Ursula von Rydingsvard : Sculpture

http://mocacleveland.org/exhibition_details.php?exhibition_id=74

Ursula von Rydingsvard: Sculpture includes a selection of the artist's most significant sculptures, including wall reliefs and monumental cedar works. Von Rydingsvard is best known for creating large-scale, often monumental sculpture from cedar beams, which she painstakingly cuts, assembles, glues, clamps, and laminates, finally rubbing powdered graphite into the work's textured, faceted surfaces. Her signature shapes are abstract, with references to things in the real world.

Mark di Suvero: Tabletops

http://www.umma.umich.edu/view/exhibitions/2011-suvero.php

Preeminent American sculptor Mark di Suvero (b. 1933) is best known for his dynamic and monumental works made of industrial steel and salvaged materials that populate museum grounds, landscapes, and urban environments around the world.

This exhibition, organized by UMMA and on view exclusively in Ann Arbor, features approximately 15 of di Suvero's rarely exhibited smaller scale pieces, or tabletops, from the 1950s to the present. The tabletops are not maquettes of larger-scale works but an expressionistic and engaging genre all their own...

Carrie Dickason's Second Nature

http://publicpool.tumblr.com/

Following what for many is an onslaught of holiday consumption, we thought the time was perfect to break it down a bit –– our consumer culture that is.

So, we bring you Second Nature, an unpacking of sorts. An unpacking of ideas around consumption and disposal, nature and culture, our world of today and what that world might look like in years to come.
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Second Nature opens with a party Saturday, January 14, 7-10 p.m. Refreshments provided courtesy of Traffic Jam & Snug Restaurant.

Public Pool is open Saturdays from 1 to 6 p.m.

Four: Evelyn Bachorski-Bowman, Lynn Galbreath, Cristin Richard and Sioux Trujillo

http://www.pccart.org/page4.php

Paint Creek Center for the Arts presents a group show featuring works by four exceptional artists. Evelyn Bachorski-Bowman, Lynn Galbreath, Cristin Richard and Sioux Trujillo all work in different media, with distinctive, personal approaches to their respective materials.

Opening Reception:
Friday January 20
7 – 9 pm
Main Gallery

David Hockney RA: A Bigger Picture

http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibitions/hockney/

In January 2012 the Royal Academy of Arts will showcase the first major exhibition of new landscape works by David Hockney RA. Featuring vivid paintings inspired by the East Yorkshire landscape, these large-scale works have been created especially for the galleries at the Royal Academy of Arts.

'David Hockney RA: A Bigger Picture' will span a 50 year period to demonstrate Hockney’s long exploration and fascination with the depiction of landscape.

Kresge Foundation: Arts and community building

http://www.kresge.org/programs/arts-culture/arts-and-community-building

GRANT:
We seek to foster the power of arts and culture to recharge and rebuild communities of all sizes throughout the United States.

Cultural institutions and artists animate our communities; they bring disparate people together to share common experiences, stimulating our imaginations and helping us foster a rich and varied quality of life. Yet no systematic way exists to support art and culture as a tool for revitalizing communities.

APPLICATION DEADLINE:
1-FEB-12

Be part of our 1st season of Community Supported Art

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APPLICATION DEADLINE:
3-FEB-12

Community Supported Art is an exciting new model of investment ...

Community Supported Art ... buy-local spirit in mind, to support local art, artists and collectors. To launch our inaugural Community Supported Art edition, we are seeking Metro Detroit artists, of all disciplines.

Artists will be selected by a jury drawn from the METRO DETROIT area's food and art community to receive a stipend of $1,000, great connections to local collectors and promotional support.

MOCAD: Joshua White and Gary Panter’s Light Show

http://www.mocadetroit.org/upcomingexhibitions.html

Joshua White and Gary Panter’s Light Show is a new exhibition organized especially for the museum by two great pioneers of multimedia art. White and Panter have been working together since the late 1990s, and this exhibition is their largest collaborative project to date.

Occupying nearly all of the Museum’s 22,000 square foot area, this immersive installation features a “permanent” light show designed by White (of Woodstock and Fillmore East fame) that will be on view through the entirety of the exhibition’s run. ...