The MAINE Event

An Art Challenge

MAG president Michele Frantz spent her summer in Maine last year, armed with camera, and posted dozens of photographs to her Facebook page. Sunsets, moonrise, storms, calm, high surf, low tide, fog, sun, sand and lots of rocks… it’s all there.

Your challenge: use one or more of these photographs to inspire some art! MAG has arranged to display the results in the lobby of the Bull Run Regional Library in May.

Here’s everything you need to know to enter your art into this exhibit.

First, contact Maria Briganti at mariarts@comcast.net and inform her of your intent to exhibit. Deadline to enter: April 23, 2011. Then, you need to get hold of some of Michele’s photographs of Maine. The entry form is here.

Here they are: Just click on a link, and it will take you to that particular photo album. There are 10 to 20 photos in each album.


Sunsets 2010 – nature’s light show
Sailboats – assorted sea-going vessels spotted around Casco Bay
Sun & Storm – a sudden rainstorm strikes at sunset
Michele’s personal favorite:   The Fog Crept in on Little Cat Feet… – Sunset over the Diamond Islands
Good God Ruth – (there’s a story associated with it)
Good God Again – words fail
Put ‘em with a roll and you have music – rocks that rock
The Many Moods of Tide Rock – a big rock
August 18 – Good God all over again
Earl, Part 1 – morning after the non-hurricane, high tide
Earl, Part 2 – wind, darkness and close encounters
Not Sunsets – random pix of Peaks
Farewell to Summer – a last hurrah before leaving the island


OKAY!! Now that you’ve found some photos you like, download and/or print out as many as you want. (Right click on the photo to save it to your computer. Create up to 3 works inspired by these photos. Any media. (Photographers, this includes you! – submit your own Maine photos ) or any photos inspired by Michele’s photos: rocks, sunsets, sailboats, wildflowers, etc.

More stuff you need to know:

•    Deadline to enter:

April 23, 2011.

•    Entry fee:

None. For MAG members only.

•    Commission on sales:

15%.

•    Volunteerism:

Exhibitors are asked to help hang the exhibit.

•    Entries:

Up to 3 pieces per artist, any media. 2D pieces up to 30", and framed with wire on the back (no sawtooth hangers). 3D pieces up to 12" in diameter and 18 " high. Small works (8"x10" or less) also encouraged, as we will have display cases as well as wall space to fill.

•    Location of exhibit:

Bull Run Regional Library, 8051 Ashton Avenue.

•    Drop off:

TBA, but typically a Saturday morning.

•    Labeling:

All pieces must be labeled with artist’s name, title of work, medium, and artist’s telephone number. MAG labels will be provided in drop off area.

•    Pick up:

TBA, but typically a Saturday morning.

OPTIONAL: Submit jpegs of your creations, and we’ll post them right here on the website! Email to Jackie Judge: jacqueline.judge@gmail.com. To start the ball rolling, here’s one of Michele’s paintings.

High Tide, 8 x 10 in oil by Jill Brabant:

Sailors Delight, 12 x 8, oil by Jill Brabant:

The Exhibit Paintings on Display: