Call for Submissions: 2016 Salt City Dozen Exchange Portfolio

The Salt City Dozen is an international juried print portfolio organized by the Syracuse University Print Media & Graphic Arts Program. The title of the portfolio refers to Syracuse’s early history of salt mining. The Salt City Dozen folio seeks to document the wide range of innovative techniques and unique approaches used by students across the U.S. and Abroad. From the traditional to the experimental, The Salt City Dozen is dedicated to celebrating print as a dynamic medium for visual expression.

Twelve artist will be selected for this portfolio based on JPEGS of their current body of work. Each artist is then responsible for producing an image in an edition of fourteen (14) that best reflects their juried submissions. The paper size for the edition is 15x22” and the prints may investigate any subject or theme. The portfolio cases are designed, hand-constructed, and collated in the Syracuse University Printmaking studios by the university’s graduate printmaking students. In addition to the distribution of a complete portfolio to each selected artist, one portfolio will be entered into the SU Art Gallery’s Print Collection, and one into the Lake Effect Editions Program Archive. Syracuse University Printmaking will exhibit the Salt City Dozen folio in the Sarah A. Coyne Gallery on the SU campus. Other venues are actively sought, including the locations of the selected artist.

Details:
Open to undergraduate and graduate students from around the globe.
$20 entry fee
Deadline for Entries: Dec. 6th
Finished editions due: Feb. 21st

For the full prospectus, please visit:
http://www.saltcitydozen.com/​

Student Highlights: Lithography

Lithography
Instructor Andrew DeCaen

Fall 2015

Jacob Vasquez, Two-Color stone lithograph

Mani Negarestan, two-color stone lithograph

Oak Street Hall OPEN STUDIO NIGHT

GRADUATE OPEN STUDIO NIGHT at University of North Texas, Oak Street Hall, Thursday October 29th, 2015. The graduate students at Oak Street Hall, 1120 West Oak Street, Denton, invite the community into their studio spaces. The event will be held from 5pm – 8pm. Graduate Students from the College of Visual Arts occupy the spaces and for this one night will have open doors and work on display for all to enjoy. The event is free and open to the public.

The facility houses spaces for graduate students in the departments of Drawing/Painting, Ceramics, Photography and Printmaking. Students from departments such as Metals, Fibers and Sculpture will also participate by showing work in spaces throughout the building. Some artists will have work for sale. The Graduate Students at UNT are calling on their community to come out and see the fresh, contemporary artwork being made right here in the Denton Community.

Call for submissions: Union Student Art Gallery

Call for submissions: Union Student Art Gallery

The new UNT Union is about to be complete and the art gallery is ready to start taking submissions. Exhibitions will begin in Spring 2016.  The Gallery Submission Form can be found here: http://goo.gl/forms/dAF7nNxCfP. Applications will be considered on a rolling basis.

For more information contact  Nicole Newland, Arts Coordinator, University Union

nicole.newland@unt.edu

Call for Docents at GDAC

This fall, the Greater Denton Arts Council is seeking friendly volunteer docents to facilitate conversations and art activities in the galleries of the Patterson-Appleton Arts Center. training and information workshop on Tuesday, November 3 from 3-5 PM at the Arts Center. Docents should be available to lead day-time tours, usually occurring between 10:00 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. in November and December. We encourage those who enjoy learning about the arts and connecting with people of all ages and backgrounds to attend. No prior teaching experience is required.  To reserve your spot at the workshop, please email it to admin@dentonarts.com by October 27th for a form.

P.A.N.T.S Halloween Sale!

Monday, Oct 19, 2015 - Thursday, Oct 22, 2015, All Day
UNT Art Building, Lightwell (see map)

Come get some hand printed Halloween goods by P.A.N.T.S including stickers, shirts, totes and more! Your purchases will help us fundraise towards attending printmaking conferences around the US.

UNT Exhibition featuring Kiki Smith's prints

Kiki Smith, Leap Year III

UNT ArtSpace Dallas is hosting Kiki Smith: Seed, an exhibition that includes two series by the internationally renowned artist during her residency at the University of North Texas' Institute for the Advancement of the Arts.

The show runs Oct. 17-Nov. 14. Gallery hours are 5-8 p.m. Thursdays; 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays.

For more information, see the press release and UNT Art Galleries' website.

Student Work Highlights: Screenprint

Screenprint
Instructor:  Syd Webb
Fall 2015

Meredith White, Screeprint

Nathan Eclevea/Andrew Johnston Collaboration, Screeprint

PANTS' Mellow Mushroom Fundraiser

PANTS is having a fundraiser at Denton's Mellow Mushroom! Check out the Facebook event page for details and RSVP at this link.

What: Mellow Mushroom Pizza Fundraiser
When: Monday, October 19 from 11 am to 10 pm, with a group dinner at 8 pm
Where: Mellow Mushroom, 217 E. Hickory Street, Denton, TX 76201

Come join UNT´s Printmaking club P.A.N.T.S for delicious pizza and fun times! Help us fundraise to send our members to printmaking conferences around the U.S. You can go enjoy some pizza any time between 11 am and 10 pm or come eat as a group at around 8:00pm. Bring your friends, tell everyone you know!

When you purchase your meal, simply drop your receipt in the GroupRaise.com donation box at the restaurant, and 15% of your meal will be donated back to Printmaking Association of North Texas Students.

PANTS' Open Studios and Voertman's Reception

Come visit UNT's Print Shop during the Hickory Hall Open Studio and see our PANTS student members hard at work! You can pick up a PANTS sticker for stopping by. PANTS also be vending at the Voertman's reception the same evening. Check out their Facebook page for details:

What: Open Studios and Stillness Reception

When: Thursday, October 15 from 5 – 7 pm

Where: Open Studios at Hickory Hall 160, UNT, Denton, TX

and Reception at Voertman's, 1314 W. Hickory, Denton, TX

CVAD Studio Art In Florence Italy!

Professors Andrew DeCaen and Cynthia Mohr will be co-leading a Study Abroad program in Italy this summer. If you are interested please come to one of the following information meetings:

*Tuesday Oct 20, from 4pm to 5pm, at Art Building room 101 (the old North Gallery)

*Wednesday Oct 28, from 9 to 10am, Art Building room 240

*Friday Oct 30, from 4:30pm to 5:30pm, at Art Building room 101 (the old North Gallery)

The Program is shaped around two classes: 

Sketching/Journaling:  Continue your creative practice as a traveler and while expanding your global perspective.  Daily routine will  include morning sketching experiences using the broad environs of the city as source material and early evening meetings to discuss journal progress. School facilities will support the development of journals.

Figure Drawing (beginning to advanced).  Refine your figure drawing experience in the city that is the cradle of the Renaissance.  Daily routine will  include morning drawing on location at museums and many public spaces around the city, and early evening meetings will have figure drawing sessions at the Santa Reparata International School of Art  Studios.

Come to one of the Information Meetings to learn more!

Open Studios at Hickory Hall

CVAD Open Studios at Hickory Hall
October 15, 5-7pm

Printmaking Studios Rm 160 & 156
Printmaking MFA Studios Rm156BA
Sculpture MFA Studios Rm177
New Media Studios Rm173
Metals MFA studios Rm180

Rising Eyes of Texas is now seeking undergraduate and graduate students to submit their best work!

ENTRY DEADLINE: DECEMBER 15, 2015

Prize Juror: Anna Stothart, Brown Foundation Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art, San Antonio Museum of Art.

Last year over 30 artists from 19 Texas Colleges and Universities were exhibited, and over $1000 in cash prizes were awarded!

Visit http://www.rockportartcenter.com/entries to enter

Or http://www.risingeyesoftexas.com for past shows

Rockport Center for the Arts
Rockport, Texas
www.rockportartcenter.com

CVAD Alumni Opening Reception

Please join us Friday, October 9 from 7 –  9 pm for the opening of Counter Narratives, an exhibition at UNT on the Square. See their website for more details. 

Student work highlights: Intro to Printmaking

Intro to Printmaking
Teaching Fellow Melody Vaughan

Fall 2015

Nicolas Nigo, Linoleum Cut Relief 

Lauren Well, Linoleum Cut Relief