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« September 2008 | Main | November 2008 » 
October 30, 2008 Races to watchLinda Frye Burnham / 11:00 AM Americans for the Arts Action Fund PAC has made a list of key Congressional Races to Watch. "We believe the candidates in these races will help advance the arts on Capitol Hill in order to ensure the arts thrive in your local communities," says the PAC. "Contributions are made on a bipartisan basis. By Election Day, the Arts Action Fund PAC will have made over $70,000 in campaign contributions to more than 125 Congressional candidates in all 50 states. "By donating to pro-arts candidates in both parties, the PAC strives to support those Democrats and Republicans who have demonstrated arts leadership and/or pledged to do so once they take office. The PAC made contributions to incumbents, challengers, and open seat candidates running for U.S. Congress in either the House or Senate." The list shows people in key races (in state order) and includes the latest polling predictions by the nonpartisan Cook Political Report. Listed are Bob Lord (D-AZ), Chris Shays (R-CT), Jim Marshall (D-GA), Mark Kirk (R-IL), Mary Landrieu (D-LA), Kay Barnes (D-MO), Tom Udall (D-NM) and more. You can download a .pdf of the list of candidates supported by the PAC at:
A Creative Wall Linda Frye Burnham / 10:21 AM Caribeworld.org has posted "A Creative Wall Voices," a cross-cultural art exhibition to promote cultural exchange and diversity, online now through November 15, 2008. It features 52 artworks by 18 artists from 13 countries. Caribeworld is a cultural initiative founded in 2001 to "create and stimulate the feeling of the Caribbean membership, to favor brotherhood links, to create bridges between Caribbeans and brothers from the rest of the world in order to share the idea of meeting, and to support and promote cultural diversity and the dialogue between people of different cultures."
October 29, 2008 Mainstream MeltdownLinda Frye Burnham / 03:36 PM Forwarded from Provisions Library: "Come join us as we mark the 79th anniversary of the 1929 stockmarket crash that caused the Great Depression, as artist collaborators Nora Ligrano and Marshall Reese install a 5 foot tall, 15 foot wide ice sculpture of the word ECONOMY in Manhattan's Foley Square.
Artist opportunities at Intermedia Linda Frye Burnham / 09:17 AM Forwarded from Intermedia Arts in Minneapolis: Check out Intemedia Arts’ three artist opportunities below! 1. 2009 SASE/Jerome Grants for Emerging Writers 2. 2009 VERVE Grants for Spoken Word Artists 3. Call for Applications: Naked Stages 2009 For more information and to download an application for any of the above mentioned artist opportunites, please visit the Intermedia Web site. Best,
New Prison Arts Coalition blog site Linda Frye Burnham / 09:08 AM The Prison Arts Coalition is a group of people involved in arts in criminal justice who met at a recent conference and decided to organize. The group met at Critical Resistance 10, September 26-28, 2008, in Oakland, Calif., says writer Judith Tannenbaum in an e-mail, "to continue our efforts to form a coalition among people making and sharing art inside prison, jail, post-release programs, etc." The coalition's first effort is a Prison Arts blog where, writes Tannenbaum, you can "visit and add information about your program, as well as information about resources and events. Please write a post about your work or other relevant matters. This Prison Arts Coalition blog site will allow us to talk with each other in a way many have requested. The group of us that gathered at CR10 are in the process of developing what we need (mission statement, etc) to create an actual Prison Arts Coalition entity. We hope to find funding that will allow in-person gatherings as well as many ways to share the work we're all doing. We'll post whatever we come up with on the blog site."
October 22, 2008 Who could say no to William Shatner?Linda Frye Burnham / 03:25 PM Forwarded from: THE ENTREPRENEURIAL ARTIST RESOURCE GUIDE You and/or your organization are being included in my Entrepreneurial Artists Resource Guide designed to offer your information to artists to help them develop their entrepreneurial skills. Information about your organization is being compiled into a page and in the coming weeks you will receive a copy of it for your approval. THE ENTREPRENEURIAL ARTIST COMPETITION My name is Lisa Canning and this competition will offer 2 artists an appearance on national TV with William Shatner, a 10 minute promotional video of the appearance as promotional material for their work, free coaching and classes. If you are interested in donating anything to either the grand prize winner or to each artist who enters please feel free to contact me. However, two prizes will be offered in the first year to two winners valued at over $20,000 USD each. You can learn more about me and the contest by going to www.EntrepreneurTheArts.com or the blog.
October 14, 2008 Make a Bronx collageLinda Frye Burnham / 03:13 PM You can have a lot of fun making moving collages out of Fatimah Tuggar's photos of the Bronx on the Bronx Museum Web site. Commissioned by the Public Art Fund, Tuggar photographed everyday sights from the streets of the Bronx, and is giving the public the opportunity to create collages with these images, using an interactive installation in the museum's lobby and on the Web. Tuggar will then select collages created by the public to be displayed on a series of Bronx bus shelters. Public Art Fund calls it "artwork that comes full circle — images are taken from the streets and reconfigured at the Bronx Museum, after which Public Art Fund extends them back into the streets where they become a new part of the Bronx landscape." The project, part of an exhibition called "Street Art, Street Life: From the 1950s to Now," runs through January 25, 2009.
October 09, 2008 Drama as teaching aid draws big bucksLinda Frye Burnham / 12:08 PM From the Cultural Policy Listserv: Schools receive grant to incorporate drama into curriculum In California, "[a] $999,000 grant, awarded to the Moorpark Unified School District by the U.S. Department of Education recently, will boost creativity and enhance learning skills in local elementary classrooms. The district and California Lutheran University will work together to create a model program where teachers utilize drama techniques as a teaching strategy in all subject areas. Funds from the Project ACT (Active, Collaborative Teaching grant) will be used over the next four years to implement and run the program at all six elementary schools in the district." http://www.moorparkacorn.com/news/2008/1003/community/019.html
Change at Exit Art Steven Durland / 11:03 AM From Exit Art in New York City: "Change" by Juana Galio and François Ziliff. A public art commentary on the cultural and economic disaster. The piece is made of fluorescent lights and cost $110.
October 08, 2008 Pecha Kucha!Linda Frye Burnham / 11:45 AM We recently got an invitation to Pecha Kucha Night in Winston-Salem, N.C., so we looked it up on Wikipedia: Pecha Kucha Night is a presentation format in which (mostly creative) work can be easily and informally shown. It was originally devised by Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham of Klein-Dytham Architecture (KDa) in Tokyo in 2003 as a place for young designers to meet, network, and show their work in public. The format has spread virally to many cities across the world. The name derives from a Japanese term for the sound of conversation ("chit-chat"). The idea behind Pecha Kucha is to keep presentations concise, the interest level up and to have many presenters sharing their ideas within the course of one night. Therefore the 20x20 Pecha Kucha format was created: each presenter is allowed a slideshow of 20 images, each shown for 20 seconds. This results in a total presentation time of 6 minutes 40 seconds on a stage before the next presenter is up. Each event usually has 14 presenters. Presenters (and much of the audience) are usually from the design, architecture, photography, art and creative fields, but recently it has also stretched over to academia and the business world. A Pecha Kucha Night global map/calendar
October 06, 2008 Two big challenges from Knight FoundationLinda Frye Burnham / 04:56 PM Forwarded from the Knight Foundation: Things have really been chugging along here at the Knight News Challenge 2008, with lots of innovative new outreach coinciding with this year’s contest’s official start. The worldwide contest reopened September 2nd, 2008, with another $5 million in funding available for digital media experiments to innovate news and communication before applications close on November 1st. We’re writing you this year because we’d like to encourage you to submit an idea again this year, and we have new tools and resources to help you succeed. You Invent It. We Fund It! The contest is open to community-minded innovators worldwide, from software designers to journalists to citizens and students of any age. Do you have a big idea for informing and inspiring a geographic community using social media, Web 2.0 tools or OpenID? How about exchanging information via video, photos or text messaging? A way to integrate game theory with web browsing to support local community engagement? Come on, push the edge – we’re seeking true innovation! Winning entries must have three elements: Use or create digital, open-source technology as the code base New in 2008: The News Challenge Garage To support applications this year, Knight has created a new incubator — the News Challenge Garage — where prospective applicants can receive peer reviews and mentoring from screeners and awardees from previous years. To date, over 40 applications are already incubating in the Drupal-based Garage site. A diverse group of developers, online journalists, nonprofit evangelists, video bloggers and social media experts are on hand to coach at http://garage.newschallenge.org. The 50 mentors are available to coach and guide everyone who enters a project in the Garage. They include Vidoop’s Chris Messina, Spot.us’ David Cohn, Contentious editor Amy Gahran, Placeblogger’s Lisa Williams, Beth Kanter, J.D. Lasica and many other digital media specialists. For a 'floatable' video introducing the Garage in a variety of languages, visit DotSub to find out more. Want to get more involved?
Deadline 10/25: Death of the Bush Era (at SPARC) Linda Frye Burnham / 04:22 PM SPARC (Social and Public Art Resource Center in Venice, Calif.) invites multimedia artists from around the corner and around the world to submit artworks through its online gallery for a show called "Death of the Bush Era: What Next?," opening November 1, 2008. They are are seeking digital representations of works in film, paintings, graphics or sound works; pieces will be selected for their appropriateness to the theme and shown on a large plasma screen at SPARC during the exhibition. Says SPARC "In an effort to reach out to artists across the country and abroad, ONLY digital submissions will be accepted. The multifaceted exhibition will examine the global transformation prompted by the eight-year George W. Bush administration, the upcoming election, economic recession, illegal immigration, and the Iraq war." Submit on the SPARC Web site
Back from L.A. Linda Frye Burnham / 11:52 AM I have returned from the land of the academics. It was wonderful to be part of Imagining America, the first conference under the leadership of Jan Cohen-Cruz (with tons of help from Juliet Feibel, Jamie Haft and crew and USC). Top highlight: a keynote by the great Judy Baca, who talked about how the land holds memories and how she and her team excavate them for the hundreds of murals and monuments they have created. The land of L.A. certainly holds memories for me: I was among the first wave of artists who moved to downtown L.A. in the 1970s, when you could get an 8,000-sq.-ft. loft for $500 a month. Now the place is awash in gated "luxury apartments" with names like "Artisan on Second," plus several Starbucks and an Office Depot. So it goes. More on the conference -- and the traditional arts organizing meetup in Chicago -- later, after I read my 1500 e-mails.
October 03, 2008 No more scarcity!Linda Frye Burnham / 09:10 AM From the Imagining America conference in L.A.: To quote Randy Martin, who teaches arts politics at NYU (not verbatim): It turned out there was an extra 700 billion dollars! We don't have to talk from a place of scarcity. Everything we need is obviously available. We also decided it's not only mortgage holders who are upside down. Everything is upside down! What an opportunity for people on the bottom! Don't you worry 'bout a thing.
October 02, 2008 Hello from Los Angeles!Linda Frye Burnham / 11:02 AM Today, the Imagining America conferenc starts at USC. I'll be going to a Cornerstone Theater workshop called "Initial Steps in Turning Community Stories into Art," and seeing a reader's-theater presentation of their new piece, "For All Time: A Dramatic Investigation of Incarceration and Justice in American Society." Also, this afternoon I'll be part of Day Two of "A Call to Action for Cultural Equity: Voices from the Cultural Battlefront’s Los Angeles Forum," which started yesterday at Farmlab downtown. About 50 people came to that meeting, artists and activists from the many ethnic communities of L.A., as well as some of the people who have been part of past Voices discussions, like Marta Moreno Vega, Dudley Cocke, Olga Garay, Jamie Haft, Ron Bechet, Jan Cohen-Cruz and more. It was a timely meeting, given Voices' concentration on hype-capitalism and its effects on our communities and the rest of the world -- while we met, so did the U.S. Senate, voting on a $700B financial "rescue" bill. We heard from the locals about such L.A. issues as gentrification, immigration, gang membership and the media. Actions were proposed for further discussion -- among them, a Cultural March on Washington. Yesterday it was 98 degrees downtown. More later. |
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