Tag: visual art

Art League Houston Summer Classes

“Art League Houston is now registering for the Summer 2009 semester of art classes and workshops. Be sure to register before 5 pm on June 13th and save $25 on each eight or ten week class. Annual membership to Art League Houston has many benefits and can be purchased at the time of registration. Art League Houston members are invited to participate in the member’s groups. These include a non-instructive figure drawing lab every Thursday and Saturday from 1-4 pm with a live model is from which to draw, sketch or paint and The Plein Air Painting Group , an informal gathering of ALH members who meet on location the third Saturday of each month to draw or paint outdoors. Space is limited so register today!”

complete details and class listings here.

Art League Houston Deadline Extended

Art League Houston Announces

The 2010-2011 Open Call for

Exhibition Proposals Deadline Has Been Extended to Saturday, June 6, 2009, 4:00 p.m.

(Houston, TX, May 13, 2009) Art League Houston is pleased to announce that it has extended the deadline for its 2010-2011 Open Call for Proposals. Local, national, and international curators and professional artists are encouraged to submit proposals for exhibitions consistent with Art League Houston’s mission and vision.  From these submissions, Art League Houston annually selects four to six major exhibitions for the main gallery and the adjacent project space.
The NEW DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION is SATURDAY jUNE 6, 2009, by 4:00 p.m. (This is not a postmark deadline.) There is no residency requirement for this opportunity.  Priority will be given to proposals that include the creation of new work.

Call-Public Art for Kissimmee

DEADLINE: May 21, 2009 5:00 EST – materials must be received by this date & time.

The City of Kissimmee Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) seeks to hire an artist/artist team to design and create an entrance / water feature for Ruby Plaza in Lakefront Park, a twenty-five acre park on Lake Tohopekaliga in the City of Kissimmee. Ruby Plaza will be the focal point of a proposed $25 million park renovation project. The public art should create a compelling entrance to the park that “connects” the City’s historic waterfront to its downtown. There is opportunity within this site to weave together Kissimmee’s past, present and future. The total art budget for this public art project is $750,000. Short list artists will receive an honorarium of $5,000 after presentation of proposals. For complete call to artists & application requirements go to http://www.lakefrontpark.org. Please read complete call to artists before asking questions or sending information.

Questions: All questions must be submitted in writing by email or fax to:
Email: ghamilton @ kissimmee.org Fax: 407-931-1329 Subject: “Artist Question – Lakefront Park” and make sure to include your first & last name as well as your phone number in all correspondence. All questions & answers will be posted on the web site with the Call to Artist: http://www.lakefrontpark.org/

VSA arts Accepting Applications for Teaching Artist Fellowships

Deadline: April 24, 2009

VSA arts Accepting Applications for Teaching Artist Fellowships

VSA arts is seeking applications from artist-educators for the Teaching Artist Fellowship, a program to identify, engage, and support outstanding teaching artists with disabilities in the visual and performing arts.

Benefits to selected Teaching Artist Fellows include program orientation and a professional development retreat designed especially for teaching artists; subscriptions/memberships within the teaching artist network (e.g., Teaching Artist Journal, Art Education, Teaching Theatre); networking and teaching opportunities in Washington, D.C. (stipend and travel costs included); and a stipend of $1,000 to support professional development or career goal objectives.

Teaching Artist Fellows will serve as facilitators for VSA arts educational efforts and will be profiled in VSA arts publications.

The program is open to artists with disabilities and experience working in pre-K-12 classrooms within the past three years. Applicants should demonstrate artistic achievement in visual or performing arts. (Note: This program is designed specifically for teaching artists. Classroom instructors are not eligible for the fellowship.)

Visit the VSA arts Web site for complete program information:

DUE May 29 Lawndale Artist Studio Program

“The Lawndale Artist Studio Program is part of Lawndale’s ongoing commitment to support the creation of contemporary art by Gulf Coast area artists. With an emphasis on emerging practices, the program will provide three artists with studio space on the third floor of the Lawndale Art Center at 4912 Main Street in the heart of Houston’s Museum District.

Artists have full access to their studios 24 hours a day, seven days a week; access to visiting artists, writers and curators; and will receive a $500 monthly stipend for the duration of the program together with an initial $1500 materials budget. If accepted, artists are expected to present a workshop or presentation to the general public and the local arts community to share their practice or explore a related topic.

Works produced during the program will be exhibited at Lawndale Art Center during May 2010. Lawndale Art Center will work with resident artists to create additional exhibition opportunities during the residency.”

download application form

Dallas Museum of Art Grants to Artists

The deadline for this year has passed, but keep it in mind for next year.

“The DeGolyer Fund hands out up to $1500 to artists between 15 and 25, who live in Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arizona, or Colorado. The Kimbrough Fund up to $3500 to Texas artists under 30. Older Texas artists, 30+, can apply for the Dozier Travel Grant.”

via Glasstire: Texas visual art online – It’s a transparent bit of plastic . . ..

Aleatoric Art

“Aleatoric Art, a new web-based not-for-profit gallery featuring artists whose practice blends new-age ritual with old-fashioned automatism is emanating from Houston. The site’s author, J. Coleman Miller, says the site “began as a way for me to catalog artists who deal with chance methods in composition” and will be updated twice yearly. He invites submissions from artists who think they fit it’s criteria. From Zoran Zugic’s surrealist fantasies to Mike Bloom’s abstract watercolor blots, the spirit of Arp, Ernst and Cage is alive and kicking, all against a background music of gentle waterfalls.”

via Glasstire: Texas visual art online – Aleatoric?!??!!.

Call for Video Auditions

“WE ARE LOOKING FOR A FEW GOOD VIDEOS

– like art?

– are you a clever gal/dude?

– have a knack for shooting and editing video?

SHOW US YOUR STUFF, AND WE COULD FEATURE YOU AS A REGULAR VIDEO CONTRIBUTOR ON GLASSTIRE!

We are looking for talented, aspiring videographers for regular gigs on Glasstire. For this call, please send a video walkthrough of an art exhibition. You may appear on the video, interview subjects or do voiceover (or any combination thereof). The subject matter and commentary are at your discretion. Exhibits in Texas preferred, but not required.”

Click below for complete details. *Deadline for Houston area extended to April 6, 2009

via Glasstire: Texas visual art online – Call for Video Auditions.

Photojournalists are like athletes

“Anne Wilkes Tucker, curator of photography at the MFAH, …said she strongly disagrees with those who attribute [photojournalist] Garcia’s success to dumb luck. “When Willie Mays was exactly in the outfield where the ball came down, that was not an accident,” she said. “Photojournalists are like athletes in that way.”

via Iconic shot of Obama began as just another assignment | Fine Arts | Chron.com – Houston Chronicle.