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Art in the County
Prince Edward County’s annual art show and sale, June 18 - July 4, 2010 featuring the talented artists of Prince Edward County. One of the largest juried art shows in Eastern Ontario, now celebrating its 17th year with a broad range of work including watercolour, acrylic, oil, glass, fibre, ceramics, photography, sculpture, jewellery and much more.
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West Harlem, NY … The West Harlem Art Fund and The City College of New York are pleased to announce the finalists for the “In Dialogue” exhibition. All of the proposals are being reviewed by the City of New York for final approval. The winners are:
Ø Scherezade Garcia – Unity Ribbon
Ø Brett Seamans – Home Ground
Ø Mary Sweeney – Respite
Ø Marcie Revens – Closer: In Conversation
The exhibition is being planned for early May, 2010 with City approval. Three finalists are graduate students in the Fine Arts program and one finalist is a graduate student in the Landscape Architecture program at the college.
According to Executive Director, Savona Bailey-McClain, “The collaboration that The West Harlem Art Fund and The City College of New York have formed is extremely important for both the West Harlem community and the City at large. Think tanks around the country have stressed the need for colleges to interact more in cities and spur entrepreneurship, production and new technologies. The partnership we have created shows that the “arts” is an important industry too that can affect tourism, land use and economic development.”
To listen to the panel discussion “A Conversation with Public Artists” that was apart of the student exhibition held in December; visit the website Art on Air. The link to that recording is below:
http://www.artonair.org/archives/j/content/view/2881/147/
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CURATE THIS! 2010 is going global!
…on the ground AND in cyberland.
A Global Exhibition of Emerging Contemporary Art + Design | An Experimental, Cross-Pollination of New Ideas for Progress + Possibility
January 1, 2010 – CURATE THIS! 2010, the second chapter in the evolution of the CURATE THIS! exhibition series created by BECA: Bridge for Emerging Contemporary Art, is evolving from a one city-wide event location into a global arts + cultural exchange event involving multiple venues located in multiple cities around the world. The global art + design exhibition will take place from July 1 – December 31, 2010.
Through the exhibition of works of art + design by emerging artists, designers, duos, groups and collectives around the world, The BECA Foundation aims to facilitate an experimental, cross-pollination of new ideas for creative innovation in diverse locations around the world. The title, ‘CURATE THIS!’ reflects a departure from the familiar large scale exhibition model, typically curated by a singular vision with one head curator, to an exhibition with components and related events ‘curated’ by the public and professional and independent participants residing in multiple cities around the world. The first ‘CURATE THIS!’ experiment took place in early 2008 and led artists and directors, Melissa Roberts and Kurt Schlough to begin brainstorming the expansion of the experiment to bring about greater benefits to a larger number of participants.
BECA is an acronym for Bridge for Emerging Contemporary Art and the core belief system at The BECA Foundation is that “New art + new design fuels the best of what’s yet to come on this planet.” To help mix that fuel and kick start new possibilities, the expansion of the CURATE THIS! exhibition project will facilitate a broader exposure of new art, new design and new ideas through both a physical and online network of participating venues in multiple cities around the world. The aim of building the network is to create international arts + cultural exchange opportunities, broaden arts education opportunities, build appreciation for emerging contemporary art + design, facilitate introductions and lay the foundation for future collaborations toward the realization of a progressive, meaningful and fulfilling future for everyone. Global online content delivery of exhibition events and related special projects will enable global participation by millions around the world. The BECA Foundation is pleased to welcome the participation of Helen Pheby, PhD, Curator of Yorkshire Sculpture Park, UK whose research and curatorial work spans the globe including the US and Iraq and Ellen Lupton, legendary design educator and Curator of Contemporary Design at the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. Each has a unique insight which will add further depth and diversity to new CURATE THIS! 2010 exhibition components.
Upcoming participating venues in Boston, New Orleans, Miami, Denver, Los Angeles, Santa Fe, New York and London have been the first locations to sign on. Venue participation proposals have also been submitted by exclusively online communities. Organizations, artists, designers, independent and established curators, gallery and art space directors as well as lease-holders and owners of other event and non-traditional exhibition spaces located anywhere in the world may email Melissa Roberts at mail@thebecafoundation.org for venue participation information. The BECA Foundation is building a global network to achieve a positive impact on the future of the residents of cities around the world. The formerly unimaginable, previously impossible and the creative ideas and proposals that may run counter to the current status quo are most welcome. Artists and designers may register to participate at: http://www.thebecafoundation.org/global/calls-to-artists.html
“Free your mind and the rest will follow.” – Thomas McElroy and Denzil Foster
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CURATE THIS! 2010 is going global! …on the ground AND in cyberland.
December 14, 2009 – CURATE THIS! 2010, the second installment of the CURATE THIS! exhibition series created by BECA: Bridge for Emerging Contemporary Art, is evolving from a one city-wide event location into a global arts + cultural exchange event involving multiple venues located in multiple cities around the world. The global art + design exhibition will take place from July 1 – December 31, 2010.
Through the exhibition of works of art + design by emerging artists, designers, duos, groups and collectives around the world, The BECA Foundation aims to facilitate an experimental, cross-pollination of creative innovation and new ideas in diverse locations around the world. The title, ‘CURATE THIS!’ reflects a departure from the familiar large scale exhibition model, typically curated by a singular vision with one head curator, to an exhibition with components and related events ‘curated’ by the public and professional and independent participants residing in multiple cities around the world. The first ‘CURATE THIS!’ experiment took place in early 2008 and led artists and directors, Melissa Roberts and Kurt Schlough to begin brainstorming the expansion of the experiment to bring about greater benefits to a larger number of participants.
BECA is an acronym for Bridge for Emerging Contemporary Art and the core belief system at The BECA Foundation is that “New art + new design fuels the best of what’s yet to come on this planet.” To help mix that fuel and kick start new possibilities, the expansion of the CURATE THIS! exhibition project will facilitate a broader exposure of new art, new design and new ideas through both a physical and online network of participating venues in multiple cities around the world. The aim of building the network is to create international arts + cultural exchange opportunities, broaden arts education opportunities and appreciation for emerging contemporary art + design, facilitate introductions and lay the foundation for future collaborations toward the realization of a progressive, meaningful and fulfilling future for everyone. Global online content delivery of exhibition events and related special projects will enable global participation by millions around the world. The BECA Foundation is pleased to welcome the participation of Helen Pheby, PhD, Curator of Yorkshire Sculpture Park, UK whose research and curatorial work spans the globe including the US and Iraq and Ellen Lupton, legendary design educator and Curator of Contemporary Design at the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. Each has a unique insight which will add further depth and diversity to new CURATE THIS! 2010 exhibition components.
Upcoming participating venues in Boston, New Orleans, Miami, Denver, Los Angeles, Santa Fe and London have been the first locations to sign on. Venue participation proposals have also been submitted by exclusively online communities. Artists, designers, independent and established curators, gallery and art space directors as well as lease-holders and owners of other event and non-traditional exhibition spaces may email Melissa Roberts at mail@thebecafoundation.org for venue participation information. The BECA Foundation is building a global network to achieve a positive impact on the future of the residents of cities around the world. The formerly unimaginable, previously impossible and the creative ideas and proposals that may run counter to the current status quo are most welcome.
“Free your mind and the rest will follow.” – Thomas McElroy And Denzil Foster
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Reception, performance art and special group exhibit on Thursday, January 7th @ culturshoc gallery, 7-11pm, 1205 queen street west
Featuring work by Charles Hackbarth, Sean Hadley, Andreanne Le Hudon, Marinko Jareb, Trevor Laalo and Ryan Rader.
www.ArtListPro.com is six months old! Help us get this puppy off the ground the right way with a dose of visual art from Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal + music, performance, drinks and food.
“We’ve received a lot of encouragement from artists, galleries and art lovers. People really enjoy the blog and seeing what Casey and I come up with every day.” explains Chris Healey, editor of ALP, “It feels like we are posting an exhibit for the 7th, more than curating, Casey and I each get one wall and we’ll see what kind of crazy dialogue happens with our selections facing each other.”
Art Listings Professional is a social media magazine based in Toronto. A giant twittering publicity machine for artists and galleries, ALP is a daily dose of local visual culture mixed with international news and historic art documentation, Adding value to viewers and participants by context and careful curation, ALP has been designed to distribute art news throughout multiple social media networks and reach diverse audiences. Offering various and diverse opportunities for interaction and subscriptions across it’s network, ALP’s pro-active and innovative social marketing approach makes it the most future-ready website specifically developed for marketing arts and culture news across the web.
The ALP Group Exhibit continues until Saturday, January 30th.
(super-awesome performance art and spoken word line-up being assembled and announced soon.)
Thanks to the very cool owners Dana “Paina Collida” Snow and Valerie “Gallery” Johnston of culturshoc gallery and store (art/music/clothes/books) for hosting our event and exhibit. www.culturshoc.com
RSVP @ our Facebook Event Page: http://ow.ly/LDhf
For more information please contact:
Chris Healey
www.artlistpro.com
email@artlistpro.com
(Drawing by Andreanne Le Hudon)
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Come take a look at my work at http://stephaniebak.ca . Drop me a line, I would love to hear what you think. Don’t forget to check out my event page for the latest going-ons.
Selected Toronto art dealers featured in a suite of portraits by artist Viktor Mitic
In this remarkable portrait-survey of thirty-six of Toronto’s most distinctive and influential art dealers, artist Viktor Mitic has captured and illuminated the unique individual personalities of his subjects. Depicting by turns their passion, insouciance, vivacity, shrewdness, eccentricity, geniality, and more, these portraits successfully reflect the rainbow of human emotion and expression. As Gary Michael Dault says in his insightful introductory essay, “there isn’t a portrait here that doesn’t provide not only a fine likeness of its subject, but also a telling, charming, incisive route into the sitter’s essential nature.”
Tightrope Books and Odon Wagner Contemporary are pleased to invite you to a ground breaking art show/book launch at the Odon Wagner Contemporary, 198 Davenport Road in Toronto, 6pm to 9pm December 10th 2009. The show will continue until December 24th 2009.
For more info please call 416-962-0438 or email info@odonwagnergallery.com
The Jerusalem Gallery, in Washington, DC is happy to announce a solo art show by Ammar Qusaibaty scheduled to open on Nov 20 under a theme of Mental Mediations. These abstract images, two-sided painting on transparent sheets, express the artist’s dual influences of metaphor in the Arabic language and the rigor of abstract mathematics.
According to the artist the world is best exposed as a system of processes, change, and motion. It is a continuous and dynamic exchange between an observer and an observed that encodes states in multi-hierarchal cognition unlimited by the sequential sense of time and space. Exposing this interaction through the whole body of the canvass and its minutia becomes the primary purpose of expression.
Influenced by selective causality, automatism, action painting, minimalism, and situationism, the art thesis is characterized by continuous and long strokes, fluid motion, incomplete geometric compositions and emergence. The artist has stretched the boundary of the canvass by two-sided painting on transparent sheets allowing realization of infinite forms. In addition to painting on reflective sheets, the work depicts disjoint unity to show relationships between a whole and its parts.
An artist with unconventional training, Dr. Ammar Qusaibaty received his Doctoral degree in Cognitive Informatics from the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne. He holds two Masters degrees from Oxford University and the University of Michigan.
Dr. Qusaibaty has exhibited in Europe and North America. He lives and works in Washington D.C.
Opening reception to meet the artist: Friday, 20 November 2009, 6:30 - 8:30 pm
For more information visit:
http://www.thejerusalemfund.org/ht/display/EventDetails/i/7200/pid/1459
Media Contact:
Natalie O’Connor
Email: art@zaygal.com
Contemporary Pictorialist Photography of Roberta Murray.
At Rocky Public Library November 3 - December 5, 2009
4922 - 52 Street, Rocky Mountain House, Alberta
Opening Reception: November 6th 7 - 9 PM.
