JUSTICE, ONLINE Juried Competition and Exhibition

JUSTICE, ONLINE Juried Competition and Exhibition

by | Jul 8, 2020 | Homepage

Call to Artists: JUSTICE, Online Juried Competition and Exhibition
Deadline: August 3
On view: August 27 – September 12, 2020
Artists Awards & Reception: August 27, 7:30 pm

Download printable form here

The Art Guild invites all artists, high school and older, to submit artworks for consideration for “JUSTICE” a Juried Competition and Exhibition. Artwork can say what sometimes words cannot. During these difficult times, we have been inspired to look within ourselves, find ways to “speak out,” and express solidarity and compassion. Show us those emotions and what has empowered and inspired you to address social justice.

 

CRITERIA All styles from abstract to realism are welcome. All works must be original and have been created in the last five years. References used in the creation of the submitted work must be the artist’s own, or copyright-released for use in this work. The curating committee’s decision is final.

 

DEADLINE: AUGUST 3

 

MEDIUMS Including but not limited to photography, acrylic, oil, watercolor, digital art, pastel, mixed media, collage, encaustic, etching/prints, or sculpture. (NO MASTER COPIES OR FAN ART)

 

JUROR OF AWARDS: Seung Lee is a Korean-American contemporary artist. He is currently Director of Fine Arts and Graduate Studies and a professor at Long Island University, Post Campus. He received a BFA in Drawing from Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland and an MFA in Painting from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York.
His paintings, drawings, and large-scale installations have been exhibited extensively in the US as well as internationally:  China, Italy, France, Japan, and Korea. He has received numerous reviews in the New York Times, Newsday, Kyoto Times, Korea Daily News, Art Word Magazine, Art in Culture Magazine, Art Price Magazine, and Art and People Magazine. He has been featured in “Artist Profiles of Korea and Japan” several times.
Seung Lee has received awards from the New York State Governor, Nassau County Supervisor, Suffolk County Supervisor,  New Jersey City Mayor; and in 2011, Seung was awarded as “Best International Korean Artist” from the Korean Art Association. Seung Lee was invited twice to give a lecture at the National Art Educators Association Conference in NYC: “NY Artist Series: Seung Lee”.  Seung has been a judge in Decentralization Grants for New York Artists, International Documentary Film Festival, Islip Art Museum’s Cottage House Project, and International Nature Art Biennial, Mill Pond House, and many more.
For more information on Seung Lee, visit www.leeseung.com.

 

ENTRIES Digital submissions of up to three (3) images via email to artshow@TheArtGuild.org or uploaded to our website, should be between 1MB and 3MB each. To resize or compress your images, go to PICRESIZE.com

Please be aware that the digital images you send should look as good as possible. These will be the images that will be displayed in our online gallery. Try to photograph your image in natural light, be sure that the image is straight and that there is no glare on glass or varnished surface.
For tips on photographing your art, please click here for a tutorial by TAG member Steve Silberstein.

Works previously exhibited at The Art Guild Gallery will not be considered.

Fill out the form below, upload images and pay below. If you have problems with the uploader, please email your images to artshow@TheArtGuild.org  – with ALL contact information, image titles and mediums. We will invoice you for payment. Submission will not be included in curating without payment. Download the form here.

Label your images as follows: artist’s lastname_firstname_entrynumber_title.jpg (ex: smith_john_1_beachsunset.jpg). Do not use the # or other symbols in the file name. You MUST change the actual name of the image file. Images CANNOT be named “image.jpg” or “fullrender.jpg” or similar – our database overwrites these images. If you email the images, you must include your name, contact information and the title, medium, value, and size in your email.  

 

ENTRY FEE(S)  Registration is required and non-refundable. 

  • Members: $20 (1-2 pieces) or $30 (an additional piece).
  • Non-members: $30 (1-2 pieces) or $40 (an additional piece)
  • Student members: $10 (1-2 pieces) or $20 (an additional piece)
  • No more than 3 works per artist

 

FINALISTS The Selection Committee will review all entries and notify each artist as to the acceptance of the submitted work. The Art Guild has the right, in its sole discretion, to choose which eligible entries will be accepted to be exhibited. All decisions are final. Artists whose work has been selected will be notified after August 11, either by email or here on the website.

AWARDS 1st Place $300 • 2nd Place $200 • 3rd Place $100.

LIABILITY & INSURANCE The Liability Waiver on the entry form must be signed by the artist submitting images for consideration. It is the responsibility of the participating artist to insure or self-insure any work submitted for inclusion in this exhibit.

AWARDS

1st Place $300 • 2nd Place $200 • 3rd Place $100

CALENDAR & IMPORTANT DATES

CALENDAR

DEADLINE: August 3 at midnight EST – Application, images and payment must be received.
ACCEPTANCE/REJECTION NOTIFICATION: After August 11

ONLINE EXHIBIT
• August 27 – September 12, 2020

ONLINE, VIRTUAL  Artist’s Reception & Awards Ceremony
• Thursday, August 27, 7:30 pm

QUESTIONS & TROUBLESHOOTING

QUESTIONS Call 516-304-5797 or email artshow@TheArtGuild.org with “JOY OF COLOR” in the subject line. 

If you have problems with the uploader, please email your images to artshow@TheArtGuild.org  – with ALL contact information, image titles and mediums. We will invoice you for payment. Submission will not be included in curating without payment. Download the form here.

Emailed images must include your name, contact information and the title, medium, value, and size in your email.

To resize or compress your images, go to PICRESIZE.com

Please be aware that the digital images you send should look as good as they possibly can. These will be the images that will be displayed in our online gallery. Try to photograph your image in natural light, that the image is straight and that there is no glare on glass or varnished surface.

SELLING YOUR ARTWORK

Artwork may be sold directly by the artist with a suggested donation of 20% of the selling price from the artist to The Art Guild. Note, however, that sales may not be made at the exhibition. All work must remain on view for the duration of the exhibit.

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JUSTICE, ONLINE Juried Competition and Exhibition

JUSTICE, ONLINE Juried Competition and Exhibition August 27 – September 12, 2020

by | Jun 21, 2020 | Homepage

Call to Artists: JUSTICE, Online Juried Competition and Exhibition
Thank you for your submissions
On view: August 27 – September 12, 2020
Artists Awards & Reception: August 27, 7:30 pm

 

The Art Guild invites all artists, high school and older, to submit artworks for consideration for “JUSTICE” a Juried Competition and Exhibition. Artwork can say what sometimes words cannot. During these difficult times, we have been inspired to look within ourselves, find ways to “speak out,” and express solidarity and compassion. Show us those emotions and what has empowered and inspired you to address social justice.

 

CRITERIA All styles from abstract to realism are welcome. All works must be original and have been created in the last five years. References used in the creation of the submitted work must be the artist’s own, or copyright-released for use in this work. The curating committee’s decision is final.

 

MEDIUMS Including but not limited to photography, acrylic, oil, watercolor, digital art, pastel, mixed media, collage, encaustic, etching/prints, or sculpture. (NO MASTER COPIES OR FAN ART)

 

JUROR OF AWARDS: Seung Lee is a Korean-American contemporary artist. He is currently Director of Fine Arts and Graduate Studies and a professor at Long Island University, Post Campus. He received a BFA in Drawing from Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland and an MFA in Painting from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York.
His paintings, drawings, and large-scale installations have been exhibited extensively in the US as well as internationally:  China, Italy, France, Japan, and Korea. He has received numerous reviews in the New York Times, Newsday, Kyoto Times, Korea Daily News, Art Word Magazine, Art in Culture Magazine, Art Price Magazine, and Art and People Magazine. He has been featured in “Artist Profiles of Korea and Japan” several times.
Seung Lee has received awards from the New York State Governor, Nassau County Supervisor, Suffolk County Supervisor,  New Jersey City Mayor; and in 2011, Seung was awarded as “Best International Korean Artist” from the Korean Art Association. Seung Lee was invited twice to give a lecture at the National Art Educators Association Conference in NYC: “NY Artist Series: Seung Lee”.  Seung has been a judge in Decentralization Grants for New York Artists, International Documentary Film Festival, Islip Art Museum’s Cottage House Project, and International Nature Art Biennial, Mill Pond House, and many more.
For more information on Seung Lee, visit www.leeseung.com. 

 

ENTRIES Digital submissions of up to three (3) images via email to artshow@TheArtGuild.org or uploaded to our website, should be between 1MB and 3MB each. To resize or compress your images, go to PICRESIZE.com

Please be aware that the digital images you send should look as good as possible. These will be the images that will be displayed in our online gallery. Try to photograph your image in natural light, be sure that the image is straight and that there is no glare on glass or varnished surface.
For tips on photographing your art, please click here for a tutorial by TAG member Steve Silberstein.

Works previously exhibited at The Art Guild Gallery will not be considered.

Fill out the form below, upload images and pay below. If you have problems with the uploader, please email your images to artshow@TheArtGuild.org  – with ALL contact information, image titles and mediums. We will invoice you for payment. Submission will not be included in curating without payment.

Label your images as follows: artist’s lastname_firstname_entrynumber_title.jpg (ex: smith_john_1_beachsunset.jpg). Do not use the # or other symbols in the file name. You MUST change the actual name of the image file. Images CANNOT be named “image.jpg” or “fullrender.jpg” or similar – our database overwrites these images. If you email the images, you must include your name, contact information and the title, medium, value, and size in your email.  

 

ENTRY FEE(S) Registration is required and non-refundable.

  • Members: $20 (1-2 pieces) or $30 (an additional piece).
  • Non-members: $30 (1-2 pieces) or $40 (an additional piece)
  • Student members: $10 (1-2 pieces) or $20 (an additional piece)
  • No more than 3 works per artist

 

FINALISTS The Selection Committee will review all entries and notify each artist as to the acceptance of the submitted work. The Art Guild has the right, in its sole discretion, to choose which eligible entries will be accepted to be exhibited. All decisions are final. Artists whose work has been selected will be notified after August 11, either by email or here on the website.

AWARDS 1st Place $300 • 2nd Place $200 • 3rd Place $100.

LIABILITY & INSURANCE The Liability Waiver on the entry form must be signed by the artist submitting images for consideration. It is the responsibility of the participating artist to insure or self-insure any work submitted for inclusion in this exhibit.

AWARDS

1st Place $300 • 2nd Place $200 • 3rd Place $100

CALENDAR & IMPORTANT DATES

CALENDAR

DEADLINE: August 3 at midnight EST – Application, images and payment must be received.
ACCEPTANCE/REJECTION NOTIFICATION: After August 11

ONLINE EXHIBIT
• August 27 – September 12, 2020

ONLINE, VIRTUAL  Artist’s Reception & Awards Ceremony
• Thursday, August 27, 7:30 pm

QUESTIONS & TROUBLESHOOTING

QUESTIONS Call 516-304-5797 or email artshow@TheArtGuild.org with “JOY OF COLOR” in the subject line. 

If you have problems with the uploader, please email your images to artshow@TheArtGuild.org  – with ALL contact information, image titles and mediums. We will invoice you for payment. Submission will not be included in curating without payment. 

Emailed images must include your name, contact information and the title, medium, value, and size in your email.

To resize or compress your images, go to PICRESIZE.com

Please be aware that the digital images you send should look as good as they possibly can. These will be the images that will be displayed in our online gallery. Try to photograph your image in natural light, that the image is straight and that there is no glare on glass or varnished surface.

SELLING YOUR ARTWORK

Artwork may be sold directly by the artist with a suggested donation of 20% of the selling price from the artist to The Art Guild. Note, however, that sales may not be made at the exhibition. All work must remain on view for the duration of the exhibit.

Congratulations to the artists listed below!
Your name and the piece(s) accepted are listed.

Allison Belolan, From This Land…A Little History
Lauren Bourguet, One Nation and Send Her Back
Owen Brown, Saint Roch Cures the Plague with Beasts (COVID Tintoretto) 
Kathleen Celestin-Parks, Courage 7053 and Courage Kneels
Susanne Corbelletta, Indivisible with Liberty and Justice for All
Michele Garfield, Untitled
Jimmy Gockel, Change Gonna Come
Heather Heckel, Protest!
Margarita Henriksson, Roman Justice
Susan Herbst, Blackbird Fly
Hsiao-Chu Hsia, False Freedom
Wenchelle Jean*, Dynamic Beauty
Annette Kasle, Liberty at What Price?
Daniel Kasle, Fade
Karen Kirshner, ©Asylum Seekers
Myungja Anna Koh, The Way under Justice
Joan Laufer, Gay Pride
Helen Lesnick, Breonna
Mark Mancher, Working for Justice
E. Craig Marcin, ESSENTIAL
Christopher Martin, Undoing Shame: A Public Display

Maundy Mitchell, Protest Portraits – Trysten and Protest Portraits – Francois
Harold Naideau, Political Woman
Loretta Oberheim, Breonna Taylor
Ann Parry, 17 Minutes, Erica Smegielski, and Interfaith Memorial Service for Haiti
Sophie Raimondo, The Color Blind Revolution and Unity is the Antidote
Jessica Rapaccuiolo, Their Future Matters
Alice Riordan, Pride
Randi Benum Roernes, Best Friends
Kaoru Shibuta, Air
Barbara Silbert, Pillars of Justice
Susan Silkowitz, Say Their Names Valley Stream NY
Barbara Spivak, Supreme Court Justice, School Desegregation and Interracial Marriage and Remembering the Taos Massacre
Joan Stevens, Abstract Justice and Rightfulness
Caitlin Stewart, Hearth Failure
Janet Susin, Black Lives Matter and Only Place to Rest
Manuel Villalobos, Anchor Baby and Anchor Baby in the Third Dimension
Emma Weston*, No More Stolen Sisters and Love Wins?
Angeli Zankel, Blue

ONLINE From Urban Sketch to Finished Painting Workshop with Stacy Kamin, October 1-3

ONLINE From Urban Sketch to Finished Painting Workshop with Stacy Kamin, October 1-3

by | Jun 10, 2020 | Past Classes and Workshops

ONLINE From Urban Sketch to Finished Painting Workshop, with Stacy Kamin, New Date October 1-3, 2020

12pm – 3pm EST
$325 Members /$360 Non Members

In this unique workshop, Stacy will introduce students into the world of sketching on the streets. Her travels have taken her to the streets of the United States and Europe for years armed only with a sketchbook, drawing pen and travel watercolor kit to gather material as inspiration for studio paintings. Now she will give you all her secrets to traveling light and yet taking your art skills on the road. 

Students will learn how important creating sketches and studying the pictures are. It is ideal to have that personal connection with the subject or place that you are working from. In a perfect situation, I will do sketches on location plus take pictures  creating the connection with your subject .

Day 1: Learn how to plan the composition shapes & values, study the details and color. 

Stacy will guide the students through the process of creating sketches, value studies, color studies. Composition studies. With demos.

Day 2:

Students will create studies on their own and then Stacy will critique (students may watch or continue with their studies). Using photos and sketches from her trav

I will do a demo, using pictures and sketches, and creating studies to work from.

Day 3: 

A continuation of the previous day beginning with critique while students begin to paint.

With Stacy’s warm and generous nature, everyone—regardless of experience—will feel comfortable tackling this exciting subject matter.  

*There will be demonstrations and daily individual critiques; all levels are welcome

 

Materials List
Block of watercolor paper or mixed media paper
Sketch pad
Small watercolor set.  
Stacy uses French Ultramarine Blue, Sepia Brown, Burnt Umber, Yellow Ochre and Transparent Brown or Burnt Sienna.  ( Windsor and Newton if possible).
For color studies, you may use colored pencils or pastels if you prefer.
A variety of watercolor brushes.  Stacy uses Raphael Kolinsky brushes, but any synthetic watercolor brushes will do.
 
Micron or Staedler black pens in sizes 0.2, 0.3 and 0.5.  Have several in case of breakage.
A variety of pencils.  HB, 2B, 3B
Oil paints:
Titanium White
Cadmium Yellow
Cadmium Yellow Deep
Yellow Ochre
Alizarin Crimson
Ultramarine Blue
Raw Umber
Burnt Umber
Transparent Red Oxide
Ivory Black
Walnut or linseed oil to use as medium
A few brushes for oil painting
One or Two 5×7 canvases suitable for oil painting

Having grown up in the cosmopolitan city of Washington, D.C., Stacy Kamin has lived a life any aspiring artist would envy. Providence brought Stacy into the world with a mother who nurtured her interest in drawing and painting every step of the way. Noted artist and teacher, Jacqueline Kamin, indulged her child’s art supply caprices and enrolled her in children’s classes at the National Gallery at a very young age. Art was alive in this bright artistic spirit, and as Stacy herself says, “Creating images from pencils and paint was like magic to me. I knew early on that I had to be an artist.”

Stacy studied illustration and traditional animation at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, earning a BA in 2000. After graduation, she interned with a small animation company long enough to realize that illustration was not her calling, although a fascination with capturing movement was. This she would explore through line and paint as a fine artist.

She joined her family in Los Angeles and there found a well-respected Chinese artist, Shuqiao Zhou, to mentor her privately for six years. Zhou’s teachers came from the great Russian lineage of Ilya Repin and Valentin Serov, and through this expressive tradition, imparted a love of paint that is still a hallmark of Stacy’s work.

Drawn to the dramatic effects of Rembrandt, Stacy sought out the instruction of two well-known masters of this knowledge—David A Leffel and Sherrie McGraw. She credits their influence for the startling light that she is able to achieve in her own work. “They introduced me to Abstract Realism, a way of painting so rich that I can’t imagine my education ever ending—I will be a student of this great tradition my entire life.”

This humility coupled with a selfless generosity led to a desire to teach. She presently teaches workshopsfor Bright Light Fine Art nationwide. Recently she taught a figure and still life painting workshop with David A Leffel and Sherrie McGraw at Scottsdale Artist School; in 2019 she conducted a portrait painting class in Noyer’s France; and locally she teaches private workshops in Seal Beach.

In her own words Stacy describes this life-long obsession this way: “I believe art is supposed to evoke emotions and feelings in human beings. When I see a great painting, it touches my soul. Even if I can’t describe what I feel in words, a work of artaffects me profoundly. The reason I never ceasestudying is because the magic of capturing life on a flat surface continues to intrigue me. I want my own work to provoke thoughts and emotions for viewers, so that they too can experience the beauty that captivates me still.”

For more info on Stacy and her work, please visit her website.

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Stacy Kamin Workshop Oct 2020




Sketch your Day with Stephanie Navon-Jacobson

Sketch your Day with Stephanie Navon-Jacobson

by | Apr 6, 2020 | TAG at home

Sketch Your Day with Stephanie Navon-Jacobson

 

Use one of these drawing prompts to record something from your day:

Where did I go?

What did I see?

What did I wear?

What did I eat/drink?

What did I use/handle/touch?

What did I buy?

What’s new?

What’s old?

What did I throw out?

What’s the same as usual (a routing or repetitive event??

What’s different than usual (a unique event)?

What’s a random thing that happened?

One this day, what will be a memory?

_______________________

About Stephanie Navon Jacobson:

Stephanie Navon Jacobson, Art Guild, Art Guild teacher, Art Guild instructor  Stephanie Navon-Jacobson As an artist, I am always observing the world around me.Whether floral, landscape, animal, or figure, abstract or realistic, my images always go back to nature. I am first and foremost a printmaker, although I work in other mediums, too. I am a printmaker who paints, rather than a painter who prints.

I was originally attracted to printmaking in college. I loved the studio community aspect as well as the various techniques. I like to experiment with various techniques. The possibilities seem endless. I also like the element of surprise each time you pull a print.

It is so satisfying to work with people who are new to printmaking or to teach experienced artists a new technique and watch their enthusiasm as they ‘get bit by the printmaking bug.’ Printmaking is such a versatile medium. It can stand alone or be incorporated with other mediums such as oil or watercolor. I encourage my students to add printmaking to their artistic arsenal and incorporate it with their other artistic endeavors.


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Blind Contour with Marc Isaacs

Blind Contour with Marc Isaacs

by | Apr 4, 2020 | TAG at home

Blind Contour Drawing

with Marc Isaacs

 

Blind contour drawing is the best friend to an artist and it often comes before contour drawing, but not necessarily. It should be repeated daily even by the experienced hand as it is great practice.

 If you have been introduced to contour drawing previously then you have half an understanding, now for the other half…

You may not look at the paper on which you draw and you may draw over and over on the same paper with overlapping being perfectly ok. 

The goal is an exercise, not a finished image. The pencil is your barbell. The only reason to keep the practice papers is to observe progress. The jump can be surprising.

Here we go:

  1. We need an objector model, a pencil and paper and a large paper plate. Poke a hole in the paper plate center and slide the pencil through until it reaches almost to the top of the pencil, near the eraser area. Now the pencil has a hat. 
  2. Look at one side of the object to start, we can see the whole object later. Place the tip of the pencil on the paper. Be sure you cannot see the surface where the mark-making takes place.
  3.  Imagine your eye and the point of the pencil to be in the same spot. Trace the edge of the model as if by an imaginary laser pointer without lifting the pencil. 

It may help if you verbally describe each bit as you go. Saying things like I move the tip downward to a step and I am moving my pencil over it away from the main body, down a little, and back in towards the body, continuing downward … the more descriptive the better as it will slow you down to training speed.

Eventually, you will go silent altogether. The other key point is to remember that although you are some distance away from the object you will guide the pencil as if actually touching it. A fun challenge is to skip the paper plate and honor yourself by not looking at the paper. Toss away the eraser as you won’t need it at all.

 With practice, the eye-hand coordination will grow beyond expectation.

_______________________

About Marc Isaacs:

Marc Isaacs, Art Guild   Marc Isaacs is an award-winning Long Island artist and teacher, with a degree in Art Education and a Masters in Fine Arts. His work is in collections in the US, Taiwan and Japan and periodically in the Metropolitan Museum in New York City as well as Huntington’s Heckscher Museum.  Whether teaching drawing, clay or paint in two dimensions or three, he has a unique teaching philosophy which he calls “solving art.” Students are taught to create links between the dimensions and develop art skills which they can carry across education. He teaches students to work with conventional materials as well as tools and found objects in order to enhance their tactile and environmental awareness. He currently teaches for the Art Guild, YMCA, Friends Academy, and the North Shore school district.

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