  October 15 & 16, 2011 10am - 5pm Presenting Sponsor: Festival Map (pdf) Artist List (pdf) Festival Information 
New this year, the Winter Springs Festival of the Arts presents Experimental Film with Sunspot Cinema on Friday, October 14 at 7:30 p.m. Renowned international experimental filmmaker, Christopher Harris established Sunspot Cinema in 2009 and has selected a number of engaging and provocative experimental films. This collection of shorts gives a rare and unique opportunity for the community to experience films of this nature. There will be an Experimental Film display tent at the festival throughout the weekend. The Winter Springs Festival of the Arts presented by the Oviedo-Winter Springs Regional Chamber of Commerce is one of the first shows of the season and is limited to 125 artists, which consist of juried and invitational.Application deadline is July 13, 2011. If you are accepted into the show, the booth fee must be paid no later than September 1, 2011, to avoid cancellation on the artist's behalf. Application fee is $30 (non-refundable). Please apply using ZAPPLICATION. Booth fee is $200. Corner booths are available for an additional $25. More than $13,000 in cash awards!
Only one award per artist will be awarded. Prize monies will not be awarded if the festival is cancelled for any reason. Categories:
Experience a night of Experimental Film New this year, the Winter Springs Festival of the Arts and Sunspot Cinema presents Experimental Film with Jodie Mack on Friday, October 14th at 7:30 pm. Renowned international experimental filmmaker Christopher Harris established Sunspot Cinema in 2009 and has selected a number of engaging and provocative experimental films by Jodie Mack.Jodie Mack is an independent animator, curator, and historian-in-training who received her MFA in film, video, and new media from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2007 and currently teaches animation at Dartmouth College. Combining the formal techniques and structures of abstract/absolute animation with those of cinematic genres, her handmade films use collage to explore the relationship between graphic cinema and storytelling, the tension between form and meaning. Mack's 16mm films have screened at a variety of venues including the Anthology Film Archives, Images Festival, Velaslavasay Panorama, Onion City Film Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Black Maria Film Festival, and the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar. She has also worked as a curator and administrator with Dartmouth's EYEWASH: Experimental Films and Videos, Florida Experimental Film and Video Festival, Portland Documentary and Experimental Film Festival, Eye and Ear Clinic, Chicago Underground Film Festival, and Chicago's-favorite micro-cinema, The Nightingale. Additionally, Mack is an Illinois Arts Council media arts fellow and the 2010 co-recipient of the Orphan Film Symposium's Helen Hill Award. There also will be an Experimental Film display tent at the festival throughout the weekend. Judges Adam Justice Adam Justice is a Virginia native who moved to Lakeland, Fla in 2010 to become the curator of art at Polk Museum of Art. He received his B.A. in Art History/Museum Studies from Radford University (Radford, Va) and his M.A. in Art History at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond. Previously he was the chief curator at the William King Museum in Abingdon, Va where he also served as the director of the Southwest/Blue Ridge Regions for the Virginia Association of Museums. He has also worked at VCU’s Anderson Gallery, The Edgar Allan Poe Museum (Richmond, Va) and taught art history at Virginia Commonwealth University, Rappahannock Community College (Warsaw, Va.) and Virginia Highlands Community College (Abingdon, Va.). He also maintains a home studio and paints in his spare time. Jack King  Jack King has an MFA from the University of Georgia. Currently he is a professor at the University of Tampa and a practicing artist. Jack is a past president of Florida Craftsmen. He also is the founder and organizer of Craftart, an outdoor show for fine art crafts. His art works are part of permanent collections throughout Florida. His artist statement is as follows:It has always been my contention that the most successful works of art are those which create an inseparable marriage between the medium, the processes and the idea. When this balance is achieved the work seems to exist in a dimension where questions of meaning, material, and technique seem superfluous, a dimension independent of time and space. The difficulty for the artist is finding that subtle but profound balance. In my work the effort to obtain this equilibrium is achieved by forming a generalized concept then allowing the medium, as well as every other component of the creative process, to have a maximum impact upon the development of the image. This paradigm requires continual exploration and experimentation as essential elements. To a certain extent my role as the artist is akin to that of a musical conductor, responding to each element in an attempt to wed them into an harmonious composition. My recent work has sought to explore the relationship of passing (both physically and spiritually) from one existence into another. This interest has been spurred by the recent quest of the Balseros (the Cuban rafters who have been seeking sanctuary in the United States). Although I am interested in their particular plight, I began to see them more as representatives of a continuing aspect of our collective human mythology which requires and rewards a physical journey (often over a body of water) in order to obtain a new level of consciousness and/or physical existence. In many respects I see this quest as analogous to the making of art; for one begins with trepidation but possesses a hope that the end will justify the journey. The original objectives and intentions are soon tempered by the various obstacles and difficulties encountered along the way; upon completion, an entirely new reality emerges. Aesthetically, attempting to achieve a visual balance between the dominance of imposed order and the chaos of complete freedom fascinates me. I am not concerned in finding any ultimate resolution, but dig deeper into the moment of exchange when one force becomes the other. I am reminded of the statement by the 16th. century French essayist Michel Eyquem de Montaigne; "The excitement of the chase is properly our quarry; we are not to be pardoned if we carry it on badly or foolishly. To fail to seize the prey is a different matter. We are born to search after the truth; to possess it belongs to a greater power." ©2011 Presented by the Oviedo-Winter Springs Regional Chamber of Commerce. US Expos Listed. 
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