Call for Entries - 2011 Anderson Ranch Wintersculpt Snow Sculpture Competition: January 13-15, 2011

Snowmass Village, CO – Test your skill in Aspen’s best snow sculpture event! Grab your buckets and snow shovels – it’s time to apply for Wintersculpt, January 13-15, 2011.  Carve an 8 sq ft cube of snow in 48 hours on the Aspen pedestrian mall as part of Aspen’s 2011 60th Anniversary Wintersköl festivities.  Anderson Ranch Arts Center is seeking submissions from artists and amateurs, sculptors, builders and tinkerers, friends, families and businesses, young and old. Everyone is invited to participate.  It only takes a good idea, a love of snow, and a few pairs of mittens. 

The 2011 theme is based on Wintersköl’s 60^th “Diamond” Anniversary.

Click here to download an entry form and guidelines. DEADLINE to apply is December 10, 2010.

Participation stipend is $200 per team with prizes awarded for 1st ($400), 2nd ($200) and 3rd place ($100). Sculptures will be judged on Saturday, January 15 at 4 pm and awards will be announced at 6 pm at the EPIC WinterFest on the Cooper Ave Mall in downtown Aspen.

Visit andersonranch.org/wintersculpt for more information or contact Sonya Taylor at 970/923-3181 ext 204 or staylor@andersonranch.org.

Anderson Ranch Arts Center is a world-class learning community dedicated to creativity and growth through the making and understanding of the visual arts. We promote the personal and professional development of artists of all levels of expertise through year-round workshops, artists’ residencies, exhibitions, lectures, public events and community outreach. The facilities feature fully-equipped studios, galleries, café, dormitory and ArtWorks store. Anderson Ranch programs and activities attract thousands of artists, art-lovers, students, faculty and patrons annually to this historic and beautiful 5-acre mountain ranch near Aspen.

For more information on our programs, call 970.923.3181, email info@andersonranch.org, write Anderson Ranch Arts Center, P.O. Box 5598, Snowmass Village, CO 81615, or visit our web site at www.andersonranch.org.

Forum Lounge: Marco Pinter, Gravitational Forces, Thursday, December 2, 7 pm Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum FREE

Thursday, December 2, 7 pm

Forum Lounge: Marco Pinter, Gravitational Forces

Gravitational Forces explores technology as a medium for artistic expression by using dance and video to create a multi-sensory experience. This performance represents the emotions and struggles we face as humans through a fusion of dance, video, and generated sound. Dancers Anaya Cullen, Kaita Lepore, and Steven Jasso pull from the audience’s “kinesthetic sympathy” with the aid of Pinter’s direction and technological additions.

Marco Pinter (Creator/Director) received a B.A. from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY and a M.S. from the University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA. He has produced many performances including RUCKUS with Cloud Eye Control, Pamela Z, and his company’s Dichotomous as well works for the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA with dancers from Company XIV, String Theory, and the State Street Ballet. A developer for Disney Imagineering and Mattel, Pinter has 7 issued patents and 23 pending patents in live video technology, robotics, interactivity, and telepresence.

Support for Forum Lounge is generously provided by: Endevermusic Productions, the Franciscan Inn, KCSB, Santa Barbara Winery, and the Santa Barbara Independent. Forum Lounge is presented in association with the Santa Barbara Downtown Organization’s 1st Thursday. 

FREE

Location:

CAF | 653 Paseo Nuevo, Santa Barbara, CA  93101   |    Paseo Nuevo Mall Upper Arts Terrace   |   sbcaf.org
p: (805)966-5373  |   f: (805) 962-1421   |    sbcaf@sbcaf.org

"Call for Artists : 14th National Juried and Invited Contemporary Exhibition"

Western Colorado Center for the Arts 

Grand Junction, CO, USA United States of America 
 
The prospectus for the National Contemporary 2011 Exhibit Prospectus at the Western Colorado Center for the Arts in Grand Junction is now available. Deadline to enter is January 27, 2011. The exhibition will be presented May 13 – June 25, 2011 with an opening reception on June 3, 7 pm – 9 pm, lecture 6pm or TBA. The Art Center is pleased to announce artist and curator Michael Chavez as juror for Contemporary 2011 National Exhibition. The Exhibition will include all two dimensional mediums including; drawing, painting, printmaking, photography, and mixed media.

Postmark deadline date for submissions is January 28, 2011 Prospectus available online at http://www.gjartcenter.org/events.html or request to have one sent to you by contacting Camille Silverman at 970-243-7337 x 6 or csilverman@gjartcenter.org

Michael Chavez will select six to eight artists to show along side the artwork selected from the juried process. Chavez is the Curator of Exhibitions and Education at Foothills Art Center in Golden, Colorado. He has a BFA in sculpture from the University of Wyoming and an MFA in printmaking from the University of Kansas. Over the past 16 years he has worked at the Art Institute of Chicago, The Spencer Museum of Art and the University of Wyoming Art Museum. In addition to curatorial duties, Chavez is active in the Colorado art community serving on public art committees and judging several exhibitions for Colorado’s cultural institutions.

The Western Colorado Center for the Arts is a nonprofit corporation organized to promote the enjoyment and understanding of the arts through educational programs, exhibits, and the acquisition and display of a permanent collection.

Devlin for ArtHash

Oh Look, Its Elephant Art! Looks just like my Pollock Print!

Photo By Christine Hood

So I got a text from my friend with a picture and caption "Elephant Art."  She then said "zoom in on the price--cute but expensive."  Well dammit that got me.  Here we go---> Elephant art... Where in the hell do I begin.  I first off would like to thank my friend Christie, or Gunth as I call her, for texting me this as it is topic that is often discussed by artists.  Next I will smooth down my ruffled feathers and break down what is wrong, bad, and down right felonious about this situation. ONE: Elephants do not make art.  They may have a brush and paint handed to them, and they may scribble, color, etc. on a canvas that is placed in front of them but that's IT.  Art is made with intention.  That is a critical factor.  With out that it is a pile of mud, a string bean, dookie! TWO: selling animal art confuses the general public, who is already perplexed, about what real art is.  If Sassy McTrunkers can paint -- why the heck would I pay a human to do it...  THREE: That art ain't good.  Now I have seen some artists with similar styles (BIG JOKE) but still.  FOUR: If you hand said elephant a makeup brush and it marks on peoples faces, is it now a makeup artist?  If you set a cat on a piano and it bangs keys do you call it a concerto?  It is the same thing.  The difference is that the public is informed about music, they seem to know more of what it is.  With art they can not discern, because sadly art is not as much in our culture as music.  Everyone does not go into museums and galleries.  They do not see art every day.  FIVE: Elephants work for peanuts-- artists work most of the time for free.  By the way the elephants 8 x 10 painting was $99 dollars.  That's a lot of dough for a pachyderm.   So anyway there is my rant on Elephant "Art."  The art world is crazy enough with human animals-- we don't need four leggeds included under the umbrella!

Photo By Christine Hood

Holiday Fashion Bazaar Veritas Collective Tyler Texas

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Emerging Art Scene Gallery Presents Jessica Blinkhorn and Atlanta Painters

Emerging Art Scene Gallery  DATE: Friday, November 12th TIME: 7:00 to 10:00 pm LOCATION: #313  & #321 Nelson Street SW Atlanta, GA 30313   Atlanta Painters Seven Artists Selected from Atlanta Painters for this Juried Exhibition at #313 Nelson Street    Addo Ashong|C. Torbett Crocker|Claudia Ruth Debner Allison Smith|Monica Torres|Carol Violanda|Aaron Whitmoyer   Jessica Blinkhorn Vicariouly Blue Are the Remains of the Day at #321 Nelson Street   Join Us during the Castleberry Hill Art Stroll Wine Tasting by the Wine Shoe Sweets by SugarBonen & More  Free Parking in the Castleberry Point Parking Deck       Jessica Blinkhorn's "Vicariously Blue Are the Remains of the Day"                  Jessica incorporates her physical disability into an examination of characters in watercolor partnered with abstract watercolor used in a deteriorative manner. A Blue chair is placed a corner of the room, and the subjects chosen possess a quality the owner envies or obtains. The connection between the owner of the chair and those who sit in the chair allows the owner to sit vicariously. The watercolor portrait produced is then partnered with an abstract watercolor using the remaining pigments. These abstract serve as symbolisms: a documentation of the owners deteriorative form. Denise Leitch Jackson Gallery: 404) 890.0532 denise@emergingartscene.com www.emergingartscene.com