Society for Art of Imagination

Terrance Lindall and Yuko Nii
of the Williamsburg Art and Historical Center

Terrance Lindall and Yuko Nii
Terrance Lindall, President and Executive Director of the Williamsburg Art & Historical Center in Williamsburg Brooklyn, in the United States of America, has been named Vice Chairman of the Society for Art of Imagination and will be working to promote memberships and the high virtues of Art of the Imagination around the world. Terrance has been a longstanding supporter of the Imaginative Art Movement.

In 2003 the Williamsburg Art and Historical Center will launch what we believe will be the “biggest exhibition to date of Art of the Imagination, with a Grand Surrealist Ball,” in its magnificent French Second Empire building in the heart of the “Emerging Art Capital of the World,” Williamsburg Brooklyn. “

In the past Terrance Lindall created Charles Gatewood’s “The Body & Beyond’ and the march across the Williamsburg Bridge with the pierced and tattooed tribes of the body modification underground and the blood ritual covens. That march stopped the subways of New York as the train drivers slammed on the brakes to watch the spectacle!
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art exhibition
The Main Gallery

The Annual Juried Exhibition for The Society for Art of the Imagination 2003

We Invite you to be a part of
BRAVE DESTINY
September 20- Nov. 2nd 2003

The Williamsburg Art and Historical Center will launch what we believe will be the “biggest exhibition to date of Art of the Imagination, with a Grand Surrealist Ball,” in its magnificent French Second Empire building in the heart of the “Emerging Art Capital of the World,” Williamsburg Brooklyn. “


Grand Surrealist Ball Sept. 20th 7- midnite web-broadcast around the world,
General Tix $125, Participating artist $30, Buffet, drinks, incredible
entertainment, and thousands of dollars of prize announcements

Show will include; a surrealist fashion show, a surrealist film festival, a
surreal theater production, a surrealist symposium, demonstration of the
16th century Misch technique by Brigid Marlin, a surrealist halloween in the
world's largest art community, open artists studios all around the 'burg,
and more!

If you are not part of this incredible show, you are missing the "Woodstock"
of this Grand Conclave of Artists of the Imaginative Spirit sponsored by the
Society for Art of the Imagination from London!! All of the events made
possible thru the the SAI in collaboration with the WAH Center and its
affiliate and sponsoring organizations and individuals.

We will also have an auction of art of the surreal/fantastic to benefit the
SAI, the WAH Center and Artvisonary Magazine (Australia).

Terrance Lindall, VC, American Branch of the SAI, Pres. of the WAH Center

There is more information on the WAH website http://wahcenter.org

Download the poster at
http://wahcenter.org/news/BraveDestiny.pdf
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WILLIAMSBURG ART & HISTORICAL CENTER
135 Broadway, Brooklyn, New York 11211
Tel. (718) 486-7372 or 486-6012
email wahcenter@earthlink.net

Advance Notice!!! Open Call for Great Art for September/October 2003

ARTISTS OF THE WORLD UNITE!!! JOIN OUR BRAVE DESTINY OF THE IMAGINATIVE SPIRIT IN SURREAL, SURREAL/CONCEPTUAL, VISIONARY, FANTASTIC AND SYMBOLIC ART

"Reason, honor and the limitless bounds of our own imaginations compels us now to do what others can only admire! Unhindered by the mortal flesh, the mind can visit realms which the body cannot. In that we are like Gods. That is our own "Brave Destiny", the destiny of art of the imagination! Let us therefore create a show of this art, the like of which has never been seen before!"
Terrance Lindall on behalf of the Society for Art of the Imagination, London, June 2002

We invite you to be part of "BRAVE DESTINY",
September/October 2003

$5,000 in cash prizes for art guaranteed, plus thousands of dollars in purchase awards and many other prizes!! Deadline June 2003, but the sooner you enter, the sooner you can have work on our web-site for the show. We will be adding art & sponsors weekly to our web-site!

THIS WILL BE THE LARGEST SHOW OF LIVING SURREALIST, FANTASTIC AND VISIONARY ARTISTS IN THE WORLD including Professor Ernst Fuchs, Founder of the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism in the 1940's, H.R. Giger winner of the Academy award for his stage set in the movie ALIEN, and many other world famous artists! We welcome you to this incredible opportunity to exhibit with them! We represent the "Brave Destiny" of the imaginative spirit, ever seeking new horizons with a certainty of our abilities to achieve IN ART what we envision.

Yes, the most comprehensive show to date from the Society for Art of the Imagination in London, England, is to be held at the WAH Center opening with a Grand Surrealist Ball in its magnificent French Second Empire building in the heart of the "Emerging Art Capital of the World", Williamsburg Brooklyn. At the Grand Surrealist Ball opening night, there will be astounding happenings, possibly even an alien invasion, plus a grand prize for best costume! Throughout the show there will be fantastic performances of music, dance and other wonders as we did for APOCALYPSE 1999, the most lavish art production out of Williamsburg to date. There is no experience like one of the major art productions at the WAH Center!

Recent years have shown that there is a renewed interest in the Surrealists, as indicated by comprehensive shows of early Surrealists at the Guggenheim Museum, the Metropolitan Museum, The Pompidou Center and many smaller museums in many different countries around the world. Part of the WAH Center's mission is to show what has been missing in other overviews of great art legacies. What has been missing is a look at the living artists of this genre. It seems appropriate, therefore, that New York’s newest Museum in the making, the WAH Center show the living and thriving surreal, visionary, fantastic artists at this time in its show BRAVE DESTINY.

The opening weekend for the 2003 show will also feature hundreds of open artists studios all around Williamsburg. The WAH Center will also host it's annual WILLIAMSBURG ARTS AND CULTURAL FESTIVAL with free shuttle buses which will bring thousands of tourists to Williamsburg to see our show BRAVE DESTINY. Many musical events, fashion shows and parties will transpire to enthrall the visitors to our fair new art community on the opening day of BRAVE DESTINY.

Brigid Marlin, a renowned practitioner of the Misch Technique, will demonstrate its use during the BRAVE DESTINY exhibit. The Mische Technique is a 16th century master's methodology which was lost for centuries and rediscovered by Ernst Fuchs. This method is not taught in American art schools and this is a unique opportunity for professionals at any level to add to their arsenal of methods.

To be part of this fabulous show in September 2003:

1) Art in all media acceptable! Paintings, sculpture, drawings, installations, video, film, animation, computer software, musical compositions, short stories, plays, poetry, cartoons! If we left anything out, contact us!

2) Art can be Surreal, Surreal/conceptual, Visionary, Fantastic and Symbolic Art.

3) If art, send slides, photos or color Xeroxes of your work with your resume plus an entry fee of $30 for three works. If poetry stories, plays, video, film, computer software, animations, send $10 for each submission. List the works with title, size, media, or other appropriate description. Additional work may be submitted for $5 per work. DO NOT SUBMIT ART WITHOUT THE FEE, WE WILL NOT LOOK AT IT.

4) If you are currently a member in good standing of the Society for Art of the Imagination or a member of the Williamsburg Art & Historical Center or a subscriber to Artvisionary Magazine, there are no additional fees for accepted work. However, for those artists who are not members or subscribers, if your work is accepted, an additional fee of $20 will be requested to defray costs of printing poster, invitations and hanging.

5) If you wish your material to be returned, send a self stamped, addressed return envelop.

6) DEADLINE JUNE 30, 2003

To enter work:
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New International Surrealists
c/o Williamsburg Art & Historical Center
135 Broadway
Brooklyn, New York 11211


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ABOUT THE WILLIAMSBURG ART & HISTORICAL CENTER
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The Williamsburg Art and Historical Center is a multifaceted and multicultural art center created in 1996 in Williamsburg Brooklyn, one of the largest art communities in New York City and the world. Recognizing a lack of exhibit or performing space in the area, Yuko Nii purchased the Kings County Savings Bank Building (1860’s), which is on the National Register of Historic Places and a
New York City landmark. Her goal was to coalesce the diverse artistic community and create a bridge between local, national and international artists and emerging as well as established artists of all disciplines so they could interact and inspire one another. A diversity of art and performances, and its interpretation in lectures and symposia, provides education to artists and the public on current trends & new possibilities in the arts.

In 1999 the Yuko created the Williamsburg Arts Culture Festival bringing together
artists, galleries, antique shops, restaurants and other businesses in Williamsburg to introduce an entire smorgasbord of offerings in one great happening. Twice a year she offers international shows and performances from various nations, with artists from those countries and their expatriate
fellows from New York. This is an outgrowth of Yuko’s “Bridge Concept” which is “about reaching out and crossing over, of discovery and meetings of mind and spirits so we come to understand from each other what brings respect and love, which in turn brings peace.” The Center has “bridged” to Cuba, Holland, Italy, and Russia & Japan and Turkmenistan.

In 2001 Governor George Pataki of the State of New York named Yuko one the state’s “women of vision and courage,” saying “In the past five years, you (Yuko Nii) have inspired and encouraged the careers of many artists, staged exhibits and performances, created art education programs and nurtured relationships between art lovers and artists through annual Cultural Festivals. Admirers have written of your gifts as an artist, as a creative visionary and as a patron of other artistic individuals.”
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