AMP: Artists' Meeting Place and Resource Collective

CALL FOR ARTISTS
visual artists - writers and poets - performance artists, sound artists, composers, choreographers - film/video/animation artists

The Alliance of Artists Communities is now accepting applications for the 2010 Midwestern Voices and Visions awards - celebrating, supporting, and promoting the work of highly talented, yet under-recognized artists of color from the Midwest .

Eligibility: The initiative seeks to promote artists of color working in any visual, literary, and/or performance-based media, who display artistic excellence, are committed to an artistic career, and are under-served, under-recognized, or under-represented in the mainstream.

Midwestern Voices and Visions accepts applications from artists from all disciplines who:

Digital Fringe 09

*Want some free art content for your screen?*

The Digital Fringe Festival is seeking all sorts of screens across
Australia and the world! Do you have a public screen, projector, TV or
old computer monitor that you would like to play free digital art on?

Digital Fringe is seeking a plethora of public screening venues to
participate in september/october 2009 - urban screens, galleries,
shopping centers, bars, cafes, pubs, retail venues, libraries, salons
and even swimming pools who have a screen of any size, to show our
curated collection of screen based art. Help us to bring cutting edge
digital artworks by local and international artists to the public.

No screen is too large or small - it may be in a back corner of a

CMU merges art with reality TV and fresh waffles
Monday, June 29, 2009
By Adrian McCoy, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

It was supposed to be a two-semester community artistic social experiment for a Carnegie Mellon University art class, videotaping hip late-night crowds discussing what was on their minds while they ate waffles.

But the combination of homemade treats and homegrown reality show has proven to be an unusual recipe for success since Waffle Shop opened its doors last fall in East Liberty. School is out, but the doors are staying open, weekend brunch hours have been added and the menu has expanded.

In the past couple of years, half of all the staff arts journalism jobs in the US have been eliminated. In some cases, newspapers offloading their staff critics have replaced them with freelancers. In some cases, the freelancers have done a better job than the staffers they have replaced. But mostly not.

Running a good freelance section requires editors who have the time and talent to know what's going on in the culture of their community, who are out listening for the stories they should be assigning. Most editors are even busier just trying to fill their sections than they were when they had staff critics paying attention to their beats. They don't also have time to be out trolling for stories.

Amateur and professional photojournalists are invited to submit works to the photo contest which aims to raise awareness on environmental issues leading up to the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference in December. Deadline for submissions: August 31.

The contest, "Picture This: Caring for the Earth," aims to show the people of Africa as protectors of their environment. Entrants should have lived in a country of Africa for at least the past 12 months. Photos must have been taken between August 2007 and August 2009. Special attention will be given to photos that take into account the role that women can and do play in caring for the earth.

As part of an initiative to promote gender equality in education, journalists in Asia Pacific are invited to submit photos to a contest under the theme "Reversing Realities: Seeking Gender Equality in Education." Deadline: July 31.

Photographs should depict gender equality in action in the contestant's country, should not have been published and must have been taken after 2000. Multiple entries are welcome.

Thirteen winning photographs will receive official certificates of merit and will be featured in an internationally distributed 'Gender in Education Calendar 2010.'

The contest is being jointly organized by UNESCO Bangkok and United Nations Girls Education Initiative (UNGEI), East Asia and Pacific and South Asia.

Grant Funds Available for Arts in Healthcare Programs

Johnson & Johnson, working in partnership with the Society for the Arts in Healthcare, seeks to promote the use of the arts to enhance the healthcare experience for patients, their families, and caregivers. From 2001 - 2009, grants have been provided to 117 programs in the US and Canada representing leading models and initiatives in high quality healthcare through the use of arts. Proposals are now being sought from healthcare and/or arts organizations that have established arts in healthcare programs with evidence of initial impact.

For more information and eligibility requirements, please review the guidelines available at . Letter of Inquiry Deadline: October 15, 2009

Indian video and film production experts can apply to teach and train citizens in rural India to use video equipment for four to six months.

Trainers will work in community media centers in Goa, India, where poor and disadvantaged people are trained to create their own media content. Members will learn to be powerful communicators, journalists, filmmakers, advocates and leaders in their communities.

Young filmmakers (under age 25) can submit one-minute videos for a contest to promote and protect children's interests. The deadline for submitting entries is August 1.

Video entries should show what child rights mean in a global, national or community sense, demonstrate how children's rights are not being fulfilled, or show where children are getting adequate rights.

Entries in all languages are welcome.

For more information, visit http://www.unicef.org/voy/takeaction/takeaction_4439.html.

from Art4Development