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Calling All Artists!

Click Here to Submit: www.modernfuel.org/deck

This fall, Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre is excited to be launching our newly designed fundraising project – a deck of MF ARCards! This distinctly Kingstonian deck of cards will represent the creative strength of our community by reproducing the work of local artists and designers on the front of each card.

August 18th at Dusk, Amphitheater at Market Square!

Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre, in association with Downtown Kingston, is excited to present Square Pegs 3, our third annual free screening of video art in Kingston’s Market Square. The program showcases the short experimental works of ten talented Canadian video artists and filmmakers, including Kingston’s Blake MacFarlane, Jocelyn Purdie, and Maayke Schurer.

Attention all yoga enthusiasts and the yoga curious, and lovers of contemporary art!

Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre is proud to present the Ottawa International Animation Festival's Best of 2009, in partnership with The Screening Room. The program features some of the best animated shorts from Canada, Poland, Ireland, France, Estonia and the United States.

OIAF Program

Love on the Line (5:00)
Mac the Horny Mac Daddy (1:07)
Postalolio (5:02)
Please Say Something (10:00)
The Bellow’s March (5:00)
Chick (Laska) (5:03)
The Black Dog’s Progress (3:15)
Magic Cube and Ping-Pong (4:07)
The Art of Drowning (2:07)

Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre is currently accepting applications for a High Octane Production Residency running from July 27-31, 2010. The residency includes complete use of the New Media Workspace’s video, audio and lighting equipment with the goal of creating a short video work of less than fifteen minutes. The successful applicant will also have access to the New Media Workspace’s editing resources for the week following the Production Residency (August 2-7, 2010).

Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre is currently accepting submissions of video works for Square Pegs III, a screening of short videos by local, national and international artists to be shown in a public space in Kingston, Ontario. Please submit your short videos (max. 15 minutes in length) as an attachment via e-mail to modernfuel@bellnet.ca as well as an artist’s statement and a CV. NTSC DVD and MiniDV submissions will also be accepted.

CARFAC fees will be paid for screenings, http://www.carfac.ca/

Modern Fuel's 12th Annual Regional Juried Exhibition will be presented at Modern Fuel from August 7th to September 4th.
Opening reception: August 7, 2010 at 7pm.

Every year Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre is a Recommender for the Ontario Arts Council (OAC) Exhibition Assistance Awards. If your residence falls within zone 4 of the OAC's list of Exhibition Assistance Recommenders (see Map) you may send us your application in correspondance with the requirements of the OAC listed below. The next deadline is July 9, 2010

Please visit the OAC's website for further information: www.arts.on.ca/Page122.aspx

Modern Fuel's Annual General Meeting for the 2009-2010 fiscal year will be held at the Gallery on Thursday June 17th at 6pm. The AGM will be a brief, one hour meeting so we hope all our members come out.

MODERN FUEL ARTIST-RUN CENTRE is now accepting applications for New Media Workspace Coordinator , a unique and dynamic summer job opportunity in the field of contemporary art and new media!

As the New Media Workspace Coordinator (NMWC) for Modern Fuel, the selected applicant will work 30 hours per week for 13 weeks from June 1 to the end of August 2010.