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EXCITING UPCOMING EVENTS AT BLAFFER!

2010-04-19T16:17:00.003-05:00

Abracadabra Gala: April 30, 2010

BSA FIELD TRIP: May 7, 2010 in Galveston, Texas.

Blaffer Intern Presentations: May 5, 2010

FRIDA KAHLO LECTURE!

2010-04-19T16:13:00.002-05:00

Frida Kahlo: A Deeper Look

Thursday, April 22, 2010
6:30 p.m.
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Brown Auditorium Theater

Presented by art historian and lecturer Gregorio Luke,
former director of the Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach

In 1953, when Frida Kahlo had her first solo exhibition in Mexico (the only one held in her native country during her lifetime), a local critic wrote: "It is impossible to separate the life and work of this extraordinary person." Born in 1907, a childhood disease caused her right leg to wither. A gruesome bus accident when she was a teenager led to numerous operations and a life of virtually constant pain.

Gregorio Luke presents a kaleidoscopic portrait of Kahlo´s life, her work, and her marriage to the legendary Mexican muralist Diego Rivera through more than 300 images of her paintings, documentary photographs, recently published personal letters and diary entries, and rare film footage. This panoramic presentation reveals a multi-faceted Kahlo whose persona was deeply rooted in Mexican culture and popular art traditions.

MOMA PAID INTERNSHIPS!

2010-04-19T15:15:00.000-05:00

MoMA internship descriptions: http://www.moma.org/about/types#12_month

Twelve-Month Internships
Full-time, twelve-month internships with stipends are offered for recent college graduates interested in pursuing a museum career. The focused departmental training is integrated with the fall, spring, and summer lecture series and complemented with financial provisions for the interns to attend an international art event related to their field of interest. Twelve-month internships provide training in specific museum fields through close work with a professional staff member, familiarity with modern and contemporary art through seminars and discussions, and an educational program that exposes interns to the workings of the Museum as a whole and considers the role of museums in the broader cultural context. Twelve-month interns will also be given the opportunity to develop and regularly deliver public gallery talks about the Museum's collection.

Length: Twelve months beginning in mid-September
2010–11 term: September 13, 2010–September 09, 2011
Application Deadline: May 14, 2010
Applicant Notification: by August 6, 2010
Required Commitment: Full-time (Monday–Friday, 9:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m.)
Eligibility: Recent graduates of bachelor's or master's degree programs. The Museum encourages candidates from diverse backgrounds and academic disciplines to apply.
Stipend: approximately $22,000, based on available funding. Standard health benefits, two weeks paid vacation, and an additional $1,000 to cover travel expenses and registration fees for one approved professional conference, are also included.

The Museum of Modern Art is offering five Twelve-Month Internship positions. Below please find descriptions of and requirements for each position.

Digital Learning Intern, Education Department
The Education Department is looking for an intern with facility in creating and producing multimedia and in social networking. Responsibilities include adding to and organizing a content-management system, helping to coordinate blogging for the deptartment, creating and editing video content, assisting with online courses, and optimizing images and video for Web publication.

The intern will need to have the following:

1. Facility and comfort with social networking sites (i.e., Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube)
2. Facility and comfort with multimedia creation and editing, knowledge of or ability to learn applications such as iMovie and Screenflow
3. Knowledge of MS Office applications (primarily Word, Powerpoint, and Excel)
4. Experience with online learning environments (from the position of a student is fine)
5. Experience with Blogger or Wordpress (or other blogging applications)
6. Experience using iTunes and YouTube for uploading and downloading content
7. Experience capturing and optimizing video and still images
8. Knowledge of Photoshop (or at least Photoshop Elements)

Education Department Intern
Description: The intern will work across the Education Department, namely with Community and Access Programs. Major responsibilities include organizing and coordinating various Access Programs, including those for individuals who are blind, partially sighted, deaf, hard of hearing, or have developmental disabilities or Alzheimer’s disease. The intern will coordinate volunteers, sign language interpreters, and educators related to Education programs, and will help to administer programs across the department. This intern will be responsible for office tasks such as managing art supply inventory and orders, documenting programs and partnerships, taking reservations for programs, and transcribing materials for exhibitions. The intern will also have the opportunity to participate in educator training and teach in the galleries, as well as put together his or her own program, executing all of the steps of organizing a program from conception to realization.
Requirements: The ideal candidate must have an interest in accessible art museum programming, enjoy interacting with the public, and have experience working with people with disabilities or community groups. The candidate should have the ability to multitask, be extremely organized, and be able to successfully execute both administrative and program-oriented projects.

Kress Fellow, Education Department
Description: The Kress Fellow will provide support to the Adult and Academic Programs area of the Education Department. Tasks include coordinating monthly gallery talks, maintaining daily correspondence, monitoring Brown Bag Lunch Lectures, assisting in research and set-up for evening programs, and liaising with program participants, MoMA Staff, volunteers, and Audio Visual Staff. The intern will learn all of the details implicit in making a program run successfully, including marketing and ticketing. The intern will also have the opportunity to put together his or her own program, executing all of the steps of organizing a program from conception to realization.
Requirements: The ideal candidate has the ability to multi-task, is extremely organized and is able to successfully execute both administrative and research-oriented projects. The intern works collaboratively and helps to create new ways for audiences to engage with modern and contemporary art. The position requires a candidate who enjoys interacting with the public and with a range of staff and program participants and confronts last-minute, logistical, or personnel challenges with ease.

Painting and Sculpture Intern
Description: The Painting and Sculpture intern will work across this curatorial department, conducting research on a wide range of topics, from works in the Museum’s collection to upcoming exhibition subjects. The intern will assist in the planning of gallery changes and will maintain general office correspondence.
Requirements: The intern should have a demonstrated interest in curatorial practice. Attention to detail, excellent communication skills, and the ability to multitask and prioritize are essential to the position. Strong research skills are a plus.

Prints and Illustrated Books/Fluxus Collection Intern
Description: The Fluxus intern will assist in the unpacking, identification, cataloging, photographing, and research of objects in the Silverman Fluxus Collection Gift, which is one of the world’s largest repositories of material by artists associated with the Fluxus movement, which was active in the United States, Europe, and Asia during the 1960s and 1970s. Many artistic mediums are represented in the collection, including prints, books, multiples, sculpture, painting, film, photography, drawings, and sound, among others.
Requirements: An ideal candidate will have experience working in both curatorial and collections management/registrar settings. The intern will have completed scholarly research for academic and/or museum projects, and possess knowledge of proper art-handling techniques and cataloging procedures (measuring works and identifying materials). Experience using CEMS or a similar collection database is very important. The candidate should also know how to operate a digital camera and manage images in Photoshop. Experience researching artist biographies and object provenance is a plus. Experience working with Fluxus material is not essential, but a general understanding of interdisciplinary art forms from the postwar period is important.

Apply online for the 2010–11 Twelve-Month Internship Program.

More questions? Visit the Frequently Asked Questions page.

RED BLOCK BASH--SUCCESS!!!!

2010-04-02T16:39:00.002-05:00

After spending almost half of the semester preparing for the Red Block Bash, I can't believe it is over with! I will miss taping all of the flyers and using every opportunity I have in a big crowd to shamelessly promote the Bash! The event was great! Thanks to the musicians(Dylan Brooks&Chris Powell), the UH Dance Ensemble and Ms.Becky Valls, Erica Fletcher and her documentary, the UH Glass Mountain editors, Marriann Bridgood, BSA officers, Blaffer Staff, and all the support from students, the Bash was the best three hours I've ever had on campus in my undergraduate career!!! The ice-cream was great! The pizza was great! The scavenger hunt was great! If you are not currently a Blaffer intern, you are probably very jealous at the fact we get academic credit for all of this fun!

You can check out more pictures on our Facebook page.

YAAP Alumni- Marcella Arrega

2010-04-02T16:26:00.004-05:00

Marcella Arreaga is a YAAP 2007 Scholarship Winner. Born and raised in Houston, she currently attends San Franciso Art Institute where she hopes to earn her Bachelors Fine Arts with a focus in painting.

You can check out her work here:
http://marcellaarreaga.weebly.com/

University of Houston Clear Lake

2010-03-31T17:24:00.001-05:00

PATTY CHANG – THE TRANSNATIONAL and the ARTIST’S PROCESS

"Contortion” 2003 “Fountain” 1999

UHCL Presentation and Workshop APRIL 13^TH, 2010, Two sessions: 11:00 and 6:00 in the Garden Room at UHCL Bayou Building

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

New York-based performance/film/video artist Patty Chang will present her work and discuss the artist’s process in two presentations on Tuesday, April 13^th. The workshop is a rare opportunity to gain first-hand understanding of how an artist succeeds in collaborating across artist groups, studios and galleries in today’s globalized field of contemporary art. Chang’s latest video installation entitled “Die Ware Liebe” the Product Love (2009), shown at Mary Boone Gallery in New York, presents a two channel video, running 42 minutes long. The subject of the installation is based on the 1920s Hollywood star, Anna May Wong, who left the U.S. to live in Europe where she captured the fascination of the critical theorist Walter Benjamin – he subsequently met with and interviewed Wong and wrote an article in the literarische Welt in 1928. For “Die Ware Liebe,” Chang hired actors in Shanghai to perform a re-enactment of the fantasy fascination that both Anna May Wong and Benjamin evoked.

Chang undertakes the transnational subject that has long existed in visual culture and renews the concept within the frame of contemporary expression. Her 2006 video/sculptural project entitled “Shangri-La” explores James Hilton’s 1933 “Lost Horizon” by incorporating filmic images of the town in China called “Shangri-La” that was recently renamed by the province to exploit its touristic potential. The video/sculptural project was shown at theUCLA Hammer Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, and the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York. Chang underscores the rich and complex meanings that are produced when art and ideas cross cultural boundaries in history, time and international locations to become shared amongst a multiplicity of artists/actors, programs, and audiences.

This event is sponsored by the UHCL Arts Association, the Women’s Studies Department, and Student Life Cultural Arts.

Any individual who requires a special accommodation for a specific disability should contact 281-283-3432 at least one week prior to the date of the program/event.

Contact: Jane Chin Davidson, DavidsonJ@uhcl.edu,
281 283 3432

RED BLOCK BASH!!!!

2010-03-31T17:23:00.003-05:00

TOMAS SARACENO

2010-03-12T16:59:00.001-06:00

Tomas giving an artist talk at the Walter:

http://channel.walkerart.org/play/opening-day-artist-talk-tomas-saraceno

This is all in anticipation for the Tomas Saraceno exhibition on May 13, 2010!

SEGRETO STUDIOS: Invitation to Submit Art

2010-03-09T13:13:00.002-06:00

Undergrad or graduate work is being accepted.
If interested, please send photographs of work to leslie@segretofinishes.com

The Segreto Gallery Website is www.segretostudios.net

For more information on Segreto Finishes or Leslie Sinclair(owner) go to: www.segretofinishes.com

DOCUMENTING SPACES ILLUSTRATED IN FOTOFEST EXHIBIT AT UH

2010-03-05T15:34:00.002-06:00

NEW photography exhibit at the Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture examines the process of using black and white photographs to document spaces, landscape, and people.

The exhibit will be on view March 11-April 25.

For the complete story, visit http://www.uh.edu/uhtoday

New Art/Arte Nuevo: San Antonio 2010

2010-03-05T15:21:00.000-06:00

President Ricardo Romo & Dr. Harriett Romo & the Department of Art and Art History, The University of San Antonio, announce New Art/Arte Nuevo: San Antonio 2010. This biennial juried exhibition will feature the work of artists living and working- or with roots/raices – in South and West Texas. A print catalogue will accompany the exhibition.

Jurors
Malaquias Montoya, Artist, Professor Emeritus, Department of Chicana/o Studies and Art, University of California, Davis

Valerie Cassel Oliver, Curator, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston

Postmark deadline for submissions
March 31, 2010

Open to all media.

Requirements
Completed entry form, CD or DVD, artist statement regarding the work submitted for consideration, and a personal statement describing artist’s connection to South and West Texas.

Entry Fee: $20 for 1-3 entries or $30 for 4-6 entries

For more information, go to : http://art.utsa.edu/press-releases/artenuevo2010/

YAAP Exhibition

2010-03-05T14:38:00.008-06:00

FIRST MENTORSHIP FIELDTRIP

2010-03-02T15:11:00.006-06:00

Taff McWhorter, artist and gallery owner of McWhorter Gallery, will take us through his business and speak to us about "The Business of Art-How to Develop your Talent into a Profession."

This would cover topics such as specific styles and markets, pricing your work, the importance of multiple revenue streams in the art world, approaching galleries for representation, and marketing your art as well as yourself!

He will show work by a dozen different local artists that he represents and explain how and where they fit into the Houston art scene. As a preview about Taft before our field trip, this Friday, March 5th, you can look at his website: http://mcwhortergallery.com/

Details:

McWhorter Gallery: 2219 Canal Street, Houston, TX 77003

Friday, March 5th, 2010

11:30-1:00

This will be just as great of a success as the visit to the CLUI Trailer we took with Rachel!

As you can see from the pictures, we had a blast learning about all the different companies housed here in Houston!

Save the Date!

2010-02-26T16:18:00.001-06:00

RED BLOCK BASH!
APRIL 1st!
Fine Arts Courtyard
4-7

Event: Moores School of Music

2010-02-18T13:20:00.004-06:00

12th Annual Moores School of Music Jazz Festival
Texas Music Festival Jazz Project
February 19-20, 2010

Guest artist, Brian Lynch, trumpet
Few musicians embody this 21st century credo as profoundly as trumpeter, composer and teacher, Brian Lynch. A respected insider within both the hardcore bebop and Latin communities, Lynch is comfortable negotiating the complexities of clave with Afro-Caribbean pioneer Eddie Palmieri as he is swinging through advanced harmonoy with bebop maestro Phil Woods.

Location: Moores Opera House
Price: $15 general/ $10 students / $10 seniors
Sponsor: Moores School of Music

For more infromation, contact the Moores School of Music Box Office at 713-743-3388 or visit the Web site at http://music.uh.edu/

From the desk of
Stephanie Truett,
Blaffer Gallery Intern

Check it Out

2010-02-18T11:39:00.003-06:00

Call for Submission

The Center for Creative Work is soliciting submissions for it Ekphrastic Art Exhibit, which will run in conjunction with the City Dionysia, slated for March 26, 2010. Ekphrastic art is art created in one medium that responds to art made in another medium. We are looking for poems, films, songs, paintings, sculptures - works of art inspired by the Great Books. Surprise us! We want pieces taht help us see these old texts in new ways, that reveal someting original in them that we had not noticed before.

Submit your work by Monday, March 8, 2010 to either the office of Professor Maya or Professor Maya or Professor Meyer. Attach your name, phone number, and e-mail to your art. Pieces chosen for inclusion will be announced Monday, March 22, 2010.

From the desk of
Stephanie Truett,
Blaffer Gallery Intern

Check It Out

2010-02-10T09:41:00.003-06:00

Award winning writer Quincy Troupe talks about writing for film, radio, newspapers, magazines, creative non-fiction, memoir, and poetry.

Tuesday February 23, 2010
Lamar Fleming Bldg. Rm 160
University of Houston
2:30 - 4:00 pm

From the desk of
Stephanie Truett,
Blaffer Gallery Intern

Upcoming Event

2010-02-04T12:44:00.004-06:00

Student Art Exhibit Opening
Thursday, February 11, 2010
5:30 pm
hosted by the University of Houston Libraries

Come out and meet the artists and the following jury members judging the event:

Jillian Conrad, Professor, School of Art, University of Houston
Clare Elliott, Assistant Curator, Menil Collection
Vanessa Perez McCalla, Executive Director, Art League of Houston
Katherine Veneman, Curator or Education, Blaffer Gallery
Dena Woodall, Assistant Curator, Prints and Drawings, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

This year Katherine Veneman will be giving a talk at the opening of the event.

From the desk of
Stephanie Truett,
Blaffer Gallery Intern

CHECK IT OUT

2010-02-04T12:03:00.002-06:00

2010 Summer Program at
Chautauqua School of Art
Open to art students and recent graduates

To apply online or for more information visit:
www.art.ciweb.org

You may also contact:
Sarah Malinoski, Coordinator of Student Services
Chautuauqua Summer Schools of Fine and Performing Arts
716-357-6233

From the desk of
Stephanie Truett,
Blaffer Gallery Intern

Lawndale Art Center - Call for vidoes

2010-02-03T09:05:00.002-06:00

The Lawndale Art Center is looking for a broad scope of films, stop-motions, moving images, and animations. David Waddell is curating a video screening that will be viewed in May at the Lawndale Art Center. He is looking at a broad scope and will choose from the most interesting. Please send disks and files to:

Lawndale Art Center
c/0 David Waddell
4912 Main Street
Houston, Texas 77002

Include your name, title, length of video, and year.

From the desk of,
Stephanie Truett,
Blaffer Gallery Intern

Opportunity to Study Abroad in Viterbo, Italy this Summer

2010-02-03T08:50:00.002-06:00

Deadline to apply is February 15th, 2010

http://www.montserrat.edu/academics/study-abroad /italy.php

From the desk of,
Stephanie Truett,
Blaffer Gallery Intern

CHECK IT OUT

2010-01-28T11:50:00.004-06:00

Public Relations & Events Assistant
Employment opportunity with Buffalo Bayou Partnership
For more information including salary and job description go to
http://www.buffalobayou.org/
REFERENCE: Job ID 3678

From the desk of
Stephanie Truett,
Blaffer Gallery Intern

2010-01-28T11:04:00.004-06:00

Univeristy of Houston Libraries Student Art Exhibition
The UH libraries seeks student artists for its annual juried art exhibit
SUBMISSIONS DUE FEBRUARY 2, 2010

UH students are encouraged to submit their artwork by February 2nd for consideration in the third annual Student Art Exhibit, sponsored by the Univerisity of Houston Libraries. The competitive art exhibit will be juried by represntatives from the Blaffer Gallery, Houston Art League, Lawndale Art Center, Menil Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and the UH School Art faculty. The exhibit will be on display from February 11 - April 15, 2010. Work should be submitted in room 220 at the M.D. Anderson Library or at the William R. Jenkins Architecture and Art Library, located in the College of Architecture.

Previous juries have selected work from students in all classes and a variety of majors including architecture, art, engineering, English, and technology. The Student Art Exhibit has given many students their first opportunity to display their artwork. At the exhibit opening, the artists are encouraged to discuss their work with jury members, the faculty, and their fellow students.

Students enrolled in Spring 2010 may submit two-dimensional work in any medium that is ready to hang or on foam core. Pieces may not exceed 5x5 feet, 5 pounds or extend more than four inches from the wall. Sculpture must be accompained by pedestals, unless they are designed to rest on the floor. The sculpture and pedestals must weigh no more than 20 pounds total, and must fit comfortably inside an M.D. Anderson Library elevator. Questions about requirements may be sent to cwessinger@uh.edu.

REMINDER OF UPCOMING ARTIST'S TALK WITH JON PYLYPCHUK
Thursday, February 4
6:30 - 8:30 p.m.
Artist's Talk with Jon Pylypchuk
WHERE: Blaffer Gallery
On February 4, exhibiting artist Jon Pylypchuk returns to Houston from Los Angeles. The event is during the last week of the exhibition, which closes February 6. There will be a book signing during the event, and advance copies of the catalogue will be available for purchase. Admission to the talk is FREE.

SAVE THE DATE: April 1, 2010 4-7 p.m.
Blaffer Student Association (BSA)
will be hosting the annual RED BLOCK BASH

From the desk of
Stephanie Truett,
Blaffer Gallery Intern

Minette and Jerome Robinson Scholarship Applications Due

2009-12-09T11:23:00.003-06:00

The Minette and Jerome Robinson Scholarship

One scholarship will be awarded in January of each year. Applicants must apply by January 6th, 2010. Applicants must have served as a Blaffer docent for at least one semester and plan to continue work as a Blaffer docent for at least one semester.

Applications must include: a cover letter describing how the docent experience is meaningful to the student and stating their intention of continuing their work for the next semester; a transcript of past coursework at UH; a copy of the student’s academic schedule for the next semester. Please send completed applications to: Katherine Veneman, Curator of Education, Blaffer Gallery, the Art Museum of the University of Houston, 120 Fine Arts Building, Houston, TX 77204-4018. Tel: 713.743.9526; kveneman@uh.edu.

Guidelines:

Scholarship applicant must serve as a docent at Blaffer Gallery.
Scholarship applicant must be a certified full-time undergraduate or graduate certificate or degree-seeking students in good standing at the University of Houston.
Scholarship recipient must maintain a GPA of 3.0 or better.
Scholarship recipient may accept other scholarships and grants in conjunction with the Minette and Jerome Robinson Scholarship.
Scholarship funds can be used to cover expenses for tuition, book, fees, and/or supplies for the coming academic semester. Any expenses incurred by the recipient in excess of the amount deposited must be borne by the student.

Juried Essay Competition

2009-10-13T13:59:00.003-05:00

This fall Blaffer Gallery, the Art Museum of the University of Houston, is increasing its academic reach by hosting The Art and Politics of Josephine Meckseper, a juried essay competition held in conjunction with our fall exhibition Josephine Meckseper.

Through photographs, installations, and video, the German-born artist critically examines an array of issues related to America's political, economic, cultural, and military systems and explores the culture of protest, leftist ideology, and political art. With an exhibition inclusive of so many themes, it is a great opportunity for students to apply the concepts and materials learned in class to the artistic discussion.

What is involved:

*The format has been loosely structured to allow the most flexibility in focus.

*Students are encouraged to incorporate assignments from classes into their entries.

*Essays should engage at least one of the following themes, explaining its relation to Meckseper’s work.

Topical Themes:

Art as Political Statement; Protest and Visual Culture; Leftist/Liberal Ideology; Media as Propaganda; Feminism; War and Economics; New media and multimedia artworks; The legacy of conceptual and/or pop art

*Sample prompts can be viewed under the documents heading on this site.

What are the Benefits:

*The top entrant will collect a $150 cash award

*All entrants will meet the artist at a special museum event

*The first and second place essayists will receive mention in press materials and essays posted in

their entirety on Blafferspeak, the Blaffer Gallery student blog.

How to enter:

* Any undergraduate enrolled in the University of Houston system is eligible to submit an essay

regardless of major or classification.

*Submit a paper copy to the Blaffer Gallery, Attn: Katy Lopez. Must be received on or before 5pm

on Thursday, October 22nd. Essays submitted after this deadline will not be reviewed.

*Final decisions will be made by Wednesday, November 2nd.

Formatting:

*Length: 10-12 pages, standard double spaced formatting, paginated

*Citations: Any academic style (Chicago Manual, AP, MLA, etc.) is acceptable as long as

implementation is consistent.

*Cover Page: Please print your name on the cover page only. It should not appear on any

subsequent pages.