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THANKS TO

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FRIENDS AND PARTNERS

The Williamsburg Gallery Association aids and encourages the public presentation of local, national, and international art in the vicinity of greater Williamsburg. Toward this end, the WGA promotes the art venues of Williamsburg, Greenpoint, and Bushwick through public programs, advertising, and collaborative projects that reach out to the general public and the visual art community, both in New York and beyond. Our goal is to bring the dynamic creative activity of greater Williamsburg to the attention of the world. Every 2nd Friday from September to June, the galleries of the WGA are open from 6-9 pm.

Wagmag has been serving the art community in Williamsburg and Greenpoint, Brooklyn for six years, producing a monthly listing service for galleries as well as an up to date map, an arts events page, listings and critical reviews.

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COMMUNITY – DRIVEN

FEAST is a recurring public dinner designed to use community-driven financial support to democratically fund new and emerging artmakers.

At each FEAST, participants will pay a sliding-scale entrance fee for which they will receive supper and a ballot. Diners will vote on a variety of proposed artist projects. At the end of dinner, the artist whose proposal receives the most votes will be awarded funds collected through the entrance fee to produce the project. The work will then be presented during the next FEAST.

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OPENINGS

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WORKSHOPS

K. CARACCIO PRINTMAKING STUDIO

Weekend Workshops for 2010

Color Viscosity Monoprinting
January 16 & 17, 2010
Using oil and water-based colorants, students will create one of a kind prints worked from plastic plates. Explore chine colle, image transfers, multi-plate color registration and ghost impressions. Try drawing with a brayer and/or spontaneous solvent reticulation techniques. Numerous examples from the instructor’s collection will be shown. Printing inks, solvents and brushes provided – please bring your own oil paints if needed. No previous experience necessary.

Silk Aquatint, a.k.a. Silk Collagraph
February 13 & 14, 2010
Silk aquatint has the richness of mezzotint, the spontaneity of action painting, the sheer washes of a water color, the vivacious surface of a palette knife impasto and the durability of a steel-faced etching plate ALL WITHOUT ACID. This collagraphic plate-making method is created with acrylic paint: painting white onto a black field, similar to developing a mezzotint image. The resulting plates are intaglio printed through an etching press with oil-based and water-based ink and can last for over one-hundred impressions.

Paper Lithography (Printing from XEROX™)
March 6 & 7, 2010
If you’re interested in xerox transfer, this workshop is an opportunity to explore the possibilities of the xerox matrix print. This process utilizes photo copies to reproduce the printed word, computer generated type and photo images – as well as Xeroxes of drawings from your sketch book. Simply stated, the Xerox becomes the printing plate. Each photo copy is used only once. Samples from the instructor’s collection will be shown to better demonstrate the potential of this method. No prior printing experience needed.

Fine Art Collage and Adhesives Workshop
March 20 & 21, 2010
This intensive workshop is geared to de-mystify glues, tapes, and mounting techniques. Learn to use the appropriate adhesive for diverse materials, such as papers, wood, found objects, and cloth. Try new combinations of Western and Asian papers and discover how to seam papers together to create oversized pieces. You will be introduced to: chine colle (gluing & printing simultaneously), seam-gluingpaper, hinging choices, sampling a variety of glues and tapes, inserting cuttings, and setting up a drying/flattening stack. Discussion includes examination of archival life.

FOR MORE INFO, VISIT K.CARACCIO’S WEBSITE…

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OPEN CALLS

Public Art Fund is accepting submissions for In the Public Realm 2010, our open call for New York-based emerging artists. Awarding $15,000 commissions, this program enables today’s most promising artists to conceive and develop innovative works for the City’s public spaces.

The success of this program relies to a great extent on your participation. Please help us spread the word. We are interested in the artists that you are excited about right now–the artists that you want to see more of in 2010. Please reach out to any New York-based emerging artists currently on your radar and encourage them to apply.

Submission guidelines can be found on www.publicartfund.org.
In addition, please don’t hesitate to email Anita Iannacchione with any questions at: realm@publicartfund.org.

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ART SPACES

BRIC Rotunda Gallery presents contemporary art, exhibtions, public events and an innovative arts education program. The Gallery’s aim is to increase the visibility and accessibility of contemporary art while bridging the gap between the art world and global culture in Brooklyn and the world beyond. BRIC Rotunda Gallery is the visual arts program of BRIC Arts | Media | Bklyn, a multi-disciplinary arts and media non-profit, dedicated to presenting visual, performing and media arts programs that are reflective of Brooklyn’s diverse communities and to supporting the creative process.

ORGs

Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC) strives to enrich the quality of life throughout Brooklyn by fostering, encouraging and promoting the arts through service and support to artists and arts organizations.

The mission of the Queens Council on the Arts is to foster and develop the arts in Queens County and to support arts organizations and individual artists in presenting their cultural diversity for the benefit of the community.

The North Brooklyn Public Art Coalition (NbPac) is a new initiative organized through Council Member David Yassky’s office whose goal is to work with local artists, community members, arts organizations and businesses in order to increase the presence of public art in North Brooklyn. By doing so, NbPac hopes to beautify, revitalize, and energize the Williamsburg, Greenpoint and Bushwick neighborhoods through public art.

Open Space Alliance for North Brooklyn

For decades the Greenpoint/Williamsburg communities have been severely under served for park space. OSA is dedicated to filling that need. By supplementing the New York City Parks Department’s basic operations with private funds, OSA proposes to initiate a large array of capital projects and community programs.

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MUST READS

The Artist’s Guide: How to Make a Living Doing What You Love is a comprehensive handbook that provides the information, tools, and techniques, for developing and sustaining a successful art career. It provides answers to the challenges artists face everyday and includes real-life examples, illustrations, step-by-step exercises, and bulleted lists that allow readers to dive in and begin working immediately.

Author Jackie Battenfield maintains her own career as a visual artist and teaches professional development classes at Columbia University and the Creative Capital Foundation.

The Artist’s Guide: How to Make a Living Doing What You Love is scheduled for release in early Spring 2009 and will be published by Da Capo Press.

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ON-LINE MUST READS

Ann Marlowe’s weekly blog; Peace Later! Her first entry deals with the connection between modern art and open societies, or, why it matters that the Islamic world didn’t have an equivalent to the European and American furor over Impressionism and its successors.

OH COLOUR ME IN

This website is tasteful and wisely dedicated to the promotion of cultural material. Colour Me In is written in Mexico City by Eva Posas and Teie.

ImpactDash was founded on the idea that an individual’s small choices can add up to have a huge effect. ImpactDash isn’t one expert’s opinions, but rather many voices tackling the issue of climate change in ways that we can in our everyday lives.

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FRAMING FOR ARTISTS

Frame your art with someone who cares about it as much as you do. Meg Hitchcock is an artist who has been reviewed in Art in America, Artweek and the San Francisco Chronicle. She’s also a professional framer who specializes in conservation framing for artists, galleries, and collectors. When you bring your work to Framing 4 Artists (F4A), you’ll get museum-quality craftsmanship at affordable prices. Only the finest quality archival materials are used to ensure that your art lasts longer than you do. You’ll be amazed at how fantastic your photos, drawings, or paintings will look when they’re professionally framed.