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Money for Artists

admin — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 17:42:34 +0000

James Kalm is honored by the WAGMAG for his years of contributing insights and comments about the local scene. In response, he decides to pay tribute to the Williamsburg arts community and take on the current recession at the same time. James and Kate came up with this conceptual performance piece titled The James Kalm Artists Economic Stimulus Grant.

Duration : 0:10:7

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Montauk Artists’ Association Art on the Green (PART ONE)

admin — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 11:52:11 +0000

13th ANNUAL JURIED ART SHOW
ON THE MONTAUK GREEN 2007

OUR SHOW HAS ACHEIVED THE HIGHEST RATING. 75 ARTISTS FROM ALL OVER OUR COUNTRY AS WELL AS FRANCE, ISRAEL, AND CHINA WILL COME TO OUR HAMLET BY THE SEA TO SHOW THEIR WORK AND OFF IT FOR SALE.

The third weekend in August is our Annual Outdoor Juried Art Show on the Montauk Village Green. Started in 1994, this was our first fund raising event and it continues to be a major summer event in Montauk, drawing buyers from New York City and all the Hamptons. We invite professional artists to buy space, set up their tents and show their works of fine art in oil, water color, acrylics, pastels, graphics, mixed media, sculpture and photography for sale. We only have enough room on this Green for 70 artists and our jury chooses the best.

The Montauk Artists’ Association was started as an effort to broaden the already existing art talent in Montauk and to bring to all artists and could-be-artists, an avenue by which they could enjoy group art activites, receive art instruction and show their work.

Originally, classes were offered in the evening, twice a year. Attendance was excellent and the students who attended these programs became the original members of the Montauk Artists’ Association.

In 1998, the association acquired the Long Island Railroad’s Montauk Station as our Headquarters. We have named the building the Montauk Community Arts Center because we are an inclusive organization and we welcome all who are interested in the arts.

To structure our activites, committees were established. For specific information any of the chairpersons can be contacted directly.

The Montauk Artists’ Association, Inc.

A Not-For-Profit Tax Deductable Corporation

P.O. Box 2751, Montauk, New York, 11954-0300

Gallery Phone: 631-668-0897
Office Phone: 631-668-5336
email: montaukart@aol.com

VVH-TV Reporter Sara Hagen
Copyright WVVH-TV Hamptons Television® 2007
all rights reserved

Duration : 0:29:43

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Cultural Production Center in Jonglei Cultural Center

admin — Sat, 08 May 2010 17:23:06 +0000

My dream is to build the Cultural Production Center in Jonglei, Southern Sudan. My goal is to show that art is something can lead people to peace. I hope to let the community understand that this alternative way of looking at reality is a legitimate way of viewing the world.
ARAC dreamed is:
•To Building art center in Southern Sudan, many of these refugees are now going back to Southern Sudan and they have no place to continue with their works. Building this art center will allow those artists to emphasizing their artistic and endeavors to support the mental health of these artists and the community.
•To providing encouragement and morale support by broadening contact and line of communication between artists in the Sudan and in the camps, and those resettled elsewhere.
•Venues and partnerships state-side for collaborative exhibits, to enable more refugees to share their experience through art, and provide a voice for the plight of refugees around the world. By transport works of art from African and to the U.S. for joint exhibitions, and organize exhibitions at which this and other artwork can be displayed.
My purpose for ARAC is to bear witness, heal, and renew. Artistic expressions provides both a means of processing past and present events, as well as build communal experience through storytelling, education of the community through a common language, and lastly physical and spiritual situation within the camps has traditionally posed obstacles to artists organizing. In order to keeps this program running. Im writing to ask you to help me rise $20000 – $30000 dollars or sponsor this wonderful organization so we can be able to building the art center in Southern Sudan.

Duration : 0:5:35

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HSR-COMICS San Ramon 2009 Delegation (50M)

admin — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 04:40:10 +0000

[Features photos and video from the "Henniker-San Ramón Comics Exchange" 2009 delegation to Nicaragua.] Young artists in rural San Ramón, Nicaragua plan, discuss, draw, and read original comics about their communities, as part of a comics-based cultural exchange with their sister community in Henniker, NH, USA. Students draw & write about communities, work, food, families, important issues, folktales, local history, and more in a variety of educational settings, public schools, art programs, community organizations, &c.

Program design by Marek Bennett [ http://www.marekbennett.com ]
Henniker-San Ramón Comics Exchange = http://www.marekbennett.com/comicsworkshop/comics-workshops/henniker-san-ramon-comics-exchange

NICARAGUA Comics Travel Journal (graphic novel):

http://www.marekbennett.com/blog/2009/08/nicaragua-comics-travel-journal/

HSR Sister Community Project = http://hennikersanramon.blogspot.com/

~ Music from “A Thicket” (Marek Bennett, 2003), featuring the official ukelele of the 2009 HSR-CE Delegation. ~

Duration : 0:2:21

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Voices of Youth – Art in Public Competition

admin — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 02:13:24 +0000

Tell us how you would transform Pittsburgh’s public spaces with your artistic vision. We are looking for well-designed, sustainable public art that expresses the voices of youth. Winning ideas can receive up to $25,000 in funding to implement their “Art in Public” Deadline for entry is May 20, 2009. Public voting begins June 9, 2009. For more information visit http://www.changemakers.net or The Pittsburgh Foundation website at http://www.pittsburghfoundation.org

Duration : 0:1:34

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Montauk Artists’ Association Art on the Green (PART TWO)

admin — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 02:13:15 +0000

13th ANNUAL JURIED ART SHOW
ON THE MONTAUK GREEN 2007

OUR SHOW HAS ACHEIVED THE HIGHEST RATING. 75 ARTISTS FROM ALL OVER OUR COUNTRY AS WELL AS FRANCE, ISRAEL, AND CHINA WILL COME TO OUR HAMLET BY THE SEA TO SHOW THEIR WORK AND OFF IT FOR SALE.

Originally, classes were offered in the evening, twice a year. Attendance was excellent and the students who attended these programs became the original members of the Montauk Artists’ Association.

To structure our activites, committees were established. For specific information any of the chairpersons can be contacted directly.

The Montauk Artists’ Association, Inc.

A Not-For-Profit Tax Deductable Corporation

P.O. Box 2751, Montauk, New York, 11954-0300

Gallery Phone: 631-668-0897
Office Phone: 631-668-5336
email: montaukart@aol.com

Duration : 0:30:35

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Real Talk/Real Moves: new class for teens at Destiny Arts Center

admin — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 10:10:13 +0000

New class at Destiny Arts Center for teens!

Mon & Wed, 6 to 7:30pm @ 1000 42nd St, Oakland CA starting Feb 9th, 2009.

The purpose of the Real Talk/Real Moves class is to provide young people with a safe space to express what they are going through – personally, academically, spiritually, emotionally, etc. The students will also be introduced to basic self-defense techniques as well as have a space to express themselves artistically through dance, theater and creative writing. Another important aspect of this class is a community engagement project that the group will devise and implement.

The class is taught by two of our veteran instructors who have been immersed in this specific curriculum. One is a dancer (Rashidi) and the other is a martial artist and a licensed therapist (Michele).

Duration : 0:4:40

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SACRED ARTS Project Artist CALLOUT

admin — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 12:10:22 +0000

Howler describes a very exciting project called SACRED ARTS, a community healing initiative. For all those artists who feel the need to do sacred ceremony in public places and to use clowning and symbolic acts to express what has to come out in that moment. There is a private follow-up that people are invited to participate in.

This is a callout to artists who wish to participate in the project.

Duration : 0:7:30

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Acts of Art: The Prison Creative Arts Project (TRAILER)

admin — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 13:42:15 +0000

Tease for a half-hour documentary profiling the Prison Creative Arts Project.
Every year, along with student and community volunteers, Janie Paul and Buzz Alexander travel to 42 prisons throughout the state of Michigan. Here they meet with prisoners & hand-select work for the Annual Exhibit of Prison Art at the University of Michigan, now the largest exhibit of prison art in the country. This half-hour documentary profiles these two activist/artists who believe in the power of the creative arts as a tool for social change.

Part of a collaborative project with University of Michigan’s School of Art & Design and Michigan Public Media.

Duration : 0:3:19

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Arts Council for Long Beach’s Eye on Design at Long Beach Museum of Art

admin — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 13:48:08 +0000

Toyota Children’s Gallery
A place for kids to see the work of kids. The Museum hosts exhibitions of artwork made by children and students of the community throughout the year to showcase the talent of our local youth.

Eye on Design
June 6 – September 7, 2008
View artwork made by local third grade students, who over the course of a school year, explored their community, public art appreciation and the public art process. Artworks displayed include three-dimensional models of site-specific public art concepts that will be installed in the community next year. This exhibition is the culmination of collaboration between Long Beach Museum of Art, Arts Council for Long Beach, and Luther Burbank Elementary School.

Long Beach Museum of Art
2300 East Ocean Boulevard
Long Beach, CA 90803
562-439-2119
www.lbma.org

Duration : 0:7:38

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