The designers are asked to design use recyclable items that are used to make Saturn hybrids.   They grabbed seat belts, car mats, carburators and other items to make an innovative garment.

  

Ran across a site showcasing antique farmer's almanacs used as art. They also have a gallery . From the site...

The Farmers’ Almanac has been used as a guide post for weather forecasting for centuries (the first Farmers Almanac was published in 1818!) Its influence continues to be strong today, despite the availability of modern weather forecasting on TV, or up-to-the-minute updates on the internet.

The Farmers’ Almanac, an annual North American publication, was just released this week, and the popularity of the search term “Farmers Almanac” proves its influence remains strong. 

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Prizes

Grand Prize Award: $500
7 First Place Awards: $100 each

The Grand Prize winner and all 7 First Place Winners will receive complimentary subscriptions to The Artist's Magazine and $100 worth of North Light Books. Honorable Mentions receive complimentary subscriptions to The Artist's Magazine and $50 worth of North Light Books.

Winners will be featured on The Artist's Magazine website along with a list of Honorable Mentions. All Winners and Honorable Mentions will receive a certificate suitable for framing.

Deadline: November 3, 2008

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Compete and Win in 7 Categories!

Oil and oil pastel: paintings done in oil-based media on canvas, board, paper, or

 The Arkansas Arts Center Children’s Theatre will present the classic adventure Treasure Island on stage September 19 – October 5, 2008.  The Children’s Theatre season is sponsored by Target and the Logue Family Trust.

            This tale tells the story of Jim Hawkins, a young lad living at his parents’ sea-side inn on the coast of England.  At the inn, Jim hears stories of treasure and pirates from travelers and old sea captains, and he soon decides to embark on a journey of his own in search of Treasure Island.  On his travels, he encounters pirates, sword fights and mutiny on the high seas.  Based on the novel Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, this Children’s Theatre original production is an adventure for the whole, entire family.

            Treasure Island is directed by

Aboriginal Artist Emily Kame Kngwarreye

 In the 1990s Emily Kame Kngwarreye (c.1910-1996) emerged as one of Australia's leading painters of modern times. Kngwarreye's prominence is no overnight sensation; it finds its roots in a lifetime of ritual and artistic activity. Her energetic paintings are a response to the land of her birth, Alhalkere, north of Alice Springs - the contours of the landscape, the cycles of seasons, the parched land, the flow of flooding waters and sweeping rains, the patterns of seeds and the shape of plants, and the spiritual forces which imbue the country. Kngwarreye's vision of the land is unique; her paintings challenge the way we look at art by Aboriginal Australians.

 Make Plans to Attend Running Deer Retreat Oil Painting Workshop

 

An Art Sanctuary...

Enjoy outdoor painting nestled in the heart of the Arkansas River Valley. Running Deer Retreat is open to art groups and art organizations, who wish to draw or paint in a quiet, country setting.

 

Lake & dock area.  Enclosed sun porch with lake view Art Studio, overlooking the lake Art reference books

Sleeps 8, plus 5 RV hook-ups

Running Deer Retreat sits on 130 serene acres, just 2 minutes outside Danville, Arkansas in a

La Macina di San Cresci, residence for artists member of RES ARTIS announces that the Municipality of Greve in Chianti (Florence, Italy) grants a fellowship for one month in the year 2009. This programme is open to artists between 18 and 35 years old, proposing innovative projects reflecting an opening to the human, social and economic contexts surrounding them.

Disciplines• Architecture (architecture design, urban studies, landscape design) • Photography • Painting • Sculpture • Ceramics • Installation The fellowship recipient is granted Euro 1000 to cover expenses (art material, meals, local transport, etc.), in addition living space and studios free of charge.

The selected artist is provided with a shared room and workspace in a shared studio for a 30 day period (see www.chianticom.com

The University of Maryland Public Art Project announces a national competition called INTERPLAY. Interplay blends several objectives: to create a dynamic environment for public and social engagement, to serve as a contemplative place for individuals to experience contemporary art, and to embrace the scholarly spirit of a distinguished institution of higher education and research. Requests for Qualifications are invited from experienced artists or artist/design teams, to develop a site-specific public artwork/s for the University of Maryland .

• The work will be part of the renovation of a courtyard in proximity to the university’s visual art and humanities buildings. Three individual projects will be considered, or a design that negotiates the entire space as one concept.

• The total

University Hospitals Authority & Trust is seeking an artist (or team of artists) to create permanent works of art for the following prominent locations at the new OU Children’s Physicians Facility: •Exterior Sculpture Art/Entrance Plaza - $150,000 •Second Floor Stair Hanging/Kinetic Element - $100,000 •Second Floor Atrium Lobby Abstract Sculpture - $250,000 Artist(s) may submit a proposal for one or all three of the above projects. Each of the projects above will be treated as separate projects and could be awarded to one artist/artist group or several different artists/artist groups. This artwork can include sculpture, mosaic, water and landscaping elements, unique or alternative art media – or any combination that is appropriate to the site. The artwork must convey a nature-inspired

Historic Arkansas Museum , formerly known as Arkansas Territorial Restoration, is a historic site museum located in the heart of downtown Little Rock.  On its grounds are some of the oldest buildings in the state, on their original sites: the 1830s Hinderliter Grog Shop, the 1840s McVicar and Brownlee Houses, and the 1820s Arkansas Gazette print shop are joined by the transplanted Plum Bayou Log House, an 1830s plantation house from Scott, Arkansas. These carefully restored and furnished buildings preserve Arkansas’s heritage and reveal an important truth about the state’s most exciting period – that the rough-and-ready frontier territory and fledgling state also had its touches of elegance and refinement.

Each day the museum offers expertly guided tours on the hour (except noon). The