7th International Arte Laguna Prize

Two Deadlines: (ONLINE) or (POSTMARK)
Deadline extended to December 5, 2012
October 23, 2012 [Special Prizes Artist in Residence only]
November 8, 2012

7th International Arte Laguna Prize
Venice, Italy
March 2013 – Venice Arsenale
March 2013 – Romanian Cultural Institute of Venice



Total Prize Amount: € 170,000
Sections: painting, sculpture & installation, photographic art, video art & performance, virtual art


The 7th International Arte Laguna Prize, based in Venice, Italy and dedicated to contemporary visual art, is open to artists with no limits of age or nationality, offering a finalists collective exhibition at Venice Arsenale, artist in residence programs, personal and collective exhibitions, participation in international festivals, publication in the official catalogue and a network of opportunities:

Cash Prizes of € 7,000: for winning artists, one for each section

Art Residencies: Technymon ARTresidency – Mumbai; Glass School Abate
Zanetti – Venice; Art Stays – Slovenia; iaab – Basel

Business for Art: development of an art project with the winner of the virtual art section, in collaboration with FOPEgioelli

Collective Exhibitions: Open, International Exhibition of Sculptures and Installations of Venice; exhibition of a selection of Under25 artists at the Romanian Cultural Institute of Venice.

Personal Exhibitions in International Art Galleries:
Arte Laguna Prize has created a network of international galleries to introduce the artists to the market of Contemporary Art. Each gallery will select an artist to organize a personal exhibition.

Prize Curator:
Igor Zanti (Italy, Art Critic)

Judging Panel:
Umberto Angelini (Italy, Director of Festival Uovo)
Gabriella Belli (Italy, Director of Musei Civici of Venice)
Adam Budak (United States, Curator of Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture
Garden of Washington)
Cecilia Freschini (China, Founder of Lab-Yit)
Mario Gerosa (Italy, Senior Editor of AD, Digital Art Curator)
Lina Lazaar (Great Britain, Expert in International Contemporary Art
for Sotheby's)
Kanchi Mehta (Founder and Chief Curator of Chameleon Art Projects &
and India Editor for Flash Art)
Sabine Schaschl (Switzerland, Director and Curator of Kunsthaus Basel)
Felix Schöber (Germany, Independent Curator)
Claudia Zanfi (Italy, Art Historian and Cultural Manager)


Full details at the website: www.artelagunaprize.com


info@premioartelaguna.it
tel. +39 041 59 37 242
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Festival Pet Project

Deadline: October 23, 2012 (RECEIVE)


Festival Pet Project
International Quilt Festival/Houston
Quilts, Inc
Houston, TX



via pokeysponderings.com

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Pokey Bolton
Chief Creative Officer
Quilts, Inc.
713-78106864, x102
pokeyb@quilts.com

For this fall’s International Quilt Festival/Houston, we are launching our first of three Festival Pet Projects, and we are inviting YOU for this fall’s show to make fabric postcards that will sell for $20 each to benefit Friends for Life.


Take the Pet Postcard Pledge!

Would you be willing to make and donate a one-of-a-kind fabric postcard? I am hoping we get at least 500 fabric postcards, and if they all sell, that is $10,000! And wouldn’t it be fantastic if we got even more?

We encourage animal-themed fabric postcards but we certainly welcome and would appreciate other themes as well, such as abstracts, landscapes, floral pieces, etc. The point is to raise as much funds as we can!

If you are interested in making a fabric postcard (or two or three or more), here are the requirements:

• Each fabric postcard must be 4″ x 6″ and can have either a horizontal or vertical orientation. They should be stitched (hand or machine) and consist of a front, batting (or interfacing), and a back. As these postcards will not be going through the mail, it is OK if they are in excess of 1/8″ in thickness. So if you want to heavily embellish your postcard(s), go for it!

• You are not limited to making just one fabric postcard. Create as many fabric postcards as you like.

• On the back side of the fabric postcard, please sign your name and title your postcard. (Contact information is optional.)

• These postcards are due at the Quilts, Inc. office no later than Tuesday, October 23rd. Please note: this is a received-by date.

• You can mail as many fabric postcards as you would like, but please place them in a padded envelope. This way they will stay in pristine condition to be displayed at Festival.


Please mail them to:

Festival Pet Project
Attn: Pokey Bolton
7660 Woodway
Suite 550
Houston, TX 77063