NAP Invitational Salon of Small Works Exhibition -2008

New Arts Program
173 W. Main Street, Kutztown, PA.
May 23 - July 12, 2008
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BETTY BEAUMONT
Conceptual Sculptor

New Arts Program is pleased to present new works in a solo exhibition by New York conceptual artist Betty Beaumont entitled Who Will Our Children Sing Songs About in 100 Years? from September 19 through December 6, 2008.

For Beaumont, educating the world’s children in the context of our global population explosion raises questions and she has taken them to Main Street.  Broadly speaking, is education who we are?  As we look around the globe at countries with the greatest population explosion, China, Africa, India and the US, who is guiding our children?  Who will enable them across generations to become innovators and collaborators in shaping our dynamically unfolding world?  Why are only 25,000 children in America studying Chinese when 3 million children in China are learning English?  

As the US presidential campaign races towards election day amid far reaching global credit crisis bailouts, the solo exhibition Who Will Our Children Sing Songs About in 100 Years? is a primer about shapes and shaping.  With the entire gallery floor covered with rose-colored paper, each of four sculptural installations either forms a line, a circle, a triangle or a rectangle. Children’s xo laptops display world clock counters while a Swahili clock shifts our most basic assumptions.  A multiple language tear-off textwork questions Which Way, What Way, Whose Way.

(images on New Arts Blog, Visiting Artists)

“Exhibition
Friday, September 19 - Saturday, December 6
NAP Space, 173 W. Main Kutztown

Hours: Wed - Sat 11am - 3pm
Or call: 610-683-6440 for appointment

Photos and other information is available upon request.

ARTISTS and WRITERS FORUM

An informal gathering of working visual and performing artists, musicians, poets, and writer to do some serious head butting.

Third Tuesday of the month at 7:00pm
September 16, October 21, November 18, January 20,
February 17, March 17, April 21 and May 19

NAP, 173 W. Main St, Kutztown

BLAKE HURT
Digital portraiture

“I have taken advantage of the new digital opportunities to manipulate drawings and color in great detail so that the result is a palimpsest of meanings that are discovered by physically approaching the work. You see more about the person’s history when physically close to the pictures and more about their appearance when stepping away; this seems an appropriate metaphor for how we see people in general.” -BH

Exhibition
Friday, January 23 - Saturday, March 7
NAP Space, 173 W. Main
Kutztown
Hours: Wed - Sat 11am - 3pm
Or call: 610-683-6440 for appointment

Artist Reception: January 23rd, 7-9pm
Gallery Talk: 8pm
Public is invited

One-to-one Dialogues:
Friday and Saturday, January 23rd -24th
9 - 4pm, call 610-683-6440 for appointments

Photos and other information is available upon request.

Television Programs on BCTV

live second and fourth Tuesday at 5pm

In Berks County, tune in BCTV at:
· Comcast Reading/Hamburg, Channel 13
· Service Electric Cablevision Channel 19
· VCR Plus Channel 28

In Philadelphia, rebroadcasts on DUTV-54,
every Tuesday 10:00am (Comcast Cable and Urban Cable Works)

In NYC, Manhattan Neighborhood Network,
Channel 34/82 on alternate Sundays (7:00am)

FRANK MANN
Painter

“In the search for a personal abstract language, the subject of this group of paintings is images made of paint —not painterly images-using procedures which through experience give freedom to the course of the imagination. The sensual quality of the surface reflects a layering of paint from which the form is derived in the automatic sense.” -FM

Exhibition #1
Monday, March 2 - Tuesday March
Northampton Community College
Bethlehem
Hours: Mon-Fri 8-9pm, Sat 9-5pm

One-to-one Individual Consultations
Monday, March 2nd
9:30am-3pm by appointment 610-861-5062

Gallery Talk: 3:30 - 4:30pm
Artist’s Reception: 5:00 - 6:00pm

Public is invited
  

Exhibition #2
Monday, March 2 - Tuesday, March 31
Reading Area Community College
Reading
Hours: Mon-Fri 9-5pm, Sat 9-noon

One-to-one Individual Consultations
Sunday, March 8th
12 - 4:00pm by appointment, 610-683-6440

Artist’s Reception: 2 - 4pm

Public is invited
 Exhibition #3
Friday, March 13 - Saturday, May 2
NAP Space, 173 W. Main, Kutztown
Hours: Wed - Sat 11am — 3pm, or by appointment call: 610-683-6440
Friday and Saturday, March 14th - 15th

One-to-One Individual Dialogues:
9 - 4pm, NAP Space, Kutztown
Call: 610-683-6440 for appointments

Friday, March 14th
Artist Reception: 7-9pm
Gallery Talk: 8pm

Public is invited

Photos and other information is available upon request.

20TH INTERNATIONAL INVITATIONAL SALON
OF SMALL WORKS -2009

Entry Deadline is April 1st for artists interested in participating for the first time call: 610-683-6440 or Email napconn@aol.com for prospectus.

Former participating artist will receive invitations by mail by April 1st. This is a traditional gallery-goers’ favorite with over 200 artists each represented by one small recent work in a diversity of styles and medias.

Exhibition:
May 22 through July 11, 2009
NAP Space, 173 W. Main, Kutztown
Artists reception and opening
Friday, May 22, 6-9pm

Public is invited!

SOLO EXHIBITION JURIED COMPETITION
NAP Exhibition Space

Deadline: in our hands by October 30, 2008

Artists nationwide are invited to compete for a solo exhibition and residency to be held at the New Arts Program Exhibition Space. One artist will be selected to receive: Seven week solo exhibition, two-day consultation residency, artist reception, gallery talk, promotion and honorarium. Contact the New Arts Program at 610-683-6440 or info@napconnection.com for more information and prospectus.

email: info@napconnection.com
fax: 610-683-6440

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