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 Lane Arts Artist Residencies, Performance Assemblies, and Workshop opportunities.

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: August 10. Video Slam@DIVA. DIVA beings a monthly summer video slam in August for indie producers. The event follows in the spirit and tradition of the popular competitive slams for poetry. Individuals submit work in advance, which is organized into an evening's program where it is screened, and discussed. At the end of each session the audience chooses a winning video. The monthly winners will be entered on behalf of the artist in the Third Annual OpenLens Festival competition, January 12-14, 2007.
     The first slam is 4:00 PM on Sunday, August 20th. Individuals interested in screening their work must submit videos by August 10th. All screenings require that the artist be in attendance. Full details and a required submission form are available online at proscenia.net/diva/slam/. There is no entry fee but a SASE must be included if the video is to be return. The slam is open to the public for viewing and a $2-5.00 donation is asked.

Deadline: August 10. Calling All Emerging Glass Artists. e-merge 2006, Bullseye Glass's fourth annual juried kiln-glass exhibition, is now accepting applications. The exhibition, including its awards and catalog, is one of the ways that Bullseye Glass recognizes and honors students, early-career artists, and others who are rising through the ranks of studio glass but are not yet represented at top national and international galleries. Learn more about e-merge at www.bullseyeglass.com/emerge/

Deadline, August 13. First All-Member Exhibition at DIVA Center. "Edge Effect" in the world of nature describes the activity that occurs where different ecosystems meet. DIVA is poised at the "edge" of a cultural change for downtown Eugene. As artists and members of DIVA we are active participants in that change. This is why we have chosen "Edge Effect" as the theme for the first All Members show at DIVA.
    DIVA Members are invited to submit works that illustrate, demonstrate, evoke, emerge from your own edge effects for exhibition during September and October 2006. Only current members of DIVA will be allowed to exhibit work; non-members may exhibit by including the $60 membership fee with your entry form. Membership is good for one year.
    All entries will be accepted, and each member is guaranteed to exhibit one piece in the show. Additional pieces will be considered as space allows. The entry fee is $8 per member, which will pay for exhibit postcards, posters, and flyers promoting the exhibit.
    To ensure quality and originality, work that is a copy of the work of others and/or made entirely from a kit or commercial design will not be accepted. All pieces must be dry and ready to be displayed at the time of delivery. All unframed work must have a hanging sleeve or loops/rings on the back of the work. For the protection of both people and work, each piece must fit through a standard door. Works exceeding four feet in width, or of excessive weight or height may be refused entry for this show. Entry forms are available at DIVA and here online (PDF). Application deadline, Monday August 13. Bring work to DIVA on Sunday, August 27.

Deadline: August 28. Mayor's Art Show Deadline. The annual juried Mayor's Art Show features an array of artwork created by artists residing in Lane County. This year's Mayor's Art Show will open September 7, with an Awards Ceremony in the main lobby of the Hult Center for the Performing Arts and Public Reception in the Jacobs Gallery beginning at 5:30 p.m. Entries for the 2006 Mayor's Art Show will be accepted on Monday, August 28, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Jacobs Gallery.

Deadline: September 1 CVALCO's 3rd Annual Lane County Photo Contest. Do you know someone with an interest or talent in photography? Be sure and tell them about CVALCO's 3rd Annual Lane County Photo Contest. All interested photographers can enter on-line. Adult and youth divisions will be judge in a variety of categories. The deadline for entries is September 1, 2006. Many thanks to all the CVALCO members that contributed prizes for the contest. Be sure and check out those sponsor businesses on the contest Web pages. Promotional posters and brochures will be sent or delivered to sponsor businesses soon. For more information, contact Lisa Lawton at CVALCO at or l.

Deadline: September 1 - Hoyt Street Properties Proposal.Hoyt Street Properties in Portland is seeking a professional Northwest artist to create permanent original art for the lobby of its newest condominium community - The Metropolitan.  Located in the heart of the Pearl District, The Metropolitan will stand at 19 stories and will house luxury condominiums, innovative live/work spaces, and street-level retail space.  The total budget for The Metropolitan lobby art project is $25,000. This sum must cover the winning artist’s fees and expenses associated with the project such as: travel, materials, production, installation, tools and supplies, scaffolding, and art movement. The Selection Panel will choose three finalists from the applicant base prior to determining the winning artist. The finalists will be asked to develop site-specific conceptual proposals for presentation to the Selection Panel.  These artists will receive a stipend of $3000 for their time and professional effort invested in developing, completing, and presenting proposals. For more information, click here.

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 2 - Call to Artists! 7th Annual Authors & Artists Fair 2006. This year's silent auction will feature the Bookend Project! Local artists are invited to create bookends that reflect literary themes or related to a literary work. Bookends serve two main purposes, to hold books together in an organized fashion and to add a touch of beauty,
sophistication, or whimsy to a collection of books.
     Media may include: painting, printmaking, metal work, drawing, collage, graphics, sculpture, pottery, photography, glass, textiles, and mixed media.
    If you'd like a pair of metal bookends to start your creative expression they are now available. You can pick them up at the
Downtown Library, 3rd floor Administration Office Monday- Friday, 10:00 am to 5:00 pm.
    Deadline: Bookends must be returned by Monday, October 2, 2006. The bookends will be on display at the Downtown Library in the Children's Center starting November 1 and will be auctioned off at the Authors & Artists Fair Saturday, December 2, 2006 7-10 pm
    Based on last year's enthusiastic support of this project, we anticipate a quick response from artists. Please contact us SOON if you wish to be part of this year's Bookend Project. Thank you for supporting to the Eugene Public Library Foundation. Please contact: Bob DeVine & Tylar Merrill Bookend Project

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.