The submission guidelines are pretty simple; all artwork must be 8×8x8 inches and must be ready to hang (no electrical cords, pedestals, shelves, sculptures, etc). Each artist can submit up to two pieces, and the submission fee is $30 apiece. Artists set the retail price and receive 85% of the money in the even of a sale (sweet!).
Submit your pieces between Friday, April 30 and Sunday, May 2 between noon and 5 pm.
The opening reception for Inside: Collect 8 will be held Friday, May 7 from 5-7 pm at the CCA’s Spector Ripps Project Space (1050 Old Pecos Trail, 982-1338). It will run through June 5.
These sorts of “anyone and everyone” shows are gaining popularity in Santa Fe, which is fitting, since this town is so full of artists—some of whom are talented and some of whom are well-known, some of whom are not as talented and some of whom are still struggling to be seen.
For example, on April 9 of this year, SITE Santa Fe hosted SITE Unseen 6, an event in which artists from all over town submitted 5×7-inch paintings. The artists signed the back of each piece, but the public wasn’t allowed to know who painted what until the piece was purchased (everything was priced at $250). And then we all know about Meow Wolf and its marvelously egalitarian attitude, perfectly personified in February by its second birthday party show, which invited anyone and everyone to submit work. All submissions were guaranteed to hang until the walls were full (and everyone got in).
So, in short, take this opportunity to get your art out there!
SFR learned about two very cool events a little too late to include in our print edition, so we thought we’d give Santa Fe a heads-up via the Web. Both events have strong ties to nature and the Earth (albeit in very different ways), so they are perfect additions to the city’s Earth Day celebrations.
Below the jump, get the info on a sculpture unveiling at the College of Santa Fe, and a lecture about a solo 1,400-mile kayaking trip at Santa Fe Community College.
From April 17-25, 2010, it’s National Parks Week—which means you only have a few more days to get out and enjoy the trillions of National Parks we have pretty much right in our backyards here in Northern New Mexico, all for FREE.
So, what’s special about National Parks Week? For one, you can get into all 392 National Parks for FREE. (Can you tell I like that word?) So whether you want to drive up to Wyoming and saunter on in to Yellowstone, or if you only want to travel about 20 minutes to check out Pecos, it all costs the same (not counting gas, of course).
Below the jump, get more info about National Parks Week, an account of just how nerdy I am, a list of New Mexico’s National Parks, and, if you’re real lucky, some pictures from my adventures.
In this week’s SFR, music writer Alex De Vore provided our readers with a simple quiz to determine whether you are a hipster, a normal human being, or some kind of weirdo that we can’t identify. Coincidentally, this week at SFR we received a copy of the Look At This Fucking Hipster book, and it does nothing but confirm everything we believed about hipsters, and verify everything we published in this week’s paper.
The LATFH website was only established in April 2009, and author Joe Mande proclaims that it was pretty much started as a joke for him and a few of his friends. But within days he was receiving images from all over the country of people in ironic sweatshirts and clunky outdated eyeglasses, riding fixed-gear bikes and drinking Pabst Blue Ribbon, growing wispy facial hair and getting chest tattoos of things like deer or guns. Thus, LATFH was born.
Now that LATFH is a book, it can inform even more people of precisely what a hipster is and what a hipster does. “How do you figure?” you might ask. “A virtual website can surely reach more people than an old-fashioned paper website.” Mayhaps it will reach more people, but this book is truly educational.
It is divided into sections titled “What is a hipster?”, “What makes a hipster a hipster?” (which has subsections like “Tight Pants,” “Dumb haircuts” and “Yasser Arafat Scarves”), “Types of Hipsters” (like Androgynous Hipsters, Musical Hipsters and Let’s Dress Up Like Indians Hipsters—there are a shocking number of the latter), “Is This A Hipster?”, “They’re Just Like Us!”, “Celebrity Hipsters,” “Hipsters Through the Ages”, “Look At This Fucking Love Connection” (a regular feature on the website where hipster photos are paired up with each other due to a common bond, like, shiny gold pants or unicorn costumes), and “Beeeeeaaaaaaans” (a chapter dedicated to a single chubby hipster, code name Beans, who has made a name for himself in LATFH, and who has become somewhat of a viral phenomenon).
A few weeks ago, Alex De Vore’s column about the meanies at El Mesón’s tango milonga caused quite the uproar in our Letters to the Editor section (as well as the Calls to Alex’s Cell Phone section). Some claimed that tango dancers are actually really nice; some claimed that Alex is right, that tango dancers are jerks; some claimed that Albuquerque’s tango community is much nicer than its Santa Fe foil; and still more claimed that everyone should ditch tango and come to swing dancing nights instead.
We find the last option most enticing. Conveniently, editorial intern Ramón A Lovato is a regular at Santa Fe Swing’s Monday night swing dancing at Odd Fellows Hall, and he hooked us up with a sweet batch of pictures from the most recent monthly swing event with live music (swing dancing lessons are every Monday, and on the first Saturday of every month the group brings in a live band for an 8 pm lesson followed by dancing until 11:30 pm; the next Saturday night concert is May 1). And guess what? No one objected to him snapping some snaps! (For sure, these people look pretty friendly & appear to be having a marvelous time.)
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health worker:
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This weekend ONLY, the Center for Contemporary Arts is accepting submissions for its 10th annual Collect: Inside 8 exhibit.
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