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  News ? Jason Lazarus, Knapp Gallery closing, Richard Torchia at CENTERpieces, and curators, curators, curators

  Posted: 3-February-2012, 2:50pm CET by chip schwartz

  News

  Jason Lazarus will take your unwanted photos
  Do you have photos that are too painful to keep around? If so, Chicago-based artist Jason Lazarus will take them.  He’s collecting unwanted photos for an art installation. There’s no need to provide the background for the photos, and if you feel they are too private to be shown, the artist will display them face down. Lazarus can pick them up on Sunday February 5 from 10 AM – 7 PM. E-mail him at jasonlazarus.photo@gmail.com or call 312-953-2885.

  Knapp Gallery closing
  Old City’s Knapp Gallery is closing up shop at the end of February. A rough economic climate and a need for income generating and career boosting opportunities in Philadelphia are among the reasons director Karl Slocum listed for the gallery’s decision to shut down. The final show runs from February 3 – 26 with work by painter Bryan Guglielmi.

  CENTERpieces — Julie Courtney and Jennie Shanker curate the Catskills

  

  Dome building under construction, The Center for Discovery, Harris, New York, 1984.

  CENTERpieces, a cultural initiative co-curated by Julie Courtney and Jennie Shanker at the Center for Discovery in Harris NY, this month debuts The Harris Observatory, a temporary project  by Richard Torchia, in which a disused geodesic dome is converted into a sunlight-powered chart of the stars. The Harris Observatory is on view February 18 ? March 3 by appointment: catskillcenterpieces@gmail.com. Grand opening day is February 25 and requires an RSVP at the Eventbrite page.

  Network sessions at Moore
  February 17 kicks off Moore College of Art & Design’s first networking opportunity this year, Launch into Fashion. The event goes from 6 – 8 PM in the Great Hall and includes a local DJ, cocktails, and a chance to meet Philly’s top fashion and design experts.  While this network session is about fashion, others will focus on the visual arts.

  In the Media

  

  Bonnie Brenda Scott.

  Sarah McEneaney’s current show at Tibor de Nagy in New York is featured on Huffington Post as one of the 10 must-see painting exhibits this year–congratulations! Via Franklin Einspruch, Bill Scott’s exhibition at Hollis Taggart Galleries in New York appears in the Jan. 2012 issue of Art in America. Also via, via an artnet tweet,  photo blog Boxes of Blight documents Philadelphia’s graffiti and sticker-covered newspaper honor boxes — a great obsession, don’t we all hate these eyesores? Bonnie Brenda Scott’s work appears in a recent post on Beautiful/Decay (also catch her opening at Benna’s Cafe on February 10).

  Philadelphia Barnes Campus hours and ticket prices
  The Barnes Foundation has released its new set of hours and pricing for the upcoming opening of its new museum on the Parkway.  Members can buy tickets now.  Tickets will be timed to manage the flow through the small galleries that replicate the rooms at the Merion Barnes.  We don’t see an artist price on the list, but we hope they might consider it.  Or a pay what you wish Sunday like the PMA has. Amazingly, the Barnes will be open 7 days a week!

  In Activism
  Still juiced from Occupy Wall Street — check out the OWS Arts & Labor Teach-in in Brooklyn at 300 Nevins St., Brooklyn on February 19 from 3 – 6 PM, for discussions of alternative economies and creative prosperity. Contact owsartsandlabor@gmail.com for more information. On the home front, Nicola Midnight St. Claire is hosting an event at ICA this Sunday, Feb 5, 2pm.  Lead from Somewhere examines the relationship between art and civic action.

  PHLocal exhibit and event listings
  A new site – PHLocal.com – is set to fill the niche for listing art events and exhibits all around the city. The site is currently in beta and it’s definitely worth checking out for all you artists, organizers, and venues!  We miss our own maps&listings, but this looks like it may be a great resource.

  In Curatorial
  Bryn Mawr College appointed Brian Wallace as Curator and Academic Liaison for Art and Artifacts. Wallace formerly put on some great programming for Moore College when he was head of the galleries there, and we’re glad he is back in the area. Tyler School of Art alumn Dean Daderko was named Curator at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston. Daderko ran an influential apartment gallery in Brooklyn, Parlour Projects from 2000-2005 and also did some freelance curating at Vox Populi. Sarah Schultz has been named Director of Education and Curator of Public Practice at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. She has been leading the way in experimental programming in museum education.

  Opportunities

  The International Migration Art Festival is seeking work for its Art Your Food competition to be held in Milan, New York, and London. The theme is “Food and Migration” and mediums include film, literature, music, and visual art. The deadline is April 15.

  Via inLiquid, the NARS Foundation has announced its second annual Emerging Curator Open Call, which offers an opportunity for a young-in-career curator to present a group show at the NARS Foundation Gallery. You can find all the details here. The deadline is March 2.

  Philadelphia Photo Arts Center is seeking photographers for its 3rd annual Contemporary Photography Competition and Exhibit. The deadline is May 29.

  Artist News

  Judith Schaechter has her first solo show in Philly in 10 years this May at Eastern State Penitentiary. Can you believe that – 10 years and no solo show in her own town? The opening reception is May 11 from 5:30 – 7:30 PM. Always in demand, the queen of glass is also exhibiting at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art and the Museum of Arts and Design in New York — among many other things — check her website for more.

  

  Becky Suss, "Hope St", Sumi ink on paper.

  Becky Suss, a new Vox Populi member, has a week long show, Feb. 3-10 at Snyderman-Works. Her show at Snyderman looks like the work she showed in her Vox solo exhibit last year — that seems a great strategy, join a coop, show work there, then get a gig at a commercial gallery so you can (maybe, we hope) sell something.

  Daniel Hoffman – a former artblog contributor – has started a new animation business Laundryboat Media. Check out his music video for ManMan!

  Out of town shows: Bonnie MacAllister and Rachel Blythe Udell have a two person show at et al projects in NYC. Rebecca Gilbert will be part of the Cutting Edge: Contemporary Paper show at Boise State University.

  

  Maureen Drdak, from the Prakriti Project: "The Flying Naga", detail Collection of Berthe and John Ford.

  Maureen Drdak culminates her Fulbright in Nepal with a show at Siddhartha Art Gallery in Kathmandu, opening February 9.

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  New media art ? White Hot Gold at Murray State

  Posted: 2-February-2012, 1:09pm CET by roberta

  [I juried the new media exhibit at Murray State University Art Gallery, up now until Feb. 12. This is the foreword I wrote for the catalog.]
  What is new media art? It’s almost easier to say what isn’t: traditional painting, sculpture printmaking, photography — emphasis on tradition. New media art is experimental. It uses new technologies — digital technology, video, the Internet, video games, cell phones and computer programming. And while I don?t want to say ?I know it when I see it,? there?s not a whole lot that holds the loose category together. Here are a few characteristics of some, but not all, new media art: media manipulation; social critique; performance; playfulness; non-traditional beauty. Sometimes there is a political or anti-corporate message. Often the artist believes that art should be given away and that the audience should participate. The work in White Hot Gold shares a number of these characteristics.

  

  Marsha Owett, Antimony, 2012, Archival C-Print, 24" x 30" Edition of 10

  Social critique and playfulness go together in Jong Kyu Kim?s monumental duels with pop culture icons Facebook and Keanu (in The Matrix). It?s Kim against the corporation, or Kim against Hollywood. In both cases, the artist deals with ideas of powerlessness at a time when we think we?re more in charge than ever. Elizabeth Leister, too, explores the desire to capture the movement and beauty of another?s performance via her art. Both artists keep trying even though their tasks are unwinnable. Marin Abell’s playful video has a similar quirky and forlorn appeal in a work that could be a parody of a survival tv show for machines.

  Some new media artists crave beauty and order. Jing Zhou‘s and Jeanette Bonds? sophisticated animations are both technical ?wows? ? and beautiful.

  Also beautiful, although not traditionally so, are Marsha Owett‘s color photo, whose digital mystery makes it somewhat terrifying; and Hernando Rico Sanchez’ color photo, which is so perfect you believe it to be a lie.

  

  Ryuta Nakajima, photo from 88 aspects of the 20th Century Paintings according to a Cuttlefish (2010)

  Embracing the idea of the beautiful sublime (which is often terrifying, verging on ugly) are Ryuta Nakajima‘s video with its odd juxtaposition of the ancient cuttlefish over a mélange of contemporary scenes; and Ava Blitz? Photoshop manipulations of everyday suburban landscape, which are as enigmatic as the cuttlefish.

  New media art is a young art form, but it?s fresh and engaging and, being experimental, it lacka the pomposity often attached to traditional art forms. As new media art attracts more practitioners, and as galleries show it more and collectors find ways to showcase it in their collections, the field of new media art will, I predict, live up to this show?s title.

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  Our Picks February 2012

  Posted: 1-February-2012, 4:24pm CET by laura adams

  Everybody knows February can be a bleak time of the year, when we’re all tired of winter and ready for the warmer spring weather. But that’s just all the more reason to get out and experience some of the wonderful events that Philadelphia has in store for you! Please check out our February Our Picks newsletter to see our top recommendations for this month’s shows and events! If you are interested in receiving our newsletter by email, please click here to subscribe! Thank you and enjoy!

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  The agony and the ecstasy at Vox?s AUX

  Posted: 1-February-2012, 2:41pm CET by libby

  My first outing to AUX, the newish performance space at Vox Populi Gallery, last week was an extraordinary mix of pain and transcendence. The event, Rhythms of Time Sharing (RoTS), showcased several communications-technology-based performances, including work from artists based here, in the nation and across the pond. The event, presented by the London-based collective KIOSK, was a curatorial exploration of the current state of new media in art.

  

  In Talk to Me, Joao Enxuto and Erica Love read to each other text messages supplied by the audience.

  The high point–using text messages–was an interactive performance by Brooklyn-based artists Joao Enxuto and Erica Love, who collaborate under the name the original copy. In their performance Talk to Me, they play a couple reading text messages to each other, the texts supplied by the audience.

  It was a dark and rainy weeknight, however, and the audience in AUX was small, less than 20 when I counted. But the audience was greater than the people in the room, thanks to another layer of technology streaming in and out of the UK. Alas, the audience was a little reluctant to interact, raising the level of tension as well as the discussion about lack of meaningful communication between Enxuto’s and Love’s characters.

  What made Talk to Me so successful were the theatrics, the fourth wall broken not just via technology but via the actors…and the irony that communications technology had created a fourth wall of sorts between the two lovers in much the way that we have our noses in our cell phones when we ought to be talking to the person right in front of us. This work was thoughtful and engaging, making successful use of the technology but putting it in a human context with a will-they-won’t-they-? plot driving the action forward in time.

  

  Bonnie Jones, a Maryland-based artist who uses text and music in her improvised and composed performances, projected a poem on a screen in rhythmic bursts of typing and “copied/pasted” text. The words and their presentation were a cosmic meditation on the desire to communicate and how technology mediates. I found myself thinking of the percussive, aggressive word art of Heavy Industries, but the mellow jazziness of Jones’ poem was quite different–more like a haiku than a Howl.

  

  Matt Kalasky performing his short story about love in the internet age. Two Diet Cokes were his main prop.

  The ecstasy was palpable in Matt Kalasky‘s performance/reading of a tale of two early Match.com web developers who find each other via their own tech-savvy device in what amounts to an e-epistolatory short story. Why, I wondered, did Kalasky’s persona down two cans of Diet Coke? Why was one of the lovers his mom? With ironic nostalgia for early internet culture, the story builds to its predictable climax after actual bits of computer code (fictional I presume) become part of the mating dance. Highly entertaining and a nice addition to the discussion of the role of technology in communication. Kalasky is a Philadelphia artist and writer, chief editor of The Nicola Midnight St. Claire.

  Also worthwhile and layered with ideas was a political film by New York-based Rainer Ganahl featuring a copy of Friedrich Engels’ The Condition of the Working Class in England… being kicked down the streets of a deserted English mill town fallen victim to economic and technological changes. Ganahl represented Austria in the Venice Biennale in 1999.

  

  Skyping with London-based KIOSK after 2am, Greenwich Mean Time

  The framework of the evening, however, was pure agony–an intercontinental, interactive Twitter feed at #nightwatch2012–arty and infertile. An equally arty performance by the Bristol (Engand)-based group the Collect, with a trite visual metaphor of a man untangling wires, also fell flat.

  KIOSK’s trio of sleepy curators in England (it was past 2am GMT) participated with the AUX crowd in a post-performance discussion on Skype. One of them suggested the word agony to describe much of the evening’s experience. That helped break the ice.

  

  The Twitter feed for #nightwatch2012 ran in the background throughout the performances.

  For all the agony, though, I found the evening fruitful. It brought to mind tedious early art videos, and how the process of learning to take advantage of a new technology takes experimentation and time until a vocabulary of useful strategies and precedents get built.

  Since AUX opened over the summer, there’s been a steady stream of performances and screenings there–a space for taking risks. In that light, the agony was to be expected and was not for everyone. The ecstasy–I’d return for more (although there’s not much continuity in what gets shown at AUX; every performance is an adventure).

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  Last call for Safari tickets. Better hurry!!!!

  Posted: 31-January-2012, 2:22pm CET by libby and roberta

  Artblog Art Safari tickets are going fast–only six seats remain on the June 1 tour. The other three safaris are sold out. But the good news is we’ve got a special guest coming along on that June 1 tour, Philadelphia Chief Cultural Officer Gary Steuer. Here’s his blog. To reserve your seat, contact us quick at libbyandroberta@gmail.com. Put SAFARI TICKETS in the subject line to insure prompt attention to your request. Only $20/ticket.

   

  

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  A newsier artblog?it?s better!

  Posted: 31-January-2012, 1:12pm CET by libby and roberta

  People have said to us they like the flow of the new artblog.  We like it too! Here are some of the great, useful new features of our new redesign in a tick list to help you go with the flow so to speak:

  • News posts always at the top left of the front page–We’ve been bringing you news tidbits on Fridays, since last April, with opportunities for artists, news of Philly artists showing out of town, and news of happenings mostly in town but occasionally beyond. People seem to like these posts a lot. So we’ve put them in a prominent spot where they stay up for the week. We thought it would be fun to look more like the New York Times.
  • Podcasts bottom center of the front page–You can easily see our last two podcasts if you scroll down to the bottom of the front page. They stay there for almost a month! People have so much to say!
  • Headline feeds from our media partners and friends–at the bottom left on every page. We thought you’d enjoy easy access to some of the other art newsmakers in town!
  • Less scrolling, less clicking to see the most recent reviews, features and interviews.
  • Better navigation–Our nav bar at the top has more options. Our navigation icons across the bottom take you somewhere new when you’ve reached the bottom of the page. If you’re on a back page, you can find a list of recent posts top left. And we still have our classic navigation tools: search, list of categories, and archives, in the right column, bottom of every page.
  • Contact page– We have made it easier to contact us.
  • Great big picture–we love seeing the large picture on the top post. We are after all an art blog. And we love the little thumbnails for the posts below, so you can access many more posts on the front page but still get a glimpse at their content.
  • Banners galore–We have more opportunities for sponsors to run banners on our pages. Check ‘em out. Left column, right column, next to the logo, above the logo, above the icon navigation at the bottom (yes those gray bars (with links) allow you to make your message visible, shorter than Twitter!)
  • And speaking of sp0nsorships and our beloved supporters, take a look at our two new pages–the supporters page and the sponsor us page; you can find them in the nav bar.
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  After an 18-hour outage, we?re back again!

  Posted: 30-January-2012, 1:13pm CET by libby and roberta

  Dear all, if you visited us yesterday you know we were not around.  Our hosting service had a big crash that took 18 hours to fix.  But hooray, they fixed it and we are back.  It was a very frustrating day but onward!

  

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  Vox?s four January artists ? Investigators of things great and small

  Posted: 30-January-2012, 1:40pm CET by roberta

  [This post was scheduled to go up yesterday but couldn't because of our hosting outage. Hope you got to see the show-yesterday was its last day.] The four featured artists at Vox Populi this month present four discrete bodies of work in each of Vox’s four gallery spaces. If there is a commonality it’s that the artists all seem to be seekers, after some truth–psychological or cosmic. That, and they all have MFAs from high powered institutions (Yale, Columbia, VCU).

  

  Perhaps the most engaging, because of its accessible narrative edge and cartoonish style, is Guy Ben-Ari‘s mostly grizaille paintings. With a clunky awkwardness that is endearing and a surreal sensibility enhanced by the use of mirrors, windows, long corridors and the suggestion of endless interior space, the works feature characters, in pairs, (some may be twins, or friends, or because this is dream-like, a single person represented twice) who look at each other bemusedly, lovingly, anxiously, judgeingly or lustfully.

  

  Guy Ben-Ari, a series of small paintings

  Other things are twinned too, like a table with lamp and small standing picture frame that appears, double, in one of the works. There’s no action to speak of except looking, which gives a slight sense of unease. If there is a punchline — and there isn’t — these would be pretty perfect on the cover of the New Yorker. As it is, they’re a good look and bespeak a quest to understand the nature of relationships and self.

  

  Catharine Maloney, a photo-sculptural work that evokes a class or team picture

  Wilmington artist Catharine Maloney‘s series of photo-collages and photo-constructions also seem to be looking — at gender. Not only does she focus on young men who mostly seem to be wearing Star Trek-like mock turtlenecks and posing in what amount to class or team pictures, but a number of the men are quite gender ambiguous. The seeming amateurish presentation of the works makes it seem like an obsessive scrap-booker or self-taught artist put this together. I found the work intriguing, both for the obsessive, closed-circuit point of view and for the eschewing of a sophisticated presentation.

  

  Leah Beeferman's cosmic tabletop array

  Leah Beeferman‘s two tables with colored plexiglas shapes of different sized geometric forms is situated in a gallery with black walls. The dramatic presentation and accessibility of the shapes made me immediately want to move things around on the table tops. But I was told no dice — it’s not an interactive piece. Too bad. The piece evokes two science fair tables awaiting the scientist to come and explain it all to you. There is apparently an audio component to the piece which I didn’t hear. When I went to Beeferman’s website to get some elucidation I found some delightful animations with sound, including the sound for this piece (a nice mix of what could be sounds of breathing magnified or sounds of car passing by on nearby highway and some bright percussive, almost tap-dance tapping). Clued in by the additional work on the website, it seems the artist is investigating the harmony of the spheres, and in that light, the table tops become mutable descriptions of what might be, what could be tomorrow and what might have been. Poignant, somehow.

  

  Brie Ruais, video of St. Theresa sculpture on a raft, like Huck Finn going down river

  Brie Ruais‘ “Unfolding/Performing Sculpture” includes a couple of large, fired, clay starbursts on the walls; a freestanding sculpture that is appears to have the face and hands of Bernini’s St.Theresa only here she is struggling to be free of the mound of clay she’s in. Elsewhere in the room, a river of what looks like unfired clay crosses the floor ala Lynda Benglis’ rivers of latex; and a video shows a slightly different St. Theresa piece on a raft in the middle of a river with some attendants.

  

  Brie Ruais, floor piece showing a different St. Theresa, mired in a mound of clay

  The suggestion is of some kind of Huck Finnish journey to come. The idea of transporting the clay piece downstream is highly appealing, while I don’t find the works in the room as appealing. Ruais’ work feels less like its questing for something (you don’t feel the struggle) than that it has arrived at an hypothesis and is experimenting with material and art history to perhaps knock some art history icons down a peg or two.

  All in all, the art world reflected in these four rooms looks pretty much as you’d expect these days – hydra-headed and conceptual, albeit with lots of traditional materials being thrown around in a traditional manner.

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  New podcast ? Tim Belknap on teaching kids about space as Astronaut Tim

  Posted: 30-January-2012, 3:00pm CET by libby and roberta

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  In early December Tim Belknap set up a small, pretend space station inside Temple Gallery that was an almost-convincing replica of the real thing. He called the set piece Destiny Module, a reference to the US Space Station’s Science Lab.  Destiny Module was part of Belknap’s project to beam himself as Astronaut Tim into a Philadelphia 4th grade classroom for a science talk.  All this would be done via the magic of a live Skype video feed.  Tim — who is not an astronaut but an artist and Fleisher Challenge winner with a mischievous sense of play and a self-created mission to educate kids about space — harnessed himself to a cable attached to heavy metal beams in the piece (in his day job he does custom steel fabrication) and hung suspended in front of a video camera as if he was floating in zero gravity. The students were wowed and believed the ruse, at least at first, and asked him questions like Is the moon a cookie? and When will the earth explode?  

  Here’s our 32-second sample of the interview with Tim.

  Tim Belknap 32 second clip

  Also, check out the recent story by Peter Crimmins and the video by Lindsay Lazarski on WHYY’s NewsWorks!

  And here’s the full podcast interview:
  full 14:27-min. interview with Tim Belknap

  Coming soon, please return to this post to watch the YouTube slide version of this podcast.

  This episode is edited by Peter Crimmins. The music is by Eric Biondo. The slide show is edited by artblog Intern Alison McMenamin. Thanks to the Knight Foundation for helping us get the ball rolling on this project. Thanks also to J-Lab?s Enterprise Reporting Fund and William Penn Foundation for additional support and to our partner WHYY NewsWorks for their ongoing support and for sharing artblog radio episodes on the arts & culture page of their community news site NewsWorks.org. You can subscribe to artblog radio on iTunes.

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  News ? FiberPhiladelphia, new Woodmere curator, art replaces nightclubs, and more!

  Posted: 27-January-2012, 1:16pm CET by chip schwartz

  News

  FiberPhiladelphia gets underway
  March is fast approaching, and so are a number of events as part of FiberPhiladelphia, the annual Philadelphia textile and fiber arts festival. In fact, Mayor Nutter will kick off the March 2 ceremony at Moore College of Art and Design by proclaiming March 2012 as Fiber Arts Month. The first event is the opening of In Material: Fiber 2012 on Friday, January 27 at Arthur Ross Gallery.

  

  Mi-Kyoung Lee, "Untitled", 2011 (detail) Twist ties, wire

  New curator at Woodmere
  Matthew U. Palczynski is the new curator at the Woodmere Art Museum. Palczynski was most recently the Staff Lecturer for Western Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and specializes in 20th and 21st Century art, which he continues to teach at Temple’s Tyler School of Art.

  In the Media
  Details.com has an intriguing article entitled “How the Art Scene Replaced the Nightclub” which recounts how art locales in NYC are replacing clubs as the new nightlife destination.

  Curbed Philly just launched as a go to hub for all things urban and Philadelphian. The editor is Liz Spikol, the long time Philly Weekly blogger who runs a page about mental health issues.

  Title Magazine put out its latest issue, and artblog is also pleased to announce we are running their RSS feed on our front page.

  Temple Gallery silence

  

  The sound of silence this month at the Temple Gallery is that of tape 342 from the White House office complex under Richard Nixon. Occurring on June 20, 1972 – just days after the Watergate break-in – the discussion in Nixon’s office is suddenly and dubiously replaced by electronic clicks and hissing. Nixon’s secretary took the blame for apparently pressing the wrong button at the most convenient of times.

  Fourth Friday on South Street

  Arts on South does Fourth Friday from 5 – 8 PM on January 27 (via Flying Kite).  Most of the action takes place between the 500 – 700 blocks where a number of unrented retail storefronts have been turned into spaces for art.

  Student show season
  Tis the season for MFA and BFA shows, starting with the opening of Safeword at UPenn. The show highlights work from PennDesign MFA Class of 2013.

  Opportunities
  

  Ceramics Monthly plans to feature the works of emerging clay artists. Submit up to (no more than) five 300 ppi images, a color print of each image, descriptions of the work, and contact info to:  Emerging Artists, Ceramics Monthly, 600 N. Cleveland Ave., Ste. 210, Westerville, OH 43082. E-mail materials or questions to: epfeifer@ceramics.org. The deadline is February 21.

  Triple Canopy has an open call for artists in six project areas (which are detailed on the proposals page). The staff will work closely with contributors as they develop the best approach to realizing their projects on the Web. The deadline is February 13.

  Xanadu Gallery has a virtual book club–why not?  Everything else is online. Registration is free. The next book up is the Pulitzer Prize-winning de Kooning: An American Master. Visit the registration page to become a part of the book club.

  Artist News

  

  Bruce Wilhelm

  Bruce Wilhelm, one of the Grizzly Grizzly founders currently completing his MFA at RISD is having a February 3 opening at Mulherin and Pollard in NYC.

  

  Mark Price

  Mark Price, a member of Space 1026, has an upcoming show at Kesting/Ray in New York entitled “Hyper 20XX”. The opening is February 9.

  Celia Reisman will teach landscape painting for two sessions of the summer program at the International School of Painting, Drawing, and Sculpture in Umbria, Italy.

  Stuart Lorimer, Tyler MFA 2011 graduate now living in Brooklyn has been working to install art for collectors and contribute paintings to a show in Paris. Most recently he helped decorate Tommy Hilfiger’s mansion in Connecticut.