ArtiST Festival: Exhibit Art, Perform &/or Publish. Gratis Expo Tix. + More!

BELOW: details on how to exhibit art & perform at the 5th annual free HK: ArtiST Festival, May 17-19, + we provide the venues!  Register atArtistsintheKitchen.org.  Now entertainers may register FREE, reply here for web link & password! Also welcome: submit art & writing for PUBLICATION in our internationally distributed print + online arts & culture publication, &/or volunteer or work with us! Finally find numerous FREE events & tickets news, artist resources, contests & opportunities! Where the big shows & sets will be: a blockbuster opening night Gala will shortly be announced.  Then after the all weekend mapped art walk-parties 6PM-4AM!  Saturday at the Playwright Celtic Pub-on 4 floors, 2 stages including an open air thatched-roof Irish cottage facsimile!  Sunday O’Flaherty’s Ale House on restaurant row: dining, wrap around bar, & sunken living room-like large stage area adjacent to a garden!  Never any cover or drink minimum! Art often remains hung for weeks or more after our big weekend, & registration entitles all to a free 220 page Collector’s Edition of “At The Edge”.  Also you can send a SASE to receive great free 8″ X 10″ free original art!  Entertainers who registered already: reply here to have a free business sized ad designed for you! To help the integrity of our festival: anyone who was scheduled to perform at last year’s festival who was a no-show MUST explain & then speak to us to assure that this will not happen again.  This is basic personal & professional consideration: bailing out robs other artists of opportunities for often coveted spots, disrupts the schedule, & hurts your & our reputations.  The fans & general public then have dead time instead of the act promised.  Welcome are music/bands/DJs/comedy/dance/spoken word/body painting/performance art & more!

Registration for the May 17-19, 5th annual free HK: ArtiST ’13 (Hell’s Kitchen Artists in Studio Tours) Festival open for only ~ 4 more weeks!  $25 covers all art exhibited at group shows, homes or local biz. for weekend  & beyond, &/or to perform at our 30 hours of parties for the public & artists!  Again receive the next (by Fall) issue free, & gratis original art work available when signing up! Also accepting Submissions (free to be published) for ‘At The Edge’.   Art & literary work of all genres-especially personal, in depth features & a well wrought/detailed &/or visionary-surreal aesthetic.  Do both at: ArtistsintheKitchen.org.  Our new issue:   Want to gain great benefits by volunteering, &/or earn top commission $ selling ads or recruiting patrons, sponsors &/or new stores? Just reply here! We need your help with the 5th annual 5-17/19 HK: ArtiST Festival!  Directors will get beautiful large ads like our sponsors do, + promotion on 10’s of 1000’s of huge 2 sided maps postcards, 5 social media, newsletter to way over 10K.  ALL helping significantly will again get great experience, networking connections, a free registration & priority for any exhibition &/or performance, + a free magazine & original art!  Our main needs: Graphic Design, Sales-earn unmatched percentages- Film/Video, party planning, street team, PR, Operations Management, Web/Social Media, artist, culture & venue liaisons, print work & phone calls!  See Jobs/Respond!

A spin off from our since ’11 Open Studios Festival, ‘At The Edge’ proudly announces a new partnership with renowned industry leader Disticor, the 5th largest U.S. + #1 Canadian distributor of periodicals! Before the HK: ArtiST Festival sold at 100’s of North American newsstands & independent + chain bookstores including Barnes & Noble! Also purchasing promotional programs/displays there & through huge local wholesalers Hudson News (featured prominently at 75 NYC newsstands): even soon marketed through innovative branded digital app. technologies including on Apple/Ipad & Android!  Though until then we shall have it all online: preview/like us on Facebook & a Sneak Peak of some layout pages here.

Thanks to all who helped make great launch parties for “At The Edge”!  We had over 1000 RSVPs & great attendance at the fancy art Deco bar for the Empire State Building 3/1, well filmed & photographed, including in front of our great new banner: also the next night at our Kearney NJ gala.  Both graced with many top notch entertainers, all published in our social media + next issue!

BELOW is offered more of our details, + free & discounted admission to great NYC events, contests & career opportunities, hyper-linked for artists, actors, musicians. fans, & creative Professionals!!  Complimentary or great deals, & elite, often insider shows/exhibits, parties, seminars/forums, contests/competitive grants & opportunities!

For a limited time before we sell issues online we offer the entire 2nd issue on our web site!  Shortly to be upgraded: a bonus content version with hyperlinks to all web addresses + E-Mails.  View current digital copy HERE.  Also see the Premier & expanded & interactive editions!  Stunningly designed & a great bargain at $7.95, densely packed w/colorful & detailed fine art & eclectic literature showcasing styles from classic through modern & visionary imagery, especially stressing an Expressionist-Surrealistic aesthetic.

Now prior to the many free & unique shows & opportunities for artists & the public BELOW: announcing a partnership with The Contemporary Art Show at The Javits Center in October!  Hell’s Kitchen Artists’ Guild will have a large part & special heavily discounted rates: + some complimentary exhibition space to show & sell available for competent & reliable volunteers-at the new 71,000 square feet space procured by arts & crafts impresario Mr. Richard Rothbard.  Who bucks the seemingly endless trend of art & artists exploited for purely commercial purposes, where truth, beauty, artistic growth & aesthetics are abandoned in favor of profit accruing to the upper tier.  Stay tuned for exciting particulars, & some of his ventures:americanartmarketing.com, boxology.com anamericancraftsman.com +theartofhealthyliving.com.

 

Dozens of press features, listings, ads, Sponsor/Media Kits, videos/youtube channel, many 2 sided oversized maps & postcards, biz. plan, 5 social media (2 FB, Tumblr, Twitter Flickr), current, premiere & expanded online magazine, forms & much more available on: ArtistsintheKitchen.org/promos.htm.

Hell’s Kitchen Artists’ Guild & Association (HKAG/HKAA):

Our mission is to expand the love, success & attention for great art(ists), performers, authors; with the fortunes of our legendary Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood, HK: ArtiST Festival, publications, & those joining us!

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Now for the art show & informational gifts!  First many listings & some still available opportunities & events can be found in our last newsletter-& as below, hyperlinks for more info! For Sunday free VIP tix. to giant art fair on Pier 92, Hudson River & 52nd Street, reply to THIS E-Mail.

 

ArtExpoNYC2013!  Billed as the earth’s largest Fine Art Trade Show, an International Marketplace,+ Unparalleled education seminars.  Their popular {SOLO] pavilion has 100’s of the world’s top emerging artists.  Thursday gallery/collector preview reception available!

Hosting the largest gathering of qualified trade buyers, including gallery owners & managers, art dealers, interior designers, architects, corporate art buyers, art & framing retailers and many others. From Europe to the Far East and South America, Artexpo New York hosts an international audience of industry professionals seeking to discover exciting new works from established and emerging artists.

A “rallying for the common good” break: I personally want all to read this Village Voice coverstory from last month. “Uptown Money Kills Downtown Art”.  About how the fortunes of 99% + of artists, critics, curators, most/Mom & Pop Galleries & art biz. DECLINE as huge international money & crass commercialism (art as merely investment, status symbol & speculation) from Wall Street to the Nouveau Riche, is ascendent.  An age old betrayal of the creative spirit as personal vision & (non-career) development is sacrificed, BETRAYED to serve the “market” is exactly what we must oppose with every fiber of our individual & collective souls. 

 

See AsiaWeekNY.com.  A 9 day celebration of Asian art throughout metropolitan NYC, with exhibitions, auctions & special events presented by 43 leading international Asian art specialists, 5major auction houses, and 17 museums and cultural venues.  Through 3-23.
 Invitation to the FREE live TV show & opening of “Erasing Borders” traveling exhibition. Group Exhibition of Contemporary Indian Art of the Diaspora  Opening Reception: 6:30-8:30 PM Thursday April 4th.

 

For 1/2 price & sometimes free tickets to varied & desirable culturalevents, dance, musical/jazz readings-see & sign up for E-Mail updates at goldstar.com.

There is ArtSlant, ArtKrush, Thrillist ArtLog & many other .com newsletters recommended here-now adding “Hyperallergic“.  Fresh & off–kilter in stories covered + perspective.  Subtitled “Sensitive to art & its discontents”.

April 3-7. affordableartfair.com/newyork.  Over 80 Galleries & a huge array of contemporary art.  Concept is simple yet unique: an inspiring & friendly atmosphere in which you can find 1000s of original paintings, prints, sculptures & photographs all under one roof, ranging from $100-$10,000, with more than half priced under $5,000. The work of young, emerging artists hangs alongside some of the biggest household names, while our Recent Graduates Exhibition provides a chance to snap up work by a future art world star.
From a great grassroots arts advocate previously on our map: We invite you to celebrate with us through an evening of dinner, cocktails, a remarkable cast of performers, and daring works by avant-garde artists. The guests will include 450 of our city’s most innovative artists, forward-thinking real estate executives and committed arts enthusiasts.  For one very special evening in June, Anita’s Way – the stunning through-block in the heart of Times Square – transforms into a one-of-a-kind living, interactive performance venue for our annual Gala.

 

Reply right here to volunteer or make money in magazine or ad sales.  To sign up to have your art exhibited or explore anyentertaining talents, & ALSO for publishing any art work or literary inspirations/thoughts at no charge, go toArtistsintheKitchen.org.

 Look for our next E-Mails from this address: much valuable HK: 

ArtiST ’13 Festival & “At The Edge” Magazine news & other free great shows, art listings, PARTIES & Professional options to follow!