AMP: Artists' Meeting Place and Resource Collective

from Franklin Furnace

Call for Applications

2016-2017 Artists-in-Residence

Our resident artists are selected for their demonstrated ability to create high-quality work and for their experiential understanding of what it means to create while embedded within the rich complexity of a truly diverse community. Our artists value their process as much as their products and are eager to experiment with their creation process, narrative structures and forms. The artists we work with commit to organizational and creative practices that promote trust, imagination and power-sharing.

We work with our Artists-in-Residence (AIR) over the course of a year - and often, beyond -to nurture both their creative work and their relationships with our artist cohorts, Settlement staff and participants. Together we collaboratively build the skills and scaffolding needed to support creative risk-taking and authentic relationship-building. If you view a role within community as "something extra," this is not the right residency program for you. This program requires that a lot of in-person time building relationships; living in New York is a must.

Our core curatorial team works closely with each AIR. Individual monthly meetings and bi-monthly group meetings help us to identify what each project and artist needs to grow and develop. Our advisory board of downtown arts leaders helps US to provide our artists with professional development workshops and an expanded professional support network.

2016-2017 Artists-in-Residence will receive...

• An opportunity to develop a new performance project within a diverse and supportive community of artists and community leaders.

• A stipend of $2000.

• A minimum of 100 hours of rehearsal space in our theater. (Additional rehearsal hours can be arranged within University Settlement community centers).

• Full production and box office support for multiple night showings of your performance project.

• Support for press, publicity and audience development - we do not have the resources to do this work for our artists, but we are here to work with you in a highly supported and tailored manner).

• Video and photo documentation of final showing.

• The opportunity to reapply for another year of support.

More info & application >

Application Deadline: Monday, May 23

Administrative Resource Team

Pentacle, a leader in providing services for dance artists since 1976, is thrilled to announce our call for LOIs for ART (Administrative Resource Team). ART will provide 16 dance artists and/or companies with professional assessments of their current artistic and organizational capacity.

Of this group, 8 artists, selected by an independent panel, will, over a period of 2 years, receive mentorship from leaders in the field, comprehensive administrative services and staffing, as well as access to funds to directly support their projects.

The remaining 8 artists will serve as a comparison group, and will receive two monetary awards (one at the beginning and one at the end of the program period) for their participation. At the conclusion of the two year period, all 16 artists will be reassessed to discover how their artistic and organizational capacities have developed.

We are seeking a group of diverse and exciting artists to participate in this program that we believe will be vital to advancing new voices in the New York City Dance Community.

Lead funding for ART (Administrative Resource Team) has been provided by The Scherman Foundation's Katharine S. and Axel G. Rosin Fund. Additional support has been provided by the Mertz Gilmore Foundation, the Howard Gilman Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.

ELIGIBILITY: Artists must be based in New York City, and have annual operating budgets of less than $250,000. For the LOI, artists will be asked to provide a mission statement, performance history resume, work samples, and three years of budgets for their artistic work.

TIMELINE:

May 16, 2016: LOI due

June 13, 2016: 30 companies will be invited to submit a full application

July 1, 2016: Full Application Due

Late July 2016: Notification of Awardees

Fall 2016: Program Launches

For more info, please visit

Pentacle's Website.

For questions, please contact Doug Post at ART@pentacle.org.