Nashville International Airport: Call to Artists: Deadline Apr 1, 2011

Nashville International Airport: Call to Artists
2011-2012 Flying Solo Exhibition Series
Call to Artists
DEADLINE
April 1, 2011

http://flynashville.com/arts/

http://flynashville.com/arts/CalltoArtists2011.aspx

Metro Arts Gallery - Call For Submissions: deadline Feb 22, 2011

Metro Arts Gallery - Call For Submissions
Spirit of the River Exhibit (Juried): Call for submissions for artwork documenting or inspired by the Nashville Flood of 2010 to be exhibited in the Metro Arts Gallery March 17th - May 6th. Artworks for this multi-artist show must be original visual art, in any media, 2-D or 3-D, documenting or inspired by the Nashville flood. Applicants must be current or joining members of the of the MNAC Artist Registry and must submit up to 2 high-quality .jpg's of artworks on CD-R, a resume, current contact information, and a one-paragraph explanation about your commemoration and mail to:
Metro Nashville Arts Commission
PO Box 196300, Nashville
TN 37219-6300

Note: Images on CD-R must be identified by artworks' names, dimensions (H x W x D), media, and technique.
Entry Deadline: Tuesday, February 22.
For more information contact ian.myers@nashville.gov

Callf or Artists - Women's Work - Deadline: Mar 20, 2011

Women's Work 2011 call for submissions. For three weekends in May, our fifth annual Women’s Work festival will showcase the talents of creative women at Nashville’s Z. Alexander Looby Theatre. In past years, Women's Work has drawn women playwrights, poets, musicians, essayists, painters, filmmakers, dancers and photographers from across Tennessee and across the country. We're interested in staged readings, reader’s theater presentations; performance pieces by women; films and documentaries by women; poetry readings; singer/songwriters, choreography/dance; stand-up comics; visual art – you name it, we’ll consider it.

The deadline for submissions is March 25, 2011. Please visit our website for submission guidelines, and to download a submission form. There’s a small submission fee of $20.00, to help offset our costs (advertising, space, printing, etc.).

We urge you to forward this to all the women artists you know. We're looking foward to an even bigger and better festival this year.

Women's Work 2011 runs from May 6 through 22 -- join us at the Looby Theater.

submission form
http://www.twtp.org/ww_2011_submission.pdf

Call for Artists - 80SQUARE - MTSU - Deadline Mar 11, 2011

80SQUARE
NAT I O N A L C A L L f o r E N T R I E S

Artists are invited to donate 8” x 10” works-on-paper. We are interested in drawings, sketches, paintings, photographs, prints, and mixed media.

This is the first annual national exhibition and sale to benefit the Middle Tennessee State University, Department of Art Scholarship Program. The mission of the program is to generate support for undergraduate students studying art.

Sponsorship for the exhibition is generously provided by Tinney Contemporary,
www.tinneycontemporary.com, and the MTSU Department of Art, http://www.mtsu.edu/art/.

Deadline for receiving mailed submissions: March 11, 2011
Send your works to:
MTSU, Department of Art
c/o 80SQUARE
Box 25
1301 East Main St.
Murfreesboro, TN 37130

Submission Guidelines:
• all work must be 8” X 10” on any paper
• any original media accepted, including but not limited to drawings, sketches, paintings, photographs,
prints, and mixed media
• on the back of each work, please provide your name and email address; you may also provide
additional (optional) information such as website, mailing address, etc.

Sale of Artwork:
All artwork will be offered for sale on March 19, from 6 - 9pm.
100% of proceeds will benefit the MTSU Department of Art Scholarships.

Return of Artwork:
Works that do not sell will not be returned to the artist. They will be held as property
of the Department of Art at MTSU, and offered for sale in other Scholarship fundraisers.

Contact:
For further information, please contact Sisavanh Houghton at houghton@mtsu.edu.

Exhibition / Sale:
Hosted by Tinney Contemporary: Nashville, TN

Saturday, March 19, 2011
Artist Preview: 5 – 6pm
Public Opening and Sale: 6 – 9pm


Qualifications:

open

How to Apply:

http://www.mtsu.edu/art/

Summer Art Camp for kids @ Frist - 2011

Sign Your Child Up for Summer Art Camp at the Frist!
Registration Opens Feb. 14 for Frist Members and Feb. 28 for General Public

Calling all young budding artists—discover a world of inspiration and creativity at the Frist Center's Summer Art Camp! Our weeklong, age-appropriate classes are designed to encourage artistic expression, art appreciation, understanding, and imagination for kids ages 5 to 13.

Camp sessions are directly supervised by one of our experienced museum educators. Explore Frist Center exhibitions, interact with original works of art, and try out fun new art processes. No previous art-making experience necessary!

http://fristcenter.org/site/calendar/eventdetail.aspx?cid=346

Visual Overture Magazine - Call for Artists - Deadline Apr 18, 2011

Spotlight on Opposites
Up/down, peace/war, dark/light, left/right, hot/cold, life/death – these opposites and many others like them incite much dialogue and imagery. This competition will select one emerging artist whose work deals with opposites for a 1 page article spotlighting his/her work in Visual Overture Magazine. The opposing dualities may be expressed in a variety of ways – subject matter, symbols, color combinations, audience participation, and/or other creative avenues.
Deadline: April 18, 2011
Apply at: http://visualoverture.com/artists.htm

Call for Poster Designers - Inglewood Cherry Blossom Festival

The Inglewood Neighborhood Association, Inc. (I NA) will hold the Inglewood Cherry Blossom festival this Spring on April 16, 2011, from 11 Am till 5pm. This is a fund raiser to landscape, restore and the continued planting of Yoshino Cherry Trees on Riverside Dr. in Nashville.

We wanted to offer local artist the opportunity to design our logo and poster for this event. The theme is focused on the symbolism of the Cherry Blossom in Japanese culture, the herald of Spring, new life and the transience of life.

The art work will be judged by our committee, and the winner will have a free booth (10 x 10) to display their art.

Their art will be the official poster for this year's event, and will be on our website, advertising and promos.


The deadline was February 13, but will extend it to February 17th. Please send your submissions to Tracy Hamilton, the Village Pub, 1308 McGavock Pike, Nashville, TN 37215, e-mail to villagepub@rocketmail.com


The Inglewood Neighborhood Association, Inc., is a 501-C-3 non-profit.

Call for Artists - Art in the Park - Brownsboro Park - Louisville, KY

Call for Artists
Art in the Park

Outdoor Art Fair featuring local artists with a variety of mediums. Free parking, low booth fees, food & entertainment.

Saturday, Sept 24
10am-5pm

Brownsboro Park
2960 Goose Creek Road
Louisville, KY 40241

Great opportunity to sell your artwork. Over 500 people attended last year's event, which was our first show.

CONTACT
Kelli Tyler
kelli_bbpark@bellsouth.net

Dr Sketchys Anti-Valentines: feb 20, 2011

Dr. Sketchy's Anti-Art School Nashville Presents:

The Anti-Valentine's / Black Widow Session
starring Porcelain (Raleigh, NC)
Sunday February 20th
The 5 Spot - 1006 Forrest Avenue - Nashville, TN
6-9pm
$10

Valentine's is a season of love and romance... unless of course you are a black widow!

A black widow is a disingenuous woman who exploits her position in a relationship to the detriment of her partner. Luring the unsuspecting fool in with her sensuality, she has her way with him and once she has what she needs... she does away with him completely.

For three thrilling hours you will get a chance to sketch sexy, sultry, and sinsational burlesque beauty Porcelain all the way from Raleigh, North Carolina!

As always there will be wonderful music, delicious drinks, creative contests and unique prizes from Baby Tattoo Books, The Goon, What Katie Did, The 5 Spot and more!

We can't wait for you join us!

** Dont FORGET to bring your new & gently use backpacks to Dr Sketchys this month! We are collecting them for Colby's Army, Inc. to be distributed to the Nashville area's homeless men & women! Bring in a backpack and get a special gift from Dr Sketchy's Nashville!**

CALL FOR ARTISTS Spraygraphic: 3rd Annual Vinyl Art Show

CALL FOR ARTISTS
Spraygraphic: THIRD Annual Vinyl Art Show, FILL IN THE GROOVE

Spraygraphic.com is calling for artists and designs grab an old vinyl record and be creative with it. Take the record and turn it into a piece of visual art for all to see.

We expect to end up with a gallery full of diverse, compelling, and fresh vinyl records from all over the world.

The show will be at Hoodlums Records in Tempe, AZ on FEBRUARY 26th, 2011!!!!!!!!!

FOR SUBMISSION DETAILS GO HERE
http://www.spraygraphic.com/ViewProject/13025/normal.html

LOCAL SUBMISSIONS CAN BE DROPPED OF AT THE HOODLUMS IN TEMPE!!!!!!

ALL OTHER SUBMISSIONS:

SEND ALL ARTWORK TO: Spraygraphic, 1141 east vaughn street, UNIT C, Tempe, Arizona 85283

Shakerag Workshops - June 2011

Shakerag Workshops
Sewanee, Tennessee
June 12-18, 2011
June 19-25, 2011
www.shakerag.org

Textiles
Electronic Textiles and Reactive Garments: This class will focus on electronic textiles and the principles of soft-circuit design by examining ideas for reactive surfaces. Participants will build a pressure-sensitive squeezable "soft switch" and create an interactive textile structure with stitched pressure sensors and beaded light-emitting components.
Hills, Heather, Lochs, and Bogs: Participants in this class will make fine-to-chunky felt textural pieces reflecting the colors and textures of Scotland. Class discussion will focus on exploring one’s own "place" as inspiration for working in felt.
Local Color: Art, Life, and Local Plants as Dyes: This workshop will examine the meanings of locally gathered plants as dyes, with a focus on how creative output is influenced by the process of making. Participants will examine and reflect upon the artistic potential in the process of natural dyeing through plant collecting, dyeing experiments, research, creative record keeping, and collective engagement.
Collars, Cuffs, and Mantles: This class is dedicated to fashion or wearable felt, focusing on collars, cuffs, and mantles inspired by the fashion of the Victorian period. From this beginning, participants will gain skills for making other wearable articles in felt.
Look, Play, Design: This class is about exploration and creating surface designs, examining how inspiration can become a pattern. Participants will investigate the area around Shakerag, studying motifs, grounds, textures, and repeats to create patterns.
Clay
Adjusting Volume: Insights into Handbuilding: Participants in this class will work on developing and refining clay forming skills with a focus on using a variety of hand-building techniques, including wood and paper patterns, altering, and assemblage. Class discussions will focus on the integration of form and surface in clay pieces.
Thoughtful Considerations in the Making of Everyday Pots: This clay class will focus on throwing and hand-building techniques and their relationship to the creation of personal functional forms. Participants will alter forms, use multiple sections, and add texture to create line, volume, and scale which reflect the maker¹s identity.
Pottery: Ideas and Making: Beginning with personal curiosity as a basis for exploration, this clay workshop will focus on becoming comfortable with new ideas, shapes, and methods. Participants will explore the different factors that spark ideas while making functional pots on the wheel.
From Flat to Fat: Function, Context, and Process: This clay handbuilding workshop will be an intuitive and practical exploration of how to work with two-dimensional patternmaking in constructing three-dimensional form. Students will consider pragmatics of use and function as associated with pots, in addition to considering ideas and symbols associated with pots.
Book Arts
The Unconventional Book: Participants in this class will examine a new book structure each day, exploring the basics of several traditional bindings. All students will work with what they are most fond of to create a variety of unique, personal books.
Photography
Finding Your Visual Voice: Students in this class will work to discover their own visual language through photography. Participants will engage in the emotions and personal connections involved in creating photographs that truly reveal a personal visual voice.
Basketry
Willow Bark Basketry: This class will introduce weavers to black willow bark, a very strong, flexible, and beautiful fiber uncommonly used for basketry. Students will process a roll of bark into weaving elements and use a variety of weaving techniques to construct a simple square or round bottomed basket.
Drawing/Painting
Drawing with Nature: Participants in this class will learn about place by drawing and writing, listening and discovering, using the format of the Field Naturalist’s Journal. Students will observe the natural world closely and will write and draw in journals to describe what has been seen, in practice for continued exploration of seasonal nature in one’s own place.
Metal
Wearable Art using Cold Connections: Participants in this class will learn the beginning skills of classical jewelry making. focusing on techniques used in manipulating metal and incorporating found objects into one’s jewelry.
Digital Media
Sound Art Workshop: Field Recording and Electronic Composition: This workshop encourages a sonic appreciation for the natural environment and an ear for sound manipulation. Participants will take part in listening exercises, outdoor and indoor sound recordings, and audio processing, moving towards production of a sound work.

Watkins Spring 2011 Community Education Classes & Workshops

Watkins Spring Community Education Classes & Workshops
http://www.watkins.edu/community

Call for Artists - Rochester Contemporary Art Center 6x6x2011: Global

Rochester Contemporary Art Center 6x6x2011: Global

6x6 began as a small fund-raising project, but has grown into an international art phenomenon. Last year over 5,000 artworks from 43 US States and 22 Countries were entered in this exhibition! Anyone from anywhere in the world is welcome to enter artwork in the exhibition.

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6x6x2011: Global
June 4 - July 10, 2011
Submissions Due: May 1
Preview Hours: June 1, 2 & 3, 1-10pm
Opening Party & Artwork Sale: June 4, 6-10pm
7:30pm raffle for buyer positions 1-20
8:00pm all other buyers
Global Online Purchasing Begins: June 6 at 10am
Sold Out Artist Names Revealed to Public: July 1 *New!
Purchased Artwork Pick-Up: July 10, 11 & 12
Cash prizes will be awarded by popular vote. *New!

6x6 began as a small fund-raising project, but has grown into an international art phenomenon. Last year over 5,000 artworks from 43 US States and 22 Countries were entered in this exhibition!

Help us build an exhibition of artworks from ALL 50 US States with more global participation than last year. Please invite everyone you know to send their artworks early. The first 5,000 artworks received will included in this year's exhibition.

6x6x2011: Global is the fourth exhibition of thousands of original artworks, made and donated by celebrities, international & local artists, designers, college students, youths, and YOU. Each artwork must be 6x6 square inches and signed only on the back, to be exhibited anonymously. All artworks will be for sale to the public for $20 each to benefit RoCo. Artist names will be revealed to the buyer upon purchase and all artworks remain on display through July 10, 2011.

*Facebook - Help us build a truly global exhibition of artworks from ALL 50 US States with more international participation than last year. Please invite everyone you know to send their artworks early. The first 5,000 artworks received will included in this year's exhibition.*

More information and FAQs: http://www.roco6x6.org

Rochester Contemporary Art Center is a venue for the exchange of ideas. As a center for thoughtful contemporary art, we provide unique encounters for audiences and extraordinary opportunities for artists.

Rochester Contemporary Art Center
137 East Avenue
Rochester, NY 14604
www.rochestercontemporary.org

Visual Overture Magazine - Call for Emerging Artists Summer 2011

Visual Overture Magazine
Summer 2011 "Featured Emerging Artists"
Are you an emerging artist? Calling emerging artists everywhere! Visual Overture Magazine, a juried exhibition-in-print, is now accepting submissions from artists working in any genre of visual art. Your portfolio of 3-6 images will be juried by Rob Jones of Migration Gallery for possible inclusion in the Summer 2011 publication. Visual Overture Magazine promotes and empowers emerging artists, showcasing their work to hundreds of galleries, curators, and collectors around the world. Deadline April 18, 2011. Online application: http://visualoverture.com/artists.htm

Free Lecture and Demonstration - Monthaven Art Society

Free Lecture and Demonstration - Monthaven Art Society
1:30 pm - Sun, Feb 13
MAS Program
Igor Babailov Demo and Presentation
VFW Hall
73R New Shackle Island Road
Hendersonville, TN

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!
http://www.monthavenartsociety.org/IgorBabailovProgram2011.html