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Show off your pet tricks and costumes!
"Spidercat," via Britta Trygstad
Does your pet do a cool trick or look great in a costume? Let your pet strut their stuff and you could win some great prizes!
Here’s whatcha do:
Upload a photo or video of your pet’s talent or fresh look online (Imgur and YouTube are good tools to use).
Email the link, along with the subject line “Pet Contest”, to kkerzman@plainsart.org to enter the contest.
Share your entry by posting it on our Facebook page or by tagging us in a tweet (optional).
We’ll survey the entries and choose two winners, one for Best Dressed and one for Most Talented.
Then, swing by our Three Ring Circus on Sunday, September 25 for the opening reception of See Acts of Audacious Daring! The Circus World of Judy Onofrio and be part of a pet parade in the afternoon. An audience favorite award will be given away to one of the parade participants. And, the winners of the online contest will be announced, although you need not be present to win those prizes. All winners will receive a $50 gift certificate.
Deadline for online entries is Friday, September 23 at 4 p.m. If you have questions, ask in the comments, email kkerzman@plainsart.org, or call 701.232.3821 ext. 121. Go, wonder pets, hooray!
Win a Copy of “The Walter Piehl Jr. Retrospective” for a Facebook Friend
Do you have a couple art lovers on your list who still need a gift? Want to recognize a friend for their artistic awesomeness? Enter a Facebook friend to win an autographed copy of “The Walter Piehl Jr. Retrospective”, a companion to Piehl’s 2003 Plains Art Museum exhibition of the same name:
Here’s what you do: tag Plains Art Museum (type “@” then “plains art museum”) and tag a friend in the same Facebook wall post along with a little recognition for your friend. Here’s an example: “Plains Art Museum, I think my friend Jane Q. Public should win the book because she is such a thoughtful friend!” Or, “Hey, Plains Art Museum, give my friend John Q. Public the book – he gave my car a jump start this morning.”
We’ll do a drawing out of all entries, give the book to your friend, and do something nice for you as well.
Qualifying entries must be posted by 4 p.m. on Wednesday, December 15, 2010. If you make multiple entries, please tag a different friend in each post. Only unique entries will be entered into the drawing. Winners will be announced in a Plains Art Museum Facebook post on Friday, December 19, and contacted through Facebook. Please send questions to kkerzman@plainsart.org.
Have fun and thank you for supporting the Museum through Facebook!
Meet Our Portrait Contest Winner
As mentioned in the last post, we’ve been taking submissions over the last few months for a portrait contest inspired by our exhibition Individual to Icon: Portraits of the Famous and Almost Famous from Folk Art to Facebook. We got a great response from a wide variety of talented photographers, painters and graphic designers, all of whom appeared to take great joy in capturing a good portrait.
The winner, chosen by jury, was submitted by Jamie Hohnadel of Kindred, N.D. Her piece is a perfect marriage of uncluttered imagery and use of color:
Jamie Hohnadel, "Wishful Thinking", 2008, 11 x 17", digital pigment print
We also liked this image because, in a way, it fit with our Spring Gala theme of “Ordinary to Extraordinary.” Jamie’s print will be part of the silent auction at this year’s Gala and, as a prize, Jamie received a ticket. We’re also keeping her image as our Facebook profile photo for the month of April.
Jamie Hohnadel
I had the chance to meet Jamie earlier this week. She is an enthusiastic and energetic high school senior involved in almost every art activity she can get her hands on.
“I love painting, drawing, sculpting, singing, song writing, sewing, fashion design, reading and writing poetry and short stories, and everything involving theater- from acting to set design to hair and makeup,” she said. That’s quite the list. For inspiration, Jamie likes to browse and contribute to the online art community deviantART.com.
Jamie won silver and gold in the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards and plans on attending Minnesota State University Moorhead in the fall, majoring in graphic design. She has her eye on doing work in the music industry.
“When you look at an album cover and you buy it because of the art and you don’t care what they play – I just love that,” she said.
Jamie said her winning image was the result of experimentation with a new camera. Her friend Nicki, the subject of the photo and an actor, pretended to be “dramatic” and struck a pose in front of a telephone pole. Jamie liked the image but cropped out the pole and added a flower to make the resulting diptych. Such a creation seems like old hat to her, given her bristling creative energy.
“Honestly, I think I was just born to do this. I create something everyday,” she said. “I can’t even comprehend a life without art. I’ve worked very hard to get to the point I am at, and it hasn’t been easy. I worked all summer and did art commissions just to save up to buy the camera I took that picture with. My school doesn’t offer a computer graphics class or a photography class, so I taught myself. But if I hadn’t had the support of my family, friends, and teachers, who knows where I would be now.”
Congratulations again to Jamie. Her print will be in our Gala silent auction preview on April 19 and available at the auction the night of the Gala on May 1.
Portrait Contest Finalists
The last few months of watching entries come in for our Portrait Project contest have been a real thrill. It’s been incredible to not only provide an opportunity for artists to engage in the artistic process with the Plains Art Museum, but to see that opportunity so readily grasped by so many talented people. Further, it’s been a treat to see the art of portraiture conceived in so many ways and lending our Individual to Icon exhibition a wonderful companion project. Big thanks to all who submitted.
I’ll post a bio of our contest winner later today. But first, I’d like to recognize five finalists from the contest. Congratulations to them! If you’d like more information about any of the artists or their work, please email kkerzman@plainsart.org.
Morea Steinhauer, "Handout - San Salvador, El Salvador"
Jescia Hoffman, "Growing Up"
Eric Santwire, "Al"
Yvonne Denault, "My Joy"
Don Kates, "Don't Mess With Me"
S.P.A.C.E. Vote Winner
A couple weeks ago, I wrote about the vote taking place in our atrium for the S.P.A.C.E. (Sculpture Pad Art Collaborative Experiment) Project. We displayed five proposals from students at Minnesota State University Moorhead for a piece that will be completed and displayed over the summer on our outdoor sculpture pad. Visitors were asked to vote for their favorites with the winner getting the green light to create the final project.
The results of the vote are now in, and the winner is…
(drum roll)
Star Monster (left)!
This colorful and slightly enigmatic piece will be constructed out of sheet metal, pressure-treated lumber and fiberglass resin. The finished project is scheduled to go up sometime in late April where it will remain through October. Congratulations to the winning students and a hearty thank you to all of the participants (you can see all of the submissions here).
Vote for Your Favorite S.P.A.C.E. Sculpture
Each year, Plains Art Museum collaborates with one of three campuses in Fargo-Moorhead to produce a work of art for the outdoor sculpture pad adjoining the building. The project, code named S.P.A.C.E. (Sculpture Pad Art Collaborative Experiment), takes proposals from students, features mock ups of the pieces in our atrium, and asks for the public’s vote in deciding which proposal will be finished and placed on the sculpture pad where it will remain through the summer.
This year’s participants are students at Minnesota State University Moorhead and are under the guidance of professor Chris Walla. Their proposals are currently on display and will be up until March 14. Take a look at all five proposals and vote in one of two ways: you can note your favorite in the comments or you can stop by and vote the old-fashioned analog way with a slip of paper.
Here are the nominees. Click on the image to read a brief artist statement.
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- Creatures
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- Star Monster
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- Banner Project
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- Bicycle Rim House
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- Untitled (Artbomb)
Portrait Project
photo Britta Trygstad, Milestones Photography
We would love to see your face—and a lot of other faces, too. And, one of them may become famous … or almost.
We invite you to join us in the Plains Art Museum Portrait Project, inspired by the exhibition Individual to Icon: Portraits of the Famous and Almost Famous from Folk Art to Facebook. The project is two-fold. First, a juried portrait contest—open to any visual artist—will determine a winning portrait to be featured as an auction item at the 14th Annual Spring Gala (see details below). The winning artist will also receive a free ticket to the Gala and the portrait will be used as the profile photo on the Plains Art Museum Facebook page … to be seen by the world!
Second, the project features an online “portrait wall” using the website Flickr. Do you have a funny face? Show it! A serious one? Show that too. How about your coworkers or your group of friends? Get ‘em on there! It’s easy: Set up a free Flickr account, join our group, then upload portraits of yourself and others. The goal? Compile a whole lotta faces. That’s it. If you’d like, you can stick around and discuss our Individual to Icon exhibition.
Get involved, have some fun, and help us celebrate the art of portraiture. Call Kris at 701.232.3821 ext. 121 or email kkerzman@plainsart.org with any questions.
Contest Details
Visual artists can submit up to five portraits in any medium for the contest. Please send a medium resolution image that would be suitable for the web. If selected, we’ll ask you to send us either the original piece or a high-resolution image that we can print ourselves. The winning portrait (selected by jury) will be auctioned off at this year’s Spring Gala and the image will be used as our Facebook profile picture for the month leading up to the Gala. Submissions are due by 4 pm on March 26, 2010 and can be emailed to kkerzman@plainsart.org or sent attention to Kris Kerzman Plains Art Museum, 704 1st Ave N, Fargo, ND, 58102. Please include your name, the title of the piece, size, media and email/phone contact. For details about the contest, please call Kris Kerzman at 701.232.3821 ext. 121 or email kkerzman@plainsart.org.
