Deadline
August 13, 2011

Exhibition
September 23, 2011 - October 29, 2011

Uncommon Threads seeks artist books and other forms of book and paper art that utilize handicraft techniques, materials or subjects as a way to round out, illustrate or compliment a central concept. Remember, it’s not just about the materials or techniques. Let’s dispel the myth that the handicrafts can’t have any part in meaningful art.

Art in the Open (AiO) is a citywide event that celebrates artists, their inspirations for creating art, and their relationships with the urban environment. Inspired by, but re-framing, the tradition of painting en plein air, a juried selection of artists working in a variety of media will create art outside, on-site over the four-day period of June 9-12, 2011 along the banks of the tidal Schuylkill River - from the historic Fairmont Park Water Works and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, south to landmark Bartram's Garden.

The intersection of art and music has been a long standing tradition at Sande Webster Gallery. For more than 30 years we have been exhibiting painting, photography and sculpture that is directly influenced by or related to music, specifically Jazz. Whether it’s the gestural marks of abstraction dashed across canvas or light captured by the camera’s eye in the fleeting moments of arpeggio and applause. One motivation remains constant, the actualization of passion.

CALL FOR ENTRIES: OPTIONS 2011
CURATOR: Stefanie Fedor, Assistant Director, American University Museum at the Katzen Art Center
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: Monday, June 20, 2011 at midnight
EXHIBITION DATES: September 15 – October 29, 2011

An Exchange Exhibition with the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts

June 6 – July 1, 2011
Opening Reception: Thursday, June 9th   5-7pm