Community Meeting in London with MyArtspace

While it's pretty short notice, we'd like to invite any and all artists, art appreciators, and MyArtspace community members to cocktails in London!

If you are in London on Monday Nov 23rd, and would like to meet us co-founders of MyArtspace, please come by!

This is the first meet-up in a series that we plan to do around the world. We'd like to meet the community, get feedback, and tell you about some new opportunities for artists to make money and get recognition on MyArtspace.

For anyone who comes by, we will be providing a complimentary 3 month Premium MyArtspace membership! Existing members who attend may also get an additional 3 month extension to their membership, as well.


Chelsea Bar
Ground Floor, World's End Distillery,
459 Kings Road,
Chelsea, London,
SW10 0LR
Monday Nov 23
7:30-8:30pm

For the sake of saving some space at the bar, if you think you will come by, please email:

erikka@gmail.com

Hope to see you Monday!
Catherine

Scholarship.Com, a site for art students to check out...

For those college students in the MyArtspace community, they should check out www.scholarships.com for additional sources of scholarships. Of course, we also recommend you look to enter our scholarship program as well! We hand out $16,000 in cash awards each year to art students!




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The Booth Location at Aqua Art Miami

As they always say, there's three things that matter -- Location, Location and Location. We think we've scored very well on that count for the upcoming Aqua Art Miami Exhibition where we'll be showing the winners of our Miami 2009 competition. As you can see, our booth is located right at the entrance to the show, and should get incredible attention from collectors and art appreciators as they enter the hall!




For more information on our Miami 2009 Competition, see:
http://www.myartspace.com/miamibasel

NYAXE GALLERY: Autumn Opening

The opening of the the Autumn Exhibition for the NYAXE Gallery in Palo Alto kicked off on Thursday evening to a large cadre of art appreciators and technology movers-and-shakers in Silicon Valley.



In attendence were some of Silicon Valley's rising stars including Michael Arrington, Editor of TechCrunch; Craig Hughes, CTO at NewCo, Inc and former Co-Founder of GumStix; Normal Liang, former executive of Photobucket; Luke Winter, CEO Galaxy Granola; Geoffrey Arone, CEO of DanceJam and Flock; Terry Angelos, Co-Founder & CPO, TrialPay; Tom Conrad, CTO of Pandora; Irene McGee, CEO of No One is Listening; and Paul Guely, Founder & CEO of Arma Partners.



Kimia Ferdowski, one of the winning artists was in attendance with one of her subjects.



Twenty MyArtSpace artists were represented at the show including Penelope Caldwel, Takefumi Hori, Kimia Ferdowsi, Cara Thayer & Louie Van Patten, Beverley McQuillan, Barbara Diener, Rebecca Fontaine-Wolf, Eline Peek, Mikhail Gubin, Emily Maddigan, Chris Dunker, Jeanne Wilkinson & Andrew Yonda, Bill Bosler, Christopher Savage, Dan Atkins, Yuval Shalgi,
Pearl Van Geest, Renata Fernandez and Chanil Hong.




Catherine McCormack-Skiba, CEO and Founder of MyArtSpace with Paul Noel Guely, Founder of Arma Partners.



Craig Hughes, CTO of NewCo, Inc and former CTO of Gumxtix and Loca.com



Nigel Evans, myartspace's resident curator, preparing the show having flown in from London.




The Autumn Exhibition will run at the NYAXE Gallery until the end of December. The Winter Exhibition is then planned to open on December 10th.

New 1st and 3rd Place Winners for NYAXE Competition

We, at myartspace, are dedicated to increasing the accessibility of art. We are striving to liberate and empower artists so that they may create artwork that challenges us to look at our world in new ways.

In order to fulfill this vision, we support the laws and conventions for protecting the intellectual property of artists. It was recently called to our attention that we had selected two pieces of art for our latest NYAXE Competition that did not credit nor have due permission from the original creators.

Our thoughts on the debate over what constitutes Fair Use was just covered in our last blog post (October 17, Shepard Fairey), and we will not revisit it for now.

However, we did feel compelled to announce 2 new, outstanding 1^st and 3^rd place winners for our NYAXE Competition. They are:

Penelope Caldwell, 1^st Place

Kimia Ferdowsi, 3^rd Place

We thank all of the contest participants, as we are thrilled by the quality, audacity, and authenticity of the thousands of submissions we had received. You are gifted creators who deserve recognition and respect for your art.

Penelope Caldwell


Kimia Ferdowsi

Shepard Fairey Update -- The "HOPE" Picture

myartspace.com has been at the forefront of the Shepard Fairey issue around use of an image of President Obama that became the "Hope" poster. Our contention, by Brian Sherwin, has been all along that this work by Shepard Fairey was from an original photograph and then subsequently revised and commercialized by Fairey. Don't get us wrong, we are big advocates of commercialization. But we believe credit (and monetary reward) is due to the original artists that do the work.

From Yahoo News: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091018/ap_on_en_ot/us_ap_poster_artist

On Friday night, Fairey's attorneys — led by Anthony Falzone, executive director of the Fair Use Project at Stanford University — said they intend to withdraw from the case and said the artist had misled them by fabricating information and destroying other material.

Fairey admitted that he didn't use The Associated Press' photo of Obama seated next to actor George Clooney he originally said his work was based on — which he claimed would have been covered under "fair use," the legal claim that copyrighted work can be used without having to pay for it.

Instead he used a picture the news organization has claimed was his source — a solo picture of the future president seemingly closer to the iconic red, white and blue image of Obama, underlined with the caption "HOPE." Fairey said that he tried to cover up his error by submitting false images and deleting others.

The distinction is critical because fair use can sometimes be determined by how much of an original image or work was altered in the creation of a new work. If Fairey didn't need to significantly alter the image he used — in this case the solo shot of Obama — then his claim could have been undermined. Fair use cases also may consider the market value of the copyrighted material and the intended use of the newly created work.

See more about this subject by visiting the Yahoo News Article listed above OR the many articles on myartspace BLOG. Click HERE to view those articles.

Flash Website

This artist's website is one example of how an artist's website (in this case, a photographer) can be very unique and perhaps very influential in the attention the work can receive:
http://www.matthewmahon.com/

Art Process - More Powerful than Product?

This artist, Aaron Jasinski, inspires us to think about how we can present not only our art online - but also the process of creating art, as an art in of itself!
In other words, he documented his creative process, and that has been in some ways more powerful than the finished piece.

Check it out:

Vote For Art, a new startup site with big ambitions and a competition

At myartspace. we love the raw energy and passion that goes into creative work. In many cases, it's our artists pushing the edge with their latest work.

Creative work on the web is also interesting for us, and just watching the launch of new and interesting web sites with ideas and ambitions is really quite exciting.

Jeremy Parker, an enterprising college youth, has spotted an opportunity to have real art on t-shirts in University bookstores, and founded VoteForArt.com. VoteForArt.Com is the very first crowdsourced college tshirt website, where artists from around the world can submit tshirt designs for universities and other licensed institutions. The community will vote on the designs, and the top 3 winners will have their designs sold online AND at their local university bookstore. The designer of the winning design also gets $500 in their pocket!

If you've got some creative ideas on some logo designs and want to try your creative skills out, you can enter for FREE!

Just visit www.voteforart.com