said Joe Pogge, ACA board president. “Bringing in new and returning artists from across the country and beyond not only ensures a fruitful festival for everyone but most importantly, it helps us continue to give back and support local charities.”

ACA produces Bayou City Art Festival Memorial Park in the spring and Bayou City Art Festival Downtown in the fall. For 47 years, ACA has provided a venue for more than 20,000 artists to showcase their work to thousands of art lovers from all over the world. Patrons have the opportunity to personally meet the artists, view original works and purchase world class art. The festival benefits local non-profits and features live music, food, beverages, entertainment, a Children’s Creative Zone and much more.

Twice a year, more than 1,000 qualified applicants from 19 different disciplines and from submit their applications to be reviewed by ACA jurors. The festival receives applicants from around the world including Canada, Mexico, South America and Israel. For each festival, a new juror panel is invited and consists of artists, collectors, educators, curators and industry professionals. To build a jury that is experienced in all forms of art, professionals from the performing and literary arts industry are also invited to participate. The panel of five to seven jurors are selected based on their specific interests, professional knowledge and background with the festival. Only 300 artists will be selected to exhibit at the 2018 Bayou City Art Festival Downtown. Cash Prizes are awarded for “Best in Show”, second and third place, as selected by on-site judges. Ribbons are awarded for “Best Booth” and all winners receive jury exempt status for two years as well as priority booth placement.

Artists are required to submit five images and an application fee of $45 before the deadline. All artists selected to participate in the 2018 Bayou City Art Festival Downtown will be notified by Friday, June 15, 2018. For more information or to submit an artist application for Bayou City Art Festival Downtown, please click here.

For updates on social media, follow the official event hashtags #HouArtFest and #BCAF, like the Facebook page, or follow on Twitter and Instagram. Also, subscribe to ournewsletter here.

About Bayou City Art Festival:

Entering its 47th year in 2018, the Art Colony Association has raised $3.6 million for local non-profit programs through the festivals. A percentage of the proceeds support local art organizations and nonprofits. The Festivals are funded in part by grants from the City of Houston through the Houston Arts Alliance, corporate sponsorships, private contributions, in-kind support and volunteer assistance. Volunteer and sponsorship opportunities are available. For more information, please visit www.artcolonyassociation.org



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Location:Houston

Fisterra Retrospective Exhibition Opening on April 27

Fisterra Retrospective
April 27 - May 18

Opening Reception: Friday, April 27, 7-10pm
Address: 916 Springdale Rd, Bldg 2, #101
Gallery hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 12-6pm

In November 2003, 28 artists opened their homes and studios for the first East Austin Studio Tour. The orange house on the corner of east 2nd Street at Waller, with its backyard studio, became a spot that thousands of visitors have returned to each year. A new group of guest artists created exhibits of their art in each room of the house, while the home cooked posole and hospitality of Jennifer Chenoweth's house remained a staple. November 2017 was the last year for Fisterra Studio to participate in EAST in this space, but the annual event had a deep effect on Austin's sense of community and connectedness. This show will feature over 50 guest artists collaborating again to inspire artists and art lovers about the beauty, quality and diversity of visual art in Austin.

Artists include: Stella Alesi, C. Andrew Boyd, Todd Campbell, Monique Capanelli, Valerie Chaussonnet, Jennifer Chenoweth, Lisa Choinacky, Christina Coleman, Beth Consetta Rubel, Brooke Davis, Autumn Ewalt, Holly Fisher, Virginia Fleck, Emma Hadzi-Antich, Norman Hera, Katelena Hernandez Cowles, Will Heron, Jennifer Hill, Felice House, Carla Hughes, Janine Hughes, Calder Kamin, Gabel Karsten, Lauren Klotzman, Robby Lee, David Lovas, Richard Mansfield, Wells Mason, Brian McKinney, Sebastian Miles, Andrea Nelson, Theresa Noyes, L. Renee Nunez, Dawn Okoro, Dharmesh Patel, Rob Pettingill, Gretchen Phillips, Andrea Pramuk, Bridget Quinn, Jay Roff-Garcia, Philip Rogers, Katie Rose Pipkin, Tammie Rubin, Shibiya Sabu, Kristen Saska Juen, Jenny Sathngam, Amy Scofield, Elise Sibley Chandler, Judith Simonds, Annie Simpson, Jeff Stockton, The Afro Gypsy, The Theorists, Erik Tragus, Carlotta Vann, Glen Vigus, Jade Walker, Johnny Walker, Jason Webb, Lee Webster, Aaron Weiss, Kayci Wheatly, and Dana Younger

fisterrastudio.com

bigmedium.org/gallery.html


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Location:Austin

Artist J. Fredric May honors stroke month with solo show at CA Center for Digital Arts

Artist J Fredric May shouldn’t be alive to open his solo exhibition during Stroke month. Thanks to his cat, Apparition: Postcards from Eye See You will be on view at the California Center for Digital Arts, Santa Ana in May.

This exhibit traces a fateful moment in 2012 in which May, a photojournalist and film industry professional arrived home after a trip and found it strange for his cat not to greet him. Instead, May heard unusual sounds outside. “In all these years he had never heard or seen his cat act like this. It worried him,” comments May’s wife Lisa. Something unusual was in the air. May pursued his cat high up in his yard’s tree, slipped and fell breaking several of his ribs. In the hospital it was discovered that May was having an aortic aneurysm and a stroke and was able to get help quickly. “It all links back to the cat, who we think had a sense something was wrong, and saved his life” Lisa says.

May became partially blind and diagnosed with Charles Bonnet Syndrome (CBS). What he didn’t lose however was his ever-restless urge to create. May uses his now-skewed vision and has pioneered a unique technical and expressive approach to photography. May’s engaging with both digital and analog photographic processes and consequently aided in May's recovery and has landed him with numerous awards, and upcoming exhibits.


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Location:California

A.M. Rousseau opens solo show at Jason Vass May 5th

May 5 to June 2, 2018
Opening Reception: May 5, 6-9pm
Artist Talk/Book Signing:
June 2, 2-4pm

Jason Vass
1452 E. Sixth Street
Los Angeles, CA 90021

(Los Angeles, California) – Jason Vass is pleased to present Lines of Inquiry, an exhibition of paintings and works on paper by A.M. Rousseau. Rousseau is a multi-disciplined artist, writer and photographer currently living in Southern California who has exhibited her work nationally and internationally. Rousseau’s works are imbued with an investigation of line. She takes her inspiration from a Paul Klee dictum: “Take a line for a walk, aimlessly for the sake of the walk.” She sees each line as a metaphor for the way life happens: one point leading to another, ever changing. For her, “Every line is a reflection of individual will, a unique indicator of purpose and direction, just as in hieroglyphics, a kind of handwriting that can be read if the system of mark making is understood.”

The works on view range from black and white works on paper like Downward Hang, and Left Leaning in which a succession of quasi concentric black lines gracefully flow as if suspended across two supports. The algorithm used in creating these works becomes more complex as Rousseau moves across multiple sheets of paper adding color into the mix. In works like Fire and Ice Quartet and 100 Line Rush Triptych the undulating curves have a wave-like pattern reminiscent of an abstracted ocean. When Rousseau moves from paper to canvas and from ink and colored pencil to acrylic paint, she begins to fill in shapes creating denser compositions where the linear elements originate from a central core.

Rousseau’s lines are both gestural and used to outline geometric forms as in Perspective Collective and Spiral Quartet. Her work has much in common with the timeless quality of ancient Chinese and Japanese calligraphy, at the same time as it is firmly rooted in contemporary art practice as comparisons to works by conceptual artists Sol LeWitt or Robert Mangold are apt as are connections to the works of Julie Mehretu.

A.M. Rousseau received her undergraduate degree from the Massachusetts College of Art and a Master’s Degree in Fine Art from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY. She is the recipient of a National Endowment in the Arts Fellowship, The Djerassi Foundation Affymax Fellowship, the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Artist Residency, Yaddo Artist residency, the Virginia Center for the Arts residency, the Manhattan Borough President’s Award for Excellence and Service in the Arts, and the Harc Foundation Award. She has been exhibiting since 1990 including most recently exhibitions at the Upland Museum of Art (2017), the Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA (2016), CMay Gallery, Los Angeles and Korea (2015).


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Location:Los Angeles

Due WEST: Tickets on sale now!

Join us on the Lawn at Seaholm

This is your chance to support Austin's local creative community. Join Big Medium on Thursday, May 10 from 7-10pm on the Lawn at Seaholm to kick off the 2018 West Austin Studio Tour. Get your copy of the WEST catalog and map, and enjoy light installations by local artists, music, lawn games, bites by Le Politique, and open bar under the night sky. Walk across the street to the Austin Central Library and experience over 300 artists in the 2018 West Austin Studio Tour Group Exhibition.

Join Big Medium as a member at the $150 level or higher, and attend the Member Preview and Reception at the library from 6-7PM before heading over to party on the lawn.


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Location:Austin

Psychic states emerge in L.A. artist Glenn Waggner’s paintings at Neutra Institute Museum and Gallery

Glenn Waggner
The Existential Afterparty
Solo Exhibit
March 31st-April 15th, 2018

Opening reception: Saturday, March 31st, 7-10 p.m.
Neutra Institute Museum and Gallery
2379 Glendale Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90039

www.glennwaggnerartist.com
http://neutra.org/event/show-5-glenn-wagnner-solo-show/

Psychic states emerge in L.A. artist Glenn Waggner’s paintings at Neutra Institute
Museum and Gallery
(
Los Angeles, CA) – The Neutra Museum Gallery is pleased to present a solo painting exhibit with L.A. artist Glenn Waggner. The artist capitalizes on painting’s formal language to animate his psychologically-charged scenarios. Minimalistic, Waggner’s paintings optimize the use of color as light that is activated between foreground and
background, or between the subject and its liminal surroundings. The artist’s surprising formal invention is a product of mapping spaces. Their overarching geometries are suspended between abstraction and representation, and
anchored by figures, architecture, landscape, and other recognizable imagery. Waggner credits this to his process of allowing spontaneous gestures to inform the construction of pictorial space and stimulate new formal and narrative relationships. The artist’s
anecdotal titles further contextualize the ambiguous relationships posed. Waggner states, “I ask the viewer to determine their own narrative. Maybe it starts a dialog. The title answers the question or suggests a direction.”Waggner’s work engages numerous nineteenth and twentieth-century painters in the renewed exploration of formal language to articulate human drama and the unconscious.

Among those are the paintings of Edward Hopper and Philip Guston. Waggner was born and raised in Southern California. Growing up in the beach communities, he was immersed in the 1970’s surfing and skateboarding culture. Always drawing and sketching, Glenn has worked in the architectural profession for many years. In the year 2000, Waggner discovered oil painting, taking to its qualities of being a freer and looser medium. It was the perfect fit that allowed art to be made using vivid color and no precise lines. It was “plein air” that helped to capture subject matter quickly and avoided precise detailing, like that required in architecture.

Glenn Waggner’s work won 3rd place in ART + SCIENCE’s 2008 juried show, and was featured in Artscene magazine. Waggner has art is in several private collections.

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Location:Los Angeles

ART214 Gallery reception at the Bath House Cultural Center on April 8

Exhibition Dates: March 24-April 21, 2018
Reception: Sunday, April 8, 2018 (5-7 PM)


As part of Dallas Arts Month, four cultural centers of the City of Dallas Office of Cultural Affairs (OCA) are hosting a multi-venue juried exhibition to showcase the works of artists who live and work in Dallas and the Greater North Texas region from late March to early June.

Through this exhibition, OCA hopes to discover and develop relationships with new artists, provide opportunities for artists to exhibit their work for the first time ever or for the first time in one of our cultural centers, and cross pollinate artists who have previously exhibited at one cultural center by exhibiting their work at a different center. Another goal of this collaborative project is to draw in new audiences who have never been to (or even heard of) our Cultural Centers and to share audiences who frequent a specific center but have never experienced the others.


Juried by Elizabeth Mellott, Tori Phillips, Jim Burton and Arthur Peña.

All four shows curated by Christina Estrella Riggs


BATH HOUSE CULTURAL CENTER ARTISTS: Cate Baker, Sue Benner, Christopher Bingha, David Blow, Bernard Bortnick, Du Chau, Arfa Chowdhary, Justin Coursey, Vanhue Davis Jr., Angelika Ejtel, Reyna Flores, Moriah Garcia, Chunyu Han, Seth Hudson, Benjamine Lester, Sam Marie, Virginia Marsh, Tina Medina, William Messimer, Hannah (Bernadette) Negrete, Kevin Owens, Chancellor Page, Siliva Parra Dela Longa, Paul Pena, Maia Pizarro, Erika Pochybova, Erin Puckett, Steve Quevedo, Fari Rahimi, Katrina Rasmussen, Carol Riedel, Alex Rose, Wendi Ruth, Ernest Scheihagen, Una Scott, Jerry Skibell, Gisela-Heidi Strunck, Juergen Strunck, Jose Vargas, Katerina Verguelis, Marilyn Waligore, Robert Walker, William Webster, Terri Wilder, Matthew Wood, Nicholas Wood, James Yonkman, and Ramon Zozaya.



For information about the ART214 exhibitions at the other OCA venues, please visit www.bathhousemedia.com/art214




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Location:Dallas

Austin Art in Public Places Expands Popular TEMPO Program

Austin Art in Public Places Expands Popular TEMPO Program
Temporary public art program to now include opportunities for muralists



AUSTIN, TX—March 26, 2018—Art in Public Places (AIPP), a program of the City of Austin’s Cultural Arts Division, announces the expansion of TEMPO, its annual temporary public art program. TEMPO provides the community a deeper appreciation of public art through temporary, thought-provoking installations that impact and enhance city-owned sites across Austin. Since 2012, the TEMPO program has commissioned dozens of artists to create outdoor installations. While diverse in material and theme, TEMPO artworks have typically been three-dimensional sculptural installations. This year, AIPP will grow the program to include opportunities for muralists. Through TEMPO 2-D, AIPP will commission seven to ten artists to create temporary murals at select sites across the City. The deadline to apply is April 26 at 5 PM and compensation will be provided for the selected artists.

“This new initiative will enable many additional local artists to participate in the TEMPO program,” said Sue Lambe, Administrator of the Art in Public Places Program. “Honoring the age-old tradition of mural painting, TEMPO 2-D will provide the public with fresh new ways to experience art in the community.”

TEMPO 2-D
AIPP has issued a Request for Qualifications for the TEMPO 2-D program. Selected artists will propose mural designs that will either be hand-painted, digitally-printed vinyl adhesives or temporarily attached panels for locations ranging from public parks to the Austin Bergstrom International Airport, among other sites. Prior to doing any design work, artists will work with the community to develop murals that reflect the character of their chosen location and special consideration will be given to artists with lived experience in the neighborhoods where they are proposing artwork. Funding provided for selected mural projects will range between $2000 and $7000, contingent on the size and complexity of the project. Applicants may review the complete Request for Proposals at www.tinyurl.com/AustinAIPP and must apply online at www.PublicArtist.org, by Thursday April 26, at 5 PM. Artists may learn more about the program at the following meetings:

TEMPO 2-D Artist Information Meetings
Monday, March 26th, 6:30 – 7:30 PM | Dougherty Art Center, 1110 Barton Springs Rd
Thursday, March 29th, 6:00 – 7:00 PM | North Village Library, 2505 Steck Ave


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City of Austin Cultural Arts Division
The Cultural Arts Division of the Economic Development Department provides leadership and management for the City’s cultural arts programs and for the development of arts and cultural industries. The Cultural Arts Division is responsible for the Cultural Arts Funding Programs, Art in Public Places Program, community-based arts development, and programs to assist the development of film and creative industries in Austin.

Founded in 1985, the Art in Public Places (AIPP) program acquires and maintains works of art for City facilities and parks through commissions, donations, and loans for the cultural enrichment of Austin’s community. By City ordinance, AIPP allocates 2% of eligible capital improvement project funding to the acquisition of site-specific public artwork. 2015 marks the 30th Anniversary of the AIPP program in Austin, the first municipality in Texas to make a commitment to include works of art in construction projects.

For more information, visit www.austincreates.com.


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Location:Austin

2018 DADA Spring Gallery Walk

Join us for the 2018 DADA Spring Gallery Walk - March 31

DADA invites you to join us in opening the spring gallery season on Saturday, March 31 from noon to 8:00 pm. Participating galleries will be open on Saturday into the evening hours allowing time for you to visit multiple locations. Art enthusiasts, private and corporate collectors, artists, designers and visitors to Dallas will enjoy a full spectrum of gallery openings and special exhibitions. For Exhibition details and special events check in with your favorite gallery.

Participating Galleries:
Design District American Fine Art, Beaudry Gallery, Carneal Simmons Contemporary Art, Christopher Martin Gallery, Craighead Green Gallery, Laura Rathe Fine Art, Luminarté Fine Art Gallery, Mary Tomás Gallery, Samuel Lynne Galleries; Uptown - Afterimage Gallery, David Dike Fine Art; Downtown - TVAA Downtown Gallery; Oak Cliff - Oak Cliff Cultural Center; Deep Ellum/Exposition Park/Fair Park Latino Cultural Center, South Dallas Cultural Center; East Dallas - Bath House Cultural Center; Richardson - UT Dallas SPiN Gallery Synergy Park North 11-6pm; Park Cities - Talley Dunn Gallery 10am-5pm; Farmers Branch/Addison - Brookhaven College Forum Gallery and Studio Gallery; North Dallas - The Gallery at North Haven Gardens 9am-6pm, Southwest Gallery 9-6pm, Valley House Gallery& Sculpture Garden 12-5pm; Irving - Irving Arts Center Galleries & Sculpture Garden

Gallery Guides can be downloaded from our website and are available at a participating galleries. Like us on facebook.com/DallasArtDealersAssociation

DOWNLOAD GALLERY GUIDE www.dallasartdealers.org



Join us for the
2018 DADA Scholarship Awards
May 10, 6-8 pm at One Arts Plaza

The Edith Baker Art Scholarship
The Craighead Green Fund for the Arts
DADA Excellence in Art Award

The goal is to give young artists the opportunity for recognition, exhibition and scholarships. This juried exhibition features thirteen finalists from among Booker T. Washington High School's best visual art students. The selection process was based on artistic originality, expression, technique, presentation and evidence of personal vision or voice.

Jurors:
Winter Rusiloski - artist/Professor of Art, Painting at Baylor University
Kenneth Craighead - designer/owner Craighhead Green Gallery
Mary Tomás - artist/owner Mary Tomás Gallery

Thank you - PATRON Magazine and One Arts Plaza


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Location:Dallas

Call for Artists – 2018 Creative Climate Awards New York

Call for Artists – 2018 Creative Climate Awards

The Human Impacts Institute’s Creative Climate Awards are an annual series of events that showcase artists creating climate-inspired, public works. In an effort to inspire us to think more critically about our actions and their impacts, the Creative Climate Awards program uses the arts and creativity to share knowledge, broaden the climate conversation, educate, and incite action.
These events are an opportunity to creatively engage tens-of-thousands of people in positive action around the challenges posed by climate change, while having your work seen by our judges—some of the top artists, curators, and international leaders in the world.
Apply for FREE online at: www.humanimpactsinstitute.org/creative-climate-awards Submissions Due 11:30PM May 31st, 2018

WHAT WE ACCEPT*
● All 2D works, including graphic design, drawings, painting, photographs, collage, and mixed media
● Films (both shorts and feature length)
● Performative works , including dance, theatre, music, and other works
*NOTE: Artists are responsible for costs of shipping works to and from NYC. All performers must be able to perform in NYC between September 17th and October 12th , 2018.

WHAT YOU GET
● First place cash prize of $2,000
● Month long exhibit at 42nd St. gallery in Manhattan, NYC
● Work viewed by our judges

TIMELINE
● Submissions Due: 11:30 pm, May 31st
● Selections Announced: June 15th
Thanks to the Taipei Economic Cultural Office in NYC for their support.
http://www.humanimpactsinstitute.org/creative-climate-awards


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Location:New York

The MAC POP Garden: Go Green | Launch + Happy Hour

IN PARTNERSHIP WITH PROMISE OF PEACE AND TIERRA FIRME,
THE MAC IS PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE
THE MAC POP GARDEN: GO GREEN
LAUNCH (3-4PM) AT THE MAC
+ HAPPY HOUR (4-5:45PM) AT THE CEDARS SOCÍAL MEXICAN MODERN
SATURDAY, MARCH 17


The MAC goes green on March 17! In partnership with Promise of Peace Gardens and art collaborative Tierra Firme, The MAC is pleased to announce The MAC POP Garden: Go Green launch and happy hour on Saturday, March 17 in celebration of the new education-based natural dye garden. Visitors will learn about the new garden initiative with drop-in tours and art activities for all ages, including a natural dye watercolor demonstration, at The MAC (1601 S. Ervay/entrance at 1600 Gano) from 3-4PM. This garden launch will be followed by a happy hour at The Cedars Socíal Mexican Modern (1326 S. Lamar) from 4-5:45PM, where guests will enjoy exclusive drink specials and complimentary passed hors d'oeuvres, there will be a small raffle benefiting The MAC POP Garden.

As The MAC continues to utilize the ample outdoor space at 1601 South Ervay as a venue to present works of art accessible to all, the organization extends this mission of public engagement with the founding of The MAC POP Garden. The garden will help to revitalize and beautify the neighborhood given that the quarter-mile stretch of S. Ervay St. from The MAC to Downtown has long been vacant. The garden and art are tools to connect people and increase ecological understanding in an urban environment.

The MAC will work with program partners Promise of Peace and Tierra Firme to develop and deliver educational programming. From seed to canvas, participants will learn about each step in the life of a plant, from the origin of a seed, its development over time, and the mature plant's various uses. Through hands-on educational activities on- and off-site, The MAC POP Garden's programming will demonstrate how flowers, roots, and other plant materials can be used to produce natural dyes and works of art.

The MAC POP Garden is created as a place where art, community, and sustainability connect. Community members interested in assisting with the establishment and maintenance of the garden and/or related activities may contact britain@the-mac.org.

ABOUT OUR PARTNERS
Promise of Peace Gardens (POP) transforms vacant spaces into thriving places. POP has built gardens where they deliver programming to children and their families as they explore living a sustainable life. The organization works to grow, harvest and prepare fresh clean food, so children and their families gain access to healthier lifestyles, community involvement and a sense of stewardship for the planet. They have established the Emmanuel POP Garden in partnership with the Emmanuel Lutheran Community Center, the Bayles POP Garden at Bayles Elementary in East Dallas, and a partner garden at Vogel Alcove (across the street from The MAC). POP introduced the "Seed-to-Soul" program at Bayles, which delivers education and hands-on experiences on a weekly basis where teachers and students integrate math, science, literacy and health concepts within the context of the garden.

Tierra Firme is a project-based collaboration between artists Analise Minjarez and Sarita Westrup. As individual artists, their practice is grounded in fibers and sculpture. Their art installations often explore issues of duality, authenticity, cultural geography, and migration. Amongst other projects, Tierra Firme worked in various capacities with the University of North Texas Natural Dye Garden. Analise successfully helped with the procurement of grant funding for the UNT Dye Garden and designed and developed the layout of the functioning garden. Both artists have taught workshops throughout Texas and are passionate about the education of natural dyes and textiles as a powerful medium for creating fine art. Recently, Tierra Firme was awarded the 2017 Arch and Anne Giles Kimbrough Fund Award from the Dallas Museum of Art.


WHEN/WHERE
The MAC POP Garden: Go Green
Saturday, March 17, 3-4PM
The MAC
1601 South Ervay Street
Entrance at 1600 Gano Street
Street parking available throughout the neighborhood

Go Green Happy Hour!
Saturday, March 17, 4-5:45PM
Cedars Socíal Mexican Modern
The Cedars Socíal
1326 South Lamar Street

GETTING TO THE CEDARS
The Cedars is located just blocks from the heart of Downtown Dallas south of I-30. By car the Cedars is connected to the metroplex from major arteries: I-30, US-75, I-45, and I-35. The neighborhood is easily accessible by DART lightrail and bus.



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Location:Dallas

Vail Arts Festival Call for Entries

Vail Arts Festival Call for Entries

Vail, Colorado

Event Dates: 6/22/18 - 6/24/18

Application Deadline: 4/10/18 Midnight MST

Apply: https://www.zapplication.org/event-info.php?ID=6500

Website: http://www.vailartsfestival.com/vail-arts-festival

Event Summary
Vail, Colorado is home to one of the most spectacular mountain resorts in the world. Located just 90 minutes west of the Denver metro area, this well-known, year-round vacation destination is also a haven for an affluent, well-educated, art savvy local population. The Vail Arts Festival is Vail's longest-running outdoor art festival, celebrating its 34th anniversary in 2018, located in the Town of Vail. It is a three-day outdoor festival, located in heart of Lions head Village and the picturesque Arrabelle at Vail Square, June 22, 23 and 24, 2018.

Artist Prospectus & Application
Vail, Colorado
Friday, Saturday and Sunday June 22, 23 and June 24, 2018

Entry deadline: April 10, 2018
Reminder: Commitment to show and booth fee due upon acceptance: April 30, 2018

You are invited to apply to be among a group of 60 juried exhibitors to participate in the 2018 Vail Arts Festival, Vail's longest-running arts festival, celebrating its 34th Anniversary in 2018! Our goal is to provide visitors and our selected exhibitors with a unique show in a picturesque mountain resort setting.

This Artist Prospectus and Exhibitor Application includes essential details on exhibitor participation and should be read carefully prior to application. NOTE: Please focus on Image Requirements before applying to show. www.zapplication.org/imaging_tips.phtml

Mission Statement
The mission of the Vail Arts Festival organization is to create access to a broad array of arts experiences, and nurture the development and understanding of diverse art forms.

General Information
The Vail Arts Festival is a three-day outdoor celebration of the visual arts, located in the heart of Lionshead Village at the Arrabelle at Vail Square. The primary focus of the event is the juried exhibition of gallery quality fine art and fine crafts, giving our audience the rare opportunity to meet, interact with, view the works of and purchase art from the individuals who have created it.


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Location:Colorado

Lawrie Shabibi at Art Dubai Contemporary, 2018

Lawrie Shabibi is pleased to announce its sixth participation in Art Dubai (Booth E10) with a presentation of six artists who explore themes of time, rhythm and return through the analogy of story telling: Hamra Abbas, Farhad Ahrarnia, Mounir Fatmi, Nadia Kaabi-Linke, Zak Ové and Shahpour Pouyan.

The centre piece of the booth will be a floor-based work “Please Do Not Step – Loss of a Magnificent History” by Hamra Abbas – a fantastical marble inlay text that points to the great tradition of story-telling in the Islamic world. Shahpour Pouyan will present ceramic pieces that also explore themes of time and travel.

Nadia Kaabi-Linke, Mounir Fatmi, Zak Ové and Farhad Ahrarnia will each present wall-based works. Kaabi-Linke is known for her canvases of rubbings taken from the reliefs of old walls - eroded by time and marked by history. For Art Dubai she will present a work on canvas from her “Kula” series.

Other works on the booth include a wall sculpture by Mounir Fatmi and a ‘doily’ by Zak Ové. Produced from white coaxial cable and encased in glass boxes, Fatmi’s cables have been intricately manipulated into repeating circles, creating a sense of addition and subtraction – of time moving.

Ové presents a colourful ‘doily’ painting - wonderfully patterned abstract compositions of lace doilies. These are playful reinterpretations of the colours and patterns of the Trinidadian carnival. Continuing the theme of dance and pattern, Ahrarnia’s pictorial works are more subdued but convey images of dancers from the 1920s and 30s embroidered with patterns referencing the textile designs of Sonia Delauney.

For the full press release and a selection of images, please click this link. To arrange interviews with the artist or directors, please find my contact details below.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Best wishes,

Asmaa Al-Shabibi
Director
Lawrie Shabibi
Alserkal Avenue, Unit 21, Al Quoz
PO Box 123901, Dubai, UAE
T 971(0) 4346 9906
F 971(0) 4346 9902
M 971(0) 50 467 0272
asmaa@lawrieshabibi.com
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Twitter @lawrieshabibi
Instagram @lawrieshabibi


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Location:Dubai