From Creative Clay>>
OPEN CALL FOR ARTISTS!!
Creative Clay’s ARTLINK 2009
o Earn a Stipend ($4,000)
o Exhibit Artwork
o Make a New Friend
o Learn About Yourself
o Get Inspired
10 local artists (visual and/or performance artists) will be chosen to
participate in this year-long project; emerging artists are encouraged to apply.
Chosen artists need to be able to commit to one 4-hour session [...]

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In the two-and-a-half years that I’ve been writing about art in Tampa Bay and getting to know people in the community, I’ve heard enough word-of-mouth about what a lousy market this is for fine art– and particularly, for contemporary art at a price point above about $300– that it would seem like things couldn’t possibly [...]

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This message brought to you by artist Ryann Slauson. One of many pieces on view during ArtOberfest at the West Tampa Center for the Arts (specifically, at [5]art, located inside the WTCA).

Thursday
6 p.m. – Dalí & Beyond Film Series: Fernando Perez’s Life Is to Whistle. Presented in conjunction with the Wifredo Lam in [...]

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Havana Days poster design by Keith Burnson. From envy.artistikmagazine.com.
Over at Artistik Envy, the competition between student designers at the International Academy of Art and Design is on. You can watch videos from the first “episode” by clicking on each designer’s photo.
Time suckage alert: with 10 designers at roughly 5 minutes each, I recommend securing [...]

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If you’re like me, you can’t get enough of Bravo’s darned addictive design-related reality shows, like Project Runway, Top Design and Shear Genius (the one about hair stylists). Well, get this–the International Academy of Art and Design has created their own online reality series, Artistik Envy, which focuses on a competition between ten multimedia and [...]

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Flocas 2008 opens tonight in Tampa, and I’ll tell you—my reaction to this project (the consortium of Florida university masters degree programs) is like, why didn’t someone think of this sooner? Best. Idea. Ever.
We have some really talented graduate students in the state, and it breaks my heart when they leave after graduation. We need [...]

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I will be participating tomorrow night in the first Pecha Kucha Night Tampa Bay at Romeo’s Gallery in Ybor City, and I’ll be talking about the future of public art in the Tampa Bay area.
Yes– in 6 minutes and 40 seconds, I will discuss the current state of public art locally, draw attention to innovative [...]

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Jamey Grimes. Merge IV, 2007. Mylar, acetate, transparency film, thread. Courtesy DFAC.
This week in Creative Loafing:
These days, it’s hardly an exaggeration to call the evening news the stuff of nightmares. Between the implosion of Wall Street and the prospect of the other guy winning the election, the current state of national affairs might be enough [...]

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Erik Jones at work. Image courtesy Pale Horse Design & Gallery.
Friday
6-11 p.m. – Opening reception for the 2008 FloCas Traveling Exhibition at the Bustillo y Diaz cigar factory (runs through Oct. 24). The exhibit features work by 30 graduate students from USF, FSU and UF juried by MOCA NoMi director Bonnie Clearwater.
7-9 p.m. - [...]

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From [5]art:
OPEN CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
[5]art and three04 encourage you to submit artwork for this fundraiser for the Historic Santaella Cigar Factory, an artist-friendly venue in Tampa, FL.
This salon-style exhibition, hosted in Gallery 209, is devoted to the promotion and improvement of this alternative art venue and the celebration of Tampa’s art community. This call [...]

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Rebecca Sexton Larson, Contemporary Retablo, “Before we can see” (verse: Henry David Thoreau). Mixed media on pinhole photographs, 29.5” x 28.” Courtesy sextonlarson.com.
Artsqueeze “hearts” Rebecca Sexton Larson and her ability to transform nearly any box-like object into a pinhole camera. (Pay a visit to the Big Draw Studio in Ruskin this week to see [...]

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The folks at Flight 19 have announced a closing reception date for Bob Wysocki’s Post-Metal: Sat., Nov. 8, 7-11 p.m. If you haven’t seen this installation yet, it’s one of the most exciting projects to take place in Tampa this fall (or year…perhaps even in recent memory). Check out the video above to see my [...]

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