Call for Artists: Chautauqua Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Art.

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Due: April 15, 2014

Call for submissions: Jerry Saltz, juror for 57th Chautauqua Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Art

We are very pleased to have Jerry Saltz select this year’s Chautauqua Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Art. Online application deadline April 15. Open to artists internationally: If you know of a deserving or emerging artist who might be interested in submitting work for consideration we would very much appreciate your forwarding this to them. The application link is below.

Don Kimes
Artistic Director, Visual Arts at Chautauqua Institution
dkimes@american.edu
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57th Chautauqua Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Art

June 22 – July 14/ Opening Reception Sunday, June 22 / 3 – 5:00 PM
The Chautauqua Annual Exhibition is one of the oldest continuously running juried shows in the country. For our 57th year, approximately 25 works from contemporary painters, sculptors, video artists, photographers and ceramicists will be selected for this prestigious exhibition. Internationally renowned critic Jerry Saltz will be selecting the Chautauqua Annual this year. Since 2006 Saltz has been senior art critic and a columnist for New York magazine. Formerly the senior art critic for The Village Voice, Saltz has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in Criticism three times. He and Roberta Smith, his wife of 30 years, have been described as a power couple who “shape the New York art conversation, providing competing and compelling points of view in the world’s art capital.”

– See more at: http://www.ciweb.org/art-galleries/eventdetail/396/-/57th-chautauqua-annual-exhibition-of-contemporary-art#sthash.Jaljm220.dpuf

– application at https://chautauqua.slideroom.com/#/login/program/20230

57th Chautauqua Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Art
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Call for Artists: Innovation Lab

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Are you a performing arts or arts service organization seeking a new, strategic response to a complex challenge?

Apply to the Innovation Lab by May 30!

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Eight organizations from across the country will be selected for two final rounds of our Innovation Lab, our 16-month-long immersion programs for arts and arts service organizations seeking to uncover adaptive responses to their most complex challenges.

Selected organizations will form a core Innovation Team, attend a 5-day residential retreat to accelerate their projects, and each receive $30,000 in change capital (plus $9,000 in unrestricted funds) to support the prototyping and evaluation of their strategies before fully launching them.

These programs are designed and managed by EmcArts, and made possible with the generous support of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation (DDCF). Download the press release.

Round 9 of the Innovation Lab for the Performing Arts is open to nonprofit producing and presenting organizations in theater, modern or contemporary dance, and jazz (including multidisciplinary college-based presenters). Download the RFP for Round 9.

Round 2 of the Innovation Lab for Arts Development Agencies is open to organizations that provide services in support of the ongoing development of an arts discipline, a particular area of arts activities, and/or its organizations and practitioners. These agencies must serve individuals or organizations in the disciplines of theater, modern and contemporary dance, jazz, or multidisciplinary arts. Download the RFP for Round 2.

The deadline for proposals to both rounds of the Innovation Labs is Friday, May 30, 2014.

Sondheim Interviews: Tiny Inventions

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This is the eleventh in a series of interviews with each of the Sondheim Award Semifinalists. Finalists will be announced in mid-April, and will be on exhibit at the Walters Art Museum June 21 to August 17; those not selected as finalists with be exhibited at the Decker, Meyerhoff and Pinkard Galleries at MICA  July 17 to August 3, 2014.

Name: Tiny Inventions (Max Porter & Ru Kuwahata)
Age: Both 32 years old
Website: www.tinyinventions.com
Current Location: Hampden, Baltimore
Hometown: Max- NY, Ru- Tokyo, Japan
School: Max- Rhode Island School of Design (BFA in Film / Vide / Animation)
Ru- Parsons the New School for Design (BFA in Illustration with Animation concentration)

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Current favorite artists or artwork: We love the sequential art progress of Picasso’s bull fight. It inspires us to push our design and be playful with the approach. Some of our favorite artists are Jeremy Clapin, David O’Reilly, Miwa Matreyek, Wes Anderson and Michel Gondry.

What is your day job? How do you manage balancing work with studio time with your life? As Tiny Inventions, we’ve created TV commercials, music videos, designed toy line, etc. So we’ve been working commercially as well as making independent films. In the past 2 years, Max has been a full-time faculty at MICA animation department and Ru just started teaching there as a part-time this semester.

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How would you describe your work, and your studio practice? We specialize in mixed-media narratives that marry analogue and digital animation techniques. Even if the final film is magical in tone, our ideas tend to come from real world observations.

How would you describe your collaboration? We have been collaborating since 2007. We enjoy merging our energies to create something that is greater than the sum of its parts. Our collaboration process is very intertwined that if we start explaining how we divide our work, it gets a bit too complicated. In short, we write and storyboard all our ideas together and we divide the production.

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What part of artmaking to you like or enjoy the most? The least? Writing is always the most grueling, painful and rewarding part of the process.

What research do you do for your art practice? It depends on the project. I don’t think there is anything particularly unique about our research process. We keep a sketchbook around us to write down small moments we encounter every day. We do a lot of location drawings, research various books and films. For some reason, there tends to be a scientific element that we’re interested in: forensic science, environment, theories about time & space, etc.

What books have you read lately you would recommend? Movies? Television? Music? Our recent independent film was inspired by Alan Lightman’s “Einstein’s Dreams” which depicts the concept of time in a poetic way.

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Do you ever get in creative dry spells, and if so, how do you get out of them? Cherish the small moments in our daily lives and draw…A LOT.

How do you challenge yourself in your work? We try to challenge ourselves with every project: storytelling, design, technical execution. One of the greatest challenges of animation is that there are many skills that you can improve, drawing, story-telling, new software, character animation, cinematography, editing, etc. So each of us pick one category that we really want to improve and proceed forward with our projects. ‘

What is your dream project? To have more time to make more films.

Call for Artists: Postcard Show

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DUE: May 9, 2014

Call for Art: Art of A Woman- Art, Fashion and Philanthropy – A Charity Art Postcard Pop-Up Exhibit

Overview:

The Artinista Art Advisory is pleased to issue a Call for Artist participation in this non-juried, invitational postcard exhibition. The 4×6 Art of A Woman: Art, Fashion and Philanthropy Charity Art Postcard Pop-Up Exhibit will feature original artwork created and donated by artists, 18 years and older from Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland and Washington, DC areas only. Each artwork will be postcard sized at 4×6 inches.

All of the postcard-sized artworks will be for sale to the public at $25 each for a fundraiser Pop Up Art Exhibition event entitled Art of A Woman: Art, Fashion and Philanthropy at Gossip on 23rd, a unique and trendy women’s clothing boutique located in Crystal City, Virginia to benefit the Space of Her Own (SOHO) Creative Mentorship Program, based in Alexandria, Virginia. SOHO’s mission is to provide girls in need with social, emotional, academic and creative enrichment through mentorship and visual arts instruction. The program aims to reach girls in local communities and prevent juvenile criminal involvement. Founded in 2003 by Linda Odell of the City of Alexandria’s Court Service Unit and Alice Merrill of The Art Legue. Space of Her Own, Inc. received nonprofit status in 2011.

For more information visit SOHO’s website at http://spaceofherown.org. The artwork will be on display at Gossip on 23rd, located at 566 23rd Street, S, Arlington, Virginia.

We invite artists from Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, DC to participate by sending artwork that is sized at 4×6 or 6×4 inches, unframed and light enough to be hung with T-pins or Velcro depicting how art influences fashion or how fashion influences art. All artwork submitted must be donated by artist who created the work, available for the duration of the show, and available for sale at $25 each with all proceeds donated to Space of Her Own. Unsold artwork will be the property of The Artinista Art Advisory or will be returned to the artist with a self-addressed envelope with proper postage.

Submission Information

Please download the Prospectus at www.theartinista.com/artists All submissions are due via mail to The Artinista Art Advisory by May 9, 2014. There is no fee for submitting work.

Call for Artists: Gormley Gallery (Baltimore, MD)

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DUE: May 1st, 2014

Solo or Group Exhibit Opportunity

Gormley Gallery at Notre Dame of Maryland University is seeking proposals for solo or group exhibits. Submissions received by May 1, 2014 will be considered for the 2014–15 and 2015–16 gallery years. Artists from Baltimore and the surrounding Mid-Atlantic region are especially encouraged to apply. Three exhibits are scheduled each year for a four to six week show. Artists attend the reception and give an informal gallery talk.

Submit 20 images in jpg format , 72 dpi, 1200 on the longest side, a checklist including title, date, dimensions, and media, an artist’s statement, and short c.v. No materials will be returned.

Mail to: Gormley Gallery, Notre Dame of Maryland University, 4701 N Charles St., Baltimore MD 21210.

http://www.ndm.edu/academics/departments-and-programs/art/gormley-gallery/exhibition-opportunities/

Call for Artists: I am O’Kah!’s 1st Annual Be AMAZING! Fundraising Gala and Silent Auction

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JOIN US – Be A Part of History!

I Am O’Kah! is seeking Baltimore’s most AMAZING emerging artists to participate as part of a 1-day exhibition and silent auction during their gala on May 17, 2014 at the Maryland Historical Society…

For more information about the event visit www.iamokah.eventbrite.com

Why?
• Exhibit: Showcase your work to our 400 guests at Maryland
Historical Society.
• Silent Auction: For those that participate in the silent auction
proceeds from items donated to the silent auction will be split 60/40
with I Am O’Kah!
• Great Cause: All proceeds from the event directly benefit I Am
O’Kah!’s entrepreneurship/financial literacy programs and
scholarship. Visit www.iamokah.org to learn more about the
organization.

How?
Contact the exhibition curator, Aisha DaCosta via email at
aisha@iamokah.org (443) 579-7950 or our Special Events Intern Abbey via
email at abbeycher@gmail.com