This week: CWOS Registration is LIVE and CWOS Web Image Workshops

CWOS Registration:

CWOS registration is now LIVE! Visit the CWOS website to register for City-Wide Open Studios 2008 online.
Please have your artist statement, 3 images and credit card ready.

Deadlines Extended:

Because of the delay in opening registration we have established these new EXTENDED DEADLINES:

Sunday August 4: Deadline to register to be considered for the special Exhibitions: Artist-in-Residence Site Program and CONNcentric.
(previously July 30)

Friday August 29: Deadline to register your studio, temporary space to be included in all printed materials.
(previously August 22)

CWOS Web Image Workshops:

Join us at Artspace for one of three workshops on preparing your images for CWOS Registration. We will go through a step-by-step process on using Photoshop for resizing images, and have handouts available for you to take home. Please email Jemma to reserve space in one of these workshops: jemma[at[artspacenh.org. $5 suggested donation and reservation required.

Thursday, July 17: 5-7PM
CWOS Workshop at Artspace: Preparing your images for registration

Thursday, July 24: 5-7PM
CWOS Workshop at Artspace: Preparing your images for registration

Do you need to make an appointment to use our computer?
If you don't have a computer or access to image editing software, you can make an appointment with Laura Norris to come in and use our computers to edit your images.
**Please note: We are NOT able to take pictures of your work. When you come in to the gallery you should have your images on a CD ready to be resized.**
To set up an appointment to use the computer please email Laura at: cwoshelp[at]artspacenh.org

CWOS Questions and Registration Help:
We have set up a dedicated email to answer questions about CWOS. Please send your questions to : cwos[at]artspacenh.org

If your need help with registration, Laura Norris is available to assist you either on the phone or here in the gallery. You can also make an appointment to come in and use our computer for registration. Please send registration questions & appointment requests to: cwoshelp[at]artspacenh.org

For questions and help by phone please call: 203.772.2709 x17

This Saturday at East Rock Park: New Haven Summer Cycling Celebration!

A giant celebration of biking in New Haven: enter the race to the top of East Rock, take a shuttle to the top if you're not up to biking, ride the ferris wheel and carousel, eat food, hang out with friends, have lots of fun!

Saturday July 19, 2008 from 9am - 5pm.

Visit the official website for details: www.bikenewhaven.org

Art Fashion Show: Call to Artists:

Thursday, August 7th, from 5-7 pm
Do you make wearable art or design and sew your own crazy clothes? Celebrate the closing of our summer exhibitions by wearing your creations in our closing party fashion show. Artspace's Contemporary Sewing Circle has been working together on collaborative wearable projects  during recent months and will be modeling their designs.  If you are interested in participating in the fashion show, e-mail laurel[at]artspacenh.org photos of your wearable art and the best way to contact you, along with what your items are made of, by August 4th.

AND DON'T MISS OUR SUMMER EXHIBITIONS on view through AUGUST 9, 2008.

Visit the website for full details and a preview of work by all artists.

Pretty Things: Confronting Sensuousness
This exhibition explores the role of sensuousness in contemporary art. Ten artists employ diverse materials in innovative ways to entice us with artworks that project a seductive allure. In Gallery 1 view the work of Kelly Bigelow Becerra, Phyllis Bramson, Mia Brownell, Oliver Herring, Grant Lincoln Johnston, Joyce Kozloff, Christi Rinklin, Ben Weiner. In Gallery 2 view the work of Jane Rainwater and Cheryl Yun.

Put Together
Last fall Jeffrey Walkowiak, Director of the Sara Meltzer Gallery in New York, visited over 400 artist studios during Artspace's City-Wide Open Studios Festival 2007. His selection of five artists articulate concurrent and relevant issues in today's art world. In Galleries 4, 5 and 7 view the work of: Brian Huff, Phil Lique, Kari Britta Lorensen, Drew Nemetz, and Dorothy Powers.
Put Together artist talk: June 5, 2008 at 5pm.

In Case of Loss Please Return to Paradise
An installation by Fredo Conde
On view in Gallery 3, Conde combines painting, drawing and sculpture to collectively form a narrative. The work is the product of Conde's disillusionment with the excesses of consumerism and subsequent regression into escapism. Conde's mixed media installation chronicles a fabricated utopia guarded from the advances of consumption and its susceptibility to inevitable fragmentation.

Things I've Seen
Student Curator Simeon Durham, of the Hyde Leadership Academy, selected the work of two artists from the Artspace Flatfile, Robert Knight and Andrew Hogan, for his exhibition, Things I've Seen on view in Gallery 6. Robert Knight's colorful photographs playfully expose the personal space of the bedroom. Andrew Hogan pushes the standards of lighting practices in documentary photography in his series, 12 Images of New Haven at Dusk and After.

Call for Artists
Yale University Properties, in partnership with Artspace, has an opportunity for one artist to do a site-specific window installation in a window space on Audubon Street in New Haven's arts & retail district.  This window installation will be highly visible to the public 24 hours. There are three windows measuring approx. 79" x 79", which are located at 87 Audubon Street - see photograph of the site below. The run dates for this installation are approximate as the end date is contingent upon the space being leased. Installation could be set up immediately. The selected artist will receive a stipend for materials. Please send your proposal via e-mail to laurel@artspacenh.org by AUGUST 15th, 2008, or mail to Artspace, 50 Orange Street, New Haven CT 06511.  If we are interested in talking about your proposal, we will contact you.

Please submit
-A resume and artist statement
-Project Proposal
-Technical requirements, if any
-Budget for materials
-Images of past work.