The Flat Iron Artists' Association is proud to announce the fall smARTshow.
September 12, 13 & 14, 2008
Accepted guest artists will have 8 to10 feet of running wall space to display their work. Displays will be located in the Flat Iron Arts Building and local businesses participating in the festival.
Space is limited, please respond ASAP.
This three day event will feature the work of over 100 visual artists and include non-stop music and spoken word performances in multiple venues throughout the Wicker Park Buck Town neighborhood.
The participation fee for guest artists is $50.
If you are interested in participating, please reply to this invitation and request an application which will be e-mailed to you.
Accepted artists will be notified by August 1st, 2008. Once accepted, you will be asked to send in your $50. fee. There is no jury fee, pay nothing until after you're notified.
Feel free to contact Kevin Lahvic @ 708-415-6370 if you have any questions.
Sunday, July 13, 2008
smARTshow wants you!
Florian Retkowski - Studio 311
Florian Retkowski got his masters degree from the Academy of Fine Arts in 1979 in Gdansk in some part of the world, "globalization" he calls it. Wallesa was born there too! He now works as a freelancer doing mostly sculpture. Florian has several girlfriends including frogs, ducks, horses and one or two nudes as well. If you want to know more about him or what he does he says to stop by his place and ask him personally..
Saturday, July 12, 2008
Hiromi Tanaka - Studio 227
"Having always enjoyed observing nature and the world around me, my painting provides me an optimum method for recording such impressions. My work focuses primarily on the beautiful combinations of colors and forms that I am exposed to every day. I begin each painting with simple iconography that I build upon layer by layer. It is this layering which allows my simple statements to be presented with balance and subtlety." Hiromi Tanaka - Studio 227 Visit her gallery in here http://www.theflatironproject.com/Hiromi/index.html
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
JAIK WILLIS - Gallery
He's a musician, he plays this style of music with a social consciousness that is enhanced by a fast paced rhythm and his voice that has been described as "a most unique soaring falsetto ". He's beard is loooong and a wild red and his socks never match. Jaik willis is also a prolific visual artist that creates the poster artwork for his gigs that he plays at, which are many and all across the country.
His page in MySpace
He has a most unique soaring falsetto and a wild eyes rolled in the back of his head fierce guitar style. He writes original songs, including a fantastic song about Freedom (the gas station). Jaik's sound is somewhere between Anti-Folk and The Band and it is unlike anything I've heard from anyone else. His energy is fierce, his vocal range is inhuman, his beard is long. You've gotta check this guy out.
- ( Independent Media Center 8/03)
