AIB Fine Arts Blog

Portfolio Scholarship Competition

Dear AIB Faculty and Students,

This is another reminder that the annual student Portfolio Scholarship Competition is officially open for submissions TODAY Monday, April 30th.

This year the competition is COMPLETELY online. All information regarding the process and helpful step by step instructions are attached. Please urge your students to participate in this great opportunity to earn a discount off next year's tuition!

If you have any questions or would like any additional information contact Angela Rankin at arankin@lesley.edu.

How to Submit: Download How to guide 2012

AIB Portfolios Help: Download AIB Portfolios Help[1]

Have some great ideas for a shirt design? Want to help create the new official AIB shirt, to be displayed and sold through the Lesley/AIB bookstore? Now is your chance to finally do just that!

ALL STUDENTS are invited to participate in the AIB T-Shirt design contest.

Here are the main things you need to know:
- Submit designs as JPEG files to aibsocialmedia@gmail.com
- Two winning designs will be selected: Grand prize will receive $325, runner-up will receive $175!
- Both designs get printed on shirts - long & short sleeve
- Specify a white or black background (T-Shirt color) for your design
- Shirts will be available in time for holiday shopping via the bookstore, website, and at AIB!

Timeline:
- November 16: Deadline to submit your design to aibsocialmedia@gmail.com
- November 17-21: Voting begins. TO VOTE: The Aib Front Desk Facebook account will be posting an album of all the submitted images. "Like" your favorite designs to vote for them!
- November 23: Winner announced

**File submission guidelines for chosen designs**
Adobe Illustrator CS5 or below vector artwork is preferred. Please save as an EPS or AI file. Be sure to convert all text to outlines. If a placed or imported Adobe Photoshop type image is necessary, the original file including layers should be included. The Photoshop file (TIFF or JPEG) should be at least 300 dpi resolution or higher and the art to size.

GLOVEBOX Short Film & Animation Festival

GLOVEBOX is hosting its first ever film festival June 11th at the Somerville Theatre. The event (2 showtimes) will showcase short films and animations from the local Boston and New York area.

The Festival is also hosting a mini poetry slam in between films.

Click here for more information and submission guidelines:

www.gloveboxfilmfestival.blogspot.com/

 

A message to all alumni from Joanie Ryan

Dear Alumni:
Happy New Year to all of you! 2011 is here, and just around the corner comes 2012, the Art Institute of Boston’s Centennial year! As a member of AIB’s Centennial Committee I am writing to tell you of some exciting exhibitions for our alumni. during 2012, our Centennial year.

First we are organizing an exhibition with “Boston Windows” to showcase the wonderful work from our students in downtown Boston.  Window displays in the Washington Street area will be available to our school to highlight all our departments. The storefront areas are large and can accommodate large all sizes of paintings drawings, photography installations and video projects.

Second we will be displaying student work on the WGBH Digital Mural in Allston. This digital screen is seen from the expressway as anyone drives into Boston. We are also working with Glovebox to find as many public spaces in the metropolitan are to show case your work.

Works submitted will be selected by WGBH, the City of Boston Art Committee and the AIB Exhibition Committee.

If you are interested in any of these opportunities, I would ask for 3jpgs at 72dpi resolution. Each jpeg should have your name and title. A corresponding “Image List” should include size and medium. I would also ask for a short bio including the year you graduated, your department and a few words about your current work. This can be sent directly to my email at jryan789@yahoo.com.

Because scheduling for these spaces is always done well in advance, I would need your submissions by the first week in March. Please feel free to email me with any questions, and please pass this along to any other alumni you know who may be interested in participating in our celebration.

We at the Art Institute of Boston are very exciting in showing off, across Boston, the outstanding quality of our students. We hope many of you will take advantage of these exhibition opportunities and share in our Centennial Celebration!

Wishing you the very best in this New Year,

Joanie Ryan

Art in Nature: Call for Entries

Fruitlands invites artists to forward a selection of up to three existing sculptures or installations for a juried outdoor exhibition at Fruitlands in Harvard, Mass. from April 15 – November 15, 2011.

Artists are encouraged to enter particularly large-scale works for installation on the grounds or suspended from trees.

Deadline: Saturday, January 15, 2011
Eligibility: Open to New England artists

A bit about Fruitlands...
Fruitlands refers to an experiment led by Bronson Alcott that took place here in 1843. Today, the name also refers to the museum complex founded by Clara Endicott Sears in 1914. The complex includes the first Shaker Museum, the Native American Gallery, an Art Gallery as well as our 210-acre landscape. The collections are linked together by Sears' vision of the past inhabitants of the beautiful Nashua River valley.

Click here for more information and printable entry form: Download ArtInNature

Please do not hesitate to contact us with further questions at (978) 456-3924.

Call for Entries: Cycles at Yes.Oui.See Space in Boston

Cycles: A multi-sensory art show. All mediums welcome.

Please submit .jpeg or .mov files of your work, an artist statement related to the work and a bio to:

www.submissions@YesOuiSiSpace.com

 

Deadline: January 1st, 2011

$20 acceptance fee goes towards opening costs, post cards and flyers.

ARTiculate: Text and Image

ARTiculate is the opening exhibition of the 2010-11 academic year organized by Student Works Project to showcase student artwork at the Art Institute of Boston. In light of its long and varied presence in the history of art--including such diverse artists as Ed Ruscha, Rene Magritte, Mira Schendel, Nancy Spero, Roy Lichtenstein, Jasper Johns and Richard Serra--the range of relationships between text and image continues to inspire and drive artistic production. This exhibition seeks to explore the expressive potential for the combination of word and image, whether serving visual or symbolic means, in current student work.

Submissions will be accepted until October 20th. The show will be up through the month of November, with an opening on November 4th.

Pick-up your submission form today at the AIB Front Desk or click on the link below:

Download ARTiculate

 

The 2011 North American Print Biennial, Juror: Jim Dine Entry Deadline: September 21, 2010

Exhibition location:

The Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA
February 27 - May 1, 2011.

Prizes :

Over $10,000 in juror-designated purchase and materials prizes.

Entry:
All artists in North America are eligible to enter. Original works in all printmaking media including monoprints and monotypes, books and mixed media, digital and three-dimensional prints are eligible.
 
Entry Procedure:
Artists may submit up to three digital images of original prints completed in the past two years. To enter, log on to http://www.callforentry.org and follow their free registration instructions. Then go to “First-time Users Click Here to Register”. To learn more before you register, click “Image Prep” for a detailed explanation and complete instructions on requirements for the preparation of images.

Building Communities, Behind the Scenes

Photography submissions around the theme "Building Communities, Behind the Scenes" are being accepted by Common Boston's Neighborhood Photography Project through June 1

Winning entries will be displayed on the large exterior LED media screen of the Carpenters Center, facing I-93, and other winning submissions will be made available online. There is no entry fee and all are welcome to submit. View a complete call for entries at http://cbphotoproject.org

AIB’s 2010 Portfolio Scholarship

Win up to $10,000 in scholarship money!
Departmental and grand prize awards!
Drop off is on Friday, May 7th - Pick up is on Friday, May 14th

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD FORM

Each spring the Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University conducts a portfolio scholarship competition—a juried competition in which portfolios are judged on their artistic merit by AIB faculty and/or other visual art professionals. The portfolio competition takes places at the end of the academic year.
 
Application Requirements
Applicants must be currently enrolled, full- or part-time matriculated AIB students who will be taking at least 6 credits in Fall 2010. Financial need is not necessary in order to enter the competition. All applicants must complete the registration form.
 
Portfolio Requirements
All portfolios should be limited to 10 pieces. Portfolios must represent original work initiated or completed during the 2009-2010 academic year. Each piece should be identified (either front or back) with your full name, major and grade level as of September 2009 (e.g. Foundation/Freshman; Illustration; Sophomore). The work must completely fit into a portfolio case onto which one copy of your registration form has been attached. Do no submit work that has been framed. 3-D entries must be photographed, in either slide or digital format.
 
Awards
A best AIB overall portfolio will be awarded a scholarship. Six portfolios will be chosen as best of the their departments and awarded scholarships. The awards are tuition reductions with half of the award given each semester of the 2010-2011 academic year. Half or part time students (taking 6-11 credits) will receive pro-rated awards. Students who have completed fewer than 6 credits, non-matriculating students, and recipients of full Presidential Scholarships are NOT ELIGIBLE for the Portfolio Scholarship Competition.

Drop Off
Drop off your work in room N220 on FRIDAY, MAY 7th. All work must be submitted by 5 pm.
 
Portfolio Pick up
Due to limited space and resources, portfolios cannot be stored at AIB for the summer.
Students MUST pick up work on May 14th in room N200/N210.
Reminder: 601 Newbury is card access only.