AMP: Artists' Meeting Place and Resource Collective

This was posted on the musichighway Yahoo Group listserv:

The Gig Is Up - Getting Those Gigs

Time for your music dreams to come true – playing live onstage to
masses of screaming fans…or at least a room full of people listening
in to your creations. Though the ultimate goal might be a good-paying
gig, an artist or band just starting out may have to take on some
freebies. Consider them as experience. Use this list as a start on how
to get gigs, a checklist of the basics, and an idea starter.

The Prep:
Talent – know your style, be solid in your performance abilities
before you take on too big a gig

I need one or two interns looking to gain experience , or just help out.

I am a very busy performing artist and club event organiser with too much on my plate.

I need someone to help with a variety of tasks from running errands , web correspondence , and personal assisting , etc

This is in Los Angeles

Contact me here or at kdigginsk@yahoo.com

Art of the Soil: Free Community Art Workshop series

The Little Landers Historical Society is pleased to present Art of the Soil, a community art workshop created by District Two artist in residence Helen Lessick. The workshop begins on Saturday Sept. 30, 2006 and continues for 8 sessions. Each session will run from 9-11am.

Stop by one workshop or come for the entire series. Materials will be provided. Each participant receives Helen's original Soil Sample exhibition checklist, created in conjunction with her residency.

In Art of the Soil you will learn to see California soil as a canvas. Learn how soil affects land and community, landscape painting and property values. You will make maps of your home and community and participate in creating a wall-sized map of the Tujunga watershed.

Artist Workshops

Recognizing that art can improve the riding experience and make the system more inviting, Metro Art commissions artists to incorporate art into a wide array of transportation projects throughout Los Angeles County. From bus stops to rail stations, streetscapes to bus interiors, construction fences to poetry works, art creates a sense of place and engages transit riders.

Come learn about up-coming transit related public art opportunities and how to apply. Opportunities include stations for the new Mid-City/Exposition Line from
downtown Los Angeles to Culver City. The workshops are free and open to all.

The University of California, San Diego is seeking a curator
Salary hiring range: high $40k to low $50k

The University of California, San Diego is seeking a curator to administer all aspects of its University Art Gallery contemporary program. Reporting to the Director, University Art Gallery, and in coordination with a Gallery Council of assigned faculty advisors and an Administrator, the Curator is responsible for advancing the mission of the Gallery by implementing programming policy; executing the entire sequence of curatorial functions related to exhibitions; advising the Director regarding Gallery management functions; providing supervision of Gallery staff, and participating in associated communications and development activities. The mission of the University Art Gallery is to integrate contemporary art into the life of the university; exhibit and interpret art as an educational resource for the academic community; serve as a laboratory for linking visual art with the issues of postmodern society, as an innovator in originating and shaping the contemporary arts agenda, and as a platform for the advancement and outreach of the university in visual arts creativity. For additional information, please see http://www.ucsd.edu/ and http://dah.ucsd.edu/

JUST SHOW UP: A Women's Art Retreat

October 3-8, 2006

Join us for a relaxing, recharging week of community, fearlessness, and fun. At Hidden Villa Hostel in the Los Altos Hills. Led by comedian and filmmaker Alicia Dattner and singer/songwriter Christina Kowalchuk.

For details: www.monkpunk.org/ArtRetreat.htm
Reply to: dattner@monkpunk.org

I just received this email from Sally Blakemore in Santa Fe:

John Hubenthal, Dean of the New Hampshire Art Institute, is dying from brain cancer. He is one of the funniest and most creative people I have ever known who has a wonderful perspective on his own passing. Not only did he jump on a motorcycle as soon as he found out about the cancer, and rode from Boston to California, alone to think and meditate, stopping in Santa Fe for a marimba blessing and holy water prepared by Liz Paterson and her spiritual group, but he used the time to be ever closer to his son and wife.

He gave himself a wake at a local pub, with a cake filled with Day of the Dead images from Mexico and the words on the top were: BETTER LUCK NEXT TIME. He has embraced the experience of dying with such wisdom, inclusion and humor that the institute is naming a scholarship fund for him to support young artists. If you know of anyone who can give to this artistic ART BEGETS ART scholarship fund named after John Hubenthal, please pass it on.

Everyone expected House Republicans to give up efforts to kill NPR and PBS after a massive public outcry stopped them last year. But they've just voted to eliminate funding for NPR and PBS -- unbelievably, starting with programs like "Sesame Street."

Public broadcasting would lose nearly a quarter of its federal funding this year. Even worse, all funding would be eliminated in two years--threatening one of the last remaining sources of watchdog journalism.

Sign the petition telling Congress to save NPR and PBS again this year:

http://civic.moveon.org/publicbroadcasting/

Last year, millions of us took action to save NPR and PBS, and Congress listened. We can do it again if enough of us sign the petition in time.

SNAG Conference - 2006
http://www.snagmetalsmith.org/SNAG_Conferences/Current.aspx?sm=c_b

The 2006 SNAG Conference, "Mind & Matter: From Thought to Object,"
will be held from May 24-27 in Chicago. Presenters include retail
sales consultant Terry Sisco, and jewelers Karl Fritsch and Ramon
Puig Cuyas. Don't miss the free Professional Development Seminar
Wednesday afternoon.

The Ganoksin Project
S i n c e 1 9 9 6
Jewelry Manufacturing Methods and Techniques
http://www.ganoksin.com

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Society of North American Goldsmiths (SNAG), and Bench Media,
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