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CALL FOR ARTISTS

Sweetwater's Annual Student & Instructor Exhibition

DEADLINE:Tuesday, February 28^th, 2012
6:00-8:00 pm

Cathedral Pigeon by Tara Zalewsky-Nease

Reception: Friday, March 2, 2012 6:00-8:00pm (in conjunction with our Open House)

Each year, Sweetwater reserves its gallery to showcase the rich talent of its students and instructors. Sweetwater offers more than 500 classes annually, taught by artists and educators with outstanding qualifications, beginning at age 3-adult in a variety of artistic media. All students and instructors from 2011 are invited to participate in this exhibition. Please join us as we celebrate the creativity of Sweetwater's students & instructors!

 

 

Call for Artists

In the Belly of the Beast

Entry Dealine: Friday, May 4, 2012
Exhibition Dates: June 30-July 28, 2012
Reception: Saturday, June 30, 7:00-9:00 p.m.

Run Through the Jungle - Don't Look Back
by Cynthia Shaffer

Artists are encouraged to submit work for this stirring exhibition. The raw force of nature unleashed. The soul of a beast exposed. The sheer power of entities not made by man that humble humanity into feeling small. This exhibit will reveal the essence of the organic: plants, animals, water, earth, sky, fire. Not in the safe, controllable way people see them, but instead showing the dynamic strength and ungovernable temperament that they truly possess. Selected art will focus on Mother Earth in an unaccustomed way. Work may also express the contradiction of what is man-made versus wild. All media accepted; no size restrictions. For more information, visit www.SweetwaterArtCenter.org/call-for-artists-2/.

This exhibition is juried by Cynthia Shaffer, who built her art career in New York, Chicago and Phoenix before moving to Pittsburgh in 1990. She currently divides her time between henna tattooing, teaching art, taking photographs of animals at the Butler County Humane Society, volunteering at the ARL Wildlife Center, and working on her own art. Using bones, dead bugs, stones, feathers and other natural elements, Shaffer creates intricate patterns and mandala designs that juxtapose these components. Her objective is to show the beauty in things most people find repellent. "The color of a Japanese beetle is more exquisite than I can paint. The curve of a pelvic bone is more graceful than I can design. It fascinates me."

The opening reception of In the Belly of the Beast will be attended by Pennsylvania creatures saved by the Animal Rescue League Wildlife Rehabilitation Center, with photographs and information about their organization.