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The gallery is pleased to announce our annual Spring Arts Competition, a tradition we have held for several years. The Competition was inherited from former PAAM Director Robyn Watson and expanded as part of the community and educational programming that ran from 1998-2005 at the Schoolhouse Center. We continue to offer the Competition as a way for artists to seek exposure, to meet and have a dialogue about their work with the jurors, and as a way to practice the competition model as an exhibition option. This year we are also offering portfolio reviews with Schoolhouse Director Mike Carroll which can be requested during the application process. Each spring artists submit artwork for consideration by a variety of jurors selected from different media including photography, painting, drawing, and printmaking. Jurors select an exhibition to suit their chosen criteria and the gallery’s mission, and then select one piece to receive the Best of Show and its accompanying cash award. This exhibition creates an exciting dialogue by hosting a variety of working artists and presenting a new view of what is being made in parts of the creative community not always seen in Provincetown’s gallery rosters. The JUROR: Robert Rindler has been fascinated with finding the syntax linking disparate, disordered elements for more almost four decades. Rindler is a native New Yorker who's training as an architect and environmental designer heightens his awareness and disciplines his thinking about man-made environments, while his artist's eye and natural enthusiasms drive a fascination with collecting cultural by-products. Rindler's organizational skills and affinity for systems and collections have been with him for life, pushing his artwork forward and strengthening his personal and professional efficacy. He enrolled at Cooper Union as an undergraduate to study art but finished with a degree in architecture, followed by a master's in environmental design from the Yale School of Architecture. Throughout his 35-year career as an artist, educator and administrator, Rindler has served as a Professor of Art and Art Department Chair at the University of Vermont, where his interest in vernacular design began. He served as Dean of Students at the Boston Architectural College and as Provost at the Rhode Island School of Design before becoming the first alumnus of Cooper Union to be appointed Dean of its School of Art. Rindler founded and directed non-profit fine art galleries at each institution he has lead. He has had solo exhibitions at museums and galleries throughout the U.S. and Europe. His drawings, photographs and site-specific works have been exhibited nationally in numerous group shows. He has been the recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation, and both the Massachusetts Council on the Arts and the Vermont Council on the Arts. He has also received many professional development awards and served on the Board of Directors of several state arts councils throughout the Northeast. He currently lives in Wellfleet on Cape Cod full-time and serves on the Boards of Castle Hill, The Cape Cod Community College, The Wellfleet Preservation Hall and chairs the Education Committee at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum. Noteworthy among his many professional accomplishments, curatorial work for such major exhibitions as 1997's Techno-Seduction at Cooper Union received recognition in The New York Times, London's Guardian, The Village Voice and The Chronicle for Higher Education. Rindler will exhibit at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum from April 15 through May 29, 2011. The exhibition, titled,' Recycling Vernacular, Collecting Sorting Illuminating, Moment Place Object, A Site Specific Installation' will open with a public reception on Friday, April 22 from 6-8pm. The Schoolhouse Gallery is located at 494 Commercial Street in the heart of Provincetown¹s East End Gallery District. For information and press contact Mike Carroll at 508.487.4800 or email mike@schoolhouseprovincetown.com. |
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