vantage point: call for submission

Open call for submissions - until March 21, 2009 for VANTAGE POINT, an EXHIBITION-IN-PRINT curated by PAUL BUTLER. Artists of any age and discipline, from any country in the world, are invited to submit in response to our curatorial theme outlined below.

Paul Butler is a Winnipeg-based artist, curator and dealer with an interest in multidisciplinary, social and alternative pedagogical practices (www.theotherpaulbutler.com ). Paul's oeuvre includes The Collage Party, The Other Gallery and the Upper Trading Post. Paul has exhibited at locations including: MOCA, LA, Justina M Barnicke Gallery, Hart House, University of Toronto, White Columns, NYC, Creative Growth Art Centre, Oakland and Sparwasser HQ, Berlin. Curatorial projects have included projects with Matthew Higgs, Mitzi Pederson, DearRaindrop and Guy Maddin.

30 selected artists will be published along with a selection of Paul's work and collaborations with other artists. To be launched in June 2009, this project is unique in the scope of it's inclusiveness, and in the overall aim to create open dialogue in the visual arts through art publications.

The curatorial theme developed by Paul is in keeping with his own collaborative multi-disciplinary and social intervention-based art practice. Artists may submit up to 3 works in response to the concept: "Community and Collaboration as a Form of Pedagogy". For submission information and further definition see: www.VantageArtProjects.com/current_submissions.html.

Submission deadline is Saturday, March 21/09. All submissions will be blind-juried and a submission fee is required.

Vantage Art Projects supports the contemporary arts through a commitment to providing parallel opportunities for artists, and connecting art enthusiasts and collectors with exciting new talent. The scope of our projects includes: Vantage Exhibitions, Vantage Art Press and Vantage Editions.

For further information email info@vantageartprojects.com.

two job postings: blackwood gallery (running with scissors)

Visual Art Instructors
Running With Scissors Visual Art Summer Camp at Blackwood Gallery
Start Date: July, 2009
End Date: August, 2009
$11/hr (30-40 hr)


Job Description:

The Visual Art Instructors will be responsible for the development and implementation of age
appropriate curriculum for a series of full-day workshops running on a weekly basis for children in
two different age groups from diverse backgrounds.

Reporting to the Project Coordinator and the Outreach Coordinator, the position of Visual Art
Instructors includes diverse responsibilities:

-Develop unique and creative programs
-Teach studio art workshops, including demonstrating techniques, and providing contemporary
and art historical context.
-Responsible for a group of up to twenty children with the assistance of volunteers.
-Ensure all materials, activities and practices are safe for children
-Maintain supply lists and sufficient amounts of materials
-Communicate between parents, gallery staff, and children to ensure the safety and general care
for the participants.
-Manage volunteers

Job Requirements:

-Enrollment in a post secondary diploma, degree or equivalent in fine arts, arts education, or
related discipline (returning full-time in September)
-Knowledge of the contemporary visual art practices and museum practices
-Experience with new media practices including, photography, video production, audio art, and/or
digital collage.
-Excellent communication/interpersonal skills
-Strong programming and organizational skills
-Enjoy working with children
-Demonstrated group management techniques
-Pervious customer service and/or camp experience
-Ability to work in a group


If you have any questions please contact Karen Kraven, Outreach Coordinator at 905-828-3789
or outreach.blackwood@utoronto.ca
Please submit your resume with cover letter in person, by mail or email
before Friday, March 6 2009 5:00 pm.to:
Attn: Running With Scissors Application Blackwood Gallery
Email outreach.blackwood@utoronto.ca 3359 Mississauga Rd. N.
Mississauga ON L5L 1C6


and


Project Coordinator
Running With Scissors Visual Art Summer Camp at Blackwood Gallery
Start Date: May, 2009
End Date: August, 2009
$11/hr (30-40 hr/wk)

Job Description:

The coordinator will be responsible for the research and development of age-appropriate
curriculum for a series of full-day workshops implemented on a weekly basis for children in two
different age groups from diverse backgrounds in July and August.

Reporting to the Outreach Coordinator, the position of Project Coordinator includes diverse and
highly challenging responsibilities:

-Organize publicity and advertising to secure enrolment for the different camps
-Administer registration
-Coordinate and supervise Visual Art Teachers and volunteers
-Recruit and manage volunteers
--Ensure all materials, activities and practices are safe for children
-Maintain supplies

Job Requirements:

-Enrollment in a post secondary diploma, degree or equivalent in fine arts, arts education, or
related discipline (returning full-time in September)
-Knowledge of the contemporary visual art practices and museum practices
-Excellent communication/interpersonal skills
-Strong programming and organizational skills
-Enjoy working with children
-Experience managing budgets
-Demonstrated group management techniques
-Pervious customer service, programming and/or camp experience
-Ability to work in a group
-Computer skills in Microsoft word, Excel, Photoshop and experience working with Dreamweaver
-Access to a car is an asset

If you have any questions please contact Karen Kraven, Outreach Coordinator at 905-828-3789
or outreach.blackwood@utoronto.ca

Please submit your resume with cover letter in person, by mail or email
before Friday, Mar 6, 2009 5:00 pm to:
Attn: Running With Scissors Application
Email: outreach.blackwood@utoronto.ca Blackwood Gallery
3359 Mississauga Rd. N.
Mississauga ON L5L 1C6

interaccess: call for submissions

WE ARE ALL MADE OF ****

Open call for electronic media art: InterAccess Emerging Artist Exhibition 2009


InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre is now accepting submissions for the 9th Annual Emerging Artists Exhibition!

This exhibition showcases electronic and new media art works by up-and-coming local and national future stars. We are accepting submissions from post-secondary upper-year students or recent graduates in Ontario and Canada. Curated by our 2009 curatorial intern, this exhibition provides the most competitive emerging artists with professional experience and publicity.

Each year, InterAccess invites a stellar emerging curator to take the reigns and create this important exhibition, which has received rave press from the Toronto Star, The National Post and The Globe and Mail. This year’s selected curatorial intern is Jennifer Chan, an interdisciplinary artist and specialist in Visual Culture & Communication at University of Toronto Misssissauga/Sheridan College Art & Art History program. She is a recipient of the 2008 Mississauga Arts Awards for Emerging Talent in Visual Arts and was previously a research intern at V tape video resource center. We proudly welcome Jennifer to our team and look forward to her work on this exhibition.

We are looking for submissions of electronic new media work that explores the aesthetics, determinance, (sub)cultures and history of digital media in relation to other creative media such as sculpture, installation, video, site-specific, audio and performance art. Preference may be given towards interactive and/or multimedia work that examines how the personal and political is articulated through digital mediation. Web-based projects are also welcome. However, due to the flexible parameters of an open call, the emerging curator will develop an exhibition related to all the submissions received.

Each selected artist will receive a CARFAC artist fee for participating. Artwork will be exhibited at InterAccess beginning Friday July 10 until Saturday August 8, 2009.

While we welcome proposals from outside of Ontario, please note that InterAccess cannot provide artist travel fees or cover the shipping of artwork. Participating artists will be responsible for timely transportation of their artwork to the gallery a week before the opening on Thursday July 2, 2009. Although the artist is chiefly responsible for installing his/her work, InterAccess will provide technical assistance and basic audio/video equipment.

All submissions must include:
- an artist statement (1 page)
- a project description (1 page)
- a clear description of technical requirements listing:
1.) materials provided by the artist, including any software and audio-visual equipment
2.) materials expected from InterAccess, including software and/or hardware
- artistic support material of previous works, and if possible, proposed work (DVD is preferred, however, URL links or JPG images are also accepted)
- a current C.V. (3 pages max)

Final deadline for submissions to be received at InterAccess is Friday April 24, 2009 at 5:00 p.m.

Send submissions to:

Jennifer Chan
Curatorial Intern
InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre
9 Ossington Avenue
Toronto, Ontario
M6J 2Y8

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InterAccess is a non-profit artist run centre that enables artists and the general public to explore the intersections of art and technology. Both a gallery and production facility, InterAccess is devoted to the conception, construction, exhibition and discussion of electronic media art. For more information visit http://www.interaccess.org. For more information on the emerging artists exhibition, please e-mail Jennifer Chan at jennifer(dot)chan(at)interaccess(dot)org.

artist lecture: erin finley

books to read for performance-based art class

Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
Second Life, the Official Guide , multiple authors, published by Wiley

kara walker lecture @ the ago

Meet the Artist: Kara Walker
Back to What's On for Adults, Lectures and Talks,

Image information
Friday, March 6, 7–8:30 pm, at the AGO's Baillie Court

AGO members $20 | Non-members $25 | Students $15

Kara Walker creates complex visual narratives evoking references to history, literature, media and cultural archeology. Through multiple layers of meaning Kara unapologetically pronounces that history is far more complex and complicated than we have ever imagined. Her work is a challenge to traditional concepts of race and race-based thinking, and to narratives of enslavement and oppression. Her art forces us to question our understandings of power and how it manifests itself within time, space and between people. Always provocative and never dry, Kara's work enlivens current discussions about notions of difference, community and memory.

eel: call for submissions

The Experimental Exhibition Lab (EEL) is dedicated to fostering
student exhibitions in the heart of the University of Toronto's
cultural centre. Located at the historic One Spadina building, the EEL
provides a space for intellectually and artistically curious students
to cultivate, curate, and create their own exhibitions in
collaboration with graduating and graduate students.

The EEL is looking for student artists/curators who are interested in
using the exhibition space for its 2009 re-launch. Works of any
dimensions and in any media are encouraged (EEL is appx. 11' x 22').
Please send your proposal, artist statement, a representation of your
work (it does not have to be finished, but your goal should be clear),
or curatorial premise and any questions to: eel.the@gmail.com. Each
exhibition will run for a period of 7-10 days, depending on
artists'/curators' preferences, until the end of the winter semester.