Casting, Competitions, Juried & Non-Juried Exhibitions Call to Artist
Student Art Contest "Art You Can Eat" In partnership with Taste Tulare County, the Arts Consortium announces a Student Art Contest "Art YOU Can Eat" as part of the Taste the Arts Festival. All Tulare County students Kindergarten through High School may enter (for free). Mediums may include but are not limited to: oil, acrylic, ink, pencil, paint, photography, and digital. Work must be sized 11 X 17, but does not need to be matted. Selected pieces will be matted by the Arts Consortium and shown at the Garden Street Plaza at the Taste Tulare County Booth - on Saturday, September 11. Three $50 prizes will be given out at 5 pm. Another prize will be given out, from work completed during the event. Most Artistic Award - $50 cash! Most Delicious Award - $50 cash! Most Healthy Award - $50 cash! These pieces must depict the fresh fruits/vegetables grown in Tulare County or a healthy lifestyle.
Finally, the "Seize the Moment" Award - $50 cash! will be given (open to any K-12 youth who creates an artwork between 3-4 p.m. with art materials provided at the Taste Tulare County booth at the "Taste the Arts" Garden St. Plaza event on Saturday, Sept. 11. Each student who enters this category is automatically entered in a prize drawing. The first 100 students who visit the Taste Tulare County booth that Saturday are also guaranteed to win a prize!
For submission information see flyer: Art You Can Eat
Taste the Arts Booth Space Available, September 9 - 11 in Visalia Calling All Artists - The Visalia Arts Consortium is holding its first-ever Taste the Arts festival, a three-day celebration of art, culture, agriculture. This event is designed to let visitors taste the arts. The focal piece of the event will be a large art piece built the week of the event. Led by professional artists Lori Esposito and Duane Mcdiarmid - hundreds of volunteers will be asked to help assemble crops into the masterpiece "Where the Fruit of Our Labor Resides" at the Garden Street Plaza. The Waiter's Race by Events Visalia will kick off the event. A street dance will follow. The public will get to taste A Pops in the Park, Theatre Performances, Exhibits, Art Activities, and so much more. Local artists are invited to purchase booth space to show and sell their work for $35 for Saturday's event festivities. Additionally, A Best of Competition will be held for art work that represents the community's agriculture heritage. Artist Booth Space Application Competition Entry Form
Visalia Farmers Market desires to have your artwork displayed at one or more of our markets. You are invited to display your work at one Thursday evening market and one Saturday morning market, free of charge. You may elect to do either one or both markets. Dates are subject to availability. To select and schedule a date(s) for market attendance, please refer to our calendar at http://www.visaliafarmersmarket.com/calendar.html. If a Thursday or Saturday date does not have a particular artist listed- then the date is available. Based on available calendar dates, please e-mail me your first and second choices for market attendance. Once an artist is scheduled for a date, their name will be placed on the calendar, and they will receive a confirmation e-mail. The City of Visalia does assume that if you are displaying artwork there is the potential for sales, and thus requires a City of Visalia Business Tax Registration certificate. If you do not have a Business Tax Registration certificate, one may be purchased from the City of Visalia for $20.00 an event. Additionally, artists are required to bring their own set up materials; ie. tables, chairs, easels, etc. Set -up for Thursday evening market begins at 4pm. The market is open from 5-8pm. Set-up for Saturday morning market begins at 7am. The market is open from 8-11:30am. Email Paige Williams for more information at: info@visaliafarmersmarket.com or call her at 559-967-6722.
The Creative Center Foundation is announcing a Call to Artist/Booth Space for: Art Exposed Saturday, October 16, 2010 at Giant Chevrolet Cadillac
Benefiting The Creative Center Foundation and The Petty Family Foundation for Educational Opportunity. The event from 5:00-10:00pm. Booth Applications can be found at: Art Exposed Creative Center
Santa Fe Bridge Bronze Plaque Design Contest - CLOSED
The Arts Consortium announces a Call for a Design for four line art bronze plaques that will be installed on the brick pillars on the ends of the new Santa Fe Bridge in Visalia. The Consortium seeks to select a design(s) for the 36 diameter round plaques. Prize: a cash prize of $1,000 will be awarded to the selected artist, providing an agreement can be reached regarding modification of the final line drawing. All Tulare County residents must submit a proposal. The artwork must reflect a local characteristic (historic, flora, family, local people, locations, etc.). For full guidelines, see: Santa Fe Bridge Art Contest
Springville Annual Apple Festival
T-Shirt design contest, maximimum size is 10 1/2 by 10 1/2 and must be done by hand and only lettering may be computer generated, must include "30th Annual Springville Apple Festival: Springville, California: October 2010." Three colors may be used with black in the outline, your signature may be in the design. Mail entry to: The Springville Community Club: Attention Jean, P.O. Box 424, Springville, CA 93265. Fore more information and details call Jean Loscotoff at 539-1226. Deadline June 1, Prize $50, publication.
Visions of Hope, Comic Book Project
Tulare County Health and Human Services, Suicide Prevention Task Force is looking for artists/artists teams to create stories and artwork for a comic book. For more information, SPTFCallToArtistsComicBook.pdf
Photography Contest
Sequoia Riverlands Trust just launched a photography contest that asks all nature and/or photography enthusiasts to get out and express themselves through their own vision of the landscape. If this sounds fun and interesting to you, please send us an email at photocontest@sequoiariverlands.org to receive a full list of contest details, rules and prizes. More importantly, you’ll be signing up to receive periodic updates about exclusive photography opportunities on SRT preserves and photography workshops. Don’t miss out on the spectacular season of spring wildflowers! However, we also encourage photographs taken from all four seasons of our ever-changing valley and foothill landscape, even photos you’ve previously taken. Competition winners (22 in all) will have the privilege of seeing their photos displayed as part of the Arts Visalia exhibit in November 2010, in conjunction with the 2nd annual Kaweah Land & Arts Festival.
Art in the Alley
Season 2, Art in the Alley at the Farmers Market. Downtown Visalia, Church and Main Street and the Garden Street Plaza. 5-8pm the Third Thursday in April, May, and June. For information on how to register contact the Arts Council of Tulare County, Executive Director David Castro at 559-625-1520 or download information here: ArtintheAlleyRegistrationInformation.pdf
Visions of Hope Festival
Call to artists for Chalk Mural Project, for guideline information, SPTFCallToArtistsExpressionsofHopeMurals.pdf
Calling Photographers & Videographers:
Downtown Visalia Alliance is looking for videos and photographs of downtown activities to be included on their new website. For information, WebsitePhotoVideosRequestLetter.pdf
“Call for Artwork”
California Institute for Mental Helath (Sacramento) partnership with California Mental Health Directors Association (CMHDA) in developing the Recovery Arts Program. Our partnership is the display of client artwork within our office. This program supports wellness, recovery, and resiliency through gaining or regaining identification as an artist, enhancing artistic skills, and promoting art as employment and community integration. We are welcoming the display and selling of original artwork from the CiMH and CMHDA office walls. CiMH and CMHDA want to represent artists from all 58 counties. We are encouraging one or several counties to use our walls for county artists’ artwork. Their artwork will be displayed in our Sequoia Conference Center. We will rotate the display as time allows. To assist us with the selection of original artwork, we encourage the submission of jpg/jpeg files with the highest resolution, minimum 300 dpi. Once we select the artwork, we will require the counties/artists to ship the original pieces in the ‘safest’ manner possible. We do not want the artwork damaged. The artist or agency will be responsible for mailing costs. We require the original artwork to have dimensions larger than 11X14. We would like to display the artist’s name, biographical information, county of residence, and the price of the artwork. If client/artists would like to have their original artwork displayed, please forward the digital files to Alice J. Washington at awashington@cimh.org or 916-556-3480, Extension 139.
August 1st through 31st, 2010 Artists Reception - Saturday, August 7th - 4 PM to 9 PM An exhibit focused on the role of water in environmental, economic, human rights, and women’s issues, shedding light on water concerns, and also celebrating the positive influences of water on our lives. The exhibit will be held at Stellar Gallery in Oakhurst, CA. The show is open to visual artists working in all media. The exhibit is juried, with an entry fee per piece submitted. Cash awards will be offered. For more information visit their website,
August 1st through 31st, 2010 Artists Reception - Saturday, August 7th - 4 PM to 9 PM An exhibit focused on the role of water in environmental, economic, human rights, and women’s issues, shedding light on water concerns, and also celebrating the positive influences of water on our lives. The exhibit will be held at Stellar Gallery in Oakhurst, CA. The show is open to visual artists working in all media. The exhibit is juried, with an entry fee per piece submitted. Cash awards will be offered. For more information visit their website,
August 1st through 31st, 2010 Artists Reception - Saturday, August 7th - 4 PM to 9 PM An exhibit focused on the role of water in environmental, economic, human rights, and women’s issues, shedding light on water concerns, and also celebrating the positive influences of water on our lives. The exhibit will be held at Stellar Gallery in Oakhurst, CA. The show is open to visual artists working in all media. The exhibit is juried, with an entry fee per piece submitted. Cash awards will be offered. For more information visit their website,
August 1st through 31st, 2010 Artists Reception - Saturday, August 7th - 4 PM to 9 PM An exhibit focused on the role of water in environmental, economic, human rights, and women’s issues, shedding light on water concerns, and also celebrating the positive influences of water on our lives. The exhibit will be held at Stellar Gallery in Oakhurst, CA. The show is open to visual artists working in all media. The exhibit is juried, with an entry fee per piece submitted. Cash awards will be offered. For more information visit their website,
August 1st through 31st, 2010 Artists Reception - Saturday, August 7th - 4 PM to 9 PM An exhibit focused on the role of water in environmental, economic, human rights, and women’s issues, shedding light on water concerns, and also celebrating the positive influences of water on our lives. The exhibit will be held at Stellar Gallery in Oakhurst, CA. The show is open to visual artists working in all media. The exhibit is juried, with an entry fee per piece submitted. Cash awards will be offered. For more information visit their website,
August 1st through 31st, 2010 Artists Reception - Saturday, August 7th - 4 PM to 9 PM An exhibit focused on the role of water in environmental, economic, human rights, and women’s issues, shedding light on water concerns, and also celebrating the positive influences of water on our lives. The exhibit will be held at Stellar Gallery in Oakhurst, CA. The show is open to visual artists working in all media. The exhibit is juried, with an entry fee per piece submitted. Cash awards will be offered. For more information visit their website,
Casting Call
Cast & Crew Films, a co-op production company shooting with local talent here in the California Central Valley has posted their latest project. It's called "Drama Queen" and is an episodic series. The first is called "Cheerleaders" and centers around a young girl with all the associated confusion growing up during high school.One goal of Cast and Crew is to distribute these shorts as wide as possible, but more importantly it is to develop local talent and share in the benefits of collaboration. Finally the main goal is to help prepare this talent for placement in their and other locally produced independent feature films. For more information contact Chad Homan at thedoozieman@yahoo.com.
Teaching Opportunity
Visalia Parks and Recreation Department is looking for teachers for community art classes. They are looking instructors experienced in for Oil Painting and Watercolor. If you would like to submit a proposal for teaching an art course in a different medium, please contact Jeannie Greenwood at 713-4042. The Parks And Recretion department will offers the facility, advertisement, and will pay for your time.
