Call to Artists THE WALNUT BEACH ARTS FESTIVAL

The 13th Annual Walnut Beach Arts Festival Sunday, August 7, 2011 - 10:00AM to 5:00PM Walnut Beach, Milford, CT   OPEN CALL      Who: Walnut Beach Arts/Crafts Festival    What: Artists and Crafters Wanted Where: Walnut Beach, East Broadway & Viscount Drive   When: Sunday, August 7, 2011 Join us for our 13th Annual Walnut Beach Arts/Crafts Festival, Sunday, August 7, 2011 on the green across from Walnut Beach in Milford. It is anticipated that this will be one of the best years yet. In addition to our local CT artists, there will be artists coming from Rhode Island, New York, MA and further. We're seeking all types of art including but not limited to: painting, woodworking, metalwork, pottery, ceramics, clothing, jewelry, quilting, music, food products, etc. Since this is a juried festival, all arts and crafts must be original. We're pleased to offer free parking, free coffee and doughnuts for vendors, bathroom breaks throughout the day and 'fast lanes' for vendors at the food stations. To be sure we draw the crowds, the Event is being promoted in: Connecticut Magazine, Yankee Magazine, Milford Magazine, Milford Chamber of Commerce, TV channels 12 & 8, Radio Broadcasting, local billboard advertising, CT Culture & Special Events Guide, and more. To reserve your space, complete the Exhibitor Application at the bottom of the Schedule of Events below and return it with your check for $60 to the address below the application. Spaces will be given on a first-come, first-served basis.  For Vendor and general festival questions, please call:Laura Ambrogio 203-283-1275   VOLUNTEERS ARE ALWAYS WELCOME!!!!      SCHEDULE OF EVENTS    7:00AM: Registration opens for the Walnut Beach 5K Race.                        Join us at the WB Pavilion to register for the 5th annual Walnut Beach 5K Race.                   Free Ice Cream will be given to every runner/walker. There’s a free kid’s run at                   8:00AM.                                          Where: Walnut Beach Pavilion.   8:00AM: Kids Race begins.   8:30AM: Walnut Beach 5K Race begins. 10:00AM to 10:15AM: Festival Opens. Winner of Wall of Art contest is unveiled.                   The National Anthem will be sung by Wendy Terenzio and after that a message                    from the dignitaries and the winner of the Wall of Art contest will be announced.                    The student art contest, now in its 12th year invites the winner of best in show to                    paint a mural to be added to our wall of art. Come see this year’s winner as well                    as murals from past festivals.                    Where: The Walnut Beach Green at Viscount Drive & Broadway. Please check back later for further schedule of events  The Walnut Beach Association is proud to announce that it is working in conjunction with the Red Roof Inn in offering discounted rooms to our vendors for the nights of Saturday, August 6 and Sunday, August 7, 2011.  ArtFairCalendar.com: Fine Art Fairs and Craft Show Event Listings   Free art show and craft fairs calendar and email list for art festivals across the U.S. Join our free art fair email list!

Hammered and Nailed Exhibit Artspace Gallery Hartford Connecticut

Art can be REVOLUTIONARY!  That is one of the goals behind Hammered & Nailed: Free Creative Open Call to be held on Saturday, May 28th from 6-10pm at The Hartford ArtSpace Gallery located at 555 Asylum Street in downtown Hartford, CT.  

Event organizers, Joe Bun Keo & Ashleigh Kay are Hartford Art School Alumni Class of 2009, Connecticut natives and affiliates of the group NLUV (Now Let Us Vindicate).  After graduating, it was quickly realized how difficult it is for artists to work and progress in The Greater Hartford area.  Being the go getters that they are, Joe & Ashleigh felt they had the power and even more so, the responsibility to change this.  

Hammered & Nailed is exactly that, the initiative to change the status quo and create an opportunity.  An opportunity in which artists, poets, performers, musicians and the like can come together for a gathering of creativity and social networking.  We want creative collectives and organizations to come together and build resources and a think tank to help further inspire and motivate the arts and invest in the untapped creative energy here in Connecticut.  

Through the organization of Hammered & Nailed, Ashleigh & Joe have reached out to local businesses in the Hartford area, while emphasizing the positive impact to the art community and city of Hartford that the event will have.   Generous sponsors of Hammered & Nailed now include Blick Art Materials of Plainville,  Wood N Tap of Hartford, City Steam Brewery and Cafe of Hartford, The Half Door of Hartford, WineWorks of Southington, Square Root of Food Creative Catering of Manchester & The Flatbread Pizza Company of Canton.

One of the biggest aspects of Hammered & Nailed is that of community, not only the local business side but community in the sense of every artist has to hang their own work, bring potluck to the reception, and assist in taking down the show.  It’s all volunteer based and about having the spirit to want to participate in an event where you can meet other creative minds and just connect and collaborate.  There are no fees to the artists and participants of Hammered & Nailed, just the opportunity to be actively engaged in a growing artistic environment.  

It is the hope and vision of Ashleigh, Joe, and the rest of the NLUV crew that Hammered & Nailed will truly be revolutionary in the sense that this could be the start of something huge, the start of an art movement and the revitalization of how people think of art in Connecticut.

It just takes someone or something to start a revolution and the rest…is history.

About the producers:

Ashleigh Kay – Experimentation has always been essential to my process, driving and forming my work, it requires abandonment of doubt and willingness to let go. I’ve learned how to work without restrictions and to allow myself to make mistakes. This process has manifested itself as a necessary channel for my emotions. Through the abstraction of texture and color, a time and place is created that is without words, evoking emotion, critical to the outcome of the works.

http://ashleighkay.com

 Joe Bun Keo - It's like coming midway into a conversation; finding yourself in that awkward silence with a soundtrack of crickets chirping, and blank faces asking "um...okay...what now?"

You're stuck trying to find a resolution; whether it's by attempting to catch up to speed with everyone else or interjecting with a hasty subject change or an offbeat icebreaker. Things may go awry and fail miserably or they can just move on without consequence.

I flip my misunderstandings and shortcomings in language to turn them into

experiments with wordplay.  There will be clichés, punch lines, pop culture references and contemporary youth vernacular involved.

I also enjoy the reexamination of what people take for granted. The most mundane of utilitarian objects or overlooked situations can be taken out of the comfort of their given context and shown in a new light.

The end result could be clean, quick, clever, dry, sarcastic, but nevertheless accessible and relevant. The dialogue between the work and audience may seem short, but remnants resonate.

http://joebunkeo.com/

I believe in modest gestures, minor miracles, small victories and second chances... as should you.

For more info please contact:

Joe Bun Keo at dadanotprada@gmail.com

Ashleigh Kay at Ashleigh@AshleighKay.com

NLUV Website http://www.nluv.org/?projects=hammered-nailed

NLUV Blog http://onesnluv.blogspot.com/






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GALLERY 46 Black and White Show Rockville Connecticut

GALLERY 46 would like to invite you to our next event BLACK and WHITE….featuring 13 artists in various mediums.

Artist reception is Saturday February 12^th from 6-9pm….Come meet the artists, enjoy some great artwork, hors d’oeuvres, and live music too! Our last event Articulated Bodies was a great success and we would like to thank Colin Burke and Krys Swiatek for their fabulous work and for all of you who attended their opening.  We hope to see you all at this next event…Remember parking is in the back of Rockville Library…and a $5 donation is always appreciated!

Art Exhibit Opening-Greenwich, CT.

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Who: Perry Burns, Artist http://www.perryburns.net
Karen Santry, Willard Lustenader

What: Three Visions Opening Reception and Exhibit

When: February 3rd, 2011. 6:00 to 8:00 pm

Where: The Flinn Gallery, part of the Greenwich Library.101 W. Putnam Ave, Greenwich, CT 06830

Aside from the fact that this will be Perry's first hometown showing, his abstract art and work serves a significant purpose in elevating the ideas of tolerance, peace and common humanity that are so necessary in our post 9/11 world.

Click Here to find out more about this event.

GALLERY 46 Upcoming Show! Art Opening Connecticut

 

WE HOPE TO SEE YOU AT OUR NEXT EVENT!

We hope everyone had a great Holiday Season.  We thank all of you who came out to support Linda M. Klusek and see her wonderful pottery display.

Also a huge thanks to those of you who supported our HOLIDAY GIFT SHOW which was a huge success as well.

We will be having another artist reception this Saturday January 15, 2010….6-9pm

featuring the works of Krys Swiatek and Colin Burke….

They will be exhibiting their cyanotypes in our gallery until February 5^th.

We hope you will come down and enjoy the work along with a drink and some great company.  Hope to see you this Saturday!

GALLERY 46 ART OPENING and HOLIDAY GIFT SHOW Connecticut

GALLERY 46 wishes everyone a wonderful holiday season and appreciates all your support over this past year.  

This month we will have our first HOLIDAY GIFT SHOW.

We will feature local artisans and hope you will come out to support these artists by purchasing handmade gifts for your loved ones this season.  

There will be a variety of items including pottery, soap, candles, jewelry, fine prints, stationary, Yoga/Pilates bags, and much more…

All items are reasonably priced from $5 to $100

This show will run from Monday December 6^th through Wednesday December 22^nd. 

The gallery will be open Monday through Friday 4-8pm and Saturdays 10-4pm. 

*gift show will be temporarily taken down for our exhibition opening on  Dec 10^th see invite below

Our final exhibition of the year will be with LINDA M. KLUSEK Images on Clay: Exploring the fusion of Photography Printmaking and Ceramics

Please join us on Friday December 10^th from 6-9pm to celebrate this exhibit and ring in some holiday cheer with friends and artists.

Mixed Journeys: Nautical Paths A Solo Exhibition by Connecticut Contemporary Artist, Rex Prescott Walden

On a rocky beach in Guilford, Connecticut, contemporary artist Rex Prescott Walden looks out over Long Island Sound.  His calm demeanor and neatly put-together appearance are in stark contrast to modern conceptions of what an artist should look like.  Here, at his sprawling family compound, Walden looks more the aging J. Crew model than breakthrough artist.

However, moving into his brightly lit studio, old navigational charts and cans of acrylic paint are spread out on antique chart tables.  Typing machine buttons dot the tops of worn wooden counters.  This is the studio of an artist in preparation.  What Walden has been preparing for is a solo exhibition at the Fernando Luis Alvarez Gallery on Thursday, November 4^th. 

The Gallery has exclusively represented Walden, who remains its best-selling artist, since the beginning of 2010, and has featured him in three of its seven shows.  Walden's work is currently in the permanent collection of the Florence Griswold Museum in Old Lyme, CT, and at the brand-new Smilow Cancer Center at Yale New Haven Hospital.  Walden's first solo show at the Gallery, “Non-Applicable,” sold out completely.  Collector Kabir Valencia describes his draw to Walden's nautical-themed pieces as “second nature.”  “His talent is universal and unstoppable.  The appeal of his pieces is reminiscent of old Jules Verne stories; nautical and scientific with a hint of fantasy.”

By using paint, collage, and found objects, his works are saturated with a sense of movement and history.  Old map prints call out navigational paths as adding machine buttons play with conventional standards of dimension, always making the viewer acutely aware of the effervescent nature of Time.

Mixed Journeys: Nautical Paths will be on view at the Fernando Luis Alvarez Gallery at 96 Bedford Street, Stamford, Connecticut through December 14, 2010.  The opening for the show will be held at the Gallery on Thursday, November 4^th from 5pm to 9pm.  An RSVP is required for a first-option private viewing running between 5pm and 6pm; please RSVP to Rebecca Hansen at rhansen@flalvarezgallery.com or 888-861-6791.  The show will be open to the public from 6pm to 9pm, with complementary refreshments and live music.

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