Two concurrent problems have impacted the ability of artists from other countries to share their talents and culture with those in this country: increased security necessitated by the September 11 attacks and a Premium Processing Fee which the INS initiated in 2001.

The Premium Processing Fee gives INS processing preference to those who can afford to pay a $1,000 payment to ensure processing within 15 days. Most non-profit arts organizations cannot afford to pay this fee.

The American Arts Alliance (AAA) reports that last year when the INS initiated this fee, arts organizations expressed concern that because those who could afford to pay the $1000 fee would move ahead in the process, other applications -- such as those from performing arts organizations whose schedules include international artists -- would take longer to process.

In response, the American Arts Alliance joined six other national arts groups and labor organizations to form an INS Working Group.

The AAA report -- which provides extensive information on the issues and their background -- details the Working Group's efforts to improve the situation and notes that INS Officials have been responsive to the Working Group's concerns.

However, "Over the last year, arts organizations have been reeling from increased delays in the processing of visas for foreign artists. Program organizers have suffered from the inability to know whether their scheduled performers will actually make it through the process in time to perform on schedule," the alert emphasizes.

International arts exchanges benefit artists from all countries. For instance, this year in August and September, the New York City-based Janis Brenner & Dancers toured Bali and Java, performing at the Purnati Arts Center City Batuan, Bali and at the Indonesian Dance Festival in Jakarta, Java.

It was the third visit for Janis Brenner since January, 2001. She was in residence at Institut Seni Indonesian in January-February 2001 and created two new works for the Saraswati Dance Company which the US Embassy then brought to the JAKART@2001 Festival. "We are very honored to be opening the Indonesian Dance Festival in Jakarta and performing in Batuan, Bali and Yogyakarta as well," she said.

This year Arts International ARTISTS EXPLORATION FUND recipients included Yacub Addy (NY) to travel to Accra, Ghana to collaborate with Ghana artists; Nikos Brisco to develop relationships with Russian theater actors, directors, & dramaturgs through the American Center at Moscow Library of Foreign Literature's 2002 CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN PLAY READING SERIES & SYMPOSIUM ON NEW OPERA; Beth Cohen (MA) to travel to Turkey to study traditional bowed instruments for use in her solo show THE ART OF THE BOW; Roko Kawai (PA) to travel to Japan for training and research with master artist Hanayagi Kazu, head of the Hanayagi Kazu Japanese Classical Dance Research Institute; and Jennifer Monson (NY) to support a research trip to Cuba to develop performances and workshops as part of her ongoing project exploring the theme of migration.

In addition to delays for those who cannot afford the Premium Processing Service, in the post-September 11 climate, increased security has also contributed to artists from some countries finding it difficult to get the timely Visa processing needed to perform in events in this country. For instance, according to salsapower.com, Cuban performers -- including Cuban Artists nominated for the 2002 Latin Grammy and groups which were to perform at the LOS ANGELES LATINO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL -- have not able to perform due to delays in Visa processing. Musicians and performers impacted included Munequitos de Matanzas; Valle Son; Sintesis; and Maria Victoria y Su Latin Son.

In a "Message from the Cuban Artists Nominated for the 2002 Latin Grammy to the American People", Cuban artists -- Grupo "Vocal Sampling"; Sintesis; X Alfonso; Rey Guerra; Ana Lourdes Martinez; Lazaro Ross; and Chucho Valdes -- write:

"Last year, when our delegation was already in the United States to participate in the 2001 Grammy's ceremony, they witnessed the abominable September 11th crime. The attitude of our colleagues was to donate their blood to help the victims. That is what we Cubans are like. It is precisely because we believe in ideas, because we believe in the value of culture as a way to promote fraternity and communication among people, that we cannot accept being denied the possibility to contribute to that noble purpose. We will continue to work so that the message of Cuban culture reaches you all, just as it spreads across the world today. The day will come when these restrictions and this aggressive and unjust policy will cease to exist, when US citizens will not be kept from traveling freely to our beautiful and hospitable island, and when the fruit of our talent - which is our art - will not be denied to you, who always receive it so gratefully."

In addition to working with officials at the INS and U.S. Department of State, the Working Group is seeking legislative relief to amend immigration law, so that among other recourses the INS is required to process arts-related nonprofit O and P petitions within a maximum of 30 days and if the 30-day deadline is not complied with, the petition will be automatically moved to the premium processing service, at no additional cost to the petitioner.

"The INS has already stated that 30-day processing is its ultimate goal, but it is apparent this will not be possible anytime soon, and arts organizations need relief," AAA states. "The Working Group is hopeful that requiring premium processing service when the 30-day deadline is not met will move O and P arts-related visas more quickly."

Sources/resources:

AMERICAN ARTS ALLIANCE -- http://www.americanartsalliance.org/
_American Arts Alliiance
"Visa/Immigration Issues a Major Arts Public Policy Concern" http://www.operaam.org/nrvisa4.htm

OPERA America -- http://www.operaam.org

IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE (INS) -- http://www.ins.gov
_Information about THE DIVERSITY VISA LOTTERY PROGRAM, which each year makes 50,000 immigrant visas are made available through a lottery to people who come from countries with low rates of immigration to the United States, is available at http://www.ins.gov/graphics/howdoi/divlott.htm
The State Department's National Visa Center holds the lottery every year, and chooses winners randomly from fall qualified entries. Anyone who is selected under this lottery is given the opportunity to apply for permanent residence. If permanent residence is granted, then the individual will be authorized to live and work permanently in the United States. They are also allowed to bring their spouse and any unmarried children under the age of 21 to the United States.

JANIS BRENNER AND DANCERS -- http://www.zia-artists.com/brenner.html
At JakArt@2001, Janis Brenner and the Saraswati Dance Company presented the dance COMMON GROUND which combined traditional Javanese dance styles with modern American dance.
For more information, visit the U.S. EMBASSY site at http://www.usembassyjakarta.org/janis.html

"ARTISTS EXPLORATION FUND Enables Individual Performing Artists to Pursue Opportunities Abroad"
Arts Wire CURRENT -- http://www.artswire.org/current/2002/cur082702.html
August 27, 2002

Guidelines and application forms for the ARTISTS EXPLORATION FUND are available on the ARTS INTERNATIONAL website at http://www.artsinternational.org

_"Message from the Cuban Artists Nominated for the 2002 Latin Grammy to the American People"
_"Cuban Performing Artists being denied entry to US"
SALSAPOWER.COM -- http://www.salsapower.com/pressrelease.htm
SALSAPOWER.COM main page -- http://www.salsapower.com

AMERICAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA LEAGUE -- http://www.symphony.org
_An article at http://www.symphony.org/govaff/immigra/advisory091002.shtml details strategies for dealing with Visa issues including being aware of new INS tracking requirements; being aware of new security checks on both the foreign artist and the U.S. petitioner; making sure all the paperwork is in order; and being prepared for consulate delays.
"PLAN AHEAD," the ASO urges. "Begin the visa application process as soon as possible - you may apply up to six months prior to the requested employment dates. Since the June 1, 2001, implementation of the Premium Processing Service (an additional $1,000 payment promises processing within 15 days), INS regional service centers are estimating that regular, non-PPS visa petitions may take anywhere between 60-120 days to process."

In this issue of Current, Judith Kaufman Weiner, the Executive Director of the Alliance of New York State Arts Organizations, talks about the importance of arts advocacy, both by individuals and by people working together, saying: "You can make a difference."

The nonprofit arts community sees and knows the local issues and the local people. This is the right place and the right time to think creatively and get local press and visible community support for the arts. This is an investment in the future of your community and the role of the arts in that future.

A screening of WE ARE FAMILY THE MAKING AND MEANING OF A SONG TO HEAL A NATION -- Emmy award winning director Danny Schecter's documentary of the recording session organized by songwriter/record producer Nile Rodgers to help lift spirits after 9/1l -- will kick off the State Arts Conference at 5:00 PM on Thursday, Oct. 17. Rodgers brought together more than 200 celebrities along with police officers, emergency room doctors, and others affected by the tragedy of 9/11, to re-record his song, "We are Family", a musical call for tolerance and global understanding. Danny Schecter and Nile Rodgers will speak at the screening.

Two days of workshops and seminars designed to empower those interested in helping arts organizations thrive in this difficult time will follow the screening. Speakers include Commissioner Kate Levin, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs; Richard J. Schwartz, chairman of the NY State Council on the Arts; Hal Payne, President, Alliance Board of Directors; New York State Assemblyman Joseph Morelle, and many more.

The First Lady of New York State, Libby Pataki, will be speaking on Friday October 18 at Lunch.

"A violent act of terrorism both revealed to us how important our arts and artists are to our community and damaged the financial base upon which our arts rest. The fragile economic basis of arts organizations has been hit hard. As the economy worsens, businesses are cutting their funding for the arts. Individuals, watching their stock portfolios shrink, are less forthcoming to appeals to help the arts. And, certain costs such as security and insurance have increased. How do we deal with this? Come to the Conference to discuss this and the pressing issues and opportunities facing the arts community," the Alliance of New York State Arts Organizations urges.

For complete information, about this Year's State Arts Conference: REBUILDING AND RECOVERY: THE ARTS AT GROUND ZERO, visit http://www.thealliancenys.org and click on "What's New". Information about the New York State Budget and CELEBRATE THE ARTS OF NEW YORK STATE are also available in this section.

"For a few years now, I have wanted to develop a national, even international dialogue with artists. I want to expand my general conversations with colleagues and friends into something more. I want to reach out to others who share similar concerns, values, experiences, fears, and hopes," writes artist Homer Jackson to introduce the Winter 2002 issue of SHINE, Conversations Between Artists.

The issue includes "A Block of Power: An Interview with Alice Lovelace"; "Winner Takes All," an Interview with poet and producer Richard Nichols, and "Digging an Early Grave" by Aliya S. King, which -- through the lens of the story of Gravediggaz member Grym Reaper (aka Poetic) who without health insurance struggled with colon cancer for two years before he died in 2001 -- addresses the difficulties artists have obtaining health insurance

The articles are artist centered, with, for instance, artist/writer Alice Lovelace, who directs the Partnership for Arts in Learning, detailing the sometimes conflict-filled relationships between artists and arts organizations and urging that artists organize. "I think people don't respect us because they don't see us as having a block of power," she tells Shine.

Shine's Editor/publisher Homer Jackson is an interdisciplinary artist from Philadelphia. His work is presented as installation, performance art, literature, public art, video and audio, and he uses images, sounds, text, live performance, video, audience participation and found objects to tell stories. He also has a background in teaching and social service.

Basically SHINE is stories, Jackson writes in his introduction to this issue: "Stories of our struggles, survival strategies, successes and solutions."

"Each issue also includes important arts resources, pertinent quotes from artists and an excerpt from an official document, speech or report from the hundreds of pages of research compiled during the past 15 years that have not been distributed amongst those who desperately need the information - the artists," Jackson told Arts Wire CURRENT.

The next two editions will look at Community arts and Public Art. They will include interviews with Houston based artist and administrator, Rick Lowe; Philadelphia writer and performer, Julia Lopez; Miami based artist and administrator, Gary Moore; and New York painter and printmaker, Robin Holder -- as well as articles from Chicago artist and administrator, John Pounds; Los Angeles painter/muralist, June Edmunds; London, UK artist and administrator, Mark Webster; Australian artist, Dwayne Campbell; and New York City painter/muralist, Brett Cooke-Dizney.

Sources/resources:

SHINE is published by AHHA in Philadelphia with Administrative support by New Liberty Productions. For information about subscribing, contact Homer Jackson at homershines@yahoo.com

Homer Jackson -- http://www.pewarts.org/98/Jackson/biomain.html (Pew fellowships in the Arts -- http://www.pewarts.org )

LOS ANGELES, CA -- Los Angeles County has formed a County Task Force on Arts Education to direct a campaign to make the arts an intrinsic part of the core curriculum. The Los Angeles County Arts Commission (LACAC) -- together with The Los Angeles County Office of Education (LACOE) which serves all 82 school districts in the County, including the Los Angeles Unified School District -- will lead the task force. Ayanna Hudson, Arts Education Program Director for LACAC, has been named co-chair of the task force. Her fellow chair from LACOE will be named shortly.

"To achieve the vision of arts education for every school child, the Board of Supervisors has established a Los Angeles County-wide Task Force on Arts Education, comprising 30 diverse organizations committed to implementing the goals and strategies of the Blueprint," said Board of Supervisors Chairman Zev Yaroslavsky.

Speaking at the Armory for the Arts in Pasadena -- before a gathering of more than 200 arts education leaders at the official launch of ARTS FOR ALL The Los Angeles County Regional Blueprint for Arts Education -- Yaroslansky sounded the call for a massive effort to realize the vision of arts education for every Los Angeles County public school student K-12. "The Task Force is an unprecedented model of collaboration. It includes not only the arts and education establishments but policymakers and representatives of business and philanthropy on regional and state levels," he said.

ARTS FOR ALL The Los Angeles County Regional Blueprint for Arts Education has been officially adopted by the Board of Supervisors, the Los Angeles County Arts Commission and the Los Angeles County Board of Education. It states that:

"The Board of Education recognizes that arts education, including dance, music, theater, and visual arts, is an integral part of basic education for all students. Arts education enables students to develop critical and creative thinking skills, initiative, discipline, and perceptual abilities that extend to all areas of life.

The Board of Education recognizes that a comprehensive curriculum includes sequential arts education as a part of the program for all students in all grades.The K-12 arts education program should enable students to achieve the goals outlined in the Content Standards for California Public Schools, which include the Visual and Performing Arts Content Standards. The Board encourages all teachers to use the arts to facilitate learning in the other subjects of the core curricula, including history, geography, language, math and science."

ARTS FOR ALL is the result of Arts in Focus, a study of the state of arts education in the County released in May 2001. Arts in Focus found that, although there is unanimous agreement about the value of arts education to learning, there is no systemic approach to teaching the arts and wide variations in the degree to which arts are included in the educational experience.

"The strategies outlined in the Blueprint are designed to close the gap between vision and reality," said Yaroslavsky.

The ARTS FOR ALL Blueprint focuses on the achievement of high quality K-12 education including the arts as an intrinsic part of the core curriculum through four goals.

They are:

1. Each of the 82 school districts in Los Angeles County enacts a policy, adopts a plan with timeline, and approves a budget to implement sequential K-12 arts education.

2. Implementers and policy makers have sufficient tools, information, and professional development to achieve sequential K-12 arts education.

3. Parents, students, arts supporters, and community and industry leaders mobilize to advocate for sequential K-12 arts education.

4. Funding policies of public and private funders support and align with the vision and mission of the ARTS FOR ALL Blueprint.

Darline P. Robles, Los Angeles County Superintendent of Schools, stressed that the Blueprint seeks to achieve systemic change. "For arts education to be available to every child, arts must be part of the core curriculum. Quality, sequential arts education needs to be scheduled into the school day and included in the budget of every County school district," she said.

The County Task Force on Arts Education will monitor progress toward the Blueprint's goals on a quarterly basis and convene an annual meeting of stakeholders.

Sources/resources:

The ARTS FOR ALL Blueprint was funded by the Los Angeles County Productivity Investment Fund, the California Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts. ARTS FOR ALL can be downloaded at http://www.lacountyarts.org

Copies may also be obtained from the Arts Commission, 374 Kenneth Hahn Hall of Administration, 500 West Temple St., Los Angeles, CA 90012

CHICAGO, IL -- With two new grants from Chicago foundations -- $20,000 from the Joyce Foundation to conduct a planning phase for the development of local programs and $10,000 from the Chicago Community Trust for an independent consultant who will assist in establishing partnerships with a wide range of Chicago organizations in support of the Project -- the Center for Book Culture is working intensively on an International Literature Project which will promote the reading and appreciation of international literature in the Chicago area.

In an era when book sale potential sometimes determines what is published and what is not, the program promotes the idea that both readers and writers benefit when literary approaches and ideas from all over the world are experienced. It seeks to provide a context for learning about and thus becoming interested in the literary art being created in other countries -- to develop a consciousness of literature as an international art form and a cultural resource.

The Project is an extension of the Center's twenty-year history of promoting world literature through its publishing programs Dalkey Archive Press, the REVIEW OF CONTEMPORARY FICTION, and CONTEXT: A FORUM FOR LITERARY ARTS AND CULTURE. By combining publications with partnership-based audience development programs, the International Literature Project will focus more locally by engaging Chicago students, teachers, librarians, and general readers with international authors and their works.

"During this period we're meeting with different groups here in Chicago -- teachers, arts organizations, potential partners -- to figure out which types of local programs have the most potential, and to build the relationships we'll need to make sure those programs work," Martin Riker, the Center for Book Culture, told Arts Wire.

"We started building these kinds of partnerships in Chicago about two years ago, when the Chicago Public Library started distributing CONTEXT free through its branches, but the idea of the International Literature Project is a bit more ambitious, to have several programs going on simultaneously, all focused on reading and learning about international literature -- not limited to our publications -- with the participants of all the programs taking part in the other programs," Riker explains.

"So for instance if we had a French author in town, anyone who is participating in a reading group that's discussing international literature would have more reason/context for wanting to go see this author read," he notes. And in return the author's reading brings something to the discussion group.

As part of the planning phase, with the Illinois Humanities Council they are cohosting a "pilot" professional development seminar for 50 Chicago-area high-school teachers and librarians. The requirement for teachers to sign up was that they "bring their librarian", and the seminar filled to capacity in a couple of days.

"Each participant is receiving ten Dalkey Archive books, and during the day-long seminar they'll be discussing three of them -- Flann O'Brien's AT SWIM-TWO-BIRDS; Julietta Campos' THE FEAR OF LOSING EURYDICE; and Danilo Kis' A TOMB FOR BORIS DAVIDOVICH. A University of Illinois professor is conducting the seminar, and at the end of the day we'll have a reading from the Kis book by contemporary writer Aleksandar Hemon," Riker noted.

Aleksander Hemon, y/backlist/obrien.html"> http://www.centerforbookculture.org/dalkey/backlist/obrien.html
JULIETTA CAMPOS -- http://www.centerforbookculture.org/dalkey/backlist/campos.html
DANILO KIS -- http://www.centerforbookculture.org/dalkey/backlist/kis.html

Jenifer Berman
"ALEKSANDAR HEMON" BOMB MAGAZINE -- http://www.bombsite.com/hemon/hemon.html

".....However... More a grass than a tree... Links considered
harmful ... Meanwhile aboard U.S.S. Divergent... One graviton
and falling...

This is the world I made, a garden of remembering."

- Stuart Moulthrop, REAGAN LIBRARY
http://iat.ubalt.edu/moulthrop/hypertexts/rl/

"Between the lines of a few simple letters, a story of love. The news reports a country in decline, rumors of government chaos, abandoned hidden cities, economic boom followed by unexpected collapse." - M.D. Coverly, UNIVERSAL RESOURCE LOCATOR
http://califia.hispeed.com/URL/resources1.htm

The Rattapallax Press web site -- http://www.rattapallax.com -- provides a gateway to its publications and associated readings. This month, in addition to RATTAPALLAX 8, the site highlights the publication of SHORT FUSE: A GLOBAL ANTHOLOGY OF NEW FUSION POETRY. It also invites readers to a series of associated events in New York City.

Edited by Todd Swift & Philip Norton, Short Fuse contains the work of over 175 poets from around the world.

"The fusion poets define these complex times through new forms of performance and text by mixing the best of the oral and written traditions," Rattapallax Press notes. "The hundreds of poems in this eclectic and powerful gathering are ferocious, funny, erotic, elegiac, and always grounded in the real experiences and voices of our startling present." The book includes an ebook with additional poems and a full-length CD featuring recordings by the poets. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to UNICEF.

To celebrate its publication, from October 14 to October 21, 2002, poets from the UK, Ireland, Australia, Canada, India, France, Budapest, Wales, and the United States, among many other nations, will be participating in FUSE WEEK in New York City. Readings and events are scheduled at the New School, Baruch College, and library branches -- with poets including Paul Muldoon, Simon Armitage, Glyn Maxwell, Mimi Khalvati, Eamon Grennan, Srikanth Reddy, Charles Bernstein, Bob Holman, Pascale Petit, and Bernardine Evaristo, among many others. The website features Fuse Week details.

In Houston, TEXAS, "The Alley Theatre began in 1947 when high school teacher Nina Vance sent out 214 penny postcards to an extended network of friends and neighbors. The postcard read: 'It's beginning! Do you want a theatre for Houston? Meeting. 3617 Main. Bring a friend!"

Its web site -- http://www.AlleyTheatre.org -- reflects its grass roots beginnings providing global access to the theatre's history and ideals and to its presentation of a mix of new works and classics.

The 2002-03 season begins with THE GENERAL FROM AMERICA, a new play written and directed by Richard Nelson. (October 11 - November 9)

British actor and Alley Associate Artist Corin Redgrave, plays Benedict Arnold in this historical drama which centers on the circumstances surrounding the General's decision to defect to the British during the American Revolution. "Within the timely themes of heroism and patriotism, The General From America explores the life of this country's most notorious traitor," the Theatre notes.

In addition to WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? by Edward Albee; (directed by Gregory Boyd) YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU, by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart; (directed by Sandy Robbins) THE TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL by Horton Foote; (directed by Michael Wilson; co-production with Hartford Stage) STONES IN HIS POCKETS, by Marie Jones; HAMLET by William Shakespeare; (directed by Gregory Boyd) A CHRISTMAS CAROL, A GHOST STORY OF CHRISTMAS, adapted from Charles Dickens; (adapted and directed by Stephen Rayne) the tentative 2002-03 season also includes FRAME 312, a New Play by Keith Reddin Directed by Peter Masterson.

As described on the Theatre's website:

"Frame 312, Keith Reddin's latest work, takes its name from a crucial frame of the Zapruder film that captured John F. Kennedy's assassination in Dallas. In 1963, a LIFE Magazine secretary is one of only three people to view the historic 22-second film in its entirety. Forty years later, as the only surviving witness, she grapples with a haunting secret and whether to reveal it to her family."

In June 2002, the alley's Neuhaus Arena Stage was destroyed by flood waters from tropical storm Allison. In January 2002, the space reopened its doors to Houston audiences.

"Artistically innovative, financially efficient, the Alley stands as a monument to its makers: the artists, administrators, and devoted patrons who have upheld its ideal for over half a century," the Theatre notes.

The web-based literary magazine DRUNKEN BOAT -- http://www.drunkenboat.com -- is "a forum for works that cannot be forced into existing grids of genre, and as such, we're a palatable home to such utterances as manifestos, interactive fiction, and one-act plays," poet Ravi Shankar, who edits Drunken Boat, explains.

"We're committed to egalitarian dispersal of works of art and strive to serve as a guide for excursions into the dynamic, multivalent world of art made for and on the web. The glinting of such work off the bronze of more traditional forms of representations creates a fertile dialogue that anyone online can participate in," he notes. "Our hope is to foster those conversations by providing a space unbound by geographical, political, aesthetic or ideological limitations, and absolutely, the Internet is crucial for this goal."

The site currently features Issue #4: STILL TRAWLING THE NET with web work including Annette Weintraub's "The Mirror that Changes", a sound and moving image piece that explores issues of water sustainability and Stanza's "Soundscraper", a series of six multi sound environments.

Poetry includes Sue Kwock Kim's "Translations from the Mother Tongue" and "Leaving Chinatown". Fiction includes Jonathan Minton's "Digilogue" and Sarah Davis' "Edgar the King."

"Our next issue is coming up in late-October and will be a double-issue with an emphasis on the disparate poetics that proliferate in contemporary discourse," Editor Ravi Shankar told Arts Wire CURRENT. "We'll include poems by Roseanna Warren, Kenny Goldsmith, Kathleen Ossip and Jon Pineda, among many others. We'll also showcase a handful of sound/web/video artists, including Ian Finch, Jeannie Finlay and Curt Cloniger."

In introducing the Current issue: #4: Still Trawling the Net, Drunken Boat writes:

"Our goal is to help find and showcase excellent work on the web, as well as to add to the artistic ouvre of the internet by bringing previously unpublished work online. Often web artists and writers have their own sites, so the work is literally 'on the web.' Self-publication is central to the vitality of the internet, but we feel an important function is served by the editorial process. Like responsible fishermen we're doing two opposing things when we look for and publish work: fishing from the pond and stocking it anew."

Sources:/resources:

Stuart Moulthrop
REAGAN LIBRARY
-- http://iat.ubalt.edu/moulthrop/hypertexts/rl/

M.D. Coverly
UNIVERSAL RESOURCE LOCATOR
http://califia.hispeed.com/URL/resources1.htm

RATTAPALLAX PRESS -- http://www.rattapallax.com/

THE ALLEY THEATRE, Houston, TX-- http://www.AlleyTheatre.org

DRUNKEN BOAT -- http://www.drunkenboat.com
_Drunken Boat will be participating in an evening of readings at Brooklyn Brewery, (79 North 11th Street, Brooklyn, NY) on Thursday, October 10, 2002 at 7:00 PM - featuring Eleven Bulls: Melissa Ahart and Michelle Lisi; American Journal of Print: Dan Kois, Scott Korb and M. Ryan Purdy FAILBETTER: Nelly Reifler; PINDELDYBOZ: Kenneth Calhoun and Jeffrey Ross; and DRUNKEN BOAT: Paul Stephens and Nathalie Handal

Another literary site of interest -- THE DRUNKEN BOAT http://www.thedrunkenboat.com/ -- is edited by Rebecca Seiferle. It features the work of poets from around the world, highlights from literary magazines, e-chapbooks, and interviews with writers and artists.

SMALL PRESS CENTER WORKSHOPS HELP AUTHORS PUBLISH AND PROMOTE BOOKS-- BOTH ONLINE AND OFFLINE

Over the next six months, the 2002/2003 Small Press Center PUBLISHING WORKSHOP series will cover topics in book promotion online and offline; print-on-demand; special sales; do-it-yourself design for books and web sites; editing; the latest electronic publishing tracking tools; and how to get published. Guided by book industry professionals, the workshops will address practical publishing issues and answer audience questions from an audience of writers, aspiring publishers and publishers.

Coming up at Small Press Center -- October 8: 6:00 - 7:30 PM -- is:

AN INTERVIEW WITH JASON EPSTEIN
Jason Epstein, former Editorial Director of Random House and author of BOOK BUSINESS PUBLISHING PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE will be interviewed by NEW YORK TIMES journalist Christopher Lehmann-Haupt. A reception will follow. Admission: $15 for nonmembers and $10 for members. Visit http://www.smallpress.org.for more information.

Other events scheduled this fall include:

• November 7, 2002
  PRINT-ON-DEMAND: THE TANGLED TRUTH

• November 21, 2002
  BETTER THAN BOOKSTORES: SALES AND DISTRIBUTION

• December 12, 2002 DO-IT-YOURSELF DESIGN FOR BOOKS AND WEBSITES

• January 16, 2002
  GETTING IT RIGHT - EDITING STRATEGY, TACTICS & TECHNIQUES

• January 30, 2003
  COURT CASES THAT CAN HELP YOU OR HURT YOU

• February 13, 2003
  TRACKING TOOLS WITH MONEY-MAKING POWER

• March 4, 2003
  HOW TO GET PUBLISHED

For details, visit the SMALL PRESS CENTER website at http://www.smallpress.org Or to make a reservation, contact the Center at info@smallpress.org or call 212-764-7021

Founded by Whitney North Seymour, Jr., to provide information and draw public awareness to the offerings of small presses, the Small Press Center "was his response, as a small publisher, to a need for small and independent publishers for support for their energy, imagination, and commitment, and for an exchange of ideas and techniques to make their job easier."

25TH ANNIVERSARY BENEFIT SELECTIONS EXHIBITION

To mark the 25th anniversary of its first Selections exhibition, The Drawing Center will open the 25TH ANNIVERSARY BENEFIT SELECTIONS EXHIBITION, featuring works donated by nearly 400 former Selections and Drawing Room artists. The exhibition will culminate in a blind lottery of the drawings.

Exploring the boundaries of drawing, the 25th Anniversary Benefit Selections Exhibition celebrates the Drawing Center's mission while recognizing the very significant contributions of Selections and Drawing Room artists to its history.

Marisa White, Viewing Program and Exhibitions Coordinator, describes some of the works in the exhibition in this way:

_"William Kentridge uses two open pages from a book entitled THE PRINCIPLES OF LOGIC, that seems as if had a former life as a textbook. Kentridge has drawn a mountainous landscape over the text, writing 'Safer Tropics' in bright red pastel underneath."

_"Arturo Herrera's pencil drawing 'Study for a Collage Cut' out depicts only a bell sleeve and a gloved hand holding a candle. This highly recognizable image has been isolated from the Disney movie PHANTASIA."

_"David Humphrey's drawing consists of an abstract landscape of yellow sky and a light blue horizon, on which two figures drawn in ink have been imposed. Perhaps lulled by a dream, a young man, wearing a scarf around his neck and arms dangling away from his absent body, is shown with his eyes closed. To his left a nude female figure crouches. Her head is impossibly stacked on her back enabling her to gaze at the boy."

_"Roger Shepherd - A bronze rectangle form extends snake like over two pieces of adjacent pieces of paper. The left side looks clean and minimal, whereas traces of a boxy under-drawing and smudged ink are visible on the right page."

Other participating artists include:

Haluk Akace, D-L Alvarez, Nina Bovasso, Marco Breuer, Ingrid Calame, Enrique Chagoya, Jayashree Chakravarty, Amy Cutler, Carroll Dunham, Marcel Dzama, Nicole Eisenman Jane Fine, Teo Gonzalez, Renee Green, Peter Halley, Christopher Hammerlein, David Humphrey, Yun-Fei Ji, Nic Hess, Larry Krone, Geralodine Lau, Julian Lethbridge, Glen Ligon, Barry McGee, Maureen McQuillan, Linda Matalon, Gerhard Mayer, Julie Mehretu, Paul Morrison Jill Moser, Ernesto Neto, Jack Pierson, Ellen Phelan, Alexis Rockman, Claudia Schmacke, Amy Sillman, Allyson Strafella, Mark Dean Veca, Terry Winters, and Karen Yasinsky.

Since it opened in 1977, The Drawing Center has introduced the work of over 750 artists in nearly 100 Selections exhibitions and over 20 Drawing Room projects, an indication of its longtime commitment to supporting emerging and underrepresented artists. Many of the featured artists in the current exhibition received their first critical notice after inclusion in Selections and Drawing Room exhibitions.

In conjunction with the exhibition, The Drawing Center is hosting a two-part symposium, DRAWING (AS) CENTER.

The two panels which comprise the Symposium are:

• Saturday, October 12, 2002 - 4:00 - 6:00 PM
  Panel I - "the current status of drawing in artistic practice and presentation"
  Chair: John Rajchman, Adjunct Professor, Columbia University Department of Art History and Archeology
  Panelists: artists Yunfei Ji, Julie Mehretum and Terry Winters; art historian Jaleh Mansoor; and Mark Wigley, Professor, Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture.

• Saturday, October 19, 2002 - 4:00 - 6:00 PM
  Panel II -- "the role of artists and their experimental, process-minded medium of drawing in relation to the institution as an activist organization in today's art world"
  Chair: Gary Garrels, Chief Curator, Museum of Modern Art Department of Drawings
  Panelists: Okwui Enwezor, Artistic Director, Documenta 11; artist and independent curator Julie Ault; artists Rene Green, William Kentridge, and George Negroponte

Established in 1977 to provide opportunities for emerging and under-recognized artists; to demonstrate the significance and diversity of drawings throughout history; and to stimulate public dialogue on issues of art and culture, The Drawing Center focuses solely on the exhibition of drawings, both historical and contemporary.

During the run of the exhibition, The Drawing Center will sell tickets for a blind lottery of the works. Each $250 ticket will entitle the bearer to one drawing, selected at random. Proceeds from the lottery will benefit The Drawing Center's programs for emerging artists, providing honoraria for future Selections artists and funding for the Viewing Program, which provides portfolio reviews to over 500 emerging artists each year. Lottery results will be announced at a private champagne reception for ticket holders and the artists on Saturday, October 26, from 5:00 - 7:00 PM. To purchase a lottery ticket, please call 212-219-2166 ext. 111.

For more information, visit http://www.drawingcenter.org

In late September, the Commerce Department's National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) announced the awarding of $12.4 million in Technology Opportunities Program (TOP) grants to 25 non-profit organizations, including state and local governments.

TOP grants, matched by $13.6 million in contributions from the private sector and state and local organizations, are made to model projects which demonstrate how information technology can address public concerns in areas such as housing, safety, economic development, e-government, and the arts and culture.

In this round:

• The Kalispel Tribe of Indians Kalispel Cultural Department (Usk, WA) received funding for an online project which will preserve and sustain the shared tribal culture, history, and language of the Kalispel Tribe of Indians and members of other Plateau Indian tribes in eastern Washington -- creating a network of Tribal Technology Access Centers and providing participants access to web-based environments for documenting and archiving tribal culture, history, and language. The project is a collaborative partnership involving the Kalispel Tribe; the Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture in Spokane; the Spokane School District; (District 81) the Cusick School District; Intec; Tech for Learning; Class 101; the Spokane Urban Indian Center; and the Healing Lodge of the Seven Nations.

• The Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts, Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning through the Arts (Vienna, VA) received funding to develop the stART smART Network, a nationwide online early childhood education community which provides and sustains professional development opportunities in literacy and the performing arts for early childhood educators. Utilizing distance learning, the stART smART Network will connect three of Wolf Trap's regional programs: the Center for Education at Wolf Trap in Virginia; the Center for Arts Education/Memphis Arts Council in Tennessee; and the Creative Arts Team of New York University -- serving Head Start and other early childhood teachers in the District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia, Tennessee, Arkansas, and New York.

Additionally, among other awards of interest to the arts community in this round were:

• New York University received funding for New York City HOUSING AND NEIGHBORHOOD INFORMATION SYSTEMS, a project equipping local housing organizations and community development corporations with online tools to secure quality, affordable housing more efficiently;

• Cleveland Housing Network received funding for BRINGING INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY HOME: An interactive technology program that builds capacity for successful home ownership and financial strength among underserved low-income families in Cleveland

• The University of California-Los Angeles NEIGHBORHOOD KNOWLEDGE CALIFORNIA TELECOMMUNICATION PROJECT received funding To assemble a wide variety of public and private databases to expand opportunities for home ownership through fair housing and lending research, education, and policy development.

• The University of Pittsburgh received funding to develop a gateway that delivers information from any web site, whatever its level of accessibility, to people with vision impairments and other disabilities.

• The West Virginia Commission for National and Community Service CONNECTWV ONLINE VOLUNTEER SYSTEM received funding to create an Internet-based tool that matches volunteers to local community needs, including disaster response.

Sources/resources:

TECHNOLOGY OPPORTUNITIES PROGRAM -- http://www.ntia.doc.gov/otiahome/top/index.html visit the TOP website for updates on TOP funding
_"TOP's 25 New Awards for FY2002" http://www.ntia.doc.gov/otiahome/top/index.html
In addition to information about the winning project, this page includes a link to a searchable database of all the applications submitted in the 2002

The Surdna Foundation has announced the third year of the Surdna Arts Teachers Fellowship Program, a program to support the artistic revitalization of outstanding arts teachers in specialized, public arts high schools.

Surdna's goal is to help arts teachers in arts high schools increase their effectiveness as they guide and train young people for careers or advanced study in the visual or performing arts.

The Foundation believes that if teachers can immerse themselves in their own creative work and interact with professional artist/colleagues, they will bring new ideas and practices into the classroom.

Twenty awards of up to $5,000 each will be made. A complementary grant of $1,500 will be awarded to the Fellow's school to support post-fellowship activities.

The deadline is November 22, 2002.

Application material is available at http://www.surdna.org/programs/artsteachersfellowships.html

THE SURDNA FOUNDATION -- http://www.surdna.org
The Surdna Foundation, a national family foundation established in 1917 by John Emory Andrus, helps support organizations in five program areas: Environment, Community Revitalization, Effective Citizenry, the Nonprofit Sector, and Arts.

Opportunities for Artists

THE ARTISTS' HEALTH INSURANCE RESOURCE CENTER -- http://www.actorsfund.org/ahirc/ -- is designed to meet the critical need for health insurance information in the arts community -- where three out of every ten people are without health insurance

Initiated through a partnership of The Actors' Fund of America and the National Endowment for the Arts, the Artists' Health Insurance Resource Center was recently revised and made more accessible through a grant from The Commonwealth Fund. It contains information about getting and keeping health insurance; about finding health care if you are uninsured; receiving financial assistance for medical bills; and advocating for change in the health care system.

Because health care is a local service and the availability of affordable, quality health insurance differs greatly from state to state, information is accessed on a state by state basis, via a clickable map on the Resource Center web site.

Sources/resources:

THE ARTISTS' HEALTH INSURANCE RESOURCE CENTER -- http://www.actorsfund.org/ahirc/ --

THE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA -- http://www.actorsfund.org/
The Actors' Fund of America, a nonprofit organization founded in 1882, provides for the social welfare of all entertainment professionals--designers, writers, sound technicians, musicians, dancers, administrators, directors, film editors, stagehands--as well as actors.

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 October 25, 2002, Visual artists - work should address catcalling or related issues such as street harassment or violence against womenm CAT CALLS, Red Clay Arts, Brooklyn NY

Deadline: November 1, 2002, Public Artists, Twelve projects in Denver, Colorado

Deadline: November 1, 2002Writing on process in terms of creating film and video, Winter/Spring 2003 issue of the SQUEALER

December 16, 2002, Sculptors, Temporary installation of an existing sculpture for 1-2 years in a traffic roundabout, Huntington, NY Deadline: December 21, 2002, Poets, Chapbook Fellowship Contests, The Poetry Society of America

Deadline: January 15, 2003, Proposals for work such as large scale public sculpture, film/video installation, performance art, and interactive works, Convergence International Arts Festival 2003, Providence, RI Six projects in Denver, Colorado

Deadline: February 1, 2003, New York Emerging Artists, Residencies, The Center for Book Arts

Deadline: February 1, 2003, Book Artists, Residencies, The Center for Book Arts

ORCHESTRA MANAGEMENT FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM

The American Symphony Orchestra League's Orchestra Management Fellowship Program is a year-long leadership training program designed to launch executive careers in orchestra management. The June 2003-June 2004 Fellowship will include hands-on training with at least three orchestras, attendance at the League's 2003 and 2004 National Conferences, and additional field orientation and leadership training seminars. The program carries an annual stipend of $25,000.

Each year, up to 6 Fellows are selected through a competitive interview process. The League seeks qualified applicants who have musical knowledge and a passion for orchestral music; proven organizational skills; a commitment to taking a leadership position in the orchestra field; and relevant work experience (at least three years preferred).

For additional program details, a list of the 2002-03 Fellows and an application, visit http://www.symphony.org/FELLOWS
or contact Hilary Field at 212-262-5161 ext. 227, hfield@symphony.org

Application deadline is January 10, 2003.

THE ESSENTIALS OF ORCHESTRA MANAGEMENT

The American Symphony Orchestra League also offers THE ESSENTIALS OF ORCHESTRA MANAGEMENT, January 7-16, 2003 - an intensive, ten-day curriculum focusing on the challenges and opportunities facing the leaders of tomorrow's orchestras through presentations by industry experts, case studies and participatory exercises, concert attendance and performance analysis, and mentoring and career guidance.

Visit http://www.symphony.org/OLA for more information on the Seminar or contact Polly Kahn at 212-262-5161 ext. 224 or pkahn@symphony.org

Application deadline for the seminar is November 4, 2002.

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EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR,Grandville Avenue Arts & Humanities,(Grand Rapids, MI)

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR - ARTIST - tenure-track,University at Buffalo, State University of New York, (Buffalo, NY)

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, CONDUCTOR OF UNIVERSITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA - tenure track,Department of Performing Arts, American University, (Washington, DC)

DANCE FACULTY, Virginia School of the Arts, (Lynchburg, VA)

MANAGING DIRECTOR,Garth Newel Music Center, (Hot Springs, Virginia)

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR FOR ACADEMIC AND STUDENT SERVICES, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University,(New York City, NY)

GENERAL MANAGER, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, Yale Summer School of Music, (Norfolk Connecticut)

EDUCATION MANAGER,Ordway Center for the Performing Arts,(St. Paul, MN)

VISUAL ARTS/GALLERY EDUCATION COORDINATOR,Visual Arts and Arts-in-Education Program, Henry Street Settlement/Abrons Arts Center, (New York, NY)

CHORAL DIRECTOR (part-time),Halalisa Singers,(Cambridge, MA)

DANCE TEACHERS,Ballet Theatre of Miami,(Miami, FL)

ARTIST IN RESIDENCE,Education Department,Delaware Theatre Company,(Wilmington, DE)

MANAGER OF COMMUNITY PROGRAMS,Old Town School of Folk Music, (Chicago, IL)

COMMUNITY PROGRAMS COORDINATOR,The Morris Museum of Art,(Augusta, GA)

ASSOCIATE, DANCE DIVISION,IMG Artists,(New York City, NY)

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR,Performing Arts Center, University at Albany,(Albany, NY)

INFORMATION SERVICE DIRECTOR,OPERA America,(Washington, DC)

CURATOR,The Morris Museum of Art,(Augusta, GA)

DIRECTOR OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS, The Morris Museum of Art,(Augusta, GA)

DIRECTOR OF MAJOR GIFTS AND CORPORATE RELATIONS, Montclair Art Museum, (Montclair, NJ)

MEDIA RELATIONS REPRESENTATIVE, California Institute of the Arts,(Valencia, CA)

FOTO FORUM COORDINATOR/ (80%) ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT, PHOTOGRAPHY DEPARTMENT (20%), SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART,(San Francisco, CA)

ASSISTANT REGISTRAR, The Montclair Art Museum,(Montclair, NJ)

EVENTS ASSISTANT, The American Friends of the Israel Museum,(Beverly Hills, CA)

GRANTS OFFICER, The Museum of Contemporary Art,(Los Angeles, CA)

DEVELOPMENT OPERATIONS MANAGER, The Museum of Contemporary Art,(Los Angeles, CA)

DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR, Algonquin Arts, (Manasquan, NJ)

DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATE, Artists Space, (New York City, NY)

ASSOCIATE ART DIRECTOR, CREATIVE SERVICES, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts,(New York City, NY)

THEATRE HOUSE MGMT, Round House Theatre, (Bethesda, MD)

ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT (Part-Time), Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, (New York, NY)

OFFICE MANAGER,Regional Arts & Culture Council,(Portland, OR)

EXECUTIVE/ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT, InterSchool Orchestras of New York, (New York City, NY)

EXECUTIVE ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT, The Brooklyn Children's Museum,(Brooklyn, NY)

LAB TECHNICIAN, Box Studios, (New York City, NY)

ORCHESTRA MANAGEMENT FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM, The American Symphony Orchestra League,(New York City, NY)

INTERNSHIPS - TEACHING ARTIST ASSISTANTS, The Guggenheim Museum,(New York City, NY)

INTERN POSITION, SOHO20 CHELSEA, (New York City, NY)

GALLERY ASSISTANT / INTERN, (New York, NY)

THEATER INTERN, AranRock productions, (New York City, NY)

INTERN - (part-time), (private dealer of 20th century decorative arts and furniture), (New York City, NY)

INTERNSHIPS/VOLUNTEERS- WINTER/SPRING 2002-2003, White Box, (New York City, NY)

VOLUNTEERS, Arts at St. Ann's,(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