From Virginians for the Arts We have entered what is scheduled to be the final week of the 2010 Session, and reports from our advocates who have spoken with budget conferees suggest that there remains the possibility for a significant, further cut in funding for arts grants through the Virginia Commission for the Arts. We are guardedly optimistic that the notion of eliminating the Commission entirely is no longer under serious consideration, but a cut in funding of as much as 50% remains a possibility.
Read more and get contact info for legislators online.
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McGuffey Art Center
201 Second Street NW, Charlottesville
Connecting to the World as an Artist: Identifying and moving past limitations to success
Presented by PCA and Jessica Thayer of Insight Dynamics
The creative process and the daily diving to create art require a specific kind of concentration and awareness. It is dramatically different than the focus that connects, nurtures and sustains a presence in the world. Many artists find this focus on a public presence challenging.
In this workshop, Jessica explores some of the reasons why artists may undermine their own success. She offers tips for a more aligned way to move between the inner world of creating and the outer world of connection.
Learn more about Jessica’s work at online. Workshop participants may arrange a complimentary half hour consultation with Jessica after the program.
FREE for PCA Members, $5 for non-members.
Registration required.
TO REGISTER, EMAIL info@charlottesvillearts.org or call 434.971.2787.
Don’t miss Art Drinks this Wednesday at Fellini’s #9! Join fellow arts lovers for great happy hour specials and conversation.
Don’t miss your chance to win a pair of tickets to Hank Williams: Lost Highway at Live Arts, a pair of tickets to “REVEL” at The Bridge, and a copy of the book “Some Say Tomato,” compiled by PCA Board Member Mariflo Stephens.
Special thanks to Fellini’s for donating 15% of Art Drinks bar sales to PCA!
Fellini’s #9
200 Market Street
Charlottesville – 434.979.4279
Low Strung Cellos breaks out of the classical cello repertoire to venture into the realm of classic rock and pop. Founded in 2005 at Yale University, they will be touring though Virginia next week and will perform Thursday, March 11th from 5-6pm at the McGuffey Art Center! Admission is free, so stop by after work!
Join children from six schools in our community (Brownsville, Burnley-Moran, Jackson-Via, Johnson, Murray and Venable), Paul Reisler (the founder and leader of Trapezoid and the Kid Pan Alley children’s songwriting project), Terri Allard (Kid Pan Alley Charlottesville-Albemarle Project Director) and the Kid Pan Alley Band (John D’earth, Andy Waldeck, Nate Brown, Steve Van Dam, Mark Maynard) along with special guests: Trees on Fire, Charlie Pastorfield, Bob Girard, Ian Gilliam, Carleigh Nesbit, Carl Anderson and seniors from Mountainside Senior Living and the JABA community as they perform songs written during Kid Pan Alley residencies this school year, as well as songs from the Charlottesville-Albemarle Kid Pan Alley CD, “I Used to Know the Names of All the Stars.”
Joining students and professional musicians for a song will be community members from Mountainside Senior Living who participated in a Kid Pan Alley intergenerational residency at Brownsville Elementary School this past fall. The seniors will be performing a song they wrote based on stories shared with 5th graders.
The concert will be held at Martin Luther King, Jr. Performing Arts Center at 1400 Melbourne Road. Tickets are $5 for children 12 and under; $10 for adults. They can be purchased online or at any of the following outlets: THe GAMe PLACe, Charlottesville Music, Heinz Musitronics, Trailside Coffee. Tickets will also be available at the MLKPAC Box Office the day of the concert. Proceeds from the concert will benefit Kid Pan Alley’s songwriting program in area schools.
Choreographer and dancer Dinah Gray and composer and installation artist Peter Traub will premiere their new work for dance and live electronics on March 5th (First Friday) at McGuffey Art Center in Studio 11. In “Study No. 1 for Bodies, Metal, and Air,” dancers use shaped sheets of steel to interact with feedback between four speakers and four microphones. The movement of bodies and objects interferes with the feedback, changing the pitches and textures by changing the acoustics of the space. After each performance, which will last around twelve minutes, the audience will be invited to play with the objects and explore the environment themselves. The piece will be performed by dancers Lisa Eller, Rose Pasquarello Beauchamp, Aaron Wine Goldman, and Dinah Gray, with sound composed and objects sculpted by Peter Traub.
Stop by Studio 11 at McGuffey this Friday at 6:00, 6:30, or 7:00 PM. Ticket for adults are $5, admission for children under 12 is FREE.
Monumental Sculptors: ArtInPlace invites artists to submit large sculptures to install along the highways or along our new pedestrian greenway in Charlottesville for one year. A $1500 stipend is awarded to each of 10 selected artists. The deadline for submissions is July 1, 2010. For more information and to download the application, visit ArtInPlace online or call 434.979.5388.
A PCA Member just passed along information about a recent film that looks at the historical and societal challenges faced by women artists. The film is called Who Does She Think She Is.
Visit the website and check out the trailer below to learn more:
The deadline to submit entries to Women’s Health Virginia’s juried art show, Reflecting Women’s Wellness 2010, is March 1 at 5 p.m.
The exhibit will run from April 3 to 24 at the Atrium of the James Center in Richmond and April 25 to May 23 at the Richmond Marriott West in Glen Allen.
Artists (male and female) from Virginia who are age 18 and over can submit up to two original works for the $25 entry fee. Submissions by male artists must have women or girls as the subject. Pieces can be in any medium and must be two-dimensional and no larger than 32” x 40” (including frame). Entries can be made by photo or digital print (up to 8½” x 11’’) and sent to Women’s Health Virginia, 1924 Arlington Blvd., Ste 203, Charlottesville, VA 22903 or by electronic submission.
The judges for the show are Andrea Douglas, Curator of Collections & Exhibits at the University of Virginia Art Museum; Maggie Guggenheimer, Executive Director of the Piedmont Council for the Arts; and Holly Morrison, Chair of the Department of Painting and Printmaking at Virginia Commonwealth University. They will award first, second, and third place cash prizes of $150, $100, and $50, respectively. The awards will be presented on the day the show opens.
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Don’t miss Art Drinks this Wednesday at 
Join children from six schools in our community (Brownsville, Burnley-Moran, Jackson-Via, Johnson, Murray and Venable), Paul Reisler (the founder and leader of Trapezoid and the Kid Pan Alley children’s songwriting project), Terri Allard (Kid Pan Alley Charlottesville-Albemarle Project Director) and the Kid Pan Alley Band (John D’earth, Andy Waldeck, Nate Brown, Steve Van Dam, Mark Maynard) along with special guests: Trees on Fire, Charlie Pastorfield, Bob Girard, Ian Gilliam, Carleigh Nesbit, Carl Anderson and seniors from Mountainside Senior Living and the 
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