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Call For Artists

DIVA is doing a call for artists to participate in our January 2013 show, DIVA in Film.The exhibit will be a group show of work by local artists inspired by classic film posters and scenes in film. All mediums are welcome, the work just needs to be related to film.  To participate, we are asking for artists to e-mail their artist statement and examples of their work to diva.exhibitgallery@gmail.com by October 24th. The piece will need to be completed by December 15th, and will be on display in the DIVA gallery for the month of January 2013. Like us on facebook: facebook.com/DIVAeugene Visit our website: divacenter.org

Be a Comic Artist for 24 Hours

Be a Comic Artist for 24 Hours on October 20, 2012 at 930am to 930am October 21.

Where: University of Oregon, Art Department, room 141 Lawrence Hall (classroom in the NW corner off Lawrence Hall courtyard). Register to participate at the Art Department office at 198 Lawrence Hall and then receive a special “24 Hour Comic Survival Kit.” It is full of ideas and instructions on how to approach your 24 hours as a comic artist.

The day of Extreme cartooning allows 24 straight hours for amateur and professional cartoonists of any age to challenge themselves to write, draw, ink, and letter an entire 24 page comic in 24 hours.

Special guest comic artist, David Chelsea, will be participating in the Eugene event. David holds the world record for the most number of 24 Comic events that he has participated in. Dark Horse Comics is publishing “Snow Angel” by David, which he created during one of his 24 Hour Comic Challenges. David is an illustrator, cartoonist and the author of over 4 graphic books on comics.

The University of Oregon has just started a Comics Studies Minor this fall and they along with the Art Department and the Duck Store are sponsors of this event that is open to the public

Last year more than 2,000 professional and amateur cartoonists around the world took the 24-hour Comics Day Challenge.

For further information contact Ken O’Connell or register at the University of Oregon Art Department office. After registering you will be given a Survival Kit to help you plan your participation in the event.

This event is sponsored by the UO Comics Studies Minor, Imagination International, Inc. (Importer of Copic Markers),  DIVA, and the U of O Art Department.

Other information can be found at www.24hourcomicsday.com.  If you have any question, please contact Ken O’Connell,  oconnell@uoregon.edu   541.953.0190

DIVA CALLS FOR FILM SUBMISSION

(Eugene, Oregon) The 2013 OpenLens Festival seeks submissions by Oregon filmmakers for its ninth annual celebration of the short film genre to be held in Eugene late January 2013.  Prizes include: $500 Jury Award, $200 Jury Honorable Mention, and $100 Audience Choice Award. Submissions are limited to 15 minutes with films 10 minutes or less preferred.

Oregon resident filmmakers are encouraged to submit their best work to what has become Eugene’s premier winter film festival hosted by the Downtown Initiative for the Visual Arts (DIVA).  The deadline for entries is 5pm, Friday, December 7, 2012. Submission form and entry requirements are available online at: openlens.proscenia.net. 

Call For Artists!

http://diva.proscenia.net/call/index.htm

Tonight! Drink and Draw

DIVA Event: Drink and Draw - September 6th

See full poster: http://diva.proscenia.net/update/index.htm

DIVA SEPT/OCT Exhibit: Arte Latino

More: diva.proscenia.net

DIVA PR COORDINATOR SOUGHT

The Downtown Initiative for the Visual Arts (DIVA) is seeking an individual who is interested in volunteering for the position of PR Coordinator beginning September, 2012. The PR Coordinator promotes the Center's exhibits, film programs, and arts related events:

Tasks:

- File news releases with the press and media locally and state wide as needed.

- Up date community online calendars

- Post informational mailings to target audiences for events

- Post to content to DIVA Facebook and DIVA UpDate! blog

- Design and prepare promotional posters as needed

- Work with DIVA web coordinator in putting information online

Skills:

- Ability or organize information in a timely way and prepare press releases to the media.

- Familiarity with e-mail postings and use of mailing lists

- Some basic skills in layout of visual information for promotional posters

- Ability to effectively communicate with DIVA staff, press representatives, and the public

- Have knowledge of graphic design software such as Adobe Creative Suite 6

Commitment:

- One year of volunteer service beginning September, 2012. 

- Time required may range from 0-5 hours per week depending on number of events

- Dedication to getting information distributed on specific timelines

Contact: Miriam Jordan, DIVA Board President:  jordanmaj@earthlink.net

DIVA Web site: http://diva.proscenia.net/

DIVA Hosts poets Julie Rogers and David Meltzer

DIVA’s “A New Poetry Series”, hosted by Tim Shaner, features authors Julie Rogers and David Meltzer in a presentation of their work at 7:30 PM on Sunday, September 16th. This session will be held at Tsunami Books 2582 Willamette Street. Donation welcome.

Julie Rogers:

Julie Rogers began writing at age 12 and reading her poetry in San Francisco cafes in the late 1970’s. She has published five chapbooks, her work has been seen in various journals and anthologies, on public television and radio, and she has read at many venues in Oregon and California.

A self-taught writer, she nevertheless engaged in literary endeavors along the way, was active in southern Oregon's Rogue Valley poetry scene for two decades, and spent four years facilitating a writer’s workshop in Ashland during the twenty-five years she lived there and in the adjacent northern California mountains.

Vimala published her Buddhist hospice manual, Instructions for the Transitional State, in 2007. House of the Unexpected   spans thirty years of poetry and is her first book-length collection.

Julie Rogers now resides in Oakland, California with her husband, poet David Meltzer.  

David Meltzer

A poet at age 11, David Meltzer began his literary career during the Beat heyday in San Francisco. He is the author of many volumes of poetry including The Process, Arrows: Selected Poetry 1957 – 1992, No Eyes: Lester Young, Beat Thing, and   David’s Copy.  He has also published fiction and essays including Two-Way Mirror: A Poetry Notebook and has edited numerous anthologies and collections of interviews such as The Secret Garden: An Anthology in the Kabbalah, Reading Jazz, Writing Jazz, andSan Francisco Beat: Talking with the Poets. His most recent book, When I Was A Poet, # 60 in the Pocket Poet’s Series published by City Lights, came out in 2011.

David Meltzer taught in the Humanities and Poetics programs at the New College of California in San Francisco for 30 years. He was given the Bay Area Guardian's Lifetime Achievement Award in 2011 and this year he was nominated for the Northern California Book Award in Poetry. He is now performing with his wife, poet Julie Rogers, in the Bay Area and elsewhere.