Museum of Fine Arts, Houston The Core Program: Artist and Critical Studies Residencies Call for Applications Deadline: April 1, 2010 http://www.core.mfah.org

NEW BLOOD National MFA Exhibition

The Phoenix Gallery, located in the Chelsea art district of New York, is hosting, “New Blood,” a nation-wide juried exhibition for MFA students graduating in 2009 and 2010.  The highly selective exhibition, to be on view in January 2011, is a rare opportunity to feature the work of your recent MFA graduates in the center of the New York art world. info@phoenix-Gallery.com www.phoenix-gallery.com

Dear My Dear Artists, 

There will be a Validation Reading on Monday, March 15th, 2010 at 10am in the Basement Auditorium of Tyler.

This reading is the second half of a piece that was located in the vestibule in the front of the building.  The Validation Box asked participants to write a painful memory/experience on a piece of paper.  It could be anonymous or they could include their identity.  They were informed that their submission would be read at a set time to an audience.  One could submit as many times as they would like.  If one disclosed their identity, it would accompany their memory in the reading.  

It is a one time reading and the audience is an important aspect of supporting the vulnerable air that will be created. 

Your presence would be greatly appreciated.

The reading will begin promptly at 10, refreshments provided.

Thank you for your time and consideration. 

Maximiliana Eisenmann

Headlands applications for the 2011 Artists In Residence. For application instructions, click here.
Application deadline: June 4, 2010

APPLICATIONS ARE NOW ONLINE      http://www.headlands.org/article.asp?key=45

Headlands Center for the Arts' Artist in Residence Program has earned international renown for bringing together pioneering artists and arts professionals in all disciplines- visual, performance, writing, interdisciplinary, music, composition, sound, film, video, and new media- from throughout the U.S. and the world. 

The Artist in Residence program provides a supportive working environment that allows time for artists to experiment, reflect and grow, both individually and collectively during their stay.

The program offers fully sponsored, live-in and live-out residencies to around 35 artists each year from March to November, and is distinguished in that there is no fee to participate. 

Through the support of generous donations, Artists in Residence are provided with a studio, shared housing and five meals a week for live-in artists. A studio and dinner twice weekly are provided for live-out artists. Stipends of up to $500/month are available pending funding and sponsorships secured each year. 

Residencies range from four to ten weeks, with an average stay of two months.

Artists are selected based upon merit, through a mixture of open application and invitation. Headlands currently accepts applications for residencies from artists working in all disciplines mentioned above. Headlands Center for the Arts also provides Bridge residencies by nomination to artists who are leaders in using the creative process as a catalyst for social change. 

Headlands offers residencies to artists from across the U.S. and around the world, from places such as Sweden, Denmark, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Italy, India, Japan, the Philippines, Vietnam, Cuba, Brazil, Mexico and more than 20 other countries. 

Invitational Residencies

Special invitational residencies have also been offered in collaboration with other institutions, including The Richard C. Diebenkorn Teaching Fellowship at the San Francisco Art Institute; MATRIX, UC Berkeley Art Museum; The Lab in San Francisco and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. 

Headlands Center for the Arts invitation-only Bridge Project residency seeks to identify, nurture and share the work of remarkable role models who integrate artistic expression and techniques with influential activities in a wide range of organizations and places. Each of the artists selected to participate have made significant contributions in the areas of environmental art and advocacy, cultural identity, or community development, through their chosen disciplines. They demonstrate how visual, written, and performance works are tools for personal transformation, political change, awareness building, and social justice, transcending socioeconomic boundaries to empower communities and give voice to some of the most important issues of our time.

Join us for the opening of "Medium Resistance—Revolutionary Tendencies in Print and Craft" on March 5 at the Icebox in Northern Liberties, Philadelphia, an exhibition of works challenging conventions of art and artisanship in order to explore each medium’s potential for participation and dissemination, aesthetic, social, and technical labor.

Friday, March 5th, 6-9pm (First Friday)
Thursday, March 11th, 6-9pm (Second Thursday)
Friday, March 26th, 6-9pm (SGC Reception)
Thursday, April 1st, 6-9pm (NCECA Reception)

For more info, please take a look at www.mediumresistance.com

Opening Next Thursday!

For the month of February Little Berlin will be exhibiting artworks rejected from Arcadia University’s 2009 “Works on Paper”. The November call for entries in 2009 received a record 1,256 pieces of artwork.

Arcadia’s “Works on Paper” is a unique opportunity for artists to have a selected curator/juror review your art in flesh and blood, but what is that worth when there’s such high demand of art to be seen?

Works on Paper Rejects is hung and ready for the public. Listed below are the 47 participants in this exhibition. Without these artists this show would not have physically happened. Particularly, the substance of this exhibit would be non-existent without their participation. Despite all the happenings that took place, it takes a brave person to say, “Yes, I’m a reject.” (I am honored to be among you.)

Aidan Rumack, Annette Monnier, Ashley Flynn, Ben Pannell, Beth Heinly, Beth Prusky, Bobby Gonzales, Caroline Garcia, Chelsea Thoumsin, Dante Lentz, Edgar H. Hal, EJ O’Hara, Eleanor Bustrom, Ellie Brown, Enn LaBonte, Harrison Doyle, Jake Kehs, Jeffery Stockbridge, Jenna Weiss, Jenna Wilchinsly, Joan R. Rosiak, Joseph E. Iacona, Joe Brenman, John Jonik, Justin Bursk, Kellianne McCarthy, Kevin McCullough, Leah Winter, Lindsay Robbins, Maggie Mills, Marc Bernstein, Mark Munson, Mark Price, Matthew L. Colaizzo, May Lomax, Melissa Haims, Melvin A. Chappell, Nic Coviello, Peter Schenck, Rick Tygger, Salvatore Cerceo, Samantha Simmons, Sara Sanderson, Sarah Weber, Scott Cooper, Sofie Hodara, Yikui Coy Gu

Opening Friday February 5th 6-11pm
Show runs from February 5th thru February 27th

Vagabond Boutique presents From Me To You: A Gifted Collection Made With Love

This month's Vagabond Boutique exhibition, entitled From Me To You: A Gifted Collection Made With Love opens February 5th, and features mixed media artists working in illustration, fibers and jewelry.

The first Friday reception will be held from 6-9 pm at 37 N. 3rd St.

Exhibitions at InLiquid

Drawing Machine, an installation by Tyler Ceramics professor Chad Curtis opens today at the Hall (Crane Arts Building) and will be on view until April 4th. Second Thursday receptions will occur on February 11th and March 11th, from 6-9pm.
1400 N. American St. Philadelphia, PA

Additionally, InLiquid presents Homeland, a group show featuring international video artists at the I-House, 3701 Chestnut St., first floor, which runs until March 5th.

American Pastime, by Katherine Kesselring, is on view at the Painted Bride until March 14th, at 230 Vine St., with opening receptions February 5th and March 5th, 5-7pm.

BUYING PAINT?? try GAPKA

Very good quality oil paint from a new company, I highly recommend it and have samples in my studio if you are interested- 300H upstairs, or email me if you have questions. THANKS!

Congratulations Strauss!

Congratulations to our very own Strauss Bourque-LaFrance for being part of the current exhibition at the Sculpture Center in Queens, New York

Leopards of the Temple,
January 10- March 30, 2010




http://sculpture-center.org/exhibitionsExhibition.htm?id=63345

DCCA Open Call for 2010 Members' Juried Exhibition.

Mark your calendar Apply today! Postmark deadline: January 22, 2010 Eligibility: Open to all DCCA artist members April 9 - July 25, 2010 The theme for the 2010 Members' Juried exhibition examines the possibilities of, experimentations on, and flirtations with what is NEW. What is NEW can be about testing the limits of known concepts and ideas or about works-in-progress that are still being tested. It can be about subverting conventions. It can be about expanding, mutating, or challenging the premise of what exists or engendering the existence of something that has yet to be. In flexing one's instincts to respond to all else that is new out there in the world, new form or language can also be created. Guest Juror Roberta Fallon writes, "The NEW signals something that is fresh and risk-taking, perhaps not completely worked out yet but forward-moving." In an art age rife with appropriation, references, as well as exploded and satirized notions of what is novel, the NEW is about fresh courage, bold analysis, burning curiosity, and stubborn will to chart new territory.

JUROR Roberta Fallon is an art reviewer for the Philadelphia Weekly and writes a weekly column of reviews and features about art and artists in Philadelphia. Fallon has published articles in numerous publications including Art on Paper, Artreview, Art and Auction, Artnet, and The Philadelphia Inquirer Sunday Magazine. In 2003, she and Libby Rosof launched the online art review publication, artblog(http://theartblog.org), twice hailed as one of the best art blogs by Art in America. Fallon and Rosof were each conferred an honorary doctorate of fine arts by the Moore College of Art and Design last year for their accomplishments and committed championing of contemporary art in Philadelphia. Click here for a printable PDF Application. For questions, please contact Samantha Fruchtman, Curatorial Coordinator, at sfruchtman@thedcca.org 302-656-6466 x 7112 Join or renew your DCCA membership Now!