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John Henry Waddell, the sculptor whose life-size bronze dancers are featured at the Influx exhibit at Coconino Center for the Arts has invited us to visit his sculpture gardens in Cornville on Saturday 6/27 from 10 am - 1 pm.     
 
Members of the public are invited to this Artists Coalition of Flagstaff event and we will be meeting at the south end of the Walmart parking lot Saturday 6/27 at 8:30 am to carpool.  Bring a light snack to share as there are tables near the creek in the shade for a bite.  ACF will be holding a brief public meeting and John will be talking about a piece in his studio that he's been working on for 11 years.
 
We encourage everyone to see John Henry Waddell's work at CCA before the garden visit - the Coconino Center for the Arts is open Tuesday - Saturday 11-5 and is located at 2300 N. Ft. Valley Road, Flagstaff, AZ - 779-2300
 
People can contact me with other questions and directions Debbie 607-0731 or dts214@hotmail.com
 
 

From June 2 to July 31, the NAU Art Museum will host Diablo Trust's 2009 "Reflections of the Land" Art Exhibit, with Opening Night Festivities & Performances on Saturday, June 6, from 6 - 8 pm.Our last "Reflections of the Land" Art Exhibit, in 2005, remains the best-attended show in the history of the NAU Art Museum, and we have a great team of volunteers in place to help make this year's show equally successful.

Open to all artists who have participated in any of the Diablo Trust Artists' Days on the Land in 2007 -- Ashurst Run & Meteor Crater -- and 2008 -- Diablo Canyon/Woolfolk Well & Sawmill Springs.  Please know that there will be no additional Days on the Land prior to the submission deadline. If you want to participate in the exhibit but have been unable to attend a Day on the Land, please contact the office. All artistic media are encouraged, including but not limited to painting, photography, textiles, music, dance, ceramics, metalwork, and drawing.

The deadline for submissions is Wednesday, March 25th.  Please contact the Diablo Trust office at (928) 523-0588 to find everything you ever wanted to know about this exhibit and the submission process.

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Sun Entertainment, the NAU radio station, has Sun Gallery in the NAU Student Union and they are open to showing local art in it.  If you’re interested, contact:

Raylene L. Rhoades

Northern Arizona University

SUN Entertainment Production Coordinator

928-523-5330 for more information.

There is space for hanging 2D art and some space for 3D.

If you have any other questions, e-mail suzanne.botello@nau.edu.

Suzanne Botello is happy to announce that her luscious earthenware pottery has landed in 

Gallery Alive!

(formerly the Creative Play Center), 20 N. Leroux, next to Grandon's and Will McNabbs.

Vivid patterns, colors, and textures dance playfully across the surface of her functional ceramic art.

Warning!!! May cause unaccountable fits of joy!

Suzanne Botello

mudpie studios

suzbot@npgcable.com

928/522-8886

NEWS REGARDING THE ORPHAN WORKS ACT

Dear fellow Artists,

This affects any artist that makes their living from art or intends to- If you don't know about the Orphan Works Act it is essential that you do as it will have a major impact on your ability to make a living as a visual artist.  Most major artists' organizations are working to prevent this from becoming law- you'll see many of them listed when you use the second link below (the first one is an article about the bill)

Thanks,

Joel Wolfson

Please read this over and use the links to contact your representatives.

http://www.nppa.org/news_and_events/news/2008/09/orphan01.html

PLEASE CONTACT YOUR REPRESENTATIVE IMMEDIATELY TO KNOCK DOWN THIS AWFUL LEGISLATION:

http://capwiz.com/illustratorspartnership/issues/alert/?alertid=11980321

BACKGROUND

http://capwiz.com/illustratorspartnership/issues/bills/?bill=11320236

• The bill would substantially limit the copyright holder's ability to recover financially or protect the work, even if the work was registered with the U.S. Copyright Office prior to infringement.

• The bill has a disproportionate impact on visual artists because it is common for an artist's work to be published without credit lines or because credit lines can be removed by others for feckless or unscrupulous reasons. This is especially true of art published in the Internet Age.

Coerced Registration

• The Orphan Works Act would force artists to risk their lives' work to subsidize the start-up ventures of private, profit making registries, using untested image recognition technology and untried business models. These models would inevitably favor the aggregation of images into corporate databases over the licensing of copyrights by the lone artists who create the art.

• The most common scenario of orphaning in visual art is the unmarked image. There is only one way to identify the artist belonging to an unmarked image. That would be to match the art against an image-recognition database where the art resides with intact authorship information.

• These databases would become one-stop shopping centers for infringers to search for royalty-free art. Any images not found in the registries could be considered orphans.

• There is no limit to the number of these registries nor the prices they would charge artists for the coerced registration of their work.

• The artist would bear the financial burden of paying for digitizing and depositing the digitized copy with the commercial registries.

• Almost all visual artists such as painters, illustrators and photographers are self employed. The number of works created by the average visual artist far exceeds the volume of the most prolific creators of literary, musical and cinematographic works. The cost and time-consumption to individual artists of registering tens of thousands of visual works, at even a low fee, would be prohibitive; therefore countless working artists would find countless existing works orphaned from the moment they create them.

• The Copyright Office has stated explicitly that failure of the artist to meet this nightmarish bureaucratic burden would result in his work automatically becoming an "orphan" and subject to legal infringement.

Keith Huling Art

of cost savings by providing framing to current members. Yours Truly, Keith Huling

Contact me at khuling@msn.com  or 556-1487

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