AMP: Artists' Meeting Place and Resource Collective

Socrates Sculpture Park
32-01 Vernon Boulevard
Long Island City, NY 11106
United States
Phone: +1 (718) 956-1819
Fax: +1 (718) 626-1533
info@socratessculpturepark.org
http://www.socratessculpturepark.org/exhibitions/artist-opps.php

Applications Due:
Monday January 24, 2011 at 5pm
(in-hand)

SOCRATES SCULPTURE PARK
2011 APPLICATION GUIDELINES
Artists can apply for one or more of the following exhibition categories:

-SPRING EXHIBITION
-EMERGING ARTIST FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM
-OPEN SPACE

Visit www.socratessculpturepark.org/exhibitions/artist-opps.php to download the 2011 Application Form and Guidelines

DEADLINE: MONDAY, JANUARY 24, 2011 (due in-hand, by 5pm)

ABOUT SOCRATES SCULPTURE PARK

Call for Artists

The City of Los Angeles, Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA) Percent
for Public Art Program is seeking artists interested in creating
site-specific public artwork for newly constructed Police Department
(LAPD) and Fire Department (LAFD) facilities located throughout Los
Angeles. Artists commissioned as a result of this
Request for Qualifications will design, fabricate, and install
independent and/or integrated public artworks that will be accessed
and experienced by passers-by, facility visitors, and public safety
employees, as part of the unified texture and fabric of our City's
neighborhoods. Potential opportunities and sites for artwork exist on
interior and exterior walls; within hallways, lobbies, landscaped

Call for Curators

The City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA) Percent
for Public Art Program is seeking professional curators interested in
creating permanent exhibitions at newly constructed LAPD facilities
located throughout Los Angeles. The DCA, through this partnership with
the LAPD, is interested in creating interior and exterior arts
corridors at approximately eight LAPD facilities in order to transform
daily encounters into opportunities to educate, engage, and impact
LAPD staff and the visiting public via site-specific, curated
exhibitions featuring work by Los Angeles-based artists. The LAPD's
newly-constructed, architecturally-distinct facilities are unique
landmarks in the City; architectural features among the facilities

Please see a new opportunity available for photographers looking to
work as contract faculty at a youth arts non-profit in Venice. Our
workshops run for two hours, once a week. We are looking to hire two
new photography instructors, that can commit to teaching once or twice
a week (with the help of 2 or 3 volunteer artist mentors), for 10
weeks from February 5th to April 23rd, 2011.

Thank you,
Rosalyn Escobar

Rosalyn Escobar
Office & Program Coordinator, Venice Arts
office: 610 California Ave, Venice, CA 90291 | 310.578.1745
www.venice-arts.org

*****
Contract Faculty

Photographers

Venice Arts is seeking to develop a pool of qualified professional,
photographers to work on an Independent Contract basis. Selected

Applications are due by 5:00PM: Thursday, January 20, 2011

REDCAT is seeking original performance works for the next
edition of Studio, REDCAT’s quarterly series of new works in progress in dance,
theater, music, performance art and multidisciplinary. If you have a project 15
minutes or under and would like to be considered – apply now.

ABOUT STUDIO

Studio was created to give new artists an opportunity to
hone their skills and offer established artists a chance to test new material
and works-in-progress before an audience. A revolving panel of working artists
curates each edition, selecting artist through a live showing process.

Showings: Saturday, January 29, 2011

Performance dates: Saturday & Sunday, February 19 – 20,
2011 | 8:30PM

I-Park Foundation, Inc.
428 Hopyard Road
East Haddam, CT 06423
Phone: 1 860 873 2468
Fax: 1 877 276 1306
ipark@ureach.com
http://www.i-park.org

Application Deadline: January 11, 2011

The California Community Foundation will award $280,000 in Fellowships for Visual Artists to 15 Los Angeles individual artists. Eleven fellowships at $20,000 each will be awarded to mid-career artists and four fellowships at $15,000 each will be awarded to emerging artists.

The Center for Cultural Innovation (CCI), in partnership with The James
Irvine Foundation and The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, is now
offering the following grant opportunities that you may be eligible to apply
for through the Creative Capacity Fund:

1) NextGen Professional Development Grants: Provides grant opportunities up
to $1,000 for eligible emerging arts leaders to take workshops, attend
conferences or work with career coaches or management consultants.

Applications are due on the 15th of the month with a one month turnaround.

To be eligible, individuals must:
• Be between the ages of 18-35, at the time of application
• Be currently working with a California nonprofit arts organization as an
administrator, artist or board member

Applications are due by 5:00PM: Thursday, January 20, 2011 REDCAT is seeking original performance works for the next edition of Studio, REDCAT’s quarterly series of new works in progress in dance, theater, music, performance art and multidisciplinary. If you have a project 15 minutes or under and would like to be considered – apply now. Showings: Saturday, January 29, 2011
Performance dates: Saturday & Sunday, February 19 – 20, 2011 | 8:30PM Visit our website http://www.redcat.org/artist-opportunities and complete the online application. Help us spread the word by forwarding this email to fellow artists. For questions email: studio.redcat@calarts.edu

from LA Culture Net

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that The Kenneth A. Picerne Foundation is now accepting Artist Outreach Project Grant applications. This grant supports accomplished visual, literary and performing artists, 55 years of age or older, who are motivated to give back to their community. The Foundation will award up to twenty artists $12,000 to provide educational, mentoring or therapeutic art experiences of their own design to underserved people who lack opportunities to engage in meaningful arts programs.