AMP: Artists' Meeting Place and Resource Collective

The Dream Quest One Poetry & Writing Contest is open to all and anyone who loves to arrange words into the beautiful art of poetry or to write a short story that is worth telling everyone! And to all who have the ability to dream. Write your best short story or poem for an opportunity to win cash prizes. All entries must be original. http://www.dreamquestone.com

Guidelines:
(1) Write a poem, thirty lines or fewer on any subject or style, single or double line spacing, neatly hand printed or typed.
And/or

IDENSITAT | Call for projects

Calaf / Manresa
Shared projects: Mataró (Can Xalant) / Priorat (Priorat Centre d'Art) / El Prat de Llobregat

Final date for submission of proposals: January 9, 2009

http://www.idensitat.net

IDENSITAT is an arts project that investigates ways to impact upon the public sphere through creative proposals that work in relation to place and territory and their physical and social dimensions.

IDENSITAT positions itself as a networked production and research space, developed in the field of art, to experiment with new forms of involvement and interaction in social space.

ID #5 / Introduction

I keep trying to do this year after year, but can't quite capture the invisible furniture...

Andy Ender
studioandydna
Swiss Contemporary and Visual Artist

Composition with Bananas #B45.M7
Print on paper
2003-2008
100 x 75 cm

From the series Babanane
Fusionism
1997-2008

http://artscenecal.com/1208/2ndCity1208.html

Call to U.S. Artists
Juried Exhibition

Being Gay: A Visual Dialogue Between Straight and/or LGBTQ Artists.

The exhibition explores such topics (but is not limited to) faith and
homosexuality, gay history, sense of community, effect on professional life
or society, gay neighborhoods, fashion, homophobia, straight people in gay
places, ageism in the gay community, gay role models, ordinary lives, coming
out, gay icons or heroes, discrimination, homosexuality as an evolutionary
puzzle, integrating into society, political issues, is tolerance enough?,
marriage, PRIDE, engaging in gay rights issues across cultural and religious
borders, feelings associated with being gay, regional differences, gay as a

The 2009 Lorser Feitelson and Helen Lundeberg Feitelson Arts Fellowship

DEADLINE FOR ALL APPLICATION MATERIALS: January 23, 2009

GENERAL INFORMATION: The Lorser Feitelson and Helen Lundeberg Feitelson
Arts Fellowship is awarded through the Los Angeles Municipal Art
Gallery Associates (LAMAGA), a nonprofit, tax-exempt organization that
supports the Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall Park. The Feitelson
Foundation award was conceived by the Feitelsons, seminal Los Angeles
Modernist painters, and their friends, as a way to give encouragement to

artists early in their careers by offering financial grants.

JURORS: Clara Kim, Director, Gallery at Redcat; Meg Linton, Director,
Ben Maltz Gallery Otis College of Art and Design and Steve Turner,
Steve Turner Contemporary.

Los Angeles Art Association (LAAA) is proud to announce our Biannual Artist Screening.

Call For Proposals For REDCAT’s NOW Festival 2009

*Application Deadline: January 23, 2009 by 5:00pm (Not a postmark deadline)*

REDCAT is accepting proposals for original performance works for the
2009 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 sixth 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’s sound and lighting inventory and an honorarium.