The bipartisan amendment to increase funding for the cultural agencies was put forth by the leadership of the Congressional Arts Caucus: Representatives Louise Slaughter, (D-NY) Steve Horn, (R-CA) Nancy Johnson, (R-CT) and Norm Dicks. (D-WA)

Supported by 191 Democrats, 42 Republicans, and one independent, the amendment was approved by a vote of 234 to 192. The majority of Republican house members - 177 Republicans -- voted against increased funding of the arts. They were joined by 14 Democrats and one independent.

Representative Slaughter called on President Bush to support the additional arts funding. "I commend the President for recognizing the critical role the arts play in our schools and communities. Now it's time to show us the money," she said.

"Today's vote by the House to increase funding for the NEA and NEH is a victory of imagination over ideology," said Nancy Pelosi. (D-CA) "In recent years, we have worried a great deal about the digital divide -- a lack of access to technology that could limit opportunity for lower-income Americans. We should be equally concerned about a creativity crisis."

In urging her colleagues to vote for the amendment, long-time arts advocate Louise Slaughter, who co chairs the Congressional Arts Caucus with Steve Horn, pointed out that recent economic reports show that investments in the arts are reaping great benefits for communities as well as the government. "The arts play a vital economic, educational and cultural role in our nation's well being. In addition to bringing tourism to our communities and helping our children to perform better in schools, the arts provide a huge boon in local, state and federal taxes. The $232 million the federal government invested in the NEA and NEH last year has returned $134 billion to federal state and local economies!" she emphasized.

During floor debate in the House, Representative Dicks noted that this modest, yet effective increase will help continue a commitment to provide access to arts and cultural opportunities for all Americans. He also observed that both Endowments function as 'challenge' grants -- offering small amounts of federal assistance that leverage a substantial amount of private contributions to support the arts.

"By providing small increases in these budgets at this time, we can continue to encourage the growth of private contributions to non-profits arts organizations in the U.S," he said.

Representative Nancy Johnson, who recently received an award from The Connecticut Humanities Council for her long-time support of the humanities community, stated that "Communities benefit immensely from arts education in schools and arts organizations in our towns. The dollars that flow from the federal to the state and local level help our neighborhoods and enrich residents in countless ways. This increased funding will ensure that our arts and humanities programs continue to make valuable contributions to our communities."

Noting that this increase, represents "a growing consensus in Congress to provide adequate arts funding," Norm Dicks emphasized that it is his goal "to return the arts and humanities endowments to their pre-1995 levels, before they were slashed by 40 percent during an ideologically-driven House debate."

"I want to make it very clear that this amendment is not an increase in funding, but an attempt to recoup some of the cuts that the NEA faced in 1995 when its budget was slashed by 40 percent," said Nancy Pelosi. "There is strong, bipartisan consensus now that those cuts were felt too deeply by some of our most vulnerable young people."

The additional $10 M is slated for the Challenge America initiative which focuses on both arts education and access to the arts.

Following the vote to pass the Slaughter amendment, House members voted 300-123 to defeat an amendment offered by Rep. Thomas Tancredo (R-CO) to transfer $50 million from the combined appropriations for the NEA and the NEH to the very important but completely different U.S. Forest Service Wildland Fire Management Plan. (Note that in a budget which includes a $48 billion increase in military spending and a $379 billion Defense Department budget, the President's 2003 budget funds the U.S. Forest Service, which oversees 191 million acres of national forests and grasslands, at only $4.9 billion with about 675.5 million for wildland fire management.)

The Senate has not yet voted on its version of the Interior Appropriations which only increased NEA funding to $119 million.

Sources/resources:

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

NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES -- http://www.neh.gov

NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OF STATE ARTS AGENCIES (NASAA) -- http://www.nasaa-arts.org

AMERICANS FOR THE ARTS -- http://www.artsusa.org
To find out how your representative voted, visit http://www.artsusa.org/issues/advocacy/advocacy_article.asp?id=851

ARTS & ECONOMIC PROSPERITY: THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF NONPROFIT ARTS ORGANIZATIONS AND THEIR AUDIENCES -- http://www.artsusa.org/EconomicImpact/

NATIONAL HUMANITIES ALLIANCE -- NHA-ANNOUNCE -- http://www.nhalliance.org/news/

LOUISE SLAUGHTER -- http://www.house.gov/slaughter

STEVE HORN -- http://www.house.gov/horn

NANCY JOHNSON -- http://www.house.gov/nancyjohnson

NORM DICKS -- http://www.house.gov/dicks

NANCY PELOSI -- http://www.house.gov/pelosi

"Arts Community Urges Congress to Restore Individual Artists Fellowships, Suggests Ways to Improve the Granting Process; Affirming Community Arts Approach, Ways to Broaden Access to Local Funding are Also Suggested"
Arts wire CURRENT -- http://www.artswire.org/current/2002/cur052702.html
May 27, 2002

The 2002 NAMAC Conference will be hosted by the City of Seattle, 911 Media Arts Center, and a group of Conference Partners, including among others the Association of Independent Video and Filmmakers; (AIVF) Bellevue Art Museum; The Independent Media; The Independent Television Service; (ITVS) the National Asian American Telecommunications Association; (NAATA) Seattle Community Access Network, and Street Level Youth Media.

In two plenary sessions -- "Artists as Agents of Transformation - Four Decades of Work That Changed Our Lives and Changed The World", moderated by Arlene Goldbard and Don Adams, authors of CREATIVE COMMUNITY THE ART OF CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT; and "May the Source be With You - Information and Artistic Ownership in 21st Century," moderated by Pat Aufderheide, Professor at American University -- the conference will address issues of multimedia communicators grappling with increasingly challenging and unpredictable environments as well as of information ownership issues in the digital environment.

Sherman Alexie, author, poet, screenwriter (SMOKE SIGNALS), filmmaker (THE BUSINESS OF FANCYDANCING) and member of the Spokane Tribe is the keynote speaker.

Lunchtime Session speakers will be musician, author, DJ, and performance artist, Paul D. Miller: a.k.a DJ Spooky-That Subliminal Kid! and Kalle Lasn, author of THE UNCOOLING OF AMERICA.

Three tracks will address Media Artists - Low Walls; Connectivity and Community; and Cultural Policy.

MEDIA ARTISTS - LOW WALLS

"Media artists commonly operate in a 'low walls' environment - moving between and among disciplines - music, digital art, video, painting, dance performing arts, connecting message and aesthetics across physical borders and disciplinary boundaries. Media makers act as change agents on both the cultural and social frontiers" notes the Artist Track -- "Media Artists/Low Walls" chaired by Brad Thompson and Susan Purves.

This Track focuses on current issues for artists and arts centers including: creation, exhibition, preservation and distribution. Panels will include: "Institionalized! Curating in the Digital Age"; "Youth Distribution: Trends and Solutions"; and "The Intersection of Media Arts Organizations & Cross-Disciplinary Artists."

CONNECTIVITY AND COMMUNITY

"During the last two years, our understanding of the terms 'community' and 'connectivity' have expanded enormously. How is the media arts field collaborating with its natural local, regional, national, and international peers and colleagues to expand resources, create greater impact, and sustain our non-profit alternative institutions?" asks the Community Track, chaired by Paula Manley.

Panels will include: "Getting Past the Hype: An Intergenerational Dialogue" and "Pushing the Edge: Community Building in the 21st Century"

CULTURAL POLICY

"What is Cultural Policy and how do cultural policy theories and research practices relate to the mission- driven strategies of organizations? Across local, national and global communities how is cultural policy being defined and who is speaking in this nascent field?" asks the Culture Track, chaired by Roberto Bedoya.

The Cultural Policy track will examine the points of intersection between cultural policy activities and the work of media artists, media arts organizations, and artists-centered cultural practices in panels including "The Distribution of Cultural Wealth and the Practice of Making Art Support Systems for Artists: Who, How, What?"

EVENTS AT THE HENRY GALLERY, THE NORTHWEST FILM FORUM AND MORE

Associated Events will include THE BIRD ON THE HIPPO a screening and Exhibition Panel at the Henry Art Gallery which will focus on alternative screening locales as well as present stories of successful collaborative efforts which have enabled media arts groups to exhibit media art in their cities and towns. The Moderator is Albert Gabriel Nigrin, Executive Director/Curator, Rutgers Film Co-op/New Jersey Media Arts Center. Panelists include Gretjen Clausing, Curator Film at the Prince Theatre, Philadelphia; Stephen Kent Jusick, Curator, NYC; and Portia Cobb, Professor/Curator/Filmmaker, University of Wisconsin/Milwaukee.

Young filmmakers will be in attendance at the Northwest Film Forum for a reception for the opening of RAGES AND RHYMES FROM THE STAR STRANGLED, a series of shorts curated by Video Machete and Youth Voices, a collection of youth-produced work from the Northwest.

An Awards Dinner at the Experience Music Project will honor DeeDee Halleck, Founder of Paper Tiger and Deep Dish TV; The Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts; and The Wexner Center for the Arts.

For more information about the Conference visit http://www.pullfocus.org

NAMAC is a nonprofit membership association dedicated to promoting film, video, audio and online/multimedia arts, and the cultural contributions of individual media artists.

NAMAC WEB SITE -- http://www.namac.org

911 MEDIA ARTS CENTER WEBSITE -- http://www.911media.org

CLMP LITERARY LANDSCAPE

"Click on a region to find local bookstores, libraries, literary centers, and other venues for literature" - CLMP Literary Landscape

At http://www.clmp.org/literary_landscape/map.html the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses' CLMP LITERARY LANDSCAPE provides access to resources and writing for both writers and readers.

Clicking on states in the displayed map leads readers and writers to a diverse selection of places to visit on the road -- from the Asian American Writers Workshop in New York City, to the LATINO BOOK & FAMILY FESTIVAL, (in Chicago, Phoenix, Los Angeles and other places) to the Bridge Center for Contemporary Arts in El Paso TX.

They also introduce the armchair traveller to literary programs across the country, such as the Alabama Writers Forum in Montgomery which hosts Alabama Voices, a program bringing Alabama writers into libraries and other community venues for readings and discussions; or the Portland State University creative writing department's Master of Arts Program in English where students' dissertations are usually a collection of poems, short stories, or a novel.

Bookstores and bookstore web pages accessed through the CLMP Literary Landscape provide access to readings, workshops and book recommendations.

For instance, In New York City, Bluestockings' web site features upcoming store events and readings, such as Nan Mooney's MY RACING HEART (July 25, 7:00 PM) "which speaks to every horse lover who cherishes the thrill of possibility or has ever craved a place to run wild."

Among the Bluestockings Store Picks currently featured on their website are:

Vickie Nam
YELL-OH GIRLS!
(Quill, 2001)
"an exciting and ground-breaking new anthology of writing capture the complex realities of life for young Asian-American women as they address such topics as culture clash, interracial dating, body image, adoption, stereotypes, and more...."

and

Erika Lopez
HOOCHIE MAMA
(Simon & Schuster, 2001)
"This sassy laugh-out-loud novel is part outrageous entertainment and part political commentary, giving us the smackdown on society with her sassy characters, meandering meditations, pork on a fork, and sparkling insights....."

For instance, in Venice, CA, Beyond Baroque will host a BEYOND TEXT FESTIVAL this coming weekend, featuring George Drury Smith, AK Toney, Paul Vangelisti, Stephanie Taylor, Simone Forti, Jerome Rothenberg, Paul Zelavansky, and many others. LA artist Cory Peipon will perform acapella with her band; and text maestro and author of THE ALPHABET MAN and BOOK OF LAZARUS Richard Grossman will present excerpts from the forthcoming BREEZE AVENUE. Gallery and Installations in the building will include extended performances from Tony Allard & Alexi Morrisey and Michael Markowsky, works by Robbie Kimberg, Andrew Choate, Jason Mahanes, Matthew Byloos, Holly Crawford, and the Beyond Baroque Working Group.

Sources/Resources:

CLMP - http://www.clmp.org
The Council of Literary Magazines and Presses "serves one of the most active segments of American arts and culture: the independent publishers of new and challenging fiction, poetry and prose. Literary magazines and presses accomplish the backstage work of American literature: discovering new writers; supporting mid-career writers; publishing the creative voices of communities underrepresented in the mainstream commercial culture; and preserving literature for future generations by keeping books in print."

CLMP LITERARY LANDSCAPE MAP -- http://www.clmp.org/literary_landscape/map.html
The map provides an entry way to bookstores and programs across the country. (Use a search engine to search for urls not provided)

THE ACADEMY OF AMERICAN POETS -- http://www.poets.org
features a searchable calendar of events across the Nation

ASIAN AMERICAN WRITERS WORKSHOP -- http://www.aaww.org

LATINO BOOK & FAMILY FESTIVAL -- http://www.latinobookfestival.com/home/

ALABAMA WRITERS FORUM -- http://www.writersforum.org/

BLUESTOCKINGS STORE -- http://www.bluestockings.com/store/sfront.html

BEYOND BAROQUE -- http://www.beyondbaroque.org

"BookSense.com gives you the opportunity to shop online at your locally owned, bricks-and-mortar independent bookstore ... 24 hours a day!"

At BookSense.com -- http://www.booksense.com -- independent bookstores have banded together to establish a national identity.

Rather than one impersonal mega-wherehouse, BookSense.com offers access to ordering books online through the Independent bookstore closest to the reader's location. When a search for a book title is initiated, readers are presented with book purchasing information from their nearest BookSense.com store. For example, from zip code 94803, a search for Robert Coover's GHOST TOWN produced the following listing from Boadecia's Books 398 Colusa Ave, Kensington, CA:

"Ghost Town by Coover, Robert "Format: Paperback Price: $12.00 Published: Grove Pr, 02/01/2000 Inventory status: Usually ships in 24-48 hours A Western town takes on a life of its own when a stranger rides in and is drawn into a series of brawls, gunfights, and train robberies while becoming entangled with a saloon singer and a schoolmistress, with whom he falls in love."

A prospective reader can either order the book online or visit the bookstore.

The BookSense.com web site currently also offers Summer Staff Picks. For instance, BookSense.com content coordinator Andrew Duncan has selected THE PICKUP ARTIST by Terry Bisson. (St Martins Press, 2002)

"In the future, a series of terrorist attacks on museums and libraries protesting a glut of popular culture leads to the creation of the Bureau of Arts and Entertainment (BAE), an organization that orchestrates the deletion of artists and their bodies of work from the public record in order to make room for something new. Hank Shapiro works for the BAE as a pickup artist. He drives around collecting items by artists who have been erased, then takes those items back to the BAE to be destroyed. Shapiro's life is turned upside-down when he comes across a copy of a Hank Williams record he just can't make himself give up....." Duncan's review of the book begins.

Visit http://www.booksense.com to find out more.

Consortium Book Sales & Distribution -- which distributes an International group of independent publishers, such as Cinco Puntos Press, Coffee House, Copper Canyon, The Feminist Press at CUNY, Red Crane, and White Pine -- features a search engine which allows access to a broad array of titles from independent publishers.

New publishers added this year are Dewi Lewis Publishing, Headpress, Milet Publishing, Ltd., and The Disinformation Co. Beginning Fall 2002, Consortium will also distribute Alice James Books, Arsenal Pulp Press, Mo'Media, and Redleaf Press.

In addition, the Consortium searchable online Academic Catalog features backlist titles which have been adopted in courses at Colleges and Universities throughout the United States and Canada.

Among books currently featured on the Consortium web site are:

Suzan-Lori Parks
TOPDOG/UNDERDOG
(Theatre Communications Group, 2002)
"A darkly comic fable of brotherly love and family identity is Suzan-Lori Parks latest riff on the way we are defined by history. The play tells the story of Lincoln and Booth, two brothers whose names were given to them as a joke, foretelling a lifetime of sibling rivalry and resentment....."

and

Clark Coolidge
FAR OUT WEST
(Zephyr Press)
"39 poems of humour and duress, written while attending to remnants of my childhood on satellite waves, realizing an inherent wackiness in these accounts of men descending from horses before buttes or saloons, speaking lines like `This town got a sawbones?'....."

Visit Consortium's web site -- http://www.cbsd.com/homebft001.cfm to order these and other publications from independent publishers.

In partnership with the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses, (CLMP) Small Press Distribution (SPD) has launched New Readers for New Writers, a new project which highlights a selection of literary magazines from across the country.

A one-year pilot program, New Readers for New Writers offers free delivery of over 40 magazines including 3RD BED; AFRICAN VOICES; CALYX; CHICAGO REVIEW; COLORADO REVIEW; FIELD; MANY MOUNTAINS MOVING; NEW YORK STORIES; RIVER OAK REVIEW; AND THE GEORGIA REVIEW among many others.

Each issue is described in detail, giving prospective readers an inviting window into new writing. FOr instance, clicking on BELOIT POETRY JOURNAL VOL. 51 NO. 4, brings up:

"BELOIT POETRY JOURNAL VOL. 51 NO. 4
Beloit Poetry Journal
Author: Stocking, Marion K., Ed.
PAPERBACK Pub. Date: 2001
ISBN: 0005-8661
Price $5.00
Poetry. Reviews. Edited by Marion K. Stoking. Setting out to discover strong new poets, this issue of BELOIT POETRY JOURNAL introduces twelve wonderfully diverse writers, including two extraordinary long poems. It also reviews books by and about poets and some literary magazines. Contributors include Jamie Ross, T.P. Perrin, Michalle Gould, Sophia, Tekmitchov, Elisa Spindler, Maggie Dietz, Jenny Factor, Ranjani Neriya, John Latta, Glori Simmons, Robert Nazaren, Ben Lerner and reviews by Marion K. Stoking."

The program aims "to make literary magazines more readily available to bookstores, libraries, and individual consumers and thus raise the collective profile of what is perhaps the country's greatest source of new and challenging fiction, poetry, and prose."

To access New Readers for New Writers, visit SPD Online at http://www.spdbooks.org

CLMP - http://www.clmp.org

SACRAMENTO, CA -- Last month, California First Lady Sharon Davis announced Governor Gray Davis' appointment of poet, educator, and author Quincy Troupe as California's first official Poet Laureate. Troupe was selected in a search process conducted by the California Arts Council. (CAC)

Quincy Troupe is a Professor of Creative Writing and American and Caribbean Literature at the University of California, San Diego. He co-produced and wrote the radio show, THE MILES DAVIS RADIO PROJECT; is the Artistic Director of ARTISTS ON THE CUTTING EDGE: CROSS FERTILIZATIONS at the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; and he edited JAMES BALDWIN: THE LEGACY. (Simon and Schuster, 1989) His works include CHORUSES, (Coffee House Press, 1999) and WEATHER REPORTS: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS. (Harlem River Press, 1991, re-issued in 1997)

In an interview with the California Arts Council, in response to a question "How can poetry extend into business and government?" Troupe responded:

"Last year, I worked with architects, landscapers, painters, sculptors, and engineers at the Point Loma wastewater management plant in San Diego. It was a drab place; I went underground, where the hard-hats work, and interviewed them. 'What would you like to see down here?' and they said: 'We're down here all day long and don't even come up for lunch. We don't see the light very much!' So I decided to write haiku for the walls and sandblast the poems in the walls. The words also glow so they can seen in the dark! We were able to change it into something fine-looking."

To read the complete interview, visit the California Arts Council website at http://www.cac.ca.gov/

THE BREWSTER PROJECT 2002

For The Brewster Project 2002, the second annual collaboration between the Village of Brewster and curators and artists from New York City and Brewster, the organizers have invited 14 curators who in turn have selected over 70 artists to mount innovative works in public sites throughout the Village of Brewster.

"The Village of Brewster, a slice of rural Americana, is many things to many people: the source at which New York City's water reserves originate; a hub where Manhattan commuters converge; home to a large community of Central American migrant workers; and the site of American lore-P.T. Barnum's first traveling circus and The Borden Condensed Milk factory have an historical presence," the project states. "All of the above provide artists with a rich tapestry of material-from the arcane to larger economic and political issues-from which to work."

Many of the artists have researched Brewster's social and cultural make-up, history, and architectural landscape in order to create new work in all media. The works will be located in shops, alleyways, abandoned storefronts, historic homes, delis, bars, restaurants, cafes, parking lots, churches, the public library, historical museum, train station, and at the veteran's memorial. A location map and project descriptions will be available at the Brewster train station and The Southeast Museum.

Onto the marquis of the Cameo Theatre, Amie Siegel will project a video loop depicting views into windre of Brewster Mayor John Cesar's head; an interdenominational choir organized by Olu Oguibe in conjunction with seven area churches; and a photographic archive of the Village by Tara Fracolossi.

A party on Saturday 27 at 8:00 PM at Jack & Jill's Pool Hall will feature DJ Crawford Brown (music coordinator for the Brewster Project 2002) and live video mixing by Paul Clay.

Event organizers are Regine Basha, Christopher K. Ho, Omar Lopez-Chahoud.

Brewster organizers: Richard Ruchala, The Southeast Museum (Samantha Ligon and Amy Campanaro)

Curators: Atteqa Ali, Koan Jeff Baysa, A.S. Bessa, ("Female/Trouble"), Cinema Tropical, Paul Clay, Jessica Hough, Paul Laster, ("New York Stories") Alison Levy, ("Replacement"), Sara Reisman, Karen Roff, Mari Spirito, William Stover, Naomi Urabe, Joseph R. Wolin

The artists are: Aysha Adil, Munawar Ali, Remy Amezcua, Ian Arnold, Benton C. Bainbridge, Lawrence Beck, Matthew Buckingham, Camelot, Karin Campbell, David Cabrera, Rene Antonio Cea, Top Changtrakul, Fritz Chesnut, Seong Chun, Guillaume Clave, Drew Cliress, Kim Connerton, Maureen Connor, Michael Darby, Willyum Delirious, Linda Dennis, Emma Dewing, Vincent Dion, Mary Dwyer, Nicole Engelman and Diana Shpungin, Trish Feer, Oscar Camilo de las Flores, Tara Fracalossi, Missy Galore, Andro Genious, Shahana Ghulam, Wade Guyton, Joe Hamersky, Rachel Heinold, Jill Henderson, Perry Hu, Chris Jordan, Colin Keefe, Michael Keropian, Karen King, Tatiana Kronberg, Thomas Lail, Pan Xing Lei, Bibiana and Frank Matheis, Adia Millett, Adam Mitchell and Sharron Nakazato, Lisa Mordhorst, Huma Mulji, Warren Neidich, Trong Gia Nguyen, Olu Oguibe, David Phillips and Paul Rowley, Ben Pranger, Mauro Restiffe, Omar Rodrigus, Margaret Roleke, Sebastian Romo, Raphy Sarkissian, Pallas Scot, Gedi Sibony, Amie Siegel, Peter Spaans, Yukiko Takagi, Patricia Thornley, Saneta de Vuono-powell (with Leigh Garret and Katie Workum), William Wallace, James Walsh, Karen Yasinsky, and Bryan Zanisnik.

For further information about the Brewster Project: tel: 212-252-4076 email ckh7@columbia.edu
The website at http://www.brewsterproject.com provides further information as does the Southeast Museum website at http://www.southeastmuseum.org

Through the Arts on Radio and Television category, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) "seeks to make the excellence and diversity of the arts widely available to the American public through nationally distributed television and radio programs."

Grants are available to support the development, production, and national distribution of radio and television programs on the arts -- with priority given to artistically excellent programs that have the potential to reach a significant national audience.

This year in ARTS ON RADIO AND TELEVISION GRANTS, the NEA provided $3.8 million for the development, production and distribution of arts programs for radio and television broadcast.

Examples of projects supported in 2001 and 2002 by Arts on Radio and Television are:

• Radio Diaries (New York, NY)
  $20,000 to support the production of six 30-minute documentaries for the series RADIO DIARIES. A fusion of art and journalism, this radio program uses sounds, scenes, conversations and personal reflections to chronicle people over time while weaving together a narrative thread to create drama and a new kind of oral history.

• National Public Radio (Washington, DC)
  $100,000 to support the production and national distribution of PRESENT AT THE CREATION, a series of new radio features that will explore the creative process and sources of artistic inspiration within American art and culture.

• National Association of Latino Arts and Culture (San Antonio, TX)
  $100,000 to support production costs for a four-part television series examining the cultural and artistic expression of Latino communities in the United States. VISIONES DEL BARRIO will give audiences an overview of the growth of cultural arts centers, dance and theater companies, and other cultural organizations within the Latino Diaspora.

• Pennsylvania Public Radio Associates (Uwchland, PA)
  $40,000 to support the production of concerts and feature programs for ECHOES, a nationally broadcast radio series of contemporary music. The series will serve a weekly audience of nearly 300,000 listeners from 175 stations in 36 states and the Northern Mariana Islands.

• Public Radio International (Minneapolis, MN)
  $70,000 to support the production, distribution and marketing of STUDIO 360 in 2002-03. A weekly arts and culture radio program designed to illuminate the role of the arts in our society, the series is a co-production of Public Radio International and WNYC/FM.

• Koahnic Broadcast Corporation (Anchorage, AK)
  $25,000 to support arts reporting, performance and features on the nationally distributed radio programs National Native News and Native America Calling. These daily news and information programs, which reach 360,000 listeners each week, are also available via the Internet.

"Producers, do you have an urgent, untold story to tell?"

ITVS (The Independent Television Service) seeks "provocative, spellbinding stories" through Open Call. They are looking for single public television programs on any subject, viewpoint or style. "We fund programs that bring new audiences to public television and expand civic participation by bringing diverse voices into the public sphere," they state. All genres are funded, and drama is particularly welcomed.

The next Open Call deadline is August 15, 2002. For complete details and guidelines, visit http://www.itvs.org/producers/openCallFAQ.html

For the past eleven years the annual CELEBRATE THE ARTS OF NEW YORK STATE AWARDS have recognized significant contributions to advancing cultural development in New York State.

"The awards come "from the field" and represent the rich fabric of cultural life statewide," the Alliance of New York State Arts Organizations states.

They invite nominations for the following awards:

ARTS ORGANIZATIONS AWARD
To honor an organization that has made an outstanding contribution to the cultural community of New York State including but not limited to collaborative efforts, building significant community partnerships, arts education, cultural development and fostering the creative environment.

BOARD LEADERSHIP AWARD
To honor exemplary Board of Directors' leadership by an individual or a group governing an arts organization in New York State. This award is given annually in honor of John A. Thorne.

M. JACQUIE LODICO SERVICE AWARD
To honor an arts administrator for outstanding accomplishment and distinguished service to their organization and community.

For each nomination, please submit a one-page narrative describing why the nominee deserves recognition. Of particular interest are community involvement and empowerment initiatives, local partnerships, commitment, as well as the allocation of resources for cultural development projects and programs. Support materials may be included.

The postmark deadline for nominations is July 31, 2002

Send nominations to:
Awards Panel
Alliance of New York State Arts Organizations
P.O. Box 96, Mattituck, New York 11952-0096
fax: 631-298-1101
Email: jkweiner@worldnet.att.net or awippert@worldnet.att.net

Indicate award category. Only one nomination in each category may be submitted.

An Awards Ceremony will be held Tuesday, November 26, 2002, 6-8 PM at the Russian Tea Room, New York, NY.

Opportunities for Artists

Hosted on the world wide web by Connecticut College, New London, CT, Contemporary American Poetry Archive (CAPA) is a full-text electronic archive designed to make out-of-print volumes of poetry available to readers, scholars, and researchers.

Among titles currently available are Pamela Alexander, NAVIGABLE WATERWAYS; James Cervantes, THE HEADLONG FUTURE, Denise Duhamel, THE WOMAN WITH TWO VAGINAS; Daniela Gioseffi, WORD WOUNDS AND WATER FLOWERS; Karen Alkalay-Gut, MECHITZA; William Greenway, WHERE WE'VE BEEN; Charles O. Hartman, THE PIGFOOT REBELLION; Jascha Kessler, IN MEMORY OF THE FUTURE; Philip Levine, A WALK WITH TOM JEFFERSON; Robert Peters, BRONCHIAL TANGLE, HEART SYSTEM; Robert Pinsky, HISTORY OF MY HEART; and Ingrid Wendt, SINGING THE MOZART REQUIEM.

"Poets or their executors who hold copyright to books may place them in the archive free of charge; once a volume is archived, it may be read on-screen, searched electronically, or downloaded freely," CAPA explains. "However, the author retains copyright and must be compensated if multiple copies are made (e.g., for use in the classroom). When the author receives an offer to reprint the book, we will withdraw it from the archive and post a publication notice in its place."

Note that although they include books from commercial, university, and small presses, they do not accept artists books or self-published writer's books.

Sources/resources: CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN POETRY ARCHIVE -- http://Capa.conncoll.edu/- guide.html
Wendy Battin, Director
Charles O. Hartman, Associate Director

Deadline: August 1, 2002, Original plays with physical storytelling elements, Doppelgang Productions, New York City, NY

Deadline August 31, 2002, Artists whose work explore various themes related to gestures and body language through the medium of photography, video, installation and performance, MUSAWWIR ARMAS, Northern New Jersey

Deadline: for September 11 anthology, Poets, Poetry Anthology on 9/11 edited by Allen Cohen Clive Matson

Deadline: October 15, 2002, Essays on issues/paradigms that inform Theatre of the Oppressed and contextualize them within a broader arena of cultural scholarship, Anthology to be edited by Mady Schutzman and Jan Cohen-Cruz

Deadline: October 15, 2002, writers - true stories about Mothers and Daughters, Christmas, A CUP OF COMFORT

Deadline Ongoing, Visual artists - rental gallery, The Artists' Museum, Washington, DC

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@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. 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, The Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts, St. Bonaventure University, (Bonaventure, NY)

GENERAL DIRECTOR, Glimmerglass Opera, (Cooperstown, NY)

MANAGING DIRECTOR OF EVC, The Educational Video Center, (New York City, NY)

DIRECTOR OF THE JOSEPH MEYERHOFF CENTER FOR CAREER DEVELOPMENT, Maryland Institute College of Art, (Baltimore, MD)

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR, Spectrum Dance Theater, (Seattle, WA)

COMPANY MANAGER, Jose Limon Dance Foundation, (New York City, NY)

OAKLAND BALLET COMPANY MANAGER, Oakland Ballet, (Oakland, CA)

THEATER SUPERVISOR, City of Dublin, (Dublin, OH)

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR, EMP YOUTH CHOIR, Experience Music Project, (Seattle, WA)

ORCHESTRA MANAGER, Greater Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras, (Boston, MA)

MANAGING DIRECTOR, LEXINGTON CAMPUS, Powers Music School, (Belmont, MA)

PUBLIC ART PROJECT COORDINATOR, New Mexico Arts, (Santa Fe, NM)

AFRICAN DANCE ARTIST TO CHOREOGRAPH PRODUCTION, (mid-sized university) (near Pittsburgh, PA)

TEACHERS/ INSTRUCTORS, (Art related activities after school), East Harlem Tutorial Program, (New York, NY)

INSTRUCTORS, After School Program, Department Children and Family Services, P.S. 64, (New York City, NY)

VISUAL ARTISTS AND DANCERS TO CONDUCT ARTS WORKSHOPS, school and community sites, (Los Angeles County, CA)

MANAGING DIRECTOR, Dance Space Center, (New York, NY)

GALLERY DIRECTOR, The Regina Gouger Miller Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University, (Pittsburgh, PA)

ASSOCIATE CURATOR OF ART, The Crocker Art Museum, (Sacramento, CA)

REGISTRAR, Museum of Jewish Heritage, (New York City, NY)

ASSISTANT REGISTRAR, The Wolfsonian-Florida International University, (Miami Beach, FL)

EDUCATION COORDINATOR, Hudson River Museum, (Yonkers, NY)

ARTISTS IN EDUCATION PROGRAM DIRECTOR (part time), Southern Exposure, (San Francisco, CA)

EAST COAST WEB EDITOR, BackStage.com,

PROGRAMMER/ANALYST, Information Technology (it) Department, Brooklyn Academy of Music, (Brooklyn, NY)

CONCERT STAGE MANAGER, The Little Orchestra Society, (New York, NY)

MUSIC ASSISTANT, The Little Orchestra Society, (New York, NY)

FRONT-OF-HOUSE DIRECTOR, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, (Berkeley, CA)

MANAGING DIRECTOR, The Builders Association, (New York, NY)

ADMINSTRATOR/COMPANY COORDINATOR, The Builders Association, (New York, NY)

PRODUCTION MANAGER, Paper Mill, (Millburn, NJ)

ASSOCIATE GENERAL MANAGER, Jeffrey Finn Productions, Inc., (New York City, NY)

SENIOR MILLINER, Costume Department, San Francisco Opera, (San Francisco, CA)

PROGRAM MANAGER, COMMUNITIES DEPARTMENT, Massachusetts Cultural Council, (Boston, MA)

PROGRAM ASSOCIATE, Massachusetts Cultural Council, (Boston, MA)

CAREER COUNSELOR/INTERNSHIP COORDINATOR, Maryland Institute College of Art, (Baltimore, MD)

DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC RELATIONS, Brooklyn Conservatory of Music, (Brooklyn, NY)

PROMOTION COORDINATOR, UMS Marketing Department, The University Musical Society, (Ann Arbor, MI)

PRESS ASSISTANT, The Department of Communications, The Museum of Modern Art, (New York City, NY)

ART ASSISTANT, (Art Gallery) (New York City, NY)

ART SALES CONSULTANT, (art retail gallery), (Rochester, NY)

DEVELOPMENT OFFICER, Illinois Humanities Council, (Chicago, IL)

DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT, Northern Plains Ballet, (Bismarck/Sioux Falls)(North Dakota/South Dakota)

DEVELOPMENT/PUBLIC INFORMATION DIRECTOR, Turtle Bay Music School, (New York, NY)

DEVELOPMENT COORDINATOR (part time), MIX the New York Lesbian & Gay Experimental Film/Video Festival, (New York City, NY)

ASSISTANT MANAGER DEVELOPMENT SYSTEMS, Whitney Museum of American Art, (New York City, NY)

CONSTRUCTION COORDINATOR - CAPITAL PROJECTS DEPARTMENT, Brooklyn Academy of Music, (Brooklyn, MA)

DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATE FOR INDIVIDUAL GIVING, Symphony Space, (New York City, NY)

EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT, The Museum of Modern Art, (New York City, NY)

ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT, (contemporary art gallery), (New York City, NY)

ACCOUNTING ASSOCIATE, Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation, (New York City, NY)

SCHOOL RECEPTIONIST POSITION, New York School for Drawing, Painting and Sculpture, (New York City, NY)

SECRETARY/ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT, Lincoln Center Constituent Development Project, (New York City, NY)

ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT, Pomegranate Arts, (New York City, NY)

DEVELOPMENT/MARKETING INTERN, Mark Morris Dance Group, (New York City, NY)

INTERNS, IMG Artists - Vocal Division, (New York City, NY)

INTERNSHIPS, Arts at At. Ann's, (New York City, NY)

FALL INTERNSHIPS, Richard Frankel Productions, (New York City, NY)

INTERNSHIP- relisted, THIRTEEN/WNET - GREAT PERFORMANCES -DANCE, (New York City, NY)

A growing list of links to job resources for artists and arts administrators is available on Arts Wire's Web Site at http://www.artswire.org/current/jobres.html

NEW YORK CITY, NY -- The Authors Guild has launched AuthorsGuild.net which will offer offering Guild members customizable Web sites for $6 per month. A $75 setup fee will be waived for sites activated by August 31. The Guild has developed an online software package which book authors and freelance journalists with no knowledge of HTML programming can use to build web sites, post book excerpts and magazine articles, host discussions, send electronic newsletters and link to online bookstores.

Writers may devote pages to up to 10 separate works. For prolific writers, the Guild is offering a 50-work site for $9 per month. There's also a single Web page alternative for $3 per month.

Other AuthorsGuild.net services are Web site promotion through submission of sites to search engines, domain name reservation, and Web-based email services.

To qualify, a writer must have been published by an established U.S. book publisher or must have three freelance articles published in major periodicals in the past two years. The service is only for sites directly related to the registrant's work as a writer.

The Authors Guild, with more than 8,000 members, is one of the largest organizations of published book authors and freelance journalists in the United States. It has been an advocate for effective copyright, fair contracts and free expression since 1912. First-year dues for Guild membership are $90.

For complete details on the web site program, visit http://www.authorsguild.net
For further information about the Guild, visit http://www.authorsguild.org