ARTIST OUTREACH STEERING COMMITTEE

This committee will assist THE MISSION LAS VEGAS with developing and refining its “eMerging Artist Marketing Program”.  This committee will also begin the process of marketing the program to visual artists in order to begin scheduling our first exhibitions for late 2010.  This committee will also assist THE MISSION LAS VEGAS in recruiting local artists to rent eight (8) art studio spaces available beginning in late 2010.

MUSIC OUTREACH STEERING COMMITTEE

This committee will assist THE MISSION LAS VEGAS with developing and refining its “eMerging Musician Marketing Program”.  This committee will also begin the process of marketing the program to singers, songwriters, and indie bands in order to begin scheduling our first late evening live music concerts for late 2010.

HIGH SCHOOL MUSIC & THEATRE DEPARTMENT OUTREACH STEERING COMMITTEE

This committee will assist THE MISSION LAS VEGAS with reaching out to all of the various high school music and theatre program directors throughout Southern Nevada and scheduling each of their jazz bands, orchestras, choirs, and theatre groups for our first early evening live music concerts  in late 2010.

NON-PROFIT OUTREACH STEERING COMMITTEE

This committee will assist THE MISSION LAS VEGAS with reaching out to every non-profit organization in Southern Nevada in order to raise awareness of THE MISSION LAS VEGAS and solicit feedback, interest, and input in our future banquet event space, our silent art auction partnering opportunities, and our bake sale partnering opportunities.

MEETUP OUTREACH STEERING COMMITTEE

This committee will assist THE MISSION LAS VEGAS with networking with every creative Meetup group in the greater Las Vegas area to solicit their interest in holding their daily, weekly, or monthly Meetups at THE MISSION LAS VEGAS in our comfortable, arts-oriented meeting room areas complete with catered coffee and tea service and bake sale goods available for purchase.

BAKE SALE PROGRAMMING STEERING COMMITTEE

This committee will assist THE MISSION LAS VEGAS with developing and refining its bake sale business plan.  Home bakers from throughout the greater Las Vegas area will be auditioned for various baked goods and an all-star curated line-up of the best tasting homemade pastries, breads, and cookies will be ordered for daily sale during our on-going bake sale.  Proceeds from the daily bake sales will benefit both the home bakers and a different featured non-profit organization each week.

FACILITIES PROGRAMMING STEERING COMMITTEE

This committee will assist THE MISSION LAS VEGAS in the development, design, and programming of its facilities.  Initial agenda items to be addressed will include parking lot controls, live music event staging and lighting, outdoor lighting, art exhibition area design and lighting, refrigeration, store displays, merchandising, and exterior improvements.

TECHNOLOGY PROGRAMMING STEERING COMMITTEE

This committee will assist THE MISSION LAS VEGAS in the development, design, procurement, and programming of the technology elements of THE MISSION LAS VEGAS.  These items will include art exhibit interactive digital kiosks, music kiosks, and our website.

MARKETING PROGRAMMING STEERING COMMITTEE

This committee will assist THE MISSION LAS VEGAS in the development and programming of its marketing plans for the various components of its business plans.  This committee will work on coming to decisions concerning branding, logo design, radio ad campaigns, magazine ad campaigns, social media ad campaigns, and other various guerrilla and viral marketing efforts.

http://www.lasvegascitylife.com/articles/2010/02/11/ae/art/iq_34227908.txt

7,478 fans – Cleveland Clinic

7,043 fans - Wynn Las Vegas

6,825 fans – Harry Reid

6,816 fans – Town Square Las Vegas

4,520 fans – Encore Las Vegas

3,036 fans – Rory Reid

2,658 members – First Friday Las Vegas / Whirlygig, Inc.

2,136 fans – THE MISSION LAS VEGAS

2,077 fans – Fremont Street Experience

1,819 members – Burlesque Hall of Fame

1,658 fans – Beauty Bar Las Vegas

1,636 fans – Charlie Palmer

1,419 friends – Don’t Tell Mama

1,412 fans – City of Henderson

1,408 fans – Opportunity Village

1,369 friends – Nevada Ballet

1,339 fans – Paymon’s Mediterranean Cafe & Hookah Lounge

1,330 fans – College of Southern Nevada

1,300 fans – The Neon Museum

1,062 fans – Le Reve

951 fans – World Market Center Las Vegas

914 fans – Neon Reverb Music Festival

798 fans – Clark County, Nevada

788 fans - Golden Nugget Hotel & Casino

786 fans – Bombay Gin

723 members – Oscar Goodman – Happiest Mayor in the World

642 fans – Allure Las Vegas

593 group members – Arts Factory Las Vegas

586 fans – Downtown *Firefly*

518 fans – City of North Las Vegas, Nevada

480 fans – City of Las Vegas

468 members – Erotic Heritage Museum

411 fans – UNLV College of Fine Arts

392 members – KNPR

391 members – Steve Evans for City Council

376 members – Trifecta Gallery

350 friends – Councilman Steve Wolfson

341 group members – Brett Wesley Gallery

323 fans – Nevada State Museum

308 members – Downtown Cocktail Room

275 friends – Stavros Anthony

262 fans – Jim Gibbons

248 fans – UNLV Marjorie Barrick Museum

243 fans – Lied Discovery Children’s Museum

241 friends – Laura Henkel Fine Art

233 friends – Steve Ross

223 fans – UNLV School of Architecture

192 fans – Stratosphere Las Vegas

132 members – Hogs & Heifers Las Vegas

166 fans – Sidebar

142 members – Hispanic Museum of Nevada

107 fans – Mob Museum

THE MISSION LAS VEGAS is looking to nurture, cultivate, and promote art, music, culture, sustainability, community, and non-profit organizations in Southern Nevada on a mixed-use, transit-oriented, arts-focused campus directly adjacent to the Arts District station (#6) along the RTC’s new ACE Gold Line rapid transit link connecting all of downtown Las Vegas with the Convention Center, the Strip, and McCarran International Airport. Boutique retail shops, specialty restaurants, creative offices, art studios and galleries, banquet event space, and nightly live music will be featured in a pedestrian-friendly community-oriented environment.

Our approach to incorporating art, music, and culture into the above is what sets THE MISSION LAS VEGAS apart from everything else that already exists in the Las Vegas valley. We hope to create a venue that locals from throughout the Las Vegas valley will call their own, while visitors to our region find it equally accessible due to our rapid transit connection.

ALL are encouraged to attend this free community event. Light refreshments will be served.

The beginning of a new year always puts me in a pensive, introspective mood. It just feels like the right time to sit back and reflect on the accomplishments of the past year, and develop a plan to move forward towards new goals. But, being a creative thinker can have it’s drawbacks during this time of reflection. It’s easy to overlook how far you’ve come, unless you develop a quantifiable system of measuring. For a lot of artists, achieving a goal “doesn’t really count,” because by the time they get there, they have already upped the ante and set a new goal. It is precisely for that reason I suggest you sit down and WRITE DOWN you realistic career goals for 2010 and the resolutions you will have to complete to achieve them. Then, make another list for 2020, the goals you want to achieve in the next decade. Put each list in an envelope to be opened on January 1, 2011 and January 1, 2020 respectively. Make it a tradition to spend New Year’s Day as your day to appreciate how far you have come and how much you have done.

For most emerging and mid career artists, the single most important thing you can do for yourself is decide to spend 2-3 hours per week “doing your homework.” My gift to you this holiday season is a fairly extensive list of resources for you to peruse on a monthly basis, searching for viable opportunities. For artists that need to develop a “paper trail” for their resume, there is no better way than entering juried shows and competitions. There are a number of websites that offer exhibition opportunities for artists. Sometimes, a fee is involved to enter the show, other times it is a call for exhibition proposals that requires no fee. The fun thing about checking these websites frequently, is the odd and/or unique opportunity that comes up once in awhile that might be just perfect for you…a chocolate bar company looking for an artistic wrapper, a three week residency in Japan (all expenses paid), the opportunity to be an artist in residence in Yosemite National Park, an historic penitentiary in Philadelphia looking for site specific sculptors to transform the jail cells, the US Mint looking for artists to design the new quarter or submissions of art for vending machines…yes, all of these are real opportunities that I have found on these websites.

1. www.westaf.org/artistsregisterblog/
2. www.cac.ca.gov/artistcall/
3. www.artcalendar.com
4. www.artdeadlineslist.com
5. www.callforentry.org/festivals.php?apply=yes
6. re-title.typepad.com/opportunities/
7. www.collegeart.org/opportunities/
8. www.artshow.com/juriedshows/index.html
9. www.artdeadlines.com/
10. www.theartlist.com/
11. www.imss.org/exhopp.htm
12. southbendart.org/index.php?lt=1&p=see_exhibitionopportunities
13. www.indplsartcenter.org/Exhibitions_and_Events/For_Artists/
14. www.artperk.com/ListingSearchResults.aspx?lt=1
15. www.artsconnect.com.au/callforartists/index.htm
16. artistsregister.com/opportunities.phtml
17. www.chicagoartistsresource.org/visual-arts/callforartists
18. www.azarts.gov/artists/opportunities.htm
19. www.lacountyarts.org/
20. www.artscenteronline.org/optional/index.cfm
21. www.asingularcreation.com/list.htm
22. artistsregister.com/opportunities.phtml
23. www.dezeen.com/
24. www.dart.fine-art.com/messagelist.asp?intboartid=21
25. www.callsforart.com/
26. www.zapplication.org/shows.phtml
27. www.juriedartservices.com/
28. www.artandeducation.net/announcements
29. www.artscuttlebutt.com/event/main/
30. www.artslant.com/ny/venues/list?letter=s&listtype=gallery&rel=nofollow&tag=emerging
31. www.artandartdeadlines.com

These sites changes frequently, so don’t just rely on my recommendations, but do internet searches of your own to discover constantly new sites that are being developed. Some of the sites require a “premium” sign up for more listings, but I have never found that necessary, as there is plenty of free information out there. Make it your resolution this year to submit to 3-4 opportunities per month. This is not an activity that you will ever give up, kind of like painting the Golden Gate Bridge, once you finish, it’s time to start all over. At the end of the year, you will have a concrete way of judging your success by admiring the activity on your bio. Remember, this is just a start, happy hunting!

Sylvia White is Founder and Executive Director of www.ArtAdvice.com since 1997. ArtAdvice.com was designed as a free resource to help visual artists develop the skills they need to manage their own careers. Articles of interest, resources and artist opportunities are updated frequently.

Today David Mozes, Managing Principal of THE MISSION LAS VEGAS, participated in a radio interview discussing Art Optimism in Las Vegas on KNPR’s State of Nevada with Dave Berns radio program.  Click the link above to hear the discussion, also including Marty Walsh from Trifecta Gallery and Jennifer Harrington of Henri & Odette Gallery.

Frank Gehry’s design for the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health is taking shape in downtown Las Vegas. Many of the architect’s friends are artists, and some have agreed to offer works for display and sale at the center for its fundraising.

By Kristen Peterson, Las Vegas Sun

Proceeds from rotating exhibitions of contemporary art to be funneled back into patient care, research

The Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health has hired Libby Lumpkin, former executive director of the Las Vegas Art Museum, to amass and curate a rotating art exhibition.

The art will be displayed at the center, and visitors will pay admission to view the work, which will also be for sale, said Larry Ruvo, who founded the center in honor of his father.  Proceeds of admissions and sales will be funneled back into the institution and its clinical care and medical research.

The program adds to the high-end credentials of the clinic being built in downtown’s Symphony Park: building by Frank Gehry, acoustics by Yasuhisa Toyota, food by Wolfgang Puck and now, museum-quality works by some of the top names in contemporary art.

Neither Lumpkin nor Ruvo would say which artists will be represented in the collection, but Lumpkin did say many are friends of Gehry’s and that they are among the most “outstanding contemporary masters living today.”

Work by some of the artists has appeared in two Las Vegas Art Museum exhibits, “Southern California Minimalism” and “Las Vegas Collects.”  Among the artists included in those exhibitions were James Turrell, John McCracken, Larry Bell, Craig Kauffman, Ron Davis, Peter Alexander, Robert Irwin, Ed Ruscha, David Hockney and Donald Judd.

Ruvo came up with the idea after several artists expressed interest in having their works in the building.  The art program is designed to get people through the doors and give them an opportunity to learn about brain diseases.

“Now there’s an added reason to come inside and not just take pictures outside,” Ruvo said.

Lumpkin, an art historian who curated Steve Wynn’s collection at the Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art, helped bring cutting-edge contemporary art to the Las Vegas Art Museum before resigning because of budget tightening.  The museum closed three months later.

Lumpkin began working for the Ruvo Center this month and has been asking artists to participate in the program.  Works by Gehry will also be on display and for sale at the center.

Gehry is known as an architect who pals around with artists, rather than other architects.  Many of those relationships were established in Venice, Calif., during the 1960s and ’70s.

In 2005 Gehry curated an exhibit, “The Artists of Venice Beach 1962-1978,” at the Weisman Art Museum, a building in Minneapolis that he designed.  The exhibit featured the work of 16 artists whose work influenced his early career.

Lumpkin said the artists’ response has been positive: “They’ll say, ‘My mother has Parkinsons, my father has Alzheimer’s.  I want to do something.’

“Also, this building and this center are personally important to Frank Gehry.”

Gehry is associated with the Hereditary Disease Foundation, which seeks a cure for Huntington’s disease and other genetic illnesses.

Lumpkin’s expertise in contemporary art and the complexities of art installation, and her relationships with artists, will enable the center to obtain works by quality artists, Ruvo said. Frank Gehry’s name, building and relationships with artists are also key: “It’s very exciting to be leveraging Frank’s friends and resources.  He has an amazing group of artist friends.”

Ruvo said that he is impressed with what “Frank did with Jeff Koons in Bilbao,” referring to Koons’ enormous floral puppy installed outside the museum, and that he would love to see a Koons at the Ruvo Center.

Other health institutions have incorporated fine art into the patient and public areas of their buildings, including the Cleveland Clinic, which has more than 3,500 works of contemporary and modern art in its collection, which hangs in the institute. Cleveland Clinic has a healing through art program.

The Nevada Cancer Institute also has a permanent contemporary art collection on display in public areas and in patient rooms.

Using art to better understand brain diseases is being studied by the New York University School of Medicine in partnership with the Museum of Modern Art through its Meet Me at MoMA program.  The program, launched in 2006, welcomes patients in early and middle stages of Alzheimer’s into the museum for tours and to engage in dialogue.

Though some institutes have art in their collections that is auctioned off, the Ruvo art program is unique in that the main purpose of the art program is to raise money for the institution.  The activities center and convention hall at the Ruvo Center is also designed to raise money.  The space will be used for conventions and private party rentals.

Lumpkin says she’s pleased to be associated with the project: “You can hate art.  You can hate art museums, but nobody can argue the need for the cure for these diseases.”

Source: lasvegassun.com