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CFEVA Artist Opportunities Listing for September: Career Development Program Application, Deadline Oct. 1st

Career Development and Exhibition Fellowship Apply Now

Deadline: October 1st

Call for Artists: FREE Career Development & Exhibition Fellowship for Emerging Artists. For a select group of highly talented artists, our Two-Year Career Development Program includes: exhibitions and exposure opportunities around the region and beyond, a three-person exhibition in the second year of the fellowship, individual career counseling, professional development workshops, mentorship, networking, community service opportunities, and alumni solo exhibitions and travel grants. This program serves artists residing within a 100 mile radius of Philadelphia. For an application and further eligibility requirements, go to http://www.cfeva.org/cfeva_programs_career.aspx . For assistance or inquiries, please contact Amie Potsic, Director of the Career Development Program at: amie@cfeva.org or 215-546-7775 x 12.

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Open Call for Artists: Apply Now!

Career Development and Exhibition Fellowship for Emerging Artists

The Center for Emerging Visual Artists strives to provide the essential support services and programs emerging artists need to build sustainable careers.

Our FREE two-year Career Development Program offers a select group of highly talented artists:

· Two-year fellowship period and lifelong alumni affiliation

· Group Exhibitions around the region and beyond

· Three-person show in the second year of the fellowship

· Professional development seminars

· Opportunities to meet patrons, gallerists, and curators

· Assistance with the marketing and sale of artwork

· Individual career counseling sessions

· One-on-one sessions with mentors, chosen from the Board of Artistic Advisors

· Opportunities to gain career experience while giving back to the community

· Alumni exhibition series

· Alumni goal-setting group

· Alumni Travel Grant Program

· Monthly newsletter updating fellows and alumni on regional, national and

international opportunities for artists.

Eligibility requirements include:

Applicants cannot be in school full time.

Applicants must live within 100 miles of The Center (Artists in Baltimore, Harrisburg, and the

five boroughs of New York City are eligible; Washington, DC artists are not).

Applicants cannot have an ongoing contractual agreement with a commercial gallery.

For an application and further eligibility requirements, got to http://www.cfeva.org/cfeva_programs_career.aspx

Contact: AMIE POTSIC, Director of the Career Development Program (amie@cfeva.org) or 215-546-7775 x 12.

The Messenger is Already Dead – CFEVA Gallery @ 1521 Locust St.

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Katie Murken @ Center for Emerging Visual Artists Gallery.

Katie Murken’s contribution to The Messenger is Already Dead includes the Brancusi-esque columns and layered photo collages (a great steal-able idea – it took her three years to think it up, you can have it for free!). The cool thing about Murken’s work is the logical conclusions – like, “duh?” – why didn’t DoN think of that; a great meme is hard to find, impossible to control. In the corner are Scott Pellnat‘s “Land of Horror’s 1 – 4, wax and Barbie dolls”.

Peter Prusinowski is a master of the dark room, the gelatin silver prints of Fishtown are evocative of the neighborhood’s long established quirkiness and history. The blacks are rich and deep, the grays iridescent, the framing & lighting excellent so that the narrative readily absorbs into the consciousness with symbols and signs of civilization.

Peter Prusinowski @ CFEVA’s The Messenger is Dead. With Peter’s work the medium is the massage.

Scott Pellnat‘s room-sized installation is fantastically inventive and enthralling; created in his North Jersey back yard, the sprawling construction is a dream scape of shipwrecks, collapsed highways, hidden chambers and fools gold. Like a nightmare, there is no beginning or end, only feedback and feelings; Scott explained to DoN not all the teeny bookcases were filled with itsy-bitsy books as if the piece was still a work in progress. To get to the gallery push the black button in the elevator and you will be transported to a world of dreams, nightmares and extraordinary reality.

View a video clip here.

Wolves & Deer

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Wolves & Deer in art around town over the past year.

Nexus Gallery @ Crane Art Center

Rik Viola @ Philadelphia Sketch Club

Darla Jackson @ CFEVA.

Scott Pelnat @ CFEVA event.

Jack Kelly @ Scott Pellnat’s Art House.

Karen Davis @ TwentyTwo Gallery.

Peter Prusinowski @ Fishtown Airways

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Peter Prusinowski @ Fishtown Airways

Peter Prusinowski @ Fishtown Airways, 200 East Girard Ave. Prusinowski is a Center for Emerging Visual Artists Fellow, a great honor bestowed on outstanding artists allowing them to exhibit works in group shows, receive publicity, opportunities and support from the Center. Peter is a photography purist who works in a wet dark room and is not interested in digital photography in the least. As he explained to DoN, Peter attempts to emulate masters such as Man Ray who was able to achieve solarization on film which appears like magic in the development process.

Prusinowski’s show at Fishtown Airways focusses on the history of Fishtown and the Penn Treaty, combining historic documents and photographs alongside his own studies of the area. A story of community and it’s importance to the early development of the USA emerges with bucolic river views, charming residences and quirky scenes from the centuries old village inhabited by long time residents and young growing families.

A group of historic documents including old newspaper articles, graphics and papers shed light on the Penn Treaty and the importance of this river town and it’s people.

East Girard Avenue is on the east side of the Frankford El with restaurants, bars, shops and a lively street scene. Fishtown Airways corner is bright and sunny, the gallery painted a buttery yellow, the art pops off the wall against the restful color. Proprietor , Bob Murphy is planning to open an ice cream shop along the broad avenue making this section of Fishtown a family friendly destination as well as an art outpost along with Johnnie Brenda‘s, High Wire and Bambi. Shoshka and DoN had a blast talking with the locals and hanging out on the corner.

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CFEVA presents Treasures @ Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP

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The Center for Emerging Visual Artists has installed a show called Treasures at the Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP Building @ 1701 Market Street featuring works by Career Development Programs Fellows. The spacious lobby is displaying works by some of DoN’s favorite CFEVA artists including Scott Pelnat, John Woodin, Ben Volta, Danielle Bursk, Brenna K. Murphy and many more – the works are of a smaller scale and affordably priced. The art party was well attended and some of the works sold while the wine flowed and patrons nibbled the tasty buffet. DoN spoke with Amy Potsic about how CFEVA installs “Custom Exhibitions” in public spaces where the art and artists can be exposed to the world at large instead of the confines of a gallery. For more than three years this important organization has placed works in offices, lobbies and corporate spaces where potential collectors can view art in their own environment, often resulting in sales for the artists.