Call for Work: Deadline 13 June 2014

Good and Evil is a juried exhibit opportunity open to St. Louis regional artists 21+. The deadline to enter this exhibit is June 13, 2014. The exhibit will be presented September 27 through October 30, 2014. Click here for details.

EXHIBIT DATES:  September 27 - October 30, 2014. Free opening reception on Saturday, September 27, 2014, 6-8 p.m.JURORS:  Tim Eberhardt, nationally exhibited ceramic artist, St. Louis, MO; and Nicole Dutton, artist, Curator, William & Florence Schmidt Art Center, Belleville, IL.
 ENTRY DEADLINE:  June 13, 2014

ENTRY FEE:   $20 ASL MEMBERS / $30 NON-MEMBERS

Art Saint Louis gallery, downtown St. Louis
 

Young Artists with Disabilities: Deadline 30 June 2014

VSA Emerging Young Artists Program
A Jean Kennedy Smith Arts and Disability Program

Since 2002, VSA and Volkswagen Group of America have teamed up to recognize and showcase the work of emerging young artists living with disabilities, ages 16-25, who are currently residing in the United States. This collaboration creates opportunities for these artists at a critical time when many are making the life-defining choice to pursue arts-based careers. VSA and Volkswagen are committed to sustainability and investing in the future of young artists living with disabilities.

 Every year, hundreds of emerging young artists living with disabilities compete to be included in a curated exhibition, formed around a unique theme, to be displayed in Washington, D.C. and then toured around the nation. After a rigorous adjudication process, 15 artists are selected to showcase their work and receive: 1) a $20,000 grand prize, a $10,000 first prize award, a $6,000 second prize award, and 12 $2,000 awards of excellence; 2) 2 days of all-expenses paid professional development workshops in Washington, D.C.; and 3) the opportunity to have their work displayed in an exhibition that opens in Washington, D.C. and tours for one year around the United

Living Off the Grid: Deadline Friday, 30 May 2014

Call for Work: Deadline 6-7 June 2014

Framations Art Gallery is looking for artwork that focuses on repetition for their next exhibit. This exhibit, called "Worth Repeating" focuses on repetition, be it color, texture, pattern, etc. Artists are encouraged to use their creativity and interpret the theme as it fits their work.

This exhibit will be on display June 13 - July 17, 2014. Artists can enter up to four pieces, with an entry fee of $8.00 per piece. Entries must be hand delivered to Framations June 6-7 from 10 - 6 and June 8 from 12 – 5. This exhibit is open to artists 18 years of age or older who live in the St. Louis region. Works in all 2D and 3D media can be entered.  There will be Awards announced at the Opening Reception on June 13 from 6-8pm. Artists should read through all entry information prior to submitting work. Please see full entry details on www.framations.com.

The Juror for this exhibit is Ken Anderson. He has had over twenty gallery affiliations throughout the United States. Ken is a painter, sculptor, and mixed-media artist who has been an active exhibitor since 1974. He has participated in over 200 documented exhibitions, 35 of which were solo exhibitions. These exhibits were a mixture of international expositions, national and international competitions, invitational exhibits, and solo and group shows at various venues including museums, universities and galleries across the United States. His work is included in over 70 public and corporate collections. His current body of work is influenced by textiles from around the world and consists of dimensional low relief abstract wood assemblages. He uses a reductive landscape-referenced palette applied with both paints and stains.

Entries must be hand delivered to Framations, located at 218 North Main Street in St. Charles. The full entry details can be found on www.framations.com.  Call (636) 724-8313 with any questions.

Photograph Webster Groves on film! May tenth only!

Do you love to shoot film? Polaroid? BW? Medium format? Holga? 35mm? Pinhole? Register at Yucando Saturday, May 10, 8-10am,  or pre-register by sending an email to j.vogel@wcaf.org or Email a contact form.  We want to see your analog pictures. Photograph any family-friendly scene in Webster on Saturday, May 10. You can display one image from the day’s shooting at Art&Air Community Tent, June 6-8. Show us what you can do! No registration fee. But no cheating! We trust that you will show us images made ONLY on May 10 in Webster Groves. Registration is required.

See the Webster Community Arts Foundation page at http://wcaf.org/programs/paint-webster for more info. The registration form is online at http://www2.webster.edu/~barrettb/PWphotoregistration.pdf

Chasing Serendipity by Susan Hacker Stang

CHASING SERENDIPITY is a series of photographs shot with a quirky toy digital camera, the JOCO VX5. The series includes photographs taken in a number of countries and cities, and this variety of locations makes even more apparent the serendipitous connections between different places and cultures. The series is replete with numerous iconic sites and symbols, from the Empire State Building and Tower of Pisa, to Marilyn Monroe, baseball, gondolas and drive-thru wedding chapels. It is a sequence of continual visual and cultural connections, conveying a sense of uncanny coherence regarding the appearance of the world. One marvels at the serendipitous wholeness within appearances.

Susan Hacker Stang is an American photographer, author, and educator. She is professor of communications at Webster University in St. Louis. Her work has been collected by more than 20 major museums and libraries around the world and appears in numerous books and magazines. 

 

Stang's photography characteristically employs alternative cameras (such as the Olympus Pen-FT half-frame camera, the Kodak Brownie, and the Holga), or alternative techniques (such as Polaroid emulsion transfer). Recently she has been working with a JOCO VX5, the first digital toy camera according to the company that manufactures it.

She has previously published: Firenze un incontro/ Encountering Florence (Palombi Editori, Rome 2007): Kodachrome, End of the Run (Webster University Press 2011) ; and a set of notecards, Kodachrome Notes (Chronicle Books, 2012).

She received her BFA and MFA in Photography from Rhode Island School of Design.

Win $100 having fun!

From the School of Communications Dean's Office:

Here's a fun creative exercise to break through the stress of finals week.  It also offers students the chance to win a $100 gift card.

Brainstorm names under which any SOC communications agency or production house class could do work for clients. Currently, there are three classes that do work for real-world external clients:  ADVT Client Projects, PBRL Campaigns, VIDE Production House.  This is a real point of differentiation for our School in the marketplace.  Having a common name under which students do their work would allow us a broad banner under which to promote these great projects externally and on our SOC website.

(BTW, Here's a fun link from Ad Age that generates some totally bizarre names and always gets a few laughs in class: http://adage.com/agency-name-generator/index.php
(Give it a try.  What do you think of Epic Strategy Cannon or Transcendental Wig?))

Students should submit their names typed as a word document or in an email to Susan Napoleon . The winner will be chosen by the faculty who teach the 3 classes, but any student can enter.