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Art Promotions, a business located in Memphis, TN, recently served as volunteer administrator for several online art exhibition competitions open to Fine Art America artist members. The First Place winners, as judged by their peers, and details of each contest are listed below.

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There was a tie in the vote count between Matt Konar for 'Lincoln Highway' and Henryk Gorecki for 'John Paul II'
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Fine Art America, headquartered in Boston, hosts the work...

The votes are in on the Women and Guitars online exhibition contest and the results One artist took first and second place: Nikki Marie Smith, for "Guitar Siren" and "Gypsy Seranade" respectively.

Third place went to Brooks Garten Hauschild for "Shedding a Little Light on the Situation Poster".

Other Top Finishers included "Violeta Parra Back At Seventeen" by Madalena Lobao-Tello, and a work by Nancy Jolley called "Sit'n and Pick'n" and another work by Brooks Garten Hauschild, "Noteworthy 2".

In this contest 41 members of fineartamerica.com participated with a total of 69 artworks and 98 votes were cast. All voting results were tabulated by a program within Fine Art America. Submissions for this contest began:Monday, December 30th, 2013. Submissions ended and voting, which was open to all artists of FAA began Monday, January 13th, 2014 and ended Monday, January 20th, 2014.

Sometimes there are as many as fifty contests accepting work at...

A contest on fineartamerica called Movie Posters is completed. The contest permitted votes from the general public and those participating were allowed one vote. The administrator of the contest is Karen Francis who recently designed a movie poster for the new film CHRISTMAS RIDE which she produced with the cooperation of Yarbrough Media Productions in TN. As administrator, she did not participate in the contest. All votes are tabulated by the fineartamerica software program. The results of the contest are as follows:

Winners

Hallelujah Highway by Timothy Ramos with 12 votes is the winner of 1st Place

Psycho by Ron Regalado with 5 votes won 2nd Place

Dr. No by Dick Bobnick with 3 votes won 3rd Place

There were 22 fineartamerica artist members participating in this contest. Details and images are located at this link:
http://fineartamerica.com/contests/movie-posters.html?tab=leaderboard

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(Memphis) CHRISTMAS RIDE, a new dramatic family film, is scheduled to premiere for a one night showing 7:00 PM Tuesday, October 29, 2013, at the MALCO CINEMA in the Wolfchase Galleria Mall (Carousel Entrance). The film tells the story of a woman with two kids and a mysterious neighbor driving South during the Christmas holidays in 1991. Along their journey they share past tragedies, run into dangerous situations on the road, and ultimately discover a truth which tests the limits of forgiveness. Tickets are $6.00 and seats are limited.
The film is produced by Art Promotions in cooperation with Yarbrough Media Productions. This is an independent production, the first feature for each. CHRISTMAS RIDE draws predominantly on acting talent from TN, with the male lead, H T Altman, being from Minnesota. Over sixty actors are in the cast. More than ten musicians have works in the movie.

More info at http://www.artprofilms.com ...

Artist Karen Francis today releases a new print called "Bricks and Mortar" based on a scene in Helena, Arkansas, home of the Delta Blues Festival. This is her third work inspired by Arkansas locations. Arkansas is just across the Mississippi River from Memphis, TN, her hometown. The image may be viewed here: A courtyard with fountain on historic Cherry St, in Helena, Arkansas, reveals the perennial charm of this Delta blues town in the digital landscape by K. Francis. It is available as a print or poster through publisher fineartamerica.com on paper or canvas, or custom printed cards. Ms. Francis has art work in many collections. All her works purchased as prints through publisher fineartamerica carry a 30 day money back satisfaction...

(Memphis, TN) When an artist decides to take her work to a larger canvas, that may mean a film these days. Memphis resident Karen Francis, owner

of Art Promotions, has been painting pictures since the eighties. Over one hundred of her artworks are online on the Fine Art America website where

prints of them may be purchased with credit cards through Pay Pal and other links to them are on her long time Art Promotions website: artpro.com.

Recently, she is trying her hand at painting with words in screenplays, longer productions than the TV interview series "Heart of the Matter" presented on

cable TV in Virginia (1988-96). She has kept up with the times by partnering with YouTube and has uploaded a few shorts there, as well as the first short

film "A Fishy Story" she ever attempted while she was in college at Rhodes (then called Southwestern at Memphis) majoring in Communication Arts

when Professor Ray Hill was at the...

(Memphis, TN) What will they think of next?!! Now Fine Art America, through their sister clone site Pixels.com, has added the product offering of iPhone cases to fit 4/4s and 5 models featuring the art of the FAA artists. An art collector can find a cropped to size version of her favorite artwork for the protective iPhone case cover at Pixels.com by searching on the artist name or by going to the print of his choice on Pixels.com. See www. pixels.com/art/all/Karen+Francis/iphone+case Only $35.00 As with all products from FAA, these unique phone cases come with a thirty day money back satisfaction guarantee. Select from all the art offerings of Karen Francis.

(Memphis) Artist Karen Francis is participating in the National TV Contest through Fine Art America with two of her photographic images. The public as

well as artists at fineartamerica.com may cast votes. One Francis work is a composite photograph of images in Veteran's Park in Memphis, TN. Here

is the URL: http://fineartamerica.com/contests/national-tv-photo-contest-2.html?tab=vote&artworkid=3460463.

Another photo is of Bellevue Baptist Church. Here is the voting spot: http://fineartamerica.com/contests/national-tv-photo-contest-2.html tab=vote&artworkid=6771038

The works with 250 votes progress to finals and eventually are featured in a FAA ad on TV.

Works my Ms. Francis are available as prints in a variety of sizes and formats through authorized publisher fineartamerica.com and each come with a

30 day money back satisfaction guarantee. For originals, purchase from the artist who very recently...

Fineartamerica, the go to website for artists everywhere, introduced a new APP called an iframe widget as part of their Premium features. Prize-winning American artist KAREN FRANCIS has now published it into some of her websites at http://www.artprointernational.blogspot.com and http://artprofilms.weebly.com (See Crew page). This app scrolls thumbnails of the art works published on the fineartamerica website of Ms. Francis and provides a colorful, quick link direct into the art work clicked upon. Clients can go directly into the secure online shopping cart purchase page for the print. Prints bought on FAA carry a thirty day money back satisfaction guarantee as always. Purchases may be made with credit cards or PayPal and the artist markup over printing costs is then forwarded to the artist.
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A limited edition (10) of "Easter Island" by Karen Francis is being offered this week by publisher fineartamerica.com This 16 x 20 inch print stretched on canvas is a remarkable value. The sale only lasts until March 4, 2013. Visit http://fineartamerica.com/weeklypromotion.html?promotionid=108164 to see the work and the details. This American painter has over 100 works on display through fineartamerica's website. Some find the background pattern in Easter Island suggestive of the Eye of God, ojo de Dios.