AIB Internships & Competition

Call for Films: 2012 Glovebox Short Film & Animation Festival

Poster art by Lauren Connolly

Hear ye’ Hear ye’, Glovebox announces the call for films for the 2012 Glovebox Short Film & Animation Festival that will be held on August 4th, 2012 at the Somerville Theatre in Davis Square.  Artists of all shapes and sizes are encouraged to apply IF their film is under 25 minutes.  What’s that you say?  You have a music video?  YES we accept!   You’re a student?  GREAT - you’ll receive a discount entry fee AND you will be judged with the rest of the herd. Students, consider yourself “babied” no longer.  This is a juried festival by the elite of the elite who look down and judge you.... honestly.   I know, it’s hard for us to grasp too.  So in the name of getting something done this year, submit your hard work and reap the rewards!

Log onto: http://glvbx.com/film-festival/2011-film-festival-submission-guidelines/

Submissions end June 1, 2012
Entry Fee is $30 ($20 for students)

The Glovebox Film Festival is sponsored in part by Pretty Things Beer, Dig Boston, and the Somerville Theatre.  Looking to help support?  Contact jodie@glvbx.com for opportunities.

About the Glovebox Film Festival: The Glovebox Short Film and Animation Festival began in 2011 as a platform for film artists and animators to exhibit their work.  the festival received rave reviews from the community, prompting Glovebox to make it an annual event.  Attracting over 300 visitors and  including over 50 northeast artists from Boston, Cambridge, Somerville and New York, the one day event is an opportunity for all to learn about the artists in their community.  Inspired by the Sala Mont Juic festival in Barcelona Spain, the festival encourages the shared collection of films through minimal cost to the public.  To learn more about the festival, log onto www.glvbx.com.

About Glovebox:  Glovebox is a non-profit organization that enables artists to exhibit their work in non-traditional spaces in the Boston area. We have two objectives: to increase awareness of artists and their work and to improve the accessibility of art. Glovebox achieves these goals by bringing together artists and the public to form a collaborative, educational community. Our methods range from the individual, such as helping artists to exhibit their work, to the collective, in which we have organized group exhibitions, film festivals and fund-raising auctions to raise money for fellow non-profits with humanitarian missions.

Apply to Project M 2 Week Sessions

Looking for a platform to drive positive change, challenge the status quo, and "think wrong" in the process?

Welcome to Project M.

Project M is a program for creative people who are already inspired to contribute to the greater good, and are looking for a platform to collaborate and generate ideas and projects bigger then themselves.

Project M 2 Week Sessions:

For two weeks, selected participants from all over, will converge in a community to engage, discover, and produce a sustainable project that will have a positive and significant impact in the world.

M'ers will step away from their normal environment and expand their view on the world around them. Project M Advisors facilitate the session, equipped with an arsenal of think wrong exercises that will be applied during the creative process.

Participants will take sole responsibility of conceiving and executing whatever comes out of the two week session. The result is a shared and collaborative effort.

Project M North 2012:
March 18 – April 1
Belfast, ME
Still accepting Applications
Deadline for Submissions, February 6th

http://www.projectmlab.com/#718389/Application
http://www.projectmlab.com/#2373188/2012-Calendar

Participate in Art in the Heart Downtown as part of the Jacksonville Jazz Festival

The 2012 Art in the Heart of Downtown art show and sale features the work of talented artists and master craftspeople from around the country.

Selection Process
Artists are selected by a panel of qualified specialists from the regional art community. Applying artists are assigned numbers. No names are used during the selection process. Each applicant will receive a numerical score from each juror, and the highest scores are selected. The jury’s decision is final. Applications and artwork will be reviewed upon submission and artists will be notified of acceptance accordingly.

Awards
Best in Show - $1000
First Place - $750
Second Place - $500
Third Place - $250

Deadline
April 2, 2012

Show Dates
May 25-27, 2012

For more information, please contact Art in the Heart Downtown
117 West Duval St., Suite 280
Jacksonville, Florida 32202
(904) 630-3690

www.JaxJazzFest.com

Download prospectus

Brochures also available at 700 Beacon on the 2nd floor, by Room 215.

Open Engagement 2012 Call for Submission

Open Engagement is an international conference that sets out to explore various perspectives on art and social practice and expand the dialogue around socially engaged art making. The Open Engagement conference is an initiative of Portland State University’s Art and Social Practice MFA concentration. Directed and founded by Jen Delos Reyes and planned in conjunction with Harrell Fletcher and the Art and Social Practice students, this year’s conference features keynote presenters Tania Bruguera, Shannon Jackson, and Paul Ramirez Jonas. The work by these artists and scholars touchvon subjects including politics, economies, education, and representation.

Through conversations, presentations, workshops, interviews, open reflections, and related projects created for or presented at the conference, we will bevinvestigating, questioning, celebrating, and challenging the current state of art and social practice. This conference is a site where an intergenerational exchange can occur between emerging artists and established artists. This is also a site where transdisiplinary conversation is possible.

Open Engagement is a free conference that will take place May 18-20, 2012, in Portland, Oregon. Contributors are not asked to pay a registration fee and the public will not be charged to attend. Contributors to the event will be supported in the following ways: participants from out of town will be housed in Portland homes, select meals during the conference will be provided emphasizing community dining, and a variety of transportation will be provided drawing on Portland’s bike culture and public transportation.

You are invited to contribute to Open Engagement: Art and Social Practice by submitting your proposals for projects, performances, tours, interventions, presentations, or panel ideas (other formats are also welcomed). Submissions are due January 3, 2012.

We are organizing thematic groupings through-out the conference, so if applicable mark your submission under one of the following categories: Politics, Economies, Education,  and Representation.

Politics: This line of programming explores the intersections between Art and Activism, Power, Protest, Creative Tactics for Social Change and more.

Economies: This line of programming examines ideas of value alongside systems of exchange, focusing on alternative tactics in the contemporary context. From consuming to contributing, banking to bartering, the cost of living to the cost of giving and everything in between.

Education: This line of programming explores social practice methods related to alternative education, free schools, outdoor schools, socially engaged art in the academy, museums, K-12 education and pedagogical art practice.  We are seeking proposals that demonstrate a diversity of approaches to site-specific learning and facilitate workshops in our neighborhood classroom venue.

Representation: Who am I? Who are you? How do the representational strategies we use shape the space in between? This area of programming focuses on the formal and communicative choices that produce and circulate meaning through representation. Topics for exploration include documentary practices, authorial voice, history and memory, ethnography, presence and absence, language, power, the image of the body, the image of the community, the imprint of cultural artifacts, and the ways new technologies and social formations impact how we represent ourselves and each other to each other.

To apply, visit the event site.

CALL FOR PAPERS: New Approaches to Art, Art History and Visual Culture

The Visual Culture Consortium of Boston seeks proposals for the Fourth Annual Undergraduate Art History Symposium.

WHAT: Fourth Annual Undergraduate Art History Symposium
WHERE: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
WHEN: Saturday, April 14, 2012 (1:00-5:00)

Papers can address a broad range of topics in art history and visual culture -- including architectural history, urban planning, film studies, industrial & graphic design, illustration, animation, performance, street art, or any other form of visual communication.

TO SUBMIT A PROPOSAL for your 15-minute presentation:

Students should submit a 250 word abstract of their prospective 15-minute paper to the selection committee at the email address below by Wednesday, February 1, 2012.

Notification of the committee's decision regarding participation will be sent out by March 1st.

Please email the abstract as an attachment (MS Word document or PDF file) with the applicant's name included in the title to Emily Gephart at Emily.Gephart@smfa.edu.

Please be sure to list the applicant's name and title of the proposed paper at the top of the document.

For more information, please contact Emily Gephart at: Emily.Gephart@smfa.edu