AMP: Artists' Meeting Place and Resource Collective

APPLICATIONS MUST BE RECEIVED BY OCTOBER 1, 2013

TO DOWNLOAD THE 2014 GUIDELINES 
http://www.mjdc.org/CHIME/chime-guide-sc14.pdf or visit: http://www.mjdc.org/CHIME/chimesc.html

A project of the Margaret Jenkins Dance Company, CHIME is a unique mentorship program allowing for self-selected pairs of professional choreographers – mentor and mentee – to receive financial support and cost-free studio time to establish and explore a working relationship that includes, but is not limited to, work in the studio.

JOB ANNOUNCEMENT
The Washington State Arts Commission (ArtsWA) seeks an executive director to provide visionary leadership, scale up successful initiatives, grow the agency's resources, and build the support of the Governor, legislators, and elected officials. The Executive Director of ArtsWA is appointed by the Governor. Applications must be received by October 16.

The job announcement is now available online here (or go to careers.wa.gov and search for position 08631).

OPEN CALL FOR ALL SOUTH BAY ARTISTS

Torrance Art Museum’s Contemporary and Traditional Art Annual
2013 South Bay Focus
Presented in conjunction with theTorrance Artists Guild and the South Bay Watercolor Society
November 23 - December 21, 2013
Reception Party – Saturday, November 23rd, 6-9pm

Artists must reside in these communities to be eligible to participate:
El Segundo, Gardena, Harbor City, Hawthorne, Hermosa Beach, Lawndale,
Lomita, Manhattan Beach, Palos Verdes Estates, Palos Verdes Peninsula,

Rancho Palos Verdes, Redondo Beach, Rolling Hills, Rolling Hills
Estates, San Pedro, Torrance

This year’s Juror is James MacDevitt, the Curator at Cerritos College Gallery

Download a PDF of the application form with complete rules for submitting here:

CALL FOR VIDEO ARTISTS in SoCal
 
 
Torrance Art Museum is looking for Southern California based video artists
for our second in a series of three one night marathon screenings.  This screening will take place on Saturday,
October 12th from 6pm to 9pm.

Send a DVD or Blu-Ray of your best video work and bring your friends!! Video
work is limited to 5 minutes each, one work per artist. Work must be
received at the museum by Tuesday, October 8th.  You will receive a confirmation once the DVD
is received. With your submission send the following:
 
1) Artist Name
2) Title of the work
3) Length of the work
4) One sentence description
5) Best contact information
 
Send Videos To:
Attn: Lisa DeSmidt
3320 Civic Center Drive
Torrance, CA 90503
 

Sculpture Shock 2014

Royal British Society of Sculptors
108 Old Brompton Road
London SW7 3RA
England
t +44 (0)207 373 8615
exhibition@rbs.org.uk
http://rbs.org.uk/sculpture-shock-2014

COMPETITION OPENS on 25.09.2013 and CLOSES on 18.10.13.
Find out more and apply online at
rbs.org.uk/sculpture-shock-2014

Building on the success of the first SCULPTURE SHOCK, the Royal British Society of Sculptors is delighted to again offer three winners £3,000 each, a three-month residency in a studio in Kensington culminating in a surprising spatial intervention in one of three non-traditional spaces: SUBTERRANEAN, AMBULATORY or HISTORIC.

This year we are extremely pleased to count amongst our jury Cornelia Parker, an artist who has tested the limits of the site specific.

From e-artnow

JOBS (ACADEMICS, ARTISTS, CURATORS):

Various job opportunities at the Guggenheim Museum: NYC, USA.
Deadline: asap.
http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/about/jobs/full-time

Current available positions at The Museum of Modern Art, MOMA NYC: NYC, USA.
Deadline: asap.
http://www.moma.org/about/jobs

Current available positions at The Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC. USA.
Deadline: asap.
http://whitney.org/About/JobPostings

Current available positions at the TATE. UK.
Deadline: asap.
http://workingat.tate.org.uk/pages/job_search_results.aspx?searchtype=all

Current available positions at Christie's. Worldwide.
Deadline: asap.
http://www.christies.com/about/careers/

Jobs at Sotheby's Institute of Art
Deadline: asap.

EROTIC RISK FOR DEEP LOVE
a ritual audience participation experience experiment

The Long-Running Underground Hit!

Frank Moore, world-known shaman performance artist, will conduct improvised passions of musicians, actors, dancers, and audience members in a laboratory setting to create altered realities of fusion beyond taboos. Bring your passions and musical instruments and your senses of adventure and humor. Other than that, ADMISSION IS FREE! (But donations are encouraged.)

ARE YOU HUMAN ENOUGH FOR THIS?

Saturday, October 5, 2013
8pm

TEMESCAL ART CENTER
511 48th Street
Oakland, CA 94609-2058

For more information
Call: 510-526-7858
http://www.eroplay.com/events.html
http://www.temescalartcenter.org/index.html

Residency Program

The Dora Maar House
rue du Portail Neuf
84560 Menerbes
France
t +33689826901
gstrauss@mfah.org
http://www.mfah.org/doramaarhouse

Brown Foundation Fellows Program of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, provides study or studio space, travel expenses and stipend to mid-career artists, writers and other professionals in the humanities

Deadline October 15 for Spring Fellowships at the Dora Maar House, located in Provence, France in the historic hilltop village of Menerbes

Brown Foundation Fellows Program of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, provides study or studio space, travel expenses and stipend to mid-career artists, writers and other professionals in the humanities

8th International Arte Laguna Prize

Cultural Association MoCA
San Marco 3067
30124 Venezia
Italy
t +39 041 5937242
f +39 041 8627948
info@artelagunaprize.com
http://www.artelagunaprize.com/index.php/prize.html

Deadline for applications:
30th October 2013

Sections: painting, sculpture and installation, photographic art, video art and performance, virtual

Finalists exhibition:
Arsenale of Venice

8th Arte Laguna Prize: the first deadline is getting closer

For those who apply by October 9, 2013, chances to be awarded a prize multiply.
Artists in fact can also take part in the selections for the six art residencies and for the Business for Art prize Riva 1920.

Painting/ Mixed Media Art Instructor
(Downtown LA)
Exceptional
Children's Foundation, a growing nonprofit social service agency serving
clients with developmental disabilities throughout LA County, is seeking an
Painting/ Mixed Media Art Instructor for our Downtown Los Angeles Art Center
studio. The Instructor will work one-on-one with adult students with
developmental disabilities to develop their own unique artwork for sale in our
downtown gallery as well as in other exhibition venues. This person should know
a variety of painting techniques and other mixed-media techniques including
drawing, collage, etc. that can be adapted to create successful projects with
our students. Responsibilities also include ensuring the safety and wellbeing