COMMUNITY ARTsSIGHT

COMMUNITY ARTsSIGHT

By: D. DelReverda-Jennings

HOLIDAY SHOW AT THE HARRISON: The Harrison Center for the Arts located 1505 N. Delaware St. invites artist proposals for our annual color-themed holiday show. This year’s show is Brown Paper Packages Tied Up With String. Scheduled to open First Friday, December 5, 2008 and will run through Dec. 27th, '08. Send up to six digital images along with a completed entry form. Images must match with a corresponding list or be labeled with name, title, size and media. Deadline: Nov. 7th, '08. We are interested in video imagery; artists are required to provide any digital equipment necessary for their work. Send Submissions to: Brown Paper Packages, c/o Pam Allee, Harrison Center for the Arts, 1505 N. Delaware Street, Indianapolis, IN, 46202. INFO: pam@harrisoncenter.org .

SEEKING VIDEO ARTISTS: The Wheeler Arts Community located 1035 E. Sanders St. in historic Fountain Square is looking for video artists with any type of video media, for its Winter Open House event scheduled to take place December 5 - 6, 2008. Exhibit Fee - $15. Participating artists must provide their own equipment and setup. INFO: halls@uindy.edu , 317-916-9375.

HOLIDAY ONE PIECE SHOW: Dean Johnson Gallery located 646 Mass. Ave. Opening Artists Reception, First Friday, December 5th, 2008 from 5-9 pm. View, buy, and be merry! Enjoy an array of the cities finest artists works of all mediums and genres in this annual show of distinction. Participating artists include: Bruce Dean, Kate Oberreich, Jim Kemp, Amy Cannady, Jacobina Trump, Pat Prather, Jerry Points, Kevin Smola, Marco Zehrung, Amy Kindred, Scott Johnson, Teri Barnett, Ryan Abegglen, Doug Arnholter, Carol Jourdan, John Domont, Casey Jo Crist Ailes, D. DelReverda-Jennings. Exhibition runs through January 9, 2009. Free! INFO: 317-634-8020, www.deanjohnson.com .

CLASS PICTURES: PHOTOGRAPHS BY DAWOUD BEY: IMA: The exhibition overseen by Lisa Frieman, IMA Senior Curator of Contemporary Art includes 40 photographic portraits of high school students paired with their own written words. For the exhibition, Bey photographed young people from all parts of the economic, racial and ethnic spectrum in both public and private high schools. McCormack Forefront Galleries. Free! Exhibition runs through Nov. 21, '08. INFO: 317-923-1331, www.imamuseum.org/calendar/dawoudbey .

ATTENTION INDY ARTISTS: Do you have a You Tube type video that you would like to share with patrons and visitors of the Arts Council of Indianapolis (Free to Artists) website www.indyarts.org or www.BeIndypendent.org ? Visit www.artscouncilofindianapolis.org , and click on "Artists Services" to find out how to submit your video or audio. INFO: 317-631-3301.