AMP: Artists' Meeting Place and Resource Collective

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that The Kenneth A. Picerne Foundation is now accepting Artist Outreach Project Grant applications. This grant supports accomplished visual, literary and performing artists, 55 years of age or older, who are motivated to give back to their community. The Foundation will award up to twenty artists $12,000 to provide educational, mentoring or therapeutic art experiences of their own design to underserved people who lack opportunities to engage in meaningful arts programs.

To be eligible, artists must be 55 years of age or older and live in North San Diego County or Orange County. The application deadline is March 31, 2011. Artists are asked to collaborate with nonprofit organizations of their choice that are interested in providing arts programs for the people they serve. The Foundation expects artists awarded the full grant will provide an average of six to eight direct contact hours a week over the course of one year. Smaller grants are considered for artists interested in contributing fewer hours.

Please share information about this grant opportunity with eligible artists and interested nonprofit organizations. Further details, and a list of 2010 Artist grant recipients, can be found on the web at picernefoundation.org or by contacting Victor Nelson, Executive Director at 949-267-1517 or vnelson@picernefoundation.org.

Sincerely,

Kenneth A. Picerne Foundation
30950 Rancho Viejo Road, Suite 200
San Juan Capistrano, CA 92675
www.picernefoundation.org

from LA Culture Net