AFA Newswire
December 16, 2010
Call for Submissions - Central House Art Consulting
Central House is an art consulting and brokerage company that is interested in further developing a larger consignment reservoir of works. Fine art, sculpture, contemporary furniture design and lighting are all of interest. A call for submissions to professional contemporary artists; please send 10 slides and C.V. to Central House Art Consulting Ltd. at centralhouse@live.com. All submissions will be reviewed.
For more information about Central House, please visit http://lesliehunterartstudio.ca/.
The City of Edmonton Book Prize Increased to $10,000
The Writers Guild of Alberta and the City of Edmonton proudly announce an award increase for the 2011 City of Edmonton Book Prize. With sponsorship from the Edmonton Arts Council and Audrey's Books the $2000 prize has now been increased to $10,000, making it one of the largest city book prizes in Canada.
The City of Edmonton Book Prize was established by the City Council in 1995 and is administered by the Writers Guild of Alberta. Entries must deal with some aspect of the city of Edmonton: history, geography, current affairs, its arts or its people, or be written by an Edmonton author. Entries may be fiction, nonfiction, poetry or drama written for adults or children, published in the preceding year. Entries are judged by an independent jury recruited by the Writers Guild of Alberta. The winner will be announced and the prize awarded at the Mayor's Celebration for the Arts in the spring of 2011.This award is sponsored by Audreys Books and The Edmonton Arts Council.
Submissions to the prize are being accepted until December 31st. For more information, please contact the Writers Guild of Alberta at (780) 422-8174 or visit www.writersguild.ab.ca.
Harcourt House - Exhibition Opening & Artist Talks
Gallery Hours: M to F 10 – 5pm, Sat. 12 – 4pm. Talks, openings and exhibitions are free to attend. Closed stat. holiday weekends
Third Floor, 10215 112 St., Edmonton AB
Artist talk with Cynthia Fuhrer: Thursday, January 6 at 6:00 pm
Artist talk With Sherri Chaba: Friday, January 14th at 1:00 pm,
Room 203 at MacEwan Centre for the Arts and Communications, 10045-156 Street, Edmonton
Life – Line
Sherri Chaba - Local Artist
Chaba's sculptural installation focus primarily on the impact of industry on northern Alberta's landscape.
Sparked by a bitumen pipeline from Fort McMurray that was driven though family land, Chaba's work responds to first hand accounts of breaches in environmental stewardship and the exploitation of land and landowner. This exhibition maintains an overarching theme that looks at the undervalued consequences of progress in the twenty-first century.
I Make My Own Friends
Cynthia Fuhrer - Local Artist
Local artist, Cynthia Fuhrer, exhibits a new body of work of people who do not exist. This exhibition grew over an 18 month period when Furher compulsively drew faces, which have since evolved into clay busts.
Fuhrer's portraits are created with no one in mind and no forethought as to what the faces will look like. These beautiful, yet peculiar, busts allow the rawness of the material to show through, yet provide something delicately "human" for viewers to identify with.
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