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• Arts Foes Helms, Thurmond, and Gramm to Leave the Senate

• NEA Awards $1.47 Million in Community Arts Development Grants

• First Amendment Protects Criticism of Barbie Doll and the Values it Represents, Federal Court Affirms

• Conferences:
  WOMEN ARTISTS AND CENSORSHIP
• Arts Events:
  CLOSETLAND, A Play by Radha Bharadwaj - U. New Mexico Theatre and Dance Dept

• MONEY - Selected Listings from FYI
  
• Funding/Opportunties for Organizations:
  Dana Foundation Funds Programs which Foster Teaching of the Performing Arts in Public Schools
• Calls for Papers and Proposals:
  INCUBATION2 - trAce International Conference on Writing and the Internet
• Opportunities for Artists:
  Composers of all Nationalities Invited to Create Choral Music on the Theme of WAGING PEACE
  Current Calls
• Job Opportunities
  

• Arts Wire Web Reports:
  IOWA WOMEN ARTISTS ORAL HISTORY PROJECT

• Elsewhere on the Net:
  CPB New Voices, New Media Fund to Encourage Diversity in Digital Media

In recent years, the US has spent about $6.00 a year on the arts per person, less than Australia, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, Sweden, or the United Kingdom. But while other US government agencies handed out sizeable, largely unquestioned contracts to the military industrial complex, Helms, Thurmond, Gramm, and other right wing Republican senators squandered Congressional time attacking the small amount of money allocated to foster our country's culture.

Phil Gramm -- who in a current press release promoting legislation to double spending on government-sponsored research recommends "raising the amount budgeted for science from $34 billion a year to $68 billion annually by the year 2008" -- wrote in an anti- arts funding press release: "If we are really serious about less government and more freedom, if you really believe that government is too big and too powerful and too expensive, if you really believe that having the average family give government almost a third of its income is too much, if you believe all of those things, as I do, I don't see how you can then justify having the government take $100 million from working families to spend on what we define as 'art.'"

And in a series of statements advocating eliminating the National Endowment for the Arts, (NEA) he suggested giving taxpayers a 200 tax credit instead of funding the arts. "They might decide to spend it going to three or four Texas A&M football games," said Gramm. (who according to THE WASHINGTON POST has denied speculation that he might take over as head of A&M)

Strom Thurmond consistently voted to eliminate national arts funding. And, according to former NEA Chair Jane Alexander's book COMMAND PERFORMANCE, at her first meeting with him he declared that "First Amendment rights are an excuse for people to do things they shouldn't be doing."

In describing her reaction to Thurmond's words, Jane Alexander writes: "Was this the U.S. Senate? Was this what a senator of the United States actually believed? What had happened to the Constitution?"

Jesse Helms, in particular leaves a legacy of vicious attacks on artists, on the arts community, on freedom of expression, on public funding of the arts, and on public television.

"Jesse Helms is rightly famous for his attacks on artists and free speech over a long and sordid career. No one did more to undermine public support for art that asks provocative questions or to impose narrow minded standards of 'decency' on broadcasters," notes Marjorie Heins, author of NOT IN FRONT OF THE CHILDREN INDECENCY, CENSORSHIP & THE INNOCENCE OF YOUTH and director of the Free Expression Policy Project at the National Coalition Against Censorship. (NCAC)

During Helms' tenure, artists, arts organizations, and the National arts support system were continually forced to defend themselves against inaccurate attacks. In COMMAND PERFORMANCE, Jane Alexander reproduces a lengthy 1994 letter to her from Jesse Helms in which one by one he utilizes misinformation (either through ignorance or deliberately) to attack individual artists and arts organizations who had received Arts Endowment funding -- including Tim Miller, Holly Hughes, Karen Finley, Marlon Riggs, The Kitchen, Frameline, (which hosted the International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival in San Francisco) the Walker Art Center, Franklin Furnace, Highways, Centro Cultural de la Raza, Brava! For Women in the Arts, and Visual AIDS for the Arts. (for programs including DAY WITHOUT ART and the Ribbon Project which encourages the wearing of a red ribbon to express support for those living with AIDS)

Helms' systematic attacks on individual artists focused national attention not on the myriad creative approaches of this country's artists and the compelling need for their support -- but rather on the narrow-minded prejudices of the attackers. The Arts Endowment was under continual threat of elimination. The National arts budget was drastically slashed. Content restrictions were imposed on government grants.

Celebrating many of the innovative individuals who (with little financial compensation) have dedicated their lives to art making, an NEA Artist's Fellowship was a meaningful award for this country's artists to strive for. But in the summer of 1995, Congress eliminated grants to all individual artists, with the exception of writers and jazz masters.

In recent years, the NEA's budget has been gradually increased, but the content restrictions imposed on grant recipients -- instigated in 1989 by Jesse Helms, unheard of in most free countries -- remain a part of our National arts funding.

Fellowships for our country's individual artists have yet to be restored.

"In the aftermath of the tumultuous years of the public funding debate, my greatest fear is that the creative souls of artists and arts leaders have been numbed, deadened or exhausted," Rob Maddrey, past president and chief executive officer of ARTS North Carolina, wrote in "Rekindling the spirit crucial to arts organizations" in PHILANTHROPY JOURNAL ONLINE. "....A choreographer may create a new dance, but it might have to be performed on eggshells."

Many of Jesse Helms divisive attempts to extinguish National recognition of artists and arts and to limit freedom of expression were initially futile, but their cumulative result was a weakening of the support system for the diverse artistic expressions in this country, an undermining of public understanding of the challenging work of artists who -- in the words of artist Martha Wilson, Founding Director of Franklin Furnace Archive -- "understand that the controversy that sometimes accompanies the risk-taking involved in artmaking is not an embarrassment to our nation, but the proud result of life in a diverse, democratic society."

Of Helm's methods, artist Frank Moore wrote in an open letter:

"Enough is enough. I have read in the L.A. TIMES and THE VILLAGE VOICE that you have the General Accounting Office investigating Karen Finley, Johanna Went, Cheri Gaulke, and myself. Why are you going behind our backs? Why aren't you talking directly to us artists, instead of having the G.A.O., at the taxpayers' expense, going to the galleries and the theaters we have performed in to ask veiled questions about us?

Here I am. Let's talk, man to man. It is the American Way. What do you want to know about me? You had my address because I sent you my article about how I think what you are doing is patently offensive to the Bill of Rights. After all, it is the American Way to directly confront your opponent, giving him a chance to answer, and giving the people a dialog. But you did not send me a letter. You sent the G.A.O."

And in the WASHINGTON POST last week, David S. Broder detailed Jesse Helms' "willingness to pick at the scab of the great wound of American history, the legacy of slavery and segregation, and to inflame racial resentment against African Americans," including his filibuster against the Martin Luther King Day Holiday and his use of the media to escalate racial tension.

Broder relates that "In 1990, locked in a tight race within African American Democrat, former Charlotte mayor Harvey Gantt, Helms aired a final-week TV ad that showed a pair of white hands crumpling a rejection letter, while an announcer said, 'You needed that job and you were the best qualified. But they had to give it to a minority because of a racial quota.'"

"That is not a history to be sanitized," Broder emphasizes.

In addition to his attacks on artists and the NEA, during the course of his 30 year term in the U.S. Senate, Jesse Helms proposed adding content restrictions to the appropriations legislation for Corporation for Public Broadcasting; proposed adding content restrictions to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1994; attempted to derail the Goals 2000 education bill; and introduced (with Strom Thurmond) legislation designed to dilute copyright protection afforded Musical Composers and Songwriters.

"Helms's demagoguery symbolized the worst in American politics. It would be nice, but perhaps overly optimistic, to hope that his departure will mark the end of an era of bigoted culture-bashing," said Marjorie Heins, who worked on NEA v. Finley while a lawyer at the ACLU.

Sources/resources

"International Data on Government Spending on the Arts"
NEA Research Division Note #74
NEA WEB SITE -- http://www.arts.gov/pub/ResearchNotes.html
January 2000
This note summarizes the latest research comparing government (public) arts expenditures in the U.S. with the spending levels of other countries

Phil Gramm
"Investing in Science"
PHIL GRAMM UNITED STATES SENATOR -- http://www.senate.gov/~gramm/press/nria33.html

Phil Gram
Statements in Favor of Defunding the NEA
YES2ART -- http://yes2art.com/VoxPopuli/vp14arts.html
http://yes2art.com/VoxPopuli/vp15arts.html

Helen Dewar
"Sen. Phil Gramm of Texas Will Not Seek Reelection"
THE WASHINGTON POST -- http://www.washingtonpost.com
September 4, 2001

Jane Alexander, COMMAND PERFORMANCE - AN ACTRESS IN THE THEATER OF POLITICS. NY, PublicAffairs, 2000.

Marjorie Heins
NOT IN FRONT OF THE CHILDREN "INDECENCY," CENSORSHIP, AND THE INNOCENCE OF YOUTH, Hill & Wang, 2001
For details, visit http://www.ncac.org/store/notinfront.html
In addition to her description of Helms's role in the FCC "indecency" wars in Not in Front of the Children, her earlier book, SEX, SIN & BLASPHEMY, describes his attack on "Piss Christ" and his legislation restricting the NEA.

Frank Moore
"An Open Letter to Senator Jesse Helms" -- http://www.spectacle.org/897/moore2.html

Rob Maddrey
"Rekindling the spirit crucial to arts organizations"
PHILANTHROPY JOURNAL ONLINE -- http://www.pj.org
June, 1998

THE FRANKLIN FURNACE -- http://www.franklinfurnace.org

David S. Broder
"Jesse Helms, White Racist"
THE WASHINGTON POST -- http://www.washingtonpost.com-
August 29, 2001

NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS WEBSITE -- http://www.arts.gov

FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION AT THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS -- http://www.csulb.edu/~jvancamp/intro.html

"Supreme Court Rules That NEA Can Deny Grants on Indecency"
"Artists, Arts Leaders Fear 'Chilling Effect' of Indecency Ruling"
Arts Wire CURRENT http://www.artswire.org/current/1998/cur063098.html
June 30, 1998

THE ARTS WIRE CURRENT ARCHIVE -- http://www.artswire.org/current/ archive2.html

With partnerships as a key element, community organizations including schools,libraries, chambers of commerce, financial institutions and downtown merchant associations, will work with arts organizations on projects which focus on the development of cultural tourism and cultural districts; on civic design projects; on community cultural plans; and on uses of new technology which promote the arts to a wide audience.

For instance, in New York City, $10,000 to CITYarts will support a partnership (with the Floyd Bennett Field Gardens Association and the National Park Service) to produce a Living Sculpture in Floyd Bennett Field, a community recreational area for gardeners and families. Created from indigenous trees and plants in the garden, the Living Sculpture will help forge an environment and art centered partnership between local artists and gardeners.

In Covington, KY, the Covington Community Center will receive $10,000 to support a partnership (with Forward Quest, The Frank Duveneck Arts and Cultural Center, My Nose Turns Red Theatre Company and River Cities Mosaic Public Art Group) to create a neighborhood arts center that will serve as a catalyst for community development in the disadvantaged urban core of the city.

In Chicago, Bethel New Life will receive $10,000 to support a partnership with the Chicago Public Art Group to create a Griot Circle. Local high school students will work with artists in designing the mosaics for this venue for community storytelling -- envisioned as an integral part of the area's developing African Village.

In Prescott, AZ, $10,000 will support a partnership (with the Prescott Arts and Humanities Council, Prescott Downtown Partnership, Prescott Coalition for Tourism, Prescott Valley Arts and Cultural Commission and the Arizona Commission on the Arts) to develop a visual artist roster project. With a goal of identifying artists for curated exhibits and commissions and facilitating schools' identification of local artists for residencies and classroom lecture/demonstrations, the partnership will expand upon the Prescott Fine Arts Association's Web site to include a juried database of 50 local visual artists' work.

In Eureka, CA, the Humboldt Arts Council (in partnership with the David and Lucille Packard Foundation and KIEM-TV3) will receive $10,000 to produce and distribute a 15-minute video focusing on the artists and cultural opportunities in and around Humboldt County.

A few others among the 164 Community Arts Development grants awarded to organizations in 48 states were:

• TRICINIUM, LTD. WESTMORELAND, NH
  $10,000 to support a partnership (with the Underground Railway Theater, Monadnock Institute of Nature, Place and Culture at Franklin Pierce College, and the New Hampshire Rural Development Council for development) to implement a large-scale public arts project along the Connecticut River -- including curriculum development and artist residencies in schools. A central part of the project's development process will be dialogue about civic, environmental, and cultural issues.

• JAZZ FORUM ARTS, DOBBS FERRY, NY
  $10,000 to support an ongoing partnership (with the City of Yonkers, the Downtown Yonkers Management Association and the Yonkers Historical Society) to produce a series of free concerts and films on the Yonkers Recreation Pier. The music will reflect the diversity of the area; the films will be set in the city or featuring Yonkers actors or filmmakers.

• CAPITOLARTS PROVIDENCE PROVIDENCE, RI
  $10,000 to support an ongoing partnership (with the Rhode Island Tourism Division and Providence Parks Office of Cultural Affairs) to organize and present CONVERGENCE 2001 INTERNATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL, an event which provides a stipend for exhibiting sculptors.

• CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
  $10,000 to support a partnership (with the Washington Stage Guild and Fusebox gallery) to design architectural plans for the redevelopment of a former paint warehouse into a 200-seat theatre, rehearsal space and contemporary art gallery. In addition to offering much needed entertainment and cultural activities for a diverse, disadvantaged area of the city, the building will provide affordable space to city arts organizations.

• MIDTOWN MARKET DISTRICT, HARRISBURG, PA
  $10,000 to support a partnership with the Center for Women's Creative Expression to design a community arts center to help empower women, especially women of color and low or limited income, through the development of artistic skills. The arts center will serve as a key component in the economic revitalization of an historic, racially and ethnically diverse urban neighborhood. Although the center will emphasize service to women, it will also provide cultural programs to the community as a whole.

• STECOAH VALLEY ARTS, CRAFTS & EDUCATIONAL CENTER, ROBBINSVILLE, NC
  $10,000 to support an ongoing partnership (with Graham City Travel & Tourism, North Carolina Arts Council and North Carolina Division of Tourism) to enhance and expand the summer series AN APPALACHIAN EVENING. The goals of this project are to preserve and promote mountain arts, music in particular, as well as to develop cultural tourism as a source of revenue for this third poorest rural county in the state, and to provide greater public access to the arts and cultural traditions of the region.

• METROPOLITAN GOVERNMENT OF NASHVILLE & DAVIDSON COUNTY/METRO ARTS COMMISSION NASHVILLE, TN
  $10,000 to support a partnership (with the Civic Design Center, Vanderbilt University, and University of Tennessee/Knoxville) to present URBAN DESIGN FORUM and URBAN DESIGN 101 -- two educational programs whose purpose is to establish a strong, widely shared vision for Nashville and to develop high standards for contemporary community design. The Urban Design Forum is a continuing, monthly lecture series on urban design issues with participants from many neighborhoods taking part. Urban Design 101 is a more concentrated continuing education course. Both courses are envisioned as central components in community development and in shaping the character of Nashville's built environment.

• CHEROKEE NATIONAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY, TAHLEQUAH, OK
  $10,000 to support an ongoing partnership (with Northeastern State University and the Cherokee Nation) to produce a revised script of TRAIL OF TEARS and to present a series of culturally specific performances from around the world. The 30 year-old script and production design for this Cherokee historical drama has been reworked and will be performed several times each week during the tourist season. Performers from a range of international cultures will also be presented at the TsaLaGi amphitheatre.

• OREGON COAST COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS NEWPORT, OR $10,000 to support a partnership (with Tillamook County Arts Network, Coos Arts Council & Tourism Association, Coastal Arts and Business Alliance, Columbia River Maritime Museum and Oregon Coast Aquarium) to develop, print and distribute a cultural arts visitors guide which will promote galleries, artists, performance venues, and other cultural organizations in the seven counties along the Oregon coast.

• UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS - PAN AMERICAN (UNIVERSITY THEATRE) EDINBURG, TX
  $10,000 To support a partnership (with the UTPA Foundation and the Edinburg 2020 Cultural Activities Committee) for a feasibility study to determine if the South Texas Rio Grande Valley could support a Latino center for theater, television and film. The University Theatre of the University of Texas Pan American would serve as the location for the proposed center which is envisioned as including a library for scripts, films and videos on the Latino/Chicago/Hispanic experience; a residency center for guest artists; and a performance center for live and electronic theater arts.

• WORLD STAGE PERFORMANCE GALLERY, LOS ANGELES, CA
  $5,000 To support a partnership with KAOS Network to recreate Leimert Park, the black cultural center of Los Angeles, as a digital environment via linked Web sites, audio/visual clips, a hotline for events taking place in the park, and web documentation of live performance.

NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS -- http://www.arts.gov
A complete listing of FY 2001 Challenge America: Community Arts Development grants is available at http://www.arts.gov/learn/01grants/Challenge2.html

"This is a ringing victory for artists' rights and the First Amendment. The court has made clear that Mattel cannot use the legal system to silence artists who want to comment on and parody Mattel's products," said Peter Eliasberg, staff attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Southern California.

"The intellectual property laws do not grant corporations the right to control all artistic speech concerning the role of products and corporations in our society," said Annette L. Hurst, lead counsel from the law firm Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady, Falk & Rabkin, which represented Forsythe in Mattel v. Walking Mountain Productions. "We are gratified that Judge Lew's decisive ruling recognized this important limitation on the copyright and trademark laws."

"Both copyright and trademark laws allow artists like Mr. Forsythe to use well-recognized cultural symbols such as the Barbie doll to comment on and critique those symbols," said Simon J. Frankel of Howard, Rice. "Our culture would be greatly impoverished if the law were otherwise."

In Forsythe's "Food Chain Barbie" series, Barbie is consumed and/or merged with vintage kitchen appliances. Forsythe, who lives in Kanab, Utah, began by photographing the appliances - such as blenders and shakemakers -- in which he saw the "fruits of industrialization" ensconced in the heart of the American home.

"When I added Barbie, a doll with potent representational value to the modern psyche, the photos took on the added dimension that the project needed," he writes in a statement about the work.

According to the ACLU, Mattel has "a long rap sheet as an aggressive litigator to stop the fair use of Barbie images." Among the artists and publishers which Mattel has brought suit against are Paul Hansen, who sold 150 modified Barbies as art works; Mark Napier whose THE DISTORTED BARBIE web site explored the cultural phenomenon of Barbie; the band Aqua for its hit song BARBIE GIRL; and Seal Press, publisher of ADIOS, BARBIE, a feminist examination of body image.

"As a teen, I most often thought of myself as one of those miserable chimps dressed in frilly clothes at the circus," Brenda Laurel, founder of the software for girls company Purple Moon, writes in her book UTOPIAN ENTREPRENEUR. "I was never popular; being smart, female, and nerdly was social suicide. Sometimes I wonder how different my life might have been if I had received the message that I was just fine as I was; that growing up wasn't about abandoning yourself to become an ideal woman, but about allowing the woman inside you to evolve. In my memory, Barbie is the earliest clear example of the unattainable."

Sources/resources:

"Mattel Repudiated: Decisive Victory for Free Speech in Case Involving Artist's Use of Barbie Doll"
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION -- http://www.aclu.org/news/2001/n081301a.html

TOM FORSYTHE -- http://www.creativefreedomdefense.org

Brenda Laurel
UTOPIAN ENTREPRENEUR. Cambridge and London, MIT Press, 2001

"Artist Tom Forsythe Can Continue Using Barbie Dolls in his Photographs, Court Rules"
Arts Wire CURRENT -- http://www.artswire.org/current/2001/cur030601.html
March 6, 2001

THE LIMITS OF ARTISTIC FREEDOM: WOMEN ARTISTS AND CENSORSHIP

"A large proportion of recent art controversies have focused on women artists. Is that coincidental? In our preoccupation with the present we often forget the historical continuity of what appear to be isolated incidents. The exploration of how women's art has been attacked in the last 40 years will highlight the persistence of particular issues (sexuality, religion, politics), and consider the possibility of a gender specific logic in the operations of censorship."

This panel on WOMEN ARTISTS AND CENSORSHIP, which will discuss past and present attacks on art coming from different, sometimes unexpected, sides of the political spectrum, is co-organized by The National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC) and the National Association of Women Artists. (NAWA)

Participants will be artists Laura Ferguson, Alma Lopez, Carolee Schneemann, and Nancy Spero; and NCAC's arts advocacy coordinator, Svetlana Mintcheva. Art critic Amei Wallach will moderate.

For more information email Svetlana Mintcheva at Svetlana@ncac.org.

NCAC WEBSITE - http://www.ncac.org
NAWA WEBSITE - http://www.nawanet.org

CLOSETLAND, A PLAY BY RADHA BHARADWAJ, DIRECTED BY ADAM DURANT

"Somewhere in a nameless country, a young author of children's books has been dragged from her bed in the middle of the night. When her blindfold is removed, she faces a ruthless government interrogator who demands her confession to subversion through the books she writes. Her waking nightmare is just beginning. This is the story of one person's fight to preserve her rights and integrity against insurmountable odds. A celebration of the radiant survival of the human spirit, the intrigue and terror of In the Dark is that it can happen today, tomorrow...to anyone." -- ARTISTS ON THE ATTACK -- http://www.theattack.com

Radha Bharadwaj's CLOSETLAND is presented by the University of New Mexico (UNM) Department of Theatre & Dance which describes the work as "a grim psychological and political drama in which a children's book writer is kidnapped bed to participate in department productions, beginning with short in-class projects and expanding later to include public performances.

"All aspects of the theatre provoke the individual to know his or her own voice, to find the courage to use it and express it to others," the program states.

Tickets - $7 general/$5 students

For more information, contact Kevin Paul, University of New Mexico-Department of Theatre & Dance
tel: 505-277-2441 fax 505-277-9625 email kpaul@unm.edu
THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO -- http://www.unm.edu

Deadline: Ongoing - THE POLLOCK-KRASNER FOUNDATION offers financial assistance to artists of recognizable merit and financial need working as painters, sculptors, mixed media, and installation artists. For more information, contact: Pollack-Krasner, 863 Park Ave., New York, NY 10021.

Deadline: Ongoing - THE ADOLPH AND ESTHER GOTTLIEB FOUNDATION offers grants of up to $10,000 to assist established painters, printmakers, and sculptors (working in a "mature phase" for over ten years) facing an unforeseen tragedy. For more information about the Emergency Assistance Program, contact: The Gottlieb Foundation, 380 West Broadway, New York, NY 10012; or phone 212-226-0581 between 9:30-4:00.

Deadline: Ongoing - THE MATTRESS FACTORY is an alternative museum which commissions, presents, and collects site-specific installations in an environment whose resources are totally dedicated to that process. It serves as a catalyst for the creation of new works by providing working spaces and extensive resources for artists and art forms which do not adapt easily to studio situations. Each year, new site-specific installations are created in residency and are presented to the public. Residencies range from one week to two months. The artists determine the specific length of time they will work, and the schedule is designed to provide maximum on-site staff support for each artist. For more information, contact: Mattress Factory, 500 Sampsonia Way, Pittsburgh, PA 15212; or visit http://www.mattress.org

NEW YORK CITY, NY -- The Dana Foundation has extended its longtime interest in education to support innovative professional development programs that foster improved teaching of the performing arts in public schools. The Foundation places its initial emphasis on projects that are exported from, or imported to, New York City, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, and their surrounding areas.

The Foundation is interested in professional development, including training and other enhancement experiences, for: classroom teachers who integrate the arts into the standard public school curriculum in the classrooms; classroom teachers-to-be with an interest in arts integration; specialists who teach only the various fields of the arts in their schools; and professional artists working with teachers and students in the schools or in school-related settings.

For instance, among many other possibilities, teaching of music, dance or theater based on a specific pedagogy; applying arts teaching methods to other disciplines; integrating an arts curriculum into classroom activities within a school's standard curriculum; and or fostering awareness, communication, support of arts education through parental involvement, school staff/art expert interaction, and community partnerships, including those with the private sector.

The deadline for receipt of Letters of Intent for the current cycle of grants in Arts Education is October 15, 2001. The Dana Foundation will work with applicants that qualify for further consideration to address mutual goals before requesting final proposals.

For complete details, visit http://www.dana.org/grants/artseducation/guidelines.cfm

Proposals are invited for INCUBATION2, the 2nd trAce International Conference on Writing and the Internet to be held July 19-21, 2002 at The Nottingham Trent University.

"For our second conference we continue our focus on the role of the internet and telecommunications and particularly invite contributions that address the way new media create new potentials and re-define the acts of writing and reading. We welcome proposals on all aspects of new media and writing, especially by those whose work is based in new media, on or off the internet," they state.

Possible topics include:

Process: for instance: How do we write on the web? How are computer-aided and computational tools changing writing and reading? What part does collaboration play? How has the web changed what we create?

Learning: for instance: How do we learn and teach writing on the web? How is the online workshop different from the physical workshop?

Culture: for instance, How do the online environment and other new media tools modify the relationship between writing, language, culture and ethnicity? How is the web enabling writers to address diversity and difference including groups within a nation e.g. the city and the country; and within the world e.g. refugees, asylum-seekers and other ethnic groups living in foreign countries? Is there a cultural divide between writers who use the web, and those who don't? How is the interdisciplinary culture of the web affecting traditional funding models for writing?

Proposals are sought for presentation and discussion of new media writing by individuals or collaborative groups; for workshops; and for talk/presentations

Deadline: December 1, 2001

For details, visit http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/incubation/

Opportunities for Artists

"The waging of peace is a dynamic process in which music has a crucial role to play. By performing and hearing music from around the world, we are taking an active part in promoting understanding - and ultimately, peace - between the diverse peoples of humankind. As a communal art, choral music is an especially moving way to experience the unity of all people; it has the power to bring us together as peoples of all races, ethnicities and nationalities." .... Robert Kyr, Program Director

In this spirit, the Carlton Savage Endowment for International Relations and Peace (University of Oregon) invites composers of all nationalities to create choral music on the theme of "Waging Peace." The purpose of the program is to encourage the creation and dissemination of an international repertoire of choral music on peace-related texts. The relationship of the text to the theme may be as direct or as free as the composer wishes. There are ten categories of submission: mixed concert chorus; (60 or more voices) mixed chamber chorus; women's chorus; men's chorus; youth chorus; (high school level) boy's chorus; girl's chorus; vocal ensembles; (two or more singers but not more than twelve total) monody or chant; (soloist or choral) and free accompaniment. (a chorus of any kind accompanied by a solo instrument other than piano or an ensemble of 2-10 instruments that may include piano) For each category except "free accompaniment", the works may be a cappella or with piano.

For details, visit http://www.iwagepeace.com/

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

Deadlines: November 1, 2001, November 15, 2001, (October 15 for Spring Studio Arts Interns) Artists Fellowships, Artists' Books Residency Grants, Artists' Books Production Grants, Studio Arts Interns, WOMEN'S STUDIO WORKSHOP, ROSENDALE, NY

Deadline: November 15, 2001, Graphic Design Competition, FELICE LESSER DANCE THEATER

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

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR, On the Boards, (Seattle, WA)

DIRECTOR, ARTS BOARD - ARTS AND HERITAGE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL, Clarksville/Montgomery County, (Clarksville, TN)

DIRECTOR COMMUNITY BASED PROGRAMS; OUT-OF SCHOOL COORDINATOR, (of the Arts Resource Component) Arts in Progress, (Boston, MA)

DIRECTOR - relisted, Philipsburgh Hall Performing Arts Center, (Yonkers, NY)

MANAGER OF PUBLIC EVENTS, Lawrence University, (Appleton, Wisconsin)

GALLERY MANAGER, Barbara Mathes Gallery, (New York, NY)

PUBLICATIONS MANAGER, New World Symphony, (Miami Beach, FL)

COMMUNITY RELATIONS MANAGER, Chicago Humanities Festival, (Chicago, IL)

PUBLICIST, Jeanne Collins & Associates, (New York, NY)

MUSIC/PERFORMING ARTS LIBRARIAN; PERFORMING ARTS LIBRARIAN, Rutgers University Libraries, (New Brunswick, NJ)

DIRECTOR OF PROGRAMMING AND EDUCATION, Regional Performing Arts Center, (Philadelphia, PA)

TEACHING ARTISTS, The Globe Theatres, (San Diego, CA)

ACTOR-EDUCATORS/DIRECTOR-EDUCATORS, Princeton Rep Company/Princeton Rep Shakespeare Festival, (Princeton, NJ)

CONTRACT EDUCATORS - THEATRE; VISUAL ART INSTRUCTORS
Hinsdale Center for the Arts, (Hinsdale, IL)

PUPPETEER & COSTUME DESIGN INSTRUCTORS, (2-part-time positions) Earth Celebrations, (New York City, NY)

COMPUTER LAB TEACHING ASSISTANT - relisted with changes, (Local public access TV station) (Brooklyn, NY)

ASSISTANT CURATOR OF EDUCATION FOR COMMUNITY PROGRAMS, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, (Buffalo, NY)

DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT, Weidner Center for the Performing Arts, (Green Bay, WI)

DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT, The New-York Historical Society, (New York, NY)

DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR, SculptureCenter, (Long Island City, NY)

DEVELOPMENT CONSULTANT, (Part-time - one day/week) Pascal Rioult Dance Theatre, (New York City, NY)

DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANT, Ballet Tech, (New York, NY)

DIRECTOR OF PROGRAM FUNDING, The Jewish Museum, (New York City, NY)

SALES SUPERVISOR, (temporary) Whitney Museum, (New York City, NY)

CURATORIAL ASSISTANT, (non-profit art museum) (New York City, NY)

PROGRAM AIDE, (2 positions available) Grants, The New York Foundation for the Arts, (New York City, NY)

SCHOOL REGISTRAR, (part-time) Farmington Valley Arts Center, (Avon, CT)

REGISTRAR, (art advertising firm) (San Francisco, CA)

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF MARKETING, San Francisco Symphony, (San Francisco, CA)

BOOKKEEPER/FINANCIAL MANAGER, High 5 Tickets to the Arts, (New York City, NY)

ADMINISTRATION - SENIOR ASSISTANT, The Cleveland Museum of Art, (Cleveland, OH)

ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, (Los Angeles, CA)

ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT, DIRECTOR'S OFFICE Whitney Museum of American Art, (New York City, NY)

ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT, Midori & Friends, (New York, NY)

ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT, Film Forum, (New York CIty, NY)

(OFFICE MANAGEMENT), City Lights Youth Theatre, (New York City, NY)

OFFICE ASSISTANT, (architectural lighting design firm) (New York City, NY)

ASSISTANT TO THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, The Drawing Center, (New York City, NY)

OFFICE COORDINATOR, (International arts exchanges) (New York City, NY)

ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT, Chicago Humanities Festival (Chicago, IL)

ADMINISTRATIVE/PROGRAM ASSISTANT, Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts, (New York City, NY)

ARTS ADMINISTRATOR, (part time) DANCEWAVE, (Brooklyn, NY)

COMMUNITY RELATIONS MANAGER, Chicago Humanities Festival, (Chicago, IL)

DANCE ADMINISTRATION INTERN, Twyla Tharp Dance, (New York City, NY)

EDWARD JOHN NOBLE FOUNDATION DEVELOPMENT INTERN, The Drawing Center, (New York City, NY)

ORCHESTRA MANAGEMENT INTERN, The New York Youth Symphony, (New York City, NY)

THEATER INTERNS, 52nd Street Project, (New York City, NY)

MARKETING INTERN, New York City Opera, (New York City, NY)

PRODUCTION AND ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT - INTERN, Cocteau Repertory, (Bowery, 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

Created and directed by artist/writer Jane Robinette, who has lived in Iowa most of her life, the IOWA WOMEN ARTISTS ORAL HISTORY PROJECT -- http://www.lucidplanet.com/IWA/ArtistsAlpha.htm -- partially documents Robinette's interviews with 79 women artists who are age 30 or older and who have lived in Iowa for at least the past five years. (or who previously lived in Iowa for several years and recently returned)

The site includes both words and images from the interviewed women as well as biographies and dialogue.

In a section on "Making art in Iowa", visual artists including Susan Coleman, Emily Martin, Virginia A. Myers, Maureen A. Seamonds, and Joan F. Vitale talk about their reasons for living in Iowa and about the influences of the Iowa landscape on their work -- from the amazing skies to the lush green flora to the rolling earth to a closeness to the land.

Visit the site to find out more.

"....How can we use the new technology to advance our service to the public? Can we use it to broaden our audiences? Deepen the impact of our programming? Add new voices to our talent pool? In other words, can we use it to achieve the purposes for which public broadcasting was created?"

To respond to these challenges and other challenges of the new digital media, the Center for Public Broadcasting (CPB) has allocated up to $2 million this year to create the New Voices, New Media Fund. The objectives of this Fund are to support the creation of mission-driven, diverse new media content and to provide opportunities for diverse content creators working in public broadcasting to develop the skills that the new media demand.

They invite project applications which will produce:

1. Public television program-connected web sites as well as "web originals" that create, aggregate and contextualize content and resources relating to the needs and interests of underserved and local audiences in an innovative, efficient, and effective manner

2. Web-based content that connects available editorial assets of public broadcasting, whether at the local station level or nationally, in a new and unique way to audiences of a particular locality

3. Content that explores creative uses of technologies for storytelling that can be replicated by public television stations

4. Research activities to evaluate appeal and efficacy of new media approaches and audience behaviors.

They encourage projects which will be of special appeal to audiences not currently viewing public television, which engage new voices as creative content developers, and which are adaptable at different media platforms.

They plan to support a portfolio of projects that reflects a balance between projects that depend on presently available technology, such as narrowband Internet, and projects that rely on technologies, such as broadband or DTV. that are at present not widely deployed. Projects based on presently available technology will be funded for production and distribution. Projects based on broadband and other down-the-road technology will be funded as prototypes, and selected based on the extent to which technology is used in original ways to serve public broadcasting audiences.

New Voices, New Media project applications will be accepted throughout the year, and CPB will continue to accept and review applications until such time the available fund is exhausted.

For details, visit http://www.cpb.org/tv/funding/nvnm/

Sources/resources:

CPB WEBSITE -- http://www.cpb.org
CPB is also creating a Digital Academy -- "not a place but a set of professional development opportunities for learning and experimentation." The Academy's goal is to nurture and develop a cadre of content developers who have the creativity and skill to sustain public broadcasting's prominence in the production of high quality, innovative, high impact content for the American people on these new media platforms. Visit the website for details.