The San Jose Public Art Program has created a temporary, one-year position for a Senior Project Manager in Public Art. This position will be responsible, mainly, for construction management on projects already underway and will ‘sunset’ after a year unless there is a need to extend it.

They are looking for a candidate with experience in construction management, who likes working with a variety of disciplines (e.g. artists, landscape designers, architects); and is local if possible, since this is not a permanent position.

For more information, visit the city's website here.

Fellow Phantom Galleries artists Beth Mostovoy and Julie Goodenough are putting together an art market for downtown Redwood City. "Art on the Square" will take place in July, August and September.

Redwood City is fast becoming the peninsula’s epicenter for the arts with new galleries and great places to hear live music. This summer Art on the Square joins the mix. Courthouse Square will be transformed as artists and artisans exhibit their work in the heart of the beautifully renovated downtown. Presented by the Redwood City Civic Cultural Commission and the Redwood City Redevelopment Agency, the three juried outdoor shows will complement Music on the Square, the city’s Friday evening summer concert series. And, Redwood City’s downtown galleries will stay open late for ArtWalk during Art on the Square.

Clik here for more info and vendor applications.

We encourage you to participate in the following Call For Entries. This is a great opportunity to exhibit at a great gallery.

Call for Entries – Share Your Stories!

Gente, Casas y Barrios: A community participation exhibition about people & neighborhoods

Exhibition: June 27 - July 14, 2007
Opening Reception: Friday, June 29, 6:00 to 8:00pm

MACLA/Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana is inviting the larger community to participate in the exhibition, “Gente, Casas y Barrios.”

This exhibition is open to all media including photography, painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, video, etc. that deals with the theme of people, houses and neighborhoods. The idea behind this exhibition is to allow the community to express itself and allow people to engage in a visual conversation about what makes their neighborhood unique.

How to submit:

The Center for Fine Art Photography and CameraArts Magazine are partnering to bring photographers a unique opportunity to promote their work and talent. Those working in all styles and schools of thought are invited to submit their work for consideration in this cooperative call for entry. Traditional, contemporary, avant-garde, creative and experimental works that include new processes, mixed techniques, and challenging personal, emotional, or political statements are welcome.

The theme is open to all subjects and the exhibition is open to all professional and amateur, domestic and international photographers working with digital or traditional photography or combinations of both.

Jurors: Tim Anderson, Publisher/Managing Editor, CameraArts magazine and Larry Padgett, Executive Director, The Center for Fine Art Photography.

Grand Prize recipient will be given an eight-page portfolio, plus the front cover of the 2007 November/December CameraArts issue.

Deadline to submitt is Sept. 04, 2007 and more info can be found here.

Larry Reibstein, Cleopatra, 2006

Art of Digital Show CALL FOR ENTRIES! Deadline August 15, 2007

An international exhibition of digital art at the elegant Lyceum Theatre Gallery in San Diego's historic Gaslamp Quarter. $3000 cash awards, 20,000 expected views of the exhibit, and show catalog.

Judge: Neal Benezra, Director of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Curator: Steven Churchill

Art created or manipulated via any form of digital technology will be accepted for consideration.

This includes: Digital painting, computer based illustration, digitally manipulated photography, fractals and algorithmic imagery, digital manipulations of traditionally created art, digital montages and collages, mixed media with digital elements, digital video art, computer animation, CGI, etc.

This does not include: Photographic images which are simply captured with a digital camera. This does not include: Photographic images which are simply printed with a digital printer.

For the complete application, visit the Art Of Digital Show website here.

Free copyright workshop with attorney David Morales
Tuesday, July 17, 2007, 7:00-8:00 pm
Works/San Jose, 451 South First Street in San Jose

Please join us at this free event, to celebrate the opening of California Lawyers for the Arts' satellite office in San Jose. This workshop is an introduction to copyright issues suitable for all artists. What can you protect? How do you register your copyright? What are the benefits? This workshop answers your questions!

Call Steven Tran at (408) 998-2787 ext. 216 or email sanjose@calawyersforthearts.org to register or for questions.

Presented by California Lawyers for the Arts, with Works/San Jose, Arts Council Silicon Valley, Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana, and Phantom Galleries.

California Lawyers for the Arts — San Jose
4 North Second Street, Suite 500
San Jose, CA 95112
Office: 408-998-2787 ext. 216
Direct: 408-568-6639

Expressions’ Gallery Owner, Gail Faris, has sent us two calls for entries for fiber artists for upcoming exhibits at their gallery space on The Alameda in San Jose.

presented by the San Francisco Foundation Center; free!

7pm Tuesday, August 21, 2007
Works San Jose
451 So. First St., downtown San Jose

This workshop is intended for individuals involved in the arts and looking to fund any type of arts-related project, such as: to complete a project, mount an exhibition, put on a performance, or conduct research.

Participants will learn how to identify funders in the arts, explore fiscal sponsorship, and create a step-by-step plan to find funding for your needs as an individual grantseeker.

This workshop is presented by the Foundation Center, the nation’s leading authority on philanthropy, connecting nonprofits and the grantmakers supporting them to tools they can use and information they can trust. admission is free but please register by clicking here.

Martha has recently returned from a 2 week workshop with Mitch Lyons at the Skopelos Foundation for the Arts, in Greece! She has loads of new ideas and techniques to share with you, including a NEW non-toxic, no fumes final varnish...the technique just gets safer, and better!

“2-Day +” Workshop: September 14, 15, 16
Friday evening 7-9, Saturday & Sunday, 10-4
A unique and innovative monotype process; non-toxic, hand tools only, no press required! No experience necessary. Limited class size, lots of personal attention. $245 for first time students, including materials

NEW: 1 Day Introductory Workshop: Saturday, September 29, 9:30am-4pm
Small class size insures you will get the most out of this introduction to clayprinting.
$125, including materials.

Register online @ https://www.marthacastillo.net or call (650) 493-7763

Martha's work will also be in 1st Annual Juried Exhibition at Gallery 2611 in Redwood City with an artist's reception on September 7th, 7-9pm.

Call for Artists living in California
“Dia de los Muertos”
Entry Deadline is Sunday, September 16, 2007

For years, Long Beach has celebrated Dia de los Muertos in a huge apartment complex and courtyard. The 2nd City Council Art Gallery + Performance Space (2cc) is now a neighbor and has been invited to participate. This year the gates on both sides of the alley will open wide to encourage an exchange of culture, art, fun and flow of community from the apartment courtyard to 2cc’s gallery and garden. The courtyard is a magical place where altars, candlelight, marigolds, Aztec dancing and live music will fill the air. In addition to the exhibition and the community ofrenda, 2cc’s garden will likewise be transformed with altars, calaveras, music, movies, delicious food & desserts and craft vendors. Please join us.

Cash awards $500, $300, $200, $100 plus the infamous Eye Opener Statue.
2nd City Council Art Gallery + Performance Space
435 Alamitos Avenue, Long Beach, CA 90802
(562) 901-0997
for more info: 2ndcitycouncil@earthlink.net

Kevin of the Intersections for the Arts has sent an invitation to all south bay community artists to participate in their Call for Entries for their Annual Juried Exhibition.

San Francisco's Intersection for the Arts teams up with Southern Exposure on their 16th Annual Entry Fee-Free Juried Exhibition, 7th Annual Film/Video Screening, Day of Public Interventions, and Performance Series of works by Northern California artists.

"This year Southern Exposure has joined up with their new neighbor and old friend, Intersection for the Arts, to present a series of juried projects. With the same commitment to innovative, experimental, and risk-taking art we collectively decided on the theme, GROUNDED? What does it mean to be grounded and what does the journey in search of grounding look like? We invite artists to submit work that responds to this idea in some way, shape or form."

Entry forms for GROUNDED? can be found at locations throughout the Bay Area as well as on our websites at soex.org and theintersection.org. (Applications will also be available at Anno Domini and KALEID galleries.)

For more information or questions about the juried show please contact Maysoun Wazwaz (SoEx) at 415-863-2141 or programs@soex.org and Kevin Chen (Intersection) at 415-626-2787 or kevin@theintersection.org.

Deborah Anderson, (current KALEID artist) will be teaching a polymer clay class in which students will create a fun and colorful bracelet made entirely of polymer clay with different designs on each side, so that it can be worn either way.

Date: Tuesday, October 23, 2007 from 10am to 2pm.
Location: Michaels Art & Crafts Store, 5550 Snell Ave. (at Blossom Hill Road), San Jose
The cost for the class is $40., you must go into the Michaels Store to sign up.
Michael's phone # is (408) 694-0658.

For more information, click the "continued reading" link below, or email: maraha@aol.com or phone (408) 998-5303

Avenue1 is an Academy of Higher Learning with an Art & Design Department. Our program is fairly new and most of the students are talented but still learning the foundations of each discipline.

For our standard fine arts workshops we currently go through three dimensional drawing, color, collage, and three dimensional building. Then if a student wishes to be involved in our portfolio classes, they work primarily on portfolio projects.

We are seeking an experienced artist to help build portfolios for our students. Each student is looking to get into one of the top design institutes in the nation so it is important that you are confident of your skills and ability.

For the position description and contact info, click the "continue reading" link below.

Root Division sent us this as invitation to you the Phantom artists to submit curatorial proposals to their SF gallery. Please contact Ashley directly with any questions at ashley@rootdivision.org.

Root Division is an arts & arts education non-profit organization that was founded in 2002 by artists, of artists, and for artists. Part of our mission is to offer opportunities for emerging and professional artists to develop, which includes exhibiting work and curating exhibitions. We embrace artists with no experience in these area as well as those with extensive resumes. As we consider submissions, we intend to include a broad range of artistic practices.

We strongly encourage that you visit our space, familiarize yourself with our past & current exhibition program, and understand the mission of the organization before submitting a proposal. Strong proposals will be clear & concise, will present innovative & engaging ideas, and will intend to draw a diverse group of participants & visitors. While we do not exclude artists & curators from outside the Bay Area, our primary focus is presenting local emerging artists and local emerging curators.

If you are interested in participating, please visit their submission guidelines here.

Unique situation. secure Japantown location, approx 650 sqft, freshly painted white walls, track lighting, small balcony. located within a studio/gallery complex. Very clean. Sorry, no live-in possibilities. Price negotiable.
For further information please call ken 408 288-9305 or email him at ken@artobjectgallery.com

Arts Council Silicon Valley annually awards Artist Fellowships to provide monetary support designed to encourage the continuing development of Santa Clara County’s finest creative artists who are seriously committed to their art form and who have a demonstrated history of professional activity in the region. Artist Fellowships recognize professional working artists and enable them to continue to pursue their creative work.

This grant program defines “working artists” as adults who have received training in an artistic discipline or tradition, spend at least ten hours a week on their artwork, self-define as professional artists, and derive income from work in which they use their expert artistic practices and skills.

Fellowships of up to $4,000 each are awarded annually in six artistic categories. No specific project needs to be carried out with the funds awarded. In 2007/08, Artist Fellowships will be awarded in the following categories:

* Visual Arts /2-dimensional: painting, drawing, mural
* Visual Arts /3-dimensional: textile, installation
* Literary Arts: memoir & novel
* Performing Arts /Music: composition
* Performing Arts /Dance: dance performance
* Performing Arts /Theatre: theatre performance

Free informational workshops

Tuesday, November 13, 2007 6:15pm
San Jose Institute for Contemporary Art
560 South First Street, San Jose

Wednesday, November 14, 2007 4:00pm
Arts Council Silicon Valley - Suite 200 Conference Rm 1
4 North Second Street, San Jose

For more detailed info, click here. Deadline is January 11, 2008.

i-5 Gallery (Los Angeles) would like to invite you to participate in our 2008 Juried Show and Contest.

Open to all artists: local, national, international, includes all media, including film and video and will be juried by Mat Gleason, founder Coagula Art Journal in 1992 and is currently the Director of Exhibitions at Gallery C in Hermosa Beach, California.

Accepted artworks will be exhibited at i-5 Gallery in mid-January, 2008 and considered for the Grand Prize (one artist will be awarded a Solo Exhibition in June, 2008.)

Please note VENUE CHANGE: The Dec. 3rd workshop will be held in the Council Chambers at City Hall at 200 E. Santa Clara Street in San Jose.

New Grant Opportunity for California Artists (all art forms)

In June of 2007, the Center for Cultural Innovation announced the "Investing in Artists" grants program for individual artists throughout California. This program is designed to enhance the working lives and creative environment for California artists by funding tools and market strategies that will allow them to create their best work more consistently, and distribute that work more broadly to new audiences.

To support those aims, "Investing in Artists" provides grants in two categories: 1) Artistic Equipment & Tools; and 2) Presenting & Marketing Work.

Guidelines and Application Forms for Round 2 will be available online at www.cciarts.org/funding starting November 16, 2007 and will be due January 11, 2008.

"Ancient City": Visual, Sculptural, Digital, Sonic & Functional Art

Group show will run the month of February/2008 in prime gallery location in Hayes Valley (580 Hayes), San Francisco.

Submission Deadline: Dec. 25th, No submission fee.

Curator: Photographer, Daniel Newman (www.danielnewman.info)

The title/theme conveys the aesthetic umbrella: urban-centric art that evokes having seen (or foreseeing) the effects of time. Evoking the feeling of "artifact"; retro-futuristic; industrial texture imbibed visions. Artworks of any scale and pricing are eligible. The show will be highly immersive. Your work can have a tangential (but profound) connection to the theme (feel free to explain).

Seeking unique works in ALL types of media, including but not limited to:

• painting
• photography
• sculpture
• digital media
• functional
• lighting/lamps
• furniture
• digital and projected media
• books
• soundscape/soundsculpture
• sand castle

You name it. If it fits thematically, it will be considered.

Please email link to your website, or to images hosted online (no attachments) to dpnewman@gmail.com. You will be contacted with more info if chosen for participation.

Sara Cole is holding an encaustic workshop at the BackWater Arts house on Saturday January 26th, 10am till 4pm.
Cost is $100 includes most materials fees.

The workshop will cover both an introduction to wax and color the first half of the day, and then an introduction to mixed media wax collage the second half of the day.

You should bring: rags, cheap brushes & "scrap" material (ie: old papers, wallpaper, handmade paper, photographs, newspaper, scrapbook materials, small wood or wire pieces, 3D clay pieces, stones, marbles, wire mesh, old drawings or watercolor on paper paintings.
Indoor/outdoor activity so wear layers.
Local food choices for lunch are SCARCE so a packed lunch/beverages is recommended.
Wear clothes that you don't mind getting permanent stains on.
Bring rubber gloves if you have sensitivities.

Please email to reserve your space, no deposit necessary.
Class size limited to 10 participants.

281 Quinn Ave, San Jose CA 95112
RSVP to: backwaterarts@gmail.com or call 408 401 8269

Call for Artists California Visual Artists exhibit
Entry Deadline is Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Eligibility:
All artists living in California.
All media except film and video.
All work submitted for consideration must be available for exhibition March 8 – April 10, 2008.

2nd City Council Art Gallery + Performance Space
435 Alamitos Avenue, Long Beach, CA 90802
(562) 901-0997
E-mail, 2ndcitycouncil@earthlink.net

The Juror: Jay Belloli (Armory’s Director of Gallery Programs since 1990. Prior to joining the Armory, he had nearly twenty years of experience as a curator and museum director across the United States at such institutions as The Detroit Institute of the Arts, the Fort Worth Museum of Modern Art, the San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston, and the former Baxter Art Gallery at Caltech.)

Cash awards $500, $300, $200, $100 plus the infamous Eye Opener Statue.

Entries: Slides - standard 2"x 2" mounted, labeled slides.
Photographs/Digital Prints - at least 5"x7", no bigger than 8.5"x 11"
Emailed images - to 2ndcitycouncil@earthlink.net. JPEG or TIFF files only; cannot exceed 500 KB.

Entry Fees are $10 per entry for members and $20 per entry for nonmembers. Join now and get your first entry free.

Volunteer Hours (in the gallery or at home on your computer) are welcome in lieu of entry fees.

For a complete prospectus please visit http://www.2ndcitycouncil.org. (On the MENU page, please click on "Calendar" and scroll down to the "California Visual Artists" listing.) For questions, please email: 2ndcitycouncil@earthlink.net.

The Distributed Exhibition Call for Site-Specific Artwork

The Distributed Exhibition asks: What might happen when artwork is created for a particular person, family, or living situation? What if private residences became display spaces? What if the occupants became gallerists? What if the viewers became guests?

Create a new site-specific artwork in a private residence or local business as part of an exhibition by the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art. Artists should be interested in responding to the unique layout, architectural features, personal display, or social dynamics of the space.

Deadline for Submissions: February 1st, 2008, by 5:00 pm. Submissions may be hand delivered. Artists Notified: February 11th, 2008

For full description of submission requirements and project, visit:
http://borro.ws/distributed_ex/DistEx_artist_web.pdf
Or email: sara@borro.ws

A project initiated by Sara Thacher, hosted by the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) from March 28 – May 17, 2008.

Mail submissions to:
San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art
“The Distributed Exhibition”
560 South First Street
San Jose, CA 95113

Backwater Arts is seeking donations and art submissions for their upcoming fundraiser and spring/summer exhibition schedule.

100/100- March 29-April 12th (silent auction)
100 works for $100 - a fund raiser to benefit upgrades and running costs of volunteer run backwater arts. To donate piece, send a jpeg of the donation piece and your current cv & artist statement by March 1st. Pieces must arrive by March 20th, 2008. No submission fee.

structures/shelters/sanctuaries - April 19th- May 18th
This show is about shelters and hopes to provoke the questions of: Where we hide, dwell, or find solace. Are they buildings, houses, shacks, temples, gardens . . . What are the spiritual implication applied to you imagery? Political? Cultural? For this show, we are looking for a small number of artists to each show about 5 works of art, so each artist applying should have a body of work from which to choose from regarding this theme. Send a cd with 5-10 images, a current cv & resume, and $25 application fee. Submission deadline is March 5th. Notifications made via email March 10th.

Provenance/Progeny-July 12-August 9th
This exhibition hopes to ask the questions: where do we come from? What is our cultural clan? What socio-political issues are involved with our cultural clan? What is coming after we ourselves no longer exist?
For this show, we are looking for a small number of artists to each show about 5 works of art, so each artist applying should have a body of work from which to choose from regarding this theme. Send a cd with 5-10 images, a current cv & resume, and $25 application fee. Submission deadline is June 1st. Notifications made via email June 10th.

BackWater Arts Gallery
681 Quinn Ave, San Jose CA 95112

sara@bwa-gallery.com or 408 401 8269

mailing address:
po box 21802, san jose ca 95151-1802

Artseen 3 Call For Entries: Emerging Artists Competition - All Media
The Submission Deadline: January 15, 2008

The Jury:
Howard Fox- Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art
David Gere - UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures, Associate Professor AIDS/Arts Activism
Rebecca Morse – Museum of Contemporary Art, Assistant Curator
John Murdoch – The Huntington, Hannah and Russel Kully Director of Art Collections
Catherine Opie – UCLA Department of Art, Professor of Photography
Glenn Phillips – The Getty Research Institute, Consulting Curator in Contemporary Programs and Research

Exhibition Runs: April 28, 2008 – May 3, 2008 at locations throughout Los Angeles. Various events include: Opening Night Party, Auction Gala and Finalist Gathering

The Goods: Thirty-five selected Emerging Artists will have their artwork exhibited alongside internationally known artists in one of Southern California’s most exciting art events.

First place prize: The selected winner receives a $1000 art supply gift certificate, and six hours web-page consultation (valued at $500).
Second place prizes: Two second place winners will receive a $500 art supply gift certificate.

Eligibility: The competition is opened to all artists without gallery representation and who have not had a solo gallery show outside of an academic setting. Entries must be recent work, created within the last three years.

Media: All media, 2D and 3D including painting, sculpture, drawing, printmaking, collage, functional, installation, digital process art and photography is acceptable. *For video: please send 1/2” VHS, NTSC or DVD. And make sure tape is cued.

Fees: There is no fee to participate.

All artwork accepted by the Jury will be donated to AIDS Research Alliance, and will be exhibited and auctioned to benefit the search for a cure to AIDS.

For complete competition details and to generate an on-line entry form, please logon to: http://www.aidsresearch.org/artseen/artist.html

Aids Research Alliance
Contact: Vincent Cummings at artseen@aidsresearch.org

The Djerassi Resident Artists Program invites Santa Clara County-based and San Mateo County-based artists working in the primary disciplines of the visual arts, new media/new genre, literature, choreography and music composition to apply for two Residency Fellowships for the 2009 residency season. Made possible in part by a grant from the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, each Fellowship is comprised of a one-month residency at the Program's SMIP Ranch in rural Woodside and a $1500 unrestricted stipend.

Due to the Program's recent grant award for these two geographically specific Fellowships, the postmark deadline to submit applications for these Fellowships only is March 15, 2009. All other artists applying for the 2009 residency season must comply with the established February 15, 2009 postmark deadline. Application guidelines and forms are available at www.djerassi.org
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All artists' applications, including those qualifying for the Fellowships, will be reviewed together in the spring.

The Djerassi Resident Artists Program core residency season in 2009 runs from mid-March through mid-November. The Program covers all direct expenses of an artist's one-month residency, including studio space, housing, all meals, administrative and technical support, local transportation and many personal amenities. Each year, drawn from an applicant pool of 600 artists worldwide, 60 artists who meet a high standard of excellence are awarded a coveted Djerassi residency. Artists are selected through rigorous review by discipline-specific panels made up of professional artists and arts administrators.

Now in its 29th year, the Djerassi Resident Artists Program is internationally recognized as one the eminent residency programs in the United States. Since its founding, the Program has welcomed more than 1,700 artists from around the world to its rural ranch in the Santa Cruz Mountains, and is open to local, national, and international artists of all disciplines and career levels. The mission of the Djerassi Program, which is a nonprofit organization, is "to support and enhance the creativity of artists by providing uninterrupted time for work, reflection, and collegial interaction in a setting of great natural beauty, and to preserve the land upon which the Program is situated."

For more information about the residency program, go to www.djerassi.org or telephone (650) 747-1250.

OPEN CALL FOR SHORT FILMS, VIDEOS, AND NEW MEDIA SCREEN-BASED WORKS Under 10 minutes in length.
Deadline: February 28, 2008 (postmark)
No fee, no pay
Curators: Bill Basquin & Nomi Talisman
http://may2008.artintervention.org/exhibitions.php

Thematic considerations: We are looking for submissions under 10 minutes in length that relate to the theme of INTERVENTION. This film program will be screened as a part of the Interrupt, Intervene! Art as Social Change Festival hosted by UC Santa Cruz. There will be a conference at UCSC and exhibitions and screenings in the
cities of San Francisco, Santa Cruz and San Jose and on campus at UC Santa Cruz throughout May 2008. (For more information about the conference and events visit the website: http://may2008.artintervention.org )

Art as intervention is an emerging field of contemporary art practice, and artists frequently use humour, surprise, or unusual associations to overturn assumptions about the world, invite political engagement, create collaborations and relationships, examine the everyday or map hidden systems, allowing the audience to think in new ways.

On the Corner Music asks those of you passionate about record collecting to put your mark on a blank white 12" sleeve (or use another sleeve if you like) that represents your enjoyment/love/lust/etc for vinyl – paint on it, draw, paste, scribble, screen-print, collage.

Deadline is February 15th with an exhibition to happen February 22nd/23rd.

For more info email Jeff Evans at drumdemon@hotmail.com or call 408-871-0305

Send sleeves to or drop off at:
On The Corner Music
530 E. Campbell Ave., Campbell, CA. 95008

Do you like to talk with people? Are you interested in art and life? Do you like to explore?

From March 28th to May 17th, 2008, the San Jose ICA will present This Show Needs You, a participatory group exhibition. Michael Smit, one of the artists in this show, is looking for volunteers for his dialogue project: How have you been an artist today?

As a volunteer you will actively participate in and contribute to this exciting project by talking with visitors at the ICA, as well as with people in the public space in San Jose. Your name will appear in project credits.

These conversations will investigate the possibility of an overlap between art and daily life.

2007 Computer Animation / Film/ VFX winner
Codehunters by Ben Hibon / BlinkInk Productions

For the 22nd time, Prix Ars Electronica, the foremost international prize for computer-based art, calls for entries in the categories Computer Animation / Film / VFX, Interactive Art, Hybrid Art, Digital Communities, Digital Musics, the Media.Art.Research Award and u19 – freestyle computing, Austrian’s largest youth computer competition.

More than 3,300 submissions in 2007 have further enhanced the Prix Ars Electronica’s reputation as an internationally representative competition honoring outstanding works in the cyberarts. This year, six Golden Nicas, twelve Awards of Distinction and approximately 70 Honorary Mentions as well as the Media.Art.Research Award are presented to participants. The 2008 winners will receive a total of 115,000 euros in prize money.

For a detailed description of the competition, please consult our website Prix Ars Electronica

The deadline for submissions is March 7, 2008.

Sell your fine art or fine craft in downtown Redwood City at beautiful Courthouse Square. Art on the Square compliments Music on the Square, the popular and well-attended Friday evening summer concert series, Due to popular demand, we’ve added a fourth show!

Fri June 20, 5 – 8:30 pm, Fri July 18, 5 – 8:30 pm & Sat July 19, 10 am – 8 pm *, Fri Aug 1, 5 – 8:30 pm, Fri Sept 19, 5 – 8:30 pm & Sat Sept 20, 10 am – 8 pm **

10’x 10’ and 10’ x 20’ spaces available. All shows are juried. All items must be made by the artist/crafter. No buy and sell.

Download an application at www.redwoodcity.org/events or email for more info: ArtontheSquare@sbcglobal.net

As a special project in conjunction with the Beyond Child's Play exhibit, featuring Pilar Agüero-Exparza & Juan Carlos, at MACLA, Pilar will be hosting Working with Ephemera: A hands-on workshop.
Saturday, March 15, 2008 10am-1pm
This mixed media workshop is for people interested in exploring ephemeral materials such as beeswax, paper, fibers and soap to make art.
$25 per person. Scholarships are available, call (408)998-2808 to reserve your space.

Many of you may know the incredibly prolific artist and entrepreneur Sonya Paz. She thought some of you would like to know of a loft space that's available. Sony's main headquarters is located in Santa Clara in one of the most unique historical buildings around. There is a large suite upstairs from her that she says would be optimal for graphic artists, visual artists (that can collaborate) or maybe an architect.

To view this fabulous space click here.

The Loft
1793 Lafayette Street, Suite 220
Santa Clara, CA 95050

The contact is Chad Ziemendorf, he can be located at (408) 987-4147 or chadz@ccarey.com

Learn about color theory in this hands-on workshop led by artist Mel Prest

Mel Prest's abstract paintings are currently exhibited in The Space Between at the ICA. Prest combines subtle variations of color and hue to create pulsating patterns requiring the viewer to focus and re-focus the eye in order to apprehend the full composition. Prest recieved her B.F.A. from the Rhode Island School of Design and her M.F.A. from Mills College.

Space is limited, call or email to reserve your spot:
Call Virginia at the ICA: 408.283.8155 or email virginia (at) sjica (dot) org

Taken with miPhone, Santa Cruz

The IPPA Competition-Every once in a while someone breaks the convention and changes the way we do things. That's what iPhone did. It changed the way we use the mobile phone. The "IPP Awards" (IPPA) celebrates the simplicity in design and promotes the appreciation of photography. The IPPA strives to discover emerging talent, and to introduce creativity of iPhone users to the design community.

Prize-All photographers compete for the top award, the IPPA Photographer of the Year and an iMac 20-inch, 2.0GHz computer. The work of the top winner and the 1st, 2nd, 3rd Place Winners on each category will be publicized on IPPA online gallery and published in the IPPA Annual Book.

There is a small fee to enter and deadline is March 31st. Visit the IPPAwards.com website for complete details.

The Art House Coop out of Atlanta, GA is putting together another Sketchbook Project with the theme "How To Save The World". They will provide 500 sketchbooks to artists to fill out and return by Aug. 1 for an exhibition on August 23, 08, but you have to request the sketchbook (and pay $13) by visiting the site here before they're gone.

Elisabeth Parashis and Dana Smith will be hosting monthly figure drawing sessions at Stone Griffin Gallery in Campbell beginning Thursday February 28th at 7pm - 9pm.

The cost is $10/evening (no instruction). Bring your own easel and paper to place beneath for chalk dust.

Contact Elizabeth at 408.410.2313 for more info.

Stone Griffin Gallery (inside the "Art Framing" shop)
416 E. Campbell Ave., Campbell
408.374.5200

Photography, one of the most important visual media of our lives, has been surprisingly uncelebrated, particularly in the US. New York City, home to the most influential commercial and fine art photography community, has lacked—until now—a large-scale event dedicated to photography.

Announcing the debut of the New York Photo Awards, the official awards of the New York Photo Festival. Honoring talented photographers from all over the world whose work breaks new grounds visually, intellectually, and aesthetically, the New York Photo Awards is a celebration of outstanding achievements in the world of contemporary photography.

New York Photo Awards – Evening Ceremony, May 16th, 2008
This spring, the inaugural NYPHA ceremony will take place during the New York Photo Festival. Sixteen category Winners and 32 Honorable Mentions, selected by the Juries of the NYPA, will have their works projected and be publicly recognized before an audience of peers and industry luminaries.

Most importantly, the New York Photo Awards will grant its participants with massive exposure. All category Winners and Honorable Mentions will be eligible for inclusion in the New York Photo Awards Annual, a beautifully produced series to be published by powerHouse Books.

The New York Photo Awards promises to provide an unprecedented platform of exposure to the top talent in the creative, editorial, fine art, and fashion spheres of influence in the photo capital of the world; make your mark today. Submissions accepted until April 14, 2008.