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Opportunities
for Artists NO DEADLINE Independent Television Service (ITVS) considers proposals for new, innovative programs and limited series for public television on an ongoing basis. Contact ITVS, 51 Federal Street, Ste. 401, San Francisco CA 94107. (415) 356-8383. www.itvs.org Next Wave Films, funded by the Independent Film Channel, provides finishing funds for “exceptional low budget features. Contact: Next Wave Films. 708 Euclid Street, Santa Monica, CA 90402. (310)392-1720. PEN Writers Fund & Fund for Writers & Editors with AIDS. Emergency funds in the form of grants and interest free loans of up to $1,000 are given to literary writers, screenwriters who face financial crisis. Assistance is given within six weeks of application; in emergency cases $200 can be released within 24 hours. Contact: PEN American Center, 568 Broadway, NY, NY 10012-3225. (212)334-1660. Craft Emergency Relief Fund provides immediate support in the form of loans, booth fee waivers, discounts on materials/equipment to professional crafts people facing career threatening emergencies. Contact: CERF, P.O. Box 838, Montpelier, VT 05601.(802)229-2306. Change, Inc. Emergency grants to artists. $100-500 for medical, living or other needs. Contact: Change, Inc. Box 705, Cooper Station, New York, New York 10276. 212)473-3742. Emergency Assistance to painters and sculptors in the mature phase of work for 10+ years, whose needs are the result of unforeseen, catastrophic incident. Typical grant $4,000. Contact: Gottlieb Foundation, Inc. 380 West Broadway, New York, NY 10012. (212) 226-0581. Artists’ Fellowships provides “limited financial aid in the event of disability, serious illness and/or bereavement to those who have applied a major part of their life as a professional visual artist.” Applicants must submit a letter in inquiry. Contact: Artists’ Fellowship, Inc. 47 Fifth Ave. New York, NY 10003 SOROS Documentary Fund supports “international documentary films and videos which focus on significant issues of human rights, freedom of expression, social justice and civil liberties. -Works-in-progress and seed money. Contact: Soros Documentary Fund, Open Society Institute, Arts and Culture Regional Program, 888 Seventh Avenue, NY, NY 10106. (212) 757-2323. Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation offers grants for travel to regional and national conferences outside the applicants home state. Applicants must be employed as curator or administrator of a non-profit organization with annual budget of $300,000. Contact: Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, 11 East Chase St., Ste. 2A, Baltimore, MD. 21202.(301)539-6656. New York Council For The Humanities, Mini-grants, $1,500 or less, applications accepted on a rolling basis. Decisions within six weeks. Contact: NYCH, 198 Broadway, 10th Fl., NY, NY 10038.(212)233-1131, fax:(212)233-4607, E-mail:hum@echonyc.com DEADLINE National Endowment For The Arts Creation and Presentation: March 29, Planning and Stabilization: March 29, Heritage & Preservation: Aug. 16. Education and Access: Aug. 16. Arts Reach April 26. FY 2000 Literature Fellowships-Prose Mar. 15,’99 FY 20001 Literature Fellowships-Poetry Mar. 14,’00. National Heritage Fellowships in the Folk & Traditional Arts Nominations due Oct.1, American Jazz Masters Fellowships Nominations due Jan. 28,’00. Contact: National Endowment for the Arts 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20506.(202)682-5400, www.arts.endow.gov for info, applications and guidelines. National Endowment For The Humanities Media Program (Planning Grants Only): Feb. 1, Contact: Michael Shirley, NEH Div. of Public Programs, National Endowment For the Humanities, 1100 Pennsylvania Ave. N.W., Room 426, Washington, D.C. 20506. Tel.: (202) 606-8267 fax: (202)606-8557, E:mail:publicpgms@neh.gov Applications can be downloaded from www.neh.gov./html/guidelin/pub_prog.html Deadline: Nov.1 for preliminary proposal drafts. New York Foundation for the Arts, Artist’s Fellowships Program-1999-2000. NYS residents may apply for $7,000 fellowships in a variety of disciplines. Applications available in July. Contact: NYFA, 155 Ave. of the Americas, 14th Fl., NY, NY 10013-1507. (212)366-6900, Ext. 217, E-mail: nyfaafp@artswire.org Oct.4. New York Council for the Humanities October Program Grants (with awards up to $5,000) Contact: New York Council for the Humanities, 150 Broadway, Suite 1700, New York, NY 10038. (212)233-1131, fax:(212)233-4607. E-mail: hum@echonyc.com Web site: http://www.culturefront.org Nov.1. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial
Foundation Fellowships Awards of $28,000 each to individual artists,
writers, and scholars of exceptional promise. Contact: Guggenheim
Memorial Foundation, 90 Park Ave., NY, NY 10016. (212)687-4470,
fax:(212)962-5871 Oct.1. Local Independents Collaborating With Stations(LINCS)Fund of Independent Television Service(ITVS)provides incentives or matching moneys($10,000-$65,000) to partnerships with public televisions and independent producers. Contact: E-mail: itvs@itvs.org, Web: www.itvs.org. Sept.15. Independent Television Service(ITVS)NEW “DV ‘99” Funding Initiative invites new proposals or works-in-progress for half-hour and one-hour single public television shows, any genre, shot in all DV. Contact: ITVS, 51 Federal Street, Ste. 401, San Francisco, CA 94107. (415) 356-8383. Oct.15. Academy Awards Competition (Mar.21) documentary features and short-subjects. Contact: Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, 8949 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills, CA 90211-1972.(310) 247-3000; fax:(310)859-9619 Deadlines: Documentaries: Oct. 1,; animation/live action shorts Nov.2. Gunk Foundation Tourist Project Grants seeks works for “Exhibition without walls...that engage the many facets of tourism.” Contact: Gunk Foundation/Critical Press,P.O. Box 333, Gardiner, NY 12525.(914) 255-8252. Oct.30. ARTS of the Southern Finger Lakes of New York supports arts and cultural initiatives to establish the region as a national arts center Contact: Ann Campbell, ARTS of the Southern Finger Lakes, One Baron Steuben Pl., Suite 8, Corning, NY 14830. (607)962-5871. FESTIVALS IFP ABROAD: American Independents At Berlin seeks entries for presentation at the European Film Market and Berlin Film Festival (Feb. 9-20).Contact: IFP, 104 W.29th St.,12th Fl.,NY, NY 10001 (212) 465-8200. Email:cstanfield@ifp.org. Web: www.ifp.org. Nov.30. RESIDENCIES/OPPORTUNITIES Banff Centre For The Arts accepts applications
on an ongoing basis for several programs. Self-directed creative
residencies are offered from Feb.-Mar. (Any other time?) for
research, experimentation and production of works in visual art,
television and new media. Also available: television and new
media co-productions; and Work/Study Programs in arts administration,
curatorial practice, television digital media and visual arts.
Contact: Banff Centre for the Arts, Office of the Registrar,Box
1020, Stn. 28, 107 Tunnel Mtn. Dr., Banff, Alberta, CANADA T0L
OCO. (403) 762-6114 or 6302. Jalom, is an international residency program for professional visual artists, writers, and musicians in San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico. Program enables artists to study Mexican and Maya cultures. Residencies are one to two months depending upon the artists’ schedule. Contact: Marietta Bernstorff, Coordinator, Jalom Artist Residency Program, Callejon Amapola #7, Barrio Cuxtitali, San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico 29230. The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation residencies are open to creative artists. Rent and utilities-free furnished studio-residencies in Taos. Averaging 3 months. No monetary grants or stipends. Contact:The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico, P.O. Box 545, Taos, NM. YADDO Artists Community in Saratoga Springs, NY. Residencies ranging from 2 weeks to 2 months in late Oct. ‘98 to May ‘99. screenwriters and film/ video makers are eligible. Contact: Yaddo, Box 395, Saratoga Springs, NY 12866-0395 (518) 584-0746. Jan.15. MILLAY Colony For The Arts, one month residencies to writers, composers and visual artists, including film and video makers. Sleeping quarters and meals provided. Contact: Millay Colony, Steepletop,P.O. Box 3, Austerlitz, NY 12017-0003, (518) 392-3103, E-mail: application@millaycolony.org. Feb.1. MACDOWELL COLONY, offers residences to professional and emerging artists including film and videomakers. Ability to pay not a factor. Limited travel funds available. Contact: Admissions Coordinator, The MacDowell Colony, 100 High St., Peterborough, NH 03458. 603) 924-3996. Web: www.macdowellcolony.org. Deadline Sept.15, Jan.15, April 15. Light Work Artists in Residence Program is open to photographers and related media artists. Housing, studio space, $1,200 stipend for one-month residency. Contact: Slides, resume and letter of intent to: Light Work, 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse, NY 13244. (315) 443-2450. JTPA-AMERICAN INDIAN COMMUNITY HOUSE,INC.
Eligible performers may receive up to $250 toward their careers.
Open to documented American Indian performing artists who live
in New York City, Long Island and lower Westchester County, NY.
American Indian Community House, Inc., 708 Broadway, 8th Floor,
New York, NY (212) 598-0100 Ext. 228-Jim Cyrus or Ext. 220-Steve
Elm. FELLOWSHIPS/PRIZES CHARLES EASTMAN, Phd. Fellowship Program for Native American Scholars at Dartmouth College. Opportunity for scholars to spend a full year researching and writing. Contact: Colin Calloway, Chair, Native American Studies, 6152 Sherman House, Room 104, 37 North Main Street, Hanover, NH 03755-3530. (603) 646-3530. The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation. Grants of $10,000(Canadian) for visual arts, no abstract work. Work done in last 3 years. Contact: The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation, 1814 Sherbrooke St., West, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3H 1E4. (514) 937-9225. Nat’l. Arts Journalism Program Fellowship. Open to mid-career and senior journalists in arts and culture. $35,000. academic year stipends. Columbia Univ., Nat’l. Arts Journalism Fellowships, 2950 Broadway, Mail Code 7200,NY, NY 10027. Michael Janeway, Andreas Szanto, (212) 854-1912. njap@columbia.edu,http://www.najp.org. Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation. Studio Space Program. Contact: The Marie Sharpe Walsh Art Foundation, 711 North Tejon, St. Suite B, Colorado Springs, CO 80903 (719) 635-3220 Jan.30. Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts awards
one-month summer residencies to NYS painters, photographers,
writers of fiction, poetry and non-fiction. Also several $5,000
grants to artists living in upstate NY counties. Contact: Constance
Saltonstall Foundation. 120 Brindley St. Ithaca, NY 14850 Tel/Fax:
(607) 2774933, E-mail: artsfound@clarity-connect.com INTERNSHIPS FILM/VIDEO ARTS is a non-profit media center dedicated to the advancement of emerging and established media artists of diverse backgrounds is offering internship opportunities. Contact: Intern Program, Film/Video Arts, 817 Broadway, 2nd Floor, NY,NY 10003,(212) 673-9361. EDUCATIONAL ALLIANCE ART
SCHOOL Curatorial Intern. Free tuition in figure painting, ceramics,
stone carving in exchange for 16 hours work per month. Contact:
Walt O’Neil, The Educational Alliance Art School, 197 East
Broadway, New York, NY 10022, (212) 780-2300 Ext. 387 TRAINING/CLASSES American Film Institute Professional Training Division’s courses are staggered throughout the term. Contact: American Film Institute, 2021 Western Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027. (213) 856-7690. Boston Film/Video Foundation
offers workshops and seminars in film, video and multimedia production,
fund-raising, screenwriting and industry business. Contact: Boston
Film/Video Foundation, 1126 Boylston St., Boston, MA 022115.
(617) 536-1540. E-mail: bfvf@aol.com. Directors Guild of America-Assistant Director Training Program. Two-year training program for limited number of applicants, graduates qualify to join DGA as Second A.D. Application process required. Contact DGA-ADTP,1697 Broadway,Suite 600, NY, NY 10019 (212)397-0930; fax:(212) 664-1626. Jan.7. Contact DGA-ADTP for dates of Application Information Seminar-Nov.’99. HARVESTWORKS offers a wide range of classes in audio/video synchronization, multimedia production, audio pre-production. Contact: Harvestworks, 596 Broadway, NY,NY. (212) 431-1130 ThirdWorld Newsreel Film
and Video Production Workshop for emerging film and videomakers,
emphasizing the training and support for people of color. Contact:
ThirdWorld Newsreel, Production Workshop. 335 West 38th St.,
5th Fl, NY, NY 10018. (212) 947-9277, ext. 301 Web: www.tnr.org
Oct. 15. PUBLISHING OPPORTUNITIES DEADLINES Camera Notes 100th Anniversary of quarterly publication. Seeks b&w photogs/writings on photog. Contact: Ronnie Farley, Editor, Camera Notes, Camera Club of NY, 853 Broadway, NY, NY 10003. (212) 260-7077. Deadline: ONGOING. INFORMATION VISUAL ARTISTS INFORMATION HOTLINE. Information on funding and support for visual, film and media artists. Additional information on emergency funds, insurance, health/safety, legal. A program of the New York Foundation For The Arts (800) 232-2789. HEALTH CARE Health Care Insurance For Artists. For companies, groups, individuals. Major medical coverage, HMO, PPO Options, first dollar emergency care options. Olde Economie Risk Management, 511 State St., Baden, PA 15005. AMERICAN CRAFT COUNCIL Professional Member services,group health, dental,life,property/casualty, liability. American Craft Council, 21 S. Eltings Corner Rd., Highland, NY, 12628. (914) 883-5218,(800) 724-0859. Artists Health Insurance
Resource Center. A project of the Actors’ Fund of America.
Selected by the NEA to create a health care resource center
for the arts community nationwide. Contact: www.actorsfund.org,
The Actors Fund of America, 1501 Broadway, Suite 518, New York,
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