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Arts Opportunities - Multi-Disciplinary Calls for Entries (includes all disciplines)CALLING ALL ARTISTS: VISUAL ART, HANDBELL MUSICIANS AND THEATRE! ACC, Artists Celebrating Christ is again calling artists of all ages for another event! Mark your calendars for March 18-21, 2010 (two weeks prior to Easter) with a registration deadline of January 30, 2010. ACC, Artists Celebrating Christ will take place at the University of Mary’s Benedictine Center. Previous events have brought in 1500-2000 spectators, making this is a great opportunity for artists to comfortably share their talents featuring inspirational themes. Included in the event will be juried visual art from artists across the upper Midwest, Handbell Choir Workshop and Concert, Drama Workshop, Liturgical Art, Student art with art classes and tours of the exhibits, Quick Draw/ Reception/ Art Auction to benefit The GOD’S CHILD Project. ACC looks forward to serving the community with this unique event. We would love for you to be a part of it. Call or email us to receive registration forms and submission guidelines. Phone: 701-255-7312, Email: info@accartshow.com, or You can also get forms online at www.accartshow.com/registration.html. ------------------------------------------ U.S/Japan Creative Artists' Program This is a funding opportunity to any and all professional creative artists on your email lists. Eligible applicants are architects, choreographers, composers, creative writers, designers, media artists, playwrights, visual artists, or solo theater artists who work with original material (including puppeteers, storytellers and performance artists). Multidisciplinary artists and artistic directors of theater or dance companies are also eligible. The Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission works cooperatively with the National Endowment for the Arts to sponsor The U.S/Japan Creative Artists' Program. The program provides support for up to five outstanding contemporary and traditional artists from the United States to spend a five-month residency in Japan to pursue their individual artistic goals. The next deadline for this program is February 1, 2010. The U.S/Japan Creative Artists' Program is extremely competitive; applicants should have regional or national recognition and anticipate a highly rigorous review of their work. Artists should also present compelling reasons for wanting to work in Japan. Selected artists will receive: A monthly stipend for living expenses and a housing supplement, as well as an allowance for professional support services; Up to $6,000 for round trip transportation for the artist, domestic partner and/or dependent children, and a baggage/storage allowance; and A stipend for pre-departure Japanese language study in the United States. Additional information, including guidelines and the application, can be found at www.jusfc.gov/creativeartists.asp. ------------------------------------------ Association of Performing Arts Presenters Announces Cultural Exchange Fund Application Schedule Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and administered by the Association of Performing Arts Presenters, the Cultural Exchange Fund is a travel subsidy program that assists U.S.-based presenters working to build partnerships and collaborations with international touring artists, companies, and their collaborators to promote the display of work by artists from around the world in its own cultural context. In promoting cross-cultural arts programming, Arts Presenters strongly encourages travel to the following locations (including but not limited to): the Middle East, Asia, Latin America, and Africa. Arts Presenters will award travel subsidies to individual presenters, presenting organizations, and to groups of presenters traveling to see the work of artists, companies, and/or to develop and advance projects with international artists and their collaborators. All applicants must be active members of the Association of Performing Arts Presenters. For-profit organizations are not eligible for Cultural Exchange funds. Cultural Exchange does not fund artists that are performing or traveling to meet with international presenters about performance opportunities, nor does it fund managers, agents, or producers working to expand business rosters. Arts Presenters will fund individual travel subsidies and group travel subsidies. The maximum amount awarded per individual organization, inclusive of travel costs and per diem, is $2,000. Group travel subsidies will be awarded only to groups of three or more presenters from different member presenting organizations. The maximum award for a group is $10,000, with no more than $2,000 awarded per organization. There will be rounds of funding between June 2009 and December 2010. Deadlines: May 14, 2010; and November 15, 2010. Application deadlines vary according to the planned travel period. For more information, visit: http://foundationcenter.org/pnd/rfp/rfp_item.jhtml?id=255400046. An application is available at: www.apapconference.org/cultural-exchange-fund-application-guidelines-final.html. ------------------------------------------ Bijou Show House in Beach The Bijou Show House in Beach, ND, is seeking individuals and groups to perform on the newly installed 400 sq. ft. stage. The auditorium provides clean sight-lines for its 285 raked seats and has excellent acoustics. In all, the theatre is an intimate show case for performance of poetry, comedy, dance, drama, music, and inventive presenters. We are seeking to expand a cultural presence in SW North Dakota. Come be on the front line of an evolving institution. Contact: Emanuel Culman, tel. 701-872-2444 and email homeheal@pacbell.net. www.beach-movie.com. ------------------------------------------ The ArtFILE Project Education archive of artwork formatted into a PowerPoint ® gallery for the purpose of teaching art. For more information: Send #10 SASE to: The ArtFILE Project, Regulus Communications, Inc., 3015 Woodsdale Boulevard, Lincoln, Nebraska 65802. |
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