More international calls for submissions

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STRANGE FIGURATIONS ART EXHIBITION
A thematic exhibition open to all interpretations of the concept, Strange Figurations. Open to all forms of new and unusual figurative styles from the realist to the surreal and visionary. Open to all media. 72″ maximum dimension. The exhibition will be held at the Limner Gallery, September 1 – 25, 2010. National magazine publication awards. For prospectus send SASE to (or online or email): SlowArt Productions, 123 Warren St, Hudson NY 12534 OR http://www.slowart.com/prospectus/figure.htm OR slowart@aol.com
 
NATIONAL JURIED ART EXHIBITION
Eleventh Annual WILL’S CREEK SURVEY (Sept. 11 – Oct. 9, 2010). Best of Show 2-D $1250, Best of Show 3-D $1250, Awards $5,500+. Juror: Eric C. Shiner – Milton Fine Curator of Art at The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh. Two jpegs entries on CD, $25. Contact or download entry form: Allegany Arts Council, 52 Baltimore St, Cumberland MD 21502 OR 301-777-2787 OR http://www.alleganyartscouncil.org OR arts@allconet.org
 
CALL FOR FEATURED ARTISTS ART BOOK
Artists are invited to submit material for selection so as to be included in “Featured Artists” Vol. II. “Featured Artists” is a series of art books, which offers artists a new and effective way of introducing their work to a considerable international audience of art professionals. It is a daring attempt to feature several contemporary artists in an overview, a book which will be a resource for galleries, museums, artists, art collectors and dealers who constantly seek for new talents and trends in the art community. Every nomination is based entirely on the merit of the work submitted for selection. Selected artists will have to pay an editorial fee. “Featured Artists” distribution is made internationally through large book wholesalers and e-shops, including Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Borders and more. The book is also distributed to over 1200 top galleries, museums, curators, art consultants in the U.S and in Europe. More info: http://www.modernartcom.com/featured_artists.html OR artist@modernartcom.com
 

Two calls for art submissions, San Jose’s Kaleid Gallery and San Francisco’s Altered Barbie show

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Two Buck Tuesdays @ KALEID Gallery in San Jose

TWO BUCK Tuesdays is an inspired event hosted by a crew of very dedicated artists at KALEID Gallery on the Third Tuesday of the month. Artists and audience alike are invited to attend, contribute and share in this unique event all free of charge.

The TBT Crew organizes artistic, creative speakers, live demos, performances and live music jammed into 3 hours for a hyper shot of inspiration that you’ll carry with you all month long til the next one!…
 
We want to invite you to participate by submitting your art for this great event. It’s an opportunity to get your work and your name out there to new fans that appreciate the work and the amazing affordable price. All TBT art is 4″ x 6″ or smaller, we suggest 6-8 pieces, all your contact info should be on the back, works are priced at $2 and you keep all the proceeds.

You can drop off your work anytime at KALEID Gallery Tuesday thru Friday, Noon – 7pm or Saturday Noon – 5pm before the next scheduled TWO BUCK Tuesday event (3rd Tuesday of every month.)

Email us with any questions at info@KALEIDgallery.com

 

The 8th Annual San Francisco Altered Barbie Exhibition, 2010
Romancing the Barbie

A CALL TO ARTISTS: This year San Francisco, Barbie and Ken are re-doing it, re-using it, and re-inventing it all over again!  A Date with Barbie!
Sign up and Payment is done through the web site, click HERE.  You can sign up now!

Categories include: 3-dimensional Barbie’s, Mixed media, Photographs, Paintings, Performance-art, Print making, Film & Video, Spoken word, Fashion, Panels, Quilts, New Media. All submissions must interpret, comment on, or criticize what Barbie or Ken mean to you.
Dolls that are acceptable are: Barbie and Barbie like dolls, Christie, Courtney, Gillian, Kayla, Midge, Ken and Ken like dolls, Raquelle,Skipper, Tia, etc. Works not including an “Altered” Doll will not be considered for this show.

Altered Barbie registration Deadline: July 31st, 2010 Please remit all information to the web site.  All Artists will be informed of their entry to the show by August 7th, 2010.
Entry fee….

ALSO- there’s a call for curators on the site…

http://alteredbarbie.com/about-us/altered-barbie-call-artists-2010

 

Call for Artwork for a San Jose Sempervirens Fund charitable benefit

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Call for Artists in all mediums to donate a piece to be auctioned at Take Back Your Forest Benefit. The benefit will be Friday July 9th at 8pm, Theatre on San Pedro Square, San Jose, California. All proceeds will go to Sempervirens Fund. It is a fund to save the Redwoods. For more info please visit this site: http://www.takebackyourforest.com/event.html
If you want to donate your art please contact Kimy Martinez at kimy@pacbell.net. Thank you!

Super Arrow Magazine seeks written and visual artwork submissions

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issue 3 of Super Arrow is looking to gather.
http://superarrow.blogspot.com/

We’d like to welcome you to submit your writing and art for publication in our online journal for creative experiments. The journal was originally conceived as a first cousin several times removed from movements like OULIPO, which is to say, process-informed, stretching, and connected to a collaborative/creative community. Please read past issues to have an idea of our aesthetic and project, but by all means please avoid feeling constricted by same.

Super Arrow is published twice a year, with a Spring/Summer issue and a Fall/Winter issue.

We publish fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and visual art. Please see our online submissions guidelines for genre-specific notes. In addition, we’re often interested in our readers committing to an “assignment” (i.e., prompt) – Issue 3’s assignment, TOGETHER, NOW, is all about collaboration.

If you have a work that doesn’t seem to quite fit with what we’ve yet described, but you still think it’s kismet – a critical essay, perhaps – please write us a note describing your project.

E-mail submissions and/or questions and/or…
<superarrowfliestrue(at)gmail.com> (replace (at) with @)

More compiled Theano’s Day posts

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Theresa Ramseyer’s post on Heloise, Hildegard, and Mary Wollstonecraft: http://controls-lady.insanejournal.com/2606.html

Sarah Melton’s post on intellectual and political activist Simone Weil: http://www.facebook.com/notes/sarah-melton/women-in-philosophy-simone-weil/439058716084

Amar Chaudhary’s post on Theano, Anna Maria von Schurman, and Mary Wollstonecraft: http://www.ptank.com/blog/2010/06/theanos-day/

University webpage on women in logic and mathematics: http://jwilson.coe.uga.edu/emt668/EMAT6680.Folders/Dickerson/women/women.html

Theano’s Day 2010: St. Brigid of Ireland, Poetess Mary Finch, Lady Julian of Norwich, Theano herself

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Today, June 24th, marks Theano’s Day, the international day to blog in honor of a favorite female philosopher or thinker. This year I’m celebrating women with very humane, gentle sensibilities and social consciences, along with intellectual capabilities.

First off, there’s Ireland’s second patron saint, Brigid, a nun, artist, writer, and leader known for helping develop the historically more balanced, more gentle and egalitarian Celtic Christian theology. Brigid chose the contemplative religious life after realizing she felt a calling to help the local poor and sick, which she started by giving away her and her father’s possessions, including his valuable jewel-encrusted sword. Throughout her life, she organized efforts to care for the sick, educate children, and build and develop the nunnery.

Ireland’s pre-Christian past also involves a goddess named Brigid, and some historians observe commonalities among the saint and the goddess’ lives and interests. Brigid the goddess serves as patron of wisdom, learning, writing, poetry, motherhood, and children – and is known for compassion towards the poor and sick. She taught people how to raise cattle and forge iron tools, while defending the rights of women, including single mothers and their children.

Links to the story of Goddess Brigid and St. Brigid:

http://www.goddessgift.com/goddess-myths/goddess-brigid.htm

http://www.monasticireland.com/storiesofsaints/brigid.htm

Then, there’s the English theologian and poet Anne Kingsmill Finch, born in 1661 and highly educated in literature, history, and the classics. Known for her humor, wit, and energy, Finch satirized social customs which she felt overly restricted or protected women. She also expressed her love for her husband, her religious faith, and her struggle to overcome serious depression, while earning scores of admirers, including Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift.

University of Pennsylvania’s Women Writers page for Anne Finch, complete with samples of her poems: http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/finch/finch-anne.html

And, there’s Julian of Norwich, an anchoress (a nun choosing to almost totally isolate herself from society to meditate and pray) who developed a kind of Christian theology which focused more on living out a response to God’s love than on following rules for their own sake. She spoke often of divine love and welcome for all living beings, not just those of any one particular faith or culture, and emphasized learning from mistakes rather than strict penitence. Her book, Revelations of Divine Love, is the first published English-language book known to be written by a woman.

Lady Julian of Norwich said, famously, and in the midst of the Black Death, “All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well.”

Article on Lady Julian’s spirituality and how to reconcile ‘all shall be well’ with the world’s obvious suffering: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3885/is_200104/ai_n8931020/

Finally, we come to Theano herself, Pythagoras’ wife and the mother of his five children. She wrote extensively on intellectual topics, such as geometry, mathematical proportion in art, and literary critiques of books and treatises. And, she could transition well from practical life to high-minded academia and back again – she also wrote much about raising children and managing a household and treating servants with respect and professionalism.

Link to a short biography of Theano and the Pythagorean School: http://www.women-philosophers.com/Theano.html

As an extra treat, here’s a list of thirty great books for and about girls, courtesy of Care2.com: http://www.care2.com/causes/womens-rights/blog/30-great-books-for-girls-8-14/

Theano’s Day post in honor of Mirra Alfonso (The Mother)

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Mirra Alfonso also known as the Mother

     The Mother was the consort of Sri Aurobindo Ghose. She was a Parisian of Egyptian descent. After experiencing many spiritual experiences she left to Algeria in 1906 in order to study occultism. In 1914 she left to India and met Sri Aurobindo. Later she left for Japan and returned to Europe. In 1920 she returned to India and lived in Pondicherry where she remained for the rest of her life. There with Sri Aurobindo she took on the title of the Mother. With Sri Aurobindo she worked on a new form of spiritual practice of spiritual transformation designed to evolve the world: that is to transform the entire planetary consciousness.
     For her there is a divine unity, in her cosmology, that is symbolically represented in the form of eight. The first half of the eight is the supreme that leads towards manifestation. The second half is Nature of the sleep of the unconsciousness. The top of the eight is golden which descends into prismatic and finally blue. As the cycle reverses so do the colors until they reach gold again. This cycle is eternal.
     In the vastness of the Universe the Earth is miniscule. Its significance is that it is the center of the transformation of the consciousness of the Cosmos. The Divinity cannot be harmed itself, but yet the world itself can be made uninhabitable making it no longer a unit for transformation. But through the spiritual transformation the world can be made to be the theater in the conflict between good and evil.
     The final goal of her teachings was to attain the glorious illumined body. This can be seen as a final and complete break of earlier teachings in mystical philosophy. The divinization of the body leads to the transformation of the world, that is the planetary consciousness. This belief leans toward the concept of a Messiah, but in this case not some external worldly savior. Instead it comes from within us. Thus we are all Messiahs.
     The future of the earth is to be luminous. The future of mankind is to be of great integral possibility. Despite of the violence and ignorance along with other possibilities mankind is to rise to divine possibilities. As the new man he will rise to all the hopes and dreams of mankind. Mankind begins at the origin then evolves into the higher self. The time has already come for the transformation of the Earth and human kind, there is no moksa or Nirvana or Heaven.  The Earth itself will be transformed.
      As for me, I am deeply indebted to the teachings of Haridras Chaudhury: a disciple of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother.  Based upon their teachings on Integral Yoga he founded the graduate school California Institute of Integral Studies in which I am a doctoral student there.  Because of this I am grateful for the Mother and her teachings.       According to Dr. Jim Ryan, my professor of Hinduism, “Haridas Chaudhuri chose this symbol as he founded the Institute because it is a visual representation of his Integral philosophy. This world is not to be seen as separate from the transcendent Truth, but as an expression of that Truth in phenomenal form.     What is sacred then, is not merely what are beyond our perception, but everything that is present here in this world, all our actions, and our emotions our thoughts. The notion of the integration of body, mind and spirit are symbolized and indicated by the Sri Yantra, making it a perfect visual representation of the Institute’s vision.” Thus am indebted to the Mother and the concept of Integral Yoga.
 
-Reuben L. Rutledge