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Dallas, Texas 75372
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Workshops & Open Calls
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APT Field Trip!
Saturday, April 21
DADA Spring Gallery Walk
& Panel Discussion
Meet us for a Spring day outing of art, lunch, learning and fun! We'll meet at Centraltrak, and caravan or carpool for lunch, then to galleries in Design District, and Uptown. Happy Hour to follow.
Discount for APT members and their guests! Only $5 (vs $15!) per panel discussion. Just RSVP here by April 18th, for APT price. 214.680.3838
10:30 am - noon (Panel 1)
How Do I Get Into a Juried show, & Do I Want To?
Serri Ayers, Kenneth Craighead, Scott Hilton, Marcie Inman, Shea Little, Bart Weiss. UTD's John Pomara moderates.
1 - 2:30 pm (Panel 2)
Artist Residencies
How can they benefit you?
Dennis Nance, Heyd Fontenot, Cassandra Emswiler, Brad Ford Smith. Anne Bothwell of KERA's Art+Seek moderates.
2:30 pm - 5:30 pm
DADA Spring Gallery Walk
Featuring 40 of DADA's leading member galleries, museums, and art spaces. We will go on a mapped tour of galleries and special exhibitions. Free. info@dallasartdealers.org.
5:30 pm Happy Hour at
The Fish
_____________________________ Turn your art into money...don't miss our next APT workshop!
Market Your Art!
Saturday May 19th, 1 - 3pm
Have you ever wondered how to
...write a great artist bio?
...get your work into galleries? ...write a press release for your shows?
All of these questions answered and more on how to market your art. Presented by Lisa Taylor, Executive Director of Dallas Arts Dealers Assoc, former Arts & Entertainment writer for the Dallas Times Herald.
$25 for Non-members
RSVP here by May 14, 2012, or to make workshop payment. For location off Turtle Creek Blvd in Dallas, see map on Events page. __________________________ $3,000, May 1st Deadline For 2D & 3D artists wanting to spend time dedicated to studio work in a fascinating, ancient European country. $3G covers studio space, tutorial guidance, simple living cost. ______________________
A historic showing of work in Times Square, open call for artists and photographers.
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International Juried Art Show
Deadline May 31
Theme on the playful exploration of life turned on its head, of what is different or a bit askew. 2-D and 3-D artwork. 847.272.7074artshow@northbrook.info
Annual Competition
$25,000 in cash prizes
April 23rd Deadline
5 categories, Advanced & Beginner
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Painter Seeks Studio Share
Daytime, no weekends.
Art professor interested in revitalizing urban space through art.
S. Chuck McCarter, 254.541.0076
(new to Dallas, from Salado, north of Austin). Local artist references.
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with Jayne Duryea,
APT SW TX Committee Chair
Opening Reception
April 28th, noon - 2pm
Beeville Art Museum 361.358.8615
401 E. Fannin, Beeville, TX 78102
April 28 - July 19
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Congrats to the artists chosen to exhibit work for two years on Henderson Ave in Dallas, Texas!
George Toblowsky, Nic Noblique, Leslie Begert, Jaun Gonzalez, Steve Van Gelder, Michael Christopher, Faith Schexnayder, Scott Shubin.
Awards Party date to be announced. Jeff Levine 214.604.6362
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 MOD ART Show Opening Reception
Friday April 20th, 6-10pm
4123 Cedar Springs
Suite 107, Dallas
See work of APT members,
Steve Prachyl, John Borys,
Nic Noblique, and many other artists.April 19th - May 21, 214.507.7369
ron@ronradwanski.com
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BankTexas teams with
A collaboration between ART Region of TX President Sandy Page and BankTexas is giving more artists a chance to shine and bringing more beauty to the banking world.
BankTexas in Winnsboro is spotlighting works of APT
stone sculptors Bonnie Sir Kegian, Alder L Moore, and ceramic artist Georgia Lange Moore. View more of their work in our online gallery.
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Metal + tonnage + great art + Nic Noblique = One heavy display behind closed doors at Gallery M Squared in Houston, TX. Opening Reception
April 14th, 7 - 10pm.
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Sculpture Gardens Art Tour
in the upper East Side of Texas
 April 28, 10am-6pm Two beautiful gardens filled with sculpture by international sculptor James Surls and Glenna Goodacre, as well as APT member Terry Jones and many others, will be open to the public, on the Malakoff Artist's Studio/Gallery Tour (70 artists in Henderson, Van Zandt, & Kaufman counties).
Program/Ticket Pick-up: Malakoff Community Center, Hwy 198 north of Hwy 31 in Malakoff. ___________________________ The MAC
WATERSHED
Opening Reception
Saturday, April 14, 2012
5:30pm - 7:30pm
Mckinney Ave, Dallas
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Sequences: Light Cascades
& Water Music
by David H. Gibson
Saturday April 7, 6 - 8:30pm
6616 Spring Valley Road
Dallas, TX 75254
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Saturday April 7, 10am - 12pm
4585 W. Jefferson, Dallas TX 75211__________________________
by JR Compton
of Dallas Arts Review
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The Art of Recycling
 Houston artists take advantage of housing crisis foreclosures by turning abandoned homes into giant sculptures...  Furniture made from recycled inner tubes from landfills, designed by Nir Ohayon. 
Tom Deininger creates rabbits from cigarette butts collected from beach parking lots.
"Big Rigs" was created by by Mike Ross using old semi trucks
and Ji Yong Ho creates amazing animal sculptures with old used tires...
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Greetings!
We hope you will join us this month on our first Field Trip!
Thanks to those who came to our workshop! Anne Neal had this to say...
"This workshop was full of priceless information from Lois Weaver who teaches corporations how to best 'present' their image and enhance their web presence. The event was really exceptional and anyone who missed it really 'missed the boat.' Full of all kinds of insider information about web site searches and search engine optimization (of course there is an acronym 'SEO') to maximize the chance of your site getting near the top on search results. Thanks!" 
We have many more workshops in store taught by a variety of people with information to share on how to get your art out there in the most professional way possible. Stay tuned! 
Please click on all underlined links for more information.
Sincerely,
Cassandra Fink, President
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Look Who's Talking About Art
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Eliseo Garcia
Some of you know our member Eliseo Garcia. Sure, you may know he's an international sculptor and that he was awarded 3D Visual Artist of the Year by the State of Texas. But did you know that he's also a painter? That he likes to dance? Or about his childhood experience with tornadoes? There are so many details that go into making us who we are as an artist, details unconsciously reflected in our art work.
Eliseo believes that "True art comes from the heart. It is important to work spontaneously and effortlessly, and let go of the mental and emotional limitations that keep me from creating artwork which lacks substance, meaning, and spirit."
Read his interview with Tom Hussey here, or see more work on his website, www.sculptoreliseo.com
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Safety Tips for the Painter
1) Food, drinks, and paint don't mix well. Avoid placing your cup of tea or coffee next to your brush water or you may be drinking something unpallete-able. It's easy to dunk a brush in the wrong cup when concentrating on your art.
2) Never put a brush with paint on it in your mouth, no matter how tempting it is to get a nice point on it for detail work. (You wouldn't do this with a brush if using wall paint.)
3) Keep your art materials out of the reach of kids. Paint is paint to the average child; there's a huge difference between red paint formulated for kids and a tube of cadmium red.
4) Keep solvents in their original containers and not in a juice bottle, for obvious reasons. Store them away from heat and flames (and don't let anyone light up a cigarette).
5) Keep a shop vac around to vacuum up pastel dust if you use pastels; nothing fancy, just a simple one with a decent filter will do. Broom sweeping will put pastel and other dust back into the air.
6) Always keep this special solvent on hand... In addition to practicing safety awareness, the most powerful solvent every artist should have on hand is laughter. If properly used, it can dissolve frozen mental blocks to creativity. When not used, there is severe danger of not enjoying the creative process, which could eventually show up in your art. Don't do this!
What artist hasn't transformed a mistake they made with their art into a masterpiece? Proof that mistakes stop being failures once they become valuable lessons, or great art. Acceptance and maintaining a sense of humor helps overcome consequences from mistakes made in the studio.
We all have a story, like one of the APT board members who years ago, got a polishing dremel caught in her hair. Was it funny at the time? Uhhm, no. Is it funny now? You bet! Does she always wear a hat or helmet now, every single time she works with power tools? Now I wear at least two or three at once!
It's been said that Mistakes + time = humor. Email your stories for
Don't Do This and share them with us (anonymously or otherwise) as a teaching tool!
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Inspiration
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In honor of Earth Day... | The Art of Stewardship
Earth Day Movie by Greg Mort
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by Miriam Stockley
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This ancient tree in Africa was carved anonymously into hundreds of animals by many people, over many generations...proof that sometimes the act of creativity as legacy is all the reward needed.
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What is APT?
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APT is a group of artists and business people dedicated to helping artists who either live or sell their work in Texas, providing exposure, innovative exhibitions, lucrative opportunities for artists, seminars, social art outings, and avenues to help artists refine their presentation.
We celebrate creative innovators, and foster a relationship with professionals and patrons interested in great art.
APT is proud to be sponsored by these generous contributors.
This is your art organization, so APT wants to hear about any new trails you are blazing in the art world, and what YOU want to see more of - how can we assist you as an artist?
 
 
 
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