from 22th till 25th of october in paris.
click here for more information about the art fair or send us an email if you want to meet.
showtime: fiac
from 22th till 25th of october in paris.
click here for more information about the art fair or send us an email if you want to meet.
BOOKS BY MIRA!
Hi again. Just so you know, I uploaded a bunch of my books on different cultures for you to purchase, if you so desire (see bottom of page). Each book in the Stencil Book Series contains a set of stencils and info on each country or culture, along with history, lifeways, art, ritual information, myths and folklore. Great for the classroom or for museum workshops, if any of you are teachers out there. I originally wrote and developed the book series for children, grades three and up, but many artists (and others) like the books just for the designs (like Dover books only with much more information). There's also a four book Early Reader series for young children, with photos and text about Native American cultures. Every book you buy from my site helps to support Mira's List a tiny bit more! So scroll down to the bottom of the blog and you will find not only grant and arts books but now you'll find some books by me! Thanks.
Mira
ARTIST GRANTS & RESIDENCIES: FALL DEADLINES
Here are some upcoming deadlines for residencies and a couple grants. Don't forget, if you have questions about residency and grant applications, etc., please check out my FAQs on the right hand side bar. And while you're at it, why not check out my books on grant-writing and opportunities in the arts at the bottom of my blog or do your own grant book search on the side bar? Cheers, Mira. p.s. Just so you know, Blogger continues to make wonky formatting problems for those of us who write in a Word doc first before posting. The only remedy I have heard of so far is embedding new HTML code in each and every post which frankly, I'm too lazy to do. So you'll just have to deal with the occasional weirdness in font size and spacing for now....thanks for understanding.
(ALL) Residency in rural Georgia, U.S.A.
Sustainable Arts Society invites artists and creative professionals to participate in its Residency Program in the rural, pristine, setting of the Appalachian Mountains of north Georgia. U.S. and international individuals at all stages of their careers and working in a variety of mediums will be empowered to create works of significance in the arts and environmental conservation, to share ideas and inspiration with fellow residents, and to cultivate positive, intellectual growth and change while honoring the cultural and environmental integrity of this unique farm setting. U.S. and international creative individuals over 21 with a passionate commitment to their art form and respect for living sustainably among others and the natural world. Emerging, mid-career and professional level artists are encouraged to apply. General information, the details of the Application process and the Application are available on this web page. Nov. 1 deadline.
(ALL) Residency at Pilchuck Glass School in Seattle
The twelve-day Hauberg residency, established to encourage collaboration among a group of outstanding artists, offers an opportunity to create new work that utilizes Pilchuck facilities and/or is inspired by the Pilchuck environment. Visual artists in all media as well as writers, poets, art critics, and curators are encouraged to submit proposals with a collaborative concept or theme that makes creative use of Pilchuck’s resources and environment. Hauberg Fellows may use the vitreography studio; plaster studios; fusing, slumping, and casting kilns; and coldworking equipment. The twelve-day spring residency includes a single room in a cottage with shared bath, meals, studio space, and limited supplies. Reimbursement for travel costs and honorarium are not provided. Deadline: January 16th, 2010. For more information, write to Ruth King, Artistic Director: rking@pilchuck.com or visit the website: www.pilchuck.com.
(ALL) The Rome Prize
The American Academy awards the Rome Prize to thirty emerging artists and scholars in the early or middle stages of their careers who represent the highest standard of excellence in the arts and humanities. Fellows are chosen from the following disciplines: architecture, design, historic preservation and conservation, landscape architecture, literature (awarded only by nomination through the American Academy of Arts and Letters), musical Composition, visual arts, ancient studies, medieval studies, renaissance and early modern studies, and modern Italian studies.
(ALL) Residency in rural Georgia, U.S.A.Sustainable Arts Society invites artists and creative professionals to participate in its Residency Program in the rural, pristine, setting of the Appalachian Mountains of north Georgia. U.S. and international individuals at all stages of their careers and working in a variety of mediums will be empowered to create works of significance in the arts and environmental conservation, to share ideas and inspiration with fellow residents, and to cultivate positive, intellectual growth and change while honoring the cultural and environmental integrity of this unique farm setting. U.S. and international creative individuals over 21 with a passionate commitment to their art form and respect for living sustainably among others and the natural world. Emerging, mid-career and professional level artists are encouraged to apply. General information, the details of the Application process and the Application are available on this web page. Nov. 1 deadline.
http://www.sustainable-arts.org/residencies.html
(Thanks to Artist Trust for the following announcements):
(ALL DISCIPLINES & SOUND ARTISTS) Jack Straw Residency in Seattle
The Jack Straw Residency Program in Seattle, Washington is accepting applicants from both established and emerging artists in diverse disciplines to participate in their Artist Residency Programs. There are three programs available this year, Artist Support Program, New Media Gallery, and Writers Program. These residencies are offered to allow artists the opportunity to explore the creative use of sound in a professional atmosphere. Each completed application must be postmarked or delivered by 5:00 pm, on Friday, October 30, 2009. For more info, go to: www.jackstraw.org.
(ALL) Residency at Pilchuck Glass School in Seattle
The twelve-day Hauberg residency, established to encourage collaboration among a group of outstanding artists, offers an opportunity to create new work that utilizes Pilchuck facilities and/or is inspired by the Pilchuck environment. Visual artists in all media as well as writers, poets, art critics, and curators are encouraged to submit proposals with a collaborative concept or theme that makes creative use of Pilchuck’s resources and environment. Hauberg Fellows may use the vitreography studio; plaster studios; fusing, slumping, and casting kilns; and coldworking equipment. The twelve-day spring residency includes a single room in a cottage with shared bath, meals, studio space, and limited supplies. Reimbursement for travel costs and honorarium are not provided. Deadline: January 16th, 2010. For more information, write to Ruth King, Artistic Director: rking@pilchuck.com or visit the website: www.pilchuck.com.
(ALL) The Rome Prize
The American Academy awards the Rome Prize to thirty emerging artists and scholars in the early or middle stages of their careers who represent the highest standard of excellence in the arts and humanities. Fellows are chosen from the following disciplines: architecture, design, historic preservation and conservation, landscape architecture, literature (awarded only by nomination through the American Academy of Arts and Letters), musical Composition, visual arts, ancient studies, medieval studies, renaissance and early modern studies, and modern Italian studies.
Prize recipients are invited to Rome for six months or eleven months to immerse themselves in the Academy community where they will enjoy a once in a lifetime opportunity to expand their own professional, artistic, or scholarly pursuits, drawing on their colleagues' erudition and experience and on the inestimable resources that Italy, Europe, the Mediterranean, and the Academy have to offer.
(ARTISTS) NYC Printmaking Residency
Special Editions Residency Program is a competitive national residency program for emerging artists to create new work through exploration of printmaking. The Lower East Side Printshop offers an opportunity to complete an important new body of work in collaboration with one of their two experienced master printers, fully sponsored by the Printshop. Artists, with or without printmaking skills, are provided with technical assistance, financial support, time and studio space to explore printmaking and complete a new body of work. Experimentation and exploration of new materials and processes are welcome. The Printshop documents the artwork digitally, in printed materials including the annual catalogue, and on the Internet. The Printshop also provides exposure opportunities through on- and off-site exhibitions and studio visits. Awarded artists work alongside other emerging and mid-career artists in the Printshop's Collaborations Studio. Deadline December 2nd, 2009. More info and application at: http://www.printshop.org/web/Create/SpecialEditions/index.html.
(ALL) Artist-in-Residence at Rocky Mountain National Park
The Artist-In-Residence program at Rocky Mountain National Park offers professional writers, composers, and visual and performing artists the opportunity to pursue their artistic discipline while being surrounded by the park's inspiring landscape. Selected artists stay in a historic, rustic cabin for two-week periods from June through September. No stipend is provided.More info and application at: http://www.nps.gov/romo/supportyourpark/artist_in_residence.htm
(WRITERS & PHOTOGRAPHERS) The Lange-Taylor Prize: The Lange-Taylor Prize is offered to a writer and a photographer in the early stages of a documentary project. By encouraging such collaborative efforts, the Center for Documentary Studies supports the documentary process in which writers and photographers work together to record the human story. For more information, go to: http://www-cds.aas.duke.edu/l-t/index.html. Deadline: January, 31, 2010.
The Puffin foundation is accepting grant proposals from emerging artists in the fields of art, music, photography, theater, and video. For more information, go to: http://www.puffinfoundation.org/grants/prospectiveapplicant.html. Deadline is December 15, 2009.
Commission, part 2
So, as I mentioned in the previous post, I was commissioned to create a piece similar to the piece pictured above, but in a much larger size.The original bird pieces were 20" x 16" and the painting in the center was 12" x 12" and they wanted the final piece to be a triptych, each 45" x 17".
I had some 45" x 17" birch panels created by a local woodworker, and then made my plan of attack.
The original bird piece on the left is also on a wood panel. I had brushed on some clear encaustic medium, and then collaged the birds in (cut out of black paper). I painted the red birds on top using oil paint.
The bird piece on the right is similar, but the red birds are drawn on the board with colored pencil, clear medium was added, and then I collaged in the birds cut out of black paper.
The piece in the center was created while I was in grad school, but luckily I still have it, so I could look at it. I had stretched raw canvas over a board and then wrote using oil pastel and I did a solvent transfer of the telephone pole directly to the canvas and covered it with clear encaustic medium. I think I then carved lines using a needle tool and filled them in with oil paint. Then I covered it with a layer of orange-ish medium. That may not be right, but that's my best guess. It was five years ago, after all!I was a little hesitant to do a transfer of the telephone pole, since the other elements were more hard-edged. So I decided to paint it directly onto the panel using gouache.
Since I hardly ever throw anything away, I still had most of the original imagery that I had used in the original pieces. So I enlarged some copies and used carbon paper to transfer it to the panel. Then I painted it in with black gouache and did the lines using a Sharpie.
I did similar things for the other 2 panels with the birds. On one I painted the birds with black gouache and cut out red paper, and the other I painted with red gouache and cut out black paper. I ended up removing some of the cut out birds so each set of birds and trees didn't look exactly the same.
So in the photo above, on the left panel, the birds are painted in black gouache and the red is cut paper, and on the right panel, the red is gouache and the black is cut paper. So that's what it looked like before I added any wax.
I found this ginormous hake brush at Jerry's Artarama in Austin. It's helpful to scale up your brushes when you scale up your work. And although these pieces are tall, they're not really terribly much bigger than my other work, so it wasn't too hard to get a nice, even surface on these.I brushed on a few layers of encaustic medium and fused with a heat gun. Then I added the cut paper and collaged it in using some more medium. Here's an image of the pieces with all the wax added.
I really like the way it looks here, but I knew that it wasn't exactly what the client had asked for. After conferring with my friend, we agreed that I should make the middle panel look more like the original (more orange-y), so I scored lines into the wax using a needle tool, and added some reddish-orange oil paint, rubbing it into the scored lines and also leaving a little bit of paint on the surface.So here's the final piece:
I'm really happy with the way it turned out!Update:
Here's a shot of the piece installed in the spa at the JW Marriott San Antonio Hill Country Resort & Spa!:
