Life on the Moon: NASA Art Contest

NASA has an open call for high school and college artworks depicting what life on the moon could be like.

Why not make a drawing, painting, or computer graphic related to this idea?

Deadline is mid-March 2009. Contest winners will be exhibited at NASA.

For more information, click this link.Their website says this:

Entries will be accepted in three categories:  two-dimensional, three-dimensional, and digital, including video. Entries will be evaluated not only on their artistic qualities, but also on whether they depict a valid scenario. Prizes include awards and exhibit opportunities. Entries are due no later than March 15, 2009.

Please direct any questions to Dr. Elizabeth Ward at Elizabeth.B.Ward@nasa.gov

Download the short video animation Back to the Moon
http://sacd.larc.nasa.gov/multimedia/LATtrailer.html

Need some more inspiration? Take a look at this video from the JAXA moon satellite, Kaguya:

BCRC Design Contest

MCLA Art students — you’re eligible to create a winning design –

Design the logo for MCLA’s Berkshire Cultural Resource Center!!

The Berkshire Cultural Resource Center (BCRC) provides training, resources, and support to Berkshire County artists and art managers through our many programs and projects which include:

• MCLA Gallery 51
• B-HIP
• MCLA Presents!
• Tricks of the Trade
• DownStreet Art
• Berkshire artSTART
• and more…

Tag your it…

Give us an identity.  Create our image.  Design our logo.  The contest begins now and ends December 15th.  So you have just around three weeks to make it happen.  Send your design (72 dpi, 300 X 300) along with your name, phone number, email address and website (if applicable) to Jessica.Conzo@mcla.edu titled ‘BCRC Logo Contest.’

Your design could soon be featured on all BCRC websites and marketing materials!

Prof. Cruse Reviewed in Today’s Transcript

Prof. Cruse’s project Felix and Friends got a lovely review in today’s Transcript, thanks to writer John Mitchell, who noted that:

Howard Cruse mixes children’s books with his comic strips sensibility for a parody of both in this tale of a horrid floating boy who does everything wrong and still must depend on the kindness of a circle of friends. Imagine every sitcom aimed at young urban people and then add some Dickensian nightmare personality to the center of the circle and there you have “Felix’s Friends.”

See the full article at the Transcript at this link, or alternatively, at Howard Cruse’s website.

The wickedly delightful  Felix and Friends is available at Lulu.com

Here’s a sample page courtesy of Prof. Cruse:

THIS WEEKEND arts events

The city’s expecting a few thousand visitors for this weekend’s art events…

From Prof. Mowinski:

THIS WEEKEND in North Adams

After months of installation, MASS MoCA will open the doors to the Sol LeWitt Retrospective, featuring 105 wall drawings by one of the most influential artists of the 20th century.

In celebration of this exciting opening, DownStreet Art will re-open our doors to extend the art festivities in North Adams.

The following galleries will be open on Friday, November 14 from 3 – 6 PM, on Saturday, November 15, from 10 AM – 6 PM, and on Sunday, November 16, from 10 AM – 4 PM.

MCLA Gallery 51 – Beyond the Curtain, the work of theatrical designers from the Berkshires to Broadway
Primary/Secondary Volume III – the work of Sol LeWitt apprentices and interns
Maya III – the work of Jarvis Rockwell including new wall drawings
MCLA Gallery 51 Annex – Lumens, an interactive light installation by Ven Voisey, Sean Riley and Matthew Bellanger in partnership with Greylock Arts and Turbulence.org
North Adams Artist Cooperative – featuring the work of 16 Berkshire County based artists
The Grandfather Paradox – a storefront installation by Mark Mulherrin
Baby 2.0 – mixed media installation by Erin Ko, Eclipse Mill

Special closing reception at the NORTH ADAMS ARTIST CO-OP on Sunday from 4 – 7 PM.

TRICKS OF THE TRADE

A monthly professional development series for artists, artisans and creatives held throughout Berkshire County.

DECEMBER: Technology Take-off

Part 1: Websites and Blogs
Wondering if your business needs a website and how to create one? Want to know what a blog can do for you? This course will answer those questions and much more.
Instructor: Bob O’Haver, Technology Consultant and Founder of Graymatterhost.com
Tuesday, December 10th 7-9pm @ MCLA Computer Lab, Room 118

The Clark Art Institute

“Anime for Grown-ups: The Art of Japanese Animation” Film Series:

Anime, as Japanese animation is usually called, is an immense presence in the culture of Japan, with global reach as well. During this series, the Clark will look at anime not from the perspective of genre expectations, but through the work of directors who speak in the international language of film.

Grave of the Fireflies

November 15, 2008

1:00 PM
(1988, 88 min., PG-13)

Tokyo Godfathers
November 22, 2008
1:00 PM

(2004, 92 min., PG-13)

Paprika
November 29, 2008
1:00 PM

(2006, 90 min. R)

Outdoor Artworks Needed

Interested in art, environment? Considering professional opportunities for making public projects?

RiverCulture in Turners Falls is issuing a request for proposals for a public art installation at the site of a public pathway in the town. All of the submission and background information is located in this pdf file: Final Pathways RFP

Fletcher to Exhibit in Boston

MCLA Art Major Merritt Kraft Fletcher’s painting, A Fly Buzzed When I Died Said Emily Dickinson, will be exhibited in Blue by the Cambridge Art Association in Boston, thanks to the fine jurying of Institute of Contemporary Art curator Jen Mergel. Blue runs from Nov 15 – January 13; if you’re heading to Boston stop in at the Kathryn Schulz Gallery to see the art. Get directions here.

Congratulate Merritt when you see her — good going! Another MCLA student and artist gets into a national exhibit!

You can see her artwork among the many other excellent works in the exhibit online.

The Park Project

The college has put theory into practice, by bringing students, curators, editors, and a professional artist together for the Park Project, Here’s some of the latest updates and a project description:

Book Signing: Dr. Gengarelly and the artist Jessica Park will be at Water Street Books in Williamstown to sign copies of the book Exploring Nirvana — 6 to 8 pm Thursday Nov 20th.

Sponsored by the Fine and Performing Arts Department at MCLA, The Park Project is a multiyear educational endeavor to study and promote the art of Jessica Park. Park is a nationally renowned artist with autism who lives with her family in Williamstown, Massachusetts. To date The Park Project has produced two exhibitions of Jessica’s art, one in 2004 and a traveling exhibition in 2007, The Art and Life of Jessica Park, which is scheduled, in the spring of 2009, to show at Endicott College’s new Fine Arts Center and at the Hands On Museum in Ann Arbor, Michigan. In May of 2008 MCLA published Exploring Nirvana: The Art of Jessica Park, a 96 page book with 86 full color illustrations of Jessica’s art. Along with 26 catalogue entries by MCLA students, the book also contains essays from experts in the fields of autism and Outsider Art. Dr. Oliver Sacks introduces Exploring Nirvana with a moving tribute to Jessica and her art. Through courses and independent studies, The Park Project is designed to introduce students to museum work and its related skills of promotion and publicity, fund raising, educational outreach and book production. For further information contact Professor Tony Gengarelly, Ph.D via email at a.gengarelly@mcla.edu, or go to the Park Project website (click here).

St. Paul and St. Andrew’s Methodist Church #2 with Migraine Lighting and the Elves, 1997

Mass MoCA fills a 3-story building with a tribute to Sol LeWitt – The Boston Globe

Here comes the next big thing: this weekend Oct 14-15, the opening for the Sol Lewitt Project. Sunday the galleries are free for preview. It is astonishing, huge, and an important dimension of contemporary art.

Read more:

Mass MoCA fills a 3-story building with a tribute to Sol LeWitt – The Boston Globe

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