Are you an artist looking for an opportunity to get your work noticed? Do you know someone who is an artist and might be interested in such an opportunity? Every year since 2000, the Institute on Disability (IOD) at the University of New Hampshire has produced a calendar that features 13 original works of art. These highly anticipated calendars are distributed each year to thousands of people around the world who are connected to the IOD's mission of strengthening communities and ensuring full access, equal opportunities, and participation for all persons. The IOD is currently inviting artists to submit artwork to be considered for its 2011 Calendar.
VSA arts of Texas invites all artists in San Antonio and surrounding areas with mental illness to submit artwork to this exhibition. There is no entry fee and 2D and 3D works in all media are eligible. The exhibit will be on display during Mental Illness Awareness Week in October 2010 in a San Antonio gallery. For more information contact Susan Beattie at 210-341-4979 or miawartshow@yahoo.com or April Sullivan at toll free 866-489-8412 or april@vsatx.org. Click here for the MIAW entry form.
VSA arts of Texas and the Texas Commission on the Arts launched Artworks Network in Fall 2007. This series of networking meetings was designed to help artists with disabilities organize and structure informal networks in six regions: Austin, Dallas/Fort Worth, El Paso, Houston, San Antonio, and South Texas. The meetings give artists a chance to meet other artists with disabilities and learn about resources in their area. Meetings in each area are led by the artists themselves and may be used as open studio time, critique sessions, discussion groups, exhibition planning, or other ways of fostering mutual career support. The goal of Artworks Network is to create self-sustaining mutual support networks for artists with disabilities.
To learn more about upcoming meetings in your region of Texas, contact April Sullivan, Artworks Director at 512-323-6626.