About Celebrate The Healing Power of ART

Manhattan Arts International is located in New York, NY, the art capital of the world. It was established by Renée Phillips, internationally recognized author and writer, in 1983.

The relationship between Art and Healing is undeniable.

This is our 7th "Celebrate The Healing Power of ART" online juried exhibition.

We are seeking a wide variety of Art that is uplifting, powerful and transformative.

Winning artists will be featued in the Manhattan Arts International online gallery. We will actively publicize the work of all artists selected for "Celebrate The Healing Power of ART" to a wide international community. Ongoing efforts will be made to promote the artists and introduce them to a wide audience of prospective buyers and art professionals.


Purpose and Theme of "Celebrate The Healing Power of ART"

The purpose of Celebrate The Healing Power of ART is to promote ART and all aspects of CREATIVITY and its vital importance to healing individuals and the planet.

We believe that when Artists create healing art they not only experience a healing process for themselves, their art has a healing impact on viewers, and the earth.

We believe that Art has transformative powers to change a person’s outlook and the way they experience the world.


WorldWide Promotion

Featured artists on our website will be promoted in our Email News and in social media. We will also be distributing press releases through the Internet channels.

This is Manhattan Arts International’s 7th "Celebrate The Healing Power of ART" competition. As a result of our previous exhibitions winning artists have received a tremendous amount of exposure and opportunities.


We Emphasize Quality

Most online galleries are impersonal and overloaded with art images without any quality control. We focus on quality and personalized relationships with the artists we select. We rely on a jury committee of established art professionals.


All Styles and All Media

Painting, drawing, sculpture, printmaking, photography, digital art, work on paper, mixed media in addition to one-of-a-kind wearable and functional art, works in clay, wood, fiber and recycled materials. There are no size restrictions. Sorry, no video/film or installation art.


Eligibility

This competition is open to all artists from around the world, 18 years or older. Artwork must be original and be created entirely by the artist. Submissions must be made directly by the artist, not an artist representative.


Entry Deadline April 10, 2012

Awards

• At least 40 Artists will be selected for this online exhibition, from May 14 - June 30, 2012.
• All winning artists will be have one image (thumbnail and an enlargement) and a description of the work with a link to their website. On a rotating basis all winning artists will have their work appear on the home page of Manhattan Arts International.
• Three Artists will be invited to have several images and a bio/artist's statement appear in the Manhattan Arts International online gallery for a total of six months with their contact information.
  
  More Awards to be announced.
  
  Every artist who enters will receive a free copy of Renée Phillips' new ebook sent to all entrants in April, 2012. Value $25.
  

Entry Fees

1-3 images $25           4 images $35           5 images $45           6 images $55


About the Jurors

Edward Rubin
New York based arts writer, curator, visual artist, and consummate world traveler covering art news here and abroad. A long time contributor to Manhattan Arts International, his writings have appeared in such publications as Flash Art, Art & Antiques, ArtUS, Sculpture Magazine, Hispanic Outlook, Canadian Art, and dART International magazine. His photographs and collages have been exhibited at the Contemporary Art Museum in Baltimore, MD, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art in Ridgefield, CT, and numerous New York City art galleries. Currently his work, part of an exhibition titled "NYC/International Perspectives", has been traveling throughout Russia, Germany, Hungary and France for two years. His next curatorial project, titled, "In The End A Good Story Is All That Remains Is A Good Story: Eight New York Artists Figuratively Speaking", opens at the Fran Hill Gallery in Toronto, Canada, on January 12, 2012. Edward is an active member of the prestigious International Association of Art Critics.

Nancy Reyner, www.NancyReyner.com
A painter of over 30 years, who exhibits, lectures and teaches internationally. Nancy received her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, an MFA from Columbia University, and lives in Santa Fe, NM. She authored two best selling painting books; Acrylic Revolution, and Acrylic Innovation, and was featured on HGTV’s That's Clever. She is also a technical consultant for Golden Artist Colors, Inc. When Nancy lived in New York City in the 80's she held various jobs and positions such as coordinating public arts progams for the State of New York. She was selected for a two year painting and drawing residency for the Phoenix Center in AZ where she exhibited, curated, taught, and produced new work. Nancy states, “I believe that art can heal. Man has the powerful ability to dream, to create better worlds and new realities. And images play an important role in this. I paint with the conviction that my images can heal.”

Renée Phillips
Founder and director of Manhattan Arts International. She is an artists advocate, having served on several advisory boards including New York Artists Equity Association. She has curated/juried more than 50 exhibitions in New York, NY, including several "Celebrate the Healing Power of ART" exhibitions. Renée is the author of several books including Success NOW! For Artists, Presentation Power Tools For Fine Artists and The Complete Guide to New York Art Galleries. She has lectured in many universities and art centers nationwide including the Art Institute of Chicago, New York University, Hechscher Museum, and Katonah Museum. As a pioneer in her field since 1983 she has been an art marketing consultant, known world wide as "The Artrepreneur Coach". She studied art at the Art Students League, New York, NY, and was a self-supporting artist for several years before she decided to launch Manhattan Arts International. She writes regularly for Professional Artist magazine andis a member of the International Association of Art Critics and the National Association of Journalists and Authors. She is the creator of the Artist Success Package.


About Sales

Anyone interested in the winning artists' work will be encouraged to contact the artist directly. Manhattan Arts International does not engage in any sales transactions nor charges any sales commissions as a result of its online exhibitions or promotional services.

Click here for the entry form.

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How to Submit Your Images

Entrants are asked to submit digital images only. They may be sent by email or regular mail.

Entry forms must be completed according to the instructions.

Learn more about how to submit your images





Schedule for
Celebrate The Healing Power of ART

Entry deadline: April 10, 2012

Status Notification by email: May 1, 2012

Exhibition: May 14 - June 30, 2012

"Variety of form and brilliancy of color in the object presented to patients are an actual means of recovery."
~ Florence Nightingale



"A work of art is finished, from the point of view of the artist, when feeling and perception have resulted in a spiritual synthesis."
~ Hans Hofmann



"Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there can be no Art" ~ Leonardo Da Vinci



“The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.”
~ Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus



"In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love." ~ Marc Chagall


"At the deepest level, the creative process and the healing process arise from a single source. When you are an artist, you are a healer; a wordless trust of the same mystery is the foundation of your work and its integrity." ~ Rachel Naomi Remen, MD



“The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.” ~ Marianne Williamson



"Art is not a thing but a Moving Spirit."
~ George Innes



"I look out the window sometimes to seek the color of the shadows and the different greens in the trees, but when I get ready to paint I just close my eyes and imagine a scene."
~ Grandma Moses



"In art the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson



"Art does not reproduce what we see. It makes us see.
~ Paul Klee



"We must first be inspired to take action. And really that is what I think art can do best -- it can inspire others to believe in a different reality and take action to work towards that."
~ Naomi Natale, 2011Arts & Healing Network Awaree



"Color creates energy, energy creates inspiration and inspiration creates change. It is our responsibility to inspire ourselves to inspire others to inspire the change. Art is the remedy for this."
~ Ricky Lee Gordon, 2011 Arts & Healing Network Awardee



"We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related, the eternal ONE.

And this deep power in which we exist and whose beatitude is all accessible to us, is not only self-sufficing and perfect in every hour, but the act of seeing and the thing seen, the seer and the spectacle, the subject and the object, are one.

We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree; but the whole, of which these are shining parts, is the soul."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson