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Australia, Venezuela, Singapore, South Africa, Ireland and Canada are some of the countries involved in the interim board of the international federation, the Canada Council told Arts Wire. More countries will be added in the near future.
Delegates at the World Summit designated Canada Council Director Shirley L. Thomson as interim chair of the federation board. The Australia Council in Sydney will serve as interim office. The first formal election of a federation board will take place at the next World Summit on the Arts and Culture.
Under the proposal approved by the Summit delegates, the new federation will be open to all national or international agencies that support the development of the arts and culture through funding and/or advocacy. It will be established as a not-for-profit corporation with a small, independent secretariat and will be governed by a board broadly representative of its members. The board will meet every six to 12 months, and Summits would likely be held every two years.
Proposed activities to be undertaken by the federation include the creation of an on-line databank of information about arts support research and activities and assistance to arts support agencies to achieve international best practice.
The federation will also assist newer arts councils and developing countries by sharing information and expertise as well as providing a forum through which arts councils could develop collaborative projects, such as training and mentoring programs, exchange residency programs for artists, and staff exchanges between councils or governments.
Globally, some 80 countries currently have arts council type agencies; many more have government departments and non-governmental organizations which support the arts.
Among World Summit attendees were Shirley L. Thomson, Director of the Canada Council; John Kani, actor/director and Chair of the National Arts Council of South Africa; Christophe Blandin-Estournet of La Grande Halle de la Villette in Paris; Sheila Copps, Minister of Canadian Heritage; Patricia Quinn, director of the Arts Council of Ireland; Sara Meneses, Director of Cultural Affairs for the Organization of American States; Chair of the Swaziland National Council of Arts and Culture; Salah Abada, Director of the Creativity, Cultural Industries and Intellectual Property section at UNESCO; Geoffrey Yu, Assistant Director-General of the World Intellectual Property Organization; Gerald McMaster, artist and Chief Curator at the Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C.; Zab Maboungou, Artistic Director of the Cercle d'expression Nyata Nyata in Montreal; Premsyl Erben, head of the State Fund for Culture in the Czech Republic; and Canadian artist and arts activist Lillian Allan.
Dr. Thomson described both the Summit and the creation of the federation as "important steps forward for arts support agencies, arts organizations and artists around the world."
Noting that the new federation will build upon the Summit's momentum, she emphasized that "It will stimulate us to share our knowledge and expertise with each other, and develop concrete and practical ways of promoting and supporting the work of artists in all parts of the globe."
Sources/resources:
CANADA COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS -- http://www.canadacouncil.ca/
"Canada Council for the Arts to Host WORLD SUMMIT ON THE ARTS AND
CULTURE"
Arts Wire CURRENT --
http://www.artswire.org/current/2000/cur050200.html
May 2, 2000
"We are going to have a world-class facility that enables teaching and learning about languages and cultures to take place in a variety of formats, promotes intercollegial collaborations, and underscores the coherence of literature, language, and culture," OSU TRADE*LINKS quotes Dean Kermit Hall as saying. "Our plan is for the World Media Center to serve individuals and organizations, both on and off campus, in the academic, government, community, and business sectors. It will be a potent tool for internationalizing the university community."
The Center will feature teleconferencing/consulting suites; two hypermedia development facilities with the latest technology for the development and production of audio, video, and printed instructional materials and presentations; electronic learning spaces that combine the features of computer laboratories and multimedia classrooms, enabling students to engage in two-way communication with counterparts in other countries, have access to the media of those countries on a daily basis, and use multimedia instructional programs; the Ameritech Individualized Language Learning Center, which will bring together the technological resources to provide networked language programs and tailored, individualized language and cultural instruction packages; a media library; OSU's Foreign Language Center, which the U.S. Department of Education designated in 1994 as one of the nation's six National Foreign Language Resource Centers; Foreign Language Publications, a publishing house; the Global Gallery to showcase changing exhibits of international art; and the Crane Cafe, a central gathering place where patrons can enjoy coffee, light snacks, and language practice while viewing satellite broadcasts in several different languages from across the globe.
"....we expect to unite pedagogy and technology in a powerful new resource for our faculty and students. Our goal is to enhance their proficiency through the World Media Center's technologies," Trade*Links quotes Michael Garofano, Director of Humanities Information Systems and a designer of the Hagerty technology, as saying.
Sources/resources:
THE WORLD MEDIA AND CULTURE CENTER -- http://wmcc.ohio-state.edu/
Melinda Nelson, OSU College of Humanities
"World Media Center: National Resource for Merging
Technologies, Languages, Cultures, & Business"
TRADE*LINKS --
http://www.cohums.ohio-state.edu/flc/tradelinks/VOLUMEONE/page2.htm
"The Harrisons are known around the world for their large public designs that not only enhance an area but provide for communities to thrive in harmony with the natural environment," said Mary Becht, director of the Broward Cultural Affairs Division. "We are very excited about their all-encompassing, visionary approach and feel their expertise will create a new design that will have a lasting benefit."
Representatives from the various County departments involved in the project as well as from the Broward Urban River Trails; Florida Atlantic University Architecture Department and Urban & Regional Planning Department; and homeowner associations will be attending the January 11 meeting. Joseph Davoli, a Florida-based artist who works extensively on paintings of the South Florida environment, will be assisting the Harrisons in their research.
The Harrisons are the first of a series of artists and urbanists invited to examine and contribute to a new five-year plan for the Public Art and Design Program during January and February. Other presenters will be Steven Izenour of Venturi, Scott-Brown and Associates and Roberto Behar and Rosario Marquardt.
Based in California, the Harrisons have been collaborating since 1971 and have had more than 30 solo exhibitions of their work in the United States and Europe. Their projects receive attention for their grand scale and for being not only site-specific visually but environmentally successful. In 1996, they transplanted a 400-year-old, 40,000 square foot meadow to the roof top of a building in Bonn, preventing its destruction from urban development and culminating in new meadows for the Rheinaue parks in Bonn and elsewhere in Europe. In 1995, the Harrisons proposed the Bio-diversity Ring in Holland, a new vision for the Green Heart area and Randstad River, enhancing both the bio-diversity and cultural diversity in a sustainable landscape.
In early February, architect of suburban landscape and roadways, Steven Izenour of Venturi, Scott-Brown and Associates, (Philadelphia) will propose new ideas for public art and design related to Broward County arterials. Izenour's work combines outstanding design ability and expertise in communication technologies with a special sensitivity to their use in environmental and historical contexts. Additionally, architects and artists Roberto Behar and Rosario Marquardt, originally from Argentina and now living in Miami, will examine Port Everglades and seek new images to define the Port.
For more information, contact Broward Cultural Affairs Public Art and Design Program tel: 954-357-7458.
VENTURI, SCOTT-BROWN AND ASSOCIATES -- http://www.vsba.com
CHICAGO, IL -- More than 5,000 visual artists, art historians, museum professionals and arts administrators from around the world are expected to attend the College Art Association's (CAA) 89th Annual Conference Wednesday, February 28 through March 3, 2001 at the Chicago Hilton and Towers.
CAA Executive Director Susan Ball describes the program as "three full days of sessions in all areas of studio art and art history, ranging from panels in which artists, critics and scholars present their most current work, to forums and discussions organized around the most compelling issues of the day."
Many of Chicago's museums and galleries will host openings and receptions, offering free admission to all Conference attendees during the event. Postconference special events will highlight museums on the University of Chicago campus, Chicago architecture, and art galleries in the River North district.
"We are extremely excited to hold our 89th Annual Conference in Chicago, one of the largest and most vibrant concentrations of art galleries, museums, cultural centers and educational institutions in the world," Susan Ball commented.
The Conference will open Wednesday evening with public Convocation featuring keynote speaker MacArthur Prize winner and Chicago-based artist Kerry James Marshall, followed by a gala reception at The Art Institute of Chicago.
Known for his large-scale, figurative paintings that commemorate African American life and history, Marshall will speak on themes of "being" and "knowing" and will explore the epistemological underpinnings of art and art making. Born in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1955 and raised in South Central Los Angeles during the sixties, "Marshall culls the bulk of his material from the civil rights protesting that saturated his formative years," according to CAA program notes by Margaret Wilkerson, Conference Coordinator. For example, his MEMENTOS, (1998) an installation comprised of painting, photography, sculpture, and video, commemorates "The Holy Trinity of the Civil Rights Movement": John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King, Jr. and pays tribute to artistic pioneers Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, Otis Redding, and John Coltrane, among others.
On Thursday morning in Art's Place -- a special site at the Chicago Hilton and Towers which will be targeted to academic visual artists but open to all conference attendees -- CAA's Artists' Interviews will feature discussions with installation artist Ann Hamilton and "Chicago Imagism" painter Ed Paschke. Both interviews will begin with a slide presentation/career survey by the artist. Mary K. Coffey, Visiting Assistant Professor of American Art at Pomona College, Claremont, CA and James Yood, Lecturer and Assistant Chairman of the Department of Art Theory and Practice, Northwestern University, Chicago will conduct the interviews. Following the formal interviews, the floor will open to attendees for questions.
The CAA Conference also presents one of the largest, most comprehensive job placement service for art professionals in all fields, and CAA mentoring workshops help students, emerging professionals and early-career artists develop professional resumes and slide portfolios.
The Annual Trade and Book Fair, open Thursday through Saturday. at Northwest Exhibit Hall, will include over 150 exhibitors displaying new publications, artists' materials, digital resources, and other innovative products of interest to artists and scholars.
Sessions and workshops -- from PACIFIC ISLAND ARTISTS IN A GLOBAL WORLD to CRAFTS IN THE REAL AND VIRTUAL WORLD to NUTS AND BOLTS: CURRICULUM DESIGN IN FOUNDATIONS ART PROGRAMS -- will begin Thursday morning and run through Saturday afternoon.
A few of the many sessions are listed below. Interested arts community members are urged to visit the CAA website at http://www.collegeart.org for a complete listing of this varied and extensive program.
CAA CONFERENCE THURSDAY SESSIONS
PEDAGOGY 4.0 IS IN BETA: TEACHING IN THE NEW MEDIA STUDIO
Chair: Brooke A. Knight, University of Maine
Participants: Craig Caldwell, University of Arizona; Diane
Gromala and Jay David Bolter, Georgia Institute of Technology;
Paul Chan, Fordham University; and Joel Slayton, CADRE Laboratory
for New Media, San Jose State University
Professional Practices Committee
HAS THE M.F.A. OUTLIVED ITS USEFULNESS AS A TERMINAL DEGREE?
Chair: Bruce Bobick, State University of West Georgia
Participants: Clayton Funk, Columbia University; Dorothy Joiner,
State University of West Georgia
Coalition of Women's Art Organizations
THE IMPACT OF DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES ON COLLEGE LEVEL ART PROGRAMS:
OPEN FORUM
Chair: Kyra Belan, Broward Community College
Participants to be announced
TEACHING ART AND LEARNING ABOUT ART THROUGH COMMUNITY
THE SERVICE LEARNING PARADIGM, DOES IT WORK?
Chair: Edward Forde, California State University, Los Angeles
Participants: Kim Abeles, California State University,
Northridge; Susan Agre-Kippenhan Portland State University; Dalida
Maria Benfield, John Ploof, The School of the Art Institute of
Chicago; Johanna Poethig, California State University, Monterey
Bay; William Charland, Grand Valley State University
Studio Art Open Session
PROFESSIONAL SKILLS FOR ARTISTS
Chair: Lisa Lodeski, Lisa Lodeski Fine Arts
Participants: Jackie Battenfield, The Bronx Museum of the Arts;
Cay Lang, Taking the Leap; Andrea Myklebust, Stanton G. Sears, University
of
Minnesota; Scott Bell, Nextmonet.com
DANGEROUS BEAUTY: CONCEPTUAL ART NOW
Chairs: Oli Watt, ACM Chicago Arts Program; Jennifer Yorke,
Independent Artist, Chicago
Participants: Alison Denyer, Savannah College of Art and Design;
Kathryn Hixson, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, New
Art Examiner; Oli Watt, ACM Chicago Arts Program
CAA CONFERENCE FRIDAY SESSIONS
AT THE HEART OF AN ISSUE: THE MERGING OF PUBLIC AND ARTIST IN
SOCIALLY RELEVANT WORK
CHAIRS: Susan King Obarski, Artist; Helen Ruth Klebesadel,
University of Wisconsin
Participants: Fu-Chia-Wen Lien, Parsons School of Design;
Antonette Rosato, University of Colorado, Boulder; Sheila Pinkel,
Pomona College; Anne Graham, University of Newcastle;
Gay Leigh Green, Western Washington University
Studio Art Open Session
NETS/SCREENS/PROJECTIONS/DREAMS: FILM, VIDEO ART, AND DIGITAL
MOVIES
Chair: Mary Patten, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Participants: Maria Troy, The Wexner Center, Ohio State
University; Norman Cowie, Fordham University; Elaine Ng,
Independent Scholar, Chicago; Paul Chan, Artist, New York
Leah Gilliam, Bard College; Gregg Bordowitz, The School of the Art
Institute of Chicago
Association of Art Editors
VOICES FROM THE NEW FRONTIER: EDITING FOR ONLINE PUBLICATION
Chair: Susan Rossen, The Art Institute of Chicago
Participants to be announced
CAA Cultural Diversity Committee
WHAT NOW? MULTICULTURALISM AND FEMINISM IN THE POST-IDENTITY
POLITICS WORLD
Chairs: Charlene Villasenor Black University of California, Los
Angeles; Phoebe Farris, Purdue University
Participants: Donald Preziosi, University of California, Los
Angeles, and Oxford University; Holly Block, Art in General;
Anthony Lee, Mount Holyoke College
PERFORMANCE IN QUESTION
Chairs: Janet Kraynak, Massachusetts Institute of Technology;
Frazer Ward, Maryland Institute, College of Art
Participants: Judith Rodenbeck, Sarah Lawrence College;
Carrie Lambert, Stanford University; Jane Blocker, University of
Minnesota; Laurel Frederickson, Duke University
CAA CONFERENCE SATURDAY SESSIONS
THE CONTEMPORARY ART OF ASIAN WOMEN
Chairs: Patricia Eichenbaum Karetzky, Cao Wei-Jun, Bard College
Participants: Jagdish J. Chavda, University of Central Florida,
Orlando; Bor-hua Wang, Pratt Institute; Mary-Ann
Milford-Lutzker, Mills College; Barbara Bernstein, Independent
Artist; Alice Ming Wai Jim, McGill University
Queer Caucus for Art: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender
Caucus for Art, Artists, and Historians
RECLOSETINGS: MUSEUMS, SEXUALITY, AND THE POLITICS OF DISPLAY
Chair: Jonathan Katz, State University of New York, Stony Brook
Participants: Tee Corinne, Independent Scholar
Additional participants to be announced
Committee on Women in the Arts
PLAYING THE ODDS: THE PROMISE OF EMPLOYMENT IN THE VISUAL ARTS
Chairs: Sarah Webb, Artist and Independent Scholar; Dorothy
Johnson, University of Iowa
Participants: Judy Natal, Columbia College, Chicago; Katherine
Tachau, University of Iowa; Mariani Lefas-Tetenes, Institute of
Fine Arts, New York University
For more information, or to register for the Conference, visit http://www.collegeart.org or call 212-691-1051
MAYORS ARTS GALA: HONORING LEGENDS & LEADERS
Americans for the Arts and The United States Conference of Mayors are pleased to co-present their fourth annual MAYORS ARTS GALA honoring "Legends and Leaders" who have made significant contributions to the advancement of the arts in America.
This years honorees are:
Local Arts Leadership: Mayor Wellington E. Webb of Denver
State Arts Leadership: Governor John Rowland of Connecticut
Congressional Arts Leadership: Congressman Norm Dicks of Washington
Lifetime Achievement for Leadership in the Arts: President William Jefferson Clinton
Black Tie. For more information, visit the AMERICANS FOR THE ARTS
WEBSITE at
http://www.artsusa.org
Email:
events@artsusa.org
Tickets -- http://www.artsusa.org/upcoming/uscm_tickets.html
CARY, NC
"WE CANNOT WALK ALONE": A MESSAGE FROM MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
"Artists communicate messages through color, texture and form, In this exhibition, a group of culturally diverse artists convey the message from Martin Luther King, Jr.'s renowned 'I Have a Dream' speech. The message that 'We Cannot Walk Alone.'"
Artists include:
MORAG CHARLTON, an Apex, NC painter, "captures a unique historical perspective of "The Dream. As an Englishwoman who grew up in South Africa during apartheid, her artistic interpretation is one of an objective outsider observing history unfold while being emotionally attached to human struggle and success on a global scale. Morag truly seizes the essence of Dr. King's speech, for Dr. King was not only addressing the dreams and rights of African-Americans, but the rights of human beings and a dream of a better humanity."
LEO RUCKER, a Stokesdale, NC portrait painter, "has the distinctive ability to capture the spirit, experiences, character and emotions of people in a manner that is larger than life. In this exhibition, Leo uses this ability to show how we are intricately linked not only in the achievement of the American dream, but in shaping and defining the foundation of the American dream."
ALICE JOHNSON, a Greensboro, NC painter, sculptor and a woman of the civil rights period, "clearly depicts how our destinies have been tied to each other since the beginning of civilization. The struggle between the oppressed and the oppressor has always been and continues to be the most defining of human struggles. However, our success and ability to triumph over oppression is equally deeply rooted in our beings."
Plus work by Javier Alarcon, Deborah Younglao, and Lorenzo Augustas Smith.
The exhibition is curated by Elliott Bladespart and is part of The Martin Luther King, Jr. Taskforce of Cary, Inc.'s MLK, JR. DREAMFEST 2001.
For more information visit the Bgroup Contemporary African Art & Design web site -- http://www.bgroup.net/
For information about MLK Day events nationwide, visit The RALEIGH/WAKE MARTIN LUTHER KING CELEBRATION and MLK NATIONAL - CALENDAR OF EVENTS -- http://www.king-raleigh.org/main.cfm
Deadline: February 23 - NICKELODEON PRODUCTIONS FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM encourages meaningful participation from culturally and ethnically diverse new writers. Fellowships are available in Nickelodeon and Nick Jr. (Preschool) live action and animated television, and the feature film division. The year-long program consists of orientation and hands-on experience for up to five writers under the guidance of Nickelodeon executive producers. The program will begin July 2001. For information, contact: Nickelodeon Productions, Fellowship Program Manager, 1515 Broadway, 38th Fl., New York, NY 10036; phone (212) 258-7532; or visit http://www.fellowshipprogram.nick.com
Deadline: March 1 - THE VIRGINIA A. GROOT FOUNDATION offers grants to sculptors or ceramic artists. Applicants must be 21 years of age or older at the time of application deadline. Artists may be at any stage of career development, and must have exceptional talent and demonstrated ability in ceramics and/or sculpture. Students are not eligible to apply. For information, send an SASE to: Virginia A. Groot Foundation, P.O. Box 1050, Evanston, IL 60204.
Deadline: March 1 - THE RICHARD A. FLORSHEIM FUND is intended to assist older American artists in one of several ways: funding and arranging exhibitions; participation in the production of catalogues; assistance in the purchase of works and their donation to museums and universities; and/or partial funding of the publication of artists' monographs or books. Grants of $1,000 to $20,000 are awarded. Individual artists or institutions may apply. For information, contact: August L. Freundlich, Florsheim Art Fund, 4202 E. Fowler Ave., Tampa, FL 33620; phone (813) 949- 6886; or email Freundli@hotmail.com
Deadline: March 1 - THE CATSKILL CENTER FOR CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT is accepting applications from artists who are interested in their Platte Clove Artists-in-Residency Program. The residency runs from May 1st to October 30th and offers visual artists, writers, and composers an opportunity to work in a rustic cabin on a 208 acre preserve. The retreat is meant to provide artists with a way of connecting with nature and avoiding daily distraction during the creative process. For information, contact: The Catskill Center, Rt 28, Arkville, NY 12406; phone (845) 586-2611; or visit http://www.catskillcenter.org/default.htm
Created in 2000, the Institute of Library and Museum Services (IMLS) National Leadership Grants for Library-Museum Collaboration support innovative projects that model how museums and libraries can work together to expand their servnts for Library-Museum Collaboration must include at least one eligible library applicant and at least one eligible museum applicant. Either applicant may be the lead.
The application deadline is April 1, 2001.
Complete guidelines and application information are available on the IMLS website at http://www.imls.gov/grants/l-m/l-m_lead.asp#appl
CAE PARENTS AS PARTNERS PROGRAM
NEW YORK CITY, NY -- Laurie Tisch Sussman, Chairman of The Center for Arts Education (CAE) and Schuyler Chapin, Commissioner of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA) have announced the fourth round of PARENTS AS ARTS PARTNERS grants, totaling $280,000 to 56 public schools. The parent involvement grants, ranging from $5,000 to $7,500, support arts education activities for parents and families of children in school partnership programs funded and administered by The Center for Arts Education.
"The purpose of the parent grants program is to turn parents into lifelong advocates for arts education by exposing them to quality arts experiences alongside their children," Sussman explains. "We are grateful to the Department of Cultural Affairs, and Commissioner Chapin, in particular, for supporting this program."
Among the recipients are MS 181 (Bronx) in partnership with New York City Opera, Bronx Dance Theatre; PS 346 (Brooklyn) in partnership with TADA!, Studio in a School; Central Park East I Elementary School (Manhattan) in partnership with Performance Space 122; PS 162 (Manhattan) in partnership with Readers Theatre Workshop; PS 144 (Queens) in partnership with Queens Theatre in the Park, Queens Council on the Arts; and the Petrides School (Staten Island) in partnership with Theatremoves, City Lights Youth Theatre, Education in Dance.
CAE identifies, funds and supports exemplary partnerships and programs that demonstrate how the arts contribute to learning and student achievement. The Center is also dedicated to influencing educational and fiscal policies that will ultimately result in the restoration of arts education in all of our city's public schools.
For more information, visit http://www.cae-nyc.org/
CAC ARTS PARTNERSHIPS FOR EDUCATION
SACRAMENTO, CA -- Arts Partnerships for Education (APE) is a new California Arts Council (CAC) initiative that attempts to demonstrate how private sector commitment to funding, providing expertise and advocacy for the arts are critical to renewing arts education in California schools.
APE projects are designed to marshal community resources to improve arts education instruction in K-12 education in public schools. Artists and arts organizations will receive funding on a competitive basis for entrepreneurial and inventive program models that integrate the arts into the learning process and successfully leverage a variety of community resources in support of arts education.
Nine grants were awarded in the first round. For example:
APEX -- Arts Partnerships for Educational Excellence (Oakland) is an initiative of the East Bay Community Foundation designed to foster arts partnerships for education featuring co-planning between teachers and professional artists, teacher/administrator training, curriculum development, parent engagement, and student assessment. The program serves 30,000 children through three partnerships in Alameda and Contra Costa counties involving school districts, arts organizations, local arts agencies, and social service agencies. Current supporters include Kraft Foods, James Irvine Foundation, San Francisco Foundation, the Zellerbach Foundation, the Hearst Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
San Diego Dance Institute (San Diego) has partnerships with six low-performing schools in City-Heights and Southeastern San Diego that offer in-depth, after-school residencies incorporating the basic elements of dance and choreography tied to school curriculum projects and visual arts and design opportunities. Last year, 645 students in six schools received 54 hours of classes each. Cooperating partners include social service agencies, arts producing and service organizations, the University of California at San Diego, and the school districts. Funding comes from government, foundations, corporations, fee for service contracts, and the County Office of Education.
For more information, visit THE CALIFORNIA ARTS COUNCIL WEB SITE at http://www.cac.ca.gov
Saralyn Reece Hardy, Director of Museums and Visual Arts at the National Endowment for the Arts, (NEA) is focusing this year on how to reconnect individual artists with the NEA.
"It's complex and full of questions and challenges," Hardy told Arts Wire. "In particular this year, I'm trying to solicit some input and ideas from artists. I would like to invite short statements from any artists who wish to register a thought."
Hardy is chairing AGENCY: INDIVIDUAL ARTISTS AND THE NEA, a session at this year's College Art Association (CAA) Conference. The session is designed to create viable and sustainable connections and opportunities for artists. Discussions at the session will become part of the documentation that will guide new NEA policies, programs, and activities, and it is hoped that the input will help the NEA explore new strategies, connections, and programs.
She also invites *all* artists to submit ideas on the artist/NEA relationship. She is particularly interested in proactive thinking that takes into account the place the NEA is right at this moment.
"We want to be sure that the voice of the artist is heard in American life," she emphasizes.
Please submit idea statements to Saralyn Reece Hardy, Director, Museums and Visual Arts, National Endowment for the Arts Email: hardys@arts.endow.gov by March 1, 2001.
Information on the CAA session AGENCY: INDIVIDUAL ARTISTS AND THE NEA is available at http://www.collegeart.org
A related topic involving individual artists will be presented at the upcoming American Association of Museums (AAM) Conference in St. Louis, MO, May 6-10, 2001. For details on this conference, visit the AAM website at http://www.aam-us.org
Deadline: Ongoing, Internet art listings, RHIZOME ARTBASE
Deadline: February 15, 2001, artwork relating to clowns, circus, or circus arts, The Acme Clown Company for exhibition at GREENBELT ARTS CENTER, Providence, RI
Deadline: June 30, 2001, art and writing by survivors of AIDS, sexual abuse, domestic violence, mental illness and other disabilities, Survivors Art Foundation: BREAKING THROUGH THE WALLS OF BIAS, Hofstra University in New York
Details about these and other opportunities are available on Arts Wire's Web Site at http://www.artswire.org/current/calls.html To submit "calls" for either artists or organizations, send email to artswire@artswire.org
Leonardo/ISAST is calling for statements of interest from persons who may be interested in applying for the position of Editor in Chief for the LEONARDO ELECTRONIC ALMANAC (LEA) Journal and Web site.
LEA -- http://mitpress.mit.edu/LEA -- is an on line journal and web site which covers topics and resources in the arts that are involved with the contemporary science and technology. LEA is a subscription based publication and is distributed and hosted by the MIT Press.
LEA was founded in 1993 by current Editor in Chief Craig Harris. As part of the search for a new Editor in Chief, Leonardo/ISAST is taking the opportunity to redesign the form and content of LEA and re-position it with respect the numerous other on line art publications now available. The person selected for the position will be asked to lead this re launch of a redesigned LEA. The position is expected to begin in summer/fall 2001. The person may be located anywhere internationally.
Leonardo/ISAST is seeking statements of interest from persons interested in being considered for the position. Interested persons should send an email to: leo@mitpress.mit.edu with no more than a paragraph stating the nature/reason for their interest. Leonardo/ISAST is open for ideas that may involve alliances with other organizations or novel ways of providing on line content to the professional art/science/technology community over the coming years. Leonardo/ISAST will ask for more detailed proposals from a short list of candidates. Interested persons should also append a Curriculum Vitae, and provide URL's of relevant sites.
Statements of interest should be submitted by January 15, 2000.
PERFORMING ARTS CENTER ADMINISTRATOR, Mesa Arts & Entertainment Center, (Mesa, AZ)
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, The Somerville Arts Council, (Somerville, MA)
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, Graphic Design for Electronic Media, Art Department, City College of New York, (New York City, NY)
INSTRUCTOR, THEATER, Brookdale Community College, (Lincroft, NJ)
CURATOR OF EDUCATION, ExhibitsUSA, (Kansas City, MO)
MUSEUM EDUCATOR, The Jersey City Museum, (Jersey City, NJ)
PROGRAM MANAGER, The Somerville Arts Council, (Somerville, MA)
P.O.V. COMMUNICATIONS COORDINATOR, P.O.V. / American Documentary, (New York City, NY)
PRODUCTION MANAGER / LIGHTING SUPERVISOR; DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATE, The CSI Center for the Arts, (Staten Island, NY)
MARKETING/COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR, Pennsylvania Performing Art on Tour Program, Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, (Philadelphia, PA)
FIRST HAND, DRAPER, ASSISTANT TO COSTUME DIRECTOR, The Shakespeare Theatre, (Washington, DC)
PROGRAM COORDINATOR FOR ORGANIZATIONAL SUPPORT, (search re-opened) Massachusetts Cultural Council, (Boston, MA)
COLLECTIONS MANAGER, National Building Museum, (Washington, DC)
FUNDRAISING & MEMBERSHIP SERVICES COORDINATOR, Atlatl, (Phoenix, AZ)
DEVELOPMENT OFFICER/GRANT WRITER, New York Foundation for the Arts, (New York City, NY)
DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT, Arts International, (New York, NY)
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT/DIRECTOR OF CORPORATE,
FOUNDATION AND GOVERNMENT SUPPORT, The Goodman Theatre
(Chicago, Illinois)
VICE PRESIDENT OF DEVELOPMENT, The WBEZ Alliance, Inc.
(Chicago, IL)
DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR, International Sejong Soloists, (New York City, NY)
DIRECTOR OF MARKETING SERVICES, Center for the Visual and
Performing Arts, College of Arts, Media, and Communication
California State University, Northridge.`(Northridge, CA)
ACCOUNTANT/BUSINESS MANAGER, Arts Horizons, (Englewood, NJ)
MANAGER OF ACCOUNTING, The Huntington Library, Art Collections, Botanical Gardens, (San Marino, CA)
EXHIBITION ASSISTANT, Montclair State University Art Gallery, (Montclair, NJ)
ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT, Columbia Artists Management Inc., (New York City, NY)
PROGRAM ASSISTANT, Nonprofit Finance Fund, (Boston, MA)
INTERNSHIP, SculptureCenter, (New York City, NY)
INTERNS, Dancewave, (New York)
INTERNSHIPS, Glimmerglass Opera, (Cooperstown, NY)
Details about these and other jobs are available on Arts Wire's Web Site at http://www.artswire.org/current/jobs.html To submit jobs to ARTS WIRE CURRENT JOBS, send email to joblist@artswire.org
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THE POWER OF THE INTERNET FOR LEARNING: FINAL REPORT OF WEB-BASED EDUCATION COMMISSION was released last month and is available on the Commission's website at http://www.webcommission.org
Chaired by Senator Bob Kerry, the bipartisan, congressional Web-based Education Commission set out to discover how the Internet is being used to enhance learning opportunity for all learners from pre-kindergarten through high school, at postsecondary colleges and universities, and in corporate training.
The Commission states: "We heard that the Internet enables education to occur in places where there is none, extends resources where there are few, expands the learning day, and opens the learning place. We experienced how it connects people, communities, and resources to support learning. We witnessed how it adds graphics, sound, video, and interaction to give teachers and students multiple paths for understanding. We learned that the Web is a medium today's kids expect to use for expression and communication-the world into which they were born.
And it cautions that "And we were told first-hand that the Internet could result in greater divisions between those with access to the opportunities of web-based learning, and those without access."
The report addresses "The Power of the Internet for Learning"; "Access to Broadband Technologies: Bridges Across the Digital Divide"; "Professional Development: How Technology Can Enhance Teaching, including teacher learning, research and development, collaboration and making the web accessible for students with disabilities; "Compelling Online Content"; "Removing Regulatory Restrictions to E-Learning"; "Privacy, Protection, and 'Safe Streets'"; "Funding for e-Learning: A Continuing Challenge"; and "Moving From Promise to Practice: A Call to Action."
The report is "a call to action to all of those who must be involved if we are to implement real and positive change-policymakers at the federal, state, and local levels; students and educators; parents; communities; and the private sector. No one group can bring about this change alone," the authors state.
For a complete copy of the report, visit http://www.webcommission.org
Available on the MENC: The National Association for Music Education web site, MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR., A LESSON WITH INTERDISCIPLINARY CONNECTIONS FOR MIDDLE-LEVEL MUSIC STUDENTS -- http://www.menc.org/guides/mlk/mlk.html -- celebrates the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr with jazz.
Compiled by Mary Frances Early and Cynthia Terry, the lesson is designed in conjunction with the PBS series JAZZ by Ken Burns. It provides curriculum connections in the visual and language arts and dance as well as in music.
Ken Burns's JAZZ, developed with $1,000,000 in National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) funding, airs throughout January. "It is a powerful overview of American history seen through the lens of what has been called the nation's most original music, and it will have a far-reaching impact in education and public programs in the months and years to come. I hope every American will be able to tune in to this remarkable synthesis of American life and music," NEA Chairman William R. Ferris has stated.
The objectives of the MENC lesson are to explore the role that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. played in the civil rights movement of the 1960s; to explore the connection between jazz and the African American struggle for freedom; to demonstrate how other art forms (dance and visual art) influenced the music of the 1930s; to compare the style of jazz with the call and response style of singing; (particularly the freedom songs) to compare the role that jazz music played in the 1930s and the role of freedom songs in the 1960s.
NEW ON ARTQUARRY
Arts Wire's ARTQUARRY (formerly WEBBASE) is a searchable database of arts related websites available on Arts Wire's public home page at http://www.artswire.org/artquarry
Created as a public service to help the online arts community to keep abreast of arts sites and for arts websters to promote their new or renovated sites to an arts audience, ArtQuarry, (and WebBase before it) has served the web since 1996.
Artists and art organizations are invited to visit ArtQuarry both to search art sources and to add their sites. Among the recent entries are:
ARTS BOOKS (London, UK) -- http://www.arts-books.com -- specializes in all the performing arts, from ballet and ballroom to contemporary dance, opera, mime, drama and musical theatre. They currently stock thousands of books, CDs and videos, together with a wide range of dancewear from Capezio and Roch Valley. Besides a large variety of musical, dance and opera videos, they also have a sizeable dance class music section covering class music for ballet, jazz, tap modern and contemporary dance as well as theatre materials ranging from scripts and monologues to back stage support and costume and set design.
DANCE COUNCIL -- http://www.thedancecouncil.org -- is an online dance resource for dance in North Texas. The site includes information on Dance Council produced events and festivals, an online version of DANCE, downloaded applications for scholarships and membership benefits plus an extensive online calendar of dance events in North Texas.
GREEN STREET STUDIOS -- http://www.greenstreetstudios.org -- is a collectively run space in Cambridge, MA, dedicated to enriching the field of dance and expanding the boundaries of the art form through a wide variety of classes, workshops, performances, rehearsals, and mentoring. Classes include ballet, modern, improv, floor barre, Pilates, Bulgarian, Hawaiian and children's classes among many others.
Based in Vienna, Virginia, The WOLF TRAP FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS -- http://www.wolftrap.org -- is a non-profit organization founded by Catherine Filene Shouse (1896-1994) that presents and produces a full-range of performance and education programs in the Greater Washington area, as well as nationally and internationally. Wolf Trap is home to two performance venues, the Filene CenterAmericas National Park for the Performing Arts, and The Barns, which operate year-round; the Wolf Trap Opera Company, one of Americas outstanding resident ensemble programs for young opera singers; and Wolf Trap's education programs, which include the nationally acclaimed Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning Through the Arts, scholarships, master classes and internships.
Arts Wire's website at http://www.artswire.org is a central place to visit the cyberhomes of the diverse artists and art organizations who are Arts Wire members. This week CURRENT invites readers to visit the home page of the VIRGINIA COMMISSION FOR THE ARTS.
The VIRGINIA COMMISSION FOR THE ARTS -- http://www.artswire.org/vacomm -- is the state agency that supports the arts in Virginia through funding from the Virginia General Assembly and the National Endowment for the Arts. The Commission distributes grant awards to artists, arts and other not-for-profit organizations, educational institutions, educators and local governments, and provides technical assistance in arts management.
Upcoming programs include ART WORKS FOR VIRGINIA 2001, to be held in Richmond on January 16. Art Works for Virginia is an opportunity for leaders in the arts in Virginia to get together to share ideas and energy. It offers an opportunity to meet with fellow curators to exchange ideas and schedules of exhibitions, to hear about new ways of raising funds and building audiences, to meet with jazz lovers to explore ways to build bigger audiences throughout Virginia and to learn about innovative arts programs in Virginia. William Strickland, President/CEO Manchester Craftsmen's Guild will give an Opening Presentation on SOCIAL CHANGE AND THE ARTS. A preconference session on January 15, Martin Luther King Day, will feature pianist Leon Bates speaking on the role of the arts in celebrating the dignity and humanity of all Americans.
Visit the web site for details about the Art Works for Virginia program; for information about new initiatives such CREATIVE COMMUNITIES, which provides free arts instruction to children in public housing communities during non-school hours; for links to arts programs throughout Virginia; and much more!
LONDON, UK -- In an attempt to get publicity which might help him get his work published, Australian writer Brett De La Mare landed a motorized paraglider in the forecourt of Buckingham Palace, according to THE (UK) GUARDIAN. De La Mare was questioned and released by police who had chased him in a helicopter.
"I'm out to get it published. Brother let me tell you, it's been hell. But until it is published I'm prepared to do whatever craziness it takes," he states on his website at http://www.brettdelamare.com/default.htm
Last fall, De La Mare flew a helicopter over New York City, buzzing the World Trade Centre and the top of the Empire State Building before making an emergency landing in Central Park, ironically in the car-park of the Central Park Police Precinct. "In court, I was sentenced to do community service work, at the end of which, you go back to Court, and they give you a nicely embossed certificate which looks, for all the world, like a diploma! (Mine's out getting framed)" he noted.
"CANINE DAWN is my book, the title is a play on words for the expression 'Every dog has his day,'" says De La Mare, who describes the work as "an 192,000 word action/adventure story, written to my own formula based on the three most basic human desires that we all crave. That being..* Sex, Money and Adventure*. Canine Dawn is a fast paced readable story that combines action, adventure and romance with good dialogue and a touch of humor to create a book that is jam packed with action."
However, despite some TV appearances resulting from his publicity stunts, his work remains unpublished.
On his web site, De La Mare emphasizes the difficulties of writers making a living in smaller markets such as his homeland, Australia. About his efforts to get Canine Dawn published, he notes: "I ventured out full of hope only to discover that no publisher wants to talk to you unless you have an agent and no agent wants to know you, unless you've already been published."
Sources/resources:
Steven Morris
"Man arrested after paraglider flies across London
chased by police before breaching royal no-fly zone"
THE GUARDIAN --
http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk
December 29, 2000
BRETT DE LA MARE'S WEB SITE -- http://www.brettdelamare.com/default.htm
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