Arts Wire CURRENT is a project of the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) -- http://www.nyfa.org
Arts Wire CURRENT features news updates on social, economic,
philosophical, and political issues affecting the arts and culture. Your
contributions are invited.
Contact Judy Malloy, editor.
To encourage the exchange of arts information and perspectives, Arts Wire CURRENT contents are not copyrighted unless specifically stated. We ask that you cite Arts Wire CURRENT as well as Arts Wire's url (http://www.artswire.org) when reprinting material. In addition, Arts Wire is very interested in documenting the use of material from Arts Wire CURRENT in other newsletters, publications and on online networks. Please send a copy to: Judy Malloy.
The Monika A. and Charles A. Heimbold, Jr. Visual Arts Center, named for the donors of the lead gift which launched the project, will put the visual arts together on one building. Partner Susan Rodriguez led the Polshek Partnership competition team and will design the new center.
Reflecting the College's commitment to interdisciplinary learning, the Center will allow for a natural integration of the visual arts drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography, film and videomaking, digital imaging and visual culture, including art history and film history, says Michele Tolela Myers, President of the College. Myers noted that there is "a remarkable blurring of the boundaries between art forms today."
At Sarah Lawrence -- where almost half the students are integrally involved in the performing arts, the visual arts, and creative writing -- the design process will interactively engage the thoughts of the students and faculty who will use the building as well as the trustees, alumnae/i and staff of the College.
"Critical Thinking, Critical Seeing" Panel was Integral in the Design Process
An integral component in conceiving a new Center was "Critical Thinking, Critical Seeing", a panel that with arts faculty, staff, and alumnae/i in the arts -- including Gary Burnley, Visual Arts Faculty; Joe Forte, Art History Faculty, Michele Tolela Myers, President; Barbara Kaplan, Dean of the College; Gary Burnley, faculty member in the visual arts; Janine Antoni '86, artist; Nancy Spector '81, curator at the Guggenheim Museum in Manhattan; and Thyrza Goodeve '80, writer/teacher.
Although she took art history classes, Spector's concentrations were in dance and philosophy, she told the panel. "...much of what I'm doing today has been influenced by those concentrations because of the interdisciplinary factor, and that's what I really want to focus on here, that interdisciplinary art, in essence, I would say, is key to our contemporary culture. Artists today are very much breaking through medium-specific boundaries, so the categories of painting, sculpture, photography, film, video are becoming increasingly obsolete, if not irrelevant. And to some extent, this is very much a legacy from work started in the 1970s by post-minimalist avant garde artists, and artists working today are really, I think, living out that legacy...."
Joe Forte, whose areas of interest include art and architecture of the Italian Renaissance and the history of architecture, emphasized the importance of "accommodation -- for things that we would call public space, in the sense that it would be a place not only for formal interactions but informal interactions." He pointed out that many Sarah Lawrence students, "particularly the art history and art theory students -- are energized by their contact with artists. And they might not themselves be necessarily art practitioners, but they are enlivened by the discourse that goes on among practitioners. And they see historical periods, if you will, through the framework of those kinds of exposures. So public space does that, I think, very effectively."
Artist/professor Gary Burnley also emphasized interaction between studio art students and art history students and between disciplines, so that students realize that there are a lot of options. He envisioned a building where "....students from different classes will be sharing studios, or will be in the studio next to you. So if you're not taking film, you might be in contact with a filmmaking student, or that filmmaking student may be in a component that you take, so that there becomes a little bit more of a real mix and a real dialogue that really takes place outside of the class in the studio or in the midst of making things, in the midst of engaging in that activity."
Arts writer Thyrza Goodeve pointed to the Whitney Museum's Independent Study Program as a model: "....there's a seminar room, and there are studios that are off the seminar room....curators, writers, and artists all working together. I would hope that any kind of visual arts building that's been set up here would be a place that people from history, and writing, and philosophy are also coming to. Perhaps they're even inspired to come here and give their own talks....have that kind of interaction."
The idea was never to just build a building, President Michele Myers concluded. "The idea was because we had a concept, we had an idea. We needed the proper space to make it happen. And this year, we were lucky."
"...The most elegant architectural responses are both technically and socially relevant to their time and place" -- Polshek Partnership
Polshek Partnership was founded by James Stewart Polshek in 1963. The principals work "from the shared belief that the most elegant architectural responses are both technically and socially relevant to their time and place. Characterized by a vigorous pluralism that submerges personal stylistic preferences, the architectural solutions are rooted in extensive research involving the analysis of context, program, public image, appropriate technologies and constructability."
For instance, in their design for the Center for the Arts Theater at Yerba Buena Gardens in San Francisco, Polshek incorporated advanced theater technologies within a flexible state-of-the-art facility, to create a public theater for the presentation of drama, dance, film and experimental works. "The challenge was to create a visually compelling and comprehensible set of interacting forms that would attract a wide range of audiences and serve the adjacent convention center's users," they state. "The informality and liveliness of the performance space express the avant-garde spirit of the Bay Area's multi-cultural arts community, celebrate its vitality and diversity and ensure the theater's being physically and psychologically accessible to the public."
Among the Partnership's other projects are Sulzberger Hall, Barnard College; the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts Stanford University; and the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Auditorium and West Wing Galleries at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY. (in association with Arata Isozaki and Associates)
Over the summer the architects will develop schematics which they will then share with entire campus community in the fall -- incorporating feedback in the process, Micheal Rengers, Director of Operations and facilities at Sarah Lawrence, told Arts Wire. "The traditional separation of arts -- photography that's not printmaking not painting not sculpture is breaking down," he noted. "To build a building with those artificial segments doesn't make sense. We want the building to be totally flexible."
He added that the college also has a strong desire to build a an environmentally sound "green" building.
The Monika A. and Charles A. Heimbold, Jr. Visual Arts Center is expected to open in 2004. A capital campaign has raised $16 million of the estimated $22 million it will cost.
Sarah Lawrence College is a coeducational liberal arts college, founded in 1926, known for having one of the lowest student/faculty ratios in the country. At the core of the college's distinctive system are small classes, regular one-on-one student-faculty conferences, cross-disciplinary approaches and the integration of the creative arts within the curriculum. Visual arts faculty include Shimon Attie, Nancy Brett, Gary Burnley, Cathy C. Cook, Sammy Cucher, Tishan Hsu, Eve Andre Larame, John Lees, Jenny Perlin, Kris Philipps, Martha Sandlin, Ursula Schneider, Michael Spano, and Joel Sternfeld.
"At Sarah Lawrence, the arts are integrated and integral to our unique pedagogy," said President Myers. "Our vision for the new building is that it will function like a community, a meeting place for people making and learning about art, no matter what their disciplines are."
Sources/resources:
SARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE -- http://www.slc.edu
POLSHEK PARTNERSHIP -- http://www.polshek.com
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and UN spokesmen "did not spell out their concerns, The LOS ANGELES TIMES reports. "But China -- which annexed Tibet in 1951, prompting the flight of the Dalai Lama - is a heavyweight on the five-member U.N. Security Council. And the Dalai Lama is a thorn in Beijing's side."
Ed Solomon, co-founder and CEO of TIMOTCA told Arts Wire that from the beginning, since their first conversations in 1995 with UNESCO and the UN, it was made clear that TIMOTCA's mission is to present the arts of every country of the world and as many cultures and indigenous people as possible. No exclusions were ever suggested nor any restrictions ever proposed.
The impact of the UN's decision to cancel the exhibition because TIMOTCA decided to include a Tibetan work of art has larger implications, Solomon emphasized. To have accepted the limiting proposal of the UN and UNESCO, to not include *any* work of art would strike at the very foundation of TIMOTCA, he said, and he added that in creating a border that art cannot cross, the UN's actions not only attempted to silence the universal language of art, but also were counter productive to the cause of peace.
TIMOTCA, which lost a substantial amount of already expended funding due to the cancellation, is currently working on obtaining sponsor(s) to take Art Beyond Borders to Salt Lake City during the 2002 Winter Olympics. It is too late for the exhibition to have official sanction. But they have located a space, and there is a lot of support to have the exhibition included in the Olympics, Solomon said. The space is 45 hundred square feet, costs $150,000, and is located across from the Ethnic Village and near the Media Complex.
"It would be a great venue for many reasons but most importantly to reach the 2 billion people who will be focused on the Olympics and to have the story of TIMOTCA reach this audience," he noted.
Art Beyond Borders is an exhibition of painting and mixed media works by internationally exhibiting visual artists, from Albania to Zimbabwe. They were chosen -- both for their professional achievements and their humanitarian endeavors -- from nominations by their respective countries in cooperation with the cultural agencies of each participating country.
Among the artists included in Art Beyond Borders are:
NAJADA HAMZA (Albania)
A graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Tirana, at the age of 10
Najada decided she would be an artist. "In order to escape the
severity of a difficult life, she painted for children and during
those difficult years her art evolved from deep within. With great
sensitivity, using different materials such as textile, coins,
papyrus and raffia, mixed with acrylic, each work exposes her
'personal spirit,'" TIMOTCA writes.
WIJDAN ALI (Jordan)
A curator and historian as well as painter, she was born in
Baghdad and received a degree in history at Beirut College for
Women and a doctorate in Islamic art at the University of London.
The exhibition notes explain that for much of the 1960s HRH
Princess Ali served her country in diplomatic posts (often as
Jordan's first female delegate), and she is currently Director of
Research and Studies at Amman's Institute of Diplomacy. She has
been an educator in Islamic art, teaching at Yarmouk University
and the Higher Institute for Islamic Art and Architecture (which
she helped found) at Al al-Bayt University. Princess Ali has also
served as Editor of Islamic art for the Encyclopedia of Islamic
Culture and has published widely on Islamic art and modern
Jordanian art in Arabic and English.
JUAN SORIANO (Mexico)
Born in Guadalajara in 1920, Soriano moved to Mexico City in 1935,
where he came in contact with the Mexican muralists and
surrealists. Since then, the exhibition notes, he has been
involved with theatre and literature as well as visual art, and is
one of Mexico's leading scenographers and costume designers. In
1958, he helped found the theater group "Poetry at Full Voice"
along with Octavio Paz, Leonora Carrington and others. Soriano
also began sculpting around this time.
Among other artists and countries represented are Tsibi Geva; (Isreal) Erro; (Iceland) Olga Bulgakova; (Russia) Ever Fonseca; (Cuba) Ernest Fuchs; (Austria) Laila Shawa; (Palestine) Helen Lieros; (Zimbabwe) Guanzhong Wu; (China) Viswanadhan; (India) Ferdinando Codognotto; (Vatican) and Ibrahim Mohammed El-Salahi. (Sudan)
"The painting from Tibet is being done as we speak and will take about 6 months to complete," Ed Solomon told Arts Wire. "It will be a Thangka [a Tibetan Buddhist scroll painting] and will be painted by three artists whose names are Tmba Choephel, Lobsang Chogyal, Tenzin Nobu." (The UN Exhibit was to have a work on loan until the piece they are doing is completed.)
The exhibition also includes the work of Hopi-Tewa painter and sculptor Dan Namingha. On ARTNET.COM, Thomas Hoving begins a description of Namingha's 1994 painting HEKYTWI MESA, in this way: "Here one is entranced by a deep black sky supported by a slice of vibrant blue, which symbolizes the sky being revealed as the storm clouds lift...."
An associated Teachers' Guide, EXPLORE THE WORLD WITH TIMOTCA, provides students an opportunity to explore the world by taking a closer look at the works in the Art Beyond Borders exhibition.
Art Beyond Borders premiered at the United Nations in 1997. It was shown in PARIS in 1998, traveled to Lisbon for Expo 98, was exhibited at the Las Vegas Art Museum in 2000, and was supposed to return to the United Nations Headquarters in June 2001. In addition to the possibility of the Salt Lake City Olympics, they are also looking for other venues. The exhibition needs a space with approximately 350 to 400 linear feet.
TIMOTCA is a non-profit, educational and charitable Corporation founded in 1980 to foster peace and understanding through the arts. To date it spans over 60 countries -- representing a broad spectrum of cultural, political and philosophical diversity. "Transcending politics, TIMOTCA's goal is to create a global cultural center presenting the rich and diverse cultures of everyone on earth, offering a permanent festival for artists, sculptors, musicians, dancers, photographers, filmmakers and artisans from every corner of the globe," they state.
Since the cancellation of the Art Beyond Borders exhibition, TIMOTCA has received widespread support -- including letters from Congressmen Stephen Rothman (D-NJ) and from Benjamin Gilman. (R-NY) A Lincoln Center MUSIC BEYOND BORDERS fundraising concert was held on June 16. There has been much support form the Tibetan community. And recently Bosnian-Israeli concert pianist Sasha Toperich resigned from his post as UNESCO Ambassador for Peace in protest against the organization's decision to ban the exhibition.
Sources/resources:
TIMOTCA -- http://www.timotca.org/
"U.N. Cancels Art Show, Stuns Backers"
LOS ANGLES TIMES --
http://www.latimes.com
May 12, 2001
UNESCO -- http://www.unesco.org/
Thomas Hoving
"The Rich Spirituality of Dan Namingha"
ARTNET.COM --
http://www.artnet.com/magazine/features/hoving/hoving5-26-00.asp
"UNESCO Ambassador for Peace resigns in protest"
CBC INFOCULTURE -
http://infoculture.cbc.ca/
June 22, 2001
SALT LAKE 2020.COM -- http://www.saltlake2002.com
Tibetan Thangka painting is described an illustrated on the
LAKE BAIKAL GUIDEBOOK WEBSITE
--
http://www.baikal.eastsib.ru/aroundbaikal/dudko/dudko_gallery_eng.html<-
/A>
NAJP STUDY FINDS ARCHITECTURE CRITICISM LACKING AT U.S.
NEWSPAPERS
While a boom in commercial and residential development is taking
place in many metropolitan areas, architecture is the least
thoroughly covered arts beat at most American newspapers,
according to THE ARCHITECTURE CRITIC: A SURVEY OF NEWSPAPER
ARCHITECTURE CRITICS IN AMERICA, a report by the National Arts
Journalism Program (NAJP) at Columbia University, prepared with
support from the Pew charitable Trusts.
Fewer than 45 of the approximately 140 dailies with a circulation above 75,000 have an architecture critic and only a third of those journalists pursue architecture criticism full-time, the survey reports. Several of the nation's largest cities -- including Houston, Detroit, Sacramento, and Kansas City -- lack full-time architecture critics.
"Architecture is the most public art form and, curiously the least subject to public debate. In the absence of public discourse over architecture, control of new construction inevitably falls into the hands of bureaucrats and developers. The stakes, therefore, are higher than the count of column inches and newsroom staff suggest," the report notes. "While high-profile architecture is thriving in the United States, as our survey findings attest, the sprawl of generic construction that is engulfing most communities nationwide underscores the news media's responsibility to nurture a thorough critique of the built environment."
Sources/resources:
Andras Szanto, Eric Fredericksen, Ray Rinaldi
THE ARCHITECTURE CRITIC: A SURVEY OF NEWSPAPER ARCHITECTURE
CRITICS IN AMERICA --
http://www.najp.org/printarch.htm
INTEGRATING DIFFERENCES: THEORIES & APPLICATIONS OF UNIVERSAL DESIGN - AN INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM EXPLORING USABLE DESIGN FOR ALL
"The world is a place for people of all ages and abilities. Living in an environment designed with everyone in mind is the goal of universal design. From entrances with ramps and extra-wide doorways to adjustable hand tools and customized clothing, universal design has already permeated all aspects of our lives. Universal design aims to create attractive products, environments, and communications that are usable by all people, without the need for adaptation or specialization."
INTEGRATING DIFFERENCES: THEORIES AND APPLICATIONS OF UNIVERSAL DESIGN is an international symposium that brings together experts from around the world in the fields of architecture, education, fashion, interior design, product design, philosophy, and technology to present topics and share ideas on the range of issues associated with universal design. The conference features individual papers, panel discussions, poster sessions, workshops, and exhibitions. It is geared towards designers, educators, students, and industry professionals interested in universal design.
Special Guest Speakers include: Greg Smith, host and founder of ON A ROLL LIVE talk radio on life and disability; Elaine Ostroff, Adaptive Environments Center, Boston, MA; and Edward Steinfeld, Center for Inclusive Design and Environmental Access, SUNY at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
Panels and workshops include:
A UNIVERSAL DESIGN APPROACH IN THE COLLEGE CLASSROOM -- SELECTED
DIMENSIONS OF INCLUSIVENESS
Jennifer Bartlett, editor, WeMedia.com, New York, NY; Carol Poll,
(Sociology), Susan Sermoneta, (English), Laura Sidorowicz,
(Psychology), Patrick Yanez, (International Trade),
Fashion Institute of Technology, (FIT) State University of New
York
DEVELOPING COLLABORATIVE AND CONSULTATIVE SKILLS WHILE DESIGNING
ADAPTIVE CLOTHING
Jeremy Rosenau, Cynthia Haynes, Susan Haiman, Philadelphia
University, Philadelphia, PA
AFFORDABLE AND UNIVERSAL HOUSING FOR INDEPENDENCE
Richard Duncan, Rex Pace, The Center for Universal Design, NC
State University, Raleigh, NC
"Using findings from a recent project with Habitat for Humanity,
workshop focuses on design, cost, engineering, and organizational
issues of universal design adoption as well as a replicable series
of design plans."
UNIVERSAL DESIGN IN NEW YORK CITY
Jim L. Davis, Disabled in Action of Metropolitan New York, New
York, NY
"Explore universal design concepts by touring some of New York
City's best known buildings and public spaces near the college,
including the observation deck of the Empire State Building,
Horace Greeley Park, and Penn Station."
Plus:
"Redefining Universal Design Concepts"; "Help! How Big Is That? Toys to Introduce Mathematical Concepts for Visually Impaired Children"; "Urban Tribalware as Universal Design: Fashion-Informed Electronics Can Broaden the Acceptance of Mobile Computing"; "Digitally Printed Garments"; "Considering Accessibility in Web Design"; and much more.
with an emphasis on design, business, and technology, Fashion Institute of Technology, a college of the State University of New York, offers AAS, BFA, BS, MA, and MPS degree programs. FIT provides equal access to educational opportunities for all students regardless of disability. "The college is firmly committed to providing a learning and working environment that encourages, uses, respects, and appreciates the full expression of every individual," they state.
For a complete conference schedule and registration information, visit http://www.fitnyc.suny.edu/universaldesign/
WASHINGTON, DC -- The Smithsonian American Art Museum has announced that First Lady Laura Bush will serve as honorary patron of the traveling exhibition ARTE LATINO: TREASURES FROM THE SMITHSONIAN AMERICAN ART MUSEUM."
The exhibition highlights 300 years of Latino art from across the United States with 66 paintings, sculptures and photographs -- representing many different cultural traditions developed by Latino artists in America.
"We are honored to have the support of Mrs. Bush in celebrating the artistic excellence and innovation of this diverse community," said Elizabeth Broun, the museum's Margaret and Terry Stent Director. "These artists present human stories that are at once culturally specific, but also universal."
The Smithsonian American Art Museum began actively collecting Latino art about a decade ago. "The current exhibition is a sampling of these rich traditions;not a comprehensive survey of them; selected from almost 500 Latino artworks now in the Museum's collection," they note.
Artists in the exhibition include both U.S.-born and immigrant artists, among them Puerto Ricans, Mexican Americans and Chicanos, Cuban Americans, and Latin Americans who have created art throughout the United States. Among the works by contemporary artists are:
FARM WORKERS' ALTAR, a Chicano painted mahogany altar by EMANUEL MARTINEZ. Cesar Chavez, who founded the United Farm Workers Union, marked the end of his 25-day hunger strike in support of the farm workers' struggle in Southern California by celebrating Mass with Robert Kennedy in front of the altar.
HEIRS COME TO PASS, 3, by MARTINA LOPEZ, a Mexican American who grew up in Seattle, "incorporates figures from vintage photographs into surreal, computer-generated landscapes....a young girl in a Victorian lawn dress holds a Brownie camera, alluding to the artist's own personal path. Lopez's dreamlike photographs contain a quality of magic realism associated with Latin American literature."
CAMAS PARA SUENOS (Beds for Dreams) by CARMEN LOMAS GARZA who "draws on a rich folk art tradition and on her childhood in Kingsville, Texas, to create paintings filled with real-life observations as well as universally shared experiences....the artist and her sister appear as children seated on the roof of their home. They look at the stars and dream about their future as their mother turns down their beds."
EL CHANDELIER -- "While living in a Puerto Rican section of the Bronx in New York City, PEPON OSORIO created installations of layered meanings using five-and-dime store objects." In this work, the artist "encrusted a crystal chandelier with such everyday objects as costume jewelry, dolls, fringe, AstroTurf, and plastic saints, inspired by the elaborately decorated cakes his mother made for special occasions when he was a child in Puerto Rico."
In WHERE TEARS CAN'T STOP, artist CARLOS ALFONZO who immigrated to the United States from Cuba in 1980, explores a divided identity experienced by many Cuban-Americans. His painting, "incorporates stylized personal and religious symbols from Cuban Santeria, a Caribbean religion that combines Roman Catholic and African spiritual traditions to suggest life's difficult passages."
Arte Latino has already appeared at the El Paso Museum of Art in El Paso, TX and the Orlando Museum of Art in Orlando, FL. Upcoming venues include the Terra Museum of American Art in Chicago; (Sept. 8-Nov. 11, 2001) The Art Museum at Florida International University in Miami; (Dec. 7, 2001-Jan. 27, 2002) the Palm Springs Desert Museum in Palm Springs, CA; (Feb. 20-April 28, 2002) the Museum of Fine Arts in Santa Fe, NM; (June 28-Sept. 22, 2002) and the Oakland Museum of California. (Nov. 2, 2002-Jan. 26, 2003)
More information and full itineraries for "Treasures to International to further global cultural exchange and to enrich the understanding of the diversity of performing arts offerings worldwide. The Fund provides travel support to individual presenters responsible for programming at not-for-profit presenting organizations and not-for-profit managers. The Explorations Fund reimburses up to $2,000 to cover the cost of international airfare for travel to festivals and international performances. Presenters may also apply to attend festivals within the United States that present international work. For more information, contact: Arts Presenters, 1112 16th St. NW, Suite 400, Washington D.C. 20036; phone 202-833-2787; fax 202-833-1543; email artspres@artspresenters.org; or visit http://www.artspresenters.org
Deadline: August 1, 2001 - FULBRIGHT SCHOLAR PROGRAM's annual competition involves lecturing and research grants in more than 140 countries. Opportunities are open not only to college and university faculty and administrators, but also to artists, journalists, independent scholars, and others. Grants are available to U.S. citizens with a Ph.D., MA, or recognized professional standing and accomplishments. Fulbright award assignments vary from two months to an academic year or longer. While foreign language skills are needed in some countries, most lecturing assignments are in English. Some 80 percent of the awards are for lecturing. For more information, contact the Council for International Exchange of Scholars (CIES), 3007 Tilden St., NW, Suite 5L, Washington, D.C. 20008; phone 202-687-7877 http://www.cies.org
August 1 to September 30 - THE IOWA SHORT FICTION AWARD and THE JOHN SIMMONS SHORT FICTION AWARD, presented by University of Iowa Press, are national competitions juried through the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Any writer who has not previously published a volume of prose fiction is eligible to enter. Manuscripts must be a collection of short stories of at least 150 word-processed, double-spaced pages. Stories previously published in periodicals are accepted. There is no entry fee. For more information, contact: Iowa Short Fiction Award, Iowa Writers' Workshop, 102 Dey House, 507 North Clinton St., Iowa City, IA 52242; or visit http://www.uiowa.edu/~uipress
WASHINGTON, DC - The Institute of Museum and Library Services, (IMLS) has awarded over $1,170,086 to museums to partner with community organizations to address pressing local issues. The awards are being matched with an additional $762,139 from the recipients. Museums in the Community grants support innovative partnerships between museums and community-based organizations. These collaborations harness the combined strengths and ideas of the partners to address pressing community issues. Funded projects include:
ALBANY INSTITUTE OF HISTORY AND ART (Albany, NY) ($162,821) The Albany Institute of History and Art in partnership with the City School District of Albany will create the Center for Museum Learning, a coordinating body to increase the use of museum resources in school curricula. The Center, housed at the Albany Institute with satellite centers at area schools and museums, will create a clearinghouse of object-based museum school curricula, ongoing professional development for educators, research in object based teaching/learning, compilations of museum resources from several museums and historic sites in the area, and use of distance learning technologies.
CHEROKEE NATIONAL HERITAGE SOCIETY, (Tahlequah, OK) ($182,442) The Cherokee National Heritage Society in cooperation with the Tahlequah Chamber of Commerce, the Stillwell Chamber of Commerce, the Cherokee Nation, and the Eastern Oklahoma Development District will help traditional artisans teach their skills to younger generations, and will document this teaching process on film and video to preserve the techniques. The collaborative will also provide basic training in business and marketing, including e-commerce, to 100 traditional artisans in order to raise their standard of living by helping the artisans successfully sell their art.
PORTLAND MUSEUM, (Louisville, KY) ($232,849) The Portland Museum with Louisville Metro Parks will partner with the Shawnee High School to create a new park, the Portland Wharf. In creating this park, the students, the museum, and the parks department will develop prototype interpretive plans and education programs, forge a management plan for the park and related resources, apply concepts of cultural tourism management, and seek ways to weave the park into its neighborhood context.
The IMLS is an independent Federal agency that fosters leadership, innovation and a lifetime of learning by supporting the nation's museums and libraries. Created by the Museum and Library Services Act of 1996, P.L. 104-208, IMLS has an annual budget of $230 million. There are 122,000 libraries and 10,000 museum sites in the United States and its Territories. For more information, and grant applications, visit http://www.imls.gov
"As high noon sweeps past various time zones, the shot heard around the world will be that of clicking cameras."
An international coalition that includes artists, scientists, engineers, scholars, and others has declared December 24, to be WORLD SUBJECTRIGHTS DAY. At noon on Monday, December 24, 2001, people all over the world will call into question "the growing and dehumanizing effects of increased video surveillance, automated face recognition, and Covernment (Corporate+Government) tracking in public places, as well as private places," they state.
The group explains that "December 24th was selected because there is a lot of consumerist activity and last minute shopping, panic, confusion, and the like, on this day, so that the streets will be crowded with a cacophony of commerce."
All are invited to participate. "All you need to do is bring a disguise and a camera --- any camera (even a fake or maybe camera, a broken camera, or one with an empty film magazine) --- to a place where video surveillance is used. Taking pictures of the surveillance cameras, or even just wearing a disguise, will cause models to appear very quickly for you to photograph. When you point your camera at their cameras, the officials watching their television monitors will very quickly dispatch the models for you to shoot....Models often carry two-way radios and wear navy blue uniforms with special badges.... They will reach out and touch you, or place their hands over your camera lens so you can get a closup picture of their photogenic hands."
For complete details, visit http://wearcam.org/subjectrights.htm
Steve Mann's work on visual surveillance as well as links to the work of other artists on this subject is available at http://existech.com/tpw/index.html
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
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
Deadline: July 31, 2001, Visual Art, EXHIBITION IN VILLA IN BRUNATE, ITALY
Deadline August 30, 2001, Visual Art -- All Media, 2002 KIRKLAND ART CENTER
Deadline: August 31, 2001, National Poetry Chapbook Competition, THE SARASOTA POETRY THEATRE PRESS
Deadline: September 15, 2001, two and three dimensional mediums, that focuses on the artistic representation of the effects of sexual and domestic violence on victims and the community at large, DISCLOSING OCTOBER
Deadline: October 2, 2001, Paintings, Works on Paper, Prints, Photographs, Mixed media, Wall Reliefs and Wall-mounted Crafts, SOLO EXHIBITION, WAVE HILL HOUSE GALLERY
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
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, Brooklyn Conservatory of Music, (Brooklyn, NY)
(DIRECTOR), The Brooklyn Music School,(Brooklyn, NY)
DIGITAL/MULTIMEDIA ARTIST - ONE-YEAR FACULTY POSITION, Youngstown State University, (Youngstown, OH)
MALE DANCERS, (2), The Regina Klenjoski Dance Company, (Torrance, CA)
MANAGING DIRECTOR, East Bay Center for the Performing Arts, (SF Bay Area - Richmond, CA)
MANAGER, ARTISTIC OPERATIONS, Music of the Baroque, (Chicago, IL)
PROGRAM COORDINATOR, (multicultural arts organization)(Albuquerque, NY)
TECHNICAL DIRECTOR, ARTIST SERVICES COORDINATORM, Production Department, The University Musical Society (UMS) (Ann Arbor, MI)
BOOKING AND OPERATIONS MANAGER, Merkin Concert Hall, (New York City, NY)
POST PRODUCTION CENTER OPERATIONS ASSISTANT (Sound Post), Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, UGFTV, (New York City, NY)
COMMUNICATIONS MANAGER, Public Art Fund, (New York City, NY)
PROJECT COORDINATOR, Public Art Fund, (New York City, NY)
DIRECTOR OF MARKETING/OPERATIONS, High 5 Tickets to the Arts,(New York City, NY)
PRODUCTION CENTER REPAIR COORDINATOR, Tisch School of the Arts, Film & Television Department, New York University, (New York City, NY)
DIRECTOR OF EDUCATIONAL OUTREACH, Perkins Center for the Arts, (Moorestown, NJ)
EDUCATION COORDINATOR, Young Audiences of Massachusetts, (Somerville, MA)
PHOTOGRAPHER / IMAGE DEPARTMENT ASSISTANT, Ace Gallery, (Los Angeles, CA)
GRAPHIC DESIGN, Arts Council of Wilson, (Wilson, NC)
FREE LANCE CONSULTANT, The East Harlem Tutorial Program, (New York City, NY)
PROGRAM DIRECTOR, RAW Art, THERAPY CONSULTANT, RAW Art, (Lynn, MA)
MODERN DANCE/CHOREOGRAPHY FACULTY, Blake High School, (Tampa, FL)
WORKSHOP COORDINATOR, The HeArt Project, (Los Angeles, CA)
COORDINATOR-WORKSHOPS AND EVENTS, Appalachian Center for Crafts, Tennessee Technological University, (Smithville, TN)
VISUAL ARTS TEACHER, East Side Community High School, (New York City, NY)
DIRECTOR OF PROGRAM FUNDING, The Jewish Museum, (New York City, NY)
PROGRAM FUNDING COORDINATOR, The Jewish Museum, (New York City, NY)
MEMBERSHIP SERVICES ASSISTANT, Chamber Music America, (New York City, NY)
PROGRAM ASSOCIATE, Visual & Media Arts Initiatives, (VMAI) Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, (New York City, NY)
EDITORIAL ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, (New York City, NY)
DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATE/MAJOR GIFTS AND INSTITUTIONAL SUPPORT, American Ballet Theatre, (New York City, NY)
DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATE, The Wang Center for the Performing Arts, (Boston, MA)
DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATE, Music of the Baroque, (Chicago, Il)
PROMOTION ASSISTANT, (part-time) Office of Admissions, Parsons School of Design, (New York City, NY)
FISCAL ASSOCIATE, ArtsConnection, (New York City, NY)
OFFICE MANAGER, (PART-TIME), The Micro Museum, (Brooklyn, NY)
BOX OFFICE MANAGER, L.A. Theatre Works, (Los Angeles, CA)
PROGRAM INTERN, Meet the Composer, (New York City, NY)
A growing list of links to job resources for artists and arts administrators is available on Arts Wire's Web Site at http://www.artswire.org/current/jobres.html
A winner of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's New Media/New Century Award to create art for the Web, Patrick Lichty's SPRAWL -- http://nmaa-ryder.si.edu/collections/exhibits/helios/newmedia/- lichty/index.htm -- constructs a story of the 1990s urban sprawl in his hometown of North Canton, Ohio.
The work incorporates online panoramic photographs of sites that have been irrevocably changed by the area's development as well as interviews with Stark County residents which reveal, the artist states, "that the issues and lives entangled in the suburban expansion of the US weave a complex story that is not easily reducible."
Offering multiple entry ways into the complex phenomena of sprawl, the interface includes a road map with links to the specific sites. Circular "thumb nail" insets also lead to the larger panoramas, and to views of the surrounding areas of Akron and Canton. Clickable portrait photos link to audio clips of the residents' stories.
"As I finish this stage of the work, two questions come to mind," the artist states. "I wonder if the motivations and the influences surrounding each of the postwar suburban expansions have some inherent similarity, and serve to show part of our identity as Americans. Perhaps the strip mall and tract home is what defines a significant part of American identity at the turn of the millennium. Also, what will the culture of the strip mall, minifarm, and tract mansion look like in thirty years?...."
Works by Cindy Bernard and Russet Lederman are also available on Smithsonian American Art Museum's New Media/New Century Award web site at http://AmericanArt.si.edu
MONTPELIER, VT -- Governor Howard Dean has named August 2001 "New Music Month" in recognition of the OUGHT-ONE NONPOP FESTIVAL OF NEW MUSIC which will take place in and around Montpelier on August 25-26. Over 100 composers from around the world are expected to arrive for a weekend of public presentations, concerts, interviews, installations, and workshops. The entire event will be recorded for later broadcast on KALVOS & DAMIAN'S NEW MUSIC BAZAAR.
Governor Dean's proclamation reads:
"WHEREAS,
the creation and presentation of new music are fundamental to the history of Vermont and Vermonters since the days of composer Justin Morgan; andWHEREAS,
the creation and presentation of new music are integral to the development of the arts and the furtherance of both culture and the sciences in Vermont; andWHEREAS,
research and development in the creation and presentation of new music provide a basis for continuing growth of Vermont's educational opportunities, progress in cultural leadership, and breakthroughs in new technologies; andWHEREAS,
the creation and presentation of unique new music are central to Vermont's individuality as reflected in its schools, towns, villages, and cities; andWHEREAS,
Vermont has shown leadership in the creation and presentation of new music as revealed by its high proportion of composers and presentations of new music; andWHEREAS,
a mixed, innovative, and dynamic new music climate contributes to the decision to visit Vermont; andWHEREAS,
the creation and presentation of new music contribute critical understanding and respect for Vermont's heritage;NOW THEREFORE,
I, Howard Dean, Governor, do hereby proclaim August 2001 as NEW MUSIC MONTH"
Kalvos & Damian's OUGHT-ONE FESTIVAL OF NONPOP will take place in the intimate concert halls and performance space in beautiful downtown Montpelier, Vermont. With the sponsorship and cooperation of the Onion River Arts Council, a half-dozen halls within three minutes' walk of each other have opened their doors. There will be a large indoor performance space and two medium-sized spaces. Large and small conference rooms will be available for workshops. A "Dream Room" of multichannel spatial sound installations is being created, and other interactive installations are being devised.
A "virtual concert space" will present performances and interactive pieces by composers from other geographies. This space is being integrated into the regular concert presentations, emphasizing the Kalvos & Damian long-term commitment to virtual presences. The Festival program includes:
MICHAEL ARNOWITT
Gyorgy Ligeti: Four Etudes from Book I and Book II
Frederic Rzewski: Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues
Erik Nielsen: Quicksilver, a solo piano premiere
Frank Zappa: The Girl in the Magnesium Dress
Clarence Barlow: Kuri Suti Bekar piano solo, optional
video
Clarence Barlow: "..or a cherish'd bard..." piano solo
MARGARET LANCASTER
Paul Steenhuisen: pomme de terre for piccolo and actor
Karlheinz Stockhausen: Zungenspitzentanz for piccolo and actor
Kaija Saariaho: Noa Noa for flute and electronics
Paul Steenhuisen: cette obscure clarter qui tombe des toiles for
flute and tape
Larry Polansky: Piker for piccolo and drone
Paul Steenhuisen: Poland is not yet lost for tape
Jon Appleton: Stop Time for tap-dancing flutist
Paul Reller: in praise of buddy hackett for flute and tape
Rob Constable: Onceathon for flute and tape
Eric Lyon: Onceathon 2
ENSEMBLE WIREWORKS
Jonathan Harvey: Tombeau de Messiaen for piano and tape
Manfred Stahnke: Malaita for prepared piano and real-time>/i>
recording system
Steven Clark: Song and a Prayer for piano and interactive
electronics
Georg Hajdu: New Piece
Annea Lockwood: Ear-Walking Woman for amplified prepared
piano
Chris Brown: Spark for keyboard and inteactive
electronics
Dieter Schnebel: Zwei Studien: I. Raum, II. Zeit for piano
and live-electronics
William Susman: Waves for piano and tape
Plus Eve Beglarian; Brenda Hutchinson; and much more including works by Damian; Dietmar Hippler; Kalvos; and installations/playback by Larry Austin; David Jaffe; Sarah Peebles; and Anna Rubin and Laurie Hollander among others.
Sources/resources:
OUGHT-ONE FESTIVAL OF NONPOP -- http://ought-one.com
THE KALVOS & DAMIAN NEW MUSIC BAZAAR --
http://www.goddard.edu/wgdr/kalvos/kalvos.html --
a radio show (WGDR) and website bringing composers to the wider
world through their music, interviews, pictures, photos, artwork,
essays, biographies, attitudes, catalogs and ideas.
Information about early Vermont composer JUSTIN MORGAN is available at http://members.tripod.com/~NMMH/jmm.html
Also happening in Vermont the previous week, (August 19-26) is the AFRO-CARIBBEAN JAZZ SEMINAR WITH THE EDDIE PALMIERI OCTET at Goddard College -- http://www.goddard.edu/salsajazz/
VERMONT ARTS COUNCIL - http://www.vermontartscouncil.org
Because of an illness in my family, the next week in which Arts Wire CURRENT will *not* be produced will be next week -- the week of July 31, 2001.
There will also be no job listing or "calls" updates during that week. The next job and call listings will appear on Monday August 7, and the next issue of Current will go out on Tuesday, August 7 - Judy Malloy
An Excite search engine for Arts Wire CURRENT is located at http://www.artswire.org/current/AT-Currentquery.html The engine allows anyone interested in arts news to find information in the Current archives as far back as 1995.
To subscribe to Arts Wire's Current, send an email message to majordomo@artswire.org In the message body, type "subscribe current". (The Subject: line of your message will be ignored, and can be left blank.) To be removed from this list, send an email message to majordomo@artswire.org In the message body, type "unsubscribe current".
Major support provided by the Masters of Arts Management Program of Carnegie Mellon University.
Arts Wire® is a service mark of the New York Foundation for the Arts. Individual membership of the New York Foundation for the Arts.
Map | News | ArtQuarry | SpiderSchool | Workshops | Support NYFA| Contact Us |