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VisionMakers 2010

Opening Reception:  September 11th, 6-9 PM
Juror Critique and Awards:  September 11th, 4-6 PM

Created more than 20 years ago to recognize and reward excellence among Oklahoma Artists,VisionMakers 2010 will make a September return to Tulsa under the organization of the Brady Craft Alliance. Following nearly two decades of Oklahoma City exhibitions, the prominent event returns to the city where it was founded.

The VisionMakers 2010 exhibition will be held at Living Arts of Tulsa, September 3 – 30 featuring a retrospective honoring early VisionMakers’ Tulsa participants. The month-long event officially kicks off at an opening reception on September 11, from 6-9PM. The Juror’s critique and awards for artists 4-6PM

“We are excited to have such a talented group of Oklahoma Artists participating in VisionMakers 2010 especially in this first year the program has been entrusted to us by the Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition,” said Myra Block Kaiser, Chair. “The return to Tulsa is monumental for us and the month of September should prove to be historic in so many ways. We are thrilled with our juror, Jeannine Falino, and the retrospective of early Tulsa entrants still living and working in Tulsa illustrates the important role VisionMakers has played in our City’s culture over the last two decades.”

A total of $5,000 will be awarded by guest juror, Jeannine Falino, a curator at the Museum of Arts and
Design in New York where she is preparing a touring exhibition on mid-twentieth-century craft in all media, entitled Making it Real: American Studio Movement 1945-1945. She was the lead author and editor for Silver of the Americas, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Vol. 3 (2008); a co-curator for Artistic Luxury: Fabergé – Tiffany –Lalique (Cleveland Museum of Art, 2008), and curator for Edge of the Sublime: Enamels by Jamie Bennett, (Fuller Craft Museum, 2008). She has lectured and written extensively on 20th century studio crafts and on silver and jewelry from the colonial era to the present.

The VisionMakers retrospective is a new addition this year and is intended to honor previous Tulsa participants in the 1988 and 1989 shows who are still living and working in Tulsa, and to recognize the significance and endurance of the state arts program. Among those participating in the retrospective will be internationally acclaimed Tulsan Kreg Kallenberger .

The Brady Craft Alliance is a newly-formed non-profit organization created to support Oklahoma’s
contemporary craft artists by connecting them to audiences and opportunities through education, recognition and exhibition programs. During its 2010 inaugural season, BCA hosted a Modern Materials exhibition and planned, organized and produced VisionMakers 2010 with support from OVAC, Arts and Humanities Council of Tulsa and Living Arts of Tulsa. For more information visit www.bradycraftalliance.org or call 918-859-6342.

Gallery hours are 1-5pm T,W, Sa, Sun, and 1-9pm Th & F.   No charge
 
Corner Installation Gallery...
HEARTBEAT – CORNER INSTALLATION – Geoffrey Hicks  “Extended thru the end of September”

Heartbeat is an interactive light sculpture made from 151 incandescent light bulbs, each hanging individually from the ceiling. The installation reacts to the heartbeat of individuals who are connected to the system and pulses with their energy. Dancers will perform underneath the sculpture with their heart rate controlling the speed, intensity, and size of the pulsing bulbs above. The audience is also able to control the installation with their own heart rate through the use of a finger clip monitor on an adjacent wall.    See an example of what will happen:  http://vimeo.com/11286684


Living ArtSpace Corner Installation Sites
Living Arts of Tulsa announces 2 opportunities for Installation Artists:
24 Hour Corner Installations.

 
South Corner Installation Site
15’ X 15’ X 14’H

North Corner Installation Site
13’ W X 16’D X 18’H

Artists wishing to show installations should submit a proposal to:
Steve Liggett    steve@livingarts.org   which should include the following:

  1. A drawing of the installation work
  2. A description of the work itself (not what it means or represents) but what it IS.
  3. Any technical needs from Living Arts
  4. Dates available

Artist should understand that Living Arts will not be able to supply any stipend at this point.  We are only able to offer the space and opportunity.  Hanging points are limited – a site visit is strongly advised before proposal is written.
 
Artist will have ½ week to install and most installations will be left up for 3 weeks with 1 day to strike.

 

Myers Gallery Floorplan



 

        The Myers Gallery is a program of Living Arts of Tulsa which features work by innovative artists needing a venue to exhibit their thought-provoking works, but due to the non-traditional nature of their work have not been able to do so. These presentations include both site-specific installations and gallery exhibitions at Living Art Space and in various locations around Tulsa in order to expand the city's exposure to contemporary art forms. The Myers Gallery Committee reviews proposals each November for the following year's program.
For more information go to
Call for Entries.

The gallery space is 75' wide, 30' long, and 12' high and is essentially a large white box with spot lighting which is very flexible in its ability to accommodate unusual works of art. The space is very adjustable with ability to move walls

. Send all information to Living Art Space,  307 E. Brady, Tulsa, OK 74120  
 for further information, contact Steve Liggett at  918-585-1234 or email steve@livingarts.org