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The Future Generation Art Prize – Call to ArtistArt

The Future Generation Art Prize – Call to ArtistArt
To be 35 or younger! Online application 18 January – 18 April 2010 The prize is established to discover and provide long-term support for a generation of emerging artists, wherever they may live and work, this unique artist-focused prize aims to make a major contribution toward the production of new...

Picture Books with “Heart and Soul”

Picture Books with “Heart and Soul”
Starting on November 21, the Art Institute of Chicago presents “Heart and Soul: Art from Coretta Scott King Award Books”. “The hearts and souls of musicians and poets, great feats of bravery and risk, and spiritual uplift are some of the memorable messages portrayed in this collection of picture...

O’Keeffe at the Whitney

O’Keeffe at the Whitney
“Georgia O’Keeffe: Abstraction” is a featured exhibit at the Whitney Museum. The artist, 1887-1986 is known for her flowers and western landscapes images. “By devoting itself to this largely unexplored area of her work, Georgia O’Keeffe: Abstraction is an overdue acknowledgment of her place...

Please Find Ways to Support The Arts

Please Find Ways to Support The Arts
The Arts and Business Council in Phoenix is an organization that yearly does wonderful things to support artists and art organizations. They have one major fund raiser a year which provides the funds to do what they need to do. This year and maybe for the next few years, raising money may be more difficult...

“First Person Impressions” Competitions

One of the fun things about our new media art, the internet, is that everyone gets a chance to participate. Some of the work has been criticized as amateurish, childish etc. These views miss their mark in my opinion. I think the goal always is to play, otherwise you don’t create projects like First...

Artist-in-Residence grants 2009

Künstlerhäuser Worpswede The Künstlerhäuser Worpswede are one of the largest residencies in the Federal Republic of Germany. Among former grant holders are many well-known international artists such as Emmett Williams, Koeken Ergun, Yuri Leiderman, Dan Perjovschi, Katharina Sieverding or...