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• Tomorrow People

  • Start
    February 04, 2010
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    06:00 PM
  • End
    March 19, 2010
  • Location
    CAC at the Arts Factory

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  February 4th through March 19th
  Opening Reception  Thursday, February 4th 6-9
  Artists' Talk at 7 p.m.
  First Friday February 5th, 6-10
  Tomorrow People is an exhibition showcasing work by four emerging artists. Within the past decade, Leah Craig, Catherine Cruse, Justin Favela, and Thomas Willis were nurtured by the Las Vegas art scene while developing their art practices at UNLV. This visual proximity and artistic cultivation has influenced their work. Instead of prescribing a theme to the viewer, Tomorrow People allows systems and patterns to arise from their artwork's interaction.
  
  
  

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• OFF THE STRIP 2010 CALL FOR PROPOSALS

  • Start
    March 12, 2010
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    06:00 AM
  • End
    May 14, 2010
  •  
    11:59 PM
  • Location
    107 E. Charleston, Suite 120, Las Vegas NV 89104

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  CALL FOR PROPOSALS: "OFF THE STRIP"
  
  The Contemporary Arts Center is currently accepting submissions for “Off The Strip,” a 4-day new genres art festival held in Las Vegas from October 14-17th, 2010.  The CAC seeks submissions for performance, media, and digital works, including installations.  We are accepting submissions of recent work or proposals for new work.  We encourage submissions that will be particularly relevant within the context of Las Vegas or Nevada, though we are not seeking Las Vegas-centric works per se.  Proposals should address the relevance of your submission within this unique social, economic, and popular cultural environment.  "Off the Strip" will take place at multiple venues including the CAC gallery, an alternative theater space, a sci-fi center located in Commercial Center (one of Las Vegas' first "strip malls"), and the showroom of the Aruba Hotel's Thunderbird Lounge in downtown Las Vegas.  Information on the locations will be posted on our website in the next month.  We also encourage artists to research Las Vegas and propose work for alternate locations in the downtown vicinity. 
  
               “It has always surprised me that there isn’t more performance and video art being made in the Valley—it seems such a perfect fit. Entertainment is literally and figuratively integrated into the landscape, and operating 24 hours a day, the city is perennially “on.” Performers from A-list to D-list fill venues on the Strip and beyond. The skyline of our signature avenue is a rambling hodgepodge of displaced architecture, both real and imagined, a colliding photogenic spectacle that forms the world’s largest stage. Under the watchful eye of surveillance cameras, the whole world comes right here to enact its wildest fantasies, all the while surrounded by the stark beauty of the American West in landscape and legend. The possibilities seem endless.”
      -Danielle Kelly, from “Las Vegas Was Built for This”
      Las Vegas Weekly, April 2009
  
  Submission guidelines
  
  There is a $10 processing fee per proposal. 
  Submissions should include:
  1.  A short proposal (outlining concept but also descriptive of presentation)
  2. An equipment  list or special presentation requirements
  3. Work samples and supporting materials (see below) may be sent on a cd or dvd or emailed to to cacots10@gmail.com with OTS in the subject heading.
  4. CV with contact information and artist's statement
  5. Mail payment (checks payable to the Contemporary Arts Center,) hard copies of artist's cv, statement and list of works to The Contemporary Arts Center: Off the Strip 107 E. Charleston, Suite 120 Las Vegas NV 89104.  Or payments may be made online.  Visit the “Off The Strip” events page at http://cac.wildapricot.org/events
  Include a SASE for return. 
  
  *Work samples can include10-20 jpegs (no larger than 1 MB via gmail please) or mp3s on a CD (installation views/details or performance documentation/details), NTSC video samples on DVD (playable from the DVD please!) or links to websites/podcasts.
  
  Postmark Deadline: May 11th, 2010
  Gmail Submissions Deadline: May 14th, 2010
  Selected artists will be notified via email by June 14th.
  Questions?  Contact Wendy Kveck at cacots10@gmail.com  or at 702-382-3886
  
  Link to OTS 2009:
  http://www.lasvegascac.org/exhibitions/offstrip.html
  
  More information to be posted on the website www.lasvegascac.org
  
  The Contemporary Arts Center is a non-profit 501(c)3 art organization dedicated to presenting new, high quality, visual, and performing art, while striving to build, educate, and sustain audiences for contemporary art.  The CAC strives to provide a place where artists can learn about best practices, test new ideas in the public arena, and connect with fellow artists within and beyond our own community.
  
  
  
  

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• Poetry and Fiction Readings By UNLV MFA Students and Guests

  • Start
    March 19, 2010
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    07:00 PM - 09:30 PM
  • Location
    CAC At the Arts Factory

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  BY UNLV MFA STUDENTS AND THEIR GUESTS
  Friday, March 19th 2010  At 7:00pm
  Enjoy the work of the amazing and talented MFA students from the University of Nevada's English Department. Food and Beverages will be available.
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• CAC Members' Night at the Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art

  • Start
    March 24, 2010
  •  
    05:00 PM - 07:00 PM
  • Location
    The Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art

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  CAC Members' Night at the Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art
  Wednesday, March 24th
  5-7 p.m.
  6$ for CAC members
  
  The Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art has generously extended a CAC members'* rate of $6 for admission to their current exhibition 12 +7: Artists and Architects of CityCenter. 
  
  
  12+7: Artists and Architects of CityCenter
  offers a behind-the-scenes look at this monumental architectural project and its effect on the Las Vegas landscape. The exhibition features sculpture, drawings, paintings and models by 12 of the contemporary art stars (Maya Lin, Nancy Rubins, Richard Long) and seven of the master architects (Cesar Pelli, Helmut Jahn, Daniel Libeskind) whose work revolutionized the Strip when CityCenter opened to the public on December 16, 2009. 12 + 7 provides insight into how each of these visionaries’ designs became an integral component of the overall urban vision of the project. Don’t miss it!
  
  Please RSVP on our members' site "Events" page or contact the gallery to RSVP: info@lasvegascac.org or 702-382-3886. Please note that new memberships require one day to process in our online system.  Thank you.
  
  For directions to the Bellagio click here
  
  Thank you to the Bellagio Gallery of Fine Arts for their support of the Contemporary Arts Center!
  
  
  *membership is defined as  a dues paying member at all levels. Please upgrade your membership if you would like to take advantage of this and other benefits to CAC membership.
  
  
  
   
  
  

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