The Harwood Museum of Art and the University of New Mexico present New Mexorado: an upcoming exhibition showcasing artists working and living in the Albuquerque-Denver corridor. Entries are now open and will be accepted until November 1, 2010. For more information or to submit artwork, go to harwoodmuseum.org.

Please join us for an opening reception with the artist, Friday, August 6, from 5:00 – 7:00 PM in the Encore Gallery of the Taos Community Auditorium.

Robert Parker’s new exhibition in the Encore Gallery of the Taos Community Auditorium is titled “Art Into Architecture” and contains three segments that express the title of the show. The first segment is titled “Sunlipses,” which consists of eight digital prints on acrylic and “Undulations”, a series of stainless steel wall sculptures from which the “Sunlipses” were derived. “Sunlipses” are an expression of a collective consciousness and memory that we all share on occasion when we glimpse into our ‘interior universes.’ We have the possibility of savoring these seminal moments of time – times when we are transported from the ordinary to the exceptional.

The second segment is titled “Homage to Donald Judd,” and consists of 14 digital prints. Donald Judd (1928-1994) was a sculptor and art writer who was best known as a major practitioner of and spokesman for ‘Minimalism’ in the 1960s. In an old Army base in Marfa, Texas, Judd transformed a pair of immense artillery sheds into modern art cathedrals into which 100 of his mill aluminum boxes were installed.

The third segment is titled “World Peace Pavilion,” and consists of seven digital prints with acrylic overlay drawings. The idea for a World Peace Pavilion came from the Metro Youth for Global Unity in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. Over six years, the group sent letters to countries around the world and the Pavilion was created to display over 100 of the rocks and bricks collected from over 70 countries. A chunk of the Great Wall of China and some remains of the Berlin Wall are included.

Philosophically, the way in which I come to understand and achieve growth in my personal and professional life is through the observation of the natural environment and the challenge to live in harmony with the natural world. It provides an ability to develop personal values, express ourselves visually, and hopefully, allow us to tread lightly upon the landscape. Whether through painting, printmaking, sculpture or architecture, my own values are manifest in an abstract visual language. It is my way of stating spiritual and environmental concerns for our world. Robert Parker
 

Submission Deadline: November 1, 2010 When artists think about place, whether it be rural or urban, they often think of it as a point of departure. One path may lead deeper into the site itself and its character, a sense artists want to absorb and express. Another path may lead away, beginning its course from connections that originated there. Perhaps a third is more fantastical, one suggested by the unexpected, yet significant, connections that the imagination creates. All of these ways are journeys and explorations that do not feel complete until they are shared. Results Announced: November 18, 2010 On Exhibit: January 7 - February 14, 2011 at the Mpls Photo Center Opening Reception: January 7, 2011 Cost for Entry: $35 for the first 5 images submitted; $10 for each additional image Exhibition & Awards If selected your work will hang in the Mpls Photo Center galleries along with photographers from throughout the world. The exhibit will hang for 6 weeks: First place Award: $300; Second place Award: $200; Third place Award: $100. All exhibitors are included in the Mpls Photo Center’s online gallery Eligibility The exhibition is open to amateur and professional photographers worldwide. Submitting Your Entries Follow this link to submit your work: Mpls Photo Center Smart Entry System To submit click on Account Login to begin. Create an account if you don’t already have one. Simply pay online then upload your images. All entries are submitted via our on-line system. When you see the image thumbnail under Submitted Images, you image has been received for the show/contest. You will be able to change an image or add additional information regarding that image, at no cost, by logging into your account. Changes may be made up to the appropriate deadline. To prepare your images for uploading, please adhere to the following image file specifications: sRGB or RGB color space (standard) - NOT CMYK (typically used by printing industry) save files to 72 ppi resolution; any layers flattened, 8 bit JPEG files (16 bit will not upload.) sized to 1,280 pixels on the longest side, the other size width or height proportional JPG format, compression at level 7 (medium). This compression level will not affect the quality of images viewed on a monitor. Use period preceding jpg in the file name. The following characters will lead to image uploading problems: !@#$%^&*()_+ Acceptance All entrants will receive an e-mail notification. Accepted images will be posted on the Mpls Photo Center’s website along with instructions for gallery presentation. Sales If your work is for sale you will receive 60% of the sales price with 40% going to the Center. Exhibit Prints Mpls Photo Center traditionally frames images with a bright white mat and a black wooden frame. For the convenience of those not living in Minnesota we offer optional printing and framing services. Additional information will be provided upon acceptance into the exhibit. Use Rights By submission to this Call for Entry, artists who are accepted grant Mpls Photo Center the right to use their images for the purpose of marketing the exhibition, exhibition catalog, and subsequent display on the Center’s website of exhibitions. Artists grant the use of their images as stated without further contact or compensation from the Center. Artist’s recognition is provided with any use. About the Juror David Travis is the retired Curator of Photography at the Art Institute of Chicago where he directed photography exhibitions, programs, and acquisitions from 1972 until 2008. He was the founding curator of the Department of Photography in 1975, and directed and designed the major state-of-the art renovation of the galleries, study room, laboratory, and vaults in 1982.

Description In this age of digital photography, more and more photographers are seeking an alternative. This return to labor and craftsmanship resists the quick-fix of inkjet technology and values something much more satisfying and elusive. The best examples are, first and foremost, great photographs. Yet, these are photographs with a richer tale to tell - one that shows the mark of the maker, and the effects of light on a hand-coated surface. These are not just images, they are objects. If selected your work will hang in the Mpls Photo Center galleries along with photographers from throughout the world. The exhibit will hang for 6 weeks in the Mpls Photo Center's new Main Floor Gallery: First place Award: $300; Second place Award: $200; Third place Award: $100. All exhibitors are included in the Mpls Photo Center’s online gallery. A call for all things alternative with occasional forays into future processes. This call focuses less on the camera, albeit, Pinhole, Holga, traditional plate, film or digital, but exclusively on the final (non-silver) process. Poloroid Transfers, Gum Dichromate, Platinum, Palladium, Tintype, Albumen, Cyanotype, VanDyke, Bromoil Printing, Wet Plate Collodion, Carbon Printing, Bromoil Printing, Calotype Paper Negative, Salted Paper Printing, Photoshop Manipulation and Inkjet Prints. No silver process will be allowed. Submissions must be created through the accepted processes previously noted, whether created analog or digital in the wet or dry darkrooms. Creativity in process is paramount to the jurors selected images. Almost anything goes, though, Keith Taylor, the juror reserves the right to decide what alternative means. Submission Deadline: September 30, 2010 Submissions Open: August 15, 2010 Results Announced: October 5, 2010 On Exhibit: November 5, 2010 - December 6, 2010 at the Mpls Photo Center Opening Reception: November 5, 2010 Cost for Entry: $35 for the first five images submitted; $10 for each additional image Exhibition & Awards If selected your work will hang in the Mpls Photo Center galleries along with photographers from throughout the world. The exhibit will hang for 6 weeks in the Mpls Photo Center's new Main Floor Gallery: First place Award: $300; Second place Award: $200; Third place Award: $100. All exhibitors are included in the Mpls Photo Center’s online gallery Eligibility The exhibition is open to amateur and professional photographers worldwide. Submitting Your Entries Follow this link to submit your work:

Mpls Photo Center Smart Entry System

To submit click on Account Login to begin. Create an account if you don’t already have one. Simply pay online then upload your images. All entries are submitted via our on-line system. When you see the image thumbnail under Submitted Images, you image has been received for the show/contest. You will be able to change an image or add additional information regarding that image, at no cost, by logging into your account. Changes may be made up to the appropriate deadline. To prepare your images for uploading, please adhere to the following image file specifications: sRGB or RGB color space (standard) - NOT CMYK (typically used by printing industry) save files to 72 ppi resolution; any layers flattened, 8 bit JPEG files (16 bit will not upload.) sized to 1,280 pixels on the longest side, the other size width or height proportional JPG format, compression at level 7 (medium). This compression level will not affect the quality of images viewed on a monitor. Use period preceding jpg in the file name. The following characters will lead to image uploading problems: !@#$%^&*()_+ Acceptance All entrants will receive an e-mail notification. Accepted images will be posted on the Mpls Photo Center’s website along with instructions for gallery presentation. Sales If your work is for sale you will receive 60% of the sales price with 40% going to the Center. Exhibit Prints Mpls Photo Center traditionally frames images with a bright white mat and a black wooden frame. For the convenience of those not living in Minnesota we offer optional printing and framing services. Additional information will be provided upon acceptance into the exhibit. Use Rights By submission to this Call for Entry, artists who are accepted grant Mpls Photo Center the right to use their images for the purpose of marketing the exhibition, exhibition catalog, and subsequent display on the Center’s website of exhibitions. Artists grant the use of their images as stated without further contact or compensation from the Center. Artist’s recognition is provided with any use. About the Juror British-born Keith Taylor is a photographer and printmaker living in Minneapolis. His photographs have been widely exhibited across the US and the UK, he is a two-time recipient of the Artist Initiative grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, and his photographs are held in many private and corporate collections. He writes for photographic publications, and also lectures and teaches on historical processes. Completely self-taught, he now specializes in platinum-palladium, polymer photogravure and 3-color gum dichromate printing, both for his own work and for clients in the US and the UK.

OPENING RECEPTION for Mark Asmus' amusing oil paintings inspired by The Taos News Police Blotter. Each week, The Taos News publishes reports that come into Dispatch, some of which conjure up very funny visuals for Asmus' fertile and irreverent brain. Asmus embeds an enlarged version of the caption onto the surface and paints around it. For example, the painting here is titled: "Wait for me, Julia" and the caption reads: A driver was cited after "ripping down the runway" at Taos Regional Airport in an SUV Monday morning. Also featured will be Asmus' wide range of subject matter depicting day to day life in and around Taos, some serious, some lighthearted but guaranteed to portray the quirky, authentic and historic aspects of Taos. The Community Against Violence receives 25% of all proceeds. Website: www.markasmus.com

Come and meet the artists and view a sampling of the work which will be on view at the 3rd Annual county-wide Studio Tour of the Taos Artist Organization.

Mark Asmus' amusing "Police Blotter" paintings will be the feature of his one-man show Labor Day weekend. Each week, the Taos News publishes reports that come into Dispatch, some of which conjure up very funny visuals. Asmus enlarges and pastes the caption onto the surface and paints around it. Also featured will be his wide range of subject matter depicting day-to-day life in Taos, some serious, some lighthearted but guaranteed to portray the quirky, authentic and historic aspects of Taos. Asmus executes his paintings with a palette knife on birch panel, resulting in a highly textured surface imparting depth, impasto, looseness and hard edges. The Community Against Violence receives 25% of all proceeds.

3rd Annual County-wide Studio Tour will take place over two fall weekends.
Open Studios September 4, 5, 6 and September 11, 12
Come and meet the artists and enjoy the diverse studio settings Taos has to offer.

Opening Reception Friday, September 3 at Sagebrush Inn from 6:00-8:00 PM

TAO Art Week
Experiential workshops with creativity experts will be offered between the TAO Studio Tour weekends: September 6 through September 11.

For more information go to www.taosartist.org or call (575) 751-0071

Taos artist, Ginger Mongiello, will be exhibiting new paintings and photography at the Stables Art Center in Taos from September 14 through September 21, 2010. Her paintings are charged with bold gesture and color, while her recent photography reflects the dynamic movement and patterns of plants and flowers captured in water. As an added feature, the artist will be creating a temporary studio in the gallery, and will be demonstrating some of her painting techniques during the course of the show.Info:

Please join us for a talk with artist Robert Parker who's current show "Art Into Archetecture" is on display in the Encore Gallery through September 24.

"Philosophically, the way in which I come to understand and achieve growth in my personal and professional life is through the observation of the natural environment and the challenge to live in harmony with the natural world. It provides an ability to develop personal values, express ourselves visually, and hopefully, allow us to tread lightly upon the landscape. Whether through painting, printmaking, sculpture or architecture, my own values are manifest in an abstract visual language. It is my way of stating spiritual and environmental concerns for our world." -- Robert Parker

"El Prado" Pastel Painting by Mike Mahon

Quick Draw brings you art by forty artists and master craftspeople including gifted local Taos artists as well as artists from around New Mexico.

Quick Draw and Art Auction is Saturday, September 25th, 2010 from Noon on and is open and free to the public.

Visitors are invited to leisurely walk among the artists as they create; have a conversation and learn what inspires their art; absorb Taos and the Taos Center for the Arts historical grounds; enjoy live entertainment from some of our best local musical performers. Two and three-dimensional art abounds in every medium – oil paintings, watercolors, acrylics, drawings, mixed media, sculpture, jewelry, stone, glass and wood. You'll feel artistic passion all around, and to take some home with you, it's easy.
All artists' works are available to purchase – either at the silent auction or bid for the works that will be auctioned live at 4pm. What a great way to permanently continue your wonderful Taos art experience at home! All you have to do is pick up your free bidder paddle, a complimentary glass of wine and a snack, sit down and enjoy the very special energy of the Quick Draw art auction.

So spend a brilliant afternoon with fine art, colorful people, and beautiful music while supporting one of the oldest non-profit organizations in New Mexico, the Taos Center for the Arts. Make September 25th a Quick Draw day! Please join us. You'll be glad you did.

Link to these special weekend lodging packages::

Inn on the Rio 800.530.3040 (innontherio.com)
Indian Hills Inn 800.444.2346 (www.taosnet.com/indianhillsinn)
Kokopelli Rentals 800.480.7150 (www.kokoproperty.com)