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March Art Walk Encounters Punk Art. David Ensminger, curator of "The Secret History of Punk Rock: Visual Vitriol", discussed the exhibition of Punk Rock posters that were on view in DIVA's Main Gallery starting during March's First Friday Art walk. Ensminger, a University of Oregon Folklore graduate student, curated a collection of punk posters and flyers, also known as urban folk art, instant Xerox art, and street style vernacular expressions. The exhibit focused on do-it-yourself, often handmade posters that surveyed over 30 years of subculture history. (Photo: Gary Ferrington)

New Exhibits Director. DIVA is pleased to welcome our new Exhibits Director, Katura Reynolds! Katura (a nickname for Kathryn) and her husband have just moved here from Poulsbo, Washington and we were fortunate to have her apply for our open position.
    Katura brings considerable experience in gallery and museum work, but she also has significant experience in art education programs and volunteer management.  "I’am particularly excited about DIVA’s focus on building community through art as encompassed by the Artist Services program."
    Among her many talents, Katura is a member of the Guild of Natural Science Illustration. Her environmental work has given her hands-on experience in building strategic partnerships which she hopes to employ "to create a sustainable habitat for artists and the economy to thrive hand-in-hand."
Reynolds has been working in galleries and museums for more than 10 years. Her humble beginnings in the field included repainting walls and sewing up rips in the rubbery skin of robotic dinosaurs. She moved on to work on educational exhibits at the Huntington Library in southern California, and the "Plants Are Up to Something" exhibition that she helped create was recently awarded the Grand Prize for Excellence in Exhibits by the American Association of Museums. A freelance science illustrator, Reynolds is enjoying the chance to work with Eugene's thriving art community.
    We invite you to come by and meet Katura and to offer your help as volunteers to ease her into her DIVA transition. 

Teen Screenwriting Workshops. DIVA'S Arts Education program offers a series of three April and May Saturday workshops for teens on the basics of screenwriting. Local video educator Jon Labrousse provides instruction and support.
    The workshop series begins with the basics of conceptualizing an idea or a "seed" for a story and developing it into a series of shoot-able scenes given the resources teens have available.
    The "next step" is covered in a second workshop as teens take their outline and actually start to write a script giving attention to the process and techniques of telling a film story
    Finally, participants have an opportunity to get feedback from their peers before revising their script and having in hand a story they can actually produce.
    Workshops begin on April 26th and continue through May 3rd and 17th. Each workshop is two hours long and runs from 12:30pm to 2:30pm.
    Registration is $25 per workshop or $60 for all three. Participants can ensure a place in by registering in advance at . Teens are encouraged to develop screenplays that they can film and possibly entered in the local annual YouthVision Film Festival. See Class and Workshop web site for more details.

ART Talks Are Back. Eric Ostlind, DIVA's Program Director, has brought back the DIVA Art Talk series. In March Demetrius Gonzales kicked off the series when he discussed his photographic show at DIVA and his approach to nude photography and the capturing the human form on film. Also in March, installation artist Adam Rupniewski presented "iTeraTion" a lecture and slide show about his DIVA installation exhibit.
   Two more ART Talks are scheduled this spring. Photographer John Spragens presents a noontime lecture and slide program on April 18th about his progression from photographing jazz musicians to creating the Jazz in Motion abstracts that will on view at DIVA through April. Then, sculptor Jud Turner will discuss his works, formed from welded steel 3/32" rods and his creation process in bringing it about at noon on May 16th. Turner's work will be on exhibit throughout the month. Noontime ART Talks encourage participants to bring a brownbag lunch and enjoy daytime activities at the Center. (Photo: Adam Rupniewski "iTeraTion")

Spring Calendar Full Of Exciting Workshops. Eric Ostlind, DIVA's Program Director, is offering a wide range of workshops and classes this Spring. Here's a listing of coming sessions. Check out the full descriptive schedule online.

  • Saturdays April, 5-12-19-26 - Screenwriting with Thomas Blank
  • Sunday, April 6 - Great Film Directors Seminar Series
  • Wednesdays April 9th-May 28th - Expressionist Acrylic Painting
  • Friday, April 11 - Career Development for Artists
  • Sunday April 13 - Nude Photography with Natural Light
  • Videomaker's Forum and Slam
  • Wednesday April 16 - Copic Marker Rendering Basics
  • Saturday, April 19 - DIY Screenings and Touring: How to organize a film and video screening tour of your work
  • Tuesday April 22 - Copic Marker Rendering Basics
  • Saturday, April 26 - Screenwriting Workshop for Teens Part 1: "From Seed to Scene." (Continued in May)

New Seminar Features Work of Great Film Directors. DIVA's new Great Film Directors Seminar series will screen and discuss two motion pictures by a renowned film director on the first Sunday of each month. Each free seminar provides an overview of a selected director's body of work and engages participant discussion about the films screened. Former Hollywood director, and current DIVA Screenwriting instructor, Thomas Blank, will lead the seminar. Spring series includes: April 6 - Film Directors Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, May 4 - Federico Fellini, and June 1 - François Truffaut. See Great Directors Seminar web site for more information

Career Development Workshops for Artists at DIVA. A Career Alternatives in the Arts workshop will be offered on Friday, April 11th at 10 AM, followed in an afternoon workshop on Health and Safety Issues for Artists at 1:00 PM.  The fee is $10 at the door.
   Career Alternatives in the Arts participants will explore the many career options beyond teaching and commercial galleries. Participants will begin with basic questions for themselves such as, how do I define success, and who is my audience?  Artists will gain a better understanding of the kinds of exhibition spaces, artist residency and grants programs available to them. Starting a business and the "D.I.Y" approach also will be discussed to investigate different ways of making a life in the arts.  Many alternative programs to help artists cut costs and "think outside the box" will be considered.
   Participants in the Health and Safety Issues workshop will explore the 1999 the Environmental Protection Agency that began to focus on Art Departments in Colleges and Universities looking at how the studio environment with its equipment, ventilation systems, and materials stood up to various environmental laws. At the time, the picture wasn't’t good. Since then, a mini-revolution has taken hold in institutions and arts organizations across the country with many organizations and schools doing voluntary self-audits or self policing initiatives. This presentation will review the history of this movement, the results and current actions taking place to promote healthier environments for artists on campuses, in studios and art organizations today.
   The workshop sponsor, the College Art Association, is the largest professional organization for both art historians and visual artists in the United States with a total membership of 16,500 individuals and institutions. As part of its services to the field, CAA is offering ten, career-development workshops for artists during 2007 and 2008. These national workshops are supported by a generous grant from the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation. Topics are chosen in discussion with each venue and its constituents and range in format and subject in order to provide relevant and useful career-development counsel. For more information please email CAA Career Development Consultant, Melissa Potter at .

CALENDAR: MARCH EVENTS

Saturdays, April 5, 12, 19, and 16 - Workshop: Screenwriting with Thomas Blank
Time: 9am - Noon
Cost $20 per class session with minimum registration of 4 required
~~ Class sessions are devoted to review of student work and issues related to premise development, outline, draft, and revision of a script. Along the way structure, character, and form are emphasized.

Saturday, April 5 - Screening: 2007 Academy Award Nominated Short Films
Cost: $6.00 each program.
Times: 7:00pm Nominated Best Live Action Shorts/ 9:45pm Nominated Best
Animated Shorts.
~~ Don't miss this rare opportunity to see all the films nominated for Best Animated Short and Best Live Action Short at the 2007 Academy Awards.

Sunday, April 6 - Seminar: Great Film Directors Series
Time: 1pm to 6:30pm
Fee: FREE Registration required at door or
~~ DIVA's new Great Film Directors Seminar series will screen and discuss two motion pictures by a renowned film director on the first Sunday of each month. The films of the directing/writing/producing team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, also known as "The Archers", will be featured in the first seminar. Former Hollywood director, and current DIVA Screenwriting instructor, Thomas Blank, will lead the seminar.

Wednesdays April 9-May 28 - Workshop: Expressionist Acrylic Painting
Time: 6:30-8:30pm
Fee: $80 + $10 materials fee.
~~Learn to paint in the German Expressionist tradition, with pure color, and draw in a representational but stylized way. Instructor Klopfer will show you how to put a drawing on to canvas and apply bold colors with passion. In this class students will be using a direct non-academic approach to painting, while having fun too. Some color mixing instruction will be covered as well.

Friday, April 11- Workshop: Career Development for Artists
Time: 10am -2pm
Cost: $10.00 at door
~~ Career development for artists workshop examining alternatives in the arts and health and safety issues for artists. This is a collaboration of the College Art Association, Oregon State University and the University of Oregon.

Friday, April 11 - Screening: Don Hunter Tribute
Time: 7pm
Cost: $5. Student/Member $3.
~~ DIVA salutes audiovisualist Don Hunter's lifetime of documenting through image and sound the landscape of the Pacific Northwest. Multimedia sound-slide program with Q&A.

Saturday, April 12 - Screening: "Depraved" Eugene premier by Henry Weintraub
Time: 7pm
Fee: $3
~~ "Depraved" is Henry Weintraub's latest horror flick is the story of a woman paralyzed and held captive for weeks. She eventually escapes and seeks revenge on everyone who has wronged her. (This film contains content which may be objectionable to some viewers.)

Sunday, April 13 - Workshop: Nude Photography with Natural Light
Time: 11:00am -3:00 pm
Fee: $125 + $25 model fee -non-commercial ($50 for commercial release).
~~ Learn how to creatively use natural light in photographing the human form using primarily natural light in this half-day workshop with Demetrius Gonzalez. Participants will work with a model to create and capture the particular personality, time, place, mood, light, with their camera. All experience levels welcome, Demetrius will be available for instruction on an as needed basis.

Wednesday, April 16 or Tuesday, April 22 - Workshop: Copic Marker Rendering Basics
Time: 6:30-8:30 pm
Fee: Cost: $35. Materials provided. Registration DEADLINE April
11th. Late registration subject to available space.
~~ Explore the world of Copic markers. This special workshop covers choosing papers, inking, marker color theory, blending, techniques & special effects, as well as using mixed media. Appropriate for illustration, fine art, graphic design, architecture, and comic design, you'll learn to maximize your creative technique with these pens.

Friday, April 18, 2008 - Art Talk: John Spragens
Time: 12 Noon Bring your lunch!
Fee: Free
~~ Photographer John Spragens presents a brown bag noon lecture and slide show on his progression from photographing jazz musicians to creating the Jazz in Motion abstracts that will on view at DIVA through April.

Friday, April 18 - Tuff Stuff From The Buff - Experimental, Diary, Activist Film and Video From The Fringes of Buffalo, NY
Time: 7:00 PM
Cost: $5. Student and Member: $3.
~~~ Far enough off the radar to remain subversive but close enough to it to know what's hot and what's not, Buffalo has developed a tradition and an aesthetic all its own. This aesthetic can be both intellectual and extremely quirky, often at the same time. Artists here "dismantle media" in several senses. Many literally take apart computers and cameras to reconfigure them for their own purposes. Others appropriate existing footage to create new media with new meanings. Still others use media to expose contradictions in contemporary society and create interventions into daily routines. Other approaches include lo-fi diaristic and personal videos, collage/re-appropriated imagery, non-narrative abstractions, super 8 poetics, activist media, and elements of live performance. It's a space where vacant postindustrial ghostlands merge with the spiritual, or something like that. Work by Tony Conrad, Jodi Lafond, Meg Knowles, Kelly Spivey, David Gracon, Terry Cuddy, Marc Moscato, Julie Perini, and many others will be screened. Visiting artists David Gracon and Julie Perini will host.

Sunday, April 20 - Artist Salon "Tackling Pricing: Let's Do It Together"
Time: 4:00 PM
Cost: $3 public/ Free Members
~~~ Come join fellow artists at DIVA for an inspiring opportunity to collaborate on one of the most difficult topics every artist faces, "How should I price my work?" This workshop will use a group critique format and will focus specifically on pricing. Participants should bring up to 3 pieces of artwork and be prepared to discuss their strategies and questions regarding pricing these artworks. Participants may also bring price sheets and sales policies for critique. Bring something tasty to share. Current DIVA members may bring one or two examples of their artwork for the Members' Gallery selection. Members may propose exhibits as individuals, pairs, or groups, as long as everyone is a current member.

Saturday, April 26 - Workshop: Screenwriting for Teens: Part 1 "From Seed to Scene"
Time: 12:30pm - 2:30pm
Fee: $25
~~ The basic concept will be to take a seed idea for a story and develop it into shoot-able scenes (not a script, but the skeleton of a script). Students will leave with a list of shoot-able scenes they need to write a script for.

Full Calendar Detail On The DIVA Center Web Site.

EXHIBITS: APRIL

April Opening. The opening reception for this month's exhibiting artists will by on is Friday, April 7th from 5:30-8:30 pm. The exhibits run through Saturday, April 26th, with the exception of "Creator and Spectator," which runs until April 12th.

John Spragens -  "JAM: Jazz in Motion". Spragens has been photographing musicians during their performances for more than five years. The "Jazz in Motion" series is an offshoot of this theme, taking the experiment to more abstract dimensions. Spragens leaves the shutter open for long exposures as the musicians move with the music, stage lights glinting off their instruments. These large photographs highlight the energy that musicians bring to their performances. Spragens began serious photography at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida, and has documented life from Texas wheat fields to Southeast Asian rice paddies, from the crowded streets of Tokyo to the throngs gathered for bike week in Daytona Beach. "Jazz in Motion" celebrates the performers who bring us this inventive music.

Ann Dingledy - "One Printmaker—Textures". Dingledy first studied printmaking at Fredonia State University and later earned her MFA in printmaking at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, N.Y. "I fell in love with first dry point, then etching, with acids running them off on wet rag paper on the big black press under thick white felt print blankets," she recalls. This series of intaglio prints explores texture as a distinctive complex underlying pattern or structure. Works such as "How to Shake and Bake a Duck the American Way" and "The Intellectual Rat Revolution" recall her thesis work in intaglio caricatures. Complementing the intaglio work are a miniature silkscreen/collages as well as samples of how the artist has extended her printmaking style into ceramic panels. Dingledy's work, primarily black and white, is stylistically influenced of by the drawings of Aubrey Beadsley but arrives at an expression that is uniquely her own.

Mike E. Walsh—"The Declaration of Innocence Before the Tribunal." This exhibit is part of Walsh's  "Waiting for the World to Change" series. Inspired by his travels through the Middle East and Egypt in 2004, the installation draws on Egyptian mythology and Percy Shelly's poem "Ozymandius"  to allude to the fallen kingdom of Ramses II. Maps, toy soldiers, and ammunition boxes  reframe the ancient imagery in the context of modern conflicts in the Middle East. Walsh's site-specific installations have been shown at many museums and galleries in Oregon, and have also been displayed in California, New York, Australia, and China. His work has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Creative Time Foundation, the Andy Warhol Foundation, and the Art Matters Foundation. Walsh's work "explores the gap between art and life with objects and language."

Cascadia Wildlands Project—"Wildlands, Wildlife, Wild Beauty". This exhibit weaves art, ecology, activism, and wilderness experience into a vibrant interpretation of Oregon's wild places and conservation movement. From photos that capture the art inherent in natural forms to short films illuminating the struggle to protect endangered Oregon ecosystems, "Wildlands, Wildlife, Wild Beauty" explores the political, ecological, economic, and spiritual elements of wildland conservation. The Cascadia Wildlands Project is a grassroots conservation movement founded in 1997 by a group of experienced forest activists. The organization has strong ties with local artists who donate works to auctions and other special events, and is proud to showcase their work in the galleries at DIVA.

 

 

Helen Liu—"Creator and Spectator: Interactive Art". "Creator and Spectator: Interactive Art with Helen Liu"  is an art project scheduled to begin on April 1 and end on April 12 at DIVA (Downtown Initiative for the Visual Arts) in downtown Eugene. Children ages 4 to12 are invited to make art in the gallery with artist Helen Liu in this experimental creative project. The main exhibit hall will be turned into a studio temporarily. The two-week event will be documented with a video and still photos. This video and works in progress will be shown at the First Friday Art Walk on April 4th at the end of the first week. Work continues into the second week. A wide variety of image-creating materials will be used. They may include the following: pencils, crayons, markers, paints and glue on paper, canvas, plywood, foam core, and aluminum foil. Collage is possible with a variety of papers and other recyclables. Interested families should call DIVA at , or visit in person at 110 West Broadway, to sign up for specific studio times. Drop-ins are possible on a space available basis. Children under 10 should be accompanied by responsible adults. Says Liu of her inspiration, "Over the years, as I made art with, and taught art classes to, children of all ages, I've come to appreciate and love the boundless energy and unabashed insights that children bring to the process of art making. There is power in the simplicity and the immediacy of their work. Watching and working with them afford me a window into my own untapped potential—potential that perhaps was once there but is now hidden.
 
DIVA Members Gallery - "Watercolors: Scenes Local and Nearby" by Ed Tryk. While Tryk's watercolors have been exhibited in group events such as the Mayor's Art Show in Eugene, Oregon, DIVA is proud to host his first solo show. These luminous transparent watercolors, all painted within the last few years, feature familiar places in Eugene and the artist's friends and family. Says Tryk of his working style, "Watercolor painting suits my temperament. I can work rapidly and loosely when I want…I can also become very detailed. I try to allow my intellect and intuition to work together when painting a picture." Recently retired from a fulfilling career as a clinical psychologist, he appreciates the chance to take on art as a serious second vocation. Tryk's painting style has been influenced markedly by the impressionistic traditions in Western art and by early Japanese wood-block printing and ink-and-brush painting. "The philosophy of Taoism gives me an intellectual tool box that helps me think about my art. There is always Yin and Yang. There is always figure and ground. It is the tension between one pole and the other that creates interest in art," he explains.

COMMUNITY: NEWS
News of Area Non-Profit Arts Organizations:

Master of Fine Arts 2008. The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, the Department of Art, and School of Architecture and Allied Arts present an exhibition of the work of the 2008 MFA graduates in Art. The exhibit runs May 3 – June 15, 2008. FREE Preview Reception: Friday, May 2, 5:30 – 8 p.m.

Faster, Higher, Farther: The Spirit of Track & Field Sports. The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art will host an exhibit of photography by David Burnett, Kenneth Jarecke, Dilip Mehta, and Annie Leibovitz that captures the speed, power, endurance of Olympic class athletes past and present. The exhibit, prepared by Contact Press Images, New York, features arguably the most famous images of past Olympic games, trials and relays of these extraordinary athletes including Carl Lewis, Michael Johnson, and Mary Decker Slaney. The exhibit runs June 18 - September 7, 2008. FREE Reception: Wednesday, June 25, 5:30 – 8 p.m.

Jacobs Gallery News. A new exhibit from April 4 – May 17, will feature the work of Jay Backstrand–Laura Russo Gallery artists/curated by Craig Spilma.

New Zone Art Gallery. New Zone celebrates its 25th Silver Anniversary with Zone4All running April 4th through 25th. The gallery is open Tuesday through Saturday 12-6pm.

Emerald Art Center. The Third Annual Emerald Spring Exhibition - a National Juried show runs April 29-May 31. Gallery hours are Tuesday-Saturday 11am to 4pm. The Center is located at 500 Main Street in Springfield.

Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art. Works by Renoir, Pissarro, Signac, Martin and Cézanne are on exhibit through June 8 at the Schnitzer 1430 Johnson Lane on the University of Oregon campus. Admission $5.

Willow Basket Workshop for Adults. Give yourself the luxury of a day for yourself, learning a new skill, and being in great company! Experience the joys of weaving with natural materials straight from the garden. I have 4 species of willow with different colored barks and textures to choose from. I will teach you how to twine and do random weave, resulting in a basket about 8” across and 8” tall. Learn about willow cultivation, and take home some cuttings. Sat., April 5, 2008, 10 am to 5 pm Cost: $40 To register, contact Donna Sakamoto Crispin at , The workshop will be at my home, and I’ll give you directions.

Executive Director Search at Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art. Applications are being accepted for a new Executive Director of the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art. The Executive Director provides strategic leadership in all areas of museum development and operations, and must foster campus, community, statewide and regional support for the Museum and its mission. With approximately 17 employees and 85 student employees and volunteers, the museum provides an important teaching, research, and learning environment for University of Oregon (UO) students and faculty, community school-aged students, and the community at large. For additional information regarding the position, established qualifications, and application procedures, see UO’s website.

Late 19th-century French paintings - at Schnitzer. Five paintings by well-known French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painters will be on exhibit in the museum’s European Gallery. The paintings include works by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1), Paul Cézanne (1839–1906), Camille Pissarro (1), Paul Signac (1), and Henri Martin (1). Show runs through June 8, 2008.

Very Victorian Romance Exhibit. Victorian Romance: hearts and flowers from the Victorian era to brighten a winter’s day and usher in the spring. View romantic postcards, learn about the language of flowers, see pictures of weddings at Shelton-McMurphey-Johnson House since 1893, and discover what may or may not have changed in our attitudes toward romance. Collections, clothing, toys and household items will also be displayed. Exhibit continues through May.

OPPORTUNITIES:

Open Studios Art Tour 2008 - Call For Artists. DIVA invites artists in Eugene/Springfield and surrounding communities to participate in DIVA's 2008 Open Studios Art Tour. This event takes place over two weekends in October. The tour is self-guided and invites the public to visit studios on the Saturday and Sunday of each weekend to participate in demonstrations and purchase art directly from local artists. Artists from all disciplines are encouraged to apply,
   The Tour will be held from 11 am to 6 pm on October 18th, 19th, 25th and 26th. All sale of art during the tour will go to the individual artists. A preview exhibit by participating artists will be held 6 weeks prior to the Studio Tour at DIVA. A 35% commission will be taken on the art sold at the preview exhibition.
   DIVA will promote artists' work through the sale of a full-color 15-month calendar that will include a studio map and act as the event ticket. These calendars will be available at DIVA and at bookstores and other venues around town. For full details and how to participate download the Studio Tour Application (pdf) Deadline: April 19.

Call to Artist - Jacobs Gallery. The Jacobs Gallery is accepting proposals from artists and organizations for exhibitions from January 2009 through December 2010. Proposals must be postmarked by April 24, 2008 or hand delivered to the Jacobs Gallery no later than 4pm on Friday, April 24, 2008. The entry form has been mailed. If you are not on the Jacobs Gallery mailing list, forms can be picked up at the Jacobs Gallery and a number of places around town. You can call the Jacobs Gallery office and one will be mailed to you, or the Gallery can email a pdf version. Phone: Email:

Learn to sell your art online. The Small Business Development Center at Linn-Benton Community College offers "Building an Online Presence for Artists" at the Corvallis Benton Center, 3:00pm-5:00pm, beginning April 10 for seven Thursday afternoons. Learn to sell your art online. Pam Van Londen, artist, business woman, and instructor for Computer Science will provide you with the instruction you need to develop a web site, gallery and shopping cart for your work. Cost is $245. Call to reserve your space.

Maude Kerns 2008 Art and the Vineyard. Art and the Vineyard is the Northwest's premier art, wine, and music festival, staged along the banks of the Willamette River in Eugene's Alton Baker Park. This year's 25th annual Art and the Vineyard will take place July 4-6, 2008. The Artists' Marketplace features over 140 artist booths located in the heart of the festival. This year, we strongly encourage artists to make Reservations early! Due to the Olympic Trials, we expect to have an additional 15,000 visitors per day in town during Art and the Vineyard. Download: 2008 Artists' Marketplace Prospectus (PDF)

Maude Kerns 2008 Track Town USA: Celebrating Track and Field Sports. The Art Center is currently accepting submissions for an upcoming juried exhibit based on the theme of track and field sports. The exhibit coincides with the 2008 Olympic Track and Field Trails at historic Hayward Field in Eugene. Download: 2008 Track Town USA (PDF)

Maude Kerns 2 Exhibits Prospectus. The Art Center is currently accepting submissions for its 2 exhibit schedule. Regional, national, and international artists working in 2- and 3-dimensional mediums, as well as installation art, with or without video components, are invited to submit their work for consideration. Solo, group, and/or themed shows will be created based on the content, quality, and number of submissions. Download: 2 Prospectus. (PDF).

Call for Entries - Cottage Grove Film Festival.We are currently accepting submissions from local filmmakers for entry into the first Cottage Grove Regional Film Festival. Entries may be of any length and may be submitted in VHS, DVD, or Digital form (DVD preferred NTSC format required). Copies please not originals. All genres are welcome but entries should showcase the local flavor, history, inhabitants, or scenery of Lane County. All submissions of any length will be considered for inclusion by a panel, and those chosen will be notified by email. Documentary and animated submissions also welcome. Please include a Logline of the submission (A logline is a short, approximately 25-word, description of the film) in the original email. Submission deadline April 16th 2008. Request further submission guidelines by emailing James at

Documentary Challenge. After a sold-out screening in 2007, The International Documentary Challenge returns to Hot Docs in April 2008! Registration for the 3rd annual Doc Challenge, held March 6-10, 2008, opens on January 7, 2008. The Doc Challenge is a timed filmmaking competition where filmmakers from around the world have just 5 days to make a short non- fiction film. Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Film Festival, the Presenting Partner, will once again host the theatrical premiere of the finalists and the awards ceremony during the Festival. After the premiere of the finalists, showcases of regionally produced films will be held, including a Film Action Oregon sponsored screening in Portland, an IDA sponsored screening in Los Angeles, a SILVERDOCS sponsored screening in Washington DC, a Big Sky Documentary Film Festival screening in Montana, a DOC sponsored screening in Toronto, a Northwest Film Forum sponsored screening in Seattle and many more! Additionally, a Best of DVD will be released and television distribution will be pursued by a distribution partner. Complete details and entry forms can be found online.

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Art Show: Artists' opportunities are posted in order by entry deadline and include calls for artists to exhibit in art shows, exhibitions, festivals & fine art competitions.

Regional Arts & Culture council (Portland). Competition entries are entered the first of each month. Excellent resource.

WEB: EXPLORATIONS

Los Angeles County Museum of Art: Videos and Podcasts. Art lovers who can't make it down to 5905 Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles will enjoy mulling over some of the videos and podcasts presented on this site. Currently, the site has over fifty different programs, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art will continue to add new programs over the coming months. In the "Current Features" area, visitors can take a walk through the new museum campus and also learn a bit about an exhibition that highlights the work of Salvador Dali. Other visitors may be more interested in the "Public Programs" area. Here they can listen to conversations and dialogues with the likes of Anthony Hernandez, Ken Gonzales-Day, Jeff Koons, and John Baldessari. Finally, the "Documentaries" area offers up profiles of Jacob Lawrence, a group of contemporary potters, and noted fluorescent light artist Dan Flavin. Visit Site.

DIVA: CONNECTIONS
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