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Mendocino Plein Air Painting Workshop with Victoria Brooks
Saturday and Sunday, May 19 & 20, 2012 from 9 am to 4 pm.

Victoria Brooks will be teaching this impressionist oil painting workshop on location and in the studio. She will be emphasizing working quickly to simplify the landscape and capture the ambiance of the area. your completed paintings will have a fresh, spontaneous feel. Victoria will address choice of subject, technique, composition, color and values. She will give several quick demos as well as frequent constructive class critiques. This class is for all level of painters.

Victoria Brooks has been painting and teaching full time for the past 25 years after a successful career as an art director and graphic designer in television. She has won numerous "Best of Show" awards for her studio and plein air works. She teaches plein air painting workshops in California, Italy, France and Greece. View Victoria’s work on her website at: www.vbrooks.com.

The Mendocino Art Center is located in the heart of the beautiful village of Mendocino on the coast 150 miles north of San Francisco overlooking the rugged expanse of the Pacific ocean.

Class Fee: $220. MAC Members: $198. To register please call the Mendocino Art Center at (800) 653-3328 or go to the website: www.mendocinoartcenter.org. A supply list will be given upon registration. This class is limited to 12 students

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CALL FOR ARTISTS:
The Peninsula Art League in Gig Harbor, Wa. is holding our 10th Annual Open Art Exhibition, "Outside Your Comfort Zone".
This art exhibition awards over $3,100 is prizes.  Our 2012 Juror is Rock Hushka, curator, Tacoma Art Museum.

Accepting 2D and 3D art. 

Exhibition dates:  August 9 – Sept. 13, 2012
Deadline for entries is May 31, 2012
Call for Artists application attached or you may apply directly on line at:  http://www.onlinejuriedshows.com

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Book Review: Glass at Central

February 20, 2012

This book brings together the recollections and achievements of postgraduate students of the glass department at the prestigious Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design in London (part of the University of the Arts London) during the 25 years prior to the course closure in 2011, after 115 years of continuous activity. The book [...]

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Call for Entries: Future Generation Art Prize 2012

February 20, 2012

Entry Deadline: May 6, 2012 In 2012, San Art is again a partner platform for the launch of the ‘Future Generation Art Prize’. http://san-art.org/programs.html The prize was established by the Victor Pinchuk Foundation and is a worldwide contemporary art prize to discover, recognize and provide long-term support to a future generation of artists. Artists around [...]

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Call for Entries: Art in the Columbarium

February 18, 2012

Entry Deadline: April 21, 2012 Evergreen Washelli is accepting submissions for the 2012 Art in the Columbarium exhibition. We will be hosting up to six solo shows for local, emerging, new artists. Each solo show will run from four to six weeks. We are seeking a portfolio of original artwork that is appropriate for a [...]

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Penland School of Crafts Annual Benefit Auction

February 18, 2012

Friday August 10th – Saturday August 11th, 2012 The Penland School of Crafts Annual Benefit Auction is a gala weekend in the North Carolina Mountains featuring the sale of more than 240 works in books, clay, drawing, glass, iron, letterpress, metals, painting, photography, printmaking, textiles, and wood. The Penland auction is one of the most [...]

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Call for Entries: 3rd Annual International Nature & Wildlife Juried Fine Arts Exhibition

February 18, 2012

Entry Deadline: March 2, 2012  Exhibition Sponsor: St. Augustine Art Association CALL TO ARTISTS: $4600 in AWARDS, $2,000 First Place. The St Augustine Art Assoc presents the 3rd Annual International Nature & Wildlife Juried Fine Art Exhibition April 28-May 27, 2012. Seeking 2D & 3D original artwork in all mediums depicting the beauty of nature [...]

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Call for Entries: ARTE NATURA

December 31, 2011

Entry Deadline February 29, 2012 via Slow Art Productions: SlowArt Productions presents the group thematic exhibition, Arte Natura. This exhibition will focus on art inspired by the natural world and will be held at the Limner Gallery from June 2 – 30, 2012. Eligible are all art forms relating to, or gaining inspiration from the [...]

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Oil Painters of America Seeks Submissions to National Exhibition

November 29, 2011

Call for Entry Deadline: February 10, 2012 and February 24, 2012 Oil Painters of America’s 2012 National Exhibition Evergreen Fine Art Gallery in Evergreen, Colorado Sponsor: Oil Painters of America Oil Painters of America 21st Annual National Exhibition of Representational Oil Paintings will be held June 22 through July 21, 2012  at Evergreen Fine Art [...]

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Lark Seeks Submission for Book 500 Lights

November 21, 2011

Lark is seeking images to publish in a juried collection of handcrafted lights. The juror will be Christopher Poehlmann, owner of CP Lighting, an internationally regarded company producing handcrafted decorative light fixtures for over 20 years. 500 Lights will be published in Spring 2013. Download the entry form here. You may submit up to four [...]

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