Job in the arts in a beach town

Delaware's Rehoboth Art League is looking for a new Executive Director. This is a membership-based arts organization and exhibition center; the ED is to "provide overall leadership, direction, and management of the Rehoboth Art League's projects, programs and operations, including staff, volunteers, finances, curatorial, educational and outreach activities, membership, fundraising, and grant writing." Requires ten plus years management experience, ability to building strong community relationships, success in developing and implementing funding strategies.

The mission of the Art League is to provide arts education, promote and enccourage artists,maintain and enhance permanent collection. Founded in 1938, the Art League is on an historic three acre campus featuring an 18th century farmhouse. Rehoboth is a terrific beach town with fine restaurants and a vigorous art community. Email resume and cover letter to mhelms@coachwise.com.

Wanna go to a Tyson's Corner Opening on Thursday?

Noi Volkov opens at Tyson's Corner's Habatat Galleries on May 8 with a reception from 7:00 - 9:30 pm. The exhibition will be on display until June 14th.

Memorial to the medium

It wasn’t supposed to be this way, but “Polaroids: Mapplethorpe,” opening this week at the Whitney, has become a memorial to the medium. Several weeks ago, the diminished Polaroid Corporation announced it will, in 2009, quit the instant-film business.

Read the article by Christopher Bonanos in New Yorker here.

Friday = Artomatic

Artomatic, the art show that art critics love to hate and everyone else loves to visit; the capital area's homegrown art extravaganza, opens to the public at noon on Friday, May 9, with art, performances and special events, including the fire-dancing troupe Flights of Fire and performance art in the form of a new TV game show, “The Road to Success!” in just the first weekend.

From past experience, there will be dozens of parties going on throughout the spaces. This is the DC event this week.

“NoMa is ready to welcome tens of thousands of visitors to Artomatic so they can see the transformation that is under way in NoMa,” said Elizabeth Price, President of the NoMa BID. “NoMa is currently a hotbed of construction activity and now, thanks to Artomatic, the neighborhood will be bursting with the energy and excitement that only the artistic community can create.”

Highlights of Artomatic’s opening weekend include:

• Unveiling of nine floors of 2-D and 3-D visual arts presentations by more than 700 local and regional artists.

• Flights of Fire – a fire dancing performance to be held outside at 9 p.m., Friday, May 9.

• “Electro-acoustic psychedelic world dance music” by Baltimore’s Telesma at 9 p.m., Friday, May 9.

• A Latin dance workshop with professional dance instructor Ibis Villegas, featuring salsa, merengue, samba, and other styles at 2 p.m., Saturday, May 10.

• Progressive rock by Guardians of Iridescence at 8 p.m., Saturday, May 10.

• “The Road to Success,” performance art by Carolina Mayorga in the form of a new TV game show at 8 p.m., Saturday, May 10.

• New wave/indie rock by Plastiq Passion, an all-girl band from Union City, New Jersey at 11 p.m., Saturday, May 10.

• An expressive drawing workshop with Giliah Litwack at 1 p.m., Sunday, May 11.

• "In-your-face" jazz/jam music "with a touch of funk" by Bethesda, JD-based Bassment Breaks at 4 p.m., Sunday, May 11.

A full schedule of events is available at www.artomatic.org/event.

Held regularly since 1999, Artomatic transforms an unfinished indoor space into an exciting and diverse arts event that is free and open to the public. In addition to displays and sales by hundreds of artists, the event features free films, educational presentations and children’s activities, as well as musical, dance, poetry, theater and other performances.

Who will be this year's AOM emerging star? Let's get those "Top 10" lists going!

May 9–June 15 at Capitol Plaza 1
1200 First Street, N.E., (Corner of First and M Streets)
Washington, D.C. 20002
(New York Avenue Metro station: Red line)
Free, but donations accepted

HOURS
Wednesday–Thursdays: 5 p.m. to 10 p.m.
Fridays–Saturdays: Noon to 2 a.m.
Sundays: Noon to 10 p.m.
Closed Mondays and Tuesdays
Directions- here.

Looking for studio space in Arlington, VA?

Immediate availability! Reeb Hall Studios has an opening for a fine artist in need of a small studio available June 1st, 2008. Rent/size approx. 12x18'/$230/month. 24 hr. access.

If interested, please send 1 to 3 small jpgs of recent work of yours and/or your website address and a really short letter of interest to: reebhallartists@yahoo.com

Click!

Click! is a photography exhibition that invites Brooklyn Museum’s visitors, the online community, and the general public and artists to participate in the exhibition process.

Taking its inspiration from the critically acclaimed book The Wisdom of Crowds, in which New Yorker business and financial columnist James Surowiecki asserts that a diverse crowd is often wiser at making decisions than expert individuals, Click! explores whether Surowiecki’s premise can be applied to the visual arts—is a diverse crowd just as “wise” at evaluating art as the trained experts?

The audience evaluation period has started but will close on May 23! So if you know everything about art or nothing at all, create an account, log in and evaluate some of the works that have been submitted during their open call for Click!

Evaluation can take a while, but you can do as little or as much as you want and you can log in anytime throughout the evaluation period. They need evaluators with a range of knowledge about art (including none!) and varied geographic locations (including outside of Brooklyn!) to log in and have their say.

Click! culminates in an exhibition at the Museum, where the artworks are installed according to their relative ranking from the juried process. Visitors will also be able to see how different groups within the crowd evaluated the same works of art.

The results will be analyzed and discussed by experts in the fields of art, online communities, and crowd theory. The exhibition is organized by Shelley Bernstein, Manager of Information Systems, Brooklyn Museum.

Click here.

MoMA exhibit dies

One of the central works in the exhibition “Design and the Elastic Mind” at the Museum of Modern Art in New York (until 12 May), Victimless Leather, a small jacket made up of embryonic stem cells taken from mice, has died. The artists, Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr, say the work which was fed nutrients by tube, expanded too quickly and clogged its own incubation system just five weeks after the show opened.

Read the story by Helen Stoilas in the Art Newspaper here.