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Autumn 2010 |
Upcoming
Art Events
Exhibitions,
Conferences, and Workshops |
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Greetings!
Greetings! I hope this finds you happy and well. I want to tell you
about upcoming events and exhibitions I am proud to be a part of.
Please check out some of these links.
Warmly,
Maureen
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Thought
Bubble Sequential Art Festival
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Leeds,
UK, November 18 - 21
 I am
very pleased to be a guest at this comics convention in the United
Kingdom, meeting la gente en Angleterre, introducing them to the F
Word Project: Five Feminist Fables for the Twenty-first
Century.
Check out the Thought Bubble Festival web site here:
http://www.thoughtbubblefestival.com/08home.asp
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Freedom
to Create Exhibition in Cairo
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Cairo,
Egypt, November 24 - December 11
 I
am flying to Egypt to take part in the Freedom to Create Exhibition
in Cairo. Several of my works from "Marta & the Missing" and
"Maisa & the Bad Muslim Girls" are part of this international
exhibit. The exhibition venue is the Cairo Opera House. The
exhibition now has the full support of the Egyptian Ministry of
Culture and the Minister of Culture Farouk Hosny will open the
exhibition at a VIP reception on the evening of 24 November. The
exhibition will then be open to public from 25 November - 11
December. Admission is free.
The exhibition will then tour to the Ana Tzarev Gallery www.anatzarev.com and is scheduled to open in
early February (dates TBC).
Please do check out the exhibition page on the Freedom to Create
website http://www.freedomtocreate.com/Prize-2010-Exhibitions.asp
and invite your friends to come to the exhibition from our facebook
events page http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=118822038173607&index=1
Do also check out our exhibitions album http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=37759&id=108202962542295
and spread the news!
I will be giving a free comics/graphic novels workshop for the
public in Cairo at Diwan Bookstore, sponsored by Freedom to
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Border
Art Biennial, El Paso & Ciudad Juarez: Nov. 20 - Feb. 13
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 Border Art Biennial - Bienal Fronteriza de
Arte 2010 is the second juried exhibition to examine and
highlight the often under represented, but vital art and artists
from the states of the US/Mexico border. Artist from the states of
Arizona, Baja California Norte, Baja California Sur, California,
Chihuahua, Coahuila, New Mexico, Nuevo Leon, Sonora, Tamaulipas,
and Texas were encourage to apply, of which 43 were selected. All
works included will be reproduced in the accompanying exhibition
catalog which will be available for purchase at the Museum Store.
This exhibition is a collaborative effort between the El Paso
Museum of Art, Museo de Arte INBA de Ciudad Juarez, Instituto
Nacional de Bellas Artes, CONACULTA-INBA, the Mexican Consulate in
El Paso, Texas, and the American Consulate in Ciudad Juarez,
Chihuahua. -From the El Paso Museum of Art website
http://www.elpasoartmuseum.org/upcoming.asp
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Artist's
focus talk at the El Paso Museum of Art on January 19 at 1
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Border
Art Biennial - Bienal Fronteriza de Arte 2010 I will be
giving a focus talk about my work at the museum on January
19.
http://www.elpasoartmuseum.org/upcoming.asp
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Comics
Quickly All-day Workshop at Artisan, Santa Fe
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Saturday,
Dec. 11
Comics Quickly/Workshop with Maureen Burdock 9:30am-4:30pm
$60+tax, materials will be included.
http://artisan-santafe.com/?CFID=1623990&CFTOKEN=844f477e15a20748-3B48E4E3-5056-2AC5-15E10F3845079D6E
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Graphic
Novel Workshop and Book Signing, Borders Books, Santa Fe
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Wednesday,
Dec. 15, 7 - 8:30
Sequential art workshop for the general public. More details,
contact info TBA
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New
Blog!
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maureenburdock.blogspot.com
is on its way. Please check in frequently. I will use it to
document my upcoming travels and events, and to chat with you about
feminist/humanist art and other mind-stretching, world-changing
issues. :-)
http://maureenburdock.blogspot.com/ |
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