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Travel bug

The Asia Education Foundation, via Asialink, offers a host of programs, ranging from travel tours to fellowships throughout Asia to enrich the knowledge and experience of the region for Australian teachers, school leaders, students and parents. aef@asialink.unimelb.edu.au (Jayne Dyer)

Hootenanny

Australian National Capital Artists (ANCA) are seeking submissions from local, regional and international artists for musically themed works to be part of an exciting exhibition to be held in conjunction with the National Folk Festival (held annually over the Easter long weekend). Contact Narelle Phillipse: anca@iimetro.com.au for further information. (CCAS)

TIL&GFF call

The 19th Tokyo International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival (TIL&GFF) is calling for entries for the July 2010 event. Get yourselves and cameras rolling. Deadline for submissions is 8 March, and entry’s free.
Details at tokyo-lgff.org/2009/e/index.html (Neilton Clarke)

artist/proof

Keith Reece, Swan Song, 2009, pencil on paper. Reece is one artist for artist/proof’, showing alongside Cranleigh School, Black Mountain School, Paperworks, Dagmara Anders, Paul Bilton, Giselle Burningham, Keith Carfrae, Judith Ann Daniells, Diana Davidson, Dr Possum, Jenni Heckendorf, Rebecca Hill, Pauline Mager, Mitchearte, Ralph Nelson, Keith Reece, Vijaya Sen, Jenny Snell, and Harrison Saragossi. At Belconnen Arts Centre, Canberra, from 3 to 20 December.

Archival attraction

Another new initiative from the Australian Experimental Art Foundation (AeAF, the venue formerly known as eAF) is its digital archive residency. The AeAF invites proposals from interested artists and researchers who wish to work with the AeAF’s archives toward the production and distribution of work, ideas and histories in a way that has some kind of electronic outcome. The AeAF has its first artist-in-residence, filmmaker and writer Jess Wallace, who is directing and producing a series of short videos for the web that document artist’s practices. Sarah Wall

Aura at BREENSPACE

Joyce Hinterding, Cesaro array (graphite), 2009, graphite on paper. Aura is showing at BREENSPACE, Sydney, until 19 December. www.breenspace.com

Homegrown

The art of gardening sustainably - helping to spread the word about sustainable community gardening and to raise funds for Sustainable Gardening Australia (SGA). Entries for this themed art competition close 5 Feb. 2010. Artists can enter works in any medium which respond to the idea of gardening sustainably, with particular emphasis on growing food and reducing chemical and water use, improving soil, and increasing our well-being. For more information: meredithplain@baag.com.au www.sgaonline.org.au www.baag.com.au

Chalk talks

Congratulations to Leeanne Ricci (of Bondi, Sydney) who was named 2009 Champion Pavement Artist (with $5K prize-money) in the recent Parramatta Chalk Art Festival, 29 Oct. to 1 Nov. Ricci triumphed over 30-plus artists working in prime conditions, with her pointed work, Urgent Attention: Kevin Rudd. Dom Intelisano (Oxenford, QLD) won $1K and was Highly Commended for his vibrant surfing polar bear, while the Best Novice went to Jonathan Verzosa (St Johns Park, NSW) for his artwork Air-conditioning, which will be custom printed on T-shirts from Mabuzi Art. The People’s Choice Award went to Brian Tisdall (Nambour, QLD) for his 3D depiction of dancing penguins, The Gurgler. www.chalkurbanart.com/sydney/index.html 

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Toorak sculpture

... invites emerging and prominent sculuptors to submit entries for both interior and exterior installation. Interior works will be exhibited in shop windows and must be displayed on a white base. Exterior sculptures, must be robust and able to be bolted to the footpath. Entries close 31 Jan. 2010. Information and application forms available at: www.tooraksculpture.com.au

Metro art award

Australia’s richest youngest painting award ($50K) is open to anyone under the age of 35.
Applications close 31 March 2010. For more information contact e: info@metrogallery.com.au www.metrogallery.com.au

Lethbridge art prize

... for small scale works is a new art prize ($10K) open to national and international artists for small-scale artworks. The judging criteria will be based on creativity, originality and skill. Entrants may submit paintings, drawings and 2D artworks up to 60cm in any direction (not including frame). Applications close April 23, 2010. For more information and entrance forms: gallery@lethbridgegallery.com www.lethbridgegallery.com.

52 - a print exchange portfolio

Rodney Forbes, Whistling in the dark, 2009, lithograph. 52 - a print exchange portfolio is on from 30 January to 14 March 2010, at Geelong Gallery. www.geelonggallery.org.au

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Online Craft + Design journal

Craft Australia has launched an open-access, peer reviewed, online journal, which focuses on research being undertaken in the craft and design sector. Published annually, each issue will have a guest editor and be based on a themed call for papers. The first issue Volume 1, 2009, Migratory Practices, is online now. www.craftaustralia.org.au/cde. For information contact: e: jenny.deves@craftaustralia.org.au & catrina.vignado@craftaustralia.org.au

Headstart for artists

Australian Arts graduates can apply for grants of up to $10K, through the ArtStart initiative. This new grant will enable arts graduates to establish a business or to gain employment as an artist. Applicants must have graduated from accredited artists training in the last 3 years to apply, and will need a business plan. For more information and application forms: www.australiacouncil.gov.au/grants/artstart4

Studio furniture 2010

... is an Australian wood review competition (with $10K in cash prizes) organised and sponsored by Bungendore Wood Works Gallery, NSW. Selected entries will be exhibited January to March 2010 at Bungendore Wood Works, along with a conference for woodworkers that offers opportunities for information sharing. Entry deadline 10 Dec. www.woodreview.com.au/studiofurniture

Hill End residency

The Hill End Artist in Residence Program provides opportunities for creative development in all areas of the visual arts in a unique environment, while contributing to the long term cultural development and sustainability of the Village. The Residency Program is based in Haefligers Cottage and Studio and Murrays Cottage at Hill End. Applications close 11 Dec. For information and application forms www.hillendart.com.au

George Baldessin

George Baldessin, The tunnel, 1966, etching, aquatint. George Baldessin is showing at TarraWarra Museum of Art, until 14 March 2010, in conjunction with the launch of the publication Paradox and Persuasion by Harriet Edquist. Image courtesy the estate of George Baldessin. www.twma.com.au

Montsalvat residency 2010

The newly established Artist-in-Residence program at Montsalvat, outside Melbourne, provides artists with a supportive community in which they can focus on their own artistic practice and research. The residency offers free accommodation and studio space from 2 to 6 weeks, and continues the creative and community spirit upon which this artists’ colony was founded, by Justus Jorgenson. Open to Australian resident artists, Indigenous artists particularly encouraged to apply. Enquiries to arts@montsalvat.com.au, or the Artistic Manager, t: 03 9439 7712. Applications close 4 Jan. 2010; further details at www.montsalvat.com.au