Miniatures: January 30, 2009

Call for Art : Window Piece for Reader's Art 9

Reader's Art, the annual and always popular group show of national and local book artists at Susan Hensel Gallery celebrates its 9th year in 2009. This year the theme of Reader's Art is "Small, Smaller, Smallest"—a focus on miniature books and the amazing craft and precision that they entail.

Susan Hensel Gallery is now officially accepting proposals for "book-related art" to fill its two premium window spaces facing Cedar Avenue for the duration of this show. The dimensions of the windows are approx. eight feet wide across the back wall, six feet wide across the windows themselves, and seven feet high.

The exhibition, as well as its window counterpart, will run March 13th through April 24th.

Applicants need not be book artists themselves, and the proposed work need not be miniature. However, extra consideration will be given to artists whose proposals cleverly reflect these concepts. proposals due:January 30, 2009

Please see the website for further details. http://www.susanhenselgallery.com



Susan Hensel Design,LLC
www.susanhenselgallery.com
www.susanhenseldesign.com
3441 Cedar Ave S
Minneapolis, MN 55407
612 722-2324

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Call for papers, 2/1//09

At the recent NEW VIEWS 2 conference at the London College of
Communication in July of 2008 there was some heated discussion in the
Interdisciplinarity Discussion Group. See conference site for more
details: http://newviews.co.uk/speakers.html) One visitor dropped in
for a visit after the group had met for several session and attempted
to provoke the group (his admitted intention) with the declaration
that Design is Dead. See Rick Poyner's article on the conference
(http://www.eyemagazine.com/opinion.php?id=160&oid=453). We don't
accept that Graphic Design is dead (as one presenter suggested) but
that certain views have reached their life span. The view of the
designer or designers' role as either the maker of an end product, or
on the other extreme as the “expert†who comes into a project with
“the answer†is one that many of us felt was no longer operative.

Interdisciplinarity is a given in design activity. What we can all
benefit from is a closer examination of the methods, theories,
difficulties and possibilities to form a stronger framework for how to
be part of the shift that re-visions the role of the graphic designer
in the current and next generation. We are looking to collect
submissions from both designers and those who have or wish to bring a
designer into their process for a special issue of MULTI
(http://multi.cias.rit.edu/).
We welcome traditional papers and non-traditional submissions looking at:
-theoretical, applied, and/or pedagogical practice
-the use of the term graphic design:do we abandon this term as some
suggested?
-evaluation/effectiveness of interdisciplinarity in the classroom (how
do we evaluate? what are the problems?)
-how does design bring together and integrate the views of science?
psychology? economy? ecology? politics? etc…
-what are the factors of change? (i.e. social change such as feminist
theory, technology…etc.)

Design isn’t dead, but it is at the crossroad of a new direction.
Let’s explore the possibilities together as designers, educators,
students and collaborators.

Submission Deadline: February 1, 2009
We encourage any inquiries or letters of intent by this deadline.
Laura Chessin
lchessin@vcu.edu
or
Alex Bitterman
alex.bitterman@rit.edu

Artist book reading: 2/1/09

Dates and Deadlines:
– All submissions must be made electronically to artistbookreading@gmail.com by February 1, 2009
– Artists will be notified by e-mail of the jury’s decisions by March 1, 2009.
– The reading will take place at the Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection in Chicago on March 28, 2009 from 10 am to 3pm.

Jury:
The jury will be made up of Chicago artists. They will be looking for unique, well-crafted book works as well as good solutions to presenting these works which will best communicate their content and uniqueness.

What to send
For each submission include:
1) A Word or PDF document including in this order:
– your name
– your e-mail
– your phone number
– an artists’ statement specifically about this work and it’s content
– a detailed description of your proposed reading presentation including any special technical or other needs (projectors, audio equipment, lighting ...)

2) A Word or PDF document of the text that you will read:
– Each reader will have 6-10 minutes to read/present. Please be sure that your presentation fits into this time frame.
– If you are proposing to read a portion of a larger work, include all or enough of the larger work, with the section that you plan to read highlighted, so that the jury can better understand the entire work and your presentation.

3) Images of the bookwork:
– Images should be jpeg, 5”x7”, 150dpi.
– Include up to 5 images of the bookwork clearly showing the content, structure, and how they are related to and will be a part of your proposed presentation of the work for this reading.

4) Send all submissions to artistbookreading@gmail.com by the February 1, 2009 deadline. We will e-mail you to confirm receipt your submission.

5) Questions? E-mail us at artistbookreading@gmail.com and we’ll do our best to respond quickly and completely.

Love of Place: January 31, 2009

Topophilia: Love of Place
Entry postmark deadline: January 31, 2009
Juror: Natasha Lovelace, Kennesaw State University
Entry Fee: $25 for 3 entries
For details, prospectus and entry form, please email:
Charlotte@OTACenter.com

Charlotte Lowry Collins, Director
Olde Towne Arts Center
300 Robert St., Slidell, LA 70458
Charlotte@OTACenter.com
985-649-0555

Tara O'Brien 32 North 40th StPhiladlephia,
PA 19104inkfishpress@mail.com Thanks again, Tara