miércoles, 26 de enero de 2011

Byrdcliffe Artist in Residency Program, Woodstock, NY. Deadline: March 1, 2011

The Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, located in Woodstock, New York, offers month-long Artist in Residence (AIR) opportunities for visual artists, composers, playwrights/screenwriters, and writers of fiction, nonfiction and poetry. Longer residencies are available for ceramic artists.

The application deadline is March 1, 2011.

AIR sessions generally occur during the months of June, July, August, and September.

Goal is to provide solitude in a community and uninterrupted time in which to concentrate on creative work alongside fellow artists.

Opened in 1903, the Byrdcliffe Art Colony was placed on the National Register of Historic Sites in 1979 for its architectural and historical significance. It is located in the Catskill Mountains, 1.5 miles from the center of Woodstock, New York.

For more information or to apply, please go to http://www.woodstockguild.org/artist_in_residence/index.html.

miércoles, 5 de enero de 2011

Itziar Barrio at ISCP - Tues. Jan. 18, 2011 - 6:30 p.m.

Itziar Barrio will present a selection of recent work as well as work-in-progress. The repetition and extension of icons into Barrio's murals, animations, and drawings exemplifies the relationship that society has with everyday objects as recurring icons, whether those be practical objects embedded in our lives or abstract advertisement media creations. In this way, the artist brings up questions that are not overtly social or political, but that deal with the tendency of the human mind to create iconic and associative characters out of its surroundings and the effects of those associations on society.

Itziar Barrio was born in 1976 in Bilbao, Spain and currently lives and works in New York City. She combines a wide range of media spanning the gamut of drawing, photography, video, animation and installation. Barrio has been featured in solo shows internationally has been the recipient of grants and awards from major foundations and institutions including First Prize Ertibil, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, Spanish Ministry of Culture, Consulate General of Spain in New York, Basque Government Ministry of Culture and Bizkaia Executive Council, Gure Artea Biennial Prize and the Iberoamerican Videocreation Prize, MUSAC (Leon). Itziar Barrio's Salon is supported by the Consulate General of Spain in New York and the Spain Foreign Cultural Cooperation Agency.


Link to artist's website: http://www.itziarbarrio.com

Image: "The perils of obedience (-1), 2010, on-going, multimedia project