Plans have been announced for ArtWeek ’10, the second annual 10-day art festival in May hosted by Little Rock and North Little Rock.

The organizers are working with more then 60 venues that will host exhibits, events and performances by countless visual and performing artists.  Click on one of the following for a link if:  you want info on the poster contest, you're interested in participating as an artist,  requesting an artist for your site or to list your ArtWeek event

Thanks to new legislation we are attracting major Film makers to the natural state.   A 15% tax rebate on goods and services with an  additional 10% for hiring Arkansans seems to be working.

Harry Thomason is currently shooting in Benton a film about the life of country singer Hank Williams, utilizing Arkansans as extras.     If you're interested in being an extra they will be filming in different locations hroughout central Arkansas.

Four additional major film productions companies are eyeing Arkansas as a possible location for production.

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Welcome to Doodle 4 Google, a competition where we invite K-12 students to work their artistic will upon our homepage logo. At Google we believe in thinking big and dreaming big, so this year we're inviting U.S. kids to exercise their creative imaginations around the theme, "If I Could Do Anything, I Would …"

We're looking forward to the kids' answers too. Gather those art supplies and some 8.5" x 11"paper and encourage your students to enrich us all with their creative visions for what they would do in the world, if they could do anything.

More info is here.

The Bernice Garden, a private urban garden intended for public use located on the corner of Daisy Gatson Bates Ave. and South Main St. in downtown Little Rock, is seeking proposals from artists/teams to design and construct outdoor sculptures to be installed and exhibited for a year at the garden.

The deadline for The Bernice Garden Sculpture Project call for proposals is 5 p.m. on Wed., March 31, 2010 and should be sent to 1716 North Spruce, Little Rock, AR 72207. The call for proposals is open to all artists or artists’ teams residing in Arkansas, and artists or artists’ teams may specialize in any or multiple disciplines and media. Any artists or artists’ teams who have participated in placing work at The Bernice Garden should wait four years before submitting a new proposal.

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CanvasJunkie member, artist and blues singer extraordinaire, Charlotte Taylor, has been diagnosed with cancer, she is going through chemo and scheduled to have surgery. Due to this medical condition Char has been unable to work since December.

I know some of you may not know Char, but she is the most kind, giving and loving person you could have the honor of knowing, Char has always been one of the first to step up to help when there was a need. A fund raiser has been organized for Char scheduled for Saturday, March 6, 2010 starting at 1:00 pm until midnight at Parrot Beach located at 9611 Mac Arthur Drive, North Little Rock, AR 72118-2058 phone(501) 771-2994. There are 23+ music artists /bands participating. There will be door prizes, drawings a silent auction and a raffle.

I would like to ask that each of you to donate something for a drawing or silent auction either a piece of art, some service or goods from your work place or anything else that could be used in a drawing or included in a silent auction.

If you find it in your heart to donate, please contact me here at canvasjunkie or directly This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or you may call me at (501) 350-4055. Please make donations on or before March 2, 2010 so I may have time to make bid sheets, organize and set up for the event. Thank you in advance for your generosity. Please mark your calendar! Hope to hear from you soon and see you there!

Thank you,

rhonda