Art show seeks work – Pleasant Hill, Dreams and Visions

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Call for Artists
Visions and Dreams
Art Show

Art Show and Reception: May 22, 2010 2-5 p.m.
Copy of artwork and fee due by 5:00 p.m. May 14, 2010

Who: Everyone who feels moved to participate. We would like people from every community, people who don’t consider themselves artists, trained or untrained, serious and dabblers, to submit works of visual or other types of art united under the theme of Visions and Dreams.

What: Call for Artists for any visual art medium: Photography, ceramics, painting, sculpture, drawings, jewelry, collages, glass, fabrics, and poetry (framed), any form of visual art is welcome. Dance and even film are encouraged, details to be worked out in each case.
Please call to arrange for dance, film, music, etc.
Please note: Last year, several people wanted to display artwork that was either non-original or art they owned. This year we will have a category for shared artwork so you may include it this year. The $15 fee still applies, but we encourage you to do so.

Why: The purpose of this art show is to begin a conversation in our community and to share our individual and collective images of our Dreams and Visions. We hope that this gathering of artists and appreciators will bring us new insights, new friends, new understanding, and hopefully some surprises.
More details: This show will not be juried nor will we award competitive prizes. In lieu of prizes, we will provide viewers with paper and pens to leave comments for the artists.
Please be aware this is a family event. We reserve the right to not show works that would be unsuitable for children to view.
Where: Fellowship Hall Hillcrest Congregational Church
404 Gregory Lane Pleasant Hill Ca. 94523
Questions? Contact Janice 925 689-8260 Ext. 18
Or divineimages92@yahoo.com
When: Deadline: May 14th for copy of artwork and fee
Show: Saturday, May 22nd, 2-5 p.m.
Checks should be made out to Hillcrest Congregational Church. Photographs or copies of entry can be either mailed or emailed to divineimages92@yahoo.com

Entry fee: $15 per entry (non-refundable) to cover the costs of the show. Children’s submissions 18 and under are free. If unable to pay, please contact us.

Artists are welcome to post their business cards with their work; however sales are between you and the buyer. Size of works and multiple entries may be limited depending on response.

Delivery: Works can be delivered 10:00 to 12:00 .p.m. Friday 5/21 or Saturday 5/22 9a.m. to 10:00 a.m.
Pick up: Sunday 5/23/ 10 12:00 to 1.pm.

Connie Noyes’ show and lecture – Chicago

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Ms. Noyes’ work is in our February issue – her ‘Human Steps’ collection. She’s produced many spectacular pieces and I would definitely attend this event if I were anywhere near Chicago!  

DOWN TO EARTH: PAINTINGS BY CONNIE NOYES

THE MARY-FRANCES AND BILL VEECK GALLERY
CATHOLIC THEOLOGICAL UNION ACADEMIC AND CONFERENCE CENTER
5416 S. CORNELL AVENUE, 4TH FLOOR
CHICAGO

OPENING RECEPTION
WEDNESDAY, MAY 5, 2010 FROM 5:30 – 7:30,
ARTIST TALK AT 6:30 PM

COMPLIMENTARY PARKING AVAILABLE

THE EXHIBIT WILL BE OPEN FROM MAY 5 THROUGH JULY 14, 2010
WEEKDAYS 9:00 AM – 4:30 PM
WEEKENDS BY APPOINTMENT, 773.371.5416
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Connie Noyes is a mature girl painter.The energy is insane.  The aggressive push to explore is palpable. The results fabulous.

Of course with a pursuit like hers, Noyes sometimes misses – and misses big, but she scores big more often than not.  She takes sizeable risks and doesn’t bemoan the failures, learns always and invariably kicks ass.  Her drive and excitement permeate the work.
 
Often a viewer encountering a single work gushes. Seeing several can overwhelm.  She’s scurrying in multiple directions simultaneously.  From the girly, translucent pinks and gossamer whites that make me feel like a happy voyeur to the overlaid black paintings that allude to darker thoughts and ostensibly a comment on society, this is an artist who loves to paint.

And though paint is everywhere it isn’t all there is.  There are a lot of remnants, found materials, garbage, detritus; the castoffs we throw away, Noyes picks up and transforms, though compositional juxtaposition and smears of paint, to worthy constructs of all sorts of sizes.
 
Noyes is a seemingly soft (don’t count on it) a blonde who has danced most of her life. Sometimes she looks elfin and the work that pours out of her body belies her demur demeanor. Her work is powerful, full of soul and physicality.

Earlier this year I blind juried (I couldn’t see the names or gender of the artists whose art I was evaluating) a show for the Indianapolis Art Center and included a piece of Noyes’.  I don’t know about you, but when I look at art I get a psychological and/or sociological portrait of the artist and extrapolate from that information to a dialog with the art.  I was pretty certain a 70-something year-old Black man did the hulking 7 x 10 foot canvas I’d included. The way it riffed on urban issues could only have been done by someone who’d spent time sleeping in alleys or under bridges.  It had that kind of authenticity pouring from it.  I was shocked when I learned the piece was by Connie Noyes.

Her work is like that; lush, rich, authenticate and contains polar opposites. Not often in one piece, but frequently from one piece to the next.  There is always a love of process and materials, a feeling that in making it she’s in there up to her elbows.
Noyes is an artist of deep thoughts, concerns and experience that she mines daily to push us to better know ourselves and the diversity we all touch but rarely delve into with the same honesty Noyes does.

Lots of artwork informs the artist about themselves (Noyes’ does) and lots of other art is didactic – expressing a point of view (Noyes’ does that too) but very few do both.  Noyes is special, pushing hard(er), with brave honesty and vulnerability.  She’s on top of her game, making more art and better art than most. She’s driven.  And we are the fortunate benefactors.

–Paul Klein, 2010
 Chicago based curator, critic and writer

Global Art Project for Peace invites submissions of artwork

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Draw upon the power of your art to unite people throughout the world, broaden understanding, support diversity, and promote peace. Create a work of art to share with the world expressing your vision of global peace. See previous works of art at http://www.globalartproject.org

How It Works:

Complete and submit the Registration Form (call 510-356-2754 or email info@artinc.org for a copy) by June 7th to ART Inc. P.O. Box 20735, Castro Valley, CA 94546.

Create a work of art expressing your vision of global peace.

Bring your work to the Adobe Gallery (20935 San Miguel Ave, Castro Valley, California) on July 8th.

One Individual piece and one Group piece will be selected and exchanged with another artist or group from somewhere randomly selected on the entire globe in 2012.

View all artwork at the Adobe Gallery July 17th through August 16th. Must be suitable for public viewing by people of all ages.

Reception for the artists July 17th from 1-3 pm at the Adobe.

Sponsored by the Hayward Area Recreation District and the Alameda County Arts Commission.

Palabra seeks all types of writing from Chicanos and Latinos

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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

PALABRA: A Magazine of Chicano & Latino Literary Art

invites Chicano & Latino writers to submit short stories, flash fiction, poetry, standalone novel excerpts and short plays that explore new avenues of Chicano & Latino writing. Innovative/cross- genre/hybrid work is welcome. Especially interested in work that is fresh and takes literary risks.

Fiction and novel excerpts to 4000 words, flash fiction 3 maximum of up to 750 words each, poems 5 maximum of any length and style, plays to 15 pp. Work can be in English, Spanish, Spanglish or any combination thereof. Simultaneous submissions are okay. Include brief bio in cover letter. There is some pay.

Submissions are accepted from September 1 through May 31. Work received after May 31 will be held over for the next reading period.

Detailed guidelines and information available on the website: www.palabralitmag. com
Queries: info(at)palabralitmag.com.

Submit via USPS only to: PALABRA, P.O. Box 86146, Los Angeles, CA 90086-0146. Include SASE. Manuscripts will not be returned.

Poetry submissions sought from Nebraskan women (born there, or current/previous residents)

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The Backwaters Press is now accepting submissions for The Untidy Season: An Anthology of Nebraska Women Poets through December 31st of 2010, for expected publication in Spring of 2012. Contributors must be Nebraskan women, which includes all women born or currently residing in Nebraska. Poets who have previously lived in Nebraska for a period of not less than 10 years, will also be considered. We ask that all submissions include a brief statement describing the author’s connection to the state of Nebraska. Poetry submissions need not specifically address Nebraska issues or geography, though both are certainly welcome.
The Backwaters Press, an independent, non-profit press based in Nebraska, has published numerous award-winning titles, including the anthology Times of Sorrow, Times of Grace (2003), which received two Nebraska book awards, and Nebraska Presence: An Anthology of Poetry, which won a Nebraska Book Award for a poetry anthology. Several poets published by the press have had poems from their books read by Garrison Keillor on The Writer’s Almanac.
Please send 3-5 previously unpublished poems (10 pages maximum) to <theuntidyseason( at)yahoo. com> (replace (at) with @). Include a cover letter with a brief bio and statement describing your connection to Nebraska. Simultaneous submissions are acceptable, but please notify us immediately if your work is accepted elsewhere. Poems should be submitted both as an attachment (rtf, doc, or docx) and pasted in the body of the e-mail.
Electronic submissions are strongly preferred, however, postal mail submissions may be sent to: P.O. Box 8067, Omaha, NE 68108. Please list the name and address of contributors on each page of postal mail submissions, and include a self-addressed, stamped envelope for return of your poems and for correspondence. Please include your e-mail address with your postal mail submission. If you send your poems by US Mail, please do not use any services that require a signature, such as delivery confirmation, express mail, etc.
Response time is approximately 4 months.
Poets whose work is published in the collection will receive a contributor’ s copy.

Survivor Chronicles webzine seeks art and writing related to personal experiences of trauma survival

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Survivor Chronicles is a small independent publication, geared towards documenting trauma survival stories. The focus is on literature and art that has been part of the process of trauma survival. It seeks to celebrate the quintessential strength of the human soul.

We want to publish our first issue by the end of May, and are open for submissions.

We are very interested in poetry and artwork, but will also publish
short fiction, non fiction and photography when we really like it (and
have submissions!).

What we are interested in: gritty, bold stuff that tells a moment in
your story — it may be of great pain or great hope, great helplessness
or great strength, but it’s an important part of the process of your
trauma, and of your survival of it.

We prefer shorter pieces to longer ones, owing to the attention span
of the average internet reader.

In the body of an email, paste 1-5 poems, or short fiction/non fiction
within 1500 words.

Artists and photographers can send 1-5 pieces for consideration; email
as separate attachments.

In the subject line of your email, write your Name, Type of
Submission, Submission and send it to <thesurvivorchronicles(at)gmail.com> (replace (at) with @)

If it is important for you to remain anonymous, please feel free to
use a pseudonym. Otherwise, please send a short bio.

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Calls for writing on the African Diaspora

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Calls For Poems, Short Fiction
Obsidian: Literature in the African Diaspora is currently seeking contributions for two soon-to-be published special issues on Pearl Cleage and James Baldwin, respectively.

Obsidian supports the work of writers composing the stories and poems of the African Diaspora. As the journal has evolved, it has also been committed to publishing excellent scholarly articles. At this juncture the journal seeks notable and provocative poems and short fiction to be published alongside scholarly articles selected for issues dedicated to the work of Pearl Cleage and James Baldwin.

As writers working in several genres, Cleage and Baldwin have made significant contributions to the interrogation of the politics of gender, race and her/history in American and African American culture. Obsidian invites previously unpublished creative writing engaging any aspects of the oeuvre of Cleage and Baldwin.

We are open to creative writing that engages any aspect of Cleage’s, and Baldwin’s respective oeuvre and are particularly interested in:
– Free womanhood, feminism and womanism
– Poetic style and/or voice
– Racial identities and subjectivities and desire
– Gendering race and racing gender
– Racial consciousness and democracy
– Exile and Diaspora subjectivity
– Intertextuality
– Queer subjectivities and threshold identities
– Use of African Diaspora spirituality
– The politics of love and identity
– Violence and the black literary imagination
– The import of place, especially of urban spaces
– Absented whiteness
– Visions of black masculinity
– The poetics of witness and utterance
– Translation and border crossing

Deadline for receipt of submissions is Monday, May 10, 2010.

Guidelines (2010 special issues)
Obsidian: Literature in the African Diaspora, a non-profit organization hosted by North Carolina State University, is a semi-annual journal. We publish contemporary poetry, fiction, drama, and non-fiction prose from within, about, and contextualizing the African Diaspora.
Guidelines

All manuscripts that are submitted via mail must contain a self-addressed stamped envelope
Writers should include cover sheets bearing the author’s name, contact information, and the contents of the submission. All decisions of the editorial staff are final.
We do not accept simultaneous submissions or previously published works. Copyright reverts to authors upon publication.
Submissions for Cleage and Baldwin special issues will be processed within the month of May 2010. Responses can be expected shortly thereafter.
Each contributor will receive two complimentary copies of the journal. We deeply appreciate writers who subscribe to the journal as well as submit their work for publication.

Poetry: Poetry should be single-spaced. Poetry submissions should contain no more than 5 poems and not exceed 8 pages in the length.
Fiction: Submissions should be double-spaced and no longer than 20 pages in length.

Please send your work to the following address:
Obsidian: Literature in the African Diaspora
North Carolina State University
Department of English, Box 8105
Raleigh, NC 27695-8105
or by e-mail: <obsidian(at) gw.ncsu.edu> (replace (at) with @) (in Microsoft Word (.doc) or RTF format)
Neither the editors nor the staff assumes responsibility for loss or damage of submissions.