Art school Issues

Courtesy of Lisa:

Art schools: a group crit: a range of issues confront today's booming art schools and university art departments: What skills should young artists acquire? Should they be shielded from the art market or connected to it? Who needs a studio PhD degree? Here, 13 educators, artists and scholars offer their divergent views.......

Sex, Lies, and Fiction

Courtesy of Lisa:

An article from the Chronicle of Higher Education, entitled Sex, Lies, and Fiction: How truthful should writers be, and at what cost? By Chantal Corcoran

A good friend came to my home with her husband one evening. She's a writer like me, but a private one, more inclined to poetry by way of personal therapy than fiction for consumption. After dinner, while our husbands stepped outside to smoke cigars, she and I went down to the basement to dig through old trunks. While we crouched in my dusty crawl space flipping through photo albums and buzzing from wine, Lisa pulled a piece of paper from the pocket of her jeans...
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Can/should art be taught?

Courtesy of Nick:

Check out this post from Alec Soth's archived blog:

I recently dipped my toes into the art education industry. After several waves of exhilaration and despair, I’m happy to find myself back on the relative terra firma of this blog. But I’m struggling to bring any coherence to my impressions. With only two weeks spent at the San Francisco Art Institute, I’m not qualified to offer much on the topic of arts education. But something is nagging at me. Something seems wrong...

http://alecsothblog.wordpress.com/2007/09/04/canshould-art-be-taught/

Photography Now call for entries

Here's a good one!

http://www.cpw.org/CurrentOpportunities/PhotoNow/pages/PhotoNow.html

PHOTOGRAPHY NOW
It’s the Center for Photography at Woodstock’s annual PHOTOGRAPHY NOW call for entries where winners will be exhibited in CPW’s main gallery from June 12 - August 22, 2010. This year CPW has invited the APERTURE Foundations' acclaimed Book Publisher and Director of Content, Lesley A. Martin to select the most exciting new photography from the national and international field!

ELIGIBILITY
From traditional to digital, all photographic techniques and approaches are welcome. Straight photography, fine art, narrative, documentary, landscape, social issues, still life, mixed media incorporating photography, photographic installations, and digital images & collages - all will be considered! CPW staff and ADV/Board members are not eligible to apply.

EXHIBITION
Accepted work will be exhibited in CPW's gallery from June 12 - August 22, 2010.

HOW TO ENTER
6 images: $50 ($30 student/senior discount in this category only) | 10 images: $60 | 20 images: $100

Photography Museum of Art :: Photo Portfolio Competition 2010

The Women's Committee of the Philadelphia Museum of Art is pleased to announce its first Photography Portfolio Competition. All applications must be submitted online. how to enter.

Deadline: May 15, 2010
Entry Fee: $40

Slideluck Potshow: Women's Work

Slideluck Potshow is proud to announce Women's Work, a collaboration with Ladies Lotto that will be taking place in Los Angeles this March, during Women's Awareness Month. At this multimedia slideshow and potluck dinner, artists from around the world will present work that illuminates aspects of the contemporary female experience.

If you are interested in submitting a project to Women's Work, or know an artist who should, guidelines can be found here and the submission deadline is Monday, February 15th.

Curatorial Resource for Upstart Media Bliss (CRUMB)

CRUMB aims to help those who 'exhibit' new media art, including curators, technicians and artists. CRUMB's website contains interviews, seminars, resources and more.