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Where’s Mars? Brooklyn Honors Spike Lee sends a call to artists

DOPE SWAN — Thu, 28 May 2009 20:51:58 +0000

As part of Brooklyn Honors Spike Lee, We’ve Gotta Have It!: Art Inspired by Spike Lee will showcase art from participants worldwide in honor of legendary filmmaker Spike Lee.

Although Lee is known for his prolific moving images, his work has also influenced a multitude of visuals artists across genre, language and borders. This exhibit is an opportunity to showcase artwork and offer a public thank you for his inspiration.

Call for Artists

We’ve Gotta Have It!: Art Inspired by Spike Lee
A mixed media exhibition

June 25 – July 10, 2009

Curated by

Coup d’etat Arts & Raquel Wilson

Salena Gallery
Brooklyn Campus of Long Island University
1 University Plaza
Brooklyn, New York 11201
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Opening Reception
Thursday, June 25, 2009, 6PM

Submission Deadline
Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Learn more about the exhibition at www.wheresmars.com.

Harlem 1970-2009 on view at New York Historical Society

DOPE SWAN — Wed, 20 May 2009 09:37:53 +0000

The NY Historical Society presents Harlem 1970-2009: Photographs by Camilo José Vergara, an exhibition documenting the urban rejuvenation of this famed neighborhood. Having experienced poverty in his native Chile, Vergara was always drawn to rough urban landscapes in the US. For nearly four decades, he returned to the same intersections and streets in Harlem and photographed the urban settings as they evolved through the years. One highlight is a sequence of images taken between 1977-2007 outside of 65 East 125th St showing the vivid transformation of the building from a local nightclub, to a discount variety store, to a smoke shop, to a clothing boutique, to a mattress outlet, to, finally, a vacant storefront with a “for rent” sign.

Exhibition on View:
Harlem 1970-2009: Photographs by Camilo José Vergara
Thursday, April 30– Sunday, July 12, 2009

New York Historical Society
170 Central Park West
New York, New York
(212) 873-3400

{Aperture}

Bushwick’s Art Galleries

DOPE SWAN — Tue, 19 May 2009 01:13:35 +0000

On this past week’s episode of Neighborhood Beat: Bushwick, host Aaron Watkins took viewers into the community’s art spaces. For those not in the know about Bushwick’s incredible art scene, this episode exposed the incredibly diverse and amazing talents that reside and create in the neighborhood.

The following segments feature three of the galleries that were on this episode: Pocket Utopia, Norte Maar and Lumenhouse.

The 50/50 Method for Pricing Your Artwork

DOPE SWAN — Tue, 19 May 2009 01:11:44 +0000

As an artist, one major hurdle that keeps me from selling my work is pricing it. Sounds silly, but I have a hard time finding the happy medium between “free” and “not for sale.” I would love to make a living with my art, but I struggle with also wishing to make fine art available to people of all income brackets.

As luck would have it, Reed A. Prescott III lectured on this very topic at Artists’ Mediums in Williston, Vermont. Mr. Prescott approached the topic with the common sense of a businessman, or in Prescott’s case, of a full-time artist.

One myth that he worked to dispel was that the price of a work should be such so it will sell quickly. By artificially lowering the price to accommodate a market, an artist actually devalues their own work—as well as the works of every other artist in the area, and possibly even the galleries representing them.

School of Visual Arts’ Summer Residencies

DOPE SWAN — Tue, 19 May 2009 01:09:22 +0000

School of Visual Arts’ Summer Residencies in New York City offer emerging and mid-career artists time, space and supportive community in which to develop ideas and focus on their artistic direction.

Now in its third decade, this internationally renowned program offers emerging and mid-career artists an opportunity to spend the summer developing ideas and focusing on their artistic direction. Participants are immersed in the creative community of New York City, with the guidance of a distinguished faculty.

The residencies are available in the following disciplines : Painting and Mixed Media / Printmaking and Book Arts / Photography Public Art / Illustration and Visual Storytelling: Art and Industry.

There is no deadline. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.
For further information or questions regarding SVA’s Summer Residencies contact:

Keren Moscovitch
Coordinator, Summer Residency Programs
Division of Continuing Education
SCHOOL OF VISUAL ARTS
209 East 23 St
New York, NY 10010
Tel: 212-592-2188
Fax: 212-592-2060
E-mail: kmoscovitch@sva.edu

{Lower Manhattan Cultural Council}

Spaces Seeking Artists

DOPE SWAN — Tue, 12 May 2009 08:23:53 +0000

If you’re an artist seeking space to show or hold an event check out the lists below and contact anyone you are interested in working with.

Kathryn Housewright
email | website

Green Rhino is a photo lab on McKibbin St. between Bushwick Ave. and White St. We recently relocated to Bushwick from Manhattan and we have a large open space available for artists to show their work. I’d love to hear from you.

Emily Chornomaz, Librarian At The Bushwick Library
email | website

The Bushwick Branch of the Brooklyn Public Library is located at 340 Bushwick Ave and would love to have artists use our space during BOS ‘09! We are home of the newish but already beloved ‘Bushwick Reading Series’ and hosted ‘Past Present and Future of Food in Bushwick’ as part of the SITE festival. We have a big and ‘bunkeresque’ space in our basement, complete with a somewhat elevated stage. The ground floor is sunny and spacious = a good room to set up gallery walls.

Cindy Gatto/ The Mudpit
email | website

I am the owner of the mudpit a full ceramic teaching/working/showing facility. I have a big space and a backyard. Contact me if you want to work with me on showing your work/ your friends work/ your cat/dogs work.

Diane Smith
email | website

Palmetto AIR will host a video art show Sat 6/6, we are looking for video art to show. Work should be on a DVD and no longer that 7 minutes. Space is limited. We are also looking for a few visual artists, any media, who reside within a few blocks of Palmetto between Central and Evergreen.

BOS 09 Cabaret
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Ladies and gentlement of the stage, Arts in Bushwick cordially invites you to submit your work for the BOS ‘09 Cabaret! This is a fabulous event every year, and the Cabaret team looks forward to this year being better than ever.

For the first time, we will be having a curated, themed show. The Cabaret theme is High Society. Recession special? Who needs it? We want more excuses to dress up. Please submit works that are appropriate to the theme suggestion. Think: Billionaires for Bush, fancy dress balls, and nights at the opera.

All submissions and question should be sent to performance@artsinbushwick.org. We look forward to hearing from you!

Please note: this year, we are unable to accomodate aerial performances. We are also not soliciting bands or musical acts. Tech will be fairly simple, and storage minimal, so keep that mind when you submit your proposal.

ElastiCity Music Festival
email | website

~elastiCity Festival~
“STRETCH YOUR EARS”

June 6-7, 2009
At Goodbye Blue Monday
All genres and styles welcome.

An open call for bands, solo artists, music makers and general producers of all things pleasing or displeasing to the ears.

Arts in Bushwick, the Addtract Consortium and Joe Che present a two-day carnival of continuous sound as part of the third annual Bushwick Open Studios Festival

Lily Maase
email | website

The Addtract Consortium, producer’s of last year’s concert/art/robot costume party series seeks performance, installation, and visual artists working in collaborative or experimental media to help create an immersive, multimedia experience for the Open Studios kickoff party. The party will take place on the top floor and rooftop of the Bushwick Department of Public Works on Melrose Street on Friday, June 5 from 10pm to 2am.

Chris
email

Hi, you’ve probably noticed the bar with the tinted windows and numbers on it on the Knickerbocker side of Maria Hernandez. That’s the 208Cafe and Lounge. It’s a real classy place with an owner really open to performers. He isn’t all up in your business and all, just wants you to get heads in there to see how nice he’s made the place. I will launch a show there Thursday May 21st (7 PM), “Hank Schwarzkopf and Peanut Butter Baby” where I present various performers; more or less it’s a third sketch comedy or comedic theater, a third world music from the neighborhood, and a third “wild card” which could be like wrestling, vaudville, performance art…something entertaining and interesting that is maybe rare or as of yet without definition. There are running gags and interviews with neighborhood personalities throughout. Im producing a special BOS edition at the 208, if there are any performers who want a place to do there thing during this great weekend please send an email telling me what you do.

via Arts in Bushwick

Detroit Industry: The Murals of Diego Rivera

DOPE SWAN — Thu, 07 May 2009 14:04:54 +0000

The images are iconic.

Assembly workers with tools raised in a frozen moment of manufacturing. Doctors and scientists stand near a child in a nativity scene that pays tribute to medicine. Secretaries and accountants, heads bowed, fingers on typewriters and adding machines. One panel even shows Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Company, seeming to watch a collection on unseen workers below him.

The meaning of these images is complex, a view of industry that challenges ideas about its role in society and raises issues of class and politics.

These murals were painted by Mexican artist Diego Rivera. Rivera was already well known as the leader of the Mexican muralist movement when he started the work, and he considered Detroit Industry the most successful piece of his career.

False Idols : Perspectives on Latina/Hispanic/Chicana women

DOPE SWAN — Wed, 06 May 2009 11:31:49 +0000

Casa Frela Gallery is presenting a new exhibit entitled, False Idols : Perspectives on Latina/Hispanic/Chicana women, an exhibition of Photographs and Photography based Mixed Media inspired by misconceptions and truths of Latina identity.

The show is curated by artist Allicette Torres with guest judges Lawrence Rodriquez, owner of Casa Frela Gallery and Gina Fuentes Walker, Cofounder of artHARLEM. This exhibition is slated to be the premiere showcase for Latina, Hispanic and Chicana contemporary photography and photography based mixed media.

The show tackles head on the idea of what is a Latina, Hispanic and Chicana woman through a modern and current interpretation of self and imposed identity. The idea of what a Latina, Hispanic and Chicana woman represents runs the gamut of the traditional to the abstract. With photographs that touch upon the sacred, religious iconography; to Teflon impermeable super heroine status to the fragility and suffocating doll like womanhood thrust upon us. In this exhibition the untrue archetypes have fallen away and demonstrate that we are not the Carmen Mirandaesque girls with baskets of fruit toppling over, nor the hot and spicy variety of women as Hollywood has pegged us to be. The show highlights new perceptions and new trends in how Hispanics are seeing themselves and in turn how others are perceiving us. The basal open question left for the viewer is where is the Latina, Hispanic and Chicana woman headed as the soon to be new female majority here in the United States of America.

The show will be featuring the Photography and Photographic Mixed Media from 13 artists that include Kathy Bozzuti-Jones, Daniele Casaburi, Michi Jigarjian, Reneé Khatami, Carmen Lizardo, Lisette Lopez, Elena Marrero, Jackie Munro, Jasmin Ortiz, Gabriela Peña Izquierdo, Priscilla Pompa Alvarez, Guadalupe E. Salinas and Allicette Torres.

May 9th through June 5th at
Casa Frela Gallery
47 West 119th Street
New York, NY 10026

Call to Artists: In the Spirit of Frida Kahlo

DOPE SWAN — Fri, 01 May 2009 11:53:15 +0000

Frida Kahlo remains one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, but her spectacular life experiences, her writing and her views on life and art have also influenced many artists throughout the years.

From July 1 – August 29, 2009 The Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery at Smith Farm Center in Washington, DC will be hosting Finding Beauty In A Broken World: In the Spirit of Frida Kahlo.

This exhibition hopes to showcase the work in all mediums of artists influenced not only by Kahlo’s art, but also by her biography, her thoughts, and her writing or any other aspect in the life and presence of this remarkable artist who can be interpreted through artwork.

We are seeking works of art that evoke the prolific range of expression, style and media like that which Frida Kahlo used as an outlet for her life’s experiences.

Get a copy of the prospectus here.

{Daily Campello Art News}

Artists Wanted presents Art vs. Design, an international Open Call for Unique Talent

DOPE SWAN — Fri, 01 May 2009 11:14:09 +0000

Images are power.

In this dynamic era, compelling design can move millions and transcendent art can inspire a generation. From cave paintings of early man to today’s industrial designers, art and design have uniquely shaped the world around us, each in its own distinct way.

This contest is designed to answer the age old question: What shapes our world more, art or design? Along with creating opportunities for all the artists who participate, they are awarding over $11,000 in prizes. Two Grand Prize winners will be awarded with a gala reception at a major New York City Modern Art Museum, $2009 cash grant, and more.

Visit www.artistswanted.org for more information.