The Paula Altvater Fellowship Program

Fellows work with Cornerstone ensemble members on aspects of design, directing, administration and production in the company�s current community collaboration, and become immersed in daily running of theater company. Full-time positions requiring consecutive ten-week commitment. Stipend: $2,000. Call Educational Director: 213-613-1700. (Internships also available.)

Artists in Communities Training (ACT) Teaching Fellowship

Two-year Fellows participate in training workshops and placement in schools, community settings to work with youth in planning and implementing community-based arts projects. Program intended to build a core of teachers and leaders for the Asian Arts Initiative. Stipend $1,000/mo, October 2004-August 2006. Some ongoing teaching positions available at end of fellowship period. Apply by August 16, 2004.

Community Arts Fellowship

Graduate-level fellowship within an arts organization, designed to experiment with and define new ways of hands-on collaboration between artists and a broad community. Located in The ARTery space, a hands-on, drop-in, collaborative art-making gallery. Fellow will develop interactive projects specific to his/her area of interest that reach out to new communities, provide more in-depth engagement into exhibitions in the galleries, and provide an accessible entry point to the Arts Center for active participation by people of all skill levels and ages. Stipend: $18,000. Full-time, ten-month commitment. John Michael Kohler Arts Center is a 100,000-square-foot visual and performing-arts complex devoted to innovative explorations in contemporary art; new models for community arts; educational partnering with an emphasis on early-childhood education; presenting performing artists; supporting practicing artists through residencies. Complex includes ten galleries, theater, interdisciplinary performance space, studio-classrooms, meeting spaces, gift shop and café. Community Arts Department, a programming department at the Arts Center has five programs: Connecting Communities, The ARTery, the Community Gallery, the Partnership Program and Community Events.