More info at www.jacksonfineart.com

We’ve updated our Portfolio Review page with information about this year’s review, including a list of reviewers who have confirmed. in Opportunities & Call to Artists

June 15, 2011, Atlanta, GA – WonderRoot and Alternate ROOTS have partnered with the Ethics and the Arts Initiative at the Emory University Center for Ethics to offer a professional development training opportunity for artists of diverse disciplines. Internet for Artists, a weekend long workshop by Creative Capital, will teach artists how to use the power of the web to promote their work.

Scheduled for October 21-23, 2011 at the Emory University Center for Ethics this workshop will be facilitated by artists Dread Scott, Blithe Riley, Steve Lambert and Brad Lichtenstein (all from NYC and Detroit). The workshop is by artists and for artists and has been designed to create strategies for the individual artist’s career, bringing success as he or she defines it.

WonderRoot, Alternate ROOTS and the Emory Center for Ethics are pleased to offer this professional development program for Atlanta artists at a time when web-based media is evolving rapidly.

Applications will be received through September 15, 2011. In order to apply, interested artists should visit http://alternateroots.org/internetforartistsapplication to fill out the application form. 24 artists will be selected based on a range of criteria including diversity in discipline, experience using web-based media and expressed interest and need.

The workshop explores how internet resources can be used to build audience, expand community, amplify marketing and extend administrative resources. Participants develop a step-by-step holistic strategy for using a range of internet applications from social networking to e-commerce to achieve specific career goals.

If artists have questions or need technical assistance with the application, please contact Shannon Turner at shannon@alternateroots.org or 404-577-1079.

EVENT Details:
What: Internet for Artists Professional Development Workshop
When: October 21-23, 2011
Where: Emory University Center for Ethics, 1462 Clifton Rd. NE, Atlanta, GA 30322
Cost: Free, plus the commitment of a whole weekend

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WonderRoot is an Atlanta-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit arts organization committed to uniting artists and community to inspire positive social change.

Great news for Atlanta-based photographer Oraien Catledge, who recently won a 2011 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for his latest book. The award was judged by Mary Ellen Mark. Congratulations, Oraien!

Photos: Constance Lewis

“The Ten is a highly curated monthly online exhibit of ten photographic images. Each image is available at a 13×19 size in an edition of 25 for $250. Whether a photographer makes a new body of work for The Ten, a guest curator selects images from different photographers, or a photographer self-curates from within his or her existing bodies of work, The Ten is an opportunity for photographers and curators to explore the creative possibilities of pulling together a selection of work with a strong statement and a tight edit.

The uniqueness of The Ten comes from its curation and its exclusivity. Images on The Ten cannot be sold in any other size in any other location. Once an image has been included in The Ten, it must be retired from sale. The only opportunity to purchase that image is on the website for The Ten, and once 25 are sold, it is sold out forever.

The Ten puts up a creative challenge to photographers and curators that we feel is important to keep the medium fresh and relevant.

So explore, create, be inspired. We bring you, The Ten.

More information here: http://sxsemagazine.com/SxSE.html

Atlanta Celebrates Photography is pleased to announce that the recipient of its annual Public Art Commission is Monica Cook of Brooklyn, NY (monicacookart.com). Please view the press release below:

ACP_2011PublicArt

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 2, 2011

Artadia: The Fund for Art and Dialogue
210 Eleventh Avenue, Suite 503
New York, NY 10001
TEL: (212) 727-2233
FAX: (212) 352-9979
info@artadia.org
www.artadia.org

ARTADIA LAUNCHES SECOND AWARDS CYCLE IN ATLANTA JUNE 15

New York, NY – Artadia: The Fund for Art and Dialogue is delighted to launch its 2011 awards cycle in Atlanta June 15, 2011. All visual artists living and working in the 23-county Greater Atlanta area are invited to submit applications for the Artadia Awards 2011 Atlanta online through September 15, 2011. Individual artists and collaboratives working in all media and at any point in their career are strongly encouraged to apply. Applications will be reviewed by an esteemed panel of nationally known curators, arts professionals, and artists the fall of 2011 in a rigorous two-tiered jury process. This marks the second cycle of Artadia Awards in Atlanta; more than 300 artists applied in 2009.

“Artadia is unique among organizations serving Atlanta’s arts community. It not only provides significant and unrestricted financial support to Atlanta’s visual artists at a time when many other sources of funding have been cut, but it connects our artists and entire community to an important national network of curators, artists, and collectors. Atlanta’s artists are actively engaged in a global contemporary art dialogue, and Artadia provides a crucial vehicle for making their voices heard. I am honored to be a member of Artadia’s board and thrilled to support its efforts on behalf of artists in Atlanta and beyond,” said Louis Corrigan, founder of Flux Projects and Possible Futures.

All eligible applicants can access the application online via the Artadia website www.artadia.org between June 15 and September 15, 2011. A short-list of 15 artists will be announced in October after the first-round panel. A second-round jury will travel to Atlanta in November for 45-minute studio visits with each of the finalists and determine the Artadia Awardees. Artadia will award two awards of $15,000 and five awards of $3,000.

Artadia will be holding a number of info sessions about the online application and the review process throughout the application period, including an in-person info session at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center on July 16, and two webinars on August 23 and September 1, the latter will have a special focus on studio visits.

Generous support for Atlanta artists with Artadia has been provided by foundations including the Judith Alexander Foundation and the LUBO Fund, and individual contributions led by Board member Louis Corrigan in addition to Paul Hagedorn, Robert Brawner, and New York Board member Marie Samuels. All funds contributed towards Artadia Atlanta go directly to support the awards and program. Program operations and overhead are underwritten by Artadia’s Board and special donor groups. Three of the seven awards have been underwritten to date.

“It’s a privilege to work closely with Atlanta arts patrons and partner organizations to ensure broad support for visual artists locally, as well as to further broadcast the important work happening in the metro area to a national audience. Building on the success of our first cycle in 2009, we are opening applications to Atlanta artists this summer and hope to break records in artist applications and diverse support streams for Atlanta artists. Every time I am in Atlanta I am so energized by the passion and strength of work evident there,” commented Lila Kanner, Artadia’s executive director.

Artadia launched its Atlanta awards program in 2009 in close consultation with dedicated local arts organizations with the goal to support artists locally and promote the city’s vibrant arts community on a national level. Seven outstanding artists were selected that year. They have since been included in a nationally distributed publication featuring Artadia Awardees from around the country, a well-received exhibition at the Boston Center for the Arts’ Mills Gallery, and they have been promoted via Artadia’s many other outlets such as the Art Fair Guide, monthly newsletter, the Artadia Artist Files online.

Artadia Awards 2011 Atlanta

Online application period: June 15–September 15, 2011
www.artadia.org/forartists.html

1st Round Jury: September 2011
Finalists will be announced in October

2nd Round Jury: November 2011
Artadia Awardees 2011 Atlanta announcement: in November 2011

The 23 eligible Greater Atlanta counties are:
Barrow, Bartow, Butts, Carroll, Cherokee, Clayton, Cobb, Coweta, DeKalb, Douglas, Fayette, Forsyth, Fulton, Gwinnett, Hall, Henry, Morgan, Newton, Paulding, Pickens, Rockdale, Spalding, and Walton.

Information session and webinar dates:

Saturday, July 16, 4 pm EST
In-person info session with Artadia Program Manager Ute Zimmermann
Atlanta Contemporary Art Center
535 Means Street, NW, Atlanta, GA 30318
Free and open to the public. No RSVP required.

Tuesday, August 23, 11 am EST
Online webinar with Artadia Program Manager Ute Zimmermann
Additional information will be posted on Artadia’s website www.artadia.org

Thursday, September 1, 7 pm EST
Online webinar with special focus on studio visits
Guest presenter and past Artadia juror Sandra Jackson-Dumont, Deputy Director for Education +
Public Programs/Adjunct Curator, Seattle Art Museum
Additional information will be posted on Artadia’s website www.artadia.org

To be added to Artadia’s mailing list and receive information by email, please write to info@artadia.org.

“The gallery is now reviewing work for inclusion in our summer portrait salon, titled Family Value.
We are seeking artists interpretations on the theme of family portraits.

Michael Mazzeo Gallery strongly supports artists with distinctive points of view. As is customary at the gallery, we do not charge fees for submissions.”

More info: http://www.michaelmazzeo.com/submissions.html

ACP is currently seeking an Administrative Assistant on a part-time, temporary basis. Applications are due by June 19th.

ACP Administrative Assistant Job Description

The High Museum has a section of their site dedicated to the upcoming show from Atlanta photographer Chip Simone. Chip’s show, “The Resonant Image” opens June 18th.

Carolyn Carr at Jackson Fine Art from ArtRelish.com on Vimeo.

Deadline for submissions is September 15th. All you need to do is take a “Piece of Cake product” on vacation.

From our e-mail newsletter, just sent out!

Starting today, you can participate in Atlanta Celebrates Photography 2011, by listing your photo-related event, exhibition, workshop, book signing, artist’s talk (and more!) at festivalguide.acpinfo.org.

Each and every listing will be published in 15,000 printed Festival Guides distributed across the Metro area, and listings will be viewable (and downloadable, as a PDF) on the Festival Guide website in September. In the printed guide, listings will be arranged chronologically, and on the site we’ll have a calendar of events, a map of locations, and you’ll be able to view the Festival by date, artist, neighborhood or venue.

To be an official event in Atlanta Celebrates Photography 2011, list your event, upload your event’s photo, preview your listing and securely checkout at festivalguide.acpinfo.org. Base price for a Festival Guide listing is $150, and submissions for listings will be open until the end of June.

Please Note:

FAQ for photographers

FAQ for venues

ACP is primarily an October festival, and the Festival Guide will be distributed mid-September. Please keep this in mind when planning your events.

Each listing will have an image. The best way to draw attention to your event is to include an image that you have permission to publish. If you cannot select an image to use, please consider using a logo or a photo of the interior of your venue. See the 2010 Festival Guide for reference (pdf).

With our acclaimed blog ACP Now!, we’re able to promote you (ACP’s participating photographers and venues) and your events year-round. That alone is worth the price of a listing in the Festival Guide!

As always, you can find the latest on ACP Now!, follow our tweets on twitter, and like ACP on Facebook.

From Mark Hogancamp dolls up misfortune in Marwencol:

“Currently, the Westside gallery {Poem 88} offers a small sliver of Hogancamp’s world in photographs with the exhibit Marwencol, brought to Atlanta in part through the passionate interest of Atlanta native David Naugle. Naugle is an Atlanta College of Art-schooled photographer, whose avocation has been documenting the lives and work of people one might describe as “characters.” When Naugle relocated to Kingston in 2003, he struck up a friendship with Hogancamp and one day found a package of photographs in his mailbox inscribed with the words “this is my world.” “He started photographing these just to prove to his friends and people he worked with that these things were so real,” says Naugle, who now lives in Decatur with his wife and two children.

More info at poem88.

Info on Facebook.

A large and grateful Thank You to the Metropolitan Atlanta Arts Fund for awarding ACP with a 2011 grant for $25,000! And big thanks to Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed, who restored arts funding in the Atlanta budget and announced it at the MAAF luncheon. Glad to hear it, Mr. Mayor!

• In Your Dreams, Call for Entries
  Deadline extended to May 28th pdf link
• Speaking of Photography – May 18, 2011: Meg Dreyer
  “The Art of Omission: The Role of the Unspoken in Engaging the Viewer”
• Airport Show 2011, Call for Entries
  Deadline July 30, 2011 pdf link

PDF Press Release