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The Finnish Academy of Fine Arts admits new students to the Doctoral Studies Programme

The Finnish Academy of Fine Arts
Kaikukatu 4
00530 Helsinki
Finland
Phone: +358 9 680 33 234
firstname.lastname@kuva.fi
http://www.kuva.fi/portal/english/

Application period:
15 December 2010 – 28 February 2011

The Finnish Academy of Fine Arts admits new students to the Doctoral Studies Programme

Application period: 15 December 2010 – 28 February 2011.

For further information, please contact
Professor Jan Kaila, Head of Programme
E-mail: firstname.lastname(a)kuva.fi

Henri Wegelius, Amanuensis
tel. +358 9 680 33 234 or +358 45 657 8656 (mobile)
E-mail: firstname.lastname(a)kuva.fi

The Center for Cultural Innovation (CCI) is pleased to announce that the Guidelines and Application for the First Quarter of the ARC Grants Program (Artists' Resource for Completion), providing funding for artists living in Los Angeles County, are now available for download at www.cciarts.org/funding.

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International Fellowship Program for Art and Theory 2011-2012: Call for Applications

Kunstlerhaus Buchsenhausen
Weiherburggasse 13
6020 Innsbruck
Austria
Phone: +43 512 278627
Fax: +43 512 278627-11
office@buchsenhausen.at
http://buchsenhausen.at

The closing date for submissions is January 31, 2011 (postmark).

KUNSTLERHAUS BUCHSENHAUSEN
INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM FOR ART AND THEORY 2011-12

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS

Kunstlerhaus Buchsenhausen invites visual and media artists, art critics, theorists, and curators to apply for a fellowship in 2010–2011. Candidates can apply for one semester (October 3, 2011 – February 11, 2012 or February 14, 2012 - June 24, 2012). The fellowship can be split across two semesters.

The Istituto Europea di Design is launching a contest to win scholarships for the European Master of Fine Art Photography in Madrid. The first prize is a scholarship that covers the cost of the course fee, equivalent to 9.000 €. There will be two second prizes which will cover 50% of the course fee, each equivalent to 4.500 €. The contest will close on February 11th, 2011, at 10:00 a.m. CET. See terms and conditions on http://iedmadrid.com/becas/scholarships-for-european-master-of-fine-art-...

The European Master of Fine Art Photography is based on three fundamental concepts:
Its international nature, with a special focus on the European environment, from Russia to Ireland, from Finland to Barcelona

The Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild offers month long Artist in Residence (AIR) opportunities for visual artists, composers, playwrights/screenwriters, and writers of fiction, nonfiction and poetry. Longer residencies are available for ceramic artists. The AIR sessions generally occur during the months of June, July, August, and September. Our goal is to provide solitude in a community and uninterrupted time in which to concentrate on creative work alongside fellow artists. Opened in 1903, the Byrdcliffe Art Colony was placed on the National Register of Historic Sites in 1979 for its architectural and historical significance. It is located in the Catskill Mountains, 1.5 miles from the center of Woodstock, New York.

Cyborg Nation is seeking an adventurous designer who is experienced in working with unusual costuming and/or wearable technology.

Cyborg Nation, conceived by Clarinda Mac Low, a performance and installation artist, and Walter Polkosnik, a physicist, hacker and inventor, is built around a self-contained performance environment (SCoPE); miniature technologies built into a wearable, participatory media extravaganza. The SCoPE is a tool for creating performance dialogues anywhere, acting as a nexus for imagination and as an aid to impromptu philosophizing. The SCoPE allows one-to-one conversation to become a public display. With the SCoPE, performer(s) field and respond to phone calls, images, and email from participants on site and elsewhere.

Dear Artists,

The official W.A.G.E. SURVEY is here!

These 2 surveys specifically target the exhibition experiences of visual and performance artists who have worked in New York with either or both:

Small to Medium Non-Profit Institutions

Large Non-Profit Institutions & Museums

from recent trip to NOLA, and the music was great too.

The Abraaj Capital Art Prize, established by the Dubai-based private equity firm Abraaj Capital, is opening up applications for independent curators and artists to apply for its 4th edition. One of the most generous art prizes in the world, the prize is extending its reach to provide the most dynamic creative collaborations between international curators and artists from the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia (MENASA).

Calling Curators