Your Square Life

Monday, February 16, 2009

Thursday, February 12, 2009

The MTS gallery is hosting a show Pop! in April recreating all of the majesty and wonder of your youth. Skateboards, posters, records, comics and mix-tapes! It will all be there. This is your opportunity to create (or recreate) everything that was and is awesome! I\'m co-curating the show at the MTS gallery with Carolynn Kinneen and Clark Yerrington. We\'re looking for artist\'s proposals for the show by March 1st. The great thing is that we will be looking for a huge variety of work, as noted below, so the sky\'s the limit. What are we looking for? Anything really.

For example: A imaginary punk flyer from 1982. That gate fold prog-rock album with the sweet dragon and narwhal you had a dream about once. A better version of that Kiss poster you stared at as a kid. The cover for that mix-tape you meant to make in college with the collage cover and all the songs that started with the letter \"Q\".

The call for artists is below and you can submit proposals for more than one category. Please forward this along if you know of anyone who would be interested. The submissions are not limited to just Alaskan Artists. Feel free me to contact me or Carolyn with any questions.

*****Call for Artists*****

Pop! Art exhibit at MTS Gallery Anchorage, AK

Inspired by the pop art movement & everything that mattered from your teenage years – whenever they took, place. Use whatever medium you desire that fits the format & theme.

Formats we are accepting:

Snowboard deck (no longer than 160 cm long, 257mm wide)

Skateboard deck (no larger than 8.25 width x 31.25 long)

Cassette Mixed Tape (w/liner notes) (average cassette tape)

Album cover 12.5 inches x 12.5 inches

Zine or comic book cover (11x17 sheet back & front, with half-inch side borders and one-inch borders top/bottom)

Posters (no larger than 24x36)

Concert Flyer (need 30 black & white Xerox copies) no larger than 8.5 x 11

Deadline for email proposal: March 1st

We will reply to all submissions by March 9th

Finished Artwork needs to be completed & turned in by April 11th

Email submission proposal or jpg of prior work or questions to ckinneen@mac.com

http://mtsgallery.wordpress.com/

Sunday, February 08, 2009

Life Drawing

I found a new life drawing class through the Anchorage Museum, $20 per go, with professional life models. Apparently its been going on for ever and ever and now one told me.

Sunday, January 25, 2009

Illustration Alaska Flyer

Friday, January 23, 2009

Don't miss it . . .

Animation and Comics:

Art, Technology and Social Commentary

Jack Lew, from Electronic Arts; Pat Race with Lucid Reverie in Juneau, and Lee Post, local cartoonist, will present an interactive session on digital animation.

Sydney Lawrence Theater in the Anchorage Performance Arts Center

7:00 to 9 p.m. Friday, January 30th

I'll be talking about everything having to do with illustration that doesn't have anything to do with actually drawing and I'll be working with Pat Race to demonstrate using a illustration tablet to produce illustrations and animations. Pat and Jack are nationally known animators and will be presenting animated works from their students. It should be an awesome night and its a free event open to the public, not just attendees of the Arts Conference.

Here's your preview of the presentation:

A girl and her bird

In anticipation of my speech next week at the Arts Conference and my show at Urban Greens in June, I'm working on a new series of pictures. They will be based on a few selections from my found photograph collection. Why this girl had a portrait with her stuffed pigeon, I don't know. Am I happy she did? Yes.

Monday, January 19, 2009

Illustration Alaska

In antcipation of my talk for the "Comics and Animation Panel" at the State's Arts and Culture Conference on January 29th in the Sydney Lawrence Theater at 7 p.m. (its open and free to the public), I started a new blog Illustration Alaska to document all the topics I thought could use some more depth and to spotlight illustrators who helped me out in crafting my talk.

Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Rockets!

I had the opportunity to do an Anchoarage Press cover on the quick, three hours notice, about the Fairbanks Rocket Club. I'm pretty happy with the results.