Projekt30 JANUARY 2009 EXHIBITION: Deadline: Dec 1, 08

JANUARY 2009 EXHIBITION

Projekt30 is taking submissions for our new January 2009 publicly juried exhibition.

We are an artist-run arts organization dedicated to promoting emerging artists. The exhibition will include thirty artists; invitations will be sent to over 30,000 galleries, collectors, and fellow artists. Visitors have the option of contacting any participating artist with feedback or opportunities. Since 2003 over 200,000 messages have been sent to participating artists.

All artwork submitted will be presented online prior to the exhibition so visitors may help select which artists will be included in the exhibition. Unlike other juried exhibitions, all participants receive exposure.

Opens: Jan 1, 2009.
Public Jury: Dec 15, 2008 - Dec 29, 2008
Deadline: Dec 1, 2008.


Go to http://www.projekt30.com for more details.


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About PROJEKT30:

PROJEKT30 is an artist run arts organization. Our mission is to expose artists to "brick and mortar" galleries interested in presenting their work, private collectors, patrons, or even simply just art lovers. All of our exhibitions are "publicly juried", meaning that site visitors construct the final exhibition by rating the artworks merit. Via this system we are helping shape the art world of the twenty-first century, and endeavoring to encourage broader public interest in the fine arts.

Frist Center - free admission on Thursday and Friday evenings 5-9pm til end of 2008

Now through the end of the year, the Frist Center is offering FREE admission on Thursday and Friday evenings from 5:00 to 9:00 p.m. and 15% off all purchases in the gift shop on those evenings.

Holiday

• The Frist Center will be closed on Thanksgiving Day
• Kids Club will not meet on Saturday, November 29 because of the holiday weekend.
  

Dogwood Arts Festival Juried 2009 Regional Fine Arts Exhibit. Deadline: Feb 20, 09

The Dogwood Arts Festival announces a call to artists for the 2009 Regional Fine Arts Exhibit. There are exciting new changes for the 2009 Exhibition. The first change is in the name itself. The call for art will no longer be confined to the Knoxville area only, but will branch out into a 300 mile radius in order to represent a more widespread overview of the most dynamic work in all genres of art, sculpture, and photography in this region. The submission process has also changed. In the past, artists had one day to drop their work off at the gallery location for the jurying process. This method has been updated to the current national standard method of sending jpg images on CD into the Dogwood Arts Festival offices. The prospectus and submission form will be available for download at www.dogwoodarts.com, or artists may request one to be mailed by calling the Dogwood Arts offices at 865-637-4561.

This year’s juror is Karlota I. Contreras-Koterbay, Director of Slocumb Galleries at East Tennessee State University in Johnson City. Both a university gallery director and curator, Contreras-Koterbay has organized numerous exhibits both nationally and abroad, and has lectured in the Phillippines, Japan, Brazil, Canada, and the United States. She will be selecting the work to be shown as well as choosing the recipients for 5 awards totaling $4,000.00.

The 2009 exhibit will also be housed in an elegant new location at 128 South Gay Street, the site of 2006’s international Body Sacred fundraising exhibit for the Susan G. Komer Breast Cancer Foundation. In addition to the exhibit’s Grand Opening to the public that will occur on April’s First Friday Downtown Gallery Walk, there will be ticketed Dogwood Gala preview party the night before featuring the Regional Fine Arts Exhibition, opportunity to meet many of the artists, lavishly catered food, live music, and a tour of the spectacular three story loft residence. The exhibit will run longer than it has in the past, from April 2-25, and will include artist demonstrations and a fundraising art raffle.

The hours of the exhibit will be 10:00 AM- 5:00 PM Wed. – Sat.

For more information contact Denise Sanabria at 384-5272 or fineart@dogwoodarts.com Deadline for submission will be Feb. 20, 2009.

Untitled Winter Show 2008 - Call for artists

CALL FOR ARTISTS - ALL LEVELS, ALL MEDIA, ALL WELCOME

UNTITLED WINTER SHOW 2008: ABOMINABLE ART SHOW

Friday December 12, 2008; 6-10pm
One Night Only
Free to attend, Free to participate.

Dates & Deadlines:

PRESS IMAGES DEADLINE: Thursday Nov 13
REGISTRATION BEGINS: Monday, Nov 17
PAY: NO FEE FOR THIS SHOW!!!
Donate by these dates: at or before Dec 3 meeting
or postmarked by Friday, Dec 5
or online by Sunday, Dec 7
REGISTER: by Sunday, Dec 7 - midnight
DROP-OFF: Wednesday, Dec 10; 6-7:30pm @ VENUE
INSTALLATION: Thursday, Dec 11; 9am - 7pm
SHOW: Friday, Dec 12; 6-10pm
CLEAN-UP: Saturday, Dec 13; 10am - 1pm
(times subject to change)

FOR MORE INFO AND TO REGISTER:
http://www.untitlednashville.org/abominable/artists.htm

FOR MORE INFO ABOUT SHOWING WITH UNTITLED:
http://untitlednashville.org/getinvolved.htm

Untitled Artists Group
www.untitlednashville.org
info@untitlednashville.org

Studio space for rent in Murfreesboro

Studio space for rent in Murfreesboro
Please contact Robert Vore at: Robertvore@comcast.net or 615-907-3262

New gallery in Watertown TN looking for fellow artists

New gallery open, named The Guild: a gallery of fine craft, in Susan Thornton's new metals studio in Watertown TN.

-looking for fellow artists to have work in the space.
-open Wed thru Sat 10am to 5pm at 101 West Main Street in Watertown.
-looking for things for the home, bath/body and accessories, hats, scarves and such; also have wall space and would love some 2D work as well.
-payment breakdown is 60/40 with 60% paid to the artist.
-pay by the 10th of the month.

Email with images of work.
thorntonmetals@gmail.com

TNVLA Presents:STARTING A NONPROFIT ARTS ORGANIZATION: Dec 9 2008

TNVLA Presents:
STARTING A NONPROFIT ARTS ORGANIZATION: INCORPORATION & THE TAX EXEMPT APPLICATION PROCESS (CLE Approved)
Date: Tues., Dec. 9th, 2008
Time: 12:00-1:30p.m. ("Brown-bag" Lunch Style)
Co-Sponsor/Location: W.O. Smith School of Music (1125 8th Ave. S.)

This seminar will discuss:

• Whether your idea requires you to start a new organization or whether you could better accomplish your goals by partnering with an existing nonprofit organization;
• The pros and cons of incorporation;
• The challenges of administrating, funding and sustaining a new nonprofit organization; and
• The timeline and steps involved in the process to obtain tax exempt status.

Presented by Rob Pinson, a TNVLA volunteer lawyer from Bone, McAllester, Norton. This seminar is FREE and open to the public. However, if you plan on attending, you must RSVP to info@tnvla.org by Mon., Dec. 8th. There is a fee for lawyers seeking CLE credit: $35 for TNVLA Member Lawyers; $50 Non-Members (for 1.5 hours CLE credit).

Attendance by a representative of the organization is a prerequisite for seeking assistance from a TNVLA volunteer lawyer with the application for recognition of tax exempt status with the IRS.

TNVLA Presents: GALLERY RELATIONSHIPS: A LEGAL OVERVIEW FOR VISUAL ARTISTS: Dec 4

TNVLA Presents:
GALLERY RELATIONSHIPS: A LEGAL OVERVIEW FOR VISUAL ARTISTS (CLE Approved)
Date: Thurs., Dec. 4th, 2008
Time: 5:00-6:30p.m.
Co-Sponsor/Location: Frist Center for the Visual Arts (919 Broadway)

Mary Neil Price, a TNVLA volunteer lawyer from Miller & Martin, will discuss legal issues artists should consider when showing with a gallery, including the nature of the artist-gallery relationship, inventorying artwork and consignment agreements. This program is a must for every visual artist!

Stay after the program to visit the Frist Center galleries. The Frist is graciously providing complimentary admission (and free parking) for seminar attendees! This program is free and open to the public. However, if you would like to attend, you must RSVP to info@tnvla.org by Wed., Dec. 3rd. There is a fee for lawyers seeking CLE credit: $35 for TNVLA Member Lawyers; $50 Non-Members (for 1.5 hours CLE credit).

Stones River Craft Association's "Studio Tour": Nov 22, 23 2008

The Studio Tour, a visual arts event of fine craftsmanship

and design taking place in and about Murfreesboro,

Tennessee November 22 & 23 2008

CONTACT:
Stones River Crafts Association
P.O. Box 11566
Murfreesboro, TN 37129-0031

A CELEBRATION OF THE EXTRAORDINARY

MURFREESBORO, TN – Extraordinary is a good description for the Stones River Craft Association's, "Studio Tour" celebrating its 15th year in Murfreesboro and Rutherford County. On November 22 and 23 nine studios and studio/galleries with the addition of guest artists will be open, available, and free to the public. In total, approximately 30 artists will be on hand displaying and demonstrating their work.

The Studio Tour showcases local and Tennessee produced, professional works of art that display some of the finest artistry and craftsmanship in our region. Functional and decorative pieces in many forms for use indoors and out will be available; and the processes for creating jewelry, pottery, sculpture, stained glass and wood will be among the work demonstrated at each of the participating studios.

The Studio Tour hours are 10 am – 5 pm Saturday and Sunday.

This year stops include: Appalachian Life Workshops, Brown View Forge, Juliano Studio, Norris Hall Studio & Gallery, Popcorn Studio Pottery, Ramsey Hall Studio, Southern Stained Glass, Studio J and Studio S Pottery & Galleries.

For more information write: SRCA, P.O. Box 11566, Murfreesboro, TN 37129-0031 or call: 615-848-1079. The website for more information and a map of tour locations is; www.ArtStudioTour.org.

Stones River Crafts Association – P.O. Box 11566 – Murfreesboro, TN 37129-0031 – (615)848-1079

Frist Center Podcasts

http://www.fristcenter.org/site/podcasts/

Adult Sculpture Workshop @ Frist: Nov 22 2008: Registration required

Adult Sculpture Workshop
Saturday, November 22, 10:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m.
Frist Center Studios, Registration required

Instructor Connie Pirtle will teach a workshop in which participants will learn about sculpture casting techniques used by Rodin and other sculptors throughout history. Following this, participants will create individual projects cast in pewter.

Location: Frist Center Studios
$50 for members; $60 for non-members
Call 615.744.3247 to register for this workshop

Paint Made Flesh Symposium @ Frist: January 2009: Registration required

Paint Made Flesh Symposium
January 23-24, 2009
Auditorium, Registration required. Call 615.744.3247

The Frist Center for the Visual Arts will host a major symposium January 23–24, 2009, in conjunction with the exhibition Paint Made Flesh, a revisionist study of post-World War II art.

The exhibition offers a rejoinder to the modernist orthodoxies of the period by contending that paint’s material properties make it most suited to convey metaphors for human vulnerability. The exhibition includes works by Pablo Picasso, Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, Willem de Kooning, Alice Neel, Leon Golub, Philip Guston, Eric Fischl, Georg Baselitz, Jenny Saville, Wangechi Mutu, John Currin, Daniel Richter, and others.

The symposium will offer compelling conversation about the role of figure painting as it has defined psychological and socio-historical conditions in Europe and the United States since World War II.


Paint Made Flesh Symposium Schedule and Presentation Descriptions

Friday, January 23, 2009

5:00–6:30 p.m.
Registration and reception

6:30–7:30 p.m.
Keynote Presentation
John Elderfield, chief curator emeritus of painting and sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art “Painting Flesh and the Part That Governs”

This lecture will address the relationship of paint and bodily representation in critical examples drawn from the classical modernist art of the mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries—from Edouard Manet to Willem de Kooning. Among other topics, John Elderfield will explore how the manner in which flesh is painted reflects the status of the hedonism that accompanied the foundation of modernism.

The title of the lecture derives from the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius: “This Being of mine, whatever it really is, consists of a little flesh, a little breath, and the part that governs.”

Saturday, January 24, 2009

8:00–9:00 a.m.
Registration and continental breakfast

9:00–9:15 a.m.
Introduction by Mark Scala

9:15–9:30 a.m.
Susan Edwards, executive director and CEO of the Frist Center
“The Influence of Anxiety: Painting the Figure in Cold War America”

Susan Edwards will speak on the persistence of figurative painting in American Art from 1947 through 1989. During the period of the Cold War, American art practice, including production as well as critical and commercial reception, was dominated by formal aesthetics. Abstract painting was touted by some as the only relevant avenue for the medium. Dr. Edwards will discuss the enduring viability of alternative paths and how artists working against the grain did so with anxious commitments to their own individual voices.

9:45–10:15 a.m.
Emily Braun, distinguished professor, Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University New York
“Skinning the Paint”

For more than three generations, from Francis Bacon to Jenny Saville, British painters have been obsessed with analogies between the painted surface and carnality. Dr. Braun will consider the ways in which the images of these artists are neither humanistic in the traditional sense of treating the body as whole and perfect, nor inhumane in the sense of casting a purely clinical eye. Instead their works are filled with an often violent, if piercing, lyricism—the result of viewing and sensing the body from new, unorthodox perspectives.

10:15–10:30 a.m.
Break

10:30–11:00 a.m.
Richard Shiff, Effie Marie Cain Regents Chair in art history and director, Center for the Study of Modernism at the University of Texas-Austin
“Drawn on the Body”

During times of political insecurity and moral ambiguity, the hard fact of material, corporeal presence can be affirming and assuring. Visual artists of the twentieth century have been appreciated for establishing a material ground for cultural practice, if only because the traditional pictorial arts such as painting— handmade and labor intensive—engage the body directly and intimately. The depicted subject of painting is often the human body itself. More importantly, the painter’s own body becomes the indexical origin of whatever he or she represents (sometimes with ironies added). Richard Shiff’s presentation will explore the link between painting and corporeality with an emphasis on German art of the postwar generation that includes examples from older Europeans as well as from younger ones.

11:00–11:30 a.m.
Mark Scala, chief curator of the Frist Center
“Fragmentation and Reconstitution in Contemporary Painting”

Mark Scala will propose that works by certain contemporary painters convey historical situations in which the homogenizing forces of economics, communications, and technology are fragmented by compulsions to define the self in terms of nationality, ethnicity, religion, or political viewpoint. In depicting the body as fleshless or in a state of transformation, these artists remind us that the individual is inseparable from the larger “body” of society, with all its splits, seams, and shifting moods and values. If such works mirror a condition of entropy, do they also offer a way of restructuring the self to adapt to change?

11:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
Question and answer period

12:00–1:00 p.m.
Lunch

1:00 p.m.–2:00 p.m.
Eric Fischl, figurative artist
“Painting is Dead”

Eric Fischl will discuss the disappearance of the body from painting and sculpture using two key points as markers in the development of modernism: Vincent van Gogh cutting the lobe of his ear off and one hundred years later, the American performance artist Chris Burden having himself shot.

2:00–3:00 p.m.
Michael Bess, chancellor's professor of history at Vanderbilt University
“Networked Bodies, Sculpted Minds: The Future of Human Biological Enhancement”

Michael Bess, who has written and lectured on the social and cultural impacts of technological advances in medicine, genetics, and prosthetics, will address the potential for the wholesale reconstruction of human identity in the next century.

3:00–3:30 p.m.
Closing remarks


To register, please send in the Paint Made Flesh Symposium Registration Form or call 615.744.3247.

State of the Art Lecture: Dawoud Bey—Representing the Human Subject @ Frist: Dec 4 2008: Free

State of the Art Lecture: Dawoud Bey—Representing the Human Subject
Thursday, December 4, 6:30 p.m.
Auditorium, FREE

The State of the Art lecture series focuses on issues in the contemporary art world and feature presentations by nationally and internationally renowned authorities.

This lecture coincides with an exhibition on view at the Frist Center: The Best of Photography and Film from the George Eastman House Collection, which features more than 200 iconic photographs, films and film-related materials selected from the world-renowned collection of George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film in Rochester, New York.

Dawoud Bey began his career as a photographer in 1975 with a series of photographs, Harlem, USA, that were later exhibited in his first one-person exhibition at the Studio Museum in Harlem in 1979. He has since had numerous exhibitions worldwide, at such institutions as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, National Portrait Gallery (London), and the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York), where his works were also included in the 2000 Whitney Biennial. The Walker Art Center (location) organized a mid-career survey of his work in 1995 that traveled to institutions throughout the United States and Europe. A major publication, “Dawoud Bey: Portraits, 1975-1995,” was published in conjunction with the exhibition.

Bey’s works are included in the permanent collections of numerous museums, including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Brooklyn Museum, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the High Museum of Art (Atlanta, Ga.), Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago), National Portrait Gallery (London), Whitney Museum of American Art (New York) and many others. He has received numerous awards and fellowships over the course of his career including fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Bey has taught at colleges, universities, and other institutions for the past 30 years, and is currently professor of photography at Columbia College Chicago. He received his Master of Fine Arts degree from Yale University School of Art, and is presently represented in the United States by Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago.

Photography Lecture Series @ Frist: Nov & Dec 2008: Free

Photography Lecture Series
Thursdays, November 6, 20 & December 11, 6:30 p.m.
Auditorium, FREE

The Frist Center is pleased to present a special three-part photography lecture series, featuring expert speakers who will each address a different aspect of the medium. The series is presented in conjunction with the current exhibition, The Best of Photography and Film From the George Eastman House Collection. The series is free to the public.

Thursday, November 20
Photography Lecture Series, Part II
“Is the Medium the Message?”

In 1964, Marshall McLuhan declared that the “medium is the message.” Susan H. Edwards, Ph.D., executive director and CEO of the Frist Center and photography scholar, examines his claims in the context of the history of photography. She discusses how images produced by photochemical processes immediately altered perceptions of time and space. Her talk confirms that the medium of photography changed the course of police work, medicine, journalism, the visual arts and material culture. In the digital age, even the social consequences of photography are changing. What is the message of this medium? How is the digital divide changing society?


Thursday, December 11
Photography Lecture Series, Part III
“Civil War Photography”

Guest speaker Brooks Johnson, consultant to the Chrysler Museum of Art (Norfolk, Va.), explores the work of photographers of the Civil War and iconic photographs on view in The Best of Photography and Film from the George Eastman House Collection. In addition, he explains the various photographic techniques used during this time period.

Artist's Forum @ Frist: Vanderbilt Student Panel: Free

Artist's Forum
Friday, December 12, 6:30 p.m.
Rechter Room, FREE

Artists Forum gives local and regional emerging and recognized artists an opportunity to discuss the thoughts and processes behind their work.

Friday, December 12—Special Student Edition
Featured artists: panel of art students from Vanderbilt University