Saturday, September 5, 2009

reminder: JAA-NY annual show at Tenri gallery


JAA - NY Annual Show 2009 at Tenri Gallery

we were setting up our group show. It starts on Monday, 8th. The reception is on 11th from 6pm

JAA - NY Annual Show 2009 at Tenri Gallery.

September 8th - 19th
Opening Party September 11th, 6:00-8:00 PM

Tenri Galley
(Tenri Cultural Institute of New York)
43A West 13th Street, New York, NY 10011
tel: 212.645.2800 fax: 212.727.3234

Friday, September 4, 2009

JAA-NY Web gallery page submission guideline

To JAA-NY members:

If you'd like your images to be included on the gallery page, please send me an e-mail with images or mail me a CD-rom of 10 images in following specifications.
Image format: jpeg.
File size: Less than 1MB More than 100KB
Pixel size: Please reformat to larger side to be 500px. For example, if your current image size is 2000p W x 1600px h, make it to 500px W x 400 px H
Resolution: 72 dpi
2-D Images should be clopped to the edge of the pieces. The images should not show any background.
Send me high quality images. Please consider hireling a professional photographer if you are not confident taking photos. You should use a digital SLR camera inserted of using a snap shot camera. Please send me publish ready images.

Send e-mail to jun@junart.net

Friday, August 7, 2009

Paris Residency Program

Paris Residency Program
For New York City-Based Visual Artist
At the Cité Internationale Des Arts, Paris, France
Sponsored by the Mayor’s Office of the City of Paris/Mairie de Paris
Open Call for Applications
Application Deadline:
Thursday, August 13, 2009 at 5PM
This is NOT a postmark deadline; it is an in-office deadline.
Residency Dates:
March – August 2010
About Paris Residency:
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and the Mayor’s Office of the City of Paris (Mairie de Paris), are partnering again to provide one New York City artist with the opportunity to live and work at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, France. LMCC is currently inviting artists to submit applications for this special residency. One artist will be selected to receive live/work space in Central Paris and a monthly living stipend for six consecutive months, from March – August 2010.
The Paris Residency Program is open to emerging and mid-career visual artists who are U.S. citizens or U.S. Permanent Residents, and are also New York City residents. New York City includes all five boroughs: Manhattan, Brooklyn, Bronx, Queens, and Staten Island.

Friday, July 31, 2009

Photography Awards Fellowship

Photography Awards Fellowship

En Foco's New Works Photography Awards Fellowship
is an annual program selecting three or more U.S. based photographers of Latino, African, Asian, Native American or Pacific Islander heritage, through a national call for entries.
NEW WORKS #13 DEADLINE: July 31, 2009
JUROR: Anne Wilkes Tucker, Curator, Museum of Fine Arts / Houston
DOWNLOAD GUIDELINES & ENTRY FORM HERE
http://www.enfoco.org/programs/newworks/download/nw13_entryforms_2009.pdf

Sunday, July 12, 2009

Grant; The Ruth & Harold Chenven Foundation

Information for 2009 applicants

The Ruth & Harold Chenven Foundation gives annual awards to individual craftsperson and
artists living and working in the United States, who are engaged in or planning a craft or visual
art project. The RHCF does not accept film, video, performance art or music submissions. It is
expected that applicants will be working artists who have a developed body of work.

An independent jury of three artists will judge the submissions and make its recommendations
to the RHCF Board of Directors for final approval. The maximum award is 1,500 dollars.
Previous winners of a Foundation grant are not eligible for a second award.

Completed applications must be postmarked no later than July 31, 2009. Applicants will be
notified of the jury’s decisions in early November. The Foundation will accept a maximum of
350 completed applications. When that limit has been reached we will post a notice on this
website.

Winning submissions will be retained by the Ruth & Harold Chenven Foundation and may be
used for publicity purposes.


2009 Application Instructions

Please read and follow the instructions carefully. Due to the large volume of applications, we
cannot honor special requests.

1.
One page (typed, maximum 300 words) of information about yourself and your work, i.e. your
artist's statement.

2.
One page (typed, maximum 300 words) describing the project for which you are seeking an
award, including the amount of funding you are requesting and how the funds will be used. A
detailed budget for your project is not required.

3.
One page (typed) which is an inventory list of your .jpg images . The inventory is a
description of each work submitted and should include only the following: title, medium,
dimensions, and date completed.

4. For items 1, 2 & 3, submit an original plus three copies on 8.5 X 11 white paper.

5.
Five (5) images of your work. Submit images on a CD as 300dpi .jpg files, sized at 5x7
inches. Each .jpg file must be named with the title of work and the artist’s name. Images
should be of your current or most recent work, that provide the best examples of your overall
body of work

6.
Label each page of your application and your CD with your name, address and contact
information.

7. Please ensure that you have followed all instructions carefully. Incomplete applications or
applications that do not adhere to the instructions will not be considered. Do not send additional
material with your application, as it will not be considered by the judges.

8. Mail completed applications to:

The Ruth & Harold Chenven Foundation
7505 Jackson Avenue
Takoma Park, MD 20912

9. Applications will be accepted beginning no sooner than May 1 and must be postmarked no
later than July 31st.

Thursday, July 9, 2009

Jongwang Lee Current Show

June12-Luly16,2009

Space Womb

22-48 Jackson ave #1 Space Womb
LIC,New York 11101
www.spacewomb.com

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Teh Pollock-Krasner Foundation

The Pollock-Krasner Foundation‘s offers grant to those individuals who have worked as professional artists over a significant period of time.

Application Guidelines
The Foundation welcomes, throughout the year, applications from visual artists who are painters, sculptors and artists who work on paper, including printmakers. There are no deadlines. The Foundation encourages applications from artists who have genuine financial needs that are not necessarily catastrophic. Grants are intended for a one-year period of time. The Foundation will consider need on the part of an applicant for all legitimate expenditures relating to his or her professional work and personal living, including medical expenses. The size of the grant is determined by the individual circumstances of the artist.

More info, go to

http://www.pkf.org/grant.html

Sunday, June 14, 2009

JAA - NY Annal Show 2009 at Tenri Gallery

I would like to invite you to JAA - NY Annual Show 2009 at Tenri Gallery.

September 8th - 19th
Opening Party September 11th, 6:00-8:00 PM

Tenri Galley
(Tenri Cultural Institute of New York)
43A West 13th Street, New York, NY 10011
tel: 212.645.2800 fax: 212.727.3234
Rose and Steve in Bromme Gallery

Sunday, May 3, 2009

Steve Wada, Rose Sigal Ibsen with Contemporary Artists Guild

Broome Street Gallery
498 Broome street,nyc

until May10th

The Print Art of Kunio Izuka

Books kinokuniya
until May 10th
1073 Avenue of the Americas

Thursday, April 9, 2009

Noriko Yano current show


New York Public Library, Ottendorfer Branch

Until May 22

new members

We have 2 new members.
Ms.Yumiko Furukawa
Ms.Kikuko Tanaka

welcome

Thursday, April 2, 2009

Current Leadership info

Current Leadership as of 2009

President: Noriko Yano
Vice President: Kunio Iizuka
Treasury: Tokoha
Webmaster: Jun Ishida