Quiz time: who can name the squiggly-shaped horn hanging on the wall behind the clarinetist? Digital Art Entries are now being accepted for IDEAS_12, an exhibition of innovative digital art work. The exhibition coincides with the tenth annual International Digital Media and Arts Association (IDMAA) conference, to be held on the campus of The New World School of the Arts in … [Read more...]
All Things Melville in the Berkshires
Our friends at Cultural Pittsfield passed along a call to artists for a juried show, Melville Contemporary, to exhibit at Lichtenstein Center for the Arts in August and September. The exhibition is in conjunction with Call Me Melville, a summer-long celebration of Herman Melville's work and life in the Berkshires - where he dreamed up lines like "I would prefer not to" and … [Read more...]
Cur8or: Candice Smith Corby and Leslie Schomp
Artists Candice Smith Corby and Leslie Schomp are wearing multiple hats (visually dazzling ones, no doubt). As they continue to create personally resonant mixed-media art, they're also curators of Self/Fabricated, an intriguing exhibition of work by artists (including the curators, Jan Johnson, and others) who explore autobiography through cloth and stitching. The show opens at … [Read more...]
Rules and Intuition
A few years back, we had a Studio Views with mixed media artist Lisa Olson. In sharing her studio and process, she mentioned a tactic she uses to free up creative intuition: I believe that the best artwork comes from a combination of intuition and thoughtful direction, but I often find that the little critics who sit on my shoulder and ask what does it mean? or why does this … [Read more...]
Guy Pettit of Flying Object
Flying Object is hard to categorize. Is the organization, based in a storefront in Hadley, Mass., a publisher? An online journal? A visual arts and reading venue? An artists' service org.? A mad scientist-like lab of invention? In a word, yes. The multi-disciplinary group publishes literary and art, hosts exhibits and readings, offers workshops, and sells works in numerous … [Read more...]