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Art Show Scheduled--The Fourth Annual Art Methods & Materials Show will held at the Pasadena Convention Center, CA, from October 14-17. Sponsored by American Artist magazine, the show features more than 172 classes in fine art, decorative arts, and art marketing. The trade show exhibit (Oct. 15-17) features over 80 art materials manufacturers. See free demos, try a wide variety of art materials, paint a square on the world's largest canvas painted by multiple artists, and vote for the People's Choice Award in the floral art competition. Visit www.artmethods.com for complete information; or call 1-888-200-7895.
Festival Forthcoming--The 5th Annual Paradise City Arts Festival will be held October 9-11 at the Tri-County Fairgrounds in Northampton, MA. This showcase has been rated the #1 fine art and craft show in the Northeast U.S. by the prestigious Harris List. Information online at: www.paradise-city.com.
Portrait Society Events Scheduled--The American Society of Portrait Artists Foundation is sponsoring events September 18-19 in Chicago and October 23-24 in Hamden, CT. Portrait demos, slide presentations, portfolio reviews an Q&A sessions are scheduled. Call 800-622-7672.
Prints/Printmakers Receive Award--Adirondack Prints and Printmakers: The Call of the Wild, edited by Caroline Mastin Welsh, received an award from the American Historical Print Collectors Society, Inc., for its contribution to the "understanding and appreciation for prints as part of the history and culture of the U.S." Adirondack Museum and Syracuse U. Press-1998.
Arts Preserved--The Senate has voted 80 to 16 to extend the life of the National Endowment for the Arts. The vote tabled a bid to close the NEA by eliminating its fiscal 2000 budget of $99 million.
Exhibitions
--Fort Wayne, IN - Lincoln Museum - Lincoln From Life: As the Artists Saw Him - Through October 17. Forty-six paintings, sculptures, photos and sketches that Lincoln posed for between 1860 until his assassination in 1865 are included.
--Portland, ME - Portland Museum of Art - Love and the American Dream: The Art of Robert Indiana - Through October 17. This first exhibition to explore the two central themes of Indiana's artistic career includes more than 70 paintings, sculpture and prints from museums and private collections around the world.
--Brooklyn, NY - Brooklyn Museum of Art - Winslow Homer: Illustrating America - Through October 10 - This first retrospective at the BMA of the artist's wood engravings features more than 115 works created from 1857 to 1878, including some of his best-known Civil War images.
September Birthdays:
2 Romare Bearden
4 Oskar Schlemmer
7 Grandma Moses
13 Robert Indiana
25 Mark Rothko
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Copyright ARTtalk Vol. 9 No. 11 -- September 1999