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Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery is pleased to announce that its August 2011 art exhibition is now posted on their website and ready to view. The theme for the Light Space & Time art exhibition is an “Open” subject. The gallery received submissions from 21 different countries from around the world and they also received entries from 32 different states.

Overall, there were 572 entries that were judged. Congratulations to the artists who have been designated as this month’s winners. Due to the high volume and the overall quality of the entries, 65 Special Recognition awards were also designated. This event is now posted and online to view 24 hours a day.

Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery is pleased to announce that its August 2011 art exhibition is now posted on their website and ready to view. The theme for the Light Space & Time art exhibition is an “Open” subject. The gallery received submissions from 21 different countries from around the world and they also received entries from 32 different states.

Overall, there were 572 entries that were judged. Congratulations to the artists who have been designated as this month’s winners. Due to the high volume and the overall quality of the entries, 65 Special Recognition awards were also designated. This event is now posted and online to view 24 hours a day.

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

A to Z Grantwriting Arts and Education Newsletter

AUGUST 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/

Education

US Department of Education Forecast of Funding Opportunities http://www.ed.gov/fund/grant/find/edlite-forecast.html

Photographers can enter an international competition.

"Click About It" is a series of international photography competitions organized by the European Journalism Centre. The third edition, co-organized with Oxfam and sponsored by the European Commission, offers the first-place winner a trip to an Oxfam project.

The competition focuses on the topic of "aid." In this competition, photographers are asked to capture moments that show how people's lives and communities are being transformed. Whether in Berlin or Bogota, tackling poverty, health, education, gender, environment and agricultural issues -- photographers should use creativity to illustrate the concept.

Artoteque Online Gallery is pleased to invite all artists to submit ART NOW the 4th contemporary art annual competition 12 months on display that takes place online at artoteque.com. All entries go through a selection process judged solely by visuals submitted online or attachment send to: submit@artoteque.com.

The selection
The selection is conducted on Jpeg [.JPG] versions of the submitted works online. Submitters whose entries pass the selection are included in exhibition and are requested to provide the entry fee payment.

Materials to be received
Submit online 6 - 12 works /JPG s image files 72 dpi up to 800 pixels and the works details: title, year, technique, size and sale price.

Entries without a fully completed application form will not be accepted.

Jordanian nationals or residents are invited to submit their projects to the Jordanian Film Fund. Documentary, narrative and short films are eligible.

The Jordan Film Fund or JFF, provides financial assistance for the development and production of independent local film projects.

Narrative and documentary films will be given a grant of JOD5,000 about US$7,000. Any single production will receive a grant that doesn't exceed JOD50,000 about US$70,000. Pre-production grants are JOD10,000 each, about US$14,000. A maximum amount of JOD5,000, about US$7,000 is granted for a film that is between 10 and 20 minutes, and JOD10,000 around US$14,000 for a film that runs between 20 - 59 minutes.

Applications must be submitted by a producer and completed within 120 days.

Foreign View is a photo project depicting social, political, cultural and everyday life of citizens from different countries.

Russian photographers who take pictures abroad and foreigners who photograph life in Russia are eligible. The contest welcomes professional photographers, amateurs and associations of photographers of any age and nationality.

Categories include state power and the information society; people and events; borders and spaces; state symbols; customs and traditions; national memorials.

The competition is organized by the Boris Eltsin Presidential Library.

Photographs submitted to the contest may be of any genre: portrait, reportage, stage photo, landscape, still life, photo collage, etc.