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February 02, 2007
ArtistsRegister Monthly - February 2007
IN THIS ISSUE:
Editor's Corner
Featured artists
Marketing Update
Monthly Advertising and Special Events
Article
Scam Alert: Warning to Artists
Featured Events
Arizona, California, Colorado, Missouri, New Mexico, Nevada, and New York
Artist Opportunities
Visual Arts Opportnities Nationwide
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Editor's Corner
1) Featured artists for the month of March are:
Monica Aissa Martinez of Phoenix, Arizona
Brian Biedul of Santa Monica, California
Virginia Folkestad of Castle Rock, Colorado
Jim Sajovic of Prairie Village, Kansas
Monica Aissa Martinez will be on exhibiting at eye lounge in Phoenix, Arizona.
A solo exhibition of work by Brian Biedul will be on display in Palm Springs, California.
Jim Virginia Folkestad will be participating in the Colorado Masters exhbition at Sandy Carson Gallery in Denver, Colorado.
A new installation by Jim Sajovic will be included in It's Only Natural, Kansas City Art Institute's faculty exhibition in Kansas City, Missouri.
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Marketing Update
For the month of March, ArtistsRegister.com is advertised in online at Google AdWords.
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Article
Scam Alert: Warning to Artists
Montana Arts Council, http://www.art.state.mt.us
Recently, a scam has been circulating aimed at artists. It involves the purported purchase of artwork, payment by cashiers check, a family emergency and the request for a refund of the funds represented by the cashiers check. Here is the scam. "Mary" calls artist enthusiastic about a painting that she saw in an art magazine, brochure or on the internet. It is late at night and she is leaving for England early in the morning and wants the painting for her daughter's birthday present, or something similar, such as anniversary, birth of child, or graduation. "Mary" is sending a cashiers check by overnight express and wants the painting, and maybe a second one, shipped to England, France, South Africa, Nigeria, etc., at once. This is an urgent transaction, and she is sending extra money for the expedited shipping or second painting. The cashiers check arrives and is deposited in the bank. The timing is important and well choreographed. About the time of the deposit, she calls back to relate some family tragedy resulting in her need for a refund. Artist is ready to send a check back because she feels sorry for "Mary" who has been so friendly and excited about the art work.
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February Events
ARIZONA
Tenacious
February 9-April 4, 2007. Tenacious, an exhibition featuring Barbara Burton and ArtistsRegister.com member Christy Puetz. Connections Cafe exhibition space, Tempe Public Library, 3500 S. Rural Road, Tempe, AZ. For more information, visit www.tempe.gov/arts/events/cafe.htm.
Another Mental Concoction
Another Mental Concoction, paintings by ArtistsRegister.com member Monica Aissa Martinez will be on display at eye lounge throught the month of February, 2007. eye lounge, 419 E. Roosevelt St., Phoenix, AZ 85004. eyelounge.com
Barbara Brandel at Platform Gallery
Exhibition continues through March 17, 2007. New abstract paintings by ArtistsRegister.com member Barbara Brandel will be on display at Platform Gallery, 439 N 6th, Ave, Tucson AZ 85705. www.platformart.com
CALIFORNIA
Strictly Abstract
Exhibition continues through January 31, 2007. ArtistsRegister.com member Cathy Locke will be exhibiting at Gallery 79, 79 New Montgomery, San Francisco, CA.
Mary Bruns at Long Beach Arts
Exhibition continues through February 14, 2007. ArtistsRegister.com member Mary Bruns is participating in an exhibition at Long Beach Arts, 245 West Broadway, Suite 260, Long Beach, CA.
Rectangles
Exhibition continues through February 26, 2007. Rectangles, a solo exhibition of work by ArtistsRegister.com member Brian Biedul. Palm Springs Modern Homes, 43@Racquet Club, 270 Racquet Club Road, Palm Springs CA 92262. For more information go to: www.palmspringsmodern.com
COLORADO
Colorado Masters
Exhibit opens February 23, 2007. Sculpture by ArtistsRegister.com member Virginia Folkestad will be included in the group show, Colorado Masters, presented by Sandy Carson Gallery, Sandy Carson Gallery, 760 Santa Fe Drive, Denver, CO 80204. www.sandycarsongallery.com
symbionic / Time in Spaces
Spark Gallery presents "symbionic," featuring abstract organic schulptures by Katie Caron and "Time in Spaces," paintings and mixed media box sculptures by ArtistsRegister.com member Sally Elliot. The First Friday reception: February 1 from 6:00 to 9:00pm, and any time by appointment. A closing coffee with the artists will be held on February 17 from noon to 4:00pm. Spark Gallery, 900 Santa Fe Drive, Denver, CO 80204. www.sparkgallery.com
MISSOURI
It's Only Natural
ArtistsRegister.com member Jim Sajovic is exhibiting a new installation in the 2007 Kansas City Art Institute's Faculty Biennial Exhibition: It's Only Natural. Exhibition runs from January 20-February 17, 2007. Tuesday through Friday, noon to 5:00pm, Saturday 11:00am to 5:00pm. H & R Block Artspace, 16 east 43rd Street, Kansas City, MO 64111. Phone: 816.561.5563.
NEVADA
Love and Leisure
Exhibition continues through February 16, 2007. Love and Leisure, an exhibition featuring ArtistsRegister.com member Rebekah Bogard. Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery, School of Fine Arts, University of Nevada, Reno, Art Department 224, Reno, NV 89557. For more information, call 775.784.6658.
NEW MEXICO
Strange Weeds
Exhibition continues through February 28, 2007. Strange Weeds, a group show including work by ArtistsRegiseter.com member Marietta Leis. Tesuque Village Market, Rt. 22 & Bishops Lodge Rd., Tesuque, NM.
NEW YORK
Viridian Affiliate Artists
February 6-24, 2007. ArtistsRegister.com member Craig Cheply will be participating in the Viridian Affiliate Artists exhibition at Viridian Artists Inc., 530 West 25th Street, #407 New York, NY 10001. Opening reception: Saturday February 10, 2007, 3:00-6:00pm. www.viridianartists.com
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Artist Opportunities
The Contemporary Art of Printmaking
Open to all artists 18 and older living in Arizona, working in a print medium. Each artist may submit a maximum of two entries. All work should have been created within the last three years. All forms of printmaking and variations of printmaking are acceptable including digital and mixed media. (no book arts due to limited space) email dianesanborn@cox.net for prospectus, include mailing address. Deadline is Saturday, March 24, 2007. Drop off times: 9:00-5:00pm. Juror, Kathryn Maxwell, ASU Printmaking Jurying will be done from original work only. BRIO Fine Arts Center, 8340 E. Raintree Dr. C-6, Scottsdale, AZ 85260.
Public Art Artists Pool - El Paso, TX
The Museums & Cultural Affairs Department seeks to establish a new pre-qualified pool of up to 50 artists and artist teams for consideration in upcoming public art projects. The pre-qualified list will go into effect as soon as it is established by the Public Art Committee, and will be active for two years. Funding for the project is provided by two percent (2%) of the Capital Improvement Program. Artists selected for the Artist Pool are always notified prior to being placed into consideration for specific projects. Applications must be received by Friday, March 2, 2007 at 5:00pm. Applications received after the deadline or incomplete applications will not be reviewed. It is the responsibility of the submitting artist to ensure that applications are complete and arrive by the deadline. Extensions to this deadline will not be granted under any circumstances. Send applications to: Museums & Cultural Affairs Department, Public Art Program-Artist Pool, 2 Civic Center Plaza, 6th floor, El Paso, TX 79901, Attn: Patricia Dalbin. All questions regarding this Request for Qualifications are to be directed to Patricia Dalbin, Public Art Coordinator at 915.541.4894 or dalbinp@elpasotexas.gov
Evergreen Art Open
The Evergreen Artists Association of Evergreen, Colorado is accepting entries for The Evergreen Art Open to be held at the Evergreen Arts Center May 3-31, 2007. This regional juried show is open to artists 18 years and up from Colorado, Arizona, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming working in all 2D and 3D fine art media. Juror is Ivar Zeile, owner/director of +Gallery, Denver, Colorado. Entries, 3/$30 ($25 for EAA members) are by slide or CD. Awards: $500 Best of Show; $150 each, Best 2D and Best 3D; 3 Merit Awards @ $75 each. Entry deadline: March 9, 2007. Accepted entries are due at the Evergreen Arts Center by April 27, 2007 (shipped) and April 30, 2007 (hand-delivered). Download the prospectus from the EAA website at evergreenartists.org or request one by phone at 303.679.1609 or by mail to EAA, P.O. Box 655, Evergreen, CO, 80437. Email inquiries may be made to the show coordinators at either ann2355@aol.com or jmdbart@msn.com.
National Small Works Exhibition
Open to US artists 18 and over. All media accepted except video and film. Works must not exceed 12" in any direction, including frames. The spirit of miniaturism is encouraged, although not required. $40 for 1-3 entries, includes return shipping. 30% commission on works sold. Entry deadline: March 26, 2007. Carlisle Arts Learning Center, 19 N. Hanover Street, Carlisle, PA 17013. For more information go to www.carlislearts.org/2007_prospectus.htm
Reclaiming Our Voices
Reclaiming Our Voices is a juried art show, open to all artists, focusing on the artistic representation of the effects of sexual and domestic violence on victims and the community at large. This fourth annual show (formerly called Disclosing October), which will hang in the Exit Gallery on the MSU campus April 16-27, 2007, will coincide with other events that are part of the nationally recognized Sexual Assault Awareness Month. Reclaiming Our Voices will provide a venue for artists to express their responses to and interpretations of sexual and domestic violence in their lives and communities. Juror is Ellen Ornitz of the Emerson Cultural Center. All two and three dimensional mediums accepted. Entry fee is $5 per slide; artist may submit up to three entries. Send slides, by March 7, 2007 to: The Exit Gallery, SUB 282B, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, 59717, ATTN: Brooke Tummel. Include SASE, with sufficient packaging and postage to return the work, and your name, address, email address, and phone number. Checks should be made out to: The Exit Gallery. Artist statement is optional. Notification is in late March. For more information, contact Brooke Tummel at 406.994.1828 or exhibits@montana.edu. This show is sponsored by Students Against Sexual Assault at MSU-Bozeman and the MSU VOICE Center.
Exhibit Proposals
The Association for Visual Arts, located in Chattanooga, Tennessee, is currently accepting exhibit proposals for 2008. Artists working in any medium including, painting, drawing, photography, printmaking, sculpture, installation, fiber, fine craft and mixed media are encouraged to apply. Deadline: March 1, 2007. Entry Fee: $20/$25 (member/non-member). Submit: 15-20 images (digital/slide), corresponding image list, letter of intent, artist statement, resume, SASE, entry fee. For more information visit www.avartists.org or contact hkyle@avartists.org.
Drawing is a Fine Art
Call to Artists: Drawing Invitational exhibition sponsored by the FSU Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee, FL. Media: Drawing. Postmark Deadline: March 15, 2007. Open to artists 18 and over, no size restrictions. Each artist may submit up to 10 images in slide or jpeg format with a return SASE. Works of art will range from intimate, transitory thoughts in numerous drawing media to finished drawings that are intended by the maker to rival the serious nature of other fine art endeavors such as painting, printmaking, photography, and sculpture. Exhibition is scheduled for October-November, 2007. A catalog will be produced. For more information please contact: Allys Palladino-Craig at 850.644.1254 or apcraig@mailer.fsu.edu. FSU Museum of Fine Arts, 530 W Call St., 250 Fine Arts Bldg., Tallahassee, FL 32306-1140. www.mofa.fsu.edu
Fallasburg Fall Festival
Over 80 artists are selected each year to sell their artworks in this juried competition which is held in and around historical Fallasburg Park, just four miles north of Lowell, Michigan. Artists are selected by jury process. A committee made up of Lowell Area Arts Council community artists and volunteers will select artists based on slides, jpegs or cds submitted for entry (photographs will not be accepted). A new committee is selected each year and the jury process is anonymous. The goal of this committee is to invite a diverse range of artists with broad representation of art media and creativity within media. Thousands of people are expected to attend the 39th Annual Fallasburg Fall Festival. Entry deadline: April 2, 2007. For more information or to receive an application form contact the Lowell Area Arts Council at 616.897.8545 or info@lowellartscouncil.org or visit www.lowellartscouncil.org to download an application form.
Words Without Voices - Album Art Competition
The contest seeks digital visual artwork submissions to illustrate the titles of 25 Songbook Jackets and 125 Album covers by lyricist James Thomas Fielding. The juried art competition, which seeks to establish a new multimedia artform based on rock "Concept Albums," offers $6,000 in cash prizes to be awarded to three finalists in each of two categories: Best Songbook Jacket and Best Album Jacket. The "Words Without Voices" series combines Art, Music, Language, and Internet Technology, and will be aimed toward the youth market, especially college art instructors and students who study Advertising, Visual Arts, English, Graphic Design, Multimedia, Music, and Web Design. While the contest is open to "anyone who is creative," state contest restrictions apply. Entry fees are $10 for one entry in one category, $15 to enter both, and $5 apiece for each subsequent submission. Final deadline for the competition is August 31, 2007. All entries will be displayed in the Gallery of the Mind's Eye at: www.WordsWithoutVoices.com. The contest is limited to the U.S., Canada and the U.K. The public will select the winners by voting online at the contest website.
Convenient Truths: a Green Video Contest
Call for 1-2 minute videos that demonstrate practical, easy and inspired ways to reduce your carbon emissions. In partnership with Seventh Generation Inc, TreeHugger.com is offering you the chance to speak out and inspire your peers to do the same eco-good as you are by sharing solutions to stop global warming! If you win over web viewers and celebrity judges like actress and environmentalist, Daryl Hannah, you'll not only get the chance to have your video streamed on weather.com's climate change site, One Degree, packaged and distributed on a DVD from Ironweed Films, but if you're a US resident, you'll also be in the running for $25,000 worth of prizes, all designed to reduce your carbon emissions. Deadline: February 28, 2007. Visit www.truths.treehugger.com to find out more and upload your video! Contact: Jessica Root, jessica@treehugger.com.
Annual Juried Competition - Agora Gallery
Agora Gallery of New York City is pleased to announce its 22nd juried competition. Awards include: exhibition at the Chelsea gallery, cash awards, Internet promotion and review in ARTisSpectrum magazine. The exhibition will take place in Chelsea, New York City, NY. The gallery/artist split will be 30/70 and, as part of its continued support to social awareness, Agora Gallery will be donating its share from all artwork sales to an international children aid foundation. Visit www.Agora-Gallery.com/2007 to enter online or download the submission form. Deadline: March 8, 2007. Agora Gallery, 530 West 25th Street, Chelsea, NY. www.Agora-Gallery.com
Baltimore Sculpture Project
The Baltimore Office of Promotion and The Arts (BOPA) and the City of Baltimore present the first Baltimore Sculpture Project, an outdoor sculpture exhibition that will engage sites throughout downtown. This exhibition will open in June 2007, and run through April 2008. Sites will include the McKeldin Square Sculpture Park in the Inner Harbor, the Artscape Festival site on Mt. Royal Avenue near the Maryland Institute College of Art, the Baltimore Convention Center, Station North Arts and Entertainment District, along with other locations yet to be finalized. These locations host millions of visitors each year. Submissions will be reviewed by an independent panel of jurors, including Doreen Bolger, Director of the Baltimore Museum of Art; Maren Hassinger, Artist and Graduate Director of the Rinehart School of Sculpture at the Maryland Institute College of Art; Gerald Ross, Artist and Exhibitions Director at the Maryland Institute College of Art; John Ruppert, Artist and Chairman of the Department of Art at the University of Maryland; and Tim Scofield, Artist and Sculpture Faculty at the Maryland Institute College of Art. Entries received by Friday, March 2, 2007, will be considered for the exhibition beginning in June 2007. Baltimore Office of Promotion and The Arts, 7 East Redwood Street, Suite 500, Baltimore, MD 21202. For more information contact Kim Domanski at 410.752.8632 or kdomanski@promotionandarts.com.
Something's BrewingOpen call to design a label for Something's Brewing BIER a collaborative project by Edith Abeyta and Judith Thissen. The project is part of the CO-OPs program initiated by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) and seeks to understand the processes of commercialization in the cultural field by launching an art beer on the Dutch market. The brewery will be located at Hotel Mariakapel www.hotelmariakapel.nl with Robert Tower in residence as the brewer. Deadline: April 1, 2007. All designs will be included in a final presentation/exhibition in December 2007 at the Lakenhal Museum in Leiden, Netherlands www.lakenhal.nl Select designs will be reproduced and put into action in the Something's Brewing public events to be held April through June 2007 throughout the Netherlands. For more information, go to: www.co-ops.nl
Public Art Registry - Evanston, IL
The Public Art Committee of the City of Evanston, Illinois is seeking submissions from artists who are interested in being included in a database of pre-qualified artists, from which the City may draw for public art projects and commissions through February 28, 2009. A pool of candidates will be identified as qualified artists in a number of media, including but not limited to sculpture, painting, murals, mosaics, textiles, glasswork, ceramics, photography, video, and multimedia. Deadline for submission of materials is 2:00pm on Tuesday, March 6, 2007. For more information, see: www.evanstonpublicart.org
Flash: The Photography Show
Call to artists: Flash: The Photography Show seeks submissions using all manner of photography, old methods and new -film, digital, experimental, black and white, color, polaroids, photo booth, etc., and asks artists to push the boundaries in asking the question: What is a photo in the 21st century? This vibrant juried exhibit will also explore and explain the many and varied forms of photography, image development and printing. There is no limitation as to subject matter or photo medium. The show is, however, open to photographic works only. Works must be framed, ready for exhibition and firmly wired for hanging. Deadline: February 9, 2007. RAA Photography 2007, 260 Beach 116 Street, Rockaway Park, NY 11694. www.rockawayartistsalliance.org.
This is only a small sampling of what is available! Many more are posted daily at: www.artistsregister.com/opportunities.phtml
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