AMP: Artists' Meeting Place and Resource Collective

"Fashionistas!" call for entries from OCCCA

http://artscenecal.com/1208/OCCCA1208.html

Fashionistas!
Deadline for entries: January 12, 2009 (received not postmarked)

An all media national juried exhibition including video, installation,
jewelry and craft media
March 6 - April 18, 2009
Reception: Saturday, March 7, 6 -10pm

Orange County Center For Contemporary Art
117 N Sycamore. Santa Ana, CA 92701
714 667 1517
E-mail grau@prodigy.net
http://www.occca.org
Hours, Thursday - Sunday 12-5pm, Friday, Saturday 12-5pm, & 5-9pm
1st Saturday Receptions: 6-10pm · First Friday Films: 8pm

Fashion is a seductive powerhouse in contemporary culture, worthy of
celebration and critique.
From the earliest days of civilization to the present moment, we've been

REQUESTS FOR PROPOSALS Mobile Exhibits

The Arts Council for Long Beach and the Long Beach Redevelopment Agency
announce a Request for Proposals (RFP) to select artists for temporary
public artwork for vacant storefronts in redevelopment areas within the City
of Long Beach.

Historical / Cultural Background
The City of Long Beach is one of the most culturally and ethnically diverse
cities in the nation. As the fifth largest city in California, Long Beach
plays an important role in shaping the identity of the state. Long Beach is
an attractive and accessible coastal gateway that serves as an important
tourist attraction and is home to the Queen Mary, Boeing Aerospace, the Long
Beach Aquarium, an expansive beach front and one of the largest ports in the
world.

Photo contest to promote charity

Photographers around the world are invited to compete for the
Photographers Giving Back Photo Award, aimed at highlighting injustice,
catastrophes and human disasters with the intention to help and make a
change for the better. Deadline: January 4, 2009.

The competition -- formally know as the Photo Award -- will award a
total of US$30,000 in 12 categories. Pictures must have been taken in
2008 but do not need to have been published. Submissions can only be
done online.

The winners will be announced on March 6, 2009 at Berns Salonger in
Stockholm, Sweden.

For more information, visit http://www.thepgbphotoaward.com or contact
Jonas Lember, the award founder, at jonas@thepgbphotoaward.com

Call for Entries: Kaikai Kiki Presents Geisai #12
Twelfth Flagship Edition of the Art Fair for Artists in Tokyo

Sunday, March 8, 2009
10:00 am – 6:00 pm

Apply online at http://us.geisai.net through January 13, 2009

Attention! Dream Quest One.com has opened a new online book and supply store. Featuring a growing list of books, supplies, products and merchadise for kid and adults alike. Scroll down the page of this unique store and you will find interesting a unique items from time to time. Never a dull moment at Dream Quest One! Please visit the website at: Books and Supplies Store Thank you for looking and for your support as a fellow artist, dreamer.

Best wishes for the Season and Happy New Year to you all!

Andre L. West, editor
www.dreamquestone.com

IDENSITAT | Call for projects

Calaf / Manresa
Shared projects: Mataró (Can Xalant) / Priorat (Priorat Centre d'Art) / El Prat de Llobregat

Final date for submission of proposals: January 9, 2009

http://www.idensitat.net

IDENSITAT is an arts project that investigates ways to impact upon the public sphere through creative proposals that work in relation to place and territory and their physical and social dimensions.

IDENSITAT positions itself as a networked production and research space, developed in the field of art, to experiment with new forms of involvement and interaction in social space.

ID #5 / Introduction

http://artscenecal.com/1208/2ndCity1208.html

Call to U.S. Artists
Juried Exhibition

Being Gay: A Visual Dialogue Between Straight and/or LGBTQ Artists.

The exhibition explores such topics (but is not limited to) faith and
homosexuality, gay history, sense of community, effect on professional life
or society, gay neighborhoods, fashion, homophobia, straight people in gay
places, ageism in the gay community, gay role models, ordinary lives, coming
out, gay icons or heroes, discrimination, homosexuality as an evolutionary
puzzle, integrating into society, political issues, is tolerance enough?,
marriage, PRIDE, engaging in gay rights issues across cultural and religious
borders, feelings associated with being gay, regional differences, gay as a

The 2009 Lorser Feitelson and Helen Lundeberg Feitelson Arts Fellowship

DEADLINE FOR ALL APPLICATION MATERIALS: January 23, 2009

GENERAL INFORMATION: The Lorser Feitelson and Helen Lundeberg Feitelson
Arts Fellowship is awarded through the Los Angeles Municipal Art
Gallery Associates (LAMAGA), a nonprofit, tax-exempt organization that
supports the Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall Park. The Feitelson
Foundation award was conceived by the Feitelsons, seminal Los Angeles
Modernist painters, and their friends, as a way to give encouragement to

artists early in their careers by offering financial grants.

JURORS: Clara Kim, Director, Gallery at Redcat; Meg Linton, Director,
Ben Maltz Gallery Otis College of Art and Design and Steve Turner,
Steve Turner Contemporary.

Call For Proposals For REDCAT’s NOW Festival 2009

*Application Deadline: January 23, 2009 by 5:00pm (Not a postmark deadline)*

REDCAT is accepting proposals for original performance works for the
2009 New Original Works Festival. The Festival is designed to support
the development and presentation of contemporary performance in Los
Angeles through a three-week interdisciplinary program of dance,
theater, music and multi-disciplinary works. Entering its sixth year,
the Festival features a flexible schedule to accommodate a variety of
short works and some longer projects in Los Angeles premieres, and
provides development support through technical assistance, access to the
theater’s sound and lighting inventory and an honorarium.

Art Museum Toilet Museum of Art now accepting images

THE ARTMUSEUMTOILETMUSEUM OF ART - NOW ACCEPTING IMAGES
World-renowned Collection’s First-Ever Call For Submissions
The Art Museum Toilet Museum of Art, the world’s largest collection of images of art museum toilets taken at various art museums around the world, is seeking to add to its unique collection through a call for submissions from other art museum art toilet aficionados.

The site currently houses exclusive images ranging from the prestigious marble lavatory at the Metropolitan Museum of New York, behind-closed-doors shots of the Hermitage’s latrines and the decaying (yet still flushing) pictures of the MongolianArt Museum’s commodes.