AMP: Artists' Meeting Place and Resource Collective

CALL TO ARTISTS:

Prizma Virtual Gallery is now accepting artwork for several upcoming
events:

1) Deadline Jan 31, 2009 Monthly Challenge theme "Snowbound"
2) Deadline Feb 28, 2009 Monthly Challenge theme "Oh So Blue"
3) Deadline Mar 31, 2009 Annual Spring Juried Art Competition

Additional services being offered:
1) No deadline: Ongoing. Submit your work for private critique.

All media and subject matter may be submitted, including
digital/graphic artwork & photography.

Details for these events are available at http://www.prizmagallery.com

Questions can be directed to the show organizer at
info@prizmagallery.com

from Awesome Artists

Competition for the Design of a Freedom and Unity Memorial in Berlin

Submission date: 10. March 2009

http://www.wettbewerb-denkmal.de

The first stage of the open, international competition for a Freedom and Unity Memorial in Berlin has now begun! The submission date is 10. March 2009.

On 9. November 2007 the German parliament decided that the Federal Republic of Germany will erect a Memorial to Freedom and Unity, in memory of the peaceful revolution of Autumn 1989, and as a memorial to movements and efforts undertaken over the centuries to achieve unity and freedom. The German parliament agreed on the main issues of the competition on 4. December 2008.

CALL FOR WORKS
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Electroacoustic Audio-visual Music*

Submission Deadline: 20th February 2009 (postmark)

This is a call for fixed media electroacoustic audio-visual music works
exploring the interaction between sound and image. Works should be cohesive
audio-visual entities and not just video/film with a soundtrack or music
with a video/film track. The audio within these works should be
electroacoustic in nature.

Works are requested for a PhD research project investigating audience
reception of differing styles of audio-visual composition and the role of
composer intention in facilitating audience reception of electroacoustic
audio-visual music works. This research builds upon the foundations laid by

Ventura ArtWalk Featured Artist Competition

Call for artists - The City of Ventura Cultural Affairs Division invites Southern California artists to compete for selection as an ArtWalk "featured artist." Ventura's bi-annual ArtWalks attract up to ten thousand visitors to its Downtown Cultural District during this weekend of fine art display and sales in business "galleries for a day," live music and performances, children's activities, and studio and gallery openings. Each ArtWalk showcases a different established or emerging "featured artist" with a weekend exhibition, and focuses on one of the artist's images used in such promotional materials as newspaper ads, posters, postcards and programs produced by the city.

Ventura Spring ArtWalk Weekend Applications Now Available

The City of Ventura Cultural Affairs Division invites artists and merchants to apply by February 1st or February 12 to participate in the Spring ArtWalk Weekend-Saturday and Sunday, April 25 & 26, 2009 in Ventura's Downtown Cultural District.

A new participant orientation will be held on Wednesday January 14th at 7 pm in the City Hall Atrium; 501 Poli Street - 1st floor. Assistance will be available for interested participants and with matching up artists and merchants who apply by February 1st. All other applications must be in by February 12th. General questions on participating and instructions on filling out the application will be discussed, along with innovative ideas to market ArtWalk exhibits to draw in patrons.

Cornerstone Theater Company is now seeking applications for the annual
Altvater Fellowship.

Cornerstone's Altvater Fellowship Program provides educational and
professional development to individuals interested in theater and
community. Altvater Fellows explore a wide range of experiences in the
planning and creation of a Cornerstone production. Over an eight-week
residency, Fellows work full-time with Cornerstone's Ensemble and
Staff on many aspects of current community collaborations as well as
immersion in the unique culture of the company.

This year Cornerstone offers one Altvater Fellowship that will focus
on all aspects of the 2009 Cornerstone Institute Summer Residency with
a production and/or producing focus. Applications are available now

Contemporary Arts Center (CAC) in Las Vegas is seeking proposals for:

Off the Strip: 2 Weeks of Performance & Video Art: 04/02 - 04/17 2009

Proposal deadline: 02/22/09

We welcome all artists or artist teams working in performance, situational aesthetics,
creative movement, experimental video and other new media. The event will take place at
CAC gallery as well as other venues located in historic downtown Las Vegas. Artist or artist
teams are asked to challenge viewers with works that are new, progressive and that fall
outside the traditional boundaries of established genres of the visual, theatre, dance,
music, experimental film, etc. We are interested in work that represents a high level of

20th Anniversary Juried Show - Contemporary Arts Center, Las Vegas

Prizes: First $2,000.00 | Second $500.00 | Third $300

Submission Deadline: Tuesday, January 27th 2009
All mailed in submissions have to include check for submission fee and appropriate
postage for return shipping to be eligible.

Submission fee:
members: first artwork: $20.00 | second artwork $10.00
non members: first artwork: $40.00 | second artwork $15.00

membership available at http://www.lasvegascac.org/support

Guidelines and submission form can be downloaded at:
www.lasvegascac.org/Juried_Show_2009_CAC_Info.pdf and
www.lasvegascac.org/Juried_Show_2009_CAC_Form.pdf

Contemporary Arts Collective
101 E. Charleston Blvd., Suite 101
Las Vegas, Nv 89104
702-382-3886
http://www.lasvegascac.org

Documentaries on millenium development goals to be awarded

A compeition will award the best documentaries on one of the Millennium
Development Goals and its relation to Arab women. Deadline: March 31,
2009.

The Center of Arab Women for Training and Research (CAWTAR) and the
International Planned Parenthood Federation, Regional Office for the
Arab world, launched the competition, which is open to Arab
documentarians.

Submissions should be sent in digital format and be between 11 and 27
minutes long. First and second place winners will receive US$2,500 and
US$2,000, respectively, in May 2009.

To apply or to get more information about the competition (in Arabic),
click on the attached word documents below. For more information,

The Getty Foundation is pleased to announce that applications for 2009 Multicultural Undergraduate Internship (MUI) grants to museums and visual arts organizations are available. Since its inception in 1993, the MUI program has supported more than 2,100 internships in Los Angeles-area museums and visual arts organizations. The program aims to increase diversity in the professions related to the visual arts, and to provide programmatic support for local organizations. The internships are intended specifically for outstanding students who are members of groups currently underrepresented in the museum and visual arts professions: individuals of African American, Asian, Latino/Hispanic, Native American, and Pacific Islander descent.