Crest Hardware Art Show : Call for Entries

It's that time again!  Crest Hardware is accepting submissions for their Crest Fest & Art Show! This year's event will be held on Saturday, June 18.

As always, the theme is : ART about/with/for & inspired by hardware!

All mediums are welcomed. Crest has over 5,000 sq ft of indoor retail space & storefront windows plus a 5,000 sq ft garden, so outdoor sculpture and artwork are welcome too.

All submissions must be entered by Saturday, June 4 and include an entry form which can be downloaded here.

No late entries will be accepted.

Email your submission and entry form to joe@cresthardwareartshow.com or send by mail to :

Crest Hardware Art Show
558 Metropolitan Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11211

Interested in volunteering at the event?  Email Liza Shields at liza@cresthardwareartshow.com

Carrie & Zach // 3rd Look at PREYGROUND

Getting excited about Friday? Check out this pre-release photograph from Carrie Shaltz and Zach Hyman's PREYGROUND series. Click here for another sneak peek release.

See all 26 photographs, plus masks and video FRIDAY April 1st at the World Premiere Gallery Opening.  Event Details and RSVP here.

New Rome Clothing // Reformations by Christine Garvey

New Rome Clothing Artist Series:
Reformations by Christine Garvey
Wednesday, March 30th : 8:30 -10:30 pm
The Blind Barber Bar : 339 E. 10th Street

Our printmaking teacher Christine Garvey is the inaugural artist in the New Rome Clothing Artist Series!

New Rome Clothing is a Brooklyn-based clothing line that helps bring the vision of talented, local designers to market. By ensuring the artistic freedom of the designer throughout their creative process, New Rome creates an outlet for expression with the mission of producing unique and thought-provoking fashion.

Be sure to stop by and see Christines work this Wednesday night!

To learn more about the event, click here and to sign up for Christine's next DIY Printmaking class, click here.

Teacher Pursuits // Exploring Queens Through Design

CROSSCURRENTS: Queens College CUNY MFA Group Exhibition

NY Studio Gallery, 154 Stanton Street

March 23, 2011 through April 2, 2011

Reception: Friday March 25 7-9pm

Curated by Omar Lopez- Chahoud

Patty Harris, our InDesign Instructor, will be showing her work in a group show at the NY Studio Gallery.

A “crosscurrent” is defined as a current flowing into or across another current. The works in this show represent Queens' cultural and ethnic diversity through creative processes.

For example, Osaretin Ighile's industrial debris collected from garbage dumpsters morph into beautiful sculptures such as the portrait of President Obama. Antonia A. Perez's assemblages of everyday consumer products transform into formal, delicate, abstract works. Artists such as Joyce Chan and Karen Cintron explore traditional materials such as paper through weaving and collage. Becky Franco's haunting paintings of domestic spaces blur the line between the familiar and the unfamiliar. Indeed, the Queens College location is a fertile ground for these artists to emerge.

Learn from Patty in her InDesign class here and learn more about CROSSCURRENTS here.



Inflatable Sculpture Show Featured Artists

Here's a preview of what you can expect at the March 26 Inflatable Sculpture Show. (This is a working list and will be updated regularly as details come in). RSVP HERE.

Patrick Flibotte - Instructor
SUBTERRANEAN USED CAR LOT BLUES: 50 sculptures with 50 separate fans and LED lights
INFLATABLE SUPERHEROS: two giant inflatable superheros

Mariah Corrigan
JANUARY: A dead white/semitransparent spider on its back with its legs in the air. Illuminated from within.   9' w x 11' h.

Robert Collins, Jr.

DEER IN HEADLIGHTS:  4' w x 10' h.

Fabian Grateroles
GASTROPOD #34 : 15' ft w x 8' h x 8' d.

Eva Marie Lansberry
SPARKY the Translucent Juvenile Roundbelly Cowfish: Translucent Juvenile Roundbelly Cowfish 12' w x 12' h x 12' d

Meena H. Kim

NO MORE BATTLE PLEASE : 15' w x 15' h and extended arms

Gabriel Pulecio Guzman AKA Lustix
METALLOID TROUPE 6' w x 6' h with projections onto surface.

Lara Agulto

APOCALIPSTICK : a bust of a nun (inflatable) with laser beams (not inflatable) coming out of its eyes. Approx 9' tall.

Launa Eddy
CAT EYE : Giant glasses
 23' w x 
6' h x 14" d

Liz Medina
CHEW MY BALLS :  a giant gum ball machine you can crawl inside. There will be balloons floating inside. Everyone gets a complimentary gum ball too. 10' w x 13' h.

PLUS, a special performance by Anney Fresh's Space Kittys. 

Anney McKilligan Ozar, AKA Anney Fresh, is a creator and performer of costumes and puppets in New York City. She was nominated for seven Daytime Emmy Awards for Costume Design/ Styling with wins in 2007, 2009, and 2010 for Sesame Street. 

 ... and more details to come!

Carrie & Zach // 2nd Look at PREYGROUND

We're releasing select photographs from Carrie Shaltz and Zach Hyman's PREYGROUND series.Click here for another sneak peek release.

See all 26 photographs, plus masks and video at the April 1st World Premiere Gallery Opening on April 1st. Event Details and RSVP here.

New from PREYGROUND

Instructor Pursuits // Kim's Fraczek's Unexpected Glass Treasures

Our Glass Fabrication class program has grown steadily over the past couple months, thanks in large part to our head glass guru, Kim Fraczek, a working glass and jewelry artist who is really redefining what we think of glass blowing.

Kim's works are spontaneous in nature, a delicate balance of control and letting the glass take its own form under the torch. See below for some of her delicate and one-of-a-kind pieces, and make your own glass pieces in one of Kim's upcoming Spring classes, including Introduction to Glass Jewelry, Rings of Fire, and Glass Pendants & Earrings.

13 Moons Necklace : 13 handmade glass circles inspired by the Mayan idea of time in harmony with the EarthSeed Pod Earrings filled with fuscia Swarovski crystalsBaby rattle (for parents), filled with baby's birthstone and engraved with name and birthdateLearn how to create your own glass pieces at 3rd Ward by clicking here.

Pictures Are Up! // Steven Brahms : THE SURVIVAL PROJECT

Thanks to all who came out to the Gallery Opening for Steven Brahms Presents THE SURVIVAL PROJECT. See below for some selects from the night and visit the 3rd Ward Facebook page to see the entire album.

Plus, submit your art to the 3rd Ward Open Call here. You can win $5,000, a 3-month 3rd Ward Membership, and -- just like Steven -- your very own solo show at 3rd Ward. Learn more about Steven at www.stevenbrahms.com. We're sure you'll be hearing about him in the future.

All photos (c) Liz Clayman

Installation Students Bring Their Art Home

ART TAKING OVER HOME

Saturday, March 26, 2011 // 3pm - 3am

201 Montrose Avenue, Apartment 2A

This Saturday, a group of students in our Installation: Creating an Environment class will present an immersive and innovative show that lets Art take over the Home through sound, video, painting, illustration, sculpture, interactive, performance, taste and smell, potential ghosts and -- of course -- collaborative installation.

What is Home? How has "adult Home" been influenced by "childhood Home"? How has the concept of Home been sacrificed for something like location, location, location? How have rodents or leaks or bed bugs compromised the concept of Home?    

Plus, take a seat and share a story about your Home, your neighbor's secrets, that truck that idles outside your window all night.

Want more? Learn more about installation and its exciting possibilities. Sign up for Installation: Creating an Environment here. Class starts April 3rd!



Carrie & Zach // First look at PREYGROUND

Sneak Peek! Here's a little teaser shot from Carrie Shaltz and Zach Hyman's April 1st show, PREYGROUND.

This was the first time Carrie and Zach introduced other people into their work. FInd out who they are and why they changed their mind in this behind-the-scenes blog post.

Want more? RSVP for this surprising and utterly bewitching show here.