by Carole Epp | Feb 21, 2010 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, show us your influences, technical tuesday
Closing date: 1 March 2010
The Art & Australia Contemporary Art Award is an acquisitive prize open to Australian and New Zealand artists who are within the first five years of their professional practice. Four artists are selected annually with their work featured on the back cover of Art & Australia, accompanied by a profile of their practice. One work from one of the four artists is then purchased for the Art & Australia collection.
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by Carole Epp | Feb 21, 2010 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, show us your influences, technical tuesday
DEADLINE: ONGOING
Apothiki aims at introducing artists and organizations to the island atmosphere of Paros – a creative environment that has inspired artists for more than 5000 years – and further develop Paros as a meeting place for creative people from around the globe. In cooperation with artists, art galleries, foundations and cultural institutions – both Greek and international, this multi-functional space will host contemporary art exhibitions and cultural events and provide a working and living space for artists in residence. The Residency program is part of a wider range of activities organised in the art centre such as exhibitions, concerts and seminars. Artists, scholars, art managers and critics are invited to submit their application for a 2 to 4 week residency to take place in 2010 or 2011. The program will start in April 2010. Artists that like to organise a small ‘group’ residency can submit a joint application. MORE INFO >> Application address:
Parikia 84400 PAROS Greece
E-mail [email protected] | www.apothiki.com
by Carole Epp | Feb 20, 2010 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, show us your influences, technical tuesday
Download the 2010 Entry Form
The City of Hobart Art Prize is open to artists, designers and craftspeople nation-wide. It brings together contemporary visual arts, craft and design practice in a single exhibition.
For all the details on the Hobart Prize visit the website here.
AIMS OF THE CITY OF HOBART ART PRIZE
The City of Hobart Art Prize seeks to:
- Promote art, craft and design practice in a way that is inclusive
- Encourage experimentation within and across art, craft and design forms
- Present an exciting exhibition that offers a ‘snap shot’ of contemporary practice
- Provide the City of Hobart with a collection of significant works
- Showcase the work of Tasmanian artists, craftspeople and designers within a national context
CATEGORIES
The 2010 City of Hobart Art Prize categories, for which the main prizes are awarded, change every year. The 2010 categories are Digital Media and Ceramics. The guidelines for these categories are as follows:
Digital Media – including projection, software generated and screen based art works.
Projection – work for the final exhibition must be provided as a standard or high definition QuickTime 7 codec (H.264, DV, Animation, Apple Intermediate) in a QuickTime container (mov.) file provided on DVD, or removable hardware. Hardware will be returned to artists following the exhibition. All Digital Media work is not to exceed 30 minutes playtime. Two high definition equivalent data projectors will be used to display works. Artists selecting to present their work in this format will have their works screened consecutively on a loop with an appropriate pause between individual entries. Software generated and screen based art works – work for the final exhibition requiring specific delivery platforms is the responsibility of the exhibiting artist. The provision of this delivery platform, including computers or other multi-media devices, with appropriate software installed, screens, cables, mouse and any remotes if required, with complete instructions and trouble shooting information for the set up and operation of software must be provided at a turn key/plug and play standard.
Ceramics – functional and non functional works, including sculpture and installation based practice in any technique, including but not limited to, wheel thrown, slip cast and hand built.
Note: In both categories, any three dimensional work to be included in the final exhibition shall not have a footprint of more than 2 metres square with a height restriction of 2 metres. Any individual component shall not exceed 50kg in weight, with any overall weight not exceeding 200kg. If the artwork has a number of separate components,
it should be freighted in separate crates, each weighing no more than 50kg. The work is to be presented ready for assembly or display. All fixtures and fittings required are to be included with detailed instructions for installation. Further: Any portable electrical equipment or fittings associated with works for final exhibition must be tested and tagged in accordance with Australian Standard AS3760 prior to exhibition.
PRIZES
The City of Hobart Art Prize
Two $15,000 acquisitive prizes provided by Hobart City Council (one in each category).
The MONA Prize
One $7,500 non acquisitive prize. This prize of $7,500 sponsored by MONA (Museum of Old and New Art) is open to artists, craftspeople and designers who are selected for the final City of Hobart Art Prize exhibition and who were either born, are presently residing in, or have resided
for a period of five years or more in Tasmania. The winners of the acquisitive City of Hobart Art Prize will not be considered for the MONA Prize.
For more information on MONA visit:
www.mona.net.au
by Carole Epp | Feb 20, 2010 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, show us your influences, technical tuesday
Greetings Artists, Artisans and Craftspeople We are the Craft Connection and Gallery 378 located in Nelson BC, “the finest little art town in Canada” The Craft Connection is a Co-Operative owned and operated by twelve professional artisans. As well as displaying the members work we also represent about eighty artisan consignees and forty artist consignees. We have been in business for twenty-seven successful years in Nelson representing a wide range of artisans from our area. We recently moved into a new and larger building, the lower floor becoming our Gallery 378.
Our gallery proudly displays fine art and craft from around the region and we are looking to expand our repertoire of artisans and artists. Our consignment commission is 60/40; we have a $15 jury fee and an annual $30 consignment fee. We are interested in hearing from professional artists and artisans who are interested in having their work juried for display and sale in our store. All the necessary application information can be obtained from our website(www.craftconnection.org). Please click on the “forms” button.
Lance Hall is presently Chair of the Craft Connection Board of Directors. You can contact him at 250-226-6876 or [email protected] if you have any questions.
