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Artwork from roughly 450 middle and high school students was recently unveiled at the Louisville Visual Art Association?s gallery. / Courtesy of the Louisville Visual Art Association

For those of you who grew up on Prince of Persia, jumping from platform to platform and avoiding devious traps while muscling your way through guard after guard, here is a little trip down memory lane. Ubisoft decided to unleash a slew of very early concept artworks that were meant for the maiden Assassin’s Creed outing, and this particular conceptual artwork actually dated all the way back to November 2004, showing off some Prince of Persia-inspired artwork as well as the possibility of a female assassin. I suppose that while males had brute strength, female spies like Mata Hari always had the charisma card up their sleeve where weaker willed men can just fall under their charms and reveal all. The artwork were entirely Khai Nguyens efforts, and it would be wonderful if the Assassins Creed franchise might revisit such conceptual artwork in the future to see whether there is any milk left in this cow.

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Wyandotte Students Artwork Featured in Congressional Art Competition

The artwork of 13 Roosevelt High School students will be displayed at the Detroit Public Library.

WISCONSIN DELLS — On Tuesday, the upper atrium of the Ho Chunk Casino and Convention Center will be filled with the works of student artists from the six schools in the South Central Conference: Adams-Friendship, Mauston, Nekoosa, Wautoma, Westfield and Wisconsin Dells. The show will be open from Tuesday to April 29.

This annual show is highlighted by an awards banquet at 5:30 pm April 29 at the conclusion of the show. Awards are given for first and second places 12 different categories: color drawing, black and white drawing, watercolor painting, acrylic and oil painting, sculpture, small sculpture/jewelry, fibers and fabrics, traditional photography, graphic design, ceramics, printmaking and mixed media.

There are best of school awards given to a student from each school and a best of show award, which chosen by the guest speaker.

This years speaker is Ericka Napp. She is a graduate of University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. She has worked as a designer for Lands End, Sears and Kohls as well as Nostalgia Homes. She is currently an MFA candidate at UW-Madison and will talk about art as a career choice.

Plan a trip to see this exhibit by some of the best student artists in the area.

Face Britain, an art project that Prince Charles spearheaded for the Diamond Jubilee, has launched April 19. According to the BBC, an enormous and colorful montage of more than 200,000 childrens self-portraits is being projected onto the walls of Buckingham Palace. Images of the Queen made from portraits mingle with larger pictures of children aged from five to 16.

The art installation is not just breathtaking in its scope, its record-breaking. While the Guinness Book of World Records will have to confirm it, this is expected to be the worlds largest ever collaborative piece of art. 

Behind the project is the Princes Foundation for Children and the Arts; Prince Charles, the Duchess of Cornwall and the Duchess of Cambridge visited one of its works-in-progress earlier this year. (Story continues below.)

A special art show is now in progress at the Pleasant Hill Library.

The second grade class of Michele Johnson at Pinecrest Elementary School has their Dr. Seuss-inspired art projects in the main room of the library at least until the end of this week.

The idea came from art teacher Kendra Stettler, who admits she began considering it when she heard that Hastings Middle School art teacher Elizabeth Carroll has some of her fifth-grade students display their work at the library last month.

“I think it is important to have student artwork out in front of the public,” said Stettler. “We had a special program for Hastings Reads at the Green Mill and we had the opportunity there to show off some of the students’ works.”

While she is the art teacher for all grades at Pinecrest, Stettler picked the second grade class “because they did such fabulous drawings.”

She described the drawings as “multi-media, with paint used for the background, followed by paper and crayon for the characters.” Each is about 18 inches by 12 inches.

When this particular exhibit concludes, Stettler plans to have another class’s artwork displayed at the library. She is working on the details.

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LORTON, Va. Congressman Gerry Connolly will announce the winners of the 2012 Congressional Arts Competition for Fairfax and Prince William students residing in the 11th Congressional District at an awards reception on Saturday, April 28 at 4 pm at the Lorton Workhouse Arts Center.

All student art entries will remain on display at the Lorton Workhouse, Gallery W-16, 9601 Ox Road, (Route 123) in Lorton through April 29.

The artwork by the first place-winning student will go on display at the US Capitol for a year, alongside the winning entries from other congressional districts across the nation. Overall, Connolly will award prizes to the top five winners selected by a panel of judges from the 11th District.

“I hope people will take the opportunity to view the work of the students while it is on display in Lorton,” Congressman Connolly said. “I had the opportunity to view the pieces as they came into my district offices in Annandale and Woodbridge. The talent was remarkable and I think the judges are going to have a hard time selecting this year’s winners.”

This year’s competition will feature almost 170 pieces from more than 125 students. Entries were submitted to Connolly’s Congressional Arts Competition from public, private and home schooled high school students in the 11th District.

“Each year the art competition continues to grow and be more successful than the past,” Connolly said. “I especially want to thank our teachers for putting the time into this event.”

The public can view the artwork at the Lorton Arts Center Wednesday through Saturday between 11 am and 7 pm and Sunday between noon and 5 pm. The Arts Center is closed on Mondays and Tuesdays. The exhibit and the awards ceremony will be held in Building 16W on the 2nd Floor.

“I believe we should be doing everything we can to encourage our students to participate in the arts,” Connolly said. “The Congressional Arts Competition is a great way to inspire student artists’ and provide an opportunity to share their creativity with the community.”

-Press release 

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Apr 11, 2012 

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A judge this week will decide who owns three bundles of artwork by James Castle found tucked away in the famed artist’s home and potentially worth thousands of dollars.

Artwork by Castle, who lived in a northwest Boise home until he died in 1977, is collected worldwide. Individual pieces have sold for as much as $50,000.

Jeannie Schmidt purchased Castle’s home in 1996. Four years later, she found 150 pieces of art and three books Castle worked on as early as the 1930s hidden in his bedroom ceiling, according to The Idaho Statesman ((http://bit.ly/HxCBPq ).

Schmidt said the trove belongs to her now, and that Castle’s niece, who died in 2007, had told her as much when she bought the home. The only true owner was Castle or possibly his sister, Schmidt argued, and both are dead.

But Castle’s family, who created a partnership in 1996 to manage and sell his artwork, argue they are the rightful owners through “gift, inheritance and conveyance.”

Castle was born deaf and mute. The self-taught artist’s drawings were made with a sharpened stick dipped in soot and saliva. Some are in collections at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

James Huegli, Schmidt’s lawyer, told Ada County Judge Deborah Bail during opening arguments Tuesday that Schmidt purchased the home partially because it was owned by Castle, and that the family partnership never claimed ownership to other items she found.

He claimed the family threw a party with pizza and beer just before the “rotten old house” sold because they were happy to have it off their hands, giving away pieces of Castle’s art to guests.

Dave Lombardi, attorney for the James Castle Collection limited partnership, said the other items Schmidt found were not art but odds and ends used by Castle to create art that the family didn’t care about.

The trial was expected to take three days. The ruling may hinge on a 2001 Idaho case suggesting that the finder of any lost or abandoned property can keep it unless it’s against the wishes of the “true owner.”

“This case is about who gets to keep and sell mislaid Castle family property that was found by somebody other than the true owner,” Lombardi said.

Lombardi said Castle told his sister, Peggy Wade, just days before he died that all of his work was hers, and the true owners now are the family members in the partnership through inheritance.

With both Castle and Wade dead, any true ownership has since expired and no one can speculate what Castle might have wanted, Huegli argued.

“In this case, the true owner is James Castle. But he is dead,” Huegli said. “What was James Castle thinking (in the 1930s)? He very well might not have wanted anyone to have that art.”

Information from: Idaho Statesman, http://www.idahostatesman.com

Copyright © 2012 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

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Thomas B. Harrison, Press-Register

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We reported five days ago that Edward Sharpe amp; the Magnetic Zeros will release their long-awaited new album, Here, on May 29. But there were a few things missing from that announcement, though they did also reveal that they have a lengthy tour coming up. Where was the artwork and track listing, Mr. Sharpe (aka Mr. Ebert)? Well, it turns out that he and the Zeros were holding out until today to share the art, which is above this text. Yeah, its…kinda cool? Lets hear some music soon, please.