| BENIGN GIRL
AND BIRTHDAY BOY
So the whole
Benign Girl thing resonates. Several readers wrote to say they had bought a
Benign Girl on Ebay and when I checked, Benign Girls were scarce and Benign Girl
futures were up. I bought 2 but they were both on the red background. It seems I
gave away the only pink background one and so now I am plotting to get it
back.
Then boingboing.net posted a link to my Benign tale and from there
my link was posted on a lot of other blogs and sites like thefword.org.uk and
lightningfield.com. This caused 6234 unique hits on the BG newsletter posted on
my site so Benign Girl is indeed special, in her own harmless way.
And today is
Jamoka's birthday. He is 8. That makes him like 6234 or 50 or something in
people years. I got him his own Benign Girl and also bought him the domain
benigngirl.com for his birthday where perhaps he will post pics from his
squirrel cam.
Jamoka also got a cat suit for Halloween wear, a rawhide
bone shaped like the Leaning Tower of Pisa, a hairnet and a wicked cool
sweatband.
HILARY
BARBER AT THE HENION BAKERY IN AMHERST June 9
through July 24
Hilary
Barber will be exhibiting photographs of local and South Florida wildlife
and landscapes at the Henion Bakery,174 North Pleasant Street in Amherst
from June 9 through July 24.
NORTHAMPTON'S ARTS NIGHT OUT July 14, 5 -
8 pm
 Coming Up
On July 14 Visit 22 galleries, shops and Pulaski Park between 5 and 8 p.m.
Northampton continues its Arts Night Out program Friday, July 14,
from 5 to 8 p.m. (unless the duration is otherwise noted in individual listings
below), offering open galleries at 22 locations, all within a short walk in the
city's downtown area. The event is organized by participating art and craft
organizations and the Greater Northampton Chamber of Commerce, and is sponsored
by the Northampton Cooperative Bank, 93.9 (The River), and the Valley
Advocate.
Highlighted in July are several galleries: ~~The
Oxbow Gallery, 275 Pleasant Street, will feature the work of several artists
who are joining the gallery’s roster. New to the gallery are: figurative painter
and portraitist Sarah Belchetz- Swenson; Lydia Nettler, who creates
site-specific installations of charcoal drawing and paper mache relief and
structures; Harriet Diamond, who calls her new work “mini-installation,”
explores whole scenes of human activity; Lindsay Fogg-Willits combines images
from the human body, the natural world and her day-to-day life to create unusual
environments that tell personal stories. Other artists new to the gallery whose
work will be in the June exhibit are: Judith Mann, David Rohn, Jason Lacroix,
Margaret McCann and Phil Lawrence.
~~The Old Courthouse Gallery, 99
Main Street, offers “Off the Beaten Path,” fine art photographs by Robert
Floyd of Southampton. Mostly color with some black and white, the exhibition
features photographs from Floyd’s travels through the Northeast. A working
photojournalist for more than 20 years, Floyd has seized the photographic moment
over time—from fireworks to baby belugas— for himself and his
clients.
~~At Alfredo's Gallery, 6 Crafts Avenue, you will find
the work of Len Seeve with an exhibit entitled "Altered Reality," an eclectic
collection of photographs.
~~The Northampton Pottery invites you
to its new gallery space across the hall from the current studio downstairs at
102 Main Street. Always on display is beautiful, locally made pottery, with a
larger selection in the weeks and months to come.
~~APE Art, Thornes
Marketplace, third floor, 150 Main Street, presents "Disparate-Difference in
Kind: A Collective Showing," including paintings, illustrations, photography and
conceptual sculpture by area artists Rick Beaupre, Devin Koller, Hillary Milens,
Angela Simpson and Caitlin Waugh.
~~The Center for the Arts, 17 New
South Street, third floor, will feature “Works on Paper,” a juried show of
photographs, watercolors, prints, drawings and mixed-media, by 11 local artists.
Participating artists are: Karen Alstadt, Ellen Augarten, Elizabeth Bannish,
Annaliese Bischoff, Elizabeth Diamond, Taiga Ermansons, Carolyn Horan, Rhoda
Juels, Ronald Juels, Rachel Lepine, Burns Maxey and Paul Root. On Arts Night
Out, the first- place prize will be awarded to the winning artist during the 5
to 7 p.m. reception.
~~The Smith College Museum of Art, Elm
Street, presents “Second Fridays,” a free art experience for all ages, from
4 to 8 p.m. The museum's new "Artists on Art" series continues with an informal
gallery talk by local artist Taiga Ermansons at 6 p.m.—a half hour presentation
on a few of her favorite works in the museum's collection. Taiga will also show
visitors how to select—from the museum's collection of 18,000 original works on
paper— a drawing, print or photograph for personal viewing.
~~Over the
summer, an added attraction to the Northampton art scene will be the
community-based art installation being developed by artist Lara Lepionka in
Pulaski Park, Main Street. “Hidden Value” traces the impact of five
“everyday” citizens in our community with groupings of physical elements related
to each person’s profession. The elements in each grouping will be
embellished—engraved, silk- screened, embroidered, etc.—with text and data on
how an individual has served the community. Obviously, the viewing of this
public art (which is supported by the Northampton Arts Council) is not
restricted to Arts Night Out, but remember to make it a stop on your July 14 ANO
route.
Participating arts venues are: Alfredo’s; APE Third Floor Arts;
Artisan Gallery; Chameleon’s; Claytopia; Don Muller Gallery; Guild Art Supply;
KTWO NOHO; LLC; R. Michelson Galleries; Multi-Arts Gallery; Northampton Center
for the Arts; Northampton Pottery; Old Court House Gallery; Oxbow Gallery;
Pinch; Scandihoovians. com; Silverscape Designs; Skera; Smith College Museum of
Art; Ta Yu Gallery; Watkins Gallery; and William Baczek Fine Arts.
Arts
Night Out takes place, rain or shine, on the second Friday of each month
year-round. Admission is free, and free parking is available at the Smith
College parking garage on West Street (Route 66). Flyers, including a map and
description of participating galleries, studios and shops, are available at Arts
Night Out locations and the Chamber of Commerce, 99 Pleasant Street. There will
be entertainment and refreshments at many venues. Take a walk and see the (arts)
sights in Northampton.
CONTEMPORARY
SCULPTURE AT CHESTERWOOD Including
our Peter Dellert of Holyoke
 Contemporary
Sculpture at Chesterwood is on view through Columbus Day. Walking tours of the
exhibit on Fridays at 1:00 p.m. beginning June 30 and running through
August.
The guest curator of this year's exhibition is Sharon Bates,
visual artist, and curator and founding Director of the Albany International
Airport Art & Culture Program. Bates organizes rotating exhibitions,
site-specific sculpture projects, and satellite museum exhibitions that showcase
regional artists and cultural institutions in the Albany International Airport
Gallery and throughout the terminal.
MUSEUM HOURS
May
22-October 15, 2006, 10:00 am - 5:00 pm Six Guided Tours throughout the day:
10:30, 11:30, 12:30, 1:30, 2:30, 3:30
Early closing at 4:00 p.m. on Saturday,
September 2, 2006
Artist work
included in this years exhibition: William R. Bergman, Paige Bradley, Rick
Brown, Ben Butler, Peter
Dellert, Anthony H. Garner, Richard Garrison, Alexander Graham, Lucy
Hodgson, Gwendolyn Holbrow, Ann Jon, Paul Katz, R. Elliott Katz, Jim Lewis, Paul
Mauren, Lillian Mulero, Amy Podmore, Michael Rivera, John Ruppert, Stacy Latt
Savage, Leon Smith, Eric Stein, Gampo Wickenheiser.
GOOD NEWS
FROM MAASH and clicks
needed.
MAASH
Action Alert:
Send an E-Mail or Call Governor Romney Today!
Support $12.1 Million in Cultural Funding for FY 07
Dear Friends,
On Friday afternoon, the Massachusetts House and Senate approved the
FY 07 state budget, including $12,093,520 in funding for the Massachusetts
Cultural Council in FY 07, a $2.45 million increase over last year. This is
a huge victory for the cultural community.
The budget is now on the
Governor’s desk awaiting his signature or veto.
Now is the time to
contact the Governor and Lt. Governor to ask for their support of this critical
investment in the arts, sciences, and humanities. Please send an e-mail by
clicking on this link or pasting into your browser:
http://cap
wiz.com/artsusa/ma/issues/alert/?
alertid=8892996&type=SW&show_alert=1
Please add your own
views on state cultural funding and how it helps your community. (If link is
inactive, please paste it into your browser.)
And then telephone the
Governor’s office toll free (888) 870-7770 to ask for his support again. (617-
725-4005 in Boston).
Thank you for your timely advocacy.
Dan
Hunter
Executive Director
Massachusetts Advocates for the Arts, Sciences,
& Humanities (MAASH)
WORKS ON
PAPER BY ELEVEN LOCAL ARTISTS July 6
through August 4
WORKS ON
PAPER BY ELEVEN LOCAL ARTISTS IN JURIED SHOW AT THE CENTER FOR THE
ARTS
NORTHAMPTON, MA —“Works on Paper,” a juried show of photographs,
watercolors, prints, drawings and mixed-media, by 11 local artists, will be
featured from July 6 through August 4 in the galleries at The Northampton
Center for the Arts.
Participating artists are: Karen Alstadt, Ellen
Augarten, Elizabeth Bannish, Elizabeth Diamond, Taiga Ermansons, Carolyn Horan,
Rhoda Juels, Ronald Juels, Rachel Lepine, Paul Root and Burns Maxey.
Galleries are open Tuesday through Friday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. with an
artists’ reception that coincides with Northampton’s Arts Night Out on
Friday, July 14, from 5 to 7 p.m. The first-place prize will be awarded to
the winning artist during the reception.
The Northampton Center for the
Arts is located on the third floor at 17 New South Street, opposite the Academy
of Music.
INSPIRED ART
FAIR, LONDON, UK Call for
Artists: Due September 19, 2006
 "Call for
Artists: One Last Chance to Submit"
2006-06-19 until 2006-09-19
Inspired
Art Fair
London, , UK United Kingdom
Haven't submitted to Inspired
Art Fair 2006 yet? Well here's one last chance as we are opening an extra
submission period from 19 June -18 September 2006. With the Whitechapel as
our chosen charity for this our fourth annual fair, Inspired Art Fair 2006 will
be taking place in the magnificent Christchurch, opposite Spitalfields Market
E1, from 8 - 12 November. The Inspired Art Fair (IAF) is a launch pad for
emerging independent contemporary artists. Our selection committee changes with
each display to ensure that IAF reflects the most innovative talents in the
visual art world. For 2006 our committee is Susan Brades (Ex Director Hayward
Gallery), Kirsten Dunne (Arts Council) and Jo George (Managing Director IAF).
The IAF has showcased over 180 emerging contemporary photographers,
painters, sculptors, drawers and digital artists from all over the world. To
review our artists have a look on www.inspiredartfair.com
Here's what artist Ben Mosley has to say about last year's fair-
"I have excelled this year due to being included in IAF 05. I have had a
commission, and a solo exhibition at Gallery 93 in London, which was televised
on MTV's Base, on Trevor Nelson's show 'The Lick'. They also interviewed me as
well!! An agent has shown a lot of interest in my work, which looks to be very
promising. I can't thank you enough for accepting me because without that chance
this would never have happened to me."
For details on why and how to
apply go to:-
http://www.inspiredartfair.com/artists/why.php
and http://www.inspiredartfair.com/artists/how.php
Myriam Cyr
to speak at Leverett Library July 11
7:00
Myriam
Cyr to speak at Leverett Library Tuesday July 11 7:00 on her book
-
LETTERS OF A PORTUGUESE NUN
Uncovering the Mystery
Behind a 17th Century Forbidden Love
BY MYRIAM CYR
"The
story is fascinating- It's clear that Cyr did extensive research- her account is
compelling and plausible."
—Publishers Weeekly
"An
empathetic look at the most controversial epistles in European history- Cyr
argues at length for the former position, marshalling both scholarship and
imagination to recreate the 17th-century world where the drama around the
letters took place. Pulp romance for the Masterpiece Theater set."
—Kirkus Reviews
Five love
letters have intrigued and inspired writers and artists for centuries--from them
come the Dangerous Liaisons, Richardson's Clarissa and Elizabeth Barrett
Browning's Sonnets from the Portuguese. Braque and Modigliani have tried to
imagine her. Debated by historians and literary scholars, the letters have
shuttled between being claimed fiction or fact. Who was their author? A French
courtier intent on making a name for himself? Or were they the words of a young
Portuguese nun whose affair with a French officer ended with his departure and
her abandonment?
EASTHAMPTON
CITY ARTS WANTS YOU If you are
an Easthamptonite
 Call for
Artists in Easthampton
If you are an artist/musician/writer/film
artist/dancer/arts organization, etc, living or working in Easthampton, MA, you
are invited to join the Easthamptoncityarts.com
website. Members can create a personal web page with up to five images and one
audio sample, list events on the master calendar, be included in a high quality
printed directory, and more! Visit the site and check out the quickly growing
member list. Don't get left out! See a recent article from the Republican: http://www.masslive.com/search/index.ssf?/ba
se/news-5/115096232785780.xml?nnhf
The Easthampton City Arts website
is dedicated to promoting the artists and arts organizations of Easthampton,
Massachusetts. By creating a comprehensive and dynamic platform showing the
depth and creativity of the arts, artists and art related businesses have the
opportunity to showcase and market their work, and the public has the
opportunity to discover emerging and established artists. In addition, the
website introduces the visitor to the many other attractions within Easthampton:
its diversity of shops, restaurants, cultural resources, and recreational
offerings.
If you'd like to join Easthampton City Arts, just click the
'Apply' button on the home page to fill out an online membership application. Be
sure to check out the eligibility and requirements section too. You must
complete the entire profile AND upload images before your member page can be
approved and listed live on the site. For questions contact
info@easthamptoncityarts.com. Thanks, and looking forward to seeing everyone
there!!
NEW ENGLAND
WATERSHED MAGAZINE Arts &
Culture and you?
 New
England Watershed Magazine
"New England Watershed's essays, articles,
photographs and artwork examines issues particular to life within the
Connecticut River watershed. But our regional identity is just one aspect of our
involvement with the world. New England Watershed explores the crucial dividing
points or lines of our times, articulating what it is to be American, in all its
complexity.
Russell Powell, editor and publisher
FAB DEAL!
APT NOW! (<--yes. apt.)
As a Mo better Living subscriber you
can subscribe for a 33% discount off the newsstand price ($31.95 rather than
$47.70) by replying to this email with your name and mailing address and you
will be invoiced.
And it's a write-off of course.
On the NEW
site you can also submit art and poetry for consideration. And as of last
week I am the acting Art Editor and am building a database of artwork for
possible use in future publications.
To submit artwork you can either
send a cd of images to: Mo Ringey
PO BOX 6109
Holyoke, MA
01041-6109
OR you can email images. BUT, if you decide to email images
please keep them to 500 pixels high by whatever size that means for the
width at 72 DPI. If we can use your art in a future issue I will request a
higher resolution image at that time.
Please don't crash my server with
giant, malignant images.
Thanks! ~Mo
BLUE MAN
GROUP & YOU Call for
Massachusetts Artists
 CALL TO
MASSACHUSETTS ARTISTS
FOURTH ANNUAL VORTEX: A JURIED EXHIBITION HOSTED BY
BLUE MAN GROUP AT THE CHARLES PLAYHOUSE
Deadline for Submissions is October
2, 2006
Vortex 2006: A Juried Art Exhibition hosted by Blue Man Group
at the Charles Playhouse, challenges Massachusetts artists to submit original
and inspirational work that explores the role Interconnectivity plays in
art.
The Blue Men--who come from the part of us that wants to express
creativity, innovation, and humor--invite all artists to examine, through their
artwork, the dynamics of Interconnectivity in their shared
communities
This year's exhibition will be juried by Nora Donnelly,
Senior Registrar at Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art, Ricardo D. Barreto,
Director of UrbanArts Institute at MassArt, Chris McCarthy, director of the
Provincetown Art Association and Museum as well as an artist representative from
the Blue Man Group Boston creative community. Deadline for submissions is
October 2, 2006.
Blue Man Group will accept artwork in two age
divisions: 12 - 17 years old and 18 + years old. In the 18+ division, four
selected artists' work will be on exhibit in The Charles Playhouse lobby for up
to one year. In addition, the selected artists in the 18 + division will receive
cash prizes ($2500 Grand Prize, $1000 Second, $500 each for Third and Fourth).
In the 12 - 17 years old division, the Grand Prize recipient will receive up to
$500 tuition reimbursement to art classes of their choice. Each selected artist
in the 12 - 17 years old division will receive up to $100 worth of art supplies
for their school and have their artwork displayed at the Boston Children's
Museum. Selected artist's work will be unveiled at a special event currently
scheduled for October 2006.
For submission guidelines (acceptable medium
and dimensions), instructions and downloadable entry form go to www.bluema
n.com/vortex. For questions call 617-542-6700 x12.
NEW PLAY BY
LOCAL PLAYWRIGHTS Santacide
(clearly not a benign play)
 NEW PLAY
BY LOCAL PLAYWRIGHTS
Northampton, MA-- Rhymes With Orange cartoonist
Hilary Price and 93.9 WRSI DJ Kelsey Flynn create an evening of
drama and comedy with an onstage reading of their new play "Santacide" on
Monday, July 31 at Theater 14 in The Mendenhall Center for the Perfoming Arts at
Smith College.
"Santacide"
is a drawing room comedy about a mother/son detective team at the North
Pole investigating Santa's murder. They encounter a dysfunctional family of
sorts - a vampy Mrs. Claus, an incompetent elf, a frustrated mailman, a mute
stable girl - all with good reasons to take Santa out. The event is a unique
opportunity for the community to participate in the creation and development of
a farce/murder mystery. There will be an audience-wide discussion led by local
playwright and teacher Phil O'Donoghue after the performance to help refine the
play for later full stage production. The reading will feature members of the
local improv group the Villa Jidiots and New Century Theater favorites Van
Farrier and Jeannine Haas.
Tickets are $7 at the door. Performance begins
at 7 pm. Show is at Theater 14, Mendenhall Center For the Performing Arts, Green
St., Smith College Campus, Northampton.
For more information about
Santacide, please contact: Hilary
Price
413-586-0223
pricehilary@yahoo.com or
Kelsey
Flynn
413-250-6464
kelseyaflynn@gmail.com
For more details go to http://www.santa
cide.com
This program is supported in part by a grant from the
Northampton Arts Council.
THE GLASS
MENAGERIE July 6-16,
at Theatre 14, Smith College
 New
Century Theatre Presents
"The Glass Menagerie"
July 6-16, at Theatre
14, Smith College
When Sam Rush, New Century Theatre’s Producing
Director, started casting “The Glass Menagerie” with an all African-American
cast, he knew he had made the right choice for this production. “Williams has
written such a poetic play,” says Rush. “The trouble is that we have become a
bit desensitized to its power because we have heard it so often in a traditional
way. As Director Gilbert McCauley and I were auditioning actors, I found myself
hearing this play read in a voice and spirit that was new and fresh. I was
hearing the play as if it were the first time. I think audiences will experience
the play through this new voice, as I do.”
“The Glass Menagerie” is a
portrait of a family in crisis, one in which lost dreams and family myths drive
Amanda Wingfield, now a faded beauty, into a frenzy to marry off Laura, her
disabled and socially unskilled daughter. The urgency is to have Laura wed
before it is too late. Laura’s reticence to meet gentlemen callers, pushes
Amanda to force her son, Tom, to bring home a potential suitor. It ends with
shattered illusions for all.
Framing “The Glass Menagerie” with this
choice of casting provides a new and fresh lens through which to filter the
play. This lens brings a portrait of a world—despite the lemonade and lace—that
is not relegated to a dying culture of the old South, but rather to the ethnic
and racial experience that give this production a timeless, universal
relevance.
Featured in the cast are returning NCT actors Joan Valentina
(“Bee-Luther-Hatchee”) and Nikiya Mathis (“Crumbs from the Table of
Joy”).
“The Glass Menagerie” will run for 10 performances from July 6-16,
all performances are presented in Theatre 14, in the Mendenhall Center for the
Performing Arts at Smith College, Green Street, Northampton. Performances are
Tuesday-Thursday at 7:30 p.m.; Friday-Saturday at 8 p.m.; and Sunday at 2 p.m.
Reserved seating: $28; $26 for seniors. Student RUSH tickets, same day and only
at the door. Season sponsor: WFCR-Public Radio for Western New England;
Production sponsor: Florence Savings Bank.
For more information and
ticket reservations for this and all other plays this season, call (413)
585-3220 OR VISIT
OUR WEB SITE
GIRL HOWDY
IN JULY naturally
 July 13 -
Thursday
Elm Park, Worcester, MA
6:30 - 8:30pm
Admission
Free
The park is at the corner of Park Ave and Highland Street
As
Rt. 9 takes a turn at this intersection, two sides of the park are on Rt.
9
July 14, 15 - Friday & Saturday
Grey Fox Bluegrass
Festival
Takes place on the Rothvoss Farm
East Ancram Road, Ancramdale,
NY 12503
The farm is located just off NY Route 22, 8 miles south of
Hillsdale, NY
Girl Howdy performing in the dance tent:
Fri 2:30 - 4:30pm,
Sat 5pm - 7pm
www.greyfo
xbluegrass.com
"Call for
Artists: Myndos International Art Workshops II" Istanbul
Contemporary Art Museum
 "Call for
Artists: Myndos International Art Workshops II"
2006-07-05 until 2006-07-31
Istanbul Contemporary Art Museum
Istanbul, , TR Turkey
August
2006, Gumusluk Akademy, Bodrum, Turkey. Team: Andy Deck (USA), Reuben De
Lautour (New Zeland), Catharina Mueller, Marcus Graf (Germany), Cham Yin Kwan
(China), Frederik de Wilde (Belgium), Genco Gulan, Yesim Ozsoy, Yesim Agaoglu,
Ipek Inal, (Istanbul), Neriman Polat, Raci Kahvecigil, Aliye Goknur Gurcan, Ekin
Anil (Bodrum).
Concept: "The Seventh of the Seven Wonders ": Two
of the Seven Wonders of the World are in Turkey and one is in Bodrum; Mausoleum
of King Maussollos. The second of the Myndos International Art Workshop series
picks "one of the wonders of the world" as its theme.
In the workshops
the artists and participants will be producing art around the theme and they are
going to exhibit these art works at public spaces. We are going to claim back
the sculptures of the Mausoleum from the British Museum and relate archeology
with contemporary art.
Participation: We are looking for 21 more
participants, 10 with scholarship and 11 without. Collaboration proposals are
also welcome. For more info and application e-mail: istanbulmuseum@yahoo.com
Deadline: July 31, 2006.
DANCE EVENTS
AT THE NCA
~~Village
Harmony, a unique teen world vocal ensemble based in Vermont, will bring its
lively music to the Center on Friday, July 28, at 7:30 p.m.
The singers,
who rehearse year-round, take a whirlwind concert trip through New England each
summer. They have also performed on Garrison Keillor’s Prairie Home Companion on
Public Radio and at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. Two recent
graduates of area high schools are members of this year's touring group: Rosalie
Elkinton, Amherst Regional High School, and Donovan Arthen, Pioneer Valley
Performing Arts High School. Participants sing from memory with a powerful,
well- tuned, straight-tones sound. “Watching Village Harmony perform is almost
as much fun as listening to them,” says one fan. Audiences are unfailingly
impressed by their informal and energetic stage presence. The concert program
includes Ukrainian, Russian and Corsican traditional harmony singing, American
gospel and shape-note music and folk songs, dances and contemporary compositions
from Kenya and West Africa. Tickets are $8; $5 for students and seniors and may
be purchased at the door.
~~Internationally acclaimed Oriental dancer
Leyla Jouvana and her husband Roland, a drummer, will offer a spectacular show
Saturday, July 29, at the Center.
Described as “one of the best and
most successful and dancers and choreographers in Europe,” Leyla Jouvana has
represented the German Oriental dance scene at major dance festivals in Paris,
Cairo, Vienna, Italy, Denmark and Australia. She received the Giza Academy Award
of 2002 as the best live dancer of the year. In July 2004 she won the Halima
Award in the best-dancer category. Doors open at 7 p.m. for the 7:30 p.m. show.
For more information about associated events, visit the Middle Eastern Arts
Collaborative Web site
~~Swing dance and salsa lessons with Kent Divoll
in the Center’s ballroom continue throughout the summer Wednesdays from 7:30 to
9 p.m. followed by dancing (East/West Coast Swing, Salsa, Hustle, Waltz, Fox
Trot, Lindy and more) from 9 to 11 p.m. Lesson and dance are $10; dance alone is
$5 Just show up!
CALLS FOR
ARTISTS AND OPPORTUNITIES
|
NEW THIS WEEK:
LOCAL-looking for videographer who might be interested
in doing some experimental work with dance, nature and video. contact
musea6@aol.com
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Call for Artists:
Outdoor Public Art Exhibition
The City of Pittsfield's annual
Artscape outdoor public art exhibition program invites outdoor sculptors and
public art creators to submit work for consideration for the 2006-07 Artscape
exhibition in downtown Pittsfield. Pittsfield is the geographic and population
center of the culturally-rich Berkshires of western Massachusetts, where over
two million visitors come each year. A $500 honorarium is provided to artists
whose work is selected for display.
Application deadline is August
1, so don't delay, click below for complete guidelines!
Click
here for guidelines on applying for the juried Artscape 2006-07 exhibtion
program.
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July 15
The
International Center of Photography's W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic
Photography is a $30,000 cash award with an additional $5,000 in fellowship
money to be awarded at the discretion of a jury. The grant is awarded to
photographers whose past work and proposed project follow the traditions of
photographic essayist W. Eugene Smith. For full information on how to apply,
visit www.smithfund.org
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July 17
The Newark
Museum's residency program is open to visual artists in the areas of fiber and
textiles, clay, fine metals, jewelry and metalsmithing, enameling, sculpture,
painting, photography, printmaking, and works on paper. The residency provides
the opportunity to use the museum's professional facilities for creating new
work. An honorarium of $1,000 will be paid at the conclusion of the residency.
For more information about the program and on how to apply, visit www.newark
museum.org/.
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ONGOING
A
nice offer from Joe Blumenthal of Downtown Sounds who generously would
like to have artists display their work there. (Downtown Sounds, 21 Pleasant
St., Northampton, next to the Pleasant St. Theater)
The window is quite
large, and has three panels, each one about 6' X 6', and is about 24" deep. It
is exposed to intense sunlight in the morning; the heat of the sun plus the
narrowness of the window make it inappropriate to display most musical
instruments.
However, the sunlight doesn't hurt most artwork since it's
only exposed for a month to six weeks. I normally pay $150 to the artist who
installs the window, and work out a consignment agreement for the store to take
a percentage of the price if the art is for sale and we manage to sell some of
it.
The artwork can be freestanding, lean against a wall at the back of
the window that's about three feet high, or (if it's not heavy) be hung from the
ceiling.
It's great when the art can have a musical theme, but it's not
necessary. Because of its highly visible commercial location, the work should
have a mainstream appeal and not have themes which could be offensive. Small
pieces don't work well since the window is so large.
If one of your
readers is interested in displaying in this context, please have them contact me
via email: musician@downtownsounds.com, or via phone at 413-
586-0998.
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ONGOING.
New
York City Department of Cultural Affairs + Image Registry The New York City
Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA) is the largest public funder of arts and
culture in the country. The Percent for Art artist slide registry is an
up-to-date and important component of the Program. The registry is consulted by
the architects, panelists, and City agencies for each project. The Percent for
Art staff prepares a slide presentation from the registry for each panel
meeting. The registry is open to any professional visual artist residing in the
United States. Deadline: On-going Information: www.nyc.gov/html/dcla/html/panyc/
slide_reg.shtml
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Dear poetry lovers,
--and to all who support local writers &
artists:
Slate Roof
a shared-work collective committed to
publishing the work of poets in Franklin County and Western Massachusetts is
having another
~ POETRY READING ~
Friday, July 14, 2006
7:00
pm
Buckland Public Library
30 Upper Street, Buckland, MA
Susie Patlove and Jim Bell will read their poems and those of
other Slate Roof members.
Joining them will be poet Holly
Iglesias whose prose poems have appeared in journals specializing in the
form.
Following the reading there will be an open discussion of some
aspects of the small press publishing process, chapbook design, and promotion,
in which the public is encouraged to participate.
All chapbooks
published by Slate Roof to date will be available for sale.
As always:
no RSVP necessary
Free and open to the public.
Refreshments will be
served.
The library is not wheelchair accessible.
but for more
information, call 413.498.4451
See also ValleyLists.com, for notices
of upcoming Slate Roof events.
This project is supported in part by
grants from the Local Cultural Councils of Ashfield, Bernardston, Buckland,
Gill, Greenfield, Leverett, Montague, Orange, Shelburne Falls, and Wendell,
local agencies which are supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a
state agency. massculturalcouncil.org
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