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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.

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.

The Aftermath Project offers a US$20,000 grant for conflict photographers to share their experiences and an additional US$5,000 honorarium for a fixer/translator who wants to tell a story about his or her own experience.

This year-long grant is for conflict photographers who want to pursue a project about the aftermath in their own lives of covering conflict. The subject can be approached in any way – portraits, landscapes, reportage, collaboration with a family of someone who has been killed, anything that explores the personal aftermath of covering war, whether that be PTSD, the aftermath of sexual assault, the aftermath of being wounded.

Deadline for submissions is Oct. 1.

The Knight Foundation and National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) have organized this journalism challenge to initiate high-quality cultural coverage, new and innovative ideas and constructive criticism from individuals and organizations.

Any journalist can apply as long as their idea focuses on one of the following communities: Akron, OH, Charlotte, NC, Detroit, MI, Macon, GA, Miami, FL, Philadelphia, PA, St. Paul, MN or San Jose/Silicon Valley, CA.

First-round winners receive up to US$20,000 to develop an action plan, which should clearly describe their project and how it will impact arts journalism in one of the eight communities listed above.