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Call for Outdoor Sculpture: Bookworm Gardens - Sheboygan, Wisconsin
Please visit: www.bookwormgardens.org to learn more before you apply
BWG will commission 10 to 15 artists to create outdoor sculptures for its gardens in 2008 and 2009. The art will be specific to the books listed on the website. The budget for each sculpture will be a portion of the Sponsorship Price listed on the website. Located on the UW Sheboygan Campus, the park will open in the fall of 2009. Submissions will be pre-screened, and selected artists will be invited to an interview and to tour the BWG’s site in the summer and fall of 2008.
To enter submit:
• A Letter of Interest describing how your work will complement Bookworm Gardens, a particular garden theme, or a specific book or character.
• Your resume
• 5 digital images of your work with a list including Name, Title, Size, Material, Date, and price range for each work. Send entry by email to: Sher Quasius, squasius@charter.net or by mail to: Sher Quasius 3615 N 6th Street, Sheboygan, WI 53083

Call for Entries: Wisconsin Waters Juried Photography Exhibition
The Center for Photography in Madison is seeking submissions (due July 1, 2008) for a juried show of photography, Wisconsin Waters. Images can depict the
weather, bodies of water from lakes to wetlands, plants and creatures that live in water, or people enjoying water. Images must be taken in Wisconsin. The jurors are Ralph Russo, cultural arts and theater director at the UW-Madison Union, and John Magnuson, past director of the Center for Limnology. The judge will be Craig Wilson, kite photographer extraordinaire. Cash prizes will be awarded. Winning photographs will be exhibited as part of PHOTOMIDWEST 2008 at the Pyle Center on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus during October. For an entry form and more details, visit CPM’s website,
http://www.cpmad.org and click on Announcements.

Call for artists: the Wright Museum in Beloit seeking works that relate to food for the show “Palates and Palettes”. For more information contact Jamie Merkel at merkelj@beloit.edu
Deadline is May 18

National Watercolor Socioty
88th Annual Exhibition to be held August 30 – November 1, 2008 at the Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, California.
For more information visit www.nationalwatercolorsociety.org/
Postmark Deadline for Submissions is May 24.

Beloit’s second annual Plein Air Painting Event will be held the week of June 6-13. Artists are encouraged to register at www.friendsofriverfront.com, or in person at Vision Beloit, 500 Pleasant St., Beloit, Wis. The judging and awards ceremony will take place Saturday, June 13. For more information contact Sandra Kincaid 608.312.2411 or
Sandra.kincaid@charter.net

Cedarburg Plein Air Painting Competition June 19 - 28, 2008. Exhibit and Sale continues through July 6. Over $5000 in cash awards. For information and registration visit:
www.cedarburgartistsguild.com or call Sandra Pape at 262.377.8828.

Higher Fire in Madison has a small studio space available for a clay artist. 
Contact Linda Leighton at 608.233.3050

Workshop at Full Circle Retreat
May 30- June 1 The Artist’s Way Retreat
More info at: www.fullcircleretreat.com/workshop-descriptions.htm

The Hang Up gallery in Neenah seeks work for two shows: “2nd Annual Women Artists Show” and “The Summer’s Bounty September Show”. For more information contact Rachel Kramer HangUpGallery@aol.com 920-722-0481
46th Annual Juried Exhibit at the Hardy Gallery June 7 and run through July 13, 2008.
To obtain a copy of the prospectus, contact the Francis Hardy Center for the Arts at info@thehardy.org, (920) 854-2210 or download at www.thehardy.org.

Register for Madison Open Art Studios
Open Studios Weekend is October 4-5 The Overture Exhibition runs from September 22 - October 10, with a reception on September 26 Madison Gallery Night will be October 3
Registration deadline: May 15, 2008 Online registration is available at www.maoas.com

Photographer Joel Witmeyer
"The Scenic Route" by Photographer
Joel Witmeyer opens June 3rd and
Runs thru July 20th at the Wild Apple
Glass Studio and Gallery, Menasha, WI

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