Archive for February, 2011
Kasich Names Casino Panel
Sunday, February 20th, 2011Gov. John Kasich has appointed the first woman speaker of the Ohio House to a bipartisan commission overseeing Ohio casinos.
www2.nbc4i.com – Govt_politics
BECA: Bridge for Emerging Contemporary Art
Wednesday, February 16th, 2011
BECA: Bridge for Emerging Contemporary Art
527 St. Joseph Street, New Orleans, LA 70130
www.theBECAfoundation.org
www.BECAICAD.org
www.CurateThis.org
Current Artist, Architect + Designer Opportunities:
Receive Deadline June 3, 2010: Double – Solo Exhibition Opportunity. Please Click Here for further information and to download submission guidelines + form.
Receive Deadline July 15, 2010: CURATE THIS! 2010 – global exhibition of new art + new design – artist + designer registration: http://www.curatethis.org/for-artists-and-designers.php
Highlights of interest to both artists + designers:
In addition to the international physical exhibition opportunities, an International Public Vote Award of ,500 will be awarded to one artist, designer, duo, group or collective. An online vote will occur from August 15 – 17, 2010.
Of particular interest to graphic designers, industrial designers, fashion designers, furniture designers, accessory designers and architects/interior designers:
Ellen Lupton, Curator of Contemporary Design at the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, will be selecting 10 – 20 CURATE THIS! 2010 participating designers and their works for inclusion in the special upcoming publication, ‘CURATE THIS! 2010 – NEW DESIGN’.
Of particular interest to artists working in any media and in any discipline(s):
Helen Pheby, PhD, Senior Curator at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, UK, will be selecting 10 – 20 CURATE THIS! 2010 participating artists and their works for inclusion in the special upcoming publication, ‘CURATE THIS! 2010 – NEW ART’. YSP exhibits an ever-changing diverse collection of works and new projects within 500 acres of both indoor and outdoor galleries.
Receive Deadline September 1, 2010. Architecture + Design online portfolio reviews: http://www.becaicad.org/portfolio-reviews.php
Ongoing: Selection of Artist + Designer works for screenprinted art print editions: http://www.thebecafoundation.org/global/2010/04/upload-your-art-design.html
Ongoing: Selection of Artist + Designers works for the ‘NEW WORKS’ online series: http://www.becagallery.com/links.php?44704
Open only until the 100 available spaces are full: As a follow up to last year’s highly successful non-juried 12x12x122 experimental exhibition, The BECA Foundation will present Lab AD this November at BECA ICAD. We have 100 automatic exhibition placements available. The non-juried exhibition will welcome exhibition registration from the first 100 artists or designers who sign up. Registration is being granted with BECA Foundation ‘Artist/Designer Lab AD’ founding membership. Please download complete information available at: http://www.becaicad.org/membership.php
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Open Call to Art Organizations, Artspaces, Design and Studio Directors, professionally affiliated and independent Curators, Galleries, Universities, Museums, Festivals, Business Owners, Managers and Entrepreneurs:
YOU’RE INVITED TO JOIN THE MOST EXCITING GLOBAL ART + DESIGN EXHIBITION and ARTS + CULTURAL EVENT of 2010!
JOIN US to help facilitate an experimental, cross-pollination of new ideas for creative innovation in diverse locations around the world!!
CURATE THIS! 2010 currently has 12 pARTicipating Venues located in various cities around the world and we’d like to also invite you to be a part of the inaugural global expansion of CURATE THIS! as a pARTicipating Venue. The BECA Foundation welcomes your pARTicipation in one of the most exciting international contemporary art + design exhibition and arts + cultural events of 2010. Further information may be found at: www.CurateThis.org. Information of particular interest to potential pARTicipating Venues may be viewed at: www.CurateThis.org/for-venues
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Full exhibition is now viewable online at: www.becaicad.org/upcoming-exhibitions
The BECA Foundation is pleased to present the ‘FUTUREFORWARD’ exhibition of new art + new design at BECA ICAD (International Center for Art + Design), 527 St. Joseph Street, New Orleans, LA 70130 – across from the Contemporary Arts Center from May 1 – 29, 2010. The exhibition highlights works that reveal an idea, message, contribution, warning or solution that if carried forward may profoundly impact the future – be it positively or negatively.
Dear Friends,
The timing and poignancy of this particular exhibition opening last weekend as we here in Louisiana begin to simultaneously experience what may be the worst environmental disaster/oil spill since the Exxon Valdez, makes an already important exhibition even that much more so. Our thoughts are with those families who have lost loved ones in the oil rig explosion as well as with the many families here in Louisiana and around the United States whose livelihoods will be adversely impacted as a result. The resulting damage to our fragile coastal ecosystem was preventable and as such is unacceptable but it is now, unfortunately, inevitable. We hope that each of you, viewing the exhibition online or in person here in New Orleans, takes away something you might be able turn into a positive action toward the future for yourself, your family and your community.
Sincerely,
Melissa Roberts and Kurt Schlough, Directors
This group exhibition features new work by Jonas Angelet, Nikkita Bhakta, Richard Elaver/Phil Renato/Dennis Dollens, Chris Esposito, Sayaka Ganz, Marc Holt, Yeji Jun and Molly Rogers.
The exhibition runs through May 29, 2010. Gallery hours are TH/FRI: 1pm – 6pm and SAT/SUN: 11am – 6pm. The full exhibition is now viewable online at: www.becaicad.org/upcoming-exhibitions A companion exhibition book will be available beginning May 15, 2010.
Artists receive 60% of sale proceeds and The BECA Foundation receives 40% of sale proceeds to help fund + further its international exhibition programming for the benefit of artists, designers and the public. Exhibition sponsorship opportunities are available for future exhibitions. Please email us at mail@thebecafoundation.org to inquire. Thank you for supporting new art + new design + new ideas!
Department of Art at The Ohio State University
Barbara Frentsos Butler exhibit
Saturday, February 12th, 2011
Now on view in the Mowry Alumni Center gallery, works by Barbara Frentsos Butler, ’47. Barbara currently lives in Mansfield, Ohio, and is sharing her work with us. Her pieces are abstractions in acrylic, ink, and mixed media. Both large and small scale, they are glowing on the walls right now! As an added venue, 8 of her largest works are hung in the Gallery 2001 space in Beeghly Library, just across the Jaywalk from Mowry. It’s a 2-for-1 exhibit!
The gallery in Mowry Alumni Center is open 8:30am – 5:00pm, and will be closed for the mid-year break from December 24 – January 3rd. Beeghly Library will be open similar hours. The exhibit will remain on view until January 24, 2010.
Does Recall Bias Explain Past Associations Between Pesticides and Parkinson’s
Thursday, February 10th, 2011How do people’s memories of pesticide exposures correlate with industrial hygiene estimates of those exposures? Not so well. In fact it’s pretty clear that a lot of people with Parkinson’s assume that chemicals caused their illness and so are primed to remember past high exposures that had not in fact occurred. For a well done paper showing no association between pesticides and Parkinson’s plus a great discussion of recall bias see: "Pesticide Exposure and Risk of Parkinson’s Disease – A Population-Based Case-Control Study Evaluating the Potential for Recall Bias".
Those looking for the real cause of the increase in risk of Parkinson’s among those involved in farming should pay attention to the endotoxin discussion. I’ll check the studies that show endotoxin may protect against lung cancer in cotton textile workers to see if there’s any hint of a Parkinson’s excess and report back.
Lugar, Hatch crash FreedomWorks party
Friday, February 4th, 2011
David Weigel captures profiles in desperation:
I snapped the above photo at last night’s FreedomWorks party, a fete to celebrate and show off the organization’s new offices. Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, showed up briefly to talk to FreedomWorks President Matt Kibbe (right) and other staffers, some of whom he recognized from prior policy fights.
Hatch was preceded, by about an hour, by an even unlikelier visitor — Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind. While the FreedomWorks jury is out on Hatch, the organization’s activists are all but ready to take on Lugar.
Both of these guys are probably toast, but while Lugar has at least shown some dignity, I have to say it’s been hilarious watching Orrin Hatch grovel at the feet of the teahadists as they push him out the door.