AMP: Artists' Meeting Place and Resource Collective

CALL FOR ARTISTS
visual artists - writers and poets - performance artists, sound artists, composers, choreographers - film/video/animation artists

The Alliance of Artists Communities is now accepting applications for the 2010 Midwestern Voices and Visions awards - celebrating, supporting, and promoting the work of highly talented, yet under-recognized artists of color from the Midwest .

Eligibility: The initiative seeks to promote artists of color working in any visual, literary, and/or performance-based media, who display artistic excellence, are committed to an artistic career, and are under-served, under-recognized, or under-represented in the mainstream.

Midwestern Voices and Visions accepts applications from artists from all disciplines who:

(1) are of color and represent the diverse cultural backgrounds of the Midwest ;

(2) are permanent residents of Illinois , Indiana , Iowa , Michigan , Minnesota , Missouri , Nebraska , Ohio , or Wisconsin ;

(3) are not currently students; and

(4) have not participated in an artist residency previously.

Artists selected for the 2010 Midwestern Voices and Visions awards will receive a one- to three-month residency, a $4000 grant, promotion through an internationally-distributed publication, and inclusion in an exhibition/performance.
Application Deadline: August 15, 2009
For information and to apply, visit: http://www.midwestvoicesandvisions.org