Member News

Sharon J. Burton  either www.geminivisionsart.com or
www.authenticartonline.com) is co-curating and sponsoring through her art
consulting business, Authentic Art Consulting an important art exhibition
that opens on World AIDS Day.

The Art with Joe Series at Peace and A Cup of Joe in Baltimore Maryland with
Authentic Art Consulting and The ThickArt Collaborative, present RED, a
Charity Art Exhibition featuring the artwork of over 20 local artists to
Benefit CARE’s I AM POWERFUL HIV/AIDS Campaign and the Art Therapy Program
at the Institute of Human Virology at the University of Maryland Medical
Center. The exhibition will open on
World AIDS Day,
December 1, 2007 from 3:00 p.m. until 7:00 p.m.
at Peace and A Cup of Joe,
713 W. Pratt Street,
Baltimore, Maryland. 

This event is free and open to the public and the
exhibit is on view until January 11, 2008.

The exhibition will feature art from over 20 local artists who were invited
to visually express through original artwork their hopes, fears, experiences
and dreams about the struggle with HIV/AIDS epidemic in the United States
and around the world.  All artwork is available for sale.  Patients in the
Art Therapy program at the Institute of Human Virology have been invited to
display their art as well.

The opening reception will also feature an opportunity for guests to make
their own postcards to express their thoughts, hopes, dreams about HIV/AIDS
or to honor a loved one who may have died from AIDS, courtesy of Creative
Cause, a DC-based organization that creates campaigns for causes that change
communities for good.  Representatives from CARE and the art therapy program
will be on hand to share information about their respective programs

“HIV/AIDS has affected the Baltimore and DC areas in astounding
numbers,” said Sharon. “Having an art exhibition at a venue like this
enables us to get the message of testing; prevention and education directly
to the community, especially people who need this message the most.”


RED: artist lifting one voice in one common thread
Peace and A Cup of Joe Cafe
713 W. Pratt Street, Baltimore, MD
3-7 pm

Opening Reception: December 1, 2007 - World AIDS Day

Participating Artists:

Lola Akinmade
Prudence Bonds
Sharon J. Burton
Kiesha Carroll
Patsy Cline
Cynthia Johnson
Ebony Johnson
Jennifer Judelsohn
Tina Lassiter
Paul Longanbach
Patricia E. Ortman
Michelle d. Parrish
Marina Reiter
Aurora Rosselli
Michael Stebbins
Luba Sterlikova
Nora Stinley
Schonda Sweeney
Tanekeya Word

And others....

For more information, contact artinfo@authenticartonline.com or
admin@thickart.com

Member News

Sharon Burton will be participating in the Girls Gotta Run
2nd Annual Holiday Art Exhibition, December 2, 2007 -
January 5, 2008.  The exhibitionwill be held at
Modern Times Coffeehouse at Politics & Prose,
5015 Connecticut Avenue
 NW,Washington, DC 20008

This event is sponsored by the Girls Gotta Run Foundation, Inc.
Profits fromthe sale of artwork go to buy running shows for
girls in Ethiopia. By training as athletes, these girls can
delay traditional arranged marriages
which can occur as early as 12 years of age.

Opening Reception: Tuesday, December 4, 2007, 6-8 pm

Check out the art; chat with the artists; enjoy wine,
coffee and hors d'oeuvres; listen to the marvelous
music of the "Basso Moderno Duo" .

Movie Night: Thursday, December 6, 2007, 7-9 pm

Check out the art; experience a traditional Ethiopian
coffee ceremony; see the work-in-progress Girls Gotta
 Run DVD, and a documentary of an Ethiopian
coffee farm.

For more information and to view artwork that
 will be exhibited, please
check out the Girls Gotta Run Foundation
website at www.girlsgottarun.org.

Member News

Jane A Craven
MFA Thesis Exhibition in Sculpture

Dec 7, 2007- Jan 7, 2008
Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery and Hamilton-Arronson Galleries

The University of the Arts
320 and 333 South Broad Street, Philadelphia
Hours: Mon-Fri 10-5, Sat-Sun 12-5, Wed 10-8
(215) 717-6480/81

Opening: Friday, December 7, 6-8:30 pm
Dec 8- 28, 2007
The Milk Depot
2042-46 Amber Street
Philadelphia, PA 19125

Hours: by appointment
Opening: Saturday, December 8, 6-8:30 pm

Member News

Bonnie MacAllister will be performing
at Highwire Art Gallery December 8th at
8:00pm with Radio Eris and The Red Masque

Member News

Sonia Sherrod will be participating in Heron Crest Open Studio Weekend!

Reception Friday, November 16th 6-9pm
*Refreshments and Live music by Trinidad North steel drums*

Studio Open
Saturday November 17th 11am-5pm
and
Sunday, November 18th 11am-4pm

Other Participating Artists: Steve Ahlgren, Susi Anderson, Melissa Bittinger, Elizabeth Breakall, Claire Brill, Erica Curtis, Megan Fitzgerald, Heidi Hammel, Margo Johnson, Madeleine Kelly, Nancy Larison, Ann Guidiera-Matey, Cle' Smith

Member News

Carol
Taylor-Kearney at the
Delaware Center for
the Contemporary Arts

Three Little Monkeys by Carol
Taylor-Kearney will be on display at the
Delaware Center for the
Contemporary Arts in the exhibition
Expanding Circles. This exhibitions was curated by J. Susan Isaacs and
will run until February 10, 2008.

The DCCA is located at 200 S. Madison Street

Wilmington, DE 19801. Phone # is 302.656.6466,

and email is info@thedcca.org.For more information,
visit their web site at
www.thedcca.org.

For more
of Carol’s work visit www.taylor-kearneyfinearts.com and www.Inliquid.com.

Call for Entries

Graduate Humanities Forum
Penn Humanities Forum
University of Pennsylvania
3619 Locust Walk • Philadelphia, PA 19104-6213
http://humanities.sas.upenn.edu • 215.898.8220

Origins: Open Call for Art

The Graduate Humanities Forum at the University of
Pennsylvania is hosting a month-long exhibition on the
theme of Origins. Artists will be asked to explain in
their artist statements how their submitted work
relates to the concept of Origins. (For more
information on this year’s theme, visit the Forum’s
website: http://www.phf.upenn.edu.) The exhibition
will take place February 4 – 29, 2008 in the Fox
Gallery, located on the University of Pennsylvania
campus. The exhibition will close with a reception on
Friday, February 29, 5 – 7 pm, in conjunction with the
Graduate Humanities Forum conference on Origins.

Visual artists are invited to submit up to three works
of art for consideration. Only 2D and 3D art will be
considered.

The jurors for the exhibition are Shayna V.
McConville, Associate Director of InLiquid, Martha
Lucy, Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in Renoir Studies at the
Barnes Foundation, and Sharka Hyland, Adjunct
Assistant Professor at the University of Pennsylvania
School of Design.

The Penn Humanities Forum will award one first prize
($500) and two second prizes ($250 each), to be
announced during the closing reception on February
29th.

Artists may submit either slides or digital images of
their work. All slides or CDs must be labeled with
your name, as well as the title, date, medium and
dimensions of the artwork. The top of the slide should
be indicated, as well as corresponding numbers. A
completed and signed application form must also be
included, together wit a brief artist statement.
Digital files should be no larger than 8 x 10 inches
and 150 dpi.

All artwork must be ready for exhibition. 2D work must
be framed with a hanging wire. Nails and screws are
not allowed on the gallery walls, so installation work
and sculpture will need to be freestanding. Pedestals
will be provided if needed.  

Submissions should be emailed to
origins.show@gmail.com or mailed to:

Joseph Benatov
Penn Humanities Forum
University of Pennsylvania
3619 Locust Walk
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6213

All entries must be postmarked by December 10, 2007.
Notification of accepted work will be made the week of
January 14, 2008. All artwork must be delivered to the
Penn Humanities Forum by January 31, 2008. Work may be
shipped or hand-delivered. Shipped work must have the
appropriate return postage and packaging for return.
Artwork may be picked-up on Saturday, March 1, from 3
– 7 p.m. Any works not picked-up or ready for return
shipment will be discarded.

Calendar
December 10  Submissions due (postmarked)
January 14  Notifications sent out
January 31  Artwork received at PHF
February 4  Exhibition opens at the Fox Gallery
February 29  Closing reception, 5 – 7 pm
March 1  Pick-up of artwork, 3 – 7 pm, Fox Gallery
March 15  All artwork shipped back to artists

Jurors

Shayna V. McConville is the Associate Director of
InLiquid, a Philadelphia arts organization. She has
worked in the curatorial departments at the
Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Dayton Art
Institute, in addition to curating several exhibitions
at non-profit galleries. Her paintings, prints,
drawings and photographs have been exhibited
throughout the United States. She received her
Bachelors of Fine Arts from Parsons School of Design
and her Masters of Fine Arts from the University of
Pennsylvania.

Martha Lucy is the Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in Renoir
Studies at the Barnes Foundation. Dr. Lucy received a
Ph.D. in modern art from New York University’s
Institute of Fine Arts, with a dissertation focusing
on the relationship between evolutionary theory,
origins, and the representation of the body in
nineteenth-century French art and visual culture. She
is Executive Editor of the journal Nineteenth-Century
Art Worldwide, and a Regional Fellow in the Penn
Humanities Forum for 2007-8.

Sharka Hyland teaches visual communication at the
University of Pennsylvania School of Design. She
studied linguistics, Russian literature, and history
of experimental typography at the Albert-Ludwig
University in Freiburg, Germany and at Yale
University. She received her Master of Fine Arts
degree in graphic design from Yale School of Art, with
a thesis on Czech avant-garde art of the 1920s.


Fox Gallery at the University of Pennsylvania
The Bob and Penny Fox Art Gallery serves primarily as
an exhibition space for numerous outstanding art
exhibits throughout the year, highlighting works from
both within and outside the University community. The
Fox Gallery is run in conjunction with the SPEC Art
Gallery organization. All shows are held in the Fox
Art Gallery in the lower level of Logan Hall, located
at 249 South 36th Street, in the Perelman Quadrangle.


Penn Humanities Forum
The Penn Humanities Forum was founded in 1999 with the
goal to use humanistic knowledge and expertise to
promote an ongoing cultural conversation involving the
range of university disciplines and the general
public. Each year, this forum provides a setting in
which humanities scholars and students can put their
ideas and values to work on a specific topic, bringing
their research into a rich public conversation,
learning from those outside their field, and
translating the life of the mind into benefit for the
community. Each topic is explored in a rich program of
public lectures, performances, and exhibitions, as
well as research through the Forum's academic think
tank, and student activities through the Undergraduate
Humanities Forum and Graduate Humanities Forum.


Reproduction Rights
Accepted artwork may be used for promotional material
in conjunction with this event.


Insurance
The Fox Gallery is open Monday-Friday from 9am-5pm and
is locked at all other times. The University of
Pennsylvania is not responsible for lost or damaged
art.


Sales
Sale of artworks will be directed to the artist. The
Fox Gallery does not take a commission.

For more information and to download this call and
application form, visit:

http://humanities.sas.upenn.edu/calendar_ghf.shtml
Graduate Humanities Forum • Penn Humanities Forum

ORIGINS Exhibition Entry Form

Deadline: December 10, 2007 (Postmarked)

Member News

America's YMCAs are preparing for Y Arts Week, Nov 5 to 12 and the Hazleton YM/YWCA is letting its artistic side show. On Friday, Nov. 9 there will be an autumn landscape art project facilitated by Artist Kathy Dobash, proprietor of Beauty Flower Poem. This workshop takes place from 4 to 6 p.m. and is for children ages 5 to 13. The workshop is open to the first 20 participants registered. There is no charge to particpate in the workshop, thanks to the support of the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts (PPA). State government funding comes through an annual appropriation by Pennsylvania's General Assembly and from the National Endowent for the Arts, a federal agency. In this region The Scranton Area Foundation administers PPA.

On Saturday, Nov. 10 from 10 to 11:30 a.m., there will be a First Night Hazleton 2008 Procession of Colors Banner workshop. This is also free to anyone wishing to make his or her contribution. The banners will be carried in a procession during the First Night Hazleton 2008 festivities. This artistic endeavor is facilitated by Dobash.

"As the country's largest community service organization, the YMCA is becoming the leading arts programming provider in the country," said Jason Shinder, director of arts and umanities, YMCA of the USA.

"YMCAs understand that arts education is helping to nhance the American workforce of the future. It has been proven to increase students' cognitive development, to motivate and inspire discipline, to enhance confidence and inventiveness, andt to hone communication and problem-solving skills," Shinder said.

The Hazleton YM/YWCA is an agency of the United Way and it's mission is to empower men, women and children to realize their fllest potential through programs and services that develop their mind, body and spirit.

No one is turned away because they cannot pay and financial assistance forms are available at the front desk of the main facility at 75 S. Church St.

Call 570-455-2046 to learn more about the Hazleton YM/YWCA.

About Beauty Flower Poem Kathy Dobash is an abstract expressionistic artist. Dobash opened her new business. Beauty Flower Poem, October 5, 2006. Workshops are provided in her studio or she can go on the road with her ART ON THE GO philosophy of providing art experiences anywhere for all ages. The workshops are personalized and designed for artists of all abilities. Customers enjoy a relaxed atmosphere of fun with these activities: workshops, birthday parties, employee team building training, community projects, and conference presentations. Plans for local school field trips to Beauty Flower Poem will include student participation in art critiques, art production, art history and discussion about art topics. Her art is sold on her website, http://www.beautyflowerpoem.etsy.com Notecards designed by Kathy and her mother, Marie Dobash,are featured.

View my commercials "Brush Strokes" on http://ssptv.com/live click on "Beauty Flower Poem"

Please note.....Beauty Flower Poem has moved to a larger location within the Markle Building:

Suite 428

Member News

Katrina Kiefer and her lion.

Next Meeting November 14th

We are extremely excited about our November 14 meeting
because there is so much great activity for our
chapter.

We had originally asked you to make Artist Trading
Cards for the next meeting.  Hold onto those because
we have a great exhibition with the International
Women's Caucus for Art, a wonderful opportunity for
you instead. 

Did you know that the WCA is actually an NGO
(non-governmental organization) of the United Nations?
Environment and sustainability are important topics
for the Women's Caucus as a whole.

We would like for you to prepare a 4”x6” or Size 6
postcards made from recycled materials and reflecting
the theme of “Sustaining Our Environment” . On the
back of the postcard, provide your name, address and
the materials used to make the card.  

We will present our postcards, and then we'll mail
them off to be part of the exhibition during the
February, 2008 WCA and College Art Association (CAA)
annual conferences at Ft. Worth-Dallas, Texas. At the
exhibition, works will be auctioned to benefit the
United Nations.

Don't worry.  If you miss the meeting, the email below
tells you how to participate!

Also, don't forget to update your Irving Sandler files
(resume, statement, available work), and let us know
if you want to be part of "Environmental Distress" or
"Women Helping Women:  Stitch by Stitch".

We have a new website in the works:
http://www.marycrowley.com/rubia/.  We'll post your
links and images of you with your fabric for the show!


So save the date:  November 14 at 6:30 at Moore
College of Art and Design (www.moore.edu for
directions.)  And scroll down for more information on
the postcard show!
Theme: Sustaining Our Environment Postcard Exhibition
 
Sustain our environment! 
The Women’s Caucus for Art
(WCA), a national women’s artists’ association and an
NGO of the United Nations, invite mail artists and
artists of all media to support the UN’s Millenium
Goal, “Sustaining Our Environment.”  The Millenium
Goal’s objectives are:
 
·        Integrate the principles of sustainable
development into country policies and programs;
reverse loss of environmental resources
·        Reduce by half the proportion of people
without sustainable access to safe drinking water
·        Achieve significant improvement in lives of
at least 100 million slum dwellers, by 2020
 
Submit 4”x6” or Size 6 postcards made from recycled
materials and reflecting the theme of “Sustaining
Our Environment” by January 15, 2008 . On the
back of the postcard, provide your name, address
 and the materialsused to make the card. 
Submissions will be exhibitedduring the
 February, 2008 WCA and College Art
Association (CAA) annual conferences at Ft.
Worth-Dallas, Texas. At the exhibition, works
 will beauctioned to benefit the United Nations. 
 
Documentation on
http://wcaartwavesinternational.blogspot.com/. No
jury, no fee, no return. Postal delivery only.
 
Mail postcards to P. Otani, Curator, Sustaining Our
Environment, 263 Laidley Street, San Francisco, CA
94131 USA
 

Next Meeting November 14th

We are extremely excited about our November 14 meeting
because there is so much great activity for our
chapter.

We had originally asked you to make Artist Trading
Cards for the next meeting.  Hold onto those because
we have a great exhibition with the International
Women's Caucus for Art, a wonderful opportunity for
you instead. 

Did you know that the WCA is actually an NGO
(non-governmental organization) of the United Nations?
Environment and sustainability are important topics
for the Women's Caucus as a whole.

We would like for you to prepare a 4”x6” or Size 6
postcards made from recycled materials and reflecting
the theme of “Sustaining Our Environment” . On the
back of the postcard, provide your name, address and
the materials used to make the card.  

We will present our postcards, and then we'll mail
them off to be part of the exhibition during the
February, 2008 WCA and College Art Association (CAA)
annual conferences at Ft. Worth-Dallas, Texas. At the
exhibition, works will be auctioned to benefit the
United Nations.

Don't worry.  If you miss the meeting, the email below
tells you how to participate!

Also, don't forget to update your Irving Sandler files
(resume, statement, available work), and let us know
if you want to be part of "Environmental Distress" or
"Women Helping Women:  Stitch by Stitch".

We have a new website in the works:
http://www.marycrowley.com/rubia/.  We'll post your
links and images of you with your fabric for the show!


So save the date:  November 14 at 6:30 at Moore
College of Art and Design (www.moore.edu for
directions.)  And scroll down for more information on
the postcard show!