AMP: Artists' Meeting Place and Resource Collective

Hello Friends,

This summer I'll be teaching an exciting art class in the beautiful Mediterranean city of Nice, France as part of Montclair State University's Study Abroad Institute.

The program is offered for undergraduate and graduate college credit, but is also available for independent study and non matriculated students.

Here is the website link for the Nice program, which includes course description, costs, etc.
http://www.montclair.edu/GlobalEd/studyabroad/summer/institutes/summerab...

Please spread the word to anyone who may be interested.

Karen Guancione
tel: (973) 450-4134
karenguancione@verizon.net
karenguancione@gmail.com

The Underground Hit!

CRITIC'S CHOICE: East Bay Express

THE UNCOMFORTABLE ZONES OF FUN
experiments in experience/participation performance

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 will be accepted.)

Saturday, February 27th
8pm

TEMESCAL ARTS CENTER
511 48th Street
Oakland, CA 94609-2058
For more information
Call: 510-526-7858
email: fmoore@eroplay.com
http://www.eroplay.com/events.html
http://www.temescalartscenter.org/

Application Deadline: Friday, February 19, 2010 by 5:00pm

REDCAT is accepting proposals for original performance works
for the 2010 New Original Works Festival. The Festival is designed to support
the development and presentation of contemporary performance in Los Angeles
through a three-week interdisciplinary program of dance, theater, music and
multi-disciplinary works. Entering its seventh year, the Festival features a
flexible schedule to accommodate a variety of short works and some longer
projects in Los Angeles premieres, and provides development support through
technical assistance, access to the theater and its sound and lighting
inventory and an honorarium.

The Festival takes place in late July and early August at REDCAT´s

LE VILLE MATTE – visual arts, first edition

Deadline:
28 February 2010
Dates of the residency:
14 April – 15 May 2010
Exhibition date:
15 May 2010

former Convent of the Capuchins of Villasor
Piazza Nino Brundu
09034 Villasor (Cagliari)
Italy
Phone: +390704092329
Fax: +390704092312
info@levillematte.it
http://www.levillematte.it

The Province of Cagliari promotes

International call for the residency program
LE VILLE MATTE – visual arts
first edition

Villasor, Cagliari, Italy
14 April – 15 May 2010

Open call from 11 January 2010 to 28 February 2010

The program is part of LE VILLE MATTE – artist residencies

MA in Critical Writing in Art and Design

Royal College of Art
Kensington Gore
London SW7 2EU
United Kingdom
Phone: 00442075904485
Fax: 00442075904490
david.crowley@rca.ac.uk
http://www.rca.ac.uk

A new postgraduate programme for writers and critics starting at the Royal College of Art in London in October 2010

In October 2010 the Royal College of Art in London will launch a new MA programme in Critical Writing in Art and Design. The postgraduate programme has been designed to develop the literary and intellectual skills required for art and design criticism in an age of rapid technological and cultural change.

MA in Critical Writing in Art and Design

Royal College of Art
Kensington Gore
London SW7 2EU
United Kingdom
Phone: 00442075904485
Fax: 00442075904490
david.crowley@rca.ac.uk
http://www.rca.ac.uk

A new postgraduate programme for writers and critics starting at the Royal College of Art in London in October 2010

In October 2010 the Royal College of Art in London will launch a new MA programme in Critical Writing in Art and Design. The postgraduate programme has been designed to develop the literary and intellectual skills required for art and design criticism in an age of rapid technological and cultural change.

IMAGINE - Towards an eco-aesthetic

Aarhus Art Building - Center for Contemporary Art
J M Moerks Gade 13
DK-8000 Aarhus C
Denmark
opencall@aarhuskb.dk
http://www.aarhuskunstbygning.dk

Deadline March 15 2010

OPEN CALL FOR PROPOSALS

IMAGINE
Towards an eco-aesthetic, 2011

Artists and curators are hereby invited to submit proposals for 2011.

'Only when people are in a position to use their own creative potentials, which can be enhanced by an artistic imagination, will a change occur [....] Art can and should strive for an alternative that is not only aesthetically affirmative and productive but is also beneficial to all forms of life on our planet.'
Rasheed Araeen: Ecoaesthetics. A Manifesto for the Twenty-First Century

The City of Buena Park's Cultural/Fine Arts Division is looking for art facilitators to hold workshops at our Children Arts Festival on Friday, April 23rd, 2010. Celebrating 40 years of Earth Day, all art facilitors are required to provide a craft using recycled materials.

Volunteers are also needed to mann arts & craft tables, assist instructors, and help with the setup of the event. Great opportunity for high school and college students who need community service credit!

If you would like to submit a proposal for your craft or would like more information, feel free to email Sonia Godoy, Fine Art Coordinator at sgodoy@buenapark.com or call the Fine Arts Division at (714) 236-3869.

This is one of the largest and funnest events for our City, so we hope you can be a part of it!

The UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures Presents
Hothouse 2010
...providing space for Los Angeles choreographers to interact and create
new work

Purpose: The UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures is pleased to
announcethe sixth annual Hothouse Residency. Hothouse was developed by
UCLA faculty tosupport the creation of new work by Los Angeles
choreographers and to encourageinteractive exchange during the creative
process.

Hothouse provides aresidency for six local choreographers to create new
work at UCLA's Glorya Kaufman Hall. Each choreographer/performance
artist will be invited to usestudio space free of charge for 4
hours/day, 5 days/week for three weeks.

In exchange for the Hothouse residency, artists are required to share