AMP: Artists' Meeting Place and Resource Collective

The Los Angeles Academy of Figurative Art (LAAFA) is currently looking to hire a highly motivated full-time ADMISSIONS DIRECTOR. The qualified candidate will work with a talented team of individuals in a creative environment where they will have the opportunity to make their mark in the world of art education.

LAAFA offers a full time, 3-year studio art program with a focus on a disciplined approach to representational painting. Within this framework, we offer a broad range of technical and conceptual approaches to the articulation of the perceived and the experienced. The mission of our school is to provide its students with both the technical and intellectual ability to address issues in the contemporary art world.

The California Community Foundation will award $260,000 in Fellowships for Visual Artists to 14 Los Angeles individual artists. Ten fellowships at $20,000 each will be awarded to mid-career artists and four fellowships at $15,000 each will be awarded to emerging artists.

For more than 90 years, CCF has recognized, encouraged and supported the Southern California arts community by funding and nurturing a full range of artistic expressions. The Fellowships for Visual Artists is designed to support local artists in advancing to the next level of professional development. The fellowships draw together the J. Paul Getty Trust Fund for the Visual Arts, the Brody Arts Fund, the Joan Palevsky Endowment for the Future of Los Angeles and other CCF funds.

DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATE

Organization Name:

Los Angeles Children's Chorus (LACC)

Position Category:

Development (Part-time, 20 hrs/wk)

Duties and Responsibilities:

The Development Associate is responsible for assisting the Director of
Development in coordinating and implementing the development functions for
Los Angeles Children's Chorus. Development functions include: the
cultivation, solicitation and acquisition of gifts to the annual fund
(individual, foundation, corporate, government); prospect research; grant
writing and report preparation; record keeping and file management; donor
acknowledgment and benefit delivery; and execution of special events and
self-produced concerts. Additional responsibilities may be assigned as
appropriate.

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.

The Sherwood Internship is offered to emerging and aspiring arts professionals. It will be offered annually as a professional internship for the duration of six months.

The terms of the internship are as follows:
- Intern will receive a stipend of $2,000.
- Intern will receive a mentorship in contemporary theatre.
- Intern will create a database of applicants and track any of their work being presented in Los Angeles.
- Intern will conduct research on the candidates and offer weekly updates to members of the panel.
- Intern will work under the supervision of the Producer, answer communications and liaise with Press and Marketing departments regarding the award, and assist in honing the group of applicants down to three finalists to be reviewed by the panel as a whole.

FORD THEATRES 3RD ANNUAL WINTER PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM
FOR THEATRE COMPANIES
NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS!

Applications for the 2010-11 season ARE NOW AVAILABLE AND DUE MARCH 17,
2010

UPCOMING INFORMATIONAL WORKSHOP WILL BE HELD ON TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2 AND
MARCH 2 AT 7:00P.M.

2010-11 WINTER PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM INFORMATION

On November 7, 2008, the Arts Commission launched the [Inside] the Ford
Winter Partnership Program. Recognizing that many Los Angeles
County-based theatre companies do not have permanent performance homes
and that the cost of producing theatrical works has become prohibitively
expensive in the area, the Arts Commission provides an opportunity for
theatre companies without a permanent performance venue to produce in

Sound, Sight, Space and Play 2010

Postgraduate Conference for the Creative Sonic Arts
Wednesday 2nd – Friday 4th June 2010
Music, Technology and Innovation Research Centre,
De Montfort University, Leicester, United Kingdom

Exploring the Future of the Sonic Arts

We would like to invite you to take part in Sound, Sight, Space and Play
(SSSP) 2010, a conference for postgraduate students working in the creative
sonic arts, organised by postgraduate students of the Music Technology and
Innovation Research Centre (MTIRC), De Montfort University. The ideals of
this event are to stimulate co-operation and inspiration between
postgraduate students, across institutional boundaries, leading to new
perspectives on current works and research. We encourage submission of

This is our time, right now. I can feel it when I read a great book or manage to write something I think is good.

Tonight as I peruse "What A Long Strange Trip It's Been (Twenty Years of Rolling Stone)", after having just finished Murakami's KAFKA ON THE SHORE, I am moved by the weight of recent history, reading interviews with John Lennon from 1971, Pete Townshend as he is creating Tommy, Michael Jackson in 1983. This is what I feel. The time is now.

This moment is a fulcrum, tipping what was/has been into what will be. As I sign off here I am going to sit and stretch out in the now. Within this space I will strive to create a drawing
or two.