Opportunities for Artists
Jan/Feb 2012
GCCA OPPORTUNITIES FOR ARTISTS
CALL FOR FINE CRAFTS:
The GCCA is looking for fine crafts to be sold at the GCCA’s Artful Hand Gallery Gift Shop. Those interested should submit 4” X 6” color photos or jpgs of items they want to sell to the GCCA Visual Arts Director,398 Main St.,Catskill,NY12414. 518-943-3400.
There’s a need for your special talents and skills on the volunteer roster at the Greene County Council on the Arts galleries and offices in Catskill. There are immediate openings on the front desk and exhibit installation staffs, but many other opportunities exist – gallery maintenance, information distribution, and much, much more. What are you interested in? Chances are… we need you! Volunteers can exchange time and efforts for a GCCA membership, network within the arts community, learn and teach valuable skills… and volunteering can be a lot of fun! Call GCCA Catskill Office, 518-943-3400.
Health Insurance Benefits… The Greene County Council on the Arts offers a variety of health insurance packages at group rates for members who function as a business. To receive information on health insurance coverage and other group rates benefits, please write to: Health Insurance, Greene County Council on the Arts, 398 Main St., P.O. Box 463, Catskill, NY 12414. Make sure to include your name, address, and phone number. Note for second homeowners: your address should correspond with the address for which you will be requesting coverage.
Other Opportunities
Volunteers…Greene County Community College, Elderhostel Institute Network affiliate programs: local art scene, artist slide lectures, instruction. Class leadership is voluntary, offers wide exposure to interested audience. Adult Learning Institute, Box 1000, Hudson, NY 12453. 518-828-4181 x3431.
Volunteers… To help spread the news about Thomas Cole, father of American landscape painting and founder of the Hudson River School at his newly restored home, Cedar Grove, a National Historic Site in Catskill, NY. Sybil Tannenbaum 518-943-7465. info@thomascole.org
Volunteers…Docents to lead tours of exhibitions & other museum volunteer opportunities. Amy Morrison, Development Assistant, (518) 463-4478, ext. 408 or morrisona@albanyinstitute.org for more information. Albany Institute of History & Art, 125 Washington Ave., Albany, NY 12210 www.albanyinstitute.org 05/11
Grants
Local Grants…Support for family friendly, soundly managed organizations that enhance the communities where the funder has a presence. Price Chopper’s Golub Foundation.PO Box 1074,Schenectady,NY12301. Does not fund film & video projects or individuals. No deadline. 02/12
Ceramic Grants…awards from $200 -$5,000 for original research in ceramics history, be based on primary source materials. Susan Detweiler, ACC Grants Chairman. Suite12, 8200 Flourtwon Avenue, Wundmoor, PA19038 sdetweiler@aol.com www.amercercir.org 02/12
Dance Grants…Administers a variety of grant making programs. Theodore S. Bartwink, Executive Dir., Harkness Foundation for Dance, 145 E. 48th St., Ste. 26C , New York, NY 10017 212-263-7300 www.med.nyu.edu/hjd/harkness/ 02/12
Grants …The New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) offers Strategic Opportunity Grants (SOS Grants) for literary, media, visual, music and performing artists. SOS grants offer support ranging from $100 to $600 for specific, forthcoming opportunities that are distinct from work in progress. Grants are awarded throughout the year. For more information, visit nyfa.org. Updated 02/12
Grants… Offering financial, administrative assistance to individual artists’ special projects, help develop collaborative projects, assist locating venues for presentation, sponsor for public presentations. Carol Parkinson, Dir., Harvestworks, 596 Broadway, Ste 602, New York, NY 10012 . 212-431-1130 www.harvestworks.org . Ongoing Updated 02/12
Grant… $1,000 to $2,500 for emerging artists: art, music, theater, dance, photography, literature, works, due to their genre and/or social philosophy, might be difficult being aired. For an application send a SASE to Gladys Miller-Rosenstein, Executive Director, Puffin Foundation, 20 Puffin Way, Teaneck, NJ 07666-4111. 201-836-8923 www.puffinfoundation.org 02/12
Grants… Communities, small/mid-sized, culturally-specific, community-based arts institutions. Programs showing issues, experiences of underrepresented social justice issues, community concerns of national or multi-state impact: residencies; new performing art, or visual art, cross cultural, multi state collaborations, dissemination of existing works affecting communities. Nathan Cummings Foundation, 475 Tenth Ave., 14th Fl., New York, NY 10018, 212-787-7300, 787-7377. arts@nathancummings.org www.nathancummings.org 02/12
Grants… Municipalities, non profits -$15,000. Public buildings; historic landscape or municipal parks, cultural resource of downtowns, residential neighborhoods. Emily Curtis, Program Coordinator, Preservation League of New York State, 44 Central Ave., Albany, NY 12206. 518-462-5658, f. 462-5684, info@preservenys.org, www.preservenys.org 02/12
Grants… $500 for age under 30 creating new project, continue existing project. Specific issue, show concrete action plan, budget, adequate supervision, accountability. Give weekly grants to young people in US, Canada. Do Something, 24-32 Union Square East, 4th Fl. South, New York, NY 10003 help@dosomething.org. www.dosomething.org Updated 02/12
Grant… Newman’s Own Charitable Giving Program. Areas of giving include: arts, education, children, elderly groups, environmental causes, affordable housing, disaster relief, hunger relief. Newman’s Own Charitable Giving Program, 246 Post Road East, Westport, CT 06880. www.newmansown.com 02/12
Film/Video/Radio Grants…for pre-production & distribution of media focusing on political & social issues. Paul Robeson Fund for Independent Media, administered by the Funding Exchange. Through our innovative, activist-led grantmaking strategies, we support the systemic change work of both experienced and developing grassroots organizations within the broad movement for social justice. 212-529-5300, info@fex.org www.fex.org 02/12
Film/Video & Theater Grants… Free updated bimonthly Funding Newsletters distributed via email by The Fund for Women Artists. WomenArts 3739 Balboa Street #181 San Francisco, CA 94121 (415) 751-2202 info@womenarts.org www.WomenArts.org 02/12
Film, Video Grants… Average $25,000 to support international documentary films and videos: current, significant issues in human rights, expression, liberties, social justice. Diane Weyermann, Dir. of Soros Documentary Fund, Open Society Institute, 400 W. 59th St., New York NY, 10019 Info. 212-548-0657, Fax 212-548-4679 sdf@sundance.org www.soros.org/sdf. Ongoing 02/12
Film, Video Grants… Seeking projects on contemporary issues of human rights, civil liberties, freedom of expression, social justice. Up to $15,000 production funds of up to $50,000. Sundance Documentary Fund, Sundance Institute, 8857 West Olympic Boulevard, Beverly Hills, CA 90211. www.sundance.org . Ongoing 02/12
Film, Video and Electronic Grants… provides fees for independent media artists (film, video, new media, sonic arts) to appear in-person to exhibit work. The Experimental Television Center, 109 Lower Fairfield Road, Oswego, NY 13811. 607-687-4341. www.experimentaltvcenter.org . Applications reviewed monthly. 02/12
Film Grants… Eight grants yearly in many categories except commercial projects. Send a SASE to Bill Creston, with description, inspiration, source material, resume, approx. dates of use, experience, and media to eMediaLoft, 55 Bethune St., A-628, New York, NY 10014. 212-924-4893, email abc@emedialoft.org website: www.emedialoft.org/ . Ongoing 02/12
Film Grant… Independent documentary filmmakers may apply. We produce, distribute and promote quality ethnographic, documentary and non-fiction films from around the world. Send brief description, one page budget. Cynthia Close, Exec. Dir., Documentary Educational Resources, 101 Morse St., Watertown, MA 02472. Fax – 617-926-9519, email docued@der.org web site www.der.org/ 800-569-6621. Ongoing 02/12
*International Artists…Trust for Mutual Understanding funds travel & per diem expenses of professional exchanges, visual & performing arts. Collaborations, curatorial research, performances, lectures. Exchanges relating to Russia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovak Republic & Ukraine, limited funds for others. Funds individuals. www.tmuny.org. Deadlines, August 1, Feb 1. Updated 02/12
Literary Grants… Contemporary Literature and Non-Fiction. Black Lawrence Press seeks to publish intriguing books of literature and creative non-fiction: novels, memoirs, short story collections, poetry, biographies, cultural studies, and translations from the German and French. The St. Lawrence Book Award is open to any writer who has not yet published a full-length collection of short stories or poems. The winner of this contest will receive book publication, a $1,000 cash award, and 10 copies of the book. Annual Deadline: August 31. submissions@blacklawrencepress.com Updated 02/12
Literary Grants… Children’s Books. General Work-In-Progress grant. $1,500 through Society of Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators. All genres. SCBWI, 8271 Beverly Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90048. www.scbwi.org 02/12
Literary Grant … $12,000 annually for women, editions of 125. Additional $1,000 for 500 copies of promotional brochure; $1,000 travel to Library Fellows’ annual meeting present completed. Collaborations allowed. New books only. Library Fellows Program, Library and Research Center, National Museum of Women in the Arts, 1250 New York Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20005. www.nmwa.org 202-783-7365 Deadline: Annual Recurring January 31 Updated 02/12
Music Grants…International Voice Competition in Canada, USA. Altamura/Caruso Study Grants Audition. $30,000 cash grant prizes. Performances with orchestra. Requirements: 5 (five) arias in the original key and language. One aria will be chosen by the contestant and a second aria by the jury. Aria with cabaletta must be presented in its entirety. One chamber literature work of contestant’s choice. Contestant must be ready to sing a full recital upon 24-hour notice. Information and application www.altocanto.org. Sponsored by Inter-Cities Performing Arts, Inc. 4000 Bergenline Ave, Union City, NJ 07087. Info. (201) 863-8724 Fax (201)866-3566 icpainc@optonline.net Updated 02/12
Music Grants… Fostering of musical ideas, new projects promoting original programming & new performers, rather than supporting performances, tickets or tuition.. www.sparkplugfoundation.org. Sparkplug, 877-866-8285. Spring & Fall deadlines. Updated 02/12
Music Grant… DeLucia Award for Innovation in Music Education in genres, instruments, methods, other aspects of music education that can be duplicated. The Mockingbird Foundation, c/o Lemery Greiser, LLC, Attn: Jack Leibowitz, Esq., 10 Railroad Place, Ste.1502, Saratoga Springs, NY 12866-3033. Ongoing
Music Grant… Supporting young composers of classical or chamber music. The BMI Foundation, Inc., Carlos Surinach Fund and Boudleaux Bryant Fund. 212-830-2520. info@bmifoundation.org Ongoing. Updated 02/12
Music Grant… Meet the Composer’s Commissioning Music/USA Program for not-for-profit performing and presenting organizations commissioning new works. Support composer, librettist fees, copying, range, support services. Rotating basis. www.randallgiles.org/commissioning.html Eddie Fiklin, Senior program Manager. 212-645-6949 x102. 75 Ninth Ave., 3R Suite C, New York, NY 10011. Updated 02/12
Music Grant…Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors’ New York State Music Fund supports exemplary contemporary music, all genres created by today’s composer, musicians in written compositions, jazz, around world based living classical, folk, experimental, noncommercial popular music: alternative rock, country, hip hop, others. Supports school, community educational programs. RPA to hold meets to explain process. www.rockpa.org/music. (212) 812-4337. nysmf@rockpa.org. Updated 02/12
*Music Grant…Music Alive with Meet the Composer supports residencies with professional youth orchestras. Short Term Residencies 2-8 weeks, one season; Extended Residencies multi-year, full-season-3 years. Available: composer fees, travel, musician fees, some related activities. $7,000-$28,000, Short Term, $30,000-$100,000 year. www.meetthecomposer.org/musicalive/ Updated 02/12
Music Grant…Global Connections Program with Meet the Composer supports living composers in sharing their work with a global community. For US based composers to travel to performance venues or to bring international artists to the US. Grants range from $500 – $5,000. www.meetthecomposer.org 02/12
Performing Arts Production Fund… Program of Creative Capital, for original new work, all disciplines, traditions in live performing arts, to assist artist exploring, challenging dynamics. Special focus on projects bringing insight, critique to cultural difference in class, gender, generation, ethnicity or tradition. Awards range from $10,000-$40,000. www.creative-capital.org. Updated 02/12
Performing Arts Grants for developing and producing work in the musical theatre. Cheryl Kemper, Gilman & Gonzalez-Falla Theatre Foundation, Inc., 109 E. 64th St., NY, NY 10021. www.ggftheater.org 02/12
Performing Arts Grants… To individuals in theater arts, opera, theater stage, set and costume design projects are eligible. Tobin Foundation, PO Box 91019, San Antonio, TX, 78209. 21-828-9736 tobinart@mindspring.com www.manta.com/c/mmcqn8p/tobin-foundation-for-theatre Updated 02/12
Photography Grant…Alexia Foundation award for individual professional photographer to produce a substantial picture story that furthers the foundation’s goals of promoting world peace & cultural understanding. Alexia Foundation, 116 Oceanport Ave., Little Silver, NJ 07739. www.alexiafoundation.org Updated 02/12
Photography Grant… Given annually to a U.S. photographer who aspires to perpetuate the spirit and dedication that characterized Smith’s work. Grants for specific project. Add’l grants awarded. W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund, International Center of Photography, 1130 5th Ave., NY, NY 10028. www.smithfund.org Updated 02/12
Textile Grants…Awards for research, education, documentation & experimentation in the field of quilt making. National Quilting Association, PO Box 12190, Columbus, OH 43212. www.nqaquilts.org grants@nqaquilts.org 02/12
*Youth Grants… Focusing on arts and education. Strives to contribute to the ability of young people to explore their own identity, their relationship to creative process, with high-impact, long-term experience with accomplished professionals. Surdna Foundation, 330 Madison Ave, 3rd fl., New York, NY 10017. 212-557-0010, www.surdna.org questions@surdna.org Application deadlines vary by program. 02/12
*Youth Grants… Creative residencies for teens from writers, artist’s colonies, communities working with young people. For developing summer retreat teens residing communities, be mentored by high standard professionals. Artist colony must be operating 5 years to be eligible. The Surdna Foundation 330 Madison Ave., 3rd fl, New York, NY 10017. (212)557-0010 www.surdna.org questions@surdna.org 02/12
Visual Artist Grants…Virginia A.Groot Foundation to ceramic and/or sculpture artists to devote a substantial period of time to the development of their work. Three grants up to $35,000, $10,000, $5,000. Virginia A. Groot Foundation, P.O. Box 1050, Evanston, IL 60204-1050. Postmarked by March 1 each year. www.virginiagrootfoundation.org Updated 02/12
Visual Artist Grants… based on artistic merit, financial need for painters, sculptors, print-makers, and artists who work on paper are eligible. The Pollack-Krasner Foundation 863 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10021. (212)517-5400 Grants@pkf.org www.pkf.org Ongoing. 02/12
Relief Funds, Financial Assistance
Relief Fund… To help professional craft artists sustain their livelihood. Services include access to information, resources, business development support and emergency relief with loans, grants, and in-kind services. Craft Emergency Relief Fund, Box 838, Montpelier, VT 05601. 802-229-2306. website: www.craftemergency.org 02/12
Financial Assistance… Relief, fine artists grant for professional painters, graphic artists, sculptors and their families in times of emergency, disability, or bereavement. Artist Fellowship, Inc., 47 Fifth Avenue, NY, NY 10003 212-255-7740 (Salmagundi Club) dial ext. #216. www.artistsfellowship.com/ 02/12
Financial Assistance… Emergency grants to visual artists of color. Eligible are Native American, African American, Asian American, Latino 21+, living in tri-state greater New York City area to help meet urgent financial needs. The Wheeler Foundation, P.O. Box 300507, Brooklyn, NY 11230. 718-951-0581. www.nyfa.org Updated 02/12
Financial Assistance… To provide artist emergency assistance to qualified artists whose needs are unforeseen, catastrophic incident, who lack resources to meet situation. One time for specific emergency: fire, flood, medical. Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, 380 West Broadway, New York, NY 10013. www.gottliebfoundation.org Ongoing. Updated 02/12
Financial Assistance… Up to $5,000 grants for writers and playwrights with AIDS. Candidates must be published. Fund for Writers and Editors with AIDS, PEN American Center, 568 Broadway, New York, NY 10012. 212-255-7740 info@salmagundi.org www.salmagundi.org 02/12
Relief Fund… Funding artists experiencing serious illness, crisis, or bereavement. SASE: Artists Fellowship Inc., Emergency Aid, c/o Salmagundi Club, 47 Fifth Ave., NY, NY 10003. 212-255-7740 info@salmagundi.org www.salmagundi.org 02/12
Financial and Management Services… NYFA’s new Works and Management Services offer assistance to individual artists and small arts groups. New York Foundation for the Arts, 20 Jay Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201. (212) 366-6900 x 225 or 230.FAX (212) 366-1778 www.nyfa.org Updated 02/12
Financial Assistance… For artists in need of emergency aid to avoid eviction, cover medical expenses, unpaid utility bills, other. Submit description, copies of bills or eviction notice, resume, two letters of recommendation: Change Inc., PO Box 705, Cooper Station, NY 10276. 212-473-3742. innercity.org/columbiaheights/agencys/change.html Ongoing. Updated 02/12
Photography… Critical Needs Fund for Photographers with AIDS. Initial requests by phone: 212-929-7190. Ongoing.
Internships
Assistant Curator, Internship, Candidate plays a major, hands-on role in the Masters on Main Street project in upstate, New York. This innovative series of exhibits features work by students and recent alumni from top studio art programs around the country. Exhibition sites are in vacant storefronts and windows lining the 19th century historic Main Street of the Village of Catskill, along the Hudson River, two hours north of New York City. Interns assist with recruiting artists and institutions, curating exhibits, developing related events/programming, installation/de-installation, exhibition signage/interpretive materials and guided tours. Ideal for student or recent graduate in Arts Administration Department wanting to establish curatorial experience working with all aspects of exhibition practice on the East Coast. Candidate expected to be a creative thinker, organized, reliable and inspired in addition to having computer and installation experience. 3-12 Month commitment required. Preference given to MFA student or accomplished BFA graduate. Vehicle recommended, student must be able to be located in the Hudson Valley area. Available Fall 2012. For more info, call 518/943-3400 to speak with Fawn Potash, Masters on Main Street Project Director, visit www.greenearts.org or check out our Facebook page. Updated 02/12
Creative Media Assistant, Internship position. Responsibilities include a hosting a weekly radio show interviewing artists, creating promotional U-Tube videos, press relations, social media campaigns and marketing/audience development. Intern will promote the Masters on Main Street project in Catskill, New York and area creative events. For more detail, see above listing. Updated 02/12
Internships.. Women’s Studio Workshop, a visual arts organization with specialized studios in printmaking, hand papermaking, ceramics, letterpress printing , photography and book arts. PO Box 489, Rosendale, NY 12472. 845-658-9133. wsworkshop.org Updated 02/12
Internships… Arts Administration in exchange for housing on the studio complex 4 mi. from beaches of central Florida. Award-winning studios: resource library, painting, sculpture, music, dance, writer’s studios, black box theater, digital computer lab. Atlantic Center for the Arts or Harris House of Atlantic Center for the Arts, Internship Form: Program Dept., Atlantic Center for the Arts, 1414 Art Center Avenue, New Smyrna Beach, FL 32168. (386) 423-1753 www.atlanticcenterforthearts.org. Ongoing 02/12
Internships… High school seniors, college students; Flex-time. Programs in publishing and literary presenting business. Marketing, database maintenance, Literary Curators website, writing, sending press releases, Workshops for Kids program, poetry for radio shorts, video production. Bertha Rogers, Ex. Dir., Bright Hill Press, POB 193, Treadwell, NY 13846. 607-746-7306. wordthur@catskill.net www.brighthillpress.org Ongoing. Updated 02/12
Speakers, Professional Services, Mentoring
Speakers… Speakers in the Humanities, a program of New York State Council for the Humanities: for a nominal fee, non-profit NYS organizations may book distinguished scholars to lecture on a variety of topics. Applications eight weeks prior to proposed lecture. For catalog, application contact: New York Council for the Humanities, 150 Broadway, Ste. 1700, New York, NY 10038. 212-233-1131, nych@nyhumanities.org; www.nyhumanities.org 02/12
Scholarships & Residencies
Scholarships, apprenticeships & fellowships . Support for emerging artists in theater, dance, film in performing arts, playwriting & film. Deadlines vary depending on program. Princess Grace Awards. 150 East 58h Street, 25 fl. NY, NY 10155 (212) 317-1470 grants@pgfusa.org www.pgfusa.org Updated 02/12
Residencies…Music Omi Residency 2012 Performing composers, improvising musicians, sound artists! Now accepting applications for the summer 2012 session, July 19 through August 5. Performing composers, composing performers, improvising musicians, traditional and folk players, and sound artists from ALL musical disciplines and backgrounds who wish to take part in a collaborative music-making residency are encouraged to apply. No application fee. Full room and board will be provided (fellows must provide their own travel). The beautiful Omi campus is located in upstate New York. Application Deadline: Tuesday, February 1, 2012. Visit http://artomi.org/music/application.php for more information. Updated 01/12
Residencies…. One month for writers, visual artists and composers creating original work at country estate of poet Edna Vincent Millay. April-November program. Fee, $30/10 slides, tape or DVD for video artists/filmmakers; $50. international applicants. Submit: project proposal; relevant supporting materials etc. The Millay Colony for the Arts, Box 3, Austerlitz, NY 12017 518-392-3103. apply@millaycolony.org, www.milllaycolony.org. Deadline, October 1 each year for following year. 02/12
Residencies…. No application needed. Organization to preserve land, create space to recognized, emerging artists. 104 acres in Cazenovia. Sculpture strives to show relationship between humans and nature. Workspace, stipend, housing for professional sculptors. Artistic resume, 20 slides, proposal of intent. SASE to return slides. Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, 3883 Stone Quarry Road, Box 251, Cazenovia, NY 13035. SQHAP@aol.com. 315-655-5742. Ongoing. Updated 02/12
Residencies… For photographers or related media. One month, $2,000 stipend, apartment, private darkroom, 24-hour facility access. Send resume, artist statement, letter of intent, slides, proofs or prints of recent work. Light Work Artist-in-Residence Program, 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse, NY 13244. info@lightwork.org, www.lightwork.org Ongoing. 02/12
Residencies… Self-directed for research, experimentation and production of visual, television, new media arts. Banff Centre for the Arts, Office of Registrar, Box 1020, Stn. 28, 107 Tunnel Mtn. Dr., Banff, Alberta, Canada TOL OCO. 403-762-6114/6302. jon_tupper@banffcentre.ab.ca , jennifer_woodbury@banffcenter.ab.ca . www.banffcentre.ca Ongoing. Updated 02/12
Residencies… Ranging from 2 weeks to 2 months for screenwriters and film/video makers October to May. Yaddo, Box 395, Saratoga Springs, NY 12866-0395. www.yaddo.org 518-584-0746. Deadlines, August 1 and January 15 each year. 02/12
Residencies… Year-round, in photography, painting, ceramics, textiles, etc. Contact: Nantucket Island School of Design and Arts. 508-228-9248. nisda@nantucket.net, www.nisda.org 02/12
Residencies… Two-month residencies year round for professional sculpture artists. Stipends available. SASE: Gina Murtagh, Sculpture Space, 12 Gates St., Utica, NY 13502. 315-724-8381. sculptur@borg.com. www.sculpturespace.org Ongoing. Updated 02/12
Residencies… Offering 3-6 month residencies in Taos, NM to writers, painters, sculptors, composers and choreographers. Contact: Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, PO Box 545, Taos, NM 87571. 505-758-2413. email hwf@taosnet www.wurlitzerfoundation.org Ongoing. Updated 02/12
Residencies…Cooperative residencies/retreats for emerging or established artists in drawing, painting, sculpture, writing, poetry. Year-round. Private living space, modern art studio, reasonable fee includes some mentoring assistance. SASE #10 to High Studios, RR1 Box 108N, Bolton Landing, NY 12814. Ongoing. Updated 02/12
Residencies… Retreat, stipend $1,250 for writers in their work; $25 per diem, $500 travel. Gell Writers Center of the Finger Lakes, Writers & Books, 740 University Ave., Rochester, NY 14607. 585-473-2590 www.wab.org. Gell Center Director of Operations kathyp@wab.org Ongoing. 02/12
Residencies… Established and emerging artists of all disciplines may create, present, and exhibit experimental work involving sound and technology, with the option of integrating any combination of other disciplines including visual and/or performance art. Artists work with staff audio engineer. Jack Straw Media Gallery, www.jackstraw.org., Steve Peters, steve@jsckstraw.org. Updated 02/12
Residencies… The Platt Clove program provides a retreat for artists from June through October. Painters, sculptors, writers, and composers are invited to apply for residency. Artist interested in applying should download the application from the Catskill Center website,www.catskillcenter.org Inverna Lockpez, Director, inverna@catskill.net. Updated 02/12
Residencies… The National Park Service offers residency programs to artists working in various disciplines. Contact the specific site for further info: Amistad National Recreation Area in Texas, Badlands National Park in South Dakota, Bearlodge Writers’ Devils Tower Residencies in Wyoming, Joshua Tree National, Klondike Gold Rush National Park in Alaska, Mammoth Cave National Park, Peters Valley Craft Education Center’s Delaware Water Gap Residencies in New Jersey, Saint Gaudens National Historic Site in New, Sapelo Barrier Island in Georgia, Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, Weir Farm National Historic Site. www.nps.gov/archive/volunteer/air.htm Updated 02/12
Workshops, Seminars
Jurying for all media… For new members. Application, guidelines. SASE: The National Association of Women Artists, 80 Fifth Avenue, Ste. 14045, New York, NY 10011. 212-675-1616 www.nawanet.org . Deadlines, Sept. 15, March 15 yearly. Updated 02/12
CALL FOR ENTRIES, ETC.
Arts & Crafts/Folk Arts
Arts and Crafts…Erotica Show at Tivoli Co-op Gallery, call for photographs, paintings, collage, mixed media, sculpture…whatever kind of work you do! Work exhibited will be sensual and playfully suggestive, but not pornographic. Show runs Feb. 3-25, 2012. Deadline: January 16, 2012. Send check for $35 entry fee to: Marc Sacerdote, 467 Central Park West, 12 A, New York, NY 10025. Tivoli Artists’ Co-op Gallery located at 60 Broadway in Tivoli, New York, 845-757-2667 Updated 01/12
Arts and Crafts…War of 1812-Style Quilts Wanted for Bicentennial Event. The Seaway Trail Foundation is asking quilters and non-quilters to make quilts with War of 1812-era colors and patterns. Guidelines for making a “cot to coffin” size (30 X 70 inches) quilt using a variety of fabrics, including cotton, linen, silk, wool, and linsey-woolsey are online at http://www.seawaytrail.com/quilting.html. A commemorative event will be held March 17-18, 2012 in Sackets Harbor, NY. Contact Kara Lynn Dunn, Great Lakes Seaway Trail publicist, 315-465-7578, karalynn@gisco.net for more details.
Arts and Crafts… Seeking glass objects for resale in store. Wholesale price list, resume, photos. The Bookstore, National Gallery of Canada, 380 Sussex Drive, Station A., Ottawa, ON K1N 9N4, Canada. 1-800-319-2787 info@gallery.ca www.gallery.ca Ongoing. Updated 02/12
Arts & Crafts… Greene County, NY craftspeople: Marketing Crafts and Other Products to Tourists, North Central Regional Extension Publications brochure #445, $1.50. Cornell Cooperative Extension of Greene Co., Greene County office building, Mountain Ave., Cairo, NY 12413. 518-622-9820. greene@cornell.edu, http://arc.cce.cornell.edu/ 02/12
Indoor and Outdoor Art… Unison Arts Center in New Paltz seeks proposals from artists to exhibit their wall-hung artwork in our gallery at Unison and the Unison gallery at Water Street Market, and also from artists to exhibit their sculpture in our outdoor sculpture garden. Call Unison at 845-255-1559, email: stuart@unisonarts.org, www.unisonarts.org 02/12
Arts & Crafts… Craftsmen and Artists Events Directory, CHOICES, The Yellow pages of Show Information, covers art and craft shows in CT, MA, NJ, NY & PA: fees, amenities, reviews, more, quarterly. Subscriptions only. Contact: Betty Chypre, Editor, Choices, POB 484, Rhinebeck, NY 12572-0484 845-876-2995; 1-888-918-1313; fax: 914-876-0900, smartfrogs@mylaptop.com, www.smartfrogs.com. Updated 02/12
Literary, Folklore, Storytelling
Poets… Seeking teen works for book. Love and affection, friendship, heartache, pressure, etc. as themes. SASE: June Cotner, Poems by Teens, Box 2765, Poulsbo, WA 98370. june@junecotner.com, www.junecotner.com . Updated 02/12
Poetry… Monthly meetings of ad hoc group of poets, writers to read their work in group setting, with commentary. Family, friends who enjoy poetry also invited. Call for dates. Poetry Circle, Hudson Opera House, 327 Warren St., Hudson, NY 12534. 518-822-1438, fax 822-9003. www.hudsonoperahouse.org, joe@hudsonoperahouse.org . Updated 02/12
Writers… nth position is a free online magazine/e-zine with politics & opinion, travel writing, fiction & poetry, reviews & interviews, and some high weirdness. http://www.nthposition.com/links.php offers listings for calls for submissions to writers. Free to subscribe. Updated 02/12
Books… Catskill Mountain Foundation is linked with the e-commerce Book Sense program of the American Booksellers Association and independent bookseller websites. Visit our store and shop online at www.bookstore.catskillmtn.org. Updated 02/12
Writers… Seeking entries for Very Short Fiction Award. $1,200 and publication of work less than 2,000 words. Glimmer Train Press, 1211 NW Glisan St., Suite 504, Portland, OR 97209. 503-221-0837. www.glimmertrain.com. Updated 02/12
Writers… Lists of contests, grants, fellowships for fiction, poetry, drama/film, non-fiction, published bi-monthly. Awards for Writers, PO Box 437, Ithaca, NY 14851. www.ithaca.edu 02/12
Poets & Writers… Literary Horizons, new program is dedicated to professional development of writers at all stages of their careers. Poets & Writers, 72 Spring St., New York, NY 10012. 212-226-3586, fax 212-226-3963, www.pw.org. Updated 02/12
Music
Music… International Voice Competition in Canada, USA. Altamura/Caruso Study Grants Audition. $30,000 cash grant prizes. Performances with orchestra. Requirements: 5 (five) arias in the original key and language. One aria will be chosen by the contestant and a second aria by the jury. Aria with cabaletta must be presented in its entirety. One chamber literature work of contestant’s choice. Contestant must be ready to sing a full recital upon 24-hour notice. Information and application www.altocanto.org. Sponsored by Inter-Cities Performing Arts, Inc. 4000 Bergenline Ave, Union City, NJ 07087. Info. (201) 863-8724 Fax (201)866-3566 icpainc@optonline.net
Music…Capital Area Flute Club for flutists of all abilities, wide variety of music played to expand opportunities for ensemble playing. Monthly meetings, Delmar NY. 518-383-6480, 518-580-1206. www.facebook.com/pages/Capital-Area-Flute-Club Updated 02/12
Music… Programming sought by Society for New Music, professional organization in Upstate New York dedicated to performing and commissioning the music of today’s composers. Fees range from $1000 to $4000 depending on the concert and number of performers. Society for New Music, 438 Brookford Rd., Syracuse, NY 13224. 315-446-5733, Npilgrim@aol.com www.societyfornewmusic.org Ongoing. Updated 02/12
Music… Information Hotline for grants, auditions, competitions, seminars, health, tax info and more. Contact: The American Guild of Musical Artists, 1430 Broadway, 14th Fl., New York, NY 10018, 212-247-0247 agma@musicalartists.org, www.musicalartists.org Updated 02/12
Performing Arts
Performing Arts… Dance classes for children, teens, adults. The Hudson Valley Academy of Performing Arts features a distinguished faculty of professionally and academically accomplished instructors. HVAPA, 957 Route 82, West Taghkanic, NY 12502. Call 518-851-5501. www.HVAPA.com. Updated 02/12
Performing Arts… Always seeking new actors for future performances and volunteers to help each production, throughout year in Columbia County. Watch for audition notices: Ghent Playhouse, Town Hall Rd, POB 64, Ghent, NY 12075. 518-392-6264, ghentplayhouse@aol.com, www.ghentplayhouse.org . Ongoing. 02/12
Performing Arts… Modern dance and ballet movement taught by Abby Lappen, Judy Ore. Classes, day and evening, various times. Amble Dance, 710 Rt. 217, Mellenville, NY 12544. 518-672-0034 amble@taconic.net, http://abbylappen.com 02/12
Performing and Visual Arts… Deep listening programs, and in the gallery, painting, sculpture and workshops. For schedule: The Pauline Oliveros Foundation, POB 1958, Kingston, NY 12402, 845-338-5984. Fax: 845-338-5958. www.artwire.org/pof, poof@deeplistening.org. Updated 02/12
Visual Arts
General
VA…Erotica Show at Tivoli Co-op Gallery, call for photographs, paintings, collage, mixed media, sculpture…whatever kind of work you do! Work exhibited will be sensual and playfully suggestive, but not pornographic. Show runs Feb. 3-25, 2012. Deadline: January 16, 2012. Send check for $35 entry fee to: Marc Sacerdote, 467 Central Park West, 12 A, New York, NY 10025. Tivoli Artists’ Co-op Gallery located at 60 Broadway in Tivoli, New York, 845-757-2667 Updated 01/12
VA… On-line art gallery NARtisticCreations.com. Funded by NAR Productions. Showcases work of Nick Roes and local artists. Will feature a Visiting Artist each quarter in separate room at no charge. Contact NancyBenett@NARtisicCreations.com.
VA… Seeking member artists, a few openings available for visual artists. Members staff the gallery, perform administrative duties. Art in all media welcome. Established mailing list of 1,300 asking to receive show notices. Interested? Susan Kotulak, New Member Coordinator, Tivoli Artists’ Co-op Gallery, 518-537-5888. kotulak@hotmail.com.
VA… Publications: The Artist Workspace: A Guide for Artists; and The Artist Workspace Residency: A Guide for Organizations. (845) 658-9133, info@nysawc.org, www.nysawc.org. Updated 02/12
VA… Sunday Salons, Learn something new about Thomas Cole and the Hudson River School of art. Informal discussions once a month, $8. 2PM at Cedar Grove, Thomas Cole National Historic Site, 218 Spring Street, POB 426, Catskill, NY 1. 518-943-7465. info@thomascole.org, www.thomascole.org. 02/12
VA… Seeking proposals for exhibitions at Greenville Branch, The Bank of Greene County. All Arts Matter, POB 513,GreenvilleNY12083. 518-966-4038.
VA… Seeking art work for exhibitions at the Agroforestry Resource Center (ARC) in Acra, NY. Original art work only. This will be a juried process. For more information, please contact Marilyn Wyman at the ARC and Cornell Cooperative Extension of Greene County at 518-622-9820 ext/36. www.agroforestrycenter.org Updated 02/12
VA… Paint outdoors in nature with state organization, New York Plein Air Painters Society. Will sponsor paint-outs, exhibitions around NYS. NYPAP, J.Baldini, P.O. Box 2332, Niagara Falls, NY 14302-2332. ipapmail@yahoo.com, http://ipap.homestead.com/ Updated 02/12
All Media
All Media… Seeking admissions to slide viewing program. Possible inclusion in group exhibitions. Applications for membership and curated shows also considered. Slides, CV cover letter. The Painting Center, 51 Greene St., New York, NY 10013. 212-343-1060. Ongoing.
All Media… The Sugar Maples Center for Arts and Education. Historic church for gatherings, readings, small musical performances, art studio. Art study vacation, stay in hotel room, dorms on property. Two to four week residencies include retreat for performing arts groups. Ellie Cashman, Dir., Catskill Mountain Foundation, 7967 Main St., Rte. 23A, POB 924, Hunter, NY, 12442. 518-263-4908. www.catskillmtn.org. cmf@catskillmtn.org. 02/12
All Media… Art Licensing 101: Selling Reproduction Rights for Profit. 224-page book de-mystifies industry. Action plan in easy to read form. Author Michael Woodward has worked in industry for 25 years. Art Network, POB 1360, Nevada City, CA 95959. 800-383-0677. info@artmarketing.com , www.artmarketing.com . Updated 02/12
All Media… Info hotline sponsored by American Council for the Arts has referral service, provides information on a wide variety of programs and services. Call Mon.-Fri, 2-5PM EST: 1-800-232-2789.
All Media… Schoharie Arts Council seeks quality arts and crafts to sell at gallery shop. Stop in with samples. SCAC,54 Main Street,Cobleskill,NY 12043, 518-234-7380.
Photography
Photography… Erotica Show at Tivoli Co-op Gallery, call for photographs, paintings, collage, mixed media, sculpture…whatever kind of work you do! Work exhibited will be sensual and playfully suggestive, but not pornographic. Show runs Feb. 3-25, 2012. Deadline: January 16, 2012. Send check for $35 entry fee to: Marc Sacerdote, 467 Central Park West, 12 A, New York, NY 10025. Tivoli Artists’ Co-op Gallery located at 60 Broadway in Tivoli, New York, 845-757-2667 Updated 01/12
Photography…Nueva Luz, photographic journal of En Foco, Inc. ($45 membership) produces exhibitions, publications and events which support photographers of Latin/Am, African/Am, Asian, Pacific Islander and Native American heritage. View current issue before submitting portfolios of 20 unmounted prints or slides for consideration in future Nueva Luz. Subscription $30 USA. Membership, subscriptions, donations, all tax deductible. En Foco, Inc., 1738 Hone Ave, Bronx, NY 10461. 718-931-9311 FAX 718-409-6445 www.enfoco.org Updated 0212
Photography… Salons monthly, preceded by a potluck meal, bring something to share. Conversations, sharing, seeing, discussions on photography. The Center for Photography at Woodstock, 59 Tinker St., Woodstock, NY 12498. 845-679-9957. info@cpw.org www.cpw.org Updated 02/12
Photography… Seeking contemporary and traditional work by Native artists. American Indian Community House Gallery, 708 Broadway, New York, NY 10003. 212-598-0100. www.aich.org. 02/12
Photography… Seeking curators to present exhibition/publication programs focusing on aesthetic issues. Proposals should include names of possible artists, program summary, curator’s resume. Kathleen Kenyon, 59 Tinker St., Woodstock, NY 12498. 914-679-9957. CPWphoto@aol.com.
Photography… The Greene County Camera Club offers three opportunities each month for intermediate and advanced photographers: member competition, 6:30PM second Thursday of the month at Greenville Public Library Art Gallery; “Show and Tell” session, fourth Thursday in Greenville at 7PM; speakers, presentations and films, third Wednesday at 7PM, Athens Cultural Center, 24 Second Street, Athens. More info, Eileen Camuto at (518) 678-9044 or morninglight1@verizon.net; Nora Adelman (518) 945-2866 or brphoto@mhcable.com or www.gccameraclub.com. Updated 02/12
Photography… Offer of workshops with speakers, competitions, discounts on supplies and processing, newsletter. Greene County Camera Club, POB 711, Greenville, NY 12083. 518-797-3466, 518-966-4411.
Sculpture
Sculpture… Call for sculptors living within 150-mile radius of Albany for large-scale works appropriate for high traffic terminal. Prospectus, info: Sharon Bates, Director, Art& Culture Program, Administration Building Ste. 200, Albany International Airport, Albany, NY 12211-1057. 518-242-2241 arts@albanyairport.com Updated 02/12
Sculpture… Call for entries for The Fields Sculpture Park at Art Omi, an outdoor contemporary sculpture park. Send slides to: The Fields, 59 Letter S Road, Ghent, NY 12075. Artists are given the opportunity to display their work at the park but works are not purchased or funded by Omi. 518-392-7656. thefields@artomi.org Ongoing
Miscellaneous
New Website… The Whitney Museum of American Art has portal to Internet art and digital arts worldwide as an online gallery space. Details, scope: www.artport.whitney.org Updated 02/12
Weekly Electronic Digest… New York Foundation for the Arts features news updates on social, economic, philosophical, political issues affecting arts and culture, job listings and opportunities for artists and organizations. Free on-line subscription: www.artswire.org Updated 02/12
Rentals… Lighting and audio system packages. LSL Productions,Box 63Windham,NY12496-0063. 518-734-5117.
Art in America… and other classic art magazines. GCCA Catskill Gallery 1st Fl. info center, Greene County Council on the Arts,398 Main St.,Catskill,NY. 12414. 518-943-3400.
