Serigraph!

Hey everyone....This is a screen print by Fanch Ledan. It is titled "Striped Sofa over Central Park." It portrays excellent movement that guides the eye to the New York City landscape. It is very economical and voices the styles from the Fauve and Expressionist eras. Bright hues and saturated colors in the foreground flowing with more opaque colors in the background add depth and value, and make this lifelike, even if it seems like a collage. I love this for the color, the depiction New York, and the violation of the edge with the picture. I hope you all like it and it fills your mind with color and joy!    -Nic :)

Internship Opportunity

New Baltimore Collegetown Internship:
http://www.baltimorecollegetown.org/internships/details/609/

Organization: Young Audiences Arts for Learning
Department: Program Department
Position: Program and Outreach Intern, SUMMER

Contact: Cara Schaefer
Title: Assistant to the Executive Director and Operations Manager
Address:
2601 North Howard Street, Suite 320
Baltimore, MD 21218
Phone: 410-837-7577
Fax: 410-837-7579
Email: Cara@yamd.org
URL: www.yamd.org

Category: Nonprofit
Service: Our Vision is that one day EVERY student in Maryland will have the opportunity to Imagine, Create, and realize their full potential through the ARTS!

Semesters: Spring (February - May), Summer (June - August), Fall (September - December), Winter (January)
Year: 2011

Responsibilities:
• Work with the Program Director to increase the reach of arts education programming to more students across the state of Maryland.
• Oversee the distribution and collection of assembly and residency program evaluations.
• Make site visits and evaluate running programs and artists.
• Create and distribute contracts for assembly programs to artists and school contacts.
• Assist on-site manager, with Baltimore City Public Schools, Summer Learning Academies- providing on-site support to teachers, artists, and students.
• Update and design Teacher Guides for all arts programs on our roster.
• Work with the marketing department to develop targeted marketing materials and mailing lists to increase visibility in underserved areas of the state.
• Participate in a website redesign, including generating new text, choosing photos and references, and assisting with layout.
• Assist with planning artist-in-residency programs.
• Collect and analyze data pertinent to programming, student reach, marketing, and development.
• Assist with filing and other administrative tasks.
• Assist with special projects

Desired Skills:
• Can do attitude, strong interpersonal skills, positive attitude • Microsoft Office skills, Excel experience a plus • Proficient writing skills • Some understanding of the arts community, Maryland school system, and non-profits

Workdays: flexible
Paid: No

What materials do you require for application?
Resume, Cover Letter, Writing Sample

Places to Intern

LOCAL:
Nudashank, Baltimore, MD- art gallery
2 Hawks 2 Fishes, Baltimore, MD
Charm City Cakes, Baltimore, MD
Goya Girl Press, Baltimore, MD
Monozine, Baltimore, MD
The BMA Summer Internship Program
Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore, MD
Nana Projects, Baltimore, MD
Typecast Press, Baltimore, MD
Squidfire, Baltimore MD
Gallery Four, Baltimore. MD
Pyramid Atlantic Art Center: Silver Spring MD
Washington Printmakers Gallery, Silver Spring, MD

Pennsylvania:
Durham Press, Durham, PA
Fabric Workshop & Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Pennsylvania Art Conservatory, Berwyn, PA

Artist Talk TONIGHT!

Josh Haycraft aka BHBITB will be speaking TONIGHT in the art history lecture room in Peterson Hall, 7:30 pm! Get off the couch, bring your dinner, don't miss this talk!

Happy Spring!

Visiting Artist: Josh Haycraft aka BHBITB lectures on Tuesday 4/26!

Our second and final visiting artist of the semester, Josh Haycraft, will be lecturing on Tuesday April 26th at 7:30 pm in Peterson. Josh received an MFA in Interdisciplinary Studio Art from MICA's Mount Royal School of Art graduate program in 2009. He currently teaches at Westwood College in Arlington, VA and at MICA. For more about Josh, visit www.bhbitb.com

Remember that you receive extra credit points for attending!

Opportunity

Hi all--I received this inquiry from Dawn Gold in the Human Resources department. Please contact her directly if you're interested in participating:

We are in the process of planning our summer picnic on May 27 and were trying to find some students who may be interested in coming to campus to do face painting for the kids. I realize that it is after the end of the semester but thought you may know of some local students or students who were going to remain on campus that may be interested. Any help you could provide would be greatly appreciated.

Her email address is: dgold@mcdaniel.edu

Keiko Ishii Eckhardt

These are a few screenprints (with some added pencil touches) by Keiko Ishii Eckhardt that I thought are really beautiful in a complicated minimalist way. You can look at more of her prints here if you'd like.

Graphic Disorder

Brandt is a friend of mine, the owner and one of two artists at Graphic Disorder in Tennessee. He makes a living doing screenprinting and is very well known in the show truck and car industry. He makes t-shirts for various companies and other items. He has a machine that allows the screens to be placed into the different sections, the ink is spread over the screen by the machine and he and he can print up to 900 shirts an hour. He does some pretty impressive work and I thought you all would like to see his screens and the machines...it's printmaking on a proffessional scale! You can visit his website and take a look at some of his stuff. Enjoy!

http://www.graphicdisorder.com/

Screenprinting Artist: Andy Warhol

Screenprinting Artist: Shepard Fairey

www.obeygiant.com

Screenprinting Artist: Sister Mary Corita

https://www.corita.org/

Info about the Salon Show

Anyone participating in the Salon de Refuses Show at the Carroll County Arts Center, this post's for you!

-Your work should be matted and framed, and dropped off to me by Monday April 18th. You can either leave your work in my little office, or hand your work off during class/office hours.
-Anna Martin and Sarah Reeb will be delivering the work to CCAC on Tuesday April 19th. They will be hanging the show that day as well.
-The opening for the Salon show will be at the CCAC on Thursday April 21st at 6 pm.
-Any work not dropped off to me, Anna, or Sarah will not be included in the show, so be sure to make arrangements.
-Your work must be picked up from CCAC by May 15th or it will be thrown away!

Also, anyone participating in the Juried Show currently:

-Be sure to pick up your work on Sunday April 17th. I will be emailing campus safety a list of your names so that you can be let into the gallery to get your work. The first Senior Capstone show is going up I believe that same day, so please get your work out!

2 Internship Opportunities

The first is with a company called TheCelebrityCafe.com. All the info is posted here: http://www.baltimorecollegetown.org/internships/details/588/

The second is with a company called Zynga--all info posted here: http://www.zynga.com/jobs/zu.php

News @ Mcdaniel: Art Students Showcase Their Talents in Mixed Media

We made the McDaniel News! http://bit.ly/gIsUD5

Travel Season: New Work by Chloe Watson opens next Friday!

I have a solo show opening at the DC Arts Center on Friday April 15th, 7-9 pm! There will be an artist/curator talk on Saturday May 7th at 5 pm. The show runs from April 15-May 8, 2011. Here's the press release:

Chloe Watson uses acrylics, colored pencil and contact paper to create abstract imagery of familiar spaces that creates a dialog between individual memories and collective spaces. Her paintings present a world of places, previous dwellings, studios, galleries, and hotel rooms. The stripping of details, save for patterns which serve as a surrogate for the real, form highly geometric representations, which become spaces for reflection and the projection of experience. --Geoff Delanoy, Curator

This is an entirely new body of work, all completed in the months after traveling extensively in the fall. For more about DCAC, visit www.dcartscenter.org. For more about me, visit www.chloeswatson.com

DCAC is located at 2438 18th St NW Washington, DC 20009

Spring Solos at Arlington Arts Center opening next Friday!

Arlington Arts Center hosts 2 sets of solo exhibitions per year--one set in the spring, and the other in the fall. McDaniel alum and faculty member Mindy Hirt is in the first set of solos, opening Friday April 15th, 7-10 pm. The show runs from April 15-June 5, 2011. Here's the press release:

For AAC SOLOS 2011, DC collector and curator Michael Pollack and independent international curator Melissa Keys, formerly of the Perth Institute of Contemporary Art (PICA), Australia, selected this year’s crop of promising emerging contemporary artists from across the Mid-Atlantic region. Our Spring installment of SOLOS includes Mindy Hirt, Mariah Anne Johnson, Ailsa Staub, Leigh Davis, Joshua Wade Smith, and Jennifer Coster.

AAC is located at 3550 Wilson Blvd Arlington, VA 22201. For more info, visit https://www.arlingtonartscenter.org/spring-solos-2011

Internship Opportunity: Hirshhorn Museum in DC

The Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden is looking for summer interns to work with their Digital Learning Programs. Here's all the info:

Each summer the Hirshhorn offers workshops and organizes production teams and social clubs for DC-area youth as part of our Digital Learning Programs. This year the Museum has an opening for a paid intern. Eligible students should be enrolled in a college-level digital media, museum education, or studio art program. Experience with Apple iLife and Adobe Creative Suite is suggested; the ability to troubleshoot technology is required. The position lasts twelve consecutive forty-hour weeks, from June 6 to August 26, 2011. The workweek is Monday through Friday, 9 am to 5 pm.

About the Hirshhorn's Digital Learning Programs
The Digital Learning Programs constitute a Museum-wide initiative that teaches DC-area youth, ages 13 to 19, to use technology to create projects inspired by Hirshhorn exhibitions. In addition to the Art Lab, which provides a physical base for the DLP, there is an online social network that enables teens to share work and ideas when they are away from the Museum. There is also a full-day drop-in technology center open to teens so they can hang out, meet friends, and experiment with technology. During this time, a teen social club meets to plan events and a teen production team meets to initiate group projects. For more information, please see the ARTLAB+ website: http://artlabplus.si.edu/

Intern Responsibilities
The Digital Learning Programs intern will primarily provide workshop educators with logistical support and participants with on-site and online mentoring, guiding teens through Museum galleries and supporting production teams and social clubs in planning projects and events. The four-day workshops can be strenuous, involving activities both inside the Art Lab and outside on the National Mall. The fifth day of each week focuses on facilitating the drop-in program.

Stipend
The intern will receive a stipend of $3000 for the twelve-week period.

Applications must be completed online at https://solaa.si.edu no later than Friday, May 20, 2011. Any questions about the internship should be directed to Ryan Hill, Director of Digital Learning Programs.

For more info, visit http://hirshhorn.si.edu/info/page.asp?key=207&subkey=362

Congratulations Juried Show Participants!

Thank you to everyone who 1) submitted work to the juried show, 2) got your work framed and brought your work back for installation, and 3) showed up tonight for the opening reception! This is the smallest, most selective juried show the college has ever had. Here's a list of the award winners:

Best in Show: Kristin Behrle, "Connection"
1st Place: Noel Walters, "The Chocolate One"
2nd Place: Jessica Oros, "Twice a Day"
3rd Place: Megan Magee, "1/4th"
Honorable Mention: Kara Owens, "Peek Beyond"
Honorable Mention: Kirstin Bowers, "Piggies!"
Honorable Mention: Sarah Reeb, "Untitled"
Foundation Award: Casey Roberds, "Library"

Congratulations to everyone!

Artwork Donations Request

This is from Roxanna Harlow who used to be faculty here:

On May 2nd, from 6:30-9:00pm in McDaniel Lounge, we will be having our Higher Learning Student Photography Exhibition and Silent Auction. It will feature photographs taken by our students throughout the last two summers. The pictures will be displayed and judged by artists and art students, with awards given to the students of winning photos.

In addition to the students' photographs, professional artwork of various mediums by different artists will be on display and presented for auction. And that’s where you would come in!

I’m wondering if you’d be willing to donate one of your (smaller?) pieces of artwork for our upcoming exhibition and silent auction. It would be wonderful to have something of yours represented with the professional art for auction. In addition, do you know of any students or other artists who may be willing to donate a piece? Perhaps someone who does sculpture or ceramics or also paints.

All proceeds will support Higher Learning students and programs. In addition, your art donation is tax deductible!

If you can let me know no later than April 4th, that would be great. If you’re able to contribute, we can then make arrangements for me to pick up your donation at a later time. Whatever the case, I hope you’ll come out for the Exhibition and spread the word!

If you have any questions, please call me at 410-900-7957 or email rharlow@higherlearning-inc.org.

Email her if you're interested in participating!

Tom Haverford on Art

Anybody watch Parks and Recreation? There's a great episode called "The Camel" where Tom Haverford discovers the power that art has over his emotions--pretty hilarious! Check it out.