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ArtBattles produces live art events and competitions that expose emerging artists to the masses. By presenting the creative process as a form of entertainment, they've changed the way artists display their talent and created a new model for exhibition and sales.ArtBattles produces live art events and competitions that expose emerging artists to the masses. By presenting the creative process as a form of entertainment, they've changed the way artists display their talent and created a new model for exhibition and sales.
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The Center for 4D Arts, a not-for profit arts and technology organization based in Beacon, NY, is designed to be a full service access and education center to support the exploration and development of the 4D arts (3D+Time). The 4D arts include stereo video, holography, lenticular images and a range of new 3D image making techniques.
The Center for 4D Arts (4DArts) is poised to carry out this mission through maintaining a state of the art production and exhibition facility that supports hands-on workshops, seminars, exhibitions, equipment rentals and training consultancies, an artist-in-residence program for advanced practitioners, the production of limited editions of 4D arts projects and an online 3D magazine/blog. Our goal is to create a rich collaborative environment to further the creative exploration of 3D space through time.
Co-founders Linda Law and Maria Marewski are assembling variety of donated 3D equipment and will make this equipment available to artists as tools for the creation and exhibition of 3D art works, film showings, and installations.
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Daylight Community Arts Foundation (DCAF) is a not for profit organization dedicated to publishing in-depth photographic essays on important issues of the day via Daylight Magazine (print) and Daylight Multimedia (online). By reimagining the documentary mode through collaboration with established and emerging artists, scholars and journalists, Daylight has become one of the premier showcases for contemporary photography.
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French Broad Institute (FBI)is housed in a former Methodist church built in 1912, in Marshall, NC, the county seat of Madison County, NC, The French Broad Institute (Of Time & the River) was formed in 2007 to serve the community of Marshall and surrounding areas by providing a forum for curated collaborations, multidisciplinary performances, as an investigative think tank for re-imagining the relationship between traditional and avant-garde arts, and between the time-based arts and the natural sciences. We function through collective volunteer community members in a environment that encourages a meaningful daily artistic practice for all.
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40 Cows For Peace is a public art project by the artist Jo Ann O’Rear who will draw or paint 40 pieces of art featuring cows to promote a culture of peace. These 40 pieces of art will be unveiled at an art opening in August/September 2011 in Northwest Connecticut. The art show will be open to the public for two to four weeks. Fifty percent of the proceeds from the project will go to charity.
Why cows?
Cows make people happy. A universally beloved animal, cows project neutrality. Because they don’t bring conflict, people find by looking at them they don’t know how to respond except to smile. Further, cows seem to contain an almost magical quality that makes them transcend age, religion, race and class. They are a great equalizer.
Jo Ann O’Rear is a writer and artist working in New York and Connecticut. She has won grants for her fiction and playwriting from the Kentucky Arts Council and The Kentucky Foundation for Women in her native Kentucky. Her intellectual pursuits include degrees in literature and history, a Masters in the Humanities from St. Xavier University, and a post as literary editor of a new art and literary journal called Page: Art & Literary Inspiration in the Taconic, Berkshire and Litchfield Hills. Her most recent show of artwork was at the infamous Hotel Chelsea in NYC.
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U.S. Poets in Mexico brings American and Mexican poets together to collaborate, work to strengthen their own writing, to expand public audiences for poetry from both nations to further literary cultural awareness between Mexico and the United States.
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The Wassaic Project creates an opportunity for artists of all mediums to engage in a community-based, site specific, and site informed experience. Artists are invited to come out of the confines of their studios and experiment in a safe, supportive, and collaborative art-making venture. The project is situated on a series of historic farm structures and their adjoining land in the hamlet town of Wassaic in Dutchess County, NY.
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Wednesday's at A’s is a feature-length documentary about Arleen Schloss, a noted underground artist, painter, video director and curator who was an influential figure in the 1980s and 1990s New York art and music scenes. Known as an “artists’ artist,” Schloss began her influence through A’s – an interdisciplinary loft space that became a hub for music, exhibitions, performance art, videos and films that rivaled venues like the Mudd Club and CBGB’s. The documentary explores how Schloss’s art work evolved and changed with the times. She was and very much still is an artist ahead of her time. WEDNESDAYS at A's is currently in post production and is looking for finishing funds. ••••
Alaine Handa and Dancers mission is to present and support independent contemporary artists and companies in New York and worldwide. Through collaborations with local dancers and artists of other mediums, Alaine Handa and Dancers hope to share modern dance to communities that lack exposure to it.
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