Call for Art - 2010 Featured Artist Contest

Altered Esthetics 2010 Featured Artist Contest

Altered Esthetics is now accepting submissions for artists to be featured in our 2010 Exhibition Season. Artists can submit with any of the below exhibition themes using the online submission system, email, or through the mail.

Full contest guidelines can be viewed here: 2010 Featured Artist guidelines (pdf)


2010 Exhibition Season Themes

Adverti$ing
Artistic perspectives on consumerism, branding, and advertising.

Bike Art V
The fifth annual Bicycle Art exhibit will feature photography, sculpture, spoke-card art and more.

Burning Books
Artwork using the words, letters and altered pages of burned, banned, and censored books.

Cities vs. Suburbs
Peaceful pastorals or raw energetic street scenes? Artists duke it out in Suburbs vs. Cities.

Comic Art
Need we say more?

Gender
An artistic exploration on how creative manifestations, gender,
and how gender may or may not affect an artists' creative vision.

HITCHCOCK
Artwork inspired by the movies of director Alfred Hitchcock.

Just So Stories
From creation to the afterlife, evolution to the flood, artists explore the stories of how things were, have been and will be.

Level_13: Classic Video Game Art
Celebrate an epic era with the fourth installment of Altered Esthetics classic video game art exhibit. Artwork about classic video games and anything 80's/nostalgia themed is welcome.

O.C.D.
How artists have creatively responded to and dealt with the struggles associated with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.

Resident Artists VI: Creative Collaboration
This show will be open to ALL past artists of Altered Esthetics.
Works must be a collaborative project between two or more artists.

Street Art
Guerrilla art, post-graffiti, spoken word, hip-hop, muralism and more, the Street Art show will take a look at modern Street Art as it occurs in music, method and form beyond the gallery walls.

Día de los Muertos
Day of the Dead - a 1 day celebration. Entries for the Día show are free.

Coloring Outside the Lines III: Children's Art
A 1- day celebration. Entries for children are free.

EXTRA! EXTRA!!! READ ALL ABOUT IT!!!

Unique comic publication set to premiere at gallery exhibition August 7th.




The International Cartoonist Conspiracy, Big Time Attic, and Altered Esthetics gallery have collaborated to produce an oversized newspaper comics section like they would do it today if they still did it like they did it in the old days.

It is called BIG FUNNY, and it is both.

The 48-page oversized newspaper will premiere at Altered Esthetics this August featuring poster-sized comic artwork from 45 artists. Please join us as we celebrate!

In addition to having copies of BIG FUNNY for sale, the opening reception will include: Original artwork from the publication, examples of historic comics pages (some over a century old), a retrospective of unseen comic artwork by William Ede, live music from The Roe Family Singers and the little funny sideshow - a vintage cigarette machine re-purposed to vend mini-comics and comic art!

A celebration of the Newspaper Comic Strip!

Opening Reception
Friday August 7, 2009 7:00pm-11:00pm

Altered Esthetics
1224 Quincy Street NE
Minneapolis, MN 55413
612.378.8888

Website: cartoonistconspiracy.com/bigfunny

About the organizers

Altered Esthetics is a community-based art gallery and arts advocacy organization located in the Northeast Minneapolis Arts District. We believe artists represent a true voice of society and our mission is to support and expand a vibrant arts community. alteredesthetics.com.

The International Cartoonist Conspiracy is a loose international organization of professional and amateur cartoonists, united by a passion for cartooning. Any cartoonist anywhere can join simply by declaring themselves a member, and can start their own local cell if inclined. Our feats have been many; we have been responsible for numerous publications, a variety of gallery shows and other events, and have organized open comic jams every month since December 2002. CartoonistConspiracy.com

Big Time Attic is the cartooning studio of Zander Cannon and Kevin Cannon (no relation). The Cannon Brothers specialize in nonfiction graphic novels like the recently published T-Minus: The Race to the Moon. bigtimeattic.com

Join Big Funny on any of the following online communities:

Write a Classified Ad in Big Funny!

BIG FUNNY is an oversized, color comics newspaper coming out in August (read more about the project below). To raise funds for this project, we are now accepting classified advertisements in the following categories:

HELP WANTED
PERSONALS
MISSED CONNECTIONS
ESCORTS
ITEMS FOR SALE
GARAGE SALES
LOST AND FOUND
RECIPES
ADVICE
FILTHY LIMERICKS
OBITUARIES
MISC

You can place a 1-50 word ad for a mere $20... you may be able to get more words in if you're really funny, or if we don't bother to count them. Truth should not be a concern, although it is an option... humor is encouraged, although not a requirement. Note that advertisements making true or serious statements will very likely not be believed anyhow.

Why would you want to place an ad of dubious value that won't be taken seriously in a one-shot newspaper of comic strips? Perhaps you always wanted to see your name in newsprint? You have an irrational hatred of $20 bills? You thought you were ordering a pizza?

A more probable motivation would be that your ad supports a unique publication, and, unlike a regular newspaper, it will be read for many years to come. Also, these ads will actually get read, as people will be reading them for their own amusement.

Do you or your business want a larger ad in Big Funny? Please email jamie@alteredesthetics.org to discuss the possibilities.

PLEASE NOTE: We reserve the right to refuse an ad for any old arbitrary reason that may suit our whimsy. Any rejected ads will be refunded in full.

BIG FUNNY

The newspaper industry is coughing blood and gasping on its deathbed. Newspapers lost their relevance a long time ago, and with internet media blossoming they can no longer compete. Readers and advertisers have moved on.

Unfortunately, newspapers are taking their beautiful bastard child, the newspaper comic strip, with them.

Today's newspaper comics are much-maligned and deservedly so. Today's small strips, with mostly predictable, safe themes and bland characters are a pale shadow of what newspaper comics were in their wild and colorful youth.

110-or-so years from their birth, it's been a good run. Let us not mourn the death of the newspaper comics rather, let us have a wake to celebrate what they once were, and to build something new.

The International Cartoonist Conspiracy, Big Time Attic, and Altered Esthetics gallery are collaborating to produce an oversized newspaper comics section like they would do it today if they still did it like they did it in the old days.

It will be called BIG FUNNY, and it will be both.

The paper will premiere at a show at Altered Esthetics in August featuring some of the original art from the paper, along with historical comics pages from the dawn of the last century.


For more info or to place your add, go here:
cartoonistconspiracy.com/bigfunny/advertise.html

Celebrate with us on Friday April 17th!

Celebrate Ae!

Altered Esthetics celebrates five years of serving artists with a giant bash at our home in the Q'arma building in Northeast Minneapolis in conjunction with our annual spring fundraiser.

Friday April 17, 2009 - 5pm-11pm

Everybody that joins us this Friday will receive a special super-awesome commemorative ______ to take home! (Shhh, it's a surprise.)

Please join us for a celebration and fundraiser featuring
- A wood-themed art exhibition and silent auction
- A raffle with awesome prizes and goods from local businesses
- Live music
- Refreshments
- Wood themed games
- Awesome company
- And more!

Schedule of Awesomeness
5pm: Raffle, Silent Auction, Games, DJ
9pm: Silent Auction and Raffle ends, winners announced
9:30pm: Live Music Begins, Festivities continue, the people rejoice.

About the Exhibit
This wood-themed celebratory exhibit will include everything from oil painting on wood panel to beautiful wood-fired ceramic pottery. Over 30 artists come together to support Ae in this year's silent auction exhibit. Why wood-themed? Because wood is the traditional symbol for a five year anniversary.

View images from the wood-themed exhibition as well as awesome raffle items from local businesses at alteredesthetics.org/fiveyears

About the Band
"Jason Shannon plays American soul music. He has a big ol' band and they make a big ol' sound and that makes him smiley and happy. Soon enough, he will be playing all over the whole wide world..." Join Jason and his band at Ae on April 17th for one of their last shows before their first national tour! visit them online at jasonshanonmusic.com

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Altered Esthetics
1224 Quincy St. NE
Minneapolis. MN 55413
alteredesthetics.org
612.378.8888
(get directions via google maps)


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Altered Esthetics - Outreach Project

Altered Esthetics (Ae) is dedicated to serving the arts community, and we're working hard to get the word out about our organization.
We're currently conducting an electronic outreach project and you can help us by passing the following information along, posting it to your profile, or simply sending an email about Ae to the artist or arts aficionado in your life. Feel free to use the image above or text below as you share. Thank you!

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Hello Arts Advocate!

If we may, we'd like to introduce you to Altered Esthetics.

Altered Esthetics (Ae) is a community-based art gallery and arts advocacy organization located in the Northeast Minneapolis Arts District.
Our mission is to support and expand a vibrant arts community because we believe artists represent an important voice of society.

Altered Esthetics works hard to sustain a welcoming space for artists and the public.
Entirely volunteer driven, we rely heavily on the participatin of our friends in the community.

We'd like to invite YOU to get involved with our organization, participating in our services or helping us as we make them available to new areas of the community.

Do you know there are lots of ways to get involved and support the arts, many of which can be done without even spending any money?

Some simple ways you can become involved are:

* Participating in a show as an artist
* Participating as an audience member (our shows are FREE to the public!)
* Volunteering at an event
* Sponsoring an event
* Promoting a show, activity, or event through your organization
* Posting open calls in your business’ newsletter or on your message board

Another way you can help is by spreading the word!

Simply pass along this electronic message by forwarding it to a friend or posting the article to your profile.
Altered Esthetics is working hard to get the word out about our organization and we'll need the help of our friends to get the word out.
Send this email to the artist or arts aficionado in your life, and let them know about an organization that works to serve them!

Thank you for taking the time to read through this and allowing us to introduce ourselves.
We hope that you will help us continue our mission by becoming involved and telling others about who we are and what we do.

Artistically yours,

Ae.

Altered Esthetics
1224 Quincy Street NE
Minneapolis MN 55413
612.378.8888
contact-at-alteredesthetics.org (replace -at- with @)
Visit us online at www.alteredesthetics.org/hello.

You can also follow us on Twitter, read our blog, meet us on Myspace, befan us on Facebook or support the Facebook cause.

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Request for Wood-Themed Art

In April 2009 Altered Esthetics will be FIVE!

To celebrate the event and pave the way for another five years, we're having a big party and fundraiser. The silent auction will be wood-themed, and we need artwork!

Will you help?

You can participate by:
- Sending artwork created on wood
- Sending artwork created with wood
- Sending artwork about wood
- Creating art-blocks for our Art vending machine

What you get out of it:
- an in-kind donation receipt for tax purposes
- your work featured on the Ae website as part of the online gallery
- your Artist name and website listed
- the warm fuzzy feeling of helping an organization that exists to help ALL artists!
- extra warm fuzzy feelings (while supplies last, though Jamie claims to have an endless supply and is more than willing to share warm fuzzy feelings - and hugs too.)
- Artists can decide if either 50% or 100% of the final auction price goes to Ae.

If submitting your own work, please send us:
- A digital image of the work
- The title, media used and date completed as well as how you would like your name presented
- Any artist statement you want to have associated with the work
- A link to your website
- The value of the work

Artist information will be added to the site as soon as a commitment is made to participate and digital images are sent. The artwork itself will need to be received by Tuesday April 14, 2009.

Send information via email to:
contact-at-alteredesthetics.org

Send artwork to:
Altered Esthetics
1224 Quincy Street NE
Minneapolis MN 55413
http://alteredesthetics.org/fiveyears
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Creative Blood - Video and Photos

The Creative Blood show highlights the work of creative family pairs or groups.

March 5-28, 2009

Artists' Discussion - Saturday March 14, 2009 – 1:00pm-4:00pm