AMP: Artists' Meeting Place and Resource Collective

Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery is pleased to announce that its April 2011 art exhibition is now posted and online on their website. The theme for the Light Space & Time art exhibition is “Botanicals”.

The submission process for the artists began in the middle of February and ended on March 29, 2011. There were more than 414 entries that were judged. Congratulations to the following artists who have been designated as this month’s winners.

Due to the high volume and the quality of the entries 50 Special Recognition awards were also designated.

View the online art exhibition here: http://www.lightspacetime.com

See you in St. Lewie, Lewie - at the Botanical Gardens.

Outpost for Contemporary Art
Executive Director position open
Part time (30 hours / week)
A full job description has been posted at http://www.outpost-art.org

Salary commensurate with other regional small nonprofits pending
successful meeting of current fundraising goals, including the
development efforts of the candidate.

All application materials should include the following: a letter of
interest, a full resume of education and employment history, and a
one-page statement describing fundraising plans for first year.

All qualified applicants will be considered and should send their
application materials to:
Outpost for Contemporary Art, email: edsearch@outpost-art.org
Subject line: Executive Director Search Committee

The application pool will close on May 15, 2011.

Professor in Contemporary Art and Moving Image

Finnish Academy of Fine Arts
Kaikukatu 4
FI-00530
Finland
riikka.stewen@kuva.fi
http://www.kuva.fi/

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 artist since 1848.

Call for applications: Professor in Contemporary Art and Moving Image

QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS

Open Call for Media Arts

NewTown will appropriate a two block length of South Lake Street in Pasadena and an area in Los Angeles that remains to be determined, each for one night presentations of a ”Pop-up” festival of media arts. There will be:

outdoor, sit-down space(s) for single screen projections with sound;
rear-projection sites in empty store fronts, silent;
space may also be available for media installations.

Project Date:

Late May, 2011
Proposal Deadline:

April 8, 2011. Submissions postmarked after that date will not be considered. Early submission is encouraged.
Honoraria:

$50, possibly more
Final Presentation Formats:

ELIGIBILITY RULES | 2011 CALL FOR ENTRIES

http://www.puntoyrayafestival.com/

Punto y Raya Festival explores the ultimate synthesis of the form·movement duality in different spheres of human endeavour. Due to the simplicity of its criteria, it seeks to reveal the limitations and achievements of our representation systems using abstraction's prime matter.

This entry call is addressed to audiovisual pieces built up entirely from dots and lines. No representation whatsoever, just dots and lines as ends in themselves!

:: GENERAL RULES

: The films must be made entirely with dots and lines avoiding representation.

:You can use any kind of illustration, optic and animation techniques. From the pen to the stylus, from the analogical·dot to the digital·pixel.

SSTI 2011 Farewell to Visual Studies

School of the Art Institute of Chicago
112 S. Michigan Avenue
Chicago IL 60603
info@stonesummertheoryinstitute.org
http://www.stonesummertheoryinstitute.org

The Stone Summer Theory Institute
17-23 July 2011
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Fellowship opportunities
The deadline is April 15, 2011
Successful applicants will be notified April 20

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, organized by James Elkins. Fellows are not expected to present papers, but are asked to do up to 1,500 pages of advance readings for the seminars.

Theme 2011:

Thanks to Linda Vallejo for posting this on LA Culture Net.

A to Z GRANTWRITING MONTHLY ARTS AND EDUCATION NEWSLETTER

April 2011

FEDERAL FUNDING SOURCES IN A VARIETY OF TOPICS

Federal Grants Wire http://www.federalgrantswire.com/

Grants.gov http://www.grants.gov/

FirstGov http://www.firstgov.gov/Business/Nonprofit.shtml#resources

FundsNet http://www.fundsnetservices.com/

Arts and Culture

National Endowment for the Arts - http://www.nea.gov/

State Arts Agencies - http://www.nasaa-arts.org/new/nasaa/aoa/aoa_contents.shtml

Artdeadline - http://artdeadline.com/

The Unusual Suspects Theatre Company seeks a Technical Coordinator to implement all technical aspects of our youth theatre programs. Details:

TECHNICAL COORDINATOR

DESCRIPTION:
Reporting to the Program Director, the Technical Coordinator (TC) provides and oversees all technical aspects of performances and staged readings, which include but are not limited to: lights, audio, multimedia, chairs, cables, stands, furniture, set pieces, and props. The TC is responsible for communication and coordination of technical production. The TC will evaluate and assess the technical needs of the artistic team and determine how to best accomplish all production related requirements. Other requirements include but are not limited to:

by and for: democracy and art

Juror: Carol A. Wells, Founder and Executive Director
Center for the Study of Political Graphics

Organized by: Southern California Women's Caucus for Art

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION:

In the 1930s when the Works Progress Administration (WPA) was formed, our
government, by and for the people, understood the importance of art in
sustaining the American spirit and focusing the American public on shared
values. Since that time, art has acted as a forum for public opinion and as
a powerful tool for critique and communication in our democracy.

Artists at all career levels are asked to submit works that speak-to and
question the shifting meanings of freedom and equality, censorship and civil