SPACES is gearing up to be Cleveland's unofficial tourism bureau, starting this Friday with the opening of The Cleveland Convention and Visitors Bureau-- an exhibition dedicated to our bittersweet love of all things Cleveland.
Some of you may have run across the Essence Unique Shrine and Showroom billboard that sprouted up at West 25 and Franklin this week. Part of a carefully-crafted "synchronized awareness campaign" by artists-in-residence Cleveland SGS, the billboard is begging you, pleading you, not to miss SGS's installation at SPACES-- a no-holds-barred shrine to the vagaries of chance, faith, and gambling.
It opens, like the rest of the Tourism show, this Friday from 6-9 pm at SPACES. Don't miss it!
Now is your chance to vote for your favorite 30-second anthem from our competition! To vote, just complete the form below. You may vote once in the adult category and once in the kids category. The deadline to vote is Monday, May 14th, 2012.
After arduous deliberation among the judges, we FINALLY have our winners for the Cleveland Postcard Design Competition and the 30-Second Cleveland Anthem Competition. We really appreciate all who entered and we will soon post all entries so that the general public can vote for their favorites.
We also want to extend a special thanks to our panel of judges:
Children from the Urban Community School visited SPACES to meet with artist Margaret Cogswell and discuss her project "Cuyahoga Fugues Revisited." The students were asked to create works that responded to water in the way that Margaret's work responds to water. Their efforts are found below:
Extended Deadline: March 22nd, 2012 by midnight EST
For SPACES' upcoming exhibition titled The Cleveland Convention and Visitors Bureau, we are investigating what constitutes tourism and what makes a location a "tourist destination." Ideas of economy, industry, pilgrimage, migration, memorials, entertainment, leisure, lodging, transportation, notable events, and disaster all play into the engines that fuel tourism.
To accompany the exhibition, SPACES is sponsoring a postcard design competition. Postcards play a key role in tourism in that they function as both advertisement and documentation of travel. They often choose to celebrate a city, state, monument, site, or event.
We want you to design a postcard for Cleveland! It can be about Cleveland's history, places, people, food, or anything quintessentially "Cleveland." Each design may be submitted digitally or in person at SPACES.
Ages 3+ may enter. Entries will be judged by a panel of local celebrities and SPACES' staff. Prizes will be awarded and winning submissions will be part of the exhibition The Cleveland Convention and Visitors Bureau at SPACES, May 11 – July 13, 2012 as well as being available for viewing at www.spacesgallery.org.
Photoshop Template Adobe Illustrator Template
Accepted file type: JPG
Color mode: CMYK
Resolution: 300 dpi
Maximum file size: 8MB Deadline: Thursday, March 22, 2012, midnight
Maximum number of postcards entries: 2 per person
Postcard dimensions
All postcards must follow these size guidelines:
5.47" x 4.21"
139mm x 107mm
1642 x 1264 pixels
Full Bleed Size (all the way to the edges of the paper; only for digital submissions)
5.59" x 4.33"
142mm x 110mm
1677 x 1300 pixels
How to Submit
You may drop off your entry at SPACES during gallery hours, or email your entry, and the following information to
postcards@spacesgallery.org.
Name:
Name of Guardian (if applicable):
Mailing Address (street, apt. number, city, state, zip):
Phone:
Email:
Age:
By submitting the attached Material(s) and information, you acknowledge that you are the creator and copyright holder of Material(s), or you are the guardian of the creator and copyright holder, and grant SPACES unlimited, non-exclusive rights to publicly exhibit/perform and make publicly available digitally the Material(s).
Admission to event: FREE
Racer entry: $8 ($5 for SPACES' members) or $3 for Old Skool (see below)
Register to race: http://www.bit.ly/spacescup
Pay racer entrance fee: https://www.spacesgallery.org/shop/tickets
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