The 2010 Self-Portrait Cover Contest is open to all Art Calendar readers. Art Calendar will only accept electronic submissions made through www.ArtCalendar.com/CoverContest2010. No photographs, slides or CDs sent by mail to Art Calendar will be eligible. Limit of one entry per person.

Format instructions for the 2010 Self-Portrait Cover Contest:

• Images must be no larger than 2MB in size.
• Images should be submitted at 72 ppi, but winners will be required to provide the images at 300 ppi.
• The suggested image dimensions are approximately 600 x 480 pixels (height x width). Artwork outside these dimensions may be cropped to accommodate cover proportions.

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: The closing date for submitting an entry will be 23:59 on December 11, 2009, Eastern Standard Time. A panel comprised of Art Calendar staff and contributing writers will jury the contest. The winner will be notified by December 15, 2009.

Additional Rules & Information:

• All submitted work must be original.
• All submissions must be self-portraits, though not necessarily literal representations (i.e. collage, digital collage, abstract works also accepted).
• All 2-D and 3-D mediums accepted (e.g. drawings, paintings, photographs, sculpture, digital).
• The quality of the image in its entirety will be taken into account. Please make sure the work is well lit and the image is not distorted in any way.
• Please no images containing nudity, violence, sex, guns or skulls. Issues spend a month on the shelves of newsstands and bookstores within sight of children.
• Art Calendar reserves the right to reject any work for any reason.

We tend to stay away from most contests in the arts as many are veiled attempts at something else or have hidden fees or expectations.  Art Calendar is completely legit.  But please, before you enter ANY contest read all of the fine print.

The  OCAF is pleased to announce that this year’s 46th Annual Juried Artist’s Exhibition will be held at the Ritz Theater, 107 Broadway, Newburgh.

Due to the initial efforts of our recently retired secretary, Dave Nolan, we were able to procure this newly renovated, well-lit, wonderful space (large enough to accommodate approximately 60 works) for our event.  Upon visiting the site to ensure it’s viability and to finalize all details, it was revealed to me that 2 confirmed and possibly 4 performances are scheduled to take place during our exhibition time period, beginning with the always exceptional Bucky Pizzarelli performance scheduled for October 9^th & 10^th. Consequently, I was able to move our drop off and hanging date to Wednesday, October 7^th.

All members of current OCAF 2009 paid up art groups are invited to participate in this juried event that will take place from Wednesday Oct 7^th until Monday, November 30 (approximately 7 weeks) during a very popular visiting season in the Safe Harbors area.

Please mark your calendars

APPLICATION SUBMISSION BY: Deadline October 1. Please mail application with your check to address below.

DROP OFF:    October 7^th, 10a- 1p * – Bring Photo ID for entrance to building, business cards to display.

HANGING:    1p -4p  (helping hands will be sincerely welcomed and appreciated)

AWARD PRESENTATION/ RECEPTION:

Sunday, October 25^th 4p – 7p

REMOVAL OF ALL WORK:  Monday, November 30^th between 12p-3p.

CONTACT:  SARAH MCHUGH sarah@mchughstudio.com or call (845) 987-8748

Categories Include: Original Oils, graphics, watercolor, collage, mixed media, pastel, photography, pencil, charcoal, mixed media, sculpture, fine art limited edition prints, (woodcuts, lithography, etchings, etc.) *No giclée prints accepted.

This is a non commissioned event, the artist is asked to make a donation of sales to the Human Society of Port Jervis/Deerpark (the artist decides the donation level)

Submission Deadline: 6 October 2009

Show Date: Sunday, 11 October

Upfront Gallery
31 Jersey Ave
Port Jervis, NY

OPEN CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS, “ART FROM VINYL“ : RECORD REMIX

Cut, Scratch or Paint or Whatever  RECORD REMIX
Art on Vinyl Record: 33,s, 45,s 78,s: UpFront ART pARTy
Show Date: Saturday September 19, 2009 5pm-9pm

All artwork is to be created on or from vinyl records.
Create original art from the circular canvas of the Past.
100% of all sales go to the ARTist!

ARTwork must be received by September 15th, 2009

Maximum Size 24” x 24” Free Standing, Wall Hung or Hanging

Submit 1-3 art pieces for $30, each addition art piece for $5

100% of all sales go to the ARTist, no gallery commissions

1st drop off entry fee at UpFront 12-5pm Thurs-Sun

2nd pick up your Vinyl at the Blue Parrot or The 27 Gallery, Port Jervis, NY

3rd drop off your creations at UpFront by the 15th of September

Question? Steve or Barbara Riddle 727.244.5535 or Steven riddle@studiochirho.com

Be sure bring price cards for your work stating the following
Title of ARTworkSize of ARTwork
ARTist first and last name
Price of ARTwork
All work must be wired on the back and be ready to be hung for the Sept 15th Show

Free standing work must be able to stand on its own, bring hardware for hanging pieces

UpFront Exhibition Space
31 Jersey Ave
Port Jervis, NY

Update:

Upfront also needs old vinyl records, any condition. Local only please.

contact:

Steve or Barbara Riddle 727.244.5535 or Steven riddle@studiochirho.com
UpFront Exhibition Space
31 Jersey Ave
Port Jervis, NY
or
Suzanne@ Arts in Orange
845. 956.0005
info@artsinornage.org

If one strikes your fancy, you can enroll by email, phone 457-2787, or online at www.WallkillRiverSchool.com and pay by debit card or otherwise.

Acrylic Painting Studio with Nancy Reed Jones
Paint beautiful landscapes from photographs and learn the versatility of acrylics by mixing acrylics with slow drying mediums and using oil painting techniques, and thinning acrylics with water and using watercolor techniques. It’s like having the best of both worlds! Jones shares her tips for color mixing and dynamic brush strokes with a bit of soothing Zen music mixed in. For beginners to advanced, teens and adults. Ongoing: Tuesdays 1-3, -or- Thursdays 6:30-8:30 pm. Sept.-Dec. Any 4 classes for $100 (does not have to be consecutive) beginning acrylic set $30

Hand Building with Clay with Gita Nadas
Explore the medium and learn basic techniques for constructing various forms. Wedge, pinch, coil and make slabs to create the object you imagine. Make a press mold, scrape, carve and use tools creatively to give it shape and texture, materials included. Ongoing: Wednesdays 10-noon, Sept.-Dec. Any 4 classes for $100, plus $10 materials fee.

Oil Painting with Gene Bove
Learn oil painting techniques such as mixing your palette from four basic colors, alla prima painting (all at once) and plein air techniques. Work from photos, still life, and outdoors with our most experienced oil instructor. For intermediate and advanced, some oil experience suggested. Thursdays, 10-12:30pm
Session 1: Sept. 3, 10, 17, 24 $100 per session

Watercolor with Steve Blumenthal Day Long Workshop
following the instructor’s demonstration, the students will complete a value study, then draw and paint a composition from your own reference photos, still life, or floral arrangement. Individual instruction, and group feedback. Bring a lunch or order local. Thursdays, 9:30-3:30, Sept. 3 & 24, $60 per day

Pastel Studio with Shawn Dell Joyce
Learn pastel tips and techniques in a fun, encouraging group setting. Start with a specific demonstration; like how to capture transparent cut glass, and then paint your choice of still lifes. Class ends with a group critique with tea and cake! Advanced and intermediate teens and adults welcome. Ongoing: Thursdays, 6:30-8:30pm, Sept.-Jan. Any four classes (do not have to be consecutive) $100

Figure in the Landscape with Shawn Dell Joyce
Paint en plein air (outdoors) with any medium, and learn how to incorporate a figure into a plein air painting. Emphasis will be on values, and capturing the pose of the figure quickly and accurately before the light changes. Open to all media and levels of ability, class happens at Benedict Town Park, 2 miles from the gallery. Friday,  9:30-noon , Sept. 4, $30 (or take all 4 monthly plein air workshops for $100)

Impressionism in Oil or Pastel with Dennis Fanton
Learn to paint like Monet, Manet and the French Impressionist from American Impressionist painter Dennis Fanton. Fanton emphasizes brush work, color relationships, strong values and value study, and planning your painting before you begin. Students are encouraged to be creative in looking at and painting your subject. Beginners and advanced, teens & adults. Fridays, 10-noon, Session I: Sept. 4, 11, 18, 25 $100 session

Beginning Acrylic Painting with Nancy Reed Jones
For the Absolute Beginner: Two classes devoted to those who have very little or no experience at all.  Class will cover the basics of using acrylics, how to use brushes, and will go over color mixing.  Relaxation techniques while painting will be discussed.  Anyone who has ever wanted to try their hand at painting, this is the perfect opportunity. Fridays, 6:30-8:30pm,  Sept. 4, 11, $50 acrylic beginner’s set $30

Beginning Drawing with Shawn Dell Joyce
Based on Betty Edward’s “Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain” program, Joyce teaches the global skill of drawing in 6 basic component skills: sketching, shading, value, perspective, proportion and composition. If you can sign your name legibly, you can learn how to draw realistically! Perfect first art class, or workshop for artists who are “just getting back into it.” Saturdays, 10-noon, Sept. 5, 12, 19, 26,
Oct. 3, 10, -or- Saturdays, 1-3pm Oct. 24, 31, Nov. 7, 14, Dec. 12 & 19, Materials included $125

Luminist Seas with Mike Jaroszko
Advanced techniques in Luminism to create high-impact seascapes with that sensitive atmosphere popularized by Kensett and the Hudson River School. Learn to mix color, see values, and create pleasing compositions that capture natural luminism and dazzle your viewers! Saturdays, 1-3pm,  Session 1: Sept. 5, 12, 19 & 26 $100

Oil for Beginners Workshop with Gene Bove’
Learn the basics of oil painting like mixing all colors on your palette from four basic colors, brushwork, values, priming your canvas, and everything you need to know to bring out the alla prima (all at once) oil painter in you! Wednesday, 10-2:30, Sept. 9, $40   Bring a bagged lunch

Cartooning and Graphic Novels with Gerry Acerno
Did you ever have a story you wanted to tell in pictures? Learn how to lay out a comic book in panels and vary “camera angles” to bring your story to life. Taught by a veteran illustrator for Marvel, DC, Disney and others. Wednesdays, 6:30-8:30, Session I: Sept. 9, 16, 23, 30  $100

Elements of Abstraction with Neil Granholm
Learn both non representational and representational expressionist styles, and how to make large-scale abstract paintings. Learn how balance and form plays a part in intelligent art. It is easy to understand abstract contemporary art by the application of the basic elements of all art, form, line, composition, balance and color.  Take chances with color and subject, sometimes you need to throw paint!
Wednesdays, 6:30-8:30.  Sept. 9, 16, 23, 30  $150

Functional Pottery Workshop with Judy Sigunick
A two day workshop in clay for the community, ages 13 and older,  using wheel throwing and hand building techniques.  Decorative treatment with glazes and clay slips will be demonstrated. Work will be once fired. Limited to 8,  Sat. & Sun.  9-noon, Sept. 12 & 13, $90 + $10 materials fee

Floral Still Life Workshop with William Noonan
Celebrate the end of summer with flowers. This weekend workshop will give students the chance to work with a fresh floral still life with enough time to complete a large composition. Students may work in any medium they choose. Too often floral paintings don’t get finished before the flowers fade. Well here’s a chance to focus yourself on the task. This class is appropriate for any level. Instruction and critique will be tailored to each students level. Sat. & Sun,  9:30-4:30, Sept. 19 & 20 $130
(one day only $70)

Pet-painting workshop with Carrie Jacobson
Anyone can paint pets! Carrie Jacobson paints pets for fun, for profit and to help the animal community. She will teach you how to go from photograph to portrait, painting one of your own pets, or making a portrait for the Art for Shelter Animals Project. You will make two paintings in this one-day workshop, open to beginners, advanced, teens & adults, oil. Saturday,  10-4pm, Sept. 26,-or- Sat. Nov. 7, $60 (bring a lunch or order out)

Artists confirmed include (not a complete list):

• Dorschi Rose Rollwager
• Bob Scully
• Jacquelyn Carter
• James LoRubbio
• Steve Blumenthal
• Mickie McMillan/Patricia Rose Prohach
• Gene Bove
• AJ Killian
• Janet Baskerville/Peg Herzig/Billie Robson
• Joe Baker
• Julie Saltzberg
• Ashley Bauer
• Jill Thurston
• William Kuhn
• Sonya Palumbo

The Pine Bush Chamber has released their official map and listing for the tour, available here.

At the Black Feather Retreat, experience the pastoral pleasure of clean fresh air, private meadows, woods, streams, springs, ponds, gardens, stone walls, old barns, country roads and the delightful company of others, like yourself, who enjoy art. We have planned a mix of many figure models for each program.

Rain or shine, you will have a wonderful days filled with art. A large tent will provide shade, there will be ample seating at chairs and tables or, if you prefer, you may spread a blanket on the lawn and picnic all day. If it rains we will hold our sessions in the large studio barn, a beautiful 18th century structure. Aside from the scheduled program of models, there will be live music, and amenities such as water, drinks, box picnic lunches, maps, toilet facilities, and a friendly staff to help you enjoy the day.

The BLACK FEATHER RETREAT
ARTISTS’ AND WRITERS’ COLONY
Box 588
Westbrookville, NY 12785

Saturday August 22, 2009
11-5

Pine Bush is looking for more artists to join their arts tour.  All disciplines are welcome, for more information please contact Ellen Quimby at the Chamber.

Sandy Hook - Paula Pearl

The Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum presents:

Visions of Nature

Pastel renderings of nature by Paula Pearl

Thursday, July 2 – Friday, July 31, 2009

A versatile artist who has expressed her personal experience of nature in several media, Paul Pearl began her career in art as a photographer after graduating from Syracuse University with a degree in advertising art/photography. She has also exhibited her work in watercolors and in fabric art, sometimes combining fabric with paint and other materials in distinctive wall hangings. Her imaginative and award-winning quilts have been widely recognized for their creative design and selected for publication in the magazine Quilting Arts.

Ms. Pearl’s sensitivity to nature has also drawn her to the use of pastel, which permits her to evoke the subtle interplay of light and color in scenes of the shifting waters of lakes and streams in delicate colors. In compositions at once bold and tranquil she displays an extraordinary command of her exacting medium that has earned her an associate membership in the Pastel Society of America and a charter membership in the Pastel Society of New Jersey. She is also an associate member of Audubon Artists, the Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Art Association, the New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, and numerous other art societies. She is represented by the Swain Gallery in Plainfield, N.J., and has exhibited frequently in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.

The Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum
94 Broadway
Newburgh, NY

The Karpeles Museums are a national chain with nine in the U.S., specializing in the preservation and display of original, historically significant documents and manuscripts.

Museum Hours: Thu.-Sat., 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and Sunday, 12 to 4 p.m.

Admission is always free.