AMP: Artists' Meeting Place and Resource Collective

The Creative Divergents Winter 2011 Showcase is now accepting submissions. All forms of creative works are encouraged - any media, subjects, and styles are welcome. Open to all ages, internationally.

$1,000 (USD) award. Winning submission determined by creative vision, innovation, potential to engage an audience, presentation (i.e. quality of the images submitted), and overall impression. The top 25 submissions will be featured in a printed catalog.

$5 fee per submission (includes up to 3 images).
Deadline: December 15, 2011 (11:59pm EST)

For more information and to see past award recipients: http://creativedivergents.com

Our Story:
Machinima is animation using a game or virtual world engine to create real time action. My associate, Wayne Graves, produced a short series called AV451 for under $400 and poor equipment. Now, our goal now is to do the full-length film with hired talent and proper equipment to give it a crisper, more professional look. Backed by a quality animated film, we are gearing up to start a small online machinima community with writing classes and collaborative projects to further the art.

The AV451 story:
Lieutenant Maverick Burke awakes from cryogenic sleep to find no operating crew and the ship in the hands of a pirate clan. The ex special ops officer finds himself responsible for the remaining passengers of Colonial Transport AV451 and the dark secret it holds.

Call For Works
Queer Bodies
Deadline (online submissions): Saturday, August 27, 2011 (Midnight)
Exhibition Dates: August 31 to September 18, 2011

GALERIA invites artists to submit work(s) for consideration in the first
Queer Art Exhibition of Queens. The first installment of the project
denominated Queer Bodies will focus on visual representations of the
masculine and / or feminine physique and the manner in which gender and
identity are constructed. Interested applicants using various media
(painting, sculpture, video, illustration, photography, digital arts,
installation, mixed media, etc.) are encouraged to apply. See guidelines for
submissions below.

GUIDELINES:
- Works must have been created by artists who identify themselves as Gay,

posted on Franklin Furnace

I seek performers for a major public work on October 8th in Union Square,
New York city - little to no performance experience necessary, but
durational performance work a major plus! I need at least 40 performers so
the piece can last from sunrise to sundown.

This work is large scale and public, and hopefully represents an opportunity
for you to explore yourself as a person and performer. It's part of a decade
long series of works called Clean Pieces that place the ritual of cleaning
in a new context to encourage viewers to see it as a metaphor for human
connection, and the boundaries that we build and sustain between each other
- religious, racial, and otherwise.

Very simply, I am asking you to stand in Union Square with a black cloak

http://www.icefla.org

Join an award winning team of arts educators!

Overview:
ICEF Public Schools is a nonprofit charter school management organization serving communities in the South Los Angeles area. We operate 15 high-quality, tuition-free, public charter elementary, middle and high schools. Our goal is to develop and manage charter schools that prepare minority students to attend and compete academically at the top colleges and universities in the nation.
Our mission is to transform South Los Angeles into a stable, economically vibrant community by providing first- rate educational opportunities and by annually graduating 2,000 high school students.

ICEF Public Schools Visual and Performing Arts Mission Statement:

5x5 is a public art initiative that will result in twenty-five groundbreaking temporary public art installations that will be installed concurrently throughout Washington, DC in the spring of 2012. The DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities (DCCAH) seeks five highly-experienced and innovative curators to each identify and work with five artists to create exciting, temporary art works in a variety of media and art forms in public spaces throughout Washington, DC. The resulting twenty-five temporary public art installations will activate and enliven vacant, dormant, and open spaces and bring cutting edge creativity and artistic expression to neighborhoods across DC.

The Pablove Shutterbugs program seeks to teach kids living with cancer
to develop their creative voice through the art of photography. The
curricular program gives each student hands-on experience through
one-on-one weekly instruction in their home and three group classes
held in at Dangerbird Records in Silver Lake. Our Los Angeles fall
session starts September 17 and we're looking for photography mentors.
It's an 8-week commitment; classes are on Saturdays.

Additional program details and photos from our inaugural session can be found here:
http://www.pablove.org/shutterbugs/

Applications are available here: http://www.pablove.org/shutterbugs/volunteer/

Questions to: erin@pablove.org

the pablove foundation | fighting childhood cancer with love
3801 sunset boulevard

*Venice Arts Seeks Teaching Artist for Digital Animation *

Venice Arts seeks a practicing animator and arts educator to teach and lead
its Digital
Animation program for 14-18 year old youth. Digital Animation is a
multi–disciplinary workshop
that integrates diverse forms of animation from fine art to cartoons, to
provide students with
foundation knowledge in animation with an emphasis on non-fiction
storytelling, while exploring
both experimental and traditional forms of animation. Instructor should have
both historical and
contemporary knowledge of animation. Over the course of the session,
students should
express themselves through the completion of multiple forms of animated
projects—from
zoetropes, flipbooks, stop-motion, cutout animation to projects created

Seeking Independent, Innovative Part-Time Coordinator
Applications due Saturday, 8/20/11.
Must be available to start immediately.

The Dance Resource Center of Greater Los Angeles is a service organization for dance. Our mission is to support community-based
professional dance activity by providing its members access to
information, resources, and services; and to promote the visibility of
Greater Los Angeles dance on local, state, and national levels.