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2nd INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS' WORKSHOP 2003

Omma Center of Contemporary Art, which is located in Hania, Crete Greece is organizing an international artists' workshop from May 7 until May 21 2003

The purpose of the workshop is to bring together artists from all over the world, to promote both mutual understanding of different cultures and traditions and to facilitate artistic inspiration We want to create an environment where artists can work fruitfully and make worthwhile new acquaintances.

Hania is one of the most beautiful places in the Mediterranean, with the old Venetian Harbor, a multitude of sights: ancient ruins, medieval buildings, fantastic landscapes that combine white mountains with the blue sky and the sparkling clean sea, gorges, trees, very rare plants, etc. An environment that can inspire artists to produce! An experience that every artist should have the chance for, at least once in their life!

Up to 50 artists can participate (You are free to bring non-artists-companions, if you like).

The artists will stay together in beautiful rooms, at a 5 star hotel, overlooking the sea. They can stay in shared rooms (double or triple) or if they prefer they can have their own private room. They will have a studio to work in, which will be open day and night. Click here for more information about accommodations:

You will be offered 2 canvasses each (upon request) and 25% discount on painting material from local shops. You will create works that will be exhibited at the conclusion of the workshop at the unique "NEORIA" exhibition center (a 4,000 square-meter 16th century vaulted Venetian shipyard) in the Venetian harbor afterwards. This exhibition will run from 17 until 22 May 2003. Reception day May 17, 7:00 p.m. Omma will charge 30% commission on sales and undertakes all the costs of the show. (Click here to view the previous exhibition at the NEORIA CENTER)

The only obligation is that the participating artists will each give the organizers one artwork.

ACCOMMODATION AND MEALS

PRICES:

1. Bed and Breakfast:

Single room: (One person in a room) 85 Euro per person, per day

Total cost for 15 days: 1,275 Euros

Double room (Two persons in a room) 65 Euro per person, per day

Total cost for 15 days 975 Euros

Triple Room (three persons in a room) 55 Euro per person

Total cost for 15 days 825 Euros

We suggest that you choose Bed and Breakfast accommodation, as we have organized some one-day tours around the island and we will also be having dinners all together in charming restaurants in the old Venetian harbor and elsewhere!

Transportation to and from the airport are not included in the above prices.

These prices are a special offer by Omma Center of Contemporary Art, to support this cultural event. All the expenses of the show and the workshop are undertaken by Omma

THE PARTICIPATING ARTISTS PAY FOR ACCOMMODATION, FOOD AND TICKETS TO AND FROM HANIA

Artists interested in participating should contact us at omma@omma.gr Tel and Fax 0032 821042100

Deadline for declaration of participation March 31 2003

Artists who want to participate should send an amount of 250 Euro for each person to reserve a place, upon signing the agreement

The remainder of the payment must be made by March 31, 2003

ORGANIZER

OMMA CENTER OF CONTEMPORARY ART

http://www.omma.gr

General Manager

Despina Tunberg

Click here to see the contract

10% discount for artists who book before February 15, 2003

Captive Imagery

Captive Imagery is an on-line art gallery featuring creations by some of the best prison artists currently incarcerated in the prison systems of America. New artists are added on a daily basis and the company is actively seeking inmate artists from other countries as well.

The corporation is the first of its kind. The concept and design of captiveimagery.com was the brainchild of Ronald Eldon Lee, a 37-yer old prison artist who is currently serving ten years in an eastern Oregon correctional facility. Despite roadblocks at virtually every stage of development, from potential partners and investors backing out at the last minute to administrative interference within the prison where Lee is currently serving time, Captive Imagery has gone from inception to reality in less than a year.

Lee, the company’s president, credits the company’s success so far to the extraordinary efforts of his friend and business partner, Margaret Anne Cox, the company’s vice-president. Margaret Anne enlisted the help of her daughter, Margaret Kathleen Gross as the print production manager, and her granddaughter, Margaret Marin Gross, Lee’s fiancée, as the general manager. Together, the three ladies have made it possible for Lee and other talented prison artists to have their creations seen and marketed in a much larger venue than was previously possible.

Prison art has always had a certain stigma attached to it. Lee feels that that has to do more with the word “prison” than with the art itself. “Some people can’t get past the word 'prison' and the type of people they associate with the word long enough to see some of the awesome work created in that type of environment,” says Lee. “Some very strong emotions can be expressed through the use of art. Some of our art looks just like what you might find in a typical gallery. On the other hand, some of our artists produce creations the likes of which most people have never seen."

“It was the work of one of those artists which inspired me to start Captive Imagery, Inc.,” Lee explains “This guy on the bunk next to mine kept pulling out these 14 x 17 pictures he had drawn. He had done about thirty of them. At first I didn’t think much of them, but the closer I looked, the more intrigued I became. They just kept catching my eye. When I asked him why he didn’t send his work out to a friend or family member to sell for him, he just looked at me and said he didn’t have anybody. I told him I had an idea, so we picked seven pieces of his, which we felt represented a pretty wide range of his unique style, and I mailed them to my sister. She showed them to a few of her artsy friends in the San Francisco area, where they drew quite a bit of interest. In the meantime, I had confirmed my suspicions that he was only one of many talented artists who had no one to help them."

"I wrote my friend, Margaret Anne, who has been a huge positive influence in my life for several years now, and I asked her if she knew anything about starting an internet business. She immediately sent me several books on the subject, and I began to make a business plan."

“I then drew the logo and began designing the website itself. I found this to be an interesting challenge, mainly because I’d never been on the internet and, even after firing two website designing firms before the third one finally got it right, I still have not actually seen the site I designed. I hear it’s pretty neat. The website features an ‘e-bay style’ auction for original pieces, as well as a virtual frame shop where customers can frame and mask their purchases. Also available on the site are limited edition prints and customizable greeting cards in which buyers can enter personal messages, choosing from several colors and fonts."

"The media used by the artists varies almost as widely as the content. Captive Imagery features graphic art created by such unorthodox methods as a painting on a man’s handkerchief, done completely with the coloring from M&M candy, or a Native American portrait using coffee for paint; however, most of the art on the website is created by the use of more traditional methods such as pen and ink, charcoal, oil and acrylic paints and many others."

"There are currently nineteen categories on the site: abstract, African, animal, Asian, automobiles and planes, erotic, evil, fantasy, flash, floral, Latino, Native American, patriotic, portraits, primitive, religious, romance, scenic and tribal. Whew! "

The company is currently looking into expanding into the sales of other forms of art, such as custom jewelry, leather works and hand-crafted sculptures created by prison inmates fortunate enough to have access to hobby shops. Items from these three categories will be marketed on a 20% commission basis. The inmates earn 50% of all profits earned from sales generated by their graphic art creations.

This income allows them to pay off debts such as court fines and restitution before their release, allowing them a chance at a fresh start. Some inmates have chosen to send their income to their wives, mothers or other family members in need. Some are working towards setting up trust funds for the education of their children. Some states, such as Oregon, have enacted a ‘pay for your stay’ law which requires inmates who are able, to pay for some of the costs of their incarceration.

Lee and Cox see this as a great opportunity for their artists to get their lives back on track. Captive Imagery cultivates an existing talent, while at the same time helping to build the self-esteem of their artists and, possibly in the long run, easing their burden on the taxpayers.

Lee envisions the day when Captive Imagery will be in a position to assist inmates who are being released toward the purchase of their own business, possibly a Captive Imagery Custom Tattoo or Airbrush studio franchise. Owners of these franchises would have exclusive access to the Captive Imagery database: this would allow them to contract one-of-a-kind designs for their customers from the large pool of Captive Imagery artists. “Some of the best tattoo artists in the world are serving life sentences,” says Lee.

"There are those whose only hope for freedom lies in escape to their imaginations. They pour their dreams and nightmares onto the canvas for all the world to see. Welcome to the Art of Captive Imagery."

Please visit our gallery at www.captiveimagery.com

Kenny Schachter

Kenny Schachter ConTEMPorary
14 Charles Lane, NYC 10014
T. 212 807-6669 F. 212 645-0743
schachter@mindspring.com www.roveTV.net

GRAHAM CRACKER SUITE
Collaboration with Martha Graham Dance Company

January 14th to February 5th 2003
Opening Reception Tues January 14th 6-8pm

Founded in 1926 by dancer and choreographer Martha Graham, the Martha Graham Dance Company is the oldest and most celebrated contemporary dance company in America. Martha Graham choreographed 181 works in her lifetime. The Martha Graham Dance Company begins a two-week season at The Joyce Theater on January 22. With this new season, the first for the company in New York in four years, the Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance resumes regular seasons and touring engagements, showcasing the legacy of the great choreographer of modern dance. The two-week New York season repertory spans eight decades: from early solos and stark all-women group works to the acclaimed classics with many of Isamu Noguchi's most beautiful sets, recovered original lighting, and costumes by Martha Graham and Calvin Klein.

Continuing the long and rich tradition of artists collaborating with dance, Kenny Schachter ConTEMPorary will stage a photography and video show in the Vito Acconci designed exhibition space in collaboration with the Martha Graham Dance Company. The artists in the exhibit will each offer up a reflection of their own personal interpretation of Martha Graham and/or members of the Dance Company. Breaking with the traditional approach of artist's involvement with dance via set or costume design, the artists in this exhibit will propose a more idiosyncratic process. Work in the show will range from depictions of the dancer's feet and legs to images gleaned from the warehouse where sets, costumes and ephemera are crated away and stored between tours. Additionally, actual Graham costumes and fragments from Noguchi designed sets, reflecting the long collaboration between the artist and choreographer, will be on display.

Chi Modu, a noted rap music photographer who shot the last pictures of Tupac Shakur (which appear on his just debuted posthumous CD cover) as well as many covers for Source Magazine;

Richard Kern, who exhibits at Feature Gallery in NYC and has published two Taschen books;

Michael Lavine, a widely published rock music and celebrity photographer (Noise from the Underground: A Secret History of Alternative Music, Simon & Schuster) and artist;

Devon Dikeou, publisher of Zing Magazine and internationally exhibited artist;

Rosalie Knox, photographer for ID Magazine (UK) and other magazines and fine art photographer, who will have her first one person show at ConTEMPorary in 2003;

Frank W. Ockenfels, a world-renowned commercial photographer.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CALL 212 807-6669 schachter@mindspring.com
http://www.roveTV.net

Online Cartoon Course

Resident Nickelodeon TV cartoonist and top children's author John Byrne has launched an online cartoon course. Although aimed at young cartoonists, John has found that adult visitors to his website http://www.webtoonist.com are just as likely to have a go themselves. The online courses are a development of John's unique "cartoon crash course" which he has run at festivals, in schools and a libraries all across Britain and Ireland for the past decade.

With regular cartoon slots in The Stage, Media Week, Christian Herald and a wide range of other publications in addition to his TV work, John says the online courses are designed for two reasons. "I wanted to give beginners the support I never had when I was starting out...I also wanted to find some way of coping with the huge demand for cartoon lessons which would allow ME to get on with my own work!"
Visitors to John's website can take a free sample lesson and if they choose to sign up for the course get a personal assessment of their cartoon work. "Absloutely anyone can learn to draw cartoons, " says John "even people who think they can't draw a straight line. Perhaps that's why the course appeals to adults as much as kids".

While there is a fee for the course, John has been careful to take into account the finances of both parents and children."As a parent myself I certainly wouldn't want to inflict "pester power" on anyone else. When a child expresses interest in the course, an e-mail is sent to their parents setting out the details of the course and payment options, so the final decision remains theirs. "Like music or dance classes a little investment at this stage can give birth to a hobby and even a career that could last a lifetime." says John "Certainly, I'm delighted that parents are much more encouraging of cartoon abilities then when I was a kid.In my day the only reason a young cartoonist was signed up to an art class was to cure them! "

With the level of interest in john's cartoon course, it's seems unlikely that a cure for the cartoon bug will be found for some time to come.

For further information contact:
John Byrne
tel 0207 231 5632
e: byrnetoons@aol.com

Layers Upon Layers

ROSALUX GALLERY: Layers Upon Layers, large contemporary paintings from Shawn McNulty and Dave Whannel, opening reception 7-11 p.m. Fri. Nov. 1 Thru Dec. 1, 628 Central Av. NE., Mpls. 612-252-0124.

Rosalux is an artist collective gallery that provides a commercial exhibition space for its artists where they can exhibit their work in any way they desire. The gallery has recently fallen on some hard times that include a fire in the adjacent building and theft of the gallery computer.

Shawn McNulty and Dave Whannel are two modern painters from Rosalux. They work in acrylic, oil, and collage to produce very vibrant, colorful pieces. This show will be featuring their newest work with some pieces being over eight feet wide. The gallery hours for this show are Saturdays and Sundays from 12 to 5 p.m., and Thursdays from 4 to 8 p.m. The opening reception is Friday, November 1 from 7 to 11 p.m.

http://www.rosaluxgallery.com
http://www.shawnmcnulty.com

Contact:
Shawn McNulty
slmcnulty@twincitizen.net
612 879 9199
A private viewing of this show can be arranged, as well as images or interviews.

MARY HEILMANN HOME

OCTOBER 18 - NOVEMBER 24, 2002
RECEPTION FRIDAY OCTOBER 18, 6-8PM

Kenny Schachter conTEMPorary
14 Charles Lane NYC 10014
t. 212 807-6669 f. 645-0743
www.RoveTV.net

schachter@mindspring.com
Hours: Tues - Sat 10-6, Sun 12-5

conTEMPorary is pleased to announce an exhibition of Mary Heilmann in conjunction with American Fine Arts.

This show will launch the inauguration of the upstairs space also designed by Acconci Studio.

The abstractions of Heilmann are among the most distinct, arresting paintings being made today worldwide and not always fully recognized as such. A recently overheard comment summed it up: "Mary Heilmann is the Neil Young of Art."

States Heilmann: I have always derived tremendous inspiration for my work from architecture, so I am totally happy and honored to be able to see my work in the context of Kenny Schachter's new gallery designed by Vito Acconci.

Since the culture of "High Art" has become so huge and mainstream, it is exciting to have the chance to configure an exhibition in this alternative way.

I am including in this presentation other products of my studio practice...furniture, ceramics, fabric, as well as paintings. Hence the title: MARY HEILMANN HOME