Central Ohio's finest glass-working artists will be on hand with jewelry, holiday decorations, and other glass artwork of all forms and sizes next weekend for Glass Axis' Holiday Sale at their new home in Franklinton!

Friday December 12- Noon to 7 pm

Saturday December 13- 10 am to 4 pm

Sunday December 14- 10 am to 4 pm

Thousands of glass pieces will be on display, many at discounted prices, and walk-in workshops will run all weekend! So, create your own unique items or personalized gifts!

The Blown Glass Ornament Workshop is for ages 12 and up. Shape and blow molten glass into a globe-shaped ornament at just $30 a pop!

For merely $15 per bead, visitors 6+ may use smaller torches to heat and form glass into the shape of a candy-shaped bead in the Torchworked Bead Workshop!

All activities are first-come, first-serve as no pre-registration is required. Click here to get all the details on Glass Axis courses offered at other times.

Glass Axis new address is 610 W Town St., Columbus, OH 43215.

The Columbus Public Art Program, in partnership with the Harrison West Society is going to commission a professional artist to design and install a fifth site-specific public artwork in Harrison Park.   

Qualifications are sought from professional visual artists who live or work in the state of Ohio. An Artist Advisory Panel will select three artist finalists to prepare proposals. Artist finalists will each receive a proposal fee of $750 to prepare and present a site specific public art proposal at a community event hosted by the Harrison West Society. The art will be selected through a community voting process. The selected proposal will be forwarded to the Columbus Art Commission for conceptual design and placement approval. The Columbus Recreation and Parks Department will also review the proposal for acceptance into Harrison Park. 

The artist will have a $90,000 all-inclusive budget as well as a 10% contingency set aside. All contracts will be held by the City of Columbus and artists receiving payments will be required to register with city Vendor Services. 

All materials but be received by 4pm, January 15, 2015. 

For more information, forms and requirements see: https://columbus.gov/planning/hpartproject/

During the month of December, the Ohio Art League will host its annual Thumb Box Exhibition of small works at RAW Gallery. The surface may be small, but the work is large! For this intriguing show, member artists entered 2D or 3D works which measure no more than 6”x6”x6” in dimension.

Thumb Box runs December 5, 2014 – January 2, 2015 at RAW Gallery, 112 E Main St, Columbus, OH 43215. 

The gallery is free and open to the public. View this holiday exhibition on Fridays 4-8pm, Saturdays 12-6pm, and Sundays 12-4pm.

The Residency Program at Glacier National Park offers professional artists the opportunity to pursue their artistic discipline while being surrounded by the park's inspiring landscape. The program seeks professional artists whose work is related to the park's interpretative themes and supports the mission of the National Park Service.

Every entry is shown in the eleventh annual Snap to Grid: the UN-Juried Exhibit, and you still have a chance to be a part of this digital art show!

• All entries will be printed (8.5"x11" on heavyweight paper) and shown in the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art gallery arranged in a grid.
  

• Entrants submit JPEG files of original work, and multiple entries are permitted.
  

Snap to Grid will be on display from December 11, 2014 through January 3, 2015.

The Opening Reception is on Thursday, December 11 from 7- 9 pm.


All styles of artwork and photography where digital processes of any kind were integral to the creation of the images are acceptable. Digital video stills and screen shots of web/new media are acceptable. Documentation shots of digital installation and digital sculpture are acceptable.

The Urban Art Space will be hosting the work from Ohio State's Graduating Artists. 

Exhibitions Dates: December 2nd-December 20th 2014 

Closing Reception: Saturday, December 20, 2014, 3–5PM

The Department of Art, Bachelor of Fine Arts Senior Projects Exhibition for the graduating Autumn 2014 class. The exhibition displays the work of graduating art majors from The Ohio State University. The art on display was developed from a range of media and approaches during the students' course of study at Ohio State.

Click the Links for details: Ohio Art League and Urban Art Space. 

“Woman As___” runs from December 4th 2014 through January 18th 2015.

TacoCat Cooperative Studios and Gallery.
937 Burrell Avenue Columbus OH 43212.
Special performance by artist Heidi Madsen between 6:20 and 6:45pm.
The exhibit is curated by member artists Catherine Bell Smith and Mollie Hannon.

Click the links for more information: Ohio Art League Wordpress, CAW, TacoCat Cooperative, and Women's Fund of Central Ohio. 

The Downtown Dayton Partnership, Miami Conservancy District, and a team of community partners are seeking an original design to be painted on a concrete flood wall along the Great Miami River. 

The goal of this project is to commission a design that highlights or reveals something unique about the recreational, environmental, or aesthetic beauty of the area. The design should serve as a focal point, yet be integrated with the surroundings. This aesthetic improvement will visually connect downtown businesses, the local neighborhood, river enthusiasts, and naturally, art lovers. 

Deadline for entry is December 8, 2014.

The call for proposals is for the design only, and the mural does not need to take up the entire wall.  For complete details, download the Call for Submissions form here.

Artists whose designs are selected as Semi-Finalists, will be invited to work with a prequalified painting contractor to create a final Design/Install proposal. Semi-Finalists who submit a complete final Design/Install proposal will receive a $1,500 stipend. The final selected artist will be awarded an additional $5,000 upon completion of the mural.

Submit your design here!

Join the Ohio Art League and Upper Arlington's Concourse Gallery as we host OAL member Ashley Shellhause's An Introduction to Appaloosa Genetics. Curated by Michael May, Appaloosa Genetics is inspired by Shellhause's three main interests: science, art, and horses. Through this intriguing and illuminating exhibition, the viewer will be guided through the role research plays in the art of creation.

Join us for the Opening Reception at the Concourse Gallery Thursday, December 11 from 5- 7 in the evening.

According to the informative book, Horse Color Explained, appaloosa horse coloring is controlled by at least five different genes, four of which cause pattern variations. The exhibition is comprised of abstract images that are accompanied with the details of the research to be more accessible to a wider audience.  

An Introduction to Appaloosa Genetics will be on display from December 5, 2014 through January 4, 2015. 

For more information on the artist and to find a collection of works by Shellhause, visit her fine arts website.

Get all the details by checking out OAL's Press Room.

Fiberart International 2016

Fiberarts Guild of Pittsburgh, Inc.

Society for Contemporary Craft and 

Pittsburgh Center for the Arts

Pittsburgh, PA 

Exhibition: May 6, 2016 to July 31, 2016

Touring: August 31, 2016 to August 31, 2018

Fiberart International 2016 seeks to exhibit the best of contemporary art and invites submissions that reflect a wide range of works related to the fiber medium.

This juried exhibition is recognized around the world as a benchmark that documents trends and innovations in the field. The goal of the exhibition is to include innovative work rooted in traditional fiber materials, structure, processes and history, as well as art that explores unexpected relationships between fiber and other creative disciplines.

Fiberart International 2016 will feature works by established and emerging artists and will be open to the public from May 6 to July 31, 2016 at Society for Contemporary Craft and Pittsburgh Center for the Arts.

This 22nd edition in an ongoing series of triennial shows, will be juried by Chunghie Lee, Arturo Alonzo Sandoval, and Tali Weinberg.

Entry Requirements:

 

• Entries must be original work completed after December 31, 2013

 

• Artists must be 18 years of age or older.

 

• Collaborative works will be considered as a single entry. Artists submitting both collaborative and individual works must apply separately, and the collaborative team will be considered a separate artist.

 

• Work must not exceed 8’6” (2.60m) in any single dimension. Installations larger than 8’6” will be considered only if crate size requirements are met.

 

• Work must be original in concept and design and not be the result of a class or workshop. Student work is accepted if it meets the previous statement.

 

• All work must be either fiber in content or executed in a fiber technique.
• All work MUST be available for touring for up to two (2) years beginning August 31, 2016. Work on tour will be insured.

 

Entry Fee: $40 non-refundable for up to three (3) entries must accompany the application.

Call details, entry requirements, and the entry form are available on CaFÉ:https://www.callforentry.org/festivals_unique_info.php?ID=2068

Visit website for additional information: fiberartinternational.org/

 

CONTACT: 

Fiberart International

P.O. Box 5478

Pittsburgh, PA 15206-0478

fiberartinternational@gmail.com