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The event not only raises awareness about CERF, an organization which helps professional craftspeople recover from career-threatening emergencies, but also unites crafts galleries and calls attention to the work of craftspeople nationwide.
For instance, every year in Brooklyn, New York's Park Slope neighborhood, Robert and Sally Silberberg, owners of the Clay Pot, gallery donate a percentage of their September sales to CERF. The Clay Pot specializes in engagement rings and wedding bands. "For last decade we have worked to bring young marrieds into the crafts world via handmade bands, and we now represent over 75 different artists from all over the country, working in a range of materials and an even broader range of styles," co-owner Bob Silberberg told Arts Wire.
In Mashpee, Massachusetts, the Signature Gallery, which showcases American crafts at four New England locations, will hold a competition for Christmas and Hanukkah ornaments and will donate money to CERF in honor of the winners.
On September 6, in Ashville, North Carolina, the Grovewood Gallery -- with an historic commitment to Western North Carolina contemporary and traditional furniture, craft and art -- will benefit CERF with a wine tasting dinner and an auction of artist-made goblets.
"We are delighted to do this because CERF provides an invaluable service to craftspeople recovering from disasters. It's our way of giving back to craftspeople who make our work possible," said Beth Gerstein, Executive Director of the Society of Arts and Crafts in Boston which will be donating one percent of sales from their retail gallery for the month of September to CERF. One of America's oldest non-profit craft organizations, (incorporated in 1897) The Society of Arts and Crafts is currently exhibiting painted and carved sculptures and furniture by two graduates of Rochester Institute of Technology School for American Crafts -- Rolf Hoeg and Joel Urruty.
"A Month for CERF gets more popular each year, with more galleries participating, and more customers learning about the work we do and finding ways to help out," CERF Executive Director Cornelia Carey told Arts Wire. "Each year we build on that momentum and excitement. This year will be the largest A Month for CERF yet."
Last year, 63 galleries from around the country participated in A Month for CERF, raising over $27,000 for professional craftspeople in crisis by organizing and hosting a range of activities including gallery walks, special dinners, benefit exhibitions, raffles for gallery gift certificates, silent auctions of work donated by gallery artists, 1% for CERF Month, and 10% for CERF Day.
"Our participating galleries are aware that they wouldn't be in business were it not for craftpeople. They welcome the opportunity to join in and help CERF help craftspeople in need, for CERF," explains Cornelia Carey. "We have an outstanding group of galleries participating this September, and I hope that many people will visit the galleries nearest them to find out how their purchases will make a significant difference in the lives of craftspeople working to get back on their feet after crises."
"As a community we need to support our own community.... We want to encourage people who have chosen crafts as a way to make a living to not abandon it in times of hardship." - Paula Brooks, Co-owner Appalachian Spring, Washington, DC; CERF Board member
In Washington, DC, Appalachian Spring is a family owned crafts gallery which features American handcrafted functional crafts. Husband and wife Paula Brooks and David Brooks are co-owners, and their daughter Andrea is one of the buyers. They started out in 1968 with a gallery in Georgetown, and they now also have stores in Reston, Virginia and Rockville, MD, as well as another Washington DC location in the Union Station building. Their galleries represent craftspeople from all over the US including Alaska and Hawaii. Work exhibited includes glass, pottery, jewelry, wood, iron, and textiles. They don't have themed exhibitions, but they feature new artists as they come in.
"We are very fortunate to have been well received in our community," co-owner Paula Brooks told Arts Wire. "It's a wonderful community and there are lots of people coming and going who really appreciate art and craft."
During A Month for CERF, Appalachian Spring is sponsoring a one percent for CERF fundraiser. Craftspeople who have a purchase order due in September are given the option of donating one percent of their invoice to CERF, and than the gallery matches the amount.
In Portland, Oregon, The Real Mother Goose, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary, will also give a percentage of its September sales to benefit CERF.
Each month during this anniversary year the gallery is featuring different artists. "We chose artists who have been with us for a long time," Marketing Director Kirstin Kurtz told Arts Wire. "We want to honor the artists who have been a part of our 30 year history -- who have helped us stay around." The gallery, which is owned by Stan and Judy Gillis, is currently showing the work of Dave and Boni Deal, whose raku fired ceramics incorporate images of the plants, wildlife and geology of their native Washington state. Also featured is the work of architectural woodworking firm Jesse Woodworks, (Michael and Rebecca Jesse) whose furniture incorporates figured woods with natural finishes.
In Philadelphia, Rick and Ruth Snyderman, owners of the Snyderman-Works Galleries, will give CERF 10 percent of their opening night proceeds during Philadelphia's 4th ANNUAL GLASS WEEK, September 7- 15.
Both of these husband and wife owned galleries -- Works and Snyderman -- maintain their separate identities and independent exhibition schedules, but they work together on special projects and out-of-gallery expositions. Current exhibitions at Works include THE GOBLET SHOW, with drinking vessels by Ralph Mossman & Mary Mullaney, Lucartha Kohler, Scot Wolfson, and Michael Cain. At Snyderman, upcoming exhibitions include RICK BECK: SOLO EXHIBIT OF CAST GLASS SCULPTURE and PAMINA TRAYLOR: SOLO GLASS EXHIBIT.
"I think that as a community we need to support our own community," Appalachian Spring co-owner Paula Brooks, who is a CERF Board member, emphasized. "The people in our own community have done it informally for years and years, she observed, "but CERF is an organized effort to be immediately available to craftspeople who are in distress whether from illness or from national disaster -- such as the recent floods in Texas or the earthquake in Seattle. Almost anytime there is a natural disaster which is devastating for craftspeople, they can turn to CERF and get immediate help. We're small and we can move very quickly."
She added that: "We want to encourage people who have chosen crafts as a way to make a living to not abandon it in times of hardship."
A complete list of galleries participating in A Month for CERF is available (as a supplement to this issue of Arts Wire CURRENT) at http://www.artswire.org/current/cerf.html
Sources/resources:
CRAFT EMERGENCY RELIEF FUND (CERF) --
http://www.craftemergency.org
CERF helps professional craftspeople sustain craftsmaking as a
livelihood by providing relief to craftspeople who have suffered
career-threatening emergencies in their lives. Tax-deductible
contributions are accepted by sending a check to CERF, P.O. Box
838, Montpelier, VT 05601-0838. If you or someone you know needs
assistance from CERF, please call (802) 229-2306, or email with
your name and address at
info@craftemergency.org
THE SOCIETY OF ARTS AND CRAFTS -- http://www.societyofcrafts.org/online/about1.htm
THE CLAY POT -- http://www.clay-pot.com
SIGNATURE -- http://www.signaturecraftgallery.com
GROVEWOOD -- http://www.grovewood.com/
THE REAL MOTHER GOOSE -- http://www.therealmothergoose.com/
SNYDERMAN-WORKS GALLERIES --
http://www.snyderman-works.com/
The Snyderman/Works Galleries welcome submissions from artists of
all disciplines looking for gallery representation. For details,
visit
http://www.snyderman-works.com/submission.htm
"CERF Launches New Programs to Support Craftspeople in Crisis"
Arts Wire CURRENT --
http://www.artswire.org/current/2000/cur082200.html
August 22, 2000
"Not only does this mean that the AMC scores and recordings will remain a living collection, but it insures that their historic importance will continue to grow in significance as a cross-section of American composition in the latter half of the twentieth century," said Susan T. Sommer, Chief of The New York Public Library's Music Division. "Future generations will be able to see not only individual works but the whole panorama of American music of our time, preserved by NYPL under optimum conditions. We are grateful to the American Music Center for their foresight and enterprise in initiating such a valuable project."
For many years the repository of scores and recordings for the National Endowment for the Arts Composer/Librettist Program, the AMC Collection is the largest single collection of scores and recordings by American composers in the world and contains many items that are difficult or impossible to find elsewhere. Since its establishment in 1939, the Collection has filled a need in the new music community as a resource for programming concerts and recitals or for scholarly research. The earliest works in the AMC Collection, a string quartet by Giorgio Garofalo and UN GRAND SOMMEIL NOIR by Edgard Varese, were composed in 1906, with the most recent additions being made as late as June 2001.
Some of the composers who submitted works in the past year are: Darrel Andrews, Derek Bermel, Lisa Bielawa, Harold Blumenfeld, Kitty Brazelton, Dennis Busch, Ron Foster, Jennifer Higdon, William Karlins, Neil Kirkwood, Elodie Lauten, Leonard Lerhman, Robert Manno, Chris Minarich, Kurt Mortensen, Leroy Osmon, Eleanor Sandresky, Alice Shields, David Snow, Roger Trefousse, and Meira Warshauer.
A significant number of scores in the Collection are by self-published composers who have for years viewed the AMC Collection as a primary source for making their music accessible worldwide. Throughout the years, tens of thousands of works have been discovered, performed, and recorded as a result of their inclusion in the AMC Collection.
"We get a lot of requests from people who are looking for works of particular instrumental combinations," Lyn Liston, AMC New Music Specialist, told Arts Wire. "For example, just before the Collection moved, a member of the Jade String Trio came in looking for repertoire for her ensemble. Last week a flutist called who is looking for works for flute and percussion. I also frequently receive calls from people looking for works that are difficult to find elsewhere."
For instance, this month AMC received a call from a woman who was in search of specific works by William Ortiz, as well as a call from Amy Shulman of 51 Strings (violin and harp duo) to find works for violin, harp, and double bass. "We don't have anything for that combination, but we do have works that might be easily transcribed, (pending permission from the copyright holder) Liston noted, adding that 51 Strings "used to use the library a lot some years ago with good results, but they haven't been performing in a while. Now they are returning to the stage and are looking for more repertoire."
In another indication of the Collection's reach, Lyn Liston said that the Asian Cultural Council (ACC) brought composer Xu Changjun from Beijing here for several months so that he could learn about American composers. "They contacted me and asked if he could come in and use the library. He came in quite a few times, and I believe that we played a major role in his understanding of the breadth of compositional styles. I know that through us one of the composers he discovered was Shulamit Ran, whose music he particularly admired. He also attended a Steve Reich concert, became interested in his music, and came in to us asking to hear more. The ACC told me after he left that he said that his experience in the US was going to have an extremely profound impact on his composing."
Liston added that "I'm sure he will also teach his students about American composers as well, and I know from what he told me that the AMC played a major role in his experience."
The recordings in the Collection total over 20,000 reel-to-reel tapes, cassettes, and LPs, a vast amount of which are of live performances unavailable through any other source. Works in the AMC Collection cover the widest range of styles and genres -- including solo, chamber, orchestra, opera, music theater, electro-acoustic, art songs, choral music, and more -- all reflecting the chronology of styles that have shaped the history of 20th century American music.
"This new arrangement between the American Music Center and The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts represents a unique partnership between the two organizations," The AMC states. "In the past, the AMC has provided an invaluable service to the new-music community by circulating items from the Collection throughout the United States and internationally as a means of promoting American music. Under the new agreement, AMC will continue to circulate perusal copies of scores from the Collection, and NYPL will house, maintain, and make the original items from the Collection available for on-site perusal, listening, and research."
The American Music Center, founded by Aaron Copland, Otto Luening, Harrison Kerr, Marion Bauer, Quincy Porter, and Howard Hanson in 1939, is a leading service organization and information center for new music. In the past two years, AMC has introduced a variety of new programs and services, such as NewMusicBox.org, a monthly Web magazine for new American music; an online catalog and print directory of new American music written expressly for student audiences; and a Professional Development Program which includes a series of workshops supporting those pursuing careers in new music.
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, one of four major research centers of The New York Public Library, serves more than 425,000 visitors a year and houses the world's most extensive combination of circulating, reference, and rare archival collections in its field. The materials are available free of charge, along with a wide range of exhibitions, seminars, and performances. The Library's Research Collections are the Billy Rose Theatre Collection, the Jerome Robbins Dance Division, the Music Division, and the Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound. It also features extensive Circulating Collections with materials in Music, Dance, Drama, Film, and Arts Administration, including large collections of circulating audio and video recordings. The Lincoln Center location is scheduled to reopen October 15, 2001, following a major renovation.
Sources/Resources:
THE AMERICAN MUSIC CENTER -- http://www.amc.net
THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS -- http://www.nypl.org/research/lpa/lpa.html
"Visual art is as wide ranging in its depiction of ideas, concepts and emotions as any book, treatise, pamphlet or other writing, and is similarly entitled to full First Amendment protection," the 2nd Circuit Federal Appeals Court ruling stated in October, 1996. "....the City's requirement that appellants be licensed in order to sell their artwork in public spaces constitutes an unconstitutional infringement of their First Amendment rights...Displaying art on the street has a different expressive purpose than gallery or museum shows; it reaches people who might not choose to go into a gallery or museum or who might feel excluded or alienated from these forums. The public display and sale of artwork is a form of communication between the artist and the public not possible in the enclosed, separated spaces of galleries and museums..."
Additionally Last month, a state appeals court affirmed the decision of a judge in State Supreme Court in Manhattan who dismissed criminal charges against two artists who were given summonses for selling artwork without a permit.
The decision, which the city has announced its intention to appeal, affects street artists who display their work in parks or on adjacent sidewalks, including those at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which are part of Central Park. Their legal battle began after the police began issuing summonses to those without permits. The conflict escalated into street protests and arrests, and the police confiscated some artwork.
In response to the Giuliani administration's intention to appeal the decision, the NEW YORK TIMES editorialized:
"By now it should be transparently clear to the Giuliani administration that it is not going to win the battle to require street artists to obtain permits before selling their wares on the streets or in certain park spaces. It has lost this fight at nearly every court level and usually for the same reasons that licenses are inconsistent with city law and with the broader purposes of the First Amendment. Mr. Giuliani, stubborn as usual, plans to appeal. He would be much better advised to let the artists go about their business while exercising the city's uncontested, legitimate right to decide where and when the vendors operate so that they do not pose crowding or public safety problems."
President of the street artists group, A.R.T.I.S.T. and lead plaintiff Robert Lederman -- an artist who has been arrested more than 40 times for protesting against the Mayor -- points out that the decision has far reaching ramifications.
"This is about the future of free speech on public property everywhere in the United States," he emphasizes.
Sources/resources:
A.R.T.I.S.T. -- http://www.openair.org/alerts/artist/nyc.html
Editorial
"New York's Art Wars Continue"
THE NEW YORK TIMES --
http://www.nytimes.com
August 20, 2001
"Street Artist Federal Ruling Stands; Supreme Court Rejects"
Giuliani Appeal"
Arts Wire CURRENT --
http://www.artswire.org/current/1997/cur061097.html
June 10, 1997
LINCOLN CENTER ANNUAL ETHICS CONFERENCE 2001: ETHICS AND THE ARTS
ETHICS AND THE ARTS, a conference hosted by the Joan and David Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics at Arizona State University, (ASU) will explore ethical and perceived ethical issues in the arts. Participants will include artists; arts administrators; ASU administrators; critics; journalists; philosophers; spokespeople from anti-censorship organizations, such as the National Coalition Against Censorship; and spokespeople from conservative organizations, such as the Alliance Defense Fund and Morality in Media.
The Joan and David Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics opened in the ASU College of Liberal Arts and Sciences on July 1, 2000. The Center states that it is "dedicated to emphasizing the essential role that morals and values play in the achievements and successes of individuals and organizations."
Keynote speakers:
novelist, poet and filmmaker Sherman Alexie
actor and playwright Anna Deavere Smith
documentary filmmaker Rory Kennedy
Panels, moderated for the most part by a both philosopher and a critic, include:
MORE THAN A MOVIE, MORE THAN AN EXHIBIT, MORE THAN A PERFORMANCE:
DECENCY, OFFENSE, AND HARM: WHO IS RESPONSIBLE?
Moderator: TBA
Panelists: Eduardo Kac, Transgenic (bioart) Artist; Guillermo
Gomez-Pena, Performance Artist; Roger Copeland, Dance Theorist,
Oberlin College; J. David Williams, Film Producer; Tony Berg,
Record Producer, Virgin Records; Joel-Peter Witkin, Artist
(Photographer) Miguel Valenti, Film Producer; Laurie Trotta,
Media and Social Issues Writer; Marjorie Heins, Free Expression
Policy Project, National Coalition Against Censorship; Colleen
Jennings-Roggensack, Exec Dir, ASU Public Events;
James Weinstein, Professor of Law, ASU; Robert Wills, Dean,
College of Fine Arts, ASU; Kyle Lawson, Richard Nilsen, Ken
LaFave, Art Critics, Arizona Republic; Alan Sears, President,
Alliance Defense Fund; and Bob Peters, President, Morality in
Media
ART AS AN AGENT OF SOCIAL CHANGE
Moderators: Richard Shusterman, Philosopher, Temple University and
Ted Pease, Critic, Utah State University
Panelists: Edgar Heap of Birds, Artist; Tim Miller, Performance
Artist; Paul Friedlander, Author of THE SOCIAL HISTORY OF ROCK
AND ROLL; Deborah Wong, Ethnomusicologist, UC, Riverside; Robert
Wills, Dean, College of Fine Arts, ASU; Fred Corey, Associate
Dean, College of Public Programs, ASU, among others.
Plenary Session: ISSUES CONFRONTING CONTEMPORARY INDIAN
ARTISTS
Moderator: Andrea Hanley Twist, Executive Director, Atlatl
Panelists: Edgar Heap of Birds, Margaret Wood, David Johns, Marcus
Zilliox, artists; and Margaret Archuleta, Heard Museum; Carol
Lujan, Director, American Indian Studies, ASU; among others.
Plus panels on: "In the Name of Art: Can Moral and Aesthetic Judgments be Completely Disentangled?"; "Feminists Face the Arts"; and "Does Art Really Incite Behavior?"
For details, visit http://www.asu.edu/clas/lincolncenter/
GROUND ZERO:01
"Ground Zero, traditionally a reference to a point of origin or a critical juncture, signifies the potential for rapid, intense, and occasionally violent change. The distinct voices in this collection of predominantly emerging artists allude to this dynamically generative moment and represent new avenues for exploration and evolution. Their backgrounds, motives, and methods -- while certainly diverse in production -- are unified by a common pursuit of discovery and a rigorous intensity."
TriBeach Holdings LLC, current owner of a building in transition -- 129 Lafayette -- graciously provided space for independent curators and artists, who, inhabiting six floors to create GROUND ZERO:01, respond to the unique dynamics of the recently renovated building. Each floor presents a distinct vision, including work ranging from site specific installation and fabricated environments to investigative painting and analytical photography.
"The collected work of Ground Zero:01, filling some 30,000 square feet of exhibition space forms a body of new material capable of stimulating sophisticated discussions concerning the relevance of a wide array of directions for artists," the project states.
Among Ground Zero:01 works are Venantius Pinto's layered digitized journal which draws on his experience with religion and culture (on Floor 6: Seema Garkhel, curator) and Nancy Davidson's dressedup inflatables which "register a variety of sensorial stimuli, from exaggeration to transgression." (Floor 7: Catherine Douthett, curator)
On Floor 8, (Jodi Hanel and Jenny Moore, Curators) artists Larry Bamburg, Anita Chao, Stephanie Diamond, Laura Lobdell, Ryan McGinness, Michael Rippens, Arlene Rozo, and Jean Shin examine the existing architecture of the building, redefining it in terms of their respective mediums. Art and architecture also converge on Floor 9 (Susanna Cole and Erin Donnelly, curators) in a series installations which promote new thinking about social space, including, among others Heimo Lattner and Ruthard Miksch's inflatable Collective Dwelling Unit #4 which is capable of collapsing into a cargo case for travel. And on Floor 10, the installation of FOUR WALLS, by the Experimental Modern Arts Collective, (XMAC) continues their analysis of architectural form and scale in an art context.
In Independent Artists' Projects on Floor 11, installations of work by Brian Lemond, Lin-i Liu, Fynn Sloyan, and Laura Ten Eyck share the common language of spa compiled by Alex Burke/FYI -- http://www.nyfa.org/fyi -- at the New York Foundation for the Arts. To add your listings to MONEY send email to aburke@nyfa.org
Deadline: November 1, 2001 - THE ADIRONDACK CENTER FOR WRITING and NORTH COUNTRY PUBLIC RADIO invite poetry and creative non-fiction submissions for their Writing Contest for Adult and Young Writers. Writers in the North County Public Radio listening area are eligible. Poets may submit 3 poems, up to 6 pages total, single-spaced. Non-fiction submissions are limited to 2,500 words or 10 pages double spaced. The 1st prize winner in each genre and age group will receive $500, earn publication in Blueline Magazine, read their work on public radio, and have their work posted on the Web. For more information, contact: Adirondack Center for Writing, P.O. Box 265, Paul Smith's College, Paul Smiths, NY 12970; phone (518) 327-6278; email acw@paulsmiths.edu or visit http://www.adirondackcenterforwriting.org
Deadline: November 1, 2001 - THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND LETTERS offers the Richard Rodgers Awards for musical theater. The award supports the development of musical theater by funding full productions, studio productions, and staged readings by non-profit theaters in New York City of works by composers and writers who are not already established in this field. The term musical theater is understood to include musicals, plays with songs, chamber operas, thematic revues, or any comparable work. The submission of innovative and experimental material is encouraged. Only completed works will be accepted. For more information and application materials, contact: American Academy of Arts and Letters, 633 West 155th St., New York, NY 10032.
Deadline: Ongoing - CRITICAL PRESS, the publishing arm of The Gunk Foundation, is devoted to publishing thought-provoking, "less profitable" books and journals in an attempt to broaden the intellectual climate of our day. Critical Press's Thinking Publicly program welcomes proposals from writers that investigate the current market-dominated system of the art world, and how artists are using the public realm to rethink the fundamental questions of the postmodern era. Writers or projects published by other presses are ineligible. For more information, email: cp@gunk.org or visit http://www.gunk.org
Deadline: Ongoing - THE HELENE WURLITZER FOUNDATION OF NEW MEXICO offers an artist residency program. The Foundation has 12 guest houses on 18 acres of land located within easy walking distance of Taos, New Mexico. Painters, poets, sculptors, writers, playwrights, composers, and photographers may apply. Residents receive rent and housing during their stay. No monetary grants or stipends for living expenses or supplies are awarded. Each guest house is fully furnished. Applications are received throughout the year. However, applications must be postmarked by January 18th of each year for consideration the following year. For more information, send an SASE to: The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico, P.O. Box 1891, Taos, NM 87571.
"The humanities are the people, places and events in history that provide us with knowledge and wisdom," Ferris said. "At the National Endowment for the Humanities, we seek to engage millions of Americans in history and literature projects that express our humanity and give perspective on our lives. The films, museum exhibitions, library programs, preservation projects and classroom activities we are funding today will provide a richer cultural world for all Americans."
Categories funded in this round were public programs (98) $12,094,000; education programs; (102) $7,466,000; preservation and access (162) $734,000; and research programs (27) $648,000.
A few of the projects funded (among many others) were:
Georgia
Iowa
Maryland
Michigan
New York
North Dakota
Texas
A complete list of the grants in this round -- including grants in many other states across the country - is available at http://www.neh.gov/pdf/GrantsJuly2001.pdf
NEW YORK -- The New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) has awarded Artists' Fellowships to 161 New York State artists in the categories of Computer Arts, Crafts, Film, NonFiction Literature, Performance Art/ Multidisciplinary Work, Poetry, Printmaking/Drawing/Artists' Books, and Sculpture.
One of the largest sources of support for individual artists in the United States, the NYFA Artists' Fellowships program has awarded over $17,198,000 to more than 2,400 artists since its inception 16 years ago. Fellows receive grants of $7,000, designed specifically to further their creative development.
"NYFA Fellowships allow artists the time and resources necessary for them to think, work, and create," said Theodore S. Berger, Executive Director of NYFA. "While NYFA is delighted to award NYFA Fellowships to 161 artists, we wish we could have offered support to the other 3,200 artists that applied. NYFA will continue to strive to provide more money and more support for more artists."
Recognizing the interdisciplinary way in which many contemporary artists work, NYFA allows artists to apply in more than one category, although they can receive only one award in a given year. "As barriers disappear between sculpture and multi-disciplinary art, between poetry and performance art, and with other category-bending art works, NYFA's cross-disciplinary approach is the best way to address the changing nature of art and the artists who create it," Berger noted.
The Summer 2001 issue of FYI -- http://www.nyfa.org/fyi/fyi_summer2001.htm -- features a complete list of the recipients of this year's Artists' Fellowships. A description of each artist's work is available at -- http://www.nyfa.org/artists_fellowships/af_fellows2001.htm
In the 2001-2001 cycle, categories to be funded are Architecture/Environmental Structures, Choreography, Fiction, Music Composition, Painting, Photography, Playwriting/Screenwriting, Video.
The deadline is October 2, 2001.
The application is available at http://www.nyfa.org/artists_fellowships/af_application.htm
Sources/resources:
New York State's largest free arts magazine, FYI (FOR YOUR INFORMATION) -- http://www.nyfa.org/fyi -- is a quarterly publication which provides resources and information to more than 30,000 artists, arts organizations and educators. Though focused primarily on New York State, FYI has subscribers throughout the U.S. and abroad. FYI is a publication of the New York Foundation for the Arts. (NYFA) Alan Gilbert is FYI's Senior Editor.
FYI is free to New York State residents. For subscription information, contact Alex Burke at 212-366-6900 ext. 248 or aburke@nyfa.org
"New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) Awards Over $1 Million to
2001 NYFA Fellowship Recipients"
NYFA WEBSITE --
http://www.nyfa.org/press_releases/pr_NYFAFellows_01.htm
A complete description of NYFA's Artists' Fellowship program is available at http://www.nyfa.org/artists_fellowships/index.html
AUSTRALIA COUNCIL ESTABLISHES FELLOWSHIPS TO HELP REGIONAL WRITERS FIND AUDIENCES
To support Australian regional writers -- for whom professional networks are hard to establish and complex to maintain; and for whom publishers and agents are a long distance away and vital face-to-face contact is difficult to organize -- the Australia Council's Literature Board has established the Regional Writers Fellowships program in collaboration with Varuna - The Writers' House, an environment dedicated to the support of writers and writing which is located in Katoomba, New South Wales.
The fellowship program is jointly funded by the Literature Board and the Regional Arts Fund. It will give four regional writers the opportunity of three weeks at Varuna, extensive mentoring and professional advice, public readings, meetings with publishers and agents, and visits to the sorts of bookshops, libraries and events that the regions can rarely offer.
Announcing the program, the Federal Minister for the Arts, Peter McGauran, said "The fellowships will bring the support of professional networks to writers from rural areas and draw a remarkable range of regional voices to the attention of the public."
The program will help regional writers overcome the "tyranny of distance" from the main eastern seaboard, where major publishers, literary agents and networking opportunities are all to be found, emphasized Literature Board Manager, Gaily Cork, observing that "Even in this age of electronic communication, there is ultimately no substitute for face-to-face contact with the people whose decisions can make or break one's writing career."
Source:
AUSTRALIA COUNCIL -- http://www.ozco.gov.au/
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: August 31, 2001, Southern California modern dance choreographers, SOLA CONTEMPORARY DANCE FESTIVAL 2001, TORRANCE, CA
Deadline: August 31, 2001, Artists, HOLIDAY MARKET 2001- OCONEE CULTURAL ARTS FOUNDATION, WATKINSVILLE, GA
Deadlines: September 1, 2001, November 1, 2001, studio craft artists, BUYERS MARKET OF AMERICAN CRAFT
Deadline: September 7, 2001, Artists, two month residency - 18TH STREET ARTS COMPLEX, SANTA MONICA, CA Deadline September 15, 2001, Environmental Artists -- proposals for a temporary street performance/artwork in Boston, MA dealing with clearcutting of forests to make paper and/or the need for recycled office products, FORESTETHICS
Deadline: September 15, 2001, Panel Proposals for Women's Caucus for the Arts (WCA) Conference, BRIDGING GENERATIONS PAINTING THE PICTURE, PHILADELPHIA, PA
Deadline: February 28, 2002, Native American Artists -- work contributing to the theme, STORIES FROM THE CIRCLE SCIENCE AND NATIVE WISDOM, Museum and Gallery, Dine College, Tsaile, AZ
Deadline: ongoing, Artists, ARTISTS RESIDENCIES IN KERALA, SOUTH INDIA
Deadline: ongoing, Artists Groups or Studios in the New York area, EXCHANGE OF WORK FOR EXHIBITION WITH BELFAST, NORTHERN IRELAND
Deadline: Ongoing, Artists from Mid-Atlantic region - packaged art works the size of a crush proof pack of cigarettes, ART-O-MAT MACHINE AT THE ARLINGTON ARTS CENTER, ARLINGTON, VA
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, Thomasville Cultural Center, (Thomasville, GA)
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, The Hui No'eau Visual Arts Center on Maui, (Maui, HI)
ART LIBRARIAN, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, (New York City, NY)
OPERATIONS DIRECTOR, Active Voice, (San Francisco, CA)
TEAM ASSOCIATE, (funding programs on the Visual Arts Team) New York State Council on the Arts
ARTS/EVENT COORDINATOR, (Part-Time) Earth Celebrations, (New York City, NY)
TECHNICAL DIRECTOR, The Granbury Opera House, (Granbury, TX)
THEATER TEACHERS & VISUAL ARTS TEACHERS, Working Playground, (New York City, NY)
PROGRAM DIRECTOR; PLAYWRIGHT/TEACHER - CONSULTANT; LITERATURE TEACHER/WRITER/LITERACY SPECIALIST - CONSULTANT; ACADEMIC AND PROGRAM ASSISTANTS, Flatbush Youth Initiative, (Brooklyn, NY)
MUSIC TEACHERS, (new music school) (Long Island City, NY)
SOUND ENGINEER / CARPENTER; PROPS MANAGER / CARPENTER; CUTTER/DRAPER/STITCHER; WARDROBE MANAGER / STITCHER, Mill Mountain Theatre, (Roanoke, VA)
MUSIC SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION/CHAMBER MUSIC PROGRAM DIRECTOR; (part time) The 92nd Street Y, (New York City, NY)
COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR, Brooklyn Academy of Music, (Brooklyn, NY)
PROJECT MANAGER, VOLUNTEER PROGRAMS OFFICE; PUBLIC RELATIONS MANAGER, The Chicago Symphony Orchestra, (Chicago, IL)
DIRECTOR OF MARKETING & PUBLIC RELATIONS, Haddonfield Symphony, (Haddonfield, NJ)
MARKETING/PUBLIC RELATIONS COORDINATOR, Salem Art Association, (Salem OR)
DIRECTOR OF MARKETING & RECRUITING, Sherwoood Conservatory of Music, (Chicago, IL)
PROGRAM ASSOCIATE, The Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, (NYC OFFICE/option of Maine campus in summer)
ASSISTANT WEBSITE EDITOR, trAce Online Writing Centre
GALLERY ASSISTANT, (Part-Time) (art dealer) (New York City, NY)
GALLERY ASSISTANT, (Part-Time) (Brooklyn, NY)
DEVELOPMENT, Boston Gay Men's Chorus, (Boston, MA)
PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT/GRANTWRITING SPECIALIST, American Folk Art Museum, (New York City, NY)
COORDINATOR, Grant Programs for Artists and Arts Organizations, The Virginia Commission for the Arts, (Richmond, VA)
DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT, Young Audiences, Inc., (New York City, NY)
FUNDING RESEARCHER/GRANTWRITER, for documentary, TrollConcept, (New York City, NY)
ASSISTANT TO THE DIRECTOR, CITYarts, (New York City, NY)
ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT, Programs Department, Westchester Arts Council, (White Plains, NY)
FULL TIME ARTS ADMINISTRATION & OFFICE MANAGER, Elsie Management, (Brooklyn NY)
ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT, Membership Office, American Folk Art Museum, (New York City, NY)
ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT, 92nd Street Y, (New York City, NY)
BOX OFFICE MANAGER, University of California, Riverside, (Riverside, CA)
INTERNSHIP, The Female Musician, (Northport NY)
INTERNSHIP, StudentsLive, (New York City, NY)
DESIGN-INTERN, Brooklyn Academy of Music, (Brooklyn, NY)
COMMUNICATIONS AND PUBLIC RELATIONS INTERN, The Brooklyn Academy of Music, (Brooklyn, NY)
PUBLIC RELATIONS/MARKETING INTERN, Chicago Symphony Orchestra
(Chicago, IL)
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The NYFA Prize will be awarded annually to an artist of exceptional promise. The Prize also seeks to dramatize the need for substantial unrestricted grants for artists and to encourage other donors to fund additional prizes and fellowships.
"NYFA is very pleased to award this first-time NYFA Prize for exceptional promise to a gifted filmmaker, Monteith McCollum," said NYFA Board Chairman Margaret C. Ayers in awarding the prize. "For thirty years NYFA has nurtured artistic creation through its support of individual artists. We hope that this new prize will not only help provide the time and freedom essential to enable Mr. McCollum and future artists to fulfill their talents but that it will also encourage other grant givers to follow our example."
McCollum received the prize for his for his film, HYBRID, on which he worked as cinematographer, animator, composer and producer. "A film about love and alienation, Hybrid tells the story of Mr. McCollum's 100-year-old grandfather, Milford Beeghly - a man obsessed with his agricultural experiments," NYFA notes. "The title, Hybrid, refers to the hybrid seed corn that was the object of these experiments. With a dry mid-western wit, the film observes his family's difficulty in communicating with their eccentric father, who finds his most satisfying companionship in the whispers of rustling cornfields."
In the 2001 Artists' Fellowships section of the Summer 2001 issue of FYI, Monteith McCollum states that he began the film Hybrid with the intention of trying to understand his grandfather and his historical importance in the filed of agriculture. He also notes that: "Compelled by films of Robert Flagherty and Pare Lorentz, I became increasingly aware of the importance of cinematography in revealing the people and landscape in a non-conformist way."
McCollum's wife, Ariana Gerstein, who also won a 2001 NYFA Fellowship, (in Computer Arts) edited the film. The two have worked together on projects in the past and hope to use the money from the NYFA prize to create a new collaborative work.
Sources:
"First Ever $25,000 Prizewinner Announced by New York Foundation
for the Arts (NYFA) at 30th Anniversary Benefit"
NEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS WEB SITE --
http://www.nyfa.org/press_releases/pr_NYFAPrize_01.htm
"2001 Artists' Fellowships"
FYI (FOR YOUR INFORMATION) --
http://www.nyfa.org/fyi
Before the end of summer brings a return to the office, a return to art school, and continuing intensive art making in the studio, visit THE GARDEN PAGE -- http://www.eurekacrafts.com/gardenpage.html -- presented by the Eureka Crafts gallery in Syracuse, New York.
The site features images and information about hand made garden tools and ornaments including Don Francisco's brass wind chimes; garden lanterns by Ginger Dunlop-Dietz and by Lauren Ritchie; a patinated brass wind bell by Bradley Cross; a series of ceramic planters by Chuck Kyle; and garden stakes featuring grasshoppers and frogs by Deb Rosato. Continue scrolling down the page to see them all.
Owned by Tom Cunningham and Tina Parker, Eureka Crafts was established in 1983 to showcase the talents of craftspeople from the region, from the state, and from across the country. Showcased work includes jewelry and unique items made from clay, wood, metal, glass and fiber. The Eureka gallery shares a building with Eureka Studios, a group of craft and art studios that have been a part of Syracuse, New York's Armory Square since 1976.
"To understand contemporary American crafts one must consider craft as art. The best of today's craft objects, both decorative and functional, are taken to the highest level of design, material and execution," they state.
Sources/resources:
EUREKA CRAFTS -- http://www.eurekacrafts.com
For garden benches, visit TERCERA GALLERY PALO ALTO -- http://www.terceragallery.com/paloalto.html -- whose home page currently displays handmade furniture for sitting on, from Michael Hoslaluk's "hamburger" stool (painted wood, paper, metal) to Gail Fredell's wooden bench. (pine,steel, paint)
HOUSTON, TX -- Inspired by the increasing visibility of corporate sponsors at athletic competitions; cognizant of dwindling public support for the arts, The Art Guys -- the Houston Texas-based collaborative duo Michael Galbreth and Jack Massing -- decided to sell advertising space on their own bodies.
In 1997, they commissioned fashion designer Todd Oldham to design a pair of gray wool business suits. While the suits were being made, they contacted nearly 800 potential sponsors, 56 of which agreed to participate. The logos of advertisers, including Altoids, Budweiser, Krispy Kreme, and Target, were then embroidered onto the suits.
Between July 25, 1998 and July 25, 1999, Galbreth and Massing wore the suits almost every day and to as many public events as possible -- from a parade in Houston, to a fashion extravaganza in New York City's Times Square, to the Iditarod in Alaska.
In Spring 2001, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston acquired the suits, along with their accessories (shirts, overcoats, and ties by Houston designer Selven O'Keef Jarmon) and the project's archives. An exhibition at the museum is currently showcasing the suits themselves, the accessories, a documentary video, photographs, drawings, and preparatory collages. Also on view is "The Wailing Wall," a collection of 62 rejection letters from corporations that declined to underwrite the suits.
The exhibition has been made possible by the generous support of Jerome and Minnette Robinson Foundation. It runs through November 4, 2001. For more information, visit http://www.mfah.org/
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