January 23, 1996
Volume #4 No. 5
David Green, Editor
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FUNDING STALLED FOR NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS

The American Arts Alliance (AAA) reminds us that funding for the NEA is in jeopardy as the House GOP leadership develops its new budget strategy, funding those agencies and programs considered essential or politically advisable. The strategy, known as "targeted appropriations," is the latest attempt by House Republicans to spark movement in the budget impasse. The NEA is funded in the FY96 Interior Appropriations bill, one of six appropriations bills that still have not been enacted and are currently funded through a short-term continuing resolution that expires January 26. Arts Wire also heard word from the office of Rep. Sidney R. Yates, pointing out that after January 26, another Continuing Resolution will need to be passed or a new Interior bill will need to be developed.

House Speaker Newt Gingrich has been quoted as saying that targeted appropriations would fund "those aspects of the federal government that have a broad national mandate." The Senate is said to oppose the Gingrich 'pick and choose' approach, as does the President.

AAA recommends immediate calls and faxes to all Members of the House of Representatives (Capitol Switchboard: 202/225-3121).

Details available on Arts Wire (AWNEWS Item 1028)

A.R.T.I.S.T. SUBMITS APPEAL IN CASE AGAINST NYC

On Monday, January 22, the Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney Museum, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art joined artists, critics, art dealers and the ACLU in appealing the controversial Federal Court ruling that visual art without words or a political message is not protected by the First Amendment. Lederman v. City of New York 94 Civ. 7216 (MGC) charges New York City with violating street artists' First Amendment rights. Based on the judge's ruling, issued October 24, 1995, the City has renewed its controversial policy of arresting artists.

As CURRENT has reported before, A.R.T.I.S.T. president Robert Lederman maintains that "the pattern of arrests, confiscations and dismissals is part of an illegal and misguided 'quality of life' policy aimed at intimidating artists into giving up displaying and selling their original art on N.Y.C. streets." "Artists are repeatedly handcuffed and arrested. Their original paintings, photographs and prints are confiscated. Once arrested, the artists are charged with not having a vending license; the same license the City admits in its legal brief is impossible to obtain, or even apply for. While the City has made hundreds of arrests, and continues to make them on a daily basis, none of the artists have been brought to trial in Criminal Court or convicted of a crime. Every case is eventually dismissed. The confiscated art is sold at a monthly Police Department forfeiture auction or destroyed, often before the cases are dismissed in court. Since 1982 New York City's vending ordinance has specifically exempted other constitutionally protected forms of expression such as books, magazines and baseball cards, from the licensing requirement, based on the First Amendment."

In a related action, three A.R.T.I.S.T. members, Lei Chang, Joe Costin and Robert Lederman were arraigned in Manhattan Criminal Court's DAT section and may become the first artists the City attempts to prosecute under Judge Cedarbaum's ruling. Attorney and SoHo art dealer Marc Agnifilo is expected to represent the three artists at the arraignment.

Among the amicus briefs filed Monday are those from artists Claes Oldenburg, Jenny Holzer, Chuck Close and David Hammons; art critics Irving Sandler and Simon Schama; the New York Foundation for the Arts, the New York City Arts Coalition, the College Art Association; SoHo art dealer Ron Feldman and the A.C.L.U. and N.Y.C.L.U. For more information contact: A.R.T.I.S.T. (Artists' Response To Illegal State Tactics) 718/369-2111; ARTISTpres@aol.com.

Details available on Arts Wire (AWHUB ITEM 245: 5)

AROUND ARTS WIRE

AT THE NEA, KEITH DONOHUE REPORTED that staff returned to work last week after the government shutdown and the blanketing snowstorms. With the appropriations bill still pending, the Endowment anticipates a 40% cut in funds. Down nearly ninety staffers, the NEA is redeploying its scant resources to serve its new grantmaking structure. Applications for Grants to Organizations have been mailed to groups that have applied to the NEA over the past five years (call 202/682-5400, or e-mail Keith at neapao@arts.org, if you need guidelines). Applications for Literature Fellowships, State and Jurisdictional Arts Agencies and Regional Arts Organizations will be mailed in March. Also: watch for the NEA's World Wide Web site in the next few weeks--at http://arts.endow.gov.
Details available on Arts Wire (AWNEWS Item 1029)
MEANWHILE, THE INSTITUTE OF MUSEUM SERVICES has extended some deadlines to allow time to counsel grant applications. Applicants with questions about General Operating Support should call IMS before January 26. The new deadlines are: for General Operating Support, February 16 and for the Professional Services Program, April 12. The Technical Assistance Grants have been canceled. All other deadlines remain the same.
Details available on Arts Wire (AWNEWS Item 981:4)
"CYBERSPACE/PUBLICSPACE: THE ROLE OF ARTS AND CULTURE IN DEFINING A VIRTUAL PUBLIC SPHERE," is the title of an on-going electronic dialogue aimed at opening up ideas about what we understand as "the public," what the role of the "public sphere" is in in our current political, economic and technological society and what role culture and the arts play in the construction of such a public space. To start the discussion, the organizers of the dialogue (The Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities and the Getty Art History Information Program) have commissioned three papers from figures in public policy, media arts, and technology. These papers are: "Electronic Curbcuts: Equitable Access to the Future," by Larry Goldberg, of the CPB/WGBH National Center for Accessible Media; "Cyberspace is not Disneyland: The Role of the Artist in a Networked World," by Amy Bruckman, of the Epistemology and Learning Group, Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and "Close Comfort: Soft Ware for Hard Times," by DeeDee Halleck, Department of Communication, University of California, San Diego. You can read and join in the discussion via the Web at http://www.ahip.getty.edu/cyberpub/, or by subscribing to the Cyberspace/PublicSpace discussion list (send the message "subscribe cyberpub your_e-mail_address" to majordomo@www.ahip.getty.edu, leaving the "Subject:" line blank).
Details available on Arts Wire (AWNEWS Item 1032)
SHOULD MUSEUMS AND SHOPPING MALLS MERGE? John Hinrichs opened this discussion last week in Arts Wire's ARTISTS conference. An article in BRANDWEEK, on how "America's love affair with shopping malls is waning," quoted statistics that people are going to the malls less often (in 1994, 10% of Americans said they go to a mall "very often," down from 16% in 1987, while 24% said they never visited malls, up from 12% in '87). The author of the piece suggests "Since the affluent don't enjoy the mall experience, maybe one way to hook them is to take an experience that they are more likely to do than other Americans, such as going to museums, and to meld it into the mall. The packed aisles of museum stores on Saturday and Sunday is testimony that the two seem to go together." While one correspondent couldn't "imagine any respectable museum, gallery or non-profit flourishing in such an environment," another thought that the "sterile vapid over-controlled pseudo-public space is just exactly where art is needed most." Should artists and arts organizations take their opportunities where they find it? ... What are the models for "art in malls"?
Details available on Arts Wire (ARTISTS Item 53: 240)
"WE'RE LOOKING FOR THE PIONEERS OF THE ELECTRONIC FRONTIER that have made and are making a difference." That's how the Electronic Frontier Foundation announces its call for nominations for its fifth Annual Pioneer Awards. Deadline for nominations is February 15, 1996; the awards will be given at the 6th Conference on Computers, Freedom, and Privacy in Boston, in March, 1996. Last year's winners were Philip Zimmermann, Anita Borg, and Willis Ware. For more information and a nomination form, email pioneer@eff.org.
Details available on Arts Wire (AWNEWS Item 1035)
THE MISSION IS SMELL: Mauro, an Italian student, is researching the use of smell in performance art. "I have two names: Elia Arce, a Costa Rican artist living in Santa Monica, and Stephanie Heyl from San Diego. Can you help me? It's an ardous job but if you can suggest where to look for information about these artists and others it is a great result. " Send your hints and apercus to Mauro at mc2382@mclink.it
Details available on Arts Wire (AWnews 943: 14)

CONFERENCES, SYMPOSIA, LECTURES

BOSTON, MA
Thursday, January 25, 1996
12:15-1:30PM (Brown bag lunch)
"The European Union's Road to the Information Society"
Goethe Institute, 170 Beacon Street
http://www.emerson.edu/events/eu.html Wolfgang Kleinwaechter, head of the European Union's Inter-Regional Information Society Initiative, will speak on the Union's conviction that the information society cannot be built from "top down" but can only grow "at the grass roots". For more information, call the Goethe Institute at 617/262-6050 or email 100627.1010@compuserve.com.
Details available on Arts Wire (AWNEWS Item 8: 480)
LOS ANGELES, CA
February 1-3
"The Arts, Entertainment and Technology: The Role of the Artist in the
Digital Age"
Hotel Intercontinental, L.A.
The California Arts Council and California Assembly of Local Arts Agencies host this conference that will "address numerous issues regarding art-making and technology, from design and creative issues, to developing resources with the new media/entertainment industries, to World Wide Web applications for artists and arts organizations. The conference has an online component, at http://www.well.com/user/govconf, for discussion and dialogue about the issues at the conference."
Details available on Arts Wire (AWNEWS: Item 1030)

RECOMMENDED ARTS EVENTS

WASHINGTON, D.C.
Sunday, January 28, 1:30 p.m.
"Salt Water Babies"
Staged Reading of a new play by Helaine Michaels-Klein
Arts Club of Washington
2017 I Street, N.W.
$5.00

NEW YORK, NY
Feb 6-11
The Merce Cunningham Dance Company
The Joyce Theatre, Eighth Ave at 19th St
$30; for tickets call Joyce Charge at 212/242-0800.
"A kaleidoscopic series of dances past, present, and future...A new EVENT each evening...No two are alike... Set decor by Robert Rauschenberg." Visit the Cunningham Website at http://www.merce.org. NOTE: Merce Cunningham and his technology director, Michael Bloom will be the February guests in Arts Wire's DANCE conference (stay tuned for more details).

Details available on Arts Wire (AWNEWS Item 1033)
SAN FRANCISCO, CA
Through February 10, 1996
REACTIVATED
San Francisco Art Commission Gallery
401 Van Ness Ave
Interactive technology works by Elliot Anderson, Jim Campbell, Bruce Cannon, Marjorie Franklin, Hilary Kaplan, Ed Osborn and Sarah Roberts. 415/252-2595
Details available on Arts Wire (INTERACTIVE Item 3:78)
MILWAUKEE WI
February 10 - March 3, 1996
14th Annual Milwaukee Shaw Festival
Broadway Theatre Center
158 N. Broadway Milwaukee
Arms and the Man; Androcles and the Lion; The Six of Calais and Shaw Shorts, a night of one acts presented by the Screaming Penguins. Box Office: 414/291-7800; http://www.execpc.com/~mct
Details available on Arts Wire (AWNEWS Item 8:479)

CALLS FOR ENTRIES

RADICAL ASIAN WOMEN! An anthology of essays by Asian women dealing with issues that social movements deem separate, such as sexism, racism, imperialism, heterosexism, capitalism; East and West; black and white. Essays should be written in a down-to-earth, accessible style. Contributors may write personal or critical essays that include personal anecdotes, stories, and other creative devices. Specific subject areas to consider: class politics, homophobia, inter-ethnic relations, the feminist movement(s), environmentalism, foreign policy, militarism, poverty, health, labor politics, reproductive rights, immigration, education, disability, and affirmative action. Send your 2,000-3,000 word essay on paper and PC-compatible disk to Sonia Shah, Asian Women's Anthology, South End Press, 116 Saint Botolph Street, Boston,, MA 02115. For more info call 617/266-0629, 617/492-4885, or e-mail sep@world.std.com. Deadline for first drafts: Feb 1; final drafts: April 1.
Details available on Arts Wire (AWNEWS Item 1036:1)

ISSUES OF RACISM AND DISCRIMINATION are addressed for the first time in an international Internet arts exhibition, organized by Arts-Online and the Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center. Artists with art on the web who would like to participate should send their URLs to millenium@arts- online.com or bring their work to the Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center in Cambridge. Call 617/577-8585 or email matt@www.artsonline, for more information.

Details available on Arts Wire (AWNEWS Item 8:478)
FILMMAKERS AND MEDIA ARTISTS OF ASIAN PACIFIC DESCENT are invited to consider making a documentary of a "large and exquisite collection of more than 90 paintings of great historical importance, by the artist Van Giao of Hanoi." The works span a 50 year history of Vietnam, from the French and Japanese occupations, through to the American-Vietnam war. Contact Susan E. Eshelman at aabc@islandnet.com
Details available on Arts Wire (AWNEWS Item 1036:2)

FUNDING NEWS

SELECTED MONEY LISTINGS

Following is a small sample from the searchable database of current funding opportunities for artists and arts groups available in Arts Wire's MONEY conference to Arts Wire subscribers. To add your listings to MONEY send email to fyi@artswire.org. Please mention Arts Wire when you apply. MONEY is compiled by Joseph Hannan, Barry Lasky and Jennifer Bluestein.

Mar 1: Cintas Fellowship - is open to artists of Cuban citizenship or descent currently living outside of Cuba and offers $10,000 to the winner. Visual arts, photography, architecture, literature and music composition will all be considered. For information, please contact: Arts International, 809 United Nations Plaza, New York, NY 10017-3580 tel: (212) 984-5370 fax: (212) 984-5574

Mar 1: Richard A. Florsheim Fund - "is intended to assist older living American artists in one of several ways: funding and arranging of exhibitions; participation in the production of catalogues; assistance in purchase of works and their donation to museums and universities...; and/or partial funding of the publication of artists' monographs or books." Grants of $5,000 to $20,000 are awarded. Individual artists or institutions may apply. Florsheim Art Fund, August Freundlich, President, 4602 E. Fowler Ave., U.S.F., 3033 Tampa , FL 33620-3033 tel: (813) 949-6886

Mar 1: Virginia A. Groot Foundation - will award one grant of up to $25,000 to an artist who has exceptional talent and demonstrated ability in ceramics and sculpture. For information, send an SASE to Virginia A. Groot Foundation, P.O. Box 1050, Evanston, IL 60204-1050

Mar 8: BRIO ("Bronx Recognizes Its Own") Fellowships - of $1,500 are offered to Bronx residents age eighteen years and over who work in painting, crafts, sculpture, photo, film/video, performance art/emergent forms, choreography, fiction and non-fiction literature, interpretive performance, music composition, playwriting, poetry and screen writing. Full time students are ineligible. For information, contact Bronx Council on the Arts, 1738 Hone Ave., Bronx, NY 10461 tel: (718) 931-9500 fax: (718) 409-6445

Mar 21: 6th International Animation Festival - to be held in Hiroshima 8/22- 26/96 invites entries in 16mm or 35mm or 3/4" video of maximum duration 30 minutes. Entries must have been completed after 4/1/94. No entry fee; cash awards. For information, contact Hiroshima '96 Festival Office, 4-17 Kako-machi, Naka-ku Hiroshima, 730, JAPAN, tel: (81) 82- 245-0245 fax: (81) 82-245-0246

JOB OPPORTUNITIES

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, Concerned Citizens for the Arts in Michigan, (Lansing, MI) Michigan's largest grassroots arts education organization, with a budget of $300,000, is looking for an Executive Director with three years experience in nonprofit administration and supervisory experience. A passion for the arts and humanities, the ability to travel, and excellent communication skills are musts. Supervise 3-4 people with office in Detroit. Salary range: $40,000-$50,000. Please send resume with 3 references to Craig Ruff, c/o Public Sector Consultants, 600 West St. Joseph, Suite 10, Lansing, MI 48933-2265. Deadline: February 1, 1996.
Details available on Arts Wire (AWNEWS Item 9:212)

ELSEWHERE ON THE NET

http://www.artswire.org/Artswire/nysca/nysca.html The New York State Arts Council is the latest state arts agency to develop a web page. On NYSCA's page you will find frequently asked questions, the latest NYSCA news, and a list of current grants.

http://www.mtn.org/MIA/mythology The Minneapolis Institute of Art's new on-line prototype of its "World Mythology in Art" curriculum and slide set brings together 24 images, 60 minutes of downloadable audio storytelling and a downloadable slide set and"Quickslide" playerworks of art inspired by mythology around the world. Teachers can address a wide range of study areas, including language arts, humanities, art, social and cultural studies, and world religions. In the Mythological Comparison section, you can explore relationships among the myths and images. This is a prototype, "re- purposing" project, so MIA is interested in your comments and ideas for the future (there's an on-line comment book available)

Details available on Arts Wire (AWNEWS: Item 1010: 2)
http://www.well.com/user/jmalloy/destiny.html Staffer Judy Malloy has been hard at work on her latest work of hyperfiction THE ROAR OF DESTINY EMANATED FROM THE REFRIGERATOR. I GOT UP TO GET A BEER.
Details available on Arts Wire (INTERACTIVE Item 73)

The following 47 arts-related web sites have been added to Arts Wire's WebBase since January 1. Connect to WebBase on the Arts Wire public web page for the links to these new sites or use WebBase to search for other sites.

A.A.B.C. - An African Brazilian Connection - Brazil On Line Publishing
The age of bronze - stefan m. vladescu
Antoine Moreau Exhibition - Antoine Moreau
Art in context - Dan Lindy, Teresa Schmittroth, Chuck SanClementi
ART/Vermont - john douglas
Artnoir Showcase - Bob Ferguson
ARTSCENE - Margaret Berry
Brazil On Line - Guilherme Vergueiro
Brian Yoder"s Art Gallery and Critic"s Corner - Brian K. Yoder
BRONX ARTIST - Sandra Sider
Buddery. - Brendan deVallance
Caramoor Festival for Music and the Arts - Christine K. Paustian
CHALKBOARD - SysOp
Contempory Art Bank - dae and Fabrice Marcolini
Dance Flurry - Laurie Sims
The Dance Theatre Shop - Craig S. Barrow
Danny Grossman Dance Company - Gerard Seguin
Deer Creek Pottery - Rob Kellenbeck
E.M. Bannister Gallery / Rhode Island College - Dennis O"Malley
FREE SPEECH TV - Don Repella & Dani Newsum
The Fulcrum Group - Andrew Taylor
The Glass Gallery - Bob Ferguson
Graphic Designer in NY - Katherine D. Goldin
Houston Dance Coalition - Jeffrey E. Salzberg
Kathryn"s grotto - kathryn best
"Lenov " -- US mirror - Leonid Delitsyne
Metrobeat - Mark Davies
The Millay Colony for the Arts - Ann-Ellen Lesser
New England Foundation for the Arts - Greg Stephens
NJHS Home for Country Western Dancers - Ronald Lee Still
Ohio Northern University's Fine Arts Calendar - Jeff Shick
Pilchuck Glass School - Bob Ferguson
Rashomon"s Home Page - K. Wiedman
San Francisco Digital Media Center - Joe Lambert
Solid Brass - ten piece brass ensemble - Douglas Haislip
St. Petersburg Museum of Fine Arts - Christine K. Paustian
System Zero - Federation Sand
Taos Talking Pictures - Kelly Clement
Third Eye PhotoWork Collection - Irwin Gershow
Three Rivers Arts Festival - Donna Garda
U. of Colorado, Boulder - Theatre & Dance - Steven McDonald
University of Surrey, Department of Dance - Professor Janet Lansdale
The Varo Registry of Women Artists - Robin Masi Kuettel
Visual Arts @ Eastern Washington University - Rachel Bachman
Works by Hugh Mesibov - Chris Mesibov
Xander Mellish: Short Stories and Cartoons - Xander Mellish
Young Audiences of Houston - Chris Gonzalez

CORRECTIONS

In a story on the arts budget for the New York State Council on the Arts, a council official pointed out that the quoted figures for the Council's administrative budget being cut from $3.8 million to $3.28 million included federal support from the NEA. Governor Pataki's recommendation for this component of the Council is to make a cut from $2.74million to $2.6million.

In referring to Morrie Warshawski's Los Angeles workshop, "How to Get Grants & Donations for Film & Video," an incorrect email address was given; it should have read: MorrieWar@aol.com

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