AMP: Artists' Meeting Place and Resource Collective

I am opening "submissions" for all 3 of my ezine/blogs; Frank Talk Blog, The Poetry Victims, americana photographic.

I am interested in art, photographs, poetry, stories, cartoons and articles.

Each ezine/blog has different requirements and specific content requests. You can view all 3 of these through the link provided below.

I look at "literally" all content that is loaded on AMP. and I'm here to tell you (all of you), submit something!

I believe in spreading our art far and wide!

I am proud to be a part of AMP!

http://submissionguidelines.blogspot.com/

My best,
Jeff

2008 Sobey Art Award, Presented by Scotiabank Announces
Call for Nominations

http://www.sobeyartaward.ca

The 50,000 dollar Sobey Art Award, presented by Scotiabank – Canada’s premiere award for visual artists, is now accepting nominations for the 2008 award. The Award is given annually to a Canadian artist under 40 who has exhibited in a public or commercial art gallery within 18 months of
being nominated.

The deadline for nominations is March 30, 2008.
Please visit http://www.sobeyartaward.ca or email Svava Juliusson at juliusst@gov.ns.ca for details and nomination guidelines.

Jan van Eyck Academie

Post-Academic Institute for Research and Production
Fine Art, Design, Theory
Call for Applications

http://www.janvaneyck.nl

The Jan van Eyck Academie is an institute for research and production in the fields of fine art, design and theory. Every year, 48 international researchers realise their individual or collective projects in this artistic and critical environment. Artists, designers and theoreticians are invited to submit proposals for individual or collective research projects for a one-year, two-year or variable research period in the departments of Fine Art, Design and Theory. Deadline for submissions is 15 April 2008.

Application details and form can be accessed at http://www.janvaneyck.nl/_devices/frames_applications.html

Etant donnés: The French-American Fund for Contemporary Art

Application deadline: March 31st, 2008

We are now officially open for accepting submissions for the 2008 Twin
City Arts festival!!!

This all media, all genre, arts event has categories for nearly every
art form.

Film, Photo, Sculpture, Music, Poetry, Painting, and even Fashion!!!
This is the only festival that brings aspiring and professional artist
together with talent scouts from major artistic distributors to bring
the spotlight to new and emerging arts and artists.

Sound like the breakthrough opportunity that you've been looking for?
It is!!! So go to http://www.twincityartsfestival.com

http://www.msplinks.com/MDFodHRwOi8vd3d3LnR3aW5jaXR5YXJ0c2Zlc3RpdmFsLmN\
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Download the forms and fill them out today!!!

Filmmakers, to submit your film digitally and save up to 50% on

Submission deadline: February 29, 2008

OPEN CALL: Freewaves (experimental media art, video, animation, cell
videos, wifi events, images for electronic moving signs+)

HollyWould... Freewaves' 11th Festival of New Media Arts

Freewaves' HollyWould... festival will take place in October 2008, in the
perceived world capital of media on Hollywood Boulevard. We are looking for
INTERESTING WORKS THAT REPRESENT AN ALTERNATIVE TO MAINSTREAM MEDIA
or directly relate to Hollywood.

Selected festival works will be installed in this urban hall of mirrors
in screening rooms, art centers, stores, vacant walls intersecting with
audiences where they live, recreate and shop.

Competitive selection process will be conducted online by a group of

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OPEN CALL

The Show Starts on the Sidewalk

OPEN CALL FOR SHORT FILMS, VIDEOS, AND NEW MEDIA SCREEN-BASED WORKS
Under 10 minutes in length.
Deadline: February 28, 2008 (postmark)
No fee, no pay
Curators: Bill Basquin & Nomi Talisman
LINK:
http://www.nomitalisman.info/News.htm

Thematic considerations:
We are looking for submissions under 10 minutes in length that relate to the theme
of INTERVENTION. This film program will be screened as a part of the Interrupt,
Intervene! Art as Social Change Festival hosted by UC Santa Cruz. There will be
a conference at UCSC and exhibitions and screenings in the cities of San Francisco,
Santa Cruz and San Jose and on campus at UC Santa Cruz throughout May 2008. (See

UAE filmmakers invited to participate in UAE competition

Filmmakers from the United Arab Emirates can now apply in the "7th
UAE film competition" to get funding for their work. Those wishing to
participate should send scripts of their short, long, or documentary
films by February 7. Films should be completed by October 1.
The competition is organized by the Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture
and Heritage. The first prize amounts to 250,000 Dirham (about
US$68,000), the second prize is 150,000 Dirham (about US$41,000) and
the third is 100,000 Dirham (about US $27,000).

To read the rules and to apply, visit
http://www.efilmc.com/arabic/sn_st_a.aspx (in Arabic). For more
information, contact Info@efilmc.com

This was posted on the Art4Development Yahoo! Group listserv.

TransCultural Exchange Now Accepting Proposals for its Spring 2009 Exhibition Series

BOSTON, MA.-Alert to the internet's dissolving of borders and the
explosion of innovation through collaboration, TransCultural Exchange
invites artists to work with individuals around the world to create
new collaborative art works for a series of exhibitions and catalog
entitled Here, There and Everywhere: Anticipating the Art of the
Future.

Individual artists, curators and gallerists are invited to submit
proposals for collaborative art works and exhibitions to be shown
anywhere in the world, in addition to being featured at TransCultural
Exchange's 2009 Conference on International Opportunities in the
Arts.

Resultant collaborative projects will be included in TransCultural

Call for artists - A.I.R. International Artists Residencies/FilmFest -Summer 2008-
BUDAPEST, Hungary
The Hungarian Multicultural Center is currently accepting applications for the
Budapest/Balatonfured - International Artist/Writer Residencies and FilmFest Program
Dates:
Tuesday, May 20 - Thursday, June 11;
Monday, June 16 - Tuesday, July 08;
Tuesday, July 15 - Wednesday, August 6;

Submission Deadline: Tuesday, March 25, 2008

The HMC invites interested visual artists, musicians, film makers and writers to submit
application for its residency/FilmFest -2008.

Exhibition/FilmFest are arranged.

Great opportunity for artists: Culture is the true identity power. In this context the major