For photographers...

Deadline June 27, 2004

Want to have your photographs viewed by over 500,000 people? New Photography is looking for high quality, exciting work to exhibit in the photography galleries of the Millard Sheets Gallery at the L.A. County Fair. Each year more than 500,000 people view this exhibition with some of the finest examples of contemporary photography. A panel of 4 jurors will award a total of $5000 in prizes. Download a prospectus and registration form online at this website or send a SASE to:
New Photography Competition
Fairplex
Box 2250
Pomona CA 91769

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Opportunity for artists...

Deadline July 1, 2004

National Juried Art Exhibition - Will's Creek Survey - Saville Gallery.

Exhibit Sept 2 - Oct 8, 2004. Awards: Best of Show:$1000, $4000+ in additional awards. Juror is Elizabeth Thomas, Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art, Carnegie Museum of Art.

Two slides:$25. For entry form and prospectus contact:
Allegany Arts Council
52 Baltimore St
Cumberland MD 21502

or call 301-777-2787 or visit their website

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For glass sculptors...

Deadline: August 5, 2004

2nd Annual Eugene Glass School Drinking Glass Juried Art Glass Competition, $1,000 Award for Best-of-Show, $3,250 in additional awards with five categories.

Slides, CD (jpg), or artwork must be postmarked by August 5, 2004. Maximum 5 entries - $10 per entry, 3/ $25, 4/$35, 5/$40. For details and entry forms: download here or e-mail drinkingglass@eugeneglassschool.org, call 541-342-2959, or send a SASE to:
Eugene Glass School
575 Wilson St
Eugene OR 97402

A delayed but deserved well done! to Simmie Knox, a Washington area artist who was chosen to deliver the official Clinton portrait.

Interesting to note that none of the area newspapers art critics has written anything about Knox, although regular staff writers have written several pieces and even the mighty New York Times.

Yet our area's otherwise vociferous art critics remain silent... perhaps because Knox is an area artist? I wonder if the portrait artist was from New York, or LA?

Congrats Simmie - well deserved!

Following a record number of entries, four artists have been short-listed for the BP Portrait Award 2004, one of Britain's most prestigious and lucrative art prizes.

As discussed here, our own National Portrait Gallery, once it re-opens, will begin its own American Portrait Prize award on a yearly basis.

A couple of years ago, Zygimantas Augustinas, a terrific European painter that we've represented since 1997, won the Second Prize at the BP Portrait Award, and his career skyrocketed in Europe. Hopefully an American Portrait Prize award will have similar impact on the American artist who wins it.

Today is the third Friday of the month, and thus the four Canal Square Galleries in Georgetown (MOCA, Fraser, Alla Rogers and Parish) will have their opening nights, catered by the Sea Catch Restaurant. Starts at 6 PM. Free and open to all.

See ya there!

Louis Jacobson reviews the Contemporary Photography show at Fraser Bethesda in this week's City Paper and Bidisha Banerjee reviews Leo Villareal at Conner Contemporary Art.

Tyler Green with some excellent points on the center of the art world and lack thereof...

A first report on this week's Boardwalk Arts Festival in Virginia Beach.