12/15/13, HUNGER

HUNGER at crafthaus.com: January 15 - February 15, 2014

With diet as a way of life for many in our culture, we’ve been taught that one should Eat to Live. We've forgotten that from the 18th through the early 20th century, being fat was a sign of health, prosperity, and an attraction at a time when food was scarce and many went hungry. HUNGER, in all its metaphorical forms, is part of our personal and public conversation. Many of us struggle with HUNGER, and yearn for the pleasure of food, love, possessions, control, sex or POWER.

If your work deals with HUNGER, choose five of your best shots.  Twenty-four works will be selected for an on-line crafthaus.com exhibition curated by Alice Simpson; to broaden the conversation to include artists’ voices and visions on the subject of HUNGER.

LET THE CONVERSATION BEGIN!

Work in ALL MEDIA is encouraged.  Twenty-four selected work will be highlighted for one month on-line at crafthaus.com, and then become part of Past Online Exhibits. Curator’s selections will be made based on the relationship of the work to the theme of HUNGER. You need not be a member of crafthaus.com to submit work.

Curator: Alice Simpson
Daughter of legendary eccentric Vaudeville dancer, Simpson’s colorful and lively works are
inspired by performance, music, dance, and human expression. After a rewarding career as
a graphic designer, illustrator and college adjunct, Alice Simpson is concentrating on artist books, clay sculpture, and writing a novel about the Ballroom. She has explored HUNGER  in her sculpture series, “Abundant Beauty,”  featured at ceramicstoday.com. Internationally collected and exhibited, Simpson’s works are in private and Special Collections such as The Victoria & Albert Museum, Yale, Harvard, UCLA, and Stanford Universities, and The Lincoln Center Library for Performing Arts. www.alicesimpson.com

ENTRY INSTRUCTIONS:
You may submit five images: low resolution (72 dpi) sized at approximately 600-700 pixels.

Images must be titled:
YOUR LAST NAME_#1  (ex. simpson_#1)
YOUR LAST NAME_#2   (ex. simpson_#2)

Provide:
            • Your name
            • Number (#) of the work and Title  (ex. 1.Feed_Me)
            • Dimensions in inches: H x W x D
            • Materials
            • Photographer/Cinematographer
            • Video: with html from youtube
            • 30 word description of work’s relationship to the subject of HUNGER
            • Email address (will not be published or shared)
            • Website address for link [optional & recommended]

Submission Deadline: Up to December 15, 2013, 9:00 am, PST
Email to:  alice [at] alicesimpson [dot] com
Subject of email: YOUR LAST NAME_HUNGER

NOTIFICATION: via email January 1, 2014 (be sure to include your email address)
ONLINE EXHIBITION at crafthaus.com: January 15 - February 15, 2014

3/31/13: Head, Heart, Hand: AIGA Design Conference

The AIGA Design Educators Community announces a call for abstracts (for papers and presentations) and readers (of abstracts) to AIGA members who are interested in participating in a design education pre-conference event on October 9, 2013, immediately prior to Head, Heart, Hand: AIGA Design Conference, on October 10–12, 2013, in Minneapolis, MN.

Prospective presenters should be either graduate-level design students or design educators who are developing speculative pedagogical approaches as well as those who have applied successful models that align with one or more aspects of the Head, Heart, Hand theme. Please submit a 300-word (maximum) abstract (PDF) in narrative form and a separate 150-word (maximum) bio (PDF) by email to Frank Armstrong at farmstrong@csuchico.edu. In the body of the email, please indicate an appropriate category (Head, Heart or Hand) for your proposed paper/presentation; also your full name, title and affiliation. Subject line of the email should be "H3_ABSTRACT". Deadline for abstract submissions is March 31, 2013.

Prospective readers should be full-time design educators who are actively engaged in teaching and/or research that aligns with one or more aspects of the Head, Heart, Hand theme. Please submit a brief letter of interest by email indicating your preferred category (Head, Heart or Hand) and a current CV (PDF) to  Karen Zimmermann at kzim@email.arizona.edu. Subject line of the email should be "H3_READER". Deadline for reader applications is February 28, 2013.

Submitted abstracts will be reviewed by the DEC Steering Committee, which will make its selections based on several factors including: evaluations by the readers; quality, diversity and relevance of content.

Timeline for submission, selection and notification:

Reader applications due: February 28.

Readers selected and notified: March 15.

Abstracts submitted: March 31.

Abstracts distributed to readers: April 7.

Reader evaluations of abstracts submitted: April 30.

Presenters selected and notified: May 31.

Presenters submit full papers: August 31.

 

For more information, please contact AIGA DEC Steering Committee members Frank Armstrong at farmstrong@csuchico.edu or Karen Zimmermann at kzim@email.arizona.edu.