National Portrait Gallery - Annual Teen Portrait Competition

The Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery opens a "call for entries" for the third annual Teen Portrait Competition. Artists between the ages of 13 and 17 may electronically submit portraits to the juried competition in the medium of painting and drawing, photography, and video through Wednesday, September 30 2015. The grand-prize portrait will be printed and displayed at the National Portrait Gallery in 2016. 

http://www.npg.si.edu/exhibit/teen/index.html

Impressions - EC Teacher as Artist Exhibit Fall 2015

Impressions

Teacher as Artist Exhibit

East Central Ohio Art Education Association

Journey Art Gallery - Canton Arts District

Oct 2 - 13, 2015

Art teachers from Perry Local Schools are curating EC's teacher as artist show this fall entitled "Impressions".  Over thirty individuals have promised to create one work of art for this special event.  If you have not already RSVP'd to participate and would like to please contact Aimee ASAP: aimee.sauls@perrylocal.org

Participation:  This exhibit is only open to OAEA members. You can contact Suzanne Mitolo at oaeamembership@gmail.com to find out if your  membership is current.   You can also visit the OAEA website: http://www.oaea.org/join-oaea

Location of the Show:  Journey Art Gallery 431 4th St NW, Canton OH 44702

Journey Art Gallery is open Tues-Sat 12-6.  Phone - 330-546-7061

Artwork Drop Off:  Artwork needs to be dropped off at the gallery on Wednesday, September 30th.  Artwork will be hard to store if it is dropped off too early.  Please call Su Nimon at the gallery if you need special arrangements.

Information Needed:  Please include the following information with the work, but not affixed to the work as a label.  Labels will be created using the information you provide.  Your name, where you currently teach/work/retired from, Name of the work, Medium, Is this work for sale?, What is the price that you want to get for it?

Dates/Show Opening:  The show will open on Friday, October 2nd for Canton's First Friday 6-10 pm and all the work will be displayed through Tuesday, October 13th.

Pick Up Work:  Please make arrangements to pick up your work on Wednesday, October 14th during gallery hours. 

Speed "Arting" East Central-Style - OAEA Regional Workshop 8/3/15

Speed "Arting" East Central-Style

An OAEA Regional Workshop

Monday, August 3 

10am - 12pm

Faircrest Memorial Middle School

616 Faircrest St. SW, Canton, OH 44706

Since this awesome screen printing event won't take place at the OAEA Conference 2015 (something else cool is in store), we decided to have our own version!

Bring your t-shirts, aprons, bags, and anything else you'd like to screen print with a cool, artsy, OAEA or EC design!

AND - bring a friend! Not in the East Central region? Who cares! Come anyway! The more the merrier!