My paintings and assemblages address the relationship between man and the environment through the use of symbolic landscapes. I explore the concepts of stewardship, consumption and control within the landscape framework. Society’s "marks" on the landscape and the manipulation of the environment are ongoing issues I seek to discuss.see more here.
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| Registration is now open for InLiquid's annual art sale, Art for the Cash Poor 11! |
| InLiquid is pleased to announce its 11th annual Art for the Cash Poor event. This year's event will take place Saturday, June 12 and Sunday, June 13, 2010 from 1 to 6 pm at the Crane Arts Building, 1400 N. American Street, Philadelphia (rain or shine). Art for the Cash Poor is a fabulous annual party and art sale that directly benefits visual artists and craftspeople while allowing art lovers the chance to meet artists, see their work first-hand, and begin or add to an art collection without breaking the bank. |
| Participation Details
Entries: Open to all artists who design and produce their own work. All items for sale must be priced at $199 or below. Artists may sign-up for either one or two days. Artists are required to submit 3-4 digital sample images of the work they intend to sell.
Please note that due to limited space, all artists will be screened for participation.
Display Space: There are both indoor and outdoor spaces available. Please note that due to the economic climate this year InLiquid will not be providing tent coverage for the outside area. Artists who would like to set up their own tent outside can do so at a discounted rate.
-The space provided for each artist in the indoor Icebox Project Space is 7' deep by 7' wide.
-The space provided for each artist in the outdoor Green Area is 10' deep by 10' wide. Artists choosing to participate in the outside area are responsible for providing their own coverage. The Grean Area is concrete, so tents must be stand alone, weighted. |
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Below is a breakdown of the participation fees. All fees must be paid ahead of time. Participation fee includes one 6' table. InLiquid will provide each participating artist with a 6' table, 20 event postcards/flyers, as well as a jpeg announcement and web graphics. | ||||
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| InLiquid Artist Members:
One day participation fee per artist
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$80
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Two day participation fee per artist |
$160 |
| Non-InLiquid Artist Members:
One day participation fee per artist |
$100 | |
Two day participation fee per artist |
$200 |
| Shared Table Costs
Please note no more than two artists may share a table | | | | |
| InLiquid Artist Members:
One day participation fee per artist sharing a table
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$55 | |
Two day participation fee per artist |
$110 |
| Non-InLiquid Artist Members:
One day participation fee per artist sharing a table |
$75 | |
Two day participation fee per artist |
$150 |
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Outside Set-up Discount: |
$10 off per day | | ||
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Click here to find out rates for nonprofit organizations. | | | ||
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Please note that the participation fee is to help cover the production costs of the event.
As a nonprofit organization committed to promoting indpendent visual arists and building new audiences, InLiquid presents this event as a service to the community, and thus takes no sales commissions from artist sales; artists keep all proceeds from sale of their work. The nominal partication fee paid by artists covers only a small portion of event production and promotional costs.
Also, InLiquid will handle all publicity for the event including postcard mailing; press release; ads; etc. On the event web feature, your name and an image will be linked to your web site if applicable. | ||||
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Deadlines:
Reservations must be submitted and paid for by April 2.
Notification:
Registrants will be notified by April 15 of those who are accepted to participate. | ||||
| Space is limited, so artists will be screened and then assigned a space on a first-come first-serve basis. | ||||
| Click here to download an artist participation form with more details. | ||||
| Please contact Sara (saraz@inliquid.com) with questions regarding participation. | ||||
| Volunteer opportunities are available. InLiquid is looking for volunteers to help make this event a success if you or someone you know is interested in volunteering contact: volunteer@inliquid.com. | ||||
Important Career Event for graduating students!
-- APRIL 7, 2010 --
TYLER ALUMNI PANEL DISCUSSION IS SCHEDULED FOR 11 A.M. - B004. THIS IS A VALUABLE NETWORKING OPPORTUNITY. PIZZA WILL FOLLOW.
DEADLINE: APRIL 1, 2010
Peters Valley has four half tuition scholarships available to tyler school of art fibers students.These awards are for the summer 2010 workshop program only and can not be carried over to any future programs. the four scholarships are only available for workshops in the fibers studios.The terms of these scholarships are as follows:Scholarship recipients will receive ½ off of the workshop tuition for a single workshop. Based<>Scholarship recipients will need to work 2 hours per workshop day for Peters Valley. Jobs will consist of housekeeping, kitchen, and/or maintenance. The majority of this obligation can be completed the day before the workshop begins. This work will be supervised and students will be held accountable for their performance.
Lab fees and meals (if required) will be the responsibility of the student.
The awards are contingent upon the workshop running with the minimum number of paying students required. If an award is granted but the desired class is cancelled the scholarship recipient will be able to choose another available class that is running or receive a refund of any fees paid.A panel of Peters Valley staff will choose the scholarship recipients.The panel will review the applications and select those that reflect the strongest need and desire to further develop their skills and understanding of craft media.The panel will take into consideration the applicant's experience and the contents of the letter of intent.It is our hope that by taking a workshop at Peters Valley, the recipients will be inspired to grow creatively in their personal work and push themselves into new artistic territories.
HOW TO APPLY:Fill out the application form (please see lorraine glessner for the application form).
Include a letter of intent stating why you would like to study at PV.
Include a recommendation from an art/craft teacher.
Include 5-10 slides or photographs of your work, award letters you have received, etc. For return of this material
include a self-addressed envelope with proper postage.
Return all of the above by April 1, 2010 to:
Peters Valley Craft Center College Tuition Scholarships
19 Kuhn Road
Layton, NJ 07851
Applications will be reviewed in April and notification will be sent to all applicants by May 1.
You can also see a complete workshop program listed on our web page here.
[a tape drawing] is not an autonomous work of art installed in a room. on the contrary, my spatial drawings have the ability to reconfigure or transform the rhythm of architecture-an intervention of limited duration...the dynamics of my work flow like a jet stream that cannot be formatted.see more here.
CALL FOR ENTRIES: FIBERARTS MAGAZINE'S STUDENT SAMPLING 2010
Deadline June 15
| Our annual sampling of student work will be featured in our November/December 2010 issue and is open to current students in a collegiate-level fibers program. |
Please have students submit artist statement, images (transparencies, slides, or high-resolution digital images [300 dpi]), full caption information (including title, year completed, materials, techniques, dimensions, and photo credit), information about what degree you are pursuing, and permanent address (items will be returned in October) to: Fiberarts Student Showcase, 201 E. Fourth St., Loveland, CO 80537-5655. Or submit online here.
For more information, contact Liz Good, (970) 613-4679;lizg@fiberarts.com.
Also, be sure to let your students know about our Competitions and Opportunities section (in the magazine and online) where they can find shows to enter, residencies, and more.
The Fibers Area is sponsoring a visiting artist lecture by Mia Pearlman, this Thursday, March 18th at 11:00AM in Auditorium B04. Since receiving her BFA from Cornell University in 1996, Mia Pearlman has exhibited internationally in numerous galleries, non-profit spaces and museums, including the Museum of Arts and Design (NY), the Montgomery Museum of Art (AL), the Centre for Recent Drawing (London), and Mixed Greens (NY). Upcoming shows include the Indianapolis Museum of Art and Plaatsmaken in the Netherlands. Her work is featured in several books on the use of paper in contemporary art. Pearlman has participated in many residency programs, including Proyecto’Ace in Buenos Aires, the Lower East Side Printshop in NYC, and the Vermont Studio Center. She is a recipient of a 2008 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant and a 2009 Established Artist Fellowship from UrbanGlass. Pearlman lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
Susan Longacre, a resident of Victorian Towers in Cape May, thinks the knitted work around the park is wonderful. Mysterious knitted cozies have been appearing around trees and lamp posts at Wilbraham Park in West Cape May since the end of February. It is still a mystery as to who is draping the park in the knitted artwork.
Photo by: Dale Gerhard
WEST CAPE MAY — It’s a dark winter night and the park is empty. Or ... is it?
Suddenly, movement. Yes, somebody slinking through the entrance gate, armed with long metal spikes of some sort. They’re pulling something out of a pouch. It looks like a ball of some sort, kind of like a ball of yarn, pink yarn. Before long another tree, signpost or lamp standard is covered with brightly colored yarn.
Yes, the midnight knitter has struck again.
And officials are stumped again.
The midnight knitter (or knitters) remains at large.
“We don’t know who it is,” said Mayor Pam Kaithern. “Technically, they shouldn’t be doing it. The police are asking about it, but it’s fun and it’s a mystery.”
Kaithern said most people enjoy the adornments that have brought blues, pinks, teal, yellow, reds, purples, lime green and other colors to Wilbraham Park, which tends to be pretty bland this time of year. It looks as if someone is trying to keep the trees and lamp standards warm by wrapping them up in leggings and scarves.
Even though nobody has admitted to doing the knitting, a Facebook page called Salty Knits is loaded with positive responses. Kaithern said she doesn’t know who’s doing it, nor does she care.
“Let’s keep it a mystery,” she said.
Local artist Diane Flanegan is hoping the mystery knitters will get up from their rocking chairs and admit the deed at the park’s first big event of the season. She is one of the organizers of the annual Strawberry Festival, which is set for June 5 this year.
“We love them. We don’t know who they are, but we put in a request for them to reveal themselves at the Strawberry Festival,” Flanegan said.
Fans of the work argue it is an art form, a whimsical one at that. The area is known for its artists, including potters, painters, woodworkers and, now, knitters.
“It’s typical West Cape May art. It’s so quirky. It’s like the green magnetic fish at the Flying Fish studio,” Flanegan said.
There is at least one difference between famous artists like Christo and the midnight knitters of Wilbraham Park.
“Christo does it with permission. These guys do it in the dead of night,” said Richmond Shreve, while lunching across from the park Monday at the coffee shop Higher Grounds.
Shreve is a fan, as was everybody else at Higher Grounds on Monday.
“I think it’s what the town needs. It gets the town talking,” Higher Grounds owner Katie Panamarenko said.
Christo, of course, sought publicity for each project he did with his late wife, Jean Claude, as they decorated entire islands, covered landscapes with blue and yellow umbrellas or adorned Central Park in New York City with saffron-colored gates. Nobody is quite sure if the goal here is to create temporary works of art or if someone is just having fun.
“Art is in the eye of the beholder,” Kaithern said.
Regulars at the park love the handiwork. Susan Longacre, who lives at Victorian Towers in Cape May, takes her daily walk in the park to see the latest attack firsthand. Longacre admitted senior citizens at Victorian Towers have contributed yarn to the midnight knitters, some of whom she knows.
“I think it’s wonderful,” Longacre said.
Others are indifferent.
“It doesn’t bother me. It’s better than somebody spray painting all over the place,” said local resident Jamie Smith.
One neighbor, Mark Lukas, who has a house across the street but also lives in New York City, disapproves. He said Christo’s “The Gates” was amazing but noted it was “appropriate and approved.” Lukas said the Shade Tree Commission should step in as the tree cozies hurt the charm and authenticity of a borough with old Victorian homes.
“I don’t think it’s appropriate. It’s a public space and people should not be able to go in and do what they want to do,” Lukas said.
Flanegan said after such a cold winter, with blizzards and power outages and weeks without sunshine, the midnight knitters are welcome — though still unidentified.
“I think they’re actually going out and knitting in the middle of the night. That’s weird and that’s why people like it,” Flanegan said.
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My work is an exploration of narrative, myth and metaphor. I am particularly interested in the use of symbol in fairytale and folklore and also write my own stories. I take inspiration from the use of wood and paper in Japanese spiritual life.see more here.
Fascinating video about representing hyperbolic geometry with free form crochet structures. I'm definitely not a math whiz but speaker Margaret Wertheim presents this topic clearly and simply.
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/margaret_wertheim_crochets_the_coral_reef.html
