Call to Visual Artists & Craft Artists, Deadline May 20

Scarborough Arts Annual Outdoor Art Show & Sale (ON):
Call to Visual Artists & Craft Artists, Deadline May 20


Call for Entry

Scarborough Arts Annual Outdoor Art Show & Sale

Entry deadline = Friday, May 20, 2011

drawing, illustration, painting, sculpture, mixed media, printmaking, pottery, jewelry, photography, glass works, original textiles, fibre arts, and more!
Art in the Park is an annual juried outdoor community arts festival held in the beautiful parkland surrounding the Scarborough Arts building.

On Saturday, July 16, 2011 artists will have the opportunity to connect with the community, sell their original work and discuss ideas and practices.

Art in the Park is a one-day event and is open to all artists working in fine art and craft.

Date & Time:
Harrison Estate Park (behind Scarborough Arts)
Saturday, July 16, 2011, 10:00am – 4:00pm
1859 Kingston Road, Scarborough
Download entry form:

http://www.scarborougharts.com/2011/02/07/art-in-the-park-call-for-entry/
To request a submission form, or if you have any questions please contact us:
t: 416 698 7322
e: programs@scarborougharts.com
w: http://www.scarborougharts.com

Federal Election 2011: Political party responses

On April 5, the Canadian Conference of the Arts (CCA) sent the leaders of the five major federal parties a series of questions relevant to the arts, culture and heritage sector. We are publishing the responses we received in their entirety, without any edits or commentary. In order to facilitate comparison among the parties' responses, we have formatted their answers in a table format, according to each individual question asked. An empty table indicates that we did not receive an answer to that particular question. Please note that the CCA translated the Bloc Québécois' answers from French to English.

To read the responses please visit http://ccarts.ca/en/advocacy/bulletins/2011/1611.htm

Week Fourteen - My 2011 In Pictures

Just one picture this week. But I thought this was a great sign of spring. This is the first year that I noticed these little guys getting sun, I'm sure that is just an oversight on my part, but I thought they were worth a picture. Hope everyone enjoys.

Week Thirteen - My 2011 in Pictures

Queens Place in Liverpool - Really starting to shape up

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This is a Road??? LaBelle Road in Queens County.

Sunday April 3 was a beautiful day, plus 10 degrees and beautiful sun.  The Queens Place project in Liverpool is proceeding nicely.  Over 1/2 of the funds have been raised and the commitments are in place from the necessary levels of government.  There is of course the question of 14,000 residents in Queens County and how much use the facility will get. But it is a good thing...providing the operating costs are bearable.

The potholes that pass for a road are another matter.  The LaBelle road has been only potholes for the past three weeks and although the frost boils are drying up the potholes are still taking a toll on all the cars that are forced to drive the trail daily.  Where is the grader?  I invite every politician, regardless of whether they are federal, provincial or municipal to drive their cars over this poor excuse for a road. 

Enough of the rant.  As you can see, I'm back with more pictures of my 2011. Some weeks are missing...slow news weeks:-)  or I was too busy or life was too boring.

MAWA: Call to Developing Artists, Deadline April 29

Call for Submissions
Year-long Mentorship Program, Sept. 2011- Sept. 2012
Deadline: Friday, April 29, 2011

The Foundation Mentorship Program is a year-long program in which senior artists share their experience with developing artists. It is designed to help women in the visual arts develop skills and define their decision-making philosophies, and to provide access to the information, resources and support they need to realize their goals. In addition to a one-on-one relationship with a mentor, the program provides a peer group for the mentees through group meetings.
Mentors meet with their mentees individually for 5 hours per month, and the entire group meets for 3 hours monthly for critiques, discussion, gallery visits and other activities.
Applicants are selected based on:
-       the quality and potential of the work submitted,
-       the emerging artist’s willingness to dedicate time to the program,
-       the mentor’s ability to work with the emerging artist, because of mutuality of practice or conceptual framework.
Successful applicants will be charged a $300 fee for the program. There is no fee to apply, although you must be a MAWA member. Students are not eligible.

For Application Guidelines, please refer our website, mawa.ca, or contact Lisa Wood, Program and Administrative Coordinator, at 949-9490 or programs@mawa.ca.

The Mentors:

Amber-Dawn Bear Robe, Blackfoot from Siksika Nation, Alberta, is currently completing her second MA in Art History from the University of Arizona with a focus on contemporary Native North American arts and photography. Amber-Dawn recently moved to Winnipeg to work as the new Director/Curator of Urban Shaman: Contemporary Aboriginal Art. She completed a MA in American Indian Studies from the University of Arizona, a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Alberta College of Art and Design and has interned at museums such as The Tucson Museum of Art, The University of British Columbia’s Museum of Anthropology and The Glenbow Museum. She is an active art writer.
Mélanie Rocan works in paint. She graduated from the University of Manitoba in 2003 and completed her Masters of Fine Arts at Concordia University, Montreal, in 2008. Since 2003, her work has been included in many exhibitions across Canada, including the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto; the Winnipeg Art Gallery and Plug-In Institute of Contemporary Arts, Winnipeg; as well as an RBC painting competition exhibition that traveled to galleries across Canada including the Power Plant, Toronto; the Musée d’art contemporain, Montréal; and the Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver. Her work has been reviewed in Bordercrossings Magazine, FASHION Magazine and the Globe and Mail. She is the recipient of numerous awards and grants from the Canada Council, Manitoba and Winnipeg Arts Councils.


Diana Thorneycroft has exhibited various bodies of photo-based, installation and drawing works across Canada, the United States and Europe, as well as in Moscow, Tokyo and Sydney. She is the recipient of numerous awards including an Assistance to Visual Arts Long-term Grant from the Canada Council. Her exhibition of photographed, miniature tableaux, Group of Seven Awkward Moments, is currently touring Canada and will be shown at the Canadian Cultural Centre in Paris in May 2011. By combining well-known Canadian landscape paintings with scenes of accidents, disasters and instances of poor judgment, this recent series satirizes the mythology and icons of Canadian culture.

Diane Whitehouse studied fine arts (painting) at Birmingham College of Art and Bergen Kunsthandverkskole, Bergen, Norway. After immigrating to Canada in the sixties she taught at the University of Alberta and the University of Manitoba School of Art. Diane has exhibited nationally and internationally, and was the subject of a solo, retrospective exhibition held at the Winnipeg Art Gallery in 1999. She has served on many boards, including the Canada Council and Plug In ICA, and was one of the founders of MAWA.


For more information, visit http://www.mawa.ca
You can find more information about MAWA on the Winnipeg Cultural Map here.

Call for Submission - Deadline June 30

Calls For Submission

UNESCO Chair in Bioethics and Human Rights: Call to Visual Artists, Deadline June 30

You are invited to participate in the
UNESCO Chair in Bioethics and Human Rights
Global Art Competition

http://www.bioethicsart.org

•    Creatively interpret the ethical ideals of respecting cultural diversity and inspiring compassion toward all human life.
•    Eleven winning pieces will exhibit in Houston and New York, culminating in Rome in conjunction with UNESCO’s Multi-Culturalism and Religion Workshop and Conference on Human Vulnerability, October 9-11, 2011.
•    $5,000 Best of Show; $500 to 10 additional winners
•    Submission Deadline is June 30, 2011
•    $25 per entry

For questions, please e-mail info@bioethicsart.org.

Artist and Craft Producers - A new market

Liverpool, Nova Scotia
Local public farm market in Centennial Park, Liverpool. Starts May 20, 2011. Runs every Friday 9-2pm. until mid-Oct. Offering locally produced baked goods, produce, fresh fish, art and crafts products, local entertainment and more. Info call 530-6182
t: view phone (902) 530-6182

w: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Market...

e: marketonmersey@eastlink.ca

The Market on the Mersey is a new public farm market located in Centennial Park, Liverpool, NS. The market starts on May 20, 2011 and runs every Friday 9-2pm until mid-October. Offering locally produced baked goods, produce, fresh fish, art and crafts products, natural and/or environmentally friendly products and more. Join your friends at the market and meet your local producers, craftspeople, artisans and entertainers. Come to the Market on the Mersey, excite your senses and enjoy a unique shopping
experience with a fun, family-friendly atmosphere and talented, local
entertainment. For more information or to become a vendor please call Joanne at 530-6182 or visit our Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Market-on-the-Mersey/185689084804578