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November/December 2008 GCCA OPPORTUNITIES FOR ARTISTS
CALL FOR FINE CRAFTS: The GCCA is
looking for fine
crafts to be sold at our Catskill/Mountaintop Gift Shops. Those
interested
should submit 4”x6” color photos of items they want to sell to the GCCA
Visual
Arts Director, 398 Main St., Catskill, NY 12414. 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 and Windham.
There are immediate openings on the front desk and exhibit
installation
staffs, but many other opportunities exist - writing, photography,
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 Offices,
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
Employment
Opportunities… Seeking
artists, educators to teach jewelry making,
sewing, guitar, design, painting (acrylic, oil); mixed media, pastel
drawing,
photography, pottery, printmaking, crafting, mosaics, cartooning,
decorative
painting, card making business skill for artists. Arts Center of the
Greater
Hudson Valley, 7392 S. Broadway, Red Hook, NY 12401. 845-758-8708 info@theartscenterny.org www.theartscenterny.org.
7/07
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. Christina Scott, Albany Institute of History
&
Art, Purchasing
group…
ATTENTION BEADERS. Fellow artist
seeking to form purchasing group for local beaders. Combining orders
from Web,
catalogs, shows, save money. Heather, 581-755-4392 md@marinarts.net
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. Electronic Media & Film Grants… 2009 NYSCA Distribution Grant for New York State Artists providing support for the distribution of new works in film, video, sound, new-media, and media-installation. Application deadline: Dec. 31, 2008. Guidelines, FAQs, and Resources available at http://www.free103point9.org/nysca. More info: regrant@free103point9.org; (518) 622-2598 or (917) 297-1537. (10/08) Ceramic Grants…awards
from $200
-$5,000 for original research in ceramics history, be based on primary
source materials. The American Ceramic
Circle, c/o Suzanne
Findlen, PO Box 224, Williamsburg, VA 23187. www.amercercir.org 5/07 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.ny.edu/hjd/harkness/ 5/06 Disabled Artist
Grants. Grants for nonprofits which are led by
or support adults with disabilities. $1,000- $5000.
Supports professional artists or professional
creative environment. Does not support Art Therapy programs. Ethel Louise Armstrong Foundation, www.ela.org/grants/grants.html.
2/08 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 or email NYFA Officer Catharine Kendall at ckendall@nyfa.org Grants… Emerging fields,
innovative literature, performing arts.
Letter of inquiry available February
2008. Emerging arts includes digital
arts, audio, multidisciplinary projects, new genres,
innovative literature, Performing Arts; dance,
music, theater,
experimental music; opera, spoken word, theater, interdisciplinary
projects. www.creative-capital.org.
4/07 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, 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. Puffin Foundation, *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, 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
10/06 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, Grant… Individuals in architecture, built environment,
leading
to public dissemination or ideas through publication, exhibition or
educational
programming. Average grants less than $10,000. Do not exceed $25,000.
The Graham
Foundation, Grant… For purchase,
use, discussion of non-doctrinaire source material relating to Judaism.
Support
seminars, lectures, concerts ideas. Libraries, schools, individuals in
Berkshire, 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
10/06 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. www.fex.org.
5/07 Film/Video
& Theater Grants… Free
updated
bimonthly Funding Newsletters distributed via email by The Fund for
Women
Artists. P.O. Box 1236, Northampton, MA
01061 413-585-5968 info@womenarts.org
Also available
on their Web site at www.WomenArts.org 9/06 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. 212-548-0657, Fx 212-548-4679, email, sdf@sundance.org, web site, www.soros.org/sdf.
Ongoing.
10/06 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, 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
Film Grant... Independent documentary filmmakers
may apply. Send brief description, one page budget. Cynthia Close,
Exec. Dir.,
Documentary Educational Resources, *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. *Literary
Grants... $1,000 plus 10 copies,
interview in The Adirondack Review. No full-length book published before. US or Literary Grants… Children’s Books. General Work-In-Progress grant. $1500 through
Society of
Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators. All genres.
SCBWI, 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 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. 5/07 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., 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. 10/06 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.meetthecomposer.org/programs/commissioning.html. Eddie Fiklin,
Senior
program Manager. 212-645-6949 x102. 75 Ninth Ave., 3R Suite C, New
York, NY
10011. 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. 8/13/07 *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/
10/06 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 4/07 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. 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 10/06 Performing Arts Grants… To individuals in theater arts,
opera, theater stage, set and costume design projects are eligible. Tobin Foundation, 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, Photography Grant... Given annually to a Textile Grants...Awards for research, education, documentation
&
experimentation in the field of quilt making.
National Quilting Association, *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. 212-557-10010, . 212-557-0003,
request@surdna.org,
www.surdna.org/programs/arts.html. Application deadlines vary by program.
10/29/07 *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, Visual Artist Grants…$25,000 annual award for early career (defined as
having produced
mature work for less than ten years) African American artist. Those
working in
painting, photography, sculpture, printmaking, installation or new
genres
welcome. William Johnson Foundation for the Arts, 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. Virginia A. Groot Foundation, 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 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 10/06 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.,
646-230-9833. www.artistsfellowship.com/ 10/06 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, 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, *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.
212-334-1660. Email: info@salmagundi.org Website: www.salmagundi.org Relief Fund... Funding artists experiencing serious
illness, crisis, or bereavement. SASE:
Artists Fellowship Inc., Emergency Aid, c/o Salmagundi Club, Financial and Management
Services... NYFA's new
Works and Management
Services offer assistance to
individual artists and small arts groups. 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., Photography... Critical Needs Fund for Photographers
with AIDS. Initial requests by
phone: 212-929-7190. Ongoing. Internships
Internships.. Women’s Studio Workshop, Internships… Arts Administration in exchange for housing on
the studio
complex 4 mi. from
beaches of central Internships... Curatorial intern, free tuition in
figure painting, ceramics, stone carving in exchange for 16 hours work
per
month. Walt O'Neil, The Educational 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, 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, 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. www.pgfusa.org. 212-757-6960.
2/08 Residencies
& Fellowships. Artist
Book
Residency, 8 - 10 consecutive weeks Residency Dates: January -
March, 2009;
May - June 2009 Art-in-Education
Fellowship, 4 - 8 consecutive weeks.
Residency Dates: April 2010 Ceramic
Internship,
2 months.Residency Dates: January - February 2009.
Deadline Nov. 15, 2008. Women’s
Studio Workshop, Residencies...One month, four-week summer residencies for
artists, writers, and composers at Byrdcliffe Arts Colony in 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, 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, *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. 2/3/03 (UP
10/06) 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
. Ongoing.
7/10/02 (UP 10/06) *Residencies... Ranging from 2 weeks to 2 months for
screenwriters and
film/video makers October to May. Yaddo, 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
12/7/98. (UP 10/06) 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.
Ongoing.
Residencies... Offering 3-6 month residencies in 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 Residence… Retreat, stipend $1,250 for writers
in their work; $25 per diem, $500 travel. 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.
11/7/05 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 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. (4/06) Workshops, Seminars Writing workshop series… Fiction, non-fiction, putting together a book
proposal,
journal writing. 3 hrs. Palenville, NY 12463. Ellin Pollachek,
writer/instructor. 518-678-5590. ellin@ellinpallachek.com 3/9/06 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. Call For Entries, etc... Arts & Crafts/Folk Arts
Call for Artists
Painters, sculptors and fiber artists are invited to display their work at St. Luke’s Church, 50 William Street, Catskill, NY on Saturday, Nov. 7, Noon-4PM. Entry fee $30 for up to 8 works. No commission charged. Refreshments will be available. For entry form or other information, e-mail SHLArtist@Juno.com or leave message at (518) 943-4180 Crafts... Seeking glass objects for resale in
store. Wholesale price list, resume, photos. The Bookstore, National
Gallery of
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., 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,
Web site: www.unisonarts.org 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, 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
. (UP 10/06) 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, *Writers…
I
Love You Greene, a recently
developed
focus on local writers through the Greene County Council on the Arts,
consists
of a periodical writer’s literary salon at GCCA’s Catskill Gallery and
writing
section featuring author’s work and biographical inclusion in Arts Alive. Writers interested in
submitting their work for consideration for this publication and/or
reading in
future salons, please email a writing sample with a brief biographical
statement
attached in a Word document to doreenperrine@netzero.net
10/07 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. 10/06 Writers, Poets… $1,000
and publication plus 100 copies of the publication. Send 60-100 page MS
of
poetry, poetic plays, long poems or poetry in translation. SASE:
Quarterly
Review of Literature, Poetry Awards, 26 Haslet Ave., Princeton, NJ
08540.
609-921-6976. (UP 10/06) 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.
Writers... Seeking entries for Very Short
Fiction Award. $1200 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.
(UP 10/06) Writers... Lists of contests, grants,
fellowships for fiction, poetry, drama/film, non-fiction, published
bi-monthly.
Awards for Writers, Poets & Writers... Literary Horizons,
new program is dedicated to
professional development of writers at all stages of their careers.
Poets &
Writers, 72 Spring St., Music Music…Capital Area Flute Club for flutists
of all abilities, wide variety of music played to expand opportunities
for
ensemble playing. Monthly meetings, 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, 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 (UP 10/06) 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. Performing… Seeking from experienced directors of scripts
for season
2007-08. Cite experience. Tom Detwiler, Performing Arts... Seeking actors for future
performances and volunteers to help each production, throughout year in
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
(10/06) 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. Visual Arts
General
VA…National Small Works
Exhibition. Open to 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, VA… Two new 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.
(UP 10/06) 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
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(UP 10/06) VA... Seeking proposals for exhibitions at VA… Seeking art work for
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Fellowships….
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LSL Productions, Printing... Full color gallery invitations beautifully
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