AIB Internships & Competition

Disney Trainee Program -- Deadline for application is August 13

Trainee jobs in Fall 2012 at Disney (Talent Development Program in Burbank, CA) available for recent graduates (graduated in past 3 years).

Deadline: apply by August 13

Animation Trainee - https://careers.disneyanimation.com/job_groups/job_description?id=204

Layout Trainee - https://careers.disneyanimation.com/job_groups/job_description?id=217

Technical Director Trainee - https://careers.disneyanimation.com/job_groups/job_description?id=211

Visual Development Trainee - https://careers.disneyanimation.com/job_groups/job_description?id=206

Submit to the Strait Talk Art Exhibition

Strait Talk is a nonprofit organization that brings together young leaders from mainland China, Taiwan and the United States to engage in dialogue over cross-Strait relations. 

This year, we are hosting an art exhibition for the 2012 Strait Talk Symposium. We are asking for submissions of artwork from art students that reflects upon cross-Strait relations. There is little requirement on the nature of the artwork, for example, it could reflect a personal experience, culture, customs, or politics, but it must deal with relations between China and Taiwan. 

Selected pieces will be on display at the Granoff Center at Brown University for a month, from late October through late November. A few pieces will also be published in Visions magazine, a student-run Asian/Asian-American arts publication at Brown. 

Download art submission form here.

More information can be found on our website: www.straittalk.org. Any questions and comments can be emailed to straittalk@gmail.com.

Local Media Research Company Seeks Motion Graphics Designer/Animator for Freelance Video Project

Latitude, (latd.com) a forward-thinking research firm located outside of Boston, is seeking a creative, driven motion graphics designer/animator to produce a 1-1.5 minute motion graphics video highlighting findings from one of our recently published innovation studies.

We are seeking an enthusiastic, talented student who is passionate about motion graphics. This individual is someone that’s creative, likes to take ownership of the creative process (while keeping some high-level objectives in mind), and can really “dig into” a project.

This is a contract engagement (for one video) that is ideal for a candidate who is hoping to build his or her portfolio by serving a vibrant, cutting-edge company with an impressive client list in media (BBC, The New York Times, NBC, MTV Networks, Time Inc., etc.), and who may be interested in future contract work for Latitude in video production.

Project Details

Latitude is looking to articulate key findings from its latest innovation study, Robots @ School, through a short animated/motion graphics video. (For more information on the content of the study, download the summary report: http://bit.ly/robotstudy).

Latitude would provide some general direction and storyboarding ideas (which could be iterated on by the video creator). The video creator would be responsible for all aspects of the production process creating a script/storyboard, developing a design concept/aesthetic and carrying it through the video, creating all the necessary graphics/animations, selecting music, etc. (Latitude covers the cost of music rights and other content assets as needed.)

We are seeking someone who is both a creative, independent worker and who is communicative and can work with Latitude in a “client” capacity: checking in regularly with the team here, asking necessary questions, accepting constructive feedback, etc.

The chosen candidate could choose to work remotely or to come into Latitude’s offices (in Beverly, MA) on selected days.

Compensation
Monetary: we will pay a one-time fee of $500 for a video of approximately 1-1.5 minutes.

Attribution: Latitude believes in giving credit for great work. We would credit the artist in the video itself and provide a link-back to a professional Web site/online portfolio on the Vimeo page if desired.

Future engagements: Latitude is constantly expanding its “storytelling” offerings for its own initiatives and for client projects, particularly in the realm of video. We would love the opportunity to extend and build our relationship with a talented motion graphics designer who may be a good fit for any future work that arises. (We would also be willing to provide a letter of recommendation to future employers.)

Project Guidelines

• 1-1.5 minute motion graphics video
• 4-6 week timeline (flexible depending on the right candidate’s availability)

The Ideal Candidate Would Have…

• Experience with Adobe After Effects
• Experience with supplementary animation/motion graphics software (e.g., Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Maya, etc.)
• Passion for design and motion graphics
• Innovative approach to storytelling (especially around research or less traditional storytelling content)
• An interest in the future of media/technology
• Ability to work independently
• Ability to work collaboratively and be proactive about communications

To Apply

A cover letter expressing your interest in the project and any related experience is appreciated, but not required. We do require a resume and sample of your work or a link to your portfolio in order for you to be considered. Please email to hr@latd.com with “Motion Graphics Freelancer” in the subject line.

Design artwork for Jim Henson's Fraggle Rock!

Since Fraggle Rock's creation in 1983 it has been seen in 80 countries and watched in a least ten different languages and, to this day, continues to enjoy a loyal international following. In celebration of Fraggle Rock's 30th anniversary, The Jim Henson Company is inviting artists to submit artwork* suitable for products such as t-shirts and posters inspired by the world of Fraggle Rock and its characters including the Fraggles, the Doozers, Sprocket, Travelling Matt and the Gorgs.

One winner will have the incredible opportunity to have their artwork produced and featured on selected merchandise items for Fraggle Rock's 30th anniversary and will receive a private tour of the Jim Henson design studios in Los Angeles. In addition, the winner, eight runners-up and highest voted artist will have their winning submissions featured on CafePress for fellow creatives to create a variety of exclusive and unique merchandise for their 13 million members.

*Artwork may consist of graphic designs, photographs, paintings, illustrations, drawings, graphic design or collages. Artists may also create 3D pieces but must submit high-res photographs of those creations.

The Jim Henson Company's Choice

The winning design will be featured and produced in elements of Fraggle Rock's 30th anniversary merchandise line, which will be promoted and sold on their online store. In addition, the winner will receive:

• A private tour of The Jim Henson Company and attendance to Fraggle Rock's 30th anniversary party (travel and two nights' accommodation in Los Angeles for two provided)
• A framed copy of their artwork
• A feature on henson.com and Henson's Facebook page
• $2,500

Eight runners-up, as selected by The Jim Henson Company, will each receive:

• A feature on Henson.com and Henson's Facebook page
• A framed copy of their artwork
• $500

People's Choice

The highest voted artist will receive:

• A feature on Henson.com and Henson's Facebook page
• A framed copy of their artwork
• $500

Additionally the winner, eight runners-up and the highest voted artist will each have their winning submission featured on CafePress for 30 days for creatives to create multiple types of merchandise including t-shirts, iPhone case, bags and types of wall art consisting of posters and banners.

Get Involved

Submit by: August 14, 2012
Vote: August 15, 2012 10am PST- August 21, 2012 10am PST
Winner(s) Announced: September 5, 2012

How The Jim Henson Company Will Choose

The Jim Henson Company will select from all qualified submissions with special consideration for the top voted entries. A qualified submission is one which meets all the Terms & Conditions, Guidelines and Official Rules.

Guidelines

• Submissions must be original and submitted in JPEG or PNG format and must not have been commercially used either before or during this Creative Invite
• Participants may use the provided, downloadable assets as inspiration for their artwork
• Participants may, but are not required to include a mention of Fraggle Rock's '30^th anniversary' in their design
• The winning design may be modified to suit production requirements
• The winning design must be submitted to The Jim Henson Company as layered TIFF or PSD files or as vector EPS files and at least 300 DPI at 12” wide x 15”
• Participants must retain their original artwork should they be chosen as a winner

More details: http://www.talenthouse.com/design-for-fraggle-rock-jim-henson

Local Tech Start-Up Seeks Animator

Start date: IMMEDIATELY

Time Commitment: 6-10 hours per week (includes weekly phone meetings)

Compensation TBD

If interested please contact Lori-Anne Ramsay at Loriannecramsay@gmail.com

SERIOUS INQUIRIES ONLY

Call for Entries: All-Media Exhibition as Target Gallery Celebrates Twenty-five Years

Deadline for Entry: June 18th, 2012
Exhibition Dates: September 8 - 30th, 2012

Description: This is an all media exhibition that celebrates the 25th anniversary of the Target Gallery. This is open to all artists nationally and internationally. Artists are asked to submit work that responds to world events that have occurred over the past 25 years.

A special catalog and poster will acompany this exhibition.

Juror: J.W. Mahoney is an artist, critic and independent curator who serves as Washington's Corresponding Editor for Art in America. He is an Affiliate Professor of Visual Arts at the University of Maryland in Baltimore, and his latest exhibition, "Carceral," will open at Curator's Office in Washington in May of this year.

Download Complete Prospectus
Click here to Apply Online

http://www.torpedofactory.org/galleries/targetcallforentry.htm

AIB Artists: CALL FOR PROPOSALS | AIB Mass Ave Storefront Art Project

AIB Massachusetts Avenue Storefront Art Project

A juried exhibition celebrating The Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University’s
Centennial Year and upcoming move to Porter Square

 

Calling AIB students, alumni, faculty and staff!

As you may know, The Art Institute of Boston will be moving from Kenmore Square to the Lesley University campus in Porter Square in the next few years.  In addition, in the 2012/13 academic year, AIB will be celebrating its Centennial year, having educated artists and designers since 1912.  To celebrate our 100^th year and to prepare for our move to Porter Square, we are hosting the AIB Massachusetts Avenue Storefront Art Project in the fall of 2012.

 

We are very excited about our future neighborhood and would like to start building relationships with our new neighbors. Towards this goal, we will mount exhibitions in many storefront windows along Massachusetts Avenue near Lesley’s University Hall and Doble campuses.  The goal of the project is to showcase a vibrant, exciting group of storefront exhibitions created by the AIB community all along this portion of Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge. All current AIB students, alumni, faculty, and staff members are invited to submit a proposal for a storefront display.  Work in all media is encouraged.  A stipend of $250 will be awarded to all proposals selected.

 

From the Doble Campus along Massachusetts Avenue up to the Porter Square Shopping Center, selected storefront windows will display work created by AIB students, alumni, faculty and staff.  Already, a number of stores have offered to host exhibits in their storefront windows and we expect more to commit to such exhibitions in the coming weeks. Each store boasts a unique personality and takes great pride in the presentation of their windows to the public. These windows are their connection to the outside world, and attract passers-by with their beautiful displays. Storefronts have been selected based on visual potential, their eagerness to work with our artists, and their willingness to let the artwork take the lead.

 

So, we invite you to submit your most compelling work! Work may be two- or three-dimensional such as painting, prints, or photographs; videos or animations; illustration or design pieces; sculptures or site-specific installations; to name a few. You may offer work you have already created or you may choose to create something entirely new for this event. Proposals may be submitted by individuals or by collaborative teams.

 

Submissions will be accepted online from Thursday, May 17 until Friday, June 22.  The application portal can be reached at aib.slideroom.com. Be sure to select AIB Storefront Art Project under Active Programs. Submission costs are $10 per proposal, which will let you upload up to 10 images and supporting documents. Visit our project blog aibstorefrontart.wordpress.com to see more detailed submission guidelines and to see the potential spaces your work may inhabit. Check back frequently as we are actively adding new host windows. Windows sizes range from small, enclosed bays to large, floor-to-ceiling panes that extend across the width of the store. Photos of participating windows are available on our project blog.

 

Winning submissions will be selected by a jury and will be paired up with appropriate host windows.

Selected proposals will be notified by August 1, and will be put in touch with their host business to work out the details. Each window is different and the relationship between the store’s displayed product and artwork will be defined in collaboration with the host business. Work will likely be installed in early September and removed in mid-October. Actual dates may shift slightly and will be verified shortly. Each display will include a specially designed placard with the name of the artist(s), their relationship to AIB (student, alumni, faculty, etc.), a brief artist statement, and the AIB/Lesley logos.

The full details are attached below and also available at aibstorefrontart.wordpress.com.

Please contact Denise Driscoll at ddrisco2@lesley.edu or at 508-561-0306 with questions.

Download document

 

Pitch an idea for the AIB Centennial Celebration commercial!

Would you like a chance to become a permanent part of AIB’s history?
 
We are currently conducting a contest to pick an idea for an animated television commercial promoting AIB’s Centennial Celebration!  Yes, that’s right, AIB is turning 100 years old during the 2012/13 academic year.  And we’ll be celebrating in a variety of ways throughout the year, with special exhibitions, visiting artist talks, student and alumni exhibitions, and more.  We will also be spreading the word about AIB through advertisements, banners, billboards, and this television commercial. We are looking for some terrific visual ideas that encapsulate what our school is all about!
 
The commercial will be 30 seconds long and can be done in any visual medium that can be animated.  Your proposal for a commercial should be in the form of a visual script or storyboard of what you are proposing to have produced as an animated work.  The elements that must be included in the commercial are:

1.   our special Centennial motto “Where Ideas Take Shape.”

2.   the college’s full title:  The Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University

3.   the AIB and Lesley logos

4.   each of our school’s majors (Animation, Illustration, Design, Photography, Fine Arts and Art History)

We need for the fact that it is our 100th year / Centennial Celebration to be prominent in the commercial you propose.  

Real photos and images of fine art are encouraged in your proposed commercial.

There will be a $200 prize for the commercial concept that is selected. All ideas submitted may wind up in the final commercial and all artists whose work is used in the commercial will be given credit for their contributions to the project.  A team of AIB Animation students will work together to create this commercial over the coming summer. The winner of this contest can choose whether or not they want to be a part of the animation team that works on the final project. There is no obligation to the winner other than providing the artwork that will serve as the inspiration for the commercial.
 
The deadline for submissions of proposals for this TV commercial is May 23! 
We hope you will enter this contest as soon as possible.

All submissions and questions should be submitted electronically to:
Brandon Strathmann,  Acting Chair
Animation Department, AIB
bstrathm@lesley.edu

4th VGIK International Summer School -- Animation Program

Download APPLICATION FORM
Download Rules and Regulations

Please send all submissions to the e-mail address of the International Affairs Department of VGIK: foreign_vgik@mail.ru
(and copy to E-mail of the Dean department of Animation and Multimedia VGIK Mrs. Yaremenko Elena: Yaremenkoe@yandex.ru).

You can see photos from VGIK International Summer School 2011 and VGIK International Summer School 2010 by site:
http://vgik.info/international/summer_school/

Call for Entries: Sustaining / Creating

 

A national juried exhibition of emerging artists, ages 16-25, with disabilities.

Deadline: July 8, 2012

Sustaining / Creating asks emerging artists to showcase work that illuminates innovative viewpoints on sustainability and contemporary creativity. Beyond its scientific definition, sustainability references notions of responsibility and stewardship of our natural world in all facets of human interaction–from the environmental to the cultural. Sustainability indicates the capacity to endure.

Submitted artwork should illustrate these thematic ideas, which may be achieved through broad, abstracted references or detailed personal creations. Your submission might also reflect your experience of living with a disability and its role in shaping or transforming your art.

This exhibition is presented by the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts’ VSA & Accessibility Office and Volkswagen Group of America, Inc.

The exhibition
Fifteen artists will be selected for the exhibition and will share $60,000 in cash awards: a $20,000 grand prize, a $10,000 first award, a $6,000 second award, and 12 awards of excellence of $2,000 each.

The exhibition takes place at the Smithsonian Institution’s S. Dillon Ripley Center in Washington, D.C., from September 2012 to January 2013 and may travel nationally to additional venues. Awardees will be honored at an opening reception on Capitol Hill.

Who can apply?
The call is open to artists ages 16–25 living in the United States who have a disability. As defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act, a disability is a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits a major life activity. Previous award recipients are not eligible to apply.

Artwork
Submissions must be original work completed within the last three years and after the onset of disability.

Eligible media include but are not limited to paintings and drawings (oil, watercolor, acrylic, pencil, or charcoal); fine art prints; photography; computer-generated prints; digital art; and time-based media (video, film). All work must have a visual component. Two-dimensional artwork should not exceed 60 inches in either dimension. Sculpture should not exceed 24 inches in any dimension.

Fragile or precious materials that cannot withstand handling, storage, and transportation will not be accepted.

The jury process
A panel of distinguished practicing artists, curators, and arts administrators will determine work standards, review submitted materials, and select the 15 artists for the exhibition. The jury looks at the following qualities when selecting exhibit artists:
• Demonstration of original ideas in the work submitted
• Connection to exhibition theme
• Visual cohesion among the images submitted

Work that suggests visual plagiarism, such as a direct copy of another artist’s work, will not be accepted. All decisions are final.

Applying to this call
All materials should be submitted in digital format through CaFE at callforentry.org. No slides will be accepted. Interested artists will be required to create a CaFE profile to apply.

Do not send original artwork.

Please have the following materials ready when applying for this call for art:

1. 4 digital images of selected artwork, formatted to CaFE standards

2. Caption information for each artwork digital image: Artwork title, Year made, Medium, Dimensions, Description

3. A short biography of the artist (one paragraph) that includes hometown, hobbies, interests, academic achievements, honors and awards received, and future goals.

4. Personal statement (2 pages maximum, Word or PDF format) that answers the following questions:
• Describe how your artwork relates to the exhibit theme of Sustaining / Creating.
• What role does art play in living with your disability? Does your disability affect your artwork in any way?
• When did you start creating your artwork and what motivated you to begin?

5. 1 digital image of the artist’s headshot

Supplemental material
Film and video artists must complete an application in CaFE, then should supplement their application by mailing a CD or DVD of their full-length work. On the CaFE application, please allocate at least one of the four JPEG image slots to a still from your video or film.

Any CDs or DVDs received must be ready to play using Windows Media Player, Real Player, or QuickTime. U.S.-compatible formats are encouraged; no VHS tapes or mini-DVDs will be accepted.

The jury will review two minutes of a video or audio file along with the four submitted images. Artists should note a specific two-minute segment to be reviewed, indicating the segment times in their submission. The jury may opt to view the entire video based on this segment.

Supplemental materials should be sent directly to:
Kennedy Center
PO Box 101510
Arlington, VA 22210
Attn: VSA / VW call for art

All supplemental materials must arrive by July 8, 2011.

Other Terms and Conditions

Submitted materials will not be returned.

The Kennedy Center, VSA & Accessibility, or Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. are not responsible for submissions that are incomplete or that fail to upload to a CaFE profile.

To apply, please visit the entry site.