If you did not receive a confirmation email, your application was not fully completed. To finish your application please visit http://pfpca.wufoo.com/forms/pfpca-call-for-artists-2012/.

We have learned that some applicants are having trouble uploading all of their images. If you have not been able to upload your images and complete payment, we suggest the following:
1. Complete page one of the application
2. Complete fields for “Proposed Title” and “Detailed Exhibition Project Description”
3. Upload your first image
3. Complete payment for your application

Once you have received confirmation that your payment has gone through, you may then email the remainder of your images and other application materials to exhibitions@pittsburgharts.org. Online submissions will only be considered complete once payment has been made via credit card.

With the onset of Week 6 of PCA’s Summer Camps, the center remains buzzing. As I wondered through, the unspoken theme for the day seemed to be COLOR! Whether it was mixing oil pastels in Go Van Gogh, painting with points in Drawing and Painting, or even planning your very own stained glass panel, color seemed to be all around. Here are just a few pictures of the campers in action.

Activities range from crafting felt and button rings with the girls of Jewelry Making, to exploring texture and color in this morning’s session of Meet Matisse.

Some girls of Fiber Arts explore the potential of fabrics through stitching and weaving while others experiment with wax.

Everyone in this week’s Illustration class was bursting with smiles and equally eager to show off their latest work. This morning’s project included illustrating character emotion.

Maybe even some emotion leapt from the page!

And finally as the day comes to a close, it is clear that artistic expression ran wild, and that no one wants to return home…

Exhibition Opportunities:
Pittsburgh Filmmakers/Pittsburgh Center for the Arts (PF/PCA) is accepting applications from artists living within a 150-mile radius of Pittsburgh for solo and collaborative exhibitions during the 2012 calendar year. This opportunity is open to artists working in any visual discipline including 2D, 3D, installation, and time based work.

Exhibition Calendar:
Solo and collaborative exhibitions at PCA will be scheduled for February 10 – April 22, 2012. Solo and collaborative exhibitions at PF will be scheduled throughout the calendar year from January–September. Upon acceptance, the curatorial staff will schedule exhibition dates.

Selection Process:
Submissions will be reviewed by the curatorial staff of PF/PCA. Notification of selection results will be mailed September 1, 2011. Additional work or information may be requested for review.

How to Apply:
Work submitted for exhibition must have been completed within the last two years or be a proposal for the creation of new work. Please complete the attached submission form and include a project description, documentation and all requested support materials. Applications are also accepted online.

About:
Pittsburgh Filmmakers/Pittsburgh Center for the Arts is committed to the artist and the advancement of artistic excellence in visual arts.

Pittsburgh Center for the Arts
Founded in 1945, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts is a non-profit community arts campus that offers arts education programs and contemporary art exhibitions, providing services and resources for individual artists throughout Western Pennsylvania. The Center is where the community can create, see, support, and learn about visual arts. In January 2006, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts merged with Pittsburgh Filmmakers.

Pittsburgh Filmmakers
Founded in 1971, Pittsburgh Filmmakers is a nonprofit corporation designed to encourage the creation and understanding of media for noncommercial artistic and literary purposes. To this end, Filmmakers offers a curriculum of courses in film, video, and photography to university and independent students in the Pittsburgh region. Filmmakers also exhibits the work of prominent photographers and filmmakers in its two galleries, Melwood Screening Room, Regent Square Theater and Harris Theater. A key component of Filmmakers’ mission is to provide equipment access and funding for independent media artists.

Gallery Spaces:
With over 5,000 square feet of exhibition space, PCA galleries are dedicated to presenting exhibitions of both the region’s prominent and emerging visual artists, as well as bringing in artists working nationally and internationally.

The Pittsburgh Filmmakers galleries exhibit local and national artists with a focus in electronic media, photography/video and installation. As a resource for both prominent and emerging artists working locally or nationally, our mission is to promote a multidisciplinary approach to exhibiting in order to further develop artistic practice, technical prowess and the contemporary arts in Pittsburgh.

Mail or deliver completed applications to:

Pittsburgh Filmmakers/Pittsburgh Center for the Arts
Exhibitions Department

6300 Fifth Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15232

T: 412.361.0873
F: 412.361.8338

Pittsburgh Center for the Arts announces seven new exhibits opening on April 8, 2011.  Solo shows by artists Sung Rok Choi, Douglas Kinsey, and Michelangelo Lovelace Sr. are featured, as well as four group show presented by the Pittsburgh Society of Artists; Pittsburgh Print Group; Fiberarts Guild of Pittsburgh; and Associated Artists of Pittsburgh. All are on view through May 22.  An opening reception will be held on Friday evening, April 8, from 5:30 to 8:00pm. It is open to the public; $5 donation requested; free to PF/PCA members.

Artist talks:

April 28: Artist talk with Fiberarts Guild of Pittsburgh @ 6:00pm.
May 4: Lecture with Lenore Thomas, Assistant Professor and printmaker @ 6:30pm.
May 19: Artist talk with Michelangelo Lovelace and Doug Kinsey @ 6:00 pm.

Saturday Workshops (10:00am – 5:00pm):

April 16: “Intro to Printmaking” with Sharon Wilson Wilcox.
April 30: “Painterly Printmaking” with Paula Garrick Klein.
May 14: “Aquatint and Photo Transfer” with Tom Norulak.

Solo shows:

Call of Duty: Operation 100, Sung Rok Choi

Through video animation Choi reveals the relationship between his personal family history and 100 years of Korean political history. “Daedong River Slayers”  is a fictional/historical investigation into the USS General Sherman Incident of 1866 – the first conflict between Korea and the United States.  A video artist, sculpture and painter, Choi earned is BFA in Painting at Hongik University in Seoul, and is currently in the MFA program at Carnegie Mellon University.

Waking Into the Desert Dream, Doug Kinsey

A native of California, Kinsey is primarily a painter who’s lived in Pittsburgh for the last 15 years. In this show he presents a series of black and white charcoal drawings which are minimalist, meditative representations of the environment. His work has been exhibited locally, most notably the Carnegie Museum of Art, nationally, and internationally, including Japan; South Korea; Columbia; Canada; and Germany. Recently, one of Kinsey’s paintings, Semaphore 7, was selected by Artisan Wines as the name of one of their Portuguese red wines, and the label is a reproduction of his painting.

Living for the City, Michelangelo Lovelace Sr.

Lovelace’s vividly colored paintings are a visual documentation of contemporary life in urban America with a focus on social issues. His painting technique is acrylic on textured canvas, using a childlike style that is reminiscent of both folk art and outsider art. While living in the Hodge Artist Complex, the Cleveland native met folk artist Rev. Albert Wagner and began a long mentorship with him, which has greatly influenced his work.

Group shows:

Halo, presented by Pittsburgh Society of Artists

In this exhibit, juried by artist Michael Lotenero, local artists were encouraged to explore and interpret “halo.” Whether pertaining to divine endowments or to solar system science, the ethereal beauty of halos has grabbed the imagination since the beginning of time. The halo has held a significant place in the fields of both science and art.

Metaphor for Memory, presented by the Pittsburgh Print Group

Memory is the capacity of retaining and reviving, recalling and recognizing mental impressions.  It can be elusive or crystalline in its recall.  A flash of color, a quality of light – it can be the smallest trigger. In this exhibit, juried by Lenore D. Thomas, regional artists were asked to visually explore the power, function and universality of memory. Thomas is an Assistant Professor in the Studio Arts Department at the University of Pittsburgh.  She earned her MFA in Printmaking from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Unveiled, presented by the Fiberarts Guild of Pittsburgh, Inc.

The pieces in Unveiled offer a peek into their creative origins, clues that invite the viewer to come along on the artist’s journey and share the process by which inspiration becomes art. The viewer never sees the spark.  Was the trigger an object or poem, a sound or image, a shape or color or texture? Professor of Art at the University of Kentucky, Arturo Alonzo Sandoval is the juror for this show.

Extremes, presented by Associated Artists of Pittsburgh

Juried by artist and curator, Jill Larson, this exhibit invited its members to explore the range of the meaning of “extreme,” defined as opposite ends of a range, such as hot and cold, high and low, love and hate. The work in this exhibit expresses this concept through a variety of visual arts.

On the day of the screening, artists or artist representative will:
1. Drop off between 10 am and 12 pm a representation (2-3 works per media) of artwork.
2. Provide a brief Artist Statement.
3. Supply suggested retail price range.
4. Artists or artist representative will be required to pick up their work between 2 and 3 pm that same day.

Quality of work as well as the diversity of the work in comparison to existing inventory will drive the Screening Committee’s decisions. We are particularly interested in the artists overall “hand” in the creation of the finished work. Ex: artists must be creating elements of finished design, rather than working from purchased “blanks”.

Through performances, sdigital artifacts, and virtual environments, Golan Levin’s art applies creative twists to digital technologies, highlighting human connections with machines. At CMU, Levin is an Associate Professor of Electronic Art, with courtesy appointments in Computer Science and Design. He was recently named Director of the Studio for Creative Inquiry.  In this exhibit his audiovisual work explores the intersection of art, science and technology.  

Levin will give an Artist Talk on March 3 at 6:00pm.

The following exhibits were chosen from the annual call for solo/collaborative artists:

Motherlands, by Heidi Bender
Bender, currently the resident artist at Good Earth farm in Athens, Ohio, investigates the effect of technological globalization on the forming and keeping of personal relationships in her installations. She incorporates found maps, desks, scissors, performance and audio recordings in the works.

Ruination, by Seth Clark
Clark moved to Pittsburgh two years ago, and the Massachusetts native finds inspiration in the row houses and giant abandoned factories of the Steel City.  In his new series of drawings, materials such as paint, paper, charcoal and found objects are layered to create depth and reflect a structural decay of the architecture around him.

Midway, by Aaron Henderson
Henderson presents video installations from footage captured at state and county fairs in Indiana and South Carolina. The multi-channel videos examine the impromptu performances, staged competitions and visceral revelations that attendees experience while riding carnival rides.  Well acquainted with movement, Henderson threw himself into walls and off platforms for STREB Extreme Action, an acrobatic performance company. Currently, he’s an Assistant Professor in Studio Arts at the University of Pittsburgh.

The Space Between, by Anna E. Mikolay
Mikolay is a Western PA artist with a studio at Unsmoke Systems in Braddock. She
is creating a visual metaphor in her paintings, while exploring how the mind works – the wide gamut of multi tasking, making associations, shifting thoughts, and the calmness of a mind that has been quieted.

Pleasant Momentum, by Ian Page
Page is a Pittsburgh-based sculptor and videomaker. The installations and videos in this show play with the trajectory of flesh and technology. Page is interested in the cultural understanding of tissue as a measurement device for technology: the malleability of flesh juxtaposed with the rigidity of technology.

Rodin, by Henry J. Simonds
Pittsburgh-based writer, editor, producer and photographer presents Rodin, a series of 10 photographic images taken at the Musée Rodin in Paris.  He reinterprets Rodin’s iconic sculpture in his images, taken with a handheld Canon PowerShot at 1600 ASA and a very wide f-stop, creating a solarized effect that gives an ethereal quality to these leaden bronze and marble sculptures.

Rare Is the New Medium, by Gerald Van Scyoc
Ohio-based artist Gerald Van Scyoc has been painting for more than 20 years, but has also worked in video and graphic design. About this exhibit he says, “It’s a fun play on words but it can also be read as saying that, in this show of mostly traditional oil on canvas paintings, the ‘new’ mediums are rare. I see my work, especially the current pieces, as giant Rorschach blots.”