Open Studio Tour Booklets now available October 13 & 14 and 20 & 21
The Open Studio Tour will be covering all of Orange County this year and will take place over TWO weekends. The Open Studio Tour provides a rare opportunity for the public to observe working artists during the creative process and also presents artists with an opportunity to market their work to the local community. Full color booklets are available and can be requested by emailing jen@ocartscouncil.org or calling the OCAC offices at 845-469-9168. A printer-friendly version of the tour can be downloaded from our website at: Open Studio Tour East and Open Studio Tour West. If you are interested in learning more about the Open Studio Tour or if you would like to request a booklet, please call Jen at 469-9168 or email at jen@ocartscouncil.org.
You can also invite people to each event on Facebook at Facebook Event Invite East and Facebook Event Invite West. Please help by sharing the event with your friends.
Open Studio Tour Reception: The OST Reception will be held on October 5th from 6-8pm at the Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center (formerly the Lycian Center for Performing Arts).
Music Discussion Forum Monday, October 1st at 6:30pm
If you live in Orange County and are involved in music in any capacity, please join us to talk about how we can promote live music here in the county.
Workshop: Using Social Media to Connect and Promote Wednesday, October 10th at 7pm Neil Alexander, musician extraordinaire and Social Media guru, will be here at the Arts Council offices to talk about how artists and non-artists alike can use Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus & more to promote themselves, build audiences, educate and raise awareness. Guest artists will appear via Skype. This is a pot luck event so bring something to share! Neil will perform tunes as well. Donations accepted – “Pay what you think its worth” at the end of the evening. Please RSVP by Friday, October 5th if you are interested in attending. Facebook Event Invite
For more upcoming arts events, click here for the Arts Council Calendar.
Opportunities: Call for Entries Deadline October 1
The Resurrection Show Co-Curated by Joan Harmon and James Tyler. The Resurrection Show is an open invitational exhibition, event and party celebrating the Garner Arts Center [formerly GAGA] after the devastation of Hurricane Irene in August 2011. Artists of the Hudson Valley (and beyond) are being invited to place one artwork each in a unique salon style exhibition to be held in the Dye Works Gallery. All media accepted. Eligibility: Open to artists over 18 working in any & all media. gagaartscenter.org
SAG actors needed: Newburgh Actors Studio is in need of SAG actors for a feature film in production now. All interested actors should contactnewburghactorsstudio@gmail.com
Arts Community Grants Offers Application Workshops for 2013 Funding
Arts in Orange is pleased to announce the availability of three separate grants to support arts and cultural projects taking place in 2013 in Orange County. Arts Community Grants (ACG), Arts Education Grants ( AEG) and two Individual Artist Grants (IAG) are local regrant programs of Arts in Orange. All applicants are encouraged to register and attend one free 90-minute grant application workshop, which will be offered throughout Orange County in September and early October 2012. The deadline for submitting the IAG application is 4pm Tuesday, October 16, 2012; the ACG application is 4pm Tuesday, October 23, 2012; AEG application is 4pm Tuesday, November 6, 2012. Reservations are required for all Application Workshops and Review Sessions prior to the scheduled date. Please call the Arts in Orange office at 845.956.0005or email Suzanne Schubert, Executive Director, at info@artsinorange.org to reserve a space.
Call for Artwork Orange Regional Medical Center: Deadline November 2
Orange Medical Center is seeking to exhibit original artwork at our hospital located in Middletown, New York (Town of Wallkill). This call is open to all artists working and/or residing in Orange and Sullivan counties, the primary service areas of Orange Regional.
Consistent with our mission, Orange Regional is seeking artwork of the highest quality that will provide a life-affirming, healing and supportive environment for patients, families, caregivers, students, faculty and staff. The duration of the art exhibits will be approximately six weeks. If you are interested in displaying your artwork in Orange Regional’s future art exhibitions, please submit the information identified below via email: Please email up to 10 images, in JPEG format, 72 PPI, to ORMCart@gmail.com; Title your image files with the name of the piece; In the same email, please include your name, email, phone number, address, the photo file names, dimensions of each piece, price and few sentences about yourself and your work.
APPLICATION DEADLINE: November 2, 2012. All submissions and questions should be sent to ORMCart@gmail.com. The artwork will be exhibited outside the Conference Center and Cafeteria on the ground floor of Orange Regional Medical Center.
Artist Lofts Available
Cornerstone Residence, Newburgh Apartments are single room occupancy. Artist lofts vary in layout and are between 575 and 625 square feet in size. All artist lofts have a fully equipped kitchen with refrigerator, electric oven, and microwave, plus a full bathroom. Each artist loft is equipped with two regular size closets and one smaller storage closet. Artist housing also includes use of a shared 4000-square-foot art studio. Our artist housing is for people who regularly engage in the arts as a career and have a body of work that demonstrates the development of that art and the intention to pursue that work for the foreseeable future. Income eligibility requirements apply. For more information please call Liz LoPresti, Certification & Lease Coordinator at (845) 562-6940 ext 116 or email llopresti@safe-harbors.org.
Call for Young Emerging Artist Between ages 18- 25 years Deadline October 1, 2012 Ann Street Gallery is pleased to announce an open call for emerging young artists ages 18 to 25 who are invited to submit their work for consideration in our December 2012 group exhibition. For more information regarding the Juried Exhibition Open Call and the Ann Street Gallery, contact Virginia Walsh, Director at (845) 784-1146 or info@annstreetgallery.org, or visit www.annstreetgallery.org.
For additional Artist Opportunities including Auditions, Call for Entries and Grant Opportunities log onto the Arts Council website at www.ocartscouncil.org.
Get Involved: Marketing Committee
Would you like to help the Arts Council market itself as well as the collective arts here in Orange County? If so, please consider joining the Arts Council’s Marketing Committee. This group will be discussing a new format for our eblast, website modifications, social media outlets and any other interesting marketing ideas. Contact Dawn at dawn@ocartscouncil.org or 469-9168 if you are interested.
In the works: Arts and Healthcare Summit
The Arts Council is planning a county-wide Arts and Healthcare Summit at Orange Regional Medical Center in March of 2013. We are in the process of identifying sponsors, speakers and artist participants. If you are an artist who would like the opportunity to present your workshop or art to the healthcare community OR if you are interested in working with us on this event, please contact Dawn at dawn@ocartscouncil.org.
Membership
We would like to recognize our June & July members and thank them for their support of the Orange County Arts Council. Your membership contribution supports the Arts Council in its efforts to promote, support and unite the arts in Orange County.
Sharon Galbraith, Nancy Reed-Jones, Daniel Grant, Sylvia Levy, Rosemarie Werkman, Carol Flaitz, Lorraine Sniderman, the Workbench Co-op, Sandra Atkin, Sharon Falk, The Illustrious Theatre Company, Barbara Bald, John Cimino, Terrie Goldstein, Carol Muise, Linda Barboni, Dorothy Szefc, Dave Horton, John Bakum, Monica Ostrow, David Nolan, Cathe Linton, Phyllis Lehman, Diane Kominick-Ouzoonian, Susan Miiller, Mitchell Saler, Ginny Rizzo, Roberta Green, Mainframe Gallery, Linda Richichi, Debra Femiak, Sandra Strohsahl, Adrienne Butvinick, Stuart Sachs, Elaine Sgambati, Jill Constantino, Natalie Surving, Eric Stein, Rhoda Mack, Bertoni Gallery, Micahel Gaydos, Anne Kelly, Ann Leibowitz, Patricianne Norton, Vivien Collens, Lynn Isaacson, Carol Ann Kronyak, Sandy Spitzer, Leslie Waxtel, Sarah McHugh, Beatrice Bloom, Gayle Clark Fedigan, Northeast Watercolor Society, Willy-Gilly Productions Inc., Rosalinda McGovern, Meadow, Cynthia Harris-Pagano, Moragn Haude, Andrew Lattimore, Debbie Raia, Carly Ryan, Wallkill River School, Shawn dell Joyce, Frances Z. Lee, Lisa Zukowski, Lynne Digby, Port Jervis Council for the Arts, Arts in Orange, Michelle Figliomeni, and Richard Weber.
Not a Member yet? Why not? For those of you who have not yet joined, please consider helping us in our mission and become a member of the Orange County Arts Council. Funds from membership directly support the Council’s programs and services. As we all know, the arts are an essential ingredient in healthy and vibrant communities. The Arts Council and its members are committed to supporting arts in education, encouraging the arts as an economic engine in the county, promoting the arts, building new relationships between the arts and other aspects of community life, collaborating with other organizations and uniting our community through the arts. Orange County possesses abundance of artists and arts opportunities and with the support of its members, the Arts Council can ensure that the arts will continue to flourish. For membership information, please call 845-469-9168 or email info@ocartscouncil.org. We can accomplish so much more when we work together!
Articles Needed!
The Orange County Arts Council would like to post your article on our website! If you have an educational article that you would like to share, we would be happy to post it. Articles should be no longer than 750 words and can also include a picture. Send articles to dawn@ocartscouncil.org. Please note: we reserve the right to edit articles, as well as determine if and when any article will be posted. Thanks in advance!