Wearing Your Heart on Their Plate

STARS (the South Trenton Area Residents' Society), is seeking Artists of all ages to decorate wooden hearts for their 1st Annual “Hearts and Stars” Silent Auction taking place at ARTWORKS on Saturday February 27 from 6:00 - 9:00pm. There are no rules about how these hearts can be decorated – they just ask that artists be creative! Plain hearts can be picked up at several Trenton business locations listed on the STARS website. (NOTE: Hearts are free and should be returned to any of these same locations before Saturday, February 20th. Hearts can be picked up starting Wednesday January 20th.)

STARS is also inviting artists working in all mediums (paintings, photographs, sculpture, poetry, found objects, etc.) to enter work in the one-day exhibition, "Depictions of Trenton," also taking place at ARTWORKS February 27. Artwork for this exhibit must include Trenton as the subject matter or theme of the piece. The “Depictions of Trenton” work must be for sale, with 75% going to the artist and a 25% commission going to support STARS.

This is a little complicated; so if you’re interested, check out the FAQ section of the STARS website for more information about this event.

All proceeds from the Hearts and from commission on sale of works in the Depictions of Trenton display will go to support STARS new community garden effort in South Trenton.

A New En Plein Air

Art In The Open, Philadelphia (AIO) -- a citywide festival that celebrates artists, their inspirations for creating art, and the process of art making in the urban environment -- invites applications from interested artists working in any medium for work that can be constructed (and sustained) on-site for this June festival.

A jury (see below) will select 30 artists to create new work outside, on-site, over the four-day period of June 9-12, 2010 along the banks of the tidal Schuylkill River - from the historic Fairmont Park Water Works and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, south to landmark Bartram’s Garden.

AIO is open to all professional artists working in any medium that can be made ‘outside, on site’. Students

and artists under the age of 21 are not eligible. The jurors will be selecting artists based on the quality of

previous work, not on their proposal of intent. However, artists may include a descriptive statement that will

help the jurors better understand their process. A non-refundable entry fee of $30 is due, payable by check to: AIO: City Parks Association. For a full prospectus, click here.

In addition to the 4 day festival, a welcoming reception and curated exhibit of participating artists’ works will be held at Philadelphia’s City Hall to launch AIO. And at the end of the four days, a closing exhibition and sale will be held at the Rosenwald/Wolf Gallery at the University of the Arts (June 12, 2010).

Jurors

Janet Kaplan, Moore College of Art

Jennifer McGregor, Director of Arts & Senior Curator, Wave Hill

Andrea Packard, Director, List Gallery, Swarthmore College

Lee Stoetzel, Director, The West Collection at SEI

Calendar

Entry submissions: February 15, 2010

Juror review: March 12, 2010

Notification: March 31, 2010