NOTE: The Birmingham Art collective will be partnering with the 35212 and Crestwood Coffee to help get the word out to artists to display their work. If you are interested in displaying your work at Crestwood Coffee or if you are a musician and want to play an opening reception, email thebirminghamartcollective@gmail.com.

thanks! hope to see you there!

Everyone check out the write up in the Birmingham Weekly by Glenny Brock covering Margot Wade’s “pubic places, private spaces”.
http://www.bhamweekly.com/2010/03/11/work-of-friction/

also, check out margot’s blog here: http://www.marguhweighed.blogspot.com/

Ring in Spring by learning the art of encaustic painting with Trent Thomas.

When: Three Tuesdays! Mar 2nd, 9th & 16th
Where: Space One Eleven
Time: 6pm – 8pm
Cost: $150
Supplies: Included

Trent’s class serves as introduction to the practice of encaustic painting: creating luminous images with hot beeswax. The class will cover the basics of manipulating the wax for painterly effects, plus methods of introducing other media into the images.

Trent Thomas is an artist living in Birmingham, AL. His work focuses on the role of the individual in society, and society in the individual. He explores these ideas in acrylic, watercolor, screenprinting, collage, encaustic, books and music. See more of Trent’s work at: http://mexicanreagan.blogspot.com/

All supplies included!

Registration:
To sign up for classes or if you have any questions, contact:
Kara Q. Smith, Project Director, at karasmith@spaceoneeleven.org or at 205.821.3716

Bici is working with Space One Eleven in the month of April with their student arts group, Alabama Charcoal. The students work throughout the school year learn about and make art using various techniques and mediums, and have an exhibit at Space One Eleven at the end of the classes (webiste: http://www.spaceoneeleven.org/index.php/alabama-charcoal). On April 6th, 13th, and 20th, volunteers with Bici will bringing in old bike parts and work with the students to create bike art, along with other supplies that will be provided by Space One Eleven.

We need volunteers to help critique and encourage the students with their art, and/or to create their own pieces to be displayed in the windows in May and June. If you are not interested in working with the students, we also need people who are just interested in creating bike art themselves. Space One Eleven’s studios will be available for work space if needed.

If this sounds like something you might be interested in, please let me know! Start thinking about what supplies you would like to have provided by Space One Eleven, which date(s) you are available for helping out at the classes, and pass on the idea to anyone you think might like to be a part of this project.

Sculptures! Painting frames! Knitting things onto bikes! Tall Bikes! Anything and everything!

Thanks,

Anna

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Anna Carrigan
BiCi Bicycle Cooperative
Head of Fundraising
anna@bicicoop.org
205-746-2403

www.bicicoop.org

sara

On April 17, 2010 the Birmingham-Jefferson Chapter of the American Red Cross will turn a section of Birmingham’s “Loft District” into an outdoor digital art show featuring digital artists from around the globe! Illuminated art will be projected on screens and buildings along 2nd Avenue North between 22nd and 24th Street. We will accept entries between January 1st and March 15th, 2010. The top thirty pieces will be projected and juried by a panel of judges. We are looking for innovative and visually compelling examples of: digital graphic art, digital animations (less than 2 min.), digital photography, digitally altered photography, and interactive concepts. Digital photographs of fine art will not be accepted this year.

Artwork can be vertical or horizontal format. Strong consideration will be given to pieces using the color red. The top 30 artists will be notified no later than April 1st, 2009. Each artist may submit 2 pieces of art for free. Additional work can be submitted with a $25 entry fee. For examples from last year’s festival visit http://www.paintthetownredbham.info/artwork

PRIZES AWARDED
Pieces will be judged and prize packages given to pieces in the following categories:

§ Best of Show
§ Best Graphic Art
§ Best Animation
§ Best Photography

ARTISTS RETAIN 100% OWNERSHIP OF THEIR WORK, although please note that by submitting an entry you agree to allow the American Red Cross the right to use photographic reproductions of your artwork for promotional purposes, both in print and online.

SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS
1. Submissions should be in one of the following formats: JPEG, MPEG, WMV, or AVI. Multiple pieces of artwork may be submitted; each artwork requires its own entry form.
2. Complete the application IN FULL on page two of this packet and submit with your piece. Artists are not required but encouraged to attend the show.
3. Email submission information to paintthetownredbirmingham@gmail.com or mail on disk to the following address:

Birmingham Area Chapter
American Red Cross
950 22nd Street North Ste. 750
Birmingham, AL 35206
ATTN: JEAN J. PETTIES

For more information about Paint the Town Red, please visit our website: www.paintthetownredbham.info. You may also email Kevin Burke at burkek@birminghamredcross.org or call (205) 458-8262.

submit with the form below or submit online! http://paintthetownredbham.com/submit-art

# (for office use only)________

PAINT THE TOWN RED FESTIVAL
2010 ENTRY FORM

ENTRANT INFORMATION (to be used for print listings and inquiries about the entry)

Name:______________________________________________________________________________
Company:___________________________________________________________________________
Address:____________________________________________________________________________
City / State / Zip: ____________________________________________________________________________
Phone: ________________________________ Fax: _________________________________________
E-mail: ____________________________________________________________________________________

ENTRY INFORMATION:
Please select one of the following categories:
_____ Digital Graphic Art _____ Digital Animation _____ Digital Photography

Name of Piece _______________________________________________________________________________
Brief Synopsis ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

ANIMATION SUBMISSIONS ONLY:
Running Time _______________________________________________________________________________
Director ___________________________________________________________________________________
Producer ___________________________________________________________________________________
Sound ____________________________________________________________________________________
Composer ____________________________________________________________________________________
Editor ____________________________________________________________________________________
Other Production members ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
If submitting more than 2 works, please include $25 entry fee. Make checks payable to the American Red Cross, and mail to the address on page one.
Please include C.V. /Resume with submission if possible.

Jason Burgess, Sara Cannon, Andrew Thomson, and Atreus Sacco are doing a Birmingham Art Collective window installation called “Statement of a Facade” in conjunction with the gallery show “Public Places, Private Spaces” by Margot Wade.

No matter who or where:

everyone grows up.

everyone has memory.

everyone wears clothes.

- this interactive installation explores the fabric and communities combined with nostalgia, forward movement, associations, and memory. – Sara Cannon

Fabric of Time by Sara Cannon from sara cannon on Vimeo. music by the triceratops