artLIFE at heavybubble

Welcome to artlife where we post a curated selection of events, exhibitions, workshops, and doings by heavybubble and artists that use our services. Check out the  artist opportunities and events that catch our eye.

call for entries : Girl Please!
Exhibition Dates: November 5 – December 23, 2010 We are all born naked, the rest is just drag  — Rupaul Gender is a performance, an act that is perpetuated and maintained by societal norms and expectations, but how, and to what extent does it define us? Girl, Please! seeks to push and transcend the definition [...]
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call for entries : Art Connections, Monclair State University
Art Connections is the annual fund-raising event for the George Segal Gallery–the crown jewel of the Montclair State Art Galleries. Now in its seventh year, Art Connections has grown from a regional exhibit to one of national scope, encouraging artists in all media. Open to all fine artists. All mediums accepted. No Giclee reproduction prints [...]
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experimenting in 110 CHURCH | gallery
It’s a bit of a lazy summer at the gallery. Trying to get ready for the fall. Working on a schedule and promotion for upcoming exhibitions. Talking with artists about proposals and locking in dates. Get on our e-mailing list to be sure of notifications. Looking for lots of news this fall. Enjoy your summer.
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Participating in the Adventures of #FlatAnvatar
Artist and @Platea’s founder An Xiao is headed to Art Center College of Design in Pasadena from NYC. As a response the collective concocted a fun performance showing #FlatAnvatar on her very roundabout travels. We were thrilled to participate. These are photos from the flickr group. You can relive the performance by searching twitter for [...]
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artist quote : about art, oscar wilde
When the critics do not agree among themselves, the artist is in accord with himself. oscar wilde [Irish writer 1854–1900]
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artist quote : susan sontag
One can be serious about the frivolous, frivolous about the serious. — Susan Sontag
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artist opportunity
Call for entries : Fluxface in Space

Fluxface in Space Fluxhibition STS-133 & STS-134: The Fluxmuseum Goes on the Last Shuttle Missions to Space.

We stumbled on this project while doing some NASA, space shuttle googling. If you are as crazy about space as we are you'll want to participate in this fun project.

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Support “Over The River” by artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude

Site specific art that comes under more scrutiny and bureaucracy than most of us could stand. Christo revels in it as part of the process and work itself.  This will be the first project since the death of Jeanne-Claude that Christo will attempt to execute.

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Exhibition Opportunity — The One Fifty/One Fifty Show

In celebration of the Philadelphia Sketch Club’s 150th anniversary, an open exhibition of 150 works will be held between July 23rd through August 14th, 2010

Delivery: Hand delivery only- Friday, July 16th, 2010, and Saturday, July 17th, 2010, 1-5 p.m. at PSC if needed. If 150 entries are taken in on Friday, a notice will be posted on the door of the PSC on Saturday. (see address below).

Entry Fees:
A flat fee of $15 per entry will be charged.

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CYANOTYPE WORKSHOP — August 7, 2010

CYANOTYPE WORKSHOP - August 7, 2010

Photography and Printmaking Studio
Center Sandwich, New Hampshire, USA

Course fee $120

Materials $30

Class limited to 5.

Saturday 10:00am – 4:00pm

Learn the art of cyanotype photography, a 19th-century alternative printing medium with luscious blue tones on hand-coated paper. We will begin with making full-size digital negatives from your digital files, photographs, or small film negatives. Next, we will press that large negative on top of the hand-coated paper in a contact print frame and expose it to the sun.

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Call for artists : Green Line Cafe
Green Line Cafe has a call for art out. They are a West Philly community spot and cafes — currently looking for work to show as early as August! A few select openings in each of their three shops. Please send images or a link to your website and a show proposal to events@greenlinecafe.com right [...]
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Summer studio with Anthony Campuzano at ICA Philadelphia
This July, Philadelphia artist Anthony Campuzano will transform ICA’s second floor galleries into a free-form art school and working artists’ studio, both free and open to the public. Campuzano has invited peers, mentors, professors, and other special guests to provide art instruction in various media, discuss past and current projects, screen favorite videos and films, [...]
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