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Watch out for March Maddess!
Winter is almost over and art show season quickly approaches. Be sure to check out our calls for entry. There are many to chose from. If you know of shows I do not have listed, please drop me an email, goneinc@goneinc.com and let me know. To help out the artists and photographers who will be exhibiting in upcoming shows we are offering a special 5% discount on our already low print package price. Clip the coupon below and bring in to get your discount!
Congratulations to all of you who got your work into the Monson Art show and into the Acedemic Artists show in Springfield. Reception dates are listed in the art events section of this newsletter.
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Calls for Entries
Sarah Doyle Gallery, Brown University, seeks submissions in all media for month-long, one-person exhibitions for February 2011 through May 2012. Send up to 8 images on slides or a disc in jpeg format no more than 3000 x 2000 pixels with the artist's name, title of work, date, dimensions, materials, and techniques used, a current resume, and a SASE. Deadline: 1/25/10. Prospectus available. For more information please visit our website: www.brown.edu/Departments/Sarah_Doyle_Center/ Send submissions to: Sarah Doyle Gallery, 69 Brown Street, Box 1829, Providence, RI 02912.
2nd Annual Massasoit Community College Arts Festival. Deadline: April 16- $1,200 Cash Awards. Open to all 2-dimensional artists including photography. Original work only; no reproductions or Giclées. All entries must be for sale. 25% commission; no insurance provided. Artwork must be framed and wired. No saw tooth hangers or clip frames. Maximum framed size 36" x 40". Plexiglass for frames larger than 18" x 24". $10/1, $24/3. Show date: Sunday, May 23. 900 Randolph St., Canton, MA 02021, (781) 821-2222 x2124. Email: emoller@massasoit.mass.edu.
81st Annual Connecticut Women Artists Open Juried Exhibition, to be held May 9-June 6 2010 at the John Slade Ely House, New Haven, CT. Juror and awards is nationally recognized artist and instructor Alyssa Monks. For more info and to download prospectus, visit www.ctwomenartists.org entry deadline is April 14.
The 25th Chelsea International Fine Art Competition. Agora Gallery, New York City. Juror: Megan Fontanella, Assistant Curator, Guggenheim Museum. Deadline: March 26, 2010. For more information: www.agora-gallery.com/competition.
61st Art of the Northeast USA Exhibition, April 30-June 11th, 2010. Juror: Katie Rashid, Gallery Director, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY. Awards: $4,000-$8,000. Open to all media. Artists must reside in CT, MA, ME, NH, NJ, NY, PA, RI, VT. Deadline for ALL Entries: March 10, 2010. Entry fee: $25 per entry. For Prospectus, send #10 SASE to: AONE, Silvermine Guild Arts Center, 1037 Silvermine Road, New Canaan, CT 06840. Phone (203) 966-9700, ext. 26 or download from website at www.silvermineart.org.
Viridian Artists 21st Annual International Juried Competition. Open to US and international artists, 2D and 3D media. Juror: Elisabeth Sussman, Curator, Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC. Cash prizes, Power-Point presentation, group exhibition July 6-July 24, 2010. Entry Deadline: April 16, 2010. $40/3 pieces, $5 each additional. SASE for prospectus: Viridian Artists, 530 West 25th, NY, NY 10001, or download at www.viridianartists.com. Phone: (212) 414-4040; email: info@viridianartists.com
National Juried Competition; Aug 3-21, 2010. Juror; Rackstraw Downes, internationally known painter and recent MacArthur fellowship recipient. Open to all artist working in 2-dimensional media. For prospectus send SASE to; Bowery Gallery, 530 W 25th St., New York, NY, 10001 or visit www.bowerygallery.org. Entry deadline: April 15, 2010. Artists and Curators: New Art Center in Newton is accepting proposals for group exhibitions. No restrictions on content, medium, or theme. Selected curators receive $1,000. Deadline: April 12, 2010. For guidelines and info: www.newartcenter.org.
Exhibition Proposals - South Shore Art Center seeks proposals for the Bancorft Gallery in 2011-2012. Group or themed shows of regional artists. For exhibition proposal forms and guidelines, visit www.ssac.org. Proposals due April 1, 2010. South Shore Art Center, 119 Ripley Road, Cohasset, MA 02025. 781-383-2787.
The 25th Chelsea International Fine Art Competition. Agora Gallery, New York City. Juror: Megan Fontanella, Assistant Curator, Guggenheim Museum. Deadline: March 26, 2010. For more information: www.agora-gallery.com/competition.
Pawtucket Arts Collaborative, 4th Annual Multicultural Exhibition. Juried exhibit celebrating cultural diversity among all Americans. April 25-June 25, 2010 Deadline: April 1, 2010. Blackstone Valley Visitor Center, Pawtucket, RI www.pawtucketartscollaborative.org for application and details.
Call for Entries: First Annual Juried Community Exhibition: Wallace L. Anderson Gallery, Bridgewater State College, Bridgewater, MA, June 14--July 23. Reception June 24. Open to any artist, 18 years of age or older, living in any of Bridgewater's five host communities: Bridgewater, East Bridgewater, West Bridgewater, Lakeville, Middleboro. Open to all 2D and 3D media. $30 for three submissions. For prospectus call: (508) 531-2766 or visit http://www.bridgew.edu/gallery/. Image10
is a nationwide photo contest run by the New York chapter of the American Society of Media Photographers and open to all professional, serious amateur and student photographers residing in the United States. Contestants are asked to submit one or more images that were created after January 1, 2009. Prize Details: (2) First Place prizes: a half-page publication of the winning Image in the Photo District News, a promotional mailer to be sent to 2000 art directors, art buyers and photo editors in New York and other major cities throughout the U.S. and an exhibition of the winning Image in a New York gallery (2) Second Prizes : publication in the Promotional Mailer; an exhibition in a New York gallery. (2) Third Prizes: publication of the winning Image in the Promotional Mailer; an exhibition in a New York gallery. (10) Honorable Mention Prizes: an exhibition of the winning Image in a New York gallery. Eligibility: US Resident http://www.asmp.org/image10/ for more details
Deadline: April 12, 2010
Juror: Keith Carter
Natural Wonders: Nature photography, near and far
Deadline: May 3, 2010
Juror: David Middleton
Photos with Words: Image and text in photography
Deadline: May 24, 2010
Juror: Liz Lee
Flight Escaping gravity: from birds to ballerinas
Deadline: June 21, 2010 Juror: David Bram
Self-Searching The Art of Self-Portraiture
Deadline: July 19, 2010 Juror: Aline Smithson
Abstraction in Photography: Pattern and design in the visual world
Deadline: Aug. 16, 2010
Juror: Stephen Strom
Wide-Awake Dreaming: Fantasy and Imagination in Photography
Deadline: Sept. 13, 2010
Juror: Russell Joslin, Editor Shots Magazine
Toys and Other Direct Objects: Still life as subject
Deadline: Oct. 11, 2010 Juror: Wendy Grossman
The Grimshaw-Gudewicz Art Gallery
DEADLINE: Wed, May 12, 2010 2nd All Media Juried Exhibition The Grimshaw-Gudewicz Art Gallery is holding its 2nd All Media Juried Exhibition from May 27-June 30. $30 for three submissions or $10 per work. Juror: David B. Boyce, Curatorial Consultant for the New Bedford Art Museum. Cash Awards. Hand delivery of work May 11 and 12, 2-6 pm to the Gallery at Bristol Community College, 777 Elsbree Street, Fall River, Massachusetts. For complete prospectus visit www.bristolcc.edu/gallery. Click the P10 button in the lower left. For more information please call: 508-678-2811 ext.2439. Contact:Kathleen Hancock | 508-678-2811 x 2631 | www.bristolcc.edu/gallery kathleen.hancock@bristolcc.edu
Portrait, People and Figure.
Street photography
Nude
Self Portrait
Children
Documentary - Reportage, Current affairs and Editorial
Fashion and Advertising (only Professional section)
Architecture and Interiors
Landscapes and Citiscapes
Nature
Abstract and Still
Fine Art
There are no age restrictions, as well as no restrictions regarding the date the images were taken.
PDN Prizes/Awards/Recognition
An awards celebration for the winners will take place in May 2010 in New York, NY. The winners and their work will be featured in the May issue of PDN and on our Web site.
NEW THIS YEAR! The Arnold and Augusta Newman Foundation and Maine Media Workshops Scholarship and Prize for New Directions in Creative Photographic Portraiture. Photographers are invited to enter portrait photography for consideration in this new category.
The winner will receive $15,000 and a solo exhibit at the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, Maine. Prizes total over $20,000!
FotoFanatic Monthy Photo Contest
Enter the FotoFanatic monthly photo contest to be in with a chance to win a cash prize. Every month the members vote on 3 of the 4 categories. $2 per entry. For more information, visit http://www.fotofanatic.com/ . Weekly Photo Comp This photo competition is held weekly, with submissions from around the world. Entry fee is $1 per photo. Prize money depends on the amount of entries, since half of the entry fee is the dollar amount won. With 500 entries the winner will receive US$500.00, with 50,000 entries the winner will receive US $50,000. All participants are welcome. All work must be submitted online. Visit http://www.weeklyphotocomp.com/ for more information.
Illuminations at the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center
A rotating exhibit, for patients, families, friends and staff, intended to offer encouragement and shed light on the human experience. Applications accepted on a rolling basis. Open to all artists, mediums, and styles. For prospectus contact the program manager at (617) 726-4808 orIlluminations@partners.org.
Nikon Small World Call for Entries
Small World is a competition for showcasing the beauty and complexity of life as seen through the light microscope. For over 30 years, Nikon has rewarded the world's best photomicrographers who make critically important scientific contributions to life sciences, bio-research and materials science. Visit http://www.nikonsmallworld.com/ for more information Deadline for entries: April 30th, 2010
Epson International Pano AwardsDedicated to art of panoramic photography. Over $13,000 in cash and prizes. The judging panel includes some of the world's top panoramic photographers and industry professionals, including Christian Fletcher, David Hugh Evans, Nick Rains, Jaspal Jandu, Peter Eastway, Christian Fleury, Tom Putt, Glenn Beanland, Michelle Novak and Doug Segal. Deadline: April 30th, 2010
Creative Divergents Summer 2010 International ShowcaseCreative Divergents promotes an appreciation for people willing to push boundaries in creative ways, the desire to bring more attention to works that may not fit neatly into easily defined categories and a belief in the significance of dialogue. Winners will be chosen with the standards of creative vision, innovation, potential to engage an audience, presentation (i.e. quality of the images submitted), and overall impression. $5 entry fee for up to 3 photos. $500 award. Images must be at least 500 pixels wide, submitted digitally, and must be in jpeg or jpg form. Visit http://creativedivergents.com/ for more information. Deadline: June 15th, 2010 |
Classes
Announcing Two New Courses for Adults -
CREATING PICTURE BOOKS with Author/Illustrator RUTH SANDERSON
PICTURE BOOK WRITING
4 MONDAYS in APRIL 6:30 - 9 p.m.
PICTURE BOOK ILLUSTRATION
4 WEDNESDAYS in APRIL 6:30 - 9 p.m.
One Cottage Street, Easthampton Room 307 Cost: $175 per course or $300 for both To enroll, contact: ruth@ruthsanderson.com Ruth Sanderson has over 80 published children's books to her credit. She also teaches in the MFA Children's Literature summer program at HOLLINS UNIVERSITY in Roanoke, Virginia.
Building an Online Presence - From Blogging to Website
Building a website without code and for little or no money is easier than you might think. Based on Wordpress.com one of the fastest growing blogging site in the world. My site is build using this platform and without any knowledge of coding or HTML. www.Topfloorlearning.org
Instructor: Nancy Bryant
Dates: Wednesdays, March 31, April 7, 14, 21 and 28, 2010, 5 classes
Time: 5:45pm-7:45pm
Fee: $120.00
Min: 3 Max: 8
Adobe Lightroom Basics Adobe Lightroom is software for managing and editing digital photographs. Lightroom streamlines your photography workflow so you can easily import, manage and showcase large volumes of photographs. Prerequisite: Must have lightroom and some computer knowledge.
www.Topfloorlearning.org
Instructor: Nancy Bryant
Dates: Wednesdays, May 12, 19, 26, June 2 and 9, 2010, 5 classes.
Time: 5:45pm-7:45pm
Fee: $120.00
Min: 3 Max: 8
Art and Soul Studio
11 Crane Street Southbridge, MA01550 www.artandsoulstudio.org (508) 612-4570 Hours: Saturdays 11:00 am - 5:00 pm, or by chance. Studio is usually open for browsing during most classes. Stop in and check us out!
Class space is limited so sign up early! Registration is confirmed upon payment Sign-up two or more students or classes and receive 10% off! Senior Citizens receive 10% off!
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Artist of the Month
Ruth Sanderson
I have always enjoyed a challenge and decided to teach myself oil painting when I was around 13 years old. The first thing I painted was a horse head. I took art lessons from a woman in town, but she said I had natural talent and she really could not teach me anything more. After spending a year at a liberal arts college I transferred to an art school so I could take a combination of traditional drawing and painting courses and commercial courses as well. I really wanted to make a living and decided that illustration was the way to go. The fine art scene was also more abstract and did not appeal to me, though I admired older painters like Magrite, The English Pre-Raphaelites and the Hudson River School. The illustrators whom I admired the most were the Howard Pyle, N.C. Wyeth, Norman Rockwell and Mark English.
In 1974 I graduated from the Paier School of Art in Connecticut. An agent in the children's field took me on and though I did a little magazine and advertising work on my own I soon was busy with children's illustrations, mainly textbooks, for the first five years. I started to do some full-color covers as well. The books I had read as a child, the Black Stallion series and the Nancy Drew series were being put into paperback for the first time and I was fortunate to get the assignment for 18 covers in each series. I did some black and white picture books and an edition of The Little Engine that Could.
Since 1999 I have been doing an occasional personal painting, mostly on themes that reflect the personifiction of nature. The "Green Man" image "came" to me at the turn of the millennium during the computer scare that was going to cause civilization to end. The Green Man is the symbol of rebirth out of seeming death - the eternal mystery of life, and I guess it was my way of symbolically dealing with the fear of The End. I am working on depicting the four seasons as well, using the "Eternal Feminine" as the symbol to carry the idea of the changing of the seasons.
The newest venture is into i-phone Apps. Now children can read along on an i-phone while the narrator reads the story of PAPA GATTO. Produced by PicPocket Books®, text pages alternate with images from the book. The narration is superbly done. It is available from the i-phone store for only $2.99, and will be available for the i-pad when it is released.  |
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Photoshop tip
1.To turn the locked background layer into a regular layer you can just double click on the icon in the layers pallet. A dialog box pops up and you can rename the layer.
2. If you ever find that Photoshop is not running correctly, it is usually easily fixed by resetting the prefrences to the default. To do this, press and hold the Ctrl-Alt-Shift (Mac- Command-option-Shift) as soon as you start Photoshop. A pop-up box appears asking if you would like to delete your settings file. By deleting that file you will be back to the Photoshop defaults.
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Art Events
Monson Arts Council's 17th Annual
Art Exhibition and Sale!
Black & White & Everything In Between House of Art , 200 Main St Monson, MA
Opening reception - March 13, 1-4pm
Wine tasting - March 20 - 1-5pm Featuring wine from Hardwick Winery
Open weekends March 13- March 28, 2010
New England Institute of Professional Photography School Session
A weekend of classes and lectures on how to improve as a photographer. NEIPP is happening at the Resort and Conference Center of Hyannis, located at 35 Scudder Avenue, Hyannis, MA 01060. Taking place the week of April 11 - 16, 2010, you can learn, network, make new friends, all while enjoying the art of photography. For more information visit http://www.neipp.com/index
Photo Cruise in MaineAn opportunity to photograph the many unspoiled island of Penobscot Bay, Maine. Two cruises are occurring, one starting June 12th, and another starting on August 28th. You'll sail on the 145' traditional Downeast schooner HERITAGE, along with the Maine windjammer fleet. Fred LeBlanc, maritime photographer, will be giving presentations throughout the trip. For more information, call Fred LeBlanc at 413-533-1914, email him at fredleblanc@comcast.net , or visit www.frederickleblanc.com . | |
