Friday, January 28, 2011

ARTS & HERITAGE DAY IN OLYMPIA: CoCA CONTINGENCY WED. FEB. 2

Arts & Heritage Day is coming next week - Wednesday, February 2.

Arts, culture and heritage need you in Olympia to show your support and attend meetings with your legislators!

Team Captains from around the state have been setting up appointments with your senators and representatives. Follow this link to the most current appointment times and locations and check back for updates.


The Arts & Heritage Day 2011 Issues Brief is currently being developed, and key bills are expected to be introduced this week and next. WSAA will finalize the list for Arts & Heritage Day on Monday, put it on the WSAA website and send it to A&H Day
attendees.

To RSVP or get more information email or call Tracy Schreiber -- staff@wsartsalliance.com/206.448.1909
Thank you for the valuable work, energy and participation that you offer to our state every day!

See you in Olympia!

Arts & Heritage Day Schedule

Feb 1
5:00pm-7:30pm: Legislator Reception hosted by the WA Museum Association State Capital Museum 211 SW 21st Street, Olympia - all are welcome!

Feb 2
7:00am-8:00am: Heritage Caucus
Cherberg Building, Conference Rooms A/B/C

7:30am-2:00pm: Check-in Table
Cherberg Building, Conference Rooms A/B/C

All Day: Meetings with Legislators
http://capwiz.com/artsusa/wa/utr/1/CQNPOJCPJF/ONMROJVIDJ/6370567911

11:45am-1:00pm: Luncheon with Legislators
Cherberg Building, Conference Rooms A/B/C
$15p/p payable to WSAA in advance by check mailed to:
1204 Minor Ave/Seattle, WA 98101

4Culture Artist Project Grants & CoCA

In tandem with its upcoming projects in outdoor environmental art at
Carkeek Park ("Heaven & Earth III") and in east-of-the-Cascades
exhibitions ("Across the Divide III") CoCA encourages artists to apply
for a 4Culture Individual Artists Project Grant, deadline March 9,
http://www.4culture.org/arts/projects/index.htm. Artists interested in
applying with CoCA as a venue can call or write curator David Francis
for more information: david@cocaseattle.org, (206) 851-9641.

Storefronts Seattle

NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS

Storefronts Seattle is now accepting applications for its three program tracks: Installations, Artist Residencies, and Creative Enterprise. Deadline for all applications is January 31, 2011 at 11:00 PM Pacific Standard Time.

Installations offer artists a temporary space to display any two-dimensional, three-dimensional or new media artwork. If you are interested in applying for the Installation track, find the application and guidelines here. Artists applying to the Installations track will use CaFÉ™, a Web‐based online application service.

Artist Residencies offer artists of any discipline the space to pursue new projects. Residencies are approximately 3 months in duration, with extensions possible dependent on space availability and number of applicants. Residency spaces are not open to the general public and do not house public events (such as performances or exhibits).

Tuesday, January 4, 2011

January art walk featuring Sam Chasan

hosted by CoCA board member, Lauren Collins

The Loft
208 S Washington #200
Seattle, WA

Thursday, January 6 - 8-11:30 PM:
Please join us on your First Thursday in Pioneer Square excursions for the Loft's January salon- featuring works by Samuel.

( http://www.chasanworks.com/ )


David Francis: Accreted Terrane

Spin's Barbershop
4501 Interlake Ave N #4
Seattle, WA 98103-6700
(206) 547.9667

December 31, 2010 to February 26, 2011:
Fifteen works by CoCA board member and PRATT instructor, David Francis. Two and three dimensional experiments in found objects and mixed media.

( http://www.yelp.com/biz/spins-barber-shop-seattle/ )
( http://www.cocaseattle.org/board/francis.htm/ )


Thursday, December 30, 2010

Printmaking NOW

curated by Jodie Nelson
( former director of the Friesen Gallery, and Board Member of Center on Contemporary Art )

110 3rd Ave. S, Seattle, WA 98104
The exhibition will be up on January 6 2011, until January 29 2011.
First Thursday Artwalk Opening: January 6; 6-8pm
Reception and Discussion with the Curator: Saturday, January 8; 6-8pm

Printmaking NOW is an exhibition of prints, exploring the concept of ancient printmaking that is created using modern technology. This recently-recognized art form will be displayed in January 2011, at Gallery 110, Seattle. The exhibition will present work by Jan Cook, Monika Dalkin, Sally Ketcham, Maylee Noah, Amy Oates, Claire Renaut, Nancee Rostad, Ray Schutte, Jason Sobottka, Sonya Stockton, Li Turner and Stephanie Wilken.


(Main Article)


You know...Art doesn't just happen!

an installation by Suzanne Tidwell
( artist participant in Overgrowth and Understory - Cougar Mountain, summer 2010. )

Sammamish Starbucks trees - Winter December 18-March 20
After a bit of negotiating, Suzanne Tidwell and her partner, Beth Newfield, received permission to wrap several twenty-foot trees in front of East Lake High School with yarn panels and crochet snowflakes. The installation took fifteen hours for eleven volunteers, and cost $1,500!

Get in touch with Suzanne Tidwell
Email suzy@tetattack.com
Call 425-829-8230
Follow her on Flickr and Facebook!

Find her at:
*artEast 24 Hour Marathon 9AM March 3- 9AM March 4, 2011.
*artEast Auction 7PM March 5, 2011

You can now purchase her art anytime through ETSY:
www.TittaME.etsy.com
www.KnitFlicker.etsy.com


(Sammamish Review Article)


Monday, December 20, 2010

Robert Moses, He Knows Us

an installation by Gabriela Salazar
(CoCA 2009 East | West Emerging Artist Exchange Artist)

Opened Wednesday, December 15, 20019 at flatbreadaffair,180 Nevins Street #2, Brooklyn, NY (click here for map)
Open by appointment thereafter until February 5th. To contact the gallery for other showing times, please call 410.409.1216 or email rebecca@flatbreadaffair.com

Gabriela is also featured in the following group shows in January:

2010 Studio LLC
Opening Wednesday, January 26 6-9 pm
January 26, 2011 – March 26, 2011
A review of artists’ works participating in 2010 Studio LLC Program.
Curated by Louise Barry

Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning
161-04 Jamaica Ave
Jamaica, NY
(map)

Art Within Reach: From the WPA to the Present
Opening Reception Saturday, January 22 5-7 pm
January 19, 2011 – June 5, 2011
An exhibition of the paintings of children I had the pleasure to work with in Spring 2010 as an artist in residence at CMA, alongside works made by children during the Great Depression. If you are at all interested in children's art, this exhibition is definitely worth checking out.

Children's Museum of the Arts (CMA)
182 Lafayette Street
New York, NY
(map and more info)

She also has a piece in:

Color&Color#2: The Black and White Issue
Out and available on blurb.com! Click here to view and purchase.

(Color&Color blog)


Wednesday, June 2, 2010

FLIGHT: Call for submissions (photography)

DEADLINE: June 21st

The Vermont Photography Workplace seek photographs exploring the theme of FLIGHT. From birds to ballerinas, from airplanes to dust motes, subjects that capture the experience of lessening gravity’s pull will constitute this juried exhibition.

Forty photographs will be selected for exhibition on the walls of PhotoPlace Gallery and on the gallery website by juror David Bram. An additional thirty-five images will be chosen for PhotoPlace's "On-Line Gallery Annex." All selected work will be included in a full-color exhibition catalogue available for purchase from Blurb Books. To help artists defray costs, PhotoPlace Gallery offers to mat and frame work selected for exhibition free of charge, providing artists print their images to our pre-cut mat and frame sizes.

Juror: David Bram is a photographer, curator, and editor of Fraction Magazine

Full details available at: http://www.vtphotoworkplace.com/id83.html

Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Call for Women Artists: "Who Does She Think She Is?

Sorry guys but you have to be a woman to enter this one.

Deadline: June 7th

WHO may submit art? Women Artists.

WHAT is the theme? That which empowers women to create.

WHERE is the exhibition space? The Higher Education Center, 1st Floor, Rogue Community College, Riverside Campus, Medford, Oregon

Send 1 - 10 images (JPEG or PDF) of 2-D art (maximum height 5'), and 3-D art (maximum height 2') to Cynthia Gott at cgott@roguecc.edu by June 7th.

Full details available at: http://betsylewiscallsforartists.blogspot.com/2010/05/new-call-for-women-artists-who-does-she.html

Monday, May 24, 2010

2010 Portland Bridge Festival: Call for subkissions

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: June 16th, 2010.


PDX Bridge Festival is a collaborative non-profit with a mission to raise awareness and foster appreciation of the Willamette River Bridges through artistic, cultural, educational and historic programming. Our goal is to celebrate the bridges with a civic festival of artistic excellence, producing an awe-inspiring public arts celebration with the longevity and magnetism to function as the premier showcase for Portland arts.

We are looking for artists of all types—painters, sculptors, photographers, collagists, installation artists, filmmakers, performers, and musicians—to take part in this community-sourced, citywide celebration of the bridges. Using “Bridge” as a thematic or metaphorical element of your work is encouraged, though it is not required. The “Bridge” theme may include—but is not limited to—bridging communities, bridging styles, bridging time periods, concepts, politics, perspective, mediums, etc. In other words, we are open to all quality works of art and performance, and leave it to you to explain the bridge link in your artistic statement.

Full details available at:
http://pdxbridgefestival.org/get-involved/submit-call-for-art/

A dorkbot flashback


Back in our Dexter Avenue gallery days Bre Pettis of Make magazine paid a visit to a dorkbot meeting to talk about RFID tags. Check it out...

Sorry the movie is a bit of dog, it takes a while to load.

Sunday, May 23, 2010

Pac Man turns 30

 Pac Man celebrated its 30th anniversary this Saturday.


The invention of Toru Iwatani, a game designer for Namco, set out to design a woman friendly game in response to the shoot up games that dominated the market back then (and still do). By creating a cute cast of characters and a design sensibility that appealed to wider audiences, Iwatani broadened the appeal and marketability of games, creating what some call the first “casual game.”

Here's an interesting bit of Pac Man trivia, its original name was "Puck-Man" but was changed because company officials feared American kids would swap the "P" with an "F". Good call, I certainly would have. 

Thursday, May 20, 2010

City of Seattle seeking emerging artists for Civic Square fence art projec

Application deadline is 11 p.m., Monday, June 21

The Seattle Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the Department of Finance and Administrative Services (DFAS) and Triad Development, Inc., seeks up to eight emerging artists to develop temporary, large-scale, colorful panels for the fence surrounding the Civic Square construction site in downtown Seattle. The Civic Square site is located between Third and Fourth avenues and Cherry and James streets.

The art project is intended to celebrate Seattle’s vibrancy, cultural life, history and position in the forefront of environmental sustainability. Artists should submit images of existing artwork in any two-dimensional medium. A selection panel will choose up to six images per selected artist. Fabricators will produce the panels from selected artwork and install the fence panels in late summer or early fall 2010. Each side of the Civic Square’s fence (north, east, south and west) will display up to six artwork panels. The artwork will be exhibited for approximately one year.


The call is open to emerging professional artists living within 100 miles of Seattle. An emerging artist is considered to be an artist in the early stage of his or her career (five years or less). A link to the online application and guidelines is available at www.seattle.gov/arts.

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Carnegie Museum of Art Announces a Call for Submissions for Two-Minute Film Festival

Deadline for Submissions is June 15
There is no fee to enter and entrants must be at least 18 years of age.

The Carnegie Museum of Art invites artists and filmmakers (amateur or professional) to submit their finest—and shortest—work for consideration for inclusion in the Two-Minute Film Festival.

Submissions should respond in some way to the broad theme “A Brief History of…” and may be created using media of the filmmaker’s choice (camera, camcorder, cell phone, animation program). Entries must be two minutes or less in length, include a title card, and be submitted via CD or DVD as uncompressed QuickTime files (.mov) for compilation purposes. Entrants must also include a screening copy of their film—either by providing a YouTube link or a playable DVD.

Ccomplete details and entry form, available at www.cmoa.org/2minutefilms.

"Transcendence - The Magic of Glass": Call for submissions...

Entries are now being accepted for "Transcendence - The Magic of Glass", a JURIED CONTEMPORARY GLASS ART EXHIBITION in Sequim, WA, September 1-25, 2010. This show is part of the GLASS ART FESTIVAL and hosted by the MAC, Museum & Arts Center in the Sequim-Dungeness Valley. Entries may be shipped. Full details will accompany notification of acceptance into the exhibition.


This juried exhibition is for artists working in any area of glass art including, but not limited to, blown, cast, fused, kiln-formed, torchworked, pate de verre, stained, or sand-carved glass. Mixed media entries are welcome.

Entry deadline is July 9. Entry fee is $20 for 1st, $5 each additional, up to a total of 5 entries. Entries may be for sale, but need not be.

Also seeking vendors for Glass Alley, artists for Artist Talks, workshops and demonstrations.
For more details about the Show and the Festival, and to view/download a prospectus or a vendor application, visit www.glassartfestival.org or email info@glassartfestival.org.

Monday, May 17, 2010

Whistler Film Festival call for submissions

The Whistler Film Festival is looking for submissions for the 10th annual edition. This year the festival will run from December 1st to 5th 2010.

Canadian and international filmmakers are welcome to submit in all lengths and genres, and there are six juried awards and one audience award that the final selections may be eligible for.
The short film deadline ($25 entry fee) is July 19. The feature film deadline ($40) is August 3.

Full details are available at: whistlerfilmfestival.com/2009-Festival-Info/submissions.html.

Artcrank Poster show




Bikes are the world’s most fun and accessible way to get around. Posters are the world’s most fun and accessible art form. ARTCRANK brings them together.

ARTCRANK is a showcase of bicycle-inspired original poster artwork that people can enjoy looking at and afford to take home. ARTCRANK began in Minneapolis in 2007, and has expanded to Denver, St. Louis, Portland, San Francisco and Des Moines.

Every ARTCRANK show features posters created by local artists from the host city. Admission is always free, and posters are priced to let everybody take home at least one.

Full details available at: http://www.artcrankpostershow.com/


Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Call for Submissions – 4th Cairo Video Festival

4th Cairo Video Festival Video Art & Experimental films

Deadline for submissions: 15th of June 2010

Medrar for Contemporary Art is sending out an open Call for Submissions to the Forth Video Festival hosted in Goethe institute Cairo-Downtown.

Initiated by the Cairo-based artist initiative Medrar for Contemporary Art in 2005, this festival continues its focus on providing a platform for sharing and discussing newly produced high concept / low budget experimental videos. Based on a call for works by emerging artists, the festival program takes the format of a concise series of video screening on accompanied by talks/discussions with active video-makers and curators to tackle some of key themes and issues presented in the works.

More information and application from: medrar.org/4thvf.html

Monday, April 19, 2010

Present Tense: 15th Annual Photographic Competition Exhibition


The Photo Center is pleased to announce our 15th Annual Photo Competition Exhibition, Present Tense and our esteemed juror, Denise Wolff, of Aperture. Selected entries will be exhibited in Seattle, WA at the Photo Center during the months of August and September 2010. The exhibition title, Present Tense, refers to state of the medium today. In recent times, we have heard intense debate about the direction of photography: questions about the future of the medium, fears surrounding the decrease in magazine production and funding for content, the threat of potential extinction of the physical book, cynical commentaries that originality is a thing of the past...now is the time for photographers to take stock of their work and their vision, to take risks, rather than play it safe. We are calling out to you to inspire the medium!

Full details available at: http://www.pcnw.org/gallery/entries.php