NIGHT CAP
Dessert wines are one of my many guilty pleasures. Biscotti is not just for dipping into your espresso. I’ll take a lovely glass of vin santo with the lingering taste of honey and apricots with a touch of cream. Keep your coffee or espresso (which traditionally comes before vin santo BTW). If you end up at the opening of the collective exhibit for this next Call, have a glass for me. Better yet, bring me a bottle of vin santo back as a souvenir…it beats a t-shirt anytime!
Check out this Call for Entries for the 6th Annual International Arte Laguna Prize. I won’t try to disguise it…this exhibit/prize is an expensive budget buster, but the prizes and opportunities to exhibit are worth the risk. Take a look…
CALL for ENTRIES:
6th Int’l Arte Laguna Prize
The 6th International Arte Laguna Prize 2011 is dedicated to visual artists worldwide. Prizes amount to 170,000 euros total, and 7,000 in each sector (nearly $10,000 USD), but besides money Arte Laguna Prize offers many opportunities to artists, such as art residencies, personal exhibitions in galleries, collective exhibitions, and attendance at international festivals. There are no limits for age, theme, or topic.
ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists, without any limit of age, sex, nationality, etc.
MEDIA: Painting, photographic art, sculpture, video/performance, virtual art.
ENTRY FEE: For the partial support of the organization expenses, the application fee is 50 euros (approx $70 USD) for 1 work and 90 euros (approx. $127 USD) for 2 works in the same section, for additional works (in the same section) the fee is 45 euros ea. Discount for artists under 25. To see all the pays you can pay, see the terms & conditions.
JURORS: Alessio Antoniolli (England, Director Gasworks of London), Chiara Barbieri (Italy, Publications Director Collection Peggy Guggenheim), Gabriella Belli (Italy, Director MART Rovereto), Ilaria Bonacossa (Italy, Freelance Curator), Soledad Gutierrez (Spain, Curator MACBA Barcellona), Kanchi Mehta (India, Curator Indian Pavillion Prague Biennale), Ludovico Pratesi, Director Centro Arti Visive Pescheria of Pesaro), Maria Savarese (Italy, Freelance Curator and art historian), Ralf Schmitt (Germany, Director Preview Berlin), Alma Zevi (Switzerland, Art Critic). The Prize Curator is Igor Zanti – Art Critic.
AWARDS: Each of the 5 Categories (Painting, Sculpture, Photographic Art, Videoart/Performance, and Virtual Art) will each be awarded a 7,000 euro* prize (approx $9880 USD). STILE Original Design – € 8000* money prize (approx. $11,293 USD) + realization of an art project to be defined with the selected artist. In addition, there are dozens of individual exhibition opportunities as prizes. See the terms and conditions for a full list. * The awarded artworks will remain artists’ property. Withholding taxof 25% on money prizes. The money prizes will be given during the awarding ceremony.