manifest calls for entry: Burb and the Drawing Annual

B U R B

An International Competitive Exhibit of Works
Exploring Zones of Living

Postmark Deadline for Entry: December 11, 2009
For more info. visit:
http://www.manifestgallery.org/lists/lt.php?id=bUoCVgRRBFkEGlIDUBoDCwRX


Exhibit dates: January 22 - February 19, 2010

By the end of the twentieth century, suburbia became the place where over
half of all Americans live and work. More than just an American phenomena,
however, cities around the world have birthed an “outer ring” of
domesticity, interconnected by nodes of consumer options and web-like
traffic systems. This formational landscape of backyard BBQs, super-size
shopping boxes, mini-vans, and cul-de-sacs is the terrain upon which many
artists work today (while others respond from an urban distance). Through
various contemporary visual art forms, artists are creating work that
documents, explores, celebrates and criticizes these particular zones of
living.

Manifest invites work in any medium that responds – positively, negatively,
or neutrally – to this modern construct: suburbia.


Postmark Deadline for Entry: December 11, 2009
For more info. visit:
http://www.manifestgallery.org/lists/lt.php?id=bUoCVgRRBFkEGlIDUBoDCwRX


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INTERNATIONAL DRAWING ANNUAL 5

A Competitive Annual Publication of Works of Contemporary Drawing
and Writing about Drawing

Cash awards totaling $1000


Postmark Deadline for Entry: December 31, 2009
For more info. visit:
http://www.manifestgallery.org/lists/lt.php?id=bUoCVgRRBFkCGlIDUBoDCwRX


Hardcover and perfect bound books available: Fall 2010

The International Drawing Annual is an extension of Manifest's Drawing
Center activities. Its goal is to support the recognition, documentation,
and publication of excellent, current, and relevant works of drawing from
around the world.

A natural question will be "what is drawing?" and that is exactly the
question the Annual is meant to investigate from year to year. Therefore
submissions are expected to vary, including a range of drawing types, from
the most academic to the most experimental, but all with some relevance to
the artists' honest understanding of the practice of "drawing."

With the inclusion of a call for writing about drawing Manifest eagerly
pursues a deeper understanding of how drawing is realized, discussed, and
interpreted in contemporary society. Works of writing will be selected to
complement the artwork chosen for inclusion in the publication.
Participants may submit artwork, writing, or both.

To learn more about the Annual series, artists included, and previous prize
winners, visit:
http://www.manifestgallery.org/lists/lt.php?id=bUoCVgRRBFkDGlIDUBoDCwRX

Postmark Deadline for Entry: December 31, 2009
For more info. visit:
http://www.manifestgallery.org/lists/lt.php?id=bUoCVgRRBFkCGlIDUBoDCwRX

Memphis Botanic Garden Sketches

a little derainged?

The Creative Jar

Nashvillager Jodi Reeves, who writes The Creative Jar, featured my playground collection on her blog!

Julie Püttgen Lecture Notes

So you missed the Julie Püttgen lecture last night, but you're going to her opening at Material tonight and you don't want to feel bewildered? Well, I'm sure these notes will really help.

Here's what I was thinking during the lecture:
1. I'm glad I don't have an umlaut in my name.
2. Cloudmapping! I do that! I totally do that! . . . wait, I used to do that. I should do that again!

3. I wonder if she raises chickens . . . she keeps talking about egg tempera. I guess you probably can't travel as much as she does if you have a coop to clean out every day. I wonder if I would rather have chickens or plane tickets to India?

4. I'm definitely going to the Atlanta aquarium during Thanksgiving and they had better have an alive Whale Shark.

5. Is houseboating a verb?
6. This work is really morbid--one second we're talking dead whales, then pancreatic cancer, then brain cancer, then monsters who are hopelessly longing. Why are there so many hopeless monsters in these paintings?
7. How do you spell tanka? Thangka?
8. What kind of a person drags her husband, five ponies, and four staff members around India for the sake of a few paintings.? Could these paintings have been made without the investment in adventure? Maybe--but then this talk would be so much less interesting. Someone should make a movie about Puttgen's life. How can she have done all of this and still look like she's about 25?
9. When she starts talking about collaboration I can't help but think about the tortured metaphors my husband and I use when we talk about how extroverts and introverts are like vampires and batteries. I wonder if Püttgen is a vampire (extrovert) or battery (introvert). She totally intimidates me, so I'm going to guess she's more of a vampire. Then again, she's explaining the ways that "empty space must contribute to collaboration." That's a pretty introverted thing to say. Later, when I ask, she refers to a New Yorker article about robots and refers to herself as a bossy cow.
10. WOW THIS PARADE MOVIE IS AWESOME I WANT TO HAVE IT PLAYING ON A LOOP IN MY STUDIO ALL THE TIME.
11. This work seems totally unaffected by pop culture.
12. I wonder what's in her "current recipes" folder on her desktop. Food or recipes for performance/installation art? Her artist statement describes recipes for artwork, but maybe it's a folder full of veggie lasagna tips and tricks.
13. She uses the title "They say that gold will last" and inside my head a high-school know-it-all poetry student is screaming ROBERT FROST ROBERT FROST NOTHING GOLD CAN STAY OMG SAY SOMETHING ABOUT ROBERT FROST!
14. I wonder if the nun "Perdita" has as much in common with Sister Corita as with Püttgen. I think I need to buy this book.
15. www.unlessanduntil.info. Who uses .info? That's totally awesome.


OK, now that I've looked over these notes I realize they're totally baffling. You'll be much better off preparing for the show by looking at Püttgen's artist statement.

Puttgen's really one of those "universe in a grain of sand, infinity in an hour" kind of artists. I wonder what universe she's building in Material today?

Front Page News!!!

Marathon Art Night

I'm thinking about trying to hit all of the shows I've been invited to tonight.

I'll need to start five minutes ago to get to them all before the last one closes:

Mud Molders United: Jones Hall 4:30pm

ANF Art Show: Concepts of Color 5:25pm

Julie Püttgen: "They Say that Gold Will Last" Material 6:00pm

Don Estes and Anne Siems at David Lusk Gallery 6:00pm

Jeri Ledbetter - Mano a Mano II L Ross 6:00pm

Memphis Matters 8:00pm (There's a huge chance that this is past my bedtime).
Playback Memphis invites you to an evening of stories about life and work in our beloved city. In a Playback performance, audience members tell stories from their lives, then watch as actors and musician bring them to life on the spot without script, score, or rehearsal. Playback creates ample opportunity for laughter, reflection, and dialogue. It’s compelling and entertaining theater—as well as an outstanding tool for community building.
All proceeds go towards bringing the Playback experience to communities in need. We are currently partnering with local non-profits MIFA, Porter Leath, and Victims to Victory.
Two shows ONLY. This Friday, November 6th & Saturday, November 7th at 8pm. General admission $15. Students and Seniors with ID $12. TheatreSouth (1000 South Cooper).
ALSO, SATURDAY NIGHT SHOW 2 @ 8PM
FOR RESERVATIONS AND TICKET INFORMATION
264-0841 / INFO@PLAYBACKMEMPHIS.COM
LIMITED SEATS AVAILABLE
RESERVATIONS STRONGLY ENCOURAGED
CASH AND CHECK ONLY
Playback Memphis is generously supported by Arts Memphis and the Tennessee Arts Commission and lots of amazing Memphians.

Happy Holiday, skull-a-day!

I just found skull-a-day.

First Annual Peace Exhibition at Caritas Village

memphis connect shared this great opportunity:

Last Reminder: Delta Exhibition

Delta Exhibition call for entries

52^ND ANNUAL DELTA EXHIBITION

DON'T FORGET TO ENTER ONE THE LONGEST RUNNING, JURIED CONTEMPORARY ART EXHIBITIONS OUTSIDE NEW YORK CITY, THEDELTA IS OPEN TO ALL ARTISTS LIVING IN OR BORN IN ARKANSAS, LOUISIANA, MISSISSIPPI, MISSOURI, OKLAHOMA, TENNESSEE OR TEXAS. FOUNDED IN 1956, THE DELTA WAS CREATED TO SHOWCASE CONTEMPORARY WORKS BY ARTISTS OF THE MISSISSIPPI DELTA REGION. TODAY, THE ANNUAL DELTA EXHIBITION HAS GROWN TO ENCOMPASS WORKS IN ALL MEDIA AND REFLECTS THE REGION’S STRONG TRADITIONS OF CRAFTSMANSHIP AND OBSERVATION, COMBINED WITH INNOVATIVE USE OF MATERIALS AND AN EXPERIMENTAL APPROACH TO SUBJECT MATTER.

To download an entry form for the 52^nd Annual Delta Exhibition,click here.

The Deadline is November 2.