CALL TO ARTISTS: Art of Horror at S.P.A.C.E. in Burlington

Call for Dark Art:
The Art of Horror Group Show
The S.P.A.C.E. Gallery and The Backspace Gallery
266 Pine Street, Burlington
Opening Reception: First Friday, October 7, 2011

Deadline for entries: Monday Sept. 19th

The S.P.A.C.E. and Backspace Galleries are looking for artwork for our Halloween show that best defines the "art of horror." Chosen artwork will represent the beautiful side of decay, the finer points of blood letting, and that special something inside a depraved mind. Artwork should be thematically appropriate and must display a reasonable degree of skill and ability. We will accept 2-D, 3-D & Photography.

Please visit our website for submission information.

The S.P.A.C.E. Gallery
266 Pine Street, Suite 105
Burlington, Vermont
www.spacegalleryvt.com

CALL TO ARTISTS: Down on the Farm at Darkroom Gallery in Essex Junction

Last call for Submissions to
Down on the Farm
Juried by Paul Mobley
Entries Close Tuesday, June 21st at Midnight EDT

Material for Down on the Farm is endless: from backyard gardens to the 1000-acre ranch, rice paddies to cotton fields, the chicken coop to the breeding barn, sugar house to road-side veggie stand, farmers' markets to agricultural auctions, from harvest festival to the county fair. This exhibit pays tribute to the men and women who work the land that nourishes us all.

A look back: the Farm Security Administration was born in 1935 in the United States as a means to battle poverty in rural America. It was the documentary photographic work born of this era and via the goals of the FSA, that the first major bodies of work depicting agriculture and its social realities came into being. The majority of the work produced was by fifteen Photographers (a total of 44 photographers had been hired) including such greats as Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, Carl Mydans and Ben Shahn. Look to their images, as well as contemporary Ag-Documentarians for your inspiration, such as juror Paul Mobley. More information at http://darkroomgallery.com/ex17

CALL TO ARTISTS: Statewide Video Project Needs Support

The Vermont Alliance for Arts Education (VAAE) is asking dance, music, theater, and visual arts students and teachers to make 5 minute videos this summer about “What has helped you learn about, and develop in, your artform?” More details available at their website.

VAAE would like to give a small premium/gift to each person who uploads a video, and thinks that the BEST thing to give would be art! This is where YOU come in. VAAE is looking for artwork (Note cards? Color copies of digital work? Some small craft from your Etsy shop?) valued at around $10 more or less.

Here's how it works: You send a jpeg of the item you’d like to donate (5 or more of the same item, please) to info@vaae.org (describing size, materials, value, artist or business name) and VAAE will put it up on their website as a premium, with a link to your website, Etsy shop, or whatever link you want. When someone chooses your item, VAAE will send you that person’s email address, and you will make arrangements to mail the premium to them. The benefit to you is publicity for your site (and item), and a recipient who loves your work and goes on your mailing list! Win-win all around!

For further inquiries, write to info@vaae.org

Image: from the uniquiet library’s photostream on flickr

CALL TO ARTISTS: Instructors Wanted at Fletcher Farm School in Ludlow

Call for Arts and Crafts Instructors

We are always recruiting potential new instructors, and are currently in the process of
determining which courses will be offered in the Fall-Winter-Spring 2011-12 and 2012 Summer courses.

Fletcher Farm School for the Arts and Crafts is a 13,000 sq. ft. facility, located in Ludlow, Vermont. The School consists of nine classrooms in a renovated historic Vermont Farm setting, with a Craft and Gift Shoppe on campus (open during the summer months). We are Vermont's oldest residential Arts and Crafts schools. Our commitment is to quality arts and crafts education, to keep alive old traditions, to teach new techniques, in a special Vermont setting at reasonable cost to the general public.

Up to 140 summer courses are offered from mid June to mid September 7 days a week, consisting of classes of 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 days in length. Class hours are 9:00am to 5:00pm daily with a one hour lunch break and an AM and a PM breaks. Day and boarding students are welcome.

Fall-Winter & Winter-Spring classes are weekends Sat. 9:00am to 4:00pm, and Sun. 9:00am - 3:00pm daily (unless otherwise stated in the schedule). We also offer mid-week series classes which run in the daytime and evenings, time(s) to be determined by instructor.

If you are interested in teaching at Fletcher Farm School for the Arts and Crafts, please submit a copy of your professional and teaching resume plus a description of the course(s) you would like to teach, along with a course proposal form, available from the school.

For more information about the arts education program at Fletcher Farm School for the Arts and Crafts, please call or email Laurie Marechaux, Executive Director: laurie@fletcherfarm.org , 802-228-8770

Return Resume, Course Description, and Course Proposal Form to:
Fletcher Farm School for the Arts and Crafts
611 Route 103 South
Ludlow, VT 05149

CALL FOR ENTRIES: Keys for Main Street Museum in White River Junction and St. Petersburg, Russia

Keys!
We all have Keys.
Keys in our pockets. Keys in a drawer in our rooms. Keys in an old coat that we haven’t worn in years. Some probably open doors—somewhere.

Some open things that are long gone. Some start cars that have been sold—cars that have been crushed and turned into new cars. We don’t remember the locks, but we may remember the car, the lover’s apartment, the best friend’s borrowed bike. The trigger to our memories can be a key.

Now is the time to do something with the keys, and with the stories behind them.

Main Street Museum invites you to bring us your keys. An exhibition is scheduled at the Anna Akhmatova Museum in the Sheremetev Palace, St. Petersburg, Russia. We will exhibit these keys in May, 2011 alongside other Russian cultural artifacts. Ordinary or rare, they all have some story to tell. Then we will accession them into the permanent collection and exhibit them in a special exhibition in Vermont during the summer months.

To be a part of this, simply bring us your old keys, and we will record their stories. These need not be specific—“keys of mystery” are sometimes the best of all! (And you are welcome to submit keys anonymously.)

The Main Street Museum
58 Bridge Street, White River Junction, Vermont, 05001 info@mainstreetmuseum.org 802.356.2776
learn more here:
http://www.mainstreetmuseum.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page

Image: very small plastic gumball charm key from Main Street Museum website

CALL TO ARTISTS: Bread and Puppet Production in Chelsea

Bread&Puppet Performance This Saturday, March 12!

Lubberland National Dance Co.Presents:

8 Dances For The Soldier
Who Brought A Helicopter
Massacre in Baghdad
To The Light Of Day

A Bread&Puppet Production directed by Peter Schumann

Volunteer Participants: 1PM Rehearsal Call
Performance at 7 PM/ Dance Party follows
Chelsea Town Hall, Main Street, Chelsea, VT
INFO: 802-685-3027

CALL TO ARTISTS: Photoslam 2011 at PHOTOSTOP Gallery in White River Junction

Wanted: Students, Pros, Amateurs, & Photo fanatics!

PHOTOSTOP Gallery announces a call for entries to its second annual UV PhotoSlam 2011, which will be on exhibit in the Gallery from April 1 - 22, 2011.

The PhotoSlam will be a community-wide photo happening for residents or part-time residents of the Upper Valley region. Photographers of all ages and experience levels are encouraged to enter. PHOTOSTOP is hoping to create a unique exhibition for the Upper Valley, showcasing the wide variety of photographs residents of all ages from the area are making and to provide a way that photographers can share them with each other. Last year's PhotoSlam 2010 exhibited 240 photographs submitted by 140 photographers aged 3 to 93!

Each photographer who enters work in the show will have at least one image printed and displayed in the Gallery. An opening reception with refreshments is scheduled for April 1 from 5-8 pm. Entry is by the submission of digital files and the Gallery will print the submitted photographs. The standard entry fee is $20 and $10 for photographers 17 and under, which will help defray the cost of the printed photographs and other exhibition expenses.

For an entry form and details go to: www.photostopvt.com and download the application form (available 2/8) or e-mail the gallery at photostopvt@gmail.com for further details. The deadline for entries is March 7th.

PHOTOSTOP Gallery is located in Suite 150 on the first floor of the Tip Top Media Arts Building, 85 North Main Street, White River Jct., VT 05001.

CALL TO ARTISTS: Vermont Artists Week at Vermont Studio Center in Johnson

Vermont Artists Week is open to all Vermont artists and writers and provides them with a week of uninterrupted studio time at reduced cost or no cost. Vermont Studio Center wants to give this opportunity to as many Vermont artists as possible!

VERMONT WEEK at the Vermont Studio Center was created in 1984 to support Vermont’s artists and writers with an intensive week of studio work and fellowship with other Vermont artists. The Vermont Studio Center is grateful to all those who’ve made Vermont Artists Week possible, and would like to extend special thanks to the Vermont Community Foundation’s Arts Endowment Fund, Peter and Bari Dreissigacker, and the Studio Center alumni.


ELIGIBILITY Applicants should be practicing visual artists and writers and must be legal residents of the State of Vermont. In order to serve as many Vermonters as possible, qualified artists and writers who have not previously attended Vermont Week will be given preference.

APPLICATION AND DEADLINES Applications for VAW must be received by January 31, 2011. Notification of acceptance will be sent within four weeks of the deadline.

VSC offers the Vermont Artists’ Week, including room, board, studio space and interaction with Visiting Artists and Writers, for $200. This fee, an expression of support for Vermont artists, represents a 75% reduction of the normal year-round VSC fees. The fee is due upon notification of acceptance. All VAW participants are asked to work six hours during the week to assist in the operations of VSC.

for more information , please visit www.vermontstudiocenter.org and search for Vermont Artists Week

The Art Resource Association (ARA) is pleased to offer a scholarship to someone who has been an ARA member for at least a year, and can demonstrate financial need. This scholarship is in memory of Phil Osgatharp, one of the founders of ARA. To apply, please include a short statement indicating eligibility.

CALL TO ARTISTS: 2011 Exposed! in Stowe

Helen Day Art Center is accepting submissions for Exposed!, the 20th annual outdoor sculpture exhibition in Stowe, Vermont. This call is open for artists working within the field of sculpture, public art, participatory or social practice, and performance. The exhibition will run from July 8th - October 8th 2011. Application deadline is March 21, 2011. Please see www.helenday.com for details.

Image: A piece by Jordan Pratt from Exposed! 2010

CALL TO ARTISTS: Deadline extended for "When No One is Looking" at SPA in Barre

Deadline Extended!

When No One is Looking

What do we do when no one is looking? What do others do when they don't think anyone is watching? This multi media, group show will explore the idea of private and hidden moments, thoughts, deeds and dreams. To be exhibited in the second floor gallery at Studio Place Arts (SPA) in Barre.

NEW Deadline: December 31, 2010

Exhibit Dates: January 18 - February 26, 2011

For information about how to submit (and to see calls for upcoming exhibits in 2011), see http://www.studioplacearts.com/callstoartists.html

CALL TO ARTISTS: Stowe Street Arts Festival in Waterbury

Revitalizing Waterbury invites artists to exhibit at the 9th Annual Stowe Street Arts Festival, to be held July 17, 2010, from 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Visual artists and craft and design artists in all media are invited to exhibit and sell work at the festival. The Festival is promoted heavily throughout central Vermont.


This community arts festival takes place on historic Stowe Street in the heart of downtown Waterbury and exhibition spaces are available in the tented area or adjoining the tent.

EXHIBITOR FEES:
$55 under the tent - space under the tent is limited to 18 artists, so reserve now!
$30 outside the tent

Go to www.revitalizingwaterbury.org/ssaf.htm for exhibitor information, including a registration form.