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Also available are lists of jobs in particular sectors of the arts community, such as the list of jobs in artists communities offered by the Alliance of Artists' Communities -- http://www.teleport.com/~aac/ -- where recent listings have included Administrative Director of The Civitella Ranieri Foundation, which provides residency fellowships to visual artists, writers, musicians and filmmakers at the Civitella Ranieri castle in central Italy.
"Jobs is one of our two content pillars, along with news," David Eedle, one of the two owners and company directors of the Australian-based DRAMATIC ONLINE -- http://www.dramaticonline.com/ -- told Arts Wire. "We know from feedback and anecdote that it is very highly valued. We know of several instances where people working overseas have secured jobs via our listings and moved to Australia."
"WESTAF'S ARTJOB continues to grow. We've nearly doubled the number of job listings on the site in the last year," says Western States Arts Federation (WESTAF) Marketing Director Kimberly MacArthur Graham. "And right now, we're looking at ways to partner with state and regional arts agencies to further increase ArtJob's effectiveness."
ArtJob -- http://www.artjob.org -- long a source of employment information for the art community, is no longer published in a print version. "ArtJob Online is solo, though we do publish an e-mail newsletter, DIRECTIONS," Graham notes.
Although the Cultural Alliance of Greater Washington's JOBank -- http://www.cultural-alliance.org/programs/jobank.html -- continues their on site drop in service, they have added an electronic component so that members with e-mail addresses can now receive updates and information regarding new job listings.
David Eedle, who has a 16 year background in arts and cultural management, starting life as a stage hand and lighting designer, before a stint managing a 500 seat performing arts center, also commented on the high level of mobility in the industry, not just in Australia, but across the world. "We were at a party last night and met three guys -- two from Holland and one from Germany -- all of whom met and married Australian women in Europe, and who have moved to Australia looking for work. All are in the cultural industry," he said.
Some current arts jobs web sites and sources of information about jobs in the arts are listed below.
Now in its third year, Arts Wire Current's JOBS page -- http://www.artswire.org/current/jobs.html -- is updated every Monday and features a comprehensive and international list of job opportunities.
Among many others, this week's listings include Assistant Professor, Communication and the Arts/Art Painting and Drawing, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, Green bay, WI; Writer, The Alliance for the Arts, New York City, NY; and Master Printer, Crow's Shadow Institute of the Arts, Pendleton, OR.
To submit jobs to Arts Wire, email them to joblist@artswire.org Please send a text file in the body of the message. (ie no attachments and no HTML) There is no fee for posting job listings but jobs should be arts related. The deadline is Friday for the next week's listings.
ARTJOB ONLINE -- http://www.artjob.org -- features a national database of job listings in all arts disciplines in the nonprofit, commercial, academic, and public sectors. The service is a source for professional opportunities and key information in all areas of the arts, including: Presenting, Producing, Performing Arts, Visual Arts, Academic, Internships & Fellowships, Conferences, and Commissions.
"About six months ago, I decided to get back into the arts world, (I was at the time working as a county commissioner): says Idaho Commission on the Arts' Executive Director Dan Harpole, who found his job through ArtJob. "I asked around to find a good source for information on arts employment, and someone recommended ArtJob Online. It was the only source I ended up using, because there was so much there. Here I was in a rural area of Washington state, and for $25 [three month subscription fee] I knew about great jobs all over the country! It was a terrific investment in my future. I applied to five jobs, got interviews with three, and was employed within 3 1/2 months. The job I ended up taking with the Idaho Commission is the best job I've ever had. I really love the job."
ArtJob has also added a number of features to the site. It now includes articles, as well as tips on various aspects of job searching.
Among the articles currently on ArtJob are "A New Way to Work and Age in the 21st Century" by Hellen Harkness and "Self-Marketing for Artists" by Contemporary Jazz recording artist, Bradley Sowash, based on his workshop for the Ohio Arts Council.
The Artist's Resource Center (ARC) at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston -- http://www.smfa.edu -- provides career and professional development services and resources for the fine artist. The Center, open by subscription to the general public, offers current arts-related employment and internship listings, as well as extensive local, national, and international information on grants, residencies, exhibitions, competitions and public art commissions.
Additional services include career counseling, assistance with resume writing, job-hunting strategies, marketing and on-line resources. The ARC also publishes the ARTIST'S RESOURCE letter, a bi-weekly newsletter listing current job postings, upcoming opportunity deadlines for artists, and announcements of interest to the arts community.
Current subscription rates are $60.00/six months or $110.00/one year. This includes the bi-weekly newsletter and complete access to the Center and their services. There is a discount for those affiliated with the Museum School. (alumni, former staff and faculty, members of the Museum of Fine Arts) They are happy to send out a subscription form and a free copy of the newsletter to anyone who inquires.
For more information or to receive the newsletter, call 617-369-3635; email arc@smfa.edu website http://www.smfa.edu (to reach the ARC page, go to the left-hand navigation bar and select "General Information and Resources"; then click on the purple bar at the top of the page that reads "Artist's Resource Center")
The Visual Artists Information Hotline's EMPLOYMENT IN THE ARTS FACTSHEET -- http://www.nyfa.org/vaih/employment.pdf -- which provides descriptions and access information for arts job sources both on and offline -- including ASIAN AMERICAN ARTS CALENDAR; ARTSEARCH; ARTDEADLINE.COM; and ART CALENDAR.
OCCUPATIONAL OUTLOOK HANDBOOK, 2000-01 EDITION -- http://stats.bls.gov/ocohome.htm
MONSTER.COM -- http://www.monster.com
The Arts & Business Council's ARTSWORKNY -- http://www.artsandbusiness.org/programs/artsworkny.html -- lists arts management job opportunities in the New York metro area. Job Descriptions are updated bi-weekly.
Job listings this month include Program Assistant- Education & Training, Arts & Business Council; and Development Assistant Bargemusic; (a not-for-profit chamber music organization in Brooklyn Heights) and others.
They invite arts organizations to post job listings by accessing their data entry page
The Cultural Alliance of Greater Washington (CAGW) JOBank http://www.cultural-alliance.org/programs/jobank.html provides information for jobseekers and employers.
The JOBank contains listings of primarily local employment opportunities in the arts and arts administration -- maintained in notebook binders at the CAGW office. The JOBank also has national arts employment periodicals such as ArtSEARCH, AVISO, ArtJob, Current Jobs in Art, and ARTCALENDAR. Employers can submit job postings for the JOBank using a form located on the web site.
CAGW members and affiliate members with email addresses can now receive updates and information regarding new job listings. Send email inquiries to the JOBank coordinator, Aja Burrell Wood, at awood@cultural-alliance.org
CANADIAN CAREER PAGE -- http://www.canadiancareers.com/ces1/culture.html
ArtPRIDE NEW JERSEY -- ONLINE ARTS JOB BANK -- http://www.artpridenj.com/jobbank.htm
HIREMINDS (Boston Area) -- http://www.hireminds.net/
THE GREATER PHILADELPHIA CULTURAL ALLIANCE JOB BANK -- http://www.libertynet.org/gpca/jobbank.html
ARTS NORTH CAROLINA -- http://www.artsnc.org/4_joblinks.html
THE LOUISIANA DIVISION OF THE ARTS E-MAIL FORUM -- http://www.crt.state.la.us/arts
ART JOBS IN ARIZONA -- http://az.arts.asu.edu/artscomm
ARTIST RESOURCE (San Francisco Bay Area) -- http://www.artistresource.org/jobs.htm
Based in Scotland, Museum Jobs Online -- http://www.museumjobs.com/ -- includes international job listings for all kinds of museums. Among the arts related jobs listed this month are Curator of Education, Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida; Manager, Arts and Cultural Services, Rockhampton City Council, Queensland, Australia; and Education Officer, National Museums of Scotland
Organizations are invited to post job listings. Right now listings are free, but they intend to start charging for listing job advertisements when their forthcoming worldwide advertising campaign starts. "Whatever happens, we will always operate a policy of free adverts for organizations in the forty world's poorest countries," they note.
The NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR MEDIA ARTS AND CULTURE (NAMAC) ANNOUNCEMENTS -- http://www.namac.org/Announce/index.html -- lists jobs in the media arts.
This month's job listings include Executive Director, Boston Film/Video Foundation; Operations Director, Free Speech TV; and Teaching Position, (independent filmmaker) Humboldt State University.
The Art Libraries Society of North America's ARLIS/NA JobNet at -- http://www.arlisna.org//jobs.html -- lists vacancy announcements for art librarians, visual Library and resources professionals, Information Science Jobs and related positions.
This month job listings include Head Librarian. The Minneapolis Institute of Arts; Acquisitions Librarian, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library; Library Assistant III, The J. Paul Getty Museum; and Director of Library, Illinois Institute of Art.
THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION: CAREER NETWORK -- http://chronicle.com/jobs/ -- lists Jobs and employment information for administrators and faculty. Jobs in art, art history, communication, dance, music,literature, theater, and more, from THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION, are listed under the Humanities category. Listings that appear in the current month are available to subscribers only, but jobs from the previous month's listings are available on the web page.
The site also includes articles of interest to seekers of jobs in academia, including this month: Michael Loyd Gray,"Finding a tenure-track job, and losing it", and an opportunity to share "the dumbest mistake that you've ever made on the job market, either as a candidate or an interviewer"
Formerly the Theatre Design & Technical Jobs Page, BackstageJobs.com -- http://backstagejobs.com/ -- lists jobs from across the U.S. and around the world. "It has posted listings from England, France, Denmark, Australia, Canada, and the Philippines, just to name a few," says Patrick Hudson, a Freelance Lighting Designer, in Chicago, Illinois who runs the site as a service to the live entertainment community.
"I feel that there are plenty of sites for acting, and plenty of casting notices available. There is a severe lack of publicly available listings for the 'behind-the-scenes' jobs," he states on the site. This site is designed to help the 'behind-the-scenes' people in the live entertainment industry find work, and to help entertainment groups fill their job openings. Always free to use!"
Among many current listings are Musical Director, Tibbits Summer Theare Coldwater, MI; and Actor/Stage Director, Prairie Fire Children's Theatre, Barrett, MN.
The site also includes THE CHICAGO CONTACT SHEET, designed to be an online resource for those looking to hire freelance theatre and entertainment designers, directors, and technicians; and THE GREENROOM where "you will find all sorts of things to distract you from your work...."
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) E-ARCHITECT -- http://www.e-architect.com/ -- provides job listings for architects and the architectural profession as well as associated articles, currently including "Alternative Career Paths Provide Vast Differences In Compensation for Architects; Compensation growth generally stronger at firms than in alternative careers" by AIA Chief Economist Kermit Baker.
This month's listings include Intern, Galveston, TX; Interior Designer, New York, NY; and Project Administrator - Seattle, WA.
MUSEUM EMPLOYMENT RESOURCE CENTER -- http://www.museum-employment.com/
MUSEUM JOB RESOURCES ONLINE -- http://www.interlog.com/~joellong/musjobs/jobs.htm
JOBLINE NEWS (Graphic Artists Guild) -- http://gag.org/jobline/index.html
The Associated Writing Programs (AWP) JOB LIST: ADVICE AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR JOB SEEKERS -- http://awpwriter.org
POETS & WRITERS CLASSIFIEDS -- http://www.pw.org
The Women's Philharmonic: COMPOSING A CAREER: A RESOURCE GUIDE FOR COMPOSERS -- http://www.womensphil.org/musicstore.html
The New York New Media Association's (NYNMA) SILICON ALLEY JOB BOARD -- http://www.nynma.org
CRAIG'S LIST (new media jobs) -- http://www.craigslist.org
THE BAY AREA VIDEO COALITION (BAVC) -- http://www.bavc.org
THE JOBS BULLETIN FOR DRAMATIC ONLINE -- http://www.dramaticonline.com/
COUNCIL ON FOUNDATIONS JOB BANK -- http://www.commarts.com/career/index.html
COMMUNICATION ARTS : CAREER -- http://www.commarts.com/career/index.html
WORKING TODAY: NEW YORK NEW MEDIA PROJECT -- http://www.workingtoday.org/other/newprojects1.html
Other sources are available on Arts Wire Current's JOB RESOURCES page -- http://www.artswire.org/current/jobres.html -- which will undergo a major update this month.
The grant and loans will help MASS MoCA renovate approximately 50,000 square feet of existing buildings into high-bandwidth enabled commercial space. At least 180 have new jobs have already been created in the firms renting MASS MoCA space.
MASS MoCA spokesperson Katherine Myers told Arts Wire that the Museum's recent activities have included purchasing a apartment building for intern housing. The building doesn't need much work, is in walking distance of the arts center, and will house four interns, Myers said.
Additionally, the Prospect Foundation, which is devoted to equipping Berkshire youth with the skills to thrive in the Internet new economy, has partnered with MASS MoCA and the Museum's C4 Technology Center to develop a program for 17-25 year old area residents. The Silicon Village Web Academy will teach them the skills necessary to enter the field of web development. Classes began last month under the direction of new Director Kristina Wyatt.
Open to the public since May 1999, MASS MoCA is a project to convert a 27-building historic mill complex in the Berkshire mountains of Western Massachusetts into a multi-disciplinary center for visual, performing and media arts. More than a static display hall, MASS MoCA provides space, tools, and time for artists, cultural institutions and businesses working in sculpture, theater, dance, film, digital media and music. New work is created in partnership with high technology and new media companies.
New shows include OPEN AND SHUT: ARTISTS DOORS at Kidspace. Addressing the pleasure children derive from opening and shutting doors, the exhibition features work by area-based artists including Richard Garrison; (Albany, N.Y) Ann Kremers; (North Adams, MA) Julia Morgan; (Williamstown, MA) August Ventimiglia; (Williamstown, MA) Neal Parks; (Belchertown, MA) and Sue Reese. (North Bennington, VT)
Sources/resources:
MASS MOCA WEB SITE -- http://www.massmoca.org
SILICON VILLAGE WEB ACADEMY -- http://www.c-4.org/
PROSPECT FOUNDATION -- http://www.prospectfoundation.org
However, recent changes to the City's Affordable Housing Guidelines will create financially feasible rental alternatives for non-profit organizations and their seasonal staff.
Prior to the amendments, restrictions prevented the legal renting of affordable housing for fewer than six months at a time -- making affordable housing simply not available to seasonal (three-month) employees. Under the new guidelines, owners may rent to qualified employees or to artists/employees of non-profit organizations for a three-month period or on a month-to-month basis.
"This will greatly benefit the Aspen Music Festival and School, as the adjustments make available a broader range of lodging styles and rental prices for its employees and contracted artists who come to Aspen for anywhere from one to nine weeks each summer," the Festival states. "Homeowners who rent to faculty members of the Aspen Music Festival and School have the opportunity to secure a responsible and reliable renter, support an important cultural institution in Aspen, and help to alleviate the Festivals on-going housing challenges."
With a 50 year history, The Aspen Music Festival brings together conductors, composers, performers and students from all over the world for nine weeks every summer in Aspen to share their love of music under the leadership of Music Director David Zinman. The Festival's 250-plus musical events include orchestral performances, chamber music, operas, contemporary music concerts, lectures, master classes, and children's concerts.
The Festival also hosts events throughout the year, including a concert series and the M.O.R.E. Music Program Residency Program -- through which the Aspen Wind Players did a week-long residency focusing on "Color in Art and Music" in January in local schools .
Sources/resources;
THE ASPEN MUSIC FESTIVAL WEB SITE -- http://www.aspenmusicfestival.com
ARLIS/NA 29th Annual Conference: 2001: AN LA ODYSSEY
The Art Libraries Society of North America -- whose membership includes architecture and art librarians, visual resources professionals, artists, curators, educators, publishers, and others interested in visual arts information -- will hold its Annual Conference in Los Angeles, CA.
This year's conference features:
Saturday April 1, 2001
Plenary Session:
HOLLYWOOD DESIGN: DECADENCE,GLAMOUR, FANTASY, MODERNISM, AND
OPULENCE IN 20TH CENTURY SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
Moderators: Robert Kaufmann, Reference Librarian, Metropolitan
Museum of Art, Stephen H. Van Dyk, Chief Librarian, Cooper-Hewitt
National Design Museum Library
Monday April 3, 2001 11:30
Luncheon & Keynote Speaker:
Janet Fireman, Curator and Chief of History at the Natural
History Museum of Los Angeles County, "will explore the twin
images of Los Angeles: as a paradise of light, opportunity, and
happiness, and as 'Sin City, a place of darkness, excess,
nastiness, and corruption."
Plus workshops and sessions on:
TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING? ART/DESIGN WEB SITES
Moderators: Judy Donovan, Design Arts/Architecture Librarian,
Drexel University and Alexandra de Luise, Coordinator,
Instructional Services, Queens College/City University of New York
MANAGING MOVING IMAGE COLLECTIONS IN ART LIBRARIES
Moderator: Claire Eike, Director, The John M. Flaxman Library,
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
COPYRIGHT, FAIR USE AND THE DISAPPEARING PUBLIC DOMAIN
Moderator: Roberto C. Ferrari, Arts & Humanities Librarian,
Florida Atlantic University
CLASSROOM ODYSSEY: TEACHING. . . IN THE ART LIBRARY AND
CYBERSPACE
Moderators: B. J. Kish Irvine, Fine Arts Librarian, Indiana
University and Tom Greives, Reference Librarian/Fine Arts
Bibliographer, Arizona State University
CONTEMPORARY NATIVE AMERICAN ART: CHALLENGES
Moderators: Joan Benedetti, Cataloger, Balch Research Library,
L.A. County Museum of Art and Marilyn Russell-Bogle (Ojibwe), Fine
Arts and Humanities Librarian and Assistant Professor, American
Indian Studies and Art, University of Minnesota-Duluth
INSOURCING: BUYING ARTIST BOOKS DIRECTLY FROM THE ARTIST
Moderator Judith A. Hoffberg, Umbrella Associates
and much more!
For a complete schedule and registration information, visit http://orpheus-1.ucsd.edu/csj/arlis2001/
Concentrating on duality and transfiguration, mutation and deformity -- usually the means to most fairy tale "happy endings"-- Wonderland includes paintings, drawings, sculpture, videotapes and installations by Ericka Beckman; Ellen Berkenblit; Mary Carlson; Bonnie Collura; Renee Cox; Amy Cutler; Rebecca Doughty; Anna Gaskell; Judy Haberl; Hilary Harkness; Susanne Khn; Maria Marshall; Jennifer Nuss; Liliana Porter; Linda Ross; Kiki Smith; and Kathryn Spence.
"In their work the artists recount fractured, chaotic tales sometimes referring to familiar source material and sometimes inventing their own fables," the Gallery writes. "'Whose happy ending is this?' comes to mind as one views these unexpected, humorous, bizarre and macabre works."
Boston Globe, critic Christine Temin describes Kiki Smith's installation as featuring "elements of the 'Alice in Wonderland' episode in which Alice nearly drowns in a pool of her own tears. Smith's room has the very low door Alice couldn't fit through; inside is a floor sparkling with outsized glass tears." And about Mary Carlson's "cement deer, reconstituted trees made of wood and sawdust, and leaves of chiffon and wire" she notes that they "like Calder mobiles - create a fantasy forest, waiting for the fairy tale to happen."
A catalogue is available in February and related artists talks are scheduled in February and March. For updated information call 617-879-7333
Sources/resources:
MASSACHUSETTS COLLEGE OF ART WEB SITE -- http://www.massart.edu
Christine Temin
"Mass Art's 'Wonderland' brings fairy tales to life"
THE BOSTON GLOBE --
http://www.boston.com/
January 30, 2001
ARTISTS' COMMUNITIES DEADLINES Artists' Communities provide the time and resources for individuals to concentrate more fully on their art for weeks and even months at a time. Some communities cover all expenses, whereas others require a small fee for room and board or have artists contribute a part of their time to the community's maintenance and upkeep. What follows is a list of March deadlines for artist communities offering residencies during the upcoming year. Much of the information has been taken from ARTISTS COMMUNITIES: A DIRECTORY OF RESIDENCIES IN THE UNITED STATES THAT OFFER TIME AND SPACE FOR CREATIVITY, edited by Tricia Snell (New York: Allworth Press, 2000. [second edition].
Deadline: March 1, 2001 - THE ANDERSON CENTER, in the blufflands of the Mississippi River in Minnesota, offers residencies of two to four weeks to New York City emerging artists and writers. For information, contact: The Anderson Center, P.O. Box 406, Red Wing, MN 55066; phone (651) 388-2009; or email acis@pressenter.com
Deadline: March 1, 2001 - 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
Deadline: March 1, 2001 - THE ART OMI INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS COLONY offers visual artists three-week residencies in the month of July. The Arts Center is located approximately two and a half hours north of New York City in the historic Hudson River Valley. Artists pay for travel, materials, and donate a work of art created during the residency to the Art Omi Foundation Collection. The program includes a critic-in-residence who interacts with the artists with frequent studio visits and ongoing dialogue. For information, send a fax to: Director, Art Omi International Artists Colony, 55 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10003; fax (212) 206-6114; email artomi55@aol.com or visit http://www.artomi.org
Deadline: March 16 - Thanks to a major grant from the NYSCA Visual Arts Program, professional artists residing in Western and Central New York State are invited to apply for a three-month funded residency in the year 2001 at the INTERNATIONAL STUDIO PROGRAM, located in the Tribeca district of Manhattan in New York City. Two artists will receive a studio space at ISP, housing, a weekly stipend, and travel costs. The selection will be made by a panel of curators and artists from upstate New York, and previous recipients of Hallwalls/ISP residencies. This is a unique opportunity for artists to have an intensive introduction into the Manhattan art community. For more information, contact Hallwalls/- ISP, 2495 Main Street, Suite 425, Buffalo, NY 14214; call (716) 835-7362; fax (716) 835-7364; or email office@hallwalls.org
Sources/Resources:
Information about the book ARTISTS COMMUNITIES is available on the ALLIANCE OF ARTISTS' COMMUNITIES WEB SITE -- http://www.teleport.com/~aac/
In the last round of grants, The New England Foundation for the Arts, (NEFA) creator and administrator of the National Dance Project, (NDP) awarded $1,765,000 in new awards to dance projects and their tours in the categories of Production and Tour grants.
PRODUCTION GRANTS -- DEADLINE APRIL 3, 2001
Awarded in July, NDP Production Grants support the development of new contemporary dance work, and awards range between $15,000 and $35,000 per project. Funds are to support a project's development through the time of its premiere. Production grants are competitive, and are awarded to an average of 20 dance projects annually.
In the last round, production grants totaling $683,000 were awarded to 21 diverse projects. Projects ranged from a new piece by the Washington Ballet (DC) in collaboration with visual artist Sam Gilliam and musical group Sweet Honey in the Rock; to an international cultural exchange project with the Royal University of Fine Arts in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Trisha Brown Dance Company (NY) was awarded support for a new project with composer Salvatore Sciarrino, and several other New York based companies received awards. Companies and projects awarded funding are based in California, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Texas, France, and India.
Projects nominated for NDP production grants should: make possible the creation of regionally or nationally significant work that will eventually tour; offer the potential to engage and diversify audiences; explore collaborations within and across disciplines; and involve creative and dynamic partnership with one or more presenter partners in the development of the work. Completed nomination forms must be received by NEFA no later than April 3, 2001. Complete information is available at http://www.nefa.org/creation/prod.html
TOURING GRANTS -- DEADLINE TO BE ANNOUNCED
Awarded November - January, NDP Touring Grants support the distribution of projects created with NDP production support. The tours play an essential role in building support for dance by enabling artists to engage with audiences through performances and workshops.
Performing arts presenters may receive fee subsidy grants for the presentation of any of the season's recommended projects. Presenters, artists, and artists managers may also nominate additional projects to receive touring grants.
Presenters in 36 states are scheduled to receive $1,082,000 for touring grants in the 2001-2002 season. As a result, over 200 engagements will take place from June 2001 through May 2002 and will reach audiences in rural areas and urban centers alike. The NDP continues to expand its reach by touching a broad range of communities including Maine, Virginia, Arkansas, Indiana, and Oregon.
For more information, visit http://www.nefa.org/creation/tour.html
CALL FOR PRESENTER HUB SITE INTEREST -- DEADLINE APRIL 6, 2001
The National Dance Project was designed with input from Dance/USA and the Association of Performing Arts Presenters and is guided by an advisory committee of field leaders and by representatives of 12 dance presenting "Hub Sites". The Hub Sites play a key role in the identification of projects and the allocation of resources.
Hub Sites are performing arts presenters that have taken a proactive role in the development of new work in dance. They are characterized by their knowledge and history of involvement with dance artists of national and regional significance, as well as their awareness and effective use of resources to develop, distribute, and promote dance to audiences in their communities and beyond. They have the demonstrated desire and capacity to involve other organizations in the effective presentation of dance.
Currently in the fifth year of a multi-year plan, the NDP seeks to partially rotate the current composition of the hub site group. The current group of hub sites, numbering 12, were announced in January, 1999 and will serve through January, 2002, at which time a new group will be announced. This will allow another configuration of presenters to serve as hub sites in the next three years of the program.
Presenters interested in being considered for Hub Site designation or continuation should submit a letter to NEFA no later than Friday, April 6, 2001 expressing interest in being (or continuing as) a National Dance Project Hub Site. The letter should accompany a selection of supporting materials such as annual reports, season brochures, organizational newsletters, a recent proposal to your state arts agency or another major funder for organizational support, current operating budget, long-range plan, biographies of key personnel, program plans for the 2001-2002 season, etc.
For complete application criteria and details, address questions
to any of the program staff:
Sam Miller -- smiller@nefa.org
Rebecca Blunk -- rblunk@nefa.org
Jennifer Bleill --
jbleill@nefa.org
Jacqueline Torres Gonzalez --
jtgonzalez@nefa.org
tel: 617-951-0010
A list of current HUB SITES is available at http://www.nefa.org/creation/ndphubs.html
NEW ENGLAND FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS WEB SITE -- http://www.nefa.org
MACARTHUR FOUNDATION MAKES GRANTS TO 22 MEDIA CENTERS
CHICAGO, IL -- The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has awarded $500,000 in grants to 22 local media centers and national media organizations throughout the nation. This brings to nearly $15.8 million the Foundation's funding for such centers since 1986.
The awards were made to media centers in 11 states for film and video projects in three categories: those that foster community engagement; those that serve and involve children and youth; and those that stimulate community discussion about issues related to welfare, workforce development, and economic opportunity.
The projects supported include 911 Media Arts Center's REEL GRRLS, a collaboration between teenage girls and professional media artists in Seattle to create videos about images of young women in mainstream media; the American Indian Film Institute's touring program of media and workshops for rural and tribal communities in California; YOUTH METRO, a weekly bilingual discussion series on WRTE-Radio, an 8-watt station managed by youths in Chicago; (Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum) Real Art Ways multimedia training workshop for high school students, which will culminate in the production of an audio and visual "webmap" of Real Art Ways' neighborhood in Hartford, Connecticut; an exhibition of media on labor, economic and human rights issues accompanied by workshops on media activism at Squeaky Wheel/Buffalo Media Resources in Buffalo, NY; and an exhibition and distribution of a series of documentary films and videos focused on various aspects of global women's labor by Women Make Movies, New York City, NY.
For more information and a complete list of projects, visit http://www.macfound.org
The Oregon College of Arts and Crafts (OCAC) offers a semester-long program for emerging artists and a summer residency for mid-career artists. Both programs provide housing, individual studio space, a stipend and access to OCAC's studios and workshops. Residents are encouraged to become involved in community life at OCAC.
The semester residency offers the post-MFA artist an opportunity to pursue a proposed body of work over a four-month period in a stimulating arts environment. Mid-career artists are invited to work on campus in the summer. These artists work independently on a project and meet with the two OCAC faculty members who are awarded a summer residency. In the fall following the resident's stay, an exhibition at OCAC's Hoffman Gallery features the participants work.
Deadline for application is April 1 before the following years residencies begin. For more information, visit http://www.ocac.edu/artist_in_residency.htm
Deadline: ongoing, original artworks for fine art vending machines, ARTISTS IN CELLOPHANE
Deadline: March 23, 2001, proposals for a three-dimensional installation for three of the Museum's four storefront windows, THE LOWER EAST SIDE TENEMENT MUSEUM
Deadline: March 1, 2001, video Artists, PERISCOPE, AN INTERNA- TIONAL EXPERIMENTAL VIDEO PROGRAM, AT VIDEOSPACE IN BOSTON
Deadline March 31, 2001, logo designs, EATING ARTIST SERVICES
Deadline: April 1, 2001, web based work, LOWER EAST SIDE TENEMENT MUSEUM DIGITAL ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE PROGRAM
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ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN COMMUNICATION AND THE ARTS/ ART PAINTING AND DRAWING, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay (Green Bay, WI)
WRITER, The Alliance for the Arts, (New York City, NY)
MASTER PRINTER, Crow s Shadow Institute of the Arts (Pendleton, OR)
ART & ECOLOGY COSTUME & PUPPET WORKSHOP INSTRUCTOR, Earth Celebrations, (New York City, NY)
DIRECTOR, Professional Development Programs Southern Arts Federation, (Atlanta, GA)
DIRECTOR, The Sheldon Swope Art Museum, (Terre Haute IN)
OPERATIONS MANAGER, Community Arts Resources (Los Angeles Area, CA)
REGISTRAR, BILINGUAL ENGLISH/GERMAN, (Museum) (New York City, NY)
REGISTRAR, (Museum) (New York City, NY)
ARTS MANAGEMENT SPECIALIST II, Cultural Affairs Division Broward County,(Fort Lauderdale, FL)
CULTURAL ARTS COORDINATOR, City of Evanston, Parks/Forestry & Recreation, Cultural Arts Division, (Evanston IL)
ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT, Whitney Museum of American Art (New York, NY)
MUSEUM EDUCATOR, The Jersey City Museum, (Jersey City, NJ)
PROGRAM COORDINATOR, Mountain Center, (Blue Mountain Lake, NY)
ADMINISTRATIVE and COMMUNICATIONS MANAGER, The Village of Arts and Humanities, (Philadelphia, PA)
ASSISTANT TO THE MANAGING DIRECTOR OF FOREIGN RIGHTS, Trident Media Group, (New York, NY)
PROGRAM ASSOCIATE, The William Penn Foundation, (Philadelphia, PA)
DEVELOPMENT OFFICER, COMMUNICATIONS, New York Foundation for the Arts, (New York City, NY)
DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT, The Arts Council of Northwest Florida (Pensacola, FL)
DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR, Eastern Music Festival, (Greensboro, NC)
DIRECTOR OF MARKETING - relisted, Sangamon Auditorium, University of Illinois at Springfield, (Springfield, IL)
MARKETING AND PUBLICITY ASSOCIATE - revised listing, Dance Theater Workshop, (New York City, NY)
ASSISTANT TO PROMINENT NEW YORK ART ADVISOR, (New York, NY)
OFFICE MANAGER, The Crucible, (Berkeley, CA)
ADMINISTRATIVE ASSOCIATE, H.T. Dance Company, (New York, NY)
EVENTS ADMINISTRATOR, (Chicago-area music agent)
DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANT, The MERIT Music Program, (Chicago, IL)
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, CAREER DEVELOPMENT, Tisch School of the Arts (New York University)
INSTRUCTOR, Beaded Tapestry, Palo Alto's Children's Art Program (Palo Alto, CA)
EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT, (Arts/Architectural Firm) (New York City. NY)
EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT, GRANTS SPECIALIST, The Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, (Baltimore, MD)
VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITY, California Lawyers for the Arts, (Santa Monica CA)
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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:
ALICE SIMPSON BOOKS OF DANCE AND ROMANCE -- http://www.geocities.com/tangobook --- "Many of my Artist Books explore through drawing, painting and romantic vocabulary the gestures, movement, color and voice of contemporary dances. I am interested in portraying the dramatic setting of ballroom: the tangos delicious deception, dirty dancings forbidden eroticism, and the tangle and touching of strangers. The structures themsel- ves: tunnels, peep-holes and accordions add to the drama. I am forever fascinated by the way dancers lives are tangentially intersecting in this setting. My goal in each piece is to capture the moment. I look for the distinctive character of each dance." -- Alice Simpson, New York City, NY
CONNECT -- http://www.artsinternational.org/connect -- is an international, interdisciplinary and intellectually rigorous journal that tackles the tough and urgent questions posed by the transformations of cultural production in an age of globalization. It features critical commentary on visual art, curatorial practice, performance and new media, prose and poetry, new artwork, historical and contemporary documents, and interviews with practitioners and theorists.
INTERSPACE MEDIA ART CENTER -- http://www.i-space.org -- is a New Media Art Center, based in Sofia, Bulgaria. InterSpace was founded in 1998 as a non-government organization aimed at art production, development and popularization of authors projects in the space between art and technologies -- video art, multimedia installations, net art and electronic sound. The main goal of Media Art Center InterSpace is to develop the society of media artists in Bulgaria and enable their active collaboration in an international context. InterSpace has developed international partnerships with Van Gogh TV; (Germany), The Kitchen; (USA), IDEA; (Great Britain) and many other organizations including Soros Center for the Arts in Bulgaria and the Bulgarian Photographic Association.
Carl Loeffler, visionary founder of La Mamelle, ART COM MAGAZINE, and Art Com Electronic Network, died last week of complications of an intestinal illness.
Loeffler founded the nonprofit La Mamelle in San Francisco in 1975 and began publishing of LA MAMELLE MAGAZINE. In 1976, La Mamelle Arts Center, an experimental gallery for conceptual, performance, and video art, opened at 70 12th St in San Francisco with an exhibition of Xerox art. In the ensuing years, other events at the center included a woman's performance series organized by Judith Barry; the exhibition WEST COAST CONCEPTUAL PHOTOGRAPHERS; and the performance art series PERFORMING/PERFORMANCE. In 1977, with AVALANCHE MAGAZINE in New York, La Mamelle co-coordinated the SEND/RECEIVE PROJECT -- probably the first two way satellite transmission between New York and San Francisco, with simultaneous broadcast on New York and San Francisco cable TV channels.
La Mamelle, later Art Com, was a distributor of video art and actively organized international exhibitions of video artists, including the cable TV series PRODUCED FOR TELEVISION, PERFORMANCE ART IN A LIVE BROADCAST SITUATION.
In 1986, the Art Com Electronic Network began operations as the ACEN conference on the Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link. (WELL)
"Well over a decade ago, Canadian seminal telecomputing artist Bill Bartlett came into Art Com, wild-eyed and carrying a terminal, printer and acoustic modem combo," Carl Loeffler wrote in 1991 to introduce "Connectivity: Art and Interactive Telecommunications", a LEONARDO special issue. "He lifted up my telephone headset, dialed out and pushed the headset into the coupler. The printer started streaming out text onto paper. He said something like 'This is a network for art' and went on to talk about connectivity and telecomputing. I became a convert at that moment."
ACEN hosted interactive art works, international art networking events, a BBS system and ART COM MAGAZINE, which moved online with a series of issues on the interface of art and electronic technologies. "We got instant feedback Carl wrote in REFLEX Magazine. "And discovered that our 'community' in the online environment was actually diverse, a pleasant surprise for an art organization interested in expanding the audience for contemporary art."
In recent years Loeffler had been SIMLAB Research Director at Carnegie Mellon University. Work included investigating existence within networked simulation environments, in the area of tele-existence, where multiple users share or co-inhabit a common distributed space; and the networked virtual reality environment VIRTUAL POMPEII.
He is survived by his wife Polly to whom he was married a year and a half and a son, (by a previous marriage) Carl, Jr.
Sources/resources:
Carl Loeffler
"New Audiences for Art and Communication"
REFLEX
January/February 1988
Carl Loeffler
"Modem Dialing Out"
in Roy Ascott and Carl Eugene Loeffler, eds.
"Connectivity: Art and Interactive Telecommunications"
LEONARDO 24:2, 1991
BAD INFORMATION -- http://www.well.com/user/jmalloy/bad.html
Fred Truck:
With the passing of Carl Loeffler (1946-2001), an important period in my life has ended. Several people, among them San Francisco State Art Librarian Darlene Tong, have mentioned this to me in different ways, but all these ways reflect a common perception. Carl was a visionary.
His vision was not of the isolated artist working alone on a masterpiece, but a group of artists working together in a corporate structure influencing American culture at large through their work, the way any other corporation competes, at the center of things. To realize this large scale vision, Carl had to be able to understand each artist's work with uncommon perception and acuity. He had to be able to communicate this understanding in such a way that contribution to the corporate whole, to the network, became a means to individual realization as well as group achievement.
Carl and I launched the Art Com Electronic Network (ACEN) in 1986, though we began working on it together 2 years before. Anna Couey joined the project a little later. ACEN was on the WELL from 1986 to 1999. For years, there was hardly a day when the three of us weren't in contact online or by phone. We were also in contact with many willing participants on a world-wide scale eager to contribute their texts and art projects to our network, John Cage among them. ACEN flourished, there was nothing like it. By the time ACEN disbanded, 13 years later, our interests had changed, and each of us had moved in a different direction. It was impossible to refocus our energy.
With Carl's death, the dispersal has continued and an era has ended.
But what a great era it was!
Fred Truck -- http://www.fredtruck.com/frontend.html -- is currently making digital prints using a variety of processes, and realizing digital 3d designs as bronze, porcelain, glass, and soft sculpture. His show, "IT'S ALL ABOUT MONEY Mr. Milk Bottle and the Badge of Quality Corporation," will open at the Steven Vail Galleries in late May.
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