The French term Trompe L’Oeil literally means ‘deception of the eye.’ It is a genre that requires incredible technical skill, along with knowledge of perspective, contrast and trickery. These illusions, whether serious or playful, allow the viewer to perceive art and nature through a different perspective. In the 1960’s, distinguished ceramic artists such as Marilyn Levine, Richard Shaw, and Victor Spinski began further experimenting with Trompe L’Oeil in ceramics by transforming clay into leather, metal, wood, plastic, glass or steel and creating found objects, banal if by themselves but gaining significance and intrigue when combined with other quotidian clay-created found objects.
We are looking for artists practicing in any medium to submit work before October 15, 2009 to be considered for the group catalog.
Came across this Craigslist posting today – seems a decent cause as she’s furthering her education and legitimate career possibilities through writing-related entrepreneurship! I’ll send a few stamps, putting this out there for others too.
WOMAN IN PRISON WISHES TO CHANGE HER LIFE. I NEED STAMPS FOR COLLEGE CORRESPONDENCE STUDIES. FOR EVERY DONATION I WILL SEND YOU AN ORIGINAL POEM!
PLEASE SEND STAMPS TO: GERRIE WATKINS X37619
CCWF- A501-B9-2LOW
PO BOX 1508 CHOWCHILLA, CA 93610
Seattle’s C Gallery seeks JPEG images of visual art of any medium to benefit Susan G. Komen for the Cure (Breast Cancer awareness and research.) 30% donation of the sale price for every art piece sold.
C Art Gallery in Seattle invites artists of all mediums to submit entries for an exhibit to benefit Susan G. Komen for the Cure during breast cancer awareness month this October.
Art on the Farm – Northern San Francisco Bay Area group of visual artists who travel around to local organic farms and paint on location. Anyone may show up, sign an insurance release, and draw/paint at any of their listed events, and 50% of sale price gets donated to charities such as local farmers’ and environmental or organic organizations. http://www.artonthefarm.org/callArtist.html
Multicultural art events in the New York metro area, ten percent of proceeds per artwork donated to an international or local humanitarian charity chosen by the group of featured artists. Past beneficiaries include Doctors without Borders, Action Against Hunger, and other groups. Visual art, dance, music, photography, writing…do not know if you need to live near New York or attend the events to be featured, feel free to email and ask them.
Singer/songwriter Katie Reider (featured on Dawson’s Creek and elsewhere), who passed away last year from a rare form of eye cancer, has a benefit page online where people can purchase her music for donations to her family, who’s still paying off thousands of dollars in medical bills. Some songs can be downloaded for only $1 each from the site.
The family is looking for people to pass on the link to more people and get 500,000 more hits this year. Perhaps other musicians and artists could email and contact them and offer their work on the site for donations too?
Not all necessarily charitable benefits…but a listing of markets for women’s short fiction and nonfiction essays – related to motherhood, children, or choosing not to have children.
CALL FOR submissions – Beyond the Pink Ribbon. Anthology on living wtih breast cancer. Addressing survivor struggles with fertility, sexuality, identity, disfigurement, effect on relationships, change in life expectations/expectancy, etc. Seeking honest, eloquent and informed essays about survivorship challenges. Send by August 21 to livingwithbreastcancer@gmail.com. Example essay: www.themorningnews.org/archives/personal_essays/replacing_things_lost.php
Poets and Writers Online – list of classifieds for all types of short and long pieces, on topics ranging from skiing to the recent presidential election in the USA to fathers and daughters. http://www.pw.org/classifieds
Zine (independent, usually self-published, magazine) party at San Jose’s Kaleid Gallery! An artist owned and managed co-op, Kaleid is hosting a zine exchange and showcase.
Seeking people who want to make a zine and share it with others. You may sell, exchange, or give away your zines – and be as creative as you want!
Friday, September 18th, from 7 to 9 pm at the Kaleid Gallery – 88 4th St. San Jose, CA 95112. (You don’t have to live near San Jose or come to the event to participate…just mail in your zines and they’ll sell or display them for you!)
Please email Yumi at all_access25@hotmail.com as soon as possible if you are interested in making a zine, and leave her your name, email, and phone number.
Zine submission deadline – September 8th (a Tuesday)
Please email her ASAP if you would like to participate, and give her your contact info and basic information about your zine!
Submit via mail to Yumi at 88 South 3rd St. #305, San Jose, CA 95113 or drop them off at the Kaleid Gallery.
Links to places to find calls for writing and art submissions…I looked through the websites to find ones which were updated regularly and which seemed relevant to more than just a small group of people.
Listen and Be Heard – International site listing in a blog-format various exhibition and show announcements and calls for written and visual art submissions. More of a Western world-focus, although anyone may join the network and submit events. Not so commercial, more of a nonprofit cultural site…you may search specifically for certain kinds of calls for submissions by using keywords. http://listenandbeheard.net/artsnews/
NewPages…a sort of ‘highbrow’ academic site with updated lists of calls for writing and visual art. More writing than art, some places call for combinations of the two. Lots of university presses and cultural places to get published. http://www.newpages.com/literary/submissions.htm
Art Deadlines List – more ‘dressed-down’ site, no need to pay, just scroll down to see the list of places looking for art. This site is pretty much for visual art…international, some smaller but many large galleries. Also art school application deadlines and scholarships. http://www.artdeadlineslist.com/
Independent Art and Media – ‘because democracy requires independent artists’ – currently focused on promoting a large exposition event Saturday, September 26th in Golden Gate Park (San Francisco) but periodically does post art/writing calls for submissions. San Francisco based site but open to everyone, run as a producers’ co-op … very readable and professional, most info related to the SF Bay Area but interesting style and ethos which could be copied elsewhere. http://artsandmedia.net/
Something clever…suspense author Brandilyn Collins blogs on readers’ and authors’ pet peeves about each other. For example, authors who write long, tedious suspense, making people wait and wait and fall asleep till something happens…or commenters who write in to complain about some author’s work without actually reading the book.
