Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Time to Register


Hello Everyone:

We were all sixteen once. And what do sixteen-year-olds like to do?

Ok, there are a lot of things that sixteen-year-olds like to do, many of which were not invented when some of us were sixteen, but hanging out at the mall is timeless.

It's time to unleash your inner mallrat. That's right, it's

SWEET SIXTEEN
Untitled's Spring Show 2007
Friday, March 16th
6pm - 10pm
At the Bellevue Center Mall


Come with us as we go where no Untitled show has gone before, westward, to the mall, where we'll transform a former Disney store into Nashville's hottest art venue for one night only.

Registration is open now, and all middle-Tennessee artists at all levels and in all media are invited to participate. Here is the link to the SWEET SIXTEEN registration survey:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=750483375136

If you'd like to participate in this show, follow that link and enter your information before midnight on Sunday, March 11th. Interested artists are strongly encouraged to attend our regular Wednesday night meeting at 7:30 PM at Kazu in Cummins Station this week or next.

The rules are the same as always:

- $15 fee is due (postmarked) one week before the show, March 9th. Send it to PO BOX 40232, Nashville, TN 37204

- one piece per artist. No diptychs, triptychs or multiples unless they are physically attached to each other so that they can be hung by one nail and sell as one piece. No exceptions.

- Work is due on Wednesday, March 14th between 6 and 7:30 pm at the venue. Late work cannot be accepted.

If you need to change your submitted artwork (or price, or title or volunteer preferences, name, address, etc.) just return to the survey before the deadline and enter the new information. You may NOT change your information after March 11.

Untitled is just a bunch of artists making shows happen together. Please be kind to each other by helping out as much as you can and meeting every deadline and following every rule.

So here is a recap of the timeline.
Posters & Cards Distributed: March 2 and March 7
Press Release goes out: March 2 (send in your jpegs!)
$15 Fee postmarked: March 9
Titleblock entry due online: March 11
Drop-off Work: March 14
Installation: March 15
Show: March 16
Clean-up: March 17


Here are the fearless leaders of the SWEET SIXTEEN show:

Publicity Chair – Melissa Martin
Curators - Eric Denton and Ben Vitualla
Hospitality Chair - Cobey Delk
Artist Liaison - Shelley Santana
Installation Chair - Chris McDermott
De-installation Chair – This position still open!

Remember this week's meeting Wednesday at KAZU 7:30 pm
209 10th Ave S, Nashville, TN (Cummins Station)
UNTITLED MEETS EVERY WEDNESDAY AT 7:30 pm. New artists are always welcome.


Upcoming or ongoing creative happenings
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TNVLA - Starting a Nonprofit Arts Organization
131 21st Ave. S., Nashville, TN
In partnership with the Vanderbilt University Law School clinical
learning program, TNVLA presents an educational seminar on:

Starting a Nonprofit Arts Organization: Incorporation & the Tax
Exempt Application Process
Date: Tues., Feb. 27th, 2007
Time: 7:00p.m.
Location: Vanderbilt University Law School, 131 21st Ave. S.
(Seminar will be held in the Bass, Berry & Sims room)

You've missed this, but check out the TN Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts website at http://www.tnvla.org/

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Interact: Four
Centennial Art Center
Centennial Park - Near 25th Ave North and Park Plaza
Opening Friday March 2nd 5-7 pm
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Nashville Craft Mafia - Urban Craft Extravaganza
Cannery Ballroom, 1 Cannery Row
Noon - 5 pm on Saturday March 3rd

55 vendors - some of UNTITLED's own will be getting their "CRAFT" on.
www.nashvillecraftmafia.com
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Saturday is the Downtown First Saturday Gallery Crawl.
http://www.artatthearcade.com/news/map-of-the-gallery-crawl-free-downtown-shuttle-route
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TAG Art Gallery : Cut and Paste
237 5th Avenue North, Nashville, TN
Opening March 3rd, 6 to 9 pm
www.tagartgallery.com
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Human Sacrifice : A Meditation on The Atonement, Day-To-Day Life and The Death Penalty
D.I.G. Through Art Lenten Art Show
Preview opening: Saturday, March 3rd at 5:30 PM
The show will open on Sunday, March 4th at 12:00 noon
The Downtown Presbyterian Church
154 5th Ave. North
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SQFT Gallery
Prints by Shawn Stucky
61 Arcade
opening March 3rd, 6pm
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Dangenart gallery
Mattice Juried Exhibition
83 Arcade
Mar 3 - 31
Opening reception: Mar 3, Sat, 6-8pm
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Twist - Art Gallery - Eros/Thanatos: Between
73 Arcade
224 - 234 5th Ave. N., Nashville, TN
Opening March 3rd - 6 to 9 pm
www.twistartgallery.com
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Nashville Arts Summit
Saturday, March 10, 2007
10:00am- 4:00pm
Belcourt Theatre
Hillsboro Village
Featuring forums and discussions on film, dance, theatre, music, fine art and written word.
Email NAS@nashvillescene.com to participate, or come to the next Untitled meeting.
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Plowhaus Artists' Cooperative presents:

ONE WALL ONE ARTIST SHOW
�GREEN JELLO�
Featured Artists: Janet Lee, Mar Augelli, Jessi Gonet, Jeff Goodwin
and John Holland
This show runs through March 11th.
regular gallery hours
Saturdays 11 am to 6 pm
Sundays 1 pm to 5 pm.
or by appointment

Plowhaus Artists' Coop
211 South 17th Street
Nashville, TN 37206
615-349-3777
info@plowhaus.org
www.plowhaus.org
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CRAFT - a creative community
in the parking lot of the Lipstick Lounge
14th and Woodland
11am - 5 pm, Sunday March 11th

up to 25 vendors - featuring some of UNTITLED's own
4 spaces left for the March event

this event will happen the second Sunday of every month, March through November.

Please check out our myspace - www.myspace.com/craft_creative_community
or email jodi reeves jodi@jodireeves.net for more information
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make sure to check out the art-talk calendar
http://www.airset.com/Public/Calendars.jsp?id=1391
for other great happenings in the NASHVILLE Art Scene or sign up on the art-talk mailing list at
http://lists.michaelchaney.com/mailman/listinfo/art-talk



Thanks to Untitled board member Jodi Reeves for this week's newsletter!

Tuesday, February 20, 2007

What's another word for meeting?

Hello Everyone:

Please join us Wednesday night at 7:30 (that would be today, unless you're up late Tuesday) for Untitled's weekly . . . let's think of a new word .. . . "meeting" sounds so, I don't know, corporate? Meetingish? Un-fun?

What do you call it when a bunch of artists of all ages and persuasions, some of whom know each other, some of whom don't, get together and drink their favorite beverages served by cute and efficient staff and talk about art and share information about opportunities and plan fun events and sometimes make stuff? Whatever you call it, that's what we'll be doing Wednesday night from 7:30 to 8:30 at Kazu in Cummins Station.

Some highlights from this week's meeting:
See the poster for the March 16 show
Sign up to get involved in the March 16 show
Learn about CRAFT -- an exciting new monthly event where you can sell your stuff
Learn about the upcoming Nashville Arts Summit

AND participate in the 2nd in our occasional, optional series:
The Untitled 15-Minute Art Fix
This week's fix: Make yourself a tiny sketchbook from recycled materials.
We'll provide supplies, but if you've got any of the following items rattling around in your car, bring 'em in: scissors, string, stapler, ruler, posters you don't want, large needles

Cry for help: So if anyone would like to serve as blogger-consultant to Untitled, please email info@untitlednashville.org. I THOUGHT I posted pictures last week . . .

Friday, February 9, 2007

News, with drawings

Hello Everyone:

At last night's meeting we learned two things:

1) If we don't send a meeting reminder, fewer people come to the meeting.
2) If you provide paper and sharpies, even photographers will draw.

We didn't MEAN to not send a reminder, it's just all this new technology. Oh! and also we learned:

3) Kazu serves an excellent brownie with icecream and blackberries (thanks for sharing, Shelly!)

After a very brief discussion of the upcoming Spring show, we held the
inaugural episode of the Untitled 15-Minute Art Fix, an optional, occasional addition to Untitled meetings in which we spend 900 seconds actually making art instead of just talking about it. It was fun and relatively painless. Look! Drawings! -->

And also we have this new flickr group at http://www.flickr.com/groups/untitlednashville/. If you have pictures from past Untitled shows you'd like to share, please add them to the group. If you use flickr and would like to help us make our flickr group fabulous (right now we'd settle for respectably functional -- there were pictures there yesterday), we'd love to hear from you. Please email info@untitlednashville.org or post your ideas on the flickr group discussion.

NEXT week (that would be Wednesday, February 14), will be our spring show poster contest. Designers, bring your posters! Valentines Day is overrated anyway. Of course you're welcome to bring your sweetie (maybe s/he'd like one of those brownies), and we'll do our best to keep it short for those of you with big plans.

Next week is also the time to start thinking about how you'd like to be involved with the show. Perhaps you'd like to lend your talents in one of the following exciting areas:

Publicity . . . . Installation . . . . De-installation . . . . Hospitality. . . . Volunteer Coordination . . . . Equipment Inventory . . . .Online Publicity . . . . Title-block Affixer . . . . Bio-book Compiler . . . . Poster Distribution . . . . Show Photographer . . . . Program Designer . . . . Last-minute-shopper . . . Front-door Greeter . . . Guest Counter . . . . "Ready-to-Hang" Assistant . . . Elvis Impersonator . . . . Artist/Buyer-Linker-Upper . . . Wine-pourer . . . . Cracker Replenisher . . . . DJ Liaison . . .

Untitled shows are more fun when you are one of the crew who helps make them happen. Come find out how. Every Wednesday at 7:30 PM at the big table in the back at Kazu.

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Tuesday, February 6, 2007

Video, flickr group, meeting

Hello Everyone:

Untitled meets at 7:30 Wednesday at Kazu in Cummins Station. This week will be a quick one, business-wise. We'll answer questions about next week's poster design contest (see previous entry), and review the process for participating in Untitled's spring show 2007: SWEET SIXTEEN coming up on March 16.

Here's a video from the recent "Really Big Thing."

We'll also introduce the new Untitled flickr group (search for untitlednashville).

Optional bonus meeting activity: Untitled 15-minute Art Fix

This week, bring your favorite drawing implement. After we finish our very important business, we'll set a timer and make marks for 15 minutes.

Saturday, February 3, 2007

Spring show: SWEET SIXTEEN on March 16

Hello Everyone:

Well, it’s official. The votes are in, and Untitled’s Spring show, in our 16th year, on March 16th will be called “Sweet 16”. Do with it what you will. And if you like designing things, we do hope you will design one for this show. You’ve got 11 days. Please bring your design to the Untitled meeting on Wednesday, February 14 at 7:30 PM at Kazu. Feel free to bring your sweetheart, and we’ll vote at the beginning in case you’ve got big plans.

Here’s what your poster needs to include:

sweet 16 [sweet sixteen is fine too]
the untitled logo – undistorted and at least 3 inches long
the metro
nashville arts commission logo [1-3 inches long]
friday march 16

6-10 pm
free
one-night-only
uncensored art for unlimited audiences
[space for venue name and address]
www.untitlednashville.org (easily legible)

You can put these in whatever order, font and configuration you like. Posters can be full color or not, up to 11x17”.

Link here to a random sampling of past Untitled posters and downloadable logos.

Tonight's the First Saturday. Don't forget to go out to the Parthenon, Centennial Park Gallery, Dangenart, Ruby Green, SqFT, Twist, Tag, TAL, Take 121, the Arts Company . . . (if I missed any forgive me! a full listing can be found on Art-talk.

See the 7-day art weather forecast as a nifty webpage here: http://www.rickbradley.com/weather_forecast_latest.html

If you’re not on art-talk, please subscribe! To do that, go here: Art-talk Info Page
http://lists.michaelchaney.com/mailman/listinfo/art-talk

By the way, it's been lovely to see so many new faces on Wednesdays lately. Last week new face Susan brought free art supplies to share! If you've got stuff cluttering your studio. Bring it any Wednesday . . I'm sure we can find a new home for it.