Call for Artists: Public Art Project in San Diego

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City of San Diego Commission for Arts and Culture Request for Qualifications MISSION HILLS/HILLCREST BRANCH LIBRARY PUBLIC ART PROJECT

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Art Budget: Approximately $280,000.
Eligibility: Any artist or artist team authorized to work in the U.S.
Application Deadline: Tuesday, January 6, 2015 before 4:00 p.m. PST The City of San Diego is seeking applications from interested qualified artists to provide public art services for Mission Hills/Hillcrest Branch Library Public Art Project. An artist or artist team is sought to design, fabricate and install permanent, site-specific artwork(s) at Mission Hills/Hillcrest Branch Library.

Please visit the following link for more information: http://www.sandiego.gov/arts-culture/publicart/artistopps.shtml

Call for Artists: Presents @ Area 405

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Area 405 Call for Vendors

Area 405 presents: “PRESENTS” – A two-day Market Extravaganza on December 12th from noon till 7pm & December 13th from 10am till 5pm

Are you an Artist, Artisan, or Crafter that is interested in renting a booth to sell your goods? We are currently seeking jewelers, painters, illustrators, printers, sculptors, wood workers, metal workers, furniture makers, toy makers, clothing and accessory designers, and all that are producing quality goods.

Booth cost:

$50 for a 4’ by 3’ space (Half of a table)

$100 for a 8′ by 3′ table (Full table)

$150 for a 8′ by 8′ floor area with a back wall and one 8′ by 3′ table.

Set up time will begin at 9 am on December 12th all valuables must be removed from the gallery at the end of the day.  December 13th we will begin set up at 8am.  Everything must be removed from the space by 7pm

Please send images of your work as well as a brief description about yourself and your artistic mission to info@area405.com with “Present submission (and your name)” as the subject. Submission Deadline is Saturday November 23rd

We will be promoting with our extensive email list.  In conjunction with other promoters, Arts Organizations, and posters and post cards.

Call for Artists: Hot Walls

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CALL TO BALTIMORE ARTISTS: APPLY FOR THE HOT WALLS PUBLIC ART SERIES!

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In the HOT WALLS series, Luminous Intervention aims to work with Baltimore artists to create video projected murals to be presented in Baltimore neighborhoods. All artists are welcome to apply. Using our large-scale video projection equipment, we will work with artists to turn walls or buildings into animated surfaces full of light, color and local creativity. Digital skills are a plus, but not required. We are happy to work with artists to turn non-digital visual artwork into a digital video projection.  We encourage applications from artists of any age (youth to elders and all in between).

As members of Luminous Intervention, we want to share our digital video equipment and meet other artists in Baltimore.  We have found that large-scale projections are attention grabbing and can gather people together for sharing stories, envisioning creative futures, inspiring critical discussion, and voicing concerns. We believe that the arts should reflect all of our lived experiences, not just the experiences of those connected to powerful institutions.

Luminous Intervention can offer a modest stipend to participating artists. We will also contribute our time and labor for running the projection equipment.  Artists will choose where in Baltimore to project their HOT WALLS artwork.  Artists are encouraged to project in their own neighborhoods, but that is not required.

We will accept applications on a rolling basis starting July 6, 2014.

HOT WALLS will begin presenting artists’ projections in September 2014. The simple online application can be found at http://bit.ly/hotwalls

For more information or questions, please: visit our website (http://luminousintervention.org/hot-walls)
email us (contact@luminousintervention.org) or join us for one of our Informations Sessions where you can ask us questions in person or talk to us your ideas.

Information Sessions:
Wednesday, July 23 at 7pm at the SNAED Chicken Box (corner of North Ave + Charles St)
Thursday, July 24 at 6pm at Jubilee Arts (1947 Pennsylvania Ave)
Saturday, July 26 at 2pm at School 33 Arts Center (1427 Light St)

Please check our website (http://luminousintervention.org/hot-walls) for additional locations

What the HOT WALLS might look like:
* paintings or drawings made into a digital animation or light-mural
* “movie night” with neighborhood residents, complete with popcorn
* candlelit vigils for important local figures from the past
* growing projected flowers onto an otherwise abandoned lot
* dance performances that include a projected partner
* emphasizing the importance of historical locations
* your digital, or non-digital, artwork
* poetry text, scrolling on a wall or building
* your video art scaled up to building-size

About Luminous Intervention Luminous Intervention is an artist collective that uses large-scale video projections in public spaces to highlight social and economic issues. We formed in 2012 to creatively support local and national activism, provoke critical dialogue, and interject powerful imagery onto familiar city edifices. Building facades, bridges, and other urban structures become backdrops for temporary video projections. Over the last two years, we have completed almost thirty different projections.

One of our aims is to collaborate with artists and community activist groups to support and amplify social justice messages, such as demanding fair labor practices, dismantling rape culture, banning armed drones, ending the school to prison pipeline, and creating alternatives to unfair development. We also work towards supporting neighborhood health and relationships through documenting community stories. In the past we have collaborated with the United Workers, Baltimore Redevelopment Action Coalition for Empowerment, FORCE: Upsetting Rape Culture, Communities for All Ages, Witness Against Torture, Backbone Campaign, Johns Hopkins Human Rights Working Group, and many others.

If you have questions about HOT WALLS, please contact Luminous Intervention at contact@luminousintervention.org

Call for Artists: Transmodern Festival

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Proposals being accepted for a performance at this year’s Transmodern Festival, Sept 21-27, 2014.

Tied by your Tongue is an immersive evening of dance and performance around the idea of language; its oppressive and liberating nature. Artists will explore how language shapes societal logic, culture, norms, perspectives, and understanding. Audience will be expected to move and shift through the venue space, engaging with a variety of performances and installed environments. Performances will occur on a linear time program so that the audience will not miss any one performance. 

I’m trying to keep the evening to about an hour to an hour and a half. Performances should be 8-10 minutes. I am also interested in performance that is immersive in its set design, so installations are welcome. There will be at least 2 evenings of this performance, at most, 3.

I’m looking for artists who want to push their own boundaries, step outside the box, and really dig deep. Think experimental, untraditional! I am asking for proposals because I have a limited amount of time for the evening. Artists will receive a small stipend.

I hope this opportunity is of interest to you! Deadline for the proposal is soon! August 15th. If you have any questions please feel free to email me at smaktastic@gmail.com I am open and would love to hear your ideas.

Baltimore Gallery Roundup: August 2014

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Openings and activities in and around Baltimore: August 2014.

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GUTSY: Taking the Fear Factor Out of Feminism
July 18th to August 8th
Exhibition Reception: Friday, August 8th, 6 – 9 pm

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GUTSY: Taking the Fear Factor Out of Feminism is the inaugural exhibition of The Feminist Art Project – Baltimore and the exhibition, like the group, aims to create a safe and inclusive space to talk about current issues within the context of feminism. Highlighting the work of female artists and artists dealing with feminist issues, themes, and aesthetics the exhibition strives to contextualize itself within the parameters of the art world and society at large. This intention manifests itself in a number of ways throughout the exhibition with artists and artworks that represent a broad spectrum of ages, races, backgrounds which results in differing approaches, mediums, and subject matter.

Maryland Art Place

Young Blood 2014
July 17th to August 16th

Young Blood is an annual exhibition showcasing outstanding works by recent Baltimore-area Masters of Fine Art graduates. Celebrating its 7th year, Young Blood will continue its tradition of exhibiting a diverse range of innovative, emerging artists.

Exhibiting artists include: Claire Girodie, Justin Hoekstra, Caleb Kortokrax, Jim Leach, Nick Primo, and Dominique Zeltzman.

C Grimaldis Gallery

Summer ’14
July 16th to August 23rd

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C. Grimaldis Gallery presents its annual summer group exhibition, Summer ’14, featuring contemporary sculpture, painting, and photography from exhibiting and represented gallery artists.

Summer ‘14 concisely summarizes the gallery’s program and serves as an update on the talent cultivated by C. Grimaldis Gallery. Artists included in this exhibition are: Chul Hyun Ahn, Markus Baldegger, Henry Coe, Cheryl Goldsleger, Lee Hall, Grace Hartigan, Eugene Leake, Dimitra Lazaridou, Ben Marcin, Raoul Middleman, Caroline Ramersdorfer, Cordy Ryman, Alexey Titarenko, René Treviño, John Van Alstine, John Waters, and Zhao Jing.

Goya Contemporary

Material Matters
June 25th to August 15th

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Louise Bourgeois, Günther Uecker, George Rickey, Jo Smail, Salvatore Scarpitta, Sam Gilliam, Luis Flores, Christine Neill, Sally Egbert, Sanford Biggers, Pia Fries, Sergio Sister, Yayoi Kusama, & Imi Knoebel.

Act Up collaboration box including: Nancy Spero, Ross Bleckner, Mike Kelley, Lorna Simpson,Louise Bourgeois, Simon Leung, & Kiki Smith

Creative Alliance

Marquee Lounge Exhibition
July 30th to August 30th

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For the past year, Studio 2 resident artist Christopher Kojzar has been toiling away, creating new bodies of mixed media artwork, a selection of which will be on view in the Marquee Lounge from July 30 – August 30. Restaurant hours only or by appointment.  Enjoy drinks, farm-to-table fresh food and a relaxing atmosphere while appreciating the work of one of Baltimore’s rising visual art stars.

HumaNature
August 1st  to August 16th
Reception: Aug 1, 6–8pm
Amalie Rothschild Gallery

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Artist Shaul Tsemach establishes his own visual language in painting by exploring his fascination with the primal, symbiotic relationship between humanity and the natural world. Relying on a spontaneous and intuitive process, he juxtaposes organic elements and natural patterns with more abstract and imaginative landscapes – using color and design, layers of rich texture, collages of manipulated digital photographs, textual material, and found objects to reflect the infinite beauty of a sentient natural world.   The resulting paintings are at once abstract and figurative, balancing ambiguity with the familiar in a style that allows elemental forms to evoke a transcendent reality.

HumaNature will be Shaul Tsemach’s first solo exhibition of original artwork.  For more information on the artist and his work, please visit www.shaultsemach.com.

Looking At Us
August 22nd to September 6th
Amalie Rothschild Gallery
Gallery hours: Tue-Sat, 11am-7pm

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Looking At Us explores artist Sheldon “Shelley” Amsel’s colorful take on daily life in Baltimore, including swimming, bicycling, eating, drinking, shoes, closets, and the Orioles. Using acrylic paint and oil sticks on canvas and paper, and a small degree of cynicism, Amsel attempts to show the viewer – themselves. His paintings reflect on the ordinary world in which we are immersed.  As color affects the artist’s mood profoundly, he attempts to affect the viewer’s mood through his choice of vibrant, explosive colors.  Composition and humor also play a large role in his paintings, drawings, and pastel pieces.

School 33

On the Brink
Joyce Yu-Jean Lee
June 13th to August 21st
Members’ Gallery

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School 33 Art Center is pleased to present On the Brink, a solo exhibition of new work by, Joyce Yu-Jean Lee.  In On the Brink, Joyce Yu-Jean Lee takes a look at various states of precariousness: environmental, economic, and mortal. Her projected video in this exhibition teeters at the edge of opposing forces and cyclical phenomena. A circular screen suspended from the ceiling serves as a projection surface for an animated storm tossing around the residue of everyday urban life. Cell phones, laptops, pets, jewelry, cars, and water bottles float and swirl around and above viewers. On the Brink illustrates precarious fragility, establishing loose narratives and vignettes abstracted from familiar banal environments that warn about falling out of balance.

Baltimore Museum of Art

Black Box: Lorna Simpson
June 27th to August 31st

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The power of Lorna Simpson’s video installation lies in its choir of 15 voices gently humming the melody “Easy to Remember,” a haunting song about love and loss. Within the tranquil, flowing meditation, individual interpretations of the song emerge as we hear unique intonations. One of the highlights of the BMA’s contemporary collection, Easy to Remember appeals to viewers “to recognize the common humanity that unites us all,” said Curator of Contemporary Art Kristen Hileman.

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Screencaps: Dina Kelberman
July 13 to August 17th

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Nudashank is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new works by Dina Kelberman. Dina Kelberman is an artist living and working in Baltimore, MD. She works in a wide variety of media including comics, painting, web media, animation, playwriting, photography, and screencaps. She is a founding member of the Wham City collective and a weekly comics contributor to the Baltimore City Paper. Kelberman was recently invited to create an original web-based piece, “Smoke and Fire,” for the New Museum.

Goucher College Galleries

Shifting Ground, Selected Paintings 2008-2014
June 5th to  August 31st
Reception: August 28th 6 to 9 p.m. in the Rosenberg Art Gallery.
Gallery Hours: 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. Monday – Sunday

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In Shifting Ground, Selected Paintings 2008-2014, Greg Minah traces the trajectory of his work, an evolving creative process and distinct style characterized by physical manipulation of paint on canvas. His work emerges from a fascinating working process–bordering on performance–and from his active exploitation of the possibilities of his materials.  He plans carefully, but remains responsive to chance.

MICA Exhibitions

Foundation Exhibition
Meyerhoff Gallery and Pinkard Gallery in Fox Building
Friday, August 29th to September 21st
Reception: Thursday, September 11, 5-7 pm

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Timed to coincide with the arrival of this year’s freshmen, this highly regarded student exhibition features work produced by current sophomore students during their foundation year at MICA. This annual exhibition provides a first glimpse at the works of artists who are developing their skills and vision over the next few years in a variety of media.

UMBC Galleries

Victoria Sambunaris: Taxonomy of a Landscape
August 27th  to December 17th
Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery

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This exhibition presents photographs made over the span of more than a decade by Sambunaris as she traversed the United States, stopping to photograph phenomena ubiquitous and familiar to particular regions but anomalous to the ordinary eye. Acting as both document and metaphor for the American experience, Sambunaris’s photographs bring into view the vast, open-ended mystery and unease of a country where human intervention and natural beauty inspire wonder in equal measure.

Top of the World

“Destinations” Exhibition
June 20th  to August 24th

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Top of the World Observation Level is excited to welcome “Destinations,” a collaborative exhibition from D. Emerson Myers and Doug Moulden.  Myers’s work is guided compositionally by the city’s infrastructure and thematically by the city itself, its people and its culture.  He takes mapped grids and turns them into a patchwork of colorful neighborhoods and districts.  In his work, Moulden creates a landscape devoid of humans encourages the viewer to place themselves metaphorically into the painting. Top of the World is located on the 27th floor of the World Trade Center at 401 E. Pratt Street.

Regular hours of operation are Monday through Thursday from 10am to 6pm, Friday and Saturday from 10am to 7pm and Sunday from 11am to 6pm.  Admission is $5 for adults, $4 for seniors and military, and $3 for children 3 to 12 years old.  The last ticket is sold a half-hour before closing.

Schulman Project
Kari Smith
August 1th to September 7th

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Baltimore Clayworks

Shake it Baby!
August 16th to September 27th

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Juried by Bryan Hopkins and Lisa Orr

An exhibition that challenges  the artist to make a salt and pepper delivery device that is truly unique to  them. An abundance of shakers and cellars and other containers for our  ubiquitous table spices will be featured.

Artists: Anne Bernard-Pattis (IL), Brice Dyer (FL),  Camila Friedman-Gerlicz (NY), Janis Hughes (GA), Judith Kornett (MD), Lynda  Ladwig (CO), Elizabeth Lockett (MD), JoAnna Mark (MA), Andrew McIntire (NY), CJ  Niehaus (IL), Sarah Olson (WV), Veena Raghavan (VA), Shana Salaff (CO), Katie  Susko (IL), Adam and Melissa Yungbluth (FL)

The Windup Space

Sight Unseen presents CREATIVE DESTRUCTION: The Smyth Brothers

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August 12th, 8pm

An experimental tale distorting Bali’s modern world into a historical account depicting the demise of its former cultural motto, “Rice is Life.” Ten wordless vignettes, all in-camera edits, are strung together to compose a two-part mythological venture down the heavenly mountain toward the demonic sea, culminating at the site of the 2002 terrorist bombing.

BIO Brendan and Jeremy Smyth are 16mm experimental documentary filmmakers who explore the globe in search of cultural oddities. Their interest in visual anthropology has sent them from Mexico to Indonesia showcasing the economic plight of workers through unique methods of storytelling. The two are the directors/programmers of the Haverhill Experimental Film Festival in Massachusetts, soon to open submissions for the third annual event. Currently, the Smyth brothers live in Durham, NC, where they curate a monthly experimental film series known as UNEXPOSED.

Call for Artists: Vox Populi (Philadelphia)

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10 days left to submit your application to VOX X: Present Tense!

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Vox Populi is happy to announce an open call for VOX X: Present Tense – our tenth annual juried exhibition of emerging artists, which will take place July 11th- August 1st 2014.  The deadline for submissions is May 15, 2014.

To apply, download a prospectus here and follow the instructions.  The application is on SlideRoom and can be accessed here.

Vox Populi is particularly interested in highlighting work in all media that pushes boundaries in terms of form and content, is ambitious and timely, and is experimental and risk-taking.

This is a great professional opportunity to show in a professional exhibition space and bring your work to a large, new audience.

This year’s jurors are Howie Chen and Matthew Brannon.

Howie Chen is a New York-based curator involved in collaborative art production and research.  Chen is a founder of Dispatch, a curatorial production office and project space founded in New York City, later transitioning to a peripatetic exhibition model.   His past curatorial experience includes organizing exhibitions and programs at the Whitney Museum of American Art and MoMA P.S.1 among other international institutions. Chen is currently teaching critical theory at the New York University Steinhardt School and Parsons The New School for Design.  He is a lecturer and research affiliate at the Art, Culture and Technology program at MIT.
Matthew Brannon is an American artist living and working in New York City. Brannon studied visual arts, art theory and psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles and received a Masters of Fine Arts from Columbia University in New York. Beginning in January of 2011, he presented a major body of work at Portikus, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. This solo exhibition, A question answered with a quote, is the third adaptation of two prior exhibitions; Reservations, at Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraitchal, Germany, and Mouse Trap, Light Switch, at the Museum M, Leuven, Belgium. Other solo museum exhibitions include; Where Were We, Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria, New York and Try and Be Grateful, Art Gallery of York University, Toronto. He is also the author of the novels Antelope (2013) and Leopard (2014) as well as a biographer of the late actor Laurence Harvey.
Applicants may submit up to five works in any media.  Application fee is $35.