• Opportunities

    All Around Art

    Happy Columbus Day! This should be a holiday but I’m working… Congratulations to Jaimie Gili, the winner for the Maine Center for Creativity’s, Art All Around™ contest, which I posted back in May in Unusual Places for Art. Here is the press release alerting me to the outcome. I’m looking forward to seeing the results in 2011. I hope to fly back to Maine (see previous mention) by then.  He has derived his inspiration from 50’s, 60’s & 70’s abstract, optical art in Venezuela. Follow the links above to see the video presentation and what his art will entail to cover the 261,000 square feet of the Sprague Energy tanks…

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    Unusual Places to find Art

    Some of us may take these mundane, everyday objects for granted: window screens, cornfields, power boxes and water and storage tanks. Huh? Yep, artists can use anything as a canvas. In fact, there’s a major juried competition coming up (see below). There is an exhibition this weekend called “Rowhouse Rembrandts,” where the artists have painted window screens in the Baltimore area. Its kinda kitschy but fun. I’m curious to know what paints they use on metal and to outlast the elements, especially when they window wash those screens during spring cleaning? It’s sponsored by The American Visionary Arts Museum. This is a quirky site and kinda cool. On an aside:…