The Dancing ManDuh Bonanza

For the last couple months I’ve been scouring the internet looking for shows and galleries accepting submissions. I actually found this fantastic website called Arts Opportunities (it has employment listings as well, so do check it out!) that lists probably hundreds of shows. Twitter has also proven to be surprisingly useful.

So I was just making a list and posting it as a note on Facebook and tagging my artist friends, but today Facebook crapped out on me. And I thought, “Well why not put it up on TDMB? I’m sure there are others outside my circle of friends who would appreciate the info.”

And so here you are! A list of shows, galleries, and residencies accepting applications, in order of deadlines. I’ve ordered it to read

Deadline Date: Fee. Theme of show/location of residency.
URL to apply and get more information

I think I’ll be posting lists like this once a month or so, if there’s an interest.
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My website has officially gone live! The fetus doesn’t spin like I want it to (yet!) but other than that I’m pretty happy with it. A goodly chunk of work is up already.

Additionally, I’ve opened an ArtFire shop. So far I’ve just listed my zine, ManDuhLand: Boobs, but there will be much more to come in the very near future!

I just found out today about this really awesome show: Reproductive Justice Arts Extravaganza. Art + reproductive justice = Insanely Awed and Happy ManDuh.

I think this show has the potential to be beyond awesome. I don’t care what I have to do, I’m there whether I get a piece in or not (well of course I’m going to submit a piece…possibly two [nothing in the rules says I can't!]). And the cause is also beyond awesome. I could write pages and pages about the (unfortunate) necessity of groups like the Women’s Medical Fund to help assure equal access to abortion.

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Sorry I’ve been away for so long dearies…life and school and blah blah blah excuses. Fuck that, let’s get to the good stuff shall we? I want to bring to you today my lovelies a rare feature here in ManDuhLand – a film review, complete with spoilers.

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So let’s get straight to the point. Nudity. Nakedness. Nekkid. However you want to say it, people get strange when the clothes come off. I was reading an issue of The Artist’s Magazine a couple years ago (a pretty terrible magazine by the way, I wouldn’t recommend wasting your money on it…explanation to follow in an article some time in the near future), and someone had written into the magazine that they thought nudity had no place in art and that she (I think it was a she) would do with the previous issue what she did with all the other issues in her collection that had artwork featuring nude models…paint clothing over the freaking models! So she could pass her collection down to her grandchildren someday.

Well. Allow me to get into how many different kinds of wrong that is.

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As you know, I’m a knitter. What you may not know is that I’m an addict. I hit the dollar store for cheap yarn like a crack head hits the dealer after robbing a gas station. I can never have enough. But once it’s been a few days since I’ve seen the kids after they tried to climb the mountain of yarn and no one can shower because I had to start piling balls up in the tub, the question arises – What am I going to do with all of this?

I can’t be alone in this question or my addiction, as evidenced by the advent of knit or crocheted graffiti, also known as yarn bombing. For today’s Artist You Should Know I had the chance to talk to Ontario yarn bomber Nicole from Knit, Nicole, Knit.

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Holy hell, an article! Yes, I’ve been very bad about writing. Bad ManDuh, bad.

Hera; Francis Picabia 1929

But today isn’t about my shortcomings, today is all about Dada. Dada is a little-known movement that occurred just before and heavily influenced Surrealism. In fact many well known Surrealists were also Dadaists and the influence can be seen in their surreal work.

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I was watching The News Hour with Jim Lehrer tonight (oh, could I write article upon article about the many pros and few cons of PBS), and one story in particular really caught my eye. It was about an organization called BeadforLife.

In a nutshell, Ugandan women make beads out of recycled paper, use them and some glass beads to make jewelry. The jewelry is sold online and at Bead Parties, and the money is used to buy food, schooling, and – I found this part most interesting – homes with land for impoverished families.

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Sorry, a small family emergency prevented me from getting this up earlier. But trust me, it is WELL worth the wait.

Linger; 2008

With all the new-fangled drawing programs and tablets for computers these days, it can be tricky to find an artist that works solely in a traditional medium. It can be even harder to find an artist that works solely in a traditional medium that’s not painting. Ceramic sculpture, the various drawing mediums all seem to be a rarity these days. But rarer than them by far is the printmaker. So I’m as pleased as wife-beating, baby-killing Punch to present Megan Frau.

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