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The Hands of War and Civil Disobedience at UC San Diego

UC San Diego Center for the Humanities Living Archives Research Group presents
The Hands of War and Civil Disobedience
featuring
Marione Ingram, Civil Rights Activist and Writer
Ricardo Domingez, UC San Diego Visual Arts AssociateProfessor
When: Friday, 24 May 2013, 4PM
Location: Seuss Room, Geisel Library, UC San Diego
9500 Gilman Dr, La Jolla, California 92093
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The Discursive & Curatorial Productions Initiative Presents: The one beneath is mysterious, falling below the line of sight at UC San Diego

An exhibition of works by
Catherine Czacki
Curated by Elizabeth Miller
When: May 23 – June 17, 2013
Opening Reception on Thursday, May 23rd, 7-9PM

Location: Structural and Materials Engineering Bldg (SME) #406, UC San Diego
9500 Gilman Dr., La Jolla, California 92093
Catherine Czacki and Elizabeth Miller are Ph.D. students in UC San Diego’s Visual Arts Program in Art History, Theory, [...]

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Am I Drawing Now? Presents: Drawing Ecology: Gestures, Diagrams and Itineraries of Urbanization

The Experimental Drawing Studio Presents:
Am I Drawing Now?
Drawing Ecology Gestures, Diagrams and Itineraries of Urbanization
featuring
UCSD Visual Arts Professor Teddy Cruz
When: Thursday May 23rd, 4PM
Location: Structural and Materials Engineering building (SME) #202, UC San Diego
9500 Gilman Dr., La Jolla, California 92093
The Experimental Drawing Studio presents a talk with Visual Arts Faculty, Teddy Cruz, who will discuss [...]

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MFA Thesis Show AMASS by Allison Spence

MFA Thesis Show
AMASS
Allison Spence
When: May 20-24, 2013, Noon-4PM
Location: Visual Arts Facility Gallery, UC San Diego
9500 Gilman Dr., La Jolla, California 92093
MFA Candidate Allison Spence presents her MFA Thesis Show, Amass. The exhibition features paintings and writing revolving around the research of a nameless, ambiguous motion. The reception will include a performance from the accompanying booklet, [...]

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Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination: Starship Century Conference at UCSD

When: All Day May 21 & 22
Location: Atkinson Hall Auditorium, UC San Diego
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Is this the century we begin to build starships?
Why go to the Stars?
Can we?
Should We?
Starship Century is a symposium coordinated by the new Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination in collaboration with [...]

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UCSB WIND ENSEMBLE in 20th Anniversary Concert

When: May 26, 2013, 1:30PM
Location: Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall, UC Santa Barbara
Admission in FREE.
UCSB Wind Ensemble presents a 20th ANNIVERSARY ALUMNI REUNION CONCERT on SUN., MAY 26 (Memorial Day Weekend) at 1:30 p.m. in Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall. Admission is free. All Alumni of the UCSB University Wind Ensemble are invited to attend, bring [...]

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UCSB PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE MAY 22

When: May 22, 7:30PM
Location: Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall, UC Santa Barbara
Tickets:
$15/General, $7/Student
To purchase tickets in advance visit: http://www.music.ucsb.edu/
Tickets can also be purchased at the door.
UCSB PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE presents “STARRY NIGHTS” on WED., MAY 22, 7:30 p.m., Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall. Jon Nathan directs “Starry Nights,” a program of music for percussion ensemble about the [...]

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National Endowment for the Arts Awards Grants for Arts Journalism Projects

originally posted by the National Endowment for the Arts
May 14, 2013
August 8, 2013 Art Works deadline offers another funding opportunity
Washington, DC — The National Endowment for the Arts is committed to advancing arts journalism in the digital age and to funding projects that feature new models for sustaining arts criticism and coverage. Starting in [...]

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Annette Bening returning to Geffen Playhouse in a new production

originally posted by the Los Angeles Times
May 16, 2013
Annette Bening will return to the Geffen Playhouse next season in a new production consisting of monologues by the American dramatist Ruth Draper. The company said the new production, which doesn’t yet have a title, will be part of the 2013-14 season and is set to run [...]

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Connie Butler of MoMA goes to Hammer Museum as new chief curator

originally posted by the Los Angeles Times
May 16, 2013

After more than a year-long search, the Hammer Museum has hired Connie Butler, currently the chief curator of drawings at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, as its chief curator.
She is leaving that position by July 1 in order to assume her L.A. post mid-month.
Around [...]

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MOCA architecture show opening pushed back to June 16

originally posted by the Los Angeles Times
May 17, 2013

The Museum of Contemporary Art released a statement Friday saying it has moved back the opening date of its show about contemporary Los Angeles architecture, part of the Getty’s “Pacific Standard Time Presents” initiative, by two weeks, to June 16.
The guest curator, Christopher Mount, had raised concerns [...]

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Artist Call- 30 artworks in 30 days

‘30 x 30′ will include a group of artists who have completed 30 artworks in 30 days.
For your submission to the ‘30 x 30′ exhibit, please include up to 5 images (you may upload more than 5 images for a fee of $5/each) that you feel best represent your style as an artist and that [...]

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Artist Call- The Music Within

From Classical masterpieces, to soulful Jazz melodies, to the latest hits playing on the radio, we’ve all had the experience of being touched by a piece of music. When you close your eyes while you’re listening to these songs that move you, you can almost see them come to life. Wassily Kandinsky was famous for [...]

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Artist Call- Return to Simplicity Juried Art Show

For SF Bay Area artists
The Piedmont Center for the Arts announces a call to SF Bay Area Artists to feature their work in a juried art show premiering November 1, 2013 in Piedmont, CA.
The Piedmont Center for the Arts is honored to have Rene de Guzman, Senior Curator of Art, Oakland Museum of California, selecting [...]

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Artist Call- Bold in Black and White

Who says black and white is boring? The absence of color just heightens the interest in this all black and white exhibit.
All art mediums including paintings, drawings, and photography will be considered.*
*Black, white, and all shades of grey are acceptable.
Deadline: 07-29-2013
Blue Line Arts
Roseville, CA

Contact: Katie Curler
email: katiec@bluelinearts.org
Phone: 916.783.4117
Website: http://www.rosevillearts.org/exhibits/calls.html

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Artist Call- Eco conscious art for living

For Southern CA artists
ECO- CONSCIOUS ART FOR LIVING
Goals are to promote and support the vital role that art and creation play in raising awareness, supporting concrete solutions and encouraging a culture of eco-conscious living.
Theme: ECO- CONSCIOUS ART FOR LIVING
This word is at the heart of contemporary thought and strategies used by nations, [...]

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Artist Call- 2013 California Open Exhibition

TAG Gallery Juried Exhibition, August 14-30, 2013, at Bergamot Station Arts Center in Santa Monica.
Open to U.S. artists 18+ working in computer art, drawing, mixed media, painting, photography, printmaking and sculpture. Maximum size 48″h x 36″w, sculptures maximum size 48″h x 20″w and maximum weight 40 lbs. Cash awards.
Juror: Edward Goldman, Art Critic, National [...]

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Artist Call- Freedom, Rebellion & Adventure

The San Benito County Arts Council and Blak Sage Gallery are currently accepting submissions for “Freedom, Rebellion and Adventure”, a biker-inspired art show from June 27th-July 20th, 2013.
Hollister, California, known as the “Birthplace of the American Biker” is bringing back the Hollister Rally on July 5-6th, which is expected to draw thousands of local and [...]

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Artist Call: The Artists Eye-Open All-Media

For Southern CA artists
Annual Juried and Judged Open All-Media Show near South Coast Plaza at border of Costa Mesa and Santa Ana, CA.
Take in June 2, reception June 8 5-7pm, take out July 21.
Look for prospectus on website www.ocfinearts.org
Deadline: 06-02-2013
Orange County Fine Arts Inc
South Coast Metro, CA

Contact: Showcase Gallery
Email: ocfa@sbcglobal.net
Phone: 714.540.6430
Website: www.ocfinearts.org

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UCIRA Artist Rebecca Lord Presents: Mendelssohn’s ‘Elijah,’ Op. 70 Featuring UCLA Chorale and UCLA Chorus Philharmonia June 4th

UCLA Chorale/University Chorus/UCLA Philharmonia
Choral Masterwork: Mendelssohn’s ‘Elijah,’ Op. 70
Michael Dean, baritone (UCLA music dept. chair)
Maria Fortuna, soprano
Todd Strange, tenor
Donald Neuen, conductor
When: Tuesday, June 4th, 8PM
Location: Royce Hall, UC Los Angeles
A very dramatic oratorio on the life of the Old Testament prophet Elijah, by Felix Mendelssohn, will be performed by more than 200 singers of the [...]

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Inside Out: 2013 UCSB Masters of Fine Arts Exhibition

When: May 25-June 16, 2013
Opening Reception: May 24, 5:30-7:30 pm

Location: Art, Design & Architecture Museum, UC Santa Barbara
This exhibition brings together work by graduating MFA students and is the result of two years of intensive artistic engagement. Works on view will include a variety of mediums and techniques. See the exhibition to [...]

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Mexico at the Hour of Combat” Photo Exhibition Opens at Soka University’s Founders Hall Art Gallery, May 20-Aug 23, 2013

Sabino Osuna’s rare photographs of the Mexican Revolution are shown for the first time in Orange County.
When: May 20-August 23, 2013
Opening Reception: Saturday, June 29, 5:30-8:00 PM
Location: Soka University, Aliso Viejo, CA
Aliso Viejo, CA – Mexico at the Hour of Combat: Sabino Osuna’s Photographs of the Mexican Revolution will be open at Soka University’s Founders [...]

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UCLA Theater Director Peter Sellars Will be Honored by the Santa Monica Museum of Art on May 9

originally posted by the Los Angeles Times
May 4, 2013

Theater director Peter Sellars, a UCLA professor of world arts and cultures, will be honored by the Santa Monica Museum of Art at its 25th-anniversary Precognito Gala on May 9.
Why are you based in Los Angeles instead of New York, which has a larger arts community?
For me, [...]

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UCLA Library’s ‘I’m a Stranger Here Myself’ takes on the Beats

originally posted by the Los Angeles Times
May 5, 2013
The story of the Beat Generation is often seen as a tale of two cities: The movement began in New York and blossomed in San Francisco. A UCLA Library exhibit sheds light on “a third, lesser-known hub” — Los Angeles, specifically the beachside bohemia of Venice.
“The Beats [...]

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‘Eurydice’ by Sarah Ruhl at UC Santa Barbara

Eurydice
by Sarah Ruhl
Dates: 05/24/13 – 06/1/13
Location: Hatlen Theater, UC Santa Barbara
Cost: $13/Student, Seniors, UCSB Faculty, Staff & Alumni; $17/General Admission
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Directed by Jeff Mills
Schedule:
Friday, May 24 | 8pm — Opening Night!
Saturday, May 25 | 8pm
Thursday, May 30 | 8pm
Friday, May 31 | 8pm
Saturday, June 1 | 2pm
Saturday, June 1 | 8pm
In Eurydice, celebrated playwright [...]

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‘Body of Work’ Show by Jerry Pearson at UC Santa Barbara

Body of Work
by Jerry Pearson
Dates: 05/17/13 – 05/19/13
Location: Ballet Studio Theatre, UC Santa Barbara
Cost: $10
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Video, music, dance, and the spoken word all combine in this one man show from Jerry Pearson, choreographer, 20 year Artistic Director of Santa Barbara Dance Theatre and UCSB professor as he explores the inspirations and revelations of a [...]

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‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ Peformance at UC Santa Barbara

A Streetcar Named Desire
by Tennessee Williams
Dates: 05/9/13 – 05/19/13
Location: Performing Arts Theater, UC Santa Barbara campus
Cost: $13/Student, Seniors, UCSB Faculty, Staff & Alumni; $17/General Admission
An ACTING UP FRONT Production – Directed by Irwin Appel
Performances:
Thursday, May 9 | 8pm
Friday, May 10 | 8pm — Opening Night!
Saturday, May 11 | 2pm
Tuesday, May 14 | 8pm
Wednesday, May [...]

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Infinite Space: John Lautner Film at UC Santa Barbara

Series Sponsor: Winick Architects
ART | ARCHITECTURE ON FILM
Co-presented with the Carsey-Wolf Center and the Art, Design & Architecture Museum at UCSB
When: Sunday, May 19, 3:00 PM
Location: Pollock Theater, UC Santa Barbara
Tickets:
$10 : General Public
$5 : UCSB Students (Current ID required / Limited availability)
$5 : All Students
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“My whole life is devoted to architecture… that’s [...]

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Artist Call- Art Beat 2013

Seeking artists to be part of an amazing one night art an music event featuring live bands, live painters, DJ sets, body painters, food trucks and an open bar. A percentage of the proceeds will benefit the art and music program at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. This event will be held at the Plaza for [...]

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Artist Call: Blau-Gold Studio/Teaching Fellowship

For SF Bay Area artists
The Blau-Gold Studio/ Teaching Fellowship (BGSTF) is made possible by a gift from the estate of the late Lonny Darwin, a supporter of education and the arts. The Fellowship, named for Ms. Darwin’s late mother, Emmy Blau- Gold, is designed to support an emerging artist for one year by providing free [...]

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Artist Call: HeART & Soul ~ Take a Deeper Look

HeART & Soul – Take a Deeper Look
Soul Art Shows is a collaboration between Jennifer Lothrigel & Joey Paynter with the intention to showcase art that has been created from the deepest places within and tells the story of what is going on within the artist. These works have been created intentionally with a therapeutic [...]

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Jonathan Fineberg Book Signing Event, May 9, 4pm at the Nelson Gallery

A TROUBLESOME SUBJECT: THE ART OF ROBERT ARNESON
by Jonathan Fineberg
BOOK SIGNING EVENT
When: May 9, 2013 – 4pm
Location: Nelson Gallery, UC Davis
You are invited to a lecture followed by a book signing and reception with the author. Copies of A Troublesome Subject will be available for purchase.
Biography
Jonathan Fineberg is the Adjunct Curator, Parrish Art [...]

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ARTIST CALL: DIGITAL ARTISTS AND PHOTOGRAPHERS: INT’L JURIED EXHIBITION – “True Colors 2”

Deadline: June 1, 2013
Murrieta, CA
DIGITAL ARTS: CALIFORNIA invites digital artists and photographers from around the world to submit images to “TRUE COLORS 2,” an exhibit that will reprise the exciting color of our original show. Bring on your palette: bright, eye-grabbing colors or soft pastels; deep, mysterious shades or natural earth tones; or perhaps [...]

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Professor Teddy Cruz Honored with the 2013 Architecture Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters

originally posted by the The American Academy of Arts and Letters
April 17, 2013
AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND LETTERS ANNOUNCES 2013 ARCHITECTURE AWARD WINNERS
New York, April 17, 2013 — The American Academy of Arts and Letters announced today the recipients of its 2013 architecture awards. The Academy’s architecture awards program began in 1955 with the inauguration [...]

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Professor Jennifer Pastor Presents her New Sculpture “Endless Arena” at Regen Projects

When: Running until May 11, 2013
Location: Regen Projects, 6750 Santa Monica Blvd, Los Angeles
Endless Arena
April 11 – May 11, 2013
Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 10:00 am – 6:00 pm
Opening Reception: Thursday, April 11, 6:00 – 8:00 pm
Regen Projects is pleased to announce an exhibition of a new sculpture by Los Angeles-based artist, Jennifer Pastor.
Endless Arena [...]

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Alumnus Joe Yorty Presents Save on Everything

MFA Alum Joe Yorty
SAVE ON EVERYTHING
When: Running until May 25, 2013
Location: Helmuth Projects, 1827 5th Avenue, San Diego
Helmuth Projects presents New works in sculpture, photography, collage and video by Joe Yorty.
Joe was born and raised in the southwest corner of the state of Utah and spent his junior high and high school years in [...]

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UCSD Artists Featured in Fiction Alters Form

MFA Candidate Joshua Miller and MFA Alum Joe Yorty featured in
Fiction Alters Form
When: Running until May 26, 2013
Location: T.F.R. Gallery, 1026 North Coast Highway 101, Encinitas, CA 92024
TFR Gallery presents Fiction Alters Form, featuring artists Joshua Miller, Matt Rich, and Joe Yorty. In selecting Matt Rich and Joe Yorty for the exhibition, Joshua Miller [...]

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Professor Louis Hock Featured at MCASD

Film:The American Tapes
When: Saturday, May 11, 5-10pm
Location: Music of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD), La Jolla, 700 Prospect Street, San Diego
Today filmmaker Louis Hock raises timely and powerful questions: “What happens when Mexican “illegal aliens,” hounded by the immigration authorities and vilified in the media, are suddenly transformed into U.S. Citizens? That is what [...]

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UCR ARTSblock presents THANK YOU FOR COMING: Senior Exhibition 2013

Dates: May 18 – June 1, 2013
Opening Reception: Saturday, May 18, 6-9 p.m., free admission*
Locations: UCR ARTSblock, UC Riverside
3 venues-
California Museum of Photography, Culver Center of the Arts, and Sweeney Art Gallery
RIVERSIDE, Calif. – UCR ARTSblock’s Sweeney Art Gallery & Culver Center of the Arts present Thank You For Coming, the annual senior exhibition [...]

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Announcing the 2013 UCIRA Major Grant Awardees

The UC Institute for Research in the Arts is proud to announce the awardees for the UCIRA Major Grant (Visual Arts Practice and Research and Emerging Fields):
Visual Arts Practice and Research Awards:

Bruce Yonemoto, $10,000.00 for Enka!
Renee Tajima-Pena, $10,000.00 for No Más Bebés Por Vida Interactive
Hermione Spriggs and Curtis Tamm, [...]

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The Underground New Play Festival at UC San Diego

When: May 31 – June 8
Location: Arthur Wagner Theatre, UC San Diego
DIRECTIONS
About the Festival
Celebrate the artistic achievements of our undergraduate playwrights, directors, designers, and actors in a festival dedicated to world-premiere plays and work created entirely by undergrads.
Every year, the Underground New Play Festival selects and mounts a full production for 4 new short plays. [...]

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‘Neil Beloufa’ Exhibition at the Hammer Museum

Dates: May 25, 2013 – August 25, 2013
Location: Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Neil Beloufa’s films focus on the slippery line between fiction and reality. He sets up situations in which both amateurs and professional actors explore enigmatic subjects ranging from extraterrestrials to nationalism, terrorism, and the future. During his Hammer residency in 2012, Beloufa produced [...]

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A. Quincy Jones Exhibition at the Hammer Museum

Dates: May 25, 2013 – September 8, 2013
Location: Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
A. Quincy Jones: Building for Better Living is the first major museum retrospective of the Los Angeles-based architect’s work and pays special attention to the unique collaborative nature of his practice. The exhibition is presented as part of the larger Getty-sponsored initiative Pacific Standard [...]

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Artist Call- Arts Alive Featured Artist

For Northern CA artists
The Clarke Museum is looking for local artists interested in displaying their work at our monthly Arts Alive Events. Artists would have the opportunity to display, promote and sell their work. Arts Alive Events take place from 6pm-9pm on the first Saturday of every month.
Deadline: 12-31-2013
Clarke Historical Museum
Eureka, CA
Contact: Amber Mitchell
email: [...]

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Artist Call- All Those Figures

All Those Figures… — The Santa Cruz Art League announces a call to artists for a national juried art exhibition, August 17 – September 15 in Santa Cruz, CA.
$1,000 in Awards.
Juror: Susan Hillhouse Leask, Curator of Exhibitions and Collections, Museum of Art & History, Santa Cruz, CA.
Deadline: June 14, 2013.
Entry Fee: $45 / $35 [...]

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Artist Call- Call for Exhibition Proposal for Walnut Creek Library Gallery

For Northern CA artists
The City of Walnut Creek, in conjunction with the Walnut Creek Downtown Library, is now accepting proposals for The Library Community Art Gallery’s 2013-2014 exhibition season. This program is administered by the Arts, Recreation, and Community Services Department under the direction of the Walnut Creek Arts Commission.The Library Community Art Gallery was [...]

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Artist Call- Showcase Competition II

Art Labology is now accepting entries for it’s Showcase Competition II. All forms of 2-D art are welcome and the subject is limitless! Gold Prize Winner – $1,500; Silver Prize Winners (3) – $200 each plus permanent feature page and additional promotional benefits for all winners!
For more information please visit www.artlabology.com
Deadline: [...]

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NEA awards $26.3 million, with 122 recipients in California

originally posted by the National Endowment for the Arts
April 23, 2013
Washington, DC — National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Acting Chairman Joan Shigekawa announced today that the NEA plans to award $26.3 million in grants to nonprofit national, regional, state, and local organizations nationwide. These grants support exemplary projects in thirteen artistic disciplines and fields: [...]

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MOCA acquires massive Ryan Trecartin video installation

originally posted by the Los Angeles Times
April 25, 2013
An artist who mines the visual excesses and verbal tics of teenagers in the ADHD age of instant messaging, Ryan Trecartin has had important early shows in L.A., but MOCA’s announcement of new acquisitions Thursday marks the first time his work is entering a museum collection here.
With [...]

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Old Globe’s 2013-14 season to include extra helpings of the Bard

originally posted by the Los Angeles Times
April 26, 2013
The Old Globe’s new artistic director, Barry Edelstein, is a noted Shakespearean, and its 2013-14 season, the first he’s picked, will give extra emphasis to the Bard, beyond the separate summer series that typically offers at least two Shakespeare plays in the outdoor theater that’s part of [...]

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The Paris Photo art fair comes to Los Angeles: Photography’s new aim

originally posted by the Los Angeles Times
April 26, 2013
The photograph is almost famous: a shot by Kevin Winter of actress Jennifer Lawrence that caught her just as she stumbled on her way to receive an Oscar this year.
The small drawings hanging beneath are less familiar: delicate images by P.E. Sharpe of a sparse figure, stripped [...]

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Southwest Museum’s prospects for festive 100th birthday are dim

originally posted by the Los Angeles Times
April 28, 2013
Los Angeles’ oldest museum site, the Natural History Museum in Exposition Park, is celebrating its centennial this year with the debut of a new entrance halland outdoor nature center, capping a full makeover that’s already yielded new halls for dinosaurs and mammals, and the return of the [...]

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UCSB Arts & Lectures presents the Santa Barbara premiere of Warhol’s World in Song: Musical Snapshots from the 1960s

When: Wednesday, May 8, 8:00PM
Location: the Art, Design & Architecture Museum, UC Santa Barbara
Tickets: (805) 893-3535 or www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu
Press Information (MEDIA ONLY): (805) 893-3494 or karna.hughes@sa.ucsb.edu
► Editors/Reporters: Please include the full name of the program, UCSB Arts & Lectures, in all media coverage, including reviews.
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UCSB Arts & Lectures, the Carsey-Wolf Center and the Art, Design & Architecture Museum at UCSB present Gerhard Richter Painting

Gerhard Richter Painting
as part of the series ART | ARCHITECTURE ON FILM
When: Sunday, May 5, 3:00PM
Location: Pollock Theater, UC Santa Barbara
Tickets: (805) 893-3535 or www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu
Press Information (MEDIA ONLY): (805) 893-3494 or karna.hughes@sa.ucsb.edu
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UCSB Arts & Lectures, [...]

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UCSB Arts & Lectures, the Carsey-Wolf Center and the Art, Design & Architecture Museum at UCSB present Infinite Space

Infinite Space
as part of the series: ART | ARCHITECTURE ON FILM series
When: Sunday, May 19, 3:00PM
Location: Pollock Theater, UC Santa Barbara
Tickets: (805) 893-3535 or (805) 893-3535 or www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu
Press Information (MEDIA ONLY): (805) 893-3494 or karna.hughes@sa.ucsb.edu
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UCSB Arts & Lectures presents the Santa Barbara debut of the Handel and Haydn Society

Handel and Haydn Society
When: Wednesday, May 1, 8:00PM
Location: Campbell Hall, UC Santa Barbara
Tickets: (805) 893-3535 or www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu
Press Information (MEDIA ONLY): (805) 893-3494 or karna.hughes@sa.ucsb.edu
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Houseguest: William E. Jones Exhibition at the Hammer Museum

Dates: May 18, 2013 – August 18, 2013
Location: Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Houseguest is a series of exhibitions at the Hammer Museum that invites artists to curate an exhibition based on the Museum’s and UCLA’s diverse collections. For this exhibition, entitled Imitation of Christ, Los Angeles-based artist William E. Jones was inspired by a photograph of [...]

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California Scene Paintings From 1930 To 1960 On View At Pasadena Museum of California Art

originally posted by the Huffington Post
The term California Scene Painting was popularized by iconic Los Angeles art critic Arthur Millier to describe representational artworks of the early to mid 20th century that depicted the gorgeous, everyday terrain of the Golden State. From picturesque lodges to dreamy coastlines, these regionalist works of art captured the scenic [...]

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Artist Call- Summer Art Exhibition

For Southern CA artists
This is a show for current, active, SFVAC Members and Youth Members (ages 18-26). To become a member you must pay the membership fee and attend one monthly meeting before entering for a show. The prospectus is available by emailing mthorin@socal.rr.com.
This will be a juried show with the following awards- [...]

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Artist Call- Call for New, Unproduced Plays

For Southern CA artists
CYGNET THEATRE, IN ASSOCIATION WITH PLAYWRIGHT PROJECT, SEEKS NEW PLAYS FOR PLAYWRIGHTS IN PROCESS, A THREE DAY FESTIVAL FOCUSED ON NEW PLAY DEVELOPMENT
Cygnet Theatre, in association with Playwrights Project, requests original, un-produced plays for 2nd Annual Playwrights in Process Festival (PiP). The Festival is three days of audience-focused [...]

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Call for Writers – Inland Empire

Arts Connection is looking for writers to generate original content for our newsletter, facebook and our new network launching soon. Possible assignments include: interviewing local artists or art organizations, art leaders, editorial about opening receptions at local galleries or museums, reviews on exhibitions, books or films with local ties, etc. Paid and volunteer positions are [...]

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Artist Call- San Bernardino County Artists

We’d like to start a product line promoting the work of artists from San Bernardino County. Your artwork would be put on limited edition merchandise such as t-shirts, tote bags, etc. and sold at art events all over the county and surrounding areas. This is a great opportunity for artists to get exposure plus funds [...]

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UC Irvine Presents Physical Graffiti: May 2-4

Undergraduate Dance students present original choreography.
Loretta Livingston and Molly Lynch, artistic directors.
Dates: May 2-4, 2013
May 2-4
Evenings @ 8:00 PM
Saturday, May 2
Matinee @ 2:00 PM
Where: Claire Trevor Theatre, UC Irvine
Admission: General $15 / Seniors $14 / Children & UCI Students $11
Purchasing tickets through the Arts Box Office (949) 824-2787 or online www.arts.uci.edu/tickets

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MOCA hits $75-million mark, nearing endowment goal

originally posted by the Los Angeles Times
April 18, 2013
Trustees of the Museum of Contemporary Art say they have reached the $75-million mark in their campaign to establish a $100-million endowment, with $50 million raised in the last month alone.
MOCA’s board co-chairs Maria Bell and David Johnson said Wednesday that reaching the three-quarter mark of its [...]

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Huntington building new $60-million education and visitors center

originally posted by the Los Angeles Times
April 18, 2013
A new building complex will rise on the grounds of the Huntington Library in San Marino. The $60-million construction project, which recently kicked off following a ground-breaking, will create a new education and visitors center that is expected to be completed in 2015.
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, [...]

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MOCA gala takes walk on the wild side

originally posted by the Los Angeles Times
April 21, 2013
It seemed only fitting that the MOCA gala celebrating the opening of Urs Fischer’s new chaos-skirting show, organized under the “creative direction” of the crazy-making artist Rob Pruitt, would have a Dada sort of anti-logic.
In other words, it was one weird night, packed with preposterous events and [...]

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‘Warhol’s World in Song’ Exhibition at UC Santa Barbara

When: Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 8:00 PM
Where: Art, Design & Architecture Museum UC Santa Barbara
Tickets: $35 : General Public
$10 : UCSB Students
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Concert Coinciding with Andy Warhol Photo Exhibition
Warhol’s World in Song:
Musical Snapshots from the 1960s
Santa Barbara Premiere
“The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.” [...]

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1927 Theater at UC Santa Barbara

When: Thursday, April 25, 2013, 8:00 PM
Where: Campbell Hall, UC Santa Barbara
Tickets: $38 : General Public
$18 : UCSB Students
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Live Music and Animation
The Animals and Children Took to the Streets
A “jaw-droppingly clever and gloriously subversive parable.” The Guardian (U.K.)
“A mind-blowingly beautiful piece of theatre.” Time Out London
Equal parts Charles Dickens and Tim Burton, the Bayou [...]

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Handel and Haydn Society Performance at UCSB

When: Wednesday, May 1, 2013, 8:00 PM
Where: Campbell Hall, UC Santa Barbara
Tickets: $35 : General Public
$19 : UCSB Students (Current ID required / Limited availability)
$19 : All Students
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Santa Barbara Debut
Vivaldi’s Four Seasons and Works by Corelli and Geminiani
Handel and Haydn Society of Boston
Harry Christophers, Artistic Director
Aisslinn Nosky, Leader and Violin
“Gorgeously rendered, utterly transparent and [...]

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‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ Performance at UCSB

A Streetcar Named Desire
by Tennessee Williams
Dates: May 9-19, 2013
Location: Performing Arts Theater, UC Santa Barbara campus
Cost: $13/Student, Seniors, UCSB Faculty, Staff & Alumni; $17/General Admission
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An ACTING UP FRONT Production – Directed by Irwin Appel
Thursday, May 9 | 8pm
Friday, May 10 | 8pm — Opening Night!
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Wendy Sussman Award: Grace Colletta & Jessica Lifang Wang

The Wendy Sussman Award: Grace Colletta & Jessica Lifang Wang
and The Dirt Show
When: April 17-27, 2013
Where: Worth Ryder Art Gallery, 116 Kroeber Hall, UC Berkeley
Gallery Hours: Tuesday-Saturday 12-5 PM
The Wendy Sussman Award, given in honor of UC Berkeley Associate Professor of Art Practice Wendy Sussman (1950-2001), recognizes two undergraduate Art Practice students for accomplishments in [...]

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UCSC’s DANM 2013 MFA Exhibition “ground(ctrl)”

April 27 – 28 & May 2 – 5, 2013 (10-4)
Reception: Thursday May 2, 8-10pm
Preceding reception: Lecture by Will Wright, renowned computer game designer
Digital Arts Research Center (DARC), UCSC
Digital Arts and New Media (DANM) at UC Santa Cruz presents ground(ctrl), an MFA exhibition of eight graduate students whose artistic research employs advanced technologies for creative [...]

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Call for Writers – Inland Empire

For Southern CA artists
Arts Connection is looking for writers to generate original content for our newsletter, facebook and our new network launching soon. Possible assignments include: interviewing local artists or art organizations, art leaders, editorial about opening receptions at local galleries or museums, reviews on exhibitions, books or films with local ties, etc. Paid and [...]

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Artist Call- Vernal Pool Visions: Art Celebrating Sacramento Valley Vernal Pool Prairies

Open Juried Themed Art Exhibition, Vernal Pool Visions: Art Celebrating Sacramento Valley Vernal Pool Prairies September 21 – October 15, 2013 Benefiting Sacramento Splash, Splash Education Center 4426 Excelsior Road, Mather, CA
FEES & AWARDS
Judge: Patricia Abraham, T.W.S.A. – Painter, teacher, author
Awards: Best of Show $300, additional cash awards to be determined
Fee: $15 per submission, non-refundable
Commission: [...]

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Artist Call- Slice: A Juried Cross-Section of Regional Art

ELIGIBILITY AND MEDIA:
The Pence’s Slice exhibit, now in its 2nd year, is open to all artists residing in California, showcases work in all media that is conceptually thoughtful, technically skilled, and representative of contemporary trends in art. Work may be in any medium, but must be 36” or under for wall work. Work must not [...]

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Artist Call- Lummis Day Call For Art: LIVE

For Los Angeles artists
LUMMIS DAY CALL FOR ART:
This year’s theme is “LIVE: verb, adjective, adverb.”
Open to interpretation, LIVE asks artists to interpret either the verb, adjective or adverb definition of the word.
This curated exhibition is open to artists of all media. First preference will be given to Northeast area artists or artists with a [...]

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Artist Call- Bay Area Currents 2013

For SF Bay Area artists
Bay Area Currents is a juried exhibition based on studio visits by a regional curator.
The exhibition offers a snapshot of the energetic and risk-taking work made in the Bay Area today, selected by a curator who has a clear knowledge of the region, and illustrated by a small number of key [...]

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Fine Arts Museums hire Frick curator

originally posted by the SF Gate
In a move expected to boost San Francisco’s international art reputation, the board of the city’s beleaguered Fine Arts Museums on Wednesday approved the appointment of Colin Bailey, the deputy director and chief curator of the Frick Collection in New York, as its new director.
In addition to his work at [...]

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Three new names on MOCA board

originally posted by the Los Angeles Times
April 10, 2013
Los Angeles’ Museum of Contemporary Art has appointed three new trustees, including Bruce Karatz, the former chief executive of KB Homes who was convicted three years ago on four felony counts of failing to disclose the backdating of stock options.
Also joining the board are prominent investor Stanley [...]

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Motion Picture Academy unveils ambitious plans for film museum

originally posted by the Los Angeles Times
April 12, 2013
Will the Academy’s big bubble pop before it has a chance to be built?
Italian architect Renzo Piano, Los Angeles architect Zoltan Pali and officials from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences unveiled preliminary designs Thursday for a $300-million film museum at Wilshire Boulevard and Fairfax [...]

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Obama’s arts budget plan goes beyond restoring ’sequester’ cuts

originally posted by the Los Angeles Times
Aprils 15, 2013
President Obama’s budget proposal for the coming fiscal year would boost federal arts spending 10% above where it stands at the moment, lifting it to $1.58 billion for the 2013-14 budget year that begins Oct. 1 and more than compensating for cuts from the “budget sequestration” [...]

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MEGAN DAALDER “Project Eureka”: Exhibition at UC Los Angeles

When: Thursday, April 25th, 2013
Where: CNSI Art|Sci Gallery, UC Los Angeles
Project Eureka is a shapeshifting narrative that will unfold over the course of 2013. Through performance, installation, and video the project will follow the first and last designer baby, as she struggles to contribute to the future of humanity in a post-climate change world. [...]

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UCLA Art|Sci Center presents the fourth installment of LASERs “Speaking Your Mind”

When: April 18, 2013, 7-9pm
Where: California Nanosystems Institute Building, UC Los Angeles
Mark Cohen (UCLA Neuroscience)
Stephen Nowlin (Art Center College of Design)
Aaron Thomen (MindMIDI)
Adam Steig (UCLA Nano Pico Characterization Facility)
Gerald Buckberg, MD (Distinguished Professor of Cardiac Surgery)
Paul Weiss (UCLA CNSI)
Anne Andrews (UCLA Neuroscience)
James K. Gimzewski (UCLA Chemistry)
Laurent Bentolila (UCLA Advanced Light Microscopy/Spectroscopy Lab)
Come join us, and [...]

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‘We’d love your company’ at UC San Diego

Fucking with Philosophers: a Kegels for Hegel performance
When: Friday, April 19, 6:30-7:30pm
Where: University Art Gallery, UC San Diego
Straddling philosophical smutcore and tongue in chic, Kegels for Hegel is an open collaboration of academics and artists that works the brain as well as the pelvic floor. During this 1 hour event, K4H will host live singing [...]

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‘Am I Drawing Now?’ Featuring UCSD Professor Jack Greenstein and Graduate Student Matteo Orsini

Professor Jack Greenstein, Visual Arts UCSD in conversation with Visual Arts Graduate Student Matteo Orsini
“Some tales about that ellusive allusive thing called line”
When: Thursday, April 18, 2013, 4:00pm – 5:00pm
Where: Structural and Materials Engineering building (SME) #202, UC San Diego
9500 Gilman Dr., La Jolla, California 92093
A line is one of the most basic plastic elements [...]

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Edge Performance Festival Offers Something for Everyone at UC Davis

University of California, Davis
April 12, 2013
The Edge Performance Festival returns for its third year at UC Davis Department of Theatre and Dance. This year’s line-up features drama, comedy, song and a variety of dance including aerial, hip-hop and tap performances in four events: Main Stage Dance, Hour of 5’s, [...]

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Artist Call- Metro seeks photographic services

Photographic Services (Environmental Portrait Photography)
Metro Creative Services is seeking to contract with a professional photographer with
expertise in environmental portrait photography. The photographer will provide
portraits of artists commissioned by Metro to create public artworks for the Metro
transit system.
Scope of Work
-Photographer shall shoot numerous frames to obtain various exposures, and
perspectives/viewpoints of each artist in [...]

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ARTnews Recognizes Williamson Gallery as Shaping Art/Science Movement

Originally posted by ARTnews Magazine
March 2013
In the March 2013 issue of ARTnews Magazine, arts writer Suzanne Muchnic features the Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery on the Art Center Hillside Campus and its nearly two decade-long series of exhibitions. The cover story, “Under the Microscope,” also features other leading contributors to the burgeoning art/science movement, noting [...]

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‘Ernest Cole: Photographer’ opens at Fowler Museum

Originally posted by the Los Angeles Times
April 7, 2013
The exhibition includes 125 images by the black South African photojournalist, who documented apartheid.
Long before Ernest Cole became one of South Africa’s first black photojournalists, he had dreams of becoming a doctor, a bold aspiration for a young man coming of age during apartheid rule in the [...]

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Santa Monica wins Eliasson sculpture; awaits a much bigger one

Originally posted by the Los Angeles Times
April 8, 2013
Santa Monica will soon be sporting a new piece of civic art by Olafur Eliasson, and while it’s on a considerably less massive scale than the giant temporary waterfalls the Danish-Icelandic artist installed along the East River in New York City as a public art project in [...]

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Broad Stage announces 2013-14 season, jazz initiative, fundraising

Originally posted by the Los Angeles Times
April 8th, 2013
For its 2013-14 season, the Broad Stage in Santa Monica will present appearances by actress Patti LuPone, opera singer Bryn Terfel, violinist Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg and the Los Angeles dance group Bodytraffic. Members of the Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela will also perform in a concert during [...]

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Artist Call- National Art Education Foundation Seeks Applications for 2013 Art Educator Grants

Deadline: October 1, 2013
The National Art Education Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the National Art Education Association, is accepting applications from NAEF members for programs that support classroom-based arts education. Through its 2013 grant cycle, NAEF is offering the following funding opportunities:
Ruth Halvorsen Professional Development Grants: Annual scholarships of up to $2,500 will be awarded [...]

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Artist Call: Filmmaker Challenge

For Central Valley artists
The Resident Filmmaker Challenge is a collaborative effort between the region’s best filmmakers and Modesto‘s non-profit organizations in developing short documentary videos that present unique perspectives into the community’s most pressing concerns.
The two and a half week challenge is an intense filmmaking experience. The Building Imagination Center acts as a facilitator, bringing [...]

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Call for Artists – Comic Art

The Arts & Recreation Center is calling for artist to submit work for an exhibit entitled SGV Comic Art Exhibit. Exhibition artwork should reflect the theme of “Comic Art.” Artwork must contain fan-art and/or original art. All interpretations of this theme are welcomed and encouraged.
To download the application visit: http://www.cac.ca.gov/artistcall/acdetail/id/25609
Here is the information regarding SGV [...]

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Artist Call: Fur, Feathers & Fins

Regional Competition & Exhibition
Fur, Feathers & Fins
Exhibition Dates: June 7 – 27, 2013
Eligibility Open to all artists residing in the Pacific region working in all media except film/video & installation
Submission Deadline: Tuesday, May 7
Juror: Michael Azgour
Awards 1st: $250, 2nd: $125, 3rd: $75, 3 Honorable Mentions
Deadline: 05-07-2013
Pacific Art League of Palo Alto
Palo [...]

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Performance and Crisis Symposium at UC Davis

What: Northern California Performance Platform is a symposium bringing together faculty, graduate students and arts practitioners from around the region to connect, share research and engage in dialogue concerning urgent conceptual and practical issues at play in the field of Performance Studies.
When: Friday, April 12, 2013, 9 a.m. – 7:30 p.m.
Where: Wright Hall, UC Davis
The [...]

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Audacious Speculations: Website is LIVE!

The time is here, the time is now: the AMAZING website for AUDACIOUS SPECULATIONS is LIVE!!
http://audacious.calit2.net
Event details:
When: Friday, April 12, 6-9pm
Opening Reception: Friday, April 12, 3-5pm
Location: CalIT2 Atkinson Auditorium, UC San Diego
Some notable elements:
• Under NEWS, you’ll see the official PRESS RELEASE text… spread the word!!!
• The event will be live webcast + the webcast-video [...]

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OUTSIDE IN: the ARCHITECTURE OF SMITH AND WILLIAMS Exhibition at UC Santa Barbara

The ART, DESIGN & ARCHITECTURE MUSEUM, UC Santa Barbara invites you to the opening of
OUTSIDE IN: the ARCHITECTURE OF SMITH AND WILLIAMS
When: April 13, 2013-June 16, 2013
Opening Reception: Friday, April 12, 5:30 – 7:30 PM
Free event
Location: Art, Design, and Architecture Museum, UC Santa Barbara
There will be a gallery walk-through with curators and special guests.
The exhibition [...]

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Anagrams: A Lecture Series about Contemporary Painting

When: Spring Quarter 2013
Location: Claire Trevor School of the Arts
University of California, Irvine
Lectures will be located in the Colloquium Room on the Third Floor of the Contemporary Arts Center (CAC) Building (Building #721)
Parking available in the Mesa Parking Structure
4004 Mesa Road, Irvine 92617
Schedule of Events:

April 8th: Alex Olson
April 22nd: Lecia Dole-Recio
April 29th: Matt Connors
May 20th: [...]

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Writer R. Zamora Linmark in residence at UCLA co-sponsored by UCIRA

When: April 7-11, 2013, 12-2PM
Location: Royce Hall 306, UC Los Angeles
R. Zamora Linmark is the author of three poetry collections, Prime-Time Apparitions, The Evolution of a Sigh, and Drive-By Vigils, all from Hanging Loose Press. He also published Leche from Coffee House Press and Rolling The R’s out of Kaya Press, which he’d adapted for [...]

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Art For Human Rights Exhibition at UC Berkeley

Dates: April 1-April 14, 2013
Location: BAM Gallery, UC Berkeley
BAM Gallery Entrances
2626 Bancroft Way
2621 Durant Ave
Between College and Telegraph
Gallery Hours
Directions
Parking
As part of our ongoing Art for Human Rights program, we display paintings and works on paper from acclaimed Colombian artist Fernando Botero’s provocative Abu Ghraib series (2004–06).
For more information about this exhibition click here. [...]

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American Shakespeare Riot at UC Berkeley

American Shakespeare Riot
Written & Directed by Eli Wirtschafter
When: April 4-6, 2013
Thursday & Friday at 8pm, Saturday at 2pm & 8pm
Location: Zellerbach Room 7, UC Berkeley
Tickets: $8 General Admission
To purchase tickets online click here.
Performances:
Thursday April 4th at 8:00 pm
Friday April 5th at 8:00 pm
Saturday April 6th at 2:00 pm
Saturday April 6th at 8:00 pm
Seating is [...]

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Berkeley Dance Project 2013: Aperture

When: April 19-28, 2013
Performances:
Friday April 19th at 8:00 pm
Saturday April 20th at 8:00 pm
Sunday April 21st at 2:00 pm
Friday April 26th at 8:00 pm
Saturday April 27th at 8:00 pm
Sunday April 28th at 2:00 pm
Location: Zellerbach Playhouse, UC Berkeley
“How can we imagine our future?” Ansel Adams tried to answer this question when he took thousands [...]

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‘Solo Explorations’ Performance at UC Davis

When: Friday-Saturday, April 5- 6, 8:00PM
Location: Arena Theatre, Wright Hall, UC Davis
Free-of-charge
Solo Explorations 2013 presents new individual pieces by graduating Master of Fine Arts Acting candidates Bobby August Jr., Maria Candelaria, Susan-Jane Harrison and Aaron Jessup in HOT COUNTRY.
Artists against a stark landscape: a varied shifting terrain, the map of political events, transit across the [...]

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‘The Visit’ Performance at UC Irvine

The Visit
Written by Friedrich Durrenmatt
Directed by Jane Page
Dates: April 27-May 5
Performances:
Saturday, April 27 at 8:00 pm
Sunday, April 28 at 8:00 pm
Thursday, May 2, at 8:00 pm
Friday, May 3 at 8:00 pm
Saturday, May 4 at 2:00 pm and 8:00 pm
Sunday, May 5 at 2:00 pm
Location: Little Theatre, UC Irvine
Tickets:
For ticket information, please contact the UCI [...]

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2013 Wagner New Play Festival at UC San Diego

Dates: April 17-27, 2013
Casagemas
by Sharif Abu-Hamdeh
Directed by Kate Jopson
OPENS: Wednesday, 4/17 at 8 PM
Thursday, 4/18 at 8 PM
Friday, 4/19 at 8 PM
Friday, 4/26 at 8 PM
Saturday, 4/27 at 2 PM
Little Children Dream of God
by Jeff Augustin
Directed by Joshua Brody
OPENS: Thursday 4/18 at 8 PM
Saturday, 4/20 at 8 PM
Thursday, 4/25 at 8 PM
Friday, 4/26 at [...]

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Professor Roger Bourland Farewell Concert at UCLA

When: Wednesday, April 17, 2013 at 8:00 pm
Location: Schoenberg Hall, UC Los Angeles
Schoenberg Hall
445 Charles E. Young Drive East
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Tickets: $12, $5 UCLA faculty, staff and students (with ID)
Farewell faculty concert tribute to retiring Professor Roger Bourland
Programming TBA
About:
Celebrating his 60th birthday and upcoming retirement, a program of chamber music and songs by Roger [...]

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Film Screening: Marina Abramovic at UCSB

When: Sunday, April 21, 3:00 PM
Location: POLLOCK THEATER, UC Santa Barbara
Tickets: $10 : General Public
$5 : UCSB Students (Current ID required / Limited availability)
$5 : All Students
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Series Sponsor: Winick Architects
ART | ARCHITECTURE ON FILM
Co-presented with the Carsey-Wolf Center and the Art, Design & Architecture Museum at UCSB
“A riveting, surprisingly emotional portrait of the legendary [...]

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Alvin Ailey Performing in Santa Barbara

Dates: Saturday, April 13, 8:00 PM &
Sunday, April 14, 2:00PM
Location: Arlington Theatre, Santa Barbara
Tickets: $38 – $128 : General Public
$23 : UCSB Students (Current ID required / Limited availability)
Includes facility fee.
($125 ticket includes premium seating)
To purchase tickets:
for the Saturday performance click here
for the Sunday performance click here
Principal Sponsors: Robert Feinberg & Margo Cohen-Feinberg
Two Spectacular [...]

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Barbara Cook Comes to Santa Barbara

When: Wednesday, April 10, 2013, 8:00 PM
Location: Lobero Theatre, Santa Barbara
$28 – $128 : General Public
$20 : UCSB Students (Current ID required / Limited availability)
Includes facility fee
($128 ticket includes a post-show reception with the artist)
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“A national treasure, the premier interpreter of the American musical songbook working today.” -Los Angeles Times
“Essential is precisely the word [...]

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Bobby McFerrin Comes to Santa Barbara

When: Tuesday, April 2, 2013, 8:00 PM
Location: The Granada Theatre, Santa Barbara
Tickets: $38 – $53 : General Public
$20 : UCSB Students (Current ID required / Limited availability)
Includes facility fee
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Event Sponsors: Marilyn & Dick Mazess
Santa Barbara Premiere
“There is something almost superhuman about the range and technique of Bobby McFerrin. He sounds, by turns, like a [...]

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UCSB Spring Dance Concert – Blood, Thought, Muscle & Grace

Dates: 04/12/13 – 04/14/13
Location: Hatlen Theater, UC Santa Barbara
Cost: $13/Student, Seniors, UCSB Faculty, Staff & Alumni; $17/General Admission
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Under the concert direction of Mira Kingsley
Costume direction of Ann Bruice
Lighting direction of Vickie J. Scott

Friday, April 12 | 8pm
Saturday, April 13 | 8pm
Sunday, April 14 | 8:00pm

The UCSB Department of Theater and Dance presents its annual [...]

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Artist Call- True Colors 2

ENTRY DEADLINE: June 1, 2013
True Colors 2 will, no doubt, reprise the visual excitement of the original True Colors show. Once again, color—in all its glory—will be the theme. Bring on your palette: bright, eye-grabbing colors or soft pastels; deep, mysterious shades or natural earth tones; perhaps psychedelic colors. Dazzle us with your expert use [...]

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California Artists Win Top International Art Awards

Originally posted by Digital Arts: California
March 26, 2013
Press Release:
Digital Arts: California is pleased to announce the following Stellar Art Award winners at the international “Simply the Best 2″ juried Exhibit. This honor places the Award winners at the top of an international field of 78 talented digital artists from 27 countries.
Daz Melander (San Francisco) -     “ripture” (Digital Art)
Vincent [...]

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MOCA board says museum will stay independent

Originally posted by the Los Angeles Times
March 26, 2013
The trustees of L.A.’s Museum of Contemporary Art say they have decided not to turn over the keys to their financially ailing institution to others — notably the Los Angeles County Museum of Art — and will instead raise the money needed to keep the downtown museum independent.
The [...]

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MOCA says it’s $60 million along to a $100-million endowment

Originally posted by the Los Angeles Times
March 26, 2013
L.A.’s Museum of Contemporary Art announced Tuesday that it aims to build its endowment to $100 million and has commitments lifting the total above $60 million as the campaign begins.
The endowment stood at $23 million early this year, according to information obtained by The Times.
Jeffrey Soros, president [...]

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UC DAVIS’ NELSON GALLERY ANNOUNCES THE EXHIBITION VIEWS ON MIGRATION: JACOB LAWRENCE AND ELIZABETH CATLETT

When: March 28 to May 19, 2013
Public opening: March 28 from 5:30 to 7:30 pm.
Location:
The Richard L. Nelson Gallery & The Fine Arts Collection
University of California, Davis
One Shields Avenue
Davis, CA 95616
In conjunction with the eleventh campus community book project, the Nelson Gallery will feature an exhibition that extends community dialogue and interaction with the [...]

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Artist Call- Most Influential Person in My Life

For Central Valley artists
Art Expressions of San Joaquin, a cooperative of actively practicing artists in San Joaquin County is seeking student artworks (paintings, drawings, mixed media, or video film shorts) from high school students enrolled in San Joaquin County for its October-November Student Art Show.
Entrants must:

Reside in San Joaquin County, California, USA
Attend high school in San [...]

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PCI won Avon Foundation for Women’s “Global Award for Excellence in Communication”

Originally posted by Avon Foundation for Women
March 7, 2013
PCI Media Impact (Peru, Colombia, Bolivia) – “Strong Women, Strong Voices”
The “Strong Women, Strong Voices” radio program—using radio, a favored medium particularly in rural communities—skillfully weaves together stories using  language accessible to both Spanish-speaking and indigenous women that dramatizes the stories of women overcoming prejudice, abuse and [...]

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Artist Call: Fifth Annual 50-50 Show

Short Description:  Create 50 works of art in 50 days! Sanchez Art Center (SAC) seeks California artists (18 and older) for its fifth annual 50-50 Show which takes place August 23 – September 29, 2013. Accepted artists will create 50 small works (6” x 6”) over the course of 50 days. Each artist chooses a [...]

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Artist Call: About Face – A Portrait Competition

About Face – A Portrait Competition
All mediums are welcome – Subject is the human face
First Prize $500.00 / A Feature Page with link/ email promotion
Entry fee: 25.00 – up to 3 images
Deadline: 04-30-2013
Art Labology-International Art Competitions
Los Angeles, CA
Contact: Sydney Freedman
email: artlabology@gmail.com
Website: http://artlabology.com/enter-now-about-face-competition/

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Artist Call- Alameda County Arts Commission 2013 Artist Registry

For SF Bay Area artists
Alameda County Arts Commission
Artist Registry
Application Deadline: April 30, 2013 (10:59 pm Pacific Time)
The Alameda County Arts Commission invites artists and artist teams from the 9 counties of the San Francisco Bay Area* to apply for potential inclusion in the 2013 Artist Registry, a prequalified artist pool that will be used for upcoming [...]

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Artist Call- Greenstreet LLC & City of Redondo Beach

CITY OF REDONDO BEACH
PUBLIC ART PROGRAM
REQUEST FOR EXISITNG/AVAILABLE PUBLIC ARTWORKS
Submission Deadline: May 1, 2013
City of Redondo Beach – Greenstreet Redondo Commercial Development
The Greenstreet Development, LLC and the City of Redondo Beach Public Art Program seek a single completed and available for purchase public artwork to be located at the new Greenstreet Redondo commercial retail site, [...]

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Artist Call- Arts in the Park

Arts in the Park 2013
August 17th and 18th 10 am-5 pm
Ventura Harbor Village, Ventura, CA
Artists of all original fine art and fine craft disciplines may apply.  Artists must submit one application per category.  All entries will be juried and digital images of artwork required for jurying.
Booth Fees: $100 for 10×10 booth.  Artists must provide own [...]

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Artist Call- Visalia’s Taste the Arts

Taste the Arts returns to downtown Visalia October 17-19, 2013. This festival invites the public to “taste”, “sample” and “dig” into many vibrant forms of art. The main event of the festival is the Art Fair, on Saturday, October 19, 10 am to 6 pm. Artists may apply for 10×10 booth space.
Deadline: 06-28-2013
Arts Consortium
Visalia, CA
Contact: [...]

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UCIRA Artist Elisabeth Nails presents Soap Operas for Social Change

Soap Operas for Social Change
SPECIAL 2-WEEK Workshop led by
Sean Southey, Executive Director/CEO of PCI-Media Impact
Alex Cottin, Communications Manager of PCI-Media Impact

DATES:

APRIL 8-22
Class will meet M,T, W, TH, F 6-9PM
UCLA’s Glorya Kaufman Hall, 120 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095

PUBLIC EVENTS:

Special Lecture by Sean Southey, 5PM ROOM 200, UCLA’s Glorya Kaufman Hall, [...]

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Artist Call: 3rd Round Call for Entry of the LOOP Arts Grant

Deadline: May 1, 2013
Who Is Eligible?
*Bay Area Emerging and Established Artists who have a scheduled exhibitionc.
a. Bay Area as defined by the counties: Alameda, San Francisco, Contra Costa, Marin, Solano, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Napa, and Sonoma. We provide access to the printing facilities, but not live-in quarters. Being driving distance is paramount. (Though we’re walking [...]

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UCR ARTSblock presents A Rare Appearance By Trevor Paglen (Featured in Free Enterprise: The Art of Citizen Space Exploration)

Friday, March 22, 2013, 7:30 PM, Free Admission
RIVERSIDE, CALF.—Since 1963, more than eight hundred spacecraft have been launched into geosynchronous orbit, forming a man-made ring of satellites around the Earth. These satellites are destined to become the longest-lasting artifacts of human civilization, quietly floating through space long after every trace of [...]

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Artist Call- Juried Artists Annual Exhibition

Title of Exhibition: RISK
Artists are invited to explore the theme in all of its rich associative context, and encouraged to be daring in approach.
Jurors: Apsara DiQuinzio, Curator, Berkeley Art Museum and Kimberly Johansson, Director and Owner, Johansson Projects, Oakland
Free to Berkeley Art Center members ($5 processing fee) $35 for 3 images for non-members [...]

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San Diego Artist Call- Contemporary Realism

For San Diego artists
This show features artwork that relies on ordinary reality for its form and content. Choose subjects from daily life that have meaning to modern, twenty-first century, viewers. This will be Realism in various styles and contexts including photo-realism, fantastic realism, figurative representation, landscapes, interiors, cityscapes, still lifes, florals, all visually identifiable —– [...]

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International Museum of Women is virtual

originally posted by SF Gate
March 8, 2013
Fourteen years ago, the International Museum of Women was born out of a mother’s desire to have a place for her daughter to see the contributions women have made to society.
Today, inspired by the Bay Area’s tech-centric community, the San Francisco museum exists solely on the Internet. Just as [...]

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Bradac to retire after 34 years leading OC Shakespeare company

originally posted by the Los Angeles Times
March 7, 2013

Ending a 34-year run that made him one of the longest-tenured artistic directors on the Southern California theater scene, Thomas F. Bradac has announced he’ll retire as leader of Shakespeare Orange County after its coming two-play summer season at the 550-seat Festival Amphitheater in Garden Grove.
The company’s [...]

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Pasadena Symphony names David Lockington as new music director

originally posted by the Los Angeles Times
March 8, 2013
The Pasadena Symphony said Friday that it has named the British-born conductor David Lockington as its new music director. Lockington, the music director of the Grand Rapids Symphony in Michigan, will start his new job next season.
This will be Pasadena Symphony’s first music director since the abrupt [...]

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For LACMA, the chance to snap up MOCA is a deal too good to shelve

originally posted by the Los Angeles Times
March 9, 2013

Everybody loves a bargain. Here’s a big one.
If you were a wealthy major art collector, and for the price of one classic Jackson Pollock drip-painting or Andy Warhol’s 1963 silk-screen “Eight Elvises” you could acquire a few billion dollars worth of art, including scores of incomparable and [...]

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Sequestration And The Arts: How Cuts At The NEA, Smithsonian, And PBS Will Affect All Of Us

originally posted by the Huffington Post
March 5, 2013
The new budget overhaul known as sequestration is carving at every federal entity in America, from the Centers for Disease Control down to the Interior Department’s helium fund.
Naturally, the arts — that favorite target of government cuts even in good times — aren’t safe. These budgets affect even [...]

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An Arts Space of One’s Own: Sharing & Finding Space in CA

originally posted by California Arts Advocates
March 11, 2013

A free resource for artists and arts organizations throughout California!
There are currently 3 comprehensive, state-of-the-art, searchable databases of performing arts venues and facilities for regions in California, including the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles and Sacramento. They are:
Bay Area Performing Arts Spaces: bayareaspaces.org
SpaceFinderLA: spacefinderla.org
Sac Spaces to [...]

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Open Studios and The Nature of Space Featured in the San Diego CityBeat

originally posted by UC San Diego Department of Visual Arts News
March 8, 2013
Explore UCSD’s visual-arts ingenuity
Open studios and conference is a peek at the university’s graduate-school happenings

By Alex Zaragoza
Structural and Materials Engineering (SME) building opened at UCSD last September, there’s been an onslaught of fascinating work being created there, especially in the school’s Department of [...]

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CYPRIEN GAILLARD Exhibition at Hammer Museum

When: April 20, 2013 – July 28, 2013
Location: Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Cyprien Gaillard’s work manifests in a variety of forms from videos and photographs to collages and sculptures. In his work, he reflects upon meanings and memories of monuments and landscapes that have been erased and replaced by the effects of time and social and [...]

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TRISHA BROWN: FLOOR OF THE FOREST Exhibition

When: March 30, 2013 – April 21, 2013
Location: Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Free and open to the public.
First performed in 1970 in New York City’s downtown Soho neighborhood by Trisha Brown and Carmen Beuchat, “Floor of the Forest” consists of a sculptural steel frame holding up a web of ropes that have been threaded with colorful [...]

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Festival of New Musicals Performance at UC Irvine

When: March 15 – 17, 2013
Performances:
Friday, March 15 at 8:00 pm
Saturday, March 16 at 2:00 pm and 8:00 pm
Sunday, March 17 at 2:00 pm and 7:30 pm
Location: Little Theatre, UC Irvine
The Fourth Annual Festival of New Musicals – as part of our alliance with The Academy of New Musicals – is called the Digital Natives [...]

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MFA Exhibition #2 at UC Los Angeles

When: Thursday, April 4 – Friday, April 12
Opening Reception: Thursday, April 4, 5–8PM
Location: New Wight Gallery, Los Angeles
Featuring:
A’alia Marilyn Brown
Brennan Gerard & Ryan Kelly
Devin Kenny
Dylan Mira
The second of four final showcases by MFA (Master of Fine Arts) 2013 candidates in the UCLA Department of Art, MFA #2 features work by A’alia Marilyn Brown (sculpture), Brennan [...]

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Artist Call- 10th Annual Big Bear Lake Artwalk Festival

Apply for 2013:
July 6-7, 2013 Juried Fine Arts and Crafts Show and Sale
Each year in July since 2004, the Pine Knot Village Artwalk showcases exhibits by regional and local artists selling their works in Oils, Acrylics, Mixed Media, Photography, Ceramics, Glass, Wood, Metal and Jewelry.
Meet the Artists and enjoy the day supporting the Arts in [...]

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Public Art Opportunity for California Artists

OC Fair & Event Center has issued a call for artists for consideration to create a Migrant Agricultural Worker Memorial.
The 32nd District Agricultural Association doing business as the OC Fair & Event Center seeks to commission an artist or artist team to create a unique outdoor public artwork for the campus of the OC Fair, [...]

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New Pop-Up Gallery Seeks Submissions

For Southern CA artists
Magic Gallery, a new mobile gallery popping up at festivals, markets, and parks across Los Angeles, is now accepting submissions for its first open call show on the theme of art as magic and artist as mage.
Art, after all, is magic.
Practical magic to be precise: it gives new meaning to everyday life, [...]

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UCIRA Artists Elizabeth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle Present “Goodbye Gauley Mountain: An Ecosexual Love Story” Film Screening and Lecture

GLBTQI +E(cosexual) Appalachian Dinner Party, EcoSex and Art Lcture by UCIRA Artists Elizabeth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle, and Sneak Preview of their new film, Goodbye Gauley Mountain: An Ecosexual Love Story.
When: Saturday March 30, 2013, 6:30PM
Location: Center for Sex & Culture 1349 Mission Street, San Francisco
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UC Davis SOS Troupe Offers Inaugural Free Performance of Shakespeare’s ‘Richard III’

“Richard III” written by William Shakespeare, presented by SOS and directed by Bella Merlin
When: Friday, March 15, 7:30PM, and Saturday, March 16, 2PM and 7:30PM
Where: Wyatt Pavilion Theatre, UC Davis
Tickets: Free-of-charge; School reservations, please contact blsherron@ucdavis.edu.

Press Release:
March 7, 2013
University of California, Davis
The UC Davis Department of Theatre and Dance’s SOS (Shakespeare-On-a-Shoestring) troupe present their [...]

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UCIRA Artist Sara Wookey Presents Disappearing Acts & Resurfacing Subjects

AUTOMATA PRESENTS:
Sara Wookey’s new solo performance/lecture:
Disappearing Acts & Resurfacing Subjects: Concerns of (a) Dance Artist(s)
When: MARCH 15 & 16, 8:00PM and
MARCH 17, 4:00PM
Location: Automata Arts in Chinatown
504 Chung King Court
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Making its Los Angeles debut as part of Automata’s 2013 Artist-In-Residence
series, following presentations at the Ethics in Aesthetics Conference in Tilburg, the
Netherlands, Disappearing [...]

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Artist Call- Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford – New Expansion Project

The Art Review Committee of Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital (LPCH) is seeking applications from qualified artists, to be considered for future commission or purchase of artwork, installing in 2016, at the LPCH New Expansion Projects in Palo Alto, California.
With opportunities for a variety of sculptures of different sizes, and two-dimensional art of various media, this [...]

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Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous

Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous
When: March 7, 2013, 7:00 pm-9:00 pm
Location: Art|Sci Gallery, UC Los Angeles
LASER (Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous) are monthly evening salons showcasing movers and shakers in art and science. LASER is a project of Leonardo®/ISAST, started by Piero Scaruffi in San Francisco and spreading to New York, Washington D.C. and Los [...]

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EXHIBITION opening: BLANKA BUIC “Sci-Eye Apparatus”

When: March 7, 2013, 5:00-7:00pm
Location: Art|Sci Gallery, UC Los Angeles
Sci|Eye Apparatus is an experimentation in images, sound, and space, as we shape them with our tools. The Apparatus takes us through different scales, states, and dimensions. The intention is to help us imagine the invisible with composed aural atmospheres.
Blanka Buic studied music and economics, takes [...]

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UCSB Conference: Reconstituting Female Authority: Women’s Participation in the Transmission and Production of Islamic Knowledge

When: Friday, March 8th- Sunday, March 10th, 9:00am – 5:30pm
Location: Loma Pelona Center, UC Santa Barbara
The graduate students in Islamic and Middle East Studies are pleased to announce the 3rd Annual Graduate Student Islamic Studies Conference at UC Santa Barbara.
This conference, by emphasizing women’s participation in the transmission and production of Islamic knowledge from pre-modern [...]

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UCSB to Host ‘NanoDays’ at Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History

originally posted by UC Santa Barbara Public Affairs and Communications
February 26, 2013
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– The smallest science gets a big reception when UC Santa Barbara presents NanoDays 2013, inviting visitors into the miniscule world of atoms, molecules, and nanoscale forces. Hosted by the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, the science fair is set [...]

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UCSB Conference Will Focus on Muslim Women as Creators of Islamic Knowledge

originally posted by UC Santa Barbara Public Affairs and Communications
February 26, 2013
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– Historically, women have played an important role in cultivating and maintaining Islamic knowledge. Their involvement in religious scholarship –– and in the Islamic disciplines in general –– continued for hundreds of years, although their contributions have declined in the last [...]

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FLASH: A New Choreography, UC Davis

Created by Granada Artist-in-Residence Qudus Onikeku
When: Thursday-Saturday, March 7-9 & 14-16 | 8pm
Sunday, March 10 & 17 | 2pm
Location: Main Theatre, UC Davis
Tickets:
General $17/19 Students
Children & Seniors $12/14
FLASH is a new work by Qudus Onikeku whose Yoruba culture-based choreography fuses movement philosophies of hip hop, capoeira and the Nigerian masquerade tradition, exploring themes of [...]

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MFA Exhibition #1 at UC Los Angeles

When: March 7-15, 2013
Opening Reception: Thursday, March 7, 5:00-8:00pm
Location: New Wight Gallery, Los Angeles
Featuring:
Lucas Blalock
Marten Elder
Michael John Kelly
Katie Sinnott
The first of four final showcases by MFA (Master of Fine Arts) 2013 candidates in the UCLA Department of Art, MFA #1 features work by Lucas Blalock (photography), Marten Elder (photography), Michael John Kelly (painting/drawing), and Katie [...]

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After Troy Performance at UC Irvine

When: March 12 – 17, 2013
Performances:
Tuesday, March 12 at 8:00 pm
Wednesday, March 13 at 8:00 pm
Thursday, March 14 at 8:00 pm
Friday, March 15 at 8:00 pm
Saturday, March 16 at 2:00 pm and 8:00 pm
Sunday, March 17 at 2:00 pm
Location: Claire Trevor Theatre, UC Irvine
Created and directed by Mihai Maniutiu.
Renowned European director and Distinguished [...]

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University and Alumni Choruses and UC Davis Symphony Orchestra

When: Sunday, March 10, 2013 7pm – 9pm
Location: Jackson Hall, Mondavi Center, UC Davis
Tickets
Regular:
$17.00 / $15.00 / $12.00
Student:
$8.00
Child:
$8.00
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University and Alumni Choruses | Jeffrey Thomas, conductor
Sacramento Opera Chorus
UC Davis Symphony Orchestra | Christian Baldini, music director
Wesley Rogers, tenor (Gerontius / Soul of Gerontius)
Kendall Gladen, mezzo-soprano (Angel)
Kevin Deas, bass-baritone (Priest / Angel of Agony)
Elgar: “The Dream [...]

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Coastal Commission funds projects at UCSC Arboretum and Seymour Center

originally posted by UC Santa Cruz Newscenter
February 26, 2013
The California Coastal Commission has awarded grants to fund two coastal restoration and education projects at UC Santa Cruz, one at the Arboretum and another at the Seymour Center at Long Marine Laboratory. The UCSC grants are among 23 awarded statewide in 2013 by the Coastal Commission’s [...]

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UCSC Linguistics professors receive $300,000 NSF grant

originally posted by the UC Santa Cruz Newscenter
February 19, 2013
UCSC humanities professors Sandra Chung and Matthew Wagers have been awarded a $300,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to investigate language comprehension in the Mariana Islands.
The project will focus on the study of Chamorro, an Austronesian language of Micronesia, spoken by 45,000 people in the [...]

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Getty’s Pacific Standard Time sequel to have L.A., Latin America theme

originally posted by the Los Angeles Times
February 26, 2013
After dozens of meetings and a few orphaned ideas, the Getty has settled on a theme for a 2017 sequel to the 2011-12 museum exhibition extravaganza known as Pacific Standard Time. It will be “Los Angeles and Latin America,” or “L.A./L.A.” for short.
“The fact that nearly half [...]

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Playboy Jazz Festival sets June 15-16 lineup

originally posted by the Los Angeles Times
March 1, 2013
The lineup for the 35th annual Playboy Jazz Festival has been announced, and in addition to the weekend-long concert’s signature mix of jazz, funk and R&B, the festival also revealed that comic and former late-night host George Lopez will take over for longtime host Bill Cosby this [...]

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Bringing back a piece of L.A.’s Olympic glory

originally posted by the Los Angeles Times
March 1, 2013
Most of the 10 murals created along freeways to celebrate the 1984 Summer Games were painted over for protection. A restoration project is underway.
The midweek traffic along the 101 Freeway is sluggish this afternoon, but that’s nothing compared to two cars along this route that have [...]

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CALL FOR PROJECTS/PROPOSALS- SOMETHING FROM NOTHING– DUE MARCH 8

SOMETHING FROM NOTHING: AUDACIOUS SPECULATIONS IN ART, SCIENCE & ENTREPRENEURIALISM
Deadline for proposals: 03-8-2013
Is your research so creative or ambitious that people roll their eyes in disbelief? Are you a scientist who thinks like an artist? Are you an entrepreneur who thinks like a wizard? An engineer who thinks like a magician? An artist who thinks [...]

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Spiraling Time: Intermedial Conversations in Latin American Arts

Dates: March 15 – 16, 2013
Location: Museum Theater, UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
2621 Durant Avenue (access via the Sculpture Garden)
Free and open to the public
Pre-Symposium Event
Latin American Legacies: Films of Leandro Katz
Tuesday, March 12, 2013, 7pm
Pacific Film Archive, 2575 Bancroft Way
$5.50-9.50/person, advance tickets available
On March 15 and 16, 2013, the Arts Research [...]

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Arts & Music Festival at CSUSB, Call for Artists

For Southern CA artists
Call for artists:
We are excited to announce the first ever Art and Music Festival at CSUSB Friday May 17, from 4-9pm.
All artists are invited to apply to exhibit their work and be a part of this wonderful community event.
How to apply:
Artists should submit 3-4 images of works in any style or medium [...]

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Artist Call- Visual Fine Arts in all media

For Northern CA artists
The Auburn Arts Commission Seeks Artists for The Second Annual Auburn Arts in the Park Saturday May 18, 2013
WHO: We’re looking for: Visual fine artists in all media.
WHAT: Auburn Arts in the Park, a one-day visual and performing arts festival. The festival will include local artists selling their work, [...]

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Artist Call- Berkeley Civic Art Exhibition

For SF Bay Area artists
The Civic Center Art Exhibition is the City of Berkeley’s opportunity to celebrate the richness of artistic production within its community.
The works of approximately 30 artists will be selected by a jury for exhibition in the Berkeley Martin Luther King Civic Center Building at 2180 Milvia Street. The work will be [...]

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Artist Call- ArtSpan SF Open Studios Guide Cover Competition

For SF Bay Area artists
INTRODUCTION:
ArtSpan is holding an open call for artwork submissions inspired by the streets of San Francisco. The way the light hits our buildings, bridges, and landmarks; the journeys we take, the paths we create, and people we meet on the streets of our beautiful city inspire us daily. The winning artwork [...]

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Artist Call- tideLANDS (2)

tideLANDS is a Port of San Diego program designed to encourage artistic exploration of Port tidelands by California artists. tideLANDS (2) is the second installment of the tideLANDS program. Artists selected will create temporary public artworks such as installations, social and spatial interventions and other inventive practices that reflect their visual art practice and are [...]

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Artist Call- Art in Public Places

For Sacramento artists
Blue Line Arts is proud to announce a new “Art in Public Places” program, created to give the Roseville community more exposure to the visual arts. Blue Line Arts has partnered with the Roseville Civic Center, Paramount Equity Mortgage, the Downtown Library, and Sutter Roseville Medical Center to provide ongoing art exhibitions featuring [...]

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Ultima Vez: What the Body Does Not Remember Performance at UC Los Angeles

When: March 15 and 16, 2013 at 8:00 PM
Location: Royce Hall, UC Los Angeles
Tickets:
$20 – $55 ($15 UCLA Students)
To purchase tickets click here.
The amazing debut of Wim Vandekeybus and Ultima Vez in 1987 stunned the world of dance of the time. In New York Vandekeybus and composers Thierry de Mey and Peter [...]

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Beauty and the Beast Performance at UC Santa Barbara

When: Saturday, March 16, 2013, 2:00 PM
Location: Campbell Hall, UC Santa Barbara
Tickets:
$15 : General Public
$10 : Child
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American Family Theater
“[American Family Theater’s] shows burst with energy, song, and special effects… Their spirit is contagious.” The New York Times
Adventure. Romance. Ancient curses. This award-winning musical has it all! Be transported to a magical time long, long [...]

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Jazz at Lincoln Center Comes to Santa Barbara

When: Sunday, March 10, 2013, 7:00 PM
Location: Granada Theatre, Santa Barbara
Tickets:
$38 – $78 : General Public
$20 : UCSB Students (Current ID required / Limited availability)
$20 : All Students
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Back by Popular Demand:
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis
“A crisp, driving sense of swing.” Los Angeles Times
“Fleet and gracious.” The New York Times
Hailed as the [...]

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UCSB Dance Concert

Dates: March 6-March 7, 2013
Wednesday, March 6 | 8pm
Thursday, March 7 | 8pm
Location: HSSB Ballet Studio, UCSB campus
Cost: $11/Student, Seniors, UCSB Faculty, Staff & Alumni; $14/General Admission
The Ballet Studio is an intimate venue, please get your tickets well in advance as seating is very limited.
For more information click here.

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AUTOMATA PRESENTS: Sara Wookey’s Performance March 15-17

When: March 15 & 16, 8:00PM, and March 17, 4:00PM
Location: Automata Arts
504 Chung King Court
Los Angeles, CA 90012
DISAPPEARING ACTS AND RESURFACING SUBJECTS
By Choreographer Sara Wookey
The performance considers dance as a disappearing act, an erasure as construct, and questions recurring subjects floating in the public sphere- such as the preservation, ownership, and value of dance itself.
Through [...]

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UC Santa Barbara Among Top 10 Campuses Producing Peace Corps Volunteers

NEWS RELEASE
UC Santa Barbara Among Top 10 Campuses Producing Peace Corps Volunteers
February 5, 2013
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– Continuing its rise in the rankings of colleges and universities that send the largest number of volunteers to serve in the Peace Corps, UC Santa Barbara sits among the top 10 campuses in the country. There are [...]

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Russian National Orchestra Performs at UC Davis

When: Sunday, February 17, 2013, 7PM
Location: Jackson Hall Orchestra, Mondavi Center, UC Davis
Tickets:
Regular:
$123 / $68 / $50
Subscriber Add-On:
$67 / $58 / $38
Student:
$61.5 / $34 / $25
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Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor
Daniil Trifonov, piano
Smetana Overture to The Bartered Bride
Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat Minor, Op. 23
Dvorák Symphony No. 6 in D Major, Op. 60
Named one of [...]

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Resplendent Dress from Southeastern Europe: A History in Layers Exhibition at Fowler Museum

Dates: March 10–July 14, 2013
Location: Fowler Museum, Los Angeles
In the past, girls in rural southeastern Europe spent their childhoods weaving, sewing, and embroidering festive dress so that when they reached puberty they could join the Sunday afternoon village dances garbed in resplendent attire. These extremely colorful and intensely worked garments were often adorned with [...]

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‘Resplendent Dress From Southeastern Europe’ opens March 10 at Fowler Museum

Originally posted by the UCLA Newsroom
February 6, 2013

The countries of southeastern Europe maintain some of the most elaborate and diverse traditions of dress in western Eurasia. Beyond their beauty and their importance as markers of identity in a landscape of great cultural diversity, these garments also preserve strong traces of the developmental stages of modern [...]

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‘Virgin and Child With Saint Anne’ sees the light at the Getty

Originally posted by the Los Angeles Times
February 5, 2013

The Leonardo da Vinci workshop painting, which has been mostly in storage at UCLA, is on view with the Getty’s Italian Renaissance paintings.
“The Virgin and Child With Saint Anne,” a highly prized painting by Leonardo da Vinci in the collection of the Louvre, is having a big [...]

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Artist Call – California Sculpture SLAM

“California Sculpture SLAM” Wants Your ART!
Deadline: May 10, 2013
Artist Notification: June 7, 2013
Central Coast Sculptors Group will host the 2nd “California Sculpture SLAM” August 23-September 29, 2013 at the popular San Luis Obispo Museum of Art (SLOMA) in CA’s scenic Central Coast in the core Mission Plaza area, 1010 [...]

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Artists & Photographers wanted for unique group show in DTLA

For Southern CA artists
It goes something like this: over 20 local artists, 4 live bands, 100 pounds of delicious bacon, and 7,500 square feet of raw space.
We are looking for exciting local artists, photographers, musicians, and more to showcase their work in the newest premiere art space in DTLA for Bacon Social – a celebration [...]

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‘Doctored and Devised’ Play at UC San Diego

Doctored and Devised
Directed by Maiya Murphy
Dates: February 27 – March 2
Location: Arthur Wagner Theatre, UC San Diego
DIRECTIONS
Click here to request a seat.
About the Play
This devised theater piece celebrates the ingenious and playful work of San Diego’s own Dr. Seuss by translating some of his most beloved drawings, stories, and characters into a physically–based world [...]

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Compagnie Marie Chouinard Dance Performance comes to Santa Barbara

When: Friday, March 8, 2013, 8:00 PM
Location: The Granada Theatre, Santa Barbara
Tickets:
$38 – $48 : General Public
$20 : UCSB Students
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Santa Barbara Debut
From Montreal
Marie Chouinard, Artistic Director
“Choreographic brilliance performed with blazing energy by an extraordinary cast.” The Toronto Star
“A hurricane of unbridled imaginativeness.” The New York Times
Pioneering Montreal artist Marie Chouinard has [...]

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African Children’s Choir Performing at UC Santa Barbara

When: Friday, March 1, 2013, 8:00 PM
Location: Campbell Hall, UC Santa Barbara
Tickets:
$35 : General Public
$17 : UCSB Students (Current ID required / Limited availability)
$17 : All Students
BUY TICKETS HERE.
“It’s difficult to tell who is having more fun – the choir or the audience.” The Scotsman (U.K.)
“Radiating joy, enthusiasm, and optimism, the African Children’s [...]

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American Buffalo Performance at Geffen Playhouse

Dates: April 2 – May 12, 2013
Location: Geffen Playhouse, Gil Cates Theater, Los Angeles
One of Pulitzer Prize winner David Mamet’s defining works, American Buffalo was instantly hailed as a new American classic when it opened on Broadway in 1975. Now, Geffen Playhouse Artistic Director Randall Arney takes a fresh look at these misguided misfits who [...]

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Appoggiatura Play at UC Santa Barbara

Dates: February 28, 2013 – March 9, 2013
Location: Hatlen Theater, UC Santa Barbara campus
Cost: $13/Student, Seniors, UCSB Faculty, Staff & Alumni; $17/General Admission
A LAUNCH PAD Preview Production of a New Play
APPOGGIATURA by James Still
Directed by Risa Brainin
Thursday, February 28 | 8pm
Friday, March 1 | 8pm
Saturday, March 2 | 8pm
Sunday, March 3 | 2pm
Thursday, March 7 [...]

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UCSB Freshman & Sophomore Dance Company in Concert

Dates: February 28, 2013- March 1, 2013
Location: HSSB Ballet Studio, UC Santa Barbara campus
Thursday, February 28 | 8pm
Friday, March 1 | 8pm
Cost: $11/Student, Seniors, UCSB Faculty, Staff & Alumni; $14/General Admission
To purchase tickets click here.
The Ballet Studio is an intimate venue, please get your tickets well in advance as seating is very limited.
For more [...]

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Exhibit Opening: Fiat Lux, Fiat Lunch, Fiat Futures at UC Berkeley

When: Wednesday, February 13, 4-8 p.m.
Location: Worth Ryder Art Gallery/116 Kroeber Hall, UC Berkeley
“Fiat Lux, Fiat Lunch, Fiat Futures” presents a student-driven vision for the future of the university. The exhibit was developed over the fall of 2012 and curated by Art Practice/New Genres 142: Fiat Lunch. This undergraduate course was supported by On [...]

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Call for Artists & Writers: Post-Human Nature

Submission Deadline: February 24/2013
Nations now possess computer-augmented militaries, where soldiers are accompanied or replaced by remote technicians and combat systems make more autonomous decisions about tactics and strategy. Drone warfare forces soldiers and civilians to confront the shifting boundaries between physicality, robotics and ethics. What might future warriors look like? How will propaganda or [...]

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Life in the Age of Drones symposium 2/28, 2-5:30pm – UCSB

When: Thursday, February 28, 2013, 2-5:00pm
Location: McCune Conference room, 6020 HSSB, UC Santa Barbara
Casey Cooper Johnson (filmmaker, “UNMANNED: A Filmmaker’s Journey”)
Arthur Kroker (Canada Research Chair in Technology, Culture and Theory, Professor of Political Science, and Director of the Pacific Centre for Technology and Culture at the University of Victoria in British Columbia)
Nancy Mancias (CODEPINK, Coordinator [...]

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Call for Proposals at UCSD University Art Gallery

We’d love your company to open at UCSD University Art Gallery
SAN DIEGO, California (February 6, 2013) – On exhibition from February 21 through May 10, 2013, We’d love your company is a new project with New York-based artist Ethan Breckenridge, organized in collaboration with the University Art Gallery (UAG) at the University of California, San [...]

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UCR ARTSblock Film Series, Thursday-Saturday, March 21-23, 7 p.m., $9.99 general admission and $5 for students with I.D.

This mini series of space films is shown in conjunction with the ARTSblock exhibition Free Enterprise: The Art of Citizen Space Exploration.
Thursday, March 21, Moon UK 2009
“In an age when our space and distance boundaries are being pushed way beyond the human comfort zone, how do we deal with the challenges of space in real [...]

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NEA Interagency Task Force Hosts Public Webinar About Research on the Arts and Aging

For immediate release
February 5, 2013
You are invited to a live, public webinar.
When: Wednesday, February 20, 2013, 2:00 – 3:00 pm, EST
As the U.S. population ages, it faces more age-related diseases. How can the arts serve to treat, prevent, or improve these conditions? Representatives from the National Institutes of Health , the U.S. Department of Health [...]

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Apichatpong Weerasethakul / MATRIX 247 Exhibition at UC Berkeley

Dates: February 15, 2013 – April 21, 2013
Location: BAM Gallery, UC Berkeley
Download the exhibition brochure (PDF).
As three ghostly voices share their stories, Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s 2007 video installation Morakot (Emerald) lingers on dust, light, and memory in the empty rooms and hallways of a defunct Bangkok hotel. The Morakot Hotel was a haven for Cambodian refugees [...]

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Anna Halprin / MATRIX 246 Exhibition at UC Berkeley

Dates: February 15, 2013 – April 21, 2013
Location: BAM Gallery, UC Berkeley
Download the exhibition brochure (PDF).
“There was no chance in Parades and Changes,” recalls composer Morton Subotnick. “Everything was done by choice, but there was a freedom in choice.”
First performed in 1965, Anna Halprin’s Parades and Changes pioneered the use of everyday movements and [...]

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Special Performance Event: Anna Halprin at BAM/PFA

Dates: February 15-17, 2013, 7:30pm
Location: UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
2626 Bancroft Way, Berkeley
Tickets: $7 general admission; free for UC Berkeley staff, students, and faculty
Programmed by Dena Beard
World-renowned postmodern dance pioneer Anna Halprin returns to UC Berkeley to present a weekend of dance, including the final performance of her revolutionary 1965 work “Parades [...]

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UndocuNation Workshop at UC Berkeley

When: February 15, 2013, 9am-5pm
Location: Symposium, campus Multi Cultural Center, UC Berkeley
The Center for Race and Gender (CRG), CultureStr/ke and the Department of Theater, Dance and Performance Studies (TDPS) is thrilled to announce this upcoming year’s UndocuNation at UC Berkeley. We will be bringing together artists, community members, students, faculty and staff from California [...]

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‘Tonight We Improvise’ Play at UC San Diego

Directed by Gabor Tompa
Dates: February 20 – March 2
Location: Mandell Weiss Theatre, UC San Diego
DIRECTIONS
Performances
Wed, Feb 20, 7:00 pm PREVIEW
Fri, Feb 22, 8:00 pm OPENING
Sat, Feb 23, 2:00 pm MATINEE
Sat, Feb 23, 8:00 pm
Thu, Feb 28, 8:00 pm
Fri, Mar 01 8:00 pm
Sat, Mar 02 8:00 pm CLOSING
Buy Tickets Online Here.
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About the Play
The scandalous La Croce family is the talk of [...]

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Titus Andronicus Performance at UC San Diego

Directed by Joshua Brody
Dates: February 6 – 16
Location: Mandell Weiss Forum Theatre, UC San Diego
DIRECTIONS
Buy tickets online here.
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Performances
Wed, Feb 6, 7:00 pm PREVIEW
Fri, Feb 8, 8:00 pm OPENING
Sat, Feb 9, 2:00 pm MATINEE
Sat, Feb 9, 8:00 pm
Thu, Feb 14, 8:00 pm
Fri, Feb 15, 8:00 pm
Sat, Feb 16, 8:00 pm CLOSING
About the Play
Famed general Titus returns home from war mourning the [...]

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MFA Thesis Choreographies by Master of Fine Arts candidates Jarrell Iu-Hui Chua and Christine Germain: two new works explore the realms of human touch and identity

MFA Thesis Choreographies: Two New Works Explore Realms of Touch and Identity at UC Davis
What: MFA Thesis Choreographies by Master of Fine Arts candidates Jarrell Iu-Hui Chua and Christine Germain: two new works explore the realms of human touch and identity.
When: Thursday-Saturday, Feb. 21-23 and Feb. 28-March 2, 8 p.m.; Sunday, Feb. 24 and March [...]

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Banff Mountain Film Festival Featured in Santa Barbara

Dates: Wednesday, February 27 and Thursday, February 28, 7:30 PM
Location: Arlington Theatre, Santa Barbara
Tickets:
$15 : General Public
$12 : UCSB Students (Current ID required / Limited availability)
$12 : Youth
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A Santa Barbara institution, the Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour is a perennial A&L fan favorite. Featuring the world’s best films and videos on mountain subjects, [...]

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Afro-Cuban All Stars Performing at UC Santa Barbara

Back by Popular Demand!
When: Tuesday, February 26, 8:00 PM
Location: Campbell Hall, UC Santa Barbara
Tickets:
$45 : General Public
$18 : UCSB Students
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“The Afro-Cuban All Stars: sweet as sugar, strong as rum.” NY City Life Examiner
“The audience was dancing in the aisles!” The New York Times
Created and directed by Juan de Marcos González, visionary founder of the [...]

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Randall Museum set to get makeover

Originally posted by the SF Gate
February 3, 2013
After more than 60 years of giving children a free, interactive education on nature and science, the Randall Museum is getting a $6 million face-lift.
The state grant that would pay for the construction costs to double the area of the exhibit and programming space in the aging Corona [...]

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‘4000 Miles’ leads audience on a complex journey through life

Originally posted by the Los Angeles Times
January 29, 2013

SAN FRANCISCO — Amy Herzog, a breath of fresh air on the playwriting scene, shapes her plays out of the missing pieces of conversations, the resonant silences that suggest that emotion is both too heavy and too slippery for words.
In “4000 Miles,” which is receiving a superb [...]

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Los Angeles Youth Orchestra is set for New York’s Carnegie Hall

Originally posted by the Los Angeles Times
February 5, 2013

The Los Angeles Youth Orchestra has played all over the city, UCLA’s Schoenberg Hall and the Skirball Cultural Center included. But it hasn’t ventured outside of L.A.
Now the orchestra will finally hit the road — and it’s headed straight to Carnegie Hall.
“Why settle?” says Artistic Director Russell [...]

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Trisha Brown Dance Company coming to L.A. for retrospective

Dates: March 30 – April 21, 2013
Locations: Getty Museum and the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Tickets:
Range from $10 to $55.
Press Release:
Modern-dance choreographer Trisha Brown, who announced her retirement from creating new work last month, will bring her renowned company to Los Angeles for a series of performances at multiple venues, including the Getty Museum and the [...]

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New York’s Rattlestick Playwrights Theater coming to L.A.

Originally posted by the Los Angeles Times
February 5, 2013
New York’s Rattlestick Playwrights Theater is looking to go bi-coastal and will make its Los Angeles debut in April with a production of “Slipping,” starring Seth Numrich, at the Elephant Stages’ Lillian Theatre in Hollywood.
The Rattlestick is a downtown New York company that produces works by emerging [...]

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Countless Tongues and Ears Justin Marsh Exhibition

When: February 2 – February 24, 2013
Artist Preview Reception:
Thursday, February 7, 6-8pm
Second Saturday Reception:
Saturday, February 9, 6-9pm
Location: Axis Gallery
1517 19th Street, Sacramento, CA 95811
Something is owed to public opinion. As spectators, we transpose our values and beliefs upon the symbols of our time. The celebrity embodies our ideals and it is through them that we [...]

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Artist Call – 8th National Juried Exhibition: Axis Gallery

Axis Gallery, Sacramento
8th National Juried Exhibition
August 3-25, 2013
Call for Entries
Entry Deadline May 30, 2013
Juror: Glen Helfand
Glen Helfand is an independent writer, critic, curator, and educator. His writing appears regularly in “ArtForum” and artforum.com, and he’s contributed to the “San Francisco Bay Guardian,” Artinfo.com and many other periodicals and exhibition catalogs. He was the associate editor [...]

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Artist Call – 2003/2004 Exhibition Screening

Portfolio Selection for Solo or Group Exhibitions.
Sculpture, Painting, Mixed Media, Photography, Drawing, Print making, Ceramics, Digital Art
Send by mail only
-20 digital images
-Artist Statement and Bio/resume
to
Merced College Art Gallery
3600 M Street, Merced, CA 95340
Deadline: 04-12-2013
Merced College Art Gallery
Merced, CA
Contact: Susanne French, Art Gallery Coordinator
email: french.s@mccd.edu
Phone: 209.384.6064
Website: www.mccd.edu

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Artist Call – Innovations in Contemporary Crafts

Innovations in Contemporary Crafts is a juried exhibition of California artists. The show explores innovations in the traditional craft mediums of ceramics, wood, glass, metal, fiber, enamel, paper and jewelry. We survey artists who are forward thinking in their approach to materials and application. The show will be featured in the Richmond Art Center’s spacious [...]

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UCIRA Artist Stephanie LeMenager Presents the First Phase of: I [HEART] Water: How’s Your Water Relationship?

“I [Heart] Water” written by Stephanie LeMenager
The First Phase Scavenger Hunt will take place March 1st
Description:
One of the questions that the artists Sara Daleiden and Therese Kelly recognize as fundamental to their work is “How do you activate a site?” What they mean by this is, essentially, how do you make a given place, an [...]

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Discover the Natural Reserve System: A Conference Celebrating the UCSB NRS

When: Friday, February 8, 2013
Location: Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, University of California Santa Barbara
Free onsite registration; come for the day or drop in at any time
HEAR invited speakers talk about the cutting edge research they are doing at Reserves
SEE poster presentations and talk with the presenters about research and outreach
MEET Reserve directors [...]

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Arkestry of the Cosmos: The Universe Language of Sun Ra

When: February 9-April 27, 2013
Opening Reception & Concert: February 9, 3-6pm
Location: The William Grant Still Arts Center
Art, archives, and interviews on Sun Ra, members of The “Ark” and their quest to expand minds, music, and souls through musical experimentation for over a half-century.
The exhibition features a collection of local, national, international, and intergalactic archives, [...]

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RISD STEAM Congressional Briefing in Washington, D.C.

Rhode Island School of Design, in cooperation with Representatives Suzanne Bonamici and Aaron Schock, Co-Chairs of the Congressional STEAM Caucus presents:
STEM to STEAM
When: February 14, 2013 at 2:00 pm
Location: House Science and Technology Committee Room 2325
Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, D.C.
A briefing on changing the vocabulary of education to include both art and science—and their intersections—to [...]

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Visiting Artist, Favianna Rodriguez, Comes to UC Santa Barbara

FAVIANNA RODRIGUEZ
Dates: January 29, 2013 – January 31, 2013
Location: UC Santa Barbara
This week, Favianna Rodriguez will be visiting UC Santa Barbara. Her visit will include an artist talk, in conjunction with the exhibit, “Favianna Rodriguez: Art of the Activist Imagination,” currently on view in the first floor gallery of Davidson Library, followed by a reception [...]

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Call for Curators: Venice Arts Gallery’s Fresh Perspectives Visiting Curator Exhibition

For Los Angeles artists
Venice Arts Gallery is currently accepting proposals from established and emerging curators and artists for its Fresh Perspectives Visiting Curator Exhibition, scheduled to take place in November–December 2013. The goals of the program are to engage and highlight new perspectives on photography, film, multimedia and/or digital arts and to offer established and [...]

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Artist Call- Day on the Green at the Village

Day on the Green at the Village on April 13th in Santa Rosa. This is a popular annual event that was attended by over 500 guests last year. Our guest Juror will award a $500 gift certificate to the “Best of Show” and five $100 gift certificates for first place awards. The Festival will be [...]

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LATIFA ECHAKHCH Exhibition

Dates: February 23, 2013 – July 18, 2013
Location: Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
For her Hammer Project, Latifa Echakhch will reprise her 2007 work À chaque stencil une revolution (For each stencil a revolution) for the Hammer’s lobby wall. After attaching hundreds of sheets of carbon paper to the wall, Echakhch will treat the surface with a [...]

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LLYN FOULKES Exhibition at the Hammer Museum

Dates: February 3, 2013 – May 19, 2013
Location: Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
The Hammer Museum presents an extensive career retrospective devoted to the work of the groundbreaking painter and musician Llyn Foulkes (b. 1934 in Yakima, Washington), on view from February 3 to May 19, 2013. One of the most influential yet under recognized artists of [...]

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Joshua Bell, violinist, Performs in Santa Barbara

Back by Popular Demand
Sam Haywood, piano
When: Wednesday, February 20, 2013, 8:00 PM
Location: The Granada Theatre, Santa Barbara
Tickets:
$38 – $68 : General Public
$20 : UCSB Students
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“Powerfully gifted… a dazzling soloist.” Santa Barbara News-Press
“Joshua Bell is the greatest American violinist active today.” Boston Herald
After his triumphant first tour as the new Music Director of Academy of [...]

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Knights with Wu Man, pipa at UC Santa Barbara

When: Saturday, February 23, 2013, 8:00 PM
Location: Campbell Hall, UC Santa Barbara
Tickets:
$38 : General Public
$10 : UCSB Students (Current ID required / Limited availability)
$10 : All Students
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“A chamber music experience in orchestral form.” – Yo-Yo Ma
Renowned pipa virtuoso Wu Man returns with progressive New York classical ensemble The Knights for a stirring evening of [...]

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Leonidas Kavakos, violin comes to Santa Barbara

Santa Barbara Solo Recital Debut
with Enrico Pace, piano
When: Friday, February 15, 2013, 7:00 PM
Location: Hahn Hall, UC Santa Barbara
Tickets:
$32 : General Public
$10 : UCSB Students
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“A magician of the violin, who infuses even the slightest breath of a tone with expression.” Der Tagesspiegel (Germany)
“Stunning… he might be the most deeply satisfying violinist performing today.” Philadelphia [...]

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Pasadena Playhouse: Mike Stoller and wife gave crucial $1 million

Originally posted by the Los Angeles Times
January 23, 2013
If the Pasadena Playhouse had decided to adopt a theme song when a dire economy and long-standing debts forced it to cease operations for most of 2010 while it tried to claw its way back to solvency, “Stand by Me,” the 1961 pop-soul classic sung by Ben [...]

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San Francisco turns up the sound on jazz

Originally posted by the Los Angeles Times
January 26, 2013
SAN FRANCISCO — Franklin Street skirts the edge of a trendy neighborhood known as Hayes Valley, where Herman Leonard’s oversize photographs of Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington and Art Blakey look down from the windows of an old brick building onto jazz’s newest temple.
After 10 years of planning [...]

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L.A. Art Show is taking a broad view of art

Originally posted by the Los Angeles Times
January 26, 2013
Invited to provide a table-setter for the L.A. Art Show, a sprawling and mind-bogglingly diverse annual marketplace and smorgasbord for the eyes, Marilyn Lowey delivered an installation that’s cheekily site-specific. Titled “Translating Transitions #4,” it’s possibly the biggest — but most obscure — price tag ever seen.
It [...]

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Printed Matter’s LA ART BOOK FAIR This Weekend

Dates: February 1-3, 2013
Opening: Thursday, January 31, 2013, 6–9 pm
Location: The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles
Printed Matter presents the first annual LA Art Book Fair, from February 1-3, at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA. An opening will be held on the evening of Thursday, January 31.
Free and open to the public, the LA Art [...]

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LA Art Book Fair coming to MOCA Geffen Contemporary this weekend

Originally posted by the Los Angeles Times
January 28, 2013
Los Angeles has no shortage of activity for art buffs in recent days with two fairs recently in town, the L.A. Art Show and Art Los Angeles Contemporary, both of which ended their runs Sunday.
This week, a third fair will open, but one will have a bookish [...]

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To save money, Sacramento Opera and Philharmonic will merge

originally posted by the Los Angeles Times
January 28, 2013
In a sign of the times for small and mid-size classical music organizations, the Sacramento Opera and Sacramento Philharmonic Orchestra will merge their operations this year in order to cope with a challenging financial environment.
The merger, which was reported in the Sacramento Bee, will create a new [...]

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Orange County museum names 32 triennial artists from Seoul to San Francisco

Originally posted by the Los Angeles Times
January 28, 2013
Who’s afraid of the big, broad biennial? Not Dan Cameron, who organized ambitious exhibition events like Prospect New Orleans before becoming chief curator at the Orange County Museum of Art last year.
Now, his first big group show in his new job is shaping up to be a [...]

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HDTS 2013 – Proposals Due January 31

The clock’s ticking to submit project proposals for HDTS 2013! This year’s event will be like past big events, but we’re changing things up a bit–HDTS 2013 will take place over a full week, and will include sites between Joshua Tree and Albuquerque. We’re also holding an open call for proposals for the [...]

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Visiting Artist Favianna Rodriguez Artist talk and exhibtion at UCSB, January 30th!

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Theater of War at UC Santa Barbara

Date: Wednesday, January 30 / 7:00 PM
Location: Marjorie Luke Theatre, Santa Barbara Junior High School
Date: Thursday, January 31 / 4:00 PM
Location: Hatlen Theater, UCSB
Admission is FREE.
Theater of War is an innovative project that presents professional actors reading scenes from ancient Greek drama about soldiers returning from war. Following the reading, a panel of veterans and [...]

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Prized 18th century screens join LACMA’s Japanese art collection

Originally posted by the Los Angeles Times
January 17, 2013
Seventeen years have passed since Robert T. Singer, curator of Japanese art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, spotted an extraordinary pair of 18th century screens in an exhibition at the Kyoto University Museum of Art.
Smitten with Maruyama Okyo’s exquisitely detailed depiction of 17 life-size [...]

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MOCA announces 2012 acquisitions and 2013 gala date

Originally posted by the Los Angeles Times
January 18, 2013
Last year will go down in MOCA history as a tumultuous year of board resignations and criticism of the museum’s leadership, but it will not be known as the year in which gifts to the museum dried up.
The Museum of Contemporary Art reports that it has acquired [...]

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Getty Museum review targets its antiquities collection

Originally posted by the Los Angeles Times
January 18, 2013
In the wake of a scandal over its acquisition of looted antiquities, the J. Paul Getty Museum is trying to verify the ownership histories of 45,000 antiquities and publish the results in the museum’s online collections database.
The study, part of the museum’s efforts to be more transparent [...]

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Back To Back Theatre: Ganesh Versus the Third Reich at UC Los Angeles

Back To Back Theatre: Ganesh Versus the Third Reich

Dates: January 24-27, 2013
Location: 
Freud Playhouse, UC Los Angeles
Tickets: $40 – $60 ($20 UCLA Students)
One of Australia’s leading and respected contemporary theater companies, Back to Back Theatre, creates new forms of modern theater imagined from the minds and experiences of a professional ensemble of actors with disabilities, [...]

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Australia’s Back to Back pushes theatrical boundaries

Originally posted by the Los Angeles Times
January 20, 2013
At first blush, “Ganesh Versus the Third Reich” sounds like a long-lost Monty Python skit about some bizarre time-tripping action-figure wrestling bout.
Indeed, as the title hints, a cosmic smackdown between the pachyderm Hindu god and the German Führer takes center stage in the production from Australia’s Back [...]

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Tour De Cluck Silent Auction and Art Exhibit: Growing, Crowing and Cycling Things Call To Artists

Tour de Cluck: A Bicycle Chicken Coop Crawl, returning on May 25, 2013, will feature an egg-citing and unique art event: Growing, Crowing and Cycling Things: A Silent Auction and Art Exhibit benefiting the Davis Art Center.
We are soliciting art work or other items related to poultry, pedals and petals to auction at the [...]

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Artist Call- 83rd Annual Statewide Landscape Exhibit, “Incredible Places”

Exhibit: June 1 – 30, 2013
Contemporary Landscape Painters of California
The first Santa Cruz Art League Statewide Exhibition was held in 1928. This year, as a celebration of the 83rd Annual Statewide Exhibition, this competition and exhibition will revisit the high standards for acceptance, which made this annual Landscape Show one of California’s premier art events.
Juror
Michael [...]

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Artist Call- Lifeguard Headquarters Art in Public Places

For Southern CA artists
The City of Laguna Beach is constructing a new Lifeguard Headquarters at Main Beach Park. The Arts Commission is seeking artists to create a sculpture ($60,000) and mural ($40,000).
Deadline: 03-04-2013
City of Laguna Beach
Laguna Beach, CA
Contact: Sian Poeschl
email: spoeschl@lagunabeachcity.net
Website: http://www.lagunabeachcity.net/civica/filebank/blobdload.asp?BlobID=8671

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Artist Call- Fresh Works 2013

For California artists
Fresh Works is an annual show at the Firehouse Art Center’s Harrington Gallery. It is open to any artist over 18 who resides or works in the greater Bay Area, and looks to showcase emerging as well as established artists. Each year we pick a distinguished person in the arts to be our [...]

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Artist Call- 2013 Left Coast Annual Juried Exhibition

2013 Left Coast Annual Juried Exhibition * April 12 – May 19, 2013, Gala Reception on Friday, April 12 from 7:00 – 9:00 p.m.
Deadlines: Online: 11:00 PST, Hand-Delivered: 5:00 p.m., Mailed: postmarked by February 12
Juror: Lucinda Barnes, Chief Curator and Director of Programs and Collections, University of California, Berkeley Art Museum & [...]

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Lisa Ling Comes to UC Santa Barbara

When: February 5, 2013, 8:00 PM
Location: Campbell Hall, UC Santa Barbara
Tickets:
$25 : General Public
$15 : UCSB Students
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Santa Barbara Debut
Acclaimed Journalist, TV Host and Author
An Evening with Lisa Ling
“Our America with Lisa Ling is thought-provoking televison at its best.” Examiner
In today’s sound-bite news culture, important issues often get overlooked. A former correspondent for CNN, co-host [...]

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Simon Shaheen Quintet at UC Santa Barbara

When: Wednesday, February 6, 2013, 8:00 PM
Location: Campbell Hall, UC Santa Barbara
Tickets:
$38 : General Public
$19 : UCSB Students
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Featuring Masterworks of the Middle East
Arab Traditional and Contemporary Music
“Full of dignified passion… His playing was throaty and sensual.” The New York Times
“A gorgeous tapestry.” Los Angeles Times
Simon Shaheen dazzles his listeners as he deftly leaps from [...]

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Absolutely! (perhaps) Dance Performance at UC Santa Barbara

by Luigi Pirandello, adapted by Martin Sherman
Dates: February 15, 2013 – February 23, 2013
Location: Performing Arts Theater, UC Santa Barbara
Cost: $13/Student, Seniors, UCSB Faculty, Staff & Alumni; $17/General Admission
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Directed by Simon Williams
Friday, February 15 | 8pm — Opening Night!
Saturday, February 16 | 2pm
Saturday, February 16 | 8pm
Sunday, February 17 | 2pm
Tuesday, February 19 | [...]

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The Science Visualization Workshop

Building Collaboration in Art and Science,
Giving Scientists New Tools to Communicate

Scientists and artists have been partners in communicating new truths about our world for over five centuries. Today, given the new complexities of science and the growing need to increase science literacy, that partnership is more important than ever. At the same time, new technology [...]

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Jeepers Creepers!: Christopher Ulivo opens February 1st at the Atkinson Gallery

Dates: February 1-22, 2013
Opening Reception: Friday, Feb. 1, 5:00-7:00pm
Artist Lecture: Wednesday, Feb. 13, 4:30pm
Location: Atkinson Gallery, Santa Barbara City College
From February 1-22, 2013, the Atkinson Gallery at Santa Barbara City College will present Jeepers Creepers: Christopher Ulivo. Christopher Ulivo joined the SBCC Art Department in September 2012 as Assistant Professor of Painting. With this exhibition, [...]

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Artist Call- 2nd Round of the LOOP Arts Grant

Deadline: March 1, 2013
Who Is Eligible?
*Bay Area Emerging and Established Artists who have a scheduled exhibitionc.
a. Bay Area as defined by the counties: Alameda, San Francisco, Contra Costa, Marin, Solano, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Napa, and Sonoma. We provide access to the printing facilities, but not live-in quarters. Being driving distance is paramount. (Though we’re walking [...]

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UC San Diego Faculty Featured in ARTFORUM’s Top Ten List

Originally posted by ARTFORUM
Arthur and Marilouise Kroker

Arthur and Marilouise Kroker are writers and lecturers in the areas of technology and culture and together edit the influential electronic journal CTheory. Arthur’s most recent book, Body Drift: Butler, Hayles, Haraway, was published last year by the University of Minnesota Press.
1 – TETHERED TO MOBILITY
In the regime of [...]

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MFA Candidate Daniel Rehn co-launches a non-profit center for video game art, design, and research

originally posted by Forbes
These two men want video games to evolve. Their LA Game Space will be a nonprofit center for videogame art, design, and research. While we wait for Modern Warfare 4 and FIFA 14, perhaps this is the real future of gaming?
Humans are sense making machines, we like to understand how things work, [...]

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Russell Lecture: Tania Bruguera

When: February 27, 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD), La Jolla
The department teams up with MCASD to bring internationally acclaimed artist, Tania Bruguera, to San Diego. Bruguera is a Cuban artists whose performances, events, installations and social interventions blur the line between life and art.
The 2013 Russell Lecturer is internationally acclaimed artist [...]

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Capturing the Wonder of Women Exhibition

Dates: Running until February 24, 2013
Location: 2730 Historic Decatur Rd, Barracks 16, San Diego
Visual Arts faculty member, Li Huai, curates the first juried exhibition at the Women’s Museum of California. Capturing the Wonder of Women features 48 pieces including works from UCSD graduate students.
“The relocation of the Women’s Museum of California to the lovely environs [...]

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CORPUS at UC San Diego

Dates: February 21 – May 9, 2013
Opening Reception on Thursday, February 21st, 5:30-8:30 pm
SME Visual Arts Gallery
Location: Structural and Materials Engineering Building (SME), UC San Diego
SME Visual Arts Gallery, Gilman Dr., La Jolla, California 92093
Curator’s Tour on Thursday, February 28th, 12-1 pm
Conversation with Eleanor Antin and Emily Goodman ( Theory, & Criticism): TBD
Beer Talk: April, [...]

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Dutch Golden Age Exhibition Tour to the de Young

When: Saturday, March 2, 2013, 7:00 am – 5:00 pm
Location: Meet at Parking Lot 10
(Corner of 1st & A)
de Young Museum
Golden Gate Park
50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive
San Francisco, CA 94118
Cost: $50 Members
$75 Non-Members
$25 Students (limit 5 students)
Come join us as we visit the de Young to see their two exhibitions on the Dutch Golden Age. [...]

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Temporal Shifts: Time Across Contemporary Chinese and Taiwanese Art Practices

Friday, February 1, 2013, 9:30am-5:30pm
Museum Theater, UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
2621 Durant Avenue (access via the Sculpture Garden)
Free and open to the public
The Arts Research Center at UC Berkeley has organized Temporal Shifts as part of the yearlong Time Zones event series, in conjunction with a residency at the Arts Research Center [...]

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Call to Artists: Artwork that engages the many issues raised by breast cancer

Deadline: Friday, February 1, 2013
Ask not how your artwork could adorn the conference rooms and halls of a breast cancer research symposium. Ask how it could participate in the symposium—and in the discourse of medical research and embodied experience—by its presence. This call is for artwork that engages the many issues raised by breast cancer. [...]

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Tales from the Front Lines: Reporting from Iraq and Afghanistan Dexter Filkins at UC Santa Barbara

Dexter Filkins (The New Yorker, author of The Forever War)
When: Wednesday, January 16, 8:00 PM
Location: Campbell Hall, UC Santa Barbara
FREE EVENT
Dexter Filkins is one of the most respected combat journalists of his generation. His 2008 book, The Forever War, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Best Nonfiction Book and was named a best [...]

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Cirque Ziva at UC Santa Barbara

When: SAT, JAN 26, 3:00 PM
Location: CAMPBELL HALL, UC Santa Barbara
TICKETS:
$15 : General Public
$10 : Child
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Featuring the Golden Dragon Acrobats
“There is a precision and beauty about everything these performers do.” The Washington Post
Cirque Zíva is the new awe-inspiring cirque extravaganza from the internationally renowned touring troupe, the Golden Dragon Acrobats. From coast to coast, [...]

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Hubbard Street Dance Chicago Comes to Santa Barbara

When: WED, JAN 23, 8:00 PM
Location: THE GRANADA THEATRE, Santa Barbara
TICKETS:
$38 – $48 : General Public
$20 : UCSB Students
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Back by Popular Demand
Glenn Edgerton, Artistic Director
“The 17 Hubbard Street dancers brought the house down.” Santa Barbara News-Press
“A national treasure.” San Francisco Chronicle
As a repertory company of unparalleled versatility and exquisitely powerful dancers, Hubbard Street Dance [...]

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Joffrey Ballet Comes to UC Berkeley

Dates: January 26, 8 p.m.
January 27, 3 p.m.
Location: Zellerbach Hall, UC Berkeley
The Joffrey Ballet will perform three works demonstrating its artistic breadth: Marin County native Edwaard Liang’s sumptuous Age of Innocence (2008), a Joffrey commission set to music by Philip Glass and Thomas Newman; Christopher Wheeldon’s inventive After the Rain (2005) to music by Arvo [...]

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Dance Visions at UC Irvine

Dates: February 20 – 24, 2013
Wed – Sat, Feb. 20 – 23 8:00 pm
Sat – Sun, Fe. 23 – 24 2:00 pm
Location: Claire Trevor Theatre, UC Irvine
Admission: General $20 / Seniors $18 / Children & UCI Students $11
The Dance Department celebrates the 100th Anniversary of the iconic musical score and artistic collaboration The Rite of [...]

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Creating Places of Vitality grant application OPEN

The Creating Places of Vitality (formerly Creating Public Value) Program is now accepting applications. Organizations based in and serving rural or underserved communities are eligible. Some criteria and requirements have changed this year – organizations must apply with a primary partner from another sector, and the program requires a place-based project that includes a public [...]

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Graphic design speaks in ‘Voices & Visions’ at Skirball

Originally posted by the Los Angeles Times
January 12, 2013

Inspiration can come from anywhere. Even a cardboard box company.
In 1950, the Container Corp. of America launched an advertising campaign called “Great Ideas of Western Man.” The series, which ran for three decades, paired quotes from leaders in philosophy, science and politics with artwork from modern artists.
A [...]

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Pacific Standard Time’s architecture focus moves forward

originally posted by the Los Angeles Times
January 14, 2013
Last time around the focus was Southern California’s art history; now homegrown architecture is getting its time in the sun. Getty Trust leaders are announcing Monday the final roster of exhibition and event partners in its Pacific Standard Time spinoff, Pacific Standard Time Presents: Modern Architecture in [...]

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Artist Call- Joshua Tree Highlands Artist Residency

Joshua Tree Highlands Artist Residency Program located in Joshua Tree, CA. This is a 6 week summer program for artists interested in exploring new work or specific projects each artist is presently working on for 2013. Prospectus & application are available online at www.jthar.com.
Deadline: 04-30-2013
JTHAR
Joshua Tree, CA
Contact: Frederick Fulmer
email: jthighlandsco@me.com
Phone: 760.366.3636
Website: http://www.jthar.com

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Artist Call- Art in the Pines 2013

The fourth annual Art in the Pines to be held at Torrey Pines State Natural Reserve, San Diego, benefits children’s nature programs at The Reserve.
When: Date of event — May 4 and 5, 2013
Artists who are California residents are invited to apply.
Application to be juried into this event — due February 15, 2013
Where: Torrey Pines [...]

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Artist Call- Napa ARTwalk Public Sculpture Tour

Launched in 2010, the Napa ARTwalk is a rotating, temporary, outdoor sculpture exhibition showcasing a variety of three-dimensional artwork throughout Downtown Napa. Featuring a new theme each exhibition, the ARTwalk supports the creation of original, high-quality and collaborative sculpture from regional artists. The tour also acts as an educational vehicle for understanding and appreciating the [...]

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Artist Call- Rising Arts Leaders Logo Contest

Rising Arts Leaders (RAL) San Diego is getting a makeover, and we need your help! We are looking for talented, creative designers to submit ideas for a new RAL logo. The winning designer will receive a cash prize in the amount of $250 and be featured on our website.
The contest is open to all. Please [...]

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The Ruins: A Night of Theatrical Readings at UC Santa Barbara

When: THURSDAY, January 17th, 6:00-7:30pm; reception to follow
Location: the Art, Design & Architecture Museum, UC Santa Barbara
FREE EVENT
This event highlights literary contributions from the last twelve years that have explored the idea of ruin. It features poems, short stories, and excerpts from novels by such noted authors as: T.C. Boyle, Cormac McCarthy, [...]

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Chinese Contemporary Dance Festival at UC Berkeley Co-sponsored by UCIRA

Dates: Jan 25-Feb 1, 2013
Location: UC Berkeley
Contemporary dance in China is flourishing. At UC Berkeley, we present a series of events to engage with the discourses and practices of Chinese contemporary dance, rethinking how bodies in motion cross and redefine multiple spaces and times. On Friday, Jan 25, Chinese visiting scholar Qing Qing will give [...]

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Impact of Fiscal Cliff Tax Legislation Enacted into Law

originally posted by the Americans for the Arts Action Fund
January 2, 2013
The following are some quick highlights of the Fiscal Cliff Tax Legislation that was enacted into law last night. The legislation only addresses major tax issues, while raising the debt ceiling limits and preventing the automatic sequestration spending cuts from beginning will be [...]

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Jerry Brown: California’s deficit is gone

originally posted by the SF Gate
January 10, 2013
Gov. Jerry Brown took office two years ago promising that he had the know-how and the fiscal prudence to guide the state out of its financial crisis, and on Thursday he delivered a budget without a deficit.
It’s the first time since 2007 that leaders at the Capitol haven’t [...]

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Undergraduate Juried Exhibition at UC Los Angeles

Juror: Aram Moshayedi, Associate Curator, REDCAT
Dates: February 13-28, 2013
Gallery Discussion with the Juror: Wednesday, February 13, 5-6pm
Opening Reception: Wednesday, February 13, 6-8pm
Location:
New Wight Gallery, UC Los Angeles
An exhibition of work by UCLA Art undergraduate students selected by Aram Moshayedi. Artwork in various disciplines including painting, drawing, photography, ceramics, new genres, and sculpture.
Please join us [...]

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Los Angeles LASER (Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous)

When: Thursday, January 17th, 7–9pm
Location: UCLA CNSI Presentation Space
FREE + open to the public
The UCLA Art|Sci Center is launching Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous — monthly evening salons showcasing movers and shakers in art and science. LASER is a project of Leonardo® /ISAST, and meetings were started by Piero Scaruffi in San Francisco; now there [...]

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VIVA VOCE Sound and Video Installation

VIVA VOCE Sound and Video Installation on view
Dates: January 22 – 24
Location: Human Resources, Chinatown, LA
Will be joined by a
BIG CITY FORUM conversation Wednesday, January 23, 7.30pm
based on the installation and discussion theme “VOICE AND BODY SEEN THROUGH DIGITAL MEDIA”
Panelists
Micol Hebron, performance/installation artist, faculty Chapman University Ming-Yueng S Ma, Associate Professor in Media [...]

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WE LOST A DEAR FRIEND AND COLLABORATOR – GOODBYE BEATRIZ, GOODBYE DEAR SHANI

BEATRIZ DA COSTA (1974-2012)
We have learned with great sadness that our colleague, friend and collaborator Beatriz da Costa passed away on Thursday December 27, after a life long and courageous battle against cancer.
Beatriz was a co-founder of Preemptive Media, a former collaborator of Critical Art Ensemble, Associate Professor of Art at the University of California, [...]

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UC Artist Publishing Opportunities

UC Artists are encouraged to submit work and/or arts writing for consideration in the following two journals:
-BOOM: A Journal of California. A new, cross-disciplinary publication that explores the history, culture, arts, politics, and society of California, Boom will publish quarterly, with its debut issue in March 2011. Published by University of California Press, this magazine-format, [...]

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Free Enterprise: The Art of Citizen Space Exploration Opening Jan 19th

Opening Exhibition: Saturday, January 19th, with a panel discussion from 3-5 PM, which is followed by the reception from 6-9 PM. Both are free admission events.
Co-curated by Tyler Stallings, artistic director of the Culver Center and director of Sweeney Art Gallery, and by Marko Peljhan, UCIRA Co-Director and associate professor [...]

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Silence Exhibition

Dates: January 30, 2013 – April 28, 2013

Location: Berkeley Art Museum, UC Berkeley
What is silence? Can we possibly hear silence, see nothingness, experience anything outside the continuum of time? John Cage famously asserted that there is no such thing as silence or empty space or empty time: “There is always something to see, something to [...]

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ECSTASY AND THE PERSIAN SPIRIT

When: January 22 2013, 07:30pm
Location: Hammer Museum, UC Los Angeles
Join us for a special evening of poetry and music. Poets Majid Naficy, Bernard Radfar, and Niloufar Talebi will read from contemporary and classical poems in both Persian and in the ancient language of Aramaic, with English translations. The readings will be accompanied by traditional Persian [...]

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DARA FRIEDMAN Exhibition

Dates: January 19, 2013 – April 14, 2013
Location: Hammer Museum, UC Los Angeles
Dara Friedman explores notions of performativity, urban space, and the individual in the public sphere in her ebullient, poetic films and videos. For Dancer (2011), she enlisted Miami-based dancers of all stripes to dance through the city streets for the camera. Shot on [...]

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SELECTIONS FROM THE GRUNWALD CENTER AND THE HAMMER CONTEMPORARY COLLECTION

Dates: January 19, 2013 – April 28, 2013
Location: Hammer Museum, UC Los Angeles
In 2005 the Hammer launched an exciting initiative to build a collection of contemporary art through both purchases and gifts. Acknowledging the breadth of mediums engaged by contemporary artists, this growing collection comprises works in drawing, film, painting, photography, sculpture, and video made [...]

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ENRICO DAVID Exhibition at Hammer Museum

Dates: January 12, 2013 – May 5, 2013

Location: Hammer Museum, UC Los Angeles
Transient figures and intangible forms dwell in the work of Enrico David. They retain a graphic quality as they transition from spontaneous sketches on paper to paintings, sculptures, and other media. This installation takes its cue from a singular figure modeled in bronze [...]

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Campus Troupe To Dance First Program After Two-Year Hiatus

University of California, Santa Barbara
January 7, 2013
This month, the Santa Barbara Dance Theatre — UCSB’s resident professional dance company — will present its first public performances since celebrated faculty member Christopher Pilafian took over as the SBDT’s artistic director last year.
The SBDT was founded in 1978 and operated under the direction of Jerry Pearson for [...]

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Grand Park holds grand potential for Music Center

Originally posted by the Los Angeles Times
December 29, 2012
“There’s no there there” is how Gertrude Stein famously summed up and put down Oakland, her old hometown. For the Music Center, which manages much of the prime cultural real estate in downtown Los Angeles, the problem has long been the opposite: There’s too much “there” there.
To [...]

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Beau Willimon’s ‘The Parisian Woman’ to premiere in Orange County

Originally posted by the Los Angeles Times
January 4, 2013

Since George Clooney turned his play “Farragut North” into the Oscar-nominated movie “The Ides of March,” writer Beau Willimon has become a highly sought after talent by theater companies across the country.
His new stage drama, “The Parisian Woman,” was supposed to have its world premiere at [...]

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SFJAZZ plays another bold riff

Originally posted by the Los Angeles Times
January 5, 2013
SAN FRANCISCO — “This is one of my favorite rooms,” said SFJAZZ founder and Executive Artistic Director Randall Kline, smiling as he stepped over exposed pipes and dusty planks in the SFJAZZ Center. “Then again, they’re all my favorite rooms,” he added.
You’ll forgive Kline for sounding a [...]

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Artists take Metro commuters on another kind of journey

Originally posted by the Los Angeles Times
January 6, 2013
Though Los Angeles may never shed its image as a car-obsessed city, the past 20 years have seen significant progress and growth in its public transit system, making it a viable option for more Angelenos. Along with added convenience, the opening of each new segment brings opportunity [...]

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Artist Call- Exhibition at Napa County Library

For Northern CA artists
The Napa County Library invites artists to apply to a juried competition with award winner’s work displayed in the Napa Main Library.
All two-dimensional work including photography, paintings, drawings, digital, mixed media, fabric art, chalk, ink, pastels, wax, graphite and printmaking can be entered for consideration.
A cd of digital images is required [...]

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Artist Call- 7th Annual Juried Printmaking Show

The Merced County Arts Council is now accepting entries to its 7th Annual California Centered: Printmaking Exhibition.
INTENTION
To bring together a selection of the best in recent California printmaking.
ELIGIBILITY
Open to all printmakers currently residing in California. Work can be in any printmaking media (except photography). Work should be at least 98% printmaking in nature and [...]

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Artist Call- The HeART of North Beach

For Western States artists
An Art Exhibition to Benefit North Beach Citizens.
North Beach Citizens’ Creative Events Committee is pleased to announce The HeArt of North Beach, an art exhibition taking place from Thursday, February 14, 2013 through Saturday, February 16, 2013, at Live Worms Gallery, located at 1345 Grant Avenue in North Beach. The exhibition benefits [...]

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Artist Call- Photographic Love Letters to the SF Food Scene

For SF Bay Area artists
SUBMISSION FORM
To submit, e-mail the information below to the curators at femmecartelLOVESyou@gmail.com
ARTIST NAME:
EMAIL:
PHONE/TEXT:
PHOTO WEB SITE (Please direct us to your photos that fit the theme):
LOCATION of PHOTOS (Should be San Francisco—please note the neighborhood(s)):
HOW DID YOU HEAR ABOUT THIS CALL FOR ART?
THEME
Love letters to the SF food scene.
A photography group show.
Artists [...]

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Joe Marks, Regents’ Lecturer

Joe Marks, Regents’ Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science and the Media Arts and Technology Program
FREE talk on The Value of Research in Media and Entertainment
When: Tuesday, January 29
Location: Corwin Pavilion, UC Santa Barbara
Joe Marks has spent his career at the world’s leading industrial research labs as both a researcher and a manager. Earlier [...]

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Design + Build, Call for Submissions!

Design + Build
An open call exhibition at the Nelson Gallery
Deadline: February 1, 2013
When: February 8 – March 17, 2013
Opening Reception: February 8, 5:30-7:30pm
The Nelson Gallery invites you to participate in Design + Build an opportunity for students, faculty and the public to exhibit your original design for our museum.
This winter UC Davis is hosting an [...]

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ARTIST CALL: DIGITAL ARTISTS AND PHOTOGRAPHERS: JURIED EXHIBITION – “Simply the Best 2”

Deadline: February 7,2013
DIGITAL ARTS: CALIFORNIA invites digital artists and photographers worldwide to submit works for “Simply the Best 2” a juried digital-arts exhibit that will celebrate every form of digital art, including digital painting/illustration, photo manipulation, 3D still digital art, light painting, fractals, vector art, HDR photography, 3D computer-generated imagery,and digital college.
This exhibit will [...]

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FILM SCREENING: 9 at the AD&A Museum, THURSDAY January 10th at 6pm

FREE FILM SCREENING
9 (2009; 79 min.)
When: Thursday, January 10th, 6pm
Location: Art, Design & Architecture Museum, UCSB
9 is a computer-animated science fiction adventure film. In the final days of humanity, a dedicated scientist gives the spark of life to nine of his creations. The world has turned into an unrecognizable landscape of machines [...]

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Annie Griffiths

National Geographic Live!
A Camera, Two Kids, and a Camel
When: Sunday, January 20, 3:00 PM
Location: Campbell Hall, UC Santa Barbara
Tickets:
$20 – General Public
$15 – UCSB Students (Current ID required / Limited availability)
$15 – Youth
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“I have learned that even without a shared language, it’s easy to let people know that their children are beautiful, their [...]

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Shatner’s World

Shatner’s World: We Just Live in It
Santa Barbara Premiere
When: Friday, January 18, 8:00 PM
Location: Arlington Theatre, Santa Barbara
Tickets:
$38 – $128 – General Public
$28 – UCSB Students
BUY TICKETS
($128 ticket includes a post-show reception with the artist)
“Resistance is futile.” The Hollywood Reporter
“Shatner is never less than charming… Shatner’s World is undeniably fun.” Entertainment Weekly
Boldly go where no [...]

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Cheryl Strayed

Inspired Oprah’s Book Club 2.0
A Wild Life: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
When: Monday, January 14, 8:00 PM
Location: Campbell Hall, UC Santa Barbara
Tickets:
$20 – General Public
$10 – UCSB Students
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“A wild ride of a story… This book is about being brave when you didn’t think you could be.” – Oprah Winfrey
“Spectacular. Wild [...]

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Jared Diamond Comes to UCSB

The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?
When: Saturday, January 12, 3:00 PM
Location: Campbell Hall, UC Santa Barbara
Tickets:
$15 – General Public
$10 – UCSB Students
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“Extraordinary in erudition and originality.” The New York Times Book Review
“Diamond’s most influential gift may be his ability to write… in ways that don’t just educate [...]

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LA ART BOOK FAIR

When: February 1-3, 2013
Friday, February 1, 11-5 pm
Saturday, February 2, 11 am–6 pm
Sunday, February 3, 12 am–6 pm
Opening: Thursday, January 31, 2013, 6–9 pm
Location: The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA
152 North Central Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90012
(213) 626-6222
moca.org
The LA Art Book Fair is free and open to the public.
Printed Matter presents the first annual LA Art Book [...]

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Annie Sprinkle & Elizabeth Stephens Present “The Collaboration”

JANCAR GALLERY is pleased to announce an important survey of the work of ANNIE SPRINKLE & ELIZABETH STEPHENS – “The Collaboration”
This will be a full on retrospective exhibit at the Jancar Gallery in the heart of L.A.’s Chinatown.
When: January 12 – February 16, 2013
Opening reception for the artist: Saturday, Jan. 12, from 6 – [...]

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Dual, Opening Reception at UC San Diego

Dual
a parallel drawing show between two and three-dimensions
Opening reception: Friday, January 18th from 5-7pm
Location: Experimental Drawing and Sculpture Studios at SME, #201 and #202.
Working side by side, this co-exhibition presents a spectrum of drawing possibilities undertaken by a diverse group of artists whose work evolves from two-dimensional practices, investigations of sculpture and space and much [...]

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UCIRA Artist Sara Wookey Updates

WOOKEY WORKS STUDIO Winter Newsletter 2013

Happy New Year !!
2012 was an exciting year for Wookey Works Studio
I am delighted to share with you some highlights…
RESIDENCIES
reDANCE, a curated platform of performances, workshops and public conversations on dance, memory and legacy, was in residency at ArtEZ, Arnhem the Netherlands,Lawrence University and University of Wisconsin, Madison. Participating artists [...]

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UC Davis Ph.D. Candidate Keith Hennessy Awarded United States Artists Fellowship

University of California, Davis
December 13, 2012
Keith Hennessy, internationally known performance artist and UC Davis doctoral candidate in Performance Studies, was recently awarded a prestigious 2012 United States Artists Fellowship for his contribution in the field of dance. Each year, United States Artists honors 50 of America’s finest artists across eight disciplines with individual fellowship awards [...]

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Artist Call – ArtPad SF

ArtPad SF is the leading international boutique art fair, focusing on promoting emerging artists, and on establishing San Francisco as a prominent center of contemporary art. This is a vibrant, cutting-edge exhibition. Collectors last year included Neil Young, the founders of Twitter, and other hip, moneyed tech/design types. The fair counts Virgin America and Black [...]

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La Art Show 2013: Group Show Opportunity

New Emerging Artists announces a call to artists for an art show in Los Angeles, California, January 24-27, 2013.
5 Artists will Show Physical Art @ La Art Show 2013, Marketing + PR Package, 70% Commission on all sold work. All artists must be 18+. Mediums Accepted: Painting, Drawing, Installation, Sculpture, Film, Photography, Mixed Media. [...]

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Call to Artists- 2013 JURIED OPEN SHOW

Deadline Extended! Dec 18th
About The TCG Juried Open Show
The Topanga Canyon Gallery Juried Open Exhibition began in 1999. Originally created and organized by member artist Rebecca Andrews, it has since become a signature event at the Gallery.
Its mission is to reach out to fellow artists and give them the opportunity to network and become a [...]

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Artist Call- Coastal Art & Poetry Contest

The California Coastal Commission invites California students in kindergarten through 12th grade to submit artwork or poetry with a California coastal or marine theme to the annual Coastal Art & Poetry Contest.
Up to ten winners will be selected to win $100 gift certificates to an art supply or book store, and each winner’s sponsoring teacher [...]

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Artist Call – 28th Annual Made in California Juried Exhibition

The City of Brea Art Gallery is accepting submissions for the 28th Annual Made in California, juried by Meg Linton, Director of Galleries and Exhibitions at Otis College of Art and Design. All artists residing in California are eligible to enter. The entry deadline is Sunday, January 27, 2013, at 4:00pm.
All entries must be original [...]

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Artist Call – Connector

For San Diego artists
Connector is a new Port of San Diego public art project designed to encourage artistic investigation of Port tidelands in the development of a temporary large-scale artwork that will travel to locations on tidelands in San Diego, National City, Coronado, Chula Vista and Imperial Beach. The selected artist or artist team will [...]

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Artist Call – A LOT Initiative Request for Qualifications (RFQ)

For Southern CA artists
The Arts Council for Long Beach is issuing this Request for Qualifications (RFQ) seeking performers, artists, artist groups and organizations able to engage City of Long Beach residents through participation in the A LOT Initiative, a program of the Arts Council for Long Beach supported in part by the National Endowment for [...]

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Artist Call – On The Edge 3, Erotic Photography Exhibition

“ON THE EDGE 3” Erotic Photography Exhibition will feature the ultimate in erotic photography from the fine art nude to the extreme erotica. Group show of 25 photographers presenting over 400 erotic photographs just in time for Valentine’s Day. The exhibition will also feature fashion shows and more. Visit the website, www.eroticartevents.com, for info and [...]

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UCIRA Artist Kelsey Brannan launches Labor of Love Project

UCIRA Artist Kelsey Brannan launches her documentary thesis and web-based archive project about lesbian space in D.C., Labor of Love, and its fundraising campaign with Start Some Good.
In order for her fundraising campaign to continue she needs more pledges (of any amount) from donors. Anyone can pledge an amount with this link: http://tinyurl.com/donatelaboroflove.
The film’s [...]

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FREE FILM SCREENING AND Q & A WITH THE DIRECTOR at UC Santa Barbara

THE ISLAND PRESIDENT (2011)
When: December 4, 7-9:00pm, followed by a reception
Location: Pollock Theater UCSB
FREE but reservations required, please log onto
http://carseywolf.ucsb.edu/emi/events/film-screening-island-president to reserve your spot.
Jon Shenk’s “The Island President” tells the story of President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives, a man confronting a problem greater than any other world leader has ever faced the literal survival [...]

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Fall Open Studios at UC Santa Cruz

When: Friday, December 07, 2012, 12:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Location: Baskin Visual Arts – West part of UC Santa Cruz campus
Featuring a variety of student artwork, including drawing, painting, print media, photography, sculpture, inter-media, and electronic arts. Open Studios runs in conjunction with the Digital Arts and New Media (DANM) Open Studios.
Invited Audience: Open [...]

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Design Media Arts Undergraduate Exhibition: UV / UG at UC Los Angeles

When: Thursday, January 17 – Thursday, January 31
Opening Reception: Thursday, January 17, 5–8pm
Location: Undergraduate Exhibition, EDA, Room 1250, UC Los Angeles
On the spectrum of electromagnetic radiation, ultraviolet light lies just beyond the realm of visible perception. This high-intensity energy is only detectable by the physical reactions it initiates. A source of ultraviolet light is a [...]

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Undergraduate Scholarship Award Exhibition at UC Los Angeles

An exhibition by undergraduate recipients of 2012-13 UCLA Department of Art and School of the Arts and Architecture scholarship awards.
When: November 29–December 13, 2012
Opening Reception: Thursday, November 29, 2012, 5–8pm
Location:
New Wight Gallery
1100 Broad Art Center
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Gallery Hours:
Monday–Friday, 9:00am–4:30pm
Featuring artwork by:
Elizabeth Ahn
Patricio Morales
Isa Beniston
Stacey Myhren
Natalie Carroll
Natareewan Pukasemvarangkoon
Phil Davis
Lainey Racah
Philippe de Sablet
Priscilla Rodriguez
Steven Guevara
Dara [...]

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Mark Morris Dance Group: The Hard Nut at UC Berkeley

When: December 14, 7:30 p.m.
Location: Zellerbach Hall, UC Berkeley
Music by Tchaikovsky (The Nutcracker)
Choreography by Mark Morris
Members of the Berkeley Symphony
Piedmont East Bay Children’s Choir
Robert Geary, artistic director
Mark Morris Dance Group’s “seriously entertaining” (San Francisco Chronicle) take on The Nutcracker, The Hard Nut, returns to Berkeley. Featuring Mark Morris’s imaginative and beautiful choreography, Adrienne Lobel’s comic-book [...]

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Himalayan Pilgrimage: Sacred Space Exhibition at UC Berkeley

When: December 5, 2012 – May 26, 2013
Location: BAM Gallery, UC Berkeley
The third and final rotation of Himalayan Pilgrimage explores the theme of Sacred Space with a pair of magnificent large mandala paintings, two-dimensional representations of a three-dimensional architectural space where a specific deity resides. Dating to the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries, these paintings represent, [...]

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Latino Theater Company’s NEA grant sets stage for theater festival

originally posted by the Los Angeles Times
November 28, 2012
Ten new plays produced by Latino theater companies from around the United States will have their world premieres in downtown Los Angeles in 2014, in the inaugural installment of a National Latino Theater Festival and Conference that’s envisioned as a biennial event.
The festival, still in its planning [...]

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Cyrus Cylinder coming to Getty Villa in 2013 as part of U.S. tour

originally posted by the Los Angeles Times
November 28, 2012
The Cyrus Cylinder — the famous ancient Babylonian artifact that is one of the British Museum’s most prized possessions — will come to the Getty Villa in 2013 as part of a U.S. tour to five museums. The object is expected to go on display at the [...]

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SFMOMA receives gifts of Diane Arbus images, Japanese photographs

originally posted by the Los Angeles Times
November 28, 2012
Gallery owner Jeffrey Fraenkel is making his hometown even more of a destination for photography, donating 26 works by Diane Arbus to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
The 26 photos come from a series Arbus made between 1969 and 1971 that document mentally ill patients at [...]

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Leaders of LACMA’s Art Museum Council quit en masse over fee hikes

originally posted by the Los Angeles Times
November 29, 2012
Diana Gutman, chairwoman of the Art Museum Council at LACMA, says the group’s 40-member board has voted unanimously to stop volunteering at the museum next year because of its plans to triple council members’ fees.
As the museum announced this week, members who once paid a minimum [...]

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Are curators a vanishing breed?

originally posted by the Los Angeles Times
December 30, 2012
Strong support for California’s ambitious program to limit greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming was reconfirmed in a recent USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times poll, showing once more the state’s celebrated environmental consciousness.
So perhaps it’s time at least to ring a warning bell about a puzzling situation [...]

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Hillary Clinton will give five artists medals for embassy art

originally posted by the Los Angeles Times
November 30, 2012
For 50 years the U.S. State Department has been deploying visual art as part of the art of diplomacy, via a program called Art in Embassies.
On Friday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will give the U.S. State Department Medal of Arts to five artists who have shown [...]

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Cirque du Soleil’s extravagant ‘Iris’ will close Jan. 19

originally posted by the Los Angeles Times
November 30, 2012
“Iris,” the extravagant Cirque du Soleil show that backers hoped would be a long-running tourist attraction at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, will close Jan. 19 because of disappointing ticket sales.
Cirque du Soleil announced Friday that the demand for tickets to “Iris” had not “met expectations,” but [...]

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L.A. area theaters hope to strike holiday gold

originally posted by the Los Angeles Times
December 1, 2012
“What was merry Christmas to Scrooge? Out upon merry Christmas! What good had it ever done to him?” — Charles Dickens, “A Christmas Carol.”
At the box office there is no “Bah! Humbug!” The recompense that two big Southern California theaters reap from Christmas plays would quiet even [...]

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Artists Alison Saar, Kerry Tribe, William Leavitt are USA fellows

originally posted by the Los Angeles Times
December 2, 2012
This form of validation comes with a check: Three artists from Southern California — Alison Saar, Kerry Tribe and William Leavitt — have been named USA fellows for 2012, receiving grants of $50,000 with no strings attached.
United States Artists made the announcement of all 50 new fellows [...]

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UCIRA Artist Gina Su and Art for Social Change DeCal Presents: “Modern Marginalization,” a Free Art Exhibition

The Art for Social Change DeCal presents: “Modern Marginalization”
A FREE art exhibit about social issues.
When: Wednesday, December 5th, 6:00pm-9:00pm
Location: Pappy’s! Bar & Grill Basement in Berkeley
Food, drinks, and conscious art!
For more information visit: http://www.facebook.com/events/169287203214817/?fref=ts

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UC Davis Event Championing Beckett: Ruby Cohn and Her Legacy with Samuel Beckett

UC Davis Event Championing Beckett: Ruby Cohn and Her Legacy with Samuel Beckett
Contact: Janice Bisgaard 530.752.5863 or jbisgaard@ucdavis.edu
UC Davis ITDP presents Championing Beckett: Ruby Cohn and Her Legacy with Samuel Beckett, a panel discussion examining the writing of the late Ruby Cohn, UC Davis professor emerita and renowned theater scholar and Samuel Beckett specialist. The [...]

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NEW VOICES – NEW VISIONS Open Call – enter by December 31, 2012

Marin County contemporary art gallery Gallery Bergelli announces open call for New Voices – New Visions Exhibition. From an interest in supporting young Bay Area artists, New Voices – New Visions will acknowledge talented local artists with a group exhibition, and will choose one artist to receive a $1000 Best of Show Award.
The New [...]

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San Diego Arts Champion, David Copley, Dies

by Kelly Bennett (Voice of San Diego)
David Copley left a board meeting at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego last week, saying he wasn’t feeling well. Later that evening, Copley, the last remaining [...]

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Meshell Ndegeocello and James “Blood” Ulmer’s Memphis Blood featuring Vernon Reid at UC Los Angeles

When: Friday, December 7, 2012 at 8:00 PM
Location: Royce Hall, UC Los Angeles
Tickets:
$20 – $45 ($15 UCLA Students)
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Join us for an evening with two distinctly inventive artists. Renowned bassist, singer, songwriter and 10-time Grammy nominee Meshell Ndegeocello writes, records and performs unpredictable, boundary-defying music in rock, jazz, funk, soul and more. Her killer band [...]

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Anonymous 4: love fail composed and directed by David Lang at UC Los Angeles

When: Saturday, December 1 at 8:00 PM
Location: Royce Hall, UC Los Angeles
Tickets:
$15 – $45 ($15 UCLA Students)
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“The ensemble’s curiosity ranges wide, a millennium’s worth of repertoire. But no matter the style, the group has a knack for bringing out music’s ritual, comforting in its formality while intriguing in its mystery.” —The Boston Globe
love [...]

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Kinetic Sculptures Exhibition: Ingenuity Lab Challenge at UC Berkeley

When: December 1 – 30, 2012 every Sunday & Saturday, 12-4 pm
Location: Lawrence Hall of Science, UC Berkeley
Visit the Ingenuity Lab this December for Kinetic Sculptures! Use different sources of energy to create a moving sculpture that can spin, lift, drop, or roll.
The Ingenuity Lab is open 12:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m. on weekends, holidays, [...]

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Jogja Hip Hop Foundation at UC Santa Barbara

When: TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 8:00 PM
Location: CAMPBELL HALL, UC SANTA BARBARA
Tickets:
$25 – General Public
$10 – UCSB Students (Current ID required / Limited availability)
$10 – All Students
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“The Jogja Hip Hop Foundation is an energetic force in the Indonesian hip-hop scene, bringing Javanese traditions and urban street culture together to create a unique style.” The Jakarta [...]

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Artist Call- Breast Cancer Biennial

Ask not how your artwork could adorn the conference rooms and halls of a breast cancer research symposium. Ask how it could participate in the symposium-and in the discourse of medical research and embodied experience-by its presence.
This call is for artwork that engages the many issues raised by breast cancer. We welcome work by survivors [...]

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Artist Call-Interfaith Artwork for Exhibition and Auction

Location:
Selected art will be exhibited and up for auction at the Graduate Theological Union’s 50th anniversary celebration set to take place in February 2013. Artists will receive the first 200 dollars of final auction bid for their artwork and any remaining proceeds will directly benefit CARE and the Graduate Theological Union (GTU).
Eligibility:
The call for work [...]

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Artist Call -LOOP Arts Grant

For SF Bay Area artists:
The LOOP Arts Grant was established to give awarded San Francisco Bay Area artists FREE access to a 44″ Cannon IPF 8300 printer and a 200 sq. ft. studio space for up to a one month residency in order to print for an already scheduled exhibition. More information can be found [...]

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The Nutcracker Comes To San Diego

The Nutcracker is the perfect way to introduce your family to the power and beauty of classical dance.
Starring California Ballet’s Chie Kudo as well as Carlo Di Dio, Vitaliy Nechay, Oscar Burciaga, Bernadette Torres and Rebecca Correia. With special Guest Artist Cory Stearns.
Meet the cast at our Sugar Plum Parties after matinee [...]

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‘Nutcracker’ guest artists like Joy Womack can make a difference

originally posted by the Los Angeles Times
November 25, 2012
The Bolshoi Ballet dancer will perform with Westside Ballet, one of many pros visiting area productions. They can inspire young dancers.
On a recent frigid and blustery night in Moscow, the Bolshoi Ballet’s Joy Womack was talking about her farewell visit last summer with influential Los Angeles teacher [...]

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Trey McIntyre Project brings ‘Ways of Seeing’ to Segerstrom

originally posted by the Los Angeles Times
November 21, 2012
Trey McIntyre recalls the time he played the Pied Piper of Orange County. The choreographer had brought his dance troupe and his dance, “The More I See You,” to the Segerstrom Center for the Arts in 2009. “As I left the theater, I turned into a caricature [...]

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Web series ‘Voice of Art’ aims camera on street artists, activists

originally posted by the Los Angeles Times
November 20, 2012
Z.S. Grant and John Carr travel the U.S. in search of art activism of all kinds for their documentary series, ‘Voice of Art,’ airing on YouTube’s i am OTHER.
Filmmakers Z.S. Grant and John Carr have spent the better part of the past year ricocheting around the country, [...]

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ARTIST LECTURE: BRIAN SCOTT CAMPBELL

I’VE GOT LEVITATION
Brian Scott Campbell
November 9– December 7, 2012
Artist Lecture: November 28, 4:30pm, WC302
When: Wednesday, November 28, 2012, 4:30pm
Location: WC302 (next to Atkinson Gallery), Santa Barbara City College
The SBCC Art Department and the Atkinson Gallery are pleased to present a lecture by new faculty member, Brian Scott Campbell, next Wednesday in conjunction with his current [...]

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Reception Honoring The Art Of Regional Change & Its Director Jesikah Maria Ross

When: Thursday, November 29th from 4:30pm – 6:30pm
Where: 126 Voorhies Hall, UC Davis
Please join us in celebrating the accomplishments of the UC Davis Art of Regional Change Program (ARC) and its program director jesikah maria ross on Thursday, November 29th from 4:30 – 6:30p in 126 Voorhies Hall on the UC Davis Campus. The event [...]

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VISIT CUBA With California Lawyers for the Arts new international travel program, December 11th – 19th, 2012.

California Lawyers for the Arts presents an exciting professional research trip to CUBA!
When: December 11th – 19th, 2012
Location: Cuba
As a current member of CLA and a professional in the field of law, legal policy, art policy and culture, or as an allied professional, this new December 2012 trip is open to you so that [...]

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Featured Workshop: Financial Analysis for Creative Artists: Part-2

Financial Analysis for Creative Artists: Part-2
With Cristina Lopez
When: Wednesday, December 05, 2012
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Location: Ft. Mason Center, Building C, Room 265, San Francisco, CA 94123
This financial analysis workshop is a follow-up to last month’s Basic Bookkeeping for Creative Artists. We will talk about relationships of Financial Statements and how to use them [...]

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FREE SPECIAL HOLIDAY Attorney Networking Event: Association of Corporate Counsel

When: Thursday, November 29, 2012
6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Location: Museum of African Diaspora (MoAD) 658 Mission St., San Francisco, California 94105
The San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel (In Conjunction with its Diversity Committee) and the California Lawyers for the Arts cordially invite you to a Holiday Networking Party!
FREE
Register Here!
This [...]

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UCIRA Announces Mini-Grant Awardees

The UC Institute for Research in the Arts is proud to announce the awardees for the UCIRA Mini-Grant (this grant is awarded monthly):
MARCH AWARDEES:
-Rebecca Lord (UC Los Angeles) Staging Mendelssohn’s Elijah: The UCLA Chorale will be using this $1,000 grant for expenses for the staging of Mendelssohn’s Elijah which will be presented on June [...]

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Featured San Francisco Area Workshop, Basic Bookkeeping for Creative Artists: Part-1

Basic Bookkeeping for Creative Artists: Part-1
With Cristina Lopez
When: Wednesday, November 28, 2012
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Location: Ft. Mason Center, Building C, Room 265, San Francisco, CA 94123
This basic bookkeeping class will explain and simplify accounting terms for the practical life of a creative artist. The class will help you understand accounting theories and will [...]

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UCIRA Mini-Grant Awardees

The UC Institute for Research in the Arts is proud to announce the awardees for the UCIRA Mini-Grant:
OCTOBER AWARDEES:
-Kellie Lanham (UC Irvine), Involuntary Memories, A Graduate Curated Exhibition: ln continuation with the Critical Curatorial Exhibition Series, the UAG presents Involuntary Memories, Memory is involuntary when we unconsciously react to something in everyday life, amalgamating what [...]

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Artist Call- Point of No Return

For SF Bay Area artists
Southern Exposure’s Entry Fee-Free Juried Exhibition of work by Northern California Artists
Juried by Hesse McGraw, Chief Curator, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art
Artwork Drop Off Dates:
Friday, November 30, 2012, 12:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Saturday, December 1, 2012, 10:00 am – 2:00 pm
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Artist Call – Birth of Color

For Los Angeles artists
Theme:
Color: as a form of expression of life. Through color we see and feel the joy and pain we encounter every day.
Here is the information regarding Birth of Color Art Exhibit:
Exhibit Dates: December 17, 2012 – January 26, 2013
Opening Reception: December 19 from 5pm-8pm
Artwork Drop Off: December 10-December 13
Artwork [...]

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Artist Call- Unique Group Show in Downtown LA

For Los Angeles artists
It goes something like this: 20+ local artists, 3 live bands, over 100 pounds of tasty bacon, lots of food and drink and 7,500 square feet of raw space. No hanging fee and no commission!
We are now looking for exciting local (LA County) artists, photographers, and more to showcase their work in [...]

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Shen Wei Dance Arts at UC Santa Barbara

When: Wednesday, November 28, 8:00pm
Location: The Granada Theatre, Santa Barbara
Tickets:
$38 – $48 – General Public
$20 – UCSB Students (Current ID required / Limited availability)
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Santa Barbara Debut
From New York City
Shen Wei, Artistic Director
“Shen Wei’s singular imagination and brilliant stagecraft brings us to strange and wondrous places.” The Washington Post
“Delicious, delightful to the senses, and spirit-lifting.” [...]

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UCIRA Artist Gina Su presents MODERN MARGINALIZATION – ART FOR SOCIAL CHANGE

A Berkeley DeCal, Art for Social Change invites you to our
FREE ART EXHIBITION
When: Wednesday, December 5th, 2012, 6-9pm
Location: Basement of Pappy’s Bar & Grill
Featuring:
-Food
-Drinks
-Thought provoking art about marginalized communities
For more information click here.

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Santa Barbara Museum of Art reflects on ‘The Artful Recluse’

Originally posted by the Los Angeles Times
November 11, 2012
SANTA BARBARA — Chinese scrolls often show landscapes of mountains, deep-cut gorges and paths that spiral through them and past caves in foliage. On these paths, often barely visible, smallish robed figures walk alone or sit in a group. Even people relatively familiar with this kind of [...]

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NEA Chairman Rocco Landesman announces retirement

Originally posted by the Los Angeles Times
November 20, 2012
National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Rocco Landesman announced his retirement Tuesday effective at the end of the year — but not without a sense of humor.
“The time has come for me to become a cliché: I turned 65, am going to retire, and cannot wait to [...]

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DRONES AT HOME PHASE 3 at UC San Diego

Performative Workshops
Dates: September 27 – December 14 2012
Thursday, November 29th, 2012, 5-6pm lecture; 6-8pm closing reception
Guest Speaker: Arthur and Marilouise Kroker,
Writers and Editors University of Victoria
Location: UC San Diego, gallery@calit2 | Atkinson Hall, First Floor, 9500 Gilman Dr., La Jolla, California 92093
DESCRIPTION/ABSTRACT:
This lecture by theorists Arthur and Marilouise Kroker and reception will mark the closing [...]

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NanoMacroMega at UC San Diego

Dates: Running Until December 7, Tuesday – Thursday 11am – 5pm
Location: SME Building Gallery, UC San Diego
Curated by Lucía Sanromán in collaboration with Visual Arts faculty and students.
The SME building houses the departments of Structural Engineering, NanoEngineering, Biomedical Devices, and Visual Arts. It provides an unprecedented platform for the integration of science, technology and art [...]

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Am I Drawing Now?

The Experimental Drawing Studio is pleased to present:
Am I Drawing Now?

Am I Drawing Now? is a series of lectures, conversations, performances and exhibitions that seek to illuminate drawing as a cross disciplinary activity. Our series begins this fall with half-hour informal talks that take place in the Experimental Drawing Studio at UCSD. The series is [...]

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Beyond the Hair – Talk by Hong Zhang, MFA, Dec 4, 4pm

Beyond the Hair
Talk by Hong Zhang, MFA
When: Tuesday, December 4, 2012, 4pm
Location: Nelson Gallery, UC Davis
Born and raised in the People’s Republic of China, Hong Zhang studied at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing and later received a Masters degree in Fine Arts from UC Davis, where some of her paintings hang in [...]

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Living as Form (the nomadic version): Upcoming Programming at UCSD

LIVING AS FORM (the nomadic version)
socially engaged practices from 1991-2011
When: November 26, 4:00 – 6:30 pm
Location: UC San Diego, Structural and Materials Engineering (SME) Performance Space
Roundtable with Nato Thompson (chief curator, Creative Time) Agitprop, Cog*nate Collective, The Periscope Project and Torolab, moderated by Grant Kester (Professor of Art History, UCSD)
For this roundtable discussion, five [...]

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The Martha Graham Dance Company, Underwater

November 14, 2012

written by Marina Harss (The New Yorker)

Nothing compares with the distressing images of cars floating in the streets in New Jersey and the Rockaways, of babies carried out of darkened hospitals, or the apocalyptic scenes of frightened homeowners holed up in the bone-cold remnants of their houses. But, as the [...]

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SUZANNE ANKER: GENETIC SEED BANK

Art | Sci gallery @ CNSI
Thursday, November 15th, 5-7pm
Map: http://maps.ucla.edu/campus/ (keyword: CNSI)
More info: http://artsci.ucla.edu
Suzanne Anker is a visual artist and theorist working at the intersection of art and the biological sciences since the 80’s.
Her work has been shown both nationally and internationally in museums and galleries such as the Walker Art Center, the Smithsonian Institute, [...]

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Artist Call -NIAD ART Center’s Fiber Artist Residency

For SF Bay Area artists
NIAD Art Center is pleased to announce it’s first Fiber Artist Residency Program.
The program is intended to bring a pair of working fiber artists into NIAD’s studio to engage our artists in a conversation about contemporary crafts, especially fiber arts.
Many of NIAD’s artists are drawn to work in fiber due to [...]

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Artist Call- Free Exhibition Space for SF Artists

“Do not ask what the world needs – ask yourself – What makes you come alive? And Go Do It! Because what the world needs is more people to come alive.” – Howard Thurman
The Happiness Institute is a new co-working facility inspired by the above mission statement and designed to balance the feminine and [...]

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Artist Call – MFA NOW in San Francisco

For Northern CA artists

According to the US News and World Report survey from 2012, the Bay Area is home to seven of the top one hundred MFA Programs in Visual Arts in the country: California College of the Arts, Mills College, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco State University, San Jose State University, Stanford University, [...]

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Royal Court’s New Plays from India: snapshots of the subcontinent

April de Angelis
The Guardian
In October 2010, Elyse Dodgson, director of the Royal Court Theatre’s international department, playwright and dramaturg Carl Miller and I arrived at the Jindal guest house in Vasind, in India’s Maharashtra state. Staying with us were 12 Indian writers whose work we’d read but had not yet met. [...]

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Washington Women’s Foundation Accepting Letters of Inquiry for Pooled Grant Cycle

Deadline: November 30, 2012 (Letters of Inquiry)
The Washington Women’s Foundation is accepting letters of inquiry for its 2013 pooled grant cycle.
Each year, the foundation awards five grants of up to $100,000 each in the areas of arts and culture, education, the environment, health, and human services. The foundation seeks to fund projects that respond to [...]

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‘Snow White’ exhibition salutes film gem

written by Chad Jones, SF Gate
Before Buzz Lightyear, there had to be a Snow White. The history of animation took a major leap forward when Walt Disney’s first animated feature, indeed the first full-length animated feature film, premiered in December 1937.
Now that film, “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,” celebrates its 75th anniversary with a [...]

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Free Children´s Event at the MultiCultural Center (UCSB), Saturday, November 17, 1 pm

When: Saturday, November 17, 1 pm
Location: MultiCultural Center, UC Santa Barbara
FREE EVENT.
Proud to Be Me, We Tell Stories
Proud to be Me, an interactive collection of folktales that will take you around the world. These extraordinary stories will teach you to be proud of who you are, believe in yourself, respect others, and follow your [...]

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Art review: A flowering in Florence is captured at the Getty

when: 2012-11-13, starts at
where:

By Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times Art Critic
4:00 AM PST, November 13, 2012

Who is Pacino di Bonaguida?
Giotto we know. Giotto di Bondone (about 1267-1337), the star with Pacino of a new exhibition at the J. Paul Getty Museum, was Italy’s first painter of world significance.
He was at ground level in the Renaissance, [...]

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Dance by Default: CURATED BY MELINDA RING

Date: November 16, 2012
Friday at 8:00PM
Location: Danspace Project, 131 East 10th Street (at Second Avenue)
New York, NY 10003
Tickets: $18 ($12 Danspace members)
Tickets: 866-811-4111
Part of PLATFORM 2012: Judson Now
This evening is part of the series The Art of Influence.
The Art of Influence is three distinct evenings curated by established choreographers who have, in recent years, performed [...]

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Naxos’s 25 years of reinventing itself

By Anne Midgette, Published: November 8
The Washington Post
In the late 1980s, the record label Naxos was a bargain-budget name with a dicey reputation. True, it was recording lots of interesting repertory and selling it at cut-rate prices, but it was supposedly doing this by exploiting its artists, who were paid a flat fee, [...]

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Suzanne Anker: GENETIC SEED BANK lecture + exhibition

Please note that these are two separate events.
Dates & Locations:
Lecture: Tuesday November 13 2012 6pm in Room 1250 Broad Arts Center (EDA), UC Los Angeles
Exhibition: Thursday November 15 2012 5-7pm in Room 5419 CNSI (Art|Sci Gallery), UC Los Angeles
Suzanne Anker is a visual artist and theorist working at the intersection of art and the [...]

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Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Invites Phase One Applications for Graduate Arts Award

Deadline: November 28, 2012
The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation’s Graduate Arts Award enables students or recent alumni with exceptional artistic or creative promise and financial need to pursue up to three years of study at an accredited graduate institution in the United States or abroad.
The Graduate Arts Award is for students who plan to pursue a [...]

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A Climate Change in the Art World?

Written by Robin Cembalest Posted 11/13/12
Art News
The benefits are in formation, online fundraisers have launched, and the first emergency grants have been delivered. A week after Hurricane Sandy, gallery-goers were back in Chelsea, picking their way around rubble, shattered glass, and dealers who were still hauling damaged art out of their basements.
In the new reality, [...]

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Living as Form (the nomadic version)

LIVING AS FORM (the nomadic version)
socially engaged practices from 1991-2011

When: November 14, 1:00 – 3:00 pm
Location: Structural & Materials Engineering Building, Room 406, UC San Diego
Conversation with The Periscope Project, Nancy Kwak (Assistant Professor of History, UCSD) & Mirle Rabinowitz Bussell (Lecturer, Urban Studies & Planning, UCSD)
For this conversation series, UCSD scholars and [...]

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Kids Draw Architecture Holiday Party and Gallery Opening on November 30, 2012

Annual Kids Draw Architecture Gallery Exhibition
Dates: November 30, 2012 to January 11, 2013
Kids Draw Architecture Holiday Reception Friday, November 30th from 5-7 pm
Location: Architectural Foundation Gallery
229 East Victoria Street
Santa Barbara, CA 93101
805-965-6307
The Architectural Foundation of Santa Barbara is pleased to announce our Annual Kids Draw Architecture exhibition, on view from November 30, 2012 [...]

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Obama Art: Our Favorite Portraits Of The President (PHOTOS)

re-blogged from the Huffington Post
Since the good ol’ days of his first presidential campaign, Barack Obama has been a favored subject of painters, sculptors and portraitists from sea to shining sea. Established artists like Shepard Fairey and Rafael Lopez have given the presidential face a little love, while amateur artists across the Internet have [...]

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After Proposition 30 victory, UC confirms no midyear tuition hike

re-blogged from LA Times (11-7-2012)
With state voters approving Gov. Brown’s tax measure to help education, leaders of the University of California system pledged Wednesday to stand by their past promises not to raise tuition for the current school year.
“There’s no doubt about that,” UC system spokesman Steve Montiel said when asked whether [...]

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Call for Artists: WRAP For National artists

Call for Artists: WRAP
For National artists
WRAP is a new Port of San Diego public art project designed to encourage artistic investigation of Port tidelands in the development of a temporary multi-site artwork. The selected artist or artist team will create an artwork that creatively reveals some aspect of the working [...]

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2013 Collector’s Choice at Sylvia White Gallery For International artists

Sylvia White Gallery
1783 East Main Street
Ventura, CA 93001

REQUIREMENTS:
Images – Minimum: 3 , Maximum: 10
Entry Fee (2013 Collectors Choice – Sylvia White Gallery): $35.00
Media Fee (per image over minimum): $5.00
Start the year off right! For this exhibition, Sylvia White has invited 15 of the gallery’s best collectors to review the artist submissions and select their favorite work. Each collector may [...]

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CreativiTea call for artists For Western States artists

KPFA Crafts Fair and ACCI Gallery Proudly Announce our second annual Collaborative Exhibition
CreativiTea
Open to all west Coast Artists (CA, OR, WA) 
Deadline to apply is Nov. 15, 2012
This juried exhibition is open to all 2-D and 3-D artworks incorporating and /or depicting tea, tea leaves, tea bags and artworks crated for or [...]

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Philadelphia Office of Arts, Culture & the Creative Economy’s Public Art Program Artist Registry For National artists

Philadelphia’s Public Art Program invites artists to submit an application with the Public Art Artist Registry.
The registry allows artists to participate in all selection processes by maintaining a record of their work that will be consulted by Public Art staff, panelists, architects, and City agencies as public art opportunities become available. The [...]

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NEA Grant Call: FY 2013 Our Town

Organizations may apply for creative placemaking projects that contribute to the livability of communities and place the arts at their core. An organization may request a grant amount from $25,000 to $200,000.
If you have questions about your Our Town application, please contactOT@arts.gov
Deadline: 1-14-2013
Grant link: http://www.nea.gov/grants/apply/OurTown/index.html

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ART OnSite / Tribute Trail For Western States artists

The Art OnSite project Steering Committee is offering up to ten (10) $2,500 commissions to selected artists whose work will be seen by residents and visitors over the period of one year. Installations may be individual or may be a multi-piece installation by several artists or a team, to be viewed over a period [...]

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‘Jay DeFeo’ review: Fearless art

Written by Kenneth Baker
San Francisco Chronicle
Kenneth BakerUpdated 4:15 p.m., Friday, November 2, 2012Even the earliest and slightest works in “Jay DeFeo: A Retrospective,” which opens today at the San Francisco Museum of ModernArt, exude a fearlessness characteristic of her sensibility.Before and since her death at 60 in 1989, DeFeo’s reputation has hinged on one colossal [...]

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On Point, in Their Jeans and Sneakers

Written by ALASTAIR MACAULAY
New York Times
MEMPHIS — This city, so central to the emergence of blues, soul and rock ’n’ roll, in recent decades has developed a new kind of virtuoso dancing: jookin. Sometime between the 1970s and 1990s (depending on whom you talk to) this dance idiom grew out of — or up with — [...]

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My Routine | Theresa Bautista, dancer, choreographer and teacher

Courier-Journal
Theresa Bautista has danced professionally, created works for various organizations, including the Center for Women and Families and the University of Kentucky Dance Ensemble, and taught at several schools and the Governor’s School for the Arts. In 2006, she became a co-producer of Moving Collective, an organization that produces programs of original dance by regional [...]

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Hurricane Spares Seaside Art

Written by TED LOOS
New York Times
ATLANTIC CITY — As devastating a hit as New Jersey took from Hurricane Sandy, the blow was softer than had been feared for this seaside gambling mecca directly in the storm’s path. None of the waterfront casinos, for instance, reported major damage.

The hurricane even spared the first phase of a planned [...]

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Saltz’’s Devastating Tour Through Chelsea’’s Ruined Art Galleries New York Magazine

Written by Jerry Saltz
New York Magazine
I live downtown, in the part of Manhattan without power. Like many, my nights have been long, dark, cold, and unnervingly quiet. With no Internet access, cell phone, or news I was antsy, and felt the urge to wander. On day two, wondering how the galleries in Chelsea had weathered [...]

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Free Enterprise: The Art of Citizen Space Exploration

January 19, 2013 – March 23, 2013
Opening Reception: January 19, 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Free Enterprise: The Art of Citizen Space Exploration will be the first contemporary art exhibition in the U.S. to explore implications of civilian space travel which represents a major political and cultural shift away from sponsorship by the federal government and [...]

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UCI Symphony Orchestra features world renowned pianist Robert Thies

Date: Sat, 11/10/2012 – 8:00pm
Venue: Irvine Barclay Theater
Event Type: Symphony Orchestra

The UCI Symphony Orchestra, featuring world renowned pianist Robert Thies, will perform Norfolk Rhapsody No. 1, in E minor by Vaughan-Williams; Piano Concerto No. 5, in E flat by Beethoven; and Symphony No. 5 by Beethoven at the Irvine Barclay Theatre, November 10 at 8:00 p.m.  Ticketholders are invited [...]

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EDWARD BURTYNSKY: MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES (2007) 80 min.

Date: Thursday, November 8, 2012,  6pm
Location: @ Art, Design & Architecture Museum, UC Santa Barbara
Photographer Edward Burtynsky travels the world observing and photographing the rampant and often deleterious changes in the landscapes due to industrial work and manufacturing.
This is the third in our film series related to the exhibition on view, “The Stumbling Present: Ruins [...]

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“UCIRA Co-Director Marko Peljhan to present “Two Polar Visions and a War” at Harvey Mudd College”

location: HMC campus in Galileo Hall.
Slovenian radio and theater director Marko Peljhan organizes collaborations between artists, scientists and technologists and investigates the geopolitics of the Arctic, art in microgravity and communications networks during the Bosnian War.
link: http://www.hmc.edu/about1/administrativeoffices/deanoffaculty1/nelson-series.html#malina

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“The Illusion” by Pierre Corneille: Freely adapted by Tony Kushner

Friday, November 9, 2012 - Sunday, November 18, 2012

Experimental Theater, Theater Arts Center (UCSC)

Presented by: Theater Arts Department

A wealthy lawyer, suddenly and violently aware of his own mortality, visits a sorcerer’s cave, hoping to reconnect with his long estranged son. However, the magician conjures up strange and unsettling images, which provide answers that are more than the [...]

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Melanie Marnich’s These Shining Lives

by Melanie Marnich
Dates: 11/9/12 – 11/17/12
Location: Performing Arts Theater, UCSB campus
Cost: $13/Student, Seniors, UCSB Faculty, Staff & Alumni; $17/General Admission
Directed by Tom Whitaker
Friday, November 9 | 8pm — Opening Night!
Saturday, November 10 | 2pm
Saturday, November 10 | 8pm
Sunday, November 11 | 2pm
Tuesday, November 13 | 8pm
Wednesday, November 14 | 8pm
Thursday, November 15 | 8pm
Friday, November [...]

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Does Hollywood Really Help Haiti? Zócalo at the Fowler

Speakers: Trevor Neilson and others, moderated by Amy Wilentz
When: Wednesday, November 14, 2012, 7:30 pm
Location: Fowler Museum, UC Los Angeles
Free but registration required at www.zocalopublicsquare.org
In 2010, when Haiti suffered a catastrophic earthquake, Hollywood was quickly on the scene. Sean Penn, Ben Stiller, Oprah Winfrey, Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, George Clooney, and Scarlett Johansson were [...]

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From Mementos to Masterpieces: The Chinese Collections of the Harvard Art Museums 25th Sammy Yukuan Lee Lecture on Chinese Archaeology and Art at UCLA

Speaker: Prof. Robert Mowry
FREE lecture.
When: Saturday, November 3, 2012, 2–3:30 pm
Location: Fowler Museum, UC Los Angeles
Professor Robert Mowry, Alan J. Dworsky curator of Chinese Art and head of the Department of Asian Art at Harvard University’s Division of Asian and Mediterranean Art, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, will speak on the history of the teaching of [...]

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Musical Performance by the UC Chamber Chorus
: Liturgies East and West at UC Berkeley

When: November 4, 3-4:30pm
Location: Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Featured Performer: UC Chamber Chorus
Sponsor: Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Is it possible to cultivate virtue by listening to music? As a musical complement to the exhibition Devotion, the acclaimed University Chamber Chorus, directed by Marika Kuzma, performs a concert of liturgical music [...]

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Call For Entries 2012 at Santa Barbara CAF

Deadline: December 12, 2012
Call For Entries 2012: Alexander Bogdanov, Samantha Fretwell, Jae Hee Lee, Ilia Ovechkin, and Rimas Simaitis, and Bloom Projects: Ethan Turpin, Video Feedback: Pixel Behaviors, opened on Saturday, October 20, and will be open through December 23, 2012.
In our annual Call For Entries (CFE) group exhibition, CAF showcases five stand-outs from [...]

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Funding Available to L.A. Arts Nonprofits for 2013 Summer Interns

Deadline: December 5, 2012
The Los Angeles County Arts Commission announced that arts nonprofits in the county interested in having paid summer interns next summer may apply now for funding. Internships would be for 10 weeks during the summer months of 2013, and grants of $2500 to $3500 will be distributed to pay interns. Deadline for [...]

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‘Off the Beaten Path’: tranquil SF spots

originally posted by SF Gate
October 29, 2012
There is iconic San Francisco – the skyline, the Golden Gate Bridge, the cable cars. Then there is secret San Francisco – the unpaved spots of tranquillity tucked inside city parks.
More than 60 Bay Area photographers went in search of natural San Francisco for the new exhibit “Off the [...]

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2012: A Stanley Kubrick odyssey at LACMA

Dates: November 1, 2012–June 30, 2013
Location: Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Art of the Americas Building, Level 2
Stanley Kubrick was known for exerting complete artistic control over his projects; in doing so, he reconceived the genres in which he worked. The exhibition covers the breadth of Kubrick’s practice, beginning with his early photographs [...]

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Colony Theatre in Burbank faces dire budgetary shortfall

originally posted by the Los Angeles Times
October 29, 2012
The Colony Theatre in Burbank is facing the possibility of imminent closure if the company isn’t able to resolve a budgetary shortfall, leaders announced over the weekend.
They said the 37-year-old company has run out of money and needs to raise $49,000 in the next two weeks and [...]

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Kennedy Center Seeks Nominations for Kennedy Center/Stephen Sondheim Inspirational Teacher Awards

Deadline: December 16, 2012
The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is seeking nominations for the 2013 Kennedy Center/Stephen Sondheim Inspirational Teacher Awards, a series of annual grants that recognize inspiring teachers in the United States.
Now in their third year, the awards were created in honor of American composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim, who frequently attributes [...]

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Big Read Accepting Grant Applications for Community-Wide Reading Programs

Deadline: February 5, 2013
The Big Read, a program of the National Endowment for the Arts, aims to restore reading to the center of American culture. Managed by Arts Midwest, the program provides competitive grants to support innovative reading programs in selected communities.
Community organizations participating in the Big Read develop and producereading programs that encourage reading [...]

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National Endowment for the Arts Invites Creative Placemaking Proposals for Our Town Grant Program

Deadline: January 14, 2013
The National Endowment for the Arts has published guidelines and the application for the next funding round of Our Town, the agency’s primary creative placemaking grants program.
Through the program, the endowment will provide a limited number of grants for creative placemaking projects that contribute toward the livability of communities of all sizes [...]

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Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation Accepting Applications for USArtists International Grant Program

Deadline: November 7, 2012
Administered by the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation with support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the USArtists International program is committed to ensuring that the impressive range of performing arts in the United States is represented abroad, and that American artists can enhance their creative [...]

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Entries Invited for 2013 Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence

Deadline: December 10, 2012
A program of the Bruner Foundation, the Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence is designed to celebrate urban places that are distinguished by quality design and their social and economic contributions to American cities. Award winners offer creative place-making solutions that transcend the boundaries between architecture, urban design, and planning, and showcase [...]

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Arts Groups Cultivating New Generation of Donors

originally posted by the Philanthropy News Digest
October 30, 2012
Faced with shifting demographics and the emergence of new technologies, arts institutions are reaching out to a generation of patrons and benefactors who see support for the arts more as an investment than a gift, the Washington Post reports.
While there are more millionaires in the United States [...]

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FIRST THURSDAY CELEBRATION of THE EXHIBITION RUINOPHILIA at UCSB

When: Thursday, November 1, 2012, 5-8pm
Location: AD&A Museum @ Jane Deering Gallery
128 East Canon Perdido Street
Join us for First Thursday, October 4th for “Ruinophilia” which explores artists’ continued fascination with ruins from the 16th century to the present. Through prints, photographs, sculpture and multimedia works, Ruinophilia ranges from depictions of crumbling buildings to bodies that [...]

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Call for Posters- Discover the Natural Reserve System: A Conference Celebrating the UCSB NRS

Deadline: November 30, 2012
We invite submission of abstracts for poster presentations at the inaugural one-day conference in celebration of the UCSB Natural Reserve System to be held February 8, 2013 at the Bren School, University of California, Santa Barbara.
The goal of this Conference is to showcase research and other activities at UCSB Natural Reserves, and [...]

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ITDP Presents Fractalicious! – A Mind-blowing Array of Co-relational Media by Transversal Theater Company

When: Monday-Tuesday, November 5-6, 8:00 p.m.
Where: Lab A, Wright Hall, UC Davis.
Tickets: Free of charge; limited seating.
The UC Davis ITDP (Institute for Exploration in Theatre, Dance and Performance) presents “Fractalicious!,” a performance produced by Bryan Reynolds and Transversal Theater Company which combines various forms of media to make a truly unique, synesthetic result while exploring [...]

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Suzanne Anker Lecture | Exhibition: GENETIC SEED BANK at UCLA

When: November 13th, 6pm & November 15th, 7pm
Location: Broad Art Center, Room 1250, UC Los Angeles
Please note that these are two separate events.
Tuesday, Nov. 13 6 p.m. Design | Media Arts Lecture Suzanne Anker EDA (Room 1250), Broad Art Center Thursday, Nov. 15 5 p.m. Art | Sci Exhibition
Suzanne Anker is a visual artist [...]

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Victoria Vesna Lecture – Brain Storming: Butterflies, Water, Dogs and Birds at UCLA

When: Monday, November 5th, noon-2pm
Location: Broad Art Center, UC Los Angeles
Design Media Arts Lunchtime Lecture Series
Victoria Vesna spent the last two years commuting in between LA, New York, Hong Kong, Bristol and Marseille developing new projects and exhibitions. In this talk she will describe what she has been up to with butterflies, water, dogs [...]

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Josely Carvalho Lecture: “The Smell of a Memory” at UCLA

When: Thursday, November 1st, 5pm
Location: Broad Art Center, room 5240, UC Los Angeles
Brazilian-born multimedia artist Josely Carvalho lives and works in New York City and Rio de Janeiro.
Afterwards, join us for a play test of the newly designed DOG NOSE KNOWS card game conceptualized by Victoria Vesna and neuroscientist Siddharth Ramakrishnan, graphics / game [...]

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Trimpin: Nancarrow Percussion Orchestra / MATRIX 244 Exhibition

Dates: November 2, 2012 – December 23, 2012
Location: Berkeley Art Museum, UC Berkeley
MATRIX 244 introduces a new sculptural sound installation by the internationally acclaimed Seattle-based artist Trimpin, whose work is foremost about visualizing sound. A MacArthur Fellow (1997) recognized for his creative investigations of acoustic music in spatial contexts, Trimpin often uses salvaged and reconfigured [...]

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Art for Human Rights Exhibition

Dates: October 31, 2012 – November 11, 2012
Location: Berkeley Art Museum, UC Berkeley
As part of the new BAM/PFA program Art for Human Rights, we feature works from internationally acclaimed artist Fernando Botero’s provocative Abu Ghraib series (2004–06). Several of the works on view have just returned to Berkeley after being shown in hugely attended major [...]

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DreamWorks Founders to Donate $90 Million to Motion Picture and Television Fund

originally posted by Philanthropy News Digest
October 17, 2012
DreamWorks SKG founders Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg, and David Geffen have pledged $30 million to the Motion Picture and Television Fund, the Los Angeles Times reports.
The gifts will be made to the MPTF Campaign, which was launched in February to help meet the needs of entertainment industry workers [...]

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Irvine Foundation Announces $16.9 Million in Grants

originally posted by Philanthropy News Digest
The James Irvine Foundation has announced thirty-one grants totaling $16.9 million to nonprofit organizations working to promote civic engagement and expand opportunities for the people of California.
Ten grants were awarded through the foundation’s arts program, including the first round of awards from the Exploring Engagement Fund for Large Organizations to [...]

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Light and Shadows: The Story of Iranian Jews Exhibition at the Fowler Museum

When: October 21, 2012–March 10, 2013
Location: Fowler Museum, UC Los Angeles
Since ancient times, Iran has been a mosaic of ethnicities, religions, cultures, and languages. Light and Shadows: The Story of Iranian Jews tells the rich and complex history of one of the world’s oldest Jewish communities, which dates back nearly 2,700 years since the first [...]

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Artist Call- Filmmaker Challenge

For Central Valley artists
The Resident Filmmaker Challenge is a collaborative effort between the region’s best filmmakers and Modesto‘s non-profit organizations in developing short documentary videos that present unique perspectives into the community’s most pressing concerns.
The two and a half week challenge is an intense filmmaking experience. The Building Imagination Center acts as a facilitator, bringing [...]

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Artist Call- 2013 Juried Open in Topanga

For Southern CA artists
This year’s Annual Topanga Canyon Gallery Juried Open is scheduled for January 9, 2013.
We are pleased that Om Navon Bleicher will be our Juror for the show. Mr. Bleicher is owner/curator of the Bleicher Gallery on La Brea in L. A., and the Bleicher/GoLightly Gallery on Ocean Avenue in Santa [...]

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Artist Call- Out of the Blue

For Northern CA artists
28th Annual Gallery Route One Juried Show 2013
Out of the Blue Juror, Ruth Braunstein
Exhibition Dates: January 11- February 3, 2013
Deadline: 12-07-2012
Gallery Route One
Point Reyes Station, CA
Contact: Candace Loheed
email: janjuried@galleryrouteone.org
Phone: 415.652.6897
Website: http://galleryrouteone.org/call-to-astists/

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Weekend of Art, Wine Tasting & Food in San Francisco

When:
Preview Party: Friday, October 26 6:00pm-9:00pm
Open Studios: Saturday, October 27 and Sunday, October 28, 12pm-6pm
Location: Workspaces Ltd, San Francisco, CA
Workspace is a beautiful old industrial building converted from a vacant shell into a new 37,000 sq-ft arts facility. The building houses approximately 65 artists working in diverse mediums.
For general questions about art studio availability [...]

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Robert Glasper Experiment – 30th Annual San Francisco Jazz Festival

When: Thursday, November 1, 8:00pm
Location: Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA
Price: $25.00 – $60.00
Phone: (866) 920-5299
Age Suitability: All Ages
Pianist and composer Robert Glasper is on a mission to reconcile modern jazz with hip-hop and R&B. And his latest Blue Note recording with the electrified Experiment band, Black Radio, is a bold manifesto.
The album is [...]

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Rudolf Nureyev: A Life in Dance Exhibition in San Francisco

When: Wednesday, October 24, 9:30am to 5:15pm
Location: Golden Gate Park, de Young Museum, San Francisco
Price: $20.00 (Adult), $17.00 (Seniors 65+), $16.00 (Students with IDs), $10.00 (Youth 6-17), Free (Under 6)
Phone: (415) 750-3600
Age Suitability: All Ages
This special exhibition is dedicated to the life and work of the legendary dancer and choreographer Rudolf Nureyev (1938–1993). It will [...]

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Show tracks BAM’s ever-shifting edge

originally posted by the SF Gate
October 18, 2012
Interview with Kenneth Baker:
Few university museums in the United States could assemble a survey of two years’ collecting activity as full of variety and surprise as “At the Edge: Recent Acquisitions” at the Berkeley Art Museum.
It ranges from dazzlingly elaborate drawings by Jay Nelson and David Wilson to [...]

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Richard Thompson, friends return to ‘Cabaret of Souls’ this weekend

originally posted by the Los Angeles Times
October 23, 2012
When Pop & Hiss last checked in with Richard Thompson two years ago, the acclaimed English singer-songwriter-guitarist was in the midst of prepping his ambitious theatrical composition “Cabaret of Souls” for its West Coast premiere at UCLA’s Royce Hall.
This weekend, Thompson and much of the same [...]

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Matthew Marks expanding Los Angeles gallery

originally posted by the Los Angeles Times
October 24, 2012
Still a relatively new presence in the Los Angeles art scene, Matthew Marks Gallery is already expanding the footprint of its West Hollywood space. The gallery said it is opening a new building — and a space for visitor parking — just a few steps away from [...]

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This THURSDAY, 6PM, Film Screening, I AM LEGEND at the AD&A Museum, UCSB

When: Thursday, October 25th; 6:00pm (101 minutes)
Location: Art, Design & Architecture Museum, UC Santa Barbara
Years after a plague kills most of humanity and transforms the rest into monsters, the sole survivor in New York City, played by Will Smith, struggles valiantly to find a cure.
This is the second in our film series related [...]

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Jeff Greenfield at the Pollock Theater

When: Thursday, October 25, 2012 at 7:00pm
Location: Pollock Theater, UCSB
Free Event
Information and reservations:
http://www.carseywolf.ucsb.edu/events/jeff-greenfield-if-youve-had-enough-food-fight
Seating is limited – please make advance reservations to ensure a seat.
The interplay between media and presidential politics has been a focus–sometimes an obsession–for nearly half a century. In this campaign, with an unending torrent of information (and misinformation), it may seem [...]

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Artist Call- Native Arts and Cultures Foundation Announces Bridge Initiative: Art + Health Matching Grant Program

Deadline: January 18, 2013 (Letters of Inquiry)

The Native Arts and Cultures Foundation has announced the Bridge Initiative: Art + Health, a matching grant award program open to California organizations.
The initiative invites tribal entities, nonprofit organizations, and Native programs in California to propose art projects designed to impact health and vitality in local communities, with a focus [...]

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James Irvine Foundation Invites Applications for Arts Grants

Deadline: December 3, 2012
The James Irvine Foundation is accepting grant applications for the third round of its Exploring Engagement Fund and the second round of the more targeted Exploring Engagement Fund for Priority Regions.
(Note: The foundation is streamlining its grantmaking process and will offer only one funding round a year — in December — for both funds.)
The foundation’s [...]

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Featured Sacramento Area: Workshop Fundamentals of fundraising for Arts Organizations

When: Friday, October 26, 2012, 9:00AM – 12:45PM
Location: The United Way, 10389 Old Placerville Road, Sacramento, CA 95827
Workshop: Fundamentals of Fundraising for Arts Organizations
With Allison Cagley
Section 1: 9:00 – 10:45 AM
Section 2: 11:00 – 12:45 PM
Now more than ever, arts organizations must seek a stable funding base in order to survive in this economy. Financial [...]

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Live Webinar from California Lawyers for the Arts

What: Live Webinar: Copyright for Educators and Librarians with Bob Pimm, Esq.
When: Tuesday, October 30, 2012, 11:00 AM
Location: Online!
About: This webinar will review basic copyright rules with special emphasis on “fair use” and photocopying materials used in classrooms and library settings.  This webinar will be helpful for educators, librarians and creative artists seeking to understand [...]

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UCLA ART SCI center fall programs

October 23rd — 4-6pm: come and see the exhibition Art Sci students and alumni created with Katherine Moriwaki and Angelo Vermelun during the Build Your Own BioReactor workshop! The algae have been growing and now the works are glowing!
October 25th — 5-7pm: Join us for the quarterly North | South social mixer and opening of [...]

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Re-staging/Re-construction/Re-enactment: a Symposium in conjunction with Einstein on the Beach: An Opera in Four Acts

Saturday, October 27, 2012, 11am-2 pm
Zellerbach Playhouse
Free and open to the public
The 1976 premiere of Einstein on the Beach: An Opera in Four Acts was a landmark event in music, dance, theater, and opera–bringing together the minimalism of composer Philip Glass and choreographer Lucinda Childs with director/designer Robert Wilson’s non-narrative approach to performance to create [...]

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UC Berkeley Symphony Orchestra: Cox, Ahn, Varèse, Debussy, Williams

Date: October 27, 8-10pm
Location: Hertz Concert Hall, UC Berkeley
David Milnes, conductor
Cindy Cox: las aguas del sur (2012, premiere)
Jean Ahn: Lu-lu, Lu-lu (2010)
Edgard Varèse: Arcana
Claude Debussy: La Mer
John Williams: Symphonic Suite from “Star Wars”
Target audience: All Audiences
Open to audience: All Audiences
Tickets required: $16 general admission, $12 other students, seniors, current & retired Berkeley staff & faculty, groups of 10 or more, [...]

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University Chorus: Harvests and Recollections at UC Berkeley

Date: October 28, 4-6pm
Location: Hertz Concert Hall, UC Berkeley

Marika Kuzma, director
David Conte, September Sun
Excerpts from Randall Thompson Frostiana
Franz Joseph Haydn, “Fall” from The Seasons
with orchestra and soloists Jennifer Ashworth, Brian Thorsett, Jeffrey Fields
Tickets: Tickets required: $16 general admission, $12 other students, seniors, current & retired Berkeley staff & faculty, groups of 10 or more, $5 UC Berkeley students (student [...]

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The Maids Performance at UC Berkeley

Speakers/Performers: By Jean Genet; Directed by Paige Johnson
Sponsor: Department of Theater, Dance & Performance Studies
Claire and Solange have a game they like to play when Madame is out of the house. They like to pretend they are Madame and order one another around. It’s a harmless little game. No one could get hurt… right? Jean [...]

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Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre at UC Santa Barbara

What: Two Performances of Hamlet (Dominic Dromgoole and Bill Buckhurst, Directors)
When: Thursday, November 8, 2012, 8:00pm
Location: Campbell Hall, UC Santa Barbara
Tickets:
$30 – $55 – General Public
$19 – UCSB Students (Current ID required / Limited availability)
$19 – All Students
“A thrilling performance… wonderfully engrossing… The whole production has a disarming honesty.” The Independent (U.K.)
Following last season’s “magnificent” (Santa [...]

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JEWS OF IRAN Screening at the Hammer Museum

When: October 24 2012, 07:30pm
Location: Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Jews of Iran examines the lives of the Persian Jews currently living in Iran’s predominately Islamic society. The director Ramin Farahani captures the prejudices against the Jewish minority as well as friendships among Muslims and Jews. (2005, Dir. Farahani, 52 min.)
In conjunction with the exhibition Light and Shadows: [...]

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VIDYA SHAH Comes to the Hammer Museum

When: November 9 2012, 06:00pm
Location: Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Vidya Shah is a composer, musician, and writer from New Delhi, India. Initially trained in Carnatic music, she later received guidance in the North Indian genres of Khayal, Thumri Dadra and Ghazal. Shah is a recipient of the Charles Wallace Award and a senior fellowship from the [...]

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OPEN PROJECTOR NIGHT at the Hammer Museum

When: October 18 2012, 07:30pm
Location: Hammer Museum, UC Los Angeles

More showdown than showcase, the Hammer’s previous Open Projector Nights—emceed by hilarious twin comedians the Sklar Bros.—have delighted and confounded rowdy audiences. Whether roughly hewn or pristinely polished, films and videos of all genres have garnered praise and wrath alike. Will yours earn a fantastic prize, or [...]

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National Endowment for the Arts Releases Funding Guidelines for Our Town

originally posted by National Endowment for the Arts
October 11, 2012
Grants ranging from $25,000 to $200,000 available to support creative placemaking projects.
Our Town will invest in creative and innovative projects in which communities, together with their arts and design organizations and artists, seek to:

Improve their quality of life;
Encourage greater creative activity;
Foster stronger community identity and a [...]

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MakeArt Workshops: Dia de los Muertos

originally posted by SF Gate
October 10, 2012
If it were up to folks from San Francisco’s Museum of Craft and Design, October might be renamed “Artober,” in honor of two family-friendly arts-and-crafts workshops scheduled for the month.
These workshops, part of the museum’s MakeArt program, take place at MCD pop-up museums and at organizations around the area while the [...]

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Bonhams to hold street-art auction in Los Angeles

originally posted by the Los Angeles Times
October 11, 2012
It has become an art-world axiom that street art is big business. But how much is a piece of wall graffiti by a big-name talent worth exactly?
Bonhams has announced that it will hold an auction in Los Angeles featuring more than 80 works by some of the [...]

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Met Live in HD offering discounted student tickets at select venues

originally posted by the Los Angeles Times
October 11, 2012
The Metropolitan Opera’s Live in HD series will start offering discounted student tickets at select movie theaters starting this season. The first broadcast of the 2012-13 season is Saturday, with a live transmission of Donizetti’s “The Elixir of Love,” starring Anna Netrebko.
In Southern California, the cinema venues [...]

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Santa Monica museum taps two new deputy directors

originally posted by the Los Angeles Times
October 11, 2012
The Santa Monica Museum of Art has announced the hiring of two deputy directors to replace Lisa Melandri, who left her deputy post this summer to become director of the Contemporary Art Museum in St. Louis.
The new co-deputy directors are Doug Rimerman, who will focus on strategic [...]

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SCR gets $600,000 to do a play with and about Santa Ana Latinos

originally posted by the Los Angeles Times
October 12, 2012
South Coast Repertory is the first of seven Southern California arts organizations to detail its plans for its share of $3.65 million in grants that the James Irvine Foundation issued this month in hopes of prodding arts groups to go to the people rather than waiting for [...]

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Artist Call- Renewing the Renaissance seeks artists with challenges

Renewing the Renaissance is seeking up to ten artists to be hired on as employees. Under our direction, artist employees will be creating artwork commissioned by our clients. Qualifying applicants will be expected to complete up to three pieces of art per month working out of their personal studio. Artists will be treated as employees [...]

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Artist Call- Filmmaker Challenge

The Resident Filmmaker Challenge is a collaborative effort between the region’s best filmmakers and Modesto‘s non-profit organizations in developing short documentary videos that present unique perspectives into the community’s most pressing concerns.
The two and a half week challenge is an intense filmmaking experience. The Building Imagination Center acts as a facilitator, bringing together project teams [...]

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Artist Call- California Pioneer Spirit in Art

The California Pioneer Heritage Foundation announces its 2013 art competition. The theme is “California Pioneer Spirit in Art.” This juried exhibit is open to all California residents 18 years of age and older.
The rules and entry form for the competition can be found on our website,californiapioneer.org.
Various media are welcome including, but not limited to, painting, [...]

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Artist Call- ART OnSite / Tribute Trail

The Art OnSite project Steering Committee is offering up to ten (10) $2,500 commissions to selected artists whose work will be seen by residents and visitors over the period of one year.  Installations may be individual or may be a multi-piece installation by several artists or a team, to be viewed over a period of [...]

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Green Business Program in Los Angeles

Arts:Earth Partnership

Date: 10-19-2012
Location: Los Angeles
LA STAGE Alliance, Arts:Earth Partnership, and our partners have several new services and features that can help you improve and manage your space, venue or facility, and help members of the Los Angeles community who are eager to use your space find you!
Join us for a presentation on the growth of [...]

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FOCUS ON DANCE EDUCATION: Many Cultures, Strength Through Diversity Conference

When: October 24-28, 2012
Location: DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel, Downtown Los Angeles

How do cultural traditions of the past affect contemporary trends in dance education and how do current trends relate back? How do we preserve dance traditions and remain relevant in today’s cultural and educational paradigm? How can study of cultural dance traditions support the larger [...]

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UCIRA Artist jesikah maria ross presents Restore/Restory Project Debut This Saturday

Event Details
When: October 20, 2012, 12-6pm
Location: Cache Creek Nature Preserve, Woodland, CA
A message from the artist:

I’m thrilled to invite you to the debut and showcase of my latest collaborative multimedia documentary project, Restore/Restory: A People’s History of the Cache Creek Nature Preserve.   Restore/Restory is a project of the UC Davis Art of Regional Change in collaboration with [...]

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Los Angeles Area One-Day Workshop! Self-Defense for Writers & Filmmakers

with Mark Litwak, Esq.
When: Saturday, October 20, 2012
10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Location: West Los Angeles College
Fine Arts Auditorium
Culver City, CA
Writers and filmmakers need to understand their legal rights and how to defend themselves from those who may seek to exploit them. Production companies and distributors often know all the tricks of the trade, while writers and filmmakers [...]

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ITDP: Nectare at UC Davis

When: Thursday, November 15, 7pm
Where: Nelson Gallery/University Club, UC Davis
Open to the Public/Free of Charge
Choreography by Iu-Hui Chua & Christine Germain
Nectare is a journey through space, time, memories and questions inviting spectators to join in this traveling performance experience. Guided by various forms such as maps, audio instructions and self-made decisions, the audience will explore [...]

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ITDP: Fractalicious!

Produced by Bryan Reynolds & Transversal Theater Company
When: Wed-Thu, Nov. 5-6 8:00 p.m.
Where: Lab A, Wright Hall, UC Davis
Open to the public/Free of charge
Limited seating—first come, first served
How close can you get? How fast can you go?
Fractalicious! is both “intermedial” in that it blends various media co-relationally so that the media is mutually integral to [...]

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The Haunt at Wright Hall, a performance-based haunted house and costume-dance party

When: Thu-Sun, Oct. 25-28 & Tue-Wed, Oct. 30-31
Haunted house: 7:30-10:30pm with start times every 30 minutes
Dance party: 7:30-Midnight
Where: Various locations at Wright Hall, UC Davis
Tickets:
Tickets: $15 (or $10 for dance only)
All tickets sold only at Main Theatre, Wright Hall box office before the show.
Come celebrate the Halloween season!
Dress up (or not!) when you attend our inaugural [...]

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Artist Call- Applications Invited for National Dance Project Touring Awards

Deadline: October 15, 2012
A program of the New England Foundation for the Arts, National Dance Project Touring Awards support the national tours of new dance works, with up to $40,000 in funding for each artist and company.
Awards are distributed as NDP Presentation Grants to United States nonprofit organizations presenting the works and are designated to [...]

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Department of Theatre and Dance Brings Thrills and Chills with Performance-based Haunted House at UC Davis

Contact:  Janice Bisgaard
530.752.5863 or jbisgaard@ucdavis.edu
Photos
Promo video

Oct. 10, 2012

–The Department of Theatre and Dance kicks off its 2012-13 season with “The Haunt at Wright Hall.” This inaugural performance-based haunted house and dance party provides a spine-tingling way to celebrate the Halloween season. This year’s theme, A Twisted Fairy Tale: The Handless Maiden, includes seven performance [...]

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The Arts Research Center at UC Berkeley presents Studio Time: Process/Production

Studio Time: Process/Production
Thursday, October 25, 2012, 6 p.m.
Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall
Free and open to the public
Glenn Adamson, Head of Research at the Victoria and Albert Museum, will give a talk titled Goodbye to Craft. Adamson is the author of Thinking through Craft, editor of The Craft Reader, co-editor of The Journal of Modern [...]

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Artist Call- Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Program in China Studies Offers Support for Early Career Scholars

Deadline: Various
A program of the Henry Luce Foundation and the American Council of Learned Societies, the Luce Foundation/ACLS Program in China Studies seeks to maintain the vitality of China studies in the United States through fellowships and grants primarily for scholars early in their careers.
The program offers three competitions:
1) Pre-dissertation Grants for Research in China [...]

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Association of Performing Arts Presenters and MetLife Foundation Accepting Grant Applications for Second Round of All-In: Re-imagining Community Participation

Deadline: November 1, 2012
The Association of Performing Arts Presenters and the MetLife Foundation are accepting applications for the second round of All-In: Re-imagining Community Participation, a grant program designed to support innovative strategies that target the full spectrum of community members from all generations and populations in community-based performing arts programs.
The program provides support to [...]

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Robert Glasper Experiment plus special guests José James, Taylor McFerrin and Austin Peralta come to UC Los Angeles

When: Thursday, October 25, 2012, 8:00pm-10:00pm
Location: Royce Hall Auditorium, UC Los Angeles
Tickets: $15 – $35 (FREE for UCLA Students)
Prolific pianist, composer and producer Robert Glasper has made a number of traditional jazz albums with his trio, but on this year’s revolutionary Black Radio, he surrounds the gorgeous acoustic sounds of his piano with synths, percussion [...]

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An evening with Bajofondo at UC Los Angeles

Date: Friday, October 12, 2012, 8:00pm-10:00pm
Location: Royce Hall Auditorium, UC Los Angeles
Tickets: $20 – $50 ($15 UCLA Students)
The vibrant collective of composers, singers and artists known as Bajofondo represents an innovative blend of acoustic tango and electronic music, as well as a fusion of Latin alternative and contemporary sounds. Consisting of eight musicians from Argentina [...]

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Sretensky Monastery Choir at UC Los Angeles

Moscow Sretensky Monastery Choir
NORTH AMERICAN TOUR 2012
When: Tuesday, October 23, 2012, 8:00pm -10:00 pm
Location: Royce Hall Auditorium, UC Los Angeles
“…an amazing sound – unusually rich, melodically powerful and extremely sincere.” – The Guardian
The Moscow Sretensky Monastery Choir was created at a moment in Russian history when full-scale spiritual life became possible once again after decades [...]

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The Haunt at Wright Hall, UC Davis

Come celebrate the Halloween season!
Dress up (or not!) when you attend our inaugural annual haunted house and costume dance party.
This year’s theme, A Twisted Fairy Tale, includes numerous performance stages with start times every 15 minutes.
Your journey through these haunted environments will culminate in A Twisted Fairy Tale’s wedding celebration where you can dance the [...]

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ORLANDO Play at UC Irvine

Dates: November 2-4, 2012
Location: Claire Trevor Theatre, UC Irvine
Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award nominee Sarah Ruhl adapted Virginia Woolf’s witty novel Orlando into a stylish play that examines the nature of identity. Orlando, our gender-changing protagonist, travels through five centuries, aging only 36 years, all the while observing changes in sexual stereotypes, laws, morals, and [...]

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“The Illusion” by Pierre Corneille at UC Santa Cruz

“The Illusion” by Pierre Corneille
Freely adapted by Tony Kushner
When: Friday, November 9, 2012 – Sunday, November 18, 2012
Where: Experimental Theater, Theater Arts Center (UCSC)
Presented by: Theater Arts Department
A wealthy lawyer, suddenly and violently aware of his own mortality, visits a sorcerer’s cave, hoping to reconnect with his long estranged son. However, the magician conjures [...]

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THESE SHINING LIVES at UC Santa Barbara

THESE SHINING LIVES
by Melanie Marnich
Dates: 11/9/12 – 11/17/12
Location: Performing Arts Theater, UCSB campus
Cost: $13/Student, Seniors, UCSB Faculty, Staff & Alumni; $17/General Admission
Contact: emills@theaterdance.ucsb.edu
Directed by Tom Whitaker
Friday, November 9 | 8pm — Opening Night!
Saturday, November 10 | 2pm
Saturday, November 10 | 8pm
Sunday, November 11 | 2pm
Tuesday, November 13 | 8pm
Wednesday, November 14 | 8pm
Thursday, November 15 [...]

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16th Annual Arab Film Festival in San Francisco

When: Thursday, October 11, 2012 7:00pm
Where: Castro Theatre, San Francisco, CA
The mission of the Arab Film Festival (AFF) is to enhance public understanding of Arab culture and to provide alternative representations of Arabs that contradict the stereotypical images frequently encountered in the American mass media. The Arab Film Festival screens films from and about the [...]

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MOCAtv debuts on YouTube, with free museum membership offer

Originally posted by the Los Angeles Times
October 1st, 2012
L.A.’s Museum of Contemporary Art launched its MOCAtv channel on YouTube on Monday, offering an excellent deal — a free three-month membership to the actual, bricks and mortar, nonvirtual museum — for those who subscribe to the free online service, which features videos of artists creating or [...]

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Hollywood agent Ari Emanuel, Guess’ Maurice Marciano join MOCA board

Originally posted by the Los Angeles Times
October 3rd, 2012
Los Angeles’ Museum of Contemporary Art announced Wednesday that top Hollywood agent Ari Emanuel and Guess apparel magnate Maurice Marciano have joined the museum’s board.
Their arrival comes after eight months in which eight MOCA trustees either resigned from the board or chose not to renew their membership [...]

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Chon Noriega’s schedule is exhausting

Originally posted by the Los Angeles Times
October 6th, 2012
Chicano art, culture and history are his specialty. At UCLA’s Chicano Studies Research Center and in projects around the country, he’s indefatigable.
Every so often, Chon Noriega wakes up in the middle of the night and thinks, “I agreed to do what?”
Maybe he signed on to teach another [...]

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Katy Perry, Steve Martin, Rachel Maddow join Hammer celebration

Originally posted by the Los Angeles Times
October 7th, 2012
A veritable A-list of artists, actors, fashion designers and business leaders streamed into the Hammer Museum in Westwood Saturday to celebrate artists Barbara Kruger and Cindy Sherman, raising a record $2 million for the museum’s exhibitions and programs.
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow and actor/author/musician Steve Martin delivered the [...]

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L.A. theater leaders to hold forum on Asian Americans, diversity

Originally posted by the Los Angeles Times
October 8th, 2012
Leaders from some of the largest theater companies in Southern California are scheduled to take part in a forum this month to discuss the issue of racial diversity and the inclusion (or lack thereof) of Asian Americans in stage productions. The forum is to be held at [...]

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New Voices New Visions Exhibition Open Call

For Northern CA artists.
New Voices – New Visions is a project born out of the desire to help young emerging artists reach their audiences, and to promote interest and understanding of emerging visual art amongst the community.
Exhibition Dates: March 14 – April 17, 2013
Opening Reception: Saturday, March 23, 2013
Eligibility: Young Artists living or working in [...]

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Artist Call- SymphoNet Young Artist Competition

The New West Symphony, led by new music director Marcelo Lehninger, and iCadenza, a cutting edge arts-based company dedicated to helping young and seasoned musicians realize their professional dreams, have jointly launched the SymphoNet Competition, a YouTube competition for classical singers.
If you are an 18 – 35 year old career-bound soloist (soprano, alto, tenor, baritone), [...]

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Artist Call- 2013 Wild & Scenic Film Festival Art Exhibition: A Climate of Change

2013 Wild & Scenic Film Festival Art Exhibition: A Climate of Change, January 4-14, 2013.
Nevada County Arts seeks submissions featuring art on the theme of climate change and/or change makers who are helping rethink how we inhabit our planet. In conjunction with the film festival more than 30 businesses, galleries and cafes in [...]

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Artist Call: West Coast Biennial Juried Art Exhibition

The Friends of the Arts at Turtle Bay, in cooperation with Turtle Bay Exploration Park, is now accepting entries from artists currently living in California, Oregon, Washington and Alaska for our second biennial juried art exhibition. The aim of the exhibition is to provide a forum for both established and emerging west coast artists in [...]

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Artist Call: SOMArts: The Commons Curatorial Residency Exhibitions in 2014

For SF Bay Area artists.
SOMArts Cultural Center invites you to deepen your relationship with us and expand your creative practice by submitting a proposal to The Commons Curatorial Residency Program. If you are not personally interested in applying, please assist SOMArts in garnering a robust set of proposals by forwarding this notice to your respective [...]

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Crave: Art, Food, & Social Experience

Día de los Muertos Dinner
When: November 2, 7-9 pm
Where: Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum Main Location, 653 Paseo Nuevo
Crave comprises a series of artist-orchestrated, themed meals. This series is an innovative form of cultural outreach and hospitality that results in resonant, cultural experiences. Food is an increasingly impassioned topic; the politics of how and what [...]

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Upcoming Nelson Gallery Events

The 2012-13 academic year is an exciting time in the development of the new Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art. By the end of this year, the museum will have selected an architectural/contractor team and have a draft design. As the building takes physical form, the university will also develop [...]

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Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum presents Forum Lounge: Ellie Ga, FORTUNETELLERS

Where: Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, 653 Paseo Nuevo
When:Happy Hour: 11/01/12, 5–7 pm; Performance: 11/01/12, 7–9 pm
American-born artist Ellie Ga presents a narrative-based performance, which superimposes live storytelling, recorded sound, and still and moving images to conjure up the terms and rituals of daily life in the Arctic night. This performance is based on [...]

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OPENING: FRIDAY OCTOBER 12TH, THE STUMBLING PRESENT AT THE AD&A MUSEUM, UCSB

The Stumbling Present: Ruins in Contemporary Art
On View Beginning October 13, 2012 – January 20, 2012
Opening reception: Friday, October 12, 5:30-7:30pm
Where: ART, DESIGN & ARCHITECTURE MUSEUM, UC Santa Barbara
Selected artists will be on hand to discuss their work.
The Stumbling Present examines the haunting rendering of ruins produced by artists in the last decade, a [...]

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Living as Form (The Nomadic Version) Curated by Nato Thompson 


Living as Form (The Nomadic Version)
Curated by Nato Thompson
Co-organized by Creative Time and Independent Curators International (ICI) and assembled in collaboration with the University Art Gallery
October 4 > December 14, 2012
Opening Reception, Thursday October 4, 5:30 – 8:30 pm

LA JOLLA-The UC San Diego University Art Gallery (UAG) teams up with [...]

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UCSB FALL MUSIC SEASON 2012

For further information, please visit:
http://www.music.ucsb.edu or call (805) 893-7001 (Concert Line)
NATASHA KISLENKO, FACULTY PIANIST
WITH SERGIO DE SIMONE, GUEST ARTIST
IN “PIANO MASTERPIECES OF CLAUDE DEBUSSY”
FRI., OCT. 5, 8 p.m., Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall,
$15/Gen, $7/Stu – Tickets at the door
This tribute concert commemorates the 150th anniversary of the great French composer’s birth (1862-1918). Both well-known and rarely [...]

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YOUR LAND / MY LAND Exhibition at UC Los Angeles

ELECTION ‘12
When: September 30, 2012 – November 18, 2012
Where: Hammer Museum, UC Los Angeles
Jonathan Horowitz’s Your Land / My Land: Election ’12 serves as a convening space where visitors can watch and discuss the unfolding presidential election and its aftermath. Presented simultaneously at several museums throughout the country, the installation uses red and blue [...]

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Master Class with RICHARD CIONCO, pianist at UC Irvine

Date: Friday, 10/05/2012 – 1:00pm
Venue: Winifred Smith Hall (WSH)
Event Type: Master Class
Praised by the New York Times for his “sensitive pianism,” pianist Richard Cionco has performed in recital and as concerto soloist in
apan, Taiwan, China, Hong Kong, Italy, Germany, Czech Republic,
lovakia, Denmark, Canada, and throughout the U.S.
A Steinway Artist since 1997, Mr. Cionco is [...]

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“Women Over the Edge” at UC Santa Cruz

Patrice Maginnis, Michele Rivard & Sheila Willey with Michael McGushin, piano
When: Friday, October 19, 2012 – 7:30pm
Where: Music Center Recital Hall (UCSC)
Presented by: Music Department
They’re back! Local lovelies Patrice Maginnis, Michele Rivard, and Sheila Willey return for an evening of song — from classical to country — with music by Mozart, Joni Mitchell, Claude [...]

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“Dead Dog’s Bone: A Birthday Play” at UC Santa Cruz

2012 “Dharma-Grace” Production

When: Friday, November 2, 2012 - Sunday, November 11, 2012

Where: Second Stage, Theater Arts Center (UC Santa Cruz)
Presented by:  Theater Arts Department
A new play by Theater Arts alumna Veronica Tjioe is a journey backwards, forwards (and everywhere in between), through a family’s disjointed life. The plot centers around the unfortunate predicament in which the family dog [...]

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Ecce Homo Exhibition at UC Riverside

When: Opening Reception, October 20, 2012, 6:00PM – 9:00PM, show runs from October 20, 2012 – December 14, 2012
Where: Sweeney Art Gallery

Ecce Homo: The Paintings of Edward Beardsley presents a survey of recent paintings together with a suite of prints produced over many decades. Beardsley was the founding director of the UCR/California Museum of Photography [...]

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Malibu Stage Company seeks Artistic Director

Deadline: October 20, 2012

About: MALIBU STAGE COMPANY, a 99-seat not-for-profit theatre located near Zuma Beach in Malibu, CA is seeking an Artistic Director.  The theatre operates under the Equity 99-seat plan, sits in Los Angeles County, and has a current season underway with four productions scheduled through May 2013.  Malibu Stage Company was created in 1990 as a [...]

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UCR ARTSblock: Fall 2012 Exhibition Season & Closing Exhibitions in Oct 2012

UCR ARTSblock Fall 2012 Exhibition Schedule:
Hell’s Union: Motorcycle Club Cuts as American Folk Art
October 6-December 8, 2012
Location: California Museum of Photography
Reception: Saturday, October 6, 2012, 6-9 PM
Ecce Homo: The Paintings of Edward Beardsley
October 20-December 14, 2012
Location: Sweeney Art Gallery and Culver Center of the Arts
Reception: Saturday, October 20, 2012, 6-9 PM
Ed Beardsley will be present at [...]

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FIRST THURSDAY Opening Reception AD&A Museum @ Jane Deering Gallery

When: Thursday, October 4, 2012, 5-8pm
Where: AD&A Museum @ Jane Deering Gallery
128 East Canon Perdido Street, UC Santa Barbara
Join us for First Thursday, October 4th for the opening of Ruinophilia which explores artists’ continued fascination with ruins from the 16th century to the present. Through prints, photographs, sculpture and multimedia works, Ruinophilia ranges from depictions [...]

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Artist Call- Bedford Gallery 2013 Juried Exhibition: A Peacable Kingdom

National Juried Exhibition 2013, The Bedford Gallery
Peaceable Kingdom: Animals, Real and Imagined
March 3 – May 19, 2013
Peaceable Kingdom invites artists to investigate our storied and rich relationship with the animal world. The exhibition will explore the ways in which animals have been a presence in the visual arts as metaphors, totems, objects of fear, and [...]

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Artist Call- Art for the House 2012

For SF Bay Area artists
ART FOR THE HOUSE is an annual fall art auction and sale, with an emphasis on affordably priced, lowbrow and urban art by Bay Area artists.
This year, it will be held on November 16 at Firehouse 8, a reclaimed mixed retail space in San Francisco’s Russian Hill neighborhood. The event is free [...]

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Artist Call- Featured Artist for Hermosa Beach Art Walk

Hermosa Beach Art Walk is an annual event that is celebrating over a decade of fine art exhibition.  Located on the green at Pacific Coast Highway and Pier Avenue, the Art Walk is a two day juried festival that features highly skilled artists in a diverse range of media. The city of Hermosa Beach, located at [...]

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Artist Call- Painted Violin Project 2013

For California artists Turn an unplayable instrument into a work of art to benefit the Youth Orchestras of Fresno. We supply the unplayable instrument, you supply the art.
Artists are invited to submit applications (multiple submissions are OK) until Sunday December 2, 2012. The deadline for online submissions is 12:00 midnight PST. Snailmail submissions must be postmarked by December [...]

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Carmageddon II: Getty and other arts institutions buckle down again

Originally posted by the Los Angeles Times
September 26, 2012
Cultural institutions on the west side of Los Angeles are bracing themselves for this weekend’s closure of the 405 freeway, nicknamed Carmageddon II. The closure is set to take place Saturday and Sunday and will affect a 10-mile stretch of the 405 from Getty Center Drive to the [...]

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Geffen Playhouse, La Jolla Playhouse reach out to military families

Originally posted by the Los Angeles Times
September 27, 2012
The Geffen Playhouse and the La Jolla Playhouse are reaching out to military families as part of a new, nationwide program offering discounted or complimentary tickets to active-duty military personnel, veterans and their families.
Blue Star Theatres is a nationwide program that officially will be launched Friday. The program [...]

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Smithsonian promotes free SoCal museum admissions on Saturday

Originally posted by the Los Angeles Times
September 27, 2012
Several of the most-visited museums in the United States are in Washington, D.C. – and a big reason, in addition to the ample tourist traffic to our nation’s capital, is that they are under federal auspices and therefore free.
It’s an example of your tax dollars at work [...]

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‘Regarding Warhol’ and then some at the Met

Originally posted by the Los Angeles Times
September 28, 2012
Is Andy Warhol the most important artist of the last 50 years?
That’s the question posed, if not conclusively answered, by “Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years,” an ambitious exhibition that opened Sept. 18 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
Conceived by the Met’s Marla Prather and [...]

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MOCA trustee Peter Brant using his art to get business loans

Originally posted by the Los Angeles Times
September 28, 2012
Where does art come from?
In the case of L.A.’s Museum of Contemporary Art, much of its collection has come from board members who donated or bequeathed key works or entire collections, or sold art to the museum at highly favorable terms.
Among the leading collectors on the current [...]

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David Alfaro Siqueiros’ ‘America Tropical’ awaits new unveiling

Originally posted by the Los Angeles Times
September 29, 2012
“America Tropical” must be Los Angeles’ most famous invisible artwork.
Born in drama and buried in anger, Mexican artist David Alfaro Siqueiros’ monumental mural on Olvera Street has been a cause célèbre for decades. Siqueiros was commissioned to paint the 18-by-80-foot fresco in 1932 as a decoration [...]

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Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum presents Forum Lounge: Brent Green, God Builds Like Frank Lloyd Wright

Where: Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, 653 Paseo Nuevo

When: 10/04/12
5 pm Happy Hour
7 pm Performance

Best known for his darkly humorous stop-motion animated films that touch on themes of love, death, salvation, and the underworld, filmmaker Brent Green performs live with a series of his recent short films and musical accompaniment by guest musicians Tim Rutili [...]

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UCSB CHOIR AUDITIONS

For information, please visit: http://www.music.ucsb.edu
UCSB CHAMBER CHOIR * Conductor: Michel Marc Gervais
REHEARSALS: M W 5:00 – 7:00 p.m. * Music Room 1145
First Rehearsal: Mon., October 1 at 5 p.m., Room 1145
Music A36 * A136 * A236
This outstanding ensemble of music majors and non-majors comprises 34 of the best singers from the [...]

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William Grant Still Arts Center’s Dragon’s Flight Art Exhibition

Dates: October 6-November 24
Opening Concert: Saturday, October 6, 2012 Noon-6pm
Location: William Grant Still Arts Center – A City of LA DCA Cultural Arts Facility
Address: 2520 S. West View Street, Los Angeles, CA 90016
Hours: Tuesday-Saturday, Noon-5pm
The theme of the exhibition Dragon’s Flight is the transformative power of creating art, and the ability to reclaim and [...]

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Théâtre de la Ville Rhinocéros by Eugène Ionesco at UC Berkeley

When: September 27-29, 2012
Where: Zellerbach Hall, UC Berkeley
Tickets start at $30. To purchase tickets click here.
The esteemed Parisian theater company presents a legendary production! Director Emmanuel Demarcy-Mota has reunited his remarkable 2004 cast of actors for encore performances of Eugène Ionesco’s masterpiece of the absurd, Rhinocéros. When first presented in Paris, critics were ecstatic. [...]

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Photography: Fiat Lux redux—Ansel Adams and the University Of California

When: September 27, 2012–February 28, 2013
Where: The Bancroft Library Gallery, UC Berkeley
In 1963, the University of California regents hired photographer Ansel Adams and writer Nancy Newhall to depict the university’s future — a collaboration that resulted in the 1967 publication Fiat Lux. This exhibit, Fiat Lux Redux: Ansel Adams and the University Of California, is [...]

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Portfolio 2012: Boesch / Peter / Rosenberger at UC San Diego

“PORTFOLIO” 2012
land – material – people

When: Thursday, October 11th, 2012, 8:00 pm
Where: CPMC Theatre, UC San Diego
FREE EVENT
Interpretations, transformations and responses these are procedures at the heart of the project “PORTFOLIO” by the Swiss musicians Christoph Boesch (flute, voice, electronics), Thomas Peter (programming, electronics) and Katharina Rosenberger
(composition, electronics).
“PORTFOLIO” 2012 is dedicated to the concept of [...]

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Bebel Gilberto comes to UC Los Angles

Bebel Gilberto
plus special guests Forro in the Dark

When: Friday, September 28, 2012 at 8:00 PM
Where: Royce Hall, UCLA
$20 – $55 ($15 UCLA Students)
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The colorful sound of Brazil fills Royce Hall, featuring headliner Bebel Gilberto’s trademark electronic bossa nova, which took over clubs around the world and cemented Bebel as one of the top-selling Brazilian [...]

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AXIS Dance Company Performance/Workshop/Demonstration at UCLA

When & Where: October 11, 2012
Royce Hall: Special Performance 11am – noon
Glorya Kaufman Dance Theater: Workshop/Demonstration 3-5 pm
Free for students and the UCLA Community!
no reservations required
additional/questions: mlfriedman@arts.ucla.edu
AXIS Dance Company will change the way you think about dance and the possibilities of the human body forever. The company creates “physically integrated dance”— a contemporary dance form [...]

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Call for Artists- CollectLA Arts Fair

CollectLA is excited to announce our first art fair and we want YOU to be involved!!
CollectLA is a great new concept. Run by artists and for artists, it is a first rate art fair where approximately 350 independent artists will show and sell their work to the public en masse. We will rent the [...]

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OPEN CALL FOR ARTISTS: MFA NOW: Archive Project & Juried Exhibition

Deadline for Submission: December 3, 2012
Exhibition dates: February 6-23, 2012
According to the US News and World Report survey from 2012, the Bay Area is home to six of the top one hundred MFA Programs in Visual Arts in the country: California College of the Arts, Mills College, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco State University, [...]

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X Libris Exhibition

Curated by MicroClimate Collective: Glenna Cole Allee, Victoria Mara Heilweil, and Guest Curator Sarah Ratchye
Exhibition dates: November 7 – December 1, 2012
Gallery Hours: Wednesday- Saturday, 2–6 pm (or by appointment)
Opening Reception: Saturday, November 10, 7-10 pm
Sliding Scale Suggested Donation: $2-$20
Plus Creative Station: Free all-ages art activity in the Studio 2 Classroom from 7-9 pm [...]

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SCRAP Art Exhibition Call for Entries

For SF Bay Area artists
Exhibition dates: December 1, 2012 to January 9, 2013.

Deadline for submissions: Wednesday, October 10th.

Selection notification: October 18th.
SCRAP Art is our 4th creative reuse exhibition being held Dec 1, 2012 to Jan 9, 2013 at ARC Gallery in San Francisco. This juried exhibition is open to all San Francisco Bay Area artists [...]

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Akram Khan Company in Santa Barbara

When: Sunday, October 14, 2012, 7:00PM
Where: The Granada Theatre, Santa Barbara, CA
$38 – $48 – General Public
$20 – UCSB Students (Current ID required / Limited availability)
Includes facility fee
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Vertical Road
Santa Barbara Premiere
Akram Khan, Artistic Director
“A fantastic feast for the senses – design, lighting, music and dancers of all shapes and ethnicities combine in a rich [...]

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Aspen Santa Fe Ballet Comes to Santa Barbara

When: Tuesday, October 2, 2012, 8:00PM
Where: The Granada Theatre, Santa Barbara
$38 – $48 – General Public
$20 – UCSB Students (Current ID required / Limited availability)
Includes facility fee
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Santa Barbara Debut
Tom Mossbrucker, Artistic Director
“They raise the bar, and then they jump over it.”
The New York Times
“It’s a class act, … an extraordinarily engaging act.”
New York Post
Audiences [...]

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Artists-Gallery Agreements — Live Webinar!

Join a live webinar on “ARTISTS-GALLERY AGREEMENTS”
With M.J. Bogatin, Esq.
When: Thursday, September 27, 2012 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM PDT
This workshop is for artists, dealers, and gallery owners who want to better understand the legal relationships between artists and galleries. California state laws governing consignment sales will be reviewed – as well as how to [...]

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Steve Bing Pledges $30 Million for Motion Picture and Television Fund

originally posted by Philanthropy News Digest
September 24, 2012
The Motion Picture and Television Fund has announced a $30 million commitment from developer, builder, and producer Steve Bing toward its MPTF Campaign.
Launched in February with a goal of $350 million, the campaign aims to meet the needs of entertainment industry workers and current and future retirees through [...]

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Heinz Family Foundation Announces 2012 Heinz Award Recipients

originally posted by Philanthropy News Digest

The Pittsburgh-based Heinz Family Foundation has announced the recipients of its eighteenth annual Heinz Awards.
Established in 1993 to honor Sen. John Heinz (R-PA), who was killed in a plane crash in 1991, the awards — among the largest prizes for individual achievement in the world — recognize significant accomplishment in [...]

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The artistic vision of UCLA’s Kristy Edmunds

originally posted by the Los Angeles Times
September 22, 2012
The CAP-UCLA executive and artistic director has big plans for performing arts at the campus, including more university-centric work, more student involvement and a return to adventurous programming.
When David Sefton resigned as the executive and artistic director of UCLA Live at the end of the 2009-10 season, [...]

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REDCAT names Ruth Estevez as new gallery director and curator

originally posted by the Los Angeles Times
September 24, 2012
REDCAT has named a new gallery director and curator to oversee its visual arts program. Ruth Estevez will take on the job starting November at the Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater, located at Walt Disney Concert Hall in downtown L.A.
Estevez will fill the role formerly held by [...]

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NEA Chairman Rocco Landesman and Blue Star Families CEO Kathy Roth-Douquet Congratulate More Than 1,800 Blue Star Museums Nationwide as the Summer Program Concludes

originally posted by National Endowment for the Arts
September 17, 2012
Blue Star Museums closed out its third year with more than 1,800 museums offering free admission to active duty military personnel and their families between Memorial Day and Labor Day. Blue Star Museums is a national partnership among Blue Star Families, the National Endowment for the [...]

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NEA and NIH Co-host Live Webinar on New Funding Opportunity on Culture and Health

You are invited to a live, public webinar
Thursday, October 4, 2012, 3:00 – 4:00 pm, EST
Webinar will focus on new funding opportunity on the arts and social sciences from the National Institutes of Health.
How does culture affect health-related beliefs and practices? Artists and arts organizations may help answer this question through a new funding opportunity [...]

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Kirk Douglas on Film

When: Monday, October 1, 2012, 7:30PM
Where: Pollock Theater, UC Santa Barbara
In the first two films of the fall series, Champion (7:30 PM) and Ace in the Hole (9 PM), Kirk Douglas plays ruthless and unscrupulous characters determined to get what they want.
$10 – General Public
$5 – UCSB Students (Current ID required / Limited availability)
BUY TICKETS
Champion [...]

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CHIME Application Deadline: Postmarked October 1st, 2012

Last month CHIME staff held free application workshops in San Francisco and Los Angeles for the 2013 program year. Click on the links below to view video clips addressing some of the most commonly asked questions about the application process for both programs. To download the 2013 CHIME in Southern California Guidelines and Application visit: [...]

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Out of Line: A Show of Extended Drawing Practices

When: September 27 – December 16, 2012
Opening September 27, 5:30-7:30pm, Curator Renny Pritikin will lead a gallery tour at 6:00 pm
Where: Nelson Gallery, UC Davis
Artist Lecture Series
4pm in the TCS Building
Featuring Julia Haft-Candell, Out of Line artist
Drawing is one of the oldest forms of art making, yet artists continue to find ways to evolve the [...]

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San Francisco’s Jazzy New Arts Center: Behind The Scenes With Architect Mark Cavagnero

Originally posted in Architizer, by Lamar Anderson
September 16, 2012
After holding its performances in an improvised mix of venues around the city for the past three decades, SFJAZZ finally has a place to park its piano. When it opens on January 21, 2013, the new 35,000-square-foot SFJAZZ Center will be the first standalone jazz performance hall [...]

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Political Prankster Steve Lambert Brings His Interactive Signs to Charlie James Gallery

reblogged from LA Weekly
By Shelley Leopold (Thursday, Sep 20 2012)
link to original article: http://www.laweekly.com/2012-09-20/art-books/steve-lambert-charlie-james-gallery/
Steve Lambert builds ideas. For instance, in the hand-built, retro signage he created for his second solo L.A. show, “It’s Time to Fight and It’s Time to Stop Fighting” at Charlie James Gallery, the outgoing instigator with a wiry [...]

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University of California, Santa Barbara College of Letters and Science, Division of Humanities and Fine Arts Department of Music presents: MUSIC STUDY AND PERFORMANCE AT UCSB

MUSIC STUDY AND PERFORMANCE AT UCSB
Auditions: September 24-28
For information, please visit: http://www.music.ucsb.edu
The Music Department offers opportunities for both Majors and Non-Majors to study courses in History, Theory, and Ethnomusicology.
Instrumental and vocal study in both class and private settings
are available based on audition and space availability.
Auditions occur between September 24 – September 28.
Please see the [...]

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Artist Call – Spiritual Tribes: Reforming Families

How can faith and fellowship generate kinship and camaraderie, causing us to rethink definitions of family that transcend blood and lineage? How can we consider the social, rather than biological aspects of family? How do common belief systems constitute shared experience, which can be as connective as DNA? CARE will exhibit selected art that deals [...]

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Graphic Design Exhibition at the Hammer Museum

When: September 29, 2012
Where: The Hammer Museum
This major international exhibition explores how graphic design has broadened its reach over the past decade, expanding from a specialized profession to a widely used tool. With the rise of accessible creative software and innovations in publishing and distribution systems, people outside the field are mobilizing the techniques and [...]

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This was funny yesterday

When: September 25 – October 19, 2012
Opening Reception – Thursday, October 4 from 6:30-7:30PM
Where: CCS Gallery, Building 494, UC Santa Barbara
The use of humor in arty production is a fairly recent and often oddly overlooked development. This Was Funny Yesterday begins with a look at the use of humor in classic conceptual art and extends [...]

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Artist Call – Chamber Music America Invites Concert Presenters to Apply for Presenting Jazz Program Support

With support from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Chamber Music America’s Presenting Jazz program provides support to concert presenters engaging jazz ensembles for public performances in concert settings.
Priority will be given to applicants presenting emerging or mid-career ensembles or concerts that represent new programming directions for the presenter. Additional incentives are available to presenters engaging [...]

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Artist Call – ArtPlace Invites Letters of Inquiry for Creative Placemaking Projects

ArtPlace, a nationwide initiative to drive community revitalization through the arts, is inviting Letters of Inquiry for its third round of funding.
A collaboration of eleven major national and regional foundations, six of the nation’s largest banks, and eight federal agencies, ArtPlace works to accelerate creative placemaking in the United States. To that end, it defines [...]

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Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum presents smART Salons: Curators’ Roundtable

When: October 11, 2012 at 6PM
Where: Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, 653 Paseo Nuevo
What guidelines do curators follow to create exhibitions, and what is their selection process for inviting artists to exhibit work? During Artist Professional Development month at CAF, smART Salons presents a panel discussion that addresses the role of curators today. Three [...]

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UCIRA Artist jesikah maria ross: Restore/Restory – public history at UC Davis

Originally posted by Imagining America
Restore/Restory is a community media project led by the University of California Davis Art of Regional Change program in partnership with the Cache Creek Conservancy. Through the project, UC Davis scholars, artists, and students work with community members to document the changing physical and cultural landscape of the Cache Creek Nature [...]

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Artist Call – Grand Performances is Hiring a Development Assistant

Grand Performances has an immediate full-time job opening for a Development Assistant.
Grand Performances, L.A.’s premier free outdoor summer performing arts presenter, is known for providing Angelenos with an eclectic mix of high quality performing arts by world-renowned artists across genres. With programming reflective of the many cultural interests of people across the region, Grand Performances [...]

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GYST200: Advanced Critique Class

Sign up For GYST200: Advanced Critique
When: Mondays October 1 – November 12 from 7-9PM
Location: Los Angeles area at enrolled artists’ studios
Cost: $280
REGISTER: Email tucker@gyst-ink.com
ABOUT:
This is an exclusive class for students who have already taken the GYST workshop and/or students who evidence an emerging practice and want to delve in-depth into the conceptual issues informing [...]

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UC Davis Department of Theatre and Dance Begins Diverse 2012-13 Season with Inaugural Performance-based Haunted House

Originally posted by The UC Davis Department of Theatre and Dance
September 19, 2012
The UC Davis Department of Theatre and Dance 2012-13 season offers five exciting major productions starting with The Haunt, a performance-based haunted house and dance party. It includes a new work by Granada Artist-in-Residence and renowned Nigerian choreographer Qudus Onikeku and Euripedes’ The [...]

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Artist Call- Call for Submissions: Redcat’s Studio Fall 2012

REDCAT is seeking original performance works for the next edition of Studio, REDCAT’s quarterly series of new works in progress in dance, theater, multimedia and music. If you have a project 15 minutes or under and would like to be considered – apply now.
ABOUT STUDIO
Studio was created to give new artists an opportunity to [...]

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Artist Call-GYST Weekend Workshop Retreat Oct. 26 -28, 2012

When: October 26, 2012 – October 28, 2012.
Welcome reception October 26th at 8pm, Weekend Workshop ends after lunch on Sunday October 28th.
Where: Costanoa Costal Lodge & Camp2001 Rossi Road at HWY 1 Pescadero, CA 94060
30 Minutes north of Santa Cruz.
Discounted shuttles available upon request.
Join us for an intense weekend workshop!
Sign up Soon, Space is very [...]

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TIME ZONES Location/Translation: Art and Engagement from the Local to the Global

When: Wednesday, September 19, 5:30 p.m.
Location: Museum Theater
UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
2621 Durant Avenue, access via the Sculpture Garden
Free and open to the public
Time Zones is a yearlong series of events sponsored by the Arts Research Center exploring time-based and socially engaged art practices in an international context.
Location/Translation: Art and Engagement [...]

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UCIRA Artist Emily V. Bovino presents “On Apoplexy and Circulation Failure, or the Failure of Blood Vessels to the Heart: What Happens When A Bacon Falls and Who Hears It?”

Originally posted by SOMA
September 12, 2012
On Apoplexy and Circulation Failure, or the Failure of Blood Vessels to the Heart: What Happens When A Bacon Falls and Who Hears It?
What Happened Between 1919 and 1920? And Why Should It Matter To Us?
The online collection of parodic episodes entitled On Apoplexy and Circulation Failure, or [...]

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UCSC taps Tang Museum director to lead innovative museum project

Originally posted by the University of California Santa Cruz
September 4, 2012
John Weber named as founding director to develop new Institute for Arts & Sciences
The UC Santa Cruz Arts Division announced today that John Weber—currently Dayton Director of the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York—has [...]

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Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum presents Portfolio Review Week

Dates: October 3-October 9, 2012
*By appointment only
Where: Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, 653 Paseo Nuevo
CAF’s Artist Professional Development series kicks off with this annual portfolio review offering one-on-one, 20-minute reviews with Executive Director and Chief Curator, Miki Garcia. Make an appointment to discuss recent work, refine portfolios, and career advice. Please bring an artist’s [...]

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Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum presents Crave: Art, Food, & Social Experience

Where: CAF Satellite @ Hotel Indigo Santa Barbara
121 State Street
When: Come to Your Senses Cocktail Party: October 5, 5-7 pm
Food, like art, builds bridges between people and the sharing of food inspires communal behavior akin to art’s capacity for dialogue and understanding. Creating an exchange between culinary and visual nourishment, Crave is passionate [...]

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This Friday! GALLERY WALKTHROUGH WITH ARTIST AMY CUTLER, AD&A Museum, UC Santa Barbara

GALLERY WALKTHROUGH WITH AMY CUTLER
When: This Friday, September 14th 5:30-7:30pm
Reception to follow
Location: Art, Design & Architecture Museum, UC Santa Barbara
Join us for a special gallery walkthrough with Amy Cutler. The Brooklyn-based artist will discuss her exquisitely detailed paintings, all the while taking visitors through the gallery relating information about specific works [...]

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The National Endowment for the Arts Celebrates NEA Literature Fellows at the National Book Festival’s Poetry & Prose Pavilion on September 22-23, 2012

Originally posted by National Endowment for the Arts
September 11, 2012
Washington, D.C. – At this year’s National Book Festival, many of the poets and writers at the Poetry & Prose Pavilion will celebrate their roles as NEA Literature Fellows, one of the nation’s most prestigious competitive awards for new and established authors. The Poetry & Prose [...]

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Artist Call- Stitch Fetish

Stitch Fetish, at The Hive Gallery, will explore art of the stitch (a rite unto itself), revealing the fetishist secrets lurking in the minds of the artists. Works of erotica and titillation! Works of dark fantasy and longing. Works of secrets never told, but long desired.
Artists may submit works dealing with erotica and [...]

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Artist Call- Holiday Art Affair

Once again we are gathering for our annual Holiday Art Affair; we hope you will join us to showcase and sell your work. We will again be providing you with lunch and we are planning entertainment throughout the day.
1. The fee this year will be $60.00 for either an 8×16 space under the large overhanging [...]

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Artist Call: Art for the Dead-Muertos in the Park

The goal of Art for the Dead is to offer the San Diego community a safe alternative to Halloween with activities that have culturally relevant focus through multi-generational workshops and activities, based on the traditions of Día de lo Muerto (Muertos). To engage the San Diego community in a dialog based on the continuation and [...]

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Tribeca Film Institute Announces Guidelines for Documentary Fund

Deadline: November 5, 2012
The Tribeca Film Institute Documentary Fund provides grants and guidance to exceptional filmmakers with character-driven nonfiction works-in-progress that sit outside of the social issue landscape. By supporting work that engages in unexplored perspectives, the fund aims to help take audiences into someone else’s environment and spotlight the journey of the individual.
Submissions must [...]

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‘Glengarry Glen Ross’ Play

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Play
By David Mamet
Directed by Christopher Ashley
Dates: September 18-October 21, 2012
Location: La Jolla Playhouse, 2910 La Jolla Village Drive, La Jolla
Phone: (858) 550-1010
Price: $15-$69
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for drama, Glengarry Glen Ross is David Mamet’s scorching play about a group of desperate salesmen in a Chicago real estate office. When a contest pits [...]

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Angel City Jazz Festival at UC Los Angeles

Dates: October 13 & 14, 2012
Location: Royce Hall, UC Los Angeles
Its multiple settings may be less picnic-friendly than its festival brethren, but this year’s installment marks another can’t-miss couple weeks for L.A. jazz fans. The festival is built around the theme of artists paying respect to their mentors; its centerpiece remains the Ford Amphitheatre, with [...]

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L.A. Dance Project

L.A. DANCE PROJECT Founded by Benjamin Millepied

Dates: September 22 and 23, 2012
Location: Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, CA
SINGLE TICKET PRICES
(A) Front Orchestra: $110
(B) Orchestra: $90
(C) Terrace: $90
(D) Terrace: $85
(E) Orchestra East/West: $70
(F) Orchestra East/West: $70
(G) Terrace East/West: $60
(H) Balcony: $37
(I) Orchestra East/West: $28
To buy tickets click here.
“[Millepied] is among the most skilled ballet [...]

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Akram Khan Company at UC Los Angeles

Date & Time: October 5 & 6, 2012, 8:00pm
Location: Royce Hall, UC Los Angeles
Price: $20 – $55 ($15 UCLA Students)
To purchase tickets click here.
Akram Khan has become one of the most acclaimed choreographers of this generation, with countless awards and citations for his bold approach to creating dance works. His signature choreographic style draws [...]

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No fall gala for MOCA this year

Originally posted by The Los Angeles Times
September 7, 2012
Prince’s hit song “1999” suggested that the best response to tense times was to party even harder, but L.A.’s Museum of Contemporary Art apparently has other ideas.
Museum spokeswoman Lyn Winter said Friday that it has decided to forgo the fall gala that had become a highlight of [...]

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John Baldessari, Frank Gehry to show support for Obama campaign

Originally posted by The Los Angeles Times
September 10, 2012
The reelection campaign for President Barack Obama is getting a modest boost from some major names in the art world — John Baldessari, Ed Ruscha, Richard Serra, Bruce Nauman, Claes Odenburg, Chris Burden and Frank Gehry.
“Artists for Obama” is a portfolio of limited edition prints and other [...]

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Beau Bridges receiving lifetime achievement award from Theatre West

Originally posted by The Los Angeles Times
September 10, 2012
Beau Bridges will receive a lifetime achievement award from Theatre West at its 50th anniversary gala celebration this week in Hollywood.
Bridges will receive the inaugural Betty Garrett Lifetime Achievement Award on Thursday at the Taglyan Cultural Complex. The actor is expected to receive tributes from his [...]

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Could Getty, LACMA and Hammer museums be free? Directors weigh in

Originally posted by The Los Angeles Times
September 11, 2012
At the Zocalo panel on Friday with L.A. museum directors Timothy Potts, Ann Philbin and Michael Govan, MOCA’s finances were one (brief) topic of conversation.
Personal finances were another: at the end of the panel, an audience member asked a question about making the museums more affordable or [...]

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The 25th Annual Napa Valley Open Studios

Date & Time: Saturday, September 22, 2012 10:00am to 5:00pm
Location: Napa Valley, Napa, CA
Price: FREE
Age Suitability: All Ages
Join us September 22-23 & 29-30 for the 25th Annual Napa Valley Open Studios.
A FREE, self-guided, art discovery tour which takes place over the last two weekends in September and includes 74 participating artists and craftspeople showing [...]

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Local Treasures: Bay Area Ceramics

Date & Time: Saturday, Saturday, September 22 – November 18, 2012
Opening Reception: Saturday, September 22, 5-8pm
Location: Berkeley Art Center, UC Berkeley
Local Treasures, a bi-annual exhibition series started in 2010, features artists who have had a significant impact in the artistic fabric of this community. An array of masterful and mysterious works in clay, the exhibition [...]

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Raw SF ‘Ensemble’ Fashion Explosion

Raw SF ‘Ensemble’ Fashion Explosion with 50 of the Bay’s best plus Ground Control + Gordo Cabeza + Slayers Club {Hosted by Joe Mousepad}
Date & Time: Thursday, Sep 20 7:00pm to Friday, Sep 21 12:00am
Location: 1015 Folsom, San Francisco, CA
Price: $10presale/$15door
Phone: (415) 347-0444
Age Suitability: 21 and up
Raw SF, known for throwing the Bay Area’s largest [...]

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The Art of Graffiti: Intro Class with Nate1

Date & Time: Saturday, September 15 12:30pm to 3:30pm
Location: 1AM Gallery
1000 Howard St.
San Francisco, CA 94103
(415) 861-5089
Price: $55.00
Phone: (415) 861-5089
Age Suitability: Teens and up
Study the history of graffiti and how it changed over time under one of the graff legends! You’ll go on a mural walk tour to see landmark pieces and productions followed by [...]

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Ceramics Annual of America 2012 in San Francisco

Date & Time: Thursday, September 13- Sunday, September 16, 2012
Location: Fort Mason Center, Festival Pavilion, San Francisco, CA
The Ceramics Annual of America (CAA) is an ambitious exhibition and art fair spotlighting the quality and diversity of contemporary ceramics from around the world including works from China, Korea, Mexico, Australia and Italy. It is the only [...]

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The 2012 Rock Make Street Festival in San Francisco

Date & Time: Saturday, Sep 15 12:00-7pm
Location: Treat Ave & 18th St, San Francisco, CA
Age Suitability: All Ages
The 5th annual Rock Make Street Festival is returning to Treat Ave and 18th St on September 15th from 12pm to 7pm. The Mission’s only all ages, all day celebration of local independent music, arts, crafts, and food, [...]

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The 56th Mill Valley Fall Arts Festival

Date & Time: Saturday, Sep 15 10:00am to 5:00pm
Location: Old Mill Park, Mill Valley, CA
Price: $10 GA $5 for Seniors and Students and Free for kids 12 and under
Phone: (415) 381-8090
Age Suitability: All Ages
The 56th Mill Valley Fall Arts Festival will showcase over 140 fine artists from all over the country and offers live musical [...]

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Living as Form (The Nomadic Version)

Curated by Nato Thompson
Co-organized by Creative Time and Independent Curators International (ICI) and assembled
in collaboration with the University Art Gallery
Dates & Times:
October 4 – December 14, 2012
Opening Reception: Thursday October 4, 5:30 – 8:30 pm
LA JOLLA- The UC San Diego University Art Gallery (UAG) teams up with Creative Time
and Independent Curators International (ICI) to present [...]

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UCIRA Co-Director Kim Yasuda to present at CAMP OUT: FINDING HOME IN AN UNSTABLE WORLD

Exhibition
Laumeier Sculpture Park in St. Louis, MO
Through September 16, 2012
Opening: September 7th and 8th, 2012
Plan to join us for a weekend of events celebrating Camp Out September 7-8. We have a panel discussion at Webster University Friday afternoon, and Friday evening UCIRA Artist Kim Yasuda is hosting a Community Picnic with sample platters from area [...]

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JazzPOP: Aram Shelton Quartet at the Hammer Museum

Date & Time: Friday, September 21 2012, 07:30pm
Location: Hammer Museum, UC Los Angeles
JazzPOP
The seventh annual edition of JazzPOP, the Hammer’s creative jazz series, returns to the courtyard this September, featuring trailblazing West Coast bandleaders/composers and their collaborators from Los Angeles, New York, and Chicago. Curated by San Francisco bassist Lisa Mezzacappa.
“Shelton plays alto with a [...]

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“In Acting Shakespeare” at UC Santa Cruz

Sunday, October 14, 2012 – 2:00pm
Mainstage Theater, Theater Arts Center (UCSC)
Written and performed by James DeVita
Directed by John Langs
Freely adapted from the play Acting Shakespeare, originally compiled and written by Ian MacKellen for his 1987 tour of the U.S.
As a young man, James DeVita dreamed of a life on the stage, but how does a [...]

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2013 Newport Beach Film Festival Now Open for Submissions!

Deadline: 01-31-2013
Celebrating its 14th year, the Newport Beach Film Festival is open for submissions! Submit your film now to save and receive a discount when you submit through Withoutabox!
Named one of the “25 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee” by Movie Maker Magazine, the Newport Beach Film Festival will run from April 25th to May [...]

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Artist Call- 2012 Holiday Performing Arts Series in Sacramento

Deadline: 10-15-2012
For Sacramento artists
The 2012 Holiday Performing Arts Series is presented by the Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission and the Sacramento International Airport. Each year, the Sacramento International Airport hosts a Holiday Performing Arts Series in Terminal B featuring local artists. The purpose of the Series is to bring high-quality, diverse performances that are representative of [...]

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Artist Call- Lines and Colors: Celebrating Degas

Deadline: 10-09-2012
This juried exhibition will be presented in conjunction with Edgar Degas: The Private Impressionist, Works on Paper by the Artist and His Circle on view at the Carnegie Arts Center in Turlock from October 6, 2012 until January 13, 2013.
Lines and Colors: Celebrating Degas will complement the exhibit. Its title is grounded [...]

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Artist Call- Paint. Paper. Potter. Poe – “Oh So Poe: The Show”

Deadline: 09-26-2012
For Northern CA artists
Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it ‘the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul. – Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe, America’s master of mystery, the macabre and more, inspired many celebrated artists from his time [...]

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NEA National Heritage Fellows to Perform in Free Concert at George Washington University Lisner Auditorium on October 4, 2012

Date & Time: Thursday, October 4, 2012, 7:30 pm
Location: George Washington University’s Lisner Auditorium, 21st Street NW in Washington, DC
Live webcast of concert available at arts.gov
Recipients also to be honored at Awards Ceremony on October 3, 2012
Washington, D.C. – At its heart, the folk and traditional arts are rooted in the cultural practices [...]

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L.A. “X”

originally posted by ARTnews
08-28-2012
LACMA’s plan to open a show featuring Robert Mapplethorpe’s gay sadomasochistic photographs two weeks before Election Day proves we’ve come a long way–maybe
When the ill-fated Robert Mapplethorpe survey called “The Perfect Moment” opened at Cincinnati’s Contemporary Arts Center in April 1990, some not unexpected and not very art-friendly visitors arrived. It was [...]

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American Council for Learned Societies Accepting Applications for Luce Foundation Dissertation Fellowships in American Art

Deadline: 10-24-2012
With support from the Henry Luce Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies offers the Luce Foundation/ACLS Dissertation Fellowships in American Art for graduate students at any stage of Ph.D. dissertation research or writing.
Ten fellowships providing stipends of $25,000 and up to $2,000 as a travel allowance are available for a non-renewable, one-year term [...]

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National Endowment for the Humanities and American Library Association Announce Updates and Availability of Cash Grants for Muslim Journeys Bookshelf Program

Deadline: 10-25-2012
The National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Library Association have announced updates to the application process and grants available through the Bridging Cultures Bookshelf: Muslim Journeys program.
NEH’s Bridging Cultures initiative is designed to engage the power of the humanities to promote understanding of and mutual respect for people with diverse histories, cultures, [...]

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Annenberg Foundation Awards $1 Million to Sundance Institute

originally posted by Philanthropy New Digest
08-29-2012
The Sundance Institute has announced a three-year, $1 million general operating support grant from the Annenberg Foundation for its independent film and theatre artist programs.
The funds will help the institute advance its efforts to discover and develop independent artists and audiences through labs, grants, its #ArtistServices initiative, and public programs [...]

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13th Annual San Francisco Electronic Music Festival

Date & Time: Wednesday, September 5, 2012 at 6-9pm
Location: Brava Theater Center, San Francisco, CA
The 13th Annual San Francisco Electronic Music Festival is proud to offer five evenings of stimulating performances and installations by internationally recognized artists and musicians in the electronic music field. This year’s lineup includes a wide array of electronic music [...]

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Artist Call- The MAP 2012-2013 LOI is now OPEN!

The 2012-2013 LOI online application is now open!
Even if you have applied in the past, you will need to register a new account. You can do so on our website here.
Be sure to read all the Eligibility and Guidelines information in addition to the updated Fiscal Sponsorship requirements.
Fiscal Sponsorship at MAP
The MAP Fund [...]

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A meeting aims to generate unity among trustees

originally posted by the Los Angeles Times
09-03-2012
After a summer of discontent, the board of L.A.’s Museum of Contemporary Art has scheduled a special meeting Tuesday, aiming to unite trustees whose willingness to donate is vital to reversing recent budget cuts.
“I think it is going to be very candid and open,” said Susan Gersh, one of [...]

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Caroline Kennedy, David Bohnett named Kennedy Center trustees

originally posted by the Los Angeles Times
08-31-2012
President Obama is naming 10 new trustees to the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, the White House announced Friday. Among the appointees are Caroline Kennedy, daughter of the late president, and David Bohnett, the Los Angeles technology entrepreneur and philanthropist who has been [...]

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John Cage’s genius an L.A. story

originally posted by the Los Angeles Times
08-31-2012
John Cage was born Sept. 5, 1912, at Good Samaritan Hospital in downtown Los Angeles. There is no plaque. Nor are there plaques anywhere in L.A., Long Beach, Santa Monica or Claremont, cities where Cage grew up, studied and gave his first concerts. And became John Cage.
He was, perhaps, [...]

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Broad Foundation makes payment to MOCA after controversial delay

originally posted by the Los Angeles Times
08-29-2012
The Broad Foundation has made a $1.5-million payment to L.A.’s Museum of Contemporary Art, bringing it out of arrears on Eli Broad’s pledge to provide $3 million a year for MOCA’s exhibitions through 2013.
Earlier this month, foundation spokeswoman Karen Denne had said that scheduled payments had been withheld because [...]

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UCIRA “Desert Studies” featured in ARID Inaugural Issue

originally posted by ARID: A Journal of Desert Art, Design and Ecology
09-01-2012
ARID: A Journal of Desert Art, Design and Ecology is a peer-reviewed bi-annual journal focusing on cross-disciplinary explorations of desert arts, design, culture and the environment for both scholarly and new audiences. ARID seeks submissions of scholarly articles, curriculum, visual essays and other media [...]

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In art as in music, John Cage reveals the world within

originally posted by the Los Angeles Times
09-01-2012
John Cage was a leading avant-garde composer for 40 years, but he also made spare watercolors, drawings and prints, plus the occasional painting, especially in the final decades of his life. Infused with the same spirit that characterizes his work as a musician, Cage’s pale color washes, Zen circles [...]

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UCIRA Artist Jesikah Maria Ross to Debut Restore/Restory: A People’s History of the Cache Creek Nature Preserve

Date: Saturday, October 20, 2012
Time: 12-6 PM
Location: Cache Creek nature Preserve
34199 County Road 20, Woodland, CA 95695
Message from the Artist:
Colleagues, friends, and family,
I’m thrilled to invite you to the debut and showcase of my latest collaborative multimedia documentary project, Restore/Restory: A People’s History of the Cache Creek Nature Preserve.
R/R involved about 200 Yolo County residents in [...]

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100 Mesostics for John Cage Reading and Writing through John Cage’s Writing and Reading, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2012

September 5, 2012
Print Studios,
Department of Art, UC Santa Barbara
Building 434, #100-109
10 am – 4 pm.
www.arts.ucsb.edu/cage100
On Wednesday, September 5, we invite you to participate in an all-day event to celebrate the life, work, and continuing influence of John Cage, who was born on this day one hundred years ago. From 10 am to 4 pm, in [...]

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University of Washington Position Announcement (Senior Lecturer or Artist-in-Residence)

Organization: School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, UW
Title: Senior Lecturer or Artist-in-Residence
Search #: AA3200
Position Details:
VISUAL ARTS—SENIOR LECTURER/ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE, MULTI-YEAR APPOINTMENT, RENEWABLE (ONE FULL-TIME POSITION). The School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences (IAS) at the University of Washington Bothell (UWB) seeks a dynamic educator who can integrate teaching, research, and practice in visual art (painting and drawing, [...]

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JAZZPOP: VINNY GOLIA SEXTET at the Hammer Museum

Date & Time: Friday, September 14, 2012, 07:30PM
Location: Hammer Museum, UC Los Angeles
JazzPOP
The seventh annual edition of JazzPOP, the Hammer’s creative jazz series, returns to the courtyard this September, featuring trailblazing West Coast bandleaders/composers and their collaborators from Los Angeles, New York, and Chicago. Curated by San Francisco bassist Lisa Mezzacappa.
I have nothing but superlatives [...]

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JAZZPOP: UCIRA ARTIST MICHAEL DESSEN at the Hammer Museum (performance)

Date & Time: Friday, September 7, 2012, 07:30PM
Location: Hammer Museum, UC Los Angeles
JazzPOP
The seventh annual edition of JazzPOP, the Hammer’s creative jazz series, returns to the courtyard this September, featuring trailblazing West Coast bandleaders/composers and their collaborators from Los Angeles, New York, and Chicago. Curated by San Francisco bassist Lisa Mezzacappa.
Dessen switches between voluptuous lyricism [...]

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Christian McBride Trio is Coming to the Mondavi Center

Date & Time: September 26- September 29, 2012: 8:00PM
Location: Mondavi Center, UC Davis
Tickets
Christian McBride’s ability to slip between styles while maintaining his distinctive sound has made him both a sought after sideman (Diana Krall, Sting) and a bandleader of uncommon accomplishment. His recent projects include touring as part of Chick Corea and John McLaughlin’s Five [...]

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Michael Tilson Thomas, Music Director and Conductor of the San Francisco Symphony, Returns to the Mondavi Center

Date & Time: Thursday, September 27, 2012, 8:00PM
Location: Mondavi Center, UC Davis
Program PDF
Samuel Carl Adams – Drift and Providence
Mahler - Symphony No. 5
The San Francisco Symphony opened the Mondavi Center under the baton of Michael Tilson Thomas. It returns 10 years later to open the 2012–13 Orchestra series with Mahler’s stirring, triumphal fifth [...]

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Lewis Watts: New Orleans Suite Exhibition at UC Santa Cruz

Dates: October 3, 2012 – November 21, 2012
Location: Sesnon Art Gallery, Porter College, UC Santa Cruz
Gallery hours:
Tu-Sat. 12-5pm
Wed. 12-8pm
Reception: October 3, 5:00-6:30pm, followed by a talk by the artist in the Digital Arts Research Center (DARC), Room 108 from 6:45-7:45pm
FREE exhibition.
This exhibition brings together photographers, jazz musicians, and discourse surrounding Hurricane Katrina and life in [...]

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Artist Call: Indian Wells Arts Festival — where Art is a Happening!

Deadline: 10-13-2012
The Indian Wells Arts Festival is ranked one of the 100 Best Fine Art Shows in the country (2011, 2010, 2009) by Sunshine Artist magazine; voted 2010, 2011 Best of the Best Art Festivals by readers of Palm Springs Life magazine. This fine art + quality craft art festival is limited to 200 [...]

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Artist Call- Art Shows for 2013 at the Mistlin Gallery

Deadline: 09-28-2012
Show proposals for 2013 Mistlin Gallery Sept. 28 deadline
Central California Art Association at the Mistlin Gallery is accepting applications from art groups, featured artists or guest curators for exhibitions in 2013. Proposals are open to drawing & painting, mixed media, graphics, photography, digital prints, pastel and 3-D sculpture & ceramics. Artists must be at [...]

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Artist Call- Walgrove Elementary Mural Project

Deadline: 09-28-2012
For Southern CA artists
Walgrove, a public elementary school in Venice, CA, has received $1000 in community improvement funds to paint murals on both sides of three freestanding plywood handball walls (height:12′, width:16′, depth:7″) that provide a prominent focal point in the large schoolyard. Submissions must include images or sketches of proposed murals. Submissions [...]

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Holiday Performer Auditions at SeaWorld

Deadline: 09-22-2012
For Southern CA artists
Saturday, September 15, 2012
Time: 10 a.m.-3 p.m.
Location:
Screenland Studios
10501 Burbank Blvd.
North Hollywod, CA
Saturday, September 22, 2012
Time: 9 a.m.-3 p.m.
Location:
Hubbs Research Institute at SeaWorld
2595 Ingraham St.
San Diego, CA
HOLIDAY STROLLING CHARACTERS AND SHOW HOSTS
Please prepare a one minute family-friendly comedic monologue. Be prepared to perform character improv and read from a provided script. [...]

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San Francisco StoryBooth is Looking for a Per Diem Facilitator

Deadline: 09-07-2012
For SF Bay Area artists
StoryCorps is committed to recording, preserving, and sharing stories from a wide range of American voices—from our Griot and Historias Initiatives, programs dedicated to recording the stories of African Americans and Latinos respectively, to our new goal of reaching out to the Asian and Pacific Islander communities around the country, [...]

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Calling all Video Artists: 24h Video Art Extravaganza @ UCSB

Deadline: 09-05-2012
Summer Projects welcome submissions for its annual 24h Video Art Festival to be held 9/7-9/8 Noon to Noon. We are the nexus for UCSB’s artistic community. The gallery will be opened for the entire 24 hours and will feature Video Art work from dozens of local and international artists.
There are NO RESTRICTIONS [...]

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Shubert Foundation Announces 2012-13 Grant Guidelines for Support of Theater and Dance

Deadlines: October 15, 2012 (Dance, Arts Related, Education) & December 3, 2012 (Theater)
The Shubert Foundation is dedicated to sustaining and advancing the live performing arts in the United States, with a particular emphasis on theater and a secondary focus on dance.
The foundation awards unrestricted grants for general operating support, rather than for specific project funding. [...]

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UC Courses Ponder Food’s Culture, Future

originally posted by SF Gate
08-27-2012
The study of food – agriculture, economics, culture, history and nutrition – has long had a home in higher education. But now comes new college curriculum that offers food for thought for students seeking an edible education.
Case in point: Two courses that explore challenges within our food systems – including one [...]

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2012 Sausalito Art Festival

Date & Time: Sunday, September 1-3, 2012
Location: Marinship Park, Sausalito, CA
One of the oldest, largest and most prestigious events of its kind in the country is happening Labor Day Weekend, September 1-3,2012. Recognized as the #1 outdoor fine arts festival in America. The Sausalito Art Festival continues its long-standing mission of supporting the arts and [...]

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11th Annual San Francisco Zine Fest

Date & Time: Saturday, September 1 & 2, 11:00AM-6:00PM
Location: San Francisco County Fair Building, San Francisco, CA
The San Francisco Zine Fest is a free, annual celebration of small-press publishing, from zines and comics to art books and beyond. The Zine Fest serves as a vital showcase of the diversity, creativity, and ongoing exuberance of the [...]

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David Henry Hwang Wins $200,000 Playwriting Prize

originally posted by the Los Angeles Times
08-23-2012
David Henry Hwang has received the $200,000 Steinberg Award for playwriting, the largest monetary prize in American theater.
The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust cited Hwang’s 32-year career writing satires and dramas that brought Asian and Asian American characters to Broadway and other stages, including his breakout hit, “M. [...]

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Neil Armstrong remembered at Air & Space Museum in San Diego

originally posted by the Los Angeles Times
08-27-2012
San Diego’s Air & Space Museum honored the late astronaut Neil Armstrong, who often visited the museum for book-signings and gala events.
The San Diego Air & Space Museum was saddened to hear the news of Armstrong’s passing on Saturday.
On Saturday, the Balboa Park museum displayed a painted portrait of [...]

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Los Angeles Artists Unite to Put an Arts Spin on Carmageddon 2

originally posted by the Los Angeles Times
August 23, 2012
Los Angeles’ Artistic Community Unites
In Response to Carmageddon II With
ARTmageddon: A Two-Day Citywide Art Party That Will Have LA Residents Walking, Biking and Metro-ing to Art in Their Own Neighborhoods
With another massive shutdown of the 405 freeway approaching, a grass-roots effort is underway to offer Angelenos an [...]

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Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum presents Call For Entries 2013

Deadline: 10-21-2012 at midnight
Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, 653 Paseo Nuevo
Call For Entries encourages artists from the local community to exhibit new work. Three to six artists will be selected to showcase their work in a group exhibition held at CAF in 2013. Selected artists will work with a curator through a series of studio [...]

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New SBMA Adult Art Studio Classes begin September 22

Scenery, Story and Spirit: Art Making that Captures Impressions of Your Summer Travels
Date & Time: Saturday, September 22, 9 am-3 pm
Location: Santa Barbara Museum of Art (SBMA), Luria Activities Center
This Saturday art workshop introduces you to three approachable projects for capturing quick, but lasting, impressions of travels both near and far. Work under the influence [...]

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Call for Proposals: Second Annual Barrier 2 Bridge Border Conference and Celebration

Deadline: 09-15-2012
Cross Culture Kids & Border Culture and Arts
Second Annual Barrier 2 Bridge Border Conference and Celebration
February 21-22, 2013
Yuma/San Luis, Arizona & San Luis Rio Colorado, Sonora
http://www.sanluisarts.com/
The School of Transborder Studies, Arizona State University; the Department of International Programs, Arizona Western College; and the San Luis Corporation for the Arts & Humanities [...]

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UC Celebrates Centennial of John Cage

Dates: September 4-10, 2012
Location: Washington, DC
UCSD composer Roger Reynolds, San Diego flutist Karen Reynolds and Washington, D.C. composer Steve Antosca are planning an eight day festival in Washington D.C. celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of the revolutionary 20th century composer, John Cage.
The John Cage Centennial Festival, which aims to offer a “panoramic representation” of [...]

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UCIRA Co-Director Marko Peljhan presents SENSE OF PLANET: THE ARTS AND ECOLOGY AT EARTH MAGNITUDE (A NIEA SYMPOSIUM) in Sydney

SENSE OF PLANET: THE ARTS AND ECOLOGY AT EARTH MAGNITUDE, A NIEA SYMPOSIUM
DATE: 25 August 2012 Saturday
VENUE :UNSW CBD Campus, 1 O’Connell Street, Sydney, NSW 2000
COST: Standard $80, Student $60, Flat rate w/o lunch $40
SPEAKERS: Ursula Heise (Stanford University), Jennifer Gabrys (University of London),Timothy Morton (Rice University), Nicholas Mirzoeff (New York University), Marko Peljhan (University [...]

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Music in Time: John Kennedy, Composer Colloquium Series at UC Berkeley

Day & Time: Friday, September 7, 2012, 3-4:30 PM
Location: Morrison Hall, Elkus Room 125, UC Berkeley
Featured Speaker: John Kennedy, Resident Conductor, Spoleto Festival USA
Composer and conductor John Kennedy is a dynamic and energetic figure in American music. Recognized for his artistic leadership, imaginative programming, audience development, and expertise in the music of our time, Kennedy [...]

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Electroacoustic Music Works in EAMC of Shanghai Conservatory: Zhou Qian, Composer Colloquium Series at UC Berkeley

Day & Time: Friday, August 31, 2012, 3-4:30 PM
Location: Morrison Hall, Elkus Room 125, UC Berkeley
Featured Speaker: Zhou Qian, Associate Professor (SHCM), the Assistant Director of Electroacoustic Music Center (EAMC) of SHCM., of Shanghai Conservatory of Music (SHCM)
Qian ZHOU graduated from Composition Dept. and Piano Dept. of SHCM, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong [...]

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UC Berkeley Symphony Orchestra: Stravinsky, Berg, Tchaikovsky

Day & Time: Friday, September 21, 8-10 PM
Location: Hertz Concert Hall, UC Berkeley
David Milnes, conductor
Stravinsky, Song of the Nightingale
Berg, Chamber Concerto for Piano and Violin with 13 Wind Instruments (Kammerkonzert für Klavier und Geige mit 13 Bläsern)
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4
Target audience: All Audiences
Open to audience: All Audiences
Tickets not required: $16 general admission, $12 other students, [...]

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Concerts in the Redwood Grove: Will Sprott of the Mumlers + Paula Frazer at UC Berkeley

Day & Time: Thursday, August 30, 5:30-7:30 PM
Location: Botanical Garden, Redwood Grove, UC Berkeley
Stunning singing: R&B tinged folk rock & Alt country
WILL SPROTT of THE MUMLERS: Will Sprott, also known by his band name The Mumlers, has a penchant for conjuring the specters of haunting ‘60s folk. Sprott borrows from heyday rock ‘n’ roll just [...]

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In Extremis: Death and Life in 21st‐Century Haitian Art Exhibition at the Fowler Museum

Dates: September 16, 2012–January 20, 2013
Opening Party: Saturday, September 15, 2012, 6 PM
Location: Fowler Museum, UC Los Angeles
In Extremis: Death and Life in 21st‐Century Haitian Art explores how leading Haitian visual artists have responded to a tumultuous 21st century, an era punctuated by political upheaval, a cataclysmic earthquake, devastating hurricanes, epidemics, and continuing instability. Consisting [...]

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ZARINA: PAPER LIKE SKIN Exhibition at the Hammer Museum

Dates: September 30, 2012 – December 30, 2012
Location: Hammer Museum, UC Los Angeles
Zarina: Paper Like Skin is the first retrospective of the Indian-born American artist Zarina, featuring approximately 60 works dating from 1961 to the present. Paper is central to Zarina’s practice, both as a surface to print on and as a material with its [...]

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Beyond Twelve reinventing the piano at UC Riverside

Date & Time:
Saturday, September 15, 2012, 4:30 PM
Location:
Culver Center of the Arts, UC Riverside
Free Admission. No RSVP required.
For nearly two hundred years the piano’s design has been exactly the same: 12 keys/7 times, low-to-high/left-to-right. Period. But why 12…? Why left-to-right…? What if……
Beyond Twelve is a project that uses state-of-the-art physical modeling technology [...]

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Artist Calls- Spiritual Tribes: Reforming Families

Deadline: 11-02-2012
Theme:
How can faith and fellowship generate kinship and camaraderie, causing us to rethink definitions of family that transcend blood and lineage? How can we consider the social, rather than biological aspects of family? How do common belief systems constitute shared experience, which can be as connective as DNA? CARE will exhibit selected art [...]

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Film a telling of your dream for Dreams Undreamt – a public installation

Deadline: 09-30-2012
About Dreams Undreamt – “filming dreams for art: a public installation”
Dreams Undreamt invites you, and all people, to film your dream and upload it to Dreams Undreamt dream library and archive. The sharing of dreams has been an important part of any cultures.
This project belongs to all people of all ages – regardless of [...]

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Artist Call- New Images Photography Awards in San Francisco, CA

Deadline: 09-20-2012
Gallery Photographica presents the New Images Photography Awards featuring a San Francisco exhibition of fresh works by photographers worldwide. The theme is open. Photography of all genres, produced since January 1, 2011, is eligible.
Eligibility:
All photographers worldwide, 18 years or older.
Awards:
$6,000 in prizes are awarded:
1st place: $3,000
2nd place: $2,000
3rd [...]

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MacArthur Foundation Announces Open Call for Documentary Film Proposals

Deadline: 09-07-2012
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation’s Media, Culture, and Special Initiatives program supports the production and distribution of social-issue documentary films that address important contemporary topics and are intended for a broad audience, particularly in the United States.
The program seeks to fund documentary projects that address the significant social challenges of our [...]

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MAP Fund Offers Funding for Contemporary Arts Performance Projects

Deadline: 10-17-2012 (Letters of Inquiry)
Funded by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and administered by Creative Capital, the MAP Fund supports artists, ensembles, producers, and presenters whose work in the disciplines of contemporary performance embodies a spirit of exploration and deep inquiry. MAP is particularly interested in supporting work that [...]

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American Council of Learned Societies Invites Applications for Digital Innovation Fellowships

Deadline: 10-02-2012
The American Council of Learned Societies is accepting applications for its eighth annual Digital Innovation Fellowships.
With funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the fellowship program supports digitally-based research projects in all disciplines of the humanities and related social sciences. The aim of the program is to provide scholars with the means to pursue [...]

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Grammy Foundation Accepting Letters of Inquiry for 2012-13 Grants in Music Research and Preservation Projects

Deadline: 10-01-2012 (Letters of Inquiry)
Funded by the Recording Academy, the Grammy Foundation’s grant program annually provides support for music archiving and preservation efforts and for scientific research projects related to the impact of music on the human condition.
The scientific research projects grant program awards funding of up to $20,000 to organizations and individuals working to [...]

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Hollywood Foreign Press Association Awards $1.2 Million in Grants

originally posted by Philanthropy News Digest
08-19-2012
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association has announced more than $1.2 million in grants to forty entertainment-related nonprofits and cultural organizations across the country.
Best known for the Golden Globe Awards, HFPA expanded its giving this year. Awards include $250,000 to the Film Foundation to help restore Federico Fellini’s La Strada; $50,000 [...]

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Getty Foundation Awards $1.95 Million to Claremont Graduate University for Leadership Institute

originally posted by Philanthropy News Digest
08-20-2012
Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, California, has announced a $1.95 million grant from the Getty Foundation in support of the Getty Leadership Institute.
The grant will support the continued operation of the institute, which provides professional development for current and future museum leaders, through 2015, as well as a re-envisioning of [...]

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UC Santa Barbara Receives $1.75 Million for English Department

originally posted by Philanthropy News Digest
08-17-2012
The University of California, Santa Barbara has announced a pledge of $1.75 million from alumnus John Arnhold and his wife, Jody, to help support the university’s English department.
The latest gift from the Arnholds to the department will support existing initiatives and establish the Arnhold Endowment for Excellence in English, which [...]

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Hammer Museum’s $100,000 Mohn Award goes to painter Meleko Mokgosi

originally posted by the Los Angeles Times
08-16-2012
The votes are in: Meleko Mokgosi, a 30-year-old painter who was born and raised in Botswana and is now based in Los Angeles, has become the first recipient of the Hammer Museum’s Mohn Award, given for outstanding artwork in the museum’s “Made in L.A.” biennial.
Chosen through an unusual combination [...]

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JOB OPPORTUNITY: Program Coordinator, GRAMMY Foundation

Summary:
Coordinate two of the Foundation’s programs awarding grants and/or other recognition: The Grant Program and the new Music Educator of the Year award program. Additionally, provide support to core education and preservation programs and events as required.
Grant Program Responsibilities (Work closely with the Director on the following):
1. Coordinate the process for soliciting grant applications, [...]

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UCIRA Artist Julie Wyman wins PBS Independent Lens Audience Award!

originally posted by Independent Lens
08-20-2012
We had so many great films with so much excellence filling out our 10th season that our Audience Award came right down to a photo finish. Our dual winners tied after unprecedented rates of voting by a very passionate fan base. Thanks to all of our fans for standing up and [...]

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Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum presents Forum Lounge: Brian Getnick, The Go Between

Thursday, September 6, 2012
5 pm Happy Hour
7 pm Performance
Combining sculpture, animation, and spoken word, LA-based performance artist and sculptor Brian Getnick develops a narrative between three sculpted characters modeled after Michael Jackson, Bubbles the Chimp, and “The Go Between.”
ADMISSION IS FREE
For more information: http://www.sbcaf.org/main.html

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Call for applications: NEH Summer Stipends for 2013

Deadline: 09-27-2012
The Interdisciplinary Humanities Center is now accepting applications
for the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) 2013 Summer Stipend
program. To be considered for a Summer Stipend, faculty members must
submit all application materials by *Wednesday, August 22, 2012*. This
is a limited submission funding opportunity. Members of the IHC’s
Advisory Board will recommend nominees for this [...]

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Artist Call- The Santa Barbara Maritime Museum Juried Photo Exhibition

Deadline: 10-15-2012
Calling Photographers
Visual Elements
Juried Small Works Photo Exhibition
November 29, 2012 – March 3, 2012
Jurors:
Ernie Brooks – Marine Environment Photographer
Bob Evans – Photographer and Artist
Co-Sponsored by Mimi Michaelis
You must be eighteen years or older, live and shoot within 50 nautical miles from the Santa Barbara Maritime Museum and all photos must be executed within the last [...]

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Artist Call- Important Information About Fiscal Sponsorship at the MAP Fund

Deadline: 10-17-12
The MAP online Letter of Inquiry (LOI) will open on September 4, 2012.
Before the cycle begins, we want to clarify MAP’s policies around Fiscal Sponsorship
in an effort to better protect both the artists who receive MAP grants and the organizations
that sponsor them.
The MAP Fund requires that all Fiscal Sponsor organizations meet the following criteria:
* [...]

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Premiere of 4 New Environmental Documentaries at UC Santa Barbara

Blue Horizons Student Film Premiere
Date & Time: Friday, August 24, 2012 7:00 pm
Location: Pollock Theater, UCSB
The 2012 Blue Horizons Summer Environmental Media program will premiere 4 new documentaries about our local coastal and marine environment. Come CELEBRATE the end of summer and the achievements of our student filmmakers! Seating is limited [...]

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UC San Diego Launches a Curatorial Fellowship Program

originally posted by UC San Diego University Art Gallery
08-15-12
La Jolla–Innovative projects emerge at the the UC San Diego University Art Gallery (UAG) under the artistic guidance of Curatorial Fellow Michelle Y. Hyun. The UAG and Visual Arts Department are pleased to welcome Hyun as the first recipient of the UAG Curatorial Fellowship award. This two-year [...]

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Artist Call- LACDA 2012 International Juried Competition

Deadline: 09-24-2012
Jurors: Peter Frank, Riverside Art Museum
Rex Bruce, L.A. Center for Digital Art
Enter our juried competition for digital art and photography. Entrants submit three JPEG files of original work. All styles of artwork and photography where digital processes of any kind were integral to [...]

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New director named for Shrem Museum of Art

originally posted by University of California, UC Newsroom
08-06-12
DAVIS — An innovative educator and museum director with experience launching new museum facilities and designing one-of-a-kind museum programs has been selected as the first director of the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art at the University of California, Davis.
Rachel Teagle will bring more than [...]

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Alana Valentine WINS 5TH STAGE INTERNATIONAL SCRIPT COMPETITION

originally posted by Scientists, Technologists and Artists Generating Exploration (STAGE)
EAR TO THE EDGE OF TIME, BY ALANA VALENTINE, WINS PRESTIGIOUS
5TH STAGE INTERNATIONAL SCRIPT COMPETITION
FOR BEST NEW PLAY ABOUT SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
WINNER CHOSEN BY PULITZER & NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING JUDGES
RENOWNED BBC RADIO SCIENCE SHOW SURPRISES PLAYWRIGHT
WITH NEWS OF HER WIN
Ear to the Edge of Time, by Australian [...]

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Request for Proposals- Cal Humanities Announces Guidelines for California Documentary Project

Deadline: 10-01-12
New guidelines are available for the California Documentary Project, a competitive grants program of Cal Humanities that supports documentary film, radio, and new media productions designed to enhance an understanding of California and its cultures, peoples, and histories.
Projects must use the humanities to provide context, depth, and perspective and be suitable for California and [...]

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Barry McGee Art Exhibition at UC Berkeley

Dates: August 24, 2012-December 9, 2012
Location: Berkeley Art Museum, UC Berkeley
“Throughout his career,” writes Alex Baker in the exhibition catalog, “Barry McGee has continued to surprise and contradict expectations.” Including rarely seen early etchings, letterpress printing trays and liquor bottles painted with his trademark cast of down-and-out urban characters, constellations of vibrant op-art painted panels, [...]

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From the Studio to the Classroom-The Teaching Artist

originally posted by the University of California Television
Upcoming scheduled air dates/times for this program:
9/3/2012
UCTV will soon premiere the program:
“From the Studio to the Classroom – The Teaching Artist”
Teaching artists, hybrid professionals who link the arts to education and community life, are redefining the roles that the arts can play in public education. Who are teaching [...]

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FREE ART EXHIBITION: “BEING POLITICAL POPULAR” OPENS 9/20 at UC Irvine

Dates: September 20 – November 20, 2012
Artists Reception: September 20, 6:00–9:00PM
Location: University Art Gallery, UC Irvine
Being Political Popular:
Art at the Intersection of Popular Culture and Democracy Movements in South Korea, 1980-2010
Curated by Sohl Lee
As the first group exhibition introducing the wide-ranging work of South Korean political art to the American audience, Being Political Popular [...]

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HUBBARD STREET & LINES BALLET PERFORM SEPT 14 & 15 at UC Irvine

Dates:
September 14, 2012, 7PM &
September 15, 2012, 6PM
Venue:
Claire Trevor Theatre, UC Irvine
Be the first to see the culmination of a one-of-a-kind collaborative residency between two of America’s most prestigious contemporary dance companies — Hubbard Street Dance Chicago and Alonzo King LINES Ballet. The two dance companies join in an unprecedented sneak-peek showing, highlighting [...]

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ALONZO LINES BALLET BEGINS WORKSHOPS AUG. 27-31 at UC Irvine

Open Enrollment and Online Applications
America’s prestigious contemporary dance company Alonzo King LINES Ballet will be in-residence at UC Irvine’s Claire Trevor School of the Arts Dance Department this summer and offering a week long intensive dance workshops Aug. 27-31 for advanced dance students, pre-professionals, and professionals that would like to further their careers. [...]

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Juvenile-In-Justice: Photographs by Richard Ross

Date & Time: August 24, 2012 – January 13, 2013
Location: Nevada Museum of Art
This powerful and haunting series of photographs documents and examines the placement and treatment of American juveniles housed by law in facilities in the United States.
For the past five years, photographer Richard Ross has interviewed and photographed both pre-adjudicated and committed [...]

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Artist Opportunity- LACE Documentation Internship

Intern will work with the LACE team on the documentation and cataloguing of LACE exhibitions and events through photography and videography. This position provides the opportunity work in a hands-on setting focused on art, performance and music events. Intern will work directly with the Program Coordinator as well as guest artists and curators to develop [...]

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Artist Opportunity- LACE Social Media Internship

LACE seeks a social media intern to promote, develop, and maintain all of LACE’s social media platforms. This work includes archiving social media posts, as well as researching best practices and developing online modes of communication. Intern will create posts about LACE programs and other partners that are in our greater community. Using platforms such [...]

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“Horse and Rider,” Discovered Leonardo Da Vinci Sculpture, To Be Unveiled In Los Angeles

originally posted by the Huffington Post, 08-14-12
In 1508, three years after completing the “Mona Lisa,” Leonardo Da Vinci created a sculpture out of beeswax. He intended to use the small figure of a military man riding a horse as a model for a larger monument to French military governor, Charles d’Amboise. Yet the larger work [...]

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Eli Broad Halts Payments to Museum of Contemporary Art

originally posted by Philanthropy News Digest, 08-12-12
Philanthropist Eli Broad has not made recent scheduled payments to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles because the institution has not put $2.1 million in grants toward exhibitions as agreed, Bloomberg News reports.
As part of a $30 million pledge to MOCA in December 2008, the Eli and [...]

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Artist Call- Thanksgiving Arts & Crafts Fair Artists

The Mendocino Art Center is now accepting applications from artists and craftspeople for the 53rd Annual Thanksgiving Arts and Crafts Fair. The fair is scheduled over Thanksgiving Weekend, Friday and Saturday, November 23 and 24, from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. both days, at the Mendocino Art Center.
Booth spaces, measuring approximately six feet by nine [...]

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Artist Call- Sacramento Memorial Parking Garage Public Art Project

Deadline: 08-31-2012
The Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission (SMAC), Art in Public Places (APP) Program invite artists residing in the Sacramento Region (the City of Sacramento and 11 contiguous Counties) to
submit their qualifications to design, fabricate and install a public artwork for the City of Sacramento’s Memorial Parking Garage located on H Street between 14th and 15th [...]

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L.A. Philharmonic will spotlight dance in season opener

originally posted by the Los Angeles Times, 8-13-12
The Los Angeles Philharmonic will open its new season with a program that will focus on ballet and modern dance. The gala concert, conducted by Gustavo Dudamel, is set for Sept. 27 at Walt Disney Concert Hall and is being organized in partnership with Glorya Kaufman Presents Dance [...]

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UCIRA Artist Jaime Forero-Romero presents project Fluid Skies in Berlin

CARVED AIR
An exhibition by Yunchul Kim.
Curated by Lucía Ayala.
In collaboration with Jaime Forero.
Date & Time:
Thursday, September 6, 2012, 7:00PM – December 1, 2012
Location:
Ernst Schering Foundation
Unter den Linden 32-34
10117 Berlin
The exhibition ‘Carved Air’ presents the latest work of the Berlin-based artist Yunchul Kim, created in collaboration with the ‘Fluid Skies’ team. Electrochemical drawings share the space [...]

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Hatakeyama’s Pictorial-topical Blast at SFMOMA

originally posted by the SF Gate, 08-10-2012
“Land use photography,” as Sandra Phillips calls it, has long preoccupied the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art senior curator. So has the work of Japanese photographers who she believes are not well known or fully appreciated by the American art public.
These two interests converge in “Naoya Hatakeyama: Natural [...]

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Grantmakers in the Arts Web Event: Arts Education Funders Coalition K-12 Education Policy Agenda

Date & Time: WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 15, 2:00
EDT/ 11:00 PDT
Presented by:
Alex Nock, executive vice president, Penn Hill Group
Janet Brown, president & CEO, Grantmakers in the Arts
Grantmakers in the Arts (GIA) formed the Arts Education Funders Coalition in the spring of 2012 for funders concerned with arts education. One of the purposes of the group is to [...]

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NEA application guidelines are now available for funding through Research: ArtWorks!

Dear Friends of NEA Research:
The National Endowment for the Arts’ Office of Research & Analysis announces that application guidelines are available for funding through Research: ArtWorks. This program supports research that investigates the value of the U.S. arts ecosystem and the impact of the arts on other domains of American life.
The NEA encourages applicants from [...]

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Rhinoceros by Eugéne Ionesco at UC Los Angeles

Dates & Times: September 21 &22, 2012, 8:00-10:00PM
Location: Royce Hall Auditorium, UC Los Angeles
Admission:
$70 / 55 / 35 / 30 / 25 ($15 UCLA Students)
Create Your Own series subscriptions are on sale now.
Individual tickets go on sale August 4 and will offer a 15% discount to UCLA Faculty and Staff. (Some events are not available [...]

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Persian Concert with Leila Forouhar at UC Los Angeles

Date & Time: Saturday, September 8, 2012, 8:00PM
Location: Royce Hall Auditorium, UC Los Angeles
Admission:
Ticket prices: $35, $45, $55, $75, $85, $125
Contact:
UCLA Central Ticket Office
(310) 825-2101
cto@tickets.ucla.edu
Website:
http://cap.ucla.edu/calendar/event_detail.asp?id=287
Additional Information:
Leila Forouhar, one of Iran’s most distinguished pop and classical singers, makes an appearance in Los Angeles with the highly acclaimed Rumi’s Band, and Shohreh Aghdashloo, 2009 Oscar nominee for [...]

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SHAKESPEARE UNDER THE STARS – Merchant of Venice at UC Irvine

August 16, 17, 18, 19, & 22, 8PM
New Swan Theater, UC Irvine
Join us for the inaugural season of Shakespeare Under the Stars, a summertime festival in the New Swan, an open-air, mini-Elizabethan theatre that will be situated in Gateway Commons near Aldrich Park on the UC Irvine campus. The uniquely designed and constructed theatre, [...]

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Gotye Comes to UC Berkeley

Gotye
with guests:
Chairlift
Jonti
Gotye (Go-tee-ay) first found fame in his native Australia with his second album, 2006’s “Like Drawing Blood.” Radio station Triple J named it their album of the year, as did iTunes on its release in Europe in 2008. It was recently voted the 11th greatest Australian album of all time. Gotye’s most recent offering [...]

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Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros Come to UC Berkeley

KFOG presents
Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros
with guests:
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros formed in Los Angeles in 2007. They released their debut album, Up From Below, in July 2009 on Community Music. The album has sold over 275,000 copies in the US, and charted on iTunes for 69 straight weeks. [...]

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Concerts in the Redwood Grove, UC Berkeley: Rupa and the April Fishes + Quinn DeVeaux

Date and Time:
Thursday, August 9, 2012, 5:30-7:30 p.m.
Location:
Botanical Garden, Redwood Grove, UC Berkeley
Featured Performer: Rupa & the April Fishes
Sponsor: Botanical Garden
Nomadic Roots Rock and Early Blues Dance Rhythm
RUPA & THE APRIL FISHES: Rupa & the April Fishes create music that defies easy categorization with influences of French chanson, Argentinean tango, Gypsy swing, American folk, Latin [...]

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‘Dead Can Dance’ Performance is coming to UC Berkeley

Dead Can Dance will be bringing their ‘World Tour’ to the Greek Theatre at UC-Berkeley. The tour will be the first live shows since their hugely successful sold out tour in 2005. Dead Can Dance will be releasing a new Studio Album to accompany the World Tour, which will be their first since ‘Spiritchaser’ in [...]

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SUN YUAN AND PENG YU EXHIBITION

September 22, 2012-January 6, 2013
Hammer Museum, UC Los Angeles
Collaborators since the late 1990s, Chinese artists Sun Yuan and Peng Yu create provocative works that take as their subject some of the most compelling and complex issues of our day, from stem cell research and plastic surgery to terrorism and other forms of violence like rioting [...]

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A STRANGE MAGIC: GUSTAVE MOREAU’S SALOME EXHIBITION

September 16, 2012-December 9, 2012
Hammer Museum, UC Los Angeles
From September 16 to December 9, 2012, the Hammer Museum will present an exhibition devoted to Gustave Moreau’s Salome Dancing before Herod, one of the most remarkable and best-known paintings in the museum’s collection. The exhibition will include approximately 50 works—including related paintings, drawings, and preparatory studies—drawn [...]

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Artist Call- The Representational Art Conference

Deadline: 09-12-2012
The Representational Art Conference
Crowne Plaza Hotel, Ventura, CA
October 14th – 17th 2012
There has been a neglect of critical appreciation of representational art well out of proportion to its quality and significance; it is that neglect that this conference seeks to address. By its nature, 21st century representational art is not to be thought of [...]

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Artist Call- Your Art Here

Deadline: 10-01-2012
The Cabrillo Gallery seeks entries for Your Art Here. All entries will be accepted providing they fit the size requirements and the artist reside in California. Work will be exhibited October 5 – November 2, 2012.
All artwork will hang on the wall. All artwork will be accepted proving it fit the required dimensions and [...]

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Artist Call- David Lynch Exhibition

Deadline: 10-05-2012
Public Works’ Roll Up Gallery presents: “In Heaven, Everything Is Fine: Art Inspired by the Work of Director David Lynch”
Want to show SF how much you love Lynch? For that matter, can you capture the essence of ‘Eraserhead’ in a painting? Perfect! Well we here at Public Works Roll Up Gallery (http://publicsf.com/gallery) are having [...]

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Artist Call- Sepulveda

Deadline: 11-01-2012
Project Description:
Non-profit organizations New Directions, Inc. (NDI) and A Community of Friends (ACOF) are seeking a local Los Angeles-based artist to design two immobile, free-standing outdoor artwork installation for a new housing development for formerly homeless and disabled veterans. NDI and ACOF are partnering to rehabilitate and convert two former hospital buildings into [...]

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Get Creative for National Arts and Humanities Month

originally posted by California Arts Council, 07-23-2012
California is often known for going our own way, but when it comes to arts celebrations in October, the state arts agency will be joining the other 49 states to celebrate National Arts and Humanities Month. In the past, the California Arts Council promoted a single day in October [...]

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Naoya Hatakeyama 1st U.S. show at SFMOMA

originally posted by the SF Gate, 08-02-2012
Naoya Hatakeyama, 54, ranks among the foremost photographic artists working in Japan, yet, apart from curators and collectors, few in the United States know of his work. The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has begun to change that by hosting “Naoya Hatakeyama: Natural Stories,” the first American museum [...]

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Museum union votes to OK strike

originally posted by the SF Gate, 08-06-2012
A picket line could soon become the newest attraction at San Francisco’s two fine arts museums if a contract dispute between some museum employees and management continues.
Workers in the union that represents about 90 employees of the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum in Golden Gate Park and the Legion [...]

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(FUNDING) Culver City Arts Grant Program

Deadline: 09-10-2012
The 2013 Notice of Funding Availability has been released for the Culver City Performing Arts Grants Program. The deadline for submission is September 10, 2012. Performances may be presented by non-profit performing arts organizations in the disciplines of theatre, musical theatre, music, opera, or dance. A workshop to assist organizations with the completion of [...]

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Fulltime Staff Position Available at UCHRI

Position Title: Research Projects Manager
Department: Humanities Research Institute
Req No.: 2012-­‐0516
Location: UCI Campus–Irvine
Job Summary:
We are seeking a talented and motivated individual with diverse experience in academic research and program administration to join the UC Humanities Research Institute. The Manager for Research Projects will be responsible for managing UCHRI’s Residential Research Groups as well as special research [...]

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Flatlanders on the Slant 2nd Friday ArtAbout Reception, August 10, 5-7pm

2nd Friday ArtAbout Reception
August 10, 2012, 5-7pm
Location: Richard L. Nelson Gallery, UC Davis
The Slant Step was a legendary art phenomenon that swept through the Davis art scene almost fifty years ago. It was initiated when William T. Wiley purchased an object from a thrift store as a gift for Bruce Nauman, his student at UC [...]

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Arts for LA Announces New Strategic Plan

originally posted by Arts for LA
CAA partner organization Arts for LA recently released their strategic plan for 2013-2017. This is the second strategic plan for the organization, which was incorporated in 2006.
The strategic plan encompasses some major changes. The organization wants to shift its identity from an arts service association to a public cause. To [...]

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City of San Diego Increases Arts Funding

originally posted by City of San Diego Commission for Arts and Culture, 7-20-2012
The San Diego City Council took the final step toward implementing Mayor Jerry Sanders’ plan to increase services in a variety of areas, including the City’s allocation to arts and culture programs by five percent. This translates into an increase of a half [...]

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Arts and Economic Prosperity IV Released

Originally posted by Americans for the Arts

Americans for the Arts has released the fourth version of their landmark Arts and Economic Prosperity reports, which documents the role played by the nonprofit arts and culture industry in strengthening the U.S.’s economy.
The report found that the arts generated $132.5 billion of economic activity and supported 4.1 million [...]

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CAA President Named Vice Chair of State Arts Action Network Council

originally posted by Arts for LA, 7-10-2012
Americans for the Arts announced this week California arts leader Brad Erickson will serve as vice chair of the State Arts Action Network Council.
Erickson currently serves as executive director of Theatre Bay Area and president of California Arts Advocates, the statewide advocacy organization promoting arts-positive public policies at the [...]

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New endowed chair blends science and humanities

originally posted by UC Davis Campus News, 7-25-2012
Educating a generation raised on video games, University of California, Davis, Professor Colin Milburn makes use of students’ literacy in interactive media — coaxing poetry and literature off the pages and into the third dimension.
Milburn, an associate professor of English, is newly appointed to the inaugural Gary Snyder [...]

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UCIRA Associate Director Holly Unruh featured on Crowdfunding for Academic Research panel at UCSB

 
Panel featuring:
Kum-Kum Bhavnani (Sociology, UCSB)
Holly Unruh (Associate Director, UCIRA)
Jai Ranganathan (NCEAS)
Jarrett Byrnes ( NCEAS)
Monday, May 7 / 12:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
Can academics raise money for their research by convincing members of the public to open their wallets for small donations?  In more and more fields – [...]

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Job Opportunity with the GRAMMY Foundation and MusiCares Foundation

POSITION: COORDINATOR, ANNUAL GIVING
Working under the direction of the Vice President of Development of the GRAMMY Foundation and MusiCares Foundation, the Coordinator of Annual Giving will be primarily responsible for developing and managing an annual individual donor campaign for both Foundations.
Responsibilities include:
- Plan and execute a comprehensive program of annual individual donor campaigns for [...]

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LUCY RAVEN Exhibition at UC Los Angeles

September 8, 2012 – January 20, 2013
Location: Hammer Museum, UC Los Angeles
Lucy Raven uses animation as the foundation for her explorations into the relationship of still photography to the moving image. During her 2011 Hammer Residency, Raven embarked on an ongoing investigation of the invention, growth, and mainstream acceptance of 3D cinema, from its roots [...]

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HUBBARD STREET DANCE CHICAGO WORKSHOPS AUG. 20-24 at UC Irvine

August 20-August 24, 2012
Location: Claire Trevor School of the Arts, UC Irvine
Last Chance! APPLICATION DEADLINE EXTENDED THROUGH AUGUST 10th!
America’s prestigious contemporary dance company Hubbard Street Dance Chicago will be in-residence at UC Irvine’s Claire Trevor School of the Arts Dance Department this summer and offering a week long intensive dance workshops Aug. 20-24 for [...]

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SUMMER ACADEMY IN MUSIC STARTS AUGUST 6 at UC Irvine

The Summer Academies in the Arts provide high school students conservatory-style immersion education and portfolio preparation through project-based learning in Dance, Digital Art, Drama, Music and Studio Art. Limited scholarships are available for qualified students. For an additional fee, qualifying high school seniors can receive college credit for participating in a Summer Academy.
Register Online for [...]

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National Choreographers Initiative a lab for ballet at UC Irvine

originally posted by the Los Angeles Times, 7-25-2012
Artistic director Molly Lynch doesn’t do a lot of advertising to lure participants to the National Choreographers Initiative, now underway in the dance studios of UC Irvine.
That’s because she doesn’t have to.
Alumni have spread the gospel of the three-week project, an independent workshop that supports the growth [...]

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Marilyn Horne: Stravinsky and me

originally posted by the Los Angeles Times, 7-28-2012
SANTA BARBARA — On Oct. 11, 1954, a 20-year-old soprano, a recent graduate of USC, performed in the premiere of a new version of Igor Stravinsky’s “Four Russian Peasant Songs” at the new and unusual music series Monday Evening Concerts, then held in an auditorium in West Hollywood [...]

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Douglas Foundation Announces $50 Million in Gifts

originally posted by Philanthropy News Digest, 7-31-2012
Actor Kirk Douglas and his wife, Anne, have announced gifts totaling $50 million through their foundation to five nonprofit organizations and institutions, the Los Angeles Times reports.
Gifts were awarded to institutions with which Douglas, 95, and his wife have had longstanding relationships, including a theater in Culver City run [...]

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DreamWorks Animation Charitable Foundation Pledges Continued Commitment To Animation Academy At Inner-City Arts

originally posted by the Los Angeles Times, 7-30-2012
Inner-City Arts, an arts education provider based in downtown Los Angeles, today announced The DreamWorks Animation Charitable Foundation, Inc. has donated a grant in the amount of $250,000 over five years in continued support of the DreamWorks Animation Academy at Inner-City Arts, which provides instruction in digital media, [...]

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Benjamin Millepied’s LA Dance Project Premieres ‘Framework’ At MOCA

originally posted by The Huffington Post, 7-24-12
It’s not every day you get to watch dancers caper around a museum gallery. But last Thursday, celebrated dancer-choreographer (and Natalie Portman’s husband… ) Benjamin Millepied took over Los Angeles’ Museum of Contemporary Art.
Millepied, founder of the newly-formed Los Angeles Dance Project, teamed up with famed Los Angeles artist [...]

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Artist Call- Desert Arts Festival

Deadline: 10-01-2012
Frances Stevens Park – 538 N. Palm Canyon Drive, Palm Springs, CA 92262.
West Coast Artists has a series of six art festivals that are held in the heart of legendary Downtown Palm Springs, California. This series of Fine Art Festivals are celebrating their 26th year and continue to delight art patrons across the nation [...]

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Artist Call- Sherwood Gallery in San Francisco

Deadline: 09-30-2012
We are a new Gallery opening in the heart of San Francisco, Union Square. We’re seeking work from emerging artists in the bay area. To have your work reviewed please e-mail Artists Statement, Bio, CV, and a minimum of 5 images.
About the Sherwood Gallery: Sherwood Gallery presents a hybrid between the experimental and [...]

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Fitch Charitable Foundation Offers Project Grants to Mid-Career Professionals in Preservation and Related Fields

Deadline: 09-15-2012
The James Marston Fitch Charitable Foundation provides mid-career grants to professionals working in the fields of historic preservation, landscape architecture, urban design, environmental planning, decorative arts, architectural design, and architectural history.
Fitch Mid-Career grants of up to $15,000 are awarded annually to one or two mid-career professionals with at least ten years of experience and [...]

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American Academy in Rome Invites Applications for Rome Prize

Deadline: 11-01-2012
A program of the American Academy in Rome, the Rome Prize is annually awarded to thirty emerging artists and scholars in the early or middle stages of their careers who exemplify the highest standard of excellence in arts and humanities scholarship.
Fellows are chosen from the disciplines of architecture, design, historic preservation and conservation, landscape [...]

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Winogrand snaps feral best of ‘animals’

originally posted by SF Gate, 07-27-2012
Recently the 1960s have resurfaced everywhere in public memory. The Oakland Museum of California has featured “The 1968 Exhibit” (through Aug. 19) as a centerpiece of its 2012 program.
Earlier this year, we saw “Arthur Tress: San Francisco 1964″ at the de Young Museum in San Francisco. In 2009, PS1, [...]

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30th Annual San Francisco Jazz Festival

August 25 — December 7, 2012
Begins August 25, 2012, 8pm
Location: SFJAZZ Box Office & Retail Store, San Francisco, CA
Welcome to the 30th Annual San Francisco Jazz Festival, which runs August 25–December 7 and features 30 world-class artists! The Festival will delight fans of every kind, with a stellar lineup including Esperanza Spalding, Marcus Miller, Sonny [...]

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23rd Annual San Jose Jazz Summer Fest

Friday, Aug 10 5:00pm
Plaza de César Chávez, San Jose, CA
Friday, August 10th – Sunday, August 12th
The San Jose Jazz Summer Fest is the hottest event of the summer featuring a stellar lineup of international stars, emerging artists and regional favorites playing straight-ahead jazz, blues, salsa, Latin, R&B, and more!
Featured performers at the 23rd annual festival [...]

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Nelson Gallery Fall 2012 Exhibition

UC DAVIS’ NELSON GALLERY ANNOUNCES THE EXHIBITION OUT OF LINE: A SHOW OF EXTENDED DRAWING PRACTICES FEATURING THE WORKS OF EIGHT ARTISTS FROM ACROSS THE COUNTRY
The exhibition will run from September 27 to December 16, 2012, with a public opening on September 27 from 5:30 to 7:30pm.
Drawing is one of the oldest forms of art [...]

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Artist Group Petitions Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles

By RANDY KENNEDY
(re-posted from New York Times, Arts Beat)

The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, which has been in a harsh spotlight since its chief curator, Paul Schimmel, resigned under pressure in late June and all the artists on its board of trustees left in protest, is now the subject of [...]

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High Desert Test Sites 2013: Now Accepting Proposals

We are now accepting project proposals for HDTS 2013!
HDTS 2013, the ninth program in a series of free ranging and ever evolving contemporary art events, will expand our range and depth to take in everything from Joshua Tree, California to Albuquerque, New Mexico. The event will take place over an entire week, October 12 [...]

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The biennial fights for attention — and relevance

By Jori Finkel, Los Angeles Times
July 21, 2012, 7:00 a.m.

 
No, she didn’t actually sleep in the museum. But for three months, artist Dawn Kasper set up a “nomadic studio” on the third floor of the Whitney Museum in New York that acquired the lived-in look of a dorm room. By the end [...]

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Job opening for Curator of Exhibitions at UCR California Museum of Photography

Job #201207094548
Salary: $48,678 – $61,411

https://irecruitportal.ucr.edu/irecruit/!Controller?action=jobs_webui.show_page&page=jobs_detail&requisition_id=201207094548&profile_id=&module=jobs
If this link does not work for you, then go to http://jobs.ucr.edu/index.html, then “Browse For Jobs,” then under “Filter” option insert either “UCR ARTSblock” or its under the category of “Management and Professional,” rather than “Arts.”
Please do not email resumes or letters. Only applications submitted through UCR job portal will be [...]

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Mario Ybarra Jr. at Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum

Mario Ybarra Jr.: The Tío Collection
August 5, 2012–September 30, 2012
Opening Reception: August 4, 6:30 – 8 pm
Location:
Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum
653 Paseo Nuevo, Santa Barbara, CA 93101 USA
Hours: Tue–Sat, 11–5pm; Sun, 12–5pm
Admission is free.

The eponymous exhibition Mario Ybarra Jr.: The Tío Collection, will feature displays of both fictional and non-fictional objects [...]

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Universal Pictures: Celebrating 100 Years Film Series at UC Berkeley

August 3, 2012 – August 31, 2012
Buy Tickets
On a buying trip to Chicago in 1905, clothing merchant Carl Laemmle was struck by the popularity of the nickelodeon theater, with its variety shows and short films. Within weeks, Laemmle abandoned his former career and began promoting these primitive movie houses. His efforts [...]

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“Rod Serling: Other Dimensions” film series at UC Los Angeles

July 27, 2012 – September 19, 2012

Billy Wilder Theater, UC Los Angeles

In-person:

Matthew Weiner, creator of “Mad Men” (8/3); director Carl Reiner, schedule permitting (8/26).
Submitted for your approval, a journey through time and space for a retrospective exploring the other dimensions of Rod Serling. Forever remembered as the iconic host and creative force responsible [...]

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The Fringe Show: “The Mandrake” by Machiavelli at UC Santa Cruz

Wednesday, August 22, 2012 – Thursday, August 23, 2012

Sinsheimer-Stanley Festival Glen, UC Santa Cruz

Presented by:

Shakespeare Santa Cruz

By Niccolo Machiavelli
Translated by Wallace Shawn
Directed by Gina Marie Hayes
Niccolo Machiavelli’s 16th-century comedy is brought to life for the 21st century by playwright Wallace Shawn. Featuring our talented acting interns, this Fringe Show is full of commedia [...]

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National Endowment for the Arts Announces the 2013 NEA Jazz Masters, Nation’s Highest Honor in Jazz

Reposted from National Endowment for the Arts
July 18, 2012
Washington, DC – Dizzy Gillespie. Count Basie. Ella Fitzgerald. Herbie Hancock. Names of the greatest purveyors of America’s homegrown art form, jazz — and all NEA Jazz Masters. Today, the National Endowment for the Arts adds four new names to the list with the [...]

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Gerbode and Hewlett Foundations Invite Applications for 2012 Playwright Commissioning Awards

Deadline: August 30, 2012
The Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation have announced the 2012 Playwright Commissioning Awards program, a $300,000 fund for the creation and production of new plays by California playwrights.
Grants of $50,000 will be awarded to Bay Area nonprofits which commission and premiere new works [...]

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Artist Call- The 2013 San Diego Latino Film Festival Poster Competition

Media Arts Center San Diego will be presenting the 20th Annual San Diego Latino Film Festival (SDLFF), March 7-17, 2013. This prestigious and internationally recognized festival celebrates films and videos by Latinos and/or about the Latino experience, screening over 150 works from across Latin America and throughout [...]

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Artist Call- Performing Diaspora 2013

From Kathak to Flamenco and from Tabla to Taiko, California is home to many diverse and talented practitioners of traditional performance. Within this abundance, there are many artists who are exploring, experimenting with, and expanding these forms.
CounterPULSE’s Performing Diaspora is a festival, residency program, commissioning program, and symposium featuring dance, [...]

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The Wizard of Oz Meets the San Francisco Symphony

Reposted from the SF Gate
07-24-2012
The San Francisco Symphony is about to go way over the rainbow this Thursday and Friday as it accompanies a screening of the 1939 M.G.M. classic, The Wizard of Oz. Conductor Michael Francis will lead the orchestra throughout the entire film — a technological and artistic challenge [...]

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Art Forever Changed by World War I

Reposted from the Los Angeles Times
07-21-2012
Along with millions of idealistic young men who were cut to pieces by machine guns and obliterated by artillery shells, there was another major casualty of World War I: traditional ideas about Western art.
The Great War of 1914-18 tilted culture on its axis, particularly in Europe and the [...]

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LACMA’s Next Art-film Gala to Honor Ed Ruscha, Stanley Kubrick

Reposted from the Los Angeles Times
July 23, 2012
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) has confirmed that its next Art + Film Gala, an annual event designed to help the museum shore up support from Hollywood leaders, will honor filmmaker Stanley Kubrick alongside artist Ed Ruscha.
Scheduled for Oct. 27, the event is co-chaired [...]

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Old Globe’s Autism-friendly ‘Grinch’ Performance to be SoCal First

Reposted from the Los Angeles Times
July 23, 2012
The Old Globe in San Diego will hold a special autism-friendly performance of its annual holiday production of “Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas!”
The performance at 10:30 a.m. on Dec. 15, which is geared toward individuals on the autism spectrum, will be the first of its [...]

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Getty Parking Changes Prompt Online Petition From Academics

Reposted from the Los Angeles Times
July 24, 2012
New parking fees at the Getty Research Institute in Brentwood have prompted an online petition to protest the change. The petition claims that the new fees are a financial burden to academic researchers, many of whom rely on the GRI for their work.
Starting July 30, [...]

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Assistant Program Coordinator

Arts Education/Administration
FOUR DAYS a week Assistant Program Coordinator
POSITION STARTS Immediately
A career in Arts Administration

Work in a creative environment at midsize non-profit art’s education organization. Assistant Program Coordinator Duties include, but are not limited to: plan and facilitate meetings with site and artist; establish time tables for program implementation, workshops and performances; [...]

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EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR POSITION

Job Title: Executive Director, Levitt Pavilion Pasadena
Organization Overview
The Levitt Pavilion Pasadena (LPP) is a non-profit organization founded
in 2003 to offer 50 free concerts each summer in historic Memorial Park in
the City of Pasadena. LPP is committed to serving the local community,
celebrating its diversity, inspiring its youth through music, and enriching
cultural lives of its residents [...]

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UCIRA Artist Emily Bovino to present at SommerAkademie (Switzerland) with curator Marta Kuzma

August 16-26, 2012
Location: Auditorium, Zentrum Paul Klee, Switzerland
Fellows Sommerakademie 2012
We are pleased to announce that all the twelve candidates elected by the jury confirmed their participation in the Sommerakademie 2012:
 
 
Burak Arikan (Turkey)
Eduardo Tomas Basualdo (Argentina)
Emily Verla Bovino (USA)
Luis Da Silva (Portugal)
Övül Durmusoglu (Turkey)
Florian Graf (Switzerland)
Tamara Henderson (Canada)
Arturo Hernàndez Alcàzar (Mexico)
Angie Keefer (USA)
Alex Klein [...]

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Nuestra Voz & I.V. Arts presents THREE NEW PLAYS this Friday at UCSB!

Join us for Nuestra Voz’s performance, Three New Plays, this Friday JULY 27 at 6:30 in the Studio Theater presenting three original plays written, acted, and danced by students of the Isla Vista Teen Center: Desperation Island, Revolution, and Jungle Trek.
 
 
 
When: FRIDAY, JULY 27, 6:30PM
Cost: Free!
Location: UCSB Studio Theater /  Theater & Dance Building, Reception [...]

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United States Artists – USA Fellow Grants (Information Only)

Synopsis: United States Artists (USA) exists to nurture, support, and strengthen the work of America´s finest living artists. Through this program, the foundation supports a diverse array of visual, literary, performing, design, media, and crafts and traditional artists.
The first three years of the USA Fellows program will be considered a pilot [...]

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Association of Performing Arts Presenters – Cultural Exchange Fund – International Travel Subsidy Program

Synopsis: The Cultural Exchange Fund (CEF) is a travel subsidy program supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to assist U.S. based presenting professionals and their organizations and companies in building partnerships and collaborations with international touring artists, companies and their collaborators and to experience the work of artists from [...]

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National Endowment for the Arts – Jazz Masters Fellowship — Nominations Accepted

Synopsis: The NEA Jazz Masters Fellowship is the highest honor that our nation bestows upon a jazz musician. Each year since 1982, the program has elevated to its ranks a select number of living legends who have made exceptional contributions to the advancement of jazz.
The Arts Endowment will honor musicians who [...]

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College Art Association – Professional-Development Fellowships in the Visual Arts and Art History

Synopsis: CAA´s Professional-Development Fellowships support promising artists and art historians who are enrolled in MFA and PhD programs nationwide. Fellows are honored with $5,000 grants to help them with various aspects of their work, whether it be for job-search expenses or purchasing materials for the studio. CAA believes a grant [...]

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Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts – Grants

Synopsis: Grants are made on a project basis to curatorial programs at museums, artists’ organizations, and other cultural institutions to originate innovative and scholarly presentations of contemporary visual arts. Projects may include exhibitions, catalogues, and other organizational activities directly related to these areas. The program also supports the creation [...]

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Americans for the Arts – Innovation Grant Program

Synopsis:
As part of its effort to recognize the role artists play in revitalizing their communities, Ovation television network has partnered with Americans for the Arts to launch a national grant program, innOVATION.  Inspired by the community-revitalization effort documented in the network’s recent original series Motor City Rising, the innOVATION Grant [...]

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Funk Zone Charrette Project Planning session for community members, designers, and others to collaborate on a vision for the future look of downtown Santa Barbara’s funky neighborhood.

When: Friday, July 27, 6 p.m.
Where: Municipal Winemakers, 22 Anacapa St., Santa Barbara
Cost: Free
Age limit: All ages
Categories: Citizen’s Alert
Description:
A charrette provides a forum for ideas and offers the unique advantage of giving immediate feedback to the designers. More importantly, it allows everyone who participates to be a mutual author of the plan.
The [...]

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Los Angeles County Arts Commission seeking Director of Communications

The Los Angeles County Arts Commission seeks a full-time Director of Communications to develop, implement and manage comprehensive integrated communications comprised of multiple internal and external marketing programs. These programs communicate Arts Commission priorities, promote Arts Commission programs and services to increase public awareness, and build awareness of the organization regionally and nationally.
Responsibilities:
Reporting to the [...]

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WILD UP CONCERT: WEST at UC Los Angeles

Saturday, July 21, 2012
3:00 pm – 5:00 pm, UCLA Hammer Museum – Billy Wilder Theater
wild Up Concert: WEST wild Up, the Hammer’s first orchestra-in-residence, is an L.A.-based 24-member experimental ensemble that mixes classical works, new compositions, and indie music, seeking to reconceptualize the role of an orchestra in its community.
Their insightful programming changes the experience [...]

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Summer Sunset Concert: Salar Nader at UC Los Angeles

Summer Sunset Concert: Salam Nader
Sunday, July 29, 2012, 4 pm
Fowler Museum Amphitheater, UC Los Angeles
Free concert
Afghan-American Salar Nader is one of the most sought-after young percussionists of his generation. A founding member of today’s foremost Afghan music ensemble, Sounds and Rhythms of Afghanistan (SARA), he plays dhol and dholak Afghan percussion in addition to tabla. For [...]

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MATTLIPPS: HORIZON/S at UC Riverside

July 28, 2012 – October 27, 2012
Opening Reception: July 28, 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
California Museum of Photography, UC Riverside
For over a decade, Lipps has been developing a photographic process that involves cutting out images from publications, arranging them in sculptural still lives, re-photographing the arrangements, then printing the image several times larger than the [...]

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Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum presents Mario Ybarra Jr.: The Tío Collection and Bloom Projects: Annie Lapin, History =ing

Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, 653 Paseo Nuevo Downtown Santa Barbara
Opening Reception: 08/04/12 ;  Exhibition on view: 08/05 – 09/30
Mario Ybarra Jr.: The Tío Collection is a museological tribute to the artist’s family featuring objects collected by Ybarra Jr., his father and uncles. Considering institutional critique projects by Fred Wilson and others, Ybarra Jr. deconstructs the traditional display of [...]

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UC Irvine Alumni Ken Gonzales-Day, Matt Lipps, Carrie Yury at LACMA’s Installation, Figure and Form in Contemporary Photography

LACMA
BCAM, Level 2, UC Irvine
Exhibition Dates: July 22, 2012 – October 14, 2012
Artists include John Baldessari, Tracy Baran, Slater Bradley, Jo Ann Callis, Talia Chetrit, Bruce Conner, Zoe Crosher, Rineke Dijkstra, Thobias Faldt, Fernell Franco, Paul Graham, Ken Gonzales-Day (MFA ‘95), Robert Heinecken, Anthony Hernandez, David LaChapelle, Matt Lipps (MFA ‘04), Catherine Opie, Viviane Sassen, [...]

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“Henry IV, Part Two” by William Shakespeare at Shakespeare Santa Cruz

Tuesday, August 7, 2012 - Sunday, August 26, 2012

Sinsheimer-Stanley Festival Glen (UCSC)

Directed by Scott Wentworth
Our old friend Sir John Falstaff returns, in all his bawdy and riotous glory! But while Falstaff is carousing with his degenerate comrades, Prince Hal must prove to his dying father – King Henry – that he has what it takes to become [...]

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BOOM 2012

July 27 – August 24, 2012
Opening Reception: July 27, 5-8 pm
presented by den contemporary
den contemporary is on the 2nd floor of the Pacific Design Center Blue Building, located at:
8687 Melrose Avenue
West Hollywood, CA 90069
Gallery Hours: T-F, 11am – 5pm
BOOM is an exhibition highlighting artworks of all media from current and recent MFA graduates from invited Southern [...]

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Artist Call- Choreographer

Deadline: 09-01-2012
For Southern CA artists
Pacific Ridge School in Carlsbad is seeking an experienced choreographer for their annual high school musical. The successful candidate should be well versed in the musical theater style, and be enthusiastic about teaching students with varied levels of dance ability.
The job responsibilities are:

Prepare a short dance audition combination and run two days [...]

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Artist Call- Napa Valley Museum Call for Artists

Deadline: 09-01-2012
For Northern CA artists
Napa Valley Museum is now accepting applications from artists in the San Francisco Bay Area for a 2013 juried exhibition of new work connected to a performance of Igor Stravinsky’s masterpiece, The Soldier’s Tale.(L’Histoire du Soldat). Based on the legend of Faust, the man who sold his soul to the Devil in [...]

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Artist Call- Monrovia Association of Fine Arts is Looking for Artists

Deadline: 09-01-2012
For Los Angeles artists
Monrovia Association of Fine Arts is looking for artists to participate in “Celebrate the Arts, a Festival of Fine Arts” – 49th Annual Fine Arts Show October 13 & 14, 2012.
For more information, application and/or  submission guidelines please visit our website at http://www.monroviafinearts.org/home_page.html
Deadline: 09-01-2012
Monrovia Association of Fine Arts
Monrovia, CA
Contact: Frank Zgonc
email: frank@monroviafinearts.org
Phone: 626-802-7873
Website: [...]

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Artist Call- First Night Monterey 2013’s Celebrate Monterey!

Deadline: 09-01-2012
Applications are now being accepted from performers, visual artists, musicians and entertainers of every genre wanting to entertain thousands on New Year’s Eve in Historic Downtown Monterey. First Night Monterey – the largest, most dynamic and spectacular New Year’s Eve celebration of the arts-has just announced the call for artist applications, which it will [...]

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Artist Call: Art In The Park – Sept 8-9, 2012

Deadline: 08-31-2012
All artists who create visual fine art or fine crafts are welcome. Exhibited works are subject to approval by the Petaluma Arts Association (PAA). Non-members, artists who have not exhibited within the last three years or who will be displaying substantially different work should submit four photos of recent work that accurately represent the [...]

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Artist Call- The Nude, 2012

Deadline: 08-27-2012
The mystique of the figure. Is it muse, provocateur or a means to master a technical discipline through observation?
Studio Quercus seeks to present a survey of work by California artists. What are they contemplating and creating now, in studios and art practices.
For details, follow: http://www.studioquercus.com/entries.html
Deadline: 08-27-2012
Studio Quercus
Oakland, CA
Contact: Susan Sharman
email: info@studioquercus.com
Website: www.studioquercus.com/

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Artist Call- Old Town San Diego ARTS Festival

Deadline: 08-03-2012
The Old Town Fine Arts Festival will be held on San Diego Ave. and into State park, in Old Town San Diego. The event will be limited to 150 of the finest artists exhibiting on the West Coast. Work in painting, photography, sculpture, mixed media, blown glass, turned wood, pottery and fiber will be [...]

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California Nonprofits Receive Big Read Grants

originally posted by California Arts Council

The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) announced that 78 nonprofit organizations will receive grants totaling $1 million to host a Big Read project as part of the 2012-2013 program. The Big Read provides communities nationwide with the opportunity to read, discuss, and celebrate one of 31 selections from U.S. and [...]

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LA County Awards $4 Million in Arts Grants

originally posted by California Arts Council

The Los Angeles County Arts Commission has announced $4,118,000 in grants to 175 nonprofit arts organizations through its Organizational Grant Program (OGP), which provides two-year grants to nonprofit arts organizations for their current organizational needs. Eighty-four of the 174 grantees are receiving funds to help support salaries or job [...]

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THE SANTA BARBARA WESTSIDE ASSOCIATION PRESENTS A SUMMER FAMILY FILM SERIES AT LA CUMBRE JR. HIGH SCHOOL

FAMILY FILM SERIES AT LA CUMBRE JR. HIGH BEGINS JULY 22 WITH
~ THE LION KING ~
You are invited to a great new family film series happening at La Cumbre Jr. High School this summer. The series begins on Sunday, July 22nd at 4pm with a screening of The Lion King. Suggested donation is $2 for [...]

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Art & Soul Oakland to Maximize Fun, Arts with New Events and Expanded Focus

originally posted by Oakland Local

Oakland’s 2012 Art & Soul Festival is getting a fresh spin.  Now in its 12th  year, the immensely popular Aug. 4 and 5 music festival is shifting its formula to focus more on local acts and on providing series of events and experiences that will broaden its appeal.  Late-night dancing on Frank Ogawa [...]

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12th Annual Art & Soul Oakland

The Bay Area’s Best Festival Just Got Better!
August 4 & 5
The festival that launched downtown Oakland’s transformation as the Bay Area’s hottest dining and arts scene, Art & Soul Oakland will sizzle this year with two art- and music-packed days featuring live jazz, rock, gospel, E.D.M., punk, honky-tonk, metal, world, Latin, folk, R&B, and blues music performed [...]

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Celebrating the ‘workhorse’ Bay Bridge

originally posted by SF Gate

It’s not the prettier bridge. And it’s certainly no international tourist icon. No one’s going to throw it a big party with fireworks and art shows.
But that solid gray chunk of steel, the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, transformed the region in ways its beauty-queen sister across the bay can only dream of.
“The Bay [...]

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Legion’s ‘Man Ray/Lee Miller’ Exhibition

originally posted by SF Gate, 07-13-2012
Four years ago, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art presented “The Art of Lee Miller,” the largest retrospective ever devoted to the photographer, which the Victoria and Albert Museum in London organized.
The Legion of Honor revisits some of the same material – we have to wonder why so soon – with the just-opened [...]

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Ed Ruscha’s exit leaves no artists on MOCA board of trustees [Updated]

originally posted by Los Angeles Times

Following a week in which John Baldessari, Catherine Opie and Barbara Kruger all resigned from the board of trustees at Los Angeles’ Museum of Contemporary Art, Ed Ruscha has also resigned, leaving no artists remaining on the museum’s board.
The artist’s wife, Danna Ruscha, posted the following comment on the Facebook [...]

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UCIRA Artist Cauleen Smith Exhibitions Solo Show at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago

re-posted from Time Out Chicago

MCA Screen continues with Smith’s meditation on Sun Ra.
By Lauren Weinberg

When a woman in Cauleen Smith’s short film “Play Your Part” (2012) tells her psychiatrist she believes she’s seen aliens from outer space—two black-clad creatures with mops of orange hair—the doctor is unfazed. “They could be extraterrestrials,” [...]

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OUTFEST 2012: The 30th Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Film Festival

With 143 films from 24 different countries along with exciting panels and parties, this year’s festival is not to be missed! For 29 years Outfest has led the charge, spotlighting emerging talent, creating community between filmmakers and audiences and offering a world-class forum for stories that reflect and often transform [...]

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EmcArts Invites Proposals From Performing Arts Organizations for Innovation Lab Program

Deadline: August 9, 2012
With support from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, EmcArts, a nonprofit provider of innovation services to the arts sector, has announced that it will continue its Innovation Lab for the Performing Arts, an immersion program for arts groups to incubate organizational innovations.
EmcArts will deliver two more rounds of [...]

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Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum presents From Dusk ’til Drawn: 24-Hour Drawing Rally

Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, 653 Paseo Nuevo
07/20-21/12 – 6 pm–6 pm, From Dusk ’til Drawn: 24-Hour Drawing Rally, $5 General Admission to attend the event, purchase artworks, and take part in a community drawing activity; Show your membership card and receive FREE admission.
07/22/12 – 4–6 pm Artist Reception, FREE to attend and purchase remaining [...]

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UCIRA Artist Julie Wyman’s project “STRONG!” in Theaters and on PBS’s Independent Lens

Julie Wyman celebrates the premiere of her UCIRA and Creative Capital-supported project, the documentary STRONG!, with a national broadcast debut on PBS’s Independent Lens series on July 26. Leading up to the PBS broadcast, STRONG! will be touring major cities throughout the country from July 18-25,  using the new crowdsourcing platform TUGG to book one-night [...]

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NELSON GALLERY AT UC DAVIS ANNOUNCES FOURTH REGIONAL SURVEY BIENNIAL EXHIBITION: FLATLANDERS ON THE SLANT FEATURES FIFTY LOCAL ARTISTS IN CELEBRATION OF THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE SLANT STEP

In July 2006 UCIRA Artist Renny Pritikin curated the work of some three-dozen artists from the Sacramento and Davis area into the first Flatlanders exhibition. Every other summer since he has organized new versions of the show, with all different artists. For the fourth iteration, from July 12th through August 17th, 2012, the theme will [...]

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The Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum presents From Dusk ’til Drawn: 24-Hour Drawing Rally

Friday, July 20, 2012
6 PM through Saturday, July 21, 2012 6 PM.
Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Downtown Santa Barbara

$5 to attend and purchase artworks hot off the presses for as low as $25.
(Admission free for members with membership card)
Artist Reception:
Sunday, July 22, 4-6 PM
FREE to attend and purchase remaining artworks.
CAF is pulling an all-nighter [...]

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Lutz Bacher’s MATRIX 242 Exhibition at UC Berkeley

July 18, 2012 – October 7, 2012
BAM Gallery, UC Berkeley

Since Lutz Bacher’s first MATRIX exhibition in 1993, the Berkeley-based artist has become a leading figure in contemporary art; she was the subject of a retrospective at MoMA PS1 in 2009 and was included in the 2012 Whitney Biennial. MATRIX 242 presents an important but rarely [...]

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A Journey to Harmony: Suanplu Chorus Concert at UC Los Angeles

Sunday, July 15, 2012
7:30 PM – 9:30 PM
Schoenberg Hall
UCLA Campus

A full concert in Los Angeles by Suanplu Chorus, a 30+ voices SATB chorus based in Bangkok, Thailand and a pioneer in combining the beauty of Thai music with Western choral tradition since its start in 2000. Repertoire includes the competition sets for the World Choir [...]

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Fowler Outspoken Conversation: Liza Lou and Sam Durant on Conceptualization and Collaboration at UC Los Angeles

Thursday, July 26, 2012, 7pm
Fowler Museum auditorium
Free program
Speakers: artists Liza Lou and Sam Durant, moderated by Alma Ruiz
Alighiero Boetti’s production method for his arazzi (embroideries) has raised interesting issues about his collaboration with Afghan embroiderers. Artists Sam Durant and Liza Lou discuss the nature of conceptualization and fabrication in their own art, which range from Durant’s politically-engaged [...]

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WILD UP: WEST OPEN REHEARSAL at UC Los Angeles

Thursday, July 12, 2012, 11:30am
Hammer Museum, UC Los Angeles
Before each of the three major wild Up concerts the Hammer will host open rehearsals. This provides visitors with the unique opportunity to see how a concert program comes together, the mystery of the orchestra and the dynamics of the members unveiled. The rehearsals are a profound part [...]

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SUMMER ACADEMY IN MUSIC STARTS AUGUST 6 at UC Irvine

The Summer Academies in the Arts provide high school students conservatory-style immersion education and portfolio preparation through project-based learning in Dance, Digital Art, Drama, Music and Studio Art. Limited scholarships are available for qualified students. For an additional fee, qualifying high school seniors can receive college credit for participating in a Summer Academy.
August 6 – [...]

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“The Man in the Iron Mask” – World Premiere by Scott Wentworth at UC Santa Cruz

Dates: Wednesday, July 25, 2012 - Sunday, August 26, 2012
Location: Sinsheimer-Stanley Festival Glen, UC Santa Cruz

Presented by: Shakespeare Santa Cruz
Written by Scott Wentworth
Directed by John Sipes
Based on the works of Alexandre Dumas
The Musketeers are back! Only older. Aramis, Porthos, Athos, and D’Artagnan, long since retired from their heroic endeavors, reunite in a final pursuit of glory [...]

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SUMMERDANCES 2012 at UC Santa Barbara

Dates: 08/1/12 – 08/2/12
Cost: $8.00
Contact: Eric Mills email
UCSB students in ballet, jazz and modern dance classes present technique demonstrations and choreography by dance faculty and guest artists.
August 1 & 2 / 8pm
HSSB Ballet Studio Theater, UC Santa Barbara (seating is limited)
If you have special needs due to a disability, please contact our
department at (805) 893-3022.
For more [...]

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Battleship Iowa to Engage New Role as L.A. Museum

SF Gate
07-05-2012
Almost ready.
Freshly scrubbed and decked out in patriotic bunting, the battleship Iowa opens to the public on Saturday.
After years of planning and work, that’s when the World War II icon begins its new life as an interactive museum on San Pedro’s waterfront.
The ship remains a work in progress – more areas will be opened up as work [...]

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Community Foundation Update

from Philanthropy News Digest

California
The Carlsbad Charitable Foundation, an affiliate of the San Diego Foundation, has awarded a total of $107,403 to five programs seeking to boost the arts and culture in the Carlsbad community. Grants were awarded to the Carlsbad Community Theatre Showcase Company ($18,613), Carlsbad Music Festival ($15,080), Hacienda Project ($25,238), Harps in the City [...]

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Gallery Show Raises Awareness

from the Coast News

A unique five-day art show at the 10Hr Art Gallery mixed works of professional artists, TERI developmentally challenged students, and local school children to raise funds for TERI Campus of Life arts program June 26 to June 30.  The “Hope for the Future” exhibit was held at the temporary gallery located [...]

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CicLAvia Announces New Date for the Fall, New Route

from the Los Angeles Times

Cyclists, runners, dog walkers and all those who revel in the transgressive (and quite healthy) appeal of roaming Los Angeles streets free of cars take note: The latest iteration ofCicLAvia has been announced.
Six months removed from a spring event that reportedly drew more than 100,000 people over 10 miles of [...]

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Artist Call- Cal Humanities Announces Guidelines for Community Stories Grants Program

Deadline: 08-01-2012
A program of Cal Humanities, Community Stories (previously the California Story Fund) is a competitive grants program designed to support story-based public humanities projects that collect, preserve, interpret, and share the stories of California communities, past and present.
Community Stories funds projects that focus on the collection and sharing of real stories of California’s communities. Projects [...]

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Artist Call- San Francisco Erotic Art Exhibition 2

Deadline: 08-15-2012
“SAN FRANCISCO EROTIC ART EXHIBITION 2″ will feature 25 artists displaying over 400 paintings, sculptures and photographs, from the fine art nude to the extreme erotica. It will be held September 21-23, 2012 at Gallery 4N5 in downtown San Francisco on the same weekend as the infamous Folsom Street Fair. Visit the website, www.eroticartevents.com, for [...]

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Artist Call- Visual Politics: Art and the American Experience, 2012

Deadline: 08-24-2012
The democratic process depends on hearing diverse points of view, reaching wisdom by finding common ground. SCAL invites all viewpoints from all corners of the US and intends to be its own Town Hall Meeting with the brokers of power. Join us at the brink: It’s your chance to speak your piece.
Oct. 27 – [...]

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Artist Call- Interfaith Artwork for Exhibition and Auction

Deadline: 08-17-2012
In celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Center for the Arts, Religion and Education (CARE), and the 50th anniversary of the Graduate Theological Union (GTU), artists are invited to submit work that represents and supports the interfaith mission of the GTU.
Location
Selected art will be exhibited and placed in a silent auction at the [...]

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