From macnewsletter at lists.maine.gov Wed Sep 30 11:38:16 2009 From: macnewsletter at lists.maine.gov (A bi-weekly e-newsletter and agency press releases) Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 11:38:16 -0400 Subject: [Macnewsletter] Maine Arts News, Sept. 30 Message-ID: <199FFF7DB0D4724FA7630DEA667E838A0807765A@SOM-TEAQASMAIL1.som.w2k.state.me.us> Maine Arts News Listserv Greetings from the Maine Arts Commission. News from our associates for the week of September 30, 2009 ***************************************** 1. The Maine Arts Commission Announces the 2010 Individual Fellowship Award Recipients 2. Meet the 2010 Traditional Arts Masters 3. You are Invited to the 2010 Maine Artists Fellowship Showcase 4. Three Percent for Art Competitions Now Open 5. Announcing the 2009 Juice Conference 6. Camden Film Festival 7. CMCA Call for Art 8. Student Artists to be Honored at Blaine House 9. Maine Art Scene's Virtual Art Galleries Call for Art 10. PechaKucha Night Rockland Casts Open Call for Entries ************************ 1. The Maine Arts Commission Announces the 2010 Individual Fellowship Award Recipients The Maine Arts Commission is proud to announce the four recipients of the 2010 Artists' Fellowship Awards - one of the nation's highest awards for individual artists made by a state arts agency. This year's fellows are David C. Wolfe from Portland in the traditional arts, Lauren Fensterstock, from Portland, in the visual arts, Lee Sharkey from Vienna in the literary arts, and Ryan Bennett from Pittsfield in the performing arts. Read the entire release on MaineArts.com. You can find updates each week about the fellows and the fellowship showcase on the Maine Arts Commission's blogsite, http://maineartscommission.blogspot.com/. ************************ 2. Meet the 2010 Traditional Arts Masters The Maine Arts Commission is proud to announce the 2010 Traditional Arts Masters. Greg Boardman, a fiddler from Auburn, Thomas C?t?, an Acadian woodcarver from Limestone, Normand Gagnon, a Quebecois accordionist from Rumford, Susan Barrett Merrill, a weaver and spinner from Brooksville, and Paula Thorne, a Penobscot basketmaker from Exeter will each teach their traditional arts to apprentices during the next 12 months. The full story is available on MaineArts.com. or at the Maine Arts Commission blogsite. The Traditional Arts Masters will be an important part of this year's fellowship showcase. ************************ 3. You are Invited to the 2010 Maine Artists Fellowship Showcase This is the 21st year of the Maine Arts Commission's Fellowship Showcase. Each year the agency honors its fellowship awardees with a live award celebration that is free and open to the public. The Strand Theatre , in Rockland, is the venue for this year's celebration which takes place at 6 pm on October 23. This year, the showcase features live music, movies , and demonstrations that will enthrall and entertain the audience; there is something for every lover of the arts. ************************ 4. Three Percent for Art Competitions Now Open The Maine Arts Commission is announcing three Percent for Art competitions that all have November deadlines. The three combined competitions offer $103,000 in award money. Go to the public art section of MaineArts.com for full details on all of these opportunities. ************************ 5. Announcing the 2009 Juice Conference The Juice Conference is a place for Maine's creative sector to come together to weave together the arts, technology, and entrepreneurship. Juice inspires innovation by bringing talented people together from widely different backgrounds to build on Maine's traditions. Juice is a forum where attendees can learn, exchange ideas, share success stories and provide input to shape the development of strategies for Maine's future. Juice 2.0, "Building Maine's Innovation Networks", will gather entrepreneurs, artists, innovators and statewide leaders at the intersection of technology, tradition and design. Together we will explore the power of creativity and innovation in protecting Maine's quality of place while transforming Maine's economy. Highlights: * 40+ interactive sessions and coordinated networking opportunities * Speakers: Nick Spitzer, NPR's American Routes; Joe Lstiburek, Principal of Building Science Corporation; Liz Lerman, Liz Lerman Dance Exchange; Doug Hall, Founder and CEO Eureka!Ranch & Marci Rossell, Former Economist for CNBC * Pecha Kucha Friday night and a party following with entertainment in downtown Camden * Dance performances by Liz Lerman Dance Exchange (tickets through Bay Chamber Concerts) and Aniruddha Knight * The unveiling of Maine's Innovation and Entrepreneurship Strategy * State-wide gatherings of: The Maine Arts Commission; Realize! Maine and The Maine Development Foundation; Build Green Maine and the Maine Innovation Economy Advisory Board, Waterfall Arts, MEBSR To register or learn more go to: www.juiceconference.org , or http://www.juiceconference.blogspot.com/ ************************ 6. Camden Film Festival The Maine International Film Festival begins this week in Waterville. Details of the entire event can be found at their website http://www.miff.org/. The Maine Arts Commission is supporting the event this year by being a day sponsor for Making it in Maine Day, Saturday, July 18. This day will include the Maine Student Film and Video Festival in the morning, the Maine Shorts film presentation in the afternoon, and in the evening there will be the showing of Language of America , directed and produced by Maine artist Ben Levine, and the showing of Dead Buffalo , by Maine resident Georg Koszulinski. At 9:15pm Railroad Square will present The Kings , a film about Waterville by Alec Helm, a young Waterville filmmaker. More details can be found on the Maine Arts Commission blog or within the press section of MaineArts.com. ************************ 7. CMCA Call for Art Submission Postmark Deadline: Saturday, November 14, 2009 CMCA welcomes submissions for its 2010 Biennial Juried Exhibition, to take place August 7 - October 2, 2010. CMCA's Biennial is open to artists working in all media who were born in, have studied in, or are year round/seasonal residents of Maine. Works must be original in concept and design, and created within the past two years. Any work previously exhibited at CMCA or at the Portland Museum of Art's Biennial will not be eligible. Only works selected by the jurors will be exhibited. For submission guidelines and to download a submission form, click HERE . Or, visit the CMCA website and click on "Opportunities >> Artists". ************************ 8. Student Artists to be Honored at Blaine House Young artists from schools across the state of Maine are heading to the Blaine House on October 1, where they will meet Maine's first lady and receive recognition for their participation in an art exhibition that has been on display throughout Maine's capitol since June. Thirty Eight students from Palermo Consolidated School; Wiscasset High School; Boothbay Region High School; Readfield Elementary School; Waterville High School; Bangor's Fruit Street School; and Danforth's East Grand School will all be honored for their part in the Maine Youth Excellence in Art program. These young artists, who have brightened Maine's corridors of power in recent months, will receive certificates of excellence from First Lady Karen Baldacci honoring their achievement. Further details are in the press section of MaineArts.com ************************ 9. Maine Art Scene's Virtual Art Galleries Call for Art As part of the inauguration of Maine Art Scene's Virtual Art Galleries, the online publication is organizing a first statewide multi-disciplinary virtual showcase of contemporary Maine painters, fine art photographers, sculptors and multimedia artists. This statewide interactive showcase will be available online at www.maineartscene.com on November 15, 2009. Artwork will be selected by Maine Art Scene and former curator of the Farnsworth Museum, Suzette McAvoy. Works chosen will be displayed in a virtual format that will resemble an actual art gallery space with various rooms to navigate, artwork and labels to zoom in on and a podcast introduction. This showcase is designed to let professional Maine artists promote their work. Selected artists will have links to their website and/or to the art galleries representing their work. Deadline for submissions: October 15th, 2009 at 12 pm. Open to: All professional painters, fine art photographers, sculptors, and fine art multimedia artists who are part-time or full-time Maine residents. The Submission Guidelines available at: http://www.maineartscene.com/Maine-Virtual-Galleries/ Contact Thierry Bonneville, Media Dir.media at maineartscene.com ************************ 10. PechaKucha Night Rockland Casts Open Call for Entries As part of the Juice Conference entertainment package, PechaKucha Night Rockland is now casting an open call for entries to its upcoming event on Friday, November 13 at Camden Opera House. PechaKucha Night is an internationally recognized event based on a unique presentation style in which artists, designers and other creative individuals share twenty images, with twenty seconds for each image. This particular event is part of the programming being planned for the Midcoast Magnet's Juice 2 Conference being held that same weekend. Full details can be found on the Juice Conference blog . ********************** The Maine Arts Commission building Maine communities through the arts visit www.MaineArts.com for details. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.informe.org/pipermail/macnewsletter/attachments/20090930/da384ae9/attachment-0001.html