​Pertaining to Artwork - Annex B says:

Works of art and collectors' pieces of an educational, scientific or cultural character

(i) Paintings and drawings, whatever the nature of the materials on which they have been executed entirely by hand, including copies executed by hand, but excluding manufactured decorated wares.

(ii) Ceramics and mosaics on wood, being original works of art.

(iii) Collectors' pieces and objects of art consigned to galleries, museums-and other institutions approved by the competent authorities of the importing country for the purpose of duty-free entry of those types of materials, on condition they are not resold.

Carnet ATA WKO Austria (Search Results): 
https://www.wko.at/service/suche.html?searchTerm=Carnet+ATA

Carnet ATA WKO Austria  - Overview:  
https://www.wko.at/service/aussenwirtschaft/Carnet_ATA.html

Carnet ATA Switzerland:
https://www.ezv.admin.ch/ezv/de/home/information-firmen/waren-anmelden/ausfuhr-aus-der-schweiz/voruebergehende-ausfuhr/carnet-ata.html

Carnet ATA Germany:
https://www.ihk-berlin.de/Service-und-Beratung/international/export/Carnet_ATA/2252836

Nachträglicher Verkauf von Carnet-A.T.A.-Gütern
http://www.marktundmittelstand.de/zukunftsmaerkte/nachtraeglicher-verkauf-von-carnet-ata-guetern-1230019/

​These blogs have several useful links pertaining to shipping, customs, duties etc

IF ANYONE HAS ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AND/OR RELEVANT LINKS,
​PLEASE ADD IT IN THE COMMENTS

BEYOND DEMONS AND ANGELS
is Bruce Rimell's first solo show in five years.
​It opens next Friday (10th Feb) at 7.30pm, at Cupola Gallery in Sheffield, UK:
check out this short film he made to talk about his work and the exhibition!

​Promotional film for Bruce Rimell's exhibition 'Beyond Demons and Angels' at Cupola Gallery, 178a Middlewood Road, Sheffield S6 1TD, UK. Opening 7.30pm Friday February 10th. Exhibition continues February 11th til March 11th 2017.

Click the image below for a great resource article found in the Boston based community
WORKBAR
▼

are there similar  organisations in your area please provide a link in the comments -
​I am constantly updating this blog as new information comes in. 

​Firstly, a link to the FORBES article:


6 Top Crowdfunding Websites:
Which One Is Right For Your Project?

 Another Forbes article lists ​Top 10 Crowdfunding Sites For Fundraising ,
the author Chance Barnett is the CEO of CROWDFUNDER

Some of the sites mentioned in the above articles are on my list as well.
I compiled this list over a number of years:

you might be able to get individual funding on a regular basis through these  
(check it out - it may be what you are looking for):

For funding of Emergencies, medical expenses and similar, consider this:

Update April 19th 2018 -
​I was made aware of another resource for emergency relief for professional artists in the USA:

Artists' Fellowship, Inc.​

The Artists' Fellowship, Inc. is a charitable foundation that assists professional fine artists (painters, graphic artists, printmakers, sculptors) and their families in times of emergency, disability, or bereavement. 
​(This is a service by the Salmagundi Club of New York)

ADDITIONAL RESOURCE LINKS:

OTHER SITES LISTING AND DISCUSSING CROWDFUNDING ▼ CLICK BELOW

10 Crowdfunding Sites To Fuel Your Dream Project

Interesting video uploaded by Forbes discussing crowdfunding:

Please help keep this network and our associated public websites
​ VISIONARY ART GALLERY and VISIONARY ART EXHIBITION operational:
​

​​If you have anything you might want to add to this list, write it in the comments.

I N V I T A T I O N  T O  T H E  E X H I B I T I O N

SNEZANA PETROVIC’S EXHIBITION OF PAINTINGS & DRAWINGS “ALCHEMY OF LIFE”

Opening of Snezana Petrovic’s solo exhibition of paintings and drawings from the series “Alchemy of Life”
Djura Jaksic’s House (Skadarska 34, Belgrade, Serbia), January 21, 2017 from 19:00h

​The exhibition of paintings and drawings entitled “Alchemy of Life” by Snezana Petrovic will be open on Saturday, January 21st, 2017 from 19:00h at the Djura Jaksic’s House in Belgrade, Serbia (address: Skadarska 34).

Snezana Petrovic is a Serbian female painter and printmaker of the young generation whose artworks belong to the genre of figurative surrealism and fantastic art.
The exhibition will feature the artworks realized in the fine art techniques of painting and drawing on which the artist is currently working and explores, created in the period of 2015-2016. The series represents a metaphoric representation of the invisible energy of nature that surrounds us in symbiosis with human’s unconsciousness.

This cultural event will be opened by Dragan Jovanovic Danilov, a Serbian notable poet, essayist and art critic. The text for the exhibition catalogue was written by Dejan Djoric, a Serbian prominent art critic and theoretician of art. The exhibition will last till January 31st, 2017.

From the text of the exhibition catalogue by Dejan Djoric, an art critic:

“A beautiful girl, with a beautiful name is now audaciously creating not a fantastic, but, perhaps it is better to say, magical art. She is telling an enchanted tale of the dreamy princes and their brides, a fairy tale about the princesses, knights and monsters, fishes and balloons, maidens and spiritual warriors. The imaginarium of Snezana Petrovic is a well of good news, images which please the eye, memories of lovely creatures, ladies and gallant gentlemen of the European courts. Her speech is hidden, alchemical, and her world utterly symbolical, thus inexhaustible. Although it is possible to classify this visual symbolism, her choice of topics and motifs ideally disappears in the inconceivable, secret and poetic, leaving the viewer to feel and experience the work. Finally, ecce pictor, here is the painter whose understandable and acceptable hermetism returns towards the femininity in the best, although the most difficult, way – by using a consummate skill, which is forgotten and, more and more frequently, forbidden.”

About the artist:

Snezana Petrovic was born in 1977 in Novi Sad, Serbia. She graduated from the Academy of Arts of the University of Novi Sad in 2004 in the class of Professor Milan Stanojev at the Department of Printmaking. In 2008 she obtained a Magister of Fine Arts degree in Printmaking from the Academy of Arts of the University of Novi Sad in the class of Professor Radovan Jandric. In 2015 she obtained a Doctor of Fine Arts degree in Printmaking from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Arts in Belgrade, Serbia under the mentorship of Professor Zarko Smiljanic. She has participated in 16 solo and more than 90 group exhibitions, both in Serbia and worldwide and has won several awards for her artworks.

​January 24 to March 24, 2017

Reception: Wednesday, January 25 at 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM CST
​211 W Main St, Tupelo, Mississippi 38804
​

Of particular interest to our member artists:

Joe MacGown will be including this collaborative drawing  in his upcoming exhibition at the
​Gumtree Museum of Art in Tupelo, MS. 

​Antipodes Project 3. 70 by 44 inches. Collaborative drawing by:

Ben Tolman, Joe MacGown, Joseph H. MacGown, Julianne MacGown, Ryan Thornburg, Otto Rapp, Marnie Pitts, Pizo Meyer, Zachary Nolin, Chloe Marsters, Jay Garfinkle, Marcel Bakker, Paulo Cunha, Alexander Bostic, Deborah Valentine, Gil Perry, and Lars Peterson.

​The Visionary Art Network Artists of the Month, from when this feature was first introduced when the public website opened in August 2009 to presently December 2016.
The private network was started on the Ning platform in January 2009 by Otto Rapp with a handful of friends. As the network grew, we eventually mirrored the best content from our network in the public Visionary Art Gallery (VAG): VISIONARY ART GALLERY 
Represented are Surrealist, Visionary and Fantastic Realist artists from around the globe. Associated with the VAG is the spin-off Visionary Art Exhibition (VAE) site: VISIONARY ART EXHIBITION - there you find guest blogs and special selections of artworks from our network. The section of Featured Artwork is regularly updated: FEATURED ARTWORK 
​Visit the VAG page for Artist of the Month ► Slide Show here: ARTISTS OF THE MONTH SLIDE SHOW - the images link to the respective artists pages.

Soundtracks by JASON SHAW www.audionautix.com under a creative commons attribution license

all images are © by the artists

video produced by  OTTO RAPP

"Following Dreams & Divinities" is a documentary about the exhibition "Dreams & Divinities"

Here are teaser previews of these documentaries. Information about purchasing the full version you will find below each video.

Announcement - Invitation for the opening on September 30th

Great write-up in a Bavarian Newspaper covering the Exhibition:

​click photo above to view large image in my Flickr album - opens in separate window

The opening of this exhibition,
announced in my website blog earlier HERE went very well. 

Slide show from my Flickr album :

​Artists in this exhibition:
​Udo Winkler
​Michael Engelhardt - Wolfgang Harms - Hanno Karlhuber - Michael Maschka - Jo und Hans Niklaus - Otto Rapp - Susanne Steinbacher 
Ausstellung im Kunsthaus Reitbahn 3, Ansbach, Germany 
The majority of these photos were taken prior to the opening during installation. 

Previous blog entry on the website of Otto Rapp:  ​MAGISCHER REALISMUS - ANSBACH

Saturday, August 27 at 7 PM - 9 PM
Villasonne Villasunshine
Am Corso 4, 9220 Velden am Wörthersee

​WE ARE ON TWITTER!


​​Today we added a twitter account for our VISIONARY ART website! 

It is embedded on this page VISIONARY ART ON TWITTER - there are now more ways to share!

​Also, here on our Visionary Art Exhibition website, we expanded the VISIONARY ART EXHIBITION NEWS to include  several interesting Twitter sites as well as RSS feeds. 

Realizing we  blogged the Artist of the Month only sporadically, here are the latest three
CLICK THE PICTURES TO VISIT THEIR PAGE:

you can check up on all the Artists of the Month since we first started the VAG website August 2009:
there is a slide show featuring
ARTISTS OF THE MONTH