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Americans for the Arts
Public Art 101 Webinar to be shown in Oakland FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
The Alameda County Arts Commission and the City of Oakland Cultural Arts & Marketing Department are pleased to co-sponsor a FREE presentation of the Public Art 101 Webinar. A program of Americans for the Arts based on the “Bay Area Public Art Academy” artist training program developed by the Northern California Public Art Administrators Network, this webinar is a three-part seminar series that will give you the information and tools you need to apply for public art opportunities, develop and present your ideas, and manage project timelines and budgets. Learn how to transition from the solo realm of studio practice to the highly collaborative one of planning, designing and producing public works. Artists of all disciplines, students, and others interested in the field are all welcome to attend.
What: FREE
RSVPs are encouraged but not required. Please RSVP to Public Art Academy Webinars (three-part series) When: September 29; October 13; and November 3, 2010 Time: 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. (The webinars will take place from 11:00 – 12:30 and public art staff from the local co-sponsoring agencies will host a Q & A following each session.) Location: Alameda County Lakeside Plaza Building, 1401 Lakeside Drive, Oakland (Check with guard for meeting room location.) Located at the corner of 14th Street and Oak Street/Lakeside Drive in downtown Oakland. A short walk from the Lake Merritt and Downtown/12th Street BART stations.
amy.stimmel@acgov.org. If you have questions, please contact Amy Stimmel at the Alameda County Arts Commission at (510) 208-9646 amy.stimmel@acgov.org or Steven Huss at the City of Oakland at 510-238-4949 or SHuss@oaklandnet.com.
Public Art 101 for Artists
Webinar I: – Making the Transition from Studio Artist to Public Artist
September 29, 2010, 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. (followed by a Q & A with the local co-sponsoring agencies)
Presenters: Steven Huss, Amy Trachtenberg, Sam Rodriquez
1. Slide show highlighting 10-15 different types of public art projects including full descriptions.
2. Recognizing the types of projects that are best suited for your skills
3. Responsibilities of a public artist and public art project manager. Describing the collaborative process of project development.
4. How to apply, write a letter, graphically and verbally present your work in an application. What to include in a letter of interest and how to present your work in an interview.
5. Artists experiences. The two artists describe how they began working in public art and the relationship of their public art to their previous work; show slides of previous work, describe specific interest in applying for the public art project/s they have participated in, and how they presented themselves and their work to get their first public art project.
Webinar II: – Getting Started
October 13, 2010, 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. (followed by a Q & A with the local co-sponsoring agencies)
Presenters: Barbara Goldstein, Lynn Rogers, Amy Trachtenberg, Sam Rodriquez
1. Slide show highlighting 10-15 different types of public art projects including full descriptions.
2. Getting started –learning from stakeholders including community members, architects/designers, and reviewing bodies; the roles of team members and lines of communication (project manager, contracting officer, architects, engineers and other consultants)
3. How to present your ideas—what is expected during concept development stage
4. Leveraging opportunities and resources (e.g. architecture/building elements and/or community involvement)
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5. Artist experiences – how and what we learned from community members and stakeholders, and content/resources; how we leveraged architecture –the development steps of a project.
6. Collateral benefits – how the artwork can live on in the community in other forms (books, events, web pages, etc.)
Webinar III: – Developing the Design; Working with Materials and Budgets
November 3, 2010, 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. (followed by a Q & A with the local co-sponsoring agencies)
Presenters: Mary Rubin, Brian Laczko, Amy Trachtenberg, Sam Rodriquez
1. Introduction: Overview of 10 projects –conceptual to final design proposals
2. Moving from concept into buildable design – considering durable materials, researching fabrication techniques, trouble shooting possible problems.
3. How to structure your budget and time; cost estimating, collaborating with fabricators
4. Creative collaboration: Integrating your work into the construction schedule, resources and credits. Working with other collaborators: conservator, engineer, architect, graphic designer, historian, etc.
5. Artist experience: What I learned in building my work, problems and how I solved them, what I would do next time.
6. Design changes: How to be flexible; How design changes and why – when the original concept/ideas may remain.
Save the Date! Wednesday, December 1, 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Contracts Webinar. More info coming soon!
Presenter Bios
Steven Huss is the Cultural Arts Manager for the City of Oakland, CA. He oversees Oakland’s public art program, grants for the arts, galleries, and other arts initiatives. Previously, he was the executive director of the Alameda County Arts Commission for eight years. Mr. Huss is also an independent consultant in the public art field and the co-founder and chairman of the Northern California Public Art Administrators Network. As a project manager for the Seattle Arts Commission, he co-edited A Field Guide to Seattle’s Public Art (Sasquatch Books) and developed the CD-ROM Public Art Seattle.
Barbara Goldstein is the Public Art Director for the City of San José Office of Cultural Affairs and the editor of Public Art by the Book, a primer published in 2005 by Americans for the Arts and the University of Washington Press. Prior to her work in San José, Goldstein was Public Art Director for the City of Seattle. Goldstein has worked as a cultural planner, architectural and art critic, editor, and publisher. From 1989 to 1993, she was Director of Design Review and Cultural Planning for the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs. From 1980 10 1985, she edited and published Arts + Architecture magazine. She has written for art and architecture magazines both nationally and internationally, and has lectured on public art throughout the United States, and in Canada, Japan, China, and Taipei. In her capacity as PAN Councilmember she is leading the committee developing webinars for artists and arts administrators. San Jose’s Public Art Program has been recognized numerous times through AFTA’s Year in Review program.
Mary Rubin is a Senior Project Manager for the for the City of San José Office of Cultural Affairs. Her background is in architecture, real estate development and construction project management. Since 1992 she has held a position with the San Jose Public Art Program managing the design, fabrication and installation of unique public art projects. She recently completed the program management of the San José International Airports collection of 14 artworks. Since 2007 she worked as a management consultant on the FUNDRED/Paydirt project directed by artist Mel Chin. Mary has presented lectures and facilitated workshops on public art both locally and nationally. Mary holds a degree in architecture from UC Berkeley
Lynn Rogers is a Sr. Project Manager in the City of San Jose Public Art Program where she oversees civic engagement for the program, manages public art projects, and launched the monthly San Jose Public Art e-news which, now in its 3rd year. As Special Projects Manager for the OCA since 1995 she managed development of 2021, The Regional Cultural Plan and its recent update Cultural Connection: the City of San Jose’s Cultural Vision Plan and has managed OCA’s Arts Grants Programs and special OCA initiatives. From 1988 to 1995 she was Executive Director of the Alameda County Arts Commission where she leveraged the creation of that public art policy and program. She has extensive experience in working with the public and with widely diverse communities.
Amy Trachtenberg is a painter and theatrical set designer. Her first public art commission was to create atrium fabric sculptures at Children’s Hospital in Oakland. She subsequently collaborated with architects to design the rotunda area, columns and frieze at Hillview Branch Library in San Jose as well as a book describing the architectural design and community involvement process. She is currently developing designs for site integrated art at a new BART (rail) station in Milpitas.
Brian Laczko is an architect and the Chair of the Alameda County Arts Commission’s Public Art Advisory Committee. While working as personal design assistant to renowned landscape architect Lawrence Halprin, he oversaw all design details of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial in Washington, DC. He specializes in helping emerging public artists integrate their work into construction projects.
Sam Rodriquez is a young artist who started his career with “artist-initiated” aerosol art, both sanctioned and unsanctioned, and creating custom bikes. He is an art school graduate with a master’s degree from California College of Art and has worked as a successful graphic designer in pop-culture/clothing and has his own custom bike business. He and his business partners Matt Rodriguez (no relation) collaborated with Mel Chin on a ‘low-rider’ bike/library table at MLK Jr. Library in San Jose. He is currently developing a sculpture screen project for Seven Trees Branch Library in San Jose and a series of benches and wall mosaics for Metro in Los Angeles.
About the Americans for the Arts Webinars Americans for the Arts is pleased to be able to provide high quality online professional development at no cost to our professional members. Presented by field experts, webinars are online seminars that enable interaction with the presenter and the content. www.artsusa.org
We know you and many more Californians are as concerned about the state of the arts as we are. That’s why we’re making sure you have the tools you need to let the candidates for governor know you support the arts and arts education.
The Arts in the California Governor’s Race team has created two action alerts so its fast and easy to tell Jerry Brown and Meg Whitman you support the arts and you want them to support the arts too. It will only take you two minutes or less.
If you are a Jerry Brown supporter, please go to http://capwiz.com/artsusa/ca/issues/alert/?alertid=16645501 to send Jerry an important email about the arts in California!
If you are a Meg Whitman supporter, please go to http://capwiz.com/artsusa/ca/issues/alert/?alertid=16677521 to send Meg and important email about the arts in California!
Once you send your email to a candidate, take these fast and easy steps to spread the word to your friends and family and ensure you stay abreast of the latest news:
1. Become a fan on Facebook! Log in and click the “like” button at the top of the page. Then, click “Suggest to Friends” on the left side of the page to spread the word to all of your Facebook friends.
2. Follow the campaign on Twitter! Go to Twitter.com, then click here, and click “follow” to follow us.
3. Visit the campaign website (CAarts.org) and sign our Endorser’s page to show your support.
All at CAA and on the ACGR Steering Committee thank you for participating in this important effort to strengthen support for the arts and arts education in California!
–Brad Erickson, CAA President
–Dalouge Smith, CAA Vice President
PS – Donate! Make this campaign a success by contributing now. California Arts Advocates is a 501(c)4 organization so contributions are not tax deductible, but they are greatly needed!
California Arts Advocates is Working for the Arts and Working for You!
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California Arts Advocates (CAA), is the statewide arts advocacy organization providing advocacy services for California’s arts community. CAA provides professional advocacy for all arts stakeholders in California, from the smallest troupe to the largest institution, from the solo artist to the largest organization… [read more]
Make your voice heard at the state Capitol and Washington DC.
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An artist’s statement is a brief expression of your philosophy-the intention of your work or your process. It gives collectors, interested patrons, as well as reviewers who may write about you, a better understanding of your work.
In a workshop-like format you can share your statement and get feedback or work on a new one.
7 p.m.-9 p.m. at Bridge ArtSpace
$15 or free for Bridge artists.
Register by calling 233 3348
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It’s like a concert tour, but with sketchbooks.
Thousands of sketchbooks will be exhibited at galleries and museums as they make their way on tour across the country.
After the tour, all sketchbooks will enter into the permanent collection of The Brooklyn Art Library, where they will be barcoded and available for the public to view.
Anyone – from anywhere in the world – can be a part of the project.
Oct. 31st, 2010
Postmark book by:
January 15th, 2011
Tour starts:
March, 2011
All books will be included in an exhibition that tours the following cities:
Brooklyn, NY Austin, TX San Francisco, CA Portland, ME Atlanta, GA Chicago, IL
Project Features
Keep track of your book
Be notified when it’s viewed
Your book will go on tour
Your own custom library card
Plus tons more!
Art House Co-op creates international art projects that tie thousands of artists together – and anyone can participate. For more information, please visit our website www.arthousecoop.com
Read over the following 32 human traits and check or mark the ones you believe are you at work or school, if you are not working full-time. You may choose as many or as few as you want. Some definitions are provided for words that are often mis-understood or may be unfamiliar to you.
Once you have completed reading and marking your choices, total up how many you chose and write that number down. Then continue reading.
* sensitive
* not motivated by money
* sense of destiny
* adaptable
* tolerant of ambiguity
* observant
* perceive world differently
* see possibilities
* question asker
* can synthesize correctly often intuitively
* able to fantasize
* flexible
* fluent
* imaginative
* intuitive
* original
* ingenious
* energetic
* sense of humor
* self-actualizing
* self-disciplined
* self-knowledgeable
* specific interests
* divergent thinker
* curious
* open-ended
* independent
* severely critical
* non-conforming
* confident
* risk taker
* persistent
Look specifically at which ones you marked and then at the ones you didn’t mark. Often we don’t mark certain ones or choose to exercise certain ones because of the potential negative results they can produce for us with other people.
1. sensitive
Being sensitive helps creativeness in many ways:
1. it helps with awareness of problems, known & unknown.
2. it helps people sense things easier.
3. it helps to cause people to care and commit themselves to challenges or causes.
2. not motivated by money
As important as money is in most societies or economies it is not a driving force for a creative person. Generally they have an intuitive sense of the amount of money they basically need and once that need is fulfilled then money stops affecting or driving them.
3. sense of destiny
Intuitively creative people know that they have a purpose, a destiny or they realize that they can choose or create one to drive them to reach greater heights of skill, ability, or talent.
4. adaptable
Without the ability to adapt people could not become creative. But rather than adapt to something they choose to adapt things to suit them, their needs or the goals they are striving towards.
5. tolerant of ambiguity
Two or more things or ideas being right at the same time challenges the thinking of a creative person. They love to be ambiguous to challenge other people and ideas. Ambiguity helps them see things from many different perspectives all at the same time.
6. observant
Creative people constantly are using their senses: consciously, sub-consciously and unconsciously, even non-consciously.
7. perceive world differently
Thoreau talked about people drumming to a different drum beat. Creative people thrive on multiple ways of perceiving: seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, tasting, sensing things. These different perspectives open up their minds to unlimited possibilities.
8. see possibilities
Average people, people who don’t believe they are creative, people who are fearful or resistant to creativeness or creative thinking prefer to work within limits with limited possibilities. Creative people love to see many, even infinite possibilities in most situations or challenges.
9. question asker
Creative people, especially highly creatives, probably came out of their mothers wombs asking questions. It’s in their nature to question. Question yes, not actually criticize. Their questioning nature often mistakenly appears as criticism when it is simply questioning, exploring, examining, playing with things as they are or might be.
10. can synthesize correctly often intuitively
This is the ability to see the whole picture, see patterns, grasp solutions with only a few pieces, even with major pieces missing. Creative people trust their intuition, even if it isn’t right 100% of the time.
11. able to fantasize
Stop looking out the window Billy. Susie pay attention. Teachers, parents, and even friends often tell creative people this. Highly creative people love to wander through their own imaginary worlds. This is one of the major themes of the very popular cartoon strip Calvin and Hobbes. Both Calvin and Hobbes (Calvin’s alter ego?) are perpetual CRAYON BREAKERS.
12. flexible
Creative People are very flexible when they are playing with ideas. They love to look at things from multiple points of view and to produce piles of answers, maybes, almosts, when other people are content with the answer or solution.
13. fluent
It could be a door stop, a boat anchor, a weapon, a prop, a weight for holding down papers, etc., etc., etc. This is what a creative person would say about the possible uses of a brick.
14. imaginative
Creative people love to use their imagination to play, to make seem real, to experiment.
15. intuitive
The more creative a person is the more they tap their intuition skills; the abilities to see answers with minimum facts, to sense problems even when they aren’t happening.
16. original
Being original is a driving force for creative people. They thrive on it.
17. ingenious
Doing the unusual. Solving unsolvable problems. Thinking what has never been thought of before. These are all traits of a creative person that make them be ingenious at times.
18. energetic
Challenges, problems, new ideas once committed to by a creative person truly excite them and provide them with seeming unlimited amounts of energy; such as Sherlock Holmes once he grasps a sense of the mystery.
19. sense of humor
Laughter and creativity truly go together. Many experts believe that creativity can’t occur without a touch of humor believing that seriousness tends to squelch creativeness or creative thinking.
20. self-actualizing
The psychologist Abraham Maslow created this term in the 1960′s representing the ultimate motivator of people the need or desire to be all you can be, to be what you were meant to be.
21. self-disciplined
This is one trait that appears to be ambiguous in highly creative people. They can appear disorganized, chaotic at times while at the same time they are highly self-disciplined. At the same time they greatly resist the discipline of other people who are not of like creative mind.
22. self-knowledgeable
During my life I have read biographies and biographic sketches or over 4,000 people, mostly considered to be the highest of the highly creatives in their respective fields. One of the few things they had in common is that they all kept some form of journal and were constantly striving to better understand themselves.
23. specific interests
This is still another ambiguous trait of creative people. They appear on the surface to be interested in everything, while at the same time they have very specific interests that they commit their true energies and efforts to. By being willing to be exposed to seemingly unlimited interests they discover more about their particular specific interests.
24. divergent thinker
Creative people love to diverge from the norm, to look at things from multiple positions, to challenge anything that exists. Because of this they are seen at times to be off-key, deviant, atypical, irregular, or uncharacteristic.
25. curious
Like the Cheshire Cat of Alice in Wonderland, creative people are continuously curious, often child-like.
26. open-ended
In order to explore many possibilities creative people tend to stay open-ended about answers or solutions until many have been produced.
27. independent
Creative people crave and require a high degree of independence, resist dependence but often can thrive on beneficial inter-dependence.
28. severely critical
Yes creative people challenge most everything, every idea, every rule. They challenge, challenge, and challenge some more to the point that most other people see their challenging as severe criticism.
29. non-conforming
Conforming is the antithesis, the opposite of creativeness and in order to be creative, creative people must be non-conforming and go against the norm, swim upstream.
30. confident
This is another ambiguous trait in creative people. When they are at their most creative they are extremely confident. When they are in a stage of frustration when nothing seems to be working they often lack confidence. After much positive experience they begin to trust themselves and know that they will become depressed, frustrated nearly devastated but their internal sub-conscious confidence keeps them moving or at least floating until they experience or discover an aha! (a breakthrough idea or piece of information).
31. risk taker
This trait is a general mis-understanding of many non-creative people or people who fear the creativeness of creative people. Highly creative people are not really risk takers because they do not see what they are doing as a risk. They simply see it as a possible solution or path towards a solution. They have other possible solutions, often many others in their head or their notes to use if a particular idea or solution does work. As Thomas Edison once said when asked how it felt to have failed nearly 7,000 times trying to discover the best filament for an incandescent light bulb, those are not failures, they are solutions to problems I haven’t started working on yet.
32. persistent
Charles Goodyear (discover & inventor of vulcanized rubber) and Chester Carlson (inventor of electrostatic copying, the Xerox process: xerography) are two of the best examples of this trait in creative people. Both of them worked over 30 years trying to make a solution they discovered work. Creative people do not give up on things that mean a lot to them.
The more of the 32 traits you choose the more creative you are or you have the potential to be or become.
By Robert Alan Black, Ph.D.
This gallery contains 4 photos.
I just love this show! I’ve seen it three times. And it’s not too late for you to check out Stan Huncilman’s colorful sculptures and the detailed bas reliefs of Paul Graf.
Performing, visual and literary artists are in constant demand in California, and the California Arts Council’s website is designed to help streamline the search for artistic talent. Take a look at their current listing of artist calls by the categories noted below. Public Art calls may be found on the Public Art Calls page. Artist Call listings that do not have set deadlines have been set with a “January 1, 2012″ deadline for listing purposes.
http://www.cac.ca.gov/artistcall/ for details
Dollhouse
San Francisco Visual Arts
Deadline: 10-31-2010
Painting for Paws
Sacramento Visual Arts
Deadline: 09-01-2010
Call for Entries
Merced Visual Arts
Deadline: 01-01-2011
Innovations in Fiberart V
Sebastopol Visual Arts
Deadline: 10-11-2010
Painting Only
Palo Alto Visual Arts
Deadline: 09-04-2010
Steve Larsen Plaza Public Art
Davis General/mixed
Deadline: 08-31-2010
Call for Entries
Benicia Visual Arts
Deadline: 09-01-2010
35C -35 Women Artists for a Cause
Sacramento Visual Arts
Deadline: 08-21-2010
Expressive Figure Drawing: A creative workshop in multimedia figure drawing on paper
San Luis Obispo Visual Arts
Deadline: 10-28-2010
27th Annual National Juried Show
Redding Other
Deadline: 10-30-2010
Open Call: A Sensory Feast
San Francisco Visual Arts
Deadline: 08-31-2010
Art Fair San Franicsco
San Francisco Visual Arts
Deadline: 09-01-2010
Request For Proposals – Downtown Park Plaza Landmark
Tracy Visual Arts
Deadline: 08-18-2010
Call for Entries – 2010 Bay Area Annual Juried Exhibition
Pacifica Visual Arts
Deadline: 09-14-2010
Activate an Issue / Deactivate a Problem
San Jose General/mixed
Deadline: 08-23-2012
Un-Speak-Able, an exhibit of artist books
Corvallis Visual Arts
Deadline: 10-01-2010
Artist Call-Alphonse Berber Gallery
San Francisco Visual Arts
Deadline: 09-01-2010
Painting Only
Palo Alto Visual Arts
Deadline: 09-04-2010
Open call to artists to present at RoboGames
San Francisco Other
Deadline: 04-05-2011
Gendered Images: The Feminine Divine
Berkeley Visual Arts
Deadline: 11-05-2010
Mapworks: the Map as Art
Sebastopol Visual Arts
Deadline: 08-30-2011
Exhibition in Print
Santa Rosa Visual Arts
Deadline: 10-01-2010
Gallery II Screening for 2011
Sebastopol Visual Arts
Deadline: 08-20-2010
Alphonse Berber Gallery / Call to Artists
Berkeley General/mixed
Description
Deadline: 09-12-2010
Artist In Residence Program, Recology San Francisco
San Francisco General/mixed
Deadline: 08-31-2010
Visions In Clay
Stockton Visual Arts
Deadline: 01-01-2012
El Cerrito City Hall Gallery Space Exhibition Opportunity
City of El Cerrito Museum/Public Facility
Deadline: 01-30-2011
Call for all Bay Area Artists for Large-scale Public Art Display
Los Angeles Visual Arts
Deadline: 05-10-2011
Local Wonder 2 Art by Tenderloin Artists
San Francisco General/mixed
Deadline: 12-31-2010
2011 Visions from the New California Awards
statewide, several locations Visual Arts
Deadline: 05-15-2011
“Featured Artists” international art book
Visual Arts
Deadline: 10-31-2010
Art exhibition opportunities
Oakland, CA Visual Arts
Deadline: 01-01-2011
Public Art Call for Entries
San Rafael Visual Arts
Deadline: 01-01-2012
80th Annual Statewide Landscape Exhibit
Santa Cruz Visual Arts
Deadline: 12-31-2010
