Here’s your chance to win two books on earning an income with your art! The books are:
Consignment: Key Selling Tips for Authors and Artists
Making Merchandise from Art
Just click through and comment on the thread for your chance to win!
BVAA Facebook Art Book Giveaway
The giveaway is open to US residents and ends Sunday, January 28th, 2018 at midnight EST
We have reached a huge milestone! We now have over 10,000 followers on Twitter! Thank you all so, so much for supporting Local Art from painters, photographers, sculptors, artists who draw, quilters, and more! Come by one of our free workshops and say hello! Explore your creativity :). If you’re not following us on Twitter yet, please do!
For the painters in our group – cash grant available –
PAINTING – Deadline: January 29, 2018
Upload five images, in JPG format, into your CallforEntry.org (CaFE) Portfolio. When filling out Mass Cultural Council’s online application in CaFE, select images to submit in the order (1-5) that you wish them to be viewed (left to right).
Preparing Your Digital
Images Images must be saved in JPG format. The pixel dimension (horizontal or vertical) cannot be smaller than 1920 pixels on the longest side of your image. The resolution size is a minimum of 72 ppi/dpi. The maximum file size is 3 MB.
Panel review of work samples is anonymous. Therefore, neither your name, nor any information identifying commissions, awards, reviews, and/or presentations should appear on your work sample. Work samples will be tracked by title #1. Work completed prior to 2014 is ineligible.
Review Process
After the application deadline, Mass Cultural Council convenes independent panels to review applications. Panels are composed of artists and arts professionals representing a range of aesthetic perspectives. The review process is anonymous to ensure impartial assessment of each applicant’s work. Funding recommendations made by review panels are presented to the Mass Cultural Council members for final award decisions.
https://www.massculturalcouncil.org/applications/fellows_guidelines.asp
Who is your famous art doppelganger? Find out with this app and post the results here!
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/17/arts/google-art-selfies-doppelgangers.html
YouTube is a great way to learn art techniques! Be sure to check out our BVAA YouTube Page –
https://www.youtube.com/c/BvaaOrgArt
Be sure to subscribe to us!
Right now we know of the channels for these BVAA members:
Laura Cenedella
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9SvIQKbdA1r6BNhQm2kgnw
Brent DeWitt
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClTEptqdhcsq-J79lI6schQ
Bob Evans (Mass Images)
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCb0MdAwSY1WQP5bM5lgq3Vg
Libia Goncalves
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqfuyZLE2QyrTo8Bs8HtaPA
Luke MacNeil
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG2404SpuO5Jx6NZMYiUnyg
Scott Nelson
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwxfMEAqKx1Jt963X15xIXg
Lisa Shea
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCn46fz0fMUHXhgQ9C4gQ7VA
Dennis Smith
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-Tcn7xqORfAv4yhFGSDJPA
If you have a YouTube channel, let us know so we can subscribe to you and feature you!
If you don’t have a YouTube channel yet, set one up! We can help you figure out how to use it. Even if you just use it to subscribe to our members, to boost their subscriber numbers, that would be great!
Ask with any questions.
Interesting article on Art and Copyright –
https://www.cnn.com/style/article/art-copyright-beg-steal-borrow/index.html
Autumn is a season for counting our blessings. For realizing just how much we have in life where so many others are without. It can often be easy to take things for granted. Things which millions of people desperately dream of having. By pausing for a moment, and looking around with mindfulness, we can find a new center. Begin with fresh energy.
Artwork takes us on this journey of appreciating the beauty in every day. The shimmering violet of a flower’s petal. The rich glow of autumn foliage. The masterpiece of a luminous sunset.
Poetry shimmers with vision. The delicate parasol of Queen Anne’s lace. The coy flirtations of a luminous moon. The charcoal tears of raindrops in dust.
Fiction draws us in to worlds which could easily be our own. A grandmother whose memories gambol and fade. A woman who relives the fears of a long-distant past. A young man who treasures every day he has left to him.
Non-Fiction invites us into a fellow traveler’s world. A woman meets her adopted daughter for the first time. A brother comes to terms with the untimely passing of a beloved sister. A woman’s life takes a detour which strengthens her courage. A young girl survives a tragic accident and realizes she’s lucky to be alive.
We are all on this big blue marble for the fleetest of moments. A few whirls around a star and our journey is complete. There is so much to treasure in every day. There are so many fellow humans we can gently touch and lift up. If only with a smile – if only with a kind word.
Namaste.
Enjoy our latest issue of our Mused Literary Review –
https://www.bellaonline.com/review/
Please share the news!
We have great news! The BVAA officers have met with a group from Alternatives and put together a plan of action for moving forward with our use of the Alternatives Uxbridge Community Gallery space. This gallery is located at 5 Main Street in Uxbridge, where 122 meets 16. The BVAA will be given access to this space for free.
We can discuss this arrangement in depth at the September meeting, which will be held in this gallery. You can email any questions you have at any time. Here is the gist of the plan.
Starting in September, we’ll have our monthly meetings at the Uxbridge gallery. They’ll even put our name on the door and everything! It gives us a permanent “home base” where we can sell artwork, have shows, have meetings, run classes, and more. Alternatives uses the gallery space each day from 9am – 3:30pm. That means from around 5pm on each weeknight, and all day on weekends, we can have seminars, sessions, classes, sales, and other activities. BVAA members will be able to use that space to run their own events.
Here’s a photo of how full the gallery gets during the huge Uxbridge First Night celebration, at the start of December each year.
There’ll also be the Uxbridge festival coming up on September 2nd that is on that Main Street area. We should be able to get visitors from that as well.
As part of the arrangement, any income generated from the location from art sales, shop sales, or for-fee events will be split 75% to the artist / organizer and 25% to go into our gallery funds. These funds will help pay for teachers at our workshops, food for receptions, and other gallery-specific activities. The aim is for our art activities in this gallery to be self-sustaining.
We will have the massive power of the Alternatives team behind any marketing we do, including for the sessions and seminars our BVAA members wish to run. They’ll make flyers, postcards, and more. Please aim to plan to have all details about an event finalized 2 months before the start of the event. That gives Alternatives ample time to get the news of the sessions into all the local papers, include it in their ValleyCast mailing, and spread the word. That helps guarantee maximum attendance at the events and maximum publicity for the artists involved.
Please let us know if you’re interested in using the space for the upcoming fall season. We will organize the calendar and coordinate the logistics with Alternatives for the marketing.
This is an awesome opportunity for all of us. Those with small items can have them available for sale in the glass cases in the gallery. Our art will be hanging on the walls. Those who would like to run classes and seminars will have quiet, easy-to-access space to do it in which has oodles of parking. We can do drop-in critique sessions where artists brainstorm about their in-progress works. And all of us can enjoy the meetings and shows in a space which is truly “our own”.
They’re even installing a new hanging system on the brick wall, so hanging art will be even easier than before.
Ask with any questions!
We hope to hear from you soon!
You think your fingers get cold shooting photography in chilly weather? Try doing it in Antarctica! And just when is “golden hour” when it’s light all day long?
https://explorepartsunknown.com/antarctica/how-to-film-in-antarctica/
Something artistic to ponder. Should the ‘bull’ artist’s original intent always be preserved? I.e. does adding the girl statue change how people view the bull statue?
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/13/nyregion/fearless-girl-statue-charging-bull-debate.html