Vol. 1. Number 14
UP FRONT NEWS

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Keep DIVA Strong. The Spring fund drive continues as we work towards the goal of keeping all center events, exhibits, and activities happening in downtown Eugene. Help us continue to provide the quantity and quality of art experience you’ve come to enjoy at DIVA. Please give from your heart to keep art in the heart of Eugene! Give generously. Donate online by sending payments to our PayPal connection. Thanks to all who have already given their generous support.

Artist Salon on Sunday, June 25. The Artist Salon this month will be held Sunday, June 25 from 7-9pm. The Salon is a group process to choose exhibitor(s )for the Members' Gallery, as well as creating a place for artist-members to come together to see each other's work, socialize, and share great food. Bring your art, something tasty to share, and you! This month we will be selecting the show for the month of December.      This month's program: Jon Deming, of Oaks Photo & Digital, will be speaking on the topic of Fine Art Printing, also known as Giclée printing, and demystifying what this new service means for artists of any medium. Some of the questions that Jon is frequently asked and will cover this evening are: What is fine art printing? How does it serve the artist who wants to market his/her art? What do I ask when I begin to work with a fine art printing technician? Special discussion: During the months of September and October DIVA will be host to the first All-Members' Show. We will have a short discussion session after this salon's program to gather ideas regarding the scope of this show and your input will be greatly appreciated. If you are interested in volunteering to help with this show or would like to participate in its formation, please join us.

City Hall as arts center. Arts Advocate and DIVA Board member Carolyn Kranzler envisions renovating the current City Hall block for use as a regional visual arts center if and when a new facility for City services is constructed. She writes, in a June 12th Register Guard Guest Viewpoint article, "... City Hall office spaces could become permanent classrooms, galleries, and arts administration offices." She further suggests that, "The City Council meeting space would make an excellent lecture hall and media arts theater while the outside landscaped plaza could become a sculpture garden. The now vacant fire station might house kilns or a foundry for ceramics, glass, or metal sculpture." Kranzler sees a dynamic visual arts center on Eighth Avenue with programs scheduled day and night all helping to invigorate activity in downtown Eugene. Read Full Article. Click on picture to tour Eugene City Hall designed by Stafford, Morin, and Longwood architects. Source: Great Buildings. com

PICA - A Risk Taking Art Center. Travel down river to Portland and you'll find the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA). Since its founding in 1995, PICA has become a magnet for artists who take creative risks. Through exhibitions, performances, artist residencies and educational programs, PICA enables artists and audiences alike to push the limits of artistic expression and explore provocative new ideas that illuminate life in the here and now.

Video Slam@ DIVA. The DIVA Media Arts committee wants to encourage indie video production within the community and beyond with the introduction of the Video Slam@DIVA program this August, September, and October.    A video slam is a short video competition for artists in the spirit of a poetry slam. At the end of each slam the audience will vote for a winning video. The best of the summer videos will be automatically entered in the third annual OpenLens Festival in January.     The Media Arts Committee is running the slam as a trial program this summer. If successful the slam will resume in January, 2007.     For full details check out the Video Slam page online. Videos selected for a given slam will be screened only if the artist is available to participate.

Future May Be Bright For Oregon Animation Artists . Oregon animators may have to look no further that Tualatin for possible employment in the not too distant future. Phil Knight's Laika Entertainment, which now employs fewer that 200 people, expects to hire another 400 in the next two years according to a recent Oregonian article. The former Will Vinton studios that Knight has purchased will be moving from Northwest Portland to 30 acers in Tualatin. In an interview with the newspaper, Knight says he wants Laika to compete with Pixar Animation Studios. The campus will begin to grow as Laika ramps up production on a pair of theatrical features. The studio hopes the campus will be a showcase to draw talented animators to Oregon and nurture their creativity.

Membership Development Intern or Volunteer Needed. DIVA is in need of an individual who could spend a few hours each week helping to develop the Center's membership base. If you are interested in recruiting new members, would enjoy contacting merchants to create benefit options for members, and would like to make a major contribution to the Center, call Mary Unruh at and discuss your interest as an intern or volunteer.

Call For Artists. Potter's Quarter in the Oakway Mall has exhibit space and would like artists interested in showing there to contact Eliza Master at .

Habitat For Humanity Needs Artists. On July 22nd artists, writers, musicians, and cultural dance groups are being asked to bring and donate their talents to Ralston Park, on Park Street, in Lebanon, Oregon, for Art in the Park.     The 4th Annual show will premier fine artisans of the Willamette Valley and the Northwest, in a show and sale. The event is a fund raising activity for the Lebanon area Habitat for Humanity. Deadline for entries is July 1st. For more information call OR . Or contact

Noise Fest 2006 at DIVA. Don Haugen, media arts committee member, staged the Second Annual Eugene Noise Fest at DIVA on June 16, 17, and 18. The event had extensive press coverage. In his Eugene Weekly article, Bring on the Noise, Brett Campbell wrote about the evolution of noise art. To quote, "Noise music is a catchall term that encompasses a range of sounds, from the descendants of industrial rockers like Art of Noise or Throbbing Gristle to free jazz to avant electronica — any music that uses unexpected and/or discordant sound sources. But its roots extend back a century to the Italian Futurist painter/polemicist Luigi Russolo, who contended that the inescapable clangor of industrial society had broadened our sense of what music can be." The three day festival brought 36 performers from as far away as Los Angeles and Vancouver, B.C. ‹‹‹‹ Photo: Don Haugen with Warning Broken Machine. Read also, At the Noise Fest, beauty is in the ear of the listener, by Serena Markstrom, Register Guard.

Eugene Glass School Offer Class. "From Sheet Glass to Murrini: The Art of Making "Bundles" will be offered by Jason Harris, June 20-13 from 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM. This intermediate level four-day class will focus on making intricate square murrini canes from Uroboros sheet glass. Students will learn how to cut and coordinate sheets into packs to be pulled into square canes. The class will re-bundle their square canes to pull again and again. Other techniques covered will include properly chopping square canes, and creating fusing's and rolled up vessels from the canes. Call for more information.

SchoolArts Program. Quality arts instruction provides young people with authentic learning experiences that engage minds, hearts, and bodies. The Lane Arts Council SchoolArts program encompasses visual, performance and literary arts and invites professional writers, performers, and visual artists to work with students and teachers to create extended educational arts activities, teach new skills, develop creative thinking, and offer career insights. Read More about the Artist Residencies, Performance Assemblies, and Workshop opportunities.

Bach Festival Features Multimedia Concert. Award-winning German filmmaker Bastian Clevé took years to produce his life ambition—a visual interpretation of J.S. Bach's Mass in B Minor. In his dazzling achievement, "The Sound of Eternity," images flow forth from the realms of nature, history, and modern life to reveal the music's transcendence. Helmuth Rilling conducts live chorus, orchestra, and soloists in accompaniment to a widescreen projection. Event takes place 4 PM, Sunday, July 9, Silva Hall, Hult Center for the Performing Arts.

Visiting Germany This Summer? The Sonambiente Berlin 2006 is summer in Berlin set to music for the eyes and ears. Installations, objects, performances, happenings ­ visual art, sound art, video, new media, radio art, film: from June 1st to July 16th, for the second time since 1996, over 40 internationally known artists and some 20 up-and-coming art school talents make the metropolis reverberate with sound. At five central venues and many other exciting locales, Sonambiente Berlin 2006 generates an extensive network of events throughout the centre of Berlin. Sonambiente Berlin 2006 is a production of the Akademie der Künste and the Berliner Festspiele.

DIVA Summer Classes. Summer is a great time for exploring your artistic interest and the DIVA Center is offering a number of courses to help you get the creative energy flowing. This summer you'll find classes in photography, painting, illustration, drawing, and book making.      A listing of Center classes is available online or download the complete DIVA Center Course Schedule (PDF). Internet registration makes taking a class at DIVA easy.     So, come downtown and enjoy discovering the artist in you. DIVA is located in the heart of Eugene's Cultural district at 110 W. Broadway. On street parking available in front of the Center or in near by City Parking Garages. DIVA - Where Art Is Happening

THIS WEEK AT DIVA GALLERY EXHIBITS

MEDIA ARTS: Screenings and Performances

June 23, CARTUNE XPREZ A multimedia performance and art collective. Time: 8:30 PM Admission: $5.00 General - $3.00 Student with School I.D. DIVA presents CARTUNE XPREZ, a collection of 16 animated videos along with 2 live multimedia performances by SLOW DANCE RECYTTAL and HOOLIGANSHIP. This is a one night showing on June 23rd, 2006 at 8:30 p.m. CARTUNE XPREZ is a curated program of experimental animations that come from all over the United States and Canada. This program crisscrosses between hyper-color flash, digital motion graphics, traditional hand drawn, chalk board, newspaper cut out and photo animations. Animators include Paper Rad, Martha Colburn, Amy Lockhart, Takeshi Murata, Francine Spiegel, Luke Negrey and Andrew Meeken, Jim Trainor, Jim Duesing, Drew Pavelchak, Michael Bell Smith, Philippe Blanchard, Cassandra C. Jones, Gretchen Hogue and Hooliganship. SLOW DANCE RECYTTAL is live music/animation/performance by Christopher Doulgeris, and Peter Burr. Using a combination of flash, motion graphics, and found photo animation, Slow Dance Recyttal follows the perspective of a shape shifting character through a quest to uncover the melodic structures within his multiplistic universe. The projected animations are set to an all-original soundtrack of electronic melodies and are accompanied by live clarinet and bass guitar. The full performance takes place in a stage set of giant glowing inflatable jems. Learn More. HOOLIGANSHIP is a grunge rock inspired dance-off duo that combines electronic melodies with freak-out animations for a sensory-overload multimedia party. Christopher Doulgeris and Peter Burr use instructional videos, pamphlets, and a bass guitar and keyboard combo to teach audiences how to revel in their heap of sights and sounds with specially choreographed dance moves. CARTUNE XPREZ, SLOW DANCE RECYTTAL, HOOLIGANSHIP have performed in venues across the United States and Canada including The Drake Hotel in Toronto, ON, The Harris Theatre and Space Gallery in Pittsburgh, PA, The Portland Institute for Contemporary Arts and PDX Experimental Film/Video Festival in Portland, OR and On the Boards in Seattle, WA. Upcoming events include The Mattress Factory and Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, PA, SPARKS in Syracuse, NY and Monkey Town in Brooklyn, NY.

ALSO IN JUNE! June 28 Emily Hay & Marcos Fernandes Summer 2006 West Coast Tour. Click For Details Time: 8:00 PM General Admission: $5.00. Student with School I.D. Card: $3.00. Emily Hay and Marcos Fernandes embark on a west coast tour this summer in support of their new collaborative CD offering, "WE ARE" on Public Eyesore. The tour starts on June 23rd, taking them from Vancouver, B.C. to Los Angeles with stops along the way in Seattle, Olympia for the Festival of Experimental Music, Portland, Eugene, Oakland and Long Beach. Fernandes and Hay will be joined by guitarist Carey Fosse on the tour and will also be collaborating with many local luminaries at each stop.

Call For Submissions 2007 OpenLens Festival

Bike Fest '06. The City of Eugene is celebrating July-in-Motion and DIVA is joining the festivities. DIVA is presenting a festival weekend of bike-themed films on July 15th-16th. Our event features a re-screening of Portland's "Filmed By Bike 2006" and the film "16,000 feet on a Friday" by Lynette Chiang.    "Filmed By Bike 2006" is a rescreening of the recent Portland festival that includes 20 short films by international filmmakers. These are fun, informative, and thought provoking films focusing on bike themes ranging from NYC women messengers to an outlaw street race across Los Angeles.     In October, 2004, author and bicycle traveler Galfromdownunder (Lynette Chiang) biked the World's Highest Paved Road in Peru on a 500-mile, 12-day expedition following the barren hills of Lima over the 16,000 foot Ticlo mountain pass, descending into spectacular terraced valleys to reach Satipo, a remote, inland jungle town. Her film "16,000 feet on a Friday" will have a special screening during DIVA's Bike Fest.

Your Donations Appreciated. Be sure to return those Spring fundraiser requests and help us continue to provide the quantity and quality of art experiences you’ve come to enjoy at DIVA.  Please give from your heart to keep art in the heart of Eugene! Give generously. You can donate online by sending payments through PayPal to .

Become A DIVA Member. The DIVA Board has revised the Center's membership categories. Consider becoming a participant in the growth and development of the visual and media arts in our city. The membership categories are:

Artist or Individual Member - $60 Family - $120 Student - $30 Supporter - $75 to $99 Sustainer - $100 - $249 Patron - $250 - $499 Benefactor - $500 - $999 Medici - $1000 or more Business Sponsor - $1000 or more

WEB SITE ART EXPLORATIONS

The Victoria and Albert Museum. Sitting down to spend a few minutes browsing The Victoria and Albert Museum’s website is a bit like spending a few minutes at a lavishly-prepared banquet that contains masterful examples from the world’s diverse culinary traditions: It cannot be done. Fortunately, the website can be visited many times, and given the impressive amount of fine content here, one probably shouldn't’t just make one visit. First-time visitors might want to take a look through the Collections area, which allows them the opportunity to view material from their architecture, ceramics, fashion, and design holdings. Those interested in the behind the scene operations of the museum will want to slide on over to the Research & Conservation area. Here they can learn how heavy sculptures are moved throughout the museum and how the slightest and most delicate objects are conserved. The homepage also contains basic, yet essential, information on visiting any one of the three museums, along with offering specialized websites that profile current and upcoming exhibitions of note. Finally, if users are feeling a bit overwhelmed, there is always the welcoming blankness presented by a simple search feature in the upper-right hand corner of each and every page within the site. Source: Scout Report.

OPPORTUNITIES (New and Continued Listings)

Deadline: June 30 - Call Artists. Jewelry and art work will be featured in this years Food for Lane County’s Auction/Fundraising Dinner in September will feature jewelry in the silent auction. Deadline for submissions: June 30, 2006. An option in lieu of full donation of art is a split 40% to FOOD for Lane County, 60% to the artist. Of course your donation of showcase jewelry would be tremendously appreciated as well. Your work will be featured at our invitation-only fundraising dinner/live auction in September. This is the largest fund raising event in Eugene. Your submissions may be taken either to FOOD for Lane County, 770 Bailey Hill Rd., Eugene. Or please contact Susan Klein at 513.5314 for a pickup of your piece or pieces. Please include your name and suggested prices for your jewelry. Questions? Call Terry Kirby at , email: for details. Or e-mail

Deadline: June 30 - Film Submissions. The Portland International Short Short Film Festival is currently seeking submissions for its 2006 festival. Now in its fifth year, PISS Fest! showcases films from around the globe that run the gamut of themes and styles—from the dark and avant-garde to the hilariously absurd—with the only common thread among them being running time: ten minutes or less.The deadline for entry is June 30, 2006, late entry deadline is July 14, 2006. Entry form and more details can be found at http://zonkerfilms.com.

Deadline: July 1 - Annual Artists' guidebook sees applications. Oregon Crafted, a nonprofit organization promoting cultural tourism, has issued a call to artists wishing to be included in the second edition of the group's annual guidebook. Artists should contact Oregon crafted at or to request an application packet.

Deadline: July 14- Call for Submissions. The Portland International Short Short Film Festival is currently seeking submissions for its 2006 festival. Now in its fifth year, PISS Fest! showcases films from around the globe that run the gamut of themes and styles—from the dark and avant-garde to the hilariously absurd—with the only common thread among them being running time: ten minutes or less. The deadline for entry is June 30, 2006, late entry deadline is July 14, 2006. Entry form and more details can be found at http://zonkerfilms.com.

Deadline: July 15- Call for Submissions. Tempography is a new international art form that examines the unexplored zone between the moving and the still image. The pieces are called" tempographs". They are still images extended in time. Each piece must be less than 30 seconds long. They are shown in sequences, with black before and after. A Tempography exhibition will take place at the cinema Zita in Stockholm in August. This is a call for submissions. Please have a look at the website:
www.tempography.org for more information, and for the ever-important guidelines.

Deadline: July 15 - Call to Artists 2 Exhibit Maud Kerns. Maude Kerns Art Center is proud to announce its 2007 - 2008 Call to Artists. Our center is Eugene's original non-profit community center for the visual arts. The Center has over 50 years of history in Oregon. We are a member-driven organization with over 500 members. The gallery offers 8 juried exhibitions annually, drawn from national and international submissions.

Deadline: July 31 - Call To Artists. Artists are invited to donate artwork to the Eugene Glass School's 7th Annual Art Glass Auction & Benefit, 7 October.  This is the school's largest and most prestigious fundraising event of the year, catering to hundreds of local, national, and international glass artists and collectors.  With the publication of a full-color auction catalog, an artist's work will be seen by over 2,000 artists and collectors. More Information.

Deadline: July 31 - Teaching Opportunities at Emerald Art Center. The Emerald Art Center's new children's art Program, TEACH Arts, is seeking experienced, creative, energetic and dynamic art instructors. Beginning this fall, we will be offering classes for five age groups 2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9 and 10-12. Please email to receive application materials.
     The Center is also seeking qualified art instructors for adult classes and is now scheduling for the Fall 2006 through Summer 2007. Please email to receive application materials.

Deadline: August 1 - Call For Articles. "Music, Sound, and the Moving Image" will be the first international scholarly journal devoted to the study of the interaction between music and sound with the entirety of moving image media film, television, music video, advertising, computer games, mixed-media installation, digital art, live cinema, et alia. To be published by Liverpool University Press and co-edited by Anahid Kassabian (Liverpool University) and Ian Gardiner (Goldsmiths College), the journal will be truly interdisciplinary, inviting contributions across a range of critical methodologies, to include musicology and music analysis, film studies, popular music studies, cultural theory, aesthetics, semiotics, sociology, marketing, sound studies, and music psychology. It is hoped that the journal also will provide an important focus for the similarly diverse and expanding community of media music scholars.
      The journal will be published twice a year, beginning January 2007, and its first issues will be open, embracing this diversity of topics and approaches. As it progresses it is intended that themed issues, under a guest editor, will alternate with open issues,
perhaps encouraging writers to explore areas under-represented in current literature. The editors welcome contributions offering the broadest interpretation of the journal's title, not only seeking to build upon the existing scholarship on film music and film sound, but also to challenge its theoretical assumptions, and to extend its boundaries to include the full variety of moving image media and traditions. Submissions for the inaugural issue should be e-mailed, by 1 August 2006, as Microsoft Word documents to: Enquiries or requests for style guidelines should also be directed to this address.

Deadline: October 2 - Call for Oregon Bluebook Photographs. The State Archives, which publishes the Oregon Blue Book, is seeking color photos that represent some aspect of the state to grace the cover of the 2 edition. The contest is open to all amateur photographers who are Oregon residents, and photographs must be taken in Oregon. For full details go to the Blue Book web site.

Deadline: October 31 - Call to Artists: Lane Community College is accepting submissions from sculptors to participate in the 2006 Pacific Northwest Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition. Fifteen works will be selected for exhibition to take place throughout the 2007 spring term, showcasing the Eugene Oregon campus. Lane Community College may use this exhibition to select or commission a sculpture for purchase. More Information

Deadline: May, 2007 - Community Arts Grants are available each year for individuals and groups producing arts projects and programs that benefit the City of Eugene and its residents. These grants are made possible with funds from the City of Eugene Room Tax Fund. More Information.

OPPORTUNITIES AT DIVA (New and Continuing Listings)

Drop-In Figure Drawing At DIVA. There are weekly drop-in figure drawing sessions at the DIVA Center. Working from models, these sessions help the individual improve drawing techniques. Instructor John Holdway will be on hand to assist and coach. Warm up exercises will include gesture drawing. The sessions meet on Wednesdays from 6-9 PM. The cost is $10.00 per session. Next session, June 7.

Drop-In Art Skill Shop At DIVA. The Free, drop-in art skill shop for downtown street youth now meets on Tuesday from 4-7:00 PM. DIVA and the Lane Arts Council is pleased to co-sponsor these free activities for street youth in downtown Eugene. Projects include bookmaking, block printing, zinemaking, collage, and more. This skill shop is offered as a collaborative project of DIVA, the Downtown Initiative for the Visual Arts, Lane Arts Council, and Looking Glass Youth and Family Services, with support from Lane County Department of Health and Human Services, Eugene Rotary Club and the City of Eugene. The project partners intend for these skill shops to offer alternative activities and social opportunities for youth.