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Climate Clock Calls for Artists
2008-04-24 15:01:00 The Climate Clock Global Initiative needs ideas from artist-led teams to design a major art piece, “Climate Clock” that will measure changes in greenhouse gas levels and be first in a series of global projects calling attention to climate changes. This installation will collect data for 100 years in downtown San Jose, California. This will be ... More About: Artists , Calls
Momaboma?s Paper Vintage Bags
2008-04-23 15:26:00 Momaboma is an Italian company that creates really beautiful, retro, vintage bags. The bags are made out of paper from recycled glam magazines from the 1950?s and 1960?s and other material such as old vinyl records. The carefully-chosen paper is then processed with resin, polypropylene, vinyl and glue and the result are those really unique ... More About: Design , Bags , Vintage , Paper
Urban Screens Melbourne 08 Call for Entries
2008-04-22 15:40:00 Urban Screens Melbourne 08 is the third, ground-breaking international conference and multimedia exhibition in a series of worldwide events around the redefinition of a growing digital infrastructure of moving images in public space. The exhibition is looking for Artists, Urban Poets, Film makers and Multimedia and Interaction Design ers to submit film and videos or multimedia, interactive or ... More About: Music , General , Urban
Sharing Art between Nations
2008-04-21 17:10:00 Now in its 42nd year, the Lewiston Council of the Arts wants you to participate in their Lewiston Outdoor Fine Arts Festival, August 9 and 10, 2008. With attendance of over 30,000 partygoers this event will feature almost 200 participating artists from the U.S. and Canada. Categories include everything from painting and mixed media to jewelry ... More About: Nations , Sharing
Call for Choreographers
2008-04-21 14:35:00 The Dance Gallery, a festival produced by VON USSAR danceworks for the second year, is looking for Concert Dance Choreographers to be presented this Fall. The concert will take place at The Ailey Theater on September 12th and 13th, 2008. If your work is chosen you will be notified by June 20th, 2008, and a signed ... More About: Call
Kurstin?s Untouchable Touch
2008-04-18 17:15:00 Pamela Kurstin is the theremin’s most enigmatic and popular player. With complete composure behind the instrument, this tuned-in, sound coaxing diva has mastered the instrument that was on the brink of extinction before it was revived by the classic 1994 documentary Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey. Invented by Leon Theremin in 1919, the theremin is one of ... More About: Music , Touch , Untouchable
21st Annual Nicolet College National Art Competition
2008-04-18 16:42:00 Nicolet College is accepting entries for its Annual juried art competition. Open to U.S. residents 18 years and older, the college will be giving out over $8500 in prize money with three $1000 Awards of Excellence. The juror of the competition is Terry Surhe, director of Gallery 210 at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. Surhe has ... More About: National , Competition
Graffiti Artist Outdoes Himself
2008-04-17 16:28:00 Banksy pulled off another stunt to produce what is believed to be his biggest art work yet. The secretive graffiti artist managed to erect three storeys of scaffolding behind a security fence. Here is a picture of his art which appeared on a Post Office. “One Nation Under CCTV” is painted on a wall. It shows ... More About: Graffiti , Artist , General
A Call To Paradise
2008-04-17 15:39:00 Set amidst the sultry and colorful backdrop of Costa Rica, the Montezuma International Film Festival is calling for your entries. This arty enclave is an unlikely but inviting place to celebrate film, life and the beauty of nature. The November event even has its own Day of the Dead celebration along with the more traditional screenings, ... More About: Paradise , Call
Photo Review?s International Photography Competition
2008-04-07 18:05:00 Photo Review ’s upcoming international competition is “a competition with a difference,” according to the publication. Juried by Julie Saul, director of the Julie Saul Gallery in New York, the competition will enable thousands of people across the country to see the accepted work in the 2008 competition issue. Also, the prize-winning photographers will be chosen ... More About: Photo , International , Photography , Competition
Digital Stylings of Pascale Nubret
2008-04-07 16:46:00 Discovering the art of digital composition in 1993, Pascale Nubret’s art is sci-fi meets steam punk. Her digital creations are a softer version of HR Geiger’s previous collection with a disconnect from reality and an IV of fantasy. Pascale weaves her imagery with intricate details and her symbols seem to flutter around her digital portraits. A ... More About: Design , Digital
Art Auction to Benefit Stoked Mentoring
2008-04-04 20:25:00 The people at Stoked Mentoring have once again partnered with the prestigious Milk Gallery in Manhattan for their benefit art auction on Saturday, April 5th. Stoked brings together at-risk youth and successful adults to learn a new non-traditional sport like surfing, skateboarding, or snowboarding. These sports serve as the groundwork and means for enhancing mentoring relationships ... More About: Sports , Auction , Benefit
One Gallery Goes Green
2008-04-04 16:21:00 Going green can now bring you more than good Karma and relief to our ailing planet; it can allow you to share in one gallery’s attempt at helping the cause. The Main Street Gallery is seeking submissions for a large scale installation on the environment called, “Go Green .” Artist and the general public can participate by ...
Don?t Eat Your Vegetables
2008-04-03 17:18:00 Don’t eat your vegetables, play them! This is exactly what the Vegetable Orchestra does performing solely on instruments made of veggies. The group uses carrot flutes, pumpkin basses, leek violins, cucumber-o-phones and celery bongos. Using goods from Mother Nature’s bounty, the ensemble conquers pre-conceived beliefs about music conceptions and their limitations. The self-organized collaborative of men ... More About: Music , Vegetables , General
Netaudio ?08 Call for Entries
2008-04-03 15:48:00 Netaudio, the Offline Festival for Online Music will take place from October 22 to 25 at Shunt, a extensive labyrinth of tunnels underneath London Bridge Station. Over four nights they will celebrate the creative output of networked musicians and online communities with talks, workshops, showcases and performances. Parts of Netaudio?08 will be programmed through an open call ... More About: General , Call , Netaudio
Marta de Menezes: Functional Portraits
2008-04-02 17:52:00 In portraits, artists have been trying to represent not only the physical appearance of the subject, but also characteristics of the personality, by using the pose, elements in the composition, and even the choice of techniques. Science has developed powerful techniques to visualize what is hidden under the skin: and not only morphological characteristics, but also ... More About: Photography , General , Portraits , Marta
2008 Phoenix Gallery National Juried Competition
2008-04-02 16:06:00 Celebrating its 50th anniversary, the Phoenix Gallery is hosting a national juried competition. Originally the gallery was a prestigious artist co-op in New York that has evolved into a community center for all the arts. Founded in 1958, the gallery now has member-artists from around the globe, all dedicated to the cause of professionalism in ... More About: National , Competition , 2008
TalentDatabase Weekly Spotlight: Kreativlink
2008-04-01 17:27:00 TalentDatabase’s Renate Ikinger didn’t start out as a paper artist. Like so many of us she had a “day job” as a web designer and programmer that paid the bills. When Ikinger turned 40, she decided she had enough of that life and was ready to do her crafting full-time. “Books always played a big part ... More About: Design , Writing , Spotlight , Weekly
6th Biannual National Juried Exhibition
2008-04-01 16:17:00 All participants receive evaluations of their entries. The fee for each entry is $10.00. All accepted artists are eligible for cash prizes ranging from $250.00 to $100.00. The jury decides who is awarded these prizes that total $2,100. All accepted art is placed in our main online gallery for six months. All accepted artists receive ... More About: National , Exhibition
Mural Mosaic Delivers Cooperative Excellence
2008-03-31 15:28:00 Canadian artist Lewis Lavoie and his Mural Mosaic has elevated the art of mural painting to a new level, by creating work that includes “hundreds of paintings, one masterpiece mural.” The murals often involve as many as 200 artists and require six to eight months to complete. Sweeping across a wall 16′ by 24′ the “Wildlife Ark” ...
Cristal Vision: The Swarovsky International Design Competition
2008-03-31 14:59:00 Designboom and Swarovsky invite professionals, students, and design-enthusiasts, to participate in this amazing contest. The participants should explore the properties of this unique material and challenge people’s perception of how crystal can be used in the near future. They are looking for innovative product concepts that might be based on pure crystal or fuse crystal with new ... More About: Design , International , Competition , Vision , Cristal
Antoine Helbert is a Master of Fine Illustration
2008-03-28 16:22:00 This master painter, sculptor and illustrator from Strasbourg, France has the stylistic graphics that range from fashion, history, and advertising. Each illustrated compartment are very different. His portfolio is outstanding and pushes the envelope for the ability of illustrators to turn out more than just line and marker drawings. Antoine Helbert’s portraits unleash a ... More About: Illustration , Master , Fine
The Athlete Defined Art Competition
2008-03-28 16:18:00 Artists are encouraged to examine the nature of both athletics and athletes, and the Olympic movement with its history and competitions. Artists are encouraged to work freely around the three central themes above. The show promises great prestige, exposure, and sales opportunity for any artist. OPUS6IX Art Gallery in Eugene Oregon will select works from ... More About: Sports , Competition , Defined , Athlete
Luigi Sperduti is Raw with Decadence
2008-03-27 19:56:00 Spending his time reading Beat Generation?s writers with a glass of Jack Daniel?s in his hand, poet and novelist Luigi Sperduti reveals his lust for a simpler time when Kerouac was king and Sinatra crooned tales of love and living a passionate life. Born in Italy, Luigi is the author of Décadence Immagini Introverse (Drunked on ... More About: Writing
Oldest Oil Painting Found!
2008-03-27 19:55:00 It is a common misconception that oil painting, considered a typically Western art, originated in Europe, where the earliest examples date to the early 12th century A.D. Now archeologists have found evidence that oil painting actually dates back to 650 A.D.! This latest discovery was found in the caves of Afghanistan’s Bamiyan Valley. ... More About: Painting , Oil Painting
Possible Solution to File Sharing for the Music World?
2008-03-27 19:54:00 The Songwriters Association of Canada think they’ve found the cure for this moldy, day-old topic that never seems to end: To download or not to download? For years even before the bastard stepchild Napster was born, peer to peer file sharing peacefully existed as a pirate colony of streaming data. Now those that dare ... More About: File Sharing , Music , World , File , Sharing
Phil Hansen is Politically Correct
2008-03-26 20:13:00 What would you say if I told you the above portrait was that of a serial killer donned the Green River Killer who maimed and took the lives of over 125 women in less than three years! Even more haunting about this piece is it is comprised of over 12,000 portraits of his victims. Take ... More About: Phil , Hansen , Politically Correct
3rd Annual ATA Film & Video Festival Call for Submissions!
2008-03-26 20:09:00 Artists’ Television Access is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, all-volunteer, artist-run, experimental media arts gallery that has been in operation since 1984. ATA hosts a series of film and video screenings, exhibitions and performances by emerging and established artists and a weekly cable access television program.They are now accepting submissions for independent and experimental film & video ... More About: Video , Film , Festival , Call , Annual
Tissue Paper Artist Andrea Mastrovito
2008-03-26 15:09:00 Andrea Mastrovito is known for creating large-scale installations primarily using cut paper. Mastrovito uses the most basic of two-dimensional materials to create three-dimension installations. His monumental works are like interactive collages. Black Bag ? American Philosophy of Composition? is a site specific installation composed of large tissue paper collages held together with thousands of ... More About: Artist , Paper , Andrea
The Pilsner Urquell International Photography Awards
More articles from this author:2008-03-25 20:11:00 The Pilsner Urquell International Photography Awards conducts two competitions each year–one for professional photographers and one for non-professionals. Both are open to photographers anywhere in the world. The winners of the main categories listed below will compete for IPA’s top award of International Photographer of the Year. Those finalists will be invited to attend the Lucie ... 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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