Free public receptions will be held November 5, December 3, and December 17, along with weekly Featured Artist Community Conversations.

For questions, contact: Zander Veith, mailto://intern@visitahc.org, (503) 481-6230.

For more information and to download the call to artists details and entry form: visitAHC.org

The Center on Contemporary Art (CoCA) hosts its unique art-making spectacle Oct. 1 and 2, featuring 24 visual artists working together in the same space (this time in Pioneer Square in CoCA’s newest location) for 24 straight hours followed by an auction.

Marathon begins 9 am Oct. 1; ends Oct. 2 at 9 am.  Auction begins at 5pm Oct. 2, all in CoCA’s newest space in Pioneer Square, 1st & Main, Globe Building (old Elliott Bay Bookstore).  CoCA provides basic equipment, meals, 1 yr. membership, and catalog for participating artists, who agree to create a minimum of 4 pieces in the 24 hour period.  Auction split is 50/50.

Full details on CoCA’s website, www.cocaseattle.org or apply directly at http:www.cocaseattle.org/submission.php

David Francis, mailto://david@cocaseattle.org; (206) 851-9641
Organization: Center on Contemporary Art
6413 Seaview Ave NW
Seattle, WA 98107
Phone: (206) 782-1980
Email: Lauren@cocaseattle.org
Website: www.cocaseattle.org

Exhibition dates:  October 29 through November 14, 2010.  $5000.00 in awards.  Four entries allowed, $15 per entry.

Phone: (970)586-5882.  Go to www.artcenterofestes.com  for prospectus or email mailto://lis@artcenterofestes.com.

Art Center of Estes Park, 517 Big Thompson Ave, Estes Park, CO 80517.

They only have two rules:
First, the book must be used in some way – no sending back an empty book or a completely different book!  
Second, the sketchbook must stay within its original dimensions. 

Each book will be given a barcode so it can be easily cataloged  into The Brooklyn Art Library System.  Once it is cataloged, the artists will be able to track where on the tour their book is viewed and how many times someone pulled it from the shelf.  You sign up, pick your theme, and they will send you the sketchbook! Fill it up and send it back and they will take it on tour to Brooklyn, Atlanta, Chicago, San Francisco, Austin, Portland, ME, and more! 

To sign up or for the full set of rules:
http://www.thesketchbookproject.com

ONLY $20 – SPACE IS LIMITED!  REGISTRATION DEADLINE IS FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17

Download Registration Form:  VSAInstituteRegistration  in Word        VSAInstituteRegistration  as a PDF

To Register – or for more information: Email Deborahw@creativeactivities.org or Call 206.443.1843

Susan D. Loesl, MA, ATR-BC, WATR, has, for the past 21 years, worked as an Adaptive Art Specialist/Art Therapist for the Milwaukee Public Schools in Milwaukee, WA.  She is an Art Therapy and Graduate Education Adjunct Faculty at Mount Mary College in Milwaukee, and a frequent presenter at national conferences relating to art education, art therapy, persons with disabilities and assistive technology. She has presented workshops and in-service training throughout the USA, Puerto Rico and China.  Sue is a consultant on adaptive arts strategies and low-tech adaptive art tools for schools, universities and organizations throughout the USA.  She also collaborates with the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design students to design and develop new adaptive tools for persons with special needs.  Sue is author of three chapters on adaptive arts strategies in three separate books.

Mr. Fran Sillau has served as a teacher, writer, director, actor, and producer, yet his most notable professional accomplishments have been that of teacher and director.  He was recently awarded the 2008 VSA Teaching Artist Fellowship, and was also a past recipient of the Access to the Arts grant awarded by The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and The National Endowment for The Arts.  Currently, Sillau serves as a teaching artist, actor, and director at The Omaha Theater Company (OTC) in Omaha, Nebraska.  When not working at OTC, he facilitates workshops enabling teachers in integrating theater arts into core curriculum.

Link to download a PDF flyer for the VSA Institute:  VSAInstitue

The Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT), seeks an artist to develop site-specific artwork for the Mercer West street improvement project .  The artwork will be located in an underpass and along adjacent concrete retaining walls at Mercer Street and Aurora Avenue.  The desired artistic approach will treat the underpass as a singular architectural environment and transform the experience of passing through the space for all modes of transit.

The artwork project is funded with SDOT 1% for Art funds.

Eligibility: Open to professional artists residing in the United States. Public art experience is required.

Budget: $335,000 (estimated) all-inclusive to design and fabricate the artwork.

The artist will work with project design consultants, SDOT, community representatives and the Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs to develop permanent public art for the Mercer West street improvement project.  The Mercer West project improves 16 blocks along Mercer Street.  The commissioned artist will develop artwork for a two-block area that includes the underpass at Aurora Avenue/Highway 99 and the adjacent approaches east and west of the underpass.  The desired artistic approach will treat the underpass as a singular architectural environment and transform the experience of passing through the space for all modes of transit.  Painted murals or other paint treatments are not feasible and will not be accepted for this project.

The underpass and the concrete retaining walls on either side of it provide an opportunity to create an experience that marks the transition from one neighborhood to another, changes in topography as the street passes below the highway above, and/or the rhythms of infrastructure and movement in the space. They wish to commission an artwork that builds on the existing space and makes the underpass a space to experience rather than a place to be endured.  The desired approach will treat the environment holistically, as opposed to simply masking the existing condition.

Apply online: www.callforentry.org

For more information: www.seattle.gov/arts/_downloads/calls/MercerWest.pdf

Patricia Hopper: (206) 684-7311. Public Art Project Manager

So, when Seattle Center offered us the chance to use the space in the newly opened Center Square, we jumped at it!  The weather looks good, we have all the supplies we need, and we are ready to set it up and see what can be created.  Any CA/VSAAW artist (whether in a chair or not) may take a turn trying out this device.  Artists in chairs get priority, and they must be able to transfer themselves or have a caregiver with them to assist.  Sorry, members of the general public are welcome to watch, but will not be allowed to participate.

Stop by any time between 11am – 6pm – or call for more information (206.443.1843).  We’ll be set up in the NE corner of the Center Square space – just west of the EMP.  We hope to see a lot of you here – it should be a lot of fun!

This is a temporary, part-time position.  The employee performs a variety of duties related to box office accounting/ticket sales, special event administration and activity planning, volunteer training, scheduling and supervision of cultural arts and special event recreational programs.

Position requires flexible schedule, including evenings and weekends.  Must be available to work all scheduled evenings and weekend program events, plus some weekday hours.  Schedule is set one month to six weeks in advance, based on need and/or program schedules.
Please visit their website at www.auburnwa.gov to apply.  Applications must be completed on-line.  

Deadline: Open. Please apply as soon as possible.

1. For each submission, send up to three poems.
2. A $15 reading fee (check or money order) payable to Sycamore Review must accompany each submission.  The reading fee includes a copy of the prize issue.
3. Additional poems (beyond the initial three) may be included.  Increase the reading fee $5 for each additional poem.
4. Simultaneous submissions are acceptable only if Sycamore Review is notified immediately upon acceptance elsewhere.
5. All entries must be typed and must include a cover letter with the author’s name and contact information (mailing address, telephone number, and email address) as well as the titles of all poems submitted.  Information that identifies the author should NOT appear on the manuscript itself.
6. Manuscript pages should be numbered and should include the title of the piece.
7. Please include a self-addressed, stamped postcard if you wish to be notified upon receipt of your manuscript.
8. Manuscripts will not be returned.  Winners will be announced by Dec. 30, 2010.  For information on winners and runners-up, please include a self-addressed, stamped envelope with entry.
9. All contest submissions will be considered for regular inclusion in Sycamore Review.
10. All poems must be previously unpublished.

Questions may be directed to mailto://sycamore@purdue.edu.
Send 2010 Wabash Prize for Poetry submissions and reading fee to:
2010 Wabash Prize for Poetry
Sycamore Review, Department of English
500 Oval Drive
Purdue University
West Lafayette , IN 47907

The 6th annual festival will screen 20 films at the Cinerama Theatre in early 2011.  EMP|SFM, in partnership with the Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF), is encouraging original and creative science fiction film submissions 15 minutes or shorter in length for the festival.  The festival will accept original entries created no earlier than January 2006.

Submissions will be accepted through www.withoutabox.com