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Call for Performers: Mobius seeks proposals for performances and durational pieces for Sept. 18 (8-10 pm) and Sept. 25 (4-6 pm), with possible extra slots for durational work starting at 11am, to be included in the show, The Prostitution of Art. Proposals are encouraged from both students and established artists working in the areas of contemporary theater, performance art, dance, music, interdisciplinary and hybrid forms. Of particular interest are new Ideas, concepts, approaches or the physical embodiment of their theme. Contact j.ellis@mobius.org.
Deadline: September 14, 2010

Artist Professional Development Training Program: The Artist’s Professional Toolbox is an artist skill-building/professional development workshop from the Arts & Business Council of Greater Boston.
Deadline: September 24, 2010

Latino Artists: National Association of Latino Arts and Culture’s 2010 NALAC Fund for the Arts Grant provides support for Latino artists in the creation of their work. Fellowships range from $1,000 to $5,000. Contactct victor@nalac.org or call 210-432-3982.
Deadline: September 24, 2010

Playwrights: Apply to develop your new script with a director, dramaturg, designer, and Philadelphia-based professional actors at PlayPenn. PlayPenn runs July 7-24 at the Adrienne Theatre in Philadelphia and will provide travel, housing, per diem, and a stipend to selected artists to work intensely with other theatre artists to develop new work. A three day pre-conference retreat to start, followed by a 17-day working and rehearsal period, capped by public readings. See how to apply.
Deadline: September 30, 2010

Visual Artists: Donate a creative postcard to help an emerging artist study at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Proof of Purchase is a unique sale to raise funds for student scholarships to SMFA. The event, hosted by the samsøn gallery, showcases hundreds of postcard-sized original works, all priced at $50. In a fun twist, the buyers don’t know the identity of the artist until purchase is made. The call is open to all artists, who can donate up to two original artworks on 4X6 postcards. All 2-D and 3-D media accepted, but it must fit on the card. Read the submission instructions.
Deadline: October 1, 2010

Call to Artists: Cambridge Arts Council Grant applications are now available. CAC’s grant program awards funding to high quality artistic projects directly benefiting the citizens of Cambridge. For more information or to schedule a one-on-one consultation, contact Julie Madden at 617-349-4381.
Deadline: October 15, 2010

Image credit: Shark Bites by Cory Clinton is on display in Art in the Park, an exhibition of sculptures by New England artists at Elm Park, Worcester courtesy of the Worcester Arts Council. Cory says the goal of creating large or life-sized animals is to create something in real space that is accessible no matter who looks at it. The link between naimals and human emotion is one of the strongest. By creating something beautiful with my hands from a common material often overlooked for its expressive properties, I seek to inspire emotion and ignite passion in the viewer. Art in the Park was founded to present public art to a broad community, to promote the works of artists, enhance outdoor spaces, and enrich llives and create visibility for the greater Worcester area.

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Call for Visual Artists: C3 seeks visual artists to make use of the Dynamite Space in Thornes Marketplace in Northampton. The Dynamite Space is a raw, open basement space with brick walls, wood floors and huge windows. Work that would visually enhance the space and involve the community is welcomed. C3 offers assistance with publicity and curation. All proposals must be approved by C3 and Thornes Marketplace. All shows must be installed along the wall of the space, as the farmer’s market and dance rehearsals also take place in the space. More information on how to apply. Contact Perry Huntoon at 413-585-0373.
Deadline: Ongoing

Call for Cell Phone Photography: The Southeastern Louisiana University Contemporary Art Gallery is devoted to the presentation of national and regional exhibitions of contemporary art, lectures and workshops.
Deadline: August 30, 2010

Call for Artists: Anderson Ranch Arts Center is calling for submissions for The Big Light Show, a juried exhibition of works that focus on light as a medium or inspiration. Open to artists of all media that takes light as its subject, inspiration or media in all its forms. Contact Paul Collins at 970-923-3181.
Deadline: September 1, 2010

Call to Artists: CoolClimate Art Contest. Art may originate in any medium, but must be static image for online submission. Learn more about submission. Judges include Agnes Gund, David Ross, Mel Chin, Philippe Cousteau, Van Jones, Jackson Browne, Chevy Chase, and Carrie Mae Weems. Contact Sarah Ingersoll at 310-486-5448.
Deadline: September 6, 2010

Call for Choreographers: If you need feedback on your work, some free rehearsal time and/or have your dance produced, the October 15-16, 2010 Shared Choreographers’ Concert may be for you. Interested choreographers need to submit a brief summary of your piece, including style, number of dancers and whatever you know about music, title, and props. Send your proposal to sccoctober2010@gmail.com, or leave it in the SCC mail box in the lobby of The Dance Complex. You and your dancers must be at the showings on September 12 and October 3, and the dress rehearsal on October 14. Learn more.
Deadline September 7, 2010

100,000 reasons why you should pass this along to nonprofit arts organizations looking to expand. Non-profit arts organizations with strong track records of artistic excellence, who are intending to buy, build, renovate, partner in the development of, or become anchor tenants in a vibrant artist space can apply for up to $100,000 in support of a facility project through the the Ford Foundation Space for Change Planning and Pre-Development Grant program.
Deadline: Letters of inquiry due September 17, 2010

Call for Public Art Entries: Powahouse %4ART Competition in Roxbury, MA is open to all artists, designers, architects and teams from Massachusetts. Go here to download the RFQ. Both new and established artists are encouraged to enter the competition. A project of Roxbury’s design/build company Placetailor, the Powahouse is a small apartment building designed to meet the stringent Passivhaus sustainability standards and produce more energy than it consumes. The Urban Arts Institute at Massachusetts College of Art and Design is facilitating the artist selection process. Budget: $4,000. Contact Christina Lanzl at 617-879-7973.
Deadline: September 20, 2010

Image credit: Department of Energy photograph, Image I.D. Number 2020754, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, November 3, 2009. These images show the simulation monthly averaged distribution of the total column water vapor from a high-resolution configuration of the Community Climate System Model Community Atmospheric Model.

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If you’re a performing artist, you can get yourself listed (for free) as a New England States Touring (NEST) artist. Why bother? Because New England presenters can apply for funds through the NEST Program to offset the cost of your performing fees.  Learn more on becoming a NEST artist.

The next deadline for presenters to apply for NEST grants is September 1. These grants are given to nonprofit organizations in New England to support performances by select NEST artists (this could be you). NEST artists must meet the NEST artist requirements on MatchBook.org. So if you’re thing is chamber music, or contemporary dance, or opera, spoken word, puppet theater, storytelling, well you get the picture, go ahead and get yourself listed on MatchBook.org.

View presenter’s application information to apply for a NEST grant.

Image credit: Photograph from the National Archives. WPA Federal Theater Project in New York:Dance Theater:”Young Tramps”, ca. 1935. ARC Identifier 195733. Item from Collection FDR-PHOCO: Franklin D. Roosevelt Library Public Domain Photographs, 1882 - 1962.

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That Cloud Looks Like Ireland
Filmmakers: Big Sky Documentary Film Festival is accepting entries for their film festival which will take place February 11-20, 2011 in Missoula, Montana.
Deadline: September 3, 2010

They Look Down at the Ground Missing
Painters: the New American Paintings 2010 Northeast Competition is accepting submissions from artists in CT, DE, MA, ME, NH, NJ, NY, PA, RI, and VT. New American Paintings is a museum-quality, soft-cover art periodical. The competition’s 40 winners will appear in the Feb/March 2011 edition of New American Paintings. All styles and media are welcome, as long as the work is singular and two-dimensional. The juror is Laura Hoptman, Kraus Family Senior Curator at the New Museum, New York, NY. Enter the competition and find more information at newamericanpaintings.com.
Deadline: August 31, 2010

Let’s Pause for the Jets
Public Art: The Berlin Underground Train Network for 2011. The Neue Gesellschaft fuer Bildende Kunst (NGBK) in Berlin, are looking for situation specific and/or participatory ideas, visions, experiments and interventions which address the future meaning of ‘public’ in Berlin’s public Underground Network. The projects can range from being short, interventionistic artistic reactions to specific occurrences on the Underground to being long term collaborations aimed at creating sustainable relationships to Underground staff and/or users over a number of years. A total budget of 30.000 Euro for artist’s fees, production, travel and accommodation is available for a maximum of four projects to be realised from May to December 2011. Questions, contact ngbk@ngbk.de Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst (New Society for Visual Arts), Oranienstrasse 25, 10999 Berlin, Germany
See Deadline: October 1, 2010

Rolling Over Like a Great Big Cloud
Call for Artists: Gallery 110 is looking for art for their international juried Couplings. The exhibit will explore personal relationships that celebrate parings and the power of the bonds they create. Juror is Rock Hushka, Curator of Contemporary and Northwest Art for the Tacoma Art Museum in Tacoma, WA. Be sure to check out the prospectus.
Deadline: November 1, 2010

What Was the Question? I Was Looking At the Big Sky.
Call to Artists: Salon 241 is looking for artists to display art in their salon located in downtown Northampton, MA. To be considered, email your Web site and/or 4-6 jpgs to salon241@gmail.com. Be advised that their preference is to display artwork on the walls of their salon due to limited floor space. Artists take 100% of the proceeds of any sales of work that result from exhibiting at Salon 241. Questions, contact Brynn at salon241@gmail.com.
Deadline: Ongoing

Image credit: Photograph of sky by ArtSake. Titles from song Big Sky by Kate Bush

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It’s a sleepy August morning, and you are, hopefully, supine in a hammock or in crystalline sand on some manner of cape (Cod, Ann, Canaveral, etc.). In case you brought your laptop, here’s a round-up of useful, edifying, interesting, or otherwise nifty art-related web destinations.

I brake for blogs that find unique uses for the format. Like Good Ear Review, which publishes dramatic monologues by varied writers, including some Mass. playwrights. Though its editor-in-chief is listed as Tristram Stjohn Bexindale-Webb (editor for the past 147 years), one suspects Northampton playwright KD Halpin may be more than the “Adjuncty Staff” the site claims her to be. Find out how to submit your own monologues.

Another fun one is the His Room as He Left It project blog by Ariel Kotker, where she posts additions to her ongoing, handmade installation, as she makes them. Recently, this meant sharing the Mosspocket Spittle Tabs.

The Technology in the Arts blog covers different methods to crowdfund your art. You’ve probably heard of the site Kickstarter, in which creative rewards are used as incentives to donate to projects, such as the successfully-funded Big Hammock (pictured above), a public art project in Boston’s Rose Kennedy Greenway. The post also delves into IndieGoGo and RocketHub.

A U-Mass Amherst theatre student shares the rules of comedy directing he gleaned from participating in rehearsals for The Hound of the Baskervilles at the Central Square Theatre in Cambridge, such as “If You Can’t Hide It, Feature It” and “Simplify (Unless You Shouldn’t).”

Comic virtuosity, rock star-ness, and individualized pencil sharpening convene in a bookstore you can’t find. On August 20, Brookline’s native son John Hodgman (of The Daily Show and The Areas of My Expertise), David Rees (of Get Your War On), and musical performer John Roderick are joining for an event at the Montague Bookmill in Western Mass. Among the evening’s offerings are this curiosity: Rees will present a rare, live artisanal pencil sharpening demonstration. What is artisanal pencil sharpening, you ask? My guess is it resides somewhere between satire, conceptual art, and hand-sanding, but seek out the bookshop (whose slogan is “Books you don’t need in a place you can’t find”) and find out for yourself. (The Bookmill can’t be too hard to find; according to this Globe article, Hodgman wrote most of his first book there.)

Apply to our Artist Fellowships Program, and you, too, might someday model for Vogue and Time Magazine! Further reading to support the previous sentence: 1. A profile of Jonathan Franzen in Time, which includes his visage on the cover (incidentally, the last time an author graced the Time cover was Stephen King, in March 2000). 2. A story about Franzen in Vogue, which includes a Vogue-ish photo portrait. 3. Our list of notable past Massachusetts state fellows, which includes Mr. Franzen (he received the award in 1986, two years before his first novel The Twenty Seventh City was published.)

When selecting honorary chairs for your theater company, it never hurts to aim high.

Stuck in traffic on the Mass Pike? Stay alert for talking felt, in case some Massachusetts artists decide to emulate Superclogger, a puppet show for gridlocked L.A. drivers.

When writing, do you suffer from the Yoda Effect? Chatty Cathy-ness? The Old Spice Guy Effect? A San Fran literary agent breaks down common writing maladies.

A painter accepts commissions to paint people’s ideal bookshelf, a row of their most treasured or meaningful books.

Provocative filmmaker John Waters is interviewed in the Paris Review, where he talks about his longtime tradition of summering in Provincetown. In particular, his happy days working for local booksellers:

It was a magical time in my life. I worked in the bookshop. First I worked in the East End Bookshop that was run by Molly Malone Cook and her girlfriend, Mary Oliver, the poet, who was not famous yet. And then I worked at the Provincetown Bookshop for many, many years. And it’s still there. Elloyd Hansen, one of the owners, was the guy who really gave me my complete education about books. I didn’t go to school, so he’s the one who told me about Ronald Firbank, Jane Bowles; I learned everything working there.

Image: Digital prototype of THE BIG HAMMOCK, a public art project by Hansy Better. Image courtesy of The Big Hammock Project. The Big Hammock has its grand opening party on August 20th, 1:30 PM, in the Rose Kennedy Greenway in Boston.

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Amid concrete and clay
And general decay
Nature must still find a way…
- The Smiths, Stretch Out and Wait

Site-Specific Dance: White Wave of Brooklyn, NY is proposing a series of site-specific dance works during the 2010 Dumbo Dance Festival. The seven sites are situated within two designated areas; the Brooklyn Bridge Park (near the entrance at Washington and Plymouth Streets), and along the Pier 1 waterfront (entrance at Old Fulton and Water Streets). There is no application fee to apply. Ideally they would like work to be collaborations between dancers, movement artists and multimedia artists of all kinds: musicians, composers, fashion/costume designers, video artists, photographers etc. You may apply as collaborators or as individual artists and they will will match you together. They are primarily a dance festival but are open to creative applications from artists in different media who can make a strong case for the way their work would fit in a dance context. The sites are presented raw.  Before submitting an application, they strongly suggest you visit the site–specific designated areas. Learn More
Deadline: Postmarked August 15, 2010

Call for Digital Art: Digital’2010: PLANET EARTH, an international digital print competition and exhibition organized by Art & Science Collaborations, Inc. (ASCI) is looking for artists and scientists to submit digital prints that reflect their perceptions of our planet. Jurors are Maddy Rosenberg, owner/director of Central Booking in DUMBO, Brooklyn; and Patrick Hamilton of the Science Museum of Minnesota. Selected works will be exhibited at the New York Hall of Science from October 3, 2010 through January 31, 2011. For more information, visit ASCI’s Web site.
Deadline: August 16, 2010

Funding for Media Artists: The National Endowment for the Humanities is offering Media Development & Media Production Grants.
Deadline: August 18, 2010

Call to Artists: Turners Falls RiverCulture is looking for artists to make art in downtown Turners Falls. Submit a proposal for the participatory/public art you want to make/do and if you’re selected, they will give you money to make that art happen. The criteria are inventiveness/beauty/aha-ness, use of location in a new/reimagined/creative way, likelihood you can pull it off, participatory nature/reach, use of the money, submitted by deadline. Questions, contact Lisa Davol.
Deadline: August 30, 2010

Call to Dorchester Area Artists: The Dorchester Arts Collaborative (DAC) is looking for artists to participate in their 2010 Open Studios October 23-24. For more, see DAC Web site or the DAC blog.

Business Development for Visual Artists: The Artist’s Professional Toolbox Program is a business development program specifically designed for visual artists. The Toolbox is an eight-month intensive course in which artists will learn marketing, networking and business skills with the additional benefits of peer group interaction, mentorship, and feedback. Apply to the program.
Deadline: September 24, 2010

Call for Public Art: Pittsfield’s Artscape invites artists to submit proposals for new work in the 2010-2011 exhibition season. Artists will receive a $1000 honorarium. For more information, call 413-499-9348.
Deadline: October, 31, 2010

Image Credit: Photograph of squirrel by ArtSake.

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What discoveries await you in this fan blog about Williamstown writer Jim Shepard? A. the above video. B. news of a new collection coming out March 2011, and that The Millions thinks You Think That’s Bad‘ll be rad. And C. that a Project X movie may be on the way. (I guess I just spoiled all your discoveries. Sorry. But still go check out the blog.)

Boston novelist Michelle Hoover guest-writes in the highly entertaining 1st Books Blog (authors writing about publishing their first books). The takeaway: persist, writers! Some 15 years spanned between the author starting her novel to the final days of editing, when she read chapters aloud to Other Press publisher Judith Gurewich.

Local playwright, actor, and theatre artist John Kuntz has launched a blog, and he recently wrote about how the audience at Company One’s Grimm was engaged and interested in the new play process: “It was a packed house, out for the night, they wanted to be there, and they were having a great time.” Dig it. May many more new works find many more enthusiastic audiences.

Jen Mergel, Senior Curator of Contemporary Art for the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, was featured in the New American Paintings blog discussing the role of contemporary art in an institution with a strong art history tradition: “I see [emerging artists] as hugely important in terms of keeping the conversation going and the discourse alive.”

And while we’re in the hallowed halls of the MFA: the Boston Globe recently profiled Andrew Haines who, as the museum’s conservator of frames, matches frames with paintings from MFA’s collection (that is, when he’s not creating his own astutely observed paintings).

In promoting their books and advancing their work, writers should definitely do these three things and then also these five things. Then POW: instant fame! Or at least, eight things done.

Sign of the times: Porter Square Books in Cambridge has added an e-Books buying section to its website.

Neato idea: a theatre company in NY enlists donations to cover the cost of giving away seats to audiences who otherwise may not have the opportunity to go.

In the blog of ArtCorps, an organization that sends artists to strengthen and mobilize Central American communities, Massachusetts native Laura Smith talks about using art to foster empowerment with women in El Salvador.

Always wanted to weld/wire/sew/woodwork but don’t have the tools, space, and/or know-how? Artisan’s Asylum, a non-profit community workshop in Somerville, wants to make an array of tools and classes available to current or aspiring makers of things. In preparing their upcoming class schedule, they’re asking for artist/artisans to take an interest survey.

Attend the London Biennale – in Boston. No inter-dimensional wormhole required! TransCultural Exchange, a Mass. org specializing in connecting international cultural communities, is holding a local satellite event - a Curated Salon - as Boston’s contribution to the London Biennale’s three month calendar of cultural events. If you’re interested, bring yourself and a non-artist guest for an evening of brilliant conversation. All participants will be listed on TransCultural Exchange’s website as official participants in the London Biennale. The salon takes place on August 19, 6-8 PM, at the Hampshire House. Download the press release, which includes ticket information, here.

Finally, two “Notes” we missed in our recent Artist Fellows Notes: Wendy Jehlen’s (Choreography Finalist ‘04) Anikai Dance Company is producing a free site-specific outdoor performance at Georges Island on the Boston Harbor Islands on Saturday, August 7, 1:30 PM. And Vico Fabbris (Painting Fellow ‘06) is featured in the July/August 2010 Design New England. His art was selected as part of a model unit by interior designer Meichi Peng (see art overlooking pillow, below).

Media: clip of Jim Shepard reading the story “Boys Town” at Skidmore College; detail of model unit at the W Boston Hotel & Residences in Back Bay, Meichi Peng, designer and Michael J. Lee, photographer, from Design New England Magazine.

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Reasons to be cheerful 1, 2, 3
1. Vicky, the Poodle
2. Pasha, the Terrier
3. King Timahoe, the Irish Setter

Call to Fiber, Wood, and Ceramic Artists: University of Massachusetts Boston, Harbor Art Gallery is seeking artists for an upcoming exhibition of fiber art, wooden sculpture, and ceramics. The exhibition will focus on objects made with natural, organic materials such a wool, cloth, paper, fur (remember to be kind to animals when gathering your materials), hair (and humans too), flowers, trees, and stone. For consideration send your Web address or 5-10 jpegs to gallery@umb.edu. Please include a brief description of your work and resume. Online submissions are preferred. Exhibition dates are November 15 - December 14. Contact Steven Pirrello, at 617-287-7988 or gallery@umb.edu.
Deadline: August 15, 2010

Call to Photographers: For the Managed Landscapes show by the Vermont Photo Space Gallery.
Deadline: August 18, 2010

Call For Artists: The Cushing-Martin Gallery at Stonehill College is accepting submissions for an exhibit, Heavy Metal, which will take place in November 2010. Artists’ work should explore metal with a scientific connection - either through process or content. In addition to premade work, they will consider project submissions that would involve collaboration with the student community as long as artwork examples are included with proposed project.  Submit project proposal, DVD of 20 images, resume, and artist statement to: Candice Smith Corby, Gallery Director/Arts Coordinator, Stonehill College, 320 Washington Street, Easton, MA 02357. Questions, call 508-565-1897 or csmithcorby@stonehill.edu.
Deadline: Submissions due by hand August 25, 2010

Art Installation Project Call for Entries: Trinity Financial invites artists/designers/teams to forward qualifications for an artwork to be permanently installed in the four-story atrium of the Appleton Mills redevelopment, an historic textile mill located at 219 Jackson Street in downtown Lowell, MA. The work to be commissioned could be a freestanding, wall-mounted or suspended piece. This project is open to all artists/designers/teams residing in New England, including collaborations with writers or sound artists/musicians. The budget is $15,000. Five to ten finalists will receive a $500 honorarium to develop a proposal for public exhibition at the 10th Annual Open Studios in Lowell September 24-26, 2010. One artist/designer team will be commissioned for the project. The Urban Arts Institute at Massachusetts College of Art and Design (UrbanArts) is facilitating the project. Contact Christina Lanzl at 617-879-7973.
Deadline: August 23, 2010

Call for Choreographers: Choreographers seeking supportive feedback, free rehearsal time, and having work produced should consider applying for the Shared Choreographers’ Concert to be held October 15-16, 2010. To apply, submit a brief summary of your piece, including style, number of dancers and whatever you know about music, title, and props to Danielle Gagnon & Lauren O’Neal, SCC Producers, c/o The Dance Complex, 536 Mass Ave., Cambridge, MA 02139 or via email to sccoctober2010@gmail.com, or leave it in the SCC mail box in the lobby of The Dance Complex.  Shawn Mahoney and Rozann Kraus will mentor the selected choreographer(s). For more information, visit the Dance Complex Web site.
Deadline: September 7, 2010

Fellowships for Artists: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowships are awarded to people who have already demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts. The Foundation consults with distinguished scholars and artists regarding the accomplishments and promise of the applicants and presents this evidence to the Committee of Selection.
Deadline: September 15, 2010

Image Credit: Photograph by Robert LeRoy Knudsen (1929-1989). Richard M. Nixon’s dogs looking out a window of the White House, 12/01/1970. ARC Identifier 194337 / Local Identifier NLRN-WHPO-C5176-14. Item from Collection RN-WHPO: White House Photo Office Collection (Nixon Administration), 01/20/1969 - 08/09/1974. From the National Archives.

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We’re excited to announce that the Massachusetts Cultural Council 2011 Artist Fellowships program guidelines are now available. The Artist Fellowships are unrestricted, anonymously judged, competitive grants in recognition of artistic excellence.

If you’ve applied before, you may notice that the deadline structure has changed since previous years. There are two application periods for 2011 Artist Fellowships, divided by discipline. Applications are now being accepted in Music Composition, Playwriting, and Sculpture/Installation. Deadline: September 20, 2010.

Beginning December 1, MCC will accept applications in Crafts, Film & Video, and Photography. Deadline: January 24, 2011.

Who should apply? Generative Massachusetts artists who meet eligibility requirements are encouraged to apply. In the current categories, this means:

• Music Composition - composers of original music including chamber, choral, electronic, experimental, symphonic, popular, band music, jazz, opera, solo work, and musical theatre.
• Playwriting - writers of original plays, screenplays, musical scripts, audiodramas, monologues and experimental or solo performance work submitted in script form.
• Sculpture/Installation - artists working in sculpture, installation, and cross-disciplinary forms such as interactive, event-based, and new media.

We know artists work in ways that are not easily categorized, and there might be creative work not mentioned above that still fits into the current application disciplines. So if you have any questions, don’t hesitate to ask us.

Listen to an excerpt from A.P. by David Fiuczynski (Music Composition Fellow ‘09)

Read full program guidelines, eligibility requirements, and application instructions.

Image and media: Pat Shannon (Sculpture/Installation Fellow ‘09), OPEN HOUSE (2008), cut newspapers, acrylic gel, binder’s board 17 in x 24 in x 22 in; excerpt from A.P. by David Fiuczynski (Music Composition Fellow ‘09).

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The image above depicts a past Governor of Massachusetts. Do clothes make the man or does the man make the clothes? You decide. ArtSake just adores this painting and the artist’s delicate handling of the lace collar. Now onto the opportunities…

For Performing Artists/Presenters: The Maine Arts Commission, NEFA, and the Atlantic Presenters Association are hosting Over The Edge, a free conference to improve opportunities for touring artists and presenting organizations at the the Collins Center for the Arts in Orono, Maine. August 4-6, 2010.

The Lynn and Jules Kroll Fund for Jewish Documentary Film: Supports the completion of original documentaries that explore the Jewish experience in all its complexity. The online application for 2010 is now live.
Deadline: July 27, 2010

A Trifecta of Web Art Opportunities: transmediale in collaboration with Mozilla have recently announced the creation of the Open Web Award 2011 a special third platform for creative excellence alongside the transmediale Award 2011 and the Vilém Flusser Theory Award 2011.

1. The Open Web Award is a new platform for radical, creative and innovative art works and projects that: are on the web and about the web, use open and free technology, and incite participation and/or collaboration. Proposals may be critical, celebratory or both. Projects should have the potential to demonstrate and/or objectively critique the potential of open web issues, and those employing the creative use of HTML5 and other developing ‘open’ technologies will be given specific consideration. The point is to play with both the idea and materiality of the (open) web in ways that spark new thinking and practice.
   Deadline: July 31, 2010 
2. The transmediale Award 2011 seeks original, innovative and visionary art works across a wide scope of form, process and practice. Works that embrace, question and enrich our understanding of and relationship to our globally complex, media immersed and technologically diverse society, and are exemplary of a high standard of critical digital practice are encouraged.
   Deadline: July 31, 2010 
3. The Vilém Flusser Theory Award 2011 seeks innovative media theory and exemplary research into digital culture exploring current and pending positions in digital art, media culture and networked society. Echoing media philosopher and cultural nomad Vilém Flusser’s unique investigative, cross-disciplinary and analytic approach, the Award is also open to outstanding and significant work which may be produced outside the bounds of traditional academia. Entries may include publications, positions, and projects from a broad range of theoretical, artistic, critical or design-based research that seek to establish and define new forms of exchange, vocabularies and cultural dialogue.
   Deadline: July 31, 2010

Grants for Visual Artists: The Artist’s Resource Trust Fund provides grants for professional New England visual artists in painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography or mixed media who have a financial need. Awards range from $1,500 to $10,000 and may be applied toward any expense that may enhance the artist’s ability to create his/her work.
Deadline: August 1, 2010

Residency for Poets/Literary Scholars: The Amy Clampitt Residency Program award consists of the use of the Amy Clampitt House free and clear for a six-month or twelve-month period beginning February 1, 2011 and ending January 27, 2012.
Deadline: August 1, 2010

Non-Fiction TV Show: ITVS Open Call provides completion funds for single nonfiction public television programs on any subject, and from any viewpoint. Projects must have begun production as evidenced by a work-in-progress video.
Deadline: August 8, 2010

Call for Short Plays: Culture*Park announces a call for entries for the 9th Annual Short Plays Marathon, scheduled for Saturday, November 20, 2010, in downtown New Bedford, MA. Plays should be 15 pages/minutes or fewer in length. One play submission per playwright is accepted. Contact culturepark@earthlink.net, or call 774-202-0588.
Deadline: October 1, 2010

Image credit: Photograph by ArtSake. The painting above is one of many former governors on display at the Massachusetts State House.

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