RecyclingDesignprize COMPETITION 2010, MARTa MUSEUM, GERMANY

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DEADLINE: AUGUST 31, 2010

his year we are organizing the fourth “RecyclingDesignprize” competition.  The award ceremony will take place on October the 15th , 2010, at MARTa Museum, Herford.  The award is endowed with a prize money of 2.500 €.
The exhibition will present the winners and further selected works until November the 7th at MARTa Herford. Further exhibits of selected works will follow at stilwerk Designcenters, Museum for Design, Gent, and other locations.

The aim of the designprize
Via the use of “littered things” (from industry, handicraft), garbage, “residual material”, useless things shall become useable. The developed products shall be displayed for sale in institutions of employment promotion and generating so a social usability. The production of “clever”, “beautiful” and “useful” objects which award a prize conduce the environment and are a contribution for employment promotion.

Further Information in English
http://www.recyclingboerse.org/index.php/Designpreis2010en.html

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ART GALLERY OF ALBERTA: SANDRA BROMLEY, FIRE

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May 29 to August 2, 2010
RBC New Works Gallery

Celebrated Alberta artist Sandra Bromley, known for her collaboration with Wallis Kendal on The Gun Sculpture, provides an intimate and poignant look at the women and children affected by violence in conflict zones in Sierra Leone and Cambodia.

Drawing from interviews and photos from her travels, Bromley has created an installation built specifically for the AGA’s RBC New Works Gallery, featuring video-portraits, altered ready-mades, light-boxes and neutralized rifles, representing victims of violence from these conflict zones.

Sandra Bromley, Innocent, 2004
Light boxes with photo imagery, deactivated and stripped FN rifles, chains

ART GALLERY OF ALBERTA
2 Sir Winston Churchill Square, Edmonton AB T5J 2C1 | 780.422.6223
youraga.ca | info@youraga.ca | fax 780.426.3105
Gallery Hours: Tues to Fri, 11am to 7pm, Sat & Sun 10am to 5pm, Closed Mondays

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CALL TO ARTISTS: GUST GALLERY, WATERTON LAKES

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The Gust Gallery of Waterton Lakes National Park embraces the artists and landscape of Southern Alberta. The gallery is seasonal but prides itself on having local and international collectors for the past 10 years. We would at this time like to call for submissions for sculptors, potters, glass blowers and other 3 dimensional artists.

Please contact Edith Becker at gustgal@telus.net or phone (403) 859-2535.

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NEW HOOVER & STRONG SCHOLARSHIP CREATED FOR JEWELLERY

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The Society of North American Goldsmiths is pleased to announce the creation of a new $3,000 educational scholarship underwritten by Hoover & Strong. Hoover & Strong is a manufacturer and refiner of 100% recycled precious metals, and a supplier to metalsmiths, large jewellery manufacturers, diamond houses and distributors. The new Hoover & Strong Scholarship will be administered through SNAG’s Educational Endowment Trust. Beginning in 2011, it will be awarded annually to a deserving graduate student who is designing high-quality production jewellery. Eligibility encompasses any student enrolled in a jewellery or metalsmithing curriculum at any educational institution in North America, including community colleges and trade schools. Snag’s Endowment Trust was created in 1992. Its sole focus is awarding graduate and undergraduate educational scholarships each year. These are SNAG’s most prestigious and highly competitive student scholarship awards. The Society of North American Goldsmiths (SNAG) is the association of artists, designers, jewellers, and metalsmiths.

For more information about SNAG, Metalsmith, annual conferences, membership and subscriptions visit www.snagmetalsmith.org

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TRAVEL PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR

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DEADLINE FOR ENTRIES: OCTOBER 9, 2010
Enter Official Website

The 2010 international Travel Photographer of the Year awards (TPOTY) are open to amateur and professional photographers from across the globe, TPOTY 2010 sees new categories, new sponsors and new judges, a great range of photographic and travel prizes, and a special focus on young and emerging talent.

Who can enter?

Anyone! Wherever you live in the world, whether you’re an amateur or professional photographer, and whatever age you are, you can enter TPOTY. Check out the three portfolio categories, the One Shot single image category, Young TPOTY (for photographers aged 18 years and under), the First Shot beginners’ award and New Talent, for students or those looking to kick-start a career in photography. There’s something for everyone!   MORE INFO >>

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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: CINESONIKA

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DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: SEPTEMBER 1, 2010
CINESONIKA: The First International Film and Video Festival of Innovative Sound Design
Festival Dates: Nov. 12th-21st, 2010
Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

The theme of this international film and video festival is to celebrate the soundtrack. Usually in cinema festivals there is a fixation on movie stars, or captivating imagery, or the literary qualities of screenplays, or the abstract concepts of film theory. Sound tends to be relatively unvalorized in moving-image making. The intent of the festival is to give attention to innovative work in the creation of film and video soundtracks, and to give due credit to the importance of audio in audiovisual media.

This first annual festival will showcase international works of film and video with fascinating soundtracks, idiosyncratic sound design, eclectic scoring and innovative approaches to the sound-image relationship.

For more information, including Submission details, please visit www.cinesonika.com . Contact Details: info@cinesonika.com

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CALL FOR ENTRIES: STITCHES ACROSS TIME

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DEADLINE FOR ENTRIES: FEB 28 2011 (REC’D OR EMAILED)

Stitches Across Time” Dufferin County Museum & Archives
Rosemont, Ontario CANADA | May 27 to August 21, 2011
Open to Canadian Residents only

To celebrate the tradition and history of textile arts, the Dufferin County Museum and Archives invites submissions for a juried exhibition of fibre arts inspired by a selection of historical pieces from the museum’s extensive collection of artifacts. Works submitted can include any textile medium or technique. We welcome both two- and three-dimensional contemporary works.  Visit www.stitchesacrosstime.com regularly to get the most up-to-date details on the exhibition as they become available.

Download:
Prospectus [PDF]  | Entry Form [DOC]

Dufferin County Museum and Archives
Highway 89 & Airport Road, P.O. Box 120
Rosemont, Ontario L0N 1R0 CANADA
705.435.1881 | 877.941.7787 toll free | events@dufferinmuseum.com

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GUEST ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE PROGRAM: THE CLAY STUDIO

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The Guest Artist-in-Residence program is open to any artist whose primary medium is clay.

Since 1992 the Clay Studio’s Guest Artist-in-Residence program has hosted artists from over thirty five countries including Anquilla, Australia, Belgium, Canada, China, The Czech Republic, England, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, Mexico, Peru, Puerto Rico, Romania, Russia, Sweden, South Korea, Spain, Taiwan, Wales, and the United States.

The Guest Artist-in-Residence Program provides:

• a 12 x 12 ft. studio on The Clay Studio’s third floor
• an apartment across the street
• a materials and firing stipend of up to $200
• and a $500 a month living stipend.

Residencies vary from 4 to 8 weeks, but both shorter and longer residencies have occurred to accommodate an artist’s schedule or to allow for a larger project. Some technical assistance is provided, but this program is designed for artists to work independently.  MORE INFO >>

Please call Artistic Director Jeff Guido at 215.925.3453 x18 or email jeff@theclaystudio.org if you have any further questions about a residency at The Clay Studio.

Download an application [PDF, 49K]

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ROYAL ALBERTA MUSEUM: NATURAL SELECTIONS

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UNTIL OCTOBER 13, 2010

People are naturally curious about the world around them. Museum researchers channel their natural curiousity into research projects that take them out into the field, into the forests, upon frozen lakes and deep into our collection rooms. Natural Selections features eight recent projects from Royal Alberta Museum scientists. Each project draws on the Museum’s collections to produce new information and offer different perspectives on Alberta’s biodiversity, past and present.

ROYAL ALBERTA MUSEUM
12845-102nd Avenue, Edmonton, Alberta, T5N 0M6, Canada
Phone: 780-453-9100 | Fax: 780-454-6629
For toll-free dialing anywhere in Alberta, call 310-0000 then follow the instructions

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ROYAL ALBERTA MUSEUM: WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR

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MAY 8 TO JANUARY 9, 2011

Breathtaking animal photos from around the world will amaze and delight Albertans once again as the latest installment of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition comes to the Royal Alberta Museum in Edmonton.

Open to the public on May 8 and running through January 9, 2011, this exhibition showcases award-winning and commended photos from the 2009 edition of the world’s most prestigious photography competition, organized by the Natural History Museum in London, England, and BBC Wildlife Magazine, and sponsored by Veolia Environnement. (more…)

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