The Human Factor: ELMUR Call for Video Art

May 18, 2013 By Leave a Comment

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Video Challenge – 360º Around The Human Factor

Wherever you come from north, south, east or west of the continent if you are a creative citizen which loves to capture ideas and little big moments in life… this is your challenge!

To celebrate our 5th anniversary ELMUR.NET global visual dialogue invites you to submit your creative videos under the theme: 360º Around the Human Factor, creative perspectives on human values.

In a globalised digital world where human beings are closer than ever, we would like to visually reflect about those things which unite us all.

What makes you feel close to others? What is valuable to you or to humankind? After all, what makes us humans? A feeling, a moment, an idea? Are you able to capture it with your camera, visualize it with images, graphics or with an animation?

Show us your talent and perspectives, share your creativity, inspire us and win amazing awards!

UPLOAD YOUR PROPOSALS at http://www.elmur.net

Submissions open from 01.06.13 until 18.06.14

Monthly awards throughout the challenge!

What can you get?

Best videos will be screened in public spaces and cultural events in an international context. You will be able to promote your talent and present your creativity to wider audiences in amazing in places and events like ESPACIO ENTER international Festival of Creativity, innovation and Digital Culture (ES) and BILDERFLUT public screenings in Berlin (DE) among others.

The board of experts from ELMUR.NET will do review and give you feedback of your proposal.

AWARDS

1 x “Best Video of the year“ Award

12 x “Best Video of the Month” Awards
Every month ELMUR.NET will select a video to be presented in the ELMUR public screen installation in Lleida (Spain). It will be highlighted at elmur.net website and social media channels and promoted within ELMUR.NET international network.
Get connected with updates on complementary awards for all participant videos. Register at www.elmur.net and follow us at Facebook or Twitter (elmurnet).

ELIGIBILITY

No entry fee.
Open to all, no age or nationality restrictions.
We encourage amateurs and professional creatives to take part in the challenge.
Open to all styles and techniques: creative video, storytelling, animation, video art, video poetry, experimental, video collages, remixes, vj mixes, etc.
No limit in the number of works submitted per entrant.
All videos will be published under Creative Commons Licence: attribution, noncommercial, share alike.

Take up the Challenge! Upload your proposal at http://www.elmur.net

MORE? Download attached PDF or write us at info@elmur.net

Link: http://www.elmur.net/index.php/news/index

Deadline: Wed Jun 18th, 2014

elmur.net
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Berlin and others, 13353
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Paintings of Artist Gabriella Cleuren in All Female Group Exhibition:der weibliche blick

May 17, 2013 By Leave a Comment

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Injured by others supported and helped. An image of solidarity with difficulties. This is the human image par excellence, that seems to be forgotten. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solidarity

Carried by friends, Gabriella Cleuren, 2009,

Carried by friends, Gabriella Cleuren, 2009, 110 x 73 cm – 43 1/4 x 28 3/4 in.

From May 16th a group exhibition with other exclusively female artists is on view at KunstvereinBurgwedel-Isernhagen until May 20, 2013. The title of the exhibition is: der weibliche blick.

More information about this exhibition at http://www.kunstverein-bwi.de/ in German.

Gabriella shows two works from the series: Brave New Old Worlds. If you want to see more works from the series Brave New Old Worlds show, click on the following link: http://www.gabycleuren.com/types/Brave_New_Old_Worlds/works/

We are very busy  to make a multilingual presentation of the website www.gabycleuren.com.

Regularly we will post the progress on http://www.gabycleuren.com/news
www.gabycleuren.com
Sponsored by www.edpnet.com
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Pattern Bank: Artists,Want to Earn Money From Prints 24/7?

May 17, 2013 By Leave a Comment

Pattern Bank needs talented print designers!

• Want to earn money from prints 24/7 ?
• Get your prints seen by a truly global audience
• Free to join
• Upload your old archive of un-sold designs
• Build a custom sellers profile page
• Great commission from each design sold
• Stock and exclusive license options
• Prints can be sold in repeat and inspirational format
Patternbank is currently developing an exciting new section of their site. Through Patternbank.com you will soon be able to upload, sell and earn money on your print designs. We aim to offer an extensive library of high quality downloadable prints. Trend and print themes will be categorised for easy search options, making it simple for buyers to find the exact design they need for their new collection.
Join, upload, sell and earn from the comfort of your studio/home. Patternbank will soon become the go-to online source for all things print, pattern and graphics. With our extensive industry database we aim to get your designs under the noses of key buyers within the fashion and design sectors and showcasing your designs to a global audience around the clock.
If you would like to be one of the first to appear and sell designs in the ‘Patternbank Studio’ sign up now for the pre-launch application. Please email sell@patternbank.com with 4-6 sample designs. We will get back to you with our selling price structures and more detailed information of how you can join the Patternbank Studio.
*Please attach 4-6 print designs for studio accreditation. (max 2mb attachment – low res is fine as these are just for application).  http://patternbank.com/

If you are an artist looking for more art sales opportunities, or an artist seeking art licensing opportunities visit our Artist Resources shop.

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Participate in Countune International Internet Social Art Project

May 16, 2013 By Leave a Comment

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Fast and easy to get your own, here is my Countune.

In the About section of Countune Gerd Jansens explains his project, in part–”Why should a picture always belong to just one person? This picture belongs to everyone, so it brings people and ideas together. Countune is an “International Internet Social Art Project” and a registered Trademark. It is a new concept for exhibiting pictoral art. Its significance is rooted in an on-going graphic representation of the sequence of natural numbers.”

Here some information about what you can do on the countune  website:

You can download your countune in two versions.

  1. create more countunes,
  2. change colors when you like,
  3. send your countune as Greeting E-Card to your friends,
  4. specify your Links and install more
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Call Out For Artists, Writers, Illustrators, Musicians, Thinkers For An Exhibition: Feminism =

May 16, 2013 By 1 Comment

Blank Media Collective is a not-for-profit arts organization based in Manchester, UK that strives to support emerging creativity by providing platforms and opportunities to share it with the wider community.

Blank Media Collective is programming an exhibition, supporting symposium, publication and events programme called ‘equals’. ‘equals’ aims to open up and critique the conversations surrounding contemporary British feminism and gender equality to anyone and everyone. The goal is to provide a platform for artists, writers, musicians and thinkers to develop and express their thoughts and concerns on the themes of feminism and its wider social implications.

They are looking for you to answer:
Feminism =

This is very much an evolving conversation and Blank Media Collective encourages you to develop your thoughts and ideas by responding to these themes.

All genders are encouraged to submit and take part in any medium. Blank Media Collective is currently seeking submissions for the publication and the event. For the publication we are looking for poetry, creative prose, essays, illustrations and two-dimensional art work. For the live event, we are seeking live literature, poetry, music, performance, video and sound art. The live event will take place on Saturday 13th July so please ensure that you will be available on this date before you submit work.

Please submit an idea of what you would like to produce or up to three finished pieces for consideration. Proposals should be accompanied by a current CV, biography and a sample of 3 or more recent works. Please also include relevant web links.

To apply send the above to equals@blankmediacollective.org

Deadline for proposals: Monday 27th May 5pm.

BLANKSPACE
43 Hulme Street
Manchester, M15 4AW
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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Wish You Were Here 12: A.I.R. Gallery’s Postcard Show! Call for Artist Submissions

May 16, 2013 By Leave a Comment

Artists & Friends of A.I.R. Gallery:

You are invited to participate in our yearly benefit postcard show:

Wish You Were Here 12: June 27 – July 21, 2013
Reception: Thursday, June 27th, 6 – 8:30 pm
DUMBO 1st Thursday: July 11th, 6 – 9 pm

Last year’s exhibit featured work by over 400 artists from as far afield as Australia and Guyana. This year we hope you will join us in our mission to provide leadership and community to women in the arts by exhibiting your work in Wish You Were Here 12. Artists of all mediums including writers and musicians are encouraged to donate.

**All the proceeds of this exhibition help fund our programs, including our Fellowship Program for under-represented and emerging women artists.

PLEASE NOTE: We will only be exhibiting single postcards & we will ONLY except 1 from each artist.

DIRECTIONS FOR PARTICIPATION:
please read the below carefully

1. Create a wall mountable artwork that is 4 x 6 inches*

- If your artwork is NOT made of cardstock or a similar thin material, please wire the back so that we can hang it on the wall on a nail or hook.

2. Print the following information on the back of each card:

Name:
Title:
Medium:
Year:
Phone Number &/or Email:

*ONLY ONE POSTCARD BY EACH ARTIST WILL BE EXCEPTED

*We will NOT accept diptychs & triptychs this year.

*WORK LARGER THAN 4 X 6 INCHES WILL NOT BE EXHIBITED

*WORK THAT DOES NOT INCLUDE THE INFORMATION LISTED ABOVE ON THE BACK WILL NOT BE EXHIBITED

DELIVERY of WORK: By 6pm Friday, June 7th, 2013

Mail / Hand-Deliver in an envelope to:

A.I.R. Gallery
ATTN: Postcard 2013
111 Front Street #228
Brooklyn NY 11201

*Each donated card will be labeled and a list of participating artists will be made available to gallery visitors.

All postcards will be priced at $45 including New York State sales tax.

This year all sales will be CASH or CREDIT & CARRY only.

RETURN of unsold work:
- Enclose a SASE for the return of your submission ONLY for U.S. submissions**
- Postcards from outside of the US CANNOT be mailed back

OR
- Pick up your submission no later than September 12th 2013

ANY SUBMISSIONS NOT PICKED UP BY:
SEPTEMBER 12, 2013 will become the property of A.I.R. NO EXCEPTIONS!

To download an example of how to format the back of the card, click http://www.airgallery.org/images/4×6.pdf
Please note that depending on your printer, this example card may print slightly larger than 4″x6″.

Please trim to 4″x6″ if you use this PDF as a template.

http://www.airgallery.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=main.page&pagename=ThePostcardShow&pageid=148

Deadline: Fri Jun 7th, 2013

A.I.R. Gallery
111 Front Street
Brooklyn, New York DUMBO 11201
United States of America
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Galeria Zero New York Call for Artists

May 16, 2013 By Leave a Comment

I have no deadline, or any other details on this Call for artists. If you’d like more information please contact the producers via the email address provided below.

We propose a conjunction of contemporary art of high quality and from different origins.
In this show there will be painting ( basically abstract) , photography / video, sculpture and installation.

APPLICATIONS TO  newyork@galeriazero.info

http://www.galeriazero.info/NEWYORK.html

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Open Call for Artists: HMK Large-Scale Community Art Project, the Netherlands

May 15, 2013 By 3 Comments

Open Call // Community Art In Hoorn

Open Call // Community Art in Hoorn NL

deadline: June 15, 2013

HMK {Hotel MariaKapel} offers one or more artists the opportunity to realise a large-scale community art project in Hoorn, the Netherlands in 2014.

The commission
HMK is looking for a newly developed community art project which
 Is a project by a visual artist
 Takes place in (semi-)public space
 In development and execution is (partially) dependent on the participation of a local audience/public.
 Benefits from a local (social) infrastructure for the realisation of the project

Goals
The project engages residents from Hoorn during the process of creation. The group of participants does not necessarily have to be large, as long as the project reaches a large audience. The target group is not decided upon beforehand, but depends on the nature of your project. The concept of the project will be developed in 2013 and will be created in 2014 in a neighbourhood of Hoorn, NL, preferably not the centre.

HMK offers
For the development of the concept and its’ creation HMK offers a budget, including a fee for the artist(s).
HMK is responsible for PR, communication and publicity. During the project we offer full use of all facilities, including the guesthouse.

How to apply
Project proposals consists of a brief (1/2 A4 – 1 A4) explanation of your project, documentation and a CV, if possible all combined in a single PDF document, and can be sent to call@hotelmariakapel.nl (att. Community Art Project). In a second round we might ask you to further explain your proposal. Find more Details HERE.

Selection criteria
Main criteria for selection are artistic quality, relevance of the topic/concept, the level of involvement of a local audience and participants. Furthermore professionalism, an independent way of working, and the skills to generate collaborations and contacts are of importance.

Deadline: Sat Jun 15th, 2013

HMK {Hotel MariaKapel}
Korte Achterstraat 2a
Hoorn, 1621GA
Netherlands
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The Art Collective Ltd: Annual artist submission for representation is now open

May 15, 2013 By Leave a Comment
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The Art Collective Ltd represents a select number of exceptional emerging artists and contemporary art. We host exhibitions and represent artists and their work at art fairs. We also collaborate with companies and communities to enable more people to become engaged with art.
Since launching back in 2011 we have quickly gained a reputation for hosting excellent quality exhibitions and giving artists our support and the chance to break through.
Applying is free and simple. In the first instance email us images of your work or send a pdf portfolio, a brief artist c.v and any additional relevant information. Email: info@theartcollective.com
We offer each artist the following opportunities:
- Web gallery & online shop of work
- Publishing and promotion of your work (we pay for catalogues, print & web advertising that accompanies each exhibition)
- Support from us; we are always here to listen and exchange ideas on enhancing your career
- Exhibitions: group, solo and art fairs
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Angels and Animals–the Paintings of Paula Jones

May 14, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Pig portrait, Paula Jones oil painting

Pig portrait, Paula Jones oil painting

Artist Paula Jones has a new website where you can view and buy her luscious oil paintings in skillful brushstrokes reminiscent of past masters, yet  each artwork has such a contemporary appeal. These paintings will look wonderful hanging in your home or office!

Sheep Portrait, Paula Jones oil painting, SOLD!

Sheep Portrait, Paula Jones oil painting, SOLD!

We love this sheep portrait, and found out that it just SOLD as we were about to publish this blog post.

Bunny's portrait, Paula Jones oil painting

Bunny’s portrait, Paula Jones oil painting

The Sentinel, Paula Jones oil painting

The Sentinel, Paula Jones oil painting

Each painting is a one-of-a-kind original, and Paula also offers limited Edition Giclee prints in her website print shop.

Dare to Dream, Paula Jones oil painting

Dare to Dream, Paula Jones oil painting

The artist is very versatile, she also creates paintings in another unique style, in her On Her Own figurative series and in her abstract series as well, all available on her website.

Esmeralda, Paula Jones oil painting

Esmeralda, Paula Jones oil painting

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