Day: September 18, 2012

Artist Opportunities: September 18, 2012

Read on for details on a fellowship and some exhibition opportunities with upcoming deadlines. You can click the banner image above to see past opportunities posts.

Virginia fellowship in painting
Deadline: October 1, 2012. Artists in the discipline of painting, who are legal residents of Virginia at the application deadline, and who plan to remain in the state for the coming year, are eligible to apply for the 2012-2013 Artist Fellowship in Painting from the Virginia Commission for the Arts. For more information and the application, click here.

Portrait competition
Deadline: October 8, 2012. ArtSpace Herndon is holding its 2012 “Expressions” Portrait Competition, open to artists 18 years or older residing in Maryland, Virginia, DC, and Delaware. Artwork entered must be original 2-D or 3-D portraiture. No photography, electronic or computer art, or reproductions. This year’s judge is Kurt Schwarz, a painting instructor at The Art League. For the prospectus and entry form, click here.

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George’s Artistic Adventure: Prologue

My ceramics lesson in August.

It’s the start of fall classes at The Art League School this week, and I’m going back to school, too.

My name is George, and I do the blogging here at The Art League. I’m going to be sharing my tentative steps into my first art classes in many years — I’m finally learning to draw! — in the hopes that others will be inspired to try something new, too. I already blogged about trying my hand at the potter’s wheel. This fall I’m taking Basic Drawing with George Tkabladze and Stained Glass with Jimmy Powers.

So, I’ve just popped into The Art League Store this afternoon to pick up my supplies for my first drawing class tomorrow morning. David helped me pick out what I needed — some graphite pencils, erasers, a pencil sharpener, drawing paper and a drawing board. We’ll see what I can turn it into!

As I take these two classes for the next few weeks, I’ll be blogging away, trying to answer questions including: what’s it like to be a newbie in an Art League class? Do I have any artistic talent? And how’s that glass get stained, anyway?

Watch this space for updates as I fill you in on how I’m doing.

— George

George's Artistic Adventure

Q&A With Award-Winner Trinka Roeckelein

In the September All-Media exhibit, on view now through October 1, the juror awarded second prize to Sir Hog, a captivating sculpture of a warthog by Trinka Roekelein.

Trinka’s work also won a prize in last month’s “The Shape of Things” sculpture exhibit, when her Giraffe Boy was selected for the Monkith Saaid Sculpture Award. You can read more about Giraffe Boy, the series Safari in Clay that it and Sir Hog are part of, and her work in general in the interview from last month. This time around, we asked Trinka to tell us more about Sir Hog.

“Sir Hog” by Trinka Roeckelein.

What materials, treatments, etc., went into Sir Hog?
Trinka: I used a low fire clay body with oxides and underglazes, fired mulitiple times to cone 05, to achieve the desired surface.

Is it part of the Safari in Clay series?
Sir Hog stems from the Safari in Clay series. My work is evolving to focus on the increasingly complex dualities of modern existence. I am concentrating on the co-existence between nature and people and creating pieces that reflect the fantasy that arises by combining these parallel subjects through form, gesture and character. As the world continues to get smaller, this interaction is becoming more pronounced, compressed and automatic on both sides. Continue reading Q&A With Award-Winner Trinka Roeckelein

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