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This just in: New England visual artists over the age of 35 may be eligible for sponsorship through the Artist’s Resource Trust (ART) for a residency fellowship at The Vermont Studio Center. Top-scoring applicants will be forwarded to ART’s fall jury.

These fellowships provide the residency fee and include a private room, all meals, and an individual studio. Vermont Studio Center residencies offer uninterrupted working time, the companionship of 50 artists and writers from across the country and around the world, and access to their Visiting Artists and Writers Program. Contact Vermont Studio Center at 802-635-2727. Oct 1. deadline.

Image credit: Photograph of Vermont by ArtSake.

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I need a little piece
Just to keep me satisfied *

Classical Musicians: The Cape Cod Symphony Orchestra holds open auditions each spring. If you would like to be notified when these auditions will take place, email Lisa Sheehy, Director of Concert Operations.

Berkshire County Artists: The MASS MoCA is looking for new products to offer for sale. Items should complement MASS MoCA’s industrial surroundings and reflect the pulse of the buildings including products that repurpose, re-use, and express creativity through sustainability. Contact Helena Fruscio, Director of Berkshire Creative at 413-822-8324.
Deadline: September 27, 2010

Playwrights: Astor Street Opry Company Playwriting Contest has a call out for original one-act plays and monologues. Pieces can be comedy or drama. Plays should be 25-45 minutes long; monologues should be 5 minutes long. Winners will have their shows produced by the Astor Street Opry Company in February 2011. Contact ASOC Original Script Competition, c/o Anne MacGregor, 101 Madison Ave. #2D, Astoria, Oregon 97103, 503-338-3826 or info@astorstreetoprycompany.com.
Deadline: September 30, 2010

Short Plays: Culture*Park announces a call for entries for the 9th Annual Short Plays Marathon, scheduled for 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

Artist Residency: Vermont Studio Center is now accepting applications for  4-12 week residencies for writers (including screenwriters and playwrights) and visual artists (excluding filmmakers). They provide housing, meals, and studios. Artists are responsible for residency fee ($3,500 per month) and travel. Full and partial fellowships, as well as work-exchange fellowships, are available to offset residency costs; some fellowships include travel reimbursement and materials stipend. Contact info@vermontstudiocenter.org.
Deadline: October 1, 2010

Works on Paper: Gallery 263 is looking for drawings for an unframed works on paper juried exhibition scheduled for November 2010. The juror is Joe Wardwell, and the exhibition curator is Laura Francis. 2D submissions can be on surface of tracing paper to cardboard. All work must be unframed. 3D submissions are also accepted, as long as it is made with paper (cardboard included). Learn more.
Deadline: October 15, 2010

Call for Documentary Fimmakers: Full Frame Documentary Film Festival is now excepting entries. The 2011 festival will take place April 14-17, 2011. Works-in-progress are not exhibited.
Deadline: October 15, 2010

Image credit: Photograph of cake by ArtSake. *Lyrics from the song “Cut the Cake” by the Average White Band

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Writers Interested in heightening your craft with your first writing workshop at Boston’s Grub Street? Consider applying for The Run for Grub Scholarship. The fund, which will cover the cost of a 10- or 6-week workshop for four different students, was founded by Grub member Catherine Elcik, who ran a marathon to raise money for it (read her blog about the experience). Read about how to apply.
Received by deadline: October 15, 2010

Crafts CraftBoston is now accepting applications for their Spring & Holiday 2011 show of New England contemporary craft.
Deadline: September 14, 2010

Filmmakers Detroit Women of Color International Film Festival (November 12-13, 2010, Detroit, MI) – Showcases intergenerational films and videos by or about African American, Continental African, Asian, Caribbean, Latina, Middle Eastern, and Native American women, with the goal of reaching communities that have little or no access to progressive and independent films and videos. Seeking films or videos in any style or genre made by or about women of color. Detroit Women of Color, c/o Yvette Newell, PO Box 20952, Ferndale, MI 48220.
Deadline: September 15, 2010

Filmmakers The San Francisco Green Film Festival (March 3-6, 2011) is seeking films in any style or genre, of any length, that feature an aspect of sustainability or of humans and their relationships to the environment. Work must be completed after January 1, 2009, and must be in English or have English subtitles. Electronic submissions encouraged as an eco-friendly alternative to DVD submissions, though they do accept DVDs by postal mail. SF Green Film Festival, 530 Divisadero St., #143, San Francisco, CA 94117, films@sfgreenfilmfest.org
Deadline: September 24, 2010 (early), October 22, 2010 (regular), November 5, 2010 (final)

Composers Competition The 2011 Truman State University/MACRO Composers Competition encourages composers to submit one or more works for concert band/wind ensemble, composed within the past three years. Works must be unpublished, and must not have previously won any award. There are no duration restrictions and no entry fee. Winner will receive $1,000 from MACRO and a $500 commission from Truman State University’s music fraternities. Find more information.
Postmark deadline: October 1, 2010

Visual Artists Residency Bernheim’s Artist in Residence Program. Bernheim is a 14,000-acre property located 25 miles south of Louisville. It is comprised of a 250 acre arboretum with over 8,000 specimens of plants, and 14,000 acres of forest. The Artist in Residence Program is available to all visual artists in any medium. Applicants may be regional, national or international. Bernheim will provide living quarters for the recipient in exchange for an exhibition and at least one work of art left to the Bernheim Foundation, and when possible, an artist-led public program.
Deadline: November 1, 2010

Call to Poets The Dylan Thomas American Poet Prize awards $1,000 and publication in Rosebud Magazine.
December 31, 2010

Image credit: Photograph of a Canadian Caterpillar Facing Front by Maggie Holtzberg.

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Call for Videos: The Americans for the Arts have a video contest called Why Arts Matter. They are looking for people to submit videos of two minutes or less on the subject of why the arts matter. Before entering, be sure to read the official rules and regulations.
Deadline: August 13, 2010

Western Mass. Performing Artists: find out about New England Foundation for the Arts‘ presenting and touring programs at their info session in North Adams on July 30, 10am-12pm.

Painting Grant: The Provincetown Art Association and Museum announces the Lillian Orlowsky and William Freed Foundation Grant. Grants will be given to painters aged 45 or older in support of the highest merit by lesser known and artists with financial need. Applications are available online. Contact Grace Ryder-O’Malley at 508-487-1750.
Deadline: August 16, 2010

Call to Boston-Based Poets & Artists: To celebrate the City of Boston’s rich literary tradition and varied visual art history, The Mayor’s Office of Arts, Tourism & Special Events is seeking artwork and poetry from Boston-based artists and poets. Their goal is to create a dialogue between the literary and visual arts. The theme for the exhibition is Impressions of Boston. Each poem chosen will be paired up with a chosen painting or photograph. Participants must either live or work in Boston. Individuals may apply for the visual arts category, the poetry category or both. Specific entry guidelines are available. Contact  John.crowley@cityofboston.gov at 617-635-2368.
Deadline: August 20, 2010

Double your Pleasure: Mobius is looking for 4×6 photographic prints (or image files in JPG format) for either their online show Signs of Our Times, or their bricks and morter exhibition of the same name.
Online Exhibition Deadline: Ongoing
Bricks and Morter Exhibition Deadline: September 5, 2010

Triple Play from apexart
1. Franchise Program 2011: An opportunity for apexart to finance your exhibition anywhere in the world. For the past two years, apexart has presented Franchise exhibitions in Los Angeles (2009) and Thailand (2010). apexart will present two Franchise exhibitions in 2011.
Deadline: October 1, 2010

2. ‘Commercial’ Art Video Call: Open call for video submissions with an opportunity to win $2,000.
Take any broadcast commercial, cut it, dub it, repeat it, or flip it and make it art for an upcoming apexart exhibition that will be on view November 10 – December 22, 2010.
Deadline: October 31, 2010

3. Unsolicited Proposal Program UP 2011: For the 14th year running, apexart accepts 600-word, idea-based proposals for exhibitions in New York City. Reviewed independently, anonymously and without support materials, submissions are evaluated solely on the strength of the idea.
Deadline: Accepting submissions January 14 – February 14, 2011.
For more on any of these apexart opportunities, contact info@apexart.org or call 212-431-5270.

Artist-In-Residency Program: This residency provides artists the opportunity to be in residence at Brandeis University while working on an artistic project in the field of Jewish women’s and gender studies, and to produce an exhibit for the Kniznick Gallery at the Women’s Studies Research Center at Brandeis University. Application guidelines can be found on the HBI Web site. Contact Debby Olins.
Deadline: October 1, 2010

Image Credit: Video above from Youtube of entries to the Why Arts Matter Contest from the Americans for the Arts.

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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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Call to artists and writers: Vermont Studio Center awards a number of fellowships to artists and writers for 4-week residencies throughout the year. In addition to VSC Fellowships, a variety of special fellowships are also available for full or partial funding. You can find more online. Upcoming Fellowship Deadline: June 15, 2010.

Call to artists and artisans: Two upcoming community fairs are encouraging artists, artisans, and craftspeople to vend their wares. The Noche de San Juan Party, at Heritage Park in Holyoke on June 27 from 3-7pm, is a festival of traditional live music and arts. Artists/craftspeople with roots in the community can display and sell their work ($20 fee, vendor brings own tent or table). Contact Nancy Howard for more information. And, the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole is seeking vendors for summer craft fairs at Waterfront Park on July 16 and August 13 (8:30 AM to 4 PM, both days). There is a $35 space donation for each date, payable in full with registration. Past fairs have included photography, jewelry, pottery, and sculpture. Information and vendor applications available by contacting Ann Woolford, MBL Human Resources Office.

Call to would-be Washington Post cartoonists: Sketch, write, and humor your way to the top for a chance to win a one-month stint in the Washington Post Style section. The paper is looking for six original, unpublished single- or multi-panel cartoons. A panel of judges will narrow the field to 10 and the voting audience will choose who moves on to become America’s Next Great Cartoonist. Send your funniest funnies by June 4, 2010. More details.

Call for 2D art: Concrete and Steel, an exhibition sponsored by Alternate Currents and WorkBar Boston Gallery, is calling for 2D art by Boston-area artists, under 4′x4′, influenced by the urban landscape, street art, inner-city subjects and conspicuous construction. There’s an entry fee of $10 for up to 3 works. All works on paper should be properly prepared for hanging. Deadline: May 30, 2010. The show runs June 9-August 30, 2010. Heidi Kayser, Founding Director of Axiom Center for New and Experimental Media Show, will curate. More info at Alternate Currents.

Call to filmmakers: Cinereach Grants Program supports feature-length nonfiction and fiction films that possess an independent spirit, depict underrepresented perspectives, and resonate across international boundaries. Grants range from $5,000 – $50,000 and are awarded to films at any stage, including development, production and post-production. Next letter of inquiry deadline is June 1, 2010. Past recipients include Liza Johnson (Film & Video Finalist ’03, ’07) and Marlo Poras (Film & Video Fellow ’05).

Call to poets: The Frost Place Resident Poet Award is a prize of $1,000 and a six to eight week residency at Robert Frost’s former home in Franconia, New Hampshire. The prize is given each year to a poet who has published at least one poetry collection. Email the organization or visit Frost Place online for more. Deadline: July 2, 2010.

Image: Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, VT.

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Jane Gillooly’s (Film & Video Fellow ’07) film Today the Hawk Takes One Chick was a 2008 pick for the Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival, a documentary film festival hosted by the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. Now it’s your turn: the 2010 festival is currently accepting submissions. The Mead Fest considers a range of documentary films and videos, including: experimental films, essay films, animation, and new media. Productions must have been completed within the last three years. Early Deadline: March 31, 2010, Final Deadline: May 3, 2010.

If you’re a chamber music ensemble looking to commission new chamber works: First, thank you – you are awesome. Second, Chamber Music America, a national service organization for the chamber music profession, is accepting applications for its Classical Commissioning Program. The program provides support to U.S.-based classical/contemporary ensembles, presenters, and festivals that commission American composers to create new chamber works. Applicants must be organization-level members of CMA. Funding is available for the composer’s fee, the ensemble’s rehearsal honorarium, and copying costs. Deadline is April 9, 2010.

For Berkshire artists: don’t miss the upcoming Tricks of the Trade events sponsored by Berkshire Creative. April’s topic: how to secure an artist residency so you have time and a space to create new work. Artist and Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts professor Melanie Mowinski will host three different events to discuss residencies: Tuesday, April 13th, 6:30 PM, MCLA Gallery 51 (Guest: Heather Phillips, Director, Contemporary Artist Center at Woodside); Wednesday, April 14, 6:30 PM, Lichtenstein Center for the Arts (Guest: C. Ryder Cooley, Artist); and Thursday, April 15, 6:30 PM, IS183 Art School (Guest: Calliope Nicholas, Residency Director, Millay Colony for the Arts). Events are free but require registration; contact Jessica Conzo at the Berkshire Cultural Resource Center to register.

For Asian American short story writers: Hyphen Magazine and The Asian American Writers’ Workshop present the 2010 Asian American Short Story Contest. The national, pan-Asian American competition will name 10 finalists and one grand prize-winner who will win a cash prize of $1000 and have the winning story published in an upcoming issue of Hyphen. There is a $20 entry fee. Deadline is March 31, 2010.

Video: an excerpt from TODAY THE HAWK TAKES ONE CHICK by Jane Gillooly. The film has upcoming screenings at the Addis International Film Festival (March 31) and Festival International de Films de Femmes (April 2-11).

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One If By Land: Vermont Studio Center has received funding for 10 new Joan Mitchell Foundation Fellowship awards for visual artists based on quality of work and demonstrated financial need. The Vermont Studio Center is an international residency program open to all artists and writers. Year-round, VSC hosts 50 artists and writers per month, each of whom receives an individual studio, private room, and all meals. Residencies last from 2-12 weeks and provide uninterrupted time to work, a community of creative peers, and a beautiful village setting in northern Vermont. In addition, VSC’s program includes a roster of Visiting Artists and Writers (2 painters, 2 sculptors and 2 writers per month) who offer slide talks/readings and individual studio visits/conferences. Applications and information available here. Deadline: February 16, 2010

Two If By Sea: Dune Shack Residencies: Applications for residencies in the historic Fowler and C-Scape Dune Shacks in Provincetown for artists, writers, and the general public are available at The Provincetown Community Compact. One residency includes a $500 fellowship for a visual artist, and there are two funded weeks for writers. The general public is encouraged to apply for this unique, primitive experience in the Cape Cod National Seashore. Deadline: February 15, 2010

Three If By Virtual: National Arts Marketing Partnership Webinar: Marketing for the Independent Artist. How to Advance Your Career and Build Your Business. Discover the basics of marketing strategy based on those objectives and how to make it real. Presenter Deborah Obalil will address the difficult balance of making art while running a thriving small business. This webinar is free to professional members of Americans for the Arts. Americans for the Arts members should register here. Non members can learn more here. The webinar takes place on Thursday, February 18, 2010 at 2 p.m. EST

Image credit: John Singleton Copley, Paul Revere, 1768, Oil on canvas, 35″ x 28 1/2″, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The Paul Revere House Web site details his midnight ride and Longfellow’s poem.

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Grand Canyon National Park: Guidelines and applications now available for the North and South Rim artist-in-residence programs. Go here for more information. Questions, contact Rene Westbrook at 928-638-6483 or Rene_Westbrook@nps.gov.
Deadline: Applications for either program, postdated between February 1 and April 1, 2010

The Dance Residency at the Boston Center for the Arts provides choreographers an opportunity to create dance without the financial constraints of rehearsal studio or theater rental. The BCA will serve as the host for the selected company and develop the audience for residency events. Contact Andrea Blesso Albuquerque, Boston Center for the Arts, 539 Tremont Street, Boston MA 02116 or ablesso@bcaonline.org
Deadline: Monday, February 8, 2010 by 5 pm.

Call to artists for juried show Wide Open
Jurors include Anne Strauss, Associate Curator, Metropolitan Museum of Art; Nicholas Baume, Mark Hughes, Bill Murphy.  For more information, contact Jane Gutterman at 718-596-2506 or info@wideopenartshow.org
Deadline: Monday, January 25, 2010

Every summer in the land of Alcott, Emerson, and Thoreau lives a great opportunity for emerging choreographers. Summer Stages Dance at Concord Academy’s Choreographers’ Project Fellowship provides the opportunity to develop new work in a supportive environment. Fellows select a cast of dancers from the Workshop and have access to rehearsal space in the evenings and on weekends. Fellowship awards include: mentorship by workshop faculty and resident artists; access to all Summer Stages Dance classes and select performances; studio space and rehearsal time with dancers drawn from the Workshop; weekly seminar classes that include informal showings of the new work and culminate in a dialogue about the developing work with faculty and guest artists; open rehearsal and a fully produced public performance of work created during the residency; and subsidy for housing and meals. That’s a whole lotta good stuff. For more information, call 978-402-2339.

Image credit:  Photograph of Grand Canyon National Park by Michael Quinn, National Park Service

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We’re interested in Massachusetts arts organizations that identify a specific need for artists, then shape their organization to directly meet that need – in essence, match the right horse with the right course.

We contacted Mary Sherman about her thriving organization and its unique appeal to artists with global aspirations…

The course: artists may not have the time or resources to connect to a greater network of ideas and opportunities from the international community – such as international residencies or cross-cultural collaborations

The horse: TransCultural Exchange, a nonprofit organization that bridges cultural divides through the arts and supports artistic innovation through large-scale, cross-discipline, global art projects and programming

What we do: This year TransCultural Exchange celebrates its 20th Anniversary. Since 1989, TCE has worked directly with hundreds of artists, arts organizations, foundations, museums, and cultural centers in more than 60 countries, producing cultural exchange programs, educational workshops and critically acclaimed public art works and exhibitions, from Sarajevo to Sao Paulo, Berlin to Boston, Tel Aviv to Taipei, Mongolia to Mumbai. In 2002, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization awarded TCE sponsorship – the first US project to receive this honor since the US mission rejoined UNESCO.

Along with its large scale art projects – the most recent of which asked artists to collaborate with someone from another country, resulting in over 200 artists participating in 60 exhibitions and performances worldwide – TCE organizes a biennale Conference on International Opportunities in the Arts. This conference is “the” forum in the world bringing together artists, teachers, musicians, writers, museum and cultural administrators, and residency directors to network, showcase, support, and promote the vast array of programs for cultural administrators and practitioners to interact with their international peers. In the short period since the Conference’s launch in 2007, more than 70 US artists have been invited to attend all-expense-paid  exchange programs, 3 have received teaching positions, and over 75 have received invitations to exhibit. (Read about success stories from 2007 and 2009.)

These are just a few of the activities directly credited to TCE’s conferences. Many of the local schools also began exchange programs with the people they met at the conferences.

Already Massachusetts is seen as the nation’s educational hub, attracting people from every corner of the globe to its institutes of higher learning. TransCultural Exchange’s goals are no less than to 1. reinforce this international asset; 2. promote culture as a vehicle for diplomacy; and 3. complement the state’s already world-renowned cultural attractions to help position Massachusetts as a new, important, and vital international center for creativity and the important diplomatic role the arts – which transcend all political, social, and geographic borders – can play on today’s larger, global stage.

What’s up next: TCE is currently soliciting work for its next global project for which artists are asked to collaborate with people from different cultures and different disciplines – such as science, technology, and business – as a way to showcase the advantages of bringing multi-perspectives to bear on a task.

Any artist (including visual artists, writers, and musicians) looking for the time, space, and money to pursue their work, particularly in the International arts arena, should not miss the next Conference on International Opportunities in the Arts: The Interconnected World, April 8-10, 2011 at Boston’s Omni Parker House Hotel.

Also stay tuned: TransCultural Exchange is pleased to participated in the 2010 London Biennale as a satellite venue…

What artists interesting in working with us need to know: Anyone interested in being on our mailing list should add their name, by entering their email on the form at the bottom of this web page. Also, follow the TransCultural Exchange blog.

Mary Sherman is the founder of TransCultural Exchange. As an artist, she has exhibited widely in the U.S. and abroad, including New York, Seoul, Vienna, Chicago, London, and Venice. Read her guest blog about her Taiwan artist residency, summer 2008.

Image: Dana Prescott, Civitella Ranieri Foundation, from the Transcultural Exchange Conference, photo by Sophia Andrianopoulos

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