Be a part of Lillstreet’s inaugural Student & Faculty Art Fair

by | Aug 14, 2012 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, show us your influences, technical tuesday

Applications are being accepted through Sept. 15th
 

 
New this year, in conjunction with the 37th Annual Holiday Show & Sale, Lillstreet’s 3rd floor will be transformed into a vibrant marketplace on Friday, Nov. 30th from 5pm – 9pm.

We
are excited to offer this new opportunity to our community of creative
artists. The fair is open to all current Lillstreet faculty members,
monitors, and students who have attended a Lillstreet class in the 2011
or 2012 calendar years, or are enrolled to start a course before the
year’s end.  Not you? Don’t worry! You still have time to enroll in a fall class and
participate in open studio to work on your items. Save $10 on 5-week
classes and $20 on 10-week classes when you register for fall classes by
August 20th.

We are seeking handmade artisan quality items, and will give special
consideration to vendors whose products are made at Lillstreet, or made
with skills gained from classes taken at Lillstreet. We are looking to
represent a diversity of arts and crafts offerings, with a focus on
unique gift items and craftsmanship. For more details about the Student
& Faculty Art Fair please visit the Opportunities Section on Lillstreet Gallery.

If you’re ready to apply, you can start your application HERE. 
There is a non-refundable application fee of $15 to apply for the fair,
and we expect to have room for 80 artists. Once accepted, you can
choose if you’d like a 3ft table space for $30.00 or a full 6ft table
for $60.00. Tables will be provided as part of your booth fee.

If you have additional questions  please contact Special Events Manager, Claire Hurwitz at [email protected] or call 773-769-4226.

Collaboration: AFFECT // Agora Collective’s Program for Collaborative Practices

by | Aug 12, 2012 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, show us your influences, technical tuesday

AFFECT is a self-organized residency program where the
participants share their projects in order to challenge themselves
within the inputs of other artists

PURPOSE to challenge artistic projects within a collaborative context
PRINCIPLES is a skill-sharing program based on collaborative artistic
practices developed by and for young professionals who want to challenge
a specific project CONCEPT 7 artists from different backgrounds are
placed in the same space to affect each other’s work

STRUCTURE
Period of 4 weeks Art Space at Agora’s top floor – 120 sq. meter in a
industrial building in Neukölln Berlin 7 artists are selected through
open call. 4 variety of interventions with 1 facilitator per week. About
the interventions: Interventions happen once a week and it is lead by a
member of Agora Collective – the processes are never top-down – the
idea is to treat the member as co-learners. Throughout the weeks, Agora
Collective members provoke smalls interventions to the group related to
their domain of research, in order to build bridges, generate inputs and
propose working tasks to the participants and their projects.

WEEK 1 // CREATING A GROUP How to create situations that encourage collaboration?

WEEK TWO // RE-MIX How to compose collaborative actions within individual artistic practices?

WEEK THREE // NETWORK What are the key elements that could provoke partnership between people?

WEEK FOUR // OUTCOME How can the group define a consensus of displaying
and presenting the process? The outcome (display of the process
experienced during the program) is decided by the group during the
process: it can be anything – an art show, a public intervention, a
creative event, a dinner, a party, etc.

PEOPLE Conceived by Agora Art Collective – A small group of artists and
thinkers coming from many disciplines and backgrounds and while it
retains a small, core group from project to project Agora Collective is
also constantly inviting new members to meet the challenges of a new
work the program Affect refers, to the influence, a change has on
something else. It is not from today that artists are influenced and
inspired by the relationships and encounters experienced throughout
their lives. Interferences and interactions between persons can create
special circumstances that are crucial for artistic development and
certainly affect the way one relates to production.

AFFECT is a program designed by Agora Collective based on collaborative
practices – Agora’s artists open their art space for 7 international
artists – from all field of arts – who aim to challenge and incorporate
new layers to their own projects. The program proposes a skill-sharing
format in which Agora Collective intends, as a catalyser, to cause/
propose/create a review of perspective mainly through discussions,
exercises, reading sessions, workshops and living collectively.

For Agora Collective the program shows itself as a potential opportunity
to formalize daily situations experienced in the space. Agora
Collective, acting since June 2011 in Berlin – opens its space and i
shares its experience for a new group of artists. key elements of AFFECT
. project sharing // skill sharing format // references sessions //
reading sessions // self-organized concept = the group sculptures the
way the program goes – from the layout of the space until the final
outcome. Specifications for the program 4 weeks/program – from 3rd
September – 29th September in Berlin, Germany Applications – deadline
August 16th Results per email: 18th of August This program is developed
for artists of any field who are interested in immersing themselves and
their projects into a collaborative situation.

HOW TO APPLY
– A short description of the project to be developed in Agora (max. 2500 characters with space) .
– Sample of previous work
– PDF, links, website, cds, dvds, etc.

Deadline for application: 16th August

Applications should be sent at [email protected] 

fee: 380 euros
/ month includes – 24/7 studio space – contact/facilitation/workshop
with Berlin based artists – final outcome – work exposure – video
documentation – Accommodation is facilitated but not provided for the
program.

Location
Germany

Application deadline
August 16, 2012

Residency starts
September 3, 2012

Residency ends
September 30, 2012