The Survivor
The
Official Newsletter of Survivors Art Foundation
October
2009: Breast Cancer Awareness Month
A Note from our Founder: Candy Brokaw
Every year in October free mammograms are offered.
Every year in October reminders go around to do those self exams, and to get
those mammograms. Every October women are diagnosed with Breast Cancer. Every
October women struggle through the disease and through treatments. Many emerge
from the battle not unscathed but alive. Some women do not have such
luck. Ear marking October is a start but consciousness regarding breast
cancer must be raised all year long. Please take the time to care of your
body or encourage those you love to take care of themselves. Early Detection is
the key to this disease. To remember those we have lost. To celebrate those
that have survived we must work together to make sure that we are vigilant all
year long!
I would also like to thank everyone that submitted
work to the fantastic 4th Annual Outsider Art in the Hamptons
Exhibit. The exhibit was a huge success and my only regret is that we
were unable to include all of the work that was submitted.
In this issue:
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Meet: The Fountain Gallery
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Meet: Pure Vision Arts
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Announcing The5th Annual Outsider Art in the Hamptons
Exhibit
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Announcing A New SAF Exhibit: The Body Distorted
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Useful Links
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Artistic Opportunities
Meet: The Fountain Gallery
Fountain Gallery is the premier venue in New York
City representing artists with mental illness.
The Gallery exhibits work by trained and self-taught artists and
collaborates with a wide network of artists, curators, and cultural
institutions, providing a platform for exchange and public dialogue. Find out
more at www.fountaingallerynyc.com.
Meet: Pure Vision Arts
Pure Vision Arts is a studio and exhibition space located in New York City for artists with autism
and other developmental challenges. Find out more at www.purevisionarts.org.
Announcing The5th Annual Outsider Art in
the Hamptons Exhibit
The Survivors Art Foundation is seeking submissions for the 5th Annual
Outsider Art in the Hamptons Exhibit.
Only self-taught artists will be accepted.
Please send JPG's ONLY to [email protected]
In this economic climate we want to support our members so there is no
charge for entry.
Submissions will only be accepted by email only for this exhibit. (DO
NOT send slides or discs)
Deadline: March 2010
Announcing A New SAF Exhibit: The Body Distorted
SAF is currently putting together a new groundbreaking
installation. We are accepting art from all trained and untrained
artists. The Body Distortions Exhibit will display art with a special emphasis
on drawing attention to the distorted ways people and the media see our bodies.
For example, the ways men and women distort themselves with procedures like
plastic surgery, classic distortions like Chinese foot binding, and other ways
we distort ourselves like by becoming anorexic.
Please send JPG's ONLY to [email protected]
In this economic climate we want to support our members so there is no
charge for entry.
Submissions will only be accepted by email only for this exhibit. (DO
NOT send slides or discs)
Deadline: Dec 31, 2009
Useful Links & Resources
The International Society for the Study of
Trauma and Dissociation is an international, non-profit, professional
association organized to develop and promote comprehensive, clinically
effective and empirically based resources and responses to trauma and dissociation
and to address its relevance to other theoretical constructs.
The Society for Photographic Education
This society is a non-profit membership organization that provides a
forum for the discussion of photography-related media as a means of creative
expression and cultural insight. Through its interdisciplinary programs,
services and publications, the society seeks to promote a broader understanding
of the medium in all its forms, and to foster the development of its practice, teaching,
scholarship and criticism.
National Mental Health Association
Sidran Foundation, American Art
Art Therapists Association
Fountain House
http://www.hospitalaudiences.org/
Very Special Arts
The Poetry Kit
http://www.poetrykit.org/callsforsubs.htm
Fine Arts, Painting, Sculpture, Prints,
New Media, Photography, Installation, Performancene Arts, Painting, Sculpture,
Prints, New Media, Photography, Installation, Performance
http://www.nyfa.org/opportunities.asp?type=Opportunity&opp=OppArtist&id=95&fid=1&sid=54
Arts in Transit
http://www.artsintransit.org/pages/opportunities-call2.html
For Artists in California Check Out:
http://www.cac.ca.gov/artistcall/
Artist Trust
http://www.artisttrust.org/about_us
Artistic Opportunities
The Great American Poetry Show
The Great American Poetry Show is a serial poetry anthology open
year-round to submissions of poems in any subject, in any style, and in any
number with a SASE (self-addressed stamped envelope). Submissions without a
SASE will be forwarded to other dimensions to fulfill the nutritional needs of
myriad entities. Email poems only from outside USA/Canada. Simultaneous
submissions and previously published poems are welcome. Contributors receive
one free copy. Volume 2 of the Great American Poetry Show is now accepting
submissions at:
The Great American Poetry Show
P.O. Box 69506
West Hollywood, California 90069
Published by - The Muse Media, [email protected], 323-969-4905
November 10, 2009
The Sketchbook Project: Library (Extended Deadline!) Be one of
the founding contributors to The Sketchbook Library by signing up to receive a
sketchbook, filling it up with art, and sending it back. Sketchbooks offers a
glimpse into an artist's life, which is why we want to make a publicly
accessible library of sketchbooks that people can browse, peruse, and check
out. We think that this sketchbook collection has the potential to open a new
line of communication between the artist and the viewer, since the experience
of making and viewing are both so personal. Anyone can sign up to receive a
sketchbook. Before joining our permanent collection, sketchbooks will be
exhibited at select galleries across the US. Each sketchbook will be barcoded
and cataloged, allowing visitors to choose what they want to look at via theme,
medium, geographic location, name of the artist, etc. Sketchbooks will be show
in LA, Brooklyn, Chicago, Atlanta, and St. Louis. To sign up to receive a
Sketchbook please visit: OR For more info on Art House, please visit: http://www.arthousecoop.com
November 13, 2009
SIXTY SQUARE INCHES - 17th Biennial North
American Small Print Exhibition. Open to artists over the age of 18 residing in
the United States, Canada and Mexico. Entries must be original fine art prints
in any media except straight photography. Image size may not exceed 60 square
inches (height x width). Dates of exhibition are March 8 through April 25,
2010. Juror will be Jenny Schmid of bikini press international and the
University of Minnesota. Selections will be made from digital images. A non-refundable
entry fee of $25 entitles the artist to submit up to three (3) images of
original works completed in the last 3 years (2007-2009). Entries must be made
on the official entry form available from: Craig Martin, Purdue University
Galleries, Yue-Kong Pao Hall of Visual and Performing Arts, 552 West Wood St,
West Lafayette IN 47907-2002 OR 765-494-3061 OR http://www.purdue.edu/galleries
OR [email protected]
November 30, 2009
EMERGING ARTISTS 2010 Eighteenth annual
competition for gallery exhibition and awards. This exhibition is devoted to
the discovery, introduction and promotion of emerging artists. It will be held
in March 2010 at the Limner Gallery and is open to all artists working in any
media. There will be a $1000 cash award and $2400 in publication awards. For
prospectus e-mail: [email protected] OR
print from the website at: http://www.slowart.com/prospectus/ea2010.htm
OR send SASE to" SlowArt Productions, 123 Warren St, Hudson NY 12534
Nov 06, 2009
CALL FOR METALWORKING & JEWELRY Back to Basics
calls to artists to use metalworking and jewelry techniques to both glorify
craftsmanship and provide relevant content in their work. As contemporary
artists, we are obligated to nod to the traditions of our past while leaving a
definable mark for future generations to decipher. Please join us in
celebrating the many themes and working practices of metalworking artists from
across the world. At least $1,500 will be awarded at the juror's discretion. A
publication will accompany the exhibit. Entry fee. Contact: Christian H.
Cutler, Director of Galleries, Stephen F Austin State University OR
936-468-1131 OR [email protected]