Artists who “appropriate” the work of others are increasingly coming into conflict as a slew of recent cases involving artists including Shepard Fairey, Ryan McGinley and Thierry Guetta (“Mr Brainwash”) demonstrates. Now, in the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, which 20 years ago ruled that Jeff Koons was “sailing under the flag [...]
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Art and money have been making news lately.
A record price was tallied Wednesday night for Roy Lichtenstein’s “Sleeping Girl,” a 1964 comic-strip painting that reverberates against Constantin Brancusi’s 1908 sculpture “Sleeping Muse.” London’s Frieze Art Fair just had its first outing on an East River island adjacent to Manhattan, charging $40 a head to enter [...]
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Watch Jane Lynch who plays Sue Sylvester on Glee in the public service announcement on “Saving the Arts” in California. So cute and there are some surprise heroes that save the day!
Chris Colfer of Glee tweeted, ” Check out this amazing Save the Arts video”. Turns out they are trying to remove art from classrooms [...]
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Last week, the Obama administration announced a new initiative to improve a handful of the nation’s worst performing schools through arts education. The Turnaround Arts Initiative has chosen eight schools to receive $14.7 million over three years to integrate art, music, dance, and theater into their curricula. The experimental program from the President’s Committee on [...]
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Local Autonomy Networks (Autonets) is a line of mesh networked electronic clothing with the goal of building autonomous local networks that don’t rely on corporate infrastructure to function, inspired by community based, anti-racist, prison abolitionist responses to gendered violence. The project is focused on creating networks of communication to increase community autonomy and reduce violence [...]
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On Tuesday, May 8, in the midst of final exam week, a group of female students performed a public art action at UC Berkeley to call attention to the UC Regents’ privatization of what was once the premier public university in the country.
A seated interventionist held an enlargement of one of the numerous bronze plaques [...]
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Deadline: 05/25/2012
City of Oakland Cultural Funding Program grants support Oakland-based art and cultural activities that reflect the diversity of the city for citizens of and visitors to Oakland. Applications for 2012-2013 are now available for the funding categories of Organizational Assistance, Organization Project Support, Individual Artist Projects and Art in the Schools. All applicants must [...]
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Metro Creative Services is seeking to contract with a professional photographer with expertise in portrait photography. The photographer will provide portraits of artists commissioned by Metro to create public artworks for the Metro transit system.
Scope of Work:
* Photographer shall shoot numerous frames to obtain various exposures, and [...]
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Venice Arts mission is to ignite youths’ imagination, mentor their creativity, and expand their sense of possibility through high quality, accessible media–based arts education programs. Venice Arts also serves as a catalyst for people of all ages, living in low–income or underrepresented communities, to create and share personal and community stories through photography, film, and [...]
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The Los Angeles Opera seeks an Institutional Giving Officer/Grants Writer who will be responsible for managing a portfolio of Foundation, Corporate and Government donors and prospects, and implementing strategies to renew current donors and solicit new contributors. Tasks include preparing Foundation grant proposals, corporate sponsorship solicitations, and narrative and financial reports. Additional responsibilities include researching [...]
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Exhibition
UCR Sweeney Art Gallery
Opening reception 05/19/2012 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Every year, undergraduate art majors graduating from UCR have their final work presented in a two-part, senior thesis exhibition at the Sweeney Art Gallery that features paintings, photographs, drawings, videos, performance and sculpture. Among the Art Department’s distinguished faculty are John Divola, Jill Giegerich, Jim [...]
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Performance
UC Davis Mondavi Center
05/16/2012 – 05/19/2012 8:00 PM
Since arriving in the United States in 1980 from his native Brazil, Cyro Baptista has emerged as one of the foremost percussionists in the world. His endless sonic curiosity and intense rhythmic drive have spurred collaborations with everyone from Herbie Hancock and John Zorn to Yo-Yo Ma and [...]
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Exhibition
BYOB Santa Barbara
05/25/2012 7:00 PM
Bring Your Own Beamer (digital projector, an overhead, a flashlight, your phone, or any light-emitting device). Come show your work or just show up. BYOB (Bring Your Own Beamer) is a series of one-night-exhibitions hosting artists and their projectors. Originally conceived by Rafaël Rozendaal. Replicated dozens of times, from Barcelona to [...]
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Exhibition
LAX (Los Angeles International Airport)
Artist reception 06/16/2012 5:00 PM
Please join us to celebrate the completion of “See Change,” a groundbreaking video installation featuring 17 original, site-specific artworks, located in the lower-level arrivals hall of the Tom Bradley International Terminal at LAX, which is accessible to the public. The… reception, on Saturday, June 16, from 5-8 [...]
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Film Screening
UCSB Pollock Theater
05/18/2012 7:30 PM
The Chancellor’s Staff Advisory Council and the Carsey-Wolf Center invite you and your Family to Staff Celebration Week’s first ever Family Movie Night. Come experience the rare opportunity to watch the recently digitally restored 1965 classic film, Sound of Music, through a stunning 4K projection system. Seating is limited, so [...]
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UC Irvine’s Claire Trevor School of the Arts
08/20/2012 – 09/15/2012
America’s prestigious contemporary dance companies Hubbard Street Dance Chicago and Alonzo King LINES Ballet will be in-residence at UC Irvine’s Claire Trevor School of the Arts Dance Department this summer and offering two (2) week-long intensive dance workshops Aug. 20-31 for advanced dance students, pre-professionals, and [...]
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About ArtsEdSearch:
ArtsEdSearch is a project of the Arts Education Partnership (AEP), and builds on Critical Links: Learning in the Arts and Student Academic and Social Development, a compendium of research that AEP published in 2002 exploring the impact of arts education on student success in school, life, and work. Critical Links identified a range of [...]
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Don’t miss “3”–three short plays in one evening–produced by Dramatic Women and written by three writers with deep Santa Barbara roots.
Center Stage Theater in Santa Barbara
May 24-26 at 8:00 p.m.
May 27 at 2:00 p.m
Rod Lathim (featured in Santa Barbara Seasons’ Spring Issue), is a 5th generation Santa Barbaran and will straddle the [...]
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Vaclav Havel’s 1965 satirical farce The Memorandum will get a 21st-century upgrade for its UC Davis premiere in Wright Hall’s Lab A May 10 to 19. Directed by Alejandro Torres, B.A. 2011 dramatic art and film studies, and presented by the Department of Theatre and Dance’s ITDP: Institute for Exploration in Theatre, Dance and Performance, [...]
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Software developed to recognise terrorist faces is being adapted to solve the mystery of portraits of unidentified people.
In certain cases, cutting-edge “face recognition” technology could identify faces from digital images, detecting similarities in facial constructs. The data will come from scans of known features of individuals, such as in a death mask or identified sculpture.
A [...]
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A pastel version of “The Scream” by Edvard Munch fetched nearly $120 million from an anonymous buyer Wednesday at Sotheby’s in New York, setting a new world record for a work of art sold at auction.
Experts had expected the masterpiece to break new ground at the famed New York auction house; its presale estimate of [...]
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Pacific Chorale begins its newest education and community program—Choral Advantage—August 6–12, 2012 in association with California State University, Fullerton (CSUF). Sponsored in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, Choral Advantage is a one-week choral music intensive for high school students focused on building a strong understanding of music theory and vocal production. Taught [...]
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Music education produces myriad benefits, strengthening kids’ abilities in reading, math, and verbal intelligence. New British research suggests it may also teach something less tangible, but arguably just as important:
The ability to empathize.
In a year-long program focused on group music-making, 8- to 11-year old children became markedly more compassionate, according to a just-published study from [...]
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The Original RED CUP! The Original RED CUP has arrived and is now on sale! Hand-Crafted 16oz. ceramic twists on a party classic! Collect 20 to make an authentic, quality BEER PONG rack. Each Cup is hand-crafted from molds created by Art Students from Isle Vista, CA. with the main goal to generate [...]
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Deadline: 06-27-2012
National Endowment for the Humanities
The Bridging Cultures through Film: International Topics program supports documentary films that examine international and transnational themes in the humanities. These projects are meant to spark Americans’ engagement with the broader world by exploring one or more countries and cultures outside of the United States. Proposed documentaries must be analytical [...]
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Deadline: 05-30-2012
ADC & Building Bridges International Art Exchange
Santa Monica, CA
This call is open to artists from United States over the age of 18. Building Bridges International Art Exchange open for entries on March 1 2012, and will close May 30 2012. One artist will be selected by our jurors to be part of the International [...]
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Deadline: 05-12-2012
Los Angeles Art Association
Los Angeles Art Association and the City of West Hollywood are proud to announce Out There, a very special exhibition celebrating the LGBT experience during West Hollywood’s Pride Month festivities. Juried by Francisco George and William Escalera, Out There runs June 8 to June 15 at Gallery 825.
For the prospectus and [...]
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Funding Opportunities and guidelines are now available online for the following programs of the Alliance for California Traditional Arts: ACTA Apprenticeship Program, The Living Cultures Grants Program, and the Traditional Arts Development Program.
The Alliance for California Traditional Arts (ACTA) Apprenticeship Program encourages the continuation of the state’s traditional arts and cultures by contracting master artists [...]
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Location T.B.A.
05/09/2012 6:15 PM
Davis residents of all ages are invited to join Dance Dance Davis, a community project presented by the UC Davis Institute for Exploration in Theatre, Dance and Performance (ITDP) and organized by Shelly Gilbride, Ph.D., UC Davis Theatre and Dance alumna and local arts consultant and dancer. Gilbride seeks to recruit at [...]
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Performance
UC Berkeley BAM/PFA Gallery B
05/11/2012 7:30 PM
Eleanor Antin credits her idiosyncratic first-generation Jewish immigrant family as well as Stalin himself for the desperate and often-hilarious quests for art, self, revolution, and sex that fueled her childhood and teen years. This evening, she reads from Conversations with Stalin, her no-holds-barred coming-of-age memoir, performed in the spirit [...]
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UCSC Experimental Theater
05/18/2012 – 05/20/2012 & 05/24/2012 – 05/27/2012
7:00 PM (Sundays at 3:00 PM)
As the Northern lights fill the sky above, the residents of the mythical town of Almost, Maine, find themselves falling in and out of love in unexpected and often hilarious ways. The play inventively explores the mysteries of the human heart, touching [...]
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Left Coast Books in Goleta, CA
Closes 05/16/2012
“I am Curious” is an exhibition highlighting artworks of all media from 13 Santa Barbara artists: Erik Sultzer, Tim Brown, Nick Loewen, Patrick Melroy, Sam Fretwell, Emily Halbardier, Bessie Kunath, Chris Silva, Jared Flores, Rimas Simaitis, Ryan Bulis, Katy McCarthy and Alison Ho. Each piece in the exhibition reflects [...]
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Workshop
Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena, CA
06/18/2012 – 08/06/2012 Mondays 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
The Armory Center for the Arts invites you to register for the Summer 2012 GYST workshop
If you are anywhere in the LA area and are looking to kick-start your art career, get organized, and learn just about everything it takes [...]
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UCSD University Art Gallery
Opening reception 05/31/2012 5:30 PM
Curated by UC San Diego Art History PhD Students Sascha Crasnow, Emily Elizabeth Goodman, and Elizabeth Miller
The UCSD University Art Gallery and Visual Arts Department are pleased to announce Heterotopia, an exhibition featuring the work of this year’s graduating MFA students. Conceived by Michel Foucault, “heterotopia” describes non-hegemonic [...]
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PANEL: The Uses of The University in 2050: A Report from the All-UC Faculty Charrette
Ann Bermingham (History of Art, UCSB)
Steve Brint (Sociology, UC Riverside)
Catherine Cole (Performance Studies, UC Berkeley) (UCIRA Artist)
Tuesday, May 22 / 3:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
From February 23-26, 2012 colleagues from throughout the UC system converged [...]
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Professor Louis Hock’s film featured on The Alternative Projections Marathon
Event Date:
18 May 2012, 8:00pm
Location:
The Echo Park Film Center, 1200 N. Alvarado St. (at Sunset), Los Angeles CA 90026
About: Alternative Projections has featured over 26 shows since October 2012. For the penultimate experience, a celebration with an incredible range of films and videos that [...]
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by Matt Potter, (San Diego Reader)
The newspaper business, not to mention the art world, has come to this: a former reporter and editor with the San Francisco Chronicle and copy editor with the New York Times turned performance artist has been named “artist in residence” at Lindbergh Field by the San Diego County Regional [...]
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May 3rd 2012, 14:10 (re-blogged from The Economist online)
WHEN Edvard Munch painted “The Scream” he did not have enough money to buy canvas, so the painting that sold on May 2nd at Sotheby’s for $120m is on cardboard. It is a remarkable image with a history to match: during the second world war when Norway [...]
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TALK: Crowdfunding for Academic Research
Kum-Kum Bhavnani (Sociology, UCSB)
Holly Unruh (Associate Director, UCIRA)
Jai Ranganathan (NCEAS)
Jarrett Byrnes ( NCEAS)
Monday, May 7 / 12:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
Can academics raise money for their research by convincing members of the public to open their wallets for small donations? In more and more fields – from music to [...]
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It’s been said that the university ranks as one of the chief supporters of the arts in the United States. With the migration of more and more working choreographers into university environments, it’s clear that artists are able to continue to create both inside and outside of these institutions. While the halls of academia offer [...]
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The J. Paul Getty Trustannounced Monday that it was cutting 34 jobs in its museum division, with the expected annual savings of $4.3 million to be redirected to art acquisitions.
There will be no reductions in the exhibition schedule or public programs, the Getty said, and no cuts to curatorial and art-conservation staffs.
“Everything the museum does [...]
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A silence has descended on Los Angeles’ AM radio band. On April 2, KABC’s longtime morning man, Doug McIntyre, acquiesced to his management’s request that he no longer program jazz. Although he hosts a current events show 5 to 9 a.m. weekdays, McIntyre represented the last vestige of AM jazz, with his variety of [...]
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If you’re keen on the works of art market darling Alexander Calder, the 20th-century US artist famous for his mobile sculptures, you could try signing up for a VIP tour this week organised by Frieze Art Fair New York that takes in the Calder Foundation.
Based in Chelsea in Manhattan, the influential foundation, normally closed to [...]
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The expansion of the new Exposition Light Rail (Expo) connecting downtown Los Angeles to Santa Monica means major changes to the Bergamot Station Arts Center, a 7.4-acre complex that houses 35 galleries in several metal-clad industrial buildings. An 18-year-old art space is being threatened with destruction and gallery owners worry they could be pushed [...]
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The National Endowment for the Arts announced $77.2 million in grants Wednesday, including $5 million for California.
More than half the total — $48.8 million – covers the NEA’s annual operating grants to state and regional arts agencies. The California Arts Council receives $1.1 million, the largest amount for a state.
The grantmaking round included $28.4 million [...]
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Deadline: 05/14/2012
The American Association of Museums’ Center for the Future of Museums, EmcArts, and the MetLife Foundation are accepting funding proposals for the second round of the Innovation Lab for Museums, a new initiative created to enable selected museums to design, research, and prototype novel approaches to field-wide adaptive challenges in a laboratory-like setting.
The initiative [...]
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Deadline: 09/01/2012
The First Peoples Fund’s Cultural Capital Program seeks to provide tradition-bearers of tribal communities with opportunities to further their cultural work.
The one-year fellowship program is designed primarily to support previous FPF Community Spirit Award recipients in sharing their unique cultural contributions with their communities. Fellowship recipients are master artists who have ten or more [...]
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Arts Writers’ Initiative
Creative Capital | Warhol Foundation
Deadline: 06-06-2012
The Creative Capital | Warhol Foundation Arts Writers’ Grant Program announces its 2011 Grant Program as part of the Warhol Foundation Arts Writers’ Initiative. The online application form will open on April 23, 2012 and the deadline for completed applications is June 6, 2012 at 5:00 PM EST.
The [...]
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Manuel Rivera-Ortiz Foundation Announces Second Annual Call for Social Documentary Photography
Manuel Rivera-Ortiz Foundation for International Photography
Deadline: 05-31-2012
The Manuel Rivera-Ortiz Foundation for International Photography is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization committed to fostering positive social discourse in underrepresented communities throughout the world by encouraging emerging and established photographers working in developing nations to keep their lenses fixed [...]
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Deadline: 05-31-2012
Trade City Productions
Los Angeles, CA
Attention artists, actors, performers musicians, designers, playwrights, puppeteers, magicians… Trade City will soon be taking to the streets in The Popwagon, a mobile stage / art space that roams Los Angeles, unleashing arts and culture on unsuspecting audiences in unexpected places.
We’re planning our first season of programming and we’re looking [...]
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The City of Torrance Community Services Department is currently accepting applications for a Recreation Specialist (Exhibition Preparator) with the Cultural Services Division.
DESCRIPTION:
Under general supervision, the Recreation Specialist (Exhibition Preparator) works mostly during the times when exhibits at the Torrance Art Museum (TAM) are being installed and taken down.
DUTIES:
* Plan and organize exhibition elements for TAM, [...]
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UCSB Multicultural Center
05/20/2012 3:00 PM
A lecture performance on acting, emotions, the brain and where true emotions lie.
IS LOVE A TENDER THING?
Can brain imaging help answer the question of whether actors in a play express genuine emotion or just fake it? Professional actors go through arduous training employing diverse methods to convey complex feelings and stir [...]
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“Drawing Conclusions: Life Lessons Learned from Drawing”
05/02/2012 4:30 PM at the UC Davis Nelson Gallery
“The Table Comes First: France, Family and the Meaning of Food”
05/03/2012 4:00 PM at the UC Davis Conference Center
This award-winning journalist speaks with singular wit, eloquence and insight on modern life and culture. He has a rich trove of delightful stories [...]
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UC Irvine Beall Center for Art + Technology
05/05/2012 6:00 PM
Join us for this unique opportunity to hear the artist / scientist discuss their exhibited works resulting from their decade long collaboration. Works on view include Zero@Wavefunction, Nanomandala, Blue Morph and Brain Storming a work in progress. After the overview of the works in the gallery, [...]
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Thursdays, 5:00 – 6:50 PM
Girvetz Hall, Room 1004
Speaking Schedule:
Thursday, April 5th Eve Fowler
Eve Fowler is a photographer based in Los Angeles. Her pictures explore provocative subject matter — for instance male hustlers, lesbians, or transgendered individuals — but she deliberately supplies no explanatory titles or captions. In her early work, she photographed men who [...]
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UCSB McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
05/10/2012 4:00 PM
Laurel Beckmen (Art, UCSB)
Rita Ferri (Visual Arts Coordinator, Santa Barbara County Arts Commission)
Colin Gray (local artist)
Harry Reese (Art, UCSB)
Something happens when art goes public. Cultural interventions in spaces designated as belonging to the public are subject to greater and more varied kind of scrutiny than works exhibited or [...]
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MOCA Grand Avenue
05/03/2012 7:00 PM
For the second Engagement Party Art Talk, MOCA has invited The Public School to present two discussions about isolation, monitoring and habitability against a backdrop of dissolving social institutions, familial structures, employment, and more. James Merle Thomas will present Tektite Revisited—his research into NASA’s short-lived program—covering aquanauts, anechoic chambers, and the [...]
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Exhibition
UCLA Perloff Gallery
04/30/2012 – 06/01/2012
Opening reception 05/07/2012 8:00 PM
UCLA Department of Architecture & Urban Design is pleased to present 1972, a solo exhibition by artist Noritaka Minami. In this project, Minami investigates the Nakagin Capsule Tower, an experimental building designed by architect Kisho Kurokawa (1934 – 2007) during his participation in the Metabolist movement. [...]
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By Inga Kiderra and Paul Mueller
The University of California, San Diego and the Arthur C. Clarke Foundation have agreed to establish the Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination (ACCCHI) at UC San Diego. The agreement was signed in conjunction with the foundation’s annual international Clarke Awards held on April 12 in Washington, D.C. [...]
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TEDx was created in the spirit of TED’s mission, “ideas worth spreading.” The TEDx UCSB event will feature numerous prominent UCSB professors and researchers. While the live event is sold out, Gauchos far and near will be able participate by going to www.tedxucsb.com. A satellite viewing will be held at Mosher Alumni House’s Alumni Hall. [...]
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The first time one sees the AIDS Memorial Quilt, it’s the sheer size of it that is most striking. Panel after creative panel — each square with a personality and a name.
In its 25-year history, more than 91,000 names have been added.
What began in 1987 as a simple folk art installation to remember those who [...]
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The Crocker Art Museum, which houses one of the country’s largest collections of California art, is pleased to announce it will be the recipient of a comprehensive collection by the Golden State’s foremost Impressionist painter, Guy Rose.
“Guy Rose was as important to California as Monet was to France,” explains Scott A. Shields, the Crocker Art [...]
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Shortly before Christmas, director Edgar Wright received an email inviting him to a private screening of the first six minutes of Christopher Nolan’s new Batman movie, The Dark Knight Rises. Walking into Universal CityWalk’s IMAX theater, Wright recognized many of the most prominent filmmakers in America — Michael Bay, Bryan Singer, Jon Favreau, Eli Roth, [...]
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As it turns out, business leaders hiring the workforce of tomorrow don’t want applicants who are really good at filling in bubbles on standardized tests.
Creativity is key, more than 1,500 executives said in a 2010 survey.
Yet California, like many states, long ago deemed creative arts a luxury, one that few schools could afford.
And so, with [...]
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The newest journal from the MIT Press, ARTMargins will foster awareness and conversation about contemporary art in an expanded field of practices that engage current global socio-political transformations. Within the fabric of a present moment characterized by different, and often incompatible, temporalities and agendas, ARTMargins wants to locate transnational commonalities and trajectories that connect, or [...]
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National Film Preservation Foundation
Deadline: 05-30-2012
The National Film Preservation Foundation invites applications for its Basic Preservation Grants. These cash grants are awarded to nonprofit and public institutions for laboratory work to preserve culturally and historically significant film materials. Awards generally range from $3,000 to $18,000.
Grants are available to public and nonprofit institutions in the United States [...]
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National Endowment for the Arts
Deadline: 05-24-2012
The Challenge America Fast-Track category offers support primarily to small and mid-sized organizations for projects that extend the reach of the arts to underserved populations — those whose opportunities to experience the arts are limited by geography, ethnicity, economics, or disability. Age alone (e.g., youth, seniors) does not qualify a [...]
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Deadline: 05-06-2012
FAWN Art
Costa Mesa, CA
FAWN Art Gallery, located in Orange County, CA, is now accepting artists submissions. We are a new gallery seeking fresh Avant-Garde works by artists, emerging to established, in all mediums including and especially Writing and Video Art. Please email 4 or 5 work samples as jpgs or youtube links and a [...]
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Deadline: 05-07-2012
Artists Guild of San Francisco
San Francisco, CA
The Artist’s Guild of San Francisco is excited to announce that we are currently accepting applications for Membership from local accomplished Artists who demonstrate consistent proficiency, expertise, and skillful execution of their chosen medium as evidenced by a cohesive body of original work representative of their particular and [...]
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Deadline: 04-30-2012
Gallery 207 and MyArtContest.com
Santa Ana, CA
MyArtContest.com and Gallery 207 are teaming up to put on a group art show.
Gallery 207 will choose 10 artists to display their work in their gallery for the month of June 2012. Along with having your art exposed on a grand scale during the June 2012 Santa Ana Art [...]
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UCLA Library and Media Center – Haines 135
04/24/2012 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
Rebecca Walker contributes to the global conversation about identity, power, culture, and the evolution of the human family through books, lectures, blogs, social networks, popular magazines, literary and academic journals, radio programs, and film and television appearances and content development. Time Magazine named [...]
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UCR California Museum of Photography
04/28/2012 – 06/30/2012
Opening day05/19/2012 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
PASOS: Video Installations by Marsia Alexander-Clarke is a solo exhibition that features a series of video works and digital prints on stretched canvas that are based on recorded imagery in Alexander-Clarke’s garden. The images are made abstract via small cropped cells of recorded [...]
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The Granada Theater, Santa Barbara
04/26/2012 8:00 PM
For three decades the Mark Morris Dance Group has enthralled critics and dance audiences with its seemingly endless display of creativity and masterful dancing, bringing the works of its namesake to life with unparalleled conviction, pristine beauty and an unfailing commitment to perform to live musical accompaniment. The sheer [...]
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Art & Wine Tour
05/05/2012 9:00 AM – 4:30 PM
The NELSON ARTfriends invite you on a tour of Clos Pegase and the Hess Collection.
This special tour offers two famous art collections in the Napa Valley, combined with a gourmet lunch, and wine tasting. Clos Pegase is the winery owned by Jan Shrem, who recently made a [...]
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Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco
04/24/2012 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM
EAP brings together dynamic panelists to discuss artistic citizenship and issues of engagement with place.
For this program, among other inquiries, we ask:
To what degree have artists become agents of community revitalization and place-making? How are cluster initiatives in the development of city spaces facilitating the [...]
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Jesikah Maria Ross, the director of UC Davis Art of Regional Change, has a transmedia project showcased in A Working Guide to the Landscape of Arts for Change, a collection of writings depicting the wide range of ways the arts make community, civic, and social change published by Animating Democracy, a program of Americans for [...]
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Highways Performance Space@ 18th St. Arts Center 1651 18th Street|Santa Monica, CA 90404
1/2 block north of Olympic Blvd.
friday + saturday APRIL 20+21, 2012 at 8:30pm
highways performance space + lambda literary present
WANDERLUST
curated by raquel gutiérrez
writers of latino/a and queer extractions
make the specter of place known through
word, as they shepherd us in and guide us
through radical spatial [...]
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Urban Art Workshop at UCSB
About: In this course, students will have the opportunity to design and execute a public mural in Isla Vista, driven through creative brainstorming exercises.
First meeting:
Tuesday, April 24th, 4pm
IHS Seminar Room
6th Floor HSSB, UCSB
Course: INT 185UA (1-4 units)
Time:
Tuesday and Thursday
4-5:30pm
Contact:
Holly: hunruh@ucira.ucsb.edu
Jorge: hello@curlycolors.com
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To the extent that modernism in architecture was about clearing the historical decks — about dramatically and even gleefully breaking with the past — Cliff May was never cut out to be a modernist. Not an orthodox one, anyway.
A sixth-generation Californian born in 1903, May grew up spending summer vacations with an aunt on his [...]
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While high-rise buildings may make a striking impression on San Francisco’s downtown landscape, they can now contribute to city aesthetics in a different way.
For any new development project or addition of more than 25,000 square feet to an existing building in downtown commercial districts, developers are currently required to spend 1 percent of the construction [...]
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Californians can donate to the arts on their state tax returns this year, but that may go away if the amount collected in 2012 doesn’t meet the minimum $250,000. Arts lovers, advocates, and celebrities like Maria Shriver encourage Californians to Check Off the Arts on their tax forms this year and support the California Arts [...]
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This week certainly shook up the art world. We lost a controversial artist with a massive commercial following, celebrated the birthday of the father of the moving pictures, and saw some creative viral art projects in the meantime.
On Friday Thomas Kinkade passed away in his California home. He was 54 years old. The self-described “Painter [...]
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The National Ballet of Canada will perform its Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland in Los Angeles this October, bringing the company to California for the first time since 1977.
The new Alice, created by choreographer Christopher Wheeldon for the National Ballet and Britain’s Royal Ballet, was a huge success upon its world premiere in 2011 and drew [...]
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Deadline: 04-20-2012
Marin Museum of Contemporary Art
Novato, CA
Entries for MarinMOCA Summer National Juried Exhibition will be accepted starting 02/13/2012. Deadline for digital entries 04/20/2012. Open to all U.S. resident artists 18 and over. You are invited to submit up to 5 digital images of your original works completed in the past two years, not [...]
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National Endowment for the Arts / Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation
Deadline: 04-20-2012
USArtists International, a project funded by the National Endowment for the Arts and administered by the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, is committed to ensuring that the impressive range of expression and creativity of the performing arts in the United States is represented at international festivals [...]
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Target Corporation
Deadline: 04-30-2012
Overview:
Music, art, dance, drama and visual arts are all part of the well-rounded education our kids deserve. Through grants, Target helps schools bring more arts and culture into the classroom, enabling them to expand their creativity…and their horizons.
Guidelines:
Art and Culture in Schools Grants are $2,000. Grant applications are typically accepted between March 1 [...]
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Deadline: 04-22-2012
Femme Cartel
San Francisco, CA
FASHIONABLY DRAWN: ILLUSTRATION & DRAWINGS ON LIFESTYLE & FASHION
Femme Cartel is curating an art show of gallery-quality illustration/drawings on fashion and/or personal style, especially in the girly/urban context. The art show will showcase 6 artists, each presenting ONE SET (4-8 pieces) of work on the theme. A wide variety of [...]
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Deadline: 04-18-2012
Create Now is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit organization founded in 1996 that transforms the lives of high-risk and at-risk youth through creative arts mentoring, education, resources and opportunities. We are initiating a 12 -week Mural workshop at a Faith-Based shelter for women and children in Long Beach. We are looking for a talented muralist [...]
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04/16/2012 – 05/05/2012
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Director: Richard Press
“We all get dressed for Bill,” says Vogue editrix Anna Wintour. The “Bill” in question is 80+ New York Times photographer Bill Cunningham. For decades, this Schwinn-riding cultural anthropologist has been obsessively and inventively chronicling fashion trends and high society charity soirées for the Times Style Sections. [...]
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04/18/2012 – 04/21/2012 8:00 PM
“Better than anyone at mixing the sensibilities of post-60’s jazz and indie rock”
—The New York Times
For the past 10 years The Bad Plus—Reid Anderson, Ethan Iverson and David King—have broken down the walls of jazz convention and created an uncompromising body of work. Their championing of the jazz avantgarde and [...]
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Talk by Marianne Sharp (Performing Arts, University of Winchester)
UCSB Theater & Dance 2517
04/19/2012 3:45 PM
This talk offers a detailed analysis of the voice and body work of renowned British/Irish stage actress Fiona Shaw (better known internationally as Aunt Petunia in the Harry Potter films) in the 2007-8 Royal National Theatre London’s production of Beckett’s Happy [...]
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UCSC Digital Arts Research Center
04/27/2012 – 04/28/2012 & 05/03/2012 – 05/06/2012
Reception 05/04/2012 5:30 PM
The Digital Arts and New Media MFA program at UC Santa Cruz presents an exhibition of eleven graduate students whose works employ advanced technologies for creative potential and social impact.
Entitled I’ve got something on your mind., this year’s UCSC DANM MFA exhibition [...]
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04/19/2012 7:30 PM
UCSB MCC Theater
Free admission
Ever have one of those dreams where nothing comes out when you try to scream? In 1998 a 19-year-old African American young woman was shot to death by four police officers in Riverside, California – while passed out in her car. Through poetry, dance, and beat boxing, actors Rhaechyl Walker [...]
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04/25/2012
Lecture at UCLA Broad Art Center, room 5240 at 2:00 PM
Exhibition opening at CNSI Gallery at 5:00 – 7:00 PM
Kaplan, a media artist and MFA student in the Design Media Arts Department at UCLA, will exhibit her piece Pollen. Noa uses computer generated models of a magnified grain of pollen, to create a large-scale three-dimensional [...]
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Science is generally considered the realm of geeky, pocket protector-types; the arts, stereotypically, attract free-spirited conformity-haters covered in paint splatters.
But there’s plenty of art in science, and plenty of science in art, as Miami Museum of Science’s “Images of Science” demonstrates. The exhibit, presented by the Max Planck Florida Foundation, features 40 striking photographs of [...]
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Juan Felipe Herrera stood alone, nervously reciting his poetry in the middle of the designated free speech area in Kerckhoff Plaza.
It was 1968, and the civil rights movement was at its height. And Herrera had found a stage to express himself. That modest stage launched a long career in poetry, and last week, Herrera, a [...]
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As part of the Connect2Culture Art & Environment programme, the Department of Cultural Exchange at the Asia-Europe Foundation commissioned a research to investigate good practices connecting the arts to initiatives tackling environmental sustainability issues in a number of Asian countries. Titled Linking the Arts to Environment and Sustainable Development, the research project documented case studies [...]
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The U.S. Department of Education painted a somewhat bleak picture of the state of arts education in America’s schools this week. According to new findings – the first government survey in a decade that tracks the availability of arts in schools – fewer elementary schools are offering visual arts, dance and drama classes [...]
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In a provocative post at Forbes.com, contributor Steve Denning, a leadership and innovation expert, writes, “The Creative Economy is a huge opportunity that awaits us.”
Denning contends that the creative economy is “one in which the driving force is innovation.” His abundant ideas—a call to action to leaders in business and government—inspired me on many levels, [...]
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Deadline: 05-30-2012
The National Film Preservation Foundation invites applications for its Basic Preservation Grants. These cash grants are awarded to nonprofit and public institutions for laboratory work to preserve culturally and historically significant film materials. Awards generally range from $3,000 to $18,000.
Grants are available to public and nonprofit institutions in the United States that provide public [...]
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Deadline: 04-27-2012
Southern Exposure
San Francisco, CA
Southern Exposure is proud to announce Round 2 of The Graue Award, an opportunity for local, national, and international artists to develop and present an ambitious public art project in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2013. With the support of The Graue Family Foundation, Southern Exposure is offering a $15,000 [...]
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The University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI) invites proposals for Working Groups during the 2012-13 academic year (July 1 to June 30).
Who Can Apply: UC Ladder Rank Faculty
Level of Award: Up to $10,000
Funding Source: UCHRI
NEW DEADLINE: 5:00 pm PST, May 10, 2012 on FastApps (opens February 6, 2012) | View Current Grantees
Program Overview
The UC [...]
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FOOD STUDIES: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA
10/04/2012 – 10/05/2012
This conference will address contemporary food challenges from interdisciplinary perspectives by exploring new possibilities for sustainable food production and human nutrition. The aim is to consider the dimensions of a ‘new green revolution’ that will meet our human needs in a more effective, [...]
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Deadline: 06/01/2012
Digital Arts: California invites digital artists and photographers worldwide to submit works for “Wide Open Digital,” a juried digital-arts exhibit that will celebrate every form of digital art, including digital painting/illustration, photo manipulation, 3D still digital art, light painting, fractals, vector art, HDR photography, 3D computer-generated imagery, digital college, “glitch” work, and generative [...]
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Presented with the Ethnomusicology Program in the UCSB Department of Music, the World Music Series features free world music performances with the mission of exposing the community to a variety of musical forms and styles. Bring your lunch and enjoy the free performance every Wednesday at 12 noon, outside, in the Music Bowl. This spring [...]
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Santa Barbara Museum of Art
04/12/2012 5:30 PM
SBMA’s Curator of Contemporary Art Julie Joyce and Norton Simon Museum’s Associate Curator Leah Lehmbeck discuss the creative connections between Pasadena and Santa Barbara when California came into its own as a center for contemporary art.
http://www.sbma.net/programs/events.web
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Lecture & Exhibition
04/11/2012
Lecture 2:00 PM at UCLA Broad Art Center
Exhibition opening 5:00 – 7:00 PM at CNSI Gallery
Paul Thomas will give a guest lecture on his work, New Materialities. Thomas is the Head of Painting at the College of Fine Art, University of New South Wales. Paul has been working in the area of electronic [...]
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04/14/2012 – 05/19/2012
Opening Reception: Saturday, April 14, 6:00 -9:00 PM, free admission
UCR Sweeney Art Gallery & Culver Center of the Arts present the annual MFA Thesis Show 2012 with works by three graduating Master of Fine Arts students in UCR’s Department of Art: Zachary Leener, Ryan Perez, and Matthew Shain. The exhibition will consist of [...]
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Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, 653 Paseo Nuevo
05/03/2012 5:00 PM
Happy Hour: Enjoy wines by La Tour Wine Merchant with music by Warbler Records & Goods, 7:00 PM Performance, ends by 9:00 PM
LA-based trio WIFE, created by artists Jasmine Albuquerque, Kristen Leahy, and Nina McNeely perform their multi-media piece God Daughter. In three [...]
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April 2-15, 2012
UCSB, various locations and time (see link below for full schedule and details)
UCSB Music’s annual salute to Contemporary Arts and Digital Media–with a big focus on new, electronic, , unusual and otherwise fringy music, plus installations, lectures, dance and art exhibits at venues all over campus.
http://www.ccs.ucsb.edu/primavera/
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PBS MediaShift and the Investigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism will be hosting the first Collab/Space 2012, a hands-on workshop and networking event to help journalists better collaborate. The event will include thought leaders in the world of journalism and technology, with targeted talks, helpful demos, [...]
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April 19-21, 2012
UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Museum Theater
2625 Durant Avenue, Berkeley
free and open to the public
featuring:
Thursday
2012 Regents Keynote Lecture
Sabine Breitwieser
Chief Curator, Media and Performance Art, Museum of Modern Art
Friday
Keynote Performance/Lecture
Ralph Lemon
Choreographer
Saturday
Keynote Address
Jens Hoffmann
Director, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
plus panels on
Performance and the Art World
Screening Time: Film & Video in Cinemas, on [...]
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Ruth Hellier-Tinoco (Music, Theater & Dance, UCSB) and UCSB students
Tuesday, April 10 / 7:00 PM
TD 1703
Extracts of interdisciplinary performances (work-in-progress), engaging music, theater, film, movement, performance art, and multimedia created and performed by undergraduate students of Music and Theater, facilitated by Ruth Hellier-Tinoco, through her course “Performance/ Memory/ History.” Ranging from 5 to 15 [...]
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Deadline: 04-12-2012
Linus Galleries
Pasadena, CA
Love is in the air. But what is Love to you? What are your loves? Interpret love, or your desires, or your loves to us in the best art.
All artists worldwide will be considered for this Call for Artists from photography, to paintings in oil, acrylic, wall sculpture, watercolor and ink, [...]
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Deadline: 04-20-2012
California State Fair
Sacramento, CA
California Fine Art, the juried art show of the California State Fair, seeks entries from California artists aged 18 and over. Entries must be contemporary, completed within 2 years prior to deadline. Over $16,000 in prize money will be awarded. Divisions and Classes for all 2-D and 3-D media, Fine Crafts [...]
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Request for Proposal:
The Tech Museum in San Jose CA (http://www.thetech.org) is hosting an open Request for Proposals (RFP) for a a unique, long term, art and technology-based installation. Piece will open with the Zero1 Biennial in September 2012.
Proposal Deadline:
Monday, April 9, 2012
Noon PST
Project Description:
The Tech Museum seeks to commission a unique, long-term, art and technology-based [...]
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UCSB Pollock Theater
04/09/2012
7:00 PM
Granito – How to Nail a Dictator
Part political thriller, part memoir, this extraordinary film, from the makers of When the Mountains Tremble, is a riveting and haunting tale of genocide and justice in Guatemala. (Pamela Yates, 2011, 103 min.)
9:00 PM
The Siege (La Toma)
Bogota, Nov. 6, 1985. Guerrillas take over the Palace of [...]
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ARTHERE SILICON VALLEY
In a joint effort to highlight creative place making solutions, ZERO1 and the San Jose Public Art Program co-commissioned Bay Area based artists and community activists, ArtHERE, to launch ArtHERE SiliconValley. This new initiative has been developed in partnership with the Gray Area Foundation for the Arts (GAFFTA); UCSC OpenLab; and supported in part by [...]
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reblogged from Hyperallergic
by An Xiao
LOS ANGELES — As a creative person, I’ve been looking forward to taking some time to read Jonah Lehrer’s new book, Imagine: How Creativity Works. Lehrer, a prolific and popular writer bridging science, the arts and the rest of us, has set out with this book to explore “the new science of creativity.”
The [...]
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reposted from New York Times Science
By SINDYA N. BHANOO
Ballet lovers may “truly feel that they are dancing” when they watch a performance, researchers have found after measuring the brain activity of experienced spectators.
In findings published in the current issue of the journal PLoS One, the scientists report that the spectators showed muscle-specific responses in their brain [...]
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Reposted from bbc.uk.com
By Dougal Shaw, BBC Technology reporter
“Vidiots, they sometimes call us,” admits Timothy Bird.
Some people in the theatre industry don’t take kindly to the innovations that Mr Bird and his team at Knifedge are introducing to the stage.
Innovations like a computer-generated avatar sword-fighting an actor live on stage in his most recent show [...]
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The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage has announced grants totaling $812,000 to twelve Philadelphia dance projects through its Dance Advance program.
The grants, which range from $25,000 to $150,000, were awarded to seven individual artists, three dance companies, and two presenting organizations in the five-county southeastern Pennsylvania region. Grant funds will help support a variety of projects, [...]
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Former San Diegans Bequest Major Works of Art to City’s Two Largest Art Institutions
SAN DIEGO—A private art collection amassed over more than 30 years is returning home to San Diego, bringing to the city masterpieces of minimalism and of German Expressionism. The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD) and The San Diego Museum of [...]
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Guest Artist Initiative
For National artists
The Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation (SDCF) announces a call for proposals for the SDCF Guest Artist Initiative Program, a grant program for American colleges and universities to fund and facilitate the hiring of professional stage directors and choreographers as Guest Artists. Through this program, SDCF has funded six productions across the [...]
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The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation is accepting Intent to Apply forms for the first round of the Doris Duke Artist Residencies. The program will support at least fifty residencies for artists at dance companies, theaters, presenting organizations, and/or select service organizations.
The residencies program is part three of the Doris Duke Performing Artists Initiative, a ten-year special initiative [...]
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Directed by UCIRA Artist Lisa Wymore
With works by UCIRA Artist Amara Tabor-Smith, Lisa Wymore, and Stephanie Sherman
Zellerbach Playhouse
April 20-29, 2012
Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm, Sundays at 2pm
Three new choreographic works explore the theme of transformation. Amara Tabor-Smith will use the Sabar dance form as a metaphor for personal growth and cultural shifts; Stephanie Sherman will [...]
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Paul Thomas lecture + exhibition
APRIL 11, 2012
Lecture @ 2pm
Exhibition Openings: 5-7pm
Location: Lecture @ UCLA Broad Art Center, room 5240, Exhibition @ CNSI Gallery
Paul Thomas will give a guest lecture on his work, New Materialities.
Thomas is the Head of Painting at the College of Fine Art, University of New South Wales. Paul has been working in the area [...]
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Thursday, April 5, 2012
5:00 pm – 8:00 pm, Broad Art Ctr. – – New Wight Gallery
Opening Reception
See below for additional information.
Admission
Free and open to the public.
Contact
Art Department
(310) 825-0557
artinfo@arts.ucla.edu
Website
http://www.art.ucla.edu/gallery/index.html
Additional Information
The second in a series of four exhibitions of work by the 2012 Master of Fine Arts candidates in the UCLA Department of Art. Artists: Veronique d’Entremont, Roxy [...]
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Opening Reception, 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Apr 14, 2012 – May 05, 2012
UCR’s Department of Art Master of Fine Arts program graduates exhibit work in this annual exhibition. They will join a select company of graduates from art departments and private art schools in Southern California, a region that has become known for transforming its [...]
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“and the snow fell softly on all the living and the dead”
by Granada Artist-in-Residence Ellen Bromberg
Choreography by UCIRA Artist Della Davidson in Collaboration with Ellen Bromberg
Video artist Ellen Bromberg and choreographer Della Davidson devise a new mediated piece that investigates ideas of death and beauty.
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The Department of Studio Art presents the 2012 Master of Fine Arts thesis exhibitions in the University Art Gallery and the Room Gallery. The two-part series features 9 individual projects culminating from three years of formal and theoretical study at the university. Exhibited works encompass painting, drawing, installation, multi-media, performance, video, sculpture, and photography.
Part I: Nick [...]
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Trio A (1966)
Choreographed by Yvonne Rainer
Performed by Simon Leung and Sara Wookey
University Art Museum
Cal State University Long Beach
Thursday, April 12, 2012 | 6:30 – 7:30 PM
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Dance Escape, a concert featuring original choreography by Claire Trevor School of the Arts graduate students.
Sheron Wray, Artistic Director
April 19, 20, 21
Evenings @ 8:00 p.m.
April 21
Matinee @ 2:00 p.m.
Claire Trevor Theatre
General Admission $15 / Seniors $14 / Children under 17 and UCI Students with ID $11*
Purchase tickets through the Arts Box Office, (949) 824-2787 or online
*UCI STUDENTS!! [...]
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Undergraduate Studio Art students exhibit their original work for guest jurors.
OPENING RECEPTION APRIL 5 6:00 – 9:00 P.M.
April 5 – April 20
University Art Gallery (Building 712)
FREE ADMISSION. PUBLIC IS WELCOME.
Gallery Hours/Student Exhibitions:
Closed Sundays and Mondays
Tuesdays through Saturdays open Noon to 5:00 p.m.
Artists, titles, and dates are subject to change. Check web site for updates, gallery [...]
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Thursday, April 12, 2012 – 6:00pm - Thursday, May 31, 2012 – 6:00pm
Media Theater (M110), Theater Arts Center (UCSC)
Presented by:
Arts Division
“Reshaping the Museum: Creating New Knowledge, Engaging the Mind” is a series of eight public lectures, part of the course HAVC/ART 007: “Issues in the Arts,” taught by Associate Professor and Patricia & Rowland Rebele Chair in History [...]
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Monday, April 9, 2012 - 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Communications Building, Studio C (UCSC)
Presented by:
Arts Division
Film and Digital Media
History of Art and Visual Culture
Amelia Jones is Professor and Grierson Chair in Visual Culture in the Department of Art History & Communication Studies at McGill University. Jones practices a queer, anti-racist, feminist history and theory of twentieth – and twenty-first century [...]
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Dates: 04/13/12 – 04/15/12
Location: Hatlen Theatre
Cost: $13/Student, Seniors, UCSB Faculty & Staff; $17/General Admission
Contact: Eric Mills email
The annual spring dance concert features work from student choreographers Brittany Amoroso, Lauren Aranador, Suki Clements, Julie Correia, Derion Loman and Amanda Thielen alongside guest choreographer Austin McCormick under the concert direction of Christina McCarthy.
April 12 @ 8pm / Preview [...]
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Dreams of the Darkest Night
Works by Vanessa Marsh and Sean McFarland
March 29 – May 27, 2012
Opening March 29, 5:30-7:30pm
Panel Discussion: March 29, 4:30pm
Discussion will focus on experimental photography, narrative and truth.
Panel: Vanessa Marsh, exhibition artist; Sean McFarland, exhibition artist; Blake Stimson, UC Davis professor and photography historian; Youngsuk Suh, UC Davis photography professor; and [...]
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SAVE THE DATE!
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
7:00 pm
Hammer Museum, Billy Wilder Theater
Nick Rabkin:
From the Studio to the Classroom – The Teaching Artist
Teaching Artists, hybrid professionals who link the arts to education and community life, are redefining the roles that the arts can play in public education. Who are teaching artists? Where and how do they [...]
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The Seventh Annual Big Sur International Short Film Screening Series at the Henry Miller Memorial Library in Big Sur, California is now accepting submissions!
Film-makers, agents, distributors, producers, film fans – you’re all invited to submit your film(s) for the 2012 series. Please go here: http://www.bigsurfilm.org
The screenings take place after dark, under the stars, using state-of-the-art [...]
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Our collective mental image of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo has been informed, mostly, by the vibrant self-portraits she painted over the years. But she also had a collection of photographs — about 6,500 of them — that were held privately for decades after her death at the request of her husband, Diego Rivera.
In 2007, [...]
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The Nonprofit Finance Fund is hosting a webinar called The Case for Change Capital in the Arts: Building Vibrant and viable Cultural Organizations. Presented by NFF’s Rodney Christopher and Rebecca Thomas, the webinar will take place 3:00pm EDT / noon PDT on Thursday, April 19. Also participating in the webinar presentation are Cynthia Hedstrom and [...]
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Stick a bunch of artists, web designers, developers, and hackers in a room, and what do you get? A visual and acoustic representation of Bay Area earthquake data, a sound collage of randomly dialed phone numbers, and on-the-fly digital art created from MP3 files.
The aforementioned projects are the winners and honorable mentions from Art Hack [...]
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The Claire Trevor School of the Arts (CTSA) unveils its newest program: the Artists-in-Residence (AIR) Independent Study Program in Studio Art. AIR provides participants with opportunities to learn, create, curate and exhibit in association with the Department of Studio Art.
AIR has two program tracks: a 9-month Artist’s Track, and a year-long Curatorial Track, each [...]
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The Poetry Projection Project: A WritersCorps Film Event
Entry Deadline: March 26, 2012, 11 p.m. PST
Screenings: April 21, 2012
The Poetry Projection Project is an annual video contest held by WritersCorps, an award-winning creative writing program for youth. WritersCorps calls on filmmakers and video artists of all ages to create work based on youth writing. Videos will [...]
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Metro Art is seeking an experienced, energetic Docent Council Coordinator with a passion for the arts and desire to help people learn about Metro’s expanding transit system and its art collection.
Metro commissions artists to incorporate art into a wide array of transportation projects throughout Los Angeles County. Established in 1999, the Docent Council leads art [...]
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The Berkeley FILM Foundation is a 501(c)3 grant program for independent filmmakers funded by the City of Berkeley, Wareham Development, and the Saul Zaentz Company with a mission to nurture, sustain and preserve the thriving Berkeley film community while attracting the next generation of filmmakers. The BFF focuses on supporting the ideals reflected in [...]
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The Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation (SDCF), the not-for-profit foundation affiliated with the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society (SDC), announces a call for proposals for the SDCF Guest Artist Initiative Program, a grant program for American colleges and universities to fund and facilitate the hiring of professional stage directors and choreographers as Guest Artists. [...]
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Performance
Stephen Hahn Memorial Concert
04/03/2012 8:00 PM
“[Biss’] civilized and aristocratic playing sounded almost like the music-making of the golden age – unhurried, humane and uncompromised in its integrity… he is a huge talent.” The Baltimore Sun
Young artists often show promise, but rarely do they emerge as major talents as quickly and fully as American pianist Jonathan [...]
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UCLA Hammer Museum
03/28/2012 12:30 PM
Lunchtime Art Talks take place every Wednesday at 12:30pm. The Hammer’s curatorial department leads free and insightful 15-minute talks about works of art currently on view or from museum collections. This talk will be led by Elizabeth Cline, curatorial associate.
http://hammer.ucla.edu/calendar/detail/type/program/id/1179
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Performance
UC Irvine Mondavi Center
03/29/2012 8:00 PM
The eight wonders of the SFJAZZ Collective return with their exploratory spirit intact and a new creative foil against which to test their mettle. Renowned for their stellar musicianship and forward-thinking compositions, the Collective also provides fresh perspective on jazz repertoire through original arrangements of jazz legends from Thelonious Monk [...]
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Exhibition
UC Davis Richard L. Nelson Gallery
Opens 03/29/2012
Panel Discussion 4:30 PM
Discussion will focus on experimental photography, narrative and truth.
Panel: Vanessa Marsh, exhibition artist; Sean McFarland, exhibition artist; Blake Stimson, UC Davis professor and photography historian; and Renny Pritikin, moderator and Director of the Nelson Gallery
Two Northern California photographers are featured in the Spring exhibition at the [...]
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Film Screening
UC Berkeley BAM/PFA
03/23/2012 7:30 PM
In 1975, California-based Dutch Conceptual artist Bas Jan Ader disappeared under mysterious circumstances at sea while attempting to cross the Atlantic in a small craft. Filmmaker Rene Daalder uses this story as the basis for a sweeping overview of contemporary art and an epic saga of the transformative powers of [...]
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November 8–10, 2012
Kansas City, Missouri
Proposals Due March 19, 2012
“Next Generation STEM Learning: Investigate, Innovate, Inspire” will focus on how colleges, community colleges, and universities of all sorts can articulate, expand, measure, and track what works to advance students’ achievement of key learning outcomes, emphasizing scientific literacy, quantitative reasoning, analytical thinking, and visionary leadership.
The conference also [...]
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A trove of modern art owned by the late Gunter Sachs, the multimillionaire European industrialist and playboy, will hit the auction block in May and is expected to bring in more than $31 million, Sotheby’s announced this week.
The collection comprises close to 300 pieces by Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, René Magritte, Salvador Dalí and other [...]
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An art therapist is using the power of creativity to help service members heal from traumatic brain injuries and psychological health issues, including post-traumatic stress disorder.
Melissa Walker designed the Healing Arts Program at the National Intrepid Center of Excellence on the campus of the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center here. She is the program’s [...]
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A Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece may be hidden behind a fresco in Florence’s Palazzo Vecchio, art historians say.
Da Vinci’s “The Battle of Anghiari” is said to be preserved on a wall behind Giorgio Vasari’s “The Battle of Marciano,” after chemical analysis of probes through the existing mural found paint also used in the “Mona Lisa.” [...]
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For physicist and novelist Alan Lightman, the processes of science and art are often more alike than most people think.
“Creative imagination and inventiveness have always been hallmarks of good science, just as of good writing,” the MIT professor said Friday at the kickoff of Princeton Public Library’s third annual Pi Day celebration. “Writers must conform [...]
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UCIRA Artist Dee Hibbert-Jones named BAVC Media Maker Fellow for her UCIRA funded project ‘Living Condition’. Living Condition a is a cross platform animated documentary that tells the stories of three families living with a relative condemned to execution. Each family bears witness to highly politicized events told in their own words, revealing a [...]
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Deadline: 04-13-2012
San Francisco Foundation Accepting Proposals for Bay Area Documentary Fund:
The San Francisco Foundation Bay Area Documentary Fund seeks to support films exploring timely and compelling social justice issues that have been historically underexposed, misinterpreted, or ignored. The foundation invites accomplished film, video, and digital media artists to apply.
Awards ranging from $10,000 to $25,000 will [...]
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Deadline: 03-20-2012
Orange County Fine Arts, Associaton
Santa Ana, CA
Avantgarden-The Art Gallery is looking for emerging and established artists for exhibition. We are part of Orange County Fine Arts Association. Show your work to discerning visitors on non-art walk weekends, and hundreds of guests on the First Saturday Art Walks. We are located in the historic Santora [...]
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Deadline: 03-15-2012
Beatnik Studios
Sacramento, CA
Beatnik Studios is currently taking submissions for an upcoming show in the Spring, “The Tower Theater.” We are looking for photographs, paintings and multi-media works of the Tower Theater. The concept is to fill the gallery with only images of the Tower Theater in order to highlight its significance in the community, [...]
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The Pollock Theater seeks interns to help produce and direct Theater events. The Pollock Theater offers a wide range of events throughout the year, including film screenings, Q&A’s, panel discussions, conferences and post event receptions.
Interns work approximately 8 hours per week in the Pollock Theater. There is a mandatory Friday workshop from 12PM to [...]
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Performance
UC Berkeley BAM/PFA
03/16/2012 7:30 PM
Flash back to the early years of BAM/PFA at this celebration of California performance art, presented in conjunction with the exhibition State of Mind: New California Art circa 1970. Three important performance artists revisit works from the early 1970s: Linda Mary Montano meditates in a chicken bed, Jim Melchert does whatever [...]
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Reading
UCLA Hammer Museum
03/14/2012 7:00 PM
Co-presented with PEN Center USA and Poetry Society of America
Poets Prageeta Sharma, Matthew Zapruder, and Douglas Kearney will discuss the role of politics in their own poems and in the larger literary landscape. Darrel Alejandro Holnes, program director at Poetry Society of America (PSA), will moderate the discussion. This event launches [...]
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Performance
UC Davis Mondavi Center
03/21/2012 8:00 PM
This immersive evening of Indian dance features acclaimed Kathak master Rachana Yadav and the immensely talented students of the Kalanjali Dances of India schools in Berkeley, Lafayette and Sacramento. Yadav continues our Growing Up in India theme with a new solo work, Samvet, which expresses the maturation of a typical [...]
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Symposium
03/22/2012 10:00 AM – 03/23/2012 5:00 PM
In connection with the 4th State of Water: From Macro to Micro exhibition at CoCA Torun, UCLA is hosting the 4th State of Water Symposium on March 22 (World Water Day) and March 23, 2012 at the California NanoSystems Institute. The opening keynotes will be given by renowned science [...]
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Performance
04/05/2012 5:00 PM
“Suddenly Summer Somewhere” is a duet which follows the relationship between two performers, Monica Bill Barnes and Anna Bass, who embody quirky, fallible, and familiar characters. This whimsical dance theater piece is set to live recordings of the Rat Pack and blends deadpan comedy, space-devouring choreography, and awkwardly strenuous partnering. Barnes’ work slips between [...]
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5 units
Professor Victoria Vesna Ph.D.
For more information: http://desma9.artscicenter.com/hybrid/
-You are never required to perform a specific activity at a specific hour. We give you deadlines, but you choose where and when to prepare your assignments.
-Lectures can be viewed in your browser or you can download them as video podcasts for your iPad or Android /iPhone. An [...]
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TWO CABINS
SCREENING/TALK/Q&A
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14TH
6.00 pm. POLLOCK THEATRE
Admission Free
Between July, 2007 and June, 2008, veteran independent film-maker,James Benning built replicas of two iconic American Cabins in a remote part of the High Sierras- Henry David Thoreau’s hut from Walden Pond and the one-room plywood shack in rural Montana from which Theodore John [...]
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John Spiak still climbs up and down the stairs of ASU Art Museum faster than his kid.
The museum’s former curator was in Phoenix in February to reconnect with friends and the local art scene, and is greeted by most everyone he bumps into when we caught up with him.
Spiak left his post as curator in [...]
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If you were around in the 1960’s, you’re probably familiar with the iconic photos of the Civil Rights movement that made the daily news—images of African Americans being sprayed by firehoses, attacked by dogs, and beaten by police with batons.
But odds are, you never saw images like those of the mutilated body of Emmett Till, [...]
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The Thinning Veil—a new play featuring some of Greek tragedy’s most prominent characters—literally takes place in two different worlds.
Audience members will buy a ticket for either UCSC’s Experimental Theater or the Dark Lab in the campus’s Digital Arts and New Media Research Center.
In each building, they will watch the live action in the theater [...]
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The major cultural initiative Pacific Standard Time: Art in Los Angeles 1945–1980 has just announced the latest addition to its SoCal exhibitions that focus on postwar art in California: a competition using Legos and inspired by the exhibits in the collaboration.
For six months from October 2011 to April 2012, more than sixty cultural institutions across [...]
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Efforts to bolster Escondido’s struggling arts center will include partnering with Ticketmaster, hosting a country music series, replacing the center’s outdated technology infrastructure and assigning a theme to each season of performances, the center’s new leadership team told supporters Monday morning.
Officials said other possible changes to the California Center for the Arts, Escondido, include repainting [...]
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There’s something about California that makes people go a little nuts — in a good way. When 19th-century colonists first faced the all-consuming blanket of the Pacific Ocean, customs and ideologies got thrown out the window. Fast forward to the 1970s, when the Golden State served as a haven for youth-oriented counterculture and a [...]
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Administered by the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the USArtists International program is committed to ensuring that the impressive range of performing arts in the United States is represented abroad, and that American artists can enhance their creative and professional development [...]
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The Princess Grace Foundation-USA has announced the availability of applications for the 2012 Princess Grace Awards in theater, playwriting, dance performance, choreography, and film.
Founded in 1982, the foundation identifies and assists emerging artists in theater, dance, and film, and has awarded more than $8.5 million to nearly six hundred individuals in the United States.
Theater Awards [...]
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UC Irvine Contemporary Arts Center
03/17/2012 8:00 PM
03/18/2012 5:00 PM
By Kevin Zhang. Directed by Shannon Ferrante. An MFA Thesis Capstone Project in Integrated Composition, Improvisation, & Technology.
http://music.arts.uci.edu/content/chairs-chamber-opera-one-act
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As if the futuristic architecture of Frank Gehry’s Disney Hall wasn’t trippy enough, Gabor Ekecs has created disorienting photographs of the iconic structure by using a number of perspectives to create one impossible image.
Ekecs, a photographer from Munich, Germany, warps architecture as if it were saltwater taffy. Whether fanning a building out or compressing it [...]
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Strumming a guitar with tiny fingers and a wide smile, 4-year-old Gabbie Guzon didn’t realize the power of her rendition of “This Old Man.” For most children this song resonates with playtime, but for Gabbie the rhyme could be propelling her recovery from cancer.
In early August, doctors told Gabbie’s family that the little girl faced [...]
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It’s only natural, given their proximity to Mexico and rapidly growing Latino constituencies, that California art museums would be engaged with Latin American material. But the robust lineup of exhibitions, exchanges and educational programs indicates that the days of focusing on historic “treasures” or romanticized figures such as Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera are over.
Museum [...]
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Twentyfourth Street was barren. Two 25-foot photographs pasted on the side of the New Parkway Theater in Oakland were torn asunder. Their faces incomplete, half-formed, had been disfigured by the rain, the tattered remnants swung idly to and fro, like paper pendulums signaling the apocalyptic end of an uproarious revolutionary moment.
One of the [...]
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Deadline: 03-16-2012
Statewide Networks Program application open from the California Arts Council
California Arts Council
The California Arts Council announces that the application is now available for the 2011-12 Statewide Networks Program. The goal of the Statewide Networks Program is strengthen an organization’s capacity and delivery of services to its constituents through communications, professional development opportunities, networking and [...]
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Deadline: 03-19-2012
Root Division
San Francisco, CA
Root Division invites artists investigating the diorama through all genres, to submit work for an exhibition entitled “Through That Which is Seen.”
“Through That Which is Seen” will represent a range of interpretations of the diorama on all scales. We aim to exhibit pieces borrowing from museums’ use of the diorama as [...]
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Pop Tart Gallery
Los Angeles, CA
Deadline: 03-15-2012
Home – a place of safety or danger?
A haven, a place full of shame, where you want to be, a room full of old routines and identities – anywhere you hang your hat? How does the word Home resonate for you?
Home is Where the Needle Marks, at the Pop [...]
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Kounkuey Design Initiative
Coachella Valley, CA
Overview: Kounkuey Design Initiative (KDI) is seeking an adventuresome public artist to develop and implement public art enhancements integrated into a community center project in Eastern Coachella Valley, California. This is a great opportunity for an artist interested in working with a community, and in particular the youth of the community, [...]
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Performance
UC Davis Mondavi Center
03/17/2012 7:00 PM
03/18/2012 3:00 PM
In 2008, one of France’s leading choreographers, Angelin Preljocaj, presented his first full-length story ballet Blanche Neige (Snow White). Now, in 2012, the Mondavi Center presents the United States debut of this amazing contemporary ballet. Based on Grimm’s fairy tale, Blanche Neige is set to music by Gustav [...]
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Alaska Design Forum
Anchorage, Fairbanks, Juneau
03/05/2012 – 03/07/2012
Marko Peljhan is an internationally-active artist who deals with questions of art, science and technology. He has introduced his work in museum displays, exhibitions and festivals around the world. Peljhan established the art and technology organization “Zavod Projekt Atol” in 1995 in his native Slovenia, and set up “PACT [...]
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UCSB Pollock Theater
03/11/2012 1:00 & 3:00 PM
1:00 PM – In a Dream
“As a story about art and artists, In a Dream is smoothly engrossing. As a portrait of a sweet but slightly fractured man, it’s one of the most unexpectedly touching documentaries I’ve ever seen.” – Scott Weinberg, Cinematical
In a vibrant, bohemian neighborhood of South [...]
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California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA
03/22/2012
This project will be first and foremost an exciting collaborative experience, based on the exchange and dialogue through the creation of a social network that will involve artists, scientists, curators and theoreticians, journalists and other interested intellectuals. This project will be developed around a theme of water – understood not [...]
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Exhibition Opening 03/07/2012 5:00 – 7:00 PM at CNSI Gallery
Lecture at UCLA Broad Art Center, room 5240 03/07/2012 2:00 PM
Exposure is an exhibition of work by Mike Phillips, professor of Interdisciplinary Arts, School of Art & Media at Plymouth University.
Exposure explores the deterioration of the flesh through the temporality of the Atomic Force Microscope (AFM). [...]
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Decline & Fall
By Erika Suderburg
Special Screening, Saturday, March 3,
4:30 p.m., free admission
Erika Suderburg’s Decline & Fall, 2007, 80 minutes, is an experimental feature-length documentary about aerial bombing, reconstruction, mass protest, and monumentality. Spanning historical and present day images from Rome, Yucatán, Berlin and Los Angeles this work examines empire; its artifacts, structures and collapse. Through [...]
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Carl Franzen, February 24, 2012
NEW YORK — Kickstarter is having an amazing year, even by the standards of other white hot Web startup companies, and more is yet to come.
One of the company’s three co-founders, Yancey Strickler, said that Kickstarter is on track to distribute over $150 million dollars to its users’ projects in 2012, [...]
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Opening Reception: Monday, March 5th 12pm
Building 479 Old Gym Gallery
Come watch us make the largest print in UCSB history with a Steamroller!
Closing Reception: Thursday, March 8th 5pm
Building 479 Old Gym Gallery
Come celebrate the largest print in UCSB history with free food!
Learn about the process and see the show!
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UCSB Campbell Hall
03/05/2012 8:00 PM
When the writer Donovan Hohn heard of the mysterious loss of thousands of bath toys at sea, he figured he would interview a few oceanographers, talk to a few beachcombers and read up on Arctic science and geography. But questions can be like ocean currents: wade in too far and they [...]
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UCSB Pollock Theater
03/04/2012
1:00 PM – Eames: The Architect and the Painter
Charles and Ray Eames were modernist design icons best known for their mid-century furniture creations. This James Franco-narrated film gives a glimpse into the unconventional marriage of the hyper-creative husband-and-wife team and their L.A. studio, dubbed “The Eamery.”
(Jason Cohn & Bill Jersey, 2011, 84 [...]
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Every Tuesday afternoon at the Whitney Humanities Center, 11 students find themselves at a cultural crossroads.
In the sixth iteration of the Robert Shulman Lecture Series supplementing Yale music professor Gary Tomlinson’s “Music and Human Evolution” course, students are exploring the intersection of the sciences and the humanities. Founded in 2007, the Shulman Lecture Series acts [...]
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One man’s trash is another man’s treasure … or piece of art.
So says the Birch Aquarium and The New Children’s Museum, which recently joined forces to inform the public about the growing problem of trash in the environment — and they hoped to do it through art!
On Feb. 6, the aquarium hosted a sold-out reception [...]
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Hollywood isn’t the only industry to embrace digital 3-D technology. The art world has also taken a shine to the medium, implementing it in diverse ways to make works of art more accessible to the public. The latest institution to jump on the bandwagon is the Smithsonian in Washington.
The Smithsonian Institution is embarking on a [...]
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After nearly half a year of delays, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s 340-ton monolith, sitting in a Riverside County quarry, will begin its long, circuitous journey to the museum Tuesday night.
The boulder will hit the road on its custom-built transporter about 10 p.m. and will move at about 5 miles per hour. It [...]
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In the summer of 1964, Arthur Tress, a world traveler at all of 23 years old, took a bus from Mexico to San Francisco to visit his sister Madeleine. Tress’ journey had taken him from Paris to Egypt, where the young photographer shot images of a country evolving under former President Gamal Nasser. “I began [...]
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The Los Angeles County Arts Commission has announced a Teacher Professional Development Grant Program made possible by gifts from The Boeing Company, W.M. Keck Founation and the Carl & Roberta Deutsch Foundation. Arts for All has received $674,200 to support customized teacher training in the arts in twelve Los Angeles County School Districts, to [...]
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Deadline: 03-22-2012
The Purpose Prize
Civic Ventures
Civic Ventures is a non-profit think tank focused on boomers, work and social purpose.
The Purpose Prize is a major initiative investing five $100,000 and five $50,000 awards to social innovators 60 or older (by the deadline of March 10, 2012) who are already producing significant social innovation and accomplishing work of [...]
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Deadline: 03-14-2012
Inside the Ford Winter Partnership Program
Los Angeles County Arts Commission
Ford Theatres invites theatre companies to apply to the [Inside] the Ford (ITF) Winter Partnership Program. The program provides Los Angeles County-based theatre companies the opportunity to produce in the 87-seat [Inside] the Ford at a low cost and with significant marketing, box office and [...]
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Deadline: 03-01-2012
The Compound Gallery & Studios
Oakland, CA
We are offering six month residencies with complete access to all our facilities including flat file storage, bench (wood/metalshop), and locker space to store your creative tools. We are excited to be partnering with the celebrated Ex’pression College for Digital Arts, and we encourage Ex’pression staff and faculty to [...]
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MERGE: March 31, 2012
Art in Public Spaces
Over the course of the last eight years, during which FLOOD has worked with the Long Beach Arts District in mounting the annual SoundWalk event, it has become apparent that there is not only an openness to creative experimentation, but there is also strong desire for self-expression among the [...]
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UCLA Hammer Museum
02/18/2012 – 05/20/2012
Construction and art materials, urban detritus, domestic items, and even the occasional animal make their way into New York-based artist Alex Hubbard’s dynamic videos. Avoiding a single point of focus, he constructs his videos in layers, creating all-over compositions in which movement is multi-directional and time seems non-linear. Also a painter, [...]
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UCSD Arthur Wagner Theatre
02/28/2012 – 03/03/2012 8:00 PM
03/03/2012 2:00 PM
About the Play
Jonathan and Ariel head to his family’s cabin for a romantic weekend. Little does he know that his mother and her lover and his father and his lover are also en route! As if things could get more complicated, Bertha bursts on the scene [...]
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Thursday, March 1 / 6:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
Salim Yaqub (History, UCSB)
For over forty years, “Looking Glass” was the nickname of the Airborne Command Post–an essential element in the command and control of the Strategic Air Command’s forces. This made-for-TV docudrama is a fictionalized account of how quickly a nuclear war could break out [...]
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ART/CITY
03/16/2012 8:30 AM – 5:30 PM
The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life
2121 Allston Way, Berkeley
Admission is free; pre-registration requested (see instructions below)
Since 2008, faculty affiliated with the Arts Research Center at UC Berkeley have been researching the impact of arts districts–both formal and informal–on the vitalization of metropolitan areas. in ART/CITY, we continue this [...]
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The Music Bowl: Outdoors at the UCSB Music Dept.
02/29/201
The Gamelan, the principal orchestra ensemble of Indonesia, is comprised chiefly of metallic percussion instruments. This ensemble, directed by Donn Howell, will perform traditional music of Central and Western Java.
http://www.music.ucsb.edu/PDF/NoonSeries_Current.pdf
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MAT SEMINAR #8, WINTER 2011
Title: A Research Project in the Arts: The New Dunites
Date: Tuesday, February 28
Speakers: Andres Burbano, Danny Bazo, Solen Kiratli DiCicco, University of California, Santa Barbara
Time: 5:30 – 7:00 pm
Location: ESB 2001
URL: http://www.mat.ucsb.edu/595M/
The New Dunites is funded by UCIRA (University of California Institute for Research in the Arts), and Fundación Telefónica [...]
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DEADLINE: MARCH 9, 2012
Chamber Music America’s New Jazz Works: Commissioning and Ensemble Development Program supports the creation and performance of new chamber works by professional United States jazz ensembles, funds activities that extend the life of the work, and encourages the development of career-related business skills over a three-year period. The program is made possible [...]
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It has long been an open secret that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is a mostly white, and male, operation. But we didn’t quite know just how white and just how male, until the Los Angeles Times’ eye-opening investigation into who makes up the 5,765 member roster of the Academy Awards.
Even knowing [...]
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Canyon Cinema, a half-century-old cooperative in San Francisco that champions the work of experimental filmmakers, is in critical condition, according to its executive director.
The cooperative, which has more than 3,500 films that it rents, sells and distributes, including titles by the avant-garde filmmakers Jonas Mekas, Bruce Conner and Stan Brakhage, needs $30,000 to hold on.
“We [...]
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A proposed bill in Washington state calls for it to sell off its sizable art collection to help raise funds to help low-income students attend college. The idea is already generating heat in some corners of the state, with arts supporters criticizing the proposed measure.
The debate around the bill, which was introduced by state Sen. [...]
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The fifth annual “Pieces of Heaven” art auction to benefit The Art of Elysium will take place on February 23, at Smashbox Studios in Hollywood, California. The event will include live entertainment, cocktails and the chance to bid on more than 80 works of art donated by artists, dealers and private collectors that all support [...]
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The Art of Regional Change (ARC) brings together scholars, students, artists, and community groups to collaborate on media arts projects that strengthen communities, generate engaged scholarship, and inform regional decision making. Founded by media artist jesikah maria ross, ARC is a joint project of the University of California at Davis Humanities Institute and the UC [...]
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Deadline: 03-15-2012
Funding from the Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation supports direct costs for catalogues and other publications accompanying contemporary art exhibitions and projects, especially those supporting emerging and under-recognized artists and produced by smaller organizations outside the nation’s cultural centers. Limited funds are also available for publications related to the grantee organization and its programs or [...]
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Deadline: 03-01-2012
North Beach Citizens
San Francisco, CA
Reflections 2012: A Charity Art Exhibition to Benefit North Beach Citizens
North Beach Citizens’ Creative Events Committee is pleased to announce Reflections 2012, an art exhibition taking place from March 31, 2012, through April 26, 2012, at The Cannery located in Fisherman’s Wharf. This exhibition benefits North Beach Citizens, a [...]
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Deadline: 03-01-2012
California Community Foundation
Los Angeles, CA
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.
For more than 96 years, CCF has recognized, encouraged [...]
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Deadline: 03-01-2012
Olive Hyde Art Gallery
Fremont, CA
An exhibition of California Photographers, running 5/11/12 – 6/9/12. Opening Reception Friday, May 11, 2012. Please email entry including artist statement, contact info, image list for up to 10 images (min 300 dpi jpeg) to Curator Sandra Hemsworth at hemsworthsandra@yahoo.com.
Entry deadline March 1, 2012. Entry fee paid upon acceptance [...]
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The Art Department of the University of California, Santa Cruz invites applications for a chair of the department/tenured faculty position. The successful candidate will become a principle figure in our proposed MFA program in Social and Environmental Arts Practice. We are seeking an innovative arts practitioner with distinguished research in the field of social practice [...]
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UC Berkeley BAM/PFA
02/23/2012 – 02/26/2012
Copresented by the San Francisco Silent Film Festival
The cinema and aviation go arm in arm through life; they are born on the same day.—Fernand Léger
For many years, the vehicle in which most people first experienced flight was not the airplane, but the movie theater. The new flying machines were still prohibitively [...]
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UC Davis Technocultural Studies Building
02/23/2012 4:30 PM
Born in the Philippines, Stephanie Syjuco received her MFA from Stanford University and BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally, and included in exhibitions at MOMA/P.S.1, the Whitney Museum of American Art, SFMOMA, the Contemporary Museum of Honolulu, the San Diengo [...]
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Catherine Opie Photographs Cliff May
February 26 – June 17, 2012
In conjunction with the exhibition Carefree California: Cliff May and the Romance of the Ranch House, the Art, Design & Architecture Museum at the University of California, Santa Barbara has commissioned renowned American artist Catherine Opie to photograph two homes designed by Cliff May as they [...]
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February 26, 2012-June 17, 2012
You need no memory of the past to enjoy this modernization of an old form.
-Cliff May 1946
Carefree California explores the phenomenal rise of the ranch house, casual living, and the western mystique, as promoted by Cliff May, the designer of thousands of modern California ranch houses. The exhibition will concentrate on [...]
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02/22/2012
Lecture UCLA Broad Art Center, room 5240 at 2:00 PM
Exhibition opening at CNSI Gallery 5:00 – 7:00 PM
Dark Skies is a work by Patricia Olynyk in Collaboration with Axi:Ome and Christopher Ottinger.
Dark Skies is a multi channel projection on CNC routed tiles inspired by the concept of biomimicry. The surfaces of the tiles themselves [...]
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Hotel Indigo, Santa Barbara
03/01/2012 5:00 – 7:00 PM
CAF and Hotel Indigo Santa Barbara host an open house celebrating their exciting collaboration. A tour of the gallery hotel begins 5:30 pm with remarks by CAF Executive Director Miki Garcia. Explore newly renovated rooms and common spaces designed by Santa Barbara’s own AB Design Studios, Inc., [...]
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Grantmaker CDP is a new online interface designed by the Cultural Data Project (CDP) to provide strategic planning and program evaluation tools to help funders in the arts and cultural sector. The interface offers participating grantmakers hands-on access to their applicants’ CDP data (the same information those organizations use to inform their strategic planning), helping [...]
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02/15/2012 8:00 PM Wayne McGregor, Random Dance: Entity at the Granada Theatre
Wayne McGregor | Random Dance, a resident company of Sadler’s Wells, London, is distinguished by its radical approach to new technology, incorporating animation, digital film, 3D architecture, electronic sound and virtual dancers seamlessly into live choreography. The company will perform Entity, “a great sexy [...]
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UCSB Campbell Hall
02/21/2012 8:00 PM
Creativity expert and acclaimed thinker Sir Ken Robinson is renowned for his radical ideas on education reform and innovation in the classroom. Drawing from his groundbreaking book, Out of Our Minds: Learning to Be Creative, Robinson urges schools and colleges everywhere to focus on cultivating creativity and acknowledging multiple types of [...]
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President Obama’s proposed 2013 budget, released Monday, calls for a 5% increase in spending for three cultural grantmaking agencies and three Washington, D.C., arts institutions.
Obama aims to boost outlays from $1.501 billion to $1.576 billion, encompassing the National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities (NEA and NEH), the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), [...]
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Is it any surprise that Jacqueline Kennedy had sophisticated and exacting tastes when it came to fine arts? In case you needed proof, new papers released by the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston show the extent to which the first lady oversaw White House renovations, including securing paintings and other works [...]
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After years of leadership turmoil and turnover, the Getty Museum is ramping up for a new chapter. At an 11:30 staff meeting Tuesday, the relatively new Getty Trust head Jim Cuno announced his decision to hire Timothy Potts as his new museum director, starting Sept. 1.
The position has been vacant since the early 2010 departure [...]
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As a dedicated wordsmith, Princeton University professor David Bellos mines examples of the interplay of languages from all kinds of sources, even Oscar-winning films.
Bellos, who has spent his life working with words, often in languages other than his native English, is a professor in the departments of French and Italian and comparative literature — as [...]
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Looking for affordable health insurance? Thinking about legal liability? Want to learn new skills to advance your organization? Fractured Atlas is an arts service organization in New York with a national reach that provides access to health insurance, liability insurance, online courses, an events calendar, and special offers and discounts to artists and arts organizations. [...]
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Deadline: 03-09-2012
Chamber Music America
Offering support for the creation and performance of new chamber works by U.S. jazz ensembles, this program also funds activities that extend the life of the work and encourages the development of career-related business skills over a three-year period.
Contact: Jeanette Vuocolo
Phone: (212) 242-2022, x17
Email: jvuocolo@chamber-music.org
Website: www.chamber-music.org
Grant link: http://www.chamber-music.org/programs/gr_jazz.html
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Deadline: 03-08-2012
The National Endowment for the Arts is a public agency established by Congress in 1965 to help support excellence in the arts, both new and established, by bringing the arts to all Americans and by providing leadership in arts education.
In particular, the Shakespeare in American Communities program is a national theater initiative sponsored by [...]
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Deadline: 03-01-2012
Getty proudly supports photographers and communications professionals who use imagery to promote positive change in our world. To that end, the company has launched their Grants for Good.
Nonprofits need imagery to tell their stories effectively, which is why our Grants for Good provide two grants of $15,000 annually, to cover photographer, filmmaker and agency [...]
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Deadline: 02-29-2012
Coastal Arts League
Half Moon Bay, CA
Jurors:
Scott Atkinson – Landscape photographer and Sierra Club Calendar Editor
Michael Collopy – Preeminent Portrait photographer
Kate Jordahl – Professor of Photography and Digital Imaging, Foothill College
First Prize: $2,000 (Over $3,500 in total prizes) (prizes in US dollars)
Exhibition: July 2012
Eligibility: Open to all photographers internationally using any photographic style
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Deadline: 02-29-2012
The Ruth Bancroft Garden
Walnut Creek, CA
About the Garden: Founded in 1972, The Ruth Bancroft Garden (RBG) is a vibrant example of exceptional garden design. The Garden features an impressive collection of succulents, cacti and other drought tolerant plants and is recognized throughout the world as a leader in dry garden design. The [...]
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Pro Arts Gallery
Oakland, CA
For Northern CA artists
Deadline: 02-17-2012
Largest Art Event in the Region – over 50,000 Studio Visitors!
* Expand Your Audience
* Prepare Work for Sale
* Network with Artists, Curators, Galleries
* Exhibit Your Work at Pro Arts
Artist Entry includes:
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03/14/2012 – 03/16/2012
Location: the Old Little Theater behind the College of Creative Studies at UCSB
Fulbright scholar Alison Holt will be visiting the UCSB College of Creative Studies from March 14th – 16th, and she will give a public talk on March 15th. Her talk, entitled “The Beginning Was the End,” will explain connections between her [...]
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UCSD CPMC Concert Hall
02/15/2012 7:00 PM
UCSD’s Department of Music presents a special concert featuring the music of Chaya Czernowin, the Walter Bigelow Rosen Professor of Music at Harvard University, and an alumnus of the department. The concert will feature her recent compositions performed by Department of Music graduate students, and Ms. Czernowin will speak about [...]
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UC Davis Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts
02/16/2012 – 02/18/2012 8:00 PM
02/19/2012 2:00 PM
02/23/2012 – 02/25/2012 8:00 PM
02/26/2012 2:00 PM
$17 regular admission, $12 for students, seniors, and children
Two new back-to-back choreographies by graduating Master of Fine Arts candidates Folawole and Kevin O’Connor. O’Connor’s work fuses live vocal, music, dance and aerial rope circus arts in [...]
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UCSC Mary Snesnon Porter Gallery
02/01/2012 – 03/16/2012
This exhibition will function as an artist-in-residence with UCSC alumna, Katerina Lanfranco. The exhibition for Winter Quarter at the Sesnon Gallery includes a large-scale, site-specific hand cut installation made while at UCSC with the collaboration of art students.
http://art.ucsc.edu/galleries/exhibitions/upcoming/
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UCSB Studio Theater
02/18/2012 7:00 PM
The African Studies RFG presents a solo theatre piece written and performed by Donald Molosi.
“Blue, Black and White” is an enchanting humanist story about Seretse Khama. He married a white British woman in 1949 and their interracial marriage saw them being banned from many countries including Seretse’s own native Botswana. Blue, [...]
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Mary Craig Auditorium, Santa Barbara Museum of Art
02/19/2012 3:00 PM
Nigel McGilchrist, Art Historian, Orvieto, Italy
What better way to spend a winter afternoon than a trip to sunny Italy? SBMA’s favorite Italy expert Nigel McGilchrist takes us on a virtual tour of each of the major regions of Italy, with his picks for greatest works of [...]
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Render: New Construction in Video Art
February 4 – April 21, 2012
Ethan Turpin: Stereocollision
January 14 – April 14, 2012
Render Panel Discussion, Saturday, February 18, 5-6 p.m., followed by receptions for both exhibitions, 6-9 p.m., free admission.
UCR California Museum of Photography presents two new exhibitions that explore the use of both old and new photo-based and moving [...]
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UC Santa Cruz Professor Elizabeth Stephens and her partner, artist Annie Sprinkle, have been picked up by Jancar Gallery in Los Angeles, where they will have a survey exhibition in January 2013. To kick off this new relationship, they are doing a free SexEcological Walking Tour of Chinatown right after the College Art Association, Sunday, [...]
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Two Upcoming Nelson Gallery Special Events:
2nd Friday Art About Reception
Friday, February 10, 2012, 5 to 7 p.m.
in the Nelson Gallery
On view:
POKING AT BEEHIVES Three Painters & Selections from the Fine Arts Collection
An Hour with the Director
Thursday, February 16, 2012, 4:00 p.m.
in the Nelson Gallery
Nelson Gallery director and UCIRA Artist Renny Pritikin will lead visitors on [...]
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By Molly Petrilla
While some have touted science, technology, engineering and math (often shortened to “STEM”) as the foundations for a high-achieving country, John Maeda believes that true innovation requires an additional letter—an “A” for art and design. Since becoming president of the Rhode Island School of Design in 2008, Maeda has [...]
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Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr. will visit the UCSB campus February 8th through 10th as a part of UCIRA funded project JUSTICE: RESEARCH. TEXT. IMAGE, an interdisciplinary collaboration between three classes on the topic of justice. Kennedy’s visit will include a public lecture and two days of working in the Art Department Printing Studio.
Amos [...]
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The McKnight Foundation has a new blog for the community to follow. State of the Artist made its first post today from Laura Zimmermann. Here’s a bit about the blog’s focus:
Within the cultural sector, conversations about artists often derail in one of two ways: Either the discussion quickly turns to one about “the arts” rather [...]
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Victor Rios, Richard Ross and Cissy Ross recently received a UCIRA Open Classroom Grant for Project Pulse, a collaborative course and lecture series offered this winter at UCSB. In this post and the following, Rios and Ross are interviewed for PBS.
PBS Newshour article:
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/education/jan-june12/amgrad_02-02.html
Click the following links for more information:
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2012/02/live-chat-friday-at-1-pm-et-delinquents-and-dropouts.html
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/american-graduate/jan-june12/richardross_02-02.html
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/american-graduate/jan-june12/victor_rios.html
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The Riverside Art Museum is reaching out to a special population of children — those with autism. In the only class of its kind in Riverside, Art Education Director Beth Yeager has put together a curriculum where children 6 to 17, who have mild to moderate autism, are expressing themselves through art.
Yeager, who has been [...]
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A veteran of the Vietnam War, writer, director and producer, Oliver Stone began his movie career as a screenwriter in the late 1970s with credits that included “Midnight Express,” “Conan the Barbarian” and “Scarface.”
He won an Oscar for best director for “Platoon,” his semi-autobiographical film about the ground war in Vietnam. He went on [...]
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GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney has come out against government-sponsored arts and cultural programs. In an op-ed piece that appeared in USA Today, Romney stated that he would “enact deep reductions” in cultural and art grantmaking agencies, such as the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Romney offered up [...]
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The bad news is that state funding for California libraries has been completely eliminated. There’s not really any good news about that except that it was expected. This past July, state library funding was sliced in half, and there was a trigger amendment attached to the budget that would eliminate state funding for public libraries [...]
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The Museum of Modern Art, citing rising operational costs, has raised its adult admission price to $25 from $20. The new ticket price will make MoMA — a private, nonprofit institution — one of the most expensive museums in New York City, matching the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which in July raised its recommended price [...]
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The debut edition of the Biennale de Montevideo—Uruguay’s first such event and titled “Big Sur”—is due to open on 15 October, right in the middle of the São Paulo Biennial, which is set to take place between 8 September and 9 December.
The concept of “the South” and its relationship to the rest of the world [...]
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Americans for the Arts
Deadline: 02-24-2012
This four-month virtual leadership development series provides an opportunity for local arts leaders to master foundational concepts and build skills through exposure to current practice in the core areas of local arts development. The program is designed to serve arts professionals with less than 10 years of experience in the arts [...]
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Deadline: 02-20-2012
Space Grants for Artists
Dance Resource Center
We are happy to announce the arrival of the Dance Resource Center’s Space Grants for Artists, a new program designed to serve the needs of Los Angeles based emerging artists. The primary goal of Space Grants for Artists is to promote the creation of new works by emerging artists [...]
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Deadline: 02-08-2012
Martin Luther King Jr. Civic Center
Berkeley, CA
Open to artists living and/or working in the City of Berkeley. Approximately 30 artists will be selected through an open juried competition. Artwork will be exhibited in the Martin Luther King Jr. Civic Center on all 5 floors for approximately one year (from April 20th, 2012- May 20th [...]
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Fabienne Maurer (producer) is producing a short film to be submitted to international film festivals, the first of which will be The Cannes Film Festival.
Production in Pismo starts this coming weekend and Fabienne is still looking for an actor to play one of the most important roles in the movie. The film has an amazing [...]
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Arrive Date: 6/23/2012 End Date: 7/21/2012
In this program students will explore the French countryside, architecture and art by drawing and painting on site and in churches and museums. Live models will also offer work from the figure. The classes will first live and work in a beautiful estate with a chateau that resembles a [...]
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UCLA Fowler Museum Courtyard
02/09/2012 6:00 PM
This night of soulful bass and swinging jazz tune begins with a solo set by Owen Clapp, bassist and third-year ethnomusicology student, followed by the UCLA All-Star Jazz Quintet, showcasing some of the finest talent in UCLA’s Jazz program. Free program.
http://fowler.ucla.edu/events/fowler-out-loud-owen-clapp-and-ucla-all-star-jazz-quintet
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Royal Academy of Art in The Hague
03/01/2012 – 03/02/2012
The Artistic Research Catalogue project, led by Henk Borgdorff (researcher at the University of the Arts, The Hague) and Michael Schwab (Editor in chief Journal for Artistic Research), was awarded with a two-year subsidy by the SIA RAAK-International programme in March 2010. With nineteen national and international [...]
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The Hilton New York
03/01/2012 – 03/04/2012
Make it happen! Join thousands of colleagues from around the world for this epic exploration of visual arts education. Choose from over 1,000 opportunities for professional growth and be inspired by one of the most culturally rich cities in the world. Engage in diverse and dynamic sessions exploring the [...]
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UCSB McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
02/14/2012 4:00 PM
(Michael Moore, 2009, 127 min.)
The IHC celebrates Valentine’s Day with a screening of Moore’s scathing film, which examines the impact of corporate dominance on the everyday lives of Americans and asks the question: what is the price that America pays for its love of capitalism?
Sponsored by the IHC’s [...]
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UCSB Gallery 479
02/13/2012 – 02/17/2012
Reception: 02/16/2012 5:00 – 8:00 PM
Alyssa Guerra Brown’s work explores the cultural connection that the Chicano community has with La Loteria and connects it to the journey of the immigrant through a series of prints.
http://artsite.arts.ucsb.edu/event/la-loteria
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(Santa Barbara, CA) Heading into its 21st year, Santa Barbara Dance Theater announces the appointment of Christopher Pilafian to Artistic Director for the dance company sponsored by and in residence at UCSB. The appointment marks the beginning of a new chapter in this dance & visual artist’s career and allows him [...]
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Creative Capital is now accepting online Letters of Inquiry for grants in Emerging Fields, Literature and Performing Arts. The deadline for submitting inquiries is March 1 at 4:00pm EST. Visit creative-capital.org/apply to learn more about the application process, read the grant guidelines and access the Inquiry Form.
Creative Capital provides integrated financial and advisory [...]
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The Creators Project, a collaboration between VICE and Intel that celebrates the intersection of art and technology, has previously hosted events in global cities including New York, Beijing, and Seoul. In 2012, the party will move to San Francisco with a two-day extravaganza from March 17 to 18.
The event will include dozens of bands, films, [...]
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Artist Mike Kelley has passed away at his home in Los Angeles, having apparently taken his own life. The tragic news was confirmed to BLOUIN ARTINFO by Helene Winer, of New York’s Metro Pictures gallery, a long-time associate of the artist.
“It is totally shocking that someone would decide to do this, someone who has success [...]
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Sotheby’s union art handlers have been picketing outside the auction house’s Upper East Side flagship for months. It wasn’t long before people in the neighborhood began to walk by without paying much attention. One day last fall, Merry Tucker, a retired teacher, was heading to Sotheby’s offices to consign two pieces of Georgian 18th-century silver [...]
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Art museums are recruiting experts from outside the art world to address problems in the real world.
A biologist, an urbanist, an economist, and a sewage expert walk into a museum. And they say, “Let’s get out of here and go fix some problems.”
This conversation, in so many words, has been occurring simultaneously at several New [...]
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Thursday is a big day at San Marin High School — not just for the eighth-graders who are shadowing to learn more about high school life, but also for faculty at San Marin involved in a new program called smARTt — San Marin Arts and Technical Arts.
The program is not just a marketing campaign [...]
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During the past four decades, Healdsburg artist Wade Hoefer has received numerous accolades for his flowing, meditative oil-on-canvas studies of Northern California landscapes.
Yet when a visitor paused recently in front of a painting at Hoefer’s current show, “Concerto Spaziale” (Concert in Space), the casual critic offered unparalleled praise.
“I want to lick these,” said John Keker, [...]
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A lively Greek tune began to play, and clusters of fifth-graders began to move in synch to the music.
“Five, six, seven, eight,” Susan Nicholson called into the microphone positioned at the front of the Sunset Elementary School gym.
On Friday morning, the gymnasium looked more like the setting of a barn dance than a basketball game.
Instead [...]
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MOCA is announcing today a gift of 122 works from collector Laurence Rickels and releasing details about other 2011 acquisitions.
Rickels’ gift, mainly photographs and works on paper made between 1993 and 2003, includes several L.A. artists who explore issues of representation, such as Catherine Opie, John Baldessari, Sharon Lockhart, Allen Ruppersberg and Diana Thater. It [...]
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Deadline: 02-15-2012
The Djerassi Resident Artists Program in Woodside, California is seeking applications from California regional artists for residencies in 2013. The Program offers residencies, at no cost, to artists in the disciplines of visual arts, media arts, music composition, choreography, and literature. Artists selected by peer panels are offered room, board, and studio space for [...]
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Deadline: 02-15-2012
The SFFCM Musical Grant Program will award grants to musicians with outstanding projects that address their artistic and career needs. The program aims to foster a diverse range of music performances and projects, from early and classical music to jazz, experimental, and contemporary forms.
The program is open to presenters and professional ensembles, including ensembles [...]
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Deadline: 02-08-2012
Los Angeles Art Association
Los Angeles, CA
Membership screenings are held twice a year, at the beginning and middle of each calendar year.
Drop-off dates & times (no appointment necessary):
* Saturday, February 4: 10:30am to 5pm
* Tuesday, February 7: 10:30am to 5pm
* Wednesday, February 8: [...]
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Deadline: 02-07-2012
Wild Lemon Project
San Bernardino, CA
In respect and deference to our local artists, the Wild Lemon Project is offering dibs on our own logo.
You are limited by nothing. Just be sure to read our mission statement so your design will reflect the appropriate spirit and endeavor.
The winner will be handsomely awarded and prominently featured in [...]
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Deadline: 02-01-2012
Milk Gallery
Sacramento, CA
Milk Gallery is accepting submissions for their international mail art show. All art has to make it through the U.S. postal service to Milk Gallery at 212 13th Street, Sacramento, CA 95814. It has to arrive “unpackaged” and ready for display. Objects are encouraged; however, keep in mind that it has [...]
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Talk & Film Screening
UC Berkeley BAM/PFA
02/04/2012 7:30 PM
An extraordinarily prolific composer, Mark Isham has written scores for over one hundred feature films. After getting his musician’s chops down in San Francisco’s eclectic jazz and rock scene, particularly with the legendary prog-rock Group 87, Isham scored his first film, Carroll Ballard’s Never Cry Wolf, in 1983. [...]
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UC Davis Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts
02/09/2012 8:00 PM
Returning after a rapturous sell-out 2010 appearance, Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo remains one of the most popular dance troupes in the United States. The company of professional male dancers performs the full range of the ballet and modern dance repertoire, achieving high comedy by [...]
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UC Irvine Beall Center for Art & Technology
02/03/2012 – 05/07/2012
During the past twenty years MacMurtrie’s kinetic, monumental sculptural installations have evolved from different representations of the human body and various forms of nature into his current, more abstract works such as Inner Space, which is having its United States premiere in this exhibition. In his [...]
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UCSC Mary Sesnon Porter Art Gallery
02/01/2012 – 03/16/2012
Gallery Reception 02/01/2012 5:00- 7:00 PM with artist talk at 6:30 PM
The Sesnon Gallery presents artist-in-residence and UCSC alumna, Katerina Lanfranco’s new, large-scale, site-specific, hand-cut installation made in collaboration with UCSC students.
http://art.ucsc.edu/galleries/katerina-lanfranco-natural-selection
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UCSB Studio Theater
February 3-4, 2012, 7:00 pm
February 5, 2012, 2:00 pm
Splitting Issues, by Sam Bobrick, directed by Erika Smith
Icarus’ Mother, by Sam Shepard, directed by Sandra Hernandez
Safe Sex, by Harvey Fierstein, directed by Megan Sweigert
First Love, by Charles L. Mee, directed by James M. Garren
$3.00 suggested contribution
http://www.theaterdance.ucsb.edu/events_publicD.php?PerformanceID=452
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Location: Gallery 479, building 479, UCSB
Date: Monday, January 30th – Friday, February, 3rd 2012 10:00am – 5:00pm
Opening Reception: Monday, January 30th 5:00pm – 7:00pm
Light refreshments and wine will be served.
“Tree Rings” explores sound’s organic essence by visualizing it’s time dimension as a spiral series of tree rings, modulated by urban soundscape transcribed to waveforms. This [...]
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It’s not the kind of thing you expect to hear from a film professor.
“Film is one of those industries where if you’re good at what you do, it doesn’t matter what kind of degree you have,” Enid Baxter Blader says. “It just matters what you can do.”
But that’s how Baxter Blader, the chair of [...]
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Arguably, those who believe a public library is simply a repository of print books haven’t been to a public library lately. Here at MindShift, we’ve been covering the ways in which the library is evolving to change the demands of digital technologies and of its patrons: libraries are becoming learning labs, innovation centers, and makerspaces.
Of [...]
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Call it the Traveling Art Spectacular. Call it a Performance Extravaganza. Call it an 11-day, surprise-filled wonder. Call it the Pacific Standard Time Performance and Public Art Festival.
When Pacific Standard Time, the multi-museum, multi-month LA-focused art show opened a few months back, many people wondered how they’d be able to see everything. Exhibits were [...]
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For the third year running El Dorado County high school students are among thousands across the state interpreting, memorizing, and performing classical poetry for Poetry Out Loud, a competition run by the California Arts Council and launched by the Poetry Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. At stake are hundreds of dollars at [...]
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The matriarch of the blues, Etta James, whose iconic songs include At Last, and Something’s Got A Hold On Me, has died in southern California.
Her manager, Lupe De Leon, said the singer died early Friday at Riverside Community Hospital in Los Angeles. She was 73. De Leon said the cause of death was complications of [...]
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Triple Canopy
Deadline: 02-13-2012
Triple Canopy is pleased to announce its third annual call for proposals. Commissions will be considered under six project areas and published in the course of the next year. Artistic, editorial, and technical staff will work closely with contributors as they develop the best approach to realizing their projects on the Web, from [...]
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Morton Gould Young Composer Awards
ASCAP Foundation
Deadline: 02-15-2012
Open to composers in all musical genres, The ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composer Awards encourage developing music creators during the earliest stages of their careers. This program selects several young composer recipients each year to receive the cash awards. It is named in memory of eminent composer and [...]
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Sundance Institute
Deadline: 02-09-2012
The Sundance Institute Documentary Fund provides support for U.S. and international documentary films that focus on current human rights issues, freedom of expression, social justice, civil liberties, and exploring critical issues of our time. More than 500 awards have supported documentary filmmakers in 61 countries globally. The Documentary Fund was established at Sundance [...]
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Deadline: 01-31-2012
Weave Magazine
San Francisco, CA
Weave Magazine is open to all submissions for our 8th issue. A print publication dedicated to promoting cultural diversity, Weave accepts the best works of literary fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, drama, and visual art that transfix, transport, and inspire.
* Poetry: 3-5 poems
* Nonfiction* [...]
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Deadline: 01-31-2012
Merced County Arts Council, Inc.
Merced, CA
The Merced County Arts Council seeks artists primarily from California and will give priority to work that reflects the issues and lifestyle of the myriad cultures represented in Merced County. We encourage exhibits that lend to opportunities for community engagement or educational components for K12 schools. The Arts Council [...]
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Deadline: 01-31-2012
Camera Club Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA
Camera Club Los Angeles is accepting submissions for our ongoing online curatorial project. To submit please send no more than four photographic based images at no more than 180 dpi and a short artist statement.
Contact: Jacquelyn Mason
email: lacameraclub@gmail.com
Website: http://cameraclublosangeles.tumblr.com/
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Highways Performance Space in Santa Monica, CA
01/27/2012 – 01/28/2012 & 02/03/2012 02/04/2012 8:30 PM
501 ARTS and Highways Performance Space present Who’s Hungry – Santa Monica, part of an ongoing series of experimental tabletop puppet plays that give a voice and face to hunger, with four performances on Fridays and Saturdays from January 27 to February [...]
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Wednesday, January 25, 2012 – 7:00pm
Communications 150 – Studio C (UCSC)
Presented by:
Film and Digital Media
With Barbie dolls as the principal actors, SUPERSTAR portrays the life of Karen Carpenter and her battle with anorexia. Preceded by a surprise mystery short!
http://arts.ucsc.edu/news_events/wednesday-night-cinema-society-1
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UCSB Theater and Dance Bldg. rm. 1701
01/25/2012 5:00 PM
The Beat Within was founded in San Francisco, (1996) when David Inocencio, former assistant director of Detention Diversion Advocacy Program, teamed up with Pacific News Service to offer writing workshops to youth detained in San Francisco’s Youth Guidance Center (YGC). Today, The Beat Within staff and volunteers [...]
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UC Berkeley Art Museum
01/15/2012 – 06/17/2012
The Reading Room is a temporary project dedicated to poetry and experimental fiction offering visitors the chance to take home a free book drawn from the overstock collections of several noted East Bay small presses, including Kelsey Street Press, Atelos Books, and Tuumba Press. Books and catalogs from Small Press [...]
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UCLA Hammer Museum
01/26/2012 7:00 PM
Artists Maren Hassinger, Senga Nengudi, and Ulysses Jenkins continue to investigate Kiss, performed in the 1970s and reimagined in October 2011 to celebrate the opening of the Hammer’s Now Dig This!. Special guests, including artists who have worked with the trio since the 1970s, participate in this exciting iteration. Aspiring to [...]
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http://sixth.ucsd.edu/experiential-learning-conference/#more
Don’t miss UCIRA Co-Director Kim Yasuda presenting at the Education in Action: Mobilizing the next generation for social reform An Experiential Learning Conference at Sixth College!
DATE: January 26, 2012
Cross-Cultural Center, UC San Diego
Organizers: Diane Forbes Berthoud, Practicum Director, Sixth College, Jim Lin, Acting Provost, Sixth College, and Liz Losh, Director of Academic Programs, [...]
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event: RE:COMPOSITION, an evening of four performances dedicated to John Cage
date: Friday January 20 and Saturday January 21 in San Francisco at Southern Exposure and Fri, January 27 and Sat, January 28 at 8pm in Los Angeles at SCI-arc,
location: A touring performance program traveling from San Francisco to Los Angeles
tickets: [...]
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Juilliard School Announces $20 Million Gift for Early Music
By JAMES R. OESTREICH
Devotees of early music in New York may be experiencing whiplash. The year began in inspiriting fashion, with the Green Mountain Project’s superb annual presentation of Vespers music by Monteverdi, sponsored by Trinity Church at the Church of St. Jean Baptiste. Then, days later, [...]
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For years, most of the UC Davis art collection has languished in storage because of limited space at the university’s current museum.
Now, a $10 million gift from a prominent Napa Valley vintner will provide the vital funding needed to bring the university’s 5,000 collected works – including seminal works of Northern California art from the [...]
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Corporate philanthropy meets mid-season ratings grab in a new musical-theater initiative from NBC that will target 20 underserved schools around the country. The program, which was announced Friday, coincides with the Feb. 6 debut of NBC’s series “Smash,” about the making of a Broadway musical.
NBC said it will work with 20 schools across the country [...]
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Palm Desert — The fourth annual Public Art Documentary Film Series, a joint venture between the city and the University of California, Riverside in Palm Desert, kicks off on Jan. 19.
Screenings are at 6 p.m. the third Thursday of every month through April, in the auditorium at UCR Palm Desert, 75-080 Frank Sinatra Drive.
Admission is [...]
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Eddie Van Halen says music saved him from trouble and he hopes it can do the same for today’s kids.
The iconic rock guitarist donated 75 electric guitars from his personal collection to music programs at public schools in and around Los Angeles.
Van Halen teamed up with Mr. Holland’s Opus Foundation — which provides resources for [...]
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The Manhattan Beach City Council approved spending up to $400,000 of Public Art Trust Fund money on two public art projects – $200,000 toward commemorating the city’s centennial and $200,000 on art for the new Manhattan Beach library.
For the centennial piece, the Cultural Arts Commission can explore commissioning a site-specific work or displaying temporary artworks [...]
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Thursday, January 19th
7:00 PM
UCSB Pollock Theater
For one special evening at the Pollock Theater, the art of sound will take center stage. Sound and music in films penetrates our sub-conscious so we can feel exhilaration, sadness, and passion, fear. Sound is an emotional
conduit for the artistic vision of the director.
For one night only at the Pollock [...]
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Mid Atlantic Arts Founcation
Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation (MAAF) is providing an opportunity to connect presenters interested in presenting performing artists from Latin America through the Southern Exposure pilot program, with funding also provided by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation.
Southern Exposure will support projects that are conceived and developed [...]
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Center for Cultural Innovation
The ARC (Artists’ Resource for Completion) grants program provides rapid, short term assistance to individual artists in Los Angeles County who wish to enhance work for a specific, imminent opportunity that may significantly benefit their careers. Artists in any discipline are eligible to apply. The applicant must already have secured an invitation [...]
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Deadline: 01-27-2012
California Presenters
Sacramento, CA
California Presenters, a statewide organization committed to advancing professional touring and presenting of the performing arts in California, seeks proposals for exceptional new performing arts projects for touring in the 2013-2014 season.
California Presenters’ Artist Spotlight was launched in 2006 as the New Works Tour Support Program. The Artist Spotlight has evolved as [...]
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Deadline: 01-25-2012
Brea Art Gallery
Brea, CA
The City of Brea Art Gallery announces a call to artists for the 27th Annual Made in California Juried Competition and Exhibition, premiering March 24 – May 4, 2012.
$1,150 Total Cash Awards. Open to any living artist residing in California. Works must be original and executed within the past three years. [...]
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Deadline: 01-20-2012
Gallery Photographica
Oakland, CA
The 2012 San Francisco International Photography Competition and Exhibition is accepting registration. $6,000 in awards are granted. 40 finalist photographs will be exhibited at the Michelle O’Connor Gallery in San Francisco from March 3 to March 24, 2012 to coincide with the national meeting of the Society for Photographic Education.
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Creative Capital announces its 2012 grants in Film/Video and Visual Arts, awarded to 46 adventurous and risk-taking projects representing 56 artists. Creative Capital will provide the 2012 grantees with up to $50,000 in direct project funding, plus advisory services valued at more than $40,000. Since its founding in 1999, Creative Capital has committed nearly $25 [...]
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January 18, 2012, 2:00 PM
UCLA Broad Art Center, room 5240
Takashi Ikegami is an associate professor in the Department of General Systems Sciences at the University of Tokyo. His works encompasses both the arts and sciences and deal with complex systems and artificial life. He comes to UCLA to start work on a NSF grant with [...]
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January 18, 2012 – June 10, 2012
UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Come spend some time with the work of seminal Abstract Expressionists this spring at BAM/PFA. Forceful paintings by Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning, Hans Hofmann, William Baziotes, Asger Jorn, Philip Guston, and others hang in light-filled Gallery A, while Gallery C displays [...]
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Jan 20, 2012 – Jan 21, 2012
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Director: Andrei Ujica
Director Andrei Ujica poured over 1,000 hours of footage, including state propaganda, newsreels and home movies, to complete a film about the former Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. The resulting “avant-documentary” presents the story of Ceausescu’s rise and fall as well as the history [...]
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Opens January 21, 2012
UCLA Hammer Museum
Over the past 20 years, Antony has developed an esoteric and diverse body of work that includes not only his critically acclaimed music and elaborate performances but also his lesser-known work in collage, drawing, and sculpture. Antony’s work emerges from a set of rituals such as washing and burning paper [...]
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Friday, January 20, 2012 – 7:30pm
UCSC Music Center Recital Hall
What does the rainforest tell us about ourselves and the world? In the Mentawai Islands of Indonesia, wildlife communicates using a complete spectrum of sound that exceeds the range and timbre of a western orchestra. More than 50 meters overhead, female gibbons sing expressive duets in [...]
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Opening reception Saturday, January 21st, 6-9 pm
UCSB Gallery2
The Torrance Art Museum proudly presents: To Live and Paint in LA
Curated by Max Presneill and Jason Ramos
A broad survey of current and emerging painting trends and talent from Los Angeles
Jonathan Apgar, Rebecca Campbell, Daniela Campins, Alika Cooper, Noah Davis, Tomory Dodge, Asad Faulwell, Jon Flack, Yvette Gellis, [...]
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UCSB Multicultural Center lounge
Wednesday, January 18 – Friday, March 23
A Conversation with the Artist: Thursday, February 2, 6:00 PM
Michael Massenburg has exhibited in galleries and museums, completed private commissions, and worked on public art projects throughout the country and abroad in Mexico, Senegal, and Haiti. Some of his public works include MTA, LA County Arts [...]
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Deadline Tuesday, January 17:
Visual, Performing, and Media Arts Awards
The Interdisciplinary Humanities Center offers annual awards (up to $1500) to support innovative creative projects in the visual, performing and media arts that engage with issues of interdisciplinary concern. The competition is open to faculty and graduate students. Both individual and collaborative projects are eligible.
Graduate [...]
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The Minneapolis-based McKnight Foundation has announced fourth-quarter grants totaling more than $30 million to nearly a hundred and twenty nonprofit organizations working in the areas of education, arts and culture, and the environment.
Of the $30 million in grants approved, $6 million was awarded to the Southern Minnesota Initiative Foundation, one of six Minnesota [...]
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Position Title: Education Manager
Reports To: Director of Experience and Community Engagement
Status: Full-time, exempt, at-will
ORGANIZATIONAL DESCRIPTION:
The Children’s Creativity Museum is an interactive art and technology museum for kids. We envision a world where the 3Cs of 21st-century literacy – Creativity, Collaboration and Communication – inspire new ideas and innovative solutions. We believe [...]
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ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF DRAMA,
IN MUSICAL THEATRE/CHOREOGRAPHY
The Department of Drama at the University of California, Irvine invites applications for a
full-time, tenure track, Assistant Professor of Drama specializing in choreography for
Music Theatre. A master’s degree and/or comparable professional experience is
expected. A minimum of five years’ professional choreography experience and
demonstrated excellence in the training of music theatre performers [...]
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The Merced County Arts Council seeks artists primarily from California and will give priority to work that reflects the issues and lifestyle of the myriad cultures represented in Merced County. We encourage exhibits that lend to opportunities for community engagement or educational components for K12 schools. The Arts Council may [...]
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Public Art Dialogue is hosting portfolio reviews for artists during the College Art Association convention in Los Angeles on February 23, 2012. The reviews are free, but membership in Public Art Dialogue is required. The deadline to register is January 16, 2012 at 5pm EST. The roster of reviewers includes [...]
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Pro Arts is now accepting applications from curators for 2 x 2 Solos, an exhibition series commissioning new work from four accomplished emerging artists based in the Oakland/Bay Area. The program, supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts and Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, recognizes [...]
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BETHESDA, Md., Jan. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — Bach to Rock (B2R), America’s music school for students of all ages, announced today it plans to expand nationwide by offering franchise opportunities to qualified candidates. This is an opportunity for entrepreneurs to build a business that is dedicated to helping children, [...]
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By Carol Newborg
ART STUDIO AS SANCTUARY:WORKING WITH WOMEN IN PRISON
California
I. CREATING A PRISON STUDIO
IN 1984 I ENTERED THE WORLD OF A WOMAN’S prison- as an art teacher. The first class I taught was drawing and that first night 23 women inmates showed up and sat at card tables set up in a hallway [...]
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Carlsbad, Calif., January 9, 2012—The NAMM Foundation announced today that it will launch its annual effort later this month to recognize and support schools across the United States that support music education as part of a complete and quality education for all children.
The Best Communities for Music Education recognition program celebrates [...]
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In March 2011, the National Endowment for the Arts and the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services hosted a first-of-its-kind event to showcase and discuss recent research on the arts and human development. The one-day forum examined the relationship between the arts and positive health and educational outcomes at various [...]
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Undergrads for Opera at UCSD Presents…
Friday, January 27th, 2012
7:00 pm
CPMC Recital Hall
Free
Self-Support Concert
Undergrads for Opera at UCSD presents… Members of the brand new student organization Undergrads for Opera at UCSD showcase their talents and hard work in an evening of song.
About Undergrads for Opera…
Student Organization Constitution: Undergrads for Opera at UCSD The purpose [...]
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Haunted by the past, the present, and the looming future, the Wingfield family comes to life on the stage once more in Tennessee Williams’ classic play The Glass Menagerie.
Directed by Kyle Donnelly
Buy Tickets Online!
(To Buy tickets by phone or by mail, click HERE.)
@ Mandell Weiss Forum Theatre
DIRECTIONS >>
January 20 – 28, [...]
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January 13, 2012 > 10:00am – 5:30pm
UCSD VAF Performance Space
Please join the University Art Gallery (UAG) for a one-day conference that brings together scholars and practitioners from Buenos Aires, San Diego, LA and New York who are working in and across various disciplines: visual arts, history, literature, theater, media art, documentary [...]
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8 PM Thursday, January 26 – ”A Celebration of Eric Zeisl”
Eric Zeisl — Concerto Grosso for Cello and Orchestra (1955-56)
Antonio Lysy, cello
Neal Stulberg, conductor
UCLA Philharmonia
Royce Hall, UCLA
General admission: $12; $5 UCLA faculty, staff and students (with ID)
This unique evening features a performance and live recording of Zeisl’s Concerto Grosso for cello and orchestra (1955-56), a work [...]
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EXHIBITION RECEPTION | FREE ADMISSION
Saturday January 14 | 6-9 PM
ARTISTS AND CURATORS WALK-THROUGH
Saturday January 14 | 7 PM (talks will start on time as Just has to leave at 8 PM)
EXHIBITION DATES
December 17, 2011 – January 21, 2012
Artists Jesper Just and Asher Hartman will discuss their respective solo exhibitions, “Jesper
Just: Sirens of Chrome” and “Asher [...]
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ART | ARCHITECTURE ON FILM
Series presented by UCSB Arts & Lectures, the Carsey-Wolf Center, and the Art, Design & Architecture Museum at UCSB
All films at the Pollock Theater at UCSB (Located at the central bus loop on campus)
In a feast for the eyes, a new film series reveals the stories behind the most intriguing artists [...]
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UCSB WINTER MUSIC SEASON 2012
For further information, please visit: http://www.music.ucsb.edu or call (805) 893-7001 (Concert Line)
JANUARY
WELCOME RECEPTION FOR YAIR DALAL
Artist-in-Residence at UCSB during Winter 2012
WED., JAN. 18, 4 p.m., Karl Geiringer Hall (Music Room 1250), Free Admission
Of Iraqi-Jewish descent, Yair Dalal is a world-famous artist with
numerous videos on youtube and 6 albums and 50 songs [...]
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501 (see three) ARTS & Highways Performance Space Present
Who’s Hungry – Santa Monica
Experimental Puppet Theater
Putting a Face on Food Insecurity
With Four Performances on Fridays & Saturdays
January 27 to February 4, 2012
SANTA MONICA, CA – 501 (see three) ARTS and Highways Performance Space present Who’s Hungry – Santa Monica, part of an ongoing [...]
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Velvetpark presents their round up of the Top 25 Significant Queer Women of 2011. Their third annual list was carefully crafted by their editorial team.The primary determinants for consideration has been female-identified or non-gender-binary persons who have made a significant contribution to lesbian/dyke/trans/queer visibility in the areas of [...]
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IRVINE, California – There is a call for Jews to return to Poland — and it’s coming out of Irvine. Well, actually it’s coming from Israeli artist Yael Bartana, whose trilogy … and Europe Will Be Stunned, which occupied the Polish pavilion at the Venice Biennale this year, is currently [...]
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ARTISTS WORKSHOPS
Who: Art Without Limits and Santa Barbara Performing Arts League have collaborated to give workshops in the business aspects of the arts.
Who: Workshops are free to mentors/emerging artists with AWoL and members of SBPAL. General public invited for $15.
Where:Workshops will be held 6-8pm at 1330 State St in the upstairs conference room unless otherwise [...]
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Jan 12th, Thursday, 7:00pm
UCLA Hammer Museum
Jeff Wall is among the most important and influential artists working today. His work has been the subject of major retrospectives at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Schaulager, Basel; Tate Modern, London; and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. A group of his [...]
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Explore Chicano artistic history, as chronicled in Mapping Another L.A: The Chicano Art Movement. Join guest curators Chon Noriega and Pilar Tompkins-Rivas and featured artists in walkthroughs, discussion, and art making.
Fowler members free
Non-members $15.
RSVP 310/825-7325.
EVENT DETAILS
ArtTalk for Teachers: Mapping Another L.A. in Your Classroom
Speakers: exhibition guest-curators Chon Noriega and Pilar Tompkins-Rivas
Thursday, January [...]
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January 19, 2013 – March 23, 2013
12:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Opening Day:
January 19, 2013, 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
UCR Sweeney Art Gallery and Culver Center of the Arts North Atrium Gallery
Free Enterprise: The Art of Citizen Space Exploration will be the first contemporary art exhibition in the U.S. to explore implications of civilian [...]
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Commemorating their 20th Anniversary, The NELSON ARTfriends present their Annual Reception and Benefit:
THREE PAINTERS/THREE FLAVORS
A Local Celebration of Art and Community
Wednesday, January 11, 2012, 6:00 to 9:00 pm
Nelson Gallery, UC Davis
An exclusive preview of the upcoming exhibition with presentations by artists at 6:30:
Poking at Beehives: Three Painters
PETER EDLUND
LESLIE SHOWS
FRED TOMASELLI
$40 per person, Members; $55 non-Members
Proceeds [...]
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UCI BEALL CENTER / FEB. 2 – MAY 6
Morphonano: Works by Victoria Vesna and James Gimzewski
MORPHONANO explores a number of art works created by media artist Victoria Vesna and nanoscientist James Gimzewski. Their collaborative works create an intersection of space, time and embodiment by employing a very subtle and responsive energetic exchange. [...]
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A Piano Played by Five Pianists at Once (First Attempt)
by Koki Tanaka
OPENING RECEPTION JAN. 12 6:00-9:00 P.M.
Koki Tanaka’s A Piano Played by Five Pianists at Once (First Attempt), continues Room Gallery’s Emerging Artist Series. Tanaka’s interdisciplinary art practice – combining painting, video, photography and sculpture – captures the ordinary, everyday event or [...]
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“Imprisoned in a Luminous Glare: Photography and the African American Freedom Struggle”
Monday, January 30, 2012 – 7:00pm – 9:00pm
Communications Building, Room 139 (UCSC)
Presented by:
Arts Division
Film and Digital Media
History of Art and Visual Culture
Leigh Raiford, Ph.D, is Associate Professor of African American Studies at UC Berkeley. She earned a BA in African American Studies and [...]
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Friday, January 20, 2012 – 7:30pm
Music Center Recital Hall (UCSC)
Presented by: Music Department
A panel discussion with UCSC scientists and artists will follow this world premiere presentation.
What does the rainforest tell us about ourselves and the world? In the Mentawai Islands of Indonesia, wildlife communicates using a complete spectrum of sound that exceeds the [...]
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At the UCSC Mary Sesnon Art Gallery:
KATERINA LANFRANCO
Natural Selection
February 1 – March 16, 2012
This exhibition will function as an artist-in-residence with UCSC alumna, Katerina Lanfranco. The exhibition for Winter Quarter at the Sesnon Gallery includes a large-scale, site-specific hand cut installation made while at UCSC with the collaboration of art [...]
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Tartuffe
by Molière, directed by Tom Whitaker
Dates: 02/17/12 – 02/25/12
Location: Performing Arts Theater (No late seating)
Cost: $13/Student, Seniors, UCSB Faculty & Staff; $17/General Admission
Contact: email
To Buy Tickets: http://www.theaterdance.ucsb.edu/events_publicD.php?PerformanceID=433
Tartuffe is Molière’s most famous comedy. The play is set in the home of the wealthy Monsieur Orgon–into whose household the imposter Tartuffe has [...]
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ARTISTS CALL: DIGITAL ARTISTS & PHOTOGRAPHERS
Juried Competition – “True Colors”
Submission Deadline: January 15, 2012
Organizer: DIGITAL ARTS: CALIFORNIA
DIGITAL ARTS: CALIFORNIA invites digital artists and photographers worldwide to submit works for “True Colors”, a juried exhibit that will be held both online and in a brick-and-mortar gallery in Los Angeles, San Diego or another California art center.
Works [...]
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The Merced County Arts Council is now accepting entries for the 6th Annual California Centered: Printmaking Exhibition.
The purpose of this juried exhibition is to bring together the best in recent California printmaking.
Open to all printmakers residing in California. Work can be in any traditional printmaking media (except photography) and must have been completed within the [...]
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California Shakespeare Theater (Berkeley, CA) strives for everyone, regardless of age, circumstance, or background, to discover the relevance of Shakespeare and the classics in their lives by:
Making boldly imagined and deeply entertaining interpretations of Shakespeare and the classics.
Providing in-depth, far-reaching creative educational opportunities.
Bringing disparate communities together around the creation of new American plays [...]
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Deadline: March 1, 2012
Through the Our Town program, the National Endowment for the Arts will provide a limited number of grants for creative placemaking projects that contribute toward the livability of communities and help transform them into lively, beautiful, and sustainable places with the arts at their core.
Our Town will invest in [...]
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Deadline: February 9, 2012
The Sundance Documentary Fund, a program of the Sundance Institute, is dedicated to supporting documentary films from around the world that focus on current human rights issues, freedom of expression, social justice, civil liberties, and critical issues of our time. In funding such work, the fund seeks to [...]
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Deadline: February 1, 2012
The Getty Foundation’s Multicultural Undergraduate Internship program aims to increase diversity in and provide support to Los Angeles-area museums and visual arts organizations by funding multicultural undergraduate internships.
The internships are intended specifically for currently enrolled undergraduates and recent graduates who are residing or attending college in Los [...]
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Deadline: March 1, 2012 (Letters of Inquiry)
In recognition of the importance of experiencing original works of art, the Terra Foundation for American Art supports exhibitions that enlarge the understanding and appreciation of historical American art made between 1500 and 1980.
To be eligible for funding, exhibitions that take place internationally or in Chicago may [...]
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By Mike Boehm, Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles area’s arts and entertainment industries lost thousands of jobs from 2007 to 2010, according to a study of the “creative economy.”
The findings for 2010 commissioned by Otis College of Art and Design and compiled from state and federal government figures by the Los [...]
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The fiscal 2012 federal budget is awaiting the signature of President Obama.
Arts advocates have been holding their breath all year to see how the Republican and Democratic arguments over arts funding would play out.
The National Endowment for the Arts received $146.2 million, which is the same target the president had sent to the [...]
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It was a hectic year in the arts and our fingers feel tired just thinking of it. The sluggish economy continued to cast a stubborn pall over just about everything. But artists and cultural organizations in Los Angeles and elsewhere soldiered on through the thick of it. In the name of [...]
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For years, most of the UC Davis art collection has languished in storage because of limited space at the university’s current museum.
Now, a $10 million gift from a prominent Napa Valley vintner will provide the vital funding needed to bring the university’s 5,000 collected works – including seminal works of Northern California [...]
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In 1996, Atlanta installed 18 pieces of public artwork as part of preparations for the Summer Olympics. Since then, almost half of the bronze plaques identifying that artwork have gone missing, says Robert Witherspoon, the project supervisor for the city’s public art program.
Atlanta has subsequently invested in stainless steel plaques for [...]
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Creative Capital is delighted to officially announce the launch of our new Online Learning Program! Starting this month, the Professional Development Program (PDP) at Creative Capital will begin offering an ongoing series of seven new webinars for artists working in all disciplines nationwide.
To participate, all you need is access to a computer with speakers and [...]
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Artists Wanted : A Year In Review is an international, all-medium-encompassing open call for art. Our mission is to present a range of technique, style and narrative that captures the best emerging artists of the year. You are invited to participate.
During the first week of March, New York City will host artists, [...]
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Explore Chicano artistic history, as chronicled in Mapping Another L.A: The Chicano Art Movement. Join guest curators Chon Noriega and Pilar Tompkins-Rivas and featured artists in walkthroughs, discussion, and art making.
Fowler members free
Non-members $15.
RSVP 310/825-7325
EVENT DETAILS
Speakers: exhibition guest-curators Chon Noriega and Pilar Tompkins-Rivas
Thursday, January 12, 2012
4–7pm
Fowler Museum, UCLA
Fowler members free
Non-members $15
RSVP 310/825-7325
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When: September 25 – February 26
Where: Fowler Museum – Los Angeles
Price: Free
Since the late 1960s, Oscar Castillo has documented the Chicano community in Los Angeles, from major political events to cultural practices to the work of muralists and painters. This exhibition will present rarely seen photographs from 1969-1980 exploring major themes (social movement, cultural heritage, urban environment, and [...]
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http://music.ucdavis.edu/guitarfestiv
Guitar Festival 2012
(All in the Vanderhoef Studio Theatre, Mondavi Center)
Thursday, January 19, 2012 • 12:05 pm
Free (not ticketed)
Michael Goldberg’s classical guitar program includes Spanish pieces by Rodrigo and Turina, works by Narvaez, Ponce, and J.S. Bach’s own transcription of the Suite in E Major for Solo Violin (BWV 1006a). Goldberg is currently playing solo and [...]
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CENTER FOR ARTISTIC ACTIVISM LAUNCHES WEST COAST BRANCH
Larry Bogad Introduced as Founding Director
The Center for Artistic Activism is proud to introduce Larry Bogad as the Founding Director of its new West Coast branch. Based in Berkeley, CAA/West Coast will expand the work of the Center, contributing its own unique focus on performance and playful theatrics [...]
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In case you have not yet seen one of the best “Dance you PhD” performances.
Click here: John Bohannon & Black Label Movement – Dance Your PhD
About the “Dance Your PhD” program: http://gonzolabs.org/dance/
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The National Film Preservation Foundation is inviting applications for the Avant-Garde Masters Grants.
Made possible through the support of the Film Foundation, the grants are intended to support nonprofit and public archives working to preserve significant examples of America’s avant-garde film heritage.
The program supports the preservation of a film or films by a single filmmaker or from a [...]
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Having been given a prized collection of contemporary American art earlier this year, Stanford University on Wednesday announced plans for a new $30.5-million museum to house it.
New York-based Ennead Architects will design a 30,000-square-foot building devoted to the Anderson Collection –- 121 works by 86 artists collected by a Bay Area family (pictured), including Jackson [...]
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Call for submissions for inclusion in this forthcoming book being published by MuseumsEtc [www.museumsetc.com] in late Spring of 2012.
College and university museums originated out of the desire to teach with, and learn from, original objects. These museums today aim to be active participants in the teaching life of their campus communities and vital sites for [...]
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Deadline Tuesday, January 17
Visual, Performing, and Media Arts Awards
The Interdisciplinary Humanities Center offers annual awards (up to $1500) to support innovative creative projects in the visual, performing and media arts that engage with issues of interdisciplinary concern. The competition is open to faculty and graduate students. Both individual and collaborative projects are eligible.
Graduate Collaborative Awards
The [...]
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SEATTLE, WA, Dec 14, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — This holiday season, wouldn’t it be great to walk into a museum like the Louvre, pick out a few great works and pass them out as gifts (or keep a few for yourself)? With the ART CARD, available now from Costco.com and 1000Museums.com it’ll feel just [...]
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Commission Chair Barbara Burger presented the award on behalf of the Arts Commission to Zaveeni Khan-Marcus for her leadership and extraordinary contributions as Director of the MultiCultural Center atUC Santa Barbara.
Ginny Brush, Executive Director of the Arts Commission stated that “Over the years, the Leadership in Arts award has given the Arts Commission an opportunity to publicly [...]
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Actors’ Equity Association announced today that it is accepting nominations for its 2012 Rosetta LeNoire Award. The honor is given annually to an individual or institution with a proven track record of hiring, promoting, or casting women, ethnic minorities, or the disabled.
The award was created in 1989 and named for the first recipient, Rosetta LeNoire, [...]
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WATSONVILLE — The city’s latest public art project — a mural inspired by the City Plaza — is a work in progress on a utility box on Freedom Boulevard at Martinelli Street.
The artwork, which features a depiction of the plaza’s well-known fountain and bust of George Washington, is the first project launched under a public [...]
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Solvang artist Ron Guthrie is being deployed on the Coast Guard’s newest national security cutter, the Stratton, to collect “reference material” for future paintings that will be submitted to the Coast Guard Art Collection.
The landscape and marine artist will observe the crew members as they perform their duties on the new ship and collect images [...]
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ART | ARCHITECTURE ON FILM
SUN, JAN 15 / UCSB POLLOCK THEATER
1 PM The Universe of Keith Haring
(Christina Clausen, 2008, 82 min.)
An intimate portrait of world-renowned graffiti artist Keith Haring — whose mantra was “Art is for everyone!” — this film features interviews and archival footage of Fab 5 Freddy, Grace Jones, Madonna, Yoko Ono, David LaChapelle, [...]
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Today, with the help of a particular kind of money–Change Capital–Alvin Ailey American Dance Foundation is attracting new revenue by building a technology platform and internal capabilities that maximize opportunities for patron and audience engagement. Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation is raising money upfront to wind down its operations in a graceful way and leave a [...]
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reposted from the nonprofiteer (http://nonprofiteer.net/)
The Nonprofiteer had a fascinating conversation with Margy Waller, a special advisor to Cincinnati’s ArtsWave, which leads the nation in evidence-based approaches to advocating for arts funding. Ms. Waller had reached out to correct the Nonprofiteer’s misunderstanding (and therefore misreporting) of ArtsWave’s efforts, noting that the argument [...]
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United States Artists has announced its 2010 Fellows. Every year, 50 USA Fellowship grants of $50,000 each are awarded to outstanding performing, visual, media, and literary artists. Nominators submit names of artists they believe show extraordinary talent and commitment to their craft. To be considered for fellowships, artists must be [...]
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The National Endowment for the Arts Challenge America Fast-Track (CAFT) program supports projects from primarily small and mid-sized arts organizations that extend the reach of the arts to underserved audiences—those whose opportunities to experience the arts are limited by geography, ethnicity, economics, or disability. Chairman Landesman announced today that 162 Challenge [...]
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ABSTRACT
The unincorporated town of Isla Vista, like many college communities across the US, struggles to have a meaningful presence as a neighbor to one of the largest public universities in California. Likewise, UCSB strives to balance its role as an enclave for intellectual pursuit, while fostering a rich environment for student-community engagement. [...]
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Dressed to the nines, trumpet player Gabriel Angelo busks at the corner of Mission and 4th in San Francisco to earn money to continue his music education at San Francisco Conservatory and JazzSchool in Berkeley. Fabian Sixtus Körner of Stories of a Journeyman filmed a short documentary on Gabriel doing his thing in The Trumpet [...]
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L.A.’s creative industry is expected to grow over the next five years, according to a new report.
Direct employment in the creative industries is expected to increase by more than 4 percent, or 13,100 jobs, by 2015, according to the 2011 Otis Report on the Creative Economy of the Los Angeles Region.
The fifth annual report studied [...]
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Visalia’s First Fridays Art Tour, produced by the Arts Council of Tulare County and coordinated by Jason Hopper, is Friday in downtown Visalia.
The evening’s event is a self-guided walking exploration of art stops at cultural downtown venues between 5:30 and 8:30 p.m.
Highlighting the tour is an artists’ reception for the Annual Blue Ribbon Art Show [...]
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Located along an idyllic, tree-lined lane in Westlake Village, the California Art Institute occupies a single, unassuming building, and judging from its modest outer appearance, you might never guess the myriad works of art and staggering talent housed inside. For 28 years, the Institute has weathered changes in location, changes in ownership and the ups [...]
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Deadline: 02-10-2012
Mid Atlantic Arts Founcation
Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation (MAAF) is providing an opportunity to connect presenters interested in presenting performing artists from Latin America through the Southern Exposure pilot program, with funding also provided by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation.
Southern Exposure will support projects that are conceived and [...]
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Deadline: 02-01-2012
French-American Fund for the Performing Arts
Etant donnes: The French-American Fund for the Performing Arts is dedicated to encouraging French-American cooperation in theater in the United States and in France.
Etant donnes offers financial support in the form of grants to :
* American nonprofit institutions producing or presenting theater projects (tours, residencies, translations) either of contemporary [...]
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Deadline: 12-16-2011
Pro Arts Gallery
Oakland, CA
The Annual Call for Exhibition Proposals is an open submission process for artists and curators to present and produce curated exhibitions in collaboration with Pro Arts. One proposal will be selected. Participation is open to all artists and curators. Entry is free for current Pro Arts members and $15 for non-members.
Deadline [...]
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Deadline: 12-13-2011
The Adrian Cervantes Mejia Fund
Arcata, CA
Calling all fools, goofs, and buffoons!
The acmfund is happy to announce that it is now accepting submissions for the 2012 Adrian’s Project* Award. In its inaugural year, Adrian’s Project is accepting submissions from performing artists working in the realm of physical comedy.
Winners will receive production support from the acmfund [...]
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Deadline: 12-09-2011
The Gallery at Fibre Arts Design Studio
Palo Alto, CA
The Gallery at Fibre Arts Design Studio announces the February 9 – March 22 exhibition:
Anima. An exploration of the concept of anima/animus; the self within or unconscious mind, as expressed through mixed media.
Opening Reception: Thursday February 9, 6-8 pm
Submissions should include: Description of the piece [...]
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UC Merced Lakireddy Auditorium
12/03/2011 7:30 PM
Music director Henrik Jul Hansen leads the orchestra in Ludwig van Beethoven’s landmark Third Symphony, “Eroica,” the music that ensured the composer’s place as an innovator. Also enjoy Felix Mendelssohn’s beautiful “Midsummer Night’s Dream” Overture and Antonin Dvorak’s “Serenade for Strings,” Opus 22. $30 general admission, $5 students.
http://arts.ucmerced.edu/symphony/
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12/09/2011 8:00 PM
UCSD CPMC Recital Hall
UCSD’s newest new music ensemble performs works by Scelsi, Boulez, Aplinger, Kurtag, and Feldman. Knell is: Allison Roush, violin; Eric Moore, cello; Scott Worthington, double bass; Ran Duan, piano; Dustin Donahue, percussion; Rachel Beetz, flute; Curt Miller, clarinet; and Nicolee Kuester, horn.
http://musicweb.ucsd.edu/concerts/
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UC Irvine University Art Gallery
Opens 01/12/2012
“…Political art does not constitute itself by blurring the borders between the registers of the aesthetic and the political, but, conversely it can only communicate itself meaningfully by crossing these borders.”
- Helmut Draxler
Continuing, the UAG’s Critical Curatorial Exhibition Series, Chiasmus brings together eleven international artists working in such diverse [...]
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Wednesday, January 18, 2012 @ 7:30 PM
UCSB Campbell Hall
General Public $6.00
“The film colorfully captures the hall and the city, as well as reams of music spanning more than a century in styles.” The Austin Chronicle
For 50 years the Preservation Hall Jazz Band has played to keep the traditions of New Orleans jazz alive, both at [...]
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December 17, 2011 – January 21, 2012
Just is a Danish artist, living and working in Copenhagen and New York, NY. Just works exclusively in film, shooting on a variety of film stock, including 8 mm, 16 mm and 35 mm. The resulting images are dense and atmospheric. Their prominent soundtracks are conceived specifically for each [...]
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Scholars Robin D. G. Kelley (USC/UCLA), Jacqueline Stewart (Northwestern University), and Daniel Widener (UCSD) discuss black artists in Southern California through history, and the role of geography, migration, and economics in creating the potent mix that produced the black arts movement. Moderated by Now Dig This! curator Kellie Jones.
In conjunction with the exhibition Now [...]
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The Henry Luce Foundation has awarded 57 American Art Renewal Fund (AARF) grants to museums across the country for a total of nearly $5.5 million. The AARF initiative was established in 2010 to strengthen museums’ American art programs in response to the economic downturn that forced widespread layoffs, cancellation of exhibitions, [...]
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Sunday, December 4, 2:30 PM
Santa Barbara Museum of Art
1130 State Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101
Mary Craig Auditorium
Free for Museum Members
Free with Museum admission (Non-Members)
Professor (Corwin Endowed Chair of Composition) Clarence Barlow will frame a discussion of the historic and contemporary link between music, math, and the visual arts as a parallel form of avant-garde expression [...]
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The Long Beach Redevelopment Agency, in partnership with the Arts Council for Long Beach, announces the dedication of a new permanent public art project for The Promenade on Tuesday, November 22, at 11 am.
Image Emergence: Promenade of the Clouds by Craig Cree Stone is an integrated public artwork located on the south block of The [...]
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Although the British painter David Hockney’s love affair with California seems mutual, museums here are relatively thin on examples of the artist’s strongest work. That just might change, according to an article this month in the Times of London by the paper’s arts editor Richard Brooks.
Brooks reports that the 74-year-old artist, who has no children, [...]
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In Brussels today, the European Commission proposed the world’s largest-ever cultural funding program under the title Creative Europe. The initiative, which would disperse a projected €1.8 billion ($2.4 billion) between 2014 and 2020, represents a 35 percent increase in European Union expenditures on culture, and is part of a larger Pan-European goal to stimulate the [...]
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Art has always flourished on the fertile ground of protest and revolution so it’s perhaps no surprise that Occupy Wall Street art and culture activists are looking to get their own permanent art space.
Artists form one of the largest groups within the movement and have been behind most of Occupy Wall Street’s creative posters, puppets [...]
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Your departure was late, you were seated in front of a crying child, and now you are rushing toward the baggage claim at San Diego International Airport’s Terminal One, wondering if your suitcase made it. Understandably, you are a little stressed.
Just before you get to the Southwest Airlines carousel, you notice a large wooden grid [...]
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Deadline: 12-15-2011
Heritage Preservation, AIC
The American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (AIC) and Heritage Preservation seek nominations for their joint Award for Outstanding Commitment to the Preservation and Care of Collections.
The award is presented annually to an organization in North America that has been exemplary in the importance and priority it has given [...]
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Deadline: 12-09-2011
Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation
USArtists International provides support for American dance, music, and theater ensembles and solo artists invited to perform at significant international festivals or engagements that represent extraordinary career opportunities anywhere in the world outside the United States and its territories. There are annually three deadline dates for international festivals and engagements that [...]
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As recently announced, Imaging America is beginning a national search for a new director. Syracuse University has again been selected to be the host campus of IA, and its new five-year term will begin in July 2012 and run through 2017. Professor Jan Cohen-Cruz, who since 2007 has served in this position, will complete [...]
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Deadline: 12-12-2011
City of Davis/UC Davis Arboretum
Davis, CA
The City of Davis and the UC Davis Arboretum are launching a search for an artist or team of artists to create an exciting public art piece, a sculptural gateway element marking the entrance to a new garden at the Arboretum, where the City of Davis meets the University [...]
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Deadline: 12-09-2011
Berkeley Art Center
Berkeley, CA
Jan 29, 2012 Opening Reception: Saturday, December 17, 5pm
The salon-style Artists Annual exhibition includes work in a variety of media and all artist-level members are invited to participate!
In the past, up to 200 works have been exhibited in dynamic curatorial arrangements in the center’s beautiful gallery space in North Berkeley. Featuring [...]
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Deadline: 12-06-2011
ARC Studios & Gallery
San Francisco, CA
Arc’s second annual juried exhibition and off-the-wall sale is just in time for the Holidays! “The Guerrilla Show 2″ runs from Dec 8th to Jan 15th at Arc Gallery, 1246 Folsom Street. Artists deliver works in-person on Dec 6th, from 12PM to 7PM. Bring two works of art of [...]
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Deadline: 12-06-2011
Pacific Art League
Palo Alto, CA
Work should express the humor, whimsy, adventure and/or opinion of life in either individual panel or strip comic format. Open to all artists over the age of 18 residing in the U.S. See website for prospectus.
Contact: Elizabeth Lada
email: gallery@pacificartleague.org
Phone: (650) 321-3891
Website: http://www.pacificartleague.org
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Deadline: 12-04-2011
Topanga Canyon Gallery
Topanga, CA
Topanga Canyon Gallery announces: The 2012 Topanga Canyon Gallery Juried Open Show. All media, except video and performance art are acceptable. The juror for this show is Franklyn Liegel. He received his MFA at Otis Art Institute; mentored by Emerson Woelffer. He has been on the faculty of Otis College Continuing [...]
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UC Berkeley BAM/PFA
11/11/2011 – 12/11/2011
The South has never shaken its past. It sits like mist on the land, seeping into the drawl of the everyday. Secession, the cotton gin, a God-fearin’ people, slavery, pecans and poke salad, moonshine, hounds and possums, a big Rebel yell—there’s enough cultural ammo here to fight the Civil War all [...]
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UCLA Hammer Museum
12/02/2011 11:00 AM
Presented in conjunction with World AIDS Day/Day With(out) Art by Visual AIDS
Untitled presents a nonlinear montage of footage to conjure up the passionate activism sparked by the early years of the AIDS crisis. Created by artist Jim Hodges and filmmakers Carlos Marques da Cruz and Encke King, Untitled melds together media [...]
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Thursday, December 1, 2011
7:00 – 9:00 PM, free admission
RSVP required at http://culvercenter.ucr.edu/film
Join us for a screening of 20 short videos selected from the Fifth Edition of the Inter-American Biennial of Video Art during December’s First Thursday Art Walk at Culver Center of the Arts. The Inter-American Biennial of Video Art opened at the IDB Cultural [...]
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September 29 – December 11, 2011
UC Davis Richard L. Nelson Gallery
MacMurtrie, who lives in Brooklyn, NY, but was a long-time resident of San Francisco in the 80s and 90s, is a leader in the field of computer-driven kinetic sculpture. This exhibition will feature ten pairs of fabric bird wings that inflate, flap and deinflate in [...]
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ONE NIGHT ONLY!
The UCI Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of guest conductor Apo Hsu, performs in concert in the Samueli Theatre at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts.
DEC. 3 @ 8:00 p.m.
Samueli Theatre / SEGERSTROM CENTER FOR THE ARTS*
615 Town Center Drive
Costa Mesa, CA 92626
General Admission $18 / Seniors $16 / Children under 17 and [...]
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UCSB MultiCultural Center
12/01/2011 7:00 PM
STRICTLY ORAL. You can make art with almost any body part. But our personal favorite: the one that can taste, lick, click, shout, sob, scream, whisper, pout… the mouth. Chew on this. Experience the tingle of a good clean–or dirty–mouth. Our lips come in all shapes and sizes, and so do [...]
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UCSB Building 434
12/01/2011 5:00 PM
Imprint 2011 Fall Exhibition by the UCSB art students.
http://artsite.arts.ucsb.edu/event/imprint
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The National Endowment for the Arts announced $22.5 million in grants Thursday; California organizations received $4.3 million, or a fifth of the total.
Nationally there was just one six-figure grant — $100,000 to New York City’s New Dramatists for its Playwrights Lab program to foster new plays. In the four previous grant rounds since fall 2009, [...]
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They come in buses, 50 or so Bay Area contemporary art collectors, consultants and enthusiasts, to visit 30 select emerging artists every two years. For six Saturdays, the well-heeled lot traipses through small studios and edgy galleries, looking at delicate line drawings and sprawling sculptural installations alike, to meet the people they hope will become [...]
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An exhibition of paintings by the late Khmer impressionist You Khin is being shown in the US for the first time, at the Picture Art Cultural Foundation at California State University in Dominguez Hills, care of Van Cleve Fine Art.
Titled I Have The Right, the exhibition started on Wednesday and will continue until August next [...]
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Inland leaders made their case to a state agency Thursday for support of cultural endeavors.
The California Arts Council convened in downtown Riverside for a day-long meeting at the UCR/California Museum of Photography.
The council, which has nine members, was welcomed by Jonathan Green, director of ARTSblock, UC Riverside’s three downtown arts venues.
Before the council got down [...]
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Deadline: 15th of each month
Creative Capacity Fund
The Creative Capacity Fund Quick Grant Program provides reimbursement funds to arts administrators and individual artists in the San Francisco Bay Area and in Los Angeles to enroll in workshops, attend conferences locally and nationally, and to work with consultants and coaches in order to build administrative capacity, hone [...]
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Deadline: 12-02-2011
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation’s Media, Culture, and Special Initiatives program supports the production and distribution of social-issue documentary films intended for a broad audience. The foundation has announced it will be accepting proposals for documentary film projects from November 1, 2011, to December 2, 2011.
This highly competitive program seeks to [...]
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Deadline: 12-16-2011
The Exploring Engagement Fund is designed to help nonprofit arts organizations try new ways of engaging audiences and participants. Grant awards are intended as risk capital for nonprofit arts organizations to encourage experimentation with new programming utilizing the “Who, How, Where” pathways described below. Organizations interested in exploring two or more of these pathways [...]
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Deadline: 11-30-2011
Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra
Los Angeles, CA
In celebration of Jeffrey Kahane’s 15th anniversary as LACO music director, the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra will launch artist Luke Jerram’s art installation Play Me, I’m Yours on April 12, 2012. Thirty decorated pianos will be placed in publicly accessible spaces throughout Los Angeles County for all to play [...]
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Deadline: 11-30-2011
T.D.A.C
San Franisco, CA
Tsubaki Designs Artist Coalition Call to Artists:
Into the Wild Unkown Submission Deadline for concepts and proposals: October 30th and November 30, 2011
T.D.A.C., a curated online resource for contemporary/modern art, invites artists to submit work to an open application call. From this open call, 10 artists will be selected and inclusion in our [...]
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Deadline: 11-30-2011
Aperture Academy
Campbell, CA
The Aperture Academy is proud to present the 2011 Extraordinary Exposures Photography Contest.
Categories for entry are: Nature’s Landscapes, Wildlife, and Urban Landscapes.
Contact: Kristen Guldner or Kelly Baldwin
email: info@apertureacademy.com
Phone: (408) 369-8585
Website: http://www.apertureacademy.com/photography-contest-2011.php
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Deadline: 11-27-2011
Youth Orchestras of Fresno
Fresno, CA
Turn an unplayable instrument into a work of art to benefit the Youth Orchestras of Fresno!
We supply the unplayable instrument, you supply the art.
Artists are invited to submit applications (multiple applications are OK) until Sunday November 27.
The deadline for online submissions is 12:00 midnight PST. Snailmail submissions must be postmarked [...]
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Deadline: 12-01-2011
Attitudinal Healing Connection
Oakland, CA
Oakland Superhero Mural Project
Northern CA
Attitudinal Healing Connection (AHC) a non-profit organization in West Oakland is looking for local artists to paint the Hoover Corridor Neighborhood’s first large scale mural project. Using the theme of super heroes, the murals are going to be designed by local middle and high school students and [...]
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November 6, 2011– January 8, 2012
Wireless: Francis Baudevin, Matthew Beiderman and Marko Peljhan, Dove Bradshaw, Nathan Carter, Tyler Coburn, Aaron S. Davidson and Melissa Dubbin, Ellie Ga, Nicolas Lobo, Neighborhood Public Radio, Daniel Perlin, Roman Signer, and Jim Toth
Curated by Elizabeth Lovero
In honor of community radio station KCSB’s 50th anniversary, CAF presents Wireless, an exhibition [...]
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11/18/2011 – 11/ 27/2011
UCSD Sheila and Hughes Potiker Theatre
About the Play:
The ideal faces the real in a small storm-ridden town on the bank of a major river. A young couple, a domineering mother, an eccentric scientist, a powerful businessman, and a new-comer all harbor secrets. But some may find the weight of such hidden knowledge [...]
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Exhibition ends 12/01/2011
UC Berkeley North Gate Hall, room 105
Presented by Graduate School of Journalism, Center for Photography
Photojournalist, Social Documentarian, Movement Propagandist: The Photography of Matt Herron.
When Matt Herron moved to Mississippi with his family in 1963, he thought of himself as wearing three hats. As a photojournalist, he was beginning to see his career take [...]
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11/29/2011 7:00 PM
Book Reading
UCLA Hammer Museum
Academy and Golden Globe award-winning actress Diane Keaton reads from her new memoir Then Again. Keaton has starred in some of the most memorable films of the past forty years, including The Godfather trilogy, Annie Hall, Manhattan, Reds, Baby Boom, Father of the Bride, The First Wives Club, and Something’s [...]
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12/02/2011 7:00 PM
UCD Jackson Hall Standard
Jeffrey Thomas, conductor
Cecilia Leitner, soprano
Danielle Reutter-Harrah, mezzo-soprano
Eric Jurenas, countertenor
Brian Thorsett, tenor
Robert Stafford, baritone
Steven Bailey, organ
Bach Magnificat in D Major, BWV 243
Handel Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day
Bach’s Magnificat was orchestrated for a large ensemble (for its time), including three trumpets, two flutes, two oboes, strings, a five-part chorus, and five soloists. [...]
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12/02/2011 – 12/04/2011
Celebrating the legacy of African and Caribbean folklore, this poetic play crafts an intoxicating journey around young Oya’s movement into womanhood and her fall into the murky waters of life.
Written by Tarell Avin McCraney
Shannon Ferrante, Director
Dec. 2 & 3
Evenings @ 8:00 PM
Ticketholders: Please join us Sat. afternoon, Dec. 3 for a post-performance [...]
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12/02/2011 12:00 – 4:00 PM
Elena Baskin Visual Arts Studios and Digital Arts Research Center
Featuring student work in a variety of media, including drawing/painting, sculpture, printmedia, intermedia, computer art, and photography. Free and open to the public.
http://art.ucsc.edu/news_events
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Introduction by Mark Rose (English, UCSB)
Tuesday, November 29 / 4:00 PM
McCune Conference Room 6020 HSSB
It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) with its dramatic opposition between the rapacious banker Old Man Potter (Lionel Barrymore) and the benevolent George Bailey (James Stewart) remains an allegory for our own day of financial crisis and libertarian fundamentalism. The [...]
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Attention all Staff artisans, CSAC and Staff Assembly will be hosting a Staff Winter Celebration including an Arts and Crafts Bazaar on Wednesday, December 14th from 11-1 in the Cheadle Courtyard. We are looking for UCSB staff artists who are interested in selling their own arts and crafts.
Vendors will need to provide their own [...]
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fauxlographic
//elle mehrmand
november [21-23] 2011
opening reception monday 11-21-11 @ 6pm
performance @ 7pm
university of california san diego
visual arts facility // performance space
gallery hours: tues-wed 12-6
performance @ 3pm
fauxlographic is a performative installation that takes place within an ethno-dysphoric cloning lab, where one can clone themself in order to analyze their diasporic anxiety. The fauxlographic clones enact sonic rituals [...]
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Artspire.org, New York Foundation for the Arts’ (NYFA) online community for artists and arts organizations, presents The Profitable Artist in paperback, the first complete “how-to” guide to being a professional and profitable working artist. This handbook features techniques in the areas of strategic planning, financial management, marketing, fundraising, and legal issues including contract law and [...]
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re-posted from the Huffington post
This is the first in an occasional series examining the recession’s impact on culture: The Recessionary Arts. Find out more about it here.
Despite dim job prospects and ever-dwindling paychecks, more artists are living and working in America today than ever before. If as sociologist Charles Horton Cooley once said, “an artist [...]
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By John M. Eger
At the California State University at San Marcos, an arts integration project administered by Professors Merryl Goldberg and Patti Saraniero called DREAM, for Developing Reading Education through Arts Methods, is in its second year. It seems to be working.
DREAM is a partnership with the San Diego County Office of Education and the [...]
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In the race for the Republican presidential nomination, critics of Mitt Romney have complained that conservative stances he’s taking now contradict his policies as Massachusetts governor from 2003 through 2006. But when it comes to cultural funding, the differences are a matter of degree rather than a sharp reversal.
Earlier this month, candidate Romney (pictured at [...]
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By Jay Weston
Music legend Herb Alpert said, “I still wake up every morning excited about what I can do with the three valves of my trumpet.” That’s the kind of passionate commitment which he and singer wife Lani Hall also bring to their astonishing philanthropic endeavors, which I have chronicled from time to time here [...]
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Trudy Levy, an artist who normally paints on canvas, was intrigued when a San Jose neighborhood group asked if she’d like to paint one of those ugly gray, rectangular utility boxes that tend to squat on city sidewalks and collect graffiti and half-empty coffee cups.
“I had never painted anything like that before,” she said. “I [...]
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A hip-hop instructor costumed as Michael Jackson, flanked by a dance troupe clad in all black, made his way down Lankershim Boulevard in North Hollywood on Saturday, passing by a fashion show in high gear as models pranced down a runway in girly, vintage-inspired dresses.
Across the street, two blank canvasses were set up, waiting for [...]
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Gustavo Dudamel stands off to the side of an orchestra of T-shirt clad teens as they laboriously rehearse Brahms’ Hungarian Dance No. 5. He’s listening, not just with his ears, but also with irrepressible fingers that tap and pluck the air as if he’s actually conducting the piece.
At the end, he hops on to the [...]
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An Hour with the Director
Focus: The Nelson Permanent Collection
Tuesday, December 6, 2011, 4:00 p.m.
in the Nelson Gallery
UCIRA Artist Renny Pritikin (Director of the Nelson Gallery at UC Davis), will take visitors on an informal talking tour of selections from The Nelson Permanent Collection on view in the Nelson Gallery.
Currently on view are works by [...]
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The “Working with the Media” toolkit (PDF link below) is designed to help you create and implement a media plan for your project. The NEA has included tips on how to research your local media outlets, how to plan for a media event, and how to integrate social media into your plan, as well as [...]
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Submission Deadline: November 17, 2011.
An Experiential Learning Conference
sponsored by Sixth College, University of California, San Diego
In collaboration with Warren College
DATE: January 26, 2012
Cross-Cultural Center, UC San Diego
Organizers: Diane Forbes Berthoud, Practicum Director, Sixth College, Jim Lin, Acting Provost, Sixth College, and Liz Losh, Director of Academic Programs, [...]
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Grants for Organizations to Fund Summer Internships in Los Angeles County
Los Angeles County Arts Commission
Funding for non-profit arts organizations to hire college undergraduate interns next summer is available from the Los Angeles County Arts Commission. The program is for Los Angeles County-based nonprofit performing, presenting (including film and media organizations with a presenting program), arts [...]
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Deadline: 11-25-2011
RayKo Photo Center
San Francisco, CA
Competition is open to artists working with plastic cameras with plastic lenses. The more obsolete, flawed, and lo-tech, the better. Images should be taken with cameras with limited controls, such as Diana, Holga, Lubitel, Lomo, Banner, and Ansco cameras.
Beautiful prints from less-than-gorgeous cameras – that’s what we’re looking for!
This is [...]
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Deadline: 11-21-2011
Linus Galleries
Pasadena, CA
The word “Green” has so many different interpretations. It can be the greedy green, the nature green, the sustainable green, the green with envy type and an eco-green. Oh, and then there’s just the color green.
What’s your interpretation of green? All artwork from all artists worldwide will be considered.
Contact: Linus Galleries
email: info@linusgallery.com
Phone: [...]
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Deadline: 11-20-2011
The Raven Studios C/O Gallery 207
Santa Ana, CA
“Thinking outside the square,” is based on an idea that most artists are defined and constrained to their “usual mediums.” It is a great opportunity to show the
world your newfound creations! We are searching for these mediums: paintings, photography, illustrations, sculpture, performance, and video. This exhibition is
also [...]
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Deadline: 11-18-2011
Center for Photographic Art
Carmel, CA
The Center for Photographic Art is pleased to announce our latest Juried Exhibition. Registration and submissions will be performed over the Internet.
Jurors:
Brian Taylor, Chair of the Art and Art History Department, San Jose State University
Bryan Yedinak, Co-owner, Publisher & Gallery Director, Modernbook Gallery, San Francisco
Prizes: The jurors will select three [...]
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Application Deadline: 1-23-2012
The UCSD University Art Gallery (UAG) is pleased to invite applications for the 2012 Curatorial Fellowship Program. The University Art Gallery is committed to academic excellence and diversity within the faculty, staff, and student body. This unique program provides a paid fellowship for curators in the early stages of their careers (beginning [...]
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Opening 11/25/2011
Trained as a painter, Barcelona-based Portuguese artist Carlos Bunga has expanded his practice to encompass multiple mediums including collage, drawing, performance, sculpture, and video. In his architecturally scaled installations, Bunga uses mass-produced materials like cardboard, packing tape, and house paint to build structures that recall temporary shelters or life-size maquettes. Built over a period [...]
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UCR Culver Center of the Arts
11/18/2011 – 11/19/2011
Director: Sophie Fiennes
France, 2010 | Unrated | 105 minutes
Sophie Fiennes’ meditative documentary follows the work of painter and sculptor Anselm Kiefer in his derelict silk factory art studio. Weaving tunnels and labyrinths connect the factory to the surrounding woodlands, as the multiple acres of the artist’s grounds are [...]
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UC Davis Vanderhoef Studio Theatre Cabaret
11/19/2011 7:00 PM
Tickets: $20 general, $8 children and students
Panisello: Cinco piezas métricas for Flute, Clarinet, Violin, Viola, and Cello (2004)
Panisello: Il destino ineluttabile ogni cosa for Flute, Clarinet, Violin, Viola, Cello, and Piano (2003)
Fred Lerdahl: Duo for Violin and Piano (2005)
Fabián Panisello (artist-in-residence) is conductor of the Ensemble Plural [...]
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11/17/2011 – 11/19/2011
Evenings @ 8:00 PM Matinee @ 2:00 PM (11/19)
UC Irvine Claire Trevor Theater
New Slate, a dance concert featuring new works by Claire Trevor School of the Arts graduate student choreographers.
Molly Lynch, Artistic Director
Claire Trevor Theatre
General Admission $15 / Seniors $14 / Children under 17 & UCI Students with ID $11
Tickets can be purchased [...]
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Friday, November 18, 2011 – Sunday, December 11, 2011
UCSC Mainstage
Early evening and matinee performances.
Co-presented by:
The Theater Arts Department & Shakespeare Santa Cruz
Theater Arts welcomes Shakespeare Santa Cruz back to co-production of the holiday show!
Based on the beloved “Frog and Toad” books by Arnold Lobel, A Year With Frog and Toad
follows the story of two great [...]
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UCSB Broida Hall
11/29/2011 5:00 PM
Based in San Pedro, CA, Sierra Brown is renowned for her previous ocean-based endurance works. Brown has performed works like 2007’s Supercommute, which included a 12-mile swim across four shipping lanes in the Port of Los Angeles, the western hemisphere’s busiest port. She considers her performance art works as part of [...]
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San Diego:
Mandell Weiss Forum at UCSD
Saturday, November 19, 2011 at 8:00 PM
Tickets: $50, $35, ($20 student tickets, only avaiable from PCC office)
Available at: PCC office 858-653-0336
Buy tickets online: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/209861
Balboa International Market, Parsian Market and Sahel Bazaar
Los Angeles:
Saturday, December 10, 2011, 8:00 PM
Sunday, December 11, 2011, 7:00 PM
UCLA Mcgowan Hall Freud Playhouse
245 Charles Drive East
Tickets: $45, [...]
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Winter 2011
For more than two decades, the UC Institute for Research in the Arts (UCIRA) has encouraged and nurtured artists and furthered arts research, making the University of California a leader in interdisciplinary practices linking research with science, technology, the environment, digital media and the public sphere.
UCIRA has been hosted at the [...]
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American Dance Abroad is pleased to announce the launch of a series of programs to strengthen the export of American dance. With a two-year grant of $175,000 from the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation, American Dance Abroad will focus on expanding global visibility of American dance artists, encouraging relationship building between American dance artists and their [...]
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Deadline: January 17, 2012
The Institute of Museum and Library Services’ Museum Grants for African American History and Culture are intended to enhance institutional capacity and sustainability through professional training, technical assistance, internships, outside expertise, and other tools.
Successful proposals will focus on one or more of three goals: developing or strengthening the knowledge, skills, and other [...]
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Announcing the First Annual Juried Exhibition “CreativiTea”
Open to all residents of California, Oregon & Washington States
Open to all media :: must incorporate tea and/or tea bags.
The exhibition will take place in 2 venues: December 11 & 12, 2011, at the 41st annual KPFA Crafts Fair, San Francisco, and March 9 through April 8, 2012 at [...]
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On November 8, 2011, the merger of the American Music Center and Meet The Composer into New Music USA was officially completed, marking the end of a nearly year-long process. The new organization will operate in two broad program areas—grantmaking and media—reaching composers, performers, and listeners in all 50 states and projecting a more visible [...]
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There are 2.1 million artists in the United States workforce, and a large portion of them contribute to industries whose products Americans use every day, according to new research from the National Endowment for the Arts. Artists and Arts Workers in the United States offers the first combined analysis of artists and industries, state and [...]
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Deadline: 11-27-2011
Ed Woodham of “Art in Odd Places” (NYC) *and Deborah Oliver of “Performance Exchange” (LA) invite artists working with visual and performance strategies to propose projects for “Un-Space Ground,” a visual and performance event that is part of “ART IN THE PUBLIC REALM”, presented by ARTSpace at the 100th annual College Arts Association [...]
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Deadline: 12-15-2011
Originating from the French word plateforme, meaning ‘ground plan’ or ‘flat shape’, PLATFORM is an exhibition to bolster the careers of young international artists though the submission and display of two-dimensional printed media in order to benefit both the community and artists by creating a bridge between the individuals, communities and cultures.
All submissions to [...]
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Thursday, November 17, 2011 – 7:00pm – 9:00pm
Pollock Theater, UCSB
Film Festival and Q&A
Free Public Event & Reception
Remix Filmmakers push boundaries by taking previously existing footage and reediting it to generate new meanings. The Festival highlights 13 of the most innovative short films of this kind.
The Festival of (In)appropriation is a yearly showcase of short contemporary [...]
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Thursday, November 17, 5:30 – 7:30 pm
Friday, November 18, 5:30 – 7:30 pm
At the Santa Barbara Museum of Art Davidson Gallery
Part of Atelier at SBMA: Where art meets the unexpected
Experience what The New York Times calls “a rich drama created with rigorous, poetic economy ” which “belongs to that wonderful genre of thoughtful plays that [...]
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The large, looping metal structure that doubles as a bus shelter and a work of art at Pacific View mall in Ventura has been called many things over the years.
A monstrosity. Spectacularly playful. Atrocious. An outstanding accomplishment.
Now, Yahoo News has applied a new adjective to the “Bus Home” sculpture — bizarre.
In a weekly Top 5 [...]
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Remember the days when finger painting, play rehearsals, and sing-along activities filled our classroom time? Unfortunately, because of budget cuts, kids are less likely to have adequate exposure to the arts in school nowadays, says Dr. Robin Love, an associate professor at San Jose State University who teaches in child and adolescent development.
“That’s worrisome because [...]
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For decades, gallery owners in California have wished that the state’s Resale Royalty Act of 1976, which provides artists with 5% of the sales price of artworks when they are resold under certain conditions, would just go away. While some dealers follow the law and pay the royalty to artists, others do not.
But it’s hard [...]
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When the annual Inglewood Open Studios kicks off Nov. 12 with drawing, painting, sculpture, photography and more, fans of art and design will find much to appreciate beyond the city’s side-by-side Schindler houses.
Can the city finally get beyond Dr. Dre rapping in “California Love” 16 years ago that Inglewood is “always up to no good”? [...]
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For advocates of public funding for the arts, it was a short acid flashback to the Robert Mapplethorpe/Karen Finley culture wars of the 1980s and ’90s. Late last year, the Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., found itself in the crosshairs when critics learned that a video piece on display in “Hide/Seek,” a [...]
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Deadline: 11-18-2011
Women’s Caucus for Art
Los Angeles, CA
2012 National Women’s Caucus for Art – Call for Art! “Momentum”- Contemporary Women’s Art. Commemorating 40 years of the Women’s Caucus for Art, Momentum presents the art and ideas of intergenerational contemporary women artists.
About the Exhibition: “Momentum” is part of WCA’s Momentum: 40 Years of WCA Conference that takes [...]
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Deadline: 12-01-2011
Grants for Non-Profit Professional Theatres
Shubert Foundation
Deadline: December 1, 2011. The Shubert Foundation annually awards unrestricted grants for general operating support to nonprofit, professional resident theatres in the United States. Foundation grants are awarded exclusively to nonprofit 501(c)(3) organizations. Grants are awarded based on an assessment of each organization’s operation and its contribution to the [...]
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11/15/2011 5:00 PM
UCSB Pollock Theatre
Sharon Lockhart is well known for her formally strict and conceptually precise films and photographs that often explore social subject matter. As much as her photographs reveal cinematic qualities of staging and casting, so too do her films frequently engage a static camera and angles that recall photographic practices. To create [...]
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Deadline: 11-15-2011
KPFA Crafts Fair
Berkeley, CA
CreativiTea :: Juried Art Exhibition
Announcing the First Annual Juried Exhibition “CreativiTea.” Open to all residents of California, Oregon & Washington States. Open to all media :: must incorporate tea and/or tea bags. The exhibition will take place in 2 venues: December 11 & 12, 2011, at the 41st annual KPFA Crafts [...]
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Deadline: 11-15-2011
San Francisco, CA
Stop & Go is a program of innovative stop-motion animations by contemporary visual artists and filmmakers, touring and screening internationally since 2008. The program showcases animations that use stop-motion techniques to explore visual language, tell stories and make poignant social commentaries. New animation work is being sought for the third installment of [...]
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Deadline: 11-10-2011
Oil Painters of America will hold its 2011 Fall Online Showcase of Traditional Oil Paintings, September 10 – November 10, 2011. Approximately 13 awards will be given with a total value of $5,000 including a $3,000 top prize given for both Associate and Signature member categories. Juror of Awards is Dan Beck. Deadline for [...]
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11/15/2011 8:00 PM
UC Irvine Winifred Smith Hall
The UCI Wind Ensemble performs under the direction of Kevin McKeown, director.
Free Admission — Public is welcome. First come, first serve seating.
http://www.arts.uci.edu/event/uci-wind-ensemble-nov-15-free-concert
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November 11-12-13 (Friday-Sunday) and
November 17-18-19-20 (Thursday-Sunday)
curtain 7:00 PM (Sundays at 3:00 pm)
UCSC X Theater
$12 general, $11 seniors and students w/ ID
By Caryl Churchill
Feminist playwright Caryl Churchill uses action and music to explore the lives of an unconventional group of women in 17th-century England, mwhose outspokenness gets them accused of witchcraft. See how their struggle [...]
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November 4-5-6 (Friday-Sunday) and
November 10-11-12-13 (Thursday-Sunday)
curtain 7:00 pm (Sundays at 3:00 pm)
UCSC Second Stage
$12 general, $11 seniors and students w/ ID
A performance of Italian Futurist ideas
“Beauty exists only in struggle. There is no masterpiece that has not an aggressive character. Poetry must be a violent assault on the forces of the unknown, to force [...]
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November 17, 2011 6:00 PM
UCLA Fowler Museum courtyard
Free program
Join pop-sympathetic composer Julian Cubillos and his longtime accomplice Evan Vidar as they flesh out bare-bones versions of songs, original and otherwise. Armed with only a resophonic guitar and a vibraphone, the two pay their respects to a myriad of musical traditions.
http://fowler.ucla.edu/events/fowler-out-loud-julian-cubillos
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11/04/2011 – 11/12/2011
UCSB Performing Arts Theater
$13/Student, Seniors, UCSB Faculty & Staff; $17/General Admission
First performed in 1979, Caryl Churchill’s Cloud Nine is set in 19th century colonial Africa and 20th century London. The play explores gender roles, colonial and sexual oppression, and the search for one’s personal identity.
Cloud Nine contains adult content (mature themes and sexual [...]
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November 5 – January 7, 2012
The Company
955 Chung King Road
Los Angeles, CA
The Company has invited Los Angeles based artist Joe Reihsen to take over the gallery from November 5 – January 7, 2012. An opening reception will take place on Saturday November 5, from 7-10pm. Although we are pleased to announce this exhibition, we are [...]
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November 5 to December 31, 2011
Opening Reception: Saturday, November 5, 2011/ 6:00 – 8:00 PM
Edward Cella Art + Architecture
6018 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90036
“Refraction is the change in direction of a wave when it enters a medium, for instance, a ray of light entering water. Hypermnesia is a state of highly developed memory, [...]
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UCLA Hammer Museum
November 13, 2011 – February 12, 2012
Venezuelan-born artist Patricia Esquivias creates videos that weave found images, history, and personal anecdotes into narratives that convey her insights about contemporary culture. Esquivias acts as narrator in these vignettes, in which she presents clips from videos and magazines, photos, drawings, and other small objects. The camera [...]
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Ed Woodham of Art in Odd Places (NYC) and Deborah Oliver of Performance Exchange (LA) invite artists working with visual and performance strategies to propose projects for Un-Space Ground, a visual and performance event that is part of ART IN THE PUBLIC REALM, presented by ARTSpace at the 100th annual College Arts Association Conference at [...]
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GEORGE LEGRADY: REFRACTION
November 5 to December 31, 2011
Opening Reception: Saturday, November 5, 2011/ 6:00 – 8:00 PM
“Refraction is the change in direction of a wave when it enters a medium, for instance, a ray of light entering water. Hypermnesia is a state of highly developed memory, based on registering experiences by associating [...]
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The Institute for Exploration in Theatre, Dance and Performance (ITDP) offers opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students, faculty and staff to further research through practical and informal exploration and application. The specifics of each ITDP work are based on the needs and desired outcome of the project and are not constrained by [...]
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Research offers industry-specific, regional, and demographic data on the 2.1 million artists working in the U.S.
Contact:
Sally Gifford
202-682-5606
giffords@arts.gov
There are 2.1 million artists in the United States workforce, and a large portion of them — designers — contribute to industries whose products Americans use every day, according to new research from the National Endowment for the Arts. [...]
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Peter Jaszi (Law, American University)
Thursday, November 3 / 4:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
“Fair use” is the safety-valve of the U.S. copyright law; it authorizes activities that would otherwise be considered infringement when they add significant value to collective culture. Today, more than ever, a robust understanding of fair use doctrine is essential to the [...]
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While the overall U.S. economy seems to be stuck in neutral, there are a few bright spots. One of them is charitable giving to the arts, which was up more than 5 percent last year.
But a new study cautions that much of that support serves audiences that are wealthier and whiter than the country as [...]
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Long Beach students enrolled in music classes will no longer be required to rent or purchase their own instruments, due to developing statewide legislation that prohibits schools from charging students additional fees — such as for musical instruments.
The law is working to prevent schools from charging students educational fees, and Long Beach Unified School District [...]
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A new study by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) reports that there are 2.1 million working artists in the United States. California and New York host the largest number of these artists.
The study uses four years of census survey data to profile America’s professional artists and many trends arose.
Most of the artists in [...]
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For decades, Los Angeles was a mecca for muralists. Lush and bold, murals sprouted like indigenous flora from Boyle Heights to the ocean to South Los Angeles. The themes were as compelling as the muralists themselves — including emerging black and Latino artists — and the neighborhoods that nurtured them. Los Angeles became identified with [...]
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Deadline: 03-01-2012
Creative Capital provides integrated financial and advisory support to artists pursuing adventurous projects in five disciplines: Emerging Fields, Film/Video, Innovative Literature, and Performing and Visual Arts. (This grant application open currently is for Film/Video and Visual Arts.)
Acting as a catalyst for the development of exceptional and imaginative ideas, we support artists whose work is [...]
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Deadline: 01-01-2012
Recognized for its culturally competent leadership, intellectual capital, and excellence in program administration, ACTA is the California Arts Council’s official partner in serving the state’s folk and traditional arts field. Dedicated to sustaining and fostering the growth of cultural traditions found within the California’s diverse communities, ACTA ensures that its core values of respect, [...]
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Heritage Preservation, AIC
Deadline: 12-15-2011
The American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (AIC) and Heritage Preservation seek nominations for their joint Award for Outstanding Commitment to the Preservation and Care of Collections.
The award is presented annually to an organization in North America that has been exemplary in the importance and priority it has given [...]
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Young Jazz Composer Awards
ASCAP Foundation
Deadline: 12-01-201
The ASCAP Foundation Young Jazz Composer Awards are granted annually to encourage talented young jazz composers. Applicants must be citizens or permanent residents of the United States who have not reached their 30th birthday by December 31st 2008. Applicants must submit a completed application form; the notated score of one [...]
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San Diego Latino Film Festival
San Diego, CA
Deadline: 11-18-2011
Media Arts Center San Diego is now accepting submissions for our third annual Film Festival Poster Competition. The deadline for all submissions is November 18, 2011.
*Click here for Submission Form
Media Arts Center San Diego will be presenting the 19th Annual San Diego Latino Film Festival (SDLFF), March 8-18, [...]
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Modern Eden Gallery
San Francisco, CA
Deadline: 11-06-2011
In addition to our November 2011 featured solo exhibition by Sandra Yagi (sandrayagi.com), we will be hosting a group show entitled “Genus, Species”. We are looking for small-sized works in the inspiration of Scientific Botanical or Anatomical illustrations with your own unique twist on the traditional style. For this show, [...]
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BayVAN (Bay Area Visual Arts Network)
Oakland, CA
Deadline: 11-11-2011
BayVAN is now taking submissions for our 2012 Artist Registry. The registry is a pubic on-line database that will be viewed by corporate clients, collectors, gallery owners and curators. To meet the varied needs of our clients, the artist registry includes artists working in a wide range of [...]
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November 4, 2011
7:30 PM; Gallery B
Programmed by Kamau Patton
Doors 5:00, Joshua Kit Clayton (DJ) 6:30
Local artists Paul DeMarinis and Laetitia Sonami team up to bring Kurt Schwitters’s Ursonate to life with an electric orchestra of pickle jars—shock buzzes in liquid produce rhythms and syllables—accompanied by a modern version of early abstract light machines. Then art [...]
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November 9, 2011 – May 6, 2012
The sun stars in artworks by Sarah Charlesworth and Chris McCaw drawn from the BAM/PFA collection. Playing the role of a silent collaborator, the sun’s power to illuminate, yet also to scar, makes itself known in the works on view, one a signature work by a major Conceptual artist [...]
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November 9, 2011
5:30-7:30 PM
Although it’s already being utilized, on November 9th the Claire Trevor School of the Arts will cut the ribbon and officially celebrate the opening of this technologically advanced building that is destined to become the hub of student and School activity. The CAC houses a new art gallery, a mixed-media performance space, [...]
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Sunday, November 6, 2011
12:00 – 5:00 PM
UCLA Fowler Museum Auditorium
Free symposium
Los Angeles is often called the City of Dreams, yet those dreams frequently point away from the Mexican-descent population at its core and toward a dream factory (Hollywood), consumer mecca (Rodeo Drive), or make-believe world (Disneyland). This symposium brings together artists, [...]
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This animate was adapted from a talk given at the RSA by Sir Ken Robinson, world-renowned education and creativity expert and recipient of the RSA’s Benjamin Franklin award.
For more information on Sir Ken’s work visit: http://www.sirkenrobinson.com
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Each cycle, the winner of the biennial Scientists, Technologists and Artists Generating Exploration (STAGE) Competition will receive a $10,000 USD prize, along with possible opportunities for developing and promoting the winning script.
Previous STAGE judges include Pulitzer, Tony, Olivier & Nobel-winning judges David Auburn, John Guare, David Lindsay-Abaire, Dr. David Gross, Dr. Alan Heeger & Sir Anthony Leggett.
Submitted plays must explore scientific [...]
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Marko Peljhan
November, 14, 2011, 5:30 PM | Center for Creative Photography 108
Lecture: TWO POLAR VISIONS
This lecture will present the conceptual roots and future paths of two large bodies of art, science and technology-related works that Marko Peljhan has been developing in collaborations since the early 2000s, focusing on the Arctic Perspective Initiative and [...]
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By Anandashankar Mazumdar
A group of artists, including hyperrealist mega-portraitist Chuck Close, filed two actions Oct. 18 with the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California asserting rights under a California statute to a share of the revenue when their works were resold (Estate of Robert Graham v. Sotheby’s Inc.C.D. [...]
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By Edward Ortiz
eortiz@sacbee.com
Public servants will step into the role of servers this Sunday at Ella Dining Room & Bar as Sacramento City Council members and county supervisors try a fresh approach to raising funds for the arts.
The benefit, the brainchild of council member Darrell Fong, will help the Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission [...]
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by Joel Rose (NPR)
While the overall U.S. economy seems to be stuck in neutral, there are a few bright spots. One of them is charitable giving to the arts, which was up more than 5 percent last year.
But a new study cautions that much of that support serves audiences that are wealthier and [...]
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Deadline: December 15, 2011 (Painting and Fiction); and December 16, 2011 (Interdisciplinary, Folk/Traditional. Video)
For the past twenty-six years, the New York Foundation for the Arts ( http://www.nyfa.org/ ) has annually awarded unrestricted $7,000 Artists’ Fellowships to individual originating artists living in New York State and/or Indian Nations located in New York State.
Grants [...]
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Deadline: March 1, 2012 (Preliminary Applications)
The Kresge Foundation’s Arts and Culture program has announced the final call for preliminary grant applications for its Facility Investments and Building Reserves program. Kresge is conducting this final round of facility and building reserve grants as it continues to refine its overall investment strategy.
Eligible [...]
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Date of Event:
Tuesday, November 8, 2011 5:00pm – 6:30pm
Author Jeffrey Lustig (CSU Sacramento) will offer a seminar on his recent paper “Corporate MisEducation and the Liberal Arts Response” (2010). The paper, to be read in advance, is available for download at this link.
The American university is a battered figure on the public domain, [...]
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Ariel Dorfman recently had a new spin on an old aphorism: “Those who do not know the past well are not only condemned to repeat the mistakes of the
past, but they will not befriend it. To befriend the past, in some sense, is to create the future.” Two upcoming events invite us to create the [...]
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Artists Danielle McCullough and Gable Strong will lead a sun-print cyanotype process workshop using 19th century photographic techniques and contemporary materials gathered from the desert floor to produce images of white on a sea of bright blue. Blast Site is a monument to future failures, marking survival in the high desert, invoking both the ancient [...]
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Friday, November 4, 4-6 p.m.
Geballe Room, Townsend Center for Humanities Stephens Hall, UC Berkeley
In 1963 Ansel Adams was commissioned by then UC president Clark Kerr to create a photographic book for the upcoming centennial celebration of the University of California in 1968. Adams was asked to “…emphasize the prospective view for the university and [...]
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The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation has announced the launch of a ten-year, $50 million initiative designed to support more than two hundred individual artists in the fields of jazz, theater, and contemporary dance.
Believed to be the largest such effort in the nation, the Doris Duke Performing Artists Initiative will invest in the development and future [...]
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The Andy Warhol Art Authentication Board will be dissolved in early 2012. The decision was announced by the Andy Warhol Foundation after a strategic review of its core aims, according to Joel Wachs, the president of the foundation. The foundation will continue its work in establishing the artist’s complete catalogue raisonné.
The closure of the authentication [...]
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Close to midnight one Saturday in Sebastopol, in Sonoma County, California, fog rolled in from the nearby Pacific Ocean, encompassing the town in thick, cool mist. Inside an old apple cannery, though, revelers were in a different sort of haze — one produced by the cacophonous sounds of a funk band.
Under a disco ball that [...]
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Deadline: 01-01-2012
Grants for Music Programs
Fender Musical Instruments Corporation
The Fender Music Foundation provides funding and resources for music programs across America so that kids and adults alike will have an opportunity to experience the joys of music. The Fender Music Foundation believes that music participation is an essential element in the fabric of an enduring society. [...]
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Deadline: 12-15-2011
All Roads Seed Grant Program and Film Project
National Geographic
The All Roads Seed Grant Program funds film projects by and about indigenous and underrepresented minority-culture filmmakers year-round and from all reaches of the globe. The program seeks filmmakers who bring their lives and communities to light through first-person storytelling. Submission deadlines are quarterly on the [...]
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Deadline: 12-15-2011
Individual Support Grants for Visual Artists
Adolph & Esther Gottlieb Foundation
Since 1976, the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation has been making Individual Support Grants to painters, sculptors and printmakers who have been creating mature art for at least 20 years and who are in current financial need. Grants will not be provided to students, organizations, [...]
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Deadline: 11-01-2011
M. Edmunds and Associates
Los Angeles, CA
Affordable Art Fair Los Angeles: Recent Graduates Exhibition
We are loo
king for submissions for a Recent Graduates Exhibition within the Affordable Art Fair Los Angeles. The Recent Graduates Exhibition will highlight emerging California based artists that have recently completed their MFA or BFA.
You must be a non-represented recent BFA/MFA graduate [...]
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Deadline: 11-01-2011
Root Division
San Francisco, CA
Root Division is a San Francisco based arts & arts education non-profit organization that was founded in 2002. Part of our mission is to offer opportunities for emerging and professional artists to develop, which includes exhibiting work and curating exhibitions. We embrace artists and curators with no experience in these areas [...]
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28th Annual National Juried Show
Deadline: 10-29-2011
North Valley Art League
Redding, CA
North Valley Art League announces a call to artists for the National Juried Show to be held at the League’s Carter House Gallery in Redding, California. The show runs January 24 — February 25, 2012. Open to all artists 18 years [...]
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10/05/2011 – 01/22/2012
UC Irvine Beall Center for Art & Technology
Golan Levin is an artist, researcher and educator who develops artifacts and events which explore supple new modes of reactive expression. His work focuses on the design of systems for the creation, manipulation and performance of simultaneous image and sound, as part of a more general [...]
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November 3, 2011 6:00 PM
Fowler Museum courtyard
Yuki A.’s fans describe her voice as “Colbie Callait meets Ingrid Michaelson.” Join singer/songwriter Yuki, a fourth-year ethnomusicology student, and friends for a night of good vibes and songs that will go straight to your heart.
Free program
http://fowler.ucla.edu/events/fowler-out-loud-yuki
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November 1, 2011 7:00 PM
Hammer Presents
Renowned poets Jayne Cortez and Kamau Daaood are joined by emerging L.A. poets Thea Monyee and Javon Johnson for an evening celebrating the art of the spoken word. Hosted by Shihan Van Clief.
In conjunction with the exhibition Now Dig This! Art and Black Los Angeles 1960–1980.
ALL HAMMER PUBLIC PROGRAMS ARE [...]
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October 26, 2011 7:30 PM
Hammer Screenings
It’s a mad pile-up with multiple genres of short filmmaking represented in this BYO Film showcase. Wild debates ensue as comedic, experimental, and dramatic films alike are cheered or booed. Bring your own short films and your appetite for fun. Work under 10 minutes only. Submissions begin at 7pm, first [...]
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October 29, 2011 – December 10, 2011
Opening Reception: October 29, 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
UCR Sweeney Art Gallery
A set of large-scale paintings will be installed in such a way to merge into the Culver Center of the Arts architecture. Leapman’s paintings often make use of flourescent colors in working with a private language of abstract [...]
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October 29, 2011 – December 10, 2011
Opening Reception: October 29, 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
UCR Sweeney Art Gallery
JEFF & GORDON are a collaborative team of artists who create videos and installations that explore social interactions. Jeff Foye and Gordon Winiemko create situations wherein an audience will reflect on their participatory role in the ever-changing cultural [...]
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On October 13th and 14th arts, education, and industry leaders gathered at Loyola Marymount University (LMU) to attend ‘CREATE the STATE.’ The convening grew out of the National Endowment for the Arts’ Education Leaders Institute (ELI), attended by a six-person California team in May 2011.
CREATE THE STATE featured the same powerful speakers who presented at [...]
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Eleven private philanthropies have joined with the National Endowment for the Arts and a number of federal agencies to establish ArtPlace, a nationwide initiative to drive community revitalization with a new investment model that puts the arts at the center of economic development.
ArtPlace will periodically awards grants to organizations doing groundbreaking [...]
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Post Date: 10/5/2011
Closing Date: 11/15/2011
Department: Film and Media Studies
Title: Assistant Professor: Digital Media Culture
The Department of Film and Media Studies at the University of California, Irvine invites applications for a tenure-track appointment at the Assistant Professor level, beginning July 1, 2012. We seek scholars whose research and teaching is dedicated to the history and theory [...]
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Beatrice Gersh, a distinguished art collector and patron of the arts in Los Angeles for more than half a century who played a significant role in the founding of the Museum of Contemporary Art, has died. She was 87.
Gersh, the widow of Hollywood talent agent Phil Gersh, died Sunday of natural causes at her home [...]
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Every year, alongside its hit shows for Bay Area audiences, Berkeley Repertory Theatre offers outreach programs that challenge thousands of local youth to explore complex ideas and universal themes – both in the classroom and in life. Even as budget battles continue to cut funds for arts education in California and across the country, [...]
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Current arts grantmaking overlooks large segment of cultural practice, and as a result, large segments of the American public according to a new report by the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy. Highlighting the fact that about 11 about percent of total foundation giving, $2.3 billion in 2009, goes to arts and cultural organizations, the report [...]
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“California Design, 1930-1965: Living In A Modern Way,” at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art through March 25, 2012, is a must-see. Even though the Golden State played a key role in shaping our material culture, the exhibition is, somewhat surprisingly, the first major museum survey of California design. Organized by Wendy Kaplan [...]
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Collaborative Project Grants
Creative Work Fund
Deadline: 12-02-2011
Media and Performing Artists and Nonprofit Organizations in Northern and Central California Invited to Apply for Collaborative Project Grants
Launched in 1994, the Creative Work Fund is designed to help address the decline in support for artists and new works. Since its inception, CWF has contributed $8 million to advance art-making [...]
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Grants for Non-Profit Professional Theatres
Shubert Foundation
Deadline: 12-01-2011
The Shubert Foundation annually awards unrestricted grants for general operating support to nonprofit, professional resident theatres in the United States. Foundation grants are awarded exclusively to nonprofit 501(c)(3) organizations. Grants are awarded based on an assessment of each organization’s operation and its contribution to the field. Artistic achievement, administrative [...]
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Undergraduate Music Education Majors String Project Program
National String Project Consortium
Deadline: 11-18-2011
The National String Project Consortium (NSPC) is dedicated to increasing the number of children playing stringed instruments, and addressing the critical shortage of string teachers in the US. It does this by supporting the creation and growth of String Projects at universities across the country. [...]
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Project Manager/Teaching Artist: Merced County
Venice Arts (VA) is facilitating a two-year program in photography and multimedia for youth that will support The California Endowment’s Building Healthy Communities (BHC) youth initiative in Merced. Priorities for this initiative include supporting healthy development of youth, and keeping families safe from violence. Working in alignment with the curricular programs [...]
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California State University, Chico
Chico, CA
Deadline: 10-28-2011
The Campus Public Art Committee, a subcommittee of the CSU, Chico Campus Planning Committee, is seeking an artist or artist team to create a public work of art for the Creekside Educational Garden. The Creekside Educational Garden is located on the CSU, Chico campus adjacent to Big Chico Creek and [...]
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Pro Arts
Oakland, CA
Deadline: 10-21-2011
Pro Arts’ critically acclaimed Juried Annual presents a survey of the best new work in the San Francisco Bay Area, selected by a Juror from the international arts community.
About the Juror:
Hamza Walker is the Director of Education and Associate Curator for the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago. He is [...]
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ARTrageous Gallery
Novato, CA
CALL for ART! 2-D, 3-D, Mixed Media
Brand New Co-op Gallery Opening in scenic Old Town Novato – November 2011
Deadline: 10/21/2011
Decisions by: 10/24 Doors Open: 11/15 Grand Opening Event: 12/1
Submissions by Email & Online Only
* Lovely upscale gallery space with a vibrant, yet [...]
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Community Works Institute presents:
CWI Summer WEST Institute on Service-Learning
July 30 – August 3, 2012
Los Angeles, California
at Loyola Marymount University
Be a part of changing the nature of K-16 education at the most local level, your school, program, or classroom.
Community Works Institute (CWI) is pleased to announce the dates for CWI’s Summer WEST Institute on Service-Learning, 2012.
We [...]
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Exhibition
UC Berkeley BAM/PFA
October 12, 2011 – February 5, 2012
In October 1991, immediately following a catastrophic firestorm that struck the Oakland and Berkeley hills, renowned Bay Area photographer Richard Misrach ventured into the fire zone armed with his eight-by-ten-inch view camera. Working alone amidst the ruins, he roamed devastated neighborhoods, recording stark vistas and intimate details [...]
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Sunday, October 23, 2011
Fowler Museum Auditorium
Free program
Double Feature Screening schedule:
2:00 PM
Havana Postmodern: The New Cuban Art
(1988, 54 minutes)
Filmmakers Coco Fusco, Robert Knafo and András Mész examine the state of Cuban art and artists during the 1986 Havana Biennial. Interviews with artists (including José Bedia) and students at Cuba’s top art school touch upon art, censorship, [...]
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Lecture
UCLA Hammer Museum
October 19, 2011
7:00 PM
Without any formal training in fashion, California-raised sisters Kate and Laura Mulleavy, known as Rodarte, are among the most celebrated American designers at work today. The Mulleavy sisters join Catherine Opie and Alec Soth in a discussion about their recent book, Rodarte, Catherine Opie, Alec Soth. Created with two of [...]
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October 29 – December 10, 2011
Reception: Saturday, October 29, 6-9 p.m., free admission
RIVERSIDE, Calif. – UCR Culver Center of the Arts presents Journeys to Recover Your Future: New Paintings by David Leapman, which will feature an 8 x 28 foot, site specific, four panel phosphorescent and fluorescent painting in the Culver Center of the Art’s North Atrium [...]
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October 29 – December 10, 2011
Reception: Saturday, October 29, 6-9 p.m., free admission
RIVERSIDE, Calif. – On the court of a tony club or ivy-covered institution, another Squash player makes an aggressive serve, or politely calls for a “let,” signaling to end the rally because he accidently interfered with his opponent’s shot. In a Riverside neighborhood or Inland [...]
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(reposted from The Huffington Post)
Social sacrifice seems the sentiment of the season.
Writing in The Daily Beast, Andrew Sullivan celebrates having “a political party being honest about what it takes to avoid falling off a fiscal cliff. It means sacrifice.”
In a Facebook posting at the time of the Wisconsin Capitol sit in, Sarah Palin declared [...]
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UCIRA Artist, micha cárdenas, will be speaking on a panel on Friday at the UCLA Queer Studies Conference on the topic of “Wearable Electronics as Femme Disturbance”, discussing virus.circus and my new project, Autonets. micha will also be showing some new wearable electronics from the Autonets series in the Queerture Fashion show.
3:00 – 4:15 [...]
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Harder Stadium
Sunday, October 23 3-7pm
Visit the studios and talk with the sixteen MFA students in the Art Department. Open to all, refreshments served.
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A program of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Knight Arts Challenge – Philadelphia is a three-year, $9 million initiative designed to draw the best and most innovative ideas out of local organizations and individuals seeking to transform the community through the arts. The challenge is open to [...]
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The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation’s Media, Culture, and Special Initiatives program supports the production and distribution of social-issue documentary films intended for a broad audience. The foundation has announced it will be accepting proposals for documentary film projects from November 1, 2011, to December 2, 2011.
This highly [...]
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An urban hike and roundtable discussion about the future of cultural work and community action at the Inglewood Oil Field
October 16, 2011, Baldwin Hills Scenic Overlook Open Air Pavilion
3:00pm to 5:00pm: Screening/site research walking expedition
5:00pm to 7:00pm: Roundtable forum and discussion
Off Peak: Reclaiming the Baldwin Hills is a screening, urban hike, and roundtable discussion among [...]
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Location: Ken Edwards Center, 1527 4th Street, Santa Monica, CA
90401(Free garage parking available)
OCTOBER 19, 2011, 7:30pm to 9:00pm: ONLINE MARKETING LAW FOR FILMMAKERS With Anne Moebes, Esq.
While social media and other websites can be an effective means of promoting your film, the Federal Trade Commission and state attorneys general are on the lookout for websites [...]
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To register: www.cciarts.org/losangeles.htm or call (213) 687-8577.
Funding Your Artistic Work
Stephen Sondheim famously said, “Art isn’t easy. Even when you’re hot. Advancing art is easy. Financing it is not.”
Artist/entrepreneurs in today’s marketplace need to rethink their expectations about project fundraising. Participants will increase their knowledge about grants and learn the importance of exploring a variety [...]
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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.
TO APPLY
Review the proposal questionnaire in order to [...]
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In recent years, both with its money and its reputation, the Los Angeles Philharmonic has endorsed the principles of Venezuela’s El Sistema national music training program. The Phil set up a Los Angeles youth orchestra partially modeled on El Sistema, and hired the program’s star graduate, Gustavo Dudamel, to be the orchestra’s music director.
Now the [...]
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First-time marathoner Abigail Swift of Huntington Beach qualified for the U.S. Olympic Trials Marathon and Edwin Romero of Bogata, Colombia defied an untied shoe as they became the female and male winners of the 27th annual Long Beach Marathon Sunday. Swift finished in two hours, 43 minutes, 20 seconds, and Romero completed the 26- mile, [...]
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Art in Action, a leading nonprofit art education organization, today announced that more than 5,000 students in 85 schools are participating in the Art in Action Visual Arts Scholarship Program for the school year 2011-12. This program is part of Art in Action’s mission to bring a quality art education to more students and was [...]
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Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) announces the launch of the Baltimore Art + Justice Project, the first project of its kind in the United States to identify, amplify, and connect arts-based practitioners advancing the cause of social justice in a particular city. The project, in partnership with a citywide advisory committee, kicks off with [...]
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International Studio &
Curatorial Program (ISCP)
1040 Metropolitan Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 1121
application@iscp-nyc.org
www.iscp-nyc.org
The International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) announces an open call
for its residency program. ISCP is a leading nonprofit, residency-based
contemporary art institution for emerging to mid-career artists and
curators from around the world, including the United? States. With 35+
artists and curators in residence at all times, ISCP is [...]
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Deadline: 11-15-2011
Jean-Claude Reynal Foundation
The Jean-Claude Reynal Foundation, under the auspices of the Foundation of France, in collaboration with the Fine Arts School of Bordeaux, offers an annual grant of 10,000 euros to enable a young artist, who works directly on paper, to travel to a country of his/her choice for a period of 6 months [...]
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Deadline: 11-08-2011
Research Grants
National Endowment for the Arts
The NEA will make grants for research projects that use existing datasets to mine data for analyses of the value and impact of the U.S. arts sector on the nation, whether on individuals or communities. Applications should present novel research questions that have not previously been explored with the [...]
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Deadline: 11-14-2011
Arts Teachers Fellowship Program
Surdna Foundation
The Surdna Foundation seeks to foster just and sustainable communities in the United States – communities guided by principles of social justice and distinguished by healthy environments, strong local economies, and thriving cultures.
The Surdna Foundation Arts Teachers Fellowship Program (SATF) invites arts teachers from public high schools to apply for [...]
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Deadline: 11-18-2011
Residency Partnership Program
Chamber Music America
This program supports residency projects in which jazz, classical/contemporary, or world ensemble music is presented outside traditional performance venues and in community settings, with the goal of increasing audience appreciation and awareness of small ensemble music. Applicants collaborate with community organizations to design in-depth activities for participants of various ages [...]
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Deadline: 10-19-2011
Bedford Gallery
Walnut Creek, CA
This national survey of photography presents a diverse portrait of who we are as a nation today. The show will be designed around three themes: Our Land / Our World, Our People: Narrative/Portrait, Conceptual/Abstract
Jurors:
Drew Johnson, Curator of Photography, Oakland Museum of California
Sandra S. Phillips, Senior Curator of Photography, San Francisco Museum [...]
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Deadline: 10-15-2011
Mendocino Art Center
Mendocino, CA
Mendocino Art Center and ceramic artist, Christa Assad, invite you to submit images for a national juried exhibition entitled, “To Go,” a statement on today’s fast-paced, particularly
American on-the-go style of dining, working, multi-tasking, etc.
Open to interpretation, the theme, “To Go,” hopes to inspire both vessel and sculpture creation, from the obvious [...]
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Showoff Playwriting Festival
Deadline: 10-15-2011
Capistrano Center for the Performing Arts
San Juan Capistrano
This is a 10-minute playwriting festival. All plays must be performed in approximately 10 minutes.
The work must have a beginning that grabs your attention, a middle with some meat and character development, and an ending that makes sense. It can surprise you, shock you, make [...]
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October 12 – November 23, 2011
Reception: Wednesday, October 12, 5-7pm followed by artist talk
Curated by Shelby Graham and Joyce Brodsky
Xiaoze Xie was born in China in 1966 at the start of the Cultural Revolution and is currently the Paul L. and Phyllis Wattis Professor in Art at Stanford University.
This stunning exhibition of new larger-than-life paintings, [...]
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Sunday, October 16, 2011
1:00 – 5:00 PM
Free program
This afternoon at the Fowler celebrates the act of drawing with a series of pop-up activities spanning the galleries and grounds of the Museum. Drawing experiences are led by guest artist Justin McInteer in Transcultural Pilgrim and by Barbara Carrasco in Mapping Another L.A., where her work is [...]
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October 5, 2011 – October 13, 2011
“The question ‘What is cinema?’ is rather open.” Paul Sharits
A pioneer of the flicker film, Paul Sharits (1943–93) trained in painting and graphic design before turning to film. This background is apparent throughout his work, which juxtaposes intense pulses of color with repeated words or sound tones, and often takes [...]
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October 15, 2011 – January 15, 2012
In 2005, the Hammer launched an exciting initiative to build a collection of contemporary art through both purchases and gifts. Acknowledging the breadth of mediums engaged by contemporary artists, this growing collection is comprised of works in drawing, film, painting, photography, sculpture, and video. While the Hammer Contemporary Collection [...]
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October 15, 2011 – January 15, 2012
In 1956 Los Angeles collector Fred Grunwald made an extraordinary gif t of more than 5,000 works on paper to establish the Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts at UCLA. Today the center’s collection has grown to more than 45,000 prints, drawings, photographs, and artists’ books, dating from the [...]
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The Exploring Engagement Fund is designed to help nonprofit arts organizations try new ways of engaging audiences and participants. Grant awards are intended as risk capital for nonprofit arts organizations to encourage experimentation with new programming utilizing the “Who, How, Where” pathways described below. Organizations interested in exploring two or [...]
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The Digital Arts and New Media (DANM) MFA program at the University of California, Santa Cruz is accepting applications for Fall 2012 now through January 3, 2012. The two-year DANM MFA program brings together faculty and students from across the academic spectrum to pursue interdisciplinary artistic and scholarly research. Information on the program and application [...]
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UCIRA Artist Dee Hibbert-Jones’ project “Living Condition” was recently awarded a CCI Investing in Artists grant is also a finalist for a Creative Capital grant!
“Living Condition” is an animated, experimental documentary film, created through collaborations with three families: using experimental imagery and hand rendered animations the film tells the testimonies, memories [...]
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UCIRA Artist Jennifer Parker has been working with Gray Area Foundation for the Arts in San Francisco and more recently with their new initiative: Summer of Smart:Democracy in the Digital Age.
Their project group, PublicArtSpaces was fortunate to be selected as one of the winning teams to present at the Common Wealth Club to San Francisco [...]
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Portland, Ore.-based Disjecta Interdisciplinary Art Center is accepting proposals for a curator-in-residence for its 2012-2013 exhibition season. Disjecta is a nonprofit art and cultural organization that provides essential resources for artists to create and exhibit new work, serving as a bridge between Portland’s larger arts institutions and smaller, grassroots organizations and galleries. Disjecta houses an [...]
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Published by Mercury News.
UC Berkeley has unveiled the design for a structure that will transform an abandoned printing plant into the new Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archives.
The plan arrives nearly two years after a sinking economy forced the university to ditch its idea for a new multimillion-dollar art museum.
New York City-based architecture firm [...]
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Published by CBS News.
King Sisyphus, it turns out, had little on the folks at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
In Greek mythology, Sisyphus was condemned by the gods to push a giant rock up a hill for eternity. In modern-day LA, the city’s largest museum has spent months — and $5 million to $10 [...]
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Published by Reuters.
A city once thought to have less culture than a bowl of yogurt, Los Angeles is challenging that notion with an epic exhibition, “Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980.”
Ten years in the making, “PST” was initiated by the Los Angeles-based Getty Foundation and Getty Research Institute with a $10 million-dollar grant to [...]
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Published in San Diego Union-Tribune.
Eduardo Garcia Barrios, general and artistic director of the Orquesta de Baja California, believes in miracles. At least he believes in El Sistema, the music education program also known as the “Venezuelan miracle.”
The Russian-trained conductor saw the program’s transformative potential when an 18-year-old student was inspired by an El Sistema-based workshop [...]
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Chamber Music America
Deadline: 11-18-2011
Website: www.chamber-music.org
Grant link: http://www.chamber-music.org/programs/gr_jazz.html
Jazz ensembles and presenters, as well as freelance jazz musicians and jazz advocates, are a growing presence in Chamber Music America’s membership. Applicants must be CMA organization-level members to apply to the “New Works: Creation and Presentation Program.”
This program supports the creation and performance of ensemble works in the [...]
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Artists’ Resource for Completion Grants Program for Los Angeles Artists
Center for Cultural Innovation
Deadline: 11-01-2011
Website: www.cciarts.org
Grant link: http://www.cciarts.org/pdf_files/ARC_Guidelines.pdf
The ARC (Artists’ Resource for Completion) grants program provides rapid, short-term assistance to individual artists in Los Angeles County who wish to enhance work for a specific, imminent opportunity that may significantly benefit their careers. Artists in any discipline [...]
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Composer Assistance Program
American Music Center
Deadline: 10-17-2011
Website: www.amc.net
Grant link: http://www.amc.net/grants/default.aspx
Direct assistance is available to composers to help them realize their music in performance.
Grants are project-based. There must be a specific work (or works) associated with the request. There must also be a specific event associated with the work, such as a performance or reading.
The American Music [...]
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Deadline: 10-14-2011
Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum
Santa Barbara, CA
Call For Entries (CFE) is an annual juried exhibition that encourages artists from the local community to produce newly commissioned work. CFE is open to visual artists of all mediums currently living and working in Santa Barbara, Ventura, and San Luis Obispo Counties. Applicants may not be closely [...]
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Deadline: 10-15-2011
San Francisco Green Film Festival
San Francisco, CA
The San Francisco Green Film Festival announces its call for submissions for the 2nd Annual SFGFF taking place March 1-4, 2012.
SFGFF is the San Francisco Bay Area’s leading festival for innovative film, television, and digital media that inspire environmental action and advocacy. The 2012 festival will take place [...]
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Deadline: 10-10-2011
San Luis Obispo Museum of Art
San Luis Obispo, CA
Traces, Marks and Fragments: A Traditional Print Show California
Eligibility & Media:
Open to artists residing or working in California in primarily traditional printmaking methods such as: intaglio, lithography, serigraphy, monoprints, and monotypes. No reproductions in any medium. Work must be framed with white mats, no filler, and [...]
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Deadline: 10-05-2011
Jones Studio Gallery
Long Beach, CA
Group Photographic Exhibition
Curated by: Yasmin Etemadi
Jones Studio Gallery is pleased to present a group photographic exhibition. The show opens Saturday, November 5th with an artist reception at Jones Studio Gallery on Saturday, November 12th, 2011, from 6:00 – 10:00 PM.
Photographers and photo-based artists working in any genre are eligible to [...]
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Exhibition
Opening Reception with Curator Jennifer Flores Sternad
UCSD University Art Gallery
October 06, 2011 5:30 – 8:30 PM
The University Art Gallery (UAG) at the University of California, San Diego is proud to present an exhibition of Argentine political art produced in the public sphere over the past fifteen years. Arrhythmias of Counter-Production: Engaged Art in Argentina, 1995-2011 [...]
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Thursday, October 6, 2011
6:00 – 8:00 PM
UCLA Fowler Museum
Free program
Omo Aché performs sacred dances and music of African cultures preserved in Cuba through cabildos (cultural societies) including the Yoruba, Arará, and Congo. Under the direction of master artist Juan Carlos Blanco, the performances will include dance ensembles accompanied by live percussion, interspersed with brief storytelling [...]
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Exhibition
UCLA Hammer Museum
Ends October 09, 2011
Los Angeles-based artist Shannon Ebner’s work investigates the correlations between photography and language. Informed by various modes of writing—including poetry, experimental writing, and political speech—Ebner constructs images in the studio and the landscape. She builds letters and phrases out of vernacular materials such as cardboard, wood, and cinder blocks, [...]
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Exhibition
UCLA Hammer Museum
October 02, 2011 – January 08, 2012
Now Dig This! Art and Black Los Angeles 1960–1980 chronicles the vital legacy of the city’s African American artists. The work of these practitioners was animated to an extent by the civil rights and Black Power movements, reflecting the changing sense of what constituted African American identity [...]
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Film Screening
UCR Sweeney Art Gallery
Culver Center of the Arts
October 08, 2011 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Following The Great Picture panel discussion, there will be a screening of “Lumière and Company,” France, 1995, 88 mins. 40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière Brothers, working under [...]
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FINAL NOTICE to Members of our Creative Community…Artists… Professionals… Organizations… and Businesses…
We want to hear from you!
Affordable Artist Housing :Take the Survey
Affordable Arts Organization Space: Take the Survey:
Are you involved in the arts, entertainment, or creative industries?
Do you lead an arts/cultural organization, or a creative or arts-friendly business?
Do you need affordable space in which to [...]
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National Arts and Humanities Month (NAHM) is a coast-to-coast celebration of culture in America. Held every October and coordinated by Americans for the Arts, NAHM is the largest annual celebration of the arts and humanities in the nation. President Obama has issued a White House proclamation that recognizes the value of the arts and humanities [...]
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Please join California Arts Advocates in opposing AB 1330, legislation that would undermine access to arts education courses by allowing students to substitute Career Technical Education (CTE) courses for current requirements in Visual and Performing Arts (VAPA) or Foreign Language.
While CAA supports efforts to create pathways to the workforce for students, preventing every student from [...]
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Each cycle, the winner of the biennial Scientists, Technologists and Artists Generating Exploration (STAGE) Competition will receive a $10,000 USD prize, along with possible opportunities for developing and promoting the winning script.
Previous STAGE judges include Pulitzer, Tony, Olivier & Nobel-winning judges David Auburn, John Guare, David Lindsay-Abaire, Dr. David Gross, Dr. Alan Heeger & Sir [...]
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Last day: Saturday, October 8th
On Saturday, October 8, the last day of the exhibition, there will be a last opportunity to meet the artists and have your book signed.
Panel Discussion
October 8, 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM, Free Admission
On the last day of “The Great Picture” exhibition, curator Tyler Stallings and artists from The Legacy Project [...]
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UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA CRUZ ART DEPARTMENT
Chair of the Art Department and Artist/Practitioner in Social Practice or Environmental Arts
Associate or Full Professor
The Art Department of the University of California, Santa Cruz invites applications for a chair of the department/tenured faculty position. The successful candidate will become a principle figure in our proposed MFA [...]
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Deadline: 10-15-2011
The mission of the Yellow House Fund Arts Education Initiative is to foster and develop arts organizations, including those that support young people and individual artists in presenting cultural diversity for the benefit of the community.
The Yellow House Fund Arts Education Initiative offers grants to eligible local, state, and/or national [...]
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The California Council for the Humanities will be holding its first informational session for California Story Fund (CSF) grantseekers this Friday, with additional sessions to follow. For more information about CSF, see below.
Dates and times for upcoming informational sessions are as follows:
Informational Webinar
Friday, September 30, 2011—10:30 am to 12:00 pm Pacific Time
Informational Meetings
San Diego Region [...]
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Thursday, October 6, 2011 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Pollock Theater, UCSB
Free Public Film Screening and Reception
LOSING CONTROL is a fresh and funny indie comedy about a female scientist who applies scientific principles to the art of finding love. The screening will be followed by a discussion with the film’s BAFTA Award-winning writer/director, Valerie Weiss, and the film’s lead actor, Miranda Kent.
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Tuesday, October 11, 2011 @ 7:30 PM, Campbell Hall
General Public $6.00
Includes facility fee
“… transcendent, a near-religious experience.” The Onion A.V. Club
Spike Lee’s explosive and astounding film captures one of the great theatrical productions of recent memory – the smash hit Broadway musical Passing Strange written by singer/songwriter Stew. The story of a young black man from Los Angeles [...]
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Monday, October 10, 2011 @ 8:00 PM, Campbell Hall
General Public $20.00
UCSB Students $10.00
Includes facility fee
Reinventing Our Education Future
“A name you need to know.” Forbes Magazine
“This guy is amazing. It is awesome how much he has done with very little in the way of resources.” – Bill Gates
A hedge-fund manager turned internet superstar, Sal Khan is the founder [...]
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Sunday, October 9, 2011 @ 3:00 PM, Campbell Hall
General Public $15.00
Youth $10.00
Includes facility fee
Sing Along with America’s Favorite Cowboys
Riders in the Sky in
Round Up at the Kids Corral
Featuring
Ranger Doug * Joey * Woody Paul * Too Slim
Riders in the Sky are America’s favorite Wild West cowboys and children’s entertainers. Their Saturday morning network TV show, award-winning [...]
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On Display September 30 through October 3, 2011
Opening Preview on Friday, September 30th
L.A. Mart, 1933 S. Broadway, Suite 542, Los Angeles, California 90007
Quint Contemporary Art is pleased to showcase works by artists Adam Belt, Mel Bochner, Thomas Glassford, Kim MacConnel, Ryan McGinness, Roy McMakin, Tavares Strachan, and more! The Art Platform – Los Angeles art fair [...]
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Tuesday, September 27, 2011
6:30–9:30 p.m.
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
6:30–9:30 p.m.
Location: Arts Building Studio Theatre, ARTS 113
Parking Information
Category: Audition
Description: Department of Theatre
AUDITIONS:
DETAINED IN THE DESERT a play by Josefina Lopez
This satirical drama explores the anti-immigrant atmosphere in Arizona, the rise in violence against Latinos fueled by extremist media, and the plight of undocumented immigrants.
Needed: 15 actors
Requirements: You will be [...]
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What: Bruce Ferguson, former Dean of the Arts at Columbia University, NYC and currently Dean of the Humanities and Social Sciences at the American University in Cairo will open the Arts Symposium with a talk entitled “NOT IN THE AGE OF THE PHAROAHS: CONTEMPORARY ART, THE ARAB SPRING AND AFTER”
When: 5:00-7:00 pm TONIGHT Tuesday, September [...]
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October 13, 2011 at 08.00pm
Schoenberg Hall, UC Los Angeles
Description
UCLA PHILHARMONIA
October 13th, 8:00 pm
Schoenberg Hall
Weber Overture to Oberon
Berlioz Orchestral music from Roméo et Juliette, Op. 17
Tchaikovsky Romeo and Juliet: Overture-Fantasie
Chihara Suite from The Tempest (1980)
Neal Stulberg, conductor
This concert is presented in conjunction with Shakespeare + Opera: Found in Translation? – a conference sponsored by the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.
**Note: This program was to [...]
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We proudly present more than 50 representative works from this landmark era of Black student filmmakers at UCLA. Many screenings will feature rare filmmaker appearances and brand new prints struck for the first time in decades.
Friday, October 7, 2011- Saturday, December 17, 2011
Billy Wilder Theater, UC Los Angeles
IN-PERSON:
Ben Caldwell (Thursday, October 27; Saturday, December [...]
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The University Art Gallery presents its premiere 2011-2012 exhibit in its Major Works of Art Series:
The Radicalization of a ’50s Housewife, a Solo Project by Barbara T. Smith
Curated by Juli Carson, Gallery Director
October 5, 2011, 6:00pm- December 4, 2011, 5:00pm
OPENING RECEPTION Oct. 5, 6-9 p.m. in the University Art Gallery
Venue:
University Art Gallery, UC Irvine
This [...]
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PULSE Los Angeles
Friday, September 30, 12pm-2pm
Location: Event Deck at L.A. Live
1005 West Chick Hearn Court
Downtown Los Angeles, California
About PULSE Contemporary Art Fair
PULSE Contemporary Art Fair is the leading US art fair dedicated solely to contemporary art. Through its annual editions in New York, Los Angeles and Miami, PULSE provides a unique platform for diverse galleries [...]
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University Symphony Orchestra: Symphony
Performing Arts – Music: Evening concert: Highlights: MUSIC DEPARTMENT event | September 30 – October 1, 2011 every day | 8-9:30 p.m. | Hertz Concert Hall, UC Berkeley
Sponsor: Music, Department of
David Milnes, conductor
Ligeti: Lontano
Schumann: Symphony No. 2
Korngold: Violin Concerto, Ernest Yen, soloist
Tickets required: $15 General, $10 Non-UCB students, disabled, seniors, $5 UCB students, faculty, staff
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Yefim Bronfman, piano
Works by Brahms, Liszt, and Prokofiev
Tuesday, October 11, 8 pm
Zellerbach Hall, UC Berkeley
Price: starts at $30 BUY TICKETS
Overview:
Virtuoso Russian-Israeli pianist Yefim Bronfman is recognized the world over for the depth of his musicality, his abundant imagination, and his commanding technique. In the concerto repertoire, he is a favorite collaborator with such [...]
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New Music
Bay Area Premiere!
Kronos Quartet Music of Steve Reich
Sunday, October 9, 7:00 pm
Hertz Hall, UC Berkeley
Price: $50 BUY TICKETS
Overview:
A highly anticipated local premiere by one of the fathers of minimalism is the centerpiece of this concert by the incomparable Kronos Quartet. The group has long been a champion of the music of Steve Reich, [...]
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by National Endowment for the Arts
September 22, 2011
Tickets available on Monday, September 26 at 10:00 am EDT
Event kicks off National Opera Week
Awards ceremony to be webcast live at arts.gov
Washington, DC — For those interested in learning more about American opera, the 2011 National Endowment for the Arts Opera Honors award ceremony offers an excellent opportunity [...]
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by Philanthropy News Digest
September 24, 2011
California
The San Francisco Foundation has announced the winners of its 2011 Community Leadership Award, which recognizes people and organizations that have made a significant impact in their Bay Area community. This year, Bishop Yvette A. Flunder, Gonzalo Rucobo, John Santos, and Jordan Simmons will each receive $10,000, while the Ravenswood Family [...]
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Tsubaki Designs Artist Coalition Call to Artists:
Into the Wild Unkown Submission Deadline for concepts and proposals: October 30th and November 30, 2011
T.D.A.C., a curated online resource for contemporary/modern art, invites artists to submit work to an open application call. From this open call, 10 artists will be selected and inclusion in our upcoming featured artists [...]
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Sylvia White Gallery will host 2012 Collector’s Choice, an exhibition that will be juried by 25 of the gallery’s best collectors. Each juror will choose one or more pieces to be included in the exhibition. Artists and collectors will have an opportunity to meet at the opening reception.
Show dates: January 4th through February 11th, 2012, with [...]
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Pro Arts’ critically acclaimed Juried Annual presents a survey of the best new work in the San Francisco Bay Area, selected by a Juror from the international arts community.
About the Juror:
Hamza Walker is the Director of Education and Associate Curator for the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago. He is also on the faculty [...]
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The Revel art program of the Sacramento Gay & Lesbian Center is now booking artists for our upcoming multi-artist show on Second Saturday, November 12.
For the past year and a half, the Center has enjoyed taking part in Midtown Sacramento’s monthly Second Saturday Art Walk. We have prided ourselves on giving both emerging and established [...]
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by New York Times
09-26-2011
Postwar California provided the perfect environment for modernism to flourish. Newly available materials like machine-molded plywood combined with mass production to revolutionize furniture design; industrial steel transformed residential construction; and the region’s comfortable climate invited indoor-outdoor living. This month, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art presents “California Design, 1930-1965: Living in a [...]
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by San Diego Reader
09-23-2011
The James Irvine Foundation, a California civic and cultural booster group, recently commissioned a study by Markusen Economic Research focusing on how (and how often) Californians took advantage of art and cultural opportunities.
The group finds that in 2008, the last year data is available on the subject, 52% of Californians attended at [...]
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by San Francisco Chronicle
09-23-2011
To examine the public art that will soon go up at the North Beach library, all you have to do is close your eyes.
The to-be-built library will feature a soundtrack of noises from around the neighborhood, as designed by audio artist and North Beach resident Bill Fontana. His idea for a “sound sculpture” [...]
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by Los Angeles Times
09-21-2011
A California-based theater chain is trying to tap into the growing movie market in China –- not just by building theaters there equipped with the latest digital technology, but also teaching young people how to run them.
The privately held UltraStar Cinemas chain, headquartered in Vista, Calif., has joined forces with the Xiamen [...]
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by Huffington Post
09-21-2011
After some months (it could be argued, years), Rocco Landsman, Chair of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has put together a national organization dedicated to building creative places in cities around the country, demonstrating the vital link between the arts and economic development.
Called ArtPlace, it continues the work of the NEA to [...]
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by Los Angeles Times
09-18-2011
Los Angeles art came into its own after World War II, when artists such as Ed Kienholz and Billy Al Bengston tapped into popular culture.
In September 1945, under a pall of ocher smog and summer heat, Los Angeles entered the postwar world. The city then was bigger, wealthier and more diverse than [...]
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by Los Angeles Times
09-18-2011
Sometimes we seem to know less about the early years of post-World War II art in Los Angeles than we know about the Pleistocene Age mammals dredged up from the La Brea Tar Pits. In the last 30 years, L.A. pushed to the front ranks of international capitals for new art, a [...]
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by Huffington Post
09-15-2011
A Screen Actors Guild member has pled guilty to leaking several high-profile Hollywood films on BitTorrent, a file-sharing network notorious for enabling internet piracy of films, music, and television programs.
Wired reports that Wesley DeSoto, a bit actor who once appeared in ‘CSI: Crime Scene Investigation,’ admitted to leaking his screener version of ‘Black Swan’ [...]
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CFP: Connected Viewing – Research on Emerging Trends
DATES: October, 2011-August 2012
Media industries are undergoing dramatic changes as digital distribution and social media transform almost every aspect of the entertainment business. The Media Industries Project (MIP) of the Carsey-Wolf Center at UC Santa Barbara (http://www.carseywolf.ucsb.edu/mip), in collaboration with Warner Bros., is assembling a team of researchers [...]
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Open to all majors, faculty, staff, and community members
Auditions will be held in UCSB Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall:
FRI., SEPT. 23
SAT., SEPT. 24
SUN., SEPT. 25
Audition Requirements:
2 short works of contrasting styles, 1 scale of your choice
For an audition, please sign-up outside Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall in the Department of Music.
For further information about the UCSB Department [...]
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Participating in this world-wide event, a stellar group of local poets
* Perie Longo * Hasani Simons * Melinda Palacio * Paul Portugues
* Steve Beisner * Barry Spacks * Katie Ingram * Ron Alexander
* Susan Chiavelli * Jonathan Gomez * Paul Fericano * Angelica Jochim
* Richard Jarrette * David Starkey * Michelle Detorie * Ani Ahavah
* [...]
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WORKSHOP: Defending the University
Application deadline: Monday, October 10
Rick Perlstein (journalist, author of Nixonland)
Saturday, November 5 / 9:30 AM ? 4 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
As part of its yearlong “Public Goods” series, the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center at UCSB invites interested faculty and other members of the UC community to participate in “Defending the University,” [...]
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Choreographers Working Group (CWG) is a collective of five Los Angeles-based choreographers with differing aesthetics. We came together in 2008 to explore new models of choreographic research and peer mentorship. Our intention is to serve each other’s creative growth through a rigorous and playful exploration of the language, tools, and [...]
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Written by Mark Slavkin On September – 14 – 2011
When we consider careers in the arts, I would like to see more attention paid and resources assigned to cultivate the next generation of teaching artists.
At the Los Angeles Music Center, teaching artists are central to our work helping schools gain capacity to provide [...]
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ArtsReady, a national initiative of South Arts, is a new readiness, response, and recovery Web-based platform designed to help ensure post-crisis business continuity for arts organizations. The online tool will be unveiled to the arts community nationwide via a free webcast on Thursday, September 15 at 1:00pm EST.
After over two [...]
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Overview
The Los Angeles County Arts Commission’s Civic Art Program is seeking qualifications from two-dimensional artists, such as painters, printmakers, graphic artists and photographers, to create original artwork for the interiors of Fire Station 128 and 132 in Santa Clarita, CA. The new fire stations will provide fire protection and emergency medical services to a growing [...]
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Proposals Sought for New Program Designed to Foster Innovative Approaches to Challenges Facing America’s Museums
RFP Released, Proposals will be accepted through October 31, 2011
The American Association of Museums’s (AAM) Center for the Future of Museums, EmcArts, and MetLife Foundation announce the launch of a major new initiative designed to enable selected museums to design, research [...]
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by California Arts Advocates
A lot has been happening in the arts over the past month and we need your help!
Two actions must be taken immediately: encourage Governor Jerry Brown to oppose AB 1330 and support SB 547 and protect vital charitable giving incentives on the federal level!
In addition, CAA’s Board had a very successful retreat [...]
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Friday, October 7, 2011 @ 8:00 PM, Campbell Hall, UC Santa Barbara
General Public $38.00
UCSB Students $19.00
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Santa Barbara Debut
“We were just mesmerized by him.” – The Edge, U2
“Troy possesses the rarest combination of talent, technical capability and down home soul. I’m his biggest fan.” – Wynton Marsalis
“Don’t get me wrong, we got it goin’ [...]
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Thursday, October 6, 2011 @ 8:00 PM, Campbell Hall, UC Santa Barbara
General Public $38.00
UCSB Students $19.00
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Santa Barbara Debut
The Lives of Giants
Sophiline Cheam Shapiro, Artistic Director and Choreographer
“A gorgeous spectacle… Shapiro’s journey unfolds like a moving painting. Exquisite.” The New York Times
More than 36 elaborately adorned dancers and musicians perform a “mesmerizing” (Los Angeles [...]
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Tuesday, October 4, 2011 @ 7:30 PM, Campbell Hall, UC Santa Barbara
General Public $18.00
UCSB Students $10.00
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The feel-good hit of the summer. An evening of riotous delight… I found myself physically incapable with laughter.” Daily Telegraph
Actor James Corden is reunited with National Theatre director Nicholas Hytner for the first time since the worldwide hit [...]
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Monday, October 3, 2011 @ 8:00 PM, The Granada Theatre, Santa Barbara
General Public $18.00 – $153.00
UCSB Students $28.00
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The Infernal Comedy – Confessions of a Serial Killer
Starring John Malkovich
Michael Sturminger, Writer & Director
Martin Haselböck, Music Director & Music Concept
Musica Angelica, Baroque Ensemble
“Hollywood star John Malkovich excels as serial killer Jack Unterweger. A melodic ride [...]
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Sunday, October 2, 2011 @ 4:00 PM
Location: Campbell Hall, UC Santa Barbara
FREE EVENT
Mighty Be Our Powers – How Sisterhood,
Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War
“She should be a lesson to all of us.” The New York Times
A champion of women’s empowerment around the world, Leymah Gbowee is an African peace activist often credited with [...]
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Exhibition runs October 6, 2011 through January 20, 2012
Opening Reception with Curator Jennifer Flores Sternad on October 6th, 5:30-8:30pm
UC San Diego, University Art Gallery, Mandeville Center, 9500 Gilman Dr., La Jolla, California 92093
The University Art Gallery (UAG) at the University of California, San Diego is proud to present an exhibition of Argentine political art produced [...]
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Event details
When: Sunday, October 16
Time: 5 p.m.
Where: Culver Center of the Arts, UC Riverside
Map
Price: Free
Listen: Milos
Watch: Milos Guitar videos
Website: milosguitar.com
Miloš Karadaglić, guitar
“He punched through the trio of ballads (El Decameron Negro) with an innate poise and elegance that made you sit up and listen…And then the firecracker: a superbly inflected, impeccably [...]
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Tuesday, October 4, 2011
4:10–5:30 p.m.
Location: Athletics & Dance Building 102, UC Riverside
Description: UCR DEPARTMENT OF DANCE presents the Fall 2011 Colloquium
New Research in Dance Studies: Indigenous Performance
Jacqueline Shea Murphy, coordinator
October 4–November 29, 2011
Tuesdays, 4:10–5:30 pm
Dance Studio Theatre, Athletics and Dance
Building: ATH 102 (formerly PE 102)
Parking: use permit dispenser in Lot 1
Open to: Campus Only
Admission: Free
Sponsor: [...]
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October 25 – December 4, 2011
Location: Gil Cates Theater
Nominations for:
2010 Tony Award – Best Play
Drama Desk Award – Outstanding Play
Outer Critics Circle Award – Outstanding New Broadway Play
“Artful, thoughtful and very moving.” – The New York Times
“Geoffrey Nauffts has a gift for dialogue that is funny and cutting, and it’s put to good use [...]
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Presented at:
Hammer Museum
Billy Wilder Theater
10899 Wilshire Blvd.
(at the corner of Westwood and Wilshire)
Los Angeles, CA 90024
Thursday, October 6, 2011, 7:00pm
Mark Leckey
Mark Leckey is a British artist whose work has been shown widely internationally including solo exhibitions at the Serpentine Gallery, London; Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York; Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne; and Le Consortium, Dijon. Recent group [...]
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Twenty Twenty
October 5 2011, 7:00pm
Roger Guenveur Smith and Marc Anthony Thompson premiere Twenty Twenty, their new multimedia performance about black music created and fostered in L.A. from 1960 to 1980. Smith and Thompson are your sonic tour guides through this impressionistic survey of distinctive music that includes Odetta’s spirituals, free jazz, psychedelic rock and the [...]
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Opening Day Performance: Kiss
October 2 2011, 2:00pm
Hammer Museum, UC Los Angeles
Now Dig This! artists Senga Nengudi and Maren Hassinger perform a collaborative project with Ulysses Jenkins in which they reimagine their works in the exhibition galleries.
In conjunction with the exhibition Now Dig This! Art and Black Los Angeles 1960-1980.
Free with museum admission. Parking is [...]
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Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 7:00 PM
Royce Hall, UC Los Angeles
Tickets from $35 ($15 Students)
Performance and purpose collide in this powerful world stage premiere that illuminates the plight of the Pacific Islands. Scientists report the vulnerable coral atolls of Kiribati Tokelau and Tuvalu are already experiencing rising sea levels as result of global warming and [...]
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The honor of being the premiere exhibition in our new Contemporary Arts Center Gallery goes to Yael Bartana, whose …and Europe will be stunned arrives to Irvine directly from the Polish Pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale.
Critical Aesthetics Program
Contemporary Arts Center Gallery
…and Europe will be stunned, A Solo Exhibition by Yael Bartana
Curated by Juli Carson, [...]
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Galeet Dardashti: High Holiday Sacred Songs (Piyyutim) from Pulpit to Pop Chart
Performing Arts – Music: Lecture/demonstration: Co-sponsored event | September 22 | 7:30 p.m. | Jewish Community Center, East Bay
Location: 1414 Walnut St, Berkeley, CA 94709
Sponsor: Jewish Music Festival
Presentation of Jewish Middle Eastern and North African (Mizrahi) High Holiday piyyut traditions. Come hear and learn several of [...]
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Chapter and Verse: Structures of Reading: History of the Book Annual Conference
Saturday, October 8, 2011 | 9 a.m.-6 p.m.
Speaker/Performer: Nicholas Dames, Department of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
Sponsor: Bancroft Library
Nicholas Dames, Theodore Kahan Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University, speaks on the history of the chapter, from ancient prose fiction to the modern [...]
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September 23, 2011, 10:30am-12:00pm
Description:
This lecture is free and open to the public
Michal Rataj is assistant professor at Academy Of Performing Arts, Prague, producer of radioart program at Czech Radio and he also teaches electro-acoustic music at the NYU in Prague.
Michal Rataj will present current Radioart activities in the Czech Radio, where he has produced new [...]
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Cambodia’s Khmer Arts Ensemble
The Lives of Giants
Sunday, October 2, 3 pm
Venue: Zellerbach Hall, UC Berkeley
Price: Tickets start at $20
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Overview
Experimental and spiritual, classical, complex and powerful—these are just a few of the words that describe the unique work of choreographer Sophiline Cheam Shapiro. Since 2002, Shapiro has toured the world with her [...]
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Calder Quartet Thomas Adès, piano
Works by Adès, Liszt and Stravinsky
Sunday, October 2 at 3 pm
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Venue: Hertz Hall, UC Berkeley
Price: $42
Overview
The members of the “superb” (New York Times) Calder Quartet are the closest thing to rock stars in the world of classical quartets. They are joined in this performance by supremely inventive composer [...]
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by Philanthropy News Digest
September 16, 2011
The Ford Foundation has announced the launch of ArtPlace, a public-private collaboration designed to drive revitalization in cities and towns by putting the arts at the center of economic development.
In conjunction with its launch, ArtPlace announced grants totaling $11.5 million to thirty-four projects across the country that have developed a [...]
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by Philanthropy News Digest
September 18, 2011
The PepsiCo Foundation has announced a three-year, $1 million grant to Los Angeles-based LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes to establish an Edible Teaching Garden and Culinary Arts Program for Hispanic youth.
The organization’s programs in Southern California work to improve children’s awareness of nutrition, increase their physical activity, and strengthen [...]
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by National Endowment for the Arts
September 19, 2011
Washington, D.C. — Outside of a bookstore or library shelf, you’d be lucky to find former U.S. Poet Laureate Rita Dove, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Michael Cunningham, and A Prairie Home Companion host Garrison Keillor together in the same place at the same time. But for two days this [...]
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by National Endowment for the Arts
September 14, 2011
“On behalf of the National Endowment for the Arts, it is with great sadness that I acknowledge the passing of Appalachian banjo picker, singer and 1987 NEA National Heritage Fellow Wade Mainer,” said NEA Chairman Rocco Landesman. “Mainer embodied the qualities of excellence and commitment to artistic [...]
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by Carol Coletta, Director, ArtPlace
Deadline: November 15, 2011
Yesterday, I was honored to announce the establishment of ArtPlace, a consortium of foundations, federal agencies, and financial institutions to drive the revitalization of cities and towns with a new investment model that puts the arts at the center of economic development.
What drives revitalization? People. After all, cities [...]
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Deadline: November 15, 2011
The California Story Fund is a competitive grant program of the California Council for the Humanities designed to capture genuine and compelling stories from and about California’s diverse communities, and to ensure that those stories can be shared widely.
The council seeks proposals for story-based projects that are informed by humanities perspectives, methods, [...]
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In addition to our November 2011 featured solo exhibition by Sandra Yagi (sandrayagi.com), we will be hosting a group show entitled “Genus, Species”. We are looking for small-sized works in the inspiration of Scientific Botanical or Anatomical illustrations with your own unique twist on the traditional style. For this show, we are asking that each [...]
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Disability, Accessibility, and Arts Residency: Call for Participation
Calling artists of all media (visual artists, filmmakers, performance artists, choreographers, sound artists, creative writers, & poets) to participate in a one-week residency to be held at the University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI) at UC Irvine from June 12-20, 2012. Six artists will be invited to [...]
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Art on the Wharf – October 1, 2011
Art on the Wharf is continuing the tradition of professional and aspiring local artists of all ages in a multitude of mediums: painting, video, pottery, papercuts, metal work, sculpture, photography and performing artists.
The plan is to have artists offer their works for sale and it is necessary that [...]
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DIGITAL ARTS: CALIFORNIA invites digital artists and photographers worldwide to submit works for “Simply the Best,” a juried digital-arts exhibit that will be held both online AND in a physical gallery in Los Angeles, San Diego, or another California art center.
Works selected by our expert jurors as finalists will be showcased in solo, online galleries, [...]
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The Campus Public Art Committee, a subcommittee of the CSU, Chico Campus Planning Committee, is seeking an artist or artist team to create a public work of art for the Creekside Educational Garden. The Creekside Educational Garden is located on the CSU, Chico campus adjacent to Big Chico Creek and Colusa Hall. Artists are asked [...]
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About Adult Continuing Education: The ACE non-credit course offerings at SFAI encourage students in their conceptual and technical development, while building basic knowledge and confidence in the areas of art history and theory, design and technology, drawing, film, painting, photography, printmaking, new genres, and sculpture. Courses typically meet once a week from 7:30-10:30 p.m. or [...]
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The mission of Art on Main is to be a leader in the presentation of contemporary visual arts. The gallery seek to encourage experimentation in all forms of Art from emerging and established artists; through exhibitions, and outreach. Please visit our website: www.aonm.com
Entry Fee: There is NO fee to summit artwork to be considered to [...]
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Announcing the First Annual Juried Exhibition
“CreativiTea”
Open to all residents of California, Oregon & Washington States
Open to all media :: must incorporate tea and/or tea bags.
Please find Prospectus/ Application attached.
The exhibition will take place in 2 venues: December 11 & 12, 2011, at the 41st annual KPFA Crafts Fair, San Francisco, and March 9 through April 8, 2012 at the ACCI [...]
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Evolve the Gallery will honor and celebrate Muhammed Ali’s 70th Birthday. This exhibition will feature works that pay tribute to the life, career and achievements of Muhammed Ali. A catalog will be produced featuring the works selected for the exhibition.
Artists may submit evocative paintings, mixed media, photography and sculptures only. We encourage emerging, mid-career and [...]
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AAWAA’s Emerging Curators Program
CALL FOR ENTRIES
So What Do You Have To Say For Yourself?
A Visual Art Exhibition, Curated by Patricia Carino
Submission Deadline: Thursday, September 22, 2011
Exhibition Premise: Generation Y or Millennials are born between the early 1980’s to early 2000’s. This generation grew up in a high-speed Internet, post 9/11, social-media frenzied, and entrepreneurial era. [...]
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Friday, October 21, 2011 – 7:30p.m.
Music Center Recital Hall (UCSC)
Boston-based concert pianist performs in a special appearance at UC Santa Cruz. Program features works by Frédéric Chopin, including Bolero, op. 19, and works by William Tisdall, Matan Porat, Carl Nielsen, W. A. Mozart, and Ludwig van Beethoven.
$12 general
$10 seniors (62+)
$8 youth & students w/ ID
Prices [...]
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Saturday, October 1, 2011 @ 4:00 PM, Arlington Theatre, Santa Barbara
General Public $28.00
Includes facility fee
Free to ALL students with a valid student ID. (Limited availability)
Founder and Chief Shoe Giver of TOMS Shoes, Inc.
Conscious Capitalism and the Future of Business
“One of the most interesting entrepreneurs [I’ve] ever met.” – Bill Clinton
TOMS Shoes’ simple promise to [...]
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Thursday, October, 13, 2011 at 8pm
Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall, UC Santa Barbara
UCSB’S CREATE (Center for Research in Electronic Art Technology) presents a dynamic program featuring the American premiere of the extraordinary new electronic work “Points-critiques” (2011) by the celebrated Paris-based composer Horacio Vaggione. Also included are the [...]
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September 16 – October 2, 2011
By David Leddy
San Diego Botanic Garden
A Without Walls Presentation
All performances take place at the San Diego Botanic Garden 230 Quail Gardens Drive, Encinitas, California.
Susurrus is a fascinating, site-specific piece by internationally-renowned artist David Leddy that will launch the Playhouse’s innovative Without Walls program. Audiences listen on iPods while following a [...]
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September 10 – December 17, 2011
Performance Information: Performances run approximately one hour. All Story Pirates: The Flagship Show performances are held in the Geffen Playhouse Kinross Annex: 10920 Kinross Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90024.
“It’s crazy entertaining!” – Jon Stewart
While many children’s theater troupes tell stories to kids, the Geffen Playhouse Story Pirates believe that every [...]
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Dates: 10/05/2011 – 12:00pm – 01/22/2012 – 8:00pm
Venue: Beall Center, UC Irvine
This exhibit is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment of the Arts (NEA).
Golan Levin is an artist, engineer and educator interested in new modes of interactive expression and non-verbal communication.
Through performances, responsive artifacts and virtual environments, Levin applies creative twists [...]
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Monday, October 10, 2011
Geballe Room, Townsend Center for the Humanities
220 Stephens Hall, UC Berkeley
The Arts Research Center’s Art + Time and Art + Neighborhood research groups are joining together to sponsor this daylong symposium, which will make use of the presence in the Bay Area of three artists whose socially engaged work comes from different [...]
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by Philanthropy News Digest
09-07-2011
The Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program (DFP) and the Skoll Foundation have announced the extension of the Stories of Change: Social Entrepreneurship in Focus Through Documentary initiative through 2013.
Launched in 2007, Stories of Change has helped nearly a hundred filmmakers and social entrepreneurs through a strategic combination of invited gatherings and documentary [...]
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by National Endowment for the Arts
September 13, 2011
Washington, DC — NEA Chairman Rocco Landesman will visit Charleston, South Carolina, September 14-15, 2011. On the afternoon of September 14, he will meet with Mayor Joseph P. Riley, Jr. to learn more about the City of Charleston’s plans to transform an open space into the Gaillard Center [...]
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by Yidio
09-10-2011
It’s about time life got a little nudge toward imitating art in the most positive possible sense.
With the third season of Fox’s “Glee” just around the bend, creator Ryan Murphy, Fox and the National Association for Music Education have an impressive idea for giving back to what one must consider not just the show’s [...]
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by San Francisco Chronicle
09-10-2011
SAN FRANCISCO — An Oakland children’s museum, citing pressure from the community, canceled a planned exhibit of artwork by Palestinian youth that depicted the Israeli assault during the 2008-09 Gaza conflict.
The Museum of Children’s Art was scheduled to display the art from Sept. 24 to Nov. 13. The exhibit had been in [...]
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by Sacramento Bee
09-10-2011
The big red rabbit is in town, and it’s an eyeful.
After months of assembly, the 56-foot-long aluminum sculpture called “Leap” now hangs in its spot at the center of Sacramento International Airport’s new terminal, awaiting the oohs, aahs and what-the-hecks headed its way next month.
It’s one of a dozen pieces of new airport [...]
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by Press Release: Cognitive Dynamics
09-09-2011
Los Angeles, CA, September 09, 2011 –(PR.com)– In an attempt to raise awareness for Alzheimer’s disease, Cognitive Dynamics www.cognitivedynamics.org founder, Dr. Daniel C. Potts, showcased his father’s paintings at David W. Streets Gallery in Beverly Hills, CA. Dr. Potts’ father, Lester Potts, was a saw miller from rural Alabama who [...]
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by Huffington Post
09-09-2011
In late July 2001 Americans for the Arts held its annual conference in New York City. It was the biggest gathering we had ever had, some 1,600 leaders from the local arts agency and state arts agency worlds, including not only members of Americans for the Arts but also the National Assembly of [...]
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by Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
09-09-2011
POMONA – The arts serves as food for the mind and soul but in Pomona efforts are under way to use culture to build communities, empower people and bolster community pride.
Residents, artists, business people and others have all been collaborating and together have helped develop a cultural plan approved Pomona City [...]
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by Alameda Sun
09-09-2011
The ongoing struggle to preserve the public art commission appears to be making headway.
My sources in the community tipped me off first that the city had hired a consultant to review the public art commission.
Notice I heard this from community members who had been reading the newspaper, not our city officials.
With pitchfork shined [...]
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by The Jewish Journal
09-07-2011
For those of us who are not native to Los Angeles yet live here (some for more of our lives than anywhere else), there is a compulsion to define Los Angeles, to get control in some manner of this ever-changing city that is distinguished as much by its sprawl as its particulars, [...]
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by Orange County Register
09-07-2011
Next spring, five utility boxes you probably never noticed before along Avenida Pico and El Camino Real will be transformed into works of art.
On Tuesday, the San Clemente City Council approved a pilot program, part of a growing movement in California to decorate electrical boxes along public streets with public art. Many [...]
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by The San Diego Reader
09-07-2011
Governor Jerry Brown and the state legislature are out to kill redevelopment, but San Diego mayor Jerry Sanders is counting on the state supreme court to quash Brown’s efforts so that the mayor can spruce up North Park with some spiffy new artwork. The court’s ruling is likely months off, but [...]
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by Marinscope Community Newspapers
09-07-2011
The California Arts Council selected the Marin Shakespeare Company to receive an Artists in Schools grant for the 2011-12 school and fiscal year. The state program is designed to help bring music, theater, dance, visual arts and related arts to children statewide during the 2011-12 school year.
The Marin Shakespeare Company will provide [...]
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by San Jose Mercury News
09-07-2011
When the planes struck the twin towers, Junaid Shaikh knew that his faith, and the lives of every fellow Muslim in America, would be tarnished like never before.
Already, before Sept. 11, 2001, he would often see the image of a crazed terrorist as a distorted view of Islam in the media. [...]
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by Pasadena Star-News
09-06-2011
PASADENA – Vandals have seriously damaged “Timeless Joy,” one of four sculptures just installed for the first citywide Rotating Public Art Exhibition.
“Timeless Joy” – a hummingbird made of Harley Davidson and bicycle parts by artist LT Mustardseed – was damaged the day after it was set up on the southwest corner of Washington [...]
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by Los Angeles Times
09-02-2011
The California Institute of the Arts has been named the best school for arts-minded students in a new national ranking from Newsweek.
The recently released ranking, one of 25 that Newsweek has published covering various areas, puts CalArts on the top of the pile for creative students, beating out a number of other [...]
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by Modesto Bee
09-01-2011
TURLOCK — Backers of the Carnegie Arts Center hope to strike a balance between featuring blockbuster artists and highlighting the local arts scene. The opening exhibit, which the public will get a chance to see Sept. 10, does both.
“Ansel Adams CALIFORNIA” consists of roughly 120 photographs by the late artist, who is best [...]
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Auditions will be held:
Mon., Sept. 19
Tues., Sept. 20
Wed., Sept. 21
Fri., Sept. 23
For an audition, please call (805) 688-8314.
The audition is short and simple. The directors just need to hear your voice and evaluate your reading level so that they can place you in the right choir. If you’ve never sung in a choir, you’ll be [...]
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September 22 – 24, 2011
The Music For People & Thingamajigs Festival is an annual event dedicated to promoting experimental music that incorporates made/found instruments and alternate tuning systems. Each year, MFP&T invites artists who design their own musical instruments to join in a festival of workshops, music making, and performances with the goal of reaching [...]
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Submit a Proposal
9th Annual Action Research Conference
April 27th-28th, 2012
Emergent Models in Action Research:
Technologies, Networks and Interdisciplinary Collaborations
Exciting new models of action research are emerging worldwide. The 2012 Action Research conference will explore the technologies, networks, and innovative collaborations that have emerged in support of action research in diverse cultural, socio-political, economic and institutional settings.
Are [...]
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UCSD MFA Candidate Elle Mehrmand and UCSD MFA Micha Cárdenas, both
UCIRA Grantees, will be presenting performances, workshops and panels
in the next two weeks in Istanbul and Toronto. Read on for more details…
ISEA Istanbul: Queer Viralities: Resistant Practices in New Media Art and Philosophy
In this panel, we will focus on queer new media art and philosophy
that [...]
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Dear Friends
On Saturday. September 10, 2011,
sometime between 1pm & 2pm,
on the corner of
N. Peoria and Randolph
in Chicago, IL
THE SOLAR FLARE
ARKESTRAL MARCHING BAND PROJECT
is happening.
The Rich South High School Marching Band
under the direction of
Mr. Y.L. Douglas
will perform
Where Pathways Meet
composed by
Sun Ra
arranged by
Mr. Frederick Tapley
Please be discrete while waiting for the performance.
Please do not disturb the crew.
For [...]
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Symphonic Jazz Orchestra
featuring Christian McBride
Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 2:00 PM
Royce Hall
FREE EVENT
The 67-member Symphonic Jazz Orchestra, conducted by co-music Director Mitch Glickman, will be joined by bass player extraordinaire Christian McBride for this special free family concert. The program features the world premiere of a new work composed by SJO co-music Director George Duke [...]
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September 24, 2011, 8:00pm
Winifred Smith Hall, UC Irvine
Faina Lushtak, pianist, will perform a program of Favorite Encores on Sat., Sept. 24 at 8:00 p.m. in Winifred Smith Hall.
Included will be works by Bach, Scarlatti, Schubert, Chopin, Schumann, Debussy, Granados, Liszt, Rachmaninoff and Prokofieff.
The event is FREE and the PUBLIC IS WELCOME.
Faina Lushtak is the Downman [...]
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Thursday, September 15, 2011, from 7:00pm to 9:00pm
Schindler House, UC Irvine
MAK Center for Art and Architecture at the Schindler House presents a book launch and discussion with Studio Art professors Juli Carson and Bruce Yonometo on Thursday, September 15, 2011, from 7pm to 9pm.
Please join us for a conversation, book launch, and work in progress [...]
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September 21, 2011, 5:00pm to 6:00pm
BCNM Commons, 340 Moffitt, UC Berkeley
Opening Reception and Artist Talk for Video Voyages in the BCNM Commons
Multimedia Works by Andrew Benson, Curated by Stijn Schiffeleers
Wednesday, September 21, 5 – 6 pm
340 Moffitt, UC Berkeley
Works by Andrew Benson on view from August 15 – October 14, 2011
Curator Stijn Schiffeleers of the [...]
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19 September 2011, 7:30pm to 9:00pm
Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley
When people talk about socially-engaged art, they often frame it as a trade-off: as social engagement increases, the artfulness and conceptual rigor decreases. Are there ways to get out of this impasse?
This lecture explores recent experiments in socially-engaged art and performance, focusing particularly upon [...]
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Date & Time:
Wednesday October 12th 2011, 8:00 pm
UC Berkeley
Myra Melford/Marty Ehrlich: A collaborative duo that released its first recording, Yet Can Spring (Arabesque), in 2001, and a follow-up, Spark!
(Palmetto), in 2007, Melford and Ehrlich share a love of improvisation within an intimate setting in which ideas and feelings are exchanged
freely and musical boundaries ignored.
Cost:
$10 general, [...]
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Sunday, September 25, 11am-6pm
Open House at Cal Performances
A Full Day of Free Performances!
Venues: Zellerbach Hall, Pauley Ballroom, Lower Sproul Plaza, Wheeler Auditorium, Hertz Hall, the Eucalyptus Grove, Sather Gate and Faculty Glade
Free and Open to the Public — No Tickets Needed
Join us at the Fall Free for All—a full day of music, dance and theater [...]
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by Philanthropy News Digest
09-05-2011
The University of Rochester has announced a three-year, $1 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support the Central New York Humanities Corridor — an interdisciplinary effort by Rochester, Syracuse, and Cornell universities to enhance scholarship in the humanities.
Established in 2006 with a three-year, $1 million grant from Mellon, the [...]
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Deadline: September 30, 2011 (Letters of Intent)
A project of Tides, Chicken & Egg Pictures is a hybrid film fund and nonprofit production company dedicated to supporting women filmmakers with financial support, mentorship, and more. The fund seeks to support filmmakers who are as passionate about the craft of storytelling as they are about the social [...]
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by National Endowment for the Arts
09-06-2011
Washington, DC — This Labor Day weekend, more than 1,500 museums nationwide offered a final ‘thank you’ to military families through the Blue Star Museums program, which concluded on September 5. Blue Star Museums is a national partnership among Blue Star Families, the National Endowment for the Arts, and museums [...]
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by National Endowment for the Arts
08-31-2011
“On behalf of the National Endowment for the Arts, it is with great sadness that I acknowledge the passing of blues guitarist, singer, and 2002 NEA National Heritage Fellow David “Honeyboy” Edwards. Edwards is a monumental figure in the rich history of the Delta blues and we join many others [...]
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Northern California sculptors are invited to compete for cash awards in “The Fine Art of Recycling” Sculpture Exhibition, sponsored by the City of Santa Clara and its Cultural Advisory Commission. Winning entries, which must be made from recycled or reused materials, will be on display at Santa Clara City Hall October 2011 thru March 2012, [...]
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Help turn San Francisco into a giant playground with the second annual Come Out & Play Festival! Started in New York City in 2006 and the first festival of its kind in the world, it provides a forum for new types of public games and play by bringing together players eager to interact with their [...]
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The Mexican Museum is inviting artists to submit their ideas and designs of works that explore three separate artistic expressions: t-shirt, interactive mesa and altars – all of which revolve around La Catrina and El Dia de Los Muertos.
Deadline: 09-16-2011
The Mexican Museum
San Francisco, CA
Contact: Elena Anaya
email: melenaanaya@gmail.com
Phone: (415) 516-0736
Website: http://www.mexicanmuseum.org/
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We are looking for artists to participate in a celebration of ancestors and the day of the dead…all traditions, Chinese, Mexican…etc. All media welcome, painting, photography, sculpture, multi-media. New gallery in Nob Valley. Celebration on October 27.
Deadline: 09-26-2011
orangeland
San Francisco, CA
Contact: Candace Loheed
email: candace@neworangeland.com
Phone:
Website: facebook.com/orangeland
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Blaze Hill Press is accepting artist submissions for its Eyes On: Landscapes hardcover art book to be published Spring/Summer 2012. Eyes On: Landscapes is part of the Eyes On series, which features the work of selected artists from around the world interpreting a single theme or subject in various media.
This call for entries is open [...]
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Deadline: 10-14-2011
Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum
Santa Barbara, CA
Contact: Curator
email: curator@sbcaf.org
Phone: (805) 966-5373
Website: http://www.sbcaf.org/exhibitions/opportun.html.\
Call For Entries (CFE) is an annual juried exhibition that encourages artists from the local community to produce newly commissioned work. CFE is open to visual artists of all mediums currently living and working in Santa Barbara, Ventura, and San Luis Obispo Counties. Applicants may not [...]
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by East Bay Express
08-31-2011
The Oakland organization reaches out to diverse audiences with its programming and education.
In an era in which symphony orchestras speak of community outreach as frequently as mice chase cheese, the Oakland East Bay Symphony (OEBS) puts its money where its mouth is. Fully one third of its annual budget is devoted to [...]
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by San Diego Union-Tribune
08-30-2011
For the past year, animals have been the theme of much of the art at the New Children’s Museum. And once they are gone, some kids (and their parents) are bound to miss them, especially those mesmerizing, animal-cam-created videos stationed throughout the venue. (If you haven’t been to the New Children’s Museum [...]
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by Huffington Post
08-30-2011
Let’s be honest with ourselves: San Francisco is not a world-renowned tourist destination because of our rolling fog, drizzling summers and frigid ocean. It is the city’s cultural assets that beckon millions of visitors every year. People traverse the entire globe to visit our museums, witness our engineering feats, watch our ballet, inhabit [...]
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September 29, 2011, 5:00 pm
Join faculty, staff and students from north and south campus at our quarterly mixer featuring the Diane Gromala exhibition. Come meet and greet colleagues from the sciences and humanities.
This event begins at 5pm and is located at CNSI.
California Nanosystems Institute (CNSI)
570 Westwood Plaza
Building 114
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1456
Parking is $10 all day, [...]
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Wave(form)s – an Exhibition of Electronic Art on Governors Island
May 27 through September 25
Fridays, 11am to 4:30pm
Saturdays and Sundays, 11am to 5pm
FREE
CLOSING: September 25th, 11am – 5pm, Party 4-5pm
Location: THE NEW YORK ELECTRONIC ART FESTIVAL St. Cornelius Chapel (Governor’s Island)
Free ferry service from Manhattan and Brooklyn: http://www.govisland.com/html/visit/directions.shtml
Blue Morph by UCIRA Artist Victoria Vesna and nanoscientist [...]
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12 September 2011
The University of San Francisco, 6:30pm
University of San Francisco
2130 Fulton Street
San Francisco, CA 94117
LASER is a monthly series of lectures and presentations organized by Piero Scaruffi on behalf of Leonardo/ISAST. LASER is sponsored by School of Visual Arts MFA Computer Art Department, Arizona State University Art Museum, Srishti School of Art, Design and [...]
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WORKSHOP: Defending the University
Instructor: Rick Perlstein (journalist, author of Nixonland)
Saturday, November 5 / 9:30 AM ? 4 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB (UCSB)
Application deadline: Monday, October 10
As part of its yearlong “Public Goods” series, the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center at UCSB invites interested faculty and other members of the campus community to participate in “Defending the [...]
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Unless otherwise announced, all of the talks in the series will be held on Tuesday afternoons at 5 pm in Broida Hall 1610, in the Physics Department.
Sept 27, 5pm at Broida Hall – Bruce W. Ferguson
Bruce W. Ferguson has been a curator and critic for more than thirty years. Bruce previously [...]
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Deadline: October 5, 2011
The Queens Arts Fund, a program of the Queens Council on the Arts, offers grants to Queens-based individual artists and nonprofit organizations that provide distinctive arts and cultural programming to directly serve the citizens of Queens.
QAF funds are provided by the New York State Council on the Arts Decentralization [...]
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The Zodiac Project is Ai Weiwei’s first major public sculpture. For this monumental new work, Weiwei has recreated the famous twelve bronze animal heads that once adorned the Zodiac Fountain in Yuan Ming Yuan, the Old Summer Palace, in Beijing. Cast around 1750, the original heads were looted by Anglo-French troops [...]
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Teacher Open House
Learn, Eat, Play!
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
4 – 6 pm
FREE
A special event for teachers only, includes a preview of upcoming exhibitions and teacher workshops, a demonstration of hands on art activities that can be transferred to the classroom, and a look at our on line lesson plans. Attendees will receive a [...]
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Sunday, October 9 – Wednesday, October 12
Fairmont Hotel
950 Mason Street
San Francisco, California, 94108
Each year, Grantmakers in the Arts invites funders from across the country to pause from our daily routines, assess the state of the field, and share emerging research and best practices. As we immersed ourselves this year in the conference [...]
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The MAP Fund is founded on the principle that experimentation drives human progress, no less in art than in science or medicine. MAP supports artists, ensembles, producers and presenters whose work in the disciplines of contemporary performance embodies this spirit of exploration and deep inquiry. MAP is particularly interested in [...]
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September 22–October 6, 2011
Opening Reception: Thursday, September 22, 5–8pm
The exhibition Circulate, Exchange: Nugget & Gravy features the work of 17 artists from Southern California MFA programs. The works in this show manifest themselves as commodity fetish, exchange, currency, labor, relational sociability, and sharing. In the context of this show, the marketplace is a medium, a [...]
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Wednesday, September 21, 8 pm
Zellerbach Hall, UC Berkeley
Price: Tickets start at $30
Purchase Tickets
Overview:
Herbie Hancock is a true icon of modern music. Throughout his artistic explorations, he has transcended limitations and genres while maintaining his unmistakable musical voice. In addition to being recognized as a legendary pianist and composer, his illustrious career includes an Academy [...]
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September 3, 2011 – September 18, 2011
PFA Theater, UC Berkeley
According to Webster’s, music “is the art of ordering tones or sounds in succession, in combination, and in temporal relationships to produce a composition having unity and continuity.” Or not. As you’ll see from these melodious inquiries into contemporary musical practice, music can be more about [...]
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September 2, 2011 – October 27, 2011
PFA Theater, UC Berkeley
The New Hollywood of the late 1960s and 1970s brought a wave of startling films to American theaters. It was a period of political and cultural upheaval, and cinema kept pace. Whether graduates of film school (including the “movie brats” Francis Coppola, George Lucas, Brian DePalma, [...]
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UCLA Festival of Preservation
September 1, 2011 – October 30, 2011
PFA Theater, UC Berkeley
One of our great pleasures is sharing what our colleagues at other film archives are doing to preserve cinema’s heritage, allowing us to experience cinema as it was meant to be seen—and heard. The biennial Festival of Preservation from the UCLA Film [...]
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CALL TO ARTISTS: October 2011 :: “Bite-Sized Monsters”: Group Exhibition :: Modern Eden :: San Francisco
In addition to our October 2011 featured solo exhibition by Scott Hove (www.mshove.com), we will be hosting a group show entitled “Bite-Sized Monsters”. We are looking for small-sized works with BIG character and appetites. For inspiration, check out Scott Hove’s [...]
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9th National Print Competition & Exhibition
California State University, Chico
January 30 – March 4, 2012
www.theturner.org
Building New Traditions: The Turner Print Museum Emerging Artists Competition and Exhibition
The Janet Turner Print Museum seeks artists whose work expresses printmaking’s tradition in unique and innovative combinations of media that may encompass 2D, 3D, time-based work, installations, and other new technologies. [...]
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Black and White or Monotone artwork, open interpretation.
All 2-dimensional artwork from all artists will be considered from:
photography, painting, drawing, digital prints.
Opening Reception Friday, November 4th, 2011, 5:30-9:00 p.m.
Celebrate the Long Beach First Fridays just over the hill.
Deadline: 10-05-2011
Linus Galleries
Signal Hill (Long Beach), CA
Contact: Linus Galleries
email: info@linusgallery.com
Phone: (310) 491-0269
Website: http://www.linusgallery.com
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Rest In Show, Dog Photography Art Exhibit,
Poignant photography of rescued dogs. This is the Rest in Show, because these animals are the best, whether they’re purebred or mutts! This exhibit will take place at the same time as the Eukanuba National Championship Dog Show in Long Beach.
Submissions must accompany a heartfelt story about the animal [...]
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What’s your idea of beauty? It’s all very subjective, isn’t it? This is a juried competition where we’ll choose the best artists and then ask those who attend the reception to vote on the best interpretation of Beauty from those showing.
All 2-dimensional artwork from all artists will be considered from:
photography, painting, drawing, digital prints, fabric art, mosaics, [...]
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Booth spaces, measuring approximately six feet by eight feet, will be located in the Mendocino Art Center’s galleries and art workshop studios. Handmade original artwork in all media is acceptable. Due to the fair being limited to 35 high quality art booths, the jury process is highly competitive. Applicants must submit five images of current [...]
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by ArtDaily
08-29-2011
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- With the opening of San Francisco International Airport’s newly remodeled Terminal 2 (T2) in April 2011, the San Francisco Arts Commission added five new public artworks to its world-class collection and reinstalled 20 works, which had historically been sited at the airport. In order to enhance the traveler’s experience of the [...]
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by Sacramento Bee
08-29-2011
Imagine a state-of-the-art movie production facility in Sacramento’s emerging River District, employing hundreds of people and drawing attention with public art no less riveting than the iconic Hollywood sign.
That’s the ambitious goal of local filmmaker Christina Marie, who says she has been working on the concept for the past several years and now [...]
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by Tahoe Daily Tribune
08-28-2011
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. — The Tahoe Arts Project will receive a 2010-’11 Creating Public Value grant of $7,500 from the The California Arts Council.
The Tahoe Arts Project, located in South Lake Tahoe, was one of 87 organizations that submitted the strongest proposals to enrich their local communities through the arts. The grant [...]
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by Watsonville Patch
08-27-2011
Watsonville’s Public Art Commission is making progress on its goal to add art to the city, especially downtown.
Ann Cavanaugh loves art, and she loves Watsonville.
The Watsonville marriage and family psychotherapist—she studied psychology, not art in college—is one of five members of the Public Art Committee, a new group tasked with beautifying the city.
One [...]
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by Huffington Post
08-26-2011
San Francisco has the highest per capita rate of arts attendance of any major city in the country. Over 5,000 city residents are employed in the arts. The city’s artistic community is one of the major factors in giving San Francisco an international reputation much larger then its relatively small population would imply.
Naturally, [...]
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by Fresno Bee
08-26-2011
Three Central Valley arts organizations are recipients of special grants from the California Arts Council. The Creating Public Value grants were awarded to 87 organizations statewide that submitted the strongest proposals to enrich their local communities through the arts.
The grants are:
$10,000 to El Teatro de la Tierra of Fresno to help produce the [...]
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by Long Beach Press-Telegram
08-25-2011
Christi Wilkins says she is passionate about working with fourth- and sixth-graders in the Long Beach and Compton school districts who come from families that have experienced a lot of drama and trauma.
With her not-for-profit Long Beach-based agency Dramatic Results, Wilkins, 51, teaches disadvantaged youths – students who Wilkins says many people [...]
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by Sacramento Bee
08-25-2011
Local art will receive a boost in Yolo County, thanks to a $10,000 grant awarded by the California Arts Council.
YoloArts received the 2010-11 Creating Public Value grant for demonstrating a strong commitment to enrich the Yolo County community through the arts.
The nonprofit organization, based in Woodland, offers artist workshops, public lectures and performance [...]
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by Huffington Post
08-24-2011
The California Association of Museums (CAM) joined the American Association of Museums’ (AAM) Center for the Future of Museums to organize a 30th anniversary celebration aimed at forecasting the future of California’s museums, and published a discussion guide entitled “Tomorrow in the Golden State: Museums and the Future of California.” They speculated [...]
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by The Bay Citizen
08-24-2011
For San Francisco residents looking to pick a mayoral candidate based on arts policy, last night’s S.F. Mayoral Arts Forum would offer little in the way of help.
It seemed that the most common phrase, besides “cultural diversity,” was “I think we’re all in agreement.”
The auditorium was fairly packed at Yerba Buena Center [...]
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by Sacramento Bee
08-23-2011
If the focus is arts education then attendance at the upcoming Arts Education Partnership (AEP) national forum: “Transforming Urban School Systems Through the Arts,” is almost mandatory.
That forum will convene at San Francisco’s Sir Francis Drake hotel September 15-16.
The goal?
To advance best practices, emerging research and policy imperatives around arts-rich learning.
Based on an [...]
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by KCET
08-22-2011
Four reproductions of iconic Los Angeles murals were planned to be unveiled Monday morning, a second phase from Caltrans to restore public art to the 101 Freeway. But the program designed to fight graffiti is now dealing with theft. Two of the banners, called “mobile murals,” were stolen sometime Sunday, before they had a [...]
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by North County Times
08-20-2011
Escondido’s public art program has been praised for making the city a more attractive place, but some City Council members say they might suspend or eliminate it to encourage more economic development and job creation.
Developers, who must pay public art fees on all projects larger than 2,000 square feet, have contributed more [...]
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by San Diego Union-Tribune
08-20-2011
Do you have any friends or neighbors who are artists? Artists in the broadest sense of the word, whether musicians or painters, actors or writers?
Chances are, your answer is no.
“You go to the theater, you get all dressed up, the curtains go up and the lights go down, and when it’s over, [...]
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by Corning Observer
08-19-2011
Every penny helps when it comes to the Corning Community Foundation’s Rodgers Theatre renovation project, said foundation member Tony Cardenas.
“That is why we are so appreciative of the $500 grant we recently received from the Tehama County Arts Council, The California Arts Council and The One Million Plates for the Arts Project,” Cardenas [...]
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Deadline: September 24, 2011
The National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures Fund for the Arts annually provides grants to strengthen Latino arts organizations and to support Latino artists in the creation of their work and to promote social change and innovation in the field.
The fund invites grant applications from U.S.-based Latino working artists and ensembles [...]
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Deadline: December 2, 2011 (Letters of Inquiry)
The Creative Work Fund, a program of the Walter and Elise Haas Fund supported by grants from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the James Irvine Foundation, invites artists and nonprofit organizations to apply for grants for collaborative projects featuring media or performing artists.
Launched in 1994, the Creative [...]
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It doesn’t matter whether a board member is passionate about your organization’s cause. Boards get a lot from training. Great volunteers make great board members.
Those are just a few of the many myths that June Bradham, veteran fund-raising consultant, debunked when she interviewed scores of board members.
Join us for a one-hour Webinar to get a [...]
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Suspended in Time: Intimate Figures by Charles Griffin Farr
curated by UCSC students from Art 100 Summer Session
August 25 – October 1, 2011
Reception August 25, 4:30- 5:30pm FREE
Participatory Figure Drawing event at 5pm
An exhibition where you will appreciate Farr’s visual perceptions and precise representation of the intriguing yet mysterious human form.
Join us at the Sesnon [...]
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Director: Lixin Fan
August 26, 2011 – August 27, 2011, 7:00 PM
Culver Screening Room, UC Riverside
Barbara and Art Culver Center of the Arts | Film
The Chinese New Year holiday brings about an annual 130 million person migration of workers from the cities back to their home villages, which is often the only chance most factory workers [...]
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September 9, 2011 -
September 26, 2011
Billy Wilder Theater, UC Los Angeles
For more information visit: http://www.cinema.ucla.edu/events/2011-09-09/slovenia-begs-differ
Among the modern nation-states that made up the former Yugoslavia, the Republic of Slovenia represents an exceptional national culture and contributor to world cinema. As a result of its unique geography, situated adjacent Italy and Austria, the small nation (population 2 million) has [...]
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Monday, September 26, 2011, 8:00 PM
Gil Cates Theater, UC Los Angeles
BUY TICKETS
Thanks to the generous sponsorship of Sony Pictures, we are pleased to present a special screening of the forthcoming political thriller The Ides of March. Based on Beau Willimon’s play Farragut North, which had its West Coast Premiere at the Geffen Playhouse, the [...]
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Sonny Rollins
Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 8:00 PM
Royce Hall, UC Los Angeles
Tickets from $25 ($15 UCLA Students)
Saxophone colossus Sonny Rollins began wailing jazz as a teen in Harlem. He quickly emerged as a genius in his craft, cutting his teeth with greats such as Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane before establishing himself [...]
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August 12, 2011 – August 31, 2011
PFA Theater, UC Berkeley
In celebration of the fortieth anniversary of Chez Panisse, BAM/PFA is pleased to present a retrospective of French filmmaker Marcel Pagnol, whose spirited cinema gave Alice Waters the name for Chez Panisse Restaurant; you may have seen the posters for Marcel Pagnol’s films on the walls [...]
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Thursday, August 25, 2011
8:30 p.m.
It Conquered the World
Roger Corman (U.S., 1956)
PFA Collection Print
Bring a blanket and picnic on the lawn in the BAM/PFA Sculpture Garden, UC Berkeley
It couldn’t happen here but it will! And what is this unspeakable terror from beyond? The eponymous It of It Conquered the World is like a gigantic winter [...]
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PFA Theater, UC Berkeley
August 24, 2011 – August 28, 2011
These two animation programs contain adult content. Not recommended for children.
The Bay Area has a long history of artists creating exceptional animation. These two programs showcase the unique visions and rich imaginations of animators who work—or have worked—locally. Enjoy their humor, journey into wonderful worlds, [...]
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by National Endowment for the Arts
August 23, 2011
Live webcast of concert available at arts.gov
Recipients to be honored at Capitol Hill Awards Ceremony on September 21, 2011
Washington, D.C. – Where can you see Mardi Gras Indians in full regalia, taiko drummers, a saxophonist playing Bulgarian wedding music, and a Piedmont blues artist, all sharing the same [...]
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Deadline: 11-08-2011
The Office of Research and Analysis at the National Endowment for the Arts has announced the availability of grants for research on the value and impact of the U.S. arts sector, at either the individual or community level.
The NEA is interested in novel and significant research questions that will lead to greater public understanding [...]
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Group Photographic Exhibition
Jones Studio Gallery
EXPO Arts Center
4321 Atlantic Avenue
Long Beach, CA 90807
Curated by: Yasmin Etemadi
Jones Studio Gallery is pleased to present a group photographic exhibition. The show opens Saturday, November 5th with an artist reception at Jones Studio Gallery on Saturday, November 12th, 2011, from 6:00 – 10:00 PM.
Photographers and photo-based artists working in any [...]
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An all media exhibit open to California artists/art students from November 4 to December 1, 2011 at the Artist Village in downtown Pomona. For prospectus go to SCA website: www.southerncaliforniaartists.org/2011-twisting-the-edge.asp
Deadline: 10-01-2011
Southern California Artists – SCA
Costa Mesa, CA
Contact: Janet Adams, SCA President
email: jartms@att.net
Phone:
Website: www.southerncaliforniaartists.org/2011-twisting-the-edge.asp
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The San Francisco Green Film Festival announces its call for submissions for the 2nd Annual SFGFF taking place March 1-4, 2012.
SFGFF is the San Francisco Bay Area’s leading festival for innovative film, television, and digital media that inspire environmental action and advocacy. The 2012 festival will take place over four days with special film premieres and green related programs and events [...]
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The San Jose Public Art Program is seeking an artist or artist team to design, fabricate and install an artwork as part of the renovation and expansion of the San Jose Convention Center. With over half a million conventioneers and community members moving through the facility annually, the San Jose Convention Center offers a key [...]
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Mendocino Art Center and ceramic artist, Christa Assad, invite you to submit images for a national juried exhibition entitled, “To Go,” a statement on today’s fast-paced, particularly
American on-the-go style of dining, working, multi-tasking, etc.
Open to interpretation, the theme, “To Go,” hopes to inspire both vessel and sculpture creation, from the obvious flasks, thermoses, car cups, [...]
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2012 National Women’s Caucus for Art – Call for Art! ”Momentum”- Contemporary Women’s Art. Commemorating 40 years of the Women’s Caucus for Art, Momentum presents the art and ideas of intergenerational contemporary women artists.
About the Exhibition: ”Momentum” is part of WCA’s Momentum: 40 Years of WCA Conference that takes place from February 22-25, 2012 in Los Angeles. The [...]
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Tin Barn Vineyards announces its first fine art photography exhibition, coming this fall during our annual Holiday in Carneros tasting event. Welcoming a broad range of perspectives and artistic styles, “Thanks / Any Way” encourages artists to share their strongest interpretations of the theme of gratitude. Proceeds will benefit The Pathway Home, a local recovery center for veterans.
Call for Entries: http://goo.gl/AjF7S
Deadline: 09-25-2011
Tin Barn Vineyards
Sonoma, [...]
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The Tustin Community Foundation in cooperation with the City of Tustin seeks artists to submit proposals for an outdoor artistic tile project located at the award-winning Citrus Ranch Park located at 2910 Portola Parkway in Tustin, California. This project is an art element located in a public park funded by private donations gifted to the [...]
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The Revel art program of the Sacramento Gay & Lesbian Center is now booking artists for our upcoming multi-artist show on Second Saturday, October 8.
For the past year, the Center has enjoyed taking part in Midtown Sacramento’s monthly Second Saturday Art Walk. We have prided ourselves on giving both emerging and established artists a venue [...]
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North Valley Art League announces a call to artists for the National Juried Show to be held at the League’s Carter House Gallery in Redding, California. The show runs January 24 – February 25, 2012. Open to all artists 18 years and older, residing in the United States.Open theme, with a size limitation of 40 [...]
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by Appeal Democrat
08-18-2011
An aging Hollywood beauty received a face-lift Wednesday in downtown Yuba City in front of dozens of people, including a man who remembered her when she was young and beautiful.
“At one time it was a gorgeous theater,” Lloyd Bullard said.
Bullard, who for 50 years has owned the barbershop next door that bears his [...]
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by Epoch Times
08-18-2011
SAN FRANCISCO—The Fei Tian Academy of the Arts in San Francisco has a lot to be proud of: In a little more than a year since its establishment in March 2010, the San Francisco branch of the New York-based institution for training in Chinese traditional arts has shown itself to be a formidable [...]
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by North County Times
08-18-2011
Suffice it to say, saxophonist Eric Darius is a man on a mission.
That’s not just the name of his new album —- it’s also his philosophy when it comes to schools and music.
“I am a firm believer in education and the arts, but unfortunately, with all the budget cuts, the arts are [...]
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by Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
08-17-2011
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Deadline: October 10, 2011
The Tribeca Film Institute has opened the application period of four of its grant programs for narrative, non-fiction, and new media filmmakers. The TFI Documentary Fund, the TFI Sloan Filmmaker Fund, Tribeca All Access, and the TFI Latin America Media Arts Fund are all open for applications.
The TFI Documentary [...]
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The Association of Performing Arts Presenters recognizes that promoting global exchanges of artists and their work and cross-cultural programs is essential to fully engage audiences and communities in the breadth and diversity of performing arts experiences and provides an opportunity for presenting professionals to expand and deepen their knowledge of artists, [...]
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Deadline: November 8th, 2011
The Office of Research and Analysis at the National Endowment for the Arts has announced the availability of grants for research on the value and impact of the U.S. arts sector, at either the individual or community level.
The NEA is interested in novel and significant research questions that [...]
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Sacramento Business Journal
The Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts at the University of California Davis has gotten a grant to encourage appreciation of classical music.
The three-year, $580,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will support initiatives to deepen the experience of classical music for musicians, students and other audience members.
The focus includes: presenting [...]
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Tickets are still available for The Arts Fund Santa Barbara’s final Salon Series: Santa Barbara Guitar Heroes, Saturday August 27, 3 – 5 pm with an optional dinner and performance immediately following at SoHo. The early reservation ticket price of $85 will go up to $100 on August 19.
For tickets, see the links below.
http://artsfundsb.org/salons2011.html
http://sohosb.com/2011/06/16/the-guitar-as-art-concert-feat-victor-borda-scott-wolf-and-pat-malone/
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Thematic Field 2012-2013: Sustainability/Capitalism/Art
Application deadline:
15 September 2011
www.kunstakademietitromso.no/about-ma
www.kunstakademietitromso.no
The Academy of Contemporary Art is located in Tromsø, Northern Norway, beyond the Arctic Circle. Since its early days, the town has served as a focal point in the culturally diverse circumpolar area. In this setting, the Academy of Contemporary Art aspires to develop new forms of artistic practice [...]
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Artworks/Performances
Panels
Workshops
Papers
Residencies/Special Opportunities
DEADLINE: October 15, 2011
Conference:
September 19 – 24, 2012
Exhibition:
September 20, 2012 – January 6, 2013
Regional Collaboration:
September – December, 2012
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Re-envisioning Art, Technology and Nature
Our species will survive neither by totally rejecting nor unconditionally embracing technology – but by humanizing it.
-video collective Raindance, Radical Software
The Eighteenth International Symposium on Electronic Art, ISEA2012 Albuquerque: Machine [...]
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by Whittier Daily News
08-13-2011
LA MIRADA – There’s a new man with the conductor’s baton leading the La Mirada Symphony Orchestra.
Robert Frelly, 51, of Yorba Linda, was recently selected as the group’s music director and conductor.
The symphony’s associate board of directors made the selection, with the input of audience surveys and extensive evaluations by orchestra musicians [...]
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by Laguna Beach Patch
August 6, 2011
According to Laguna Art Museum Board of Trustees President Robert Hayden III, things are coming along very well for the institution.During a time of transition, the Laguna Art Museum has exceeded a financial goal, added three new members to the LAM Board of Trustees, and is making headway towards the [...]
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Wednesday, August 24, 2011 @ 7:30 PM, Campbell Hall, UC Santa Barbara
Anita Loos’s smash-hit musical comedy found its quintessential interpretation in this movie adaptation featuring Jane Russell and the positively astounding Marilyn Monroe as Lorelei Lee. In witty, campy sequences such as “Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend” Monroe really shines – [...]
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August 30 – September 25
Potiker Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, UC San Diego
By Kirsten Greenidge
Directed by Rebecca Taichman
World Premiere
Co-commissioned with Theatre Masters
Produced in association with Playwrights Horizons and The Women’s Project
Being stuck in a dead-end town hasn’t diminished the dreams of 16-year old Annie and her friends. But when they decide to create their own future [...]
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August 12, 2011 -
August 28, 2011
Billy Wilder Theater
In-person:
Filmmaker Nicolás Pereda (8/12 & 8/13).
Perpetuum mobile is Latin for “perpetual motion” and in musical terms, it can be a composition in which large sections are repeated, often at a different pitch, for effect. It’s also the title of Nicolás Pereda’s third feature. But perpetuum mobile, in both senses [...]
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Event details:
Tuesday, August 23, 2011, 7 pm
Hammer Museum, UC Los Angeles
First Circle is an intimate and personal film about children entering foster care when their families can no longer care for them; often as the consequence of addiction. The film follows families who struggle to heal, as well as the police, administrators, and volunteers who [...]
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Event details:
Saturday, August 20, 2011, 8 pm
Hammer Museum, UC Los Angeles
What do Isaac Hayes, Rufus Thomas, Richard Pryor, and Jesse Jackson all have in common? They appear in the Golden Globe nominated Wattstax, a documentary about the 1972 Wattstax Music Festival, organized in commemoration of the seventh anniversary of the Watts Rebellion. Weaving together performance [...]
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Exhibition preview, wine bar, dance and drumming with Afro-Cuban master Lázaro Galarraga and Kati Hernández, accompanied by Dancing from the Heart Afro-Cuban Ensemble
RSVP by September 8: fowlerRSVP@arts.ucla.edu
Members/VIP Lounge on the Terrace 6–7:30 pm
Join us for a live Afro-Cuban dance performance, Caribbean cuisine, rum tastings courtesy of Wine Warehouse featuring Ron Barceló Rum and Diplomático Rum, [...]
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Performance artist Guillermo Gómez-Peña (La Pocha Nostra) and actor/director Richard Montoya (Culture Clash), both “mean” writers and long-time friends, collaborate for this “mano a mano” performance project dealing with current border issues. Montoya and Gómez-Peña will select, rework, and perform excerpts from their past monologues, movement, spoken word, and radical storytelling in alternating dialog. The [...]
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by Los Angeles Times
08-14-2011
The I Sing Beijing program brings Western performers to China to learn to sing works in Mandarin.
Reporting from Beijing ——
Thomas Glenn, a bespectacled tenor from San Francisco, waited for the piano bars to swell, took a deep breath and tried again to screech correctly. But what resounded off the walls of a [...]
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by Mount Shasta Area Newspapers
08-10-2011
Edgewood, Calif. —
While many schools, because of budget cutbacks and a greater focus on accountability, have pushed arts programs aside, Butteville Elementary’s new principal/superintendent has other ideas.
Todd Clark, who started his new position in Edgewood July 1, said he believes “arts are very important in the development of children.”
Clark has spent [...]
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An exhibition of California Photographers, running 5/11/12 – 6/9/12. Opening Reception Friday, May 11, 2012. Please email entry including artist statement, contact info, image list for up to 10 images (min 300 dpi jpeg) to Curator Sandra Hemsworth at hemsworthsandra@yahoo.com.
Entry deadline March 1, 2012. Entry fee paid upon acceptance into show.
Deadline: 03-01-2012
Olive Hyde Art Gallery
Fremont, CA
Contact: [...]
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Juried Exhibition:
It’s an October Art Show, and the theme is of Spirits and Memorials. We will combine Halloween and Day of the Dead for a spirit world exhibit. We’d like to see Day of the Dead type installations and memorial alters commemorating the dead, as well as the lighter side of Halloween with it’s fun [...]
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Every year since 1970, a Christmas tree has been presented to the United States Congress from a National Forest and is known as “The People’s Tree.” This year the tree will be a gift from California. In honor of this occasion, the Stanislaus National Forest will host a statewide, juried art exhibition to select an [...]
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Hello Musicians and Music Fans!
As someone who makes or listens to music, you know the incredible power it has to connect and inspire.
We invite you to join our 1st annual Playing For Change Day on September 17, 2011 – a global day of action where musicians will perform on stages, in cafes, city squares, and [...]
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Chula Vista celebrates it’s Centennial with a 2-day festival on the Bayfront in Partnership with the Port of San Diego, the Big Bay, Arts Month San Diego and the Maritime Museum. Artists are invited to enter the juried Art show and/or have a “original work only” booth at the waterfront Art Fair.
Deadline: 08-26-2011
Contact: Susan Johnson
email: [...]
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In its 44th Year, this annual favorite shows the work of artists using textiles and fibers (literally and figuratively) in various mediums and concepts from traditional to contemporary. Show runs 3/30/12 to 4/28/12. Opening Reception Friday 3/30/12.
Please send artist contact info, artist statement, and up to 10 images for consideration (min 300 dpi) to Curator Sandra [...]
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Submit your favorite Fall themed images for a chance to win prizes in the 2011 ”Your Fall Favorites” Photography Contest.
Deadline: 11-30-2011
The Aperture Academy
Campbell, CA
Contact: Kristen
email: kristen@apertureacademy.com
Phone: (408) 369-8585
Website: http://www.apertureacademy.com/photography-contest-themes.php
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All 2-Dimensional artwork including photography, drawing, painting, digital prints. Interpret the great outdoors. Online submission form. Opening reception will be October 22, 2011.
Deadline: 09-24-2011
Linus Galleries
Pasadena, CA
Contact: Linus Galleries
email: info@linusgallery.com
Phone: (626)744-9104
Website: http://linusgallery.com/call-for-entries.html
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The Music Center, Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles County one of the nation’s premier performing arts institutions located in downtown Los Angeles has an immediate opening for a Regional Programs Manager.
Working under general direction and reporting to the Director of School Programs, the Regional Programs Manager will manage and administer student, teacher, and public [...]
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Are you an artist inspired by heirloom gardens? Gardens are unique expressions of a
gardener’s hand. Heirloom varieties are a reflection of the diversity of gardeners’ sensibilities,
palate, and notions of beauty.
The Art of the Heirloom is an exhibition of artists’ interpretations and contemplations of
heirloom vegetables, flowers, and herbs and the cultural importance of preserving our
collective garden [...]
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MENTOR MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS AT YOUR WORKPLACE!
WHAT: Spark’s mission is to provide life-changing apprenticeships to middle school youth in under-served communities across the United States. Spark addresses the high school dropout crisis by connecting volunteer professionals with middle school students in workplace-based apprenticeships to “spark” their potential. Students identify a “dream job,” and Spark matches [...]
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Two fall courses now open for enrollment at UC Berkeley Extension highlight the educational leader’s connection to the Bay Area art community, specifically the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA). UC Berkeley Extension is the continuing education branch of the University of California, Berkeley, and [...]
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The Library of Congress will announce on Wednesday that Philip Levine, best known for his big-hearted, Whitmanesque poems about working-class Detroit, is to be the next poet laureate, succeeding W. S. Merwin.
“It’s like winning the Pulitzer. If you take it too seriously, you’re an idiot. But if you look at the names [...]
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Join the LA Forum on Wednesday, August 17th for our 5th Annual Femmes Fatales Pecha Kucha at the WUHO gallery in Hollywood.
Pecha Kucha Night: Femmes V
Wednesday, August 17 @ 7pm-9:30pm
Free and open to the public
Doors open at 7, presentation begins @ 7:30
Beer, wine & light snacks will be served
6518 Hollywood Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90028
PRESENTERS:
Aimee [...]
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by Association of American Geographers
July 27, 2011
The Association of American Geographers (AAG) is sponsoring a special set of sessions examining Geography and the Arts at its upcoming Annual Meeting in New York, to be held February 24-28, 2012.
The AAG welcomes abstracts and proposals that engage topics and methods at the crossroads of geography and the [...]
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We are looking for submissions for a Recent Graduates Exhibition within the Affordable Art Fair Los Angeles. The Recent Graduates Exhibition will highlight emerging California based artists that have recently completed their MFA or BFA.
You must be a non-represented recent BFA/MFA graduate (graduated between 2008-2011) to be considered.
Works of art need to be in the [...]
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BayVAN is now taking submissions for our 2012 Artist Registry. The registry is a pubic on-line database that will be viewed by corporate clients, collectors, gallery owners and curators. To meet the varied needs of our clients, the artist registry includes artists working in a wide range of styles and media including painting, printmaking, drawing, [...]
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This national survey of photography presents a diverse portrait of who we are as a nation today. The show will be designed around three themes: Our Land / Our World, Our People: Narrative/Portrait, Conceptual/Abstract
Jurors:
Drew Johnson, Curator of Photography, Oakland Museum of California
Sandra S. Phillips, Senior Curator of Photography, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Awards:
$2,500 in [...]
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We are looking for work surrounding the themes of politics, unity, progress, change for the Young & Powerful for Obama LA Fundraiser taking place on September 15th.
LA-based artist are responsible for:
- delivery and pick up of work
- installing and de-installing work
- providing images and bio
Out of state artists are responsible for:
- shipping of work both [...]
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On September 21st, World Peace Day, The Peace Project will get the country of Sierra Leone off the ground by providing 10,000 pairs of crutches and mobility devices to everyone in need throughout the entire post-conflict country of Sierra Leone, Africa (home to over 20% of the world’s amputees).
We gathered the momentum needed to launch [...]
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Artist Portfolio Magazine, Issue 4 is almost complete. We are now seeking submissions for the cover. The 1st place winner will have his/her artwork featured on the cover and will receive $250, publicity, and a feature in the winners gallery at http://myartcontest.com/
Issue 2 of Artist Portfolio Magazine can be viewed at:
http://issuu.com/artistportfoliomagazine/docs/issue2
Issues 1 and 2 have [...]
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The Art Museum of Los Gatos invites artists to submit artwork for consideration to be included in the 2012-2013 exhibition schedule. We encourage participants from a range of media including visual arts: sculpture, painting, photography, printmaking and site specific installations.
Submissions:
Send images of 5 to 15 work samples and include the media, dimensions and title for [...]
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Eligibility & Media:
Open to artists residing or working in California in primarily traditional printmaking methods such as: intaglio, lithography, serigraphy, monoprints, and monotypes. No reproductions in any medium. Work must be framed with white mats, no filler, and in black frames.
Juror:
Central Coast Printmakers is pleased to have Sandow Birk as juror for Traces, Marks, and [...]
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ADC Contemporary Art Gallery with the Consulates General of Argentina, Brazil, Mexico and Uruguay
Inviting all the photographers and video artists born in those countries and living in Los Angeles to participate in Latin American Visions of LA exhibition.
Images Deadline for entry extended to: August 30th, 2011
Send Proposals to:
ADC Contemporary Art Gallery
1330 Factory Pl, Building i
Los Angeles [...]
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Singin’ in the Rain
Wednesday, August 17, 2011 @ 7:30 PM, Campbell Hall, UC Santa Barbara
Directed by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen, this unforgettable masterpiece remains one of the finest, most durable musicals ever to come out of Hollywood. Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds and Donald O’Connor glitter in this light-hearted look at the early days [...]
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Thursday, August 18, 2011 – 7:00pm – 9:00pm
Pollock Theater, UC Santa Barbara
Free Admission and Reception
Celebrate the end of summer with a screening of short films on marine and coastal topics created by student filmmakers in the 2011 Blue Horizons Summer Program for Environmental Media.
Featuring 5 Student Films:
The Santa Barbarian (Jacob Ferguson & Caitie Gonzalez)
Float Responsibly [...]
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Saturday, August 13, 2011 9 a.m.–4 p.m.
Location: UC Riverside Extension Center
Description: Learn the tools for creating memorable characters, plot arcs, and satisfying resolutions; what the publishing industry is looking for at this time; and how to pick a publisher for your particular writing style. Includes hand-outs on formatting children’s books, professional writing organizations, and tips [...]
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August 30 – October 9, 2011, 8 p.m.
Location: Gil Cates Theater, Geffen Playhouse, UC Los Angeles
“It’s wildly fun, wickedly funny and deeply provocative … a theatrical prize.”
- Chicago Theater Beat
Think pro-wrestling is all outrageous masks and pyrotechnics? Think again — there’s so much more in this 2010 Pulitzer Prize finalist. The Elaborate Entrance of [...]
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Event Details
Date: Thursday, September 8, 2011, 7:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Location: David Brower Center, UC Berkeley
http://urbanpolicy.berkeley.edu/greenresidential.htm
Contact info: Brian Gothberg
Email: bcg@haas.berkeley.edu
Join us for the first of three major events in “Urban Housing, Economy, and Transit: Confronting a Crisis,” a 2011-12 conference series on sustainability hosted by UC Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design and Berkeley Law | [...]
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06 September 2011, 17:00 to 18:00
Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley
Technology is the architect of our intimacies. How does the culture of always-on/always-on-you connection give shape to new relationships and sensibilities, and beyond this, to a new state of the self, itself.
Sherry Turkle is a professor, author, consultant, researcher and licensed clinical psychologist who [...]
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Mark Morris Dance Group Dido and Aeneas with Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and Chorale Mark Morris, conductor
September 16-18, 2011
Venue: Zellerbach Hall, UC Berkeley
Price: Tickets start at $30
Returning to Cal Performances for the first time in 11 years, Mark Morris’s Dido and Aeneas “is that remarkable rarity: a work of modern art that looks as [...]
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Deadline: September 12, 2011
The Carnegie Corporation of New York/New York Times I Love My Librarian Award encourages library users in the United States to recognize the accomplishments of exceptional public, school, and college librarians. Administered by the American Library Association, with support from Carnegie Corporation of New York and the New York Times, the awards [...]
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by National Endowment for the Arts
08-04-2011
$123 Million in Funding is Available through HUD’s Community Challenge Grant Program and HUD�s Sustainable Communities Regional Planning Grant Program.
Washington, DC — Nonprofit arts organizations are invited to attend two webcasts about funding opportunities through the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Office of Sustainable Housing and Communities (OSHC). [...]
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DEADLINE: 11-08-2011
Last fall, when the NEA put forward a new strategic plan, the agency identified research as a mission-critical goal. Reflecting that new emphasis, the NEA’s Office of Research & Analysis is announcing the availability of grants to conduct research into the value and impact of the U.S. arts sector on the nation, whether on [...]
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by National Endowment for the Arts
08-03-2011
New Partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts and Robert Sterling Clark Foundation will bring Latin American Performing Artists to the United States.
Baltimore, MD — Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation have announced a new public-private partnership in [...]
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by Thy Vo / Santa Barbara Independent
08-07-2011
Thanks to Pumpflix and UCSB Art Professor [and UCIRA Artist] Laurel Beckman, Gas Stations Near You Just Got Groovier.
If you find yourself driving around Santa Barbara in the next couple of weeks, expect your typical stop at the gas pump to be, well, atypical. It’ll just take a glance up [...]
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by James C. Taylor / Los Angeles Times
08-07-2011
As the Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles forgoes its summer fest, leaving the Independent Shakespeare Co. and Theatricum Botanicum among the few alfresco productions in the area, now’s a good time to ask why outdoor Shakespeare has yet to catch on in a big way in L.A.
Before there [...]
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by Alan Lopez / San Jose Mercury News
08-06-2011
FREMONT — People packed the first day of the 28th annual Fremont Festival of the Arts on Saturday, which is expected to draw close to 400,000 people over the weekend.
The event claims to be the largest free street fair west of the Mississippi, and includes more than 600 [...]
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by By Colin Newton / Santa Monica Daily Press
08-06-2011
Artist gives permission to remove vandalized historical artwork.
MAIN STREET — The ever changing mural on Main Street and Ocean Park Boulevard is a familiar sight to anyone living in Santa Monica.
“Ocean Park Pier” began as a portrait of the bustling Santa Monica seaside in the 1920s, but [...]
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by ROB WALKER / New York Times
08-05-2011
We had this idea, some friends and I, for a small public art project in New Orleans last year. The problem was, it involved some professional printing that would cost a few thousand dollars, which none of us had. Usually that’s where such conversations end: it would be cool [...]
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by DAVE BARTON / OC Weekly
08-04-2011
His designs fascinate both for their undeniable beauty and for their intersection with commerce.
To get an idea of the uncomfortable relationship between artistic vision and the requisite cash needed to fulfill that vision, one needs only look as far as Laguna Art Museum’s current exhibition, “Noguchi: California Legacy.”
It begins with [...]
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by By Michelle Durand / San Mateo Daily Journal
08-02-2011
The time for public art in San Carlos may be now — literally.
A piece entitled “Laurel Wreath,” a clock encircled by leaves, could find its home in Laurel Street Park if the design meets the final approval of city officials. The Arts and Culture Commission has already [...]
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9th Annual SOLES Action Research Conference
Save the Date!
April 27-28, 2012
University of San Diego
Emergent Models in Action Research: Technologies, Networks, and Interdisciplinary Collaborations
Exciting new models of action research are emerging worldwide. The 2012 Action Research Conference will explore the technologies, networks, and innovative collaborations that have emerged in support of action research [...]
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by Maddie McGarvey / The SF Chronicle
Artist Elizabeth Stephens and her wife Annie Sprinkle are prominent leaders in ecosexuality, a movement that seeks to combine the study of sexuality and environmental consciousness.
Elizabeth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle are a legally married same-sex couple, having tied the knot in Canada in 2007. But [...]
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The synopsis for this grant opportunity is detailed below, following this paragraph. This synopsis contains all of the updates to this document that have been posted as of 08/02/2011 . If updates have been made [...]
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Wednesday, August 10, 2011 @ 7:30 PM, Campbell Hall, UC Santa Barbara
FREE EVENT.
Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra and Jules Munshin grace this rollicking tale of three sailors on a one-day pass in New York City. With unforgettable choreography by Kelly, this invigorating musical features Vera-Ellen, Ann Miller and Betty Garrett. Must-see numbers include “New York, [...]
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July 19 – August 28
Weiss Theatre
Book by Rachel Sheinkin
Music by Brendan Milburn
Lyrics by Valerie Vigoda
Directed by Rebecca Taichman
Co-production with McCarter Theatre Center
When a father brings his sleeping daughter in to a sleep disorder clinic, staff and patients mysteriously find themselves sharing the same dream. With beguiling characters, hypnotic lyrics, and a rocking score [...]
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by Teddy Cruz and Mike Cole
August 19-September 23, 2011
Panel Discussion and Opening Reception on Friday, August 19, 2011
Calit2 Auditorium 5pm-6pm | Gallery Reception 6pm-8pm
2011 Summer Workshop Series on Fridays: August 19, 26 and September 2, 9
9am-11am at gallery@calit2
UC San Diego, 9500 Gilman Dr., La Jolla CA 92093
The gallery@calit2 is [...]
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Monday, August 8, 2011, 7:30 pm
Billy Wilder Theater, UC Los Angeles
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Directed by Frank Capra
In some ways it was ingenious of Frank Capra to pit socialite Harlow’s screaming sexuality, wrapped in tons of money, against Loretta Young’s sacrificing, always available, but strictly virginal woman in the wings. Reporter Stew Smith naturally chooses sex and [...]
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Sunday, August 7, 2011, 7:00 pm
Billy Wilder Theater, UC Los Angeles
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Directed by Ken Hughes
Ken Hughes’ widescreen account of playwright Oscar Wilde’s fall from public grace is a gripping depiction of one of the most fantastic scandals of the modern era. Peter Finch invests his portrayal of Wilde, convicted in a show trial of [...]
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Saturday, August 6, 2011, 7:30 pm
Billy Wilder Theater, UC Los Angeles
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In-person:
Tonight’s screening will be introduced by authors Darrell Rooney and Mark A. Vieira, who will sign copies of their new book, “Harlow in Hollywood: The Blonde Bombshell in the Glamour Capital, 1928-1937.”
Part of: Harlow Before the Code
Film 1: Hold Your Man (1933)
Directed by [...]
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Friday, August 5, 2011, 7:30 pm
Billy Wilder Theater, UC Los Angeles
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Directed by Howard Hughes
Two brothers, Roy and Monte, attend Oxford then volunteer for the RAF, when World War I breaks out. Jean Harlow plays Helen, Roy’s supposed girlfriend who doesn’t mind sleeping with Monte. “Let me change into something more comfortable,” she says, [...]
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Sunday, August 7, 2011, 12pm
Hammer Museum, UC Los Angeles
In this workshop, copying is not just allowed; it is encouraged! The only rule is that the phrases you copy from your favorite song, book, or story should be used to make new art. Join art educator and poet Theresa Sotto in creating “artful words” inspired [...]
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Sunday, August 7, 2011, 11am
Hammer Museum, UC Los Angeles
Co-presented with the UCLA Film & Television Archive
Recommended for ages 6+
Toby runs away from home to join the circus, convinced that his family doesn’t want him. This confusion is cleared up by story’s end, but in the meantime he lives a kid’s fantasy; inhabiting a colorful [...]
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Todd Simon is a trumpeter, composer, and arranger, well-versed in the Ethiopian Jazz tradition, having performed with Mulatu Astatke for the inaugural Mochilla Timeless concert series. On this special occasion, Todd joins forces with friends for an evening of Ethiopian rhythms and melodies, paying homage to the golden era of Ethiopian Jazz, along with original [...]
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American Indian Studies scholar Cindi Alvitre, co-founder of the Ti’at Society, elaborates on the practices depicted in Launching a Dream: Reviving Tongva Maritime Traditions, which she co-curated with Wendy Teeter.
EVENT DETAILS
Culture Fix: Tongva Maritime Traditions
Speaker: Cindy Alvitre
Wednesday, August 10, 2010
12 pm
Fowler Museum Galleria
Free program
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See this definitive story of Benny Goodman, with rare performance and rehearsal footage, interviews with family and friends, and video of the cultural icon recounting his own life.
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High Noon Film Series: Benny Goodman: Adventures in the Kingdom of Swing (1960, 81 minutes)
Friday, August 5, 2011
12 pm
Fowler Auditorium
Free screening
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August, 29 2011 – August, 31 2011
Sutardja Dai Hall, Banatao Auditorium, UC Berkeley
Together with our partners from Innovation Center Denmark, CITRIS is co-hosting this workshop, which is organized by the new Synthetic Biology Institute at UC Berkeley, the Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) and the Center for Synthetic Biology at Copenhagen University in Denmark. Synthetic biology [...]
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Event Details:
August 5 | 8-10 p.m. | Hertz Concert Hall
Sponsor: Music, Department of
Beethoven: Coriolan Overture, Melissa Panlasigui, conductor
Mussorgsky: Night on Bald Mountain, Garrett Wellenstein, conductor
Mussorgsky:Pictures at an Exhibition, Henry Shin, conductor
Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique, Gene Chang, conductor
Tickets not required: Free admission, suggested donation $10
Event Contact: concerts@berkeley.edu, 510-642-4864
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August 3, 2011 – August 7, 2011
Pacific Film Archive Theater, UC Berkeley
Animation director John Musker has written and directed some of Disney’s most beloved recent films. The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, and The Princess and the Frog, along with The Great Mouse Detective, Hercules, and Treasure Planet, all made with collaborator Ron Clements, [...]
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by National Endowment for the Arts
July 26, 2011
“On behalf of the National Endowment for the Arts, it is with great sadness that I acknowledge the passing of 2002 NEA Jazz Master Frank Foster. An extraordinary saxophonist, composer, arranger, bandleader, and educator, Frank Foster’s contributions to jazz are numerous. We join many others in the jazz [...]
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Deadline: September 12, 2011
Strategic Opportunity Stipends, a program of the New York Foundation for the Arts working in collaboration with arts councils and cultural organizations across New York State, is designed to help individual artists in all disciplines take advantage of specific opportunities that significantly benefit their career development. Strategic Opportunity Stipends are administered by [...]
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by New York Times
08-01-2011
For 10 years Erika Nelson, an artist in Lucas, Kan., has been making miniature models of giant pieces of Americana, putting them in a van and driving around the country to show people.
She has made tiny copies, for example, of the World’s Largest Ball of Twine, which is down the road in [...]
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by US News & World Report
08-01-2011
Officials from President Obama’s administration met with arts education activists in late July, including nonprofit executives, actors, and school administration officials, to discuss the impact of arts education and express concerns about its diminished role in school curricula.
The meeting was part of Obama’s Champions of Change program, designed to give [...]
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by Art Info
08-01-2011
The art advisory profession has been around for ages, but its popularity has exploded over the last decade. Before that, clients mainly relied on working with trusted dealers or relying on their own personal tastes. But increasingly, wealthy collectors are looking for a third party with art, and art-world, expertise but no monetary [...]
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by Long Beach Press-Telegram
07-31-2011
Craig Watson faces serious funding issues with state body.
In his short term of just two and a half years as executive director for the Arts Council for Long Beach, Craig Watson has achieved about a decade’s worth of accomplishments, including the establishment of the Greater Long Beach Arts Lab (GLOBAL), overseeing a [...]
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by Los Angeles Times
07-31-2011
The new Chicago sculpture, capturing her famous billowing-dress pose, elicits outrage and glee — and often just a smile.
Reporting from Chicago—
Marilyn Monroe stands tall on Michigan Avenue, high enough to see passing boats on the Chicago River, but she’s fortunate to be aluminum and stainless steel. She can’t hear the nasty things [...]
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by Los Angeles Times
07-31-2011
The home builders and craftsmen of the Arroyo Guild, which sprang up in the community of Garvanza, pledged to design a dwelling’s every detail, including carpets, furniture, stained glass, vases and pictures.
When you think of the Southern California’s arts and crafts movement, you probably think of Pasadena, home to architects Charles and [...]
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by Fresno Bee
07-30-2011
As summer heats up, Fresno’s cultural scene shows no sign of cooling down. I slipped out of town for a two-week vacation earlier this month and have been running myself ragged ever since trying to catch up on the stuff I missed. (The theater scene, in particular, is especially vibrant this month – [...]
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by USA Today
07-30-2011
Overall, it’s been a pretty good year for PBS.
Ratings are up, thanks in part to two Masterpiece hits, Upstairs, Downstairs and Downton Abbey. The system scored a record number of Emmy nominations. And a threat to cut off funding in January was successfully beaten back.
Well, for the time being. With the current Congress [...]
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by Palo Alto Patch
07-30-2011
Patch interviewed people in downtown Palo Alto to compile a list of the top five best pieces of public art in the city.
Scattered around the Palo Alto community are murals, sculptures and statues, either nestled in corners that are easily overlooked by the average commuter, or located boldly next to well-traveled roads [...]
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by San Diego Union-Tribune
07-30-2011
VISTA — Vista residents have had a chance to experience public art in an unusual way lately: by creating it.
The city has sanctioned two Mural-in-a-Day events, one July 16 and another last August.
They ultimately aimed to improve the aesthetics of the Townsite neighborhood, which many consider to be an underserved part of [...]
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by Phillipine Daily Inquirer
07-29-2011
LOS ANGELES, California—Joseph “Pepe” Rodriguez, 81, admits he’d become “a semi-recluse” before venturing from his apartment last spring to the clunking sounds coming from a recreation room at the Piedmont Senior Apartments in North Hollywood.
At first he waved off the white-haired women beckoning him to join their creative drum circle. “I’m too [...]
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by Santa Clarita Valley Signal
07-29-2011
Hart High School senior Dillon Carson can remember drawing ever since he was a child.
He enjoys it so much that he hopes to make a career out of it one day as a character designer for a video-game company.
And for the last three weeks, the 17-year-old has been able to work [...]
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by Los Angeles Times
07-29-2011
Pacific Standard Time, the region-wide festival organized by the Getty that’s dedicated to postwar culture in L.A., will kick off in October, with exhibitions taking place all over Southern California. But the multi-week event won’t be limited to just the visual arts. Organizers announced on Thursday a list of music, dance and other [...]
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by Gilroy Patch
07-28-2011
Quick – where can you see a concert, learn about California history, hike a trail and admire art, all in the same place? The answer lies in a gorgeous old villa in Saratoga.
Montalvo Arts Center in Saratoga not only has beauty, but a bounty of surprises for those who have never visited before. [...]
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By Thousand Oaks Acorn
07-28-2011
The City Council isn’t waiting any longer to find out if ticket sales will improve at the struggling Civic Arts Plaza.
At last week’s meeting, the council green-lit a pilot program that will allow the Civic Arts Plaza Foundation, the nonprofit organization that promotes performing arts programming and educational activities at the city’s [...]
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by Washington Post
07-27-2011
OAKLAND, Calif. — Tyler Thompson is an unlikely star in the world of Chinese opera.
The teenager from Oakland has captivated audiences in the U.S. and China with his ability to sing pitch-perfect Mandarin and perform the ancient Chinese art form.
“As soon as he opens his mouth and sings in Chinese, the Chinese are very [...]
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by San Diego Union-Tribune
07-27-2011
SAN DIEGO — What better way to promote music in the schools than with music — and mouse traps.
To help rebuild the San Diego Unified School District’s budget for music education, a local exterminator helped launch the “Find Your Voice” campaign to raise up to $175,000 to support music and art lessons for children throughout the city.
The [...]
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by Minnesota Medicine
07-26-2011
Studies show that incorporating the arts can save money, improve the patient experience—and do a lot more.
By Gary Christenson, M.D.
“We need the musician stat!” the physician called out. A young boy with severe spasticity was scheduled to receive a series of painful injections of botulinum toxin. The doctor knew that getting the boy [...]
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Speculative at LACE
Thursday 28 July, 2011 (7-9pm)
Join Zach Blas and Christopher O’Leary, the curators of Speculative, a group exhibition currently on view at LACE, for a conversation with artists and theorists Jordan Crandall, Judith “Jack” Halberstam and Rita Raley, along with Speculative artists Jeff Cain, Micha Cardenas and Michael Kontopoulos. The talk starts at [...]
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Expand your horizons! Come to Washington, DC to take advantage of the many opportunities that our nation’s capital has to offer you. Located in the heart of Washington DC, the UC Washington Center provides an opportunity to engage in a wide range of internships at museums, galleries, theaters for the performing arts and many other [...]
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We need your help to protect funding for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). Last week, the U.S. House Appropriations Committee passed the Interior Appropriations bill, which proposes to fund the NEA at $135 million for FY 2012. If enacted, this $20 million cut would be the deepest to the NEA in 16 years. [...]
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written by Barbara Drucker (Associate Dean of Academic Affairs & Director of Arts Education of the School of the Arts and Architecture at UCLA)
In answer to the pressing need for sustained access to arts education in our public schools and the expressed interest of our UCLA Arts students wishing to explore the field of arts [...]
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SonicSense:
Jennifer Parker
Barney Heynes
Friday, July 29th, 2011
6-9:30 p.m.
Montalvo Art Center
15400 Montalvo Road, Satatoga, CA 95070
The Opening Party for the 2011 Sculpture on the Grounds program will include lively music, the opportunity to meet the artists, libations and food, and some surprises! Come early, beginning at 6pm, and enjoy a Final Fridays performance by Ernesto Martinez, followed by a [...]
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Wednesday, August 3, 2011 @ 7:30 PM
Campbell Hall, UC Santa Barbara
FREE EVENT
The stellar cast includes Fred Astaire, Lucille Ball, Lucille Bremer, Fanny Brice, Cyd Charisse, Judy Garland, Kathryn Grayson, Lena Horne, Red Skelton, Esther Williams, and anyone else who was anyone in the Forties, in revues of unparalleled opulence. (1946, 110 minutes)
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JazzPOP enters its sixth year of jazz without borders at the Hammer, bringing three wildly inventive and daringly original groups to perform in the courtyard on the first three Thursdays in August. Curated by San Francisco bassist Lisa Mezzacappa.
“Thoroughly original, endlessly creative, unabashedly modern… this stuff grooves and simmers.“ —JazzTimes
Todd Sickafoose’s Tiny Resistors
Jenny Scheinman (violin), [...]
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Hosted by John Crosby, this episode from the “Seven Lively Arts” television series includes performances by jazz greats Count Basie, Billie Holiday, and many more.
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High Noon Film Series: The Sound of Jazz (1957, 58 minutes)
Friday, July 29, 2011, 12 pm
Auditorium at the Fowler Museum, UC Los Angeles
Free screening
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Event: Clarify Your Career Direction Using ‘Vision Boards’
Series: Career Catalyst Brown Bag
Speaker: Mark Guterman
Description: This workshop will show you how to create and use a vision board, which is a hands-on, collage-like tool to help you gain clarity and confidence in a desired future. We will talk about the vision board process, begin creating one, and explore ideas and [...]
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June 17, 2011 – August 20, 2011
Pacific Film Archive Theater, UC Berkeley
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The golden age of Japanese cinema shines at the PFA Theater this summer as we offer a thematic series spotlighting great screen performances. Launched in June, Japanese Divas continues through August 20: ten weeks to enjoy stellar performances by Setsuko Hara, Machiko Kyo, [...]
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July 1, 2011 – July 29, 2011
Pacific Film Archive Theater, UC Berkeley
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Mexico—its border and beyond—has long held allure for expats, elopers, and fugitives. The antiquated rituals, the civil turmoil, and the tropical fecundity conspire in an intoxicating culture that offers sanctuary to the absconder. In cinema, Mexico is a welcoming haven where the hoodlum [...]
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July 22, 2011 – August 25, 2011
Pacific Film Archive Theater, UC Berkeley
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Actor, director, poet, painter, boxer: Polish filmmaker Jerzy Skolimowski is a man of many roles. A key figure in the groundbreaking Polish New Wave of the 1960s, his early films such as Identification Marks: None, Barrier, and Walkover encapsulated the alienation and restlessness [...]
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July 8, 2011 – August 18, 2011
Pacific Film Archive Theater, UC Berkeley
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The search for mystery can be all consuming. Not the mystery of genre, but of human nature, of the culture enveloping it, of reality itself. Throughout his fifty-year career, it is this search that has engulfed the imagination of Bernardo Bertolucci. Trained first [...]
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The theme for this year’s juried exhibition, Proof, is intended to inspire and encourage a broad level of artistic response. By leaving the theme and media open to the artists’ interpretation, SoEx encourages visual artists to submit work that is conceptually and aesthetically diverse, drawing from as many insights and forms of creativity as possible. [...]
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Sebastopol Center for the Arts rents Gallery II to individual artists, or small groups of artists, for exhibition of their work. An application process takes place annually to select artists for the following year’s exhibition schedule.
The SCA Visual Arts Committee reviews and selects artists from the pool of applicants. Gallery II exhibits are generally [...]
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Art Of Toys is an online gallery and a gallery space inside Sacramento Art Complex. We feature art that is in the form of toys or art that is created with toys. We are looking for artists!! We are in the process of setting up future show calendar and events. Artwork should be submitted to [...]
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WHERE: Museum Store – Museum of Craft and Design at Hayes & Octavia
WHEN: September 16 – October 14, 2011
WHAT: Small works in Clay, Plastic, Glass, Wood and Metal
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: August 19, 2011
The cup is one of the most basic forms and yet offers infinite possibilities to explore. People are as passionate about their favorite cup [...]
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The Pepper Tree Gallery in Fresno, California, would like to invite artists to submit their artwork to the “Asian Art @ The Pepper Tree Gallery”, an exhibition of work representing Asian art of any kind. This is a juried art show so submitted work will be judged by a panel of individuals in high [...]
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Edges & Curves, Nothing In Between R32;attempts to bust the myth that the older creative has lost her or his edge. In a youth oriented society, the conventional wisdom is that the younger artist is the risk taker and rule breaker. And while those who would follow conventional wisdom believe we soften as we get [...]
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Southern Exposure is now accepting applications for Round V of the Alternative Exposure Grant Program. Alternative Exposure grants provide direct support to visual arts projects in San Francisco and Alameda Counties that in turn provide frameworks of support for artists to create and continue their work. We give grants of up to $3,500 to help [...]
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BOLD EXPRESSIONS, an International, Open, Juried Art Show, invites you to enter our 56th exhibition, which shows from October 4 through 29, 2011. Deadline for submission of jpeg images is August 6.
We are open to creations of original art all media except photography, film or crafts. Awards provided. Juror is [...]
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Sebastopol Center for the Arts invites artists living in California to submit work that has “Roots” as a key-concept. It can be a visual representation or a conceptual representation, including family roots, cultural roots, natural roots (trees, plants, hair…). Open to all media including installation and performance. Juror: Adam Wolpert.
Best of show: $200, Coordinators’ Award: [...]
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We are interested in artwork related to “shoes”. What more to say? Let your imagination go wild but stay within the size-limits. Open to all media including installation and performance.
Best of show $200, Coordinator’s Award $50 Merit Awards
Download prospectus from www.sebarts.org
Deadline: 10-10-2011
Sebastopol Center for the Arts
Sebastopol, CA
Contact: Catherine Devriese
email: cdevriese@sonic,net
Phone: (707) 829-4797
Website: http://www.sebarts.org
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by San Diego Union-Tribune
07-22-2011
Poor Encinitas.
Has any city ever gained so much — and yet suffered so — from “illegal” art?
Much of the pain can be written off to the failure of officials to find a suitable language to describe what’s happening within the city’s boisterous borders.
On July 6, Richard Phillips, Encinitas deputy city manager, wrote [...]
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by West Hollywood Patch
07-21-2011
The city launches the latest installment in its Art On the Outside program—a set of bronze and stainless steel sculptures from artists around the world.
Newly placed sculptures cast shadows onto stalled evening traffic Wednesday on Santa Monica Boulevard. With live music as a backdrop, city officials unveiled Elemental, the latest installment in [...]
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by Mercury-News.com
07-21-2011
Famed Bay Area photographer Richard Misrach has donated collections of pictures taken after the 1991 Oakland and Berkeley Hills fire to two East Bay museums.
The Oakland Museum of California and UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive each will exhibit more than 30 of Misrach’s photos to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the [...]
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by KCRW
07-21-2011
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: Art has unique power to inspire, to heal and, sometimes, even to triumph over such daunting obstacles as Carmageddon. Against better judgment and in spite of all the warnings, I took a chance last Saturday and drove on the 405 Freeway, hoping that better angels [...]
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by Santa Maria Times
07-20-2011
The small students at first seemed a little unsure of the steps, but then happily stretched and crossed one leg in front of the other as their dance teacher had instructed.
The first- through third-graders were in their second day of dance class Tuesday at Orcutt Arts Academy, learning a history of ballet [...]
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by Huffington Post
07-20-2011
You really don’t need to ask Ellen Griesedieck about the importance of arts education in schools — she’s more than happy to share her thoughts on the subject.
“What isn’t obvious is that when you cut off the arts, you’re also cutting off the way kids get into certain things, the way they learn,” [...]
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by Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
07-20-2011
CHINO – The potential loss of a significant amount of local redevelopment agency funds places the city’s planned downtown Cultural Arts Center project in jeopardy, officials said.
Plans call for a $13 million, 350-seat performing arts theater, art and exhibit gallery, as well as a multipurpose space for meetings, classes and community [...]
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by US News & World Report
07-19-2011
The Creative Coalition, Hollywood’s leading group of activist actors, most of whom backed President Obama’s 2008 election, has won a role in helping to influence the administration’s so-called “Champions of Change” program that highlights innovative education and arts efforts.
The group, led by President Tim Daly and CEO Robin Bronk, today [...]
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by Rolling Stone
07-19-2011
This Sunday, the inaugural Global Soul Festival will take place at Los Angeles’s Hollywood Bowl, with Wonder, Potter, Sharon Jones, Janelle Monae, Charles Bradley and many more performing their own songs, as well as a tribute to Marvin Gaye’s seminal What’s Going On album on its 40th anniversary.
The concert was the brainchild of [...]
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by Lodi News-Sentinal
07-19-2011
Livable, loveable Lodi took on a new meaning recently, when Project Lodi Art received a City Livability Award from the U.S. Conference of Mayors. The public art mosaic project went up against 230 entries from around the country.
Mayor Bob Johnson submitted the project because it makes Lodi unique.
“It’s a testament to the people [...]
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by The Daily Breeze
07-19-2011
Westside residents soon will be able to enjoy the sight of a rainbow every day, rain or shine.
Sony Pictures Entertainment has announced plans to install a 94-foot tall steel sculpture of a rainbow at its studios in Culver City.
“Rainbow” is the result of a collaboration between Sony Pictures’ leadership team and well-known [...]
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by Philanthropy News Digest
July 23, 2011
The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage has announced awards through its Pew Fellowships in the Arts program to twelve Philadelphia-area artists working in a wide variety of disciplines, including architecture, the visual arts, set design, choreography, and poetry.
The 2011 Pew Fellows, four of whom are first-time applicants to the [...]
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by Philanthropy News Digest
July 20, 2011
The Newark Museum in Newark, New Jersey, has announced a $1 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support a major expansion and reinstallation of its African art collection.
The grant will be used to fund new curatorial and research positions as well as the first-ever catalogue of the [...]
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Deadline: October 3, 2011 (Letters of Inquiry)
Funded by the Recording Academy, the Grammy Foundation Grant Program annually provides support for music archiving and preservation efforts and for scientific research projects related to the impact of music on the human condition.
The foundation awards scientific research project grants of up to $20,000 to organizations and individuals working [...]
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by National Endowment for the Arts
July 19, 2011
Washington, DC – Cultural industries are economic powerhouses and states have the data to prove it, according to a new analysis from the National Endowment for the Arts. Drawing on data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis, Arts and the GDP: Value Added by Selected Cultural Industries [...]
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by National Endowment for the Arts
July 21, 2011
Since the inception of the literary translation program in 1981, the Arts Endowment has awarded 339 Translation Fellowships in 62 languages from 72 countries
Washington, DC – NEA Chairman Rocco Landesman today announced $200,000 in 16 literary fellowships to support the translation of works into English, many of which [...]
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July 18th, 2011
SB Moves
Artist videos on Pumpflix gas pump-top screens, on view at 10 stations in Santa Barbara County from July 18th to August 17th, 2011
Pumpflix, UCIRA Artist Laurel Beckman, and the Department of Art at the University of California Santa Barbara, are pleased to present a unique collaboration in programming artist video content over [...]
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Nuestra Voz 2011
Friday, July 22 at 6:00pm
FREE! Don’t miss it! Everyone welcome!
Reception to follow
Studio Theater UCSB
(Go through the Pardall Tunnel. Walk for 3 minutes. It will be on your right in the Theater & Dance Building)
Nuestra Voz presents new plays written, acted, and danced by students from the Isla Vista Teen Center in collaboration with [...]
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Wednesday, July 27, 2011 @ 7:30 PM, Campbell Hall
FREE EVENT
A lavish piece of escapist entertainment, this film was Alice Faye’s last musical and director Busby Berkeley’s first color picture. The large-scale production numbers, some of the most fascinating of Berkeley’s extravagant flights of fancy, include “The Lady with the Tutti-Frutti Hat”, with Carmen Miranda, [...]
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Deadline: Thursday, October 13, 2011
On behalf of the University of California Humanities Network, UCHRI invites proposals for Working Groups on the Humanities and Changing Conceptions of Work, to be held during the 2012 calendar year (January-December 2012).
Who Can Apply: UC Faculty in humanities and humanistic social sciences (PI must be ladder track)
Level of Award: Up [...]
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The Great Picture: The World’s Largest Photograph & The Legacy Project
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Saturday, July 16, 2011 – Saturday, October 8, 2011
Sweeney Art Gallery, UC Riverside
UCR Sweeney Art Gallery & Culver Center of the Arts present The Great Picture: The World’s Largest Photograph & The Legacy Project, an exhibition in three parts that tells the tale [...]
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Friday, July 8, 2011 – Saturday, July 30, 2011
Billy Wilder Theater, UC Los Angeles
IN-PERSON: Marilyn Ann Moss, author, “Raoul Walsh: The True Adventures of Hollywood’s Legendary Director” (7/8); Alan K. Rode, author and film historian (7/8 and 7/24); producer Stanley Rubin (7/23)
Robert Mitchum liked to tell people that he only had two styles [...]
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July 15, 2011 – July 31, 2011
Billy Wilder Theater, UC Los Angeles
IN-PERSON: Director Michael Schultz, producer Gary Stromberg and actor Franklyn Ajaye (7/15); actress Robin Menken (7/22).
Following the Vietnam War and Watergate, and faced with a slide into national economic torpor, American popular culture of the 1970s understandably indulged in various modes of [...]
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Tuesday, July 26, 2011 at 7 pm
Hammer Museum, UC Los Angeles
In conjunction with the exhibition Paul Thek: Diver, A Retrospective, actor Thomas Jane performs dramatic reading in the exhibition galleries.
ABOUT THE ACTOR
Thomas Jane currently stars on HBO’s critically acclaimed comedy series, Hung, for which he has been nominated twice for a Golden Globe [...]
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Tuesday, July 26, 2011 at 12 pm
Hammer Museum, UC Los Angeles
In conjunction with Hammer Projects: Linn Meyers, choreographer Hana van der Kolk presents a new performance work that merges theatrical movements with spatial explorations through a meditation process similar to Meyers’s rhythmic, repetitive patterns. Vessels features song, dance, and five performers creating and navigating [...]
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Thursday, July 21, 2011 at 7 pm
Hammer Museum, UC Los Angeles
The Hammer courtyard turns electric in July, when Also I Like to Rock returns for a series of free concerts featuring today’s top emerging bands. Presented in partnership with KCRW 89.9 FM and curated by Buzz Bands LA, two bands per night will perform, [...]
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Saturday, July 23, 2011
1-4 pm
Fowler Museum Courtyard
Free program
Mix and match parts from different animals indigenous to Nigeria— like bushcows, antelopes, monkeys, and crocodiles— to create fusion masks inspired by those in Central Nigeria Unmasked.
Presented along with our Fela-bration!, with live music and more!
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Saturday, July 23, 2011
1-4 pm
Fowler Museum, UC Los Angeles
Free program
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The Fowler teams with Afro Funké to present this closing event for Central Nigeria Unmasked: Arts of the Benue River Valley (on display through July 24) with a toast to Nigerian music legend Fela Kuti, hosted by Rocky Dawuni!
Live music by [...]
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Important Dates
June 27 First Day of AileyCamp
July 4 Holiday — Closed (Independence Day)
August 4 End of Camp Performance, 7 pm, Zellerbach Hall
August 5 End of Camp Graduation and Celebration
Theme: Transitions
Our universe seems to operate on the model of creation and change. Whether it is quick or slow, transition from one state to the other is [...]
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by National Endowment for the Arts
7-19-2011
Washington, DC – Cultural industries are economic powerhouses and states have the data to prove it, according to a new analysis from the National Endowment for the Arts. Drawing on data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis, Arts and the GDP: Value Added by Selected Cultural Industries is a [...]
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by National Endowment for the Arts
7-18-2011
Sheridan County Museum is the latest museum to offer free admission to active duty military families this summer
Washington, DC – On Friday, the director of Sheridan County Museum in Sheridan, Wyoming received a surprise call from NEA Chairman Rocco Landesman, who called to say his museum was the 1,500th institution [...]
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Deadline: September 9, 2011
To support the development of screenplays with science or technology themes, the Sundance Institute and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation annually provide opportunities for both emerging and established filmmakers through a commissioning grant and fellowship.
The program is designed to further the development of film projects focused on stories grounded in current (or [...]
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The 9/11 Ten-Minute Playwriting Contest
Can you write a 10-minute play about 9/11 before 15th Aug. 2011
Submission Guidelines:
1. Play must be Unpublished , Unproduced and not have won any other contests.
2. No longer than 10 minutes
3.One-page biography .
4. Include TWO copies of each script.
5. No e-mail scripts accepted.
6. Include brief character descriptions.
7. A [...]
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This is a call for submissions from writers, artists and photographers living on California’s Central Coast, for the 5th issue of San Louie.
Submissions are online only, not by email, through submishmash.com, and any questions you have can be answered in this post: http://www.sanlouie.com/a-call-for-submissions-to-issue-5.
If you’re interested in contributing, head to your nearest home improvement store [...]
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Fotoblur is currently looking for photographers who would like to become contributors to Fotoblur Magazine, Issue 11 (the RGB Issue).
Fotoblur Magazine is a community-based photography publication which has published works by many up-and-coming photographers, including some of worlds top known talents.
Deadline: 07-31-2011
Fotoblur
Contact: Lance Ramoth
email: contact@fotoblur.com
Website: http://www.fotoblur.com/magazine/notice/11
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Works in any medium from music to performance to writing to visual art responding to the theme of outside are welcome.
Experimental, interactive, and ongoing projects encouraged
Deadline: 08-07-2011
Frankenart Mart
San Francisco, CA
Contact: leslie henslee
email: frankenart@gmail.com
Website: www.frankenartmart.com
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by San Francisco Chronicle
07-16-2011
With sinewy black curves twisting toward heaven, the 30-foot-tall sculpture outside the Hall of Justice has stood as an imposing presence for four decades.
But since its installation in 1971, the artwork, crafted by sculptor Peter Voulkos, has been bruised by salty air, car exhaust, dirt and graffiti – the same forces that [...]
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by Tri-City Voice
07-15-2011
“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” Pablo Picasso
Since the Fremont Cultural Arts Council published the free brochure “Art in Public Places” in 2008, more pieces have appeared in public areas. Most interesting is the zoetrope fountain in Niles’ public plaza. An interactive piece of art, visitors can spin [...]
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by Voice of San Diego
07-14-2011
In a great conflation of local public art funny business, somebody dressed up the Cardiff Kook as the Surfing Madonna this week, disguising a much-maligned statue in Encinitas as an homage to a contraband mosaic the city just made an artist take down.
Richard Gleaves, an artist and local public art super-fan, [...]
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by the Huffington Post
07-14-2011
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.”
It seems to be a fair assumption that Albert Einstein, the author of the quote above, would have felt right [...]
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by The Downey Patriot
07-14-2011
DOWNEY – After abolishing the Art in Public Places Committee last month, Downey council members are taking a direct approach in beautifying parts of the city, agreeing Tuesday to pay a Tustin firm $17,700 to decorate insipid utility boxes and paint a mural outside the shuttered Avenue Theatre.
Citing lack of progress, the [...]
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by Napa Valley Register
07-13-2011
The Mondavi Theatre Stage at the Napa Valley Opera House has been host to acts ranging from Robin Williams to Gordon Lightfoot. This summer, the performance center welcomes eight acts geared toward teens and “tweens” as part of the Summer Family Series.
Programming selected for the valley’s youth is not a new concept [...]
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by Bay City News
07-12-2011
The San Francisco Arts Commission voted unanimously on a new interim director Monday, officials from the mayor’s office announced.
The agency named JD Beltran, the current vice president, to act as director while they recruit a new permanent director of cultural affairs.
Beltran will replace Luis Cancel, who has been the director of cultural [...]
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by Santa Clarita Valley Signal
07-12-2011
‘Beat the Odds’ program launches at Boys & Girls Club in Newhall
A group of 20 local Boys and Girls Club youngsters are “beating the odds,” and they’re learning the skills to prove it.
As part of a four-week pilot program known as Beat the Odds, the elementary-school youngsters at the Boys & [...]
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July 20 2011, 07:00pm
Hammer Museum, UC Los Angeles
Emerging Voices is a literary fellowship program that aims to provide new writers, who lack access, with the tools they will need to launch a professional writing career. The recipients of the 2011 Emerging Voices fellowships are Hafeez Lakhani,Eric Layer, Lauren Marks, Azarin Sadegh, and Jamie Schaffner. Join us for the final [...]
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Tuesday, July 19 2011 at 07:00 PM
Hammer Museum, UC Los Angeles
Mentoring programs like Big Brothers and Big Sisters have been highly touted as a way to keep troubled kids off the streets. But can an outsider who has never been homeless or been recruited into a gang actually help a kid who knows those experiences [...]
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See one of America’s most influential entertainers in this film featuring classic performances, interviews with his contemporaries, and never-before-seen home movies.
EVENT DETAILS
High Noon Film Series: Satchmo: Louis Armstrong (1986, 86 minutes)
Friday, July 22, 2011
12 pm
Auditorium
Free Screening
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Jake Jamieson, a graduate of UCLA’s M.A. and B.A. programs in ethnomusicology, will illuminate the roots of jazz, the circumstances that led its creation, and the cultural significance of the interactions that are highlighted in Jam Session.
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Wednesday, July 20, 2011
12pm
Jam Session Gallery
Free Program
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FREE EVENT
Wednesday, July 20, 2011 @ 7:30 PM, Campbell Hall
MGM pulls out all the stops in this spectacle about the lives of three Ziegfeld girls: Judy Garland, Lana Turner, and Hedy Lamarr. With Busby Berkeley’s sizzling direction of the production numbers; Adrian’s mind-boggling costumes; and such young and upcoming stars as James Stewart, Tony Martin, Jackie [...]
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More than $6.5 million to be invested in 51 communities that are supporting the arts as part of a community revitalization strategy
Washington, DC – Today, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) announced the inaugural round of “Our Town” funding, totaling $6.575 million in grants to 51 communities in 34 states that have created public-private [...]
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Washington, DC - National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Rocco Landesman congratulates Jon Parrish Peede on his eight years of service to the NEA. Peede has served as Literature Director and as Counselor to the Chairman, and in these roles he has overseen leadership initiatives and grantmaking for a wide range of literature projects.
“It has been [...]
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by National Endowment for the Arts
Washington, DC - The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) announced today that 76 not-for-profit organizations have been recommended for grants totaling $1,000,050 to host a Big Read project between September 2011 and June 2012. The Big Read is an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts designed to restore [...]
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Knight Foundation and NEA offer up to $100,000 for projects in eight-city Community Arts Journalism Challenge
Washington, DC - Knight Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) today are launching an eight-city competition seeking new models for local arts journalism in the digital age. The initiative seeks to rethink how traditional media systems function, harnessing [...]
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The Center for Cultural Innovation (CCI), in partnership with theJames Irvine andWilliam and Flora Hewlett foundations have announced the next round of the NextGen Arts Initiative. The NextGen Arts program is offering professional development grants to individual emerging arts leaders and arts organizations to support their emerging arts leadership.
NextGen Arts Professional Development grants provide up to $1,000 to emerging [...]
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Deadline: August 8, 2011
The Irvine Foundation’s Creative Connections Fund is designed to support the expansion of diverse, relevant arts and cultural offerings in local communities across California.
The fund targets small and midsize arts organizations and offers project grants of up to $50,000, over a maximum of two years, through an open, competitive review process.
The program awards [...]
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Deadline: August 1, 2011
The Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation, the not-for-profit foundation of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, has opened the nomination process for the Zelda Fichandler Award, which provides an unrestricted grant of $5,000 to an outstanding director or choreographer making an exceptional contribution to the arts landscape through theater work in a particular region [...]
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The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation provides fellowships for advanced professionals in all fields (natural sciences, social sciences, humanities, creative arts) except the performing arts. The fellowships are intended to further the development of scholars and artists by assisting them to engage in research in any field of knowledge and creation in any of the arts, [...]
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