AMP: Artists' Meeting Place and Resource Collective

METRO ORANGE LINE EXTENSION
New public art opportunities.

We are seeking five artists for the Metro Orange Line Extension.

The Metro Orange Line Extension dedicated busway will extend four miles north from Canoga Station to the Chatsworth Metrolink Station, and will include a new bikeway and pedestrian path, landscaping, additional parking areas and public art.

For information regarding submittal requirements, visit metro.net/art and click on "Artist Opportunities" or call 213.922.4ART.

Opportunities include:

* Canoga Station

* Sherman Way Station

* Roscoe Station

* Nordhoff Station

* Chatsworth Station

Call
for Visual Artist/Muralist MacArthur Park

LA Commons is searching for a Lead Artist to work
with a core Youth Arts Team

(Age 15-25) to collect neighborhood
stories at the sites and design and paint portable

Murals that share the
history and current stories of the contribution of Central American

Immigrants to the life,
art and culture of Los Angeles.

Project Partners: LA Commons, CARECEN, Mama’s Hot Tamales, MacArthur
Park Recreation Center, ReDiscover MacArthur Park, Miguel Contreras Learning Center
and the office of LA City Council Member Ed Reyes.

The Role the Lead Artist/Designer in
this project will be:

To participate in story/image gathering
process with the group to inform the designs for the murals.
To mentor the Core Youth Arts team to foster

The Keyholder Residency Program offers emerging artists free 24-hour access to professional printmaking facilities to develop new work and foster their artistic careers. Residencies are one year long and take place in the Printshop’s shared Artists’ Studio. Facilities are available for intaglio, relief, monoprint, waterbased silkscreen techniques, photo and digital processes, and other techniques that employ the tools at hand.

Contemporary Istanbul - Open Call for Applications
Deadline 1 March 2010

Contemporary Istanbul: 25-28 November 2010

Contemporary Istanbul

www.contemporaryistanbul.com

Contact

info@contemporaryistanbul.com
Phone: +90 212 244 71 71
Fax: +90 212 244 71 81

Address

www.contemporaryistanbul.com
Contemporary Istanbul
Mete Cad. No 10/11 Yeni Apt. Kat 4
34437 Taksim, Istanbul
Turkey

Info

Deadline for applying:
1 march 2010

24 Preview / 25 - 28 Public View
November 2010

Contemporary Istanbul will take place from 25th to 28th November 2010. As the most extensive contemporary art event in Turkey, Contemporary Istanbul now accepts applications for its fifth international edition in the year of 2010 European Capital of Culture.

Stone Summer Theory Institute

School of the Art Institute of Chicago

www.stonesummertheoryinstitute.org

Contact
jelkins@saic.edu

Address
www.stonesummertheoryinstitute.org
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
112 S. Michigan Avenue
Chicago IL 60603
USA

Info

Deadline: April 15, 2010
Stone Summer Theory Institute:
July 18-24, 2010

Fellowship opportunity at Stone Summer Theory Institute, SAIC - Chicago

The Stone Summer Theory Institute is an intensive week of seminars, lectures, and panel discussions, which will be published as a series of books involving over 300 scholars. It is held each July in Chicago. Fellows are not expected to present papers, but are asked to do up to 2,000 pages of advance readings for the seminars.

Call for applications: Professor in site & situation specific arts at the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts

Professor in site and situation specific arts

Finnish Academy of Fine Arts

www.kuva.fi

Salla Vapaavuori: Paljastuksia (Revelations)
2007
Unknown City 2007
Photo: Tommi Keränen
Contact

jan.kaila@kuva.fi

Address

www.kuva.fi
Finnish Academy of Fine Arts
Kaikukatu 4
FI-00530 Helsinki
Finland

Info

The Finnish Academy of Fine Arts is an international fine arts university and the only one of its kind in Finland. It provides high-quality education in moving image, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture and site and situation specific arts. It is also a pioneer in artistic research. The Academy has been training artists since 1848.

POST

Application Deadline: Friday, February 19, 2010 by 5:00pm (Not a postmark deadline)

REDCAT is accepting proposals for original performance works for the 2010 New Original Works Festival. The Festival is designed to support the development and presentation of contemporary performance in Los Angeles through a three-week interdisciplinary program of dance, theater, music and multi-disciplinary works. Entering its seventh year, the Festival features a flexible schedule to accommodate a variety of short works and some longer projects in Los Angeles premieres, and provides development support through technical assistance, access to the theater and its sound and lighting inventory and an honorarium.

LONG BEACH PLAYHOUSE

VISUAL ARTS EXHIBITION PROGRAM

Call to Artists

The Long Beach Playhouse announces a Call for Artists for a six-week
2-dimensional visual art exhibition featuring works by a single artist in
association with the theme of Real Women Have Curves by Josefina Lopez:

LONG BEACH PLAYHOUSE BACKGROUND

Long Beach Playhouse, established in 1929, is the oldest performing arts
organization in the city of Long Beach and the longest continuously
operating playhouse west of the Mississippi River. Sixteen productions are
presented annually in the Playhouse's two theatres - the elegant 200-seat,
non-professional actor Mainstage and 99-seat Equity-waiver Studio Theatre.
Nearly 35,000 people enjoy its productions annually; remarkably, a new

reDiscover needs Artist Volunteers to join us in creating a series of art projects for the center. Volunteers will be asked to join us at the center on Saturdays from 10am-1pm, to create projects that will be used in all facets of our work from samples for student projects to promotional materials and auction items. Volunteers can donate as much or as little time as they can and will have lots of room for personal creativity. (within the bounds that we work with children of course)

More about reDiscover...

Mission
reDiscover is a non-profit organization that promotes creativity in education and the arts while encouraging environmental sustainability. We recycle everyday discards donated by business and give them new life as hands-on learning and artistic materials.

Vision

Contract Faculty: Documentary Photography Projects

Venice Arts is seeking to develop a pool of qualified, professional
documentary photographers and/or photojournalists interested in
working with youth on Independent Contract basis. Selected faculty
will be trained by Venice Arts and given teaching assignments in
either our ongoing programs or special projects. Regarding the latter,
these may be local, regional, statewide, or international.

Qualifications:

Must have experience and strong commitment to documentary photography,
photojournalism, or street photography. Prior experience teaching
youth a strong plus, as is familiarity with participant photography
and visual storytelling. Must be expert working in digital media,