Buchanan Center For The Arts ...Building Community through the Arts

Buchanan Center For The Arts
...Building Community through the Arts

Call to Artists:
64 ARTS 2012
Juror: Eric Fischl
Juror: Eric Fischl is an internationally acclaimed American figurative painter and sculptor. His extraordinary achievements throughout his career have made him one of the most influential of the late 20th and early 21st century artists. Fischl’s paintings, sculptures, drawings and prints have been the subject of numerous solo and group exhibitions and publications. His work is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, St. Louis Art Museum, and many others.

Artists are asked to submit works to share their insights on and hopes for America in the spirit of the national initiative America: Now and Here.

Artists are asked to be as creative and thoughtful about your American experience at this moment in our history. ANH has organized their core content into 3 very broad themes with lots of room for interpretation. Those 3 themes are:

America as Icon ( what are the icons of America? Liberty, Democracy, Equality, Mt. Rushmore, Grand Canyon, Pacific Ocean, Atlantic, melting pot, etc.)

America as Place ( home, community, sense of belonging, favorite landscape, relationship to nature, etc.)

America as People ( identity, friends, family, diversity, characters, saints and villains, etc.)

Mr. Fischl is hopeful that artists will create something within these categories. We want to make this a conversation so we want everyone on the same page.

We are looking for broad interpretations that bring local perspectives to the national stage.

Please go to the website for America: Now and Here to see what is happening around the country!

http://americanowandhere.org

For a copy of the prospectus click link below:
64 Arts 2012#1.pdf

Exhibition Schedule
Town and Country Show
April 14- May 12
Opening and awards Saturday April 14 2 pm

Art from the HeARTland
regional art exhibit
May 25 - June 29

Security Savings Photography Competition
July 6 - Aug 10

64 ARTS 2012
August 31 - October 13

Gil Rocha
October 26 - December 29, 2012

Save the Date
Taste of the Arts
Saturday, November 10, 2012

Hours
Tuesday- Friday 9 am - 5 pm
Saturday 10 am - 2 pm
Closed Sunday
Open Mondays by chance or appointment

Arts Across Illinois
Can art change lives? Phil Ponce explores the power of art in the upcoming episode of WTTW-TV's Arts Across Illinois. Arts Across Illinois is underwritten by the Illinois Arts Council.

AMERICAN GRAFFITI

The Central Illinois town of Monmouth had problems with teenage taggers. The Executive Director of the Buchanan Center for the Arts came up with a creative solution, turning a local eyesore into a work of art. Find out how one community learned to love aerosol art.

click on this link

http://www.wttw.com/main.taf?p=1,8,2,1,16

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