AMP: Artists' Meeting Place and Resource Collective

PRINTSHOP BENEFIT SALE 2013
March 5 - 17

Reception: Wednesday, March 13, from 6-9pm
at the Lower East Side Printshop
306 West 37th Street, 6th floor, between 8th and 9th Avenues

Snatch up outstanding prints by outstanding contemporary artists! Deep discounts will be offered on over 50 limited editions and unique prints.

The Printshop Benefit Sale is a special event that ensures our residency programs for artists are well funded and offer a high level of service. The exhibition and sale will remain on view through March 17.

Proceeds support the Printshop's services to contemporary artists of all creative backgrounds, including free access to professional studio space, stipends, master printer support, and career advancement services.

Fondazione Antonio Ratti
Villa Sucota, Via per Cernobbio 19
22100 Como
Italy
t +39 031- 3384976
infocsav@fondazioneratti.org
http://www.fondazioneratti.org

Application deadline: 5th Apr 2013

CSAV – Artists Research Laboratory is a project where dialogue and exchange among artists of different generations and nationalities stand at the heart of a unique artistic and learning experience. The lab is open to fifteen young artists of all nationalities, selected among the applicants by a jury. The programme lasts twenty-four days during which the participants attend a daily workshop activity and theoretical seminars run by the invited artist, the director, the curators and guest lecturers, as well as conferences held by artists, critics and experts of other disciplines.

Women's Day Festival 2013--Call for Artists
Museum of Latin American Art

MOLAA invites female artists to submit digital work to be considered for a virtual display. This display will be projected as a Power Point presentation during MOLAA's Annual Women's Day Festival on March 10, 2013. The festival is free to the public, includes art workshops, tours, and performances.

Eligibility: All female artists who work in any fine art media are invited to submit digital images for exhibition. Acceptable media include: painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, installation, photography, collage, digital works, textiles and mixed media works. Video files do not qualify. Still images of performance or video works are acceptable. Works must have been completed within the last five years.

For nearly 30 years Angels Gate Cultural Center has provided subsidized studio space for professional, working artists from all artistic disciplines residing within the Los Angeles area. Current artists in the program range in practice from visual arts to jewelry and performance to photojournalism.

Angels Gate Cultural Center, located in Angels Gate Park in San Pedro, CA, overlooks the Port of Los Angeles and Catalina Island. The studios are located within nine different repurposed 1940s Army barracks; thus each one varies in size, lighting and cost. The cost of a studio ranges from $130 to $700 a month.

Assist the Director of Schools Programs in the planning, coordination and evaluation of Armory programs in K-12 schools. The Armory provides standards based and teaching artist driven programs that integrate the visual arts with core academic subjects of math, science, language art and social sciences. These programs are developed and implemented in close collaboration with schools and districts.

To apply, visit http://armoryarts.org/about-us/employment.

Founded in 1989, Armory Center for the Arts is a nonprofit, donor supported contemporary art center located in Old Town Pasadena. The Armory builds on the power of art to transform lives and communities by teaching, creating, and presenting the arts.

from LA Culture Net

Manager, Music Center on Tour

The Music Center, home to Southern California's iconic venues -- Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Ahmanson Theatre, Mark Taper Forum and Walt Disney Concert Hall -- is the gateway to the finest performing arts for all who live in or visit Los Angeles County. A leader on the international stage, The Music Center is redefining what it means to experience the performing arts by presenting the most compelling, highest quality engagements; ensuring that audiences of all ages are introduced to the arts; and extending the reach, accessibility and impact of everything it hosts, inside and outside its four venues.

The Emerging Leaders Council extends a call for interested bloggers for the upcoming Emerging Leaders Blog Salon for the Americans for the Arts ArtsBlog. The Salon will take place from April 15 through April 19 and will consist of roughly 20 blog posts responding to the following prompt:

"What would make where you live a better place or bring it to the next level?"

Don't know what the ArtBlog is? Not quite sure what a blog salon entails? ARTSblog holds week-long Blog Salons, a series of posts by guest bloggers, that focus on an overarching theme within an area of our work. This is a link to last year's blog:

http://blog.artsusa.org/tag/april-2012-blog-salon/

Call for a Dialect Coach (various British dialects) for The Blank Theatre's production of

PETER PAN: THE BOY WHO HATED MOTHERS
by Michael Lluberes
Directed by Michael Matthews

The Blank Theatre is seeking a Dialect Coach (various British dialects) for its upcoming west coast premiere of PETER PAN: THE BOY WHO HATED MOTHERS by Michael Lluberes.

Rehearsals start March 2nd, tech begins April 13th, first preview is April 20th and opening night is April 27th.

The Impact of Recession on Female Creative Professionals Living in Los Angeles:

I am requesting your voluntary help in a study I am conducting for my master’s thesis in psychology. It will focus on the impact of economic recession on female creative professionals living and working in Los Angeles. These individuals will be (i) over the age of 30, and (ii) members of one of the professional guilds including the Writers Guild, the Directors Guild, the Screen Actors Guild, and/or other membership guilds. You will be anonymous in the final report.
How can you help? The study will require you to fill out a questionnaire that will take 30 minutes. The following interview, which will take 1 hours will be held in a public space convenient for you. I can also debrief you with the findings.

Fender Music Foundation Announces Guitar Donations to Nonprofit Music Instruction Programs

Founded in 2005, the Fender Music Foundationhttp://www.fendermusicfoundation.org/> provides instruments and equipment for eligible nonprofit music instruction programs. Awarded items are lightly used, blemished, or otherwise imperfect and have been collected by the foundation from manufacturers and retailers.

The foundation is currently awarding acoustic guitars, electric guitars, acoustic-electric guitars, bass guitars, and the equipment necessary to play them. However, other traditional music instruments, including string, woodwind, brass, and percussion instruments, as well as keyboards, are sometimes available. DJ equipment and computers are not available through the program.