Thesis Installation Help

There should be installation staff available at the Soap Factory:
Sat & Sun 12-4
Mon-Thur 9-6ish

Good luck with all the finishing touches!

Mid-Program Review Work

Levi Murphy

Rejena Smiley

Galen McDonald

Mark O'Brien

Graham Judd*

Stuart Brown

Jessica Henderson

Shannon Brady

Song Thao

Robert Algeo*

Casey Opstad

(*Merit Scholarship Winners)

Business Skills for Artists

The Minnesota State Arts Board and Minnesota's regional arts councils, in
partnership with Springboard for the Arts and Creative Capital, are
underwriting a pilot artist development project to offer professional
development workshops and education opportunities statewide for individual
artists of all disciplines and all stages in their careers. Thanks to
support from the arts and cultural heritage fund, the workshops will be free
of their regular cost to participants, but space is limited.  Apply today!

All ten sessions of Springboard's Work of Art: Business Skills for Artists
workshops are being presented in all eleven arts council regions in
Minnesota, plus Creative Capital will present one-day intensives on
strategic planning, public relations, funding your work, and the Internet.

For more information, a list of dates and locations, and instructions on how
to apply, visit Springboard for the Arts at
http://www.springboardforthearts.org/Workshops/ADP.asp

Raw Data: MCAD Students Print Exhibition

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS- Raw Data: MCAD Students Print Exhibition   

Exhibition runs: October 13-October 31, 2010 

Organized by Natasha Pestich, Assistant Professor in Print Paper Book Area, MCAD  

and Diana Eicher, Print Shop Studio Coordinator in Print Paper Book Area, MCAD  

Jurors: Kerry Morgan, Director of the Gallery and Exhibition Programs at MCAD, Natasha Pestich, 

Assistant Professor, Diana Eicher, Print Shop Studio Coordinator 

The Print Paper Book Area in the Department of Fine Arts is pleased to announce a CALL FOR 

SUBMISSIONS of print-based works (prints, books, objects, installations, new media that fits criteria) to 

be considered for the exhibition entitled Raw Data opening in October 2010 in MCAD Gallery 215 

(hallway gallery outside Emeritus conference room). This exhibition will be in conjunction with the Mid- 

America Printmaking Conference, New World/ Old World.  

Description of exhibition theme: 

Raw Data refers to compiled information that has yet to be processed or analyzed. Using this idea as a 

starting point, we encourage artwork that takes an inventive approach to the materials, metaphors and/or 

processes of printmaking. In keeping with the overall conference theme, New World/Old World, we are 

interested in how older techniques and concepts related to printmaking are reinvented and redefined today. 

We are also interested in how new technologies influence the practice and reception of print.  

Criteria for selection: 

1. Prints made by conventional or digital processes are eligible; 3-D works, installation, performance 

or video is acceptable providing it relates to printmaking. 

2. Submissions must fit the theme Raw Data. 

3. Finished work OR proposals are welcome. Proposals must include 3 examples of past work, a 

clear plan with dimensions of proposed work, sketches that address where the work will be in the 

gallery.  

4. Must be currently enrolled at MCAD this semester, students graduating this May are eligible. 

Submission Guidelines: 

• Materials must be received by Monday, May 3, 5:00 p.m. 

• Provide images of finished work (with accompanying checklist with title, date, medium, and 

dimensions) and/or proposals in digital format on a CD (or DVDs) labeled with the submitter's 

name, email, and phone number. Discs can be left in MCAD Gallery mailbox (Director Kerry 

Morgan’s mailbox). 

• Image Requirements:  jpg images, sample video must be less than 2 min. and 20 MB. You may 

submit 3 works in total (each work can have up to 2 detail shots if necessary) 

Selection Process: 

Selections will be announced by the end of the day on Friday, May 7 via email. Artists selected will be 

responsible for the presentation and delivery of their work. Where and when to drop off work in fall of 

2010 will be announced. Please forward all questions to: Natasha at natasha_pestich@mcad.edu. 

DEADLINE: MAY 3RD, 2010, at 5 p.m.  

Mid-Program Presentation

Your presentation at the beginning of your review should be planned out ahead of time. You want to be able to speak clearly, focused, and set yourself up for a good review. A good way to start is to give a little background on yourself: where you are from, went to undergrad, anything else interesting or relevant. Then go into the work and your ideas. Keep it short, especially if you are at a later time slot...they don't want to listen to you ramble on.

If you have problems talking about your work you can bring note cards or even read (not recommended but it's better than getting up there and saying nothing).

Don't worry if you forget things or give a really short presentation, anything you missed will probably get addressed later.

Another tip, try to have your committee seated so they are only looking at your work if that's possible.

I don't know that I need to put any more advice on here, it sounds like you guys are getting a lot of preparation in your crit class. Good luck!

Van Derlip Award 2010

This year one Van Derlip Award, in the amount of $2,500, will be given to a MFA graduate. The recipient will have exhibited outstanding creative ability. Among the criteria considered will be: originality of ideas, imaginative problem-solving and skillful execution. Juries will be made up of 
experts in their respective fields who will evaluate all applications to determine the winners. It is our 
hope that the recipient of this award will use the scholarship for travel and study that will benefit her or his career as a professional artists or designer.

December 2009 and May 2010 graduates are invited to apply for the Van Derlip Award. Hand in your application by 12:00 noon on Monday, May 3^rd to: Kristin Anhorn

Announcement of winners will be at the Commencement Ceremony on May 16, 2009.

APPLICATION GUIDELINES | VAN DERLIP AWARD 2010

MFA:            DOCUMENTATION:           

-    20 images in a PowerPoint presentation and/or digital files 8”x10”, 
300dpi.

-    Your name should be on all images and disc.

List: Include a slide/image list to identify your work.

            Film/Video, Animation, & WMM

-    Up to two works

-    Label DVDs and case with name of your of work and your own 
name.

STATEMENT:            

A short statement about the work represented in the your application 
(300 words or less).

Please, only include the required images. Review your disc before submitting to make sure it can be 
opened and viewed properly. Make sure your name is on all of your work.           

If two or three students apply as a collaborative team, a minimum of two works is required. 
Individual entries for those students will not be accepted.

Hanging Work

Gallery height: the center of your image/piece should be 57" from the floor

Labels: the top of the label should be 52" from the floor, and 6-8" from the right side of your work. Labels should all be the same length. It looks nicer and is easier to stick on the backboard if you print your labels on thicker paper or even card-stock.

If you have never made labels like this before give yourself some extra time for mistakes, it's the little things that can eat up time.

Manifest Gallery MASTER PIECES

4th Annual

MASTER  PIECES

An International Competitive Juried Exhibit of Works by New Masters

A call for current graduate students

or MFA/MA graduates since July 2009

Postmark Deadline for Entry:

July 2, 2010

Some say there is a glut of artists with MFA degrees in the world - that they are a dime a dozen. Unless academia is conferring this terminal fine art degree on anyone willing to pay the often staggering price for it, this devaluation of the degreed Master is indicative, we feel, of a systemic problem in society. The role of the master artist as cultural observer, intellectual mystic, and social healer is trivialized and misunderstood. Some suggest that an academic degree has no power to establish one's mastery of an art form - that only hard work and trial by fire in the 'real world' can do that. But these critics are, one might guess, those who either did not try, or could not survive the grueling critiques and endless all-nighters in the framework of the academic graduate process. Certainly, to say one is a Master is not to devalue other means of attaining excellence or status. But to have studied in the context of a university or college program, with rigorous requirements, and gained the terminal degree of Master surely warrants some merit. With this in mind this 4th Annual Master Pieces will seek to present the best works by the best new Masters in 2010.

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Eligibility: Master Pieces is open to current MFA/MA students or MFA/MA graduates since July 2009. If in doubt of eligibility contact Manifest to inquire. All entries must represent original works of art or design.
Media: Open to all traditional and non-traditional genre and media, including but not limited to: drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking, installation, video, etc.

More info: http://www.manifestgallery.org/masterpieces/