Artist Opportunity: To create large scale paintings for the waiting rooms of the Department of Mental Health offices in Goshen and Port Jervis.

With funding from the Orange County System of Care program, the Department of Mental Health offices in Goshen and Port Jervis are interested in creating large scale paintings for their respective waiting rooms. The project is intended to enhance the physical environment, as well as create a sense of community in both spaces.

Goshen Office
The Goshen office is interested in the creation of a realistically rendered concept painting measuring approximately 4’H X 12’W incorporating the following ideas and concepts:
1. The Mural should:
1. Be welcoming
2. Contain mental health anti-stigma messages (to be provided by Department of Mental Health personnel)
3. Represent Diversity
4. Depict people - families, adults and children
5. Be movable - possibly on stretched canvas (similar to Newburgh Clinic)
2. Possible specific content:
1. Depiction of OC as a map with iconic places and landscapes painted within the shape of the county, possibly as the top of a tree with roots
2. Include "No Decisions About Me Without Me" in the mural, possibly in the root system of the tree or intertwined in a vine, could also be written under a pictorial map
3. Vine wrapping around/through different places and populations throughout the county all intertwined
4. Incorporate leaves with anti-stigma messages
5. Highlighting specific places such as the Black Dirt area of the county, Mountain areas throughout the county, the Hudson River on the east side of the county and Delaware River on the west side of the county, Cities representing Newburgh, Middletown and Port Jervis in their geographical areas on the map, a representation of Parks throughout the county, a representation of several Lakes, a representation of the farming community.
6. Using hand-prints throughout the mural to guide the viewer in the direction of the mural content
7. Pictorial map of OC with "spokes" highlighting OC
Port Jervis Office
The Port Jervis office is interested in the creation of a realistic painting measuring approximately 4’H X 6’W depicting an aerial view of the city from High Point or Point Peter and highlighting some of the more iconic aspects of the city. Personnel from the Port Jervis office will take some reference pictures and then work with the selected artist to decide which picture will be used and which icons should be highlighted. There may be one or two high school students involved in this process as well.

Process
The Orange County Arts Council will act as the liaison between the Department of Mental Health and the artist selected; however the Arts Council will not be involved in the actual selection process. Each location will select the artist they are most interested in working with. Once a selection has been made, the Arts Council will remain involved in all communication between the artist and the Mental Health office personnel. All payment for artistic services will come through the Arts Council. Should initial discussions demonstrate incompatibility between the DMH personnel and the artist, the DMH reserves the right to select a different artist to work with.

CRITERIA:
o Ideally, the paintings will be created on stretched canvas with some type of thin border frame.
o Paintings must be created with the best interests of the work environment and the consumer clientele in mind.
o Artwork must be professionally created using archival media and must not require extraordinary handling. Artwork must also be easily transportable and have the ability to be re-installed as necessary.
o Artist must be willing to work with personnel from the Department of Mental Health offices to come up with a rendering that is acceptable to all involved.
o Artist must complete a final detailed color rendering for DMH approval before work begins on the actual painting.

SUBMISSION PROCESS:
Artists must submit the information as identified below via email:
o A minimum of five (5) and maximum of (10) works demonstrating the breadth of the artist’s creative talent and technical skill.
o Images must be submitted and saved as JPEGS, text as Microsoft Word documents. File names must correspond to annotated image list (see below).
o An annotated image list sent either in the body of the email submission, or attached Media/Dimensions, Date of Work, and brief description of work if necessary.
o Two or three concept sketches for each office (artists may choose to respond for only one office OR both offices)
o A list of all associated costs, including time and materials.

SELECTION PROCESS:
Personnel from each of the Department of Mental Health offices will make the decisions for their respective offices

APPLICATION DEADLINE: February 17, 2012. All submissions should be sent to: dawn@ocartscouncil.org. Questions can be directed to Dawn Ansbro at 845-469-9168 or dawn@ocartscouncil.

The 3rd Annual Joseph Devon Fan Art Contest is open to all artists. Art based on Joseph Devon's books accepted in any medium. Submit jpegs online. Artwork must be original fan art based on Joseph Devon's books and created by the submitted artist. Winner may choose between prize packages including a Wacom Tablet, Adobe Illustrator, or Photoshop Lightroom. Jury to be decided at end of contest. Deadline July 15, 2012. Entry fee. Details: http://josephdevon.com/contest/the-third-annual-joseph-devon-art-contest

In addition to scholarships and hosting the largest online museum dedicated to traditional painting, we hold one of the most prestigious competitions for living artists who paint in the realist tradition. This year we are offering $50,000 in cash awards including $10,000 for Best in Show. Participants can compete in 6 categories: Figurative, Landscape, Animals, Still life, Sculpture, and Drawing. This year we are also introducing five new awards designed to encourage creativity and ambition in the arts: Most Creative, Best Social Commentary, Best Portrait, Most Ambitious Work, and Best Trompe L'oeil. Prospectus: http://www.artrenewal.org/articles/Salon/SalonProspectus.php

Over $7500 in cash awards for 2 and 3-dimensional Fine Art and Photography completed within the past 2 years. Entry fee. For prospectus (or web) send SASE to: Baker Arts Center, 624 N Pershing, Liberal KS 67901 OR 620-624-2810 OR http://www.bakerartscenter.org OR bakerartscenter3@sbcglobal.net

Call to Artists and Craftspeople:
The ARTery Gallery invites submissions to “New Visions” regional juried exhibit and sale in April 2012. This special exhibit will kick off the 2012 season showcasing the best art and fine crafts that the area has to offer.
A cooperative, member owned and operated gallery which proudly boasts over 12 years in the heart of charming downtown Milford PA, the ARTery will be opening it’s space to non-members for the month of April.

Deadline for submissions is March 10.
download prospectus from website www.arteryonline.com
or call to have one mailed

ARTery Gallery, 210 Broad St. Milford PA 18337
(570)409-1234

"Dorsky Museum: Call for artists for Hudson Valley Artists"
2012-01-05 until 2012-03-01
Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art
New Platz, MY, USA United States of America


The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art invites artists to submit proposals for its annual exhibition of work by artists from the mid Hudson Valley. This year's exhibition titled "/*Dear Mother Nature: Hudson Valley Artists 2012*/" will be organized by guest curator Linda Weintraub. Ms. Weintraub served as the first director of the Edith C. Blum Art Institute at Bard College where she originated 50 exhibitions and published over 20 catalogues. She is the author of several books about contemporary art including "To Life! Eco Art in Pursuit of a Sustainable Planet," which will be published by the University of California Press in 2012.

For "*/Dear Mother Nature: Hudson Valley Artists 2012/*," Ms. Weintraub invites artists to send something to Mother Nature that expresses their relationship to her and their feelings about her. What would it be? Love letter? Care package? Medal of honor? Bill for unfulfilled promises? Payment for services rendered? Prayer for guidance? Crutches for support? Bouquet of praise? Compensation for damages? Reward for effort? Entreaty for forgiveness? Pledge of devotion? Summons for misconduct? Condolences? Advice? Warnings?

The exhibition will run from June 23 -- Nov. 14, 2012 in the museum's Alice and Horace Chandler Gallery and North Gallery. This is the fourth year that a Hudson Valley Artists Annual Purchase Award of $3,000 will be used to acquire one or more artworks from the exhibition for the museum's permanent collection. This Purchase Award is made possible through the Alice and Horace Chandler Art Acquisition Fund. Artists whose work has been purchased in the past include Charles Geiger, Curt Belshe and Lise Prown, Francois Deschamps, Gilbert Plantinga and Thomas Sarrantonio.

GUIDELINES / INFORMATION The Hudson Valley Artists exhibition is open to all emerging and mid-career artists with a permanent mailing address and active art practice in Columbia, Dutchess, Greene, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Sullivan, Ulster, and Westchester Counties who have not had a major one-person museum exhibition and who do not have an exclusive contract with a commercial gallery. Students are not eligible. There is no application fee. Artworks created in traditional and nontraditional media as well as audio, video, film, etc., are welcome.

APPLICATIONS Artists who have existing artworks that are appropriate to the theme and created after 2008 should submit up to six images of work as photographs or on a flash drive, CD, or DVD. Please include a two-minute sample of time-based works.

Artists who would like to create new artworks should submit a proposal in writing (100 words) and one or more drawings, along with up to six images of related works as photographs or on a flash drive, CD, or DVD. Please include a two-minute sample of time-based works.

For each work submitted, clearly indicate the artist's name, artwork title, date, medium and dimensions of each work of art. Digital images should be approximately 1mb each. The deadline for submissions is _*Friday, March 1, 2012*_.

Please send submissions to: Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art c/o SUNY New Paltz 1 Hawk Drive New Paltz, NY 12561 _Attention_: Hudson Valley Artists 2012

The submission package must include images, image captions, an artist's biography/CV, contact information, and SASE for return of materials. Please mail or hand-deliver submissions; we cannot accept submissions via e-mail. We can accept a link to a Web site and a clearly demarcated page as part of the submission package.

Artists who participate in the exhibition will be responsible for the delivery of selected works to the museum and for picking them up at the close of the exhibition. Works must be ready to install upon delivery. Presentation of installations, performances, and new works will be arranged in consultation with the curator.

PROJEKT30s MARCH 2012 EXHIBITION Seeking submissions
for our next publicly juried show. "Publicly juried" means all work is
presented online prior to the exhibition, and site visitors select the
final 30. All participants receive exposure. Invitations will be sent
to our extensive mailing list of galleries, collectors, etc. and
visitors have the option of contacting artists, both during the jury
and after the winners are selected. Since 2003 we have conducted over
120 juried exhibitions. Entry fee.

7th CALL FOR SEX THEMED ART Seeking submissions for
its seventh annual sex themed exhibition which will showcase fine
artists who comment upon gender and sex in our society. We are
accepting work ranging from the personal, to the political, to the
near-pornographic. It will be publicly juried: artwork submitted will
be presented prior to the exhibition, and site visitors select the
final 30 winners. All participants receive exposure. Invitations will
be sent to our extensive mailing list of galleries, collectors, etc
and viewers have the option of contacting artists, both during the
jury and after the winners are selected. "The Sex Issue" will open
Valentine's Day, Feb. 14, 2012. Entry fee.

CALL FOR NATURE THEMED ART ARTE NATURA is a thematic
exhibition based on art inspired from the natural world. Open to all
interpretations of landscape, fruits, vegetables, flowers and fauna
and to human figuration as part of the natrual environment. The
exhibition will be held at the Limner Gallery, June 2 - 30, 2012. Open
to all artists. National magazine publication awards. Entry fee. For
prospectus send SASE to (or On-line entry form or email): SlowArt
Productions, 123 Warren Street, Hudson NY 12534

The Annual International Competition for $26,000 in publication awards in Volume 19 of Direct Art Magazine, Fall/Winter 2012, issue. The twenty two
awards include the covers of magazine, feature articles and full page
displays. The competition is open to all artists working in any
media. Print prospectus and entry information:
http://www.slowart.com/prospectus/spring.htm OR slowart@aol.com

By Hudson Valley Conservatory Food: On Friday - February 3, 2012, HVC will host Open Auditions for the Coffee House and Cabaret, planned to be held at the New Rose Theatre on February 10th - 3pm and 7pm. All acts are welcome - dances, skits, vocalists, instrumentalists, comedians, etc. Please come to auditi...ons with act ready for stage performance! (Bring an accompanist or a copy of your karaoke or music cd with you.)

*See Pam Murphy for further details.

AUDITIONS:
FRIDAY - February 3 - 6:00PM
Hudson Valley Conservatory - New Rose Theatre

Call (845) 778-2478 or visit www.hvcfa.com

The Warwick Valley School District holds an annual Chair Auction to support an Art Scholarship. This year area artists are being invited to create chairs for the March event.

Artists can interpret “chair” in whatever ways they choose. Some create chair forms, others work imagery onto existing chair forms. This is an interesting opportunity for 3-D artists to support the next generation of artists. Let the Arts Council know if you are interested in participating.

High School students are working with the following guidelines:

Ø Pick an artist that you like and create an image in the style of that artist

Ø Pick an artist that you like and duplicate a painting that they did on your chair

Ø Pick a art period (impressionism, fauvism, etc) and create an image in that style or by using that technique

Ø Do a take-off on a Walt Disney movie or other animated movie

Ø Paint a local scene in your own style or the style of an artist you admire

Ø Create a photo collage/montage of a theme of your choice

Ø Choose another theme, such as flowers or nature (the choices are endless) and paint your image in your style or another style that you’ve seen and liked.

Go to migratingforms.org for full guidelines and instructions on how to submit.
Early Deadline: February 15, 2012
Regular Deadline: March 1, 2012
Late Deadline: March 15, 2012
Festival: May 11-20, 2012 at Anthology Film Archives, New York
Follow Migrating Forms on Twitter @migratingforms
About Migrating Forms
An annual, ten-day festival dedicated to new film and video, Migrating Forms developed from the New York Underground Film Festival (NYUFF), which ended in April 2008. Led by the former directors and programmers of NYUFF, Migrating Forms continues the tradition of presenting a program culled from a broad spectrum of moving image practices each Spring at New York’s historic Anthology Film Archives. Migrating Forms has featured work by Stephanie Barber, Patty Chang, Phil Collins, Moyra Davey, Lav Diaz, Barry Doupe, Redmond Entwistle, Bradley Eros, eteam, Kevin Jerome Everson, Harun Farocki, Jim Finn, Luke Fowler, Nikolaus Geyrhalter, Michael Gitlin, Jean-Pierre Gorin, Barbara Hammer, Susan Hiller, Owen Land, Oliver Laric, Zhao Liang, Jeanne Liotta, Pavel Medvedev, Shana Moulton, Pat O’Neil, Lucy Raven, Ben Rivers, Michael Robinson, Ed Ruscha, Amie Siegel, John Smith, Jean-Marie Straub, Kerry Tribe, Naomi Uman, Erika Vogt, and many more.

Entry in this exhibition is open to all artists 18 years of age and older, living/working in New York State over the last 2
years. Acceptable media include: drawing, painting, sculpture, mixed media, printmaking, photography, digital media,
ceramics and all fine craft. Work previously exhibited at the Oswego Civic Arts Center is not eligible. Work more than 2
years old is not eligible. All works must arrive suitably framed and ready to hang or otherwise prepared for immediate
installation. Works may not exceed 72" in any direction. Sculpture may not exceed 100 lbs.
Juror
The juror for this year’s exhibition will be Ms. Roxanne Jackson. Ms. Jackson is a ceramics and mixed media artist who
was born in Haywood, California. She has exhibited internationally in England, Germany, Romania, Portugal and Canada.
She earned a Master of Fine Arts degree at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and is currently an Assistant Professor of
Ceramics at the State University of New York at Oswego.
Awards
An anticipated $1025 in prize money will be awarded. $300 for Best of Show is guaranteed. The Award ceremony will be
held at 8 PM. on opening night.
Gallery
The Art Association of Oswego galleries are housed in the Oswego Civic Arts Center, which is located at the northern end
of East Fourth Street in the City of Oswego directly across from historic Fort Ontario. Our regular gallery hours are from
2–5 PM on Saturdays and Sundays. The gallery is also open on weeknights during class times or by appointment. Group
tours are encouraged. For more information, please call us at 315 342-1800 or visit us online at www.oswegoarts.org.
Terms and Conditions
Artists whose work is accepted will be notified of delivery procedures. The Art Association of Oswego insures works while
on exhibit, but cannot be held responsible for loss or damage caused during shipping. No work may be withdrawn or
removed before the end of the show. Works on exhibit may be offered for sale. The Art Association does not handle sales
directly or collect commission, but will put artists in touch with potential buyers. Any donations made to the Art Association
as the result of a sale are greatly appreciated. The Association reserves the right to photograph accepted works for
publicity purposes. CD’s will not be returned unless specifically requested.
Entry in the exhibition will constitute agreement by the artist to the terms described herein.
Lakeside 2012 Calendar
Friday, February 10 Deadline for receipt of entries
Monday, February 20 Juror notifications sent
Friday, March 16 Deadline for receipt of accepted works by mail
Friday, March 16 Hand delivery of accepted works at the AAO from 6 to 8 pm
Saturday, March 17 Hand delivery of accepted works at the AAO from 10 am to noon
Saturday March 24 Opening reception from 7 to 9 pm
Sunday April 15 Exhibition closes 5 pm
Sunday April 15 Pick up work at the AAO from 6 to 8 pm
Monday April 16 Pick up work at the AAO from 6 to 8 pm
Monday April 16 Return shipping of mailed work begins

The Art League of Long Island seeks entries for their upcoming juried
exhibition, “A Common Theme: Portraiture” (May 20 – June 17). Noted
portrait artist Burton Silverman is exhibition juror. Deadline is
April 2. Prospectus available at www.artleagueli.org or call (631)
462-5400.

On behalf of the Research Center for Arts and Culture at the National Center for Creative Aging, and a consortium NYC partners, we would like to invite you and any professional visual artist colleagues to apply to participate in the 2012-13 ART CART: SAVING THE LEGACY project to document the work of older American living artists. Eligible artists must be age 62 and older who reside in the New York City Metro area.