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Maine Media Workshops Dreams Competition
Maine Media Workshops Dreams CompetitionOVER $9,000 IN PRIZES. JURORS INCLUDE: Beth Einhorn, Writer for The Tonight Show with Jay Leno | Tom Wilhite, President and co-founder of Hyperion Pictures | Sharon Creech, Newbury Award-winning novelist | Susan Grisanti, Editor-in-Chief of Maine Magazine.For centuries and across cultures, artists have represented the world as it may be envisioned through ephemeral images of inner visions, fantasies, mysteries and the unreal. This contest is an opportunity for our international community of photographers, filmmakers, and writers of all ages to...
Maine Media Workshops and College
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MOTHER WINS BP PORTRAIT AWARD 2013 FOR PORTRAIT OF HER 35-YEAR-OLD SON
Berkshire-based South African artist Susanne du Toit wins £30,000 prizeON TUESDAY 18 JUNE 2013 the winner of the BP Portrait Award 2013 was announced at the National Portrait Gallery. The prestigious first prize was won by 57-year-old artist Susanne du Toit, forPieter, a powerful painting of her eldest son. Susanne du Toit wins £30,000 and a commission, at the National Portrait Gallery Trustees’ discretion, worth £5,000. The portrait can be seen at the National Portrait Gallery from Thursday 20 June 2013 when the BP Portrait Award 2013 exhibition opens to...
Artweek Press Releases
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Art Call – 3rd Annual Botanical & Floral Online Art Competition
Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery announces an art call for entries for the gallery’s 3rd Annual “Botanicals” online art competition for the month of July 2013.  The gallery would like for all 2D artists (including photography) to send us their best interpretation of the theme “Botanicals” by submitting their best botanical and floral art for inclusion into the gallery’s August 2013 online Group Art Exhibition.  We encourage entries from artists, regardless of where they reside to apply to this competition by submitting their best botanical art.   Botanical art...
Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery
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Davis Transmedia Art Walk
The Davis Transmedia Art Walk is a free, self-guided, public art wonder that combines the latest technology with art from the top painters and sculptors in the country.  It is the only walk of it’s kind in the country. The Transmedia Art Walk started with 10 sculptures in January 2012 and now has expanded throughout downtown Davis and the University of Davis campus. The walk consists of 50 works of murals and sculptures. Contributing artists include Guy Diehl, Robert Arneson, Jennifer Pochiniski, Bill Maul, Kerry Rowland-Avrech, Jeff Downing, Ted Fontaine, Alex Reifsar, Wes Horn, Myron...
Dvorak Art
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Call to Artists for WATER MEDIA ON PAPER, a regional competition and exhibition, at the Pacific Art League of Palo Alto
 C A L L   F O R   E N T R I E S  WATER MEDIA ON PAPER   REGIONAL COMPETITION & EXHIBITION EligibilityOpen to artists in the Pacific region working in water soluble media: watercolor, acrylic, casein, gouache and egg tempera on paper. Canvas is not accepted.  Exhibition Dates  SEPTEMBER 6th – 26th, 2013 Opening Reception  “First Friday,” SEPTEMBER 6th, 2013, 5:30 – 8 PM  Submission Deadline  Thursday, AUGUST 8th, 2013 JURORRonald Pratt Awards 1st: $250 2nd: $125 3rd: $75...
Pacific Art League of Palo Alto
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Davis Transmedia Art Walk
The Davis Transmedia Art Walk is a free, self-guided, public art wonder that combines the latest technology with art from the top painters and sculptors in the country.  It is the first and only walk of its kind in the country. The Transmedia Art Walk started with 10 sculptures in January 2012 and now has expanded to include 23 public murals, 16 sculptures, and 15 galleries and museums all in downtown Davis and the University of Davis campus. A free Davis Art Walk map serves as a detailed guide to the entire collection. Since the 1950s, Davis has been the...
Artweek Press Releases
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CoD+A Awards Entry Closes with More Than 400 Submissions
MADISON, WI, June 6, 2013 – The CoD+A Awards: Collaboration of Design + Art successfully closed its call for entries on May 31, 2013 with over 400 entries from around the globe. This is the first international awards program to honor the collaborations between designers, architects, artists, and art professionals—those individuals whose collective imaginations create the public and private spaces that inspire us daily. The submissions, which represent twenty-nine countries in eight design categories, demonstrate an increasing desire on the part of design professionals to...
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National Portrait Gallery Unveils Portrait of Children’s Laureate and Writer Julia Donaldson Sitting in her Props Room
A newly commissioned portrait of children’s writer Julia Donaldson has been unveiled at the National Portrait Gallery, London, with the support of BP, on her last day as Children’s Laureate, 3 June 2013. Revealing her ‘props cupboard’ at home, a small room next to the one in which she writes, the children’s author is shown sitting in the foreground of a large portrait, holding a note book and pencil and surrounded floor to ceiling by props from her books, including The Gruffalo, Room on The Broom and The Highway Rat. These are items which she uses...
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ADMAF JOINS HANDS WITH UNESCO
ADMAF donates proceeds of Abu Dhabi Festival 2013 to UNESCO’s Malala Fund and signs MOU Partnership  (Abu Dhabi, UAE June 2, 2013): The internationally acclaimed Abu Dhabi Festival, which concluded four weeks of exhibitions, workshops and performances on March 31, upheld ‘Bilad Al Khayr’ (Land of Blessings), the founding spirit of the UAE, yesterday by donating AED 368,000 of its 2013 box office sales to the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO). In addition, the Abu Dhabi Music and Arts Foundation, the organiser of the annual Abu Dhabi...
Artweek Press Releases
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Figurative Art Exhibition Now Online Ready to View
Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery is pleased to announce that its June 2013 art exhibition “Figurative” is now posted on their website and is ready to view online.  The theme for this art exhibition is “Figurative” and artists were asked to submit their best figurative art for the gallery’s May art competition.The gallery received submissions from 23 different countries from around the world and they also received entries from 32 different states. Overall, there were 592 entries were judged for this art competition. Congratulations to the artists who have been designated as...
Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery
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Gerry Gauntlett Award for Eveline Kottai
Eveline Kotai was awarded for her work "Thrum #2" with the Gerry Gauntlett Award, a $5,000 non-acquisitive prize. Some of WA’s most acclaimed artists have been awarded top prizes as part of the 2013 Minnawarra Art Awards. Judges Belinda Cobby from Artbank and Isobel Wise, Art Curator for the City of Perth, were extremely impressed with the professionalism of the space and exhibition. In Addition Eveline Kotai will take part in the exhibition "Abstracting the Collection", 27 July – 28 September 2013, in the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, which is housing The University of Western...
Conny Dietzschold Gallery
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David Lloyd Artist Talk
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Klowden Mann
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