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Do you become less creative or more creative during the holiday season? Here are some articles that will keep you creative from Thanksgiving until New Year's:
Ideas for Holiday Sketching and Painting
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I love forums. What better place is there to find other people who share your love of art?
Do you have a favorite art forum or community? If so, leave me a comment or send me an email so that we can make this a long and comprehensive list.
Here are a few to start the list off:
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I just received this email and thought it is important to share it with my readers:
Hi All.
The Save L’Aquila Project presents a uniquely educational week of art, design and architecture events, October 3-10 in Santa Monica, to benefit the victims of a magnitude 6.3 earthquake that occurred on April 6, 2009, in Italy’s L’Aquila region. Beginning with a photography exhibit at Jeanie Madsen Gallery and featuring talks with some of today’s foremost practitioners (scientists, designers, architects) in earthquake preparedness, the Save L’Aquila Project is intended to help the victims of the April quake…but it’s us – the Angelenos who should emerge from the week’s events a bit more earthquake-prepared – who are the real beneficiaries of this exciting project. The events take place one week in advance of October 15’s Great Shake Out).
Please go here for more information: http://www.savelaquila.org
Best,
Brent
SAVE L’AQUILA PROJECT
Photography Exhibit & Fundraiser for the victims of the L’Aquila Earthquake
At the Jeanie Madsen Gallery, 1431 Ocean Avenue, Santa Monica, CA 90401
October 3-10, 2009, open Daily from noon - 10pm
Schedule of Events
Saturday, October 3rd 5:00 -10:00 p.m.
Opening Reception
Join us for the premiere of the Save L’Aquila exhibition and the beginning of our Silent Auction. Enjoy music by cellist Daniela Arbizzi, and refreshments by Moretti and Zonin.
Tuesday, October 6th
Empower Yourself: Are You Prepared for a 7.8 Earthquake?
6:00 p.m. Margaret Vinci, Office Manager of Earthquake Programs at CalTech, will lead a revealing talk on what to expect from the next big quake in Los Angeles, and discuss earthquake preparedness and the upcoming October 15th Shake Out drill.
7:00 p.m. Mariana Amatullo, Co-founder and Director of Designmatters at Art Center College of Design, and author of the LA Earthquake Source Book, will present the short Preparedness Now. This film depicts the realistic outcome of a hypothetical, but plausible, magnitude 7.8 earthquake on the San Andreas Fault in Southern California.
Wednesday, October 7th
Seismological and Engineering Aspects of the 2009 L’Aquila Earthquake
7:00 p.m. Dr. Jonathan Stewart, Ph.D., P.E, Professor and Vice Chair of the UCLA Civil & Environmental Engineering Department and Chief Editor of the ASCE Journal of Geotechnical and Geo-environmental Engineering led a group that performed reconnaissance in L’Aquila after the earthquake. He will provide a seismological and geological perspective on the L’Aquila earthquake, and why this information is important both for those in Italy but also for us in California.
Friday, October 9th
Life After: A Journey Through L’Aquila After the Earthquake
6:00 p.m. Kit Miyamoto, M.S., S.E., President and C.E.O., of Miyamoto International will discuss findings from his reconnaissance mission to L’Aquila; and his dedication to developing awareness of advanced technological engineering solutions for earthquake-prone areas.
7:00 p.m. Alessio Zampaglione and Elena Acefalo, Architects at StudioAZA, and William Taylor, Director of LAIAD, will share “Cubes for Life,” structures that can be utilized and easily modified for multiple purposes in emergency situations.
Saturday, October 10th
Closing Reception
Silent auction results!
For more information, visit www.savelaquila.org
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I love benefits that combine art and compassion for children. I was recently invited to the Art is Art party in Dallas and wanted to share my invitation with anyone who would like to go. Here it is:
It’s a partay! It’s a benefit! ART is ART is hosting a silent auction to benefit Kidd's Kids, a Dallas non-profit started by Kidd Kraddick that sends special needs kids to Disney World each year. Local artisans have donated 13 AWESOME items to the auction, including modern original paintings, a unique wall mirror, metal sculpture, hand-painted marble coasters and hand-crafted pottery. PLUS, ART is ART will donate 10% of sales to Kidd's Kids. ART is ART is ALSO celebrating its 2nd anniversary on Henderson! Yay! More info: www.artisart.biz
Here is the info:
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Global
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Thursday, September 17, 2009
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6:30pm - 9:00pm
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2811 N. Henderson Ave., Dallas 75206
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Strathmore Papers is having an illustration contest I have to enter. To win, all you have to do is create an illustration of what you think "green" (as in recycle, reduce and reuse) is in a visual sense. The artwork has to be on Strathmore paper and it has to be done with dry media. There will be four winners, two student artists and two professional / hobbyist artists. The winning art will be featured on one of 4 Strathmore Premium Recycled pads and the winning artists also receive a carton of free art paper.
Students who enter will also win $1,000 for their school's art department.
For more information see the official contest rules.
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The Durham Museum will be opening their Icons of a Border Installation on October 3, 2009. This exhibition commemorates the 20th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall. Created by students of the Goethe-Institute Chicago and the University of Nebraska-Omaha Under the direction of the late Professor Barbara Becker and photographer Jürgen Spiler, this exhibition features photomontages and adio recordings.
See this site for more information on the art exhibition: The Durham Museum Icons of Border Installation.
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The website that I love for practicing digital art and sketching is having a poster contest. All you have to do to enter is to sign up at the site and create a drawing or digital painting using Rate My Drawing's online digital art software. Its free to sign up on the site and its free to enter the contest.
The best part is that more than one person wins the contest. In fact, there will be 250 winners. Their entries will be published into a 23" x 35" printed mosaic-type poster.
For more information see Rate My Drawing's contest details.
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I just recieved this press release and I thought I would share it with my readers:
(Santa Monica, CA – June 2009) For its summer group show, July 11 to August 29, Samuel Freeman will be exhibiting “Mostly Sculpture (damn it)”, a group show of (mostly) sculpture.
While looking for new painters for a planned group exhibition, Mr. Freeman accidentally accumulated sculptors instead. His plan for a ‘New Paintings’ show was soon smothered by the weight and brilliance of these unplanned and unsought sculptors. “Mostly Sculpture (damn it)” is the outcome.
The exhibition will still include several two-dimensional works to highlight the object quality and physical interaction of sculpture, but will remain dedicated to the absurd, the delicate, and the impossible within contemporary sculpture. The roster of artists is drawn from within the gallery’s history and from new sources across North America: Berg, Myers and Kozul join the gallery from New York; Ko from Washington; Farrow out of San Francisco; Rath, Redding and Squires from Los Angeles; and Hollinger from Boston.
Artists include:
The Reverend Ethan Acres
Tim Berg & Rebekah Myers
Al Farrow
George Herms
Steve Hollinger
Ewerdt Hilgemann
Kazuo Kadonaga
Jae Ko
Kristian Kozul
Jake Longstreth
Jessica Rath
Jheri Redding
Hedi Sorger
Todd Squires
Jeremy Thomas
Michelle Wiener
Dustin Yellin
WHAT:
Mostly Sculpture (damn it)
A Summer group exhibition of (mostly) sculpture.
WHEN:
July 11 – August 29, 2009
Opening: Ice cream social on July 11, 2009, from 4 to 6 pm.
WHERE:
Samuel Freeman
Bergamot Station
2525 Michigan Avenue, B7
Santa Monica, California 90404 USA
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Press contact:
Katrina Mohn, Assistant Director
(310) 449-1479
or
Brent Turner, The Campbells PR
(323) 244-5058
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June 4th, 2009, Rainforest Action Network and the LOOK Gallery in Los Angeles are joining forces to save the planet. This night of education, eco-friendly cocktails and organic munchies will include "a discussion of the ways art is making a difference in the environmental movement." All proceeds collected will benefit the Rainforest Action Network.
For more information and to purchase tickets, please visit www.ran.org/LOOKLA or contact Katie Steele at 415-659-0537 or ksteele@ran.org
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Pop-surrealist Kenny Scharf is set to celebrate his latest achievement, a new book, at a Beverly Hills book signing. The book features monographs by the artist and essays by various writers.
Also at the event will be author and curator Richard Marshall and writer and actress Ann Magnuson.
The event is to be held at the The Celebrity Vault on 345 N. Canon Drive, Beverly Hills, from 5 to 7 on June 11, 2009. Call 310-858-7815 for more information.