New graphics work / cover for moonshine

Okay, for those of you trying to get work in for feb’s issue (the 10th pub date), you better hurry because I just finished the cover graphics.

and because I think I forgot to post last issue’s cover art, here it is:

free art event, inexpensive artwork (Mental Health Art Auction)

Honestly, I have seen some really spectacular pieces go for 20$. I will have 2 pieces in this auction — at least one painting, although I haven’t quite decided what to donate yet.

The 19th Annual Mental Health Art Auction is scheduled for Saturday, Jan. 31 at 6 pm
at Cine. There is no charge to attend the auction.

Lots of other events besides the Art Auction, too, and if you know of artists who might participate, please pass along the info.

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We’re getting ready for the 19th Annual Mental Health Art Auction on Saturday, January 31, at 6 pm at Cine in downtown Athens. We’re in need of more art for the event. If you have not done so already, I humbly ask that you consider contributing a piece or two to the event.

The funds raised support our work of educating the public about mental illness and advocating for those who have mental illness. It also enables us to continue to host a weekly Social Club for those who suffer from mental illness.
Also, there will be an Artists’ Reception on Sunday, January 25 at Cine
from 2 to 4 in the afternoon.

If you would like to donate your art, you can drop your donations off at any of the four Athens Art & Frame locations:

553 Prince Avenue
Monday to Friday 10 am to 5:30 pm, Saturday 10 am to 2 pm

351 East Clayton Street
Monday to Friday 10 am to 6 pm, Saturday 10 am to 5 pm

1285 Cedar Shoals Drive
Monday to Friday 9:30 am to 5:30 pm, Saturday 10 am to 4 pm

2061 Experiment Station Road (Oconee)
Monday to Friday 10 am to 6 pm, Saturday 10 am to 5 pm

There’s a little form to complete so we can share your website or email with those who like your art and are interested in buying more.
Thank you for your support of Mental Health America of Northeast Georgia.
If you have any questions, call the director (Eddie) @ 770-633-3513

PS:
In addition to the Art Auction, we have a great movie “In a Dream” at Cine on Tuesday and Thursday (January 27 & 29) at 7 pm both nights. This is the story of a Philadelphia mosaic creator and the issues he faces when
his son makes a documentary about the artist’s life.

PPS:
And our friends FIVE EIGHT play at 40Watt for us on Friday, January 30. They have A Hope foragoldensummer and Vigilantes of Love on the bill as well! It will be a great show! (Starts at 9 pm)

new writings, art, & podcasts

I hate being sick … but here ya go, it’s the latest issue of moonshine.

The latest issue of moonshine, a magazine of the southern arts is available online (& free) in its entirety at
http://www.moonshine.southerncreativity.com
If you would like to contribute to moonshine or have art events for the art listings, please drop us a line at southerncreativity.com@gmail.com


v.2 no. 3

All shopped out? Too harried, too tired to think? Too stressed? Take a moment to enjoy a few free gifts of the season — new writings, new art, artist interviews, podcasts, writings from the studio, inspiration, new art, photography, new reads, & more — all from the wonderful crew at moonshine!

Step back, feed your mind and soul, and raise a toast to a new year.

Nikki Estes discusses Finding and Securing Public Art Commissions (podcast), while Rachel Andres explores the Max Tharpe Exhibit Opening at Iredell Museum; Despina Panagakos Yeargin’s
Recipe for the Holidays: Jake’s Eggnog by the Fire is a treat (complete with recipe!), while Hannah Leatherbury shares colleague Allen Bell’s interviews with filmmaker, Scott Chamberlin-Hoy.

Are you feeling Merry ? Jasmine Rizer offers us a new story for the season; while McCabe Coolidge continues forward in his honest yet inspirational series, Seven Questions. Thoughtful poetry from Brenda L Basham (Breathless; Footsteps; Unknown Forces), Russell Lee Hale I (two new poems: December’s Issue; Southern Comfort ), Hunter Dasten (The Dance; That Little Girl With Her Hands To The Sky ; When The Storm Comes Around), John S Moon (Beautiful Lady) , Sandy Vanderbleek (worlds) and Free-Form Friday: The Large Internal Stage and A Song of AEthelstan both by Gilbert Head.

Studio views features Sandra Babb’s essay on the Little Green Schoolhouse; Jill Kettles explores the Full Circle of Life – R. Sidney Henderson’s Color Pencil Work; Hannah Leatherbury’s audio interview (a podcast) with Phyllis Lear, mixed media artist and instructor explores the world of this multiple talented artist including how she was able to preserve some of her work prior to the arrival of Hurricane Gustav.

Donna Rosser finds the Gifts for the Photographer on Your List while robin fay explores the social networking phenom, twitter in Tweets, Twitter, and Twitpix — U understand?

Hannah Leatherbury shares colleague Allen Bell’s interviews with filmmakers, Aprill Winney, filmmaker (podcast) and Ben Russell: photographer, curator, filmmaker (podcast); while Dorothy Birch provides some creative tips for Warming Up the Muse in Winter!

Book reviews for December are Kokopelli: The Magic, Mirth, and Mischief of an Ancient Symbol by Dennis Slifer by Heather Kline, an in-depth exploration of the symbol of the flute-player in rock art in the prehistoric southwestern United States and the symbolic importance of flute as one of the most prevalent images in rock art around the world; Wacky Packages by The Topps Company by Andrew Shuping, a peek into the world of advertising, product development, and an usual product, Wacky Packages, spoof cards/stickers of real products.

Happy Holidays from Short Girl (Short Girl comix), book reviews, work from the Southerncreativity gallery (@ Flickr), art announcements & calls for entries.

If you would like to receive moonshine in its entirety via email, please drop us a line at southerncreativity.com@gmail.com Subject: Subscribe

Feedback? Comments? Want to contribute? Please drop us a line at southerncreativity.com@gmail.com

media, multimedia, technology & art — it’s ICE

For those in the NE Georgia area who might be interested in new technologies at work in the arts:

ICE (Ideas for Creative Exploration) does quite a bit in the way of collaborative multimedia performances, as well as seminars/discussions relating to media, multimedia and art.

The website is here: http://ice.uga.edu/

Upcoming events include a panel discussion on art, politics, & the election (Oct.29 @ the SLC), as well as several collaborative cross discipline performances.

Artwork at GLA/COMO to benefit Hubbard Scholarship

Whoa is there some cool stuff at GLA/COMO including one of my large mixed media/paintings, starry meadow:

star meadow 24″ x 48″
diptych
handmade & tissue paper, fabric, beads, silver flake, oil stick on canvas
2006

You can see more of my mixed media artwork and photography here or here at flickr.

new art, new writings, new music — it’s moonshine

The latest issue of moonshine is up. Whew, that was tough work! The stylesheet has changed to dark with light text for the cover; not sure if I will keep it, but it seemed aprops for the time of year. It almost seems a little too much “me” which I suppose is okay, but I’m going to try to do something completely different with December’s issue. Part of the problem is that most of the webwork I do is very institutional looking, so when I get a chance, I really try to break out of that mold.

I’m also never sure if I am happy with my graphics work by the time I finish. This design is no different. I liked my pumpkin and bones okay to begin with, but welll…
Artistically speaking, I usually hate whatever I am working on by this point — yet I somehow feel that it is done. I don’t know how to explain that — you either get it or you don’t. 😉

However, writing wise, this issue is really solid. I love the podcasts, too!

Also, if you want to get the issue online complete with images, drop me a line. As always, always, always looking for writers.

I would love some feedback.

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These days and nights, the winds of culture, politics, and everything else seem to change at the drop of the hat. So what do artists do in such unpredictable times? Sometimes change can be an unforeseen catalyst, whipping up all sorts of artistic delights — Writings, music, paintings, photography… perhaps, by the light of the moon. Take a moment to find some inspiration in the work of Southern writers & artists.

ORIGINAL WRITINGS
Jasmine Rizer’s lively serial, “Keeping it in the Family” concludes; Part 1 is available at “Keeping it in the Family“; Karen Hennessee finds the maroon while Brenda Basham reflects on the Greatest Romantic Story ; Sandra Jones Cropsey answers, Who’s there? , while McCabe Coolidge continues his series, Seven Questions with this question: How did your Robin die? Thoughtful poetry from Brenda L Basham (Images) , Russell Lee Hale I (a pair: I Know Not, The Mask; The Mask ), John S Moon (Lonely Soldier) , Sandy Vanderbleek (he) and a collection of Haikus by Gilbert Head.

FROM THE STUDIO

Studio views features Sandra Babb’s essay on Politely Painting the Preacher Lady; Despina Panagakos Yeargin thinks vibrant and funky painter, Jeffrey Callaham is in Love — check out her interview and his work to see for yourself! Photographer Frank Hamrick reflects on the goodness of growing your food and finds inspiring subjects for photography, too. Hannah Leatherbury’s audio interview (a podcast) with fiber sculpture artist Justine Dennis delves into this quirky artist’s mind. Allen Bell and Hannah Leatherbury also encourage you to Steal this Idea! (courtesy of the Southern Arts Federation).

ON CREATIVITY AND THE CULTURE OF ART
robin fay continues to explore Creativity (pt. 6 in a series, focusing on the role of artists in society) while Rachel Anders explores the art and music in her neighborhood in The Arts in Iredell County. Hannah Leatherbury shares colleague Allen Bell’s interviews with participants in the Southern Circuit Tour, a tour of independent films, in Southern Circuit Tour, interview with filmmaker, Jed Riffe and Southern Circuit Tour interviews with filmmaker, Muhammad Naqvi ; both are podcasts with Muhammad Naqvi’s article including a video clip of the trailer for his film Shame. Regular contributor Brenda Basham reflects on Psychological Ponderings: Quality Equality; while Dorothy Birch offers us some tips for Stoking Your Creative Fires This Fall. as well as some colorful seasonal photos.

ART & TECHNOLOGY
Donna Rosser aka the Barefoot Photographer shares her Fall Photo Opportunities and enchanting photographs with us.

REVIEWS
Book reviews for October are Enclosure by Andy Goldsworthy reviewed by Andrew Shupling, a book of work by ephemeral artist, Andy Goldsworthy, who works with items in nature, such as rocks, leaves, snow, and even the rain as it falls on the ground;

Three Shadows reviewed by Andrew Shupling, a graphic novel by Cyril Pedrosa (a former Disney illustrator) and Dali & I: The Surreal Story by Stan Lauryssens reviewed by Heather Kline, an interesting insight into both the contemporary art market and the creation of the Dalí persona. Music matters features a review of Down the Road I’ll Go, by Curt Bouterse, “fret-less oldtime music”; while Hannah Leatherbury talks with Reuben Hoch of the Chassidic Jazz Project, a group who fills voids in both the Jazz and World music genres. (courtesy of the Southern Arts Federation).

Check in with a Short Girl comix, book reviews, work from the Southerncreativity gallery (@ Flickr), art announcements & calls for entries.

Find the sublime by the light of the moon.

Something I do when I’m not working… well, not working on a computer.

Yes, I occasionally do non-computer work. ;-D

… a detail from pandora’s box, a multiple media piece (finally finished!) for the hauntings exhibit.

For the reception I’ve decided to fill the big box with fortune cookies. I was going to do printed quotations, but who doesn’t love fortune cookies?

btw media: cardboard box with embedded wooden box, handmade paper, dried flowers, round glass chips, printed paper, tissue paper, 1 antique key, many layers of oil stick (for the coloring and illustrations), text snippets, book snippets,
computer manual snippets (ever wonder what do with all of those old software manuals? send ’em to me…), skull and crossbones sticker (not shown), printed ivy paper, silver leaves (not shown)… oh, and faux barb wire. I think that is it.

Call for writings, poetry, music reviews & more

Just a heads up:

moonshine arts magazine is seeking writers, reviewers, podcasters, & artists for the next issue (october 10).
We are looking for poets, short story writers, book reviewers, music reviewers (especially local & regional), essayists on culture and history as relates to art as well as artists “writing from the studio”. Writings from the studio are short essays capturing the essence of being a working artist — from the challenges of plein air painting to interviews with artists to tips on entering exhibits.

Any questions? Drop me a line.

new writings & art — moonshine arts magazine

April’s issue of moonshine arts magazine is live. Writings, videos and podcasts. Subscribe via the RSS feed, pageflakes, or the facebook application.

You can see the covers (my graphic design) here.

enjoy.

Searching Internet Archive by CC Licensing

Because I can never remember where these are located on the webpage (FAQs, actually)
I’m snipping this out for myself with the search links, of course (i.e., just click the link to execute the search in IA). The IA has great stuff for digital collagists, movie makers, & other arty folks.
I used stuff from the Prelinger Collection to make my movie about cataloging and also for my digital collage on communication.

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Can I search by Creative Commons License?

Yes, you can. But it’s a little complicated.

Here’s how to break it down. See the license types at creative commons. When you want to find all of the items that have a certain license, you’ll plug their abbreviation for it into this search query:

/metadata/licenseurl:http*abbreviation/*

So if you’re looking for Attribution Non-commercial No Derivatives (by-nc-nd), you’d put this in the search box: /metadata/licenseurl:http*by-nc-nd/* And you’d get about 33,000 items back.

If you want to use this in combination with other queries, like “I want by-nc-nd items about dogs” you’d do this: /metadata/licenseurl:http*by-nc-nd/* AND dog And you’d get 195 items. The AND tells the search engine all the items returned should have that license AND they should contain the word dog. AND has to be in all caps.

Just to make it easier, here are the basic searches:

Public Domain

Attribution Non-commercial No Derivatives (by-nc-nd)

Attribution Non-commercial Share Alike (by-nc-sa)

Attribution Non-commercial (by-nc)

Attribution No Derivatives (by-nd)

Attribution Share Alike (by-sa)

Attribution (by)