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"SUMMER 09" JURIED COMPETITION Sponsored by Women In Photography International DEADLINE JUNE 30, 2009 "Summer 09" explores the visual impact of the life giving forces of children, flowers and trees. We hope that you will participate and submit images to raise our consciousness, add a smile to our face and bring forth a feeling of appreciation of the beauty around us. womeninphotography.org ------- 3rd Ward Summer Solo Show A Search for the Next Great Artist The Summer Solo Show is a nationwide open call for dynamic, inventive and provocative work of all mediums - sculpture, photography, painting, printmaking, illustration, installation, graphic design, video, and more! Deadline: July 2, 2009 3rdward.com ------- The Best of America Volume II Book Series 10 Art Book competitions each dedicated to a single medium or genre. Open to All American Artists. DEADLINES: JUNE 1, 2009: Oil; JUNE 1, 2009: Pastel; JULY 1, 2009: Mixed Media; JULY 1, 2009: Water Media  - including Acrylic; AUGUST 1, 2009: GLASS; AUGUST 1, 2009: Sculpture; DATES FOR JEWELRY, PHOTOGRAPHY, POTTERY / CLAY and WOODWORKING posted soon. Click here for more information, prizes, judges, and to enter contest ------- WITNESS Witness seeks women who have experienced sexual and/or intimate partner violence to collaboratively create original works of art with visual artists to communicate the women's experiences and/or processes of recovery. The program will begin in September and continue through October 2009. The works created will be exhibited in a public venue for a period of 4 - 6 weeks, should the individual desire to share her story. All works will be considered property of the individual whose experience or process is being visually conveyed.  The exhibition will be presented to the public in November 2009. Women interested in participating can contact Julia Curiel, LAL Program Coordinator, at (859) 254-7024 or jcuriel@lexingtonartleague.org ------- Best of the year 2009 DEADLINE JULY 04, 2009 Marziart International Galleryinvites all Artists,18 years or older, to the competition "Best of the year 2009"in 5 different categories.The competition is open to all visual artists working in the mediaphotography, painting and sculpture (no installations) Marziart International Gallery, Hamburg, Germany website ------- GENIE AKIN AND CURTISWOOD FARM 1ST ANNUAL WRITERS RETREAT July 17 through 19, 2009 The retreat takes place at Curtiswood Farm, 130 Robinson Lane in Georgetown. The fee is $275.00. The weekend will offer individual times with Hope Clark and a writing contest. (No entry fee for retreat students and $5 for non-students) The retreat workshops include: * Funding Streams, Sources of Writing Income * The Writing Process * Branding: The Writing is Wasted if They Don’t Know Who You Are For more information or to make reservations curtiswoodfarm@yahoo.com or 859-229-8888 ------- LACDA INTERNATIONAL JURIED COMPETITION DigitalArt.LA 2009 Enter our juried competition for digital art, digital photography, video and new media. All styles of artwork and photography where digital processes of any kind were integral to their creation are acceptable. The competition is international, and open to all geographic locations. Deadline: July 20, 2009 Online registration only. No exceptions. enter here ------- The 24th Annual International Juried Show This critically acclaimed show is open to artists with eligible work in all media from the United States and around the globe. A distinguished member of the arts community is chosen as juror each year. Deadline: October 1, 2009 http://www.artcenternj.org -------------------------------------- RESOURCES A.R.T. (Artist Resources and Tips) is available on the Kentucky Arts Council website artscouncil.ky.gov A.R.T. is published online every two months. If you are not on the arts council's mailing list and wish to receive email announcements when new editions of A.R.T. are posted to the website, you must sign up for the arts council's mailing list via the link on the front page of their website at artscouncil.ky.gov -------- The Arts & Democracy Website sponsored by the  National Center for Civic Participation The site features: twelve profiles of exemplary work in arts, culture and democracy descriptions of more than 85 arts, culture and democracy projects along with contact information for these projects a resource list with articles, websites and publications a blog with highlights from the artist-activist gatherings ------------ Ongoing Call For Submissions Your Stab of Art on real, usable Bags with Cash Prize! Online Event - Calls for Submissions - , Digital Media Other This is a perpetual online contest judged by the members. Register for free access to purchase, vote, design and forum at the site. Template of bags are ready for download where your art can be placed and you upload it for others to vote. If selected to print, cash prize is awarded. Additional cash prizes for reprints due to popular demand.This is great also for artists to sell their prints on usable items. Bulk discounts are available.It is time to break the typical and give art another outlet. www.bagstab.net ------------ Ongoing Call For Submissions -  The Open Studios Press Competition (Publish Award)  Art Gallery Presented by The Open Studios Press. Winners receive full-color spreads of their art in the nationally distributed periodical, New American Paintings. Six regions (Northeast, Mid Atlantic, South, Midwest, West and Pacific Coast) each have separate annual competitions and deadlines for entry. Open to all artists in the U.S., all styles and media are welcome, as long as the work is singular and 2D. Entry Fee: $25. Entry guidelines openstudiospress.com ------------ Arts Across Kentucky Seeks Information and Photos of Kentucky Artists at Work Kentucky artists are invited to send articles with "high quality images"  of their art as well as photos of themselves at work.  300 dpi (dots per inch) is the minimum necessary for print media and send them in large size. More information at www.artsacrossky.com ------------ Torch: Poetry, Prose, and Short Stories by African American Women Rolling Deadline Please visit torchpoetry.org for guidelines

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Around the Globe YouTube goes Widescreen YouTube is "expanding the width of the page to 960 pixels to better reflect the quality of the videos you create and the screens that you use to watch them. This new, wider player is in a widescreen aspect ratio which we hope will provide you with a cleaner, more powerful viewing experience. And don't worry, your 4:3 aspect ratio videos will play just fine in this new player." The U.S. Google teams with Life, the magazine that featured extraordinary stories documented by extraordinary photographers. The two have teamed to construct a database of some 10 million photographs from the 1750's to the present. It's a work in progress but already there's a mass online. Be sure to search a variety of artists, like Picasso for instance. Kentucky Churchill Downs announces the 2009 Kentucky Derby art UK (University of Kentucky, that is) Junior Eric Schlich has started a new campus journal "The Cat's Figment". The undergraduate literary paper aims to offer short stories, poetry, creative non-fiction and artwork from UK undergraduates. See more at www.thecatsfigment.com The University of Kentucky Department of Art has invited to campus for the eighth year an emerging Kenyan artist through the UK Kenyan Artist-in-Residence program funded by the Ruth Hunt Wood Foundation Inc. Click here for more info