Across the country, arts community resources -- from the Artist's Resource Center (ARC) at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston to Artist Resource in the San Francisco Bay Area -- are providing Internet access to job services and/or use the Internet to promote their arts career services.

In addition to national resources which list a wide range of jobs in the cultural sector, such as Arts Wire CURRENT's "Jobs" page, there are location-based lists of jobs in the cultural sector, such as ArtPRIDE New Jersey's job listings and the Cultural Alliance of Greater Washington's JOB BANK ONLINE. Also available are lists of jobs in particular sectors of the arts community, such as The Art Libraries Society of North America's JOBNET.

This week's issue of Arts Wire CURRENT updates the Job resource page at http://www.artswire.org/current/jobres.html

• ARTS WIRE CURRENT JOBS

  Now in its fourth year, Arts Wire Current's JOBS page -- http://www.artswire.org/current/jobs.html -- is updated every Sunday and features a comprehensive and international list of job opportunities.

  Among many others, this week's listings include Executive jobs at the Seattle Arts Commission; the Hinsdale Center for the Arts, (Hinsdale, IL) and The Omaha Symphony. (Omaha, NE) Teaching jobs include a Canada Research Chair in Art, Technology and Culture, and Concordia University; (Montreal, Canada) Teaching Artists at Chekhov Theatre Ensemble in Washington, DC; Artists in Residence at the Appalachian Center for Crafts; (Smithville, TN) and a Dance instructor at The Valencia Performing Arts Academy in (Winona MN) Also listed this week are Managing Director, Risa Jaroslow & Dancers; (New York City, NY) Program Director The Arts & Business Council of Chicago; Director of Marketing, Washington Pavilion Management; (Sioux Falls, SD) Director of Press and Marketing, The American Dance Festival; (Durham NC) Receptionist and Shipper jobs at Women Make Movies; as well as Internships at the Delaware Theatre Company, (Wilmington, DE) the Portland Stage Company, and white Box in New York City among many others.

  The Arts Wire CURRENT Job list is free to both job seekers and employers. To submit jobs to Arts Wire, email them to joblist@nyfa.org Please send a text file in the body of the message. (ie no attachments and no HTML) There is no fee for posting job listings but jobs should be arts related. The deadline is Friday for the next week's listings.

• ARTJOB

  ARTJOB ONLINE -- http://www.artjob.org -- features a regularly updated database of national job listings in all arts disciplines in the nonprofit, commercial, academic, and public sectors. The service is a source for professional opportunities and key information in all areas of the arts, including: Presenting, Producing, Performing Arts, Visual Arts, Academic, Internships and Fellowships, Conferences, and Commissions.

  "Generally, the largest percentages of job listings tend to be on the East & West Coasts, followed by larger, metropolitan cities throughout the US," The service states.

  Available by subscription, the ArtJob web site is updated daily. ArtJob Subscribers also receive monthly email updates. Subscriptions are $25 for three months; $40 for six months; and $75 for a year. Billing rates for posting jobs are available on the site. A free "hot jobs" section provides a sample of jobs currently listed. ArtJob is a service of WESTAF, the Western States Arts Federation, a non-profit arts service organization dedicated to the creative advancement and preservation of the arts.

• THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION: CAREER NETWORK

  THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION: CAREER NETWORK -- http://chronicle.com/jobs/ -- lists Jobs and employment information for faculty, administrators, and executives. Jobs in art, art history, communication, dance, music, literature, theater are listed under the "Humanities" category. The site currently features more than 3,860 current listings from over 1,230 institutions.

  Among many faculty positions in the arts currently posted are Architectural Design studio courses, upper-level African and/or Asian Art, Ballet, and Computer Art Foundations positions at the Savannah College of Art and Design; (Savannah, Georgia) Music at Arkansas Tech University; an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities at Yale University; and Dean of the Peabody Conservatory of Music, Johns Hopkins University. (Maryland)

• OTHER SOURCES OF ARTS JOB INFORMATION ON A NATIONAL BASIS INCLUDE:

  The Visual Artists Information Hotline's EMPLOYMENT IN THE ARTS FACTSHEET -- http://www.nyfa.org/vaih/employment.pdf -- is an extensive source for descriptions and access information for arts job sources both offline and online -- including ASIAN AMERICAN ARTS CALENDAR; CAA CAREERS; ARTDEADLINE.COM; ART CALENDAR; and many others.

  ARTCAREER NETWORK -- http://www.artcareer.net
  Post and search full time, part time and project based jobs in all areas of the visual arts as well as Internships, Fellowships, and Commissions for Artists. They also host a Resume Database of visual arts professionals currently seeking employment and provide access to career guidance and recruiters. They offer listings to job seekers free of charge. Posting services are currently free to employers, but starting April 1, 2002 they will begin to charge a nominal fee of $30 for a sixty day listing as a way to defray the cost of providing this service to the industry.

  ArtSEARCH -- http://www.tcg.org/artsearch/
  Hosted by Theatre Communications Group, (TCG) ArtSearch is a subscription service which provides access to employment at Theatres and performing arts centers; Summer festivals; Universities, colleges and schools; Dance companies; Opera companies; Symphony orchestras; Museums; Arts councils; and other arts organizations -- including full-time, part-time, seasonal, year-round and internship opportunities, from entry level to upper management

  THE ARTIST HELP NETWORK -- http://www.artisthelpnetwork.com
  "A free information service designed to help artists take control of their careers. The network assists artists in locating information, resources, guidance, and advice on a comprehensive range of career-related topics. The network focuses primarily on subjects of interest to fine artists. People working in the applied arts, arts administration, and arts-related fields will also find this site useful."

  CREATIVE HOT LIST -- http://www.creativehotlist.com/

  FINDCREATIVE.COM -- http://www.findcreative.com/

  JUSTARTJOBS.COM -- http://www.justartjobs.com/genart.nsf/Search?OpenForm

  MONSTER.COM -- http://www.monster.com

• ARTPRIDE, NEW JERSEY

  ArtPRIDE New Jersey's online Arts Job Bank -- http://www.artpridenj.com/jobbank.htm -- lists opportunities for arts professionals and students seeking jobs and internships at arts organizations throughout the state. Currently, vacancies are posted at the Arts Council of the Morris Area; Seanote Entertainment; JCC on the Palisades; the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra; and Aljira, Center for Contemporary Art, among others.

  Brief descriptions of job opportunities are provided along with qualifications and information on contacting employers including email addresses. The service is available free of charge to the general public seeking employment and to ArtPRIDE member organizations with job openings.

• THE ARTIST'S RESOURCE CENTER (ARC) AT THE SCHOOL OF THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON

  The Artist's Resource Center (ARC) at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston -- http://www.smfa.edu/arc/default.asp -- helps Museum School students, faculty, alumni/ae, staff members, Museum of Fine Arts staff members, and unaffiliated artists develop their careers in the fine arts.

  The Center's bi-weekly newsletter keeps artists informed of current job openings, as well as about upcoming art-related deadlines. Although many of the listings are in Massachusetts, there are also listings from around the country. Current listings include a Dance Project Assistant; Program Director for a public music arts education school/conservatory and an Arts School Director.

  Information on subscription rates is available on the web site.

• CULTURAL ALLIANCE OF GREATER WASHINGTON JOBANK

  The Cultural Alliance of Greater Washington JOB Bank Online -- http://www.cultural-alliance.org/programs/jobank.html -- contains listings of opportunities in arts and arts administration submitted by employers in the greater Washington, DC area and is updated throughout the week.

• OTHER AREA RESOURCES INCLUDE:

  HIREMINDS (Boston Area) -- http://www.hireminds.net/

  The Arts & Business Council's ARTSWORKNY -- http://www.artsandbusiness.org/programs/artsworkny.html
  (New York City)

  THE GREATER PHILADELPHIA CULTURAL ALLIANCE JOB BANK -- http://www.philaculture

  ARTS NORTH CAROLINA -- http://www.artsnc.org/4_joblinks.html

  CHICAGO ARTISTS COALITION JOB BANK -- http://www.caconline.org/cac/sregistry.html

  TEXAS CULTURAL & ARTS NETWORK ART JOBS -- http://www.arts.state.tx.us/templates/jobpage.asp?bid=emp

  THE LOUISIANA DIVISION OF THE ARTS E-MAIL FORUM -- http://www.crt.state.la.us/arts

  ARTIST RESOURCE (San Francisco Bay Area) -- http://www.artistresource.org/jobs.htm

  CANADIAN CAREER PAGE -- http://www.canadiancareers.com

  DRAMATIC ONLINE -- http://www.dramaticonline.com/
  is a weekly digest of jobs and positions vacant in the Australian arts and cultural industry and also includes jobs from all over the world in theatre arts

• NAMAC ANNOUNCEMENTS PAGE

  The NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR MEDIA ARTS AND CULTURE (NAMAC) ANNOUNCEMENTS -- http://www.namac.org/Ann- ounce/index.html -- list jobs in the media arts.

  Current job listings include Artistic Director, Cleveland Film Society; (Cleveland, OH) Department Chair, Electronic Arts: IEAR Studios, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; (Troy, NY) and Filemaker Assistant, Independent Television Service. (San Francisco, CA)

• ARLIS/NA JOBNET

  The Art Libraries Society of North America's ARLIS/NA JobNet -- http://www.arlisna.org//jobs.html -- lists vacancy announcements for art librarians, visual library and resources professionals, and related positions.

  Current listings include Director of Library Services, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design; Visual Resources Curator, Kenyon College, (Gambier, OH) and Reference Librarian - Art and Architecture, The University of Tennessee Libraries.

• BACKSTAGE.COM

  Formerly the Theatre Design & Technical Jobs Page, BackstageJobs.com -- http://backstagejobs.com/ -- lists jobs from across the U.S. and around the world. "It has posted listings from England, France, Denmark, Australia, Canada, and the Philippines, just to name a few," says Patrick Hudson, a Freelance Lighting Designer, in Chicago, Illinois who runs the site as a service to the live entertainment community.

  "I feel that there are plenty of sites for acting, and plenty of casting notices available. There is a severe lack of publicly available listings for the 'behind-the-scenes' jobs," he states on the site. This site is designed to help the 'behind-the-scenes' people in the live entertainment industry find work, and to help entertainment groups fill their job openings."

  Among many current listings are Playwright, Bowen Park Theatre; (Waukegan, IL) Playwrights, SOM Productions, New York City; Artist in Residence, Working Classroom, Albuquerque, NM; Sound Technician, Circus Smirkus, (Greensboro, VT) and Audio Engineer. (East Hamptom, NY)

  The site, which is free to use, also includes THE CHICAGO CONTACT SHEET, designed to be an online resource for those looking to hire freelance theatre and entertainment designers, directors, and technicians; and THE GREENROOM where "you will find all sorts of things to distract you from your work...."

• E-ARCHITECT

  The American Institute of Architects (AIA) E-ARCHITECT -- http://www.e-architect.com/ -- provides job listings for architects and the architectural profession as well as associated articles -- such as "Collateral Damage: Assessing the cultural and architectural aftermath of September 11th"; "Paris plans bold new home for art on the Seine"; "Architects Ask, 'What Did I Do to Cause This?' Since Sept. 11, the profession is in ferment. One forecast: 'New buildings will hold memories of these acts'"; and "For would-be architects, grad school like boot camp".

  Current listings include Architect/Draftsperson, Santa Barbara, CA; Project Manager, Baltimore, MD; Architect Team Leader, Baltimore, MD; Project Manager, Beverly, MA; and Project Designer/Architect, San Francisco, CA.

  Also available on this extensive site are Job Board Forums where architects are invited to share their thoughts, ideas and their career experiences.

  For those looking for an Architect, the site includes PROFILE ON THE WEB, a search engine for locating architecture firms and businesses in the United States.

• OTHER DISCIPLINE SPECIFIC JOB RESOURCES INCLUDE:

  PARTNERSHIP FOR AFTER SCHOOL EDUCATION MONTHLY JOBS BULLETIN-- http://www.pasesetter.com/jobsbulletin.htm
  "The monthly Jobs Bulletin, a free listing of jobs in the youth field, is an important resource that adds to the overall stability of the afterschool field. We believe that by showing afterschool workers new employment opportunities and avenues, we are increasing the chances that they stay in the afterschool field." (New York Area)

  MUSEUM EMPLOYMENT RESOURCE CENTER -- http://www.museum-employment.com/

  MUSEUM JOB RESOURCES ONLINE -- http://www.algonquincollege.com/museum/jobres/index.html

  MUSEUM JOBS ONLINE -- http://www.museumjobs.com/

  JOBLINE NEWS (Graphic Artists Guild) -- http://gag.org/jobline/index.html

  The Associated Writing Programs (AWP) JOB LIST: ADVICE AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR JOB SEEKERS -- http://awpwriter.org/careers/index.htm

  POETS & WRITERS CLASSIFIEDS -- http://www.pw.org

  The Women's Philharmonic: COMPOSING A CAREER: A RESOURCE GUIDE FOR COMPOSERS -- http://www.womensphil.org/musicstore.html

  The New York New Media Association's (NYNMA) SILICON ALLEY JOB BOARD -- http://www.nynma.org

  CRAIG'S LIST (new media jobs) -- http://www.craigslist.org

  THE BAY AREA VIDEO COALITION (BAVC) -- http://www.bavc.org/resources/jobs/index.htm

  THE JOBS BULLETIN FOR DRAMATIC ONLINE -- http://www.dramaticonline.com/

  COUNCIL ON FOUNDATIONS JOB BANK -- http://www.cof.org/jobbank/

"The Arts Generate $36 Billion in Business and Support 1.3 Million Full-time Jobs, According to NGA Report "
Arts Wire CURRENT -- http://www.artswire.org/current/2001/cur081401.html
August 14, 2001

"Mid-size Performing Arts Organizations Face Financial Stress; Most Performing Artists Earn Little, are Likely to Have to Take Jobs Outside Their Profession, Study Finds"
Arts Wire CURRENT -- http://www.artswire.org/current/2001/cur080701.html
August 7, 2001

Ann M. Galligan
"Creativity, Culture, Education, and the WorkForce"
CENTER FOR ARTS AND CULTURE -- http://www.culturalpolicy.org
Art, Culture & the National Agenda Issue Paper
(an issue paper which looks at the relationship of education, creativity, and the 21st century workforce)
December 2001

In ACLU V. NAPOLITANO, District Judge Alfredo C. Marquez found the statute to be overbroad and unconstitutionally vague and held it unconstitutional under both the Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution and its First Amendment, according to FEN NEWSWIRE. The statute was found violative of the Commerce Clause because Arizona has no legitimate interest in protecting persons outside of Arizona from speech which Arizona deems to be harmful to minors.

The lawsuit was brought by a group of plaintiffs including the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression; the Association of American Publishers; Association of American Publishers; Freedom To Read Foundation; Magazine Publishers of America; ART ON THE NET; WEB DEL SOL; LITLINE; and Changing Hands Bookstore in Tempe, Arizona.

Gayle Shanks, owner of the Independent bookstore Changing Hands said she was relieved by the ruling, according to BOOKWEB. Shanks noted that if the bill hadn't been struck down Changing Hands could have potentially been prosecuted for some of the books they list online. Violation of the statute was a class 4 felony.

The Arizona Harmful to Minors Internet transmission statute was applicable to books, pictures, magazines, drawings, photographs, films, slides, exhibitions, performances, recordings, and motion pictures. It required fully opaque coverings on depictions of human breasts and genitals. Although the bill excepted Internet content which taken as a whole has "serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value for minors," experts were concerned that the definition was not precise enough to encompass diverse forms of art and literature for adult audiences.

"Put a bunch of professors in a room and get them to define 'literary value' and you've got chaos. It can't be defined," emphasized Michael Neff, Editor-in-Chief of Web del Sol, (WDS) who testified in Tucson for the plaintiffs. Neff told Arts Wire that he was worried that an Arizona District Attorney or other law enforcement official would not be able to judge literary value.

"I had to sit on the stand and review exhibits of sexual speech and nude photographs at Web del Sol that met Arizona's test of 'prurient interest' and therefore were potential items for getting me or anyone else arrested and extradited to Arizona to stand trial," he stated.

Web del Sol -- which exists only online -- promotes, publishes, and hosts over 25 literary arts publications, many of which are also distributed nationally in print form. They include SOUTHWEST REVIEW, NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW, PRAIRIE SCHOONER, FIVE POINTS, THE LITERARY REVIEW, BLACK WARRIOR REVIEW, QUARTERLY WEST, PAINTED BRIDE QUARTERLY, and ZYZZYVA. Web del Sol also publishes columns and reviews, as well as original fiction and poetry.

Michael Neff also emphasized the chilling effects such a law could have on online literary forums, and he noted that "After the Arizona law became law, prior to being suspended by the judge pending decision, we were nervous at WDS because we had gone on notice as plaintiffs in the case and in the Michigan case. We actually risked retaliation. Fortunately, the judge put it on hold. Prior to that, I asked our bulletin board posters in our online poetry lab to refrain from posting obscenity or anything that might alarm/harm."

The Internet now hosts a myriad of literary sources and resources -- such as the LITERARY MAGAZINE KIOSK hosted by The Council of Literary Magazines and Presses and Small Press Distribution which places literary magazines directly in the hands of readers. Created by nonprofit literary organizations for the benefit of literary magazines and their readers, this online newsstand, features over literary magazines from across the country, "enabling a diverse range of poets, fiction writers, and essayists to reach the widest available audience," they note.

In the field of artists books, Printed Matter, a pioneer in the promotion of publications made by artists in a book-like format, now has over 20,000 titles from over 5,000 artists worldwide online. Among the works Printed Matter carries is Kathy Acker's ADULT LIFE OF TOULOUSE LAUTREC. (New York, New York: TVRT Press and Printed Matter) "In a series of short narratives which share themes of sexuality and power, Acker takes on desire, resistance, abuse, pornography, and happy endings," Printed Matter notes.

Among many other titles carried by Printed Matter are Carolee Schneemann's MORE THAN MEAT JOY; Chrystal Egal's PRINCESSE AVEC PENIS; and BARBARA GOLDEN'S GREATEST HITS: VOL I. (described by Printed Matter as "An amazing compilation of sex, food and music from a woman who uses as little discretion on the stage as she does in the kitchen with the butter")

Additionally many visual art sites -- such as WEB 3D ART, an exhibition of web works selected and organized by Karel Dudesek and Kathy Rae Huffman, feature art which might have been prosecuted under the Arizona law. Web 3D Art includes Ricardo Barreto, Fabio Prata, and Fabiana Krepel's BODY where a sculptured nude male body functions as an interface.

Sources/resources:

"Arizona Court Win May Affect Fate of Similar Bill in Ohio"
BOOKWEB -- http://news.bookweb.org/260.html
February 27, 2002

"Internet Harmful to Minors Statute Held Unconstitutional"
FREE EXPRESSION NETWORK (FEN) - http://www.freeexpression.org/newswire/02262_2002.htm
February 26, 2002

2001 ARIZONA HOUSE BILL 2289 http://www.azleg.state.az.us/legtext/45leg/1r/bills/hb2289h.pdf

CHANGING HANDS BOOKSTORE -- http://www.changinghands.com
Located in Tempe, AZ, Changing Hands is a gathering place for the community and for students at Arizona State University. Part of the proceeds from sales go to support programs on local public radio stations as well as to other charities and services such as local schools and teachers. "No part of the price you pay goes to: Remote corporate headquarters where decisions are based solely on maximizing profits Absentee owners who don't work in the store or live in the community," they state on their website.

ART.NET -- http://www.art.net/

WEB DEL SOL-- http://www.webdelsol.com

THE LITERARY MAGAZINE KIOSK -- http://www.litmagkiosk.com

PRINTED MATTER -- http://www.printedmatter.org
Printed Matter will consider any artists' publication produced in an edition of 100 copies, or more, for inventory. Visit the site for submission details

THE WEB3D ON-LINE ART SHOW -- http://www.web3dart.org

ASSOCIATION OF ARTS ADMINISTRATION EDUCATORS CELEBRATES ITS TWENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY AT ITS ANNUAL CONFERENCE IN NYC

In April, the Association of Arts Administration Educators (AAAE) will celebrate its 25th Anniversary at its annual Conference in New York, the city where it was founded. The Conference is hosted by the programs in Arts Administration at Teacher's College Columbia University and the Steinhardt School of Education, New York University.

It will feature keynote addresses by Kinshasha Conwill, Karen Brooks Hopkins, and Peter Sellars:

• Kinshasha Conwill
  CHALLENGES FOR ARTS MANAGERS: A CULTURAL BLUEPRINT FOR NEW YORK CITY
  Kinshasha Conwill is an arts and management consultant who is project director of A Cultural Blueprint for New York City, a non-partisan, citywide special project of the New York Foundation for the Arts. With a background as a visual and performance artist, she has also been director of The Studio Museum in Harlem; Assistant Exhibit Coordinator for trize Fellowship recipient, he has been Director of the American National theatre at the Kennedy Centre in Washington, DC. and Artistic Director of the 1990 and 1993 Los Angeles Festivals. His films include THE CABINET OF DR. RAMIREZ and IT IS NOW OUR TIME. He worked in collaboration with composer John Adams and poet/librettist June Jordan on I WAS LOOKING AT THE CEILING AND THEN I SAW THE SKY. A frequent guest at the Salzburg and Glyndebourne Festivals, he has specialized in 20th century operas, most notably Olivier Messaien's ST. FRANCOIS D'ASSISE; Paul Hindemith's MATHIS DER MALER; Gyorgy Ligeti's LE GRAND MACABRE as well as Adams' NIXON IN CHINA and THE DEATH OF KLINGHOFFER. He is currently a Professor of World Arts and Cultures at UCLA.

• Karen Brooks Hopkins
  PARTNERSHIPS AND COLLABORATIONS
  Karen Brooks Hopkins is president at Brooklyn Academy of Music, (BAM) where she has worked since 1979. She has spearheaded many successful fundraising campaigns for BAM and the Next Wave Festival. Prior to working at BAM, Hopkins was Development Director at the New Playwrights Theatre in Washington, D.C. and Director of Theater Arts at the Jewish Community Center in Rockville, Maryland as well as an adjunct professor for the Brooklyn College Program for Arts Administration. Her book, SUCCESSFUL FUNDRAISING FOR ARTS & CULTURAL ORGANIZATIONS is currently available in a revised, second edition through Greenwood Publishing. She is an active member of the Performing Arts Centers Consortium, a national association of performing arts centers, and served as chairman from 1994-96. She is currently serving as vice chairman of the CIG Cultural Institute Group of New York City.

Among others, Panels include

• WHAT DO YOU NEED TO GET A TOP JOB?
• SHARED COMPETENCIES
• VISION AND TOOLS
• PRACTITIONERS: TEACHING ARTS ADMINISTRATION

Founded in 1975 as an international organization and incorporated in 1976 in the United States, AAAE represents university programs in arts administration -- encompassing visual, performing, media, and arts service organizations, providing leadership and a forum for communication regarding the education of arts managers. Its members include representatives from graduate and undergraduate programs throughout the United States, Europe, Canada, Australia and South America, as well as individuals and institutions interested in furthering formal arts management education.

For more information about the conference, visit http://www.nyu.edu/education/aaae/about.html

AAAE WEBSITE -- http://www.artsadministration.org

2002 SMALL PRESS BOOK FAIR

"Over 200 independent publishers give new meaning to 'consumer choice' with a multi-hued selection of books and magazines on all imaginable subjects. Books on sale range from avant-garde to retrospective, helpful manuals to hand-bound letter-press treasures, controversial to delightful."

With a literary focus, this year's SMALL PRESS BOOK FAIR will showcase literary presses. The event will be held The Small Press Center for Independent Publishing, a nonprofit cultural and educational institution dedicated to promoting interaction between the public and small independent book publishers.

In addition to four floors of books on sale, special events at the fair include Panels on Publishing, Readings, Book-Making Demonstrations, a Program on Zora Neale Hurston, who is Small Press Author of the Year, and a Forum with 2002's Poor Richard's Award honoree -- this year Florence Howe, Founder of the Feminist Press at the City University of New York.

Feminist Press is a not-for-profit book publisher dedicated to preserving the legacy of women's history, women's experience, and women's cultural production by bringing to readers, students, and scholars important writing by and about women. On the Feminist Press website, Florence Howe, Publisher/Director Emerita, writes: "If we are not to lose the gains we've made over the past thirty years, we must continue to remember our history and recall how hard it was to change the literary canon, which contained almost no women's voices as recently as a quarter of a century ago. The books we have brought to light are essential if our daughters and their daughters are to continue to live in society that values and esteems not only women writers, but also the history and culture their books"

The Small Press Book Fair is one of the main events of SMALL PRESS MONTH, a national promotion of independent publishers which takes place each March - "It's What's Between the Covers that Counts" is the theme for 2002. During Small Press Month, among other events, the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses' (CLMP) new panel discussion series - "Contents Under Pressure: Debates and Trends in Independent Literary Publishing"- kicks off at the New York Public Library on March 20 at 6:30 PM with "Invisible Ink: The World of Independent Literary Publishing Revealed."

Sources/resources: SMALL PRESS BOOK FAIR -- http://www.smallpress.org
Attendance to the Book Fair and all events is free and open to the public. For more information, visit the website or email smallpress@aol.com or call 212/764-7021.
For interested independent publishers, there are still spaces available. Visit the website for exhibitor information or call 212-764-7021 for registration details and space availability.

COUNCIL OF LITERARY MAGAZINES AND PRESSES (CLMP) -- http://www.clmp.org

FEMINIST PRESS -- http://www.feministpress.org

2002 SOUTHWEST REGION AMERICAN COLLEGE DANCE FESTIVAL

Hosted by the Department of Dance in the Herberger College of Fine Arts at Arizona State University, (ASU) The 2002 SOUTHWEST REGION AMERICAN COLLEGE DANCE FESTIVAL brings college and university dance departments to perform and study in the desert spring in Arizona.

Festival adjudicators are:

• Kim Epifano, who has a 20 year history in the Bay Area as a teacher, performer, choreographer, and collaborator. For the past 13 years, she has received support from the California Arts Council to teach dance technique, voice, theater, and contact improvisation to children, adults, seniors and the developmentally disabled.

• Choreographer, dancer Ralph Lemon, who produced his first evening length concert at the Cunningham Studio in 1981 and formed the Ralph Lemon Company in 1985. In addition to his own companies, which include Cross Performance, Lemon has collaborated with the Boston Ballet, Alvin Ailey Repertory Ensemble, Dallas Black Dance Theatre, the Joffrey Ballet, the Limon Dance Company, and Yale Repertory Theatre in New Haven, CT.

• Choreographer Lynn Simonson, founding director of Dance Space Center, is the mind and body behind Simonson technique, which she has taught for over 30 years and is taught in 15 countries worldwide. She was the director of the Jazz Project and the New Vision for Dance at the Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival for over 12 years.

The schedule includes performances from dance programs at Arizona State University; Scottsdale Community College; Southern Utah University; Brigham Young University-Idaho; California State University-Fresno; San Jose State University; University of New Mexico; Mills College; the University of California, Irvine; and The University of Nevada, Las Vegas among others.

The academic and performance programs in the Department of Dance at the Herberger College of Fine Arts at Arizona State University provide professional training in the areas of both traditional and non-traditional dance. "While dedicated to the development of performers, choreographers and educators, the dance program also encourages and fosters exploration in new, diverse and creative directions key to the development of Dance in the future," they state. "To that end the dance program encourages educational and research opportunities in multimedia and the dance sciences. The dance program is also committed to enriching the cultural life of the campus, community and region through courses, apprenticeships, performances, interdisciplinary collaborations, audience education activities, lectures, workshops, community service and to serve as a resource for new and continued learning."

ASU is located just outside Phoenix, Arizona. Dance facilities include the Nelson Fine Arts Center, the Dance Studio Theatre, the Institute for Studies in the Arts' Intelligent Stage and the Dance Multi-Media Learning Center.

For more information, visit http://dance.asu.edu/home.html

The Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO), an independent, non-profit membership organization of museums dedicated to enabling educational use of museum multimedia, is seeking a synergetic relationship with a university. At a minimum, AMICO seeks to move its offices and staff, and become a tenant within a university in North America.

"Ideally, we seek a mutually beneficial environment in which to advance research on digital cultural heritage in the context of our production schedule and requirements," they state.

AMICO was formed in 1997 by 23 institutions with collections of art, dedicated to enabling educational access to museum multimedia. In the past four years, AMICO has grown to over 35 members and established itself as a self-sufficient, subscription-income-funded, organization. The AMICO Library is delivered by a variety of established information service providers. Currently over 160 universities, schools, research institutions, museums and art galleries on four continents subscribe to The AMICO Library.

Universities with a strong tradition in Humanities Computing or Digital Library development and interested in exploring a hosting relationship with AMICO should consult the full Request for Proposals, available from http://www.amico.org

Deadlines:
Optional expressions of interest were due February 28, 2002
Responses are due March 29, 2002

For more information, contact Jennifer Trant, Executive Director AMICO at Email: jtrant@amico.org

Source:

NINCH-Announce is an announcement listserv, produced by the National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH) -- http://www.ninch.org
Back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE are available at http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/

Opportunities for Artists

"In direct contradiction to the forecasted de-materialization of art, making things has remained integral to the production of even the most conceptual creative work. Moreover, possessions continue to dominate our lives well into what claims to be the information age. The emergence -- or consolidation--of visual culture as an interdisciplinary practice makes it possible to discuss mass produced objects in the same conversation with hand-crafted objects and to consider intentional, new production alongside that which occurs through re-use or reconfiguration. Contemporary discourse on things includes artists' elaborations of motive and process, material culture analyses of social context and use value, psychoanalytic discussions of fetish objects, as well as anthropological research on reception and deployment."

Proposals for the Visual Culture Caucus Session for the College Art Association Conference, New York, NY, February 19-22, 2003, are invited. The panel invites a consideration of found objects, crafted objects, popular cultural artifacts, props, and sculptures. "Examinations of both contemporary and historical relationships to things are encouraged -- in part, as a way of understanding the persistent resonance of physical objects."

Send Proposals by May 1, 2002, to

Sallie McCorkle, Associate Professor, Visual Arts, Area Head, Sculpture, School of Visual Arts, 210 Patterson Building, Penn State University, University Park, PA 16802 Office 814-865-9471
Email smm11@psu.edu

• Deadline: March 15, 2002, Grants to publishing projects, in art, architecture and design, conservation; cultural history; and public issues, Furthermore Grants in Publishing, a program of the J.M. Kaplan Fund

• Deadline: March 22, 2002, Public Artists
  Denver Public Art Program - Montclair Recreation Center Project

• Deadline: March 30, 2002, Call for Show Proposals
  The Mariani Gallery, Department of Visual Arts at the University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO

• Deadline: various dates in April, Public Art Opportunities, The King County Public Art Program, Washington State

• Deadline: April 1, 2002, Performance artists from all areas of the world -- to produce major works anywhere in the State of New York, Franklin Furnace Fund for Performance Art 2002-03

• Deadline: April 1, 2002, Artists of Cuban citizenship or direct lineage, not resident in Cuba, working in the fields of architecture, music composition, visual arts and photography, and literature, Cintas Fellowships

• Deadline April 1, 2002, Short Video Art, DANGEROUS BEAUTY Exhibit at the JCC in Manhattan (NY)

• Deadline: September 1, 2002, Student Artists, General Artists, Digital Artists, Strathmore's 2002 Art Contest

• Deadlines: various, Women Artists, Exhibitions at Woman Made Gallery in Chicago

• Deadline: Ongoing, Video about music and art, art/music, ARTJAM

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  EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, Seattle Arts Commission, (Seattle, WA)

  EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, Washington State, Hinsdale Center for the Arts, (Hinsdale, Il)

  PRESIDENT AND CEO, The Omaha Symphony, (Omaha, NE)

  EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, Door Community Auditorium, (Fish Creek, Wisconsin)

  EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, Thayer Symphony Orchestra, (Leominster, MA)

  CANADA RESEARCH CHAIR, (tenure-track) Art, Technology and Culture, Concordia University, (Montreal, Canada)

  TEACHING ARTIST APPLICATIONS, Chekhov Theatre Ensemble, (Washington, DC)

  ARTIST IN RESIDENCE (CLAY) Apalachian Center for Crafts, (Smithville, TN)

  ARTIST IN RESIDENCE (EXHIBITIONS) Appalachian Center for Crafts, (Smithville, TN)

  ARTIST IN RESIDENCE (WOOD) Appalachian Center for Crafts, (Smithville, TN)

  CERAMIC INSTRUCTOR, Craft Students League, (New York City, NY)

  DANCE INSTRUCTOR, (3/4 time) The Valencia Performing Arts Academy, (VPAA) (Winona MN)

  MANAGING DIRECTOR, Risa Jaroslow & Dancers, (New York City, NY)

  PROGRAM DIRECTOR, The Arts & Business Council of Chicago, (Chicago, IL)

  ASSOCIATE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR, The 52nd Street Project, (New York City, NY)

  ART MUSEUM ASSISTANT CURATOR, Appalachian State University, (Boone, NC)

  EXECUTIVE OFFICER, CDS Gallery, (New York, NY)

  MANAGER OF INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT, Guggenheim Museum, (New York City, NY)

  DIRECTOR OF INDIVIDUAL GIVING, The Guggenheim Museum, (New York City, NY)

  ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC PROGRAMS, The Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture, (New York, NY)

  DEVELOPMENT OFFICER, Actors Studio Drama School, New School University, (New York City, NY)

  DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR, The Pat Graney Company, (Seattle, WA)

  MANAGER, MEETINGS & PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION, American Association of Museums, (Washington, DC)

  DIRECTOR OF MARKETING, Washington Pavilion Management, (Sioux Falls, SD)

  DIRECTOR OF PRESS AND MARKETING, The American Dance Festival, (Durham NC)

  BOX OFFICE MANAGER, American Dance Festival, (Durham, NC)

  DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATE, The American Dance Festival, (Durham, NC)

  MARKETING & EVENTS DIRECTOR, Irish Repertory of Chicago, (Chicago, IL)

  MARKETING ASSOCIATE, American Symphony Orchestra, (New York, NY)

  ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, SALES, Ace Gallery

  ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT (part-time) The National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH) (Washington, DC)

  SPONSORSHIP ASSISTANT, Brooklyn Academy of Music, (Brooklyn, NY)

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  BOOKKEEPER / CONTROLLER, Ace Gallery Los Angeles, (Los Angeles, CA)

  CERAMIC STUDIO APPRENTICE, (Cave Creek, AZ)

  STUDIO ASSISTANT, Lower East Side Printshop, (New York City, NY)

  CURATORIAL ASSISTANT, (non-paid) White Box, (New York City, NY)

  INTERN, Raw Impressions Music Theatre, (New York, NY)

  EDUCATION DIVISION INTERNSHIPS, Brooklyn Museum of Art,(Brooklyn NY)

  EDUCATION INTERNSHIP, The Delaware Theatre Company, (Wilmington, DE)

  INTERNSHIPS, White Box, (New York City, NY)

  SHAKESPEARE INTERNS, Baltimore Shakespeare Festival's Shakespeare Summer Camp, (Baltimore, MD)

  INTERNSHIPS, Portland Stage Company, (Portland, OR)

  INTERNSHIPS, The Lark Theatre, (New York City,NY)

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  ARTS WIRE WEB REPORTS

  WEB 3D ART 2002

  THE WEB3D ON-LINE ART SHOW -- http://www.web3dart.org -- selected and organized by Karel Dudesek and Kathy Rae Huffman, is an exhibition of 3D webworks selected for operational functionality, the content within the 3D frame, and the contribution towards the use of 3D in creative and artistic works, in design and architecture.

  Sixteen projects were selected from approximately 50 applicants, submitted from twenty countries.

  "This response demonstrates the wide range of interest in representation and concept building in 3D among not only members of the experimental web community, but also from practical needs determined by designers and architects," the curators state. "The exploration of 3D space is topical in educational programmes, where both theoretical issues and the practical 'practice' based issues can be explored."

  Web3D includes Ricardo Barreto, Fabio Prata, and Fabiana Krepel's BODY which uses a sculptured nude male body as an interface. "The body is the full being who does not suppress or eliminate his passions. He does not accept one part of himself and condemn other parts, but accepts his nature and the conditions of life as they are. The body itself is within history in this way. The body is molded by a great many distinct regimes; it is broken down by the rhythms of hyper-texted body."

  Also featured is BEYOND MANZANAR by Tamiko Thiel (an American media artist of Japanese-German ancestry) and Zara Houshmand. (an Iranian American poet and theater director) Using navigable 3D virtual reality, Beyond Manzanar locates the viewer inside the Manzanar internment Camp, (located in eastern California during World War II) which imprisoned Japanese Americans under 'military necessity.'"

  "Beyond Manzanar focuses on our own ethnic groups - Iranian American and Japanese American - but its message is universal. We depict attacks on Iranian Americans and calls for their internment during the 1979-'80 Iranian Hostage Crisis, putting them in the context of the media hysteria that led to the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II," they state.

  The other artists included are:

  Zvonimir Bakotin/Van Gogh TV
  Craig Chun and Vishal Dar
  Petko Dourmana and Sergey Petrov
  FABRIC CH
  Dimiitar Atansasov Karanikolov
  John Klima
  LAB [au] laboratory for architecture and urbanism
  OOSTERHUIS.NL
  Melinda Rackham
  Sophie Redele and Iris Kaltenegger
  Leander Seige
  Tomoo Shimomura
  SQUID S O U P
  Jaka Zeleznikar
  

  Visit the site to find out more.

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  IMAGINE NEW YORK

  "We believe that any and all decisions regarding the remembrance and renewal of the World Trade Center site must include the needs and visions of all who have in some way been affected by the tragedy -- whether it be the fireman from the station in Park Slope who lost half of his company in the disaster; the stockbroker from Middletown who managed to escape; the restaurant worker from Washington Heights who was late to work that day and witnessed the horrific event from the street; or simply the shop-owner on Bruckner Boulevard for whom the Twin Towers were part of his daily panorama of Manhattan."

  The Municipal Art Society, in partnership with over 50 civic and community organizations, and a network of partners have launched IMAGINE New York, a series of public "visioning" workshops, culminating during the week of April 11. They are inviting people in neighborhoods and towns throughout the region to come together to voice their opinions, ideas, concerns and visions for the future of the World Trade Center site.

  "Visioning workshops" will be held at hundreds of locations throughout the metropolitan area, from museums and schools to religious centers and firehouses.

  All ideas will be documented, posted on the website, and analyzed to identify common themes. A follow-up summit will be held with representatives from every workshop to ensure that the identified themes accurately reflect the results of the individual workshops. There will also be an exhibit of submissions curated by a major museum.

  For more information, visit the Imagine New York website at http://www.imagineny.org