HOW TO ENTER THE BDA COMPETITION STEP BY STEP

Enter this FREE international student design competition!
Go to:
www.promaxbda.org/secondNav/aboutUs/StudentAllianceGroup/PromaxBDAStudentDesignAwards.aspx


Click ENTER NOW.



FILL OUT ALL THE INFO WITH YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION AND CONTACTS




ONCE YOU FILL OUT THIS FINAL INFO YOUR PASSWORD WILL BE SENT TO YOU WHERE YOU GO BACK TO THE MAIN SITE AND ENTER YOUR NAME AND PASSWORD TO ENTER THE CATEGORIES YOU WISH FOR THE COMPETITION:

BDA/Promax Student Competition IMPORTANT UPDATE

This is great news for you!
You do not have to be a member and you can enter more than one category.
Please do. It's a great chance to be recognized internationally for your work.Go to:
www.promaxbda.org
use the pulldown menu for Competitions and go to Student Competition.
Create your own profile. Enter Georgia State Unversity instead of company name.
Enter all the categories if you wish.
The competition is open NOW and closes on May 21, 2010, so what are you waiting for?

Here is the email I got today from the Competition Coordinator:

Hi Stan,
The student competition is actually a no-fee competition.
It is best if the students can create their own profiles and enter the competition in this way, they do not have to be members to participate and there will not be any fees for them to do this.
When they are entering the competition they can list their school under “company name”.
Yes, they may enter into more than one category.

Please let me know if you have further questions.
Thank you!
Sincerely,
Jessica K.
Awards Coordinator
1.310.789.1501

May Day Exhibition in NYC

May 01, 2010 — May 29, 2010
18 Wooster Street, New York

Deitch Projects is pleased to present May Day, an exhibition of new work by Shepard Fairey, as its final project. Titled not only in reference to the day of the exhibition’s opening, the multiple meanings of May Day resonate throughout the artist's new body of work. Originally a celebration of spring and the rebirth it represents, May Day is also observed in many countries as International Worker's Day or Labor Day, a day of political demonstrations and celebrations coordinated by unions and socialist groups. “Mayday” is also the distress signal used by pilots, police and firefighters in times of emergency.

With energy and urgency befitting the title May Day, Fairey captures the radical spirit of each of his subjects, using portraiture to celebrate some of the artists, musicians and political activists he most admires. Says Fairey, "These people I'm portraying were all revolutionary, in one sense or another. They started out on the margins of culture and ended up changing the mainstream. When we celebrate big steps that were made in the past, it reminds us that big steps can be made in the future."

Many of the steps Fairey refers to involve the advocacy of the working class, put forth in the songs of Joe Strummer and Woody Guthrie and the writings of Cornel West, and among the works of other heroes portrayed in May Day. International Worker's Day celebrated in nearly 100 countries throughout the world, commemorates the 1886 Haymarket Massacre in Chicago when a peaceful rally supporting workers on strike was disrupted by a bomb, and then a barrage of police gunfire. Because of negative sentiment surrounding the incident, U.S. President Grover Cleveland decided it was best to avoid celebrating the day, but it is precisely such sentiment that Fairey believes must be voiced: "It's a day to express frustration with the powers that be, but also a day for activists to pursue ideals." In May Day, he does both, with images supporting free speech and bemoaning the U.S. two party political system, pushing for renewable energy and critiquing corporate propaganda.

In Fairey's mind, the persistence of difficulties across all of these arenas—political, environmental, economic, cultural—points to that third meaning of May Day: a distress signal. "By now we thought we would be in post-Bush utopia, but we're still having to call attention to these problems,” he remarks. Like any mayday call, however, the sounding of the alarm also brings hope for help on the way. "If we stay silent, there's no hope,” Fairey muses. "But if we make noise, if we put our ideas out there, then maybe we can make a change like the people in the portraits have done."

Shepard Fairey is the man behind OBEY GIANT, the graphics that have changed the way people see art and the urban landscape. Fairey’s art reached a new level of recognition in 2008, when his “HOPE” portrait of Barack Obama became the iconic image of the presidential campaign and helped inspire an unprecedented political movement. As Shepard Fairey’s body of work reached its 20-year mark in 2009, the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston honored him with a full-scale solo retrospective, which drew a record number of visitors for the museum. Entitled Supply and Demand, the exhibition shares its name with Fairey’s career-chronicling book, now in its second edition (Gingko Press). The exhibition traveled to the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh and will move to the Center for Contemporary Art in Cincinnati, on view through August 22nd, 2010.

Also, Check out www.deitch.com




OPENING SATURDAY MARCH 7, 6 – 9 PM DEITCH PROJECTS
WWW.DEITCH.COM
Ryan McGinness Works., an exhibition of new paintings and sculptures by Ryan McGinness, opens on Saturday, March 7th, at Deitch Projects’ 18 Wooster Street gallery. Like all of McGinness’s exhibitions at Deitch Projects, this show is not just a display of new works, but an experiential installation. Gallery visitors will enter the world of Ryan McGinness.

McGinness merges several of the most important directions in contemporary painting. His work combines all-over composition, inspired by Jackson Pollock and the mechanical silkscreen process inspired by Andy Warhol. The work also fuses naturalistic and contemporary pop culture references. His imagery derives form a broad range of sources: from dreams and hallucinations to song lyrics and fragments of art history. There is a push and pull between content and form, and between literal meaning and intuitive feeling. McGinness’s paintings represent his own mental landscape. His compositions reflect the infinite, ever-flowing continuum of the universe.

The opening of Ryan McGinness Works. coincides with the release of a new book of the same title, published by Rizzoli. The hardcover 296-page book is a process-revealing catalogue of recent works which includes a behind-the-scenes look at McGinness’s last Deitch exhibition in 2005. Included are texts and interviews by David Byrne, Tom Greenwood, Peter Halley, Greg Lindquist, and Jonathan T. D. Neil.

* Stan sez: If you want to buy ART now at a good price for future investment, Ryan McGinness is the one to buy. I'm serious. It's still affordable.

The Annoucement for your BFA Exhibition

The Georgia State University
Ernest G. Welch School of Art & Design Gallery announces the
SPRING 2010 GRADUATING BFA EXHIBITION
MAY 3 - 7

The Spring 2010 Graduating BFA Exhibition features work by 42 graduating Bachelor of Fine Arts students from the Ernest G. Welch School of Art and Design at Georgia State University. Each year this celebratory exhibition represents for many of our graduates their first public exposure.

Our exhibition opens on Monday May 3, 2010 and continues through Friday May 7, 2010 with a reception on Thursday May 6, from 6 – 8pm. Student work will be on view in both galleries of the Ernest G. Welch School of Art and Design located at 10 Peachtree Center Ave. Atlanta GA 30303 in the lobby of the Arts and Humanities Building.

FEATURED ARTISTS

DRAWING, PAINTING, PRINTMAKING: Whitney Cummins, Alison Hamil, Lauren Jefferson, Maryanna Kennedy, Jessie Kiehm, Lia Kramer, Abbie Meritt, Renee Randall, Heidi VonGarf, Barbara White

GRAPHIC DESIGN: Troy Bedingfiled, Joseph, Buckel, Chrissy Culver, Jason Dooley, Saideh Joodaki, Min Sun Kim, Kari Lennox, James Linehan, Nathan Linkous, Hung-Hsuan Lo, John McDuffie, John Milam, Shauna Perry, Mike Rogers, Mario Segarra, Zachary Silverman, Michelle Villasenor, Chia Lin Wong

PHOTOGRAPHY: Mary Harding, Sylvie Obadic-Mercer, Erin Palovick, Steven Wallace

ART EDUCATION: Katie Burnett, Stephanie Mercado-Bradford, Mareta Pettigrew, Ashley Young

SCULPTURE: Emma Adair, Alexandra Addleton

CERAMICS: Merrill Holmes, Esther Kang

TEXTILES: Yatta Andrews, Marletta Henry

Senior Designers in the 2010 Juried Exhibition: One More Time For Posterity

Hung-Hsuan Lo (Sandra)


Nathan Linkous



Troy Bedingfield


Min-Sun Kim


Mario Segarra

The Graduating Class of 2010: Simply the Best

Special thanks to Buffi Aguero, Tweet Design and Tiger!Tiger! and all-around bon vivant for being guest critic for our final senior portfolio project. And here's to each of you, The Graduating Class of 2010. Simply the Best.

Bedingfield, Troy H.
Buckel, Joseph R.
Culver, Christina M.
Dooley, Jason L.
Godbey, Justin P.
Joodaki, Saeideh
Kim, Min-Sun
Lennox, Kari A.
Linehan, James P.
Linkous, Nathan G.
Lo, Hung-Hsuan (Sandra)
McDuffie, John T.
Milam, John C.
Perry, Shauna C.
Rogers, Michael L.
Segarra, Mario A.
Silverman, Zachary S.
Villasenor, Michelle L.
Wong, Chia Lin