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ArtPrize isn’t your typical art competition. Radically open, equally enormous and wildly experimental, every autumn the event attracts more than 400,000 people to Grand Rapids, Mich. who vote on contemporary art. It’s messy, it’s dirty. It’s 400,000 people talking about art.

Jerry Saltz, one of the 2012 Juried Grand Prize juror said of ArtPrize, “It is pretty damn impressive… An amazing inversion of the top-down pedigreed model we use. It takes all kinds.”

To open things up even further, ArtPrize blends their epic public vote with juried prizes to explore the tension that exists between popular and professional opinion. The 2013 panel of jurors consists of eight people who represent the voice of the professional art world and who will be the counterbalance to the public vote. Together, this panel will distribute the $200,000: five totaling $20,000 and one Juried Grand Prize totaling $100,000.

ArtPrize’s open call for artists is happening right now. Register online at www.artprize.org.

When it comes to your professional goals, are you engaging the right people? Are you contributing to your future success? Are you creating opportunities, or just observing them? From conceiving an ad campaign to producing comics for kids, the School of Visual Arts provides the stepping stones to start.

Whether it’s a one-day workshop or a full-semester course, SVA offers 400 engaging courses to fit your interests as well as your schedule, a broad curriculum encompassing communications, design, entertainment and fine arts.

You get to study with a faculty of distinguished professionals and established artists, who help make SVA one of the most respected colleges of the arts. You also have access to the same computer labs, studios, editing facilities and equipment used by successful talents worldwide. Find out more at sva.edu/ce.

Artists are now welcome to submit their latest artwork to UncommonGoods’ monthly art contest where it will be placed in front of UncommonGoods buyers. Every month, the chosen winner receives $500, an UncommonGoods vendor contract, and national exposure.

After the call for entries, the semifinalist designs chosen by the UncommonGoods buyers will appear on UncommonGoods.com where the online community will vote on their favorite pieces to move on to the final round. The top five voted designs will be judged by their buyers and a winner will be chosen. Designers and artists are welcome to submit their masterpieces on their contest page.

You can also check out their Uncommon Artist Gallery where you can find artwork for sale from dozens of talented artists. UncommonGoods also sells personalized wall art, handmade frames, and sculptures which can be found in this assortment.

(e)merge art fair is the only fair in the world to give free exhibition space to artists.

The third edition of the fair will take place October 3-6, 2013 at the Capitol Skyline Hotel in Washington DC, just blocks from the National Mall, the U.S. Capitol and many of DC’s leading museums and cultural institutions.

Artists currently without gallery representation whose proposals are selected by the vetting committee (Molly Donovan, Associate curator at the National Gallery of Art, Eric Shiner, Director at The Andy Warhol Museum, and Shinique Smith, Artist from Hudson, NY) will have the opportunity to exhibit their works at no charge throughout the hotel and its grounds.

Artist Applications are due May 18 and selections will be announced in June. Any artist who applies to be exhibited at (e)merge will also be given a one day pass to the fair. For more information or to submit your proposal, visit emergeartfair.com.

BAM, in collaboration with Paddle8, is proud to announce its ninth annual BAMart Silent Auction, which will take place at The Hole gallery (312 Bowery) in Manhattan.

Co-chaired by Cindy Sherman, Beth Rudin DeWoody, and Kathy Grayson, the auction is available online now at www.BAM.org/auction and will be on view at the gallery from Tuesday, April 23–Sunday, April 28, 12–7pm.

Featuring works from internationally renowned and emerging artists, including Philip Guston, Tara Donovan, Robert Longo, Marilyn Minter, Ed Ruscha, Tom Sachs, Richard Serra, and Kara Walker, proceeds from the auction will benefit BAM.

This year, a portion of the proceeds will benefit NYFA’s Emergency Relief Fund, which assists artists with damages and losses as a result of Hurricane Sandy.

It’s been two years since the release of Nicolas Jaar’s debut record Space Is Only Noise, and the (admittedly still) young producer is having a hard time viewing the world through the rose-colored glasses of youth. The cold, hard light of morning in America has dawned, and despite having just graduated from Brown, the first year after undergrad can be a reality check no matter who’s in the White House, especially in today’s troubled economy.

The Avant/Garde Diaries recently sat down with Jaar to discuss the darker complexities informing his newest project, Darkside, with guitarist Dave Harrington.

Coming to the fore in the early 1990s, bio art is neither media specific nor locally bounded. As an international movement, several sub-genres exist within this overarching term:

1. The iconography of molecular matter and reproductive technologies
2. The employment of computer software, systems theory and simulations which investigate evolution, artificial life and robotics
3. Artist work with wet-lab mediums, including tissue engineering, plant breeding, and ecological reclamation

Of particular importance to bio art is to summon awareness of the ways in which altering nature also transforms social, ethical and cultural values in society.

This residency will take place at the School of Visual Art’s Fine Arts Nature and Technology Laboratory located in New York City’s Chelsea gallery district, equipped with microscopes for photo and video, skeleton, specimen and slide collections, aquariums, and a library. Faculty will include Suzanne Anker and Brandon Ballengée.

For more information and to apply for the SVA Bio Art Summer Residency visit http://www.sva.edu/residency/bioart

The work of Serbian-born artist Ana Kraš gained international attention beginning when she was a young girl. As a student in Belgrade without the benefit of computers, she often made prototypes and designs by hand, a habit informing her practice up to the present. Kraš’s approach to design is refreshingly simple – to make user-friendly objects requiring minimal production.

Approaching design this way allows her to focus on small details that add a playful twist to otherwise modest pieces. Kraš may be best known for her “Bon Bon” lamps, painstakingly made by hand, in a process that is a meditation to her.

In her film for The Avant/Garde Diaries, Kraš takes us into the private world of her creativity, her studio, her romance, and New York City itself, the metropolis she now calls home.