Exhibit Title: Corrections

Type Exhibit: Juried invitational featuring international artists

Time: March 5-25, 2009

Opening Reception: March 5, 2009, 5:30-8:30 pm

Place: SomArts Cultural Center, San Francisco, California, USA.

Curators: Harriette Lawler (New York/New Mexico, USA sculptor), Frank Ettenberg (New York/New Mexico/Vienna painter)

SomArts Gallery Director: Betsie Miller-Kusz

Submission/Entry Fee: none

Exhibition Fee: $45 USD - per chosen artist

Submission Images: Images sent for selection must be high resolution (at least 7" or 18cm wide or high at 300 dpi resolution), jpeg and rgb format, and may be used to promote the exhibit. Please also include a brief description of how the work adheres to our theme. Art Remains seems to have disappeared and we don't know why. For those artists who entered their online contest, please submit your entries directly to us through this website. The exhibition is and always has been completely independent of Art Remains.

SomArts commission on works sold: 25% (CA sales tax will also be collected from buyers)

Insurance: yes (up to $3000 per artwork) by SomArts, during the run of the exhibit

Shipping: each exhibitor is responsible for shipping and insuring their work to and from the gallery

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Submission of works: August 1, 2008

Announcement of works selected: September 1, 2008

Receipt of exhibition fees from exhibitors: October 1, 2008

Delivery of works to SomArts: March 2, 2009

Pickup of works from SomArts: March 26 and 27, 2009

Contact Person: Harriette Lawler, email or phone 575-829-4567.

Blue Marble 2000 Credit: R. Stockli, A. Nelson, F. Hasler,NASA/ GSFC/ NOAA/ USGS

Corrections Theme

As artists, we often express our feelings and thoughts concerning injustices, abuses of power, good and evil, or just the way we would like the Earth to be. Even if it’s only our own little corner of the world or in our own heart and soul. Making corrections, righting wrongs. This exhibit is dedicated to that theme. An example of a “wrong” could be a polluted landscape, political or governmental abuses, ignorance and lies, war scene or a disaster. An example of a “right” (a correction) could represent or express any situation that has been corrected. The work can be of any style or media: representational, abstract or conceptual.

Corrections Exhibit

The exhibit will also include visitor participation. Attendees can write down something that they feel needs correcting. Such as: abuses of any kind, overpopulation, corporate greed, political corruption, or whatever one wishes - global, national, local, or personal. They could then feed this Wrong into a paper shredder that would be set up in the gallery – consecrated in a ceremony during the opening reception. (Something will be posted stating that only Wrongs that are NOT motivated by anger, hatred, bigotry/intolerance, or jealousy/envy should be fed into this shredder.)

We will also have a secondary unconsecrated shredder to receive petty or selfish corrections – just so people can get these things “off their chest” or just to get rid of the negative emotions that they are causing a person to harbor. At the end of the exhibit, we will hold a closing reception where all the bags of shredded Wrongs from the show will be emptied into one of those large steel trash drums outside the gallery (or somewhere). Then in a celebratory ritual/ceremony, it would be set on fire. This can be carefully controlled and done safely. Before this ritual, our "court jester" will read aloud some of the unshredded Wrongs to be righted. In olden days, the king's court jester was the only one who could present truths in public before the king - without losing his head.

Summary

As artists, we can’t raise money the way musicians can, but we can raise awareness and focus. This one exhibit won't change the world, but at least we artists can stand together and hopefully get some attention paid to what we'd like to see corrected. There are many musicians/bands that are very socially aware and concerned, doing what they can to help out in certain situations in the world. We hope to interest some of these musicians in participating in our event.

The state of the world these days often seems so grim and hopeless, terribly out of balance, in desperate need of some "magic."

Some Magic . . .   and some Truth.

Copyright/2007/Harriette Lawler.