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TURPS CORRESPONDENCE COURSE

Catherine Cleary		Emma Roche

TURPS CORRESPONDENCE COURSE

Applications open now for 2018/19
Deadline: 31st August 2018

Turps Correspondence Course is an innovative project giving painters a critical perspective and challenging insights into their practice, wherever they are and at any point in their career, in the form of quarterly appraisals aimed at supporting their studio development.

During the year participants will engage in a structured two way process, during which time, they will present works and, in turn, receive feedback from a dedicated mentor as well as the wider tutorial team at Turps Art School.

Applicants must have a personal email address, access to the internet and reasonable facilities to document work digitally.

Participants will be provided with a dedicated online folder at privateviews.com that will be visible to both themselves and the tutorial team. Participants will be expected to upload works, drawings, works in progress, sketchbook pages etc. during the duration of the course. It is important this is an ongoing process that best describes their output as this will allow the mentors to track developments and compile their observations at dedicated feedback points.

The application process is now open and applications will be reviewed on an on-going basis until August 31, 2018, when the process will close until next year. Applicants can expect to hear about the success of their application within four weeks of Turps receiving it.

2017/18 mentors: Marcus Harvey, Phillip Allen, Phil King, Katrina Blannin, Geraldine Swayne, Luke Dowd, Dan Coombs, Phil King, David Leeson, Andrea Medjesi-Jones, Colin Smith, Sofia Silva, Neal Tait, Emma Talbot, Covadonga Valdes.

“Painting can be really isolating and the Turps Correspondence Course connects you with world class mentors who provide invaluable feedback on your work. It’s a great alternative, affordable model for education and the reviews are generous and motivating. I’m certainly making more work in my studio since I started it.”
Emma Roche

“I was apprehensive about doing a painting course based online but this is so cleverly structured that I have been able to build a really good working relationship with my mentor through the written work reviews. Some of my feedback has been like a laser cut to the heart of my practice, unearthing and addressing the things that have held it back. My mentor is very generous with his advice and very challenging – I read part of my feedback to some close painter friends and they said they wished they had been given that kind of critique and advice and they all asked if I would give them a copy”
Catherine Cleary

“The Correspondence Course gave me mentors who really focussed on my work and whose feedback helped me understand the choices I was making. I loved how the CC gave structure to my studio practice -  it encouraged me to take risks in my work, gave me deadlines to stick to and time between the reviews when I was left alone to figure out the answers to the questions raised by my mentors. The course also meant that I was writing regularly about my work for the reviews and that was so helpful in helping me understand my process and what I was trying to say. I took the course for three years and it helped me become a more eloquent, confident and better painter.”
Amanda Mears

Course fees: £1600

Programme runs September 2018 – August 2019

Applications are now open and close on 31st August 2018.

Applications should be submitted using a file transfer website, such as https://www.wetransfer.com/ or https://www.hightail.com/ to scott@turpsbanana.com

Each application must include:

• A short statement of intent. What do you expect to gain from the studio programme? What will you bring to the programme? (Max 500 words)
• A CV including all educational and professional practice related information
• Full name, DOB, and contact details (inc. address, telephone, email)
• Up to 10 images. It is desirable that at least 5 of the images relate to work made in the last two years. You may include 5 further images of sketch book or supporting images. See Image requirements at end of document.
• It is desirable, but not essential that applicants have achieved at least a BA (hons) level of education or can show an equivalent level of engagement with their practice.
• Applicants must have their own personal email address, access to the Internet and ‘reasonable’ facilities to digitally record their work.

This is not an accredited educational qualification programme but an opportunity for painters who are experienced in their practice to further their exploration of the medium – and re-energize their practice through an intense work ethic, and dedicated critical response from practicing artists.

Application fee: £35 Payable: By cheque made payable to ‘Turps Education’ and delivered to Turps Gallery, Unit 11, Taplow House, Thurlow Street, London SE17 2UQ
Or
By email payment to subscriptions@turpsbanana.com via paypal (please put ‘correspondence course application fee’ in the notes box)
Or
By Bank Transfer to Turps Education. Sort Code 309447 Ac.No. 49374268 (please reference surname)

Applications will not be considered until payment has been received.

Notes on Supplying Images: Please supply images in Digital Format Digital Images must be supplied Jpeg format and RGB mode. Each file should be between 100kb and 1MB and formatted to be viewed on a Mac. Image files must be labelled clearly and listed on an accompanying word document. This should include the title, medium, size/duration and date of each work. Applicants should ensure that the list corresponds with file names supplied.

Email enquiries to scott@turpsbanana.com

Gareth Kemp

Amanda Mears

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Turps Gallery, Unit 11, Taplow House, Thurlow Street, London, SE17 2UQ

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Summer Artist Residency, Ontario, Canada

Spark Box Studio
Deadline: ongoing
Application fee: $15.00

Spark Box Studio’s Artist Residency Program provides live/work space to accommodate both emerging and professional printmakers, photographers, painters, illustrators and writers. Artists-in-residence have access to our professional studio and resources. The Residency Program affords artists the space and time to support the advancement of their careers and to strengthen their practice. Our program also offers a variety of career building opportunities for artists including our Emerging Artist Guide, opportunities for business workshops with local professionals and consultations with local artists and curators.

Artists-in-residence stay with us, Chrissy and Kyle, in a charming century home located just outside the town of Picton in Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada. Interested artists may apply to live and work at Spark Box for a duration of one weekend to 2 months.

Spark Box Studio can facilitate up to three residents at any one time. Residents receive a bedroom and a dedicated semi-private studio space.

At Spark Box Studio we also offer 7 awarded residency programs each year. To find out more please visit our website.

Link: http://sparkboxstudio.com/residency/application/

 

Decompression Gathering Summer Camp 2018

Practising Decompression with visiting artist Steve Lambert
Deadline 16/06/2018
Application fee 450 euro

Can the act of gathering and isolation contribute to articulating new forms of mutual learning and group working? Does experiencing communal life in isolated areas shift social relations? Can the experience of leisure and unproductive daily tasks be a generative process with critical potential? Radical Intention addresses and discusses these issues by setting up Decompression Gathering Summer Camp, a one-week residency of decompression, communal living and group work that takes place at the end of the summer, before urban life and its busyness pick up again.

Invited by Radical Intention, Visiting artist Steve Lambert will be hosting the 2018 Decompression Gathering Summer and he takes decompression seriously. The field of Artistic Activism is rife with overcommitment and hard work is undervalued. There is a high risk of bitterness and burn out, for those who don’t quit entirely. To fight this tendency, the 2018 summer camp will structure fallow time (the irony of structuring fallow time isn’t lost on us), create boundaries to free participants from a continual internet connection, and leisure, wandering, and exploration – metaphorical and otherwise. During the week the group will have the chance to discuss projects and life in a relaxed atmosphere, create new relationships that might evolve, and explore the territory of the Mugello Valley.

Participants are encouraged to gather for daily meals and will have time to share their past research. From there, they will have the opportunity to gather at their leisure, and share what they learn together at the evening meals on the days that follow. The group will investigate folk culture in the area surrounding Corniolo art platform through thematic field trips to enchanted Castles, Giotto’s residence or walking tours through the woods in search of the spring of the Arno River. These educational experiences function as a different tool, and contribute to the overall conversation around decompression while disrupting the schedule of fallow time.

Steve Lambert has worked alongside artists and activists in 15 countries on 4 continents helping them to effect power. Trained in the arts, he is known for large scale, public projects that engage new audiences on difficult topics through the social science of comedy, games, theater, and democratic participation. Lambert is the co-founder and co-director of the Center for Artistic Activism, a research and training institute to help activists be more creative and artists to be more effective. As an artist, Lambert’s work has been shown both nationally and internationally, from art galleries to protest marches to Times Square, featured in four documentary films, and over two dozen books, and collected by museums and The Library of Congress. Lambert has presented at the United Nations several times. His research is included in a United Nations report on the impact of advertising on cultural rights and the basis of a book on popular understandings of capitalism. He is Associate Professor of New Media at SUNY Purchase College.

http://www.radicalintention.org/2018/03/19/open-call-decompression-gathering-summer-camp-2018-with-steve-lambert/

 

ALPS ART ACADEMY

International Summerschool for Land and Environmental Art in the Swiss Alps
Deadline: 28.2.2018
No application fee

The second international Alps Art Academy will take place between June 28 and July 7, 2018 in the Safiental (Grisons, Switzerland). Located 1650 meters above sea level in Tenna, the biennial summer academy focuses on Land and Environmental Art.

In a dialogue with the art-historical movement of the 60s and 70s, contemporary approaches to art are located, discussed and further developed with relationship to the Alpine landscape. The Alps Art Academy creates a platform for proposals for a possible future Land Art, which integrates not only landscape and nature but also other media and the wider social context.

An invitation to submit proposals is aimed equally and without age limit at artists who are interested in working with landscape and the environment, as well as theoreticians, facilitators and curators engaged in research on the topic of Land Art. You are invited to apply with a project idea that can be realized during the period in which the summer school takes place. The theme for 2018 is HORIZONTAL - VERTICAL.

Program

The academy offers about 25 participants a 10 day program consisting of workshops, master classes, symposium, field trips, artist talks and presentations, in which they will have the opportunity to explore different aspects and core problems of art production in the landscape and apply what they have learned to their own projects. Participants are accompanied practically and theoretically by international lecturers. The Academy is linked to the Land Art-Biennale Art Safiental (July 7 to October 21, 2018) and offers participants the opportunity to present their projects.

Lecturers

Matthias Bildstein (A/CH), Mirja Busch (D), DIG Collective (William Bock, Alberto Duman, Mark Morgan, UK), William L. Fox, Gabriela Gerber / Lukas Bardill (CH), Johannes Hedinger (CH), Hanna Hölling (UK), Steve Rowell (USA), Analia Saban (ARG/USA), Konstanze Schütze (D), Chris Taylor (USA) and other guests.

Organisation

Sponsorship: Naturpark Beverin
Artisctic Director: Johannes M. Hedinger; Organisation: Jolanda Rechsteiner

Registration


Conditions of participation, the application form and further information can be found at: www.alpsartacademy.com



Fees

CHF 1200.-, USD 1200.-, EUR 1000.- (10 days Academy, room and board), excluding travel expenses. For participants who need financial support there is the possibility of applying for a stipendium.

www.alpsartacademy.com



 

Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts

Apply now for Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts

There are still a few spots left!
Application fee: see below

Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts
17 July – 26 August 2017
office@summeracademy.at
+43 662 842113
www.summeracademy.at

Class of Maha Maamoun 2016, Copyright: Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts, Photo: Mira Turba
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The Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts welcomes your application to participate in one of its 18 courses. Special features this year are topical positions in painting (Mark van Yetter, Melissa Gordon and Paulina Olowska), as well as unusual and rarely-taught artistic techniques such as miniature painting (Aisha Khalid), and jewellery design (Marc Monzó). Summer Academy also focuses on current questions in curatorial theory and praxis (Ruth Noack and Diana Campbell Betancourt) as well as on writing about art in general (Kimberly Bradley) and in the digital world (Sabrina Möller/Sabine B. Vogel).

2017 Summer Academy Teachers
Michael Beutler, Kimberly Bradley, Diana Campbell Betancourt, Tony Chakar, Distruktur – Melissa Dullius/Gustavo Jahn, Melissa Gordon, Valérie Jouve, Aisha Khalid, Andreas Lolis, Bernhard Martin, Till Megerle, Sabrina Möller/Sabine B. Vogel, Marc Monzó, Ruth Noack, Paulina Olowska, Lukas Pusch, Tex Rubinowitz and Mark van Yetter.

See here detailed descriptions of courses and biographies of the teachers
http://www.summeracademy.at/COURSES-2016_230.html

Why study here?
The Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts, founded in 1953 by Oskar Kokoschka as the “School of Vision”, in Hohensalzburg Fortress, is the oldest of its kind in Europe. Every year, some 300 participants from more than 50 countries attend some 20 courses.

- open for application to anyone interested
- unique opportunity to study with outstanding artists/curators/writers who mostly don’t hold a professorship elsewhere
- during 1-4 weeks, you can devote yourselves exclusively to reflecting on and producing art.
- individual attention, one-on-one critiques as well as group discussions
- fantastic atmosphere in the ancient locations

Application
All prospective participants must apply for acceptance. On the basis of the submitted dossier, the teaching artists select participants. The fees are between € 450.- and € 1,200.-, depending on the duration of the course. Students are entitled to a reduced fee. All applications will be processed in the order received, according to vacancies in the courses.
http://www.summeracademy.at/Application_136.html

 

Contact:
Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts
P.O. Box 18, 5010 Salzburg, Austria
phone +43 (0)662 842113
office@summeracademy.at
www.summeracademy.at

venue:
Hohensalzburg Fortress, Arbeitshaus
Mönchsberg 34
5020 Salzburg, Austria

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Architecture & ...

Architecture & …
Apply for the International Summer School
Deadline: 30 June, 2017
Course Fees: 590,00 EUR or 440,00 EUR (Grants are available)

Following the resounding success of the first edition last year with participants from three continents, the International Summer School in Bernau presents the second round from August 14 to 26, 2017. Located just outside Berlin, the building complex is an outstanding example of Bauhaus architecture and serves both as the setting for the course program as well as the subject of its investigations. The Bauhaus's approach to transcending boundaries between the crafts, art, and scholarly research serves as the guiding theme. Working together with eleven well-known international artists, designers, architects, and curators, the intersections between creativity, craftsmanship, and artistic freedom are explored in one-week courses. This year focuses on the relationship between architecture and various other disciplines. The deadline to register is June 30, 2017. Grants are available for students and young professionals.

The course program takes the principle of cooperation to heart and aspires to expand on the functionality-based approach of the Bauhaus, translating and updating it for today's digital era. Perspectives, potentials, and ideas are to be be shared and exchanged in order to learn from and with each other. The aim is to discover novel applications and design possibilities in art, crafts, and society and to put these to use in your own work.

With architect and biologist Petra Gruber, solutions from nature are translated into a technical or artistic context in order to develop a new formal vocabulary for specific materials and structures based on selected research results from the field of biology. In architect and neuroscientist Isabella Pasqualini's course unit, immersive virtual media is used to gain a deeper understanding of a sense of place and space. Artist Mona Jas's course is dedicated to drawing in space. Employing the medium of drawing, a full-scale installation will be developed and implemented in five phases that incorporates the architectural designs of the surrounding neighborhood as narrative. Thibaut de Ruyter offers a course for anyone interested in exhibition development. By presenting the vocabulary and craftsmanship used by architects in their everyday practice, participants gain insight into the planning and organizing of exhibitions. In their course offering, Bill Dietz, Janina Janke, & Julie Rüter explore various directions of musical and acoustic experiments that investigate the mediating function of music in art and life. In the context of Malte Roloff & Santiago da Silva's workshop, the legacy of Swiss architect and former Bauhaus director Hannes Meyer will be examined. Participants will work collaboratively on fulfilling one of Meyer's unrealized projects, realizing it in a different medium and new form. In her two courses, art critic Jennifer Allen will question the relationship between art and architecture.

In addition to the nine, one-week courses, the Summer School is offering for the first time a daily preliminary course open to all participants, instructors, and the general public. American paper artist Eric Gjerde has developed a daily, one-hour format, based on the educational concepts of the famous Bauhaus teacher Josef Albers.

https://summerschool-bernau.de

 

Creative Currents Artist Collaborative - Exploring the Black Fantastic

Creative Currents Artist Collaborative presents the
2017 Summer Artist Residency: Exploring the Black Fantastic
July 1st - July 16th
Portobelo, Panama
Deadline: May 29, 2017
Application fee: $100

Continuing our year long focus on Black Speculative Art, the Creative Currents Artist Collaborative Summer Artist Residency allows literary, visual, performance, dance and music artists 2 weeks in conversation with their creative muse and each other as we explore the Black Speculative Arts amongst the backdrop of historic Portobelo, Panama - a place full of the magical realism that is our shared Afro-Diasporic history.

The 2017 Creative Currents Summer Artist Residency is open to emerging and professional Visual, Literary & Performance Artists in all mediums and genres and Scholars and Researchers of all disciplines – both creative and academic – to submit project proposals for work to be developed during the 2 week residency.

2017 Featured Residency Workshop:
Imagined Futures: A Transformative Writing Workshop
presented by Michele Tracy Berger

Drawing on Afro-futurist inspirations, this four day optional workshop invites participants to time travel through their writing lives. We will spend time exploring our past, present and future writing selves. This workshop will help participants deepen a connection to their inner writing self, discover new tools for their writing practice, allow time for new writing to emerge and includes a one hour personal coaching session. Writers at all levels welcomed!

For more info, or to apply: www.creativecurrents.org

 

THE SCHOOL OF SOUND INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM

THE SCHOOL OF SOUND INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM
19-22 April 2017
Registration now open

THE SCHOOL OF SOUND INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM

A unique series of masterclasses exploring the art of sound in film, the arts and media

Wednesday – Saturday, 19-22 April 2017
Tuke Hall
Regent's University
Inner Circle Regent's Park
London NW1 4NS

Registration is now open

What is the School of Sound?
The School of Sound is a biennial symposium created to encourage a cross-disciplinary approach to using sound in the arts and media. We explore what sound does, and how audiences listen. It is a place where you can raise your awareness of audio production, how it conveys information and emotion, how you work with it.

For four days you'll be immersed in a world of imagination, invention and innovation. Listening to presentations from a diversity of incredible talents, you will be able to disconnect from your day-to-day work, leave your comfort zone, and reflect on sound as something that is profoundly complex, entertaining and important.

Why attend the School of Sound?
The School of Sound is not an academic conference and it is not about how to get a job. It is a rare opportunity to hear and meet twenty creatives from the highest levels of the arts and media speaking in detail about how they think and work.

And the School of Sound is not about just one area of sound production. The programme covers film, theatre, dance, opera, games, installation, music and radio - expanding your thinking and increasing your ability to practice across diverse genres and forms of production.

At the School of Sound you will mix with hundreds of like-minded people - professional practitioners, educators, artists and students - with whom you can network, exchange ideas and create collaborations.

The School of Sound is delighted to announce the first details of the 2017 programme.
Speakers include

• MYCHAEL DANNA, composer known for his blending of non-Western music with orchestral and electronic music, winner of the 2012 Oscar for his score to Ang Lee’s Life of Pi
• WERNER CEE, sound art composer, musician and creator of radio art
• PIERS PLOWRIGHT, radio documentary and features producer
• SARAH TURNER, filmmaker and lecturer, director of Public House
• ADAM ROBERTS and JOANNA HOGG, filmmakers presenting the work of Chantal Akerman
• HANS PETER KUHN, composer and artist, creator of light and sound installations, and music and sound environments for theatre and dance
• JULIAN HENRIQUES, author of Sonic Bodies, presents “Thinking Through Sound – and Learning from Jamaican Bass/ Base Culture” reggae sound systems and the embodiment of sound
• PETER MIDDLETON & JAMES SPINNEY, directors of Notes on Blindness
• HILDEGARD WESTERKAMP, composer & sound ecologist
• GEORGE HOME-COOK, author of Theatre and Aural Attention: Stretching Ourselves
• CATHERINE ALEXANDER, theatre director, actor and teacher who collaborated with Complicite for over twenty years

... with more participants to be announced in the coming weeks.

www.schoolofsound.co.uk
Programme
Registration and Fees

followed by

THE SOUND OF MEMORY SYMPOSIUM:
SOUND-TRACK/SOUND-SCAPE

23 April 2017
Zilkha Auditorium
Whitechapel Gallery
London E1 7QX

Films and presentations situated at the interface of composers working in acoustic ecologies
and artists working within social ecologies where the primary engagement is a form of sonic
ethnography. The symposium explores memory’s resonances in shaping social space.

Co-hosted by the Sound-Image-Space Research Centre, School of Music and Fine Art,
University of Kent; The School of Sound; and Goldsmiths University of London

Details and more events to be announced in the coming weeks.

 

Beam Camp Seeks Proposals for Spectacular Projects

Beam Camp Seeks Proposals for Spectacular Projects
Deadline: January 8, 2016
Application fee: none

Worldwide call seeks ideas from Engineers, Architects, Designers, Sculptors, Builders, Technologists, Artists and Makers of all kinds  

Past Project Images: http://beamcamp.org/projects/

Proposal Submission Info and Form: http://beamcamp.org/2016beamprojectproposal/  

Beam Camp, a specialized summer camp for building and collaboration located in Strafford, NH, announces its annual international search to find its 2017 Beam Projects. The large-scale collaborative projects are realized by Beam campers, aged 10-17, and staff at the camp's 106-acre facility in Strafford, New Hampshire.  

Projects are budgeted at $12,500. Winning designers receive a $3,000 honorarium, travel costs, and are invited to visit camp during the project's production.  

Proposals can be submitted on the Beam Camp website until Sunday, January 8, 2017 with Semi-finalists notified on Sunday, January 18, 2017 and winners announced on Tuesday, January 31, 2017. (submission page: http://beamcamp.org/2016beamprojectproposal/)  

Beam offers these prompts for proposals: 

• Proposals from creative individuals with big ideas, including but not limited to Artists, Engineers, Architects, Builders, Filmmakers, Musicians, Designers, Technologists, etc.
• Big ideas that result in a unique, ambitious, and spectacular product
• Proposals that communicate a clear vision (sketches, diagrams, and other visuals are always helpful) and represent your/your team's expertise
• Projects that are ambitious enough to occupy and challenge 100 campers and 20+ staff members for approximately 50 hours
• Projects that take advantage of Beam's facilities, community, landscape and rural setting
• Projects that use a range of materials, processes and techniques
• Projects that allow us to create the majority of the components onsite and from scratch

 

 

THE PHOTOGRAPHY MASTER RETREAT

THE PHOTOGRAPHY MASTER RETREAT
July 8 to 15, 2017 in the south of France
Deadline for application: January 10, 2017

THE PHOTOGRAPHY MASTER RETREAT, in its third edition, will be held from July 8 to 15, 2017 for a select group of fourteen participants who will be chosen by the mentors from submitted applications which are due latest by January 10, 2017. It is designed for professional and aspiring professional photographers – fine art, conceptual, and documentary – who are passionate about their work and want to take it to the next level.

This unique one-week, mentor-led retreat for photographers is held in the remote medieval hamlet of Esparon in the south of France every year in July, after les Rencontres d'Arles.

Four internationally acclaimed Mentors will guide, advise and inspire fourteen participants:

Elisabeth Biondi, former New Yorker Visuals Editor and Curator;
Lyle Rexer, Critic, Curator and Educator;
and Artist-Educators Martine Fougeron and Katharina Bosse.

Photographers have the opportunity to examine their work and practice ­with daily stimulating group sessions and one-on-ones. The four mentors are committed to taking individual students to their highest photographic potential in a creative, supportive, and enjoyable environment. It is a career-enhancing opportunity for professional critique, artistic introspection and for bonding with peers. It is conducive to quiet inspiration. There will be conversation, delicious communal meals, as well as hard work during the one-on-one meetings and group sessions.

This memorable immersive experience is not a shooting trip but a rare chance for students to REFLECT on their trajectory, RETHINK their projects and REFOCUS on a clearer course.

Deadline for application is January 10, 2017.

Visit THE PHOTOGRAPHY MASTER RETREAT website for more information and full details on how to submit your application:  : http://www.thephotographymasterretreat.com