"I apologize on behalf of the city to Esperanza," said Councilman David Garcia in joining a majority of the City Council in the vote.

Last May Federal Judge Orlando Garcia ruled that the City of San Antonio violated the First Amendment rights of the Esperanza Peace & Justice Center when -- although, the Esperanza had received City funding for six years previously -- it stripped the organization of its city arts funding after a campaign fueled by the Christian right characterized Esperanza as "pro-homosexual," "pro-abortion", and anti-"family values."

"From the legal perspective, in a profound way, this ruling will be significant in all struggles having to do with cultural diversity," said legal counsel and law professor Amy Kastely who led the seven-women legal team representing the Esperanza.

Emphasizing the word diversity, Kastely called attention to other recent disputes which concerned artistic freedom, such as the Brooklyn Museum's SENSATION exhibit, for which Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani sought to revoke city financing because of the inclusion of black artist Chris Ofili's Madonna. She noted that the Court also ruled in favor of the first amendment in this case.

Kastely also emphasized that the half-a-million dollar payment did not mean that the case will be dismissed in exchange for compensation. "This agreement", she explained, "includes a consent decree which we expect that Judge Garcia will enter as an order". The consent decree is important, she said, "because the City concedes that there is a risk of Constitutional violations and Open Meeting Act violations in the future and the Esperanza and other plaintiffs are entitled to protection against such future violations."

Currently led by Graciela Sanchez, the Esperanza Center, a 14 year old community arts center, has emphasized that "arts and politics are connected," and has publicly and passionately addressed a wide range of issues, including pro-choice, bilingual education, the Zapatistas, immigration reform, the environment, a living wage, and lesbian and gay rights. Artists whose work has been showcased at the Esperanza include Mexicanas Astrid Hadad; the late Amparo Ochoa; women from the Zapatista leadership; lesbian playwrights including Sharon Bridgforth, Cherrie Moraga; and writer Sandra Cisneros.

Judge Orlando Garcia ruled that Esperanza was penalized for expressing its viewpoint, namely the promotion of social and economic justice, through its arts program. The City's decision to remove the group's designated funding from the 1998 budget therefore violated the Constitution's guarantees of freedom of speech and equal protection.

"....the point of view officially favored today may be the one censured tomorrow. When dissenting voices are silenced, the public is deprived of their distinctive viewpoint, and thereby inhibited from arriving at its own conclusions uninfluenced by the government's selection of acceptable points of view," Judge Garcia wrote in his decision.

"We are all one," said Graciela Sanchez. "In this new century, we recognize more than ever that we must treat each other as equals, with dignity and respect. Otherwise we are not free...and we will never have peace. Isn't that what we all want?" she emphasized.

Sources/resources:

THE ESPERANZA PEACE & JUSTICE CENTER -- http://www.esperanzacenter.org

"By Withdrawing Awarded Arts Funding, City of San Antonio Violated Esperanza Center's First Amendment Rights Federal Judge Rules"
Arts Wire CURRENT -- http://www.artswire.org/current/2001/cur052201.html
May 22, 2001

The $30,000 grant, the maximum amount allowed through a Chairman's extraordinary action grant, will be distributed by NYSCA to those in lower Manhattan most directly impacted by the tragedy. Funds will support recovery activities including equipment purchases, office repair, disaster cleaning services, and addressing the forced disruption of services.

Robert Martin, director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services and acting chairman of the Arts Endowment said that the Arts Endowment has been in close contact with their colleagues in New York City since the September 11 tragedy. And he expressed the hope that the assistance will help those in the art community who have suffered direct physical and financial losses "so they can begin to recover from this devastating event."

"It was very nice, and very timely, NYSCA Chairman Richard J. Schwartz told Arts Wire. We anticipate using it to help organizations and artists who were actually damaged."

In the past, the National Endowment for the Arts has provided Chairman's special action grants to communities hit by natural disasters such as the June floods in Houston and the February earthquake in Seattle, Washington as well as societal tragedies such as the shootings at Columbine High School. These funds help artists and organizations cope with tangible effects such as inventory and physical space damage but also support programs that use the arts as a source of healing and hope.

Since the disaster, NYSCA staff have been actively engaged in assessing the damage to the arts community in New York, particularly in lower Manhattan. They have conducted interviews with approximately 120 arts organizations located south of Houston Street. Although many organizations report losses of revenue through ticket sales, theater rentals, and donations, some organizations are coping with the additional impact to their offices and other venues. Those eligible for assistance through this grant will be determined by NYSCA and will perforce be limited.

"The physical damage to organizations was not that great but many suffered a great deal of financial loss -- loss of contributions, loss of audience," said Schwartz. "We are still in the assessment stages of it. It's very hard at this point to figure out the real financial impact."

He added that NYSCA is also working to get some access to federal funding for business interruption. For instance, they are working to get a federal waiver for business interruption claims for non profits through the Small Business Administration. (SBA)

Sources/resources:

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

NEW YORK STATE COUNCIL ON THE ARTS -- http://www.nysca.org

"Help for Artists and Organizations Impacted by WTC Attack" http://www.artswire.org/current/2001/cur092501.html#fund
September 25, 2001

Other sources of funding information not formerly listed in Current include:

NONPROFIT COORDINATING COMMITTEE OF NEW YORK (NPCC) -- http://www.npccny.org

THE NEW YORK REGIONAL ASSOCIATION OF GRANTMAKERS
September 11 Resources -- http://www.nyrag.org/homepage3192/index.htm The site includes a report, commissioned by NYRAG and prepared by Conservation Company, on the various conduit funds

The extent of the damage has yet to be ascertained. "There is a sense that people don't who to approach or where to go, that people are in shock particularly in the New York area," said Sheila Ross, Grants Manager of The Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation which offers grants of up to $10,000 to assist established painters, printmakers, and sculptors who are facing an unforeseen tragedy.

The Gottlieb Foundation's emergency program has been hearing from artists who have had some kind of fallout, but they haven't as yet received a lot of completed applications.

The Craft Emergency Relief Fund (CERF) has received about 15 requests for their guidelines and application, Executive Director Cornelia Carey told Arts Wire. "We have not yet received a completed application for assistance but expect that we will. We have also received calls from media artists, musicians, photographers, and painters and have tried to direct them to other sources for assistance."

CERF helps professional craftspeople sustain craftsmaking as a livelihood by providing relief to those who have suffered career-threatening emergencies in their lives. Examples of situations they've heard about are:

• A craftperson who has still not been able to return to her studio and retail business, located not far from the World Trade Towers.

• A number of craftspeople whose shows at Lincoln Center and the Park Avenue Armory have been canceled. For these artists, those shows represented a significant portion of their annual income.
• A glass blower who ran into severe financial stress when immediately following September 11 a few of his galleries canceled key orders he'd been working on.

For instance, Interactive filmmaker Toni Dove suffered no direct losses, but she is experiencing post traumatic stress. She has a hard time concentrating, is experiencing mood swings, and jumps when cars backfire.

"In general there is a wide range of economic impacts down here. For me there is the possibility of a loss of income in our building because the economy of the neighborhood is impacted and the businesses on our ground floor may suffer," she commented. We don't know yet. Everything feels very 'up in the air'. There are also possible environmental issues -- air quality, (it's still burning) dust that may contain asbestos."

Michelle Charles, whose studio is at 61 Warren Street, was in London working a show at the time of the attack and now does not have the funds to return home. "I sublet part of my studio. My tenant has decided to move out, I cannot afford to pay the rent without her paying the rent," she told Arts Wire. "I now need to move all of my stuff in to storage, that will cost $3,000. In addition I need to hire someone to clean my belongings and someone to move them in to storage. I am beside myself. My tenant wants her full deposit back and I will lose all of mine."

The exhibition she was working on was a series of paintings of medicine bottles, done on withdrawn economics library books and on photograms of 19th century cure all remedies. The exhibition in London is at The Museum Of The Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain. "Coincidentally the last one was on a book entitled THE ECONOMICS OF WAR," she commented.

"20 years of work, and the hopes of having a career where I can show people my work, now it will have to be in a storage space," she said.

Toni Dove -- who is currently working on SPECTROPIA, an interactive media event which she describes as a "time travel drama set in the future and in NYC, 1931, after the stock market crash" -- is also concerned about how the disaster will impact on the philanthropic community and on the foundations that fund arts. She just finished shooting the first half of an Spectropia and was planning to shoot the rest in the spring. "It may be delayed again. Uncertain at this point," she said.

She also emphasized that there are also larger worries about the climate of New York. "Will it feel dangerous or stressful to live here now on a permanent basis? Will there be a big exodus from the city, and what kind of impact will this have? It may just correct itself. Hard to say. Also this neighborhood will be in cleanup mode for about a year and under construction for at least two more It's hard to say what this will do. There seems to be a general 'wait and see' but don't make any sudden moves atmosphere."

Sources/Resources:

NEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS -- http://www.nyfa.org

THE GOTTLIEB FOUNDATION, 380 West Broadway, New York, NY 10012; tel: 212- 226-0581 between 9:30-4:00.

CRAFT EMERGENCY RELIEF FUND (CERF) -- http://www.craftemergency.org

The Pollock-Krasner Foundation is reaching out to individual professional visual artists whose lives (personally and professionally) may have been impacted by our national crisis, and it has also issued a call to arts community:

"You may know visual artists whose lives and careers in one way or another have been disrupted by these events. There are artists who have lost their homes or studios or who have incurred severe damages to either place," they state. "There are artists who have lost their inventory and supplies and artists who have lost exhibitions or exhibition opportunities. Sadly, there are artists who will need medical or psychological care as they deal with the dislocation and trauma they have experienced."

They welcome and encourage the arts community to send them the names and addresses of any artists who may be experiencing emergency or priority needs at this critical time. "When an artist's situation is deemed by us to be a true emergency or obvious priority we will expedite processing their application to minimize the time involved for them to hear our decision on the application," they state.

Additionally they add that "Needless to say, our international regular grant program will continue to operate as it has for the last seventeen years."

Sources/resources:

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

• This Monday (October 22) The Whitney Museum of American Art, with the support of The Liman Foundation, will host an informal reception and gathering to honor the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) and all of the artists who have been directly affected by the events on September 11th. This "evening of remembrance and hope" will provide a setting for artists, staff, and friends to heal in a communal setting and to look toward the future of LMCC.

• On October 13, the NOT STILL ART FESTIVAL 2001 INTERNATIONAL SCREENING, curated by Carol Goss at the Micro Museum in Brooklyn, benefited the artists that had studios in the World Trade Center. The Festival opened with SOMEWHERE, animated by Stephanie Maxwell and composed by Allan Schindler. It closed with reflections on the end of life, including composer/3D animator Dennis Miller's RESIDUE, dedicated to his 75 year old father.

  Not Still Art raised $380 for LMCC at the October 13 screening, and they are continuing to direct contributions to LMCC from their at website at http://www.improvart.com/nsa/

• At Orchard Street Gallery through November 1, NURTUREart is presenting REACTION, an exhibition of New York area artists' reactions to the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center's towers. The purpose of Reaction is to connect this artwork and the community, and the work is displayed in street level artist's studio windows -- making it immediately accessible to all. NURTUREart will donate proceeds to ArtistCares, a non-profit arts services organization whose specially trained teams of artists and counselors work with members of the community dealing with crisis.

  Included are the works of Eli Spear felt who in response to the shock, sadness, and numbness, created a block print series depicting the collapse of the World Trade Towers. To create the eight frames from intact to destroyed buildings, he used a single block of linoleum. "The process of constructing and destroying the towers was for me a metaphor for the reconstructing of my sense of security and the acceptance of loss," he states. Also included, among others, are Corine Borgnet's American flag with a broken heart and Damian Olsen's LETTER FROM BABEL.

• Through November 4, at C.U.A.N.D.O., a benefit for WTC victims, FROM THE ASHES ARTIST REFLECTIONS ON THE RECENT TRAGEDY features visual art, music, dance, and spoken word, sponsored by Arts for Art.

  Once an arts oriented community center, C.U.A.N.D.O. has been locked in legal battles for the last 10 years. The city has plans to level the building and build luxury apartments. Arts For Art has joined with C.U.A.N.D.O. to save the building for grass roots art organizations and the local community. From the Ashes not only benefits the victim's of the WTC tragedy but also calls attention to the potential of the building as an art space.

  Curated by Patricia Nicholson, (artistic director of this event) Willoughby Sharp, Gwynne Duncan, Frank Shifreen and Bruna Araujo, the exhibition features the work of over 100 artists including Elizabeth Albert, Jacob Burckardt, Sarawut Chutiwongpeti, Jenny Collins, Jay Critchley, Beth Goldwitz, Kathy Goodell, Hamish Kilgour, Aki Kimoto, Rafael Salas, Alan Scarritt, Robin Winters, Julie Wolf and many others.

  With a large gymnasium, five stories of rehearsal and performance spaces, and a beautiful rooftop, C.U.A.N.D.O. provides opportunities for simultaneous performances of varying sizes. Upcoming events in From the Ashes include PERFORMANCE ART, SPOKEN WORD, AND MOVEMENT (curated by Ellie Covan of Dixon Place) on October 25, 26 from 9-11 PM; DANCE (curated by Sara Juli of Dixon Place) on October 26 from 7 - 9 PM; and MUSIC (curated by Roulette, with Jim Staley ans Elliott Sharp) on October 30 from 7:30 - 11:00 PM.

  "The reaction has been tremendous," curator/artist Frank Shiffreen told Arts Wire. More than 2000 people came in opening weekend, and all the money from the bar was given to Firemen funds at local firehouses which lost many men.

• From Friday, October 26 through Saturday, November 3, 2001, a citywide art exhibition and sale, I LOVE NY - ART BENEFIT, will be held at more than 100 New York City galleries. All proceeds will be donated to help the families of the World Trade Center tragedy. The event will offer paintings, drawings, sculpture, photographs, installations and video, many donated by both emerging and well-known contemporary artists. Galleries that expect to participate includes Alexander and Bonin, Paula Cooper Gallery, CRG Gallery, James Cohan, Jeffrey Deitch, Howard Greenberg Gallery, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, Sean Kelly Gallery, Anton Kern, Nicole Klagsbrun, Lehmann Maupin, Luhring Augustine Gallery, Curt Marcus, Matthew Marks Gallery, Metro Pictures, Robert Miller Gallery, O.K. Harris, P.P.O.W., PaceWildenstein, Julie Saul Gallery, Sonnabend, Sperone Westwater, Lennon Weinberg, and David Zwirner.

  Robert Rauschenberg has created and donated a poster, I LOVE NEW YORK, which will be for sale in all participating galleries. A signed limited edition print will also be for sale for the benefit.

  "We are confronted with a New York City that has changed dramatically and permanently. It's wonderful to see the New York art world join together to help raise money for the victims of this disaster," noted David Zwirner, one of the organizers of the event.

LOWER MANHATTAN CULTURAL CENTER - http://www.lmcc.net
Since their offices in the World Trade Center were demolished, LMCC has been working out of offices at France Telecom N.A. who immediately and generously responded to their need for office space.

WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART -- http://www.whitney.org

NOT STILL ART 2001 - http://www.improvart.com/nsa/

NURTUREart -- http://www.nurtureart.org
Call for artists -- http://www.nurtureart.org/callfr.htm

FROM THE ASHES -- For information, contact Ellie Covan of Dixon Place at 212-532-1546 x102 or Patricia Parker of Arts for Art, Inc., at 646-602-8658

I LOVE NY - ART BENEFIT -- http://www.IloveNYartbenefit.org

The tiles, which must be put back in the school hall, included a cross with the word L O V E spelled out in each of the four sectors demarcated by the cross; (a peace symbol was inset in the O) a yellow background on which about 14 red crosses were displayed; a blue background with a yellow cross superimposed on a red heart; a rose, a heart, a cross and the name Danny Rohrbough; and a tile on which the words "There is no peace says the Lord for the Wicked" were painted.

On April 20, 1999, two students at Columbine High School shot and killed 12 students and one teacher, injuring numerous others, before turning their guns on themselves. The Rutherford Institute, a conservative group that defends claims of religious discrimination, filed the lawsuit in October 1999 on behalf of relatives and a friends of Dan Rohrbough and Kelly Fleming who were among the students killed.

The tile mosaic was originally a school art project, but after the shootings, the community was invited to participate. The tile mosaic was originally a school art project, but after the shootings, the community was invited to participate. According to the Freedom Forum, the school district argued that the project was never intended as a creative outlet and removed 80 tiles deemed "objectionable." Only those painted by the plaintiffs were at issue in the case.

By inviting community members to "help the healing process and express themselves" by creating the tiles, the Judge stated that school officials had created a limited public forum in which religious expression must be allowed. In accordance with the ruling, Jefferson County school officials must now display the eight tiles, which were created by Lisa Maurer, Brian Rohrbough, and Richard, Susan, and Nicole Petrone. Further, the school must allow a special tile painting session for Donald and Diedra Fleming to create a "4/20/99 Jesus Wept " tile they had planned to place on the wall, according to the Rutherford Institute.

"This is a great victory, not only for the rights of religious people, but for the freedom of expression," said John W. Whitehead, president of The Rutherford Institute." Once a school opens a public forum, they can no longer discriminate on the basis of what people have to say."

Sources/resources:

"Columbine families win right to display memorial tiles" FREEDOM FORUM (Associated Press) -- http://www.freedomforum.org October 16, 2001

The Rutherford Institute Secures Victory for Columbine Families THE RUTHERFORD INSTITUTE -- http://www.rutherford.org/contrib/columbine.asp

WONDERFUL TOWN THE FUTURE OF THEATER IN NEW YORK

More than 30 of New York's leading names in theater management, production, public policy, media, research and other related fields will come together at Wonderful Town The Future of Theater in New York -- organized by the National Arts Journalism Program in collaboration with Columbia's School of the Arts, with support from the Office of the Vice-Provost and the Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation.

"Theater is the most important arena of live performance in our electronically mediated culture, yet in New York--a city in the midst of major political, cultural and economic change--it is enmeshed in a web of practical challenges," they state. "The survival and vitality of the art form depends on the answer to several questions: How will audiences be replenished, expanded and diversified? Will appropriate venues be found in a notoriously expensive and unforgiving real estate market? What sort of public subsidies or incentives could promote artistic diversity and counteract rising operating costs? Can theater draw new reserves of energy from the fact that a new arts and entertainment industry is taking shape in New York, one that merges commercial and nonprofit modes of operation, reflects the convergence of once-distinct performing arts and media forms and formats, and that connects established stage traditions with new technologies? What is the outlook for a vigorous, intelligent, multifaceted critical debate in the press? In the wake of the tragic events of September 11, previously unimagined concerns have only compounded the ongoing issues facing the theater world."

Introductory remarks and presentations from:

Michael Janeway, National Arts Journalism Program and Evangeline Morphos, Columbia University School of the Arts; Schuyler Chapin, New York City Commissioner of Culmplications of these policies and initiatives from a real-estate and an artistic-programming standpoint."
Moderator: Laurie Beckelman, deputy director for special projects for The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Confirmed Panelists: Charles Bagli, The New York Times
Susan Chin, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs
Suri Duitch, Center for an Urban Future
Julia C. Levy, executive director, External Affairs, Roundabout Theatre Company
Harvey Lichtenstein, BAM Local Development Corporation
Paul Wolf, principal, DenhamWolfe Real Estate Services

BRAVE NEW WORLD: IMAGINING THEATER IN NEW YORK IN A NEW ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT ENVIRONMENT
"Old distinctions between commercial and nonprofit theater are breaking down. So are the organizational and creative boundaries separating live theatrical performance from film, television and other electronic media. Can theater draw new reserves of energy from the fact that a new arts and entertainment industry is taking shape in New York, one that merges commercial and nonprofit modes of operation? How do these changes reflect the convergence of once-distinct arts and media forms? How do they connect established stage traditions with new technologies?"
Moderator: Evangeline Morphos, independent theater producer in New York and a member of the faculty of Columbia University's Oscar Hammerstein II Center for Theatre Studies
Confirmed panelists: John F. Breglio, lawyer, Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison
Barbara Hauptman, Executive Director, Society of Stage Directors & Choreographers
Margo Jefferson, The New York Times
Frank Pugliese, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Film Division, Columbia University School of the Arts
Theresa Rebeck, playwright
Fisher Stevens, partner/creative director, GreeneStreet Films
Jack Viertel, artistic director of City Center's Encores! and the creative director of Jujamcyn Theaters.

Plus

REPORTS FROM THE RESEARCH FRONTLINES; NEW YORK'S PUBLIC POLICIES: SCENARIOS FOR THE FUTURE; HYPOTHETICALLY SPEAKING: NEWS MEDIA COVERAGE IN THE 21ST CENTURY; and AN OPEN FORUM ON THE CHALLENGES FACING THE THEATER IN NEW YORK

The registration date has been extended to October 25 For details, visit http://www.najp.org/theater.htm

Hal Hartley: SOON

Eclectic Orange Festival presents the United States premiere of the play SOON, written by independent filmmaker Hal Hartley. SOON explores conflicts of faith and citizenship among a group of "Faithful," whose apocalyptic vision and social isolation bring about a final confrontation with mainstream culture. SOON was commissioned by the Salzburg Festival, and premiered there in 1998.

In program notes written for the premiere, Hartley wrote, "SOON tries to be an open-minded and yet skeptical consideration of what it must be like to be a Christian who longs for the end of the world; seeing the Apocalypse as the end of this flawed reality and the beginning of a more just and beautiful one. It is less a single story about a particular religious community than it is a series of episodes played out by a group of the 'Faithful' in an attempt to illustrate how their peculiar belief system has come into being."

He continues that "One of my principal inspirations were the events at Waco, Texas in 1993 surrounding the Christian community commonly referred to as the Branch Davidians...It is because those events typify so well the basic and recurring struggle between the demands of faith and the requirements of being a citizen that I have chosen them as a starting point."

Choreographed movement is central to the work which also uses an electronic score co-written by Hartley and Jim Coleman. "Sparse, yet witty, dialogue provides insight into the unique group structure and skewed worldview shared by the group of fervent believers portrayed in SOON," the Festival states.

Eclectic Orange Festival will host a free screening of two of Hal Hartley's films THE NEW MATH(S) and THE BOOK OF LIFE on October 28 at 3:00 PM -- the last of the Festival's Sunday Film Series at Orange County Museum of Art. The New Math(s) was commissioned by the BBC for a project called SOUND ON FILM, which teamed four filmmakers with composers. Hartley worked with composer Louis Andriessen on The New Math(s), which, according to THE GUARDIAN, is "a martial arts-style spatial ballet playfully centered around ideas of maths, time, and space in a classroom." The Book of Life (1998) is a 70-minute film starring singer-songwriter PJ Harvey playing a modern-day Mary Magdalene. The film imagines Jesus Christ in New York being chased by the agents of God and Satan who wish to insure the coming of Armageddon.

To provide a forum for exploration of SOON and its subject matter, the public is invited to attend a free panel discussion hosted by Borders South Coast Plaza titled "Our Fascination with the Millennium" on October 30 at 7:00 PM. The discussion will be moderated by California State University, Fullerton professor Ben Hubbard, chair of the department of comparative religions. He will be joined on the panel by Philharmonic Society Executive Director Dean Corey as well as other experts on societal reactions to, and concepts of the millennium.

Modeled on the great city festivals such as the Edinburgh International Festival, the Salzburg Festival, and New York's BAM Next Wave Festival, the Eclectic Orange Festival celebrates new approaches to performance and art through an array of music, dance, theater, opera and multimedia performances. Now in its third year, the annual fall Festival was founded in 1999 as a project of the Philharmonic Society of Orange County.

For more information, visit http://www.EclecticOrange.org or call 949-553-2422.

Deadline: November 30, 2002 - THE NAGASAWA ART PARK'S ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE PROGRAM invites artists from around the world to undertake a two-month training and production workshop in the traditional Japanese techniques of woodblock printmaking. The Art Park is located in the small rural village of Nagasawa, on the island of Awaji. The workshop runs from September through November 2002. For more information, visit http://endeavor.or.jp/air/2002.htm

Deadline: December 3, 2002 - THE LOWER EAST SIDE PRINTSHOP invites emerging artists to submit applications for their Special Editions Fellowship Program 2002. Artists from all disciplines and cultural backgrounds are encouraged to apply. No previous printmaking experience is necessary. Six awarded artists will have 8-12 working sessions with a master printer to complete a new project in printmaking. The Printshop will provide materials, tools and equipment, full studio access, technical assistance, and an artist honorarium of $1,000. For application, send a SASE to: Lower East Side Printshop, Attn: Lilly, 59-61 East 4th St., 6th Fl., New York, NY 10003; phone (212) 673-5390; email info@printshop.org or visit http://www.printshop.org.

Deadline: December 15, 2001 - SCULPTURE SPACE is an international residency program providing access to a specialized studio facility for professional artists whose focus is sculpture. The studio, located in downtown Utica, NY, consists of 5,500 square feet of open studio and one 400- square-foot studio for special projects. Twenty artists are selected each year and receive a $2,000 stipend to help pay their residency expenses. Artists are expected to stay for a full two-month period and are given complete access to the facility. Low-cost apartments within walking distance of the studio are available. For more information, contact: Sculpture Space, 12 Gates St., Utica, NY 13502; phone (315) 724-8381; fax (315) 797-6639; or visit http://www.sculpturespace.org

Deadline: January 1, 2002 - THE EXPERIMENTAL TELEVISION CENTER offers its Media Arts Technical Assistance Fund to promote professional growth and development within organizations. The Fund is designed to help non-profit media arts programs in New York State stabilize, strengthen, or restructure their media arts organizational capacity, services, and activities. Application deadlines are January 1st, April 1st, July 1st, and October 1st each year. For more information, contact: Experimental Television Center, 109 Lower Fairfield Rd., Newark Valley, NY 12811; phone (607) 687-4341; email etc@experimentaltvcenter.org or visit http://www.experimentaltvcenter.org

WASHINGTON, DC -- The U.S. Department of Education has awarded 11 grants under the Arts in Education Model Development and Dissemination Program, which is a $10 million discretionary grant program developed in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts. (NEA) The program seeks to develop model projects that effectively strengthen and integrate the arts into the elementary and middle school core curriculum. Eligible applicants included local school districts and non-profit arts organizations working in partnership with one or more eligible school districts.

Among the funded projects are:

• INVESTIGATING THE ARTS AND LITERACY, ArtsConnection (New York City, NY) $990,000
  ArtsConnection will work with three schools in two school districts -- Community School District 9 in the South Bronx and Community School District 15 in Brooklyn -- to further develop and field test their K-5 sequential model in dance and theatre arts. Using a professional development model for artists and teachers, the project will examine the parallel learning structures between the arts and other core disciplines, especially language arts. Products include: K-5 Curricula for Dance and Theatre Arts, a Teacher's Guide for extending the arts into classroom literacy practices, and Principles and Practices for the Professional Development of Teachers and Teaching Artists.

• ARTISTIC, City of Charleston (Charleston, SC) $997,050
  ARTISTIC (Arts Related Teaching In Schools Through Integrated Curriculum) is a project of the City of Charleston Office of Cultural Affairs, College of Charleston, Charleston City School District, and community arts organizations. Four chronically low-achieving schools will adapt and implement the model arts program at Ashley River Creative Arts Elementary School. Teachers will receive extensive professional development in arts education while students participate in Discipline Based Arts Education (DBAE) experiences. Students will have the opportunity to attend local arts performances, work with resident artists, and participate in the annual Piccolo Spoleto children's program.

• ROCKFORD ARTS REVIVAL, Rockford Public Schools (Rockford, IL) $950,000
  Rockford Public Schools will implement a district-wide model in 49 K-8 schools in partnership with the Rockford Area Arts Council, Rockford Symphony Orchestra, New American Theatre, and the Rockford Dance Theatre. The District will target grades 2, 5, and 8 with the expectation that all students will have contact with community artists in the areas of drama, dance, music, visual arts as well as cultural events over the three years. Annually, all schools will participate in an All-City Musical to culminate the integrated curriculum.

• ARTS FOR ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT, Special School District #1 (Minneapolis, MN) $694,779
  Minneapolis Public Schools, the Perpich Center for Arts Education, and the University of Minnesota will extend Arts for Academic Achievement into additional demonstration immersion and replication sites in both rural and urban areas. The expansion sites will concentrate on how the model can address educational gaps when fully infused at all grade levels. The program places artists in the schools with emphasis on teacher collaboration, classroom-based assessment, and professional development of artist teachers. The evaluation component will provide detailed information and plans on model replication.

• OPENING MINDS THROUGH THE ARTS, Tucson Unified School District, (Tucson, AZ) $949,914
  The Tucson Unified School District will work with three K-5 schools, the Tucson Symphony Orchestra, University of Arizona, Arizona Opera Company, and the Tucson Arts Connection to expand an integrated curriculum for teachers and artists focused on music through all the grades. Based on recent studies of neurological development, the project will use music to reinforce linguistic and literacy skills with an additional emphasis on English language learners. Teachers, musicians and artists will work together to develop a sequential curriculum for each grade.

For complete details, visit http://www.arts.gov/endownews/news01/EdAwards.html

Opportunities for Artists

The Jacob K. Javits Fellowship (JKJ) Program awards fellowships to eligible students of superior ability, selected on the basis of demonstrated achievement, financial need, and exceptional promise to undertake graduate study leading to a doctoral degree or a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) at accredited institutions of higher education in selected fields of the arts, humanities, or social sciences.

The selected fields in the arts are Creative writing, music performance, music theory, music composition, music literature, studio arts, (including photography) television, film, cinematography, theater arts, playwriting, screenwriting, acting, and dance.

The selected fields in the humanities are art history, (including architectural history) archeology, area studies, classics, comparative literature, English language and literature, folklore, folklife, foreign languages and literature, history, linguistics, philosophy, religion, speech, rhetoric, and debate.

The selected fields in the social sciences are anthropology, communications and media, economics, ethnic and cultural studies, geography, political science, psychology but not clinical psychology, public policy and public administration, sociology but not the masters or Ph.D. in social work.

Individuals who, at the time of application, have not yet completed their first full year of doctoral or MFA study, or will be entering graduate school in academic year 2002-2003, are eligible to apply for a Javits Fellowship. Applicants must also qualify to receive Federal student financial assistance pursuant to section 484 of the Higher Education Act, as amended, and plan to attend an accredited U.S. institution of higher education.

Deadline for Transmittal of Applications: November 30, 2001
2002 Free Application for Federal Student Aid, January 31, 2002.

Estimated Available Funds
The Administration has requested $10,000,000 for this program for FY 2002. The actual level of funding, if any, depends on final congressional action. However, the Administration is inviting applications to allow enough time to complete the grant process if Congress appropriates funds for this program.

Estimated Average Size of Awards $31,672.
Estimated Number of Awards 60 individual fellowships.

Contact: Carolyn Proctor, Jacob K. Javits Fellowship Program, U.S. Department of Education, International Education and Graduate Programs Service, 1990 K St., NW., Suite 6000, Washington, DC 20006-8521.
Telephone 202-502-7542. email - ope_javits_program@ed.gov

Deadlines: November 15, 2001 (4th issue) January 15, 2002 (5th issue), Papers on Philippine culture, history and arts, BULAWAN

Deadline: November 19, 2001, Public Artists, Public Art Project at University of Oregon Recreation Center, Oregon Arts Commission

For performance project to begin in November, New Performers/Company Members, NaCl Theatre

Deadline: December 1, 2001, Web-based art, A Virtual Memorial for the Victims of AIDS

Deadline: December 7, 2001, Papers on "How can arts and heritage help shape the future of the Atlantic region?", Atlantic Cultural Space: New Directions in Heritage and the Arts, May 23 to 26, 2002, New Brunswick Canada

Deadline: January 15, 2002, Electronic Literature, Electronic Literature Gallery, Electronic Literature Organization Symposium, UCLA, APRIL 4-6, 2002

Deadline: January 15, 2002, Short papers on electronic literature, Poster Session, Electronic Literature Organization Symposium, UCLA, APRIL 4-6, 2002

Deadline: January 31, 2002, Artists - all media, exhibition, Claypool-Young Art Gallery Morehead State University; Morehead, KY

Deadline: January 31, 2002, Artists - all media, Pop, Rock, and Roll Popular Imagery in Contemporary Art - exhibition, Claypool-Young Art Gallery Morehead State University; Morehead, KY

Deadline: January 31, 2002, Artists - all media, Modern Iconography Symbols Public & Private - exhibition, Claypool-Young Art Gallery, Morehead State University; Morehead, KY

Deadline: January 31, 2002, Artists - all media, Identity Crisis Searching for a Sense of Self" Thematic exhibition - exhibition, Claypool-Young Art Gallery, Morehead State University; Morehead, KY

Deadline: Ongoing, Video artists, slide artists, and performance artists, Sunday Dinner The Only Performance You Can Eat, NYC

NEW KENNEDY CENTER NEWSLETTER WILL FOCUS ON CAREERS IN THE PERFORMING ARTS FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES

The Kennedy Center is launching a new program -- an online newsletter dedicated to helping people with disabilities pursue careers in the performing arts. An initial three issues are planned for 2001-2002. <> The newsletter will cover several areas, including interviews with successful artists, job finding resources, exemplary support and educational programs, and advice about rights and advocacy issues.

"In order for this newsletter to best serve the needs of artists with disabilities, we need your input," writes Betty Siegel Manager of Accessibility The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

• "Tell us the names of some actors, musicians, dancers, playwrights, directors, composers, choreographers, set designers, costume designers, sound designers, lighting designers, makeup artists, administrators and marketers, who would be willing to share their success stories with us.

• Let us know about outstanding programs that have helped you or your friends (arts programs or educational programs).

• Submit the burning questions you have about how civil rights laws impact performing artists.

• And, advise us about what else we should be covering."

They are working on the first issue now, so please respond as soon as possible. Send information to access@kennedy-center.org.

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, email them to joblist@artswire.org Please send a text file in the body of the message. (ie no attachments and no HTML) There is no fee for posting job listings. The deadline is Friday for the next week's listings. (which usually are posted on Monday) For the most part, job listings are not edited. The contents of the postings are the responsibility of the originating agency.

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, American Repertory Ballet, (New Brunswick, NJ)

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, Barrett Art Center, (Poughkeepsie, NY)

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, - relisted with extended deadline, Thomasville Cultural Center, (Thomasville, GA)

INSTRUCTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY, (tenure track), Orange Coast College, (Costa Mesa, CA)

PRESIDENT, Washington Performing Arts Society, (Washington, DC)

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR, West Australian Ballet

MANAGING DIRECTOR, DIRECTOR OF ARTIST AND REPERTOIRE DEVELOPMENT, The East Bay Center for the Performing Arts, (Richmond, CA)

COORDINATOR, The Cultural Resource Center, (Manchester, NH)

EXHIBITIONS REGISTRAR, The American Federation of Arts, (New York City, NY)

PRODUCTION SUPERVISOR, Dollywood, (East Tennessee)

DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT, The Joyce Theater, (New York City, NY)

DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR, Bang on a Can, (New York City, NY)

DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR, Downtown Community TV Center, (New York City, NY)

DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR, Writers Theatre, (Chicago, IL)

DIRECTOR OF MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS, The Asian Art Museum, (San Francisco, CA)

DIRECTOR OF MARKETING AND CUSTOMER SERVICE, The Washington Opera, (Washington, DC)

DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS AND MARKETING, The Cleveland Orchestra, (Boston, MA)

MANAGER OF MARKETING & DEVELOPMENT, New York Youth Symphony, (New York City, NY)

FUNDRAISER FOR NON-PROFIT ART SPACE, WHITE BOX, (New York City, NY)

PRODUCERS, DIRECTORS, WRITERS, Empowered Media, (New York City, NY)

MUSEUM SERVICES ASSOCIATE, The American Federation of Arts, (New York, NY)

ARTS MANAGEMENT INTERNSHIP, MASS MoCA, (North Adams, MA)

INTERNSHIPS, Arts International, (New York, NY)

INTERN, The Art Loss Register (New York, 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

The Artist Network's OUR GRIEF IS NOT A CRY FOR WAR website -- http://www.artistsnetwork.org/news/news13.html -- links to statements in reaction to the bombing of Afghanistan -- including from novelists Arundhati Roy, Barbara Kingsolver; filmmaker Dave Zeiger; writer Susan Sontag; playwright Tony Kushner; and musician Tom Morello; among many others.

Playwright Eve Ensler writes: "...i have been thinking about the words retaliation and punishment and act of war. i have been thinking about violence, what it feels like to be nothing to someone else. what it feels like to be a consequence of someone else's disassociated rage, disconnected fury. i have been thinking about the cycle of hurt for hurt, nation against nation, tit for tat. i have been thinking about how deeply something else is required. i have been thinking about the courage it requires to think about something other than violence as a response to violence...." (from VDAY -- http://www.vday.org )

Focusing attention on artist's reactions to our Country's foreign policy in this time of crises, the Artist Direct site also features Poems Created Since September 11, and News on Censorship of Artists since September 11.

Last week in a PBS NEWSHOUR segment which addressed dissenting opinions in a time of crises -- such as a NEW YORKER piece by writer Susan Sontag which criticized the President -- Wendy Kaminer, a senior correspondent for the AMERICAN PROSPECT MAGAZINE responded to the question "Wendy Kaminer,you've written columns critical of President Bush since September 11. Did you have any hesitation or second thoughts as you did so?" in this way:

"Absolutely not. I think it's my job as a citizen to say what I think, as long as I say it peacefully in the course of a civil debate."

She continued that "....I think that there is no more appropriate time than a time of national crisis, than a time when we are entering a very complicated and dangerous war to hear diverse opinions on whether or not the Administration's actions are going to make this a safer or a more dangerous world, whether or not we really can trust the president. I'm always troubled when I see too much faith in government because - and too much faith in the president - because just as government can't function when people don't trust it at all, freedom doesn't survive very well when people trust it too much."

For a complete transcript of the discussion -- LIMITS OF DISSENT (October 16, 2001) which was moderated by Terence Smith and also included Representative James McDermott of Washington State; James Goldsmith, commander, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States; and Bill Bennett, co-director of Empower America -- visit http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/media/july-dec01/dissent_10-16.html