TORPEDO FACTORY ART CENTER VISITING ARTIST PROGRAM
Now accepting applications for June-August 2013 residencies. Open to emerging and experienced visual artists for one-, two-, or three-month periods. These self-directed, creative residencies are intended as professional development opportunities and include studio space and the ability to display and sell original work. No application fee.
Details: www.torpedofactory.org/vap or email VAP@torpedofactoryartists.com
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| USA / Syl Mathis / Glass |
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| USA / Novie Trump / Ceramic |
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| UK / Roger Tye / Glass |
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| US Fulbrighters Janis & Tate 2012 workshop at Creative Cohesion studios in Sunderland, England |
Deadline: April 1, 2013
THE ARTIST'S MAGAZINE 30th ANNUAL ART COMPETITION More than $25,000 in cash prizes will be awarded, and Top Award Winners will be featured in the December 2013 issue of The Artist's Magazine!
All winners will also appear in a special online gallery. There are 5 categories for you to compete and win. Plus, there's a Special Student/Beginner Division for new artists. Entry fee.
For details and to enter, contact art-competition@fwmedia.com
Update: Laurie found a direct link: http://www.artistsnetwork.com/the-artists-magazine-annual-competition
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Aaron McIntosh, Dream of Darkness, 2010, Artist's teenage t-shirts and underwear and craft felt; quilted, 60" x 108"
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A painting by African-American artist Kara Walker has gone back on display at Newark Library.
The artwork had been covered almost immediately after it was first shown because library workers found it offensive.Read it here.
This is not the first time black viewers have expressed disapproval of Walker's imagery. In 1997, artist Betye Saar led a campaign against Walker's work, sending letters to people in the art world, asking, "Are African-Americans being betrayed under the guise of art?"Read that here.
The California woman accused of slaughtering her ex-boyfriend at his Arizona home in a gruesome "Fatal Attraction"-style attack has made more than $1,000 hawking her jailhouse artwork online.
In the market for some new digs? Check out this 8,200 square foot TriBeCa maisonette, complete with three floors, 19th century adornments, double floor ceilings, factory windows and an original student-era Keith Haring mural.Read the whole article by Julia Dawidowicz here.
The artist as applicant is an artist who is applying for an award that offers money, a studio residency, or an honor. The artist as applicant may be nominated or may respond to an open grant application call. Sometimes there are restrictions (age, locale, gender, education). The artist as applicant often but not always, has another source of income -- a day job, a part-time job, or the actual sale of their art. Some artist as applicants rely entirely on grants for their income.Read the whole piece by Rachel Mason at The HuffPost here.
What follows are potential scenarios in the life of the artist as applicant.
“You have to be delusional to want to be an artist,” says Amber Robles-Gordon, who, with Shaunte Gates and Jamea Richmond-Edwards, debuted as the art collective Delusions of Grandeur with two back-to-back exhibitions in the summer of 2011. Originally funded by a grant from the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities, the group has expanded to five members with the addition of Wesley Clark and Stanley Squirewell.Check out an excellent review and discussion on this group by the WaPo's Michael O'Sullivan here.
Catalyst Projects will moderate this discussion, generously hosted by Arch Development and The Hive 2.0. The panel is going to feature Lenny Campello, distinguished art dealer and artist at Aqua; Adah Rose Bitterbaum, owner of the Adah Rose Gallery and exhibitor at Pulse; Tim Tate, established glass artist at Art Miami; Sean Hennessey, glass artist and newcomer to Aqua; and Shaunte Gates, exhibiting artist at Select.
This panel discussion will offer the DC arts community a look at the increasingly important world of art fairs from diverse perspectives.
This event is free of charge and open to the public.
Location:
The Hive 2.0
1231‐B Good Hope Rd SE
Washington, DC 20020
Read the story here.I'm thrilled! Kate puts on a brave face as she sees first official portrait critics are calling 'rotten'
Catalyst Projects will moderate this discussion, generously hosted by Arch Development and The Hive 2.0. The panel is going to feature Lenny Campello, distinguished art dealer and artist at Aqua; Adah Rose Bitterbaum, owner of the Adah Rose Gallery and exhibitor at Pulse; Tim Tate, established glass artist at Art Miami; Sean Hennessey, glass artist and newcomer to Aqua; and Shaunte Gates, exhibiting artist at Select.
This panel discussion will offer the DC arts community a look at the increasingly important world of art fairs from diverse perspectives.
This event is free of charge and open to the public.
Location:
The Hive 2.0
1231‐B Good Hope Rd SE
Washington, DC 20020
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| Fluid Movement performs an excerpt from Jason and the Aquanauts at the WPA SynchroSwim 2010. Photo by Max Cook. |
Details here.EnvisionAn army of artists interspersed among the enthusiastic crowds celebrating the Presidential Inauguration on January 21st on the Mall in Washington DC, all quietly making art. They have the focus of monks meditating, simply being present, reflecting, and innovating.Some artists are sculpting, drawing and painting while others are making wild knittings and creating collages. A group of people are engaged in a slow meditative dance and a man is pulling silk screen prints which he hands out on the spot. These art-makers are all wearing white jump suits and orange hats, helping to make art-making visible and central to our national values and identity at this major ritual and celebration.
