Lark Photography will award $1,000.00 to one photography student that submits the winning self-portrait.
2nd and 3rd place finishers each win all four books in the Digital Masters series.
Visit larkbooks.com/digital for a complete set of official rules or click here: http://www.larkbooks.com/file_download/367/LarkSelfPortraitPhotoContestFinal.pdf
Your photo must be received by April 30, 2010.
Chris Vaccari
Director, Library Marketing
646.688.2509
www.sterlingpublishing.com
Saturday, April 24, 2010
Monday, April 5, 2010
College Night at the Getty: April 7
Enjoy free art exhibitions, special presentations, music, food, and other surprises exclusively for college students! • Meet Getty curators Anne-Lise Desmas, Virginia Heckert, and Anne Lyden as they guide you through their exhibitions.
• Talk to Soo Kim, one of the photographers featured in Urban Panoramas: Opie, Liao, Kim.
• Chef Joseph Mahon of the restaurant Bastide will give his perspective on the aesthetics of food.
• Take part in special tours discussing masterpieces and exciting periods in the history of art.
• Enhance your gustatory experience with complimentary food, nonalcoholic beverages, and a cash bar.
• Enjoy performances by Marc b., DJ OldBoy, Kinetic Theory Circus, and harpist Ricky Rasura.
The following exhibitions will be open during College Night:
• Leonardo da Vinci and the Art of Sculpture: Inspiration and Invention, showcasing studies for sculptures never realized in Leonardo's lifetime
• In Focus: Tasteful Pictures, highlighting photographs of food across the history of the medium
• Urban Panoramas: Opie, Liao, Kim, featuring work by three contemporary photographers
• A Record of Emotion: The Photographs of Frederick H. Evans, a survey of Evans's photographs of cathedrals, landscapes, portraiture, and photomicrography
• In addition, galleries with Impressionism and other works of art from the 19th century will be open late for this special event.
Museum store outlet shops will be open in the West Pavilion—Special 20% discount for College Night!
Sunday, April 4, 2010
Grant-Writing Summer Internship at LACMA
Government and Foundation Relations Internship
Grantwriting Department
The Government and Foundation Relations Department is seeking an undergraduate or graduate intern who is actively enrolled in an art history, museum studies, English, liberal arts, or other applicable program for Summer 2010.
Description
The desired intern will be a proficient writer, have strong analytical skills, and be able to work up to 20 hours per week for college credit. The ideal candidate will be a strong writer, have strong analytical skills, and be proficient with Internet, Excel, and MS Word. He/she must be able to type 50 words per minute and have good organizational skills.
This is a non-paid internship, but school credits will be awarded. Intern duties primarily entail prospect research to identify new funding opportunities and preparing written documents, including letters of inquiry, status reports, grant proposals, and acknowledgment letters. Other responsibilities include filing and fulfilling donor stewardship, such as mailing VIP passes and exhibition catalogues. There may also be the opportunity to assist with special events for the Development Department, such as opening night receptions and private viewings of exhibitions.
To Apply
Interested candidates for this intern position should send a cover letter, resume, and a writing sample to alipsey@lacma.org
Grantwriting Department
The Government and Foundation Relations Department is seeking an undergraduate or graduate intern who is actively enrolled in an art history, museum studies, English, liberal arts, or other applicable program for Summer 2010.
Description
The desired intern will be a proficient writer, have strong analytical skills, and be able to work up to 20 hours per week for college credit. The ideal candidate will be a strong writer, have strong analytical skills, and be proficient with Internet, Excel, and MS Word. He/she must be able to type 50 words per minute and have good organizational skills.
This is a non-paid internship, but school credits will be awarded. Intern duties primarily entail prospect research to identify new funding opportunities and preparing written documents, including letters of inquiry, status reports, grant proposals, and acknowledgment letters. Other responsibilities include filing and fulfilling donor stewardship, such as mailing VIP passes and exhibition catalogues. There may also be the opportunity to assist with special events for the Development Department, such as opening night receptions and private viewings of exhibitions.
To Apply
Interested candidates for this intern position should send a cover letter, resume, and a writing sample to alipsey@lacma.org
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Amor Fati Magazine Based in Los Angeles Seeks Photos on Theme of "Disaster"
AMOR FATI is a quarterly digest featuring the works of Los Angeles writers, artists, and creatives. In a city of disparate parts, our aim is to create an active platform for organic and challenging exchange that is not only reflective of this generation but brings a collective voice to an anomalous city.
Submission deadline: April 11, 2010
Submissions should reflect the theme of disastrous occurrences. Topics can be fiction or non-fiction. Need ideas? God has tried to destroy Los Angeles with numerous devices; earthquakes, riots, fires, droughts, floods, mud slides, and most recently, tornadoes. If natural disasters and civil unrest will not suffice as themes, then your own personal disasters are also welcome.Guidelines
Formats include ANYTHING PRINTABLE, such as short stories, poetry, prose, essays, philosophies, letters, one-acts, scripts, flash fiction, lyrics, recipes, photography, visual art, trickery, what-have-you, new or old.
Competition for Students at a West Coast University-- win $1200
Attention all Associate, Bachelor, and Masters Degree candidates with an interest in the visual arts, currently enrolled at a West/Southwest Regional public or private college or university. No matter what major, if you paint, illustrate, sculpt, design, draw, photograph, or just create art, you are eligible to enter the 3rd Annual Fine Art Finals West/Southwest Regional Scholarship Competition.
Media accepted include:
Drawing - graphite, colored pencil, pen and ink, marker, pastel, charcoal, etc.
Painting - oil, acrylic, watercolor, gouache, etc.
Printmaking - etching, lithography, screen-printing, etc.
Sculpture - clay, ceramic, plaster, marble, glass, wood, resin, porcelain, metal, etc.
Jewelry - gemstones, precious metals or other materials, etc.
Fibers - textiles, fabrics, yarn, natural & synthetic fibers, etc.
Photography - traditional & digital.
Digital Art - see our information page for details.
Graphic Design - traditional & digital, see our information page for details.
This scholarship competition is dedicated to the promotion of talented and gifted emerging artists at the collegiate level and awards their mastery of technique and excellence of artistic achievement. Finalists and Winners will be selected based on quality, originality, and the creativity of their work.
First Place: $1200
Second Place: $600
Third Place: $300
Two Honorable Mentions:
$50 each
Entry Deadline:
Postmarked by Friday, May 7, 2010
http://www.fineartfinals.com/Collegiate_Home_Page.html
Friday, March 19, 2010
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions Internship
LACE Archives Internship
The LACE Archives Intern will work closely with the LACE Archives Fellow to make LACE's archival holdings useful and available for research and integrate materials from LACE's archives into exhibition and publication initiatives. Through his or her involvement with the archives, the intern will also participate in the development of a major exhibition and publication project at LACE titled Los Angeles Goes Live: Exploring a Social History of Performance Art, 1970-1983.
LACE's archives are an invaluable site of cultural history for Los Angeles, as LACE has been a crucial participant in the city's artistic production for over three decades, often housing artwork that is experimental in nature. This LACE Archives Internship is an opportunity to work with LACE's unique collections, which include documentation of art exhibitions and performances held at LACE since 1978, extensive holdings of photographic and video material and records pertaining to the institution's history.
The LACE Archives Internship will provide an interested individual with the opportunity to gain training and experience working with archival collections. In addition to providing training in widely held standards and protocol of collections management, it also offers a unique introduction to working with collections related to experimental and variable media art. The Archives Intern will:
- Learn first-hand about collections-management issues and make use of an extensive database specifically designed by Franklin Furnace Archive to meet the needs of collections of conceptual and other variable media art;
- Learn about ways that archival collections are made publicly accessible and work with the LACE Archives Fellow to integrate the catalogue of LACE's holdings into searchable online databases;
- Process a variety of material from LACE's recent exhibitions and events (e.g. photographs, video, press clippings, correspondence), attending to preservation concerns and updating the archives database as needed;
- Respond to research inquiries about LACE's archive and facilitate the use of collections by LACE staff members and visiting scholars and artists;
- Digitize selected items from LACE's collections, including videos, slides and printed matter;
- Work with the LACE Archives Fellow to develop online resources that will provide broad access to, and contextualization of LACE's digitized collections, including project-specific and thematic websites;
- Think creatively about how to generate broad interest in LACE's archival collections; and
- Serve as a liaison with LACE's webmaster to facilitate the integration of documents from the archive into LACE's website.
TO APPLY
Send a resume, references, and a cover letter explaining the reasons for your interest in this position to:
Jennifer Flores Sternad at jennifer@welcometolace.org
LACE internships require a commitment of approx. 16 hours per week for a minimum of three months.
For further information, please contact Jennifer via e-mail or at (323) 957-1777 x 11. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.
ABOUT LACE
LACE is a contemporary visual art space that encourages people and projects working across diverse creative forms to interrogate the boundaries of culture and artistic practice. LACE exhibitions, performances, screenings, dialogs and other public forums strive to inspire the public imagination and to expand interactions between art and audience. Located in the heart of Hollywood, LACE contributes to the activation of Los Angeles' urban landscape and champions art's ability to engage with the timely issues that shape local and global life. Become part of LACE's illustrious history today, while ensuring its vibrant future. For more information, please visit www.welcometolace.org.
The LACE Archives Intern will work closely with the LACE Archives Fellow to make LACE's archival holdings useful and available for research and integrate materials from LACE's archives into exhibition and publication initiatives. Through his or her involvement with the archives, the intern will also participate in the development of a major exhibition and publication project at LACE titled Los Angeles Goes Live: Exploring a Social History of Performance Art, 1970-1983.
LACE's archives are an invaluable site of cultural history for Los Angeles, as LACE has been a crucial participant in the city's artistic production for over three decades, often housing artwork that is experimental in nature. This LACE Archives Internship is an opportunity to work with LACE's unique collections, which include documentation of art exhibitions and performances held at LACE since 1978, extensive holdings of photographic and video material and records pertaining to the institution's history.
The LACE Archives Internship will provide an interested individual with the opportunity to gain training and experience working with archival collections. In addition to providing training in widely held standards and protocol of collections management, it also offers a unique introduction to working with collections related to experimental and variable media art. The Archives Intern will:
- Learn first-hand about collections-management issues and make use of an extensive database specifically designed by Franklin Furnace Archive to meet the needs of collections of conceptual and other variable media art;
- Learn about ways that archival collections are made publicly accessible and work with the LACE Archives Fellow to integrate the catalogue of LACE's holdings into searchable online databases;
- Process a variety of material from LACE's recent exhibitions and events (e.g. photographs, video, press clippings, correspondence), attending to preservation concerns and updating the archives database as needed;
- Respond to research inquiries about LACE's archive and facilitate the use of collections by LACE staff members and visiting scholars and artists;
- Digitize selected items from LACE's collections, including videos, slides and printed matter;
- Work with the LACE Archives Fellow to develop online resources that will provide broad access to, and contextualization of LACE's digitized collections, including project-specific and thematic websites;
- Think creatively about how to generate broad interest in LACE's archival collections; and
- Serve as a liaison with LACE's webmaster to facilitate the integration of documents from the archive into LACE's website.
TO APPLY
Send a resume, references, and a cover letter explaining the reasons for your interest in this position to:
Jennifer Flores Sternad at jennifer@welcometolace.org
LACE internships require a commitment of approx. 16 hours per week for a minimum of three months.
For further information, please contact Jennifer via e-mail or at (323) 957-1777 x 11. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.
ABOUT LACE
LACE is a contemporary visual art space that encourages people and projects working across diverse creative forms to interrogate the boundaries of culture and artistic practice. LACE exhibitions, performances, screenings, dialogs and other public forums strive to inspire the public imagination and to expand interactions between art and audience. Located in the heart of Hollywood, LACE contributes to the activation of Los Angeles' urban landscape and champions art's ability to engage with the timely issues that shape local and global life. Become part of LACE's illustrious history today, while ensuring its vibrant future. For more information, please visit www.welcometolace.org.
Monday, February 22, 2010
Aperture Lecture Series at the Hammer March 4: Zwelethu Mthethwa
March 4 at 7pm at the Hammer Museum; 10899 Wilshire Blvd, Westwood
Zwelethu Mthethwa, (Aperture, March 2010) is the artist’s long-awaited first comprehensive monograph, providing an overview of his work to-date and featuring the stunning portraits that have brought him international acclaim. Mthethwa’s work has been featured in over thirty-five international solo exhibitions and numerous group shows, including the 2005 Venice Biennial and Snap Judgments at the International Center of Photography, New York. Born in Durban, South Africa, he now resides in Cape Town. A book signing will follow the lecture.
ALL HAMMER PUBLIC PROGRAMS ARE FREE. Tickets are required, and are available at the Billy Wilder Theater Box Office one hour prior to start time. Limit one ticket per person on a first come, first served basis. Hammer members receive priority seating, subject to availability. Reservations not accepted, RSVPs not required.
Parking is available under the museum for $3 after 6:00p.m.
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