Have you ever experienced with lavender technique in your printmaking practice? Salzburg artist Elisabeth Schmirl, who gained longtime experience as co-teacher, will now direct a course on her own responsibility at Summer Academy. If you like to find out, which (experimental) printing technique expresses best your artistic ideas, apply here for her course, taking place from 11 to 30 August.
A range of Elisabeth Schmirl's new works are included in the group show "Papier 1 - Salzamt/Salzburg" opening at the Galerie im Traklhaus in Salzburg tonight at 7 p.m.

Do you like to live and work in a stone quarry, learning and practicing stone sculpture? This is the course for you! From 20 July to 16 August 2014 the sculptor Peter Niedertscheider directs the stone sculpture course in the Untersberg quarry. The course will focus on the significance of stone sculpture in art production today as well as in the art world in general. Apply now to get deeper insight in this classic technique and to discuss its relevance for your individual art practice.
Peter Niedertscheider is represented by Galerie Trapp in Salzburg, and from today 4 p.m. on until Sunday, his work is on view at art austria in Vienna. Works by Elisabeth Schmirl, who will direct the printmaking course, are also presented in the same booth.

Hurry up if you indend to apply for a grant to participate in one of the Summer Academy's courses this year. You need to upload your application latest by 1 April 2014. Good luck!

"Juveniles mostly seek out utterly mundane, interchangeable places. But what produces these similarities? Is it the locations? Is it a certain attitude towards life or the social circumstances these kids live in? Or is it the things they consume: the music, the films, or the clothes they buy?" Tobias Zielony was often concerned with these questions when shooting his photographs. In his course "Youth", taking place from 18–30 August, he will focus on the media images that influence young people's everyday lives. Apply here if you are interested.
Tobias Zielony's most recent video, that he produced during a residency in Ramallah last autumn, is now on view at Museum Villa Stuck in Munich until 9 June. His works can also be seen in the Kunsthalle im Lipsiusbau in Dresden until 18 May, and from 11 May in a solo exhibition at Ursula Blickle Stiftung in Kraichtal-Unteröwisheim, Germany.

How to tell a story? In Felix Gemlin's course you will be concerned with how to articulate your dreams, memories, fairytales and subjective experiences. You will develop your own stories, taking into consideration how they relate to your chosen medium and language. Apply now for Storytelling or: Box with the sound if its own making, taking place from 11–30 August.
If you happen to be in Switzerland, you can see Felix Gemlin's work included in the group show We Fragment, Collect and Narrate, currently on view at Kunstmuseum Thun.