The Maryland Institute College of Art is pleased to announce that it is now accepting applications for the 2010 sessions of the Klots Artist Residency Program at the Château in the village of Rochefort-en-Terre in Brittany, France.

NEW THIS YEAR:
Because of the nature of our accommodations on the Chateau grounds, we are happy to announce that we are encouraging applications from artist-couples as well as from individual artists.

We have also extended the length of the sessions to five weeks.
The dates of our two five-week sessions in 2010 are:
Sunday, May 23 to Saturday, June 26
Sunday, July 4 to Saturday, August 7
Competitive residencies are open to artists and artist-couples working in any media and to writers (or artist-writer couples).  More information is available at http://www.mica.edu/Programs_of_Study/International_and_Off-Campus_Programs/Klots_Artist_Residency_in_Rochefort-en-Terre.html

The residency application deadline is January 8, 2010.

The Disjecta event for the HeART of Healing has been postponed to Spring 2010. We are staging three more events this month for HeART of Healing, so if you can join us fo rany or all of these, please do:

Oct. 25th, Sunday—O’Connor’s in Multnomah Village,

5-act blues/folk concert, 6-9pm, $12

Oct. 31th, Halloween—The Woods in Sellwood

Vagabond Opera concert and chilling seance festival, 9:30pm—LATE, $16

Nov. 6th, Friday—The Village Ballroom in NE Portland, off Dekum

Movement and electronica/ethereal/world beat extravaganza, 8pm-?, sliding scale of $10 to $25

We are looking for all types of products, groups and crafts for a family-friendly holiday event at Indian Hills Elementary School located at:  21260 SW Rock Rd. Aloha, OR 97006.
December 5, 2009 - 10am to 4pm.  Load in is at 8:30am
Vendor spots are available for $25.00 and consist of a 6 foot by 30 inch folding table.
For an application, please visit our webpage at http://www.ihholiday.blogspot.com or call Anne @ (503) 809-1721

Ellen Dissanayake
October 29 6:30pm
MFA Studios at the Bison Building, 421 NE 10th Avenue

Ellen Dissanayake is an independent scholar, author, and lecturer whose writings about the arts synthesize many disciplines and draw upon 15 years of living and working in non-Western countries. Her Darwinian viewpoint provides a broader understanding of the arts than is customary in most theoretical approaches. She is the author of three books: What Is Art For?, Homo Aestheticus, and Art and Intimacy, as well as over 70 scholarly and popular articles.

There is a more detailed bio of the speaker on the OCAC website at:
http://ocac.edu/#/events/calendar/2009-oct29-mfa-in-applied-craft-and-design-lecture—ellen-dissayanake-/