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Paradigm Shift, the critically acclaimed and largest feminist event series/community group in the New York City metropolitan area, presents BODY TYPED: short films on perfection - a Screening & Discussion with Jesse Epstein, Sundance award-winning Filmmaker, on Wednesday, August 18th at 6:30 PM at The Tank- 354 West 45th Street (bet 8th & 9th Ave).  BODY TYPED uses humor to raise serious concerns about the marketplace of commercial illusion and unrealizable standards of physical perfection.To view the trailer, visit: http://bit.ly/c50Xgq. Tickets are $12 students/ pre-paid, $15 at door. Purchase tickets here:    http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/117245. For more information, contact Julia Weis, Community Outreach Coordinator: jweis@paradigmshiftnyc.com.  

Greetings,

Women’s Caucus for Art Pioneer Valley, MA Chapter  invites you to our premiere show, The Illustrated Woman.
Please see information below. The exhibit presents  the innovative and unique work of  selected WCA-PV members.
WCA-PV is the newest chapter of National WCA. Founded in January 2010. We hope to see you there.

WCA-PV Exhibition Committee
Rochleigh Z Wholfe WCA-PV President

C’ood Goes to Grand Rapids for ArtPrize
how cool is that!!
We need Michigan T-shirts to make the project happen
like clean out your closets, then…

It’s Party Time!
at Downtown Home & Garden
210 S. Ashley St., Ann Arbor
Saturday, July 31
6 to 8p.m.

Entrance Fee: A Michigan T-shirt that says “Michigan” or the name of a city or town in Michigan somewhere on the shirt. Or $5. Or wine or beer!!

Volunteer to HELP at the party and get a FREE (brand new!) C’ood T-shirt. Email me to sign up by Thursday.

What is this “C’ood” you might ask. Here’s the scoop.

C’ood Fact Sheet

Who: Ann Arbor artist Margaret Parker has organized a community effort to make a participatory art project. Parker is a member of Arts Alliance, Art Walk, and is on the Ann Arbor Public Art Commission. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally over the last 30 years. She and her husband, Mark Hodesh, own Downtown Home & Garden; her studio is above the store. See her work at:www.margaretparkerstudio.com <http://www.margaretparkerstudio.com>  <http://www.margaretparkerstudio.com/> .

What: The art project, C’ood: a democracy experiment, is about searching for the common good. It’s a circular tunnel with an open central space that viewers walk through. The support structure is woven with T-shirts donated from around Michigan. The project invites the whole community to participate in making a piece that has been given major recognition. We need to raise $15,000 to build, weave, ship and install the piece in Grand Rapids.

Where: The piece has been selected for ArtPrize in Grand Rapids this September. ArtPrize fills the center of downtown Grand Rapids with art from all over the world and generates tremendous publicity by offering prizes of up to $250,000. Last year 400,000 people came to the event filling Grand Rapids for the 3 week show. C’ood will have a prime sight at Calder Plaza, right in the center of downtown. It was selected for this prestigious sight by Frederik Meijer Gardens. For more information visit: www.artprize.org <http://www.artprize.org>  <http://www.artprize.org/> .

Why: This piece is about searching for the common good and the process of building it is where the search begins. When you donate a T-shirt from Michigan, help build the structure,  cut the T-shirts and weave them, donate supplies or building space, OR GIVE FUNDS IN ANY AMOUNT, you participate in making the artwork and in working towards a common good.

When: Time is short. The installation date is September 14, the show will open September 22 and run through October 10. It will be built in Ann Arbor using local businesses and suppliers then shipped to Grand Rapids for installation. There it will generate lots of attention for Ann Arbor. See you all in Grand Rapids!

If you can’t make it to the party, you can still mail or drop off a Michigan T-shirt to:
Margaret Parker, 210 S. Ashley St., Ann Arbor, MI. 48104

Thanks and see you Saturday,
Margaret

UNVEILED VIEWS

“Weaves a beautiful tapestry of the lives of [these] Muslim women…Their determination and lack of bitterness against the forces of opposition inspires hope in all of us.”
-Dr. Laila Al-Marayati, M.D., Spokesperson, Muslim Women’s League

In UNVEILED VIEWS <http://bit.ly/UnveiledViewsWMM> five extraordinary women talk about their occupations, aspirations, and the rights and status of women in their Muslim countries. Bosnian Alma Suljevic risks her life daily clearing the landmines near Sarajevo that are war’s deadly legacy, then sells minefield earth in European art galleries so that she can continue her work. Eren Keskin, a longtime human rights activist and lawyer with music conservatory training, fights to change Turkey’s legal practices that perpetuate violence against women. In UNVEILED VIEWS <http://bit.ly/UnveiledViewsWMM> veteran filmmaker, Rakshan Bani-Ehmad, true to her credo that art must “look, observe, and discover,” frequently pushes Iran’s censorship rules to the limit. Surrounded by conflict since childhood, young Afghani writer Moshagan Saadat creates brave, profoundly moving and memorable poems. And renowned Pakistani dancer Nahid Siddiqui, once forced to live outside her homeland when her work was banned, continues to perfect, renew, and teach her art form. Captured by Spanish filmmaker Alba Sotorra, who hitchhiked from Barcelona to Pakistan to shoot Unveiled Views, these self-portraits of hope, heroism, and pride challenge conventional Western stereotypes about women in the Islamic world.

To view a trailer of the film, click here <http://bit.ly/UnveiledViewsTrailer> .
For more information about the film, click here <http://bit.ly/UnveiledViewsWMM> .

Deadline: Monday, August 23, 2010 (materials received)
Lowell, MA  -  Appleton Mills Art Installation Project CALL FOR ENTRIES/ RFQ

Eligibility:
This project is open to all artists/ designers/ teams residing in New England, including collaborations with writers or sound artists/ musicians.

Budget:
$15,000. Five to ten finalists will receive a $500 honorarium to develop a proposal for public exhibition at the 10th Annual Open Studios in Lowell on September 24, 25 and 26, 2010. One artist/ designer/ team will be commissioned for the project.

Project Description and Background:
Trinity Financial invites artists/ designers/ teams to forward qualifications for an artwork to be permanently installed in the four-story atrium of the Appleton Mills redevelopment, an historic textile mill located at 219 Jackson Street in downtown Lowell, Massachusetts. The work to be commissioned could be a freestanding, wall-mounted or suspended piece. Appleton Mills will offer 130 affordably priced, modern loft-style rental apartments for artists of all media, including writers and musicians. The redevelopment of the Appleton Mills is the first phase of the revitalization of the Hamilton Canal District, a project that will reinvent 13 acres of vacant and underutilized land as a new and vibrant mixed-use neighborhood in downtown Lowell. Trinity, a Boston-based developer, is undertaking this renovation project, which is scheduled for completion in spring 2011. The Urban Arts Institute at Massachusetts College of Art and Design (UrbanArts) is facilitating the project.

Contact: Christina Lanzl, Project Manager, UrbanArts
christina.lanzl@massart.edu
617.879.7973
RFQ URL: http://www.massart.edu/Documents/www.massart.edu/about_massart/urban_arts_institute/Appleton_Studios_Cafe_due_08.23.10.pdf or www.urbanartsinstitute.org <http://www.urbanartsinstitute.org>  - click on Opportunities

Announcing the First Annual

FEMINIST ART HISTORY CONFERENCE
AT AMERICAN UNIVERSITY
in Washington D.C.

CONTINUING THE LEGACY: HONORING THE WORK OF
NORMA BROUDE AND MARY D. GARRARD

Friday and Saturday
November 5 and 6
2010

Keynote Speaker: Friday 6 PM

Dr. Anna Chave, Professor
Graduate School, City University of New York

Sponsored by the Art History Program, Department of Art,
College of Arts and Sciences at American University.

Conference is free and open to the Public; sessions and keynote
will be held at the Katzen Art Center on AU’s campus.

Call for Papers:

Please submit one-page proposals on any topic of feminist interest
in art history and/or visual studies with a current curriculum vita
by August 1, 2010.
Accepted proposals will be notified by August 31, 2010

Email proposals and CVs to all committee members: nbroude@american.edu,
mgarrar@american.edu,
hlanga@american.edu,  butler@american.edu

Call For Entries - Women Artists

No Place Like Home: Examining Changing Landscapes in Our Lives
A Juried Exhibition of Art by Women

For questions, please call Nathan Harpaz, manager of the Koehnline Museum of Art, 847-635-2633

MFA Students: Apply for a CAA Fellowship

Full details on the recently restored Professional-Development Fellowships in the Visual Arts, including the application form, have just been posted to the CAA website.

Later this fall, CAA will award five grants of $5,000 each to outstanding students who will receive MFA degrees in calendar year 2011. Honorable mentions, awarded at the discretion of the jury, will receive a free one-year CAA membership and complimentary registration to the Annual Conference.

CAA’s Professional-Development Fellowships in the Visual Arts offer financial assistance to promising MFA candidates. Fellows are honored with grants to help them with various aspects of their work, whether it be for job-search expenses or purchasing materials for the studio. CAA believes a grant of this kind, without contingencies, can best facilitate the transition between graduate studies and professional careers.

Applications must be postmarked by Friday, October 1, 2010.

“At Her Age” - Call for Artwork

Curated by Martha Wilson, artist and founder of Franklin Furnace.
An open call for artwork by women artists that addresses women, age and sex, to be exhibited at A.I.R. Gallery.*  The exhibit will examine how women view their changing bodies.
A.I.R. welcomes an open interpretation of the theme.

DEADLINE: May 14, 2010

For more info, to apply online or to download an application click HERE<http://www.airgallery.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=main.page&pagename=atherage&pageid=148/>

A.I.R. Gallery
111 Front Street #228
Brooklyn, NY 11201
212 255 6651
info@airgallery.org <mailto:info@airgallery.org>
www.airgallery.org <http://www.airgallery.org/>

Michigan State University
Department of Art & Art History
Studio Artist, Photography
POSITION: Assistant Professor of Photography, Department of Art & Art History, one-year full-time. Salary commensurate with experience. Benefits competitive. Position to begin August 16, 2010.
QUALIFICATIONS: MFA or equivalent advanced degree. Required expertise in one or more of the following areas: Color Photography Theory; Studio Lighting for Object and Portrait Photography; Historic and Contemporary Trends in Fine Art Photography; Digital Image Manipulation. Previous teaching experience and exhibit record highly desirable.
DUTIES: Teaching responsibilities will include courses in Photography within an active Studio Art Program offering BA, BFA, and MFA degrees.
APPLICATIONS: Include letter of application, curriculum vitae, statement of teaching philosophy, portfolio of recent professional work in digital format (CD and/or website listing) and three letters of recommendation. Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled.
Please send materials to:
Photography Search Committee
c/o Thomas Berding, Chair
Department of Art & Art History
Michigan State University
113 Kresge Art Center
East Lansing, MI 48824-1119
ABOUT MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY
The Department of Art & Art History is dedicated to the creation and historical study of the visual arts through undergraduate and graduate degree programs. The department is part of the College of Arts & Letters and offers study in Studio Art, Art Education, Apparel & Textile Design, and History of Art & Visual Culture. For further information, visit http://www.art.msu.edu.
In 2011, Michigan State University will be home to the new Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, designed by world renowned architect Zaha Hadid. A premier venue for modern and contemporary art, the museum will serve as a laboratory for research by faculty and students in numerous fields and as a nexus for community engagement with the visual arts. Other important campus resources include The MSU Museum and Fine Arts Library.
Known internationally as a major U.S. public university with global reach, Michigan State University has been advancing knowledge and transforming lives through innovative teaching, research, and outreach for nearly 150 years. MSU is a member of the Association of American Universities, the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges, and the Big Ten athletic conference.
MSU is an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer. MSU is strongly committed to achieving excellence through cultural diversity. The university actively encourages applications and/or nominations of women, persons of color, veterans and persons with disabilities.