Bonnaroo Festival Art Installation Opportunity
Deadline: Mar. 1, 2010
The Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival is seeking proposals for interactive, sustainable, installation for the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival 2010 festival located on the 600 acre farm in Manchester, TN. If you plan on responding to this RFP please submit a proposal to laura@mockingbird-events.com by March 1, 2010. Base Objectives: Festival organizers are looking for proposals that are creative, consider patron experience, promote sustainability, build community and participation and take into account budget and timeline. For more information call 606.434.4260

 

Call for Entries: Arts in the Airport Exhibition
Deadline: Mar. 19, 2010
The Arts & Culture Alliance of Greater Knoxville and the Metropolitan Knoxville Airport Authority (McGhee Tyson Airport) announce a call for entries for the next "Arts in the Airport", a juried exhibition developed to allow regional artists to compete and display work in the most visited site in the area.  The selected art will feature contemporary 2-dimensional artwork and will be exhibited in the secured area behind McGhee Tyson Airport’s security gate checkpoint from April 23 – October 21, 2010. No entry fee.  Each artist may submit up to five entries which must be original works in the following categories: Painting, Graphic Arts, and Photography.  Download a prospectus and application at www.knoxalliance.com (under Calls & Press Releases), or send an SASE to Suzanne Cada, Arts & Culture Alliance, PO Box 2506, Knoxville, TN 37901.  For more information, call 865.523.7543 or email sc@knoxalliance.com.

 

Artist or artist collaboration for the Jefferson Heights Park Public Art Project, Chattanooga
Deadline: Mar. 31, 2010
Public Art Chattanooga and the District 7 Public Art Committee are seeking proposals for Jefferson Heights Park Chattanooga, Tennessee, which will be exhibited June 2010 – December 2011.  Works can be in any media, functional or non-functional, and must be suitable for outdoors.  Two works will be selected for installation in the newly constructed neighborhood park, and will be on loan for a period of eighteen (18) months. For more information and a complete application form, download at: http://www.chattanooga.gov/Files/JeffersonParkRFP.pdf or contact: Peggy Townsend, Director Phone: 423.643-6096 | E-mail: peggywoodtown@gmail.com or Elizabeth Carriger, Program Assistant, Phone: 423.756.6146  | E-mail: ecarriger@gmail.com.

 

Folk School of Chattanooga Call to Fiber Artists
The Folk School, Chattanooga's place for banjo, fiddle, guitar, dulcimer, and other musical instruction, has just relocated to the modern two-story silver metal box on Forest Ave., only four doors up from Frazier.  We are looking to fill our walls and halls with sound absorbing fiber art.  Items can be for sale or they can be for display only.  Large pieces, such as quilts, are especially welcome!  Contact Christie Burns at 423.779.6581 or christie@mmfolk.com.chattanoogafolk.com 

 

The Dogwood Regional Fine Arts Exhibit
Apr. 2 - 30, 2010
Deadline: Feb. 22, 2010
128 S. Gay Street, Knoxville TN

Artists and photographers: The Dogwood Regional Fine Arts Exhibit is inviting regional artists to submit to exhibit their work in a variety of genres. Juror: Ruth Grover/ Director and Curator of the Cress Gallery of Art and its Permanent Collection, The University of Tennessee / Chattanooga. A total of $4,000 in awards will be presented. Submissions will be accepted from artists living in a 300 mile perimeter of Knoxville. Please view our 2009 exhibit. For more information, call 865.384.5272 or email fineart@dogwoodarts.com.
www.dogwoodarts.com 

Betsy Worden Memorial Artist Residency
Deadline: Mar. 19, 2010
The Arts & Culture Alliance is pleased to announce availability of the next Betsy Worden Memorial Artist Residency at the Emporium Center, 100 S. Gay Street in downtown Knoxville.  Available to college students and other young and emerging artists, The Betsy Worden Memorial Artist Residency includes: FREE and exclusive access to a 10’ x 10’ artist studio located in the Emporium Center; sponsored membership in the Arts & Culture Alliance for one year; display of at least one piece of artist’s new work in the public areas of the Emporium Center each month of the residency (beginning with the First Friday opening reception on April 2, 2010); and a solo exhibition of artist’s new work in the Balcony gallery of the Emporium Center near the end of the residency period (September 3-24, 2010). For more information, please contact the Arts & Culture Alliance at 865.523.7543 or e-mail sc@knoxalliance.com. To download an application, visit www.knoxalliance.com.

 

26-A Frazier Avenue, Chattanooga, TN

In-Town Gallery, a juried fine art co-operative in Chattanooga's thriving North Shore neighborhood, is inviting visual artists to apply for membership. 3-D works are in demand. The jury committee is interviewing potters, woodworkers, sculptors and glass artisans at this time. For jury guidelines and membership benefits, visit In-Town or call 423.267.9214. To request an email application, write to intowngallery@bellsouth.net or download an application from our web site at www.intowngallery.com.

 

North River Civic Center is currently accepting applications from visual artists to exhibit in the center's exhibition space. This is an ongoing call for entries. Exhibitions may feature the work of a single artist, a complimentary small group exhibit, or a themed exhibit. For more information visit www.chattanooga.gov.Contemporary Craft Show8/7/2010

 

Contemporary Craft Show
Aug. 7, 2010 The Art Guild at Fairfield Glade will present a Contemporary Craft Show at Fairfield Glade Community Center. This show will feature a select group of exceptional craft artisans offering items such as fine jewelry, glass, wearable art, ceramics and wood. In furthering the expansion of the world of art in Middle Tennessee, it is our objective to bring craft art of high quality to our area, while opening new markets for participating artisans. The show will be limited to 35 exhibitors. Fees: Application fee $40; 10 x 10 booth $100; 10 x 15 booth $150. For further information contact Nancy Hamm, Chair 2010 Contemporary Craft Show, at 931.707.8562 or nankate@frontiernet.net.