08/07/2007 Thank you to Anne Ditmar who saw this and passed it along.

Greetings:

Were quite excited about having Dick Blick Art Materials becoming a sponsor for the myartspace New York, New York competition.  Through their site they are offering a $25 reduction in the price of the contest registration starting today.  So any of you who missed the June 30th early registration deadline can still register now at the reduced price. Once registered, you have until September 15th to build and submit your online gallery in myartspace.com. If you're already registered, that's great!

To access the discount coupon, simply go to www.dickblick.com and look for the myartspace logo.

The New York, New York Contest

The jurors will select a list of 50 finalists from the pool of submissions. From that list of finalists, 4 winners will be chosen to participate in a 3-week group show in Chelsea (West 26th Street), New York. Opening night will be Thursday November 1. Invitations will be sent out to collectors, critics, members of the press and curators. A printed show catalog will feature the winners background and work. The 4 winning artists will be flown into New York City to attend the opening reception the evening before. Winners will be hosted in hotel in New York City for two nights. Round trip airfare and two nights hotel

accommodations are paid for courtesy of myartspace.   Winning artists work will be on display and sale at the show.

A few important points about the competition:

It is a juried competition, and the panel contains some significant members including:

Jessica Morgan, Curator, Contemporary Art, The Tate Modern , London James Rondeau, Curator of Contemporary Art, The Art Institute of Chicago Steven Zevitas, Publisher and Editor of New American Paintings

       Further details on the jurors can be found at the bottom of this letter.

The venue is the Chelsea Art District in New York City .

The group show will be held in the heart of the Chelsea Art District in Manhattan .  We will be holding the 3-week showing at 526 West 26th Street in New York . Opening night is planned for Thursday, November 1.

The group show is expected to run through the 22nd of November.

The Art Market Remains very hot by all accounts

The art market remains very hot, with New York City certainly feeling the temperature. Weekly we are seeing new record prices on art with collectors on a buying frenzy. While this could very well turn down if the global economy rolls over, at the moment its a great time to show and sell your work in New York City .

The competition is attracting a lot of attention. The myartspace community is getting quite known in the global art scene these days with our rising popularity and swelling membership ranks. It's not unusual on a typical Thursday evening opening night in a Chelsea gallery to hear chatter about the site and the competition. We believe the press will cover the competition and the winners quite nicely, providing the type of visibility an artists should have to rocket their career.

For more information, check out the myartspace website.

Detailed rules and guidelines for the competition can be found at www.myartspace.com/contests .

For a tour of myartspace, you can go to www.myartspace.com/GuidedTour .

You must be a member of myartspace to upload your work and enter the competition.

If you are a myartspace member, and you want to register now, click to our contest sponsor, www.dickblick.com to register.

If you have any questions, please email us to nyny2007@catmacart.com .

We can answer any specific questions you may have.

Kind Regards,

Luke Aleckson
Vice President, Catmacart Corporation

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Juror Details

Jessica Morgan, Curator, Contemporary Art, The Tate Modern , London

Jessica Morgan is a curator and writer based in London where she is currently Curator, Contemporary Art, at Tate. She has organized group exhibitions such as Common Wealth (2003) and Time Zones (2004) at Tate Modern and the retrospective of the late-acclaimed German artist Martin Kippenberger (2006). Morgan curates Tate Moderns Level 2 Gallery for which she has developed a series of solo exhibitions of international emerging artists including Meschac Gaba, Jan De Cock, Roman Ond Catherine Sullivan, Simryn Gill, and Brian Jungen (2005/6). In addition, she is Curator for the next Unilever Turbine Hall commission, which was realised by Carsten Hr in October 2006, a group exhibition titled The World as Stage (2007), and the first UK retrospective of the work of John Baldessari (2009) all for Tate Modern. Morgan is chair of the Emerging Art Monitoring Group at Tate, for which she is responsible for proposing and acquiring international work from the last two decades for Tates Collection. She is also the Tate representative for the American Acquisition Committee, a group of US-based supporters who annually acquire work for the museum, and the Frieze Art Fund, a fund established by the London-based group Outset that acquires work for Tate at the Frieze Art Fair.

James Rondeau, Frances and Thomas Dittmer Curator of Contemporary Art, The Art Institute of Chicago

James Rondeau heads the Department of Contemporary Art at The Art Institute of Chicago . Since joining The Art Institute in 1998 he has organized solo exhibitions with Stan Douglas, Marlene Dumas, Olafur Eliasson, Thomas Hirschhorn, Mark Manders, and Shirin Neshat, among others. Previously Rondeau was a Curator at the Wadsworth Atheneum , Hartford, Connecticut , where he organized numerous exhibitions, including The LeWitt Collection, Byron Kim, and Pipilotti Rist. Rondeau was a commissioner and co-curator of Robert Gobers presentation for the United States Pavilion of the 49th Venice Biennial, Italy in 2001, and has served as both a curator and panelist for Art Basel.

Steven Zevitas, Publisher and Editor of New American Paintings

Steven Zevitas is the owner of New American Paintings Publication and the Open Studios Press. Mr. Zevitas received a BA in Art History from Boston University in 1991 and an MBA from Boston University in 1999.

Steven entered the art world as the director of a Boston-based alternative gallery space. In 1993, Zevitas became the founding editor and associate publisher of The Open Studios Press. Under his direction the critically acclaimed publication New American Paintings became the leading showcase for the work of emerging and mid-career painters from throughout the United States. In 1999, after completing his graduate degree, Zevitas purchased The Open Studios Press from its original owner. The company has since grown dramatically with the addition of several new projects all of which are aimed at helping to bring artists and art enthusiasts together. Among his new projects are osp catalogs, which provides high-end catalog design and production services to artists, museums and galleries, and Boston-based osp gallery. Zevitas is actively involved in the art world as a writer, designer and curator.