Among those in the arts community who were lost on that day were writer David Angell, creator and executive producer of NBC's comedy FRASIER; actress and photographer Berry Berenson; former ballet dancer Sonia Morales Puopolo, a key supporter of the Miami City Ballet; and painter and photographer James Edward Potorti.

Sculptor Michael Richards, who was an artist in residence in the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's World Views, a program which gave artists windowed studio space in Tower One of the World Trade Center, was killed while working in his studio on the 92nd floor. Much of his work centered on the history of the Tuskegee Airmen, the heroic World War II Air Force pilots at whose alma mater black men were used for live experiments on syphilis.

"The destruction and the loss of human life in our City, on the planes and in Washington, leaves us without adequate words to express our sorrow to those who have lost loved ones, friends and colleagues. We know that offering solace for losses such as these seems almost futile in the face of so much pain," the New York City Arts Coalition said in response to the attack.

A year has passed, but in New York City, the feeling of vulnerability, the damaged skyline, the crushing depression, the collective emotional pain will remain for years -- as will the memory of lost human lives.

This September, many artists and arts organizations choose to combat the residue of terror by continuing their work. In these troubled times, as Meredith Monk pointed out at the Grantmakers in the Arts 2001 Conference, art helps people connect with each other. It offers "a way of listening to each other and affirming our diversity, and really listening deeply to each other and the differences between us. Another thing is to offer beauty and wisdom and insight to people. Another thing that it can do is to offer a place where people can experience fundamental energies that we don't necessarily have words for."

On September 11, 2001, the EVENING STARS MUSIC & DANCE FESTIVAL, which was presented for the past three years on the Plaza of the World Trade Center, was in the middle of its dance series.

"The festival shines again this year in Historic Battery Park with free performances by Kristjan Jrvi's Absolute and Metro Mass Choir, and the world class dance companies of Merce Cunningham, Mark Morris, Trisha Brown, Paul Taylor, Garth Fagan, David Parsons, Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane, Dance Theatre of Harlem, Noh Drama Theater of Japan, and others," The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) writes.

This September, in their work, many artists are commemorating the losses and/or responding to the tragedy and its aftermath or war and repression.

On September 11, 2002, a group of poets will read from POETRY AFTER 9/11, AN ANTHOLOGY OF NEW YORK POETS. "Their poems -- most of which have never been published before -- cover an extraordinary variety of responses to the challenging experience of writing and living in the aftermath of tragedy. Some are eyewitness accounts by poets who were on the scene. Others more indirectly touch upon the events and reflect the somber resonance of the tragedy's impact upon life in the city," observes publisher Melville House.

Located just three blocks north of the World Trade Center complex, The New Amsterdam Library, which is hosting the readings, shut down on September 11 in the wake of the attacks on the World Trade Center. The entire area was closed for weeks. In mid- November when custodial staff were permitted back in the building, they found that layers of dust covered every surface.

The staff manually dusted and reshelved some 40,000 books and other materials, and on Monday, December 3, the New York Public Library's New Amsterdam Branch reopened to the public.

This September, many artists will, in memory of the losses, observe silence. On Broadway, theaters -- including the Nederlander Theatre, playing Jonathan Larson's RENT, and Brooks Atkinson Theatre, playing Michael Frayn's NOISES OFF -- will go dark on September 11, 2002.

This September, in their work, many artists illuminate community and seek hope in the aftermath of tragedy.

"Through the voices of five young Arab American women we become privy to the kind of uniquely personal experiences which are often rendered invisible by the high gloss of the mainstream media. Humble and brave; hesitant and strident; plaintive and hopeful; they remind us that the immigrant experience, in all its configurations and contradictions, is, and always will be, the American experience," state Directors Nikki Byrd and Jennifer Jajeh about IN MY OWN SKIN, a documentary, made in response to the events of September 11. "For us it has been a process that has challenged and transformed our lives because we allowed it to do so. And here in rises the gift from the ashes; the recognition that each of us has the opportunity to expand our horizons and become open to change."

Introducing the exhibition YAHRZEIT, which at the Museum of Jewish Heritage honors the "yahrzeit", the anniversary of the losses sustained a year ago, Rabbi Marcelo Bronstein writes:

"Yahrzeit is our ability to say that life is sacred, that memory is the foundation where the pillars of our existence stand."

Sources/resources:

NEW YORK CITY ARTS COALITION -- http://www.nycityartscoalition.org

LOWER MANHATTAN CULTURAL COUNCIL -- http://www.lmcc.net
EVENING STARS MUSIC & DANCE FESTIVAL
Performers include Nicholas Leighter Dance, Battery Dance Co., H.T. Chen and Dancers, Jane Comfort Dance, Rennie Harris Puremovement, Urban Bush Women, Trisha Brown Dance Company, Cassandra Wilson, and Jane Comfort Dance, the Kronos Quartet, Kristjan Jrvi's Absolute, Metro Mass Choir, Merce Cunningham, Mark Morris, Trisha Brown, Paul Taylor, Garth Fagan, David Parsons, Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane, Dance Theatre of Harlem, Noh Drama Theater of Japan,

Meredith Monk
"AN EVENING WITH MEREDITH MONK"
November 4, 2001, 8:30 PM, Mohonk Mountain House, New Paltz, New York
GRANTMAKERS IN THE ARTS WEBSITE -- http://www.giarts.org/conf01.html

THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY -- http://www2.nypl.org/home/branch
The poets whose work is included in the anthology are: Stephen Dunn, Colette Inez, David Lehman, Alicia Ostriker , David Trinidad, Frank Lima, Charlie Smith, Jean Valentine, Geoffrey O'Brien, Ron Drummond, Andrea Carter Brown, Lewis Warsh, Douglas Goetsch, D. Nurkse, Carter Ratcliff, Tony Towle, Bill Kushner, Nancy Mercado, Norman Stock, Tim Suermondt, Hugh Seidman, Anna Rabinowitz, Aaron Smith, Molly Peacock, Rachel Hada, Karl Kirchwey, Eliot Katz, Ross Martin, Star Black, Eileen Myles, Patricia Spears Jones, Kimiko Hahn, Miranda Beeson, Hal Sirowitz, Sharon Kraus, Nikki Moustaki, Vicki Hudspith, Shelley Stenhouse, Scott Hightower, Philip Fried, Anne-Marie Levine, Philip Schultz, Paul Violi, George Murray, Harvey Shapiro

MELVILLE HOUSE -- http://www.melvillehousebooks.com/

BROADWAY TICKET -- http://broadwayticket.homestead.com/News_1.html

IN MY OWN SKIN -- http://www.inmyownskin.com

THE MUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE -- http://www.mjhnyc.org

"YAHRZEIT: SEPTEMBER 11 OBSERVED - The Museum of Jewish Heritage, New York City"
Arts Wire CURRENT -- http://www.artswire.org/current/2002/cur073002.html#events
July 30, 2002

ARTS WIRE CURRENT 911 ARCHIVES -- http://www.artswire.org/current/911.html

At 8:46 AM -- the time when the first of the twin towers was struck -- there will be a moment of silence throughout the city.

Governor George Pataki will read the Gettysburg Address.

Led by former mayor Rudolph Giuliani, New Yorkers and people from around the world, including family members and colleagues of those lost on 9/11, will read the names of the men and women who perished at the World Trade Center site that day.

"Taps" will be played.

New Jersey Governor James McGreevey will then read an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence.

At 10:29 AM -- the moment when the second of the twin towers collapsed -- the memorial will conclude. At that time, houses of worship throughout the city are invited to toll their bells.

"From that moment on, throughout the day, the families of those lost on 9/11 will, for the first time, be invited to descend the ramp to the lowest level of the World Trade Center site. They will have an opportunity to remember their loved ones on what many consider sacred ground. We will ask them to take a rose, put it in a vase and we will save those roses and make them part of the permanent memorial when it is eventually built," said Mayor Bloomberg.

On Saturday September 14, as a memorial to the people who died and as a symbol of rebirth for the City of New York, the New York Harbor Sailing Foundation will fill the harbor with sail boats.

At sunset, a series of fireworks displays in New York Harbor will each represent one person who was lost on September 11.

The ceremony is described by the Starry Light Project in this way:

"Gold light bursts will represent those lost in the jetliners, silver light bursts will represent the citizens, red light bursts will represent the firemen, and blue light bursts will represent the policemen. The names of each victim will be simulcast on the radio and synchronized to each individual pyrotechnic burst. From the windows of the buildings facing Battery Park 3,000 lights will twinkle and will continue until the batteries' energy fades."

All across the city, arts organizations will honor the city's losses and look to the future.

In SEPTEMBER 11: ARTISTS RESPOND at the American Craft Museum, in more than 60 panels, each nine by nine inches, artists remember the catastrophic loss of life on September 11, 2001. The exhibited works are being donated to the American Craft Museum and will become the core of a traveling exhibition to be shared with museums across the nation.

At the Merkin Concert Hall, in MUSICIANS FOR HARMONY: CONCERT TO COMMEMORATE SEPTEMBER 11, the Juilliard, Guarneri and Shanghai string quartets will perform along with Musique Sans Frontieres and Kamel Boutros, baritone.

At the South Street Seaport Museum's Melville Gallery, writers will read from 110 STORIES: NEW YORK WRITES AFTER SEPTEMBER 11.

At Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, THE UNITY CANVAS is an "artist-to-artist, New York-based, collective response to the tragedy of 9/11 and the times we live in. Artists submitted 12-inch squares of unstretched canvas, in any medium - paint, digital, embroidery, etc., word about the project spread on the Internet and through word of mouth," the project states. About 300 pieces have been received so far from every region of the US as well as all over the world, including Brazil, Canada, England, France, Japan, Malaysia and Spain.

In Collaboration with Youth Speaks, the Studio Museum of Harlem will present REFLECTIONS.

"The Studio Museum in Harlem will resonate with the voices of youth as they reflect on the events of September 11, 2001. Youth are invited to share their perspectives through prose, spoken word and song," they state.

MICROVIEWS

On September 11, 2001, the office of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, (LMCC) one of Manhattan's largest and oldest arts councils -- located then at 5 World Trade Center -- was destroyed, and all their work was lost, including their archives, office and exhibition spaces, and artist-in-residence studios.

From 1997 - 2001, the LMCC and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey had collaborated on World Views, an artist-in-residence program to provide artist studios in Tower One of the World Trade Center. The 140 artists who participated in the World Views and Studioscape residency programs created a substantial body of work inspired by the unique environment and vantage point of the World Trade Center.

This September, opening on September 4 and running through October 10 at the Urban Center Galleries of the Municipal Art Society, LMCC presents MICROVIEWS ARTISTS' DOCUMENTS OF THE WORLD TRADE CENTER, a hands-on exhibition which presents the building's architecture and environs as documented by the artists during their residencies.

"Viewers are invited to sift through this archive of daily life at the World Trade Center, including photographs, drawings and video of public areas, office suites, hallways, studios, and infrastructure. Microviews explores the processes of reconstruction and memory through everyday documents," the exhibition states.

World Views has found a new home in the World Financial Center, which has welcomed nine artists to studios in the Downtown complex. New Views, as the current LMCC residency program is being called, recently provided studio space for nine visual artists to create site-specific art and to display their finished works this October at the World Financial Center.

BRAVE NEW WORLD

On the first anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks, from September 9 - 11, 2002 at the Town Hall in New York City, BRAVE NEW WORLD -- under the direction of Producing Artistic Director J Dakota Powell -- will host performances by playwrights, composers and lyricists in about 40 plays of varying lengths as well as approximately 18 non-theatre pieces.

"Our mission is to unite and encourage the American theater to explore the roots of terrorism and address the changes in the world in the aftermath of the attacks," the project states. "Brave New World will provide a forum for artists to wrestle with these issues, hopefully helping us all to resolve our continuing feelings of helplessness and confusion in the face of this tragedy. We believe that an artistic response is essential towards understanding not only the repercussions of terrorism on our most intimate relationships, but also the reasons for a type of warfare that is grinding away at the foundations of cultures around the world. The artists, thinkers and dreamers of the world must be given a chance to respond as a community."

AFTERIMAGE

On September 11, 2002 in AFTERIMAGE at Dixon Place, 33 artists of all disciplines will consider how 9/11 resonates in their lives, one year later in "an incredible evening of reflective art that acknowledges our grief and simultaneously channels it into redemptive creative growth."

Performances will begin every hour on the hour between 6-10 PM. In each hour, there will be 50 minutes of performance, followed by a 10 minute break. Audience members are welcome to stay for the entire evening, or just for a single hour of performance.

IN MEMORY: THE ART OF AFTERWARD

At the Sidney Mishkin Gallery at Baruch College from September 6 - October 3, 2002, the Legacy Project is sponsoring the exhibition IN MEMORY: THE ART OF AFTERWARD.

As described by the gallery:

"Artists from sixteen countries draw on abstract and narrative approaches to confront the violence of war, genocide, and the broader social and political systems that have decimated cultures around the world. This cross-cultural study of art in the aftermath of trauma commemorates the terrorist attacks of September 11th and provides a more universal context for understanding these tragic events."

The Legacy Project is a non-profit organization that studies creative explorations of the long-term effects of violence in societies. "As time passes, September 11th continues to spawn longer-term reflections on the aftermath of trauma. When living memory is no longer present, what will remembrance be? Art provides a unique lens through which to explore memory because art can both permanently capture an ephemeral memory and simultaneously chart its inevitable decay," said Clifford Chanin, President of the Legacy Project.

"The extraordinary circumstances of September 11th call for us to investigate the aftermath of traumas in other nations in order to understand how our memories will process what happened in ours," he emphasized.

Sources/resources:

NEW YORK CITY -- http://www.nyc.gov/html/om/html/2002b/sept11.html

STARRY NIGHT -- http://www.nightlightfund.org/starrynight.html

SAIL FOR AMERICA -- http://www.sailforamerica.com/

DOWNTOWN NEW YORK -- http://www.downtownny.com

THE STUDIO MUSEUM OF HARLEM -- http://www.studiomuseuminharlem.org/

AMERICAN CRAFT MUSEUM -- http://www.americancraftmuseum.org/acm/

MERKIN CONCERT HALL -- http://www.elainekaufmancenter.org/merkin.html

UNITY CANVAS -- http://www.unitycanvas.com

SOUTH STREET SEAPORT MUSEUM -- http://www.southstseaport.org

LOWER MANHATTAN CULTURAL COUNCIL -- http://www.lmcc.net
MICROVIEWS ARTISTS' DOCUMENTS OF THE WORLD TRADE CENTER
Participating artists are: Simon Aldridge, Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock, Olive Ayhens, Matthew Bakkom, Taleen Berberian, Monika Bravo, Laurie Halsey Brown, Torsten Z. Burns, Patty Chang, Justine Cooper, William Crow, Jaime Davidovich, Mary Jane Dean, Geoffrey Detrani, Adrian Doura, Joellyn Duesberry, Nancy Friese, Matthew Geller, Terence Gower, Susan Graham, Sally Gutierrez, Kira Lynn Harris, Susanna Heller, Adam Henry, Hoon Kim, Soo-Ja Kim, Julian LaVerdiere/Paul Myoda, Pamela Lawton, John Long, Kristin Lucas, Patrick Meagher, Slink Moss, Nedra Newby, Christian Nguyen, Sandrine Nicoletta, Yigal Nizri, Olu Oguibe, Mick O'Shea, John Pilson, Douglas Ross, Peter Ruta, Carl Scorza, Nathan See, James Sheehan, Hyungsub Shin, Sonya Sklaroff, Taylor Spence, Patrice Sullivan, The E-Team, Edin Velez, and Micki Wantanabe.

BRAVE NEW WORLD -- http://www.bravenewworldarts.com
Performers include: Lee Blessing, Constance Congdon, Kia Corthron, Christopher Durang, Rinde Eckert, Eve Ensler, Spalding Gray, Rinne Groff, John Guare, Marvin Hamlisch, Israel Horovitz, Tina Howe, David Henry Hwang, Susan Kim, Laurence Klavan, Arthur Kopit, Greg Kotis, Michael John LaChiusa, Ellen McLaughlin, Terrence McNally, Chiori Miyagawa, Lynn Nottage, Frank Pugliese, Adam Rapp, Theresa Rebeck, Jose Rivera, Edwin Sanchez , Ed Seebald, Jonathan Marc Sherman, Christopher Shinn, Brian Silberman, David Simpatico, Lillian Ann Slugocki Andrew Solomon, Diana Son, Kathryn Stern, Alfred Uhry, among many others.

DIXON PLACE -- http://www.dixonplace.org
Performers include: Jen Abrams, Laura Axelrod, Erin Cornell, Scott Franco, Paula Hunter, Montana Miller, Alyson Pou, Pamela Booker, Thom Fogarty, Heather Harrington, Deb Margolin, George Sanchez, Alexx Shilling, Matt Walker, Wendy Blum, Pat Candaras, Liquid Body, Wendy Osserman, Melissa Riker, Leslie Satin, Kelly Bartnik, DADAnewyork, Nadine Helstroffer, Mark Mitton, Jody Oberfelder, Niall O'Leary Irish Dance Troupe, Penny Arcade, Desiree Burch, Clare Byrne, Ester Amy Fischer, Robert Penn, Hana van der Kolk, and Marshall Weber

THE SIDNEY MISHKIN GALLERY -- http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/mishkin/afterward/

THE LEGACY PROJECT -- http://www.legacy-project.org
The exhibition features the works of Amer Baksic, Barsamian, Anna Bialobroda, Vivian Bower, Ibrahim El-Salahi, Daniel Garcia, Nguyen Quoc Hoi, Shigeo Ishii, Ho-Suk Kim, R.B. Kitaj, Aleksei Levchenko, Eduardo Medici, Robert Motherwell, Joung-Ki Min, Zoran Music, Dinh Y Nhi, Oscar Rabine, Naomi Tereza Salmon, Betye Saar, Frank Stella, Boris Sveshnikov, Kebedech Tekleab, Ana Tiscornia, Leon Tutundjian, Zhang Hongtu, and Zhang Xiaogang.

At the Jersey City Museum in Jersey City, NJ, the exhibition FOREVER CHANGED: PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE JERSEY JOURNAL documents the attacks in lower Manhattan and the subsequent rescue operations across the Hudson River in New Jersey.

At CEPA Gallery in Buffalo, NY, beginning September 11, 2002, Tatana Kellner's REQUIEM FOR SEPTEMBER 11th -- 38 flowing 16' by 4' white fabric banners commemorating with text and image each of the victims of the World Trade Center -- will fill the entire atrium. Inspired by the NEW YORK TIMES' "Portraits of Grief", the artist silk screen printed the 3,000 images by hand onto the material.

In Washington, DC, at the Library of Congress, the exhibition WITNESS AND RESPONSE: SEPTEMBER 11 ACQUISITIONS AT THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS will be accompanied by concerts by performers including Tom Paxton and Suzanne Vega, as well as discussions by cultural historians, photographers, artists and illustrators about the impact of September 11 on their lives and work.

FLIGHT 93 REMEMBERED

On September 11, 2002 the hijacked United Airlines Flight 93, crashed in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, Southeast of Pittsburgh. Since September 11, 2001, thousands of people have traveled to the site of the crash, and many have left memorials and tributes to the victims. Through October 2, 2002, The State Museum of Pennsylvania is featuring FLIGHT 93 REMEMBERED, an installation which documents visitor's responses to the tragedy.

"The tragic events of September 11 touched Pennsylvania directly with the crash of Flight 93 in Shanksville, Somerset County. Additionally, 63 Pennsylvanians perished in the World Trade Center. The State Museum is joining other museums across the nation in presenting programs and exhibits that reflect on the meaning of September 11, honor the victims and celebrate the democratic freedoms we cherish," the museum states.

WHERE THERE IS SORROW, THERE IS HOLY GROUND

"While much of the world focused on terrorists and terrorism, those of us closest to the actual disaster site needed to use all of our resources to simply cope with day-to-day life" - The Hofstra Museum

In Hempstead NY, the Hofstra Museum is hosting the exhibition WHERE THERE IS SORROW, THERE IS HOLY GROUND: A SEPTEMBER 11, 2001 ANNIVERSARY RETROSPECTIVE FROM THE LONG ISLAND STUDIES INSTITUTE. Guest Curators: Geri E. Solomon, University Archivist/Interim Director, Long Island Studies Institute, Janelle Boucher, Graduate Intern, Processing Archivist, The September 11th Project.

The exhibition addresses both coping with the aftermath of disaster and ordinary citizens as heroes.

"Highways that were once pathways into the city, became available only to emergency personnel. Trains that once carried thousands to work in a rather mundane fashion, stood empty and unnecessary. And, people who had not ever considered themselves anything but ordinary citizens became heroes," they state. "Whether it was because of the backbreaking physical labor that they performed at Ground Zero, or because they offered themselves as volunteers, or they made donations of food or donatid to the terrorism of September 11th, and to explore its effects on our communities, our country, and ourselves. In it we recreate the plane crashes, the media coverage of September 11th, and the ways in which the tragedy resonated (and continues to resonate) in a variety of different communities, including the classroom and the playground, and in the imaginations of individual characters and of our country as a whole. Through this we ask a number of questions, perhaps the most important of which occurs at the center of the play where a professor asks her students to imagine 'what new world has been created' as a result of the attacks."

CONCERT FOR AMERICA

On September 11, 2001 in Arlington, VA, the hijacked American Airlines Flight 77 crashed into the Pentagon, killing over 125 Pentagon staffers as well as the crew and passengers aboard the aircraft.

NBC's CONCERT FOR AMERICA, broadcast from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC on September 11, 2002, will commemorate the one-year anniversary of the attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Towers and the crash of United flight 93.

Hosted by NBC's Tom Brokaw, and attended by Honorary Chairman Laura Bush, the concert will feature Placido Domingo, Gloria Estefan, Rene Fleming, Aretha Franklin, Al Green, Josh Groban, Enrique Iglesias, Alan Jackson, and The National Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Music Director Leonard Slatkin. Robert Katz (VH-1 DIVAS) and Jerry Kupfer (TV NATION, DANCEMAKER) are the executive producers. Director: Ron de Moraes.

Sources/resources:

JERSEY CITY MUSEUM -- http://www.jerseycitymuseum.org

Tatana Kellner
REQUIEM FOR SEPTEMBER 11th
CEPA Gallery -- http://cepa.buffnet.net/

THE NEW YORK TIMES -- http://www.nytimes.com

MNEMONIC -- A 9/11 Memorial Exhibition -- http://www.licweb.com/mnemonic
organized by Louise Weinberg in collaboration with Kenny Greenberg

WITNESS AND RESPONSE: SEPTEMBER 11 ACQUISITIONS AT THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS -- http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/

FLIGHT 93 REMEMBERED
THE STATE MUSEUM OF PENNSYLVANIA -- http://www.statemuseumpa.org

CONCERT FOR AMERICA is produced by NBC -- http://www.nbc.com -- in collaboration with the JOHN F. KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS http://www.kennedy-center.org under the auspices of The PRESIDENT'S COMMITTEE ON THE ARTS AND THE HUMANITIES -- http://www.pcah.gov

WHERE THERE IS SORROW, THERE IS HOLY GROUND THE HOFSTRA MUSEUM -- http://www.hofstra.edu/COM/Museum/index_Museum.cfm

ELIXIR PRODUCTIONS -- http://www.elixirproductions.org
WRITING GROUND ZERO
Written and directed by: Alex S. Defazio, Jody P. Person, and Carrie Preston and choreographed by Jody P. Person and Carrie Preston. Cast: Reginald S. Burch (Everyman Extra-Marital), Mike Cinquino (Priest), Melanie DiPiero (Papertrail Lady), Caitlin Mulhern (Woman on the Edge of a Ledge), Jody P. Person (Dancer), Carrie Preston (Dancer), Randall Rodriguez (Conspiracy Theorist), Lauren Strachan (Walker), John Wu (Dreamer 7:24), Antu Yacob (Professor) Crew: Alex DeFazio (Sound Design)

Across the nation -- from The John F. Kennedy Library and Museum in Boston which in addition to a concert and a display of panels of the UNITED IN MEMORY: 9-11 VICTIMS MEMORIAL QUILT, will offer free admission and extended hours on Wednesday, September 11, 2002, to provide the public a fitting place for reflection and remembrance of the national tragedy; to the Levantine Center in Los Angeles, which advocates for, educates about, and supports Middle Eastern and Mediterranean arts and cultures and will be presenting a 9/11 GALLERY with visual art and writing -- museums and artists will observe the first anniversary of September 11, 2001 by offering both places of refuge and art work which fosters dialogue about the attack.

In Augusta, Georgia for COMMUNITY ARTISTS UNITE: SEPTEMBER 11TH--REFLECTIVE IMAGES. The Morris Museum of Art, the Art Factory, the Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art, the Lucy Craft Laney Museum of Black History, and the Augusta Cotton Exchange Conference and Banquet Center called for artists in the community to create works of art reflecting on how world communities have changed since 9/11.

In Lakeland, Florida at The Polk Museum of Art, MUSIC HEALS: A MEMORIAM TO SEPTEMBER 11 will feature vocalist/dancer Joyce Gavin; performance artist Erica Schmidt and pianist Gary Schmidt; and classical guitarist Kyle Spresser. Director/producer Floyd Love

In Detroit, Michigan, in all three Worship Services at Historic Trinity Lutheran Church on Sunday, September 8, WHEN SUDDEN TERROR TEARS APART will be a remembrance of the lost ones of the events of September 11, 2001. The Historic Trinity Cathedral Choir with the choir of King of Kings Lutheran Church, Ann Arbor, will premier a new anthem also by Karl Osterland, entitled "O Valiant Hearts" in memory of the rescue workers who gave their lives at the World Trade Center last year.

At The Milwaukee Public Museum, Edward T. Linenthal, professor of religion and American culture, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh. will lecture on SEPT. 11 AND AFTER: MUSEUMS, MEANING AND MEMORY. Linenthal, who spent four years learning about the impact of the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City for his book THE UNFINISHED BOMBING, will talk about how the September 11 terrorist attacks were different from the 1995 bombing in Oklahoma City, and how the memorials formed in each place reflect concerns specific to their locales

In Tempe, Arizona, conceived by Carol Flax, a real-time web event MEMORIA/MEMOIRE will run on September 11, 2002, from 11 AM - 1 PM Arizona time and include performances streamed live from several universities across the country, including Herberger College's Institute for Studies at Arizona State University (ASU) and the University of Arizona. Other participants include the State University of New York at Buffalo and the University of Kansas. Among the events will be 10-minute versions of two performance pieces created and presented during the past year by ASU artists, including HEEL by Jeff McMahon and INFINITE JUSTICE by Lance Gharavi -- both developed in response to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Memoria/Memoire is a collaborative project by Carol Flax, Patricia Clark, Kip Haaheim, and Jerzy Rozenblit.

In Santa Fe New Mexico, the Santa Fe Art Institute will present an exhibition of work created by the New York artists of the 9/11 Emergency Residency Program. The Santa Fe Art Institute offered shelter to working artists after the attacks, and hosted over a hundred artists in their September 11th Emergency Residency Program. Artists who had been at work in studios close to the tower s collapse were invited to continue their interrupted projects or begin new ones in the peaceful climate of New Mexico. Eleven of the artists in residence during the Emergency Residency program were part of the World Views Residencies, which provided artist s studio space on the 92nd floor of the World Trade Center. The exhibition is coordinated by SFAI director Diane Karp, and will run through October 15th.

In Houston, Texas, the Houston Center for Photography is presenting MADE IN AMERICA, a group exhibition co-curated by Jean Caslin and Melissa Mudry and featuring the work of Kristin Capp, Kate Schermerhorn, Bastienne Schmidt, and Chip Simone. In the Center's words the work in Made in America "...embodies essential aspects of American life and culture. From portraits to landscapes to still-lifes, these photographs evoke reminiscent introspection and serve as a poignant reminder of the uniqueness and variety in our American culture." Selections from the FLAGGING SPIRITS project, a coalition of nine national artists, will also be on view. As a response to the events of September 11, this group of artists -- Karl Baden, Leslie Ernst, Marion Faller, Margaret Morton, Melissa Shook, Sally Stein, Jim Stone, Margaret Wagner and Daniel P. Younger -- have created a book of photographs of the countless flags which immediately began appearing after that Tuesday morning.

In Seattle, Washington, at Jack Straw New Media Gallery, the installation REVISITING SEPTEMBER 11, 19[72] by composer Mark Polishook and media artist Lisa Hutton integrates image and sound. A component of the installation, Polishook's VOICES, is composed of voices from portions of September 11, 2001 radio broadcasts. As currently realized, Voices is a database of processed audio excerpts meant to be mixed and re-mixed and to be heard in spans that range from a few seconds to several hours.

The Creative Arts Center in Manhattan Beach, CA is hosting 9/11 MANHATTAN/MANHATTAN, an exhibition which features more than 70 photographs taken of the World Trade Center after 9/11 and of the Manhattan Beach community's responses to the tragedy. The photographers -- Manhattan Beach fire fighters Captain Tim O'Brien and Jeff Sanders; New York-based photographer Angelique Ledoux; and Manhattan Beach-based photographers Mary Pat Dorr and Chris Miller -- separately reconstruct the experiences of September 11, 2002 -- creating a whole which reflects different perspectives.

In Washington state, in response to the American Association of Museum's encouragement of cultural institutions to come together in acknowledging the anniversary of Sept. 11th, 19 Puget Sound Region Cultural Institutions will join together to "provide the Puget Sound community with public venues for contemplation, free expression, and community spirit on this important anniversary." Among the PUGET SOUND MUSEUMS REMEMBER consortium participants are Bellevue Art Museum; Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture; Center on Contemporary Art; Experience Music Project; Frye Art Museum; Henry Art Gallery; Museum of Glass; Seattle Art Museum; Seattle Asian Art Museum; and the Wing Luke Asian Museum. "The goals of this cooperative recognition of last year's terrorist events are simple: to provide the community with neutral venues for reflection and contemplation; to reassert the role of the museum as an active part of the reflective process and as an important champion of free expression and cross-cultural understanding; to invite families and individuals to recall Sept. 11th, their own loss, and the future of our community by visiting institutions that value cultural, personal, and expressive freedoms," they state.

To commemorate the victims of the September 11, 2001 attack, a group of dancers and dance makers from all over Southern California are gathering to perform FUNERAL FOR A FALLEN HERO, a six-minute dance drama choreographed by Jamal, an Iranian-American who is the artistic director of the AVAZ International Dance Theatre.

At noon on Wednesday, September 11, 2002, the event will take place the Plaza of Japan America Theatre Cultural Center. It is open to the public. The dance drama will also be performed simultaneously in San Jose, San Diego, Salt Lake City and St. Paul.

"Funeral for a Fallen Hero is a contemporary evocation of an ancient funeral rite from Luristan, Iran, which Jamal experienced in Iran as a deeply moving event," the project states.

In Albuquerque, New Mexico, as part of the nationwide 5000 FLOWERS PROJECT, The Rainbow Artists -- a multiracial, multicultural, multigenerational womens' collective will remember those who perished on September 11, 2001 with an exhibition at Winrock Mall.

The Rainbow Artists describe the concept in this way:

"We honor all those who gave their lives to save others and share the pain of the loved ones who are left behind. Flowers represent life's gift of renewal as we treasure each life lost with this symbol."

In Charlottesville, VA, at the Virginia Discovery Museum, The International Peace Project -- a program of The Open Studio, a space where children are encouraged to use materials to create a project -- will be open all day.

"It is our hope that by emphasizing peace and a diverse global perspective, we will give children ages 1 to 10 a positive outlet during the week of such a tragic anniversary," they state.

Sources/resources

MUSEUM'S CELEBRATE AMERICA'S FREEDOMS -- http://www.aam-us.org

THE JOHN F. KENNEDY LIBRARY AND MUSEUM -- http://www.jfklibrary.org

LEVANTINE CENTER -- http://www.levantinecenter.org

THE POLK MUSEUM OF ART -- http://www.polkmuseumofart.org

HISTORIC TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH -- http://www.historictrinity.org/911music.html

THE MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM -- http://www.mpm.edu/linenthal.html

MEMORIA/MEMOIRE -- http://isa.asu.edu/memoria
Consultants for this project include John D. Mitchell, composer with the ASU Dance Department and the Institute for Studies in the Arts; Gene Cooper, media artist with the Institute for Studies in the Arts; Hari Sundarum, new faculty appointee of the Institute for Studies in the Arts and Computer Science, and Trebor Scholz, Professor of Art, State University of New York at Buffalo.

SANTA FE ART INSTITUTE -- http://www.sfai.org

HOUSTON CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY - http://www.hcponline.org
FLAGGING SPIRITS -- http://www.umb.edu/flaggingspirits/statement.html

JACK STRAW NEW MEDIA GALLERY -- http://www.jackstraw.org

9/11 MANHATTAN/MANHATTAN -- http://www.citymb.info/

FUNERAL FOR A FALLEN HERO -- http://www.avazinternationaldance.org

THE RAINBOW ARTISTS -- http://www.rainbowartists.com

5000 FLOWERS -- http://www.5000flowers.com

VIRGINIA DISCOVERY MUSEUM -- http://www.vadm.org

And words about sculptor Michael Richards and his work are still welcome for next week's issue. Send them to Judy Malloy at jmalloy@nyfa.org

Opportunities for Artists

Details about these and other opportunities are available on Arts Wire's Web Site at http://www.artswire.org/current/calls.html

To submit "calls" for either artists or organizations, send email to jmalloy@nyfa.org

Deadline September 1, 2002, Artists over 18; artists who have first-hand experience living with disabilities are especially encouraged to submit work, Artwork about the borders and boundaries that affect the daily lives of artists and audiences, ALL ACCESS CONFRONTING BOUNDARIES, Painted Bride Art Center, Philadelphia, PA

Deadline: September 3, 2002, Performing artists, Arts International, Artists Exploration Fund

Deadline: September 4, 2002, Filmmakers - children's programs,HIGH FALLS FILM FESTIVAL, Rochester, NY

Deadline: November 1, 2002, Fiction writing, Fellowships in Fiction, Christopher Isherwood Foundation

Deadline: November 15, 2002, Public artists,The Town of Huntington 9/11 Memorial Commission, Huntington, NY

Deadline December 1, 2002, Artwork and projects about science and/or the environment, on-going program on art of the environment and/or science, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO

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, Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, (Cazenovia, NY)

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, Center for Traditional Music and Dance, (New York City, NY)

ASSOCIATE CHAIR, Department of Design and Management, Parsons School of Design, (New York City, NY)

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH - CREATIVE WRITING/POETRY, Colorado State University, (Fort Collins, CO)

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF THEATRE, University of Central Arkansas, (Conway, AR)

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF ART /COMPUTER DESIGN, Art Department of Shippensburg University, (Shippensburg, PA)

COMPANY MANAGER, Mark Morris Dance Group, (New YOrk City, NY)

MALE DANCERS, Rhombus Dance, (New Jersey)

PUBLISHER, Copper Canyon Press, (Port Townsend, WA)

MANAGING DIRECTOR, The Village of Arts and Humanities, (Philadelphia, PA)

MANAGING DIRECTOR - search reopened, Lexington Campus, Powers Music School, (Belmont, MA)

PROGRAM DIRECTOR, Global Action Project, (New York City, NY)

NEW MEDIA EDUCATOR, Youth Media Network, Global Action Project, (New York City, NY)

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF CONTINUING EDUCATION & SPECIAL PROGRAMS, Office of Continuing Education & Special Programs, Parsons School of Design, (New York City, NY)

PRODUCTION MANAGER, San Francisco Opera Center, (San Francisco, CA)

TECHNICAL DIRECTOR, La Jolla Playhouse, (U.C. San Diego, CA)

MEDIA PRODUCTION COORDINATOR, The University of Tampa, (Tampa, FL)

EXHIBITIONS COORDINATOR, (foundation dedicated to photography), (New York City, NY)

SENIOR RETOUCHER, Box Studios, (New York, NY)

GALLERY ASSISTANT, White Columns, (New York, NY)

GALLERY ASSISTANT, (contemporary art gallery), (New York City, NY)

ASSISTANT TO THE DIRECTOR, Art Gallery at the University of Maryland, (College Park, MD)

ARTS SERVICES MANAGER, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, (New York City, NY)

DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC RELATIONS, Dean's Office, Parsons School of Design, (New York City, NY)

DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR, Midori & Friends, (New York City, NY)

PRODUCTION/MARKETING ASSISTANT, The Egg, (Albany, NY)

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE/ASSISTANT PERFORMANCE MANAGER, Clear Channel Entertainment, (Louisville, KY)

(FINANCE DEPT. JOBS), Studio Museum in Harlem, (New York City, NY)

ADMINISTRATIVE ASSOCIATE, Aljira, a Center for Contemporary Art, (Newark, NJ)

ADMINSITRATIVE ASSISTANT, Conservatory of Dance, Purchase College State University of New York, (Purchase, NY)

ADMINSITRATIVE ASSISTANT - (part-time), (arts non-profit organization), (New York City, NY)

INTERN FOR INTERNET ART PUBLICATION, bkyn, an online journal of the arts, (Brooklyn, NY)

DANCE ADMINISTRATION INTERN, Nina Winthrop and Dancers, (New York City, NY)

INTERNSHIPS, Inneract Productions, (Brooklyn, NY)

INTERNS, David Findlay Jr Fine Art, (New York City, NY)

INTERN FOR CONTEMPORARY ART GALLERY, ARENA, (New York City, NY)

STUDIO ASSISTANT/ INTERN, (porcelain studio), (Spencertown Hills, NY)

FREE ARTS DAY INTERNSHIP, Free Arts for Abused Children, (New York City, NY)

INTERNSHIPS, Montclair Art Museum Yard School of Art, Studio Art Classes for CHILDREN, TEENS & ADULTS, (Montclair, NJ)

INTERNSHIPS IN COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT, Arena Stage, (Washington, DC)

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

THROUGH THE LENS OF SEPTEMBER 11
SohoPhoto (New York City) -- http://www.sohophoto.com

RADIOACTIVE, an audio work by Ayreen Anastas and Rene Gabri curated by Tanya Leighton, as part of Six Feet Under Summer Series
White Box (New York City) -- http://www.whiteboxny.org/

UNITY CANVAS - 300 Artists Respond to the World Trade Center Disaster
THE JAR PROJECT -- time capsules in response to the events of 9/11 which will become the permanent property of The World Peace Project
Williamsburg Art & Historical Center (Brooklyn, NY) -- http://www.wahcenter.org

POST 9/11 BRONX, NYC - performances by hip hop and spoken word artists, and a screening of the documentary HIP HOP HOPE. Written, directed and produced by Darrell Wilks
THE BRONX MUSEUM OF THE ARTS -- http://www.bxma.org

Suheir Hammad
"there have been no words"
ARTISTS NETWORK -- http://www.artistsnetwork.org/news/news42.html

Eliot Katz
"When the Skyline Crumbles"
MOBYLIVES -- http://www.mobylives.com/Katz_account.html

HERE IS NEW YORK; A DEMOCRACY OF PHOTOGRAPHS
photographs from the book at
SCALO (New York City) -- http://www.scalo.com/

"Looking Through September 11: from Remembrance to Healing" University of Chicago -- http://www-news.uchicago.edu/releases/02/020906.0911.shtml

Tribute Reading Commemorating the Tragedy of 9/11, presented by The Writer's Garret and The MAC
Black Box Theater in the McKinney Avenue Contemporary (The MAC)
and other Dallas/Fort worth area events are listed at
http://www.guidelive.com/feature/105?cslink=cs_generic_2_0

Robert Atkins, THE ARTWORLD, COMMUNITY & ACTIVISM A MEDITATION INSPIRED BY THE EVENTS OF SEPTEMBER 11TH CCAC (Oakland, CA) THE SEPTEMBER 11 PROJECT Cultural Intervention in Civic Society -- http://rhizome.org/911

The Amazing Grace Project (based in Los Angeles)
On September 11, 2002, The Amazing Grace Project will offer an opportunity to replace the pain of last year with the sound of hope and resilience as voices nationwide simultaneously sing "Amazing Grace" -- http://www.bucksfolk.org/news/grace.htm