At the Met

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Featured Artwork of the Day: Abraham Rademaker (Dutch, 1675–1735) | Snow Falling on a Dutch Town http://met.org/1bZbB6b

MFA show call

2014 MFA National Competition

July 24 - August 15, 2014
Juror: Asya Geisberg

ENTRY DEADLINE MAY 30, 2014

Inquiries: MFAinquiries@firststreetgallery.net • 646-336-8053

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ONLINE ENTRY FORM

FIRST STREET GALLERY is a professional, artist-run gallery located in New York City’s premier art district, Chelsea. For more than 43 years, our mission has been to exhibit and promote the work of emerging and mid-career artists.
JUROR: ASYA GEISBERG; Owner-director of Asya Geisberg Gallery in Chelsea NYC, specializing in contemporary, emerging, and international artists; she is also an artist, curator, journalist and art consultant. AGG was featured in Newsweek's "Hot New York Galleries;" reviewed in The New York Times; Artforum's "Critic's Picks"; The New Yorker; The Brooklyn Rail; Lodown Magazine (Berlin); Boat Magazine (UK), and many others. Asya is a graduate of Wesleyan University, The School of the Museum of FIne Arts, Boston, and earned an MFA from the School of Visual Arts.
ELIGIBILITY: Artists who are or have been enrolled in an MFA program within the last three years in the United States. Eligible works include paintings, drawings, mixed media, prints, sculpture, photography, installations and computer-generated art. No video, film, or giclees,
ENTRY FORM / ENTRY FEE:

Call to artists

The Cultural Alliance of Fairfield County
encourages all artists and organizations in the region to attend an
Informational Meeting by staff from the Connecticut Office of the Arts (COA) on its:

FY2015 Arts Catalyze Placemaking (ACP) Grant Programs
for projects to occur between July 1, 2014 and June 30, 2015.

The meeting will be held in the Multimedia Gallery at
Stepping Stones Museum for Children,
Mathews Park, 303 West Avenue,
Norwalk, CT 06850
Tuesday March 4, 1-3pm.

Please RSVP to David Green david@culturalalliancefc.org

There are three ACP grant categories:

Arts Leadership
Arts-based creative placemaking projects
with one or more partners. $1,500 - $50,000.
Application Deadline: April 2.

Historic Preservation
Arts-based creative placemaking projects
that spotlight historic preservation and
engage one or more partners. $5,000 - $50,000.
Application Deadline: April 2.

Supporting Arts in Place
Relatively unrestricted operating support
with funding calculations primarily generated from organizational data.
Application Deadline: March 19.

In order to apply, you must submit an "Intent-to-Apply" Statement
by Noon, Wednesday February 26.

Submitting an Intent-to-Apply statement is very simple:
"Sign-In" or "Sign-Up" at the Office of the Arts e-grant portal: https://coa.fluidreview.com/

KAA

In the two Kent Art Association member shows, Members will be allowed to bring in another piece of art either of a specific size or topic.  These paintings will be in any medium and will all be hung together.

    For Member 1 Show entries are to be square only with a maximum size of 12 by 12.  Any subject and medium will be accepted.

    For Member 2 Show, the subject will be motorcycle art with maximum size of 8 x10. 

For these art works, if they are sold they can be taken with the patron at that time and the artist will be given an opportunity to replace the art work.  An additional prospectus will be enclosed with the show prospectus.   

    You do not have to enter the Member show to participate in the Show within a Show.

Details to enter member show 1 will be posted next week!

Carmen Lund

Invite your friends to join you for a few hours of painting and sipping wine together.

You will amaze yourself at your ability to express your inner artist with the wonder and excitement you expressed yourself as a child!

Click on the link for details and information on how to sign up.
https://silvermineart.org/education/courses.php?id=3084


What are you waiting for, call to sign up now before it is too late! (203.966.9700)

Summer opportunities

Employment opportunities at ARTFARM this summer! ARTFARM will be producing King Lear July 17 - 27 for their ninth season of Shakespeare in the Grove, and they are looking to fill several key positions: Administrative Interns, Actors, Technical Director and Stage Manager. For more information, visit
http://www.art-farm.org/home

Grant Program deadline extension

DEADLINE EXTENSION FOR

LETTER OF INTENT TO:

Noon, Wednesday, February 26, 2014

ARTS

CATALYZE

PLACEMAKING

Grant Program

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The Connecticut Office of the Arts (COA) has launched its

FY2015 Arts Catalyze Placemaking (ACP)

grant programs for projects to occur between

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July 1, 2014 and June 30, 2015.

ACCESS TO THE GUIDELINES AND APPLICATIONS IS AVAILABLE HERE

FY15 ACP includes the following categories:

Arts Leadership

Supporting Arts in Place

Historic Preservation

These programs were created by COA and the State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO)

to invest in arts-based cultural projects, activities and infrastructure

in ways that will advance the attractiveness and competiveness of

Connecticut cities, towns, and villages

as meaningful communities in which to live, work, learn and play.

Application deadlines are:

Arts Leadership - Application Deadline: April 2, 2014

Historic Preservation - Application Deadline: April 2, 2014

Supporting Arts in Place - Application Deadline: March 19, 2014

First time applicants MUST submit an

Intent to Apply by

Wednesday, February 26, 2014 - New Extended Deadline

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All other applicants are strongly encouraged to submit an

Intent to Apply by

Wednesday, February 26, 2014 - New Extended Deadline

A simple overview of FY15 ACP programs is available at:

FY15 ACP At-a-Glance.

This overview provides basic information including

• grant award ranges,
• eligibility and matching requirements,
• funding periods and important deadlines.

Please continue to check our website for news and announcements at

www.cultureandtourism.org

or visit COA’s Facebook page

http://www.facebook.com/CTOfficeoftheArts

Call!!

PUBLIC ART GRANTS WORKSHOP

February 27, 2014 | 12:00PM-2:00PM

NEFA | 145 Tremont Street, 7th Floor, Boston, MA 02111

Cost: Free admission

Learn about various public art funding opportunities, including: 

• NEFA's Fund for the Arts 
• Edward Ingersoll Browne Fund
• George B. Henderson Fund 

Also, hear from Boston Art Commission director Karin Goodfellow, who will discuss permitting and site selection. 

Click here for event details and registration.

 NEFA - Public Art

Experimenting with Watercolor - NAC

Our spring workshop series kicks off this month! Join us on February 28 for Experimenting with Watercolor, an intensive one-day workshop for students of all levels.

Friday, February 28, 9:30 AM - 6:30 PM

Under the guidance of three expert instructors, you'll create a large-scale work on paper using the water media of your choice. Celebrate your work that evening in an informal exhibition and open studio.

Ready to get inspired? Click here to get your free catalogue and brochure with a full list of spring courses and workshops.

Call for Artists! Westport DMA

ART ABOUT TOWN 

The Westport DMA invites submissions in any media for ART ABOUT TOWN, a month-long event designed to provide artist exhibition opportunities in the windows of stores and restaurants throughout Westport, CT's vibrant downtown shopping district.

All art must be for sale, no crafts, juried.

The Opening Night Street Festival will feature music, live performances, art demonstrations and refreshments.

Entry Deadline: Friday, March 21^st, 2014

Dates and Location:  Opening Night - Thursday, May 22.  Art remains on display until June  15. 

For Further Information and to apply 

www.artabouttownwestport.com

Nancy White Cassidy

Nancy writes, WE HAVE WONDERFUL VALENTINE'S GIFTS TO FIT EVERY TASTE AND WALLET. 

The Cassidy Gallery is known for extraordinary framed art by New England artists.  But we are equally known for our outstanding selection in fine craft and jewelry. 
One-of-a-kind pieces, not to be found elsewhere!

Jewelry by:   

 Cynthia Battista  Artifact Jewelry
Laura Castano Copper Owl Jewelry
Barbara Smith McLaughlin Fine Jewelry
Linda Sorensen Jewelry
Wendy Wetherbee Pure Dichotomy Jewelry
and
Dichroic Fused Glass Jewelry by Linda Banks
Jan Eskedal Fine Art Pins

Let us help you select the perfect gift, for Valentine's Day or any day.

Open Call! Open auditions for the indie short Only Moments

by Barbara Katz Disraeli

Making Movies in Danbury

More movies than you think are shot in Danbury. The latest indie short is holding their first round of casting this Saturday. Open auditions for the indie short Only Moments will be from 1PM to 5PM at the American Legion, 134 Triangle Street Danbury, CT 06810. The second go round will be the following Saturday Feb 15, with the location and time to be announced.

What to bring

Please prepare a SHORT monologue and we will also provide sides.
Men and women of all ages are welcome.

This is my first time auditioning  

An Indie film is one not associated with a major film studio. Only Moments is an original story. A monologue is an acting scene with only one character. The Danbury Library can help you out finding some. 'Sides' are a part of the actual script. You might be asked to read something as a character.

Hope to see you there!!