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Timelines: The Art of the Calendar</div>
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Selection begins March 21, 2023</div>
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<div><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 400;">The calendar is a popular form that unites art and functionality.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 400;">
</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 400;">While calendars occupy many graphical genres today, from collages of family photos to promotional
swag, this exhibition shines a light on the work of creatives who produce calendars as an extension of their studio practice, independent of institutional sponsors and large-run commercial distribution.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 400;"> </span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 400;">By gathering together the works of ‘calendar artists’ this show invites audiences to take a closer
look at this ‘indy’ subculture. What do these ephemeral documents mean to users, and how do they differ from digital calendar apps that have begun to supplant the printed calendar?</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 400;">This exhibition will take place from April 14 to May 15 at Riverbank Arts, a gallery in downtown Flint,
Michigan.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 400;">
</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 400;">Aspiring participants should submit digital photos or PDFs that represent the calendar(s) sufficiently
for jurying. Selected work must arrive at the gallery by April 12, 2023. Contributors to the show will be given options concerning how their calendars are presented.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 400;">
</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 400;">Return postage will be paid by the gallery.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 400;">Submissions to:
</span><a href="http://timelines.works"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 400;">timelines.works</span></a></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 400;">Questions to:
</span><a><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 400;">timelineEx2023@yahoo.com</span></a></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 400;">This project is the inaugural exhibition of a new Print Art and Design series at Flint’s Riverbank
Arts gallery. The focus of the series is contemporary art and design that explores the medium of print, from a variety of perspectives.
</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 400;">Riverbank Arts is an initiative of the Arts+Culture Research Cluster at The University of Michigan
- Flint, and is supported by the Office of Research and Economic Development.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 400;">The exhibition will be juried by the Christian Gerstheimer, an artist and lecturer in Art History at
the University of Michigan - Flint who worked previously as a curator at the El Paso Art Museum from 2003 - 2017.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 400;">
</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 400;">Although not a calendar producer himself, Gerstheimer’s November Project, which he has sustained
for decades, does in some key respects mirror the annual creative practices of many calendar artists.</span></div>
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