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"We have reasons to be optimistic about the incoming administration's support of the arts, National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Acting Director of Communications Katherine L. Wood, told Arts Wire. Among the reasons she cited was an increase in Texas state appropriations for the arts while Bush was Governor. She also noted that new First Lady Laura Bush has been active in the art scene in Texas and that last month she voiced support of the NEA in a Cokie Roberts interview on ABC NEWS.

"Well, I think funding, national funding from--for the arts is important. I think that it's very important, particularly for smaller, rural areas, that don't have a big funding base of their own," Laura Bush told Cokie Roberts, according to the ABC News transcript. And she affirmed that she had personally observed how arts funding works at a local level.

Laura Bush, who is a librarian and has been active in Texas literacy efforts and in THE TEXAS BOOK FESTIVAL, also commented that she had seen a recent announcement of NEA grants and that a lot of that funding "of course, goes to the symphony orchestras, and the art museums, and different things that need funding. I think it's--I think it's fine," she said according to ABC News.

"As far as increasing the budget, that would be a decision that would have to be made at that time," a Bush spokesperson told THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER during the election.

According to the HARTFORD COURANT, (based on National Assembly of State Arts Agencies figures) Texas ranks 50th in state giving to the arts, with 26 cents per capita for fiscal 2000.

However, as Governor of Texas, Bush has regularly increased funding for the Texas Commission on the Arts, adding a total of about 1.2 million over the last four years, according to the Inquirer. The annual state arts budget now stands at about 7.5 million. And during Bush's tenure as governor significant efforts were started with his tacit support, to build a cultural endowment for Texas.

NEA Chairman Bill Ivey was confirmed by the Senate in May 1998 and is midway through a four year term. In response to a question from Arts Wire about Ivey's future, NEA spokeswoman Katherine Wood noted that "No one here including Ivey has met with the transition team. So it's hard to say what's going to happen until discussions take place."

She also observed that decisions have been delayed because of the way election played out, and that cabinet level appointments are obviously the current priority for the new administration.

Ivey succeeded Jane Alexander, whose term as Endowment Chairman ended in 1997. He is the 7th Chairman of the NEA. From 1971 to 1998, Ivey -- a folklorist, musician, teacher, writer, and arts administrator -- was Director of the Country Music Foundation in Nashville, Tennessee which operates the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum.

Last year, under Ivey's tenure and with bipartisan support, Congress granted the NEA a $7 million increase -- the agency's first budget increase in eight years.

President Bush's nomination for U.S. Attorney General of John Ashcroft -- the former Senator (R-MO) who authored multiple amendments to end funding for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)-- has caused concern with Freedom of Expression advocates.

Other than campaign finance reform, Sen. Ashcroft's record shows "a startling hostility to a broad array of First Amendment rights," the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) states.

In 1997, Ashcroft was co-author of the Helms-Ashcroft amendment, with Sen. Jesse Helms, (R-NC) which would have eliminated funding for the NEA. The amendment was decisively defeated by the Senate by a vote by a vote of 23 to 77.

In 1998, Ashcroft offered another amendment to end NEA funding. It was tabled by the Senate by a vote of 76 to 22.

In 1999, the Smith-Ashcroft amendment, co-sponsored by Senator Robert Smith, (R-NH), which would have eliminated all NEA funding, was soundly defeated 80-16 in the form of a motion to table.

Ashcroft also strongly supported a constitutional amendment which would have allowed the prosecution of protestors, artists, and others who "desecrate" the American flag. The amendment was narrowly defeated in March, 2000.

He supported legislation, later held unconstitutional, that sought to censor communications over the Internet. And he supported legislation to require mandatory use of filtering on all computers used by schools and libraries receiving federal e-rate assistance.

On the Senate floor, Ashcroft repeatedly attacked works on art, such as Terrence McNally's CORPUS CHRISTI and Doug Rice's BLOOD OF THE MUGWUMP.

He is that author and primary promoter of "charitable choice," a campaign to turn federal dollars and social programs over to churches and religious organizations that would not have to comply with anti-discrimination requirements or other forms of public accountability, according to People for the American Way. (PFAW)

As Attorney General, Ashcroft would be head of the Justice Department which is currently partnering with the NEA in several programs. NEA joint initiatives with the Justice Department's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) include ARTS FOR JUVENILE OFFENDERS IN DETENTION AND CORRECTIONS, which gives communities grants to prevent and combat juvenile crime through arts-based programming, and ARTS FOR AT-RISK YOUTH, which focuses on afterschool and summer school programming to gives participating young people hands-on experience in arts professions.

Sources/resources:

THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS -- http://www.arts.gov

"Talking with Laura and Barbara Bush
This Week with Sam Donaldson and Cokie Roberts" interviews Barbara and Laura Bush in Houston"
ABC NEWS -- http://www.abcnews.go.com/onair/DailyNews/tw991217_bush.html
December 19, 2000

"How will the Election Results Impact the Arts?"
Arts Wire CURRENT -- http://www.artswire.org/current/2000/cur103100.html
October 31, 2000
This issue contains citations for other sources cited in this article as well as opinions of artists and arts administrators on the fate of the arts in a Bush Administration

THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OF STATE ARTS AGENCIES (NASAA) WEB SITE -- http://www.nasaa-arts.org

"William Ivey Confirmed as NEA Chair"
Arts Wire CURRENT -- http://www.artswire.org/current/1998/cur052698.html
May 26, 1998

"Congress Approves Significant Increases for Cultural Agencies"
Arts Wire CURRENT -- http://www.artswire.org/current/2000/cur101000.html
October 10, 2000

Laura W. Murphy, Director ACLU Washington National Office
"Ashcroft Nomination Represents Important Opportunity To Debate the State of Civil Liberties in America"
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION (ACLU)-- http://www.aclu.org
The ACLU notes that as a non-partisan organization that does not endorse or oppose nominees for cabinet offices, the ACLU does not support or oppose nominees for cabinet offices.However they are encouraging discussion of the nomination.

"The Case Against John Ashcroft as U.S. Attorney General: Ashcroft on First Amendment Freedoms"
PEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY (PFAW) -- http://www.pfaw.org

Arts Wire CURRENT articles on Ashcroft's Anti-NEA Amendments:
____"Senate Resoundingly Defeats Anti-NEA Amendments"
http://www.artswire.org/current/1997/cur092297.html
September 22, 1997
____"Senate Rejects Amendment to Eliminate NEA Funding"
http://www.artswire.org/current/1998/cur092298.html
September 22, 1998
____"Amendment to Eliminate NEA Defeated" http://www.artswire.org/current/1999/cur081799.html
August 17, 1999

"New Justice Department/NEA Programs Combat Youth Crime with Art"
Arts Wire CURRENT -- http://www.artswire.org/current/1999/cur083199.html
August 31, 1999

Artist/curator Frank Shifreen is requesting artists' responses to the recent Presidential Election -- proposals, work, and ideas for an exhibition to be held in the near future. Several galleries and public spaces have expressed interest but a site has not been chosen yet. He is also asking those interested to help organize and work for the show.

"The election combined drama, pathos and bathos into a mix that riveted the nation; Many voters, particularly minorities, were disenfranchised in many states," the call states. "Archaic voting machines, onerous regulations and other irregularities spotlighted the fact that we are not yet a country where every vote counts. Artists have a responsibility to speak up on issues of the day. Art can focus and create attention on the feelings that many people have, the majority of Americans in this case, about the election. A picture is worth a thousand words..."

Works in all media and modalities are encouraged. Send slides, drawings, photos, tapes, cv's to: Frank Shifreen, 290 Elizabeth St #1R N.Y., N.Y. 10012-2833
Email: fshifreen@mindspring.com
or fshifreen@aol.com

Source:

ArtNYC Mailing list
Email: cprints@speakeasy.org
January 19, 2001

MUSEUMS AND THE WEB 2001

Now in its fifth year, MUSEUMS AND THE WEB 2001 will review the state of the web in arts, culture, and heritage. In a special Opening Plenary, Cary Karp and Ken Hamma will talk about the genesis and future of the .museum TLD. They kick off three days of presentations featuring reports from over 25 countries, including

Opening Plenary
A TOP LEVEL DOMAIN FOR MUSEUMS
Cary Karp, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Sweden
Ken Hamma, J. Paul Getty Museum, USA
The Museum Domain Management Association (MUSEDOMA) with its two foundermembers the International Council of Museums (ICOM) in Paris and the J. Paul Getty Trust in Los Angeles submitted an application to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) for the establishment of a museum top level domain (TLD). In November 2000, ICANN approved the new TLD.

Session: Digital Art
NEW MEDIA CURATING: SITES OF CHANGE
Sarah Cook, University of Sunderland, UK
Beryl Graham, University of Sunderland, UK
Curating artworks using new media (including CD-ROMs, interactive installations, Virtual reality, and the Internet) brings up challenges and changes for concepts of presentation, reception and collection.

APPROACHES TO INTERNET ART PRESERVATION AND ACCESS: THE RHIZOME ARTBASE
Jennifer Crowe, Rhizome.org, USA
This report on the progress of Rhizome.org's ArtBase will present new protocols and applications for the description, archiving, preservation, and retrieval of Internet art in an online context.

BEYOND THE MUSEUMS' WALLS - A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF EMERGING APPROACHES TO MUSEUM WEB-BASED EDUCATION
Kevin Sumption, Powerhouse Museum, Australia
"As part of the research undertaken to develop Australian Museums On Line's new Education Gateway, I have spent considerable time examining why and how museums are using the Internet for education outreach. In this paper I will explore these reasons as well as the diversity of emerging on-line education expressions...."

Session: Accessibility
ACCESSIBILITY TECHNIQUES FOR MUSEUM WEB SITES
Susan Anable, The Dayton Art Institute, USA
Adam Alonzo, Wright State University, USA
Like other public institutions, museums strive to make their facilities accessible to people with disabilities, yet these same patrons may be hindered in their use of museum Web sites due to electronic accessibility barriers. This presentation will demonstrate how access was a primary design factor in the Virtual Museum Tour, part of the Web site of The Dayton Art Institute. Developed in collaboration with Wright State University.

ART TALES: A STORY OF COLLABORATION AND INTEGRATION
Robin Davis, Community Discovered, USA
Ponteir Sackrey, National Museum of Wildlife Art, USA
Empowering K-12 teachers to create meaningful learning experiences which will integrate art and technology in a constructivist setting -- the goal of a collaboration between the National Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and Community Discovered in Omaha, Nebraska -- will be discussed in this presentation.

Session: Closing Plenary
THE VIRTUAL AURA
Susan Hazan, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
This paper evaluates the different ways that museums are responding to life on the net, and will look to three models of museum web-sites, the documentation of traditional collections through online databases, the virtual museum with no concrete counterpart to resonate the online experience and the proliferation of web based contemporary art. This attempt to map out the different ways that museums formulate their identity on the net will address the notion of the lost aura or perhaps the emergence of new cultural phenomena, the virtual aura.

Session: Closing Plenary
EXTENDING THE VIRTUAL MUSEUM: INTEGRATING MUSEUM WITH OTHER KINDS OF WEBSITES
George Landow, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Museums face problems letting people know what they have and providing a context so people can understand them and their importance. George Landow, a pioneer in hyperlinking, runs 3 interlinked websites totalling more than 40,000 docs and images, two of which are recommended by NEH, the ministries of education in France, Ireland, and BBC. These sites (the Victorian and Postcolonial Webs) contain thousands of documents and images from real and virtual museums. Strategies for integrating museum content into such thematic webs will be discussed.

For information about many more presentations as well as registration information, visit http://www.archimuse.com/mw2001/

NYSCA GRANT DEADLINE IS MARCH 1

The New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) is a state funding agency that provides support for the activities of nonprofit arts and cultural organizations in New York State and helps to bring artistic programs of high quality to the citizens of New York State.

NYSCA achieves its goals primarily through its grantmaking activity. It offers grants and support services to the field through a number of discipline and field-related programs.

March 1st is NYSCA's application deadline. The following programs will offer funding to statewide artists and arts organizations:

ARCHITECTURE, PLANNING, AND DESIGN
ARTS IN EDUCATION DANCE
ELECTRONIC MEDIA & FILM
FOLK ARTS
INDIVIDUAL ARTISTS
LITERATURE
MUSEUM
MUSIC
PRESENTING
SPECIAL ARTS SERVICES
STATE AND LOCAL PARTNERSHIP-DECENTRALIZATION
THEATRE
VISUAL ARTS

For more information, contact: NYSCA, 915 Broadway, New York, NY 10010; phone 212-387-7000, 800-895-9838; or visit http://www.nysca.org

March 15, 2001: BRONX RECOGNIZES ITS OWN (BRIO) is a demonstration of the Bronx Council on the Arts' outreach and support to artists creating work in the literary, media,performing, and visual arts. Twenty awards of $2,500 each will be granted to individual Bronx artists. BRIO award winners must complete a public service activity to receive their complete award. Applications will become available the first week of January 2001 at all Bronx Libraries and the Longwood Arts Project on Longwood Avenue in the Bronx. Applicants must be a Bronx resident, over 18 years of age, and not be a full-time matriculated student. To request an application, phone 718-931-9500 ext. 33. For more information about the BRIO Awards application process, phone 718-931-9500 ext. 21. To view the application and guidelines, visit http://www.bronxarts.org/grant.htm

March 15, 2001: THE ASCAP FOUNDATION/MORTON GOULD YOUNG COMPOSER COMPETITION awards $30,000 to talented young composers each year. The competition is open to citizens or permanent residents of the United States who have not reached their 30th birthday by March 15, 2001, the deadline for the competition. For guidelines and official submission forms please contact: Frances Richard, Vice President &Director; of Concert Music, The ASCAP Foundation/Morton Gould Young Composer Awards, One Lincoln Plaza, New York, NY 10023; or visit http://www.ascap.com/concert/gould-info.html

Deadline: March 21, 2001: THE SOHO PHOTO GALLERY invites photographers from around the country to submit work for their 2001 National Photography Competition. All photo-based works are eligible. Awards include a solo exhibition and cash prizes. For a prospectus, send an SASE to: Prospectus, National Competition, SoHo Photo Gallery, 15 White Street, New York NY 10013; or visit http://www.sohophoto.com

WASHINGTON, DC -- The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has announced $20,452,500 awarded through 825 grants in the first major funding round of FY2001. The awards, constituting 24% of the Endowment's grant funds for the year, will be distributed to nonprofit national, regional, state and local organizations across the country.

Grants will be distributed through two of the Endowment's major Grants to Organizations' categories, Creativity and Organizational Capacity, as well as through Leadership Initiatives and Literature Fellowships.

CREATIVITY

Creativity (formerly Creation & Presentation) awards comprise the largest single element of the Endowment's direct grantmaking work. 718 Creativity grants totaling $16,335,500 will support all aspects of the creation and presentation of artistic work. Projects funded with these grants will result in the anticipated creation of 170 new works, including 70 commissions; 87 exhibitions; 150 publications; and 500 performances, readings and festivals. Two hundred artists will participate in residencies and workshops supported by Creativity grants. A small sample of the 718 grants awarded is listed below. Links to a complete list of recipients in this and other categories are available at http://www.arts.gov/endownews/news01/Announce1-11.html

AMERICAN COMPOSERS ORCHESTRA (New York, NY) $50,000 to support the Emerging American Composers Project, featuring composers of diverse racial and stylistic backgrounds in commissions and performances of new works, as well as outreach and residency activities.

AMERICAN DANCE FESTIVAL (Durham, NC) $60,000 to support the commissioning of a range of modern dance choreographers, as well as presenting historic works in modern dance history.

ANN ARBOR FILM FESTIVAL (Ann Arbor, MI) $15,000 to support the 39th ANN ARBOR FILM FESTIVAL and its national tour. Over 100 films will be presented.

APPALSHOP (on behalf of American Festival Project) (Whitesburg, KY)$40,000 to support the AMERICAN FESTIVAL PROJECT. Artists from several disciplines will work as partners with small Appalachian communities on collaborative art and performance projects during 2001-02.

ARROYO ARTS COLLECTIVE (Los Angeles, CA) $5,000 to support POETRY IN THE WINDOWS, a project to display multilingual poetry posters in merchants' windows along a major commercial corridor in Northeast Los Angeles, reaching an estimated audience of 15,000 people during May 2001.

BAMBOO RIDGE PRESS (Honolulu, HI) $5,000 to support the publication, distribution and promotion of one issue of BAMBOO RIDGE, an annual journal of Hawaiian literature and arts. Authors featured in the issue will promote the journal through readings and workshops at the University of Hawaii and community colleges, educational conferences, bookstores and local organizations throughout Hawaii, Maui and Kauai.

BOSTON UNIVERSITY (on behalf of AGNI Magazine) (Boston, MA) $5,000 to support publication costs and related expenses for two issues of AGNI. The journal will publish a general issue and an issue exploring ways in which writers can help advance human rights.

BRONX COUNCIL ON THE ARTS (on behalf of Longwood Arts Project) (Bronx, NY) $57,400 to support cyberspace residencies and an artists' team project in which artists will create new work using advanced computer technology.

BROWN UNIVERSITY (on behalf of Rites and Reasons) (Providence, RI) $15,000 to support the development and production of a new musical, HOT COMB: THE MADAME J. WALKER STORY. Rites & Reason Theatre will create a new musical that illuminates the life and political times of America's first Black multi-millionnairess.

CALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF ARTS AND CRAFTS (San Francisco, CA) $15,000 to support four issues of the DESIGN BOOK REVIEW, a publication that examines architecture, urbanism, landscape architecture and design. The goals of the Design Book Review are to help readers understand the making of built landscape, material culture and graphic design encountered every day.

CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY AT WOODSTOCK (Woodstock, NY) $14,000 to support a residency program that will host photographers for one-month periods.

CLEVELAND FILM SOCIETY (Cleveland, OH) $25,00 to support the 25th annual CLEVELAND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL including the 4th annual Midwest Independent Filmmakers Conference.

COFFEE HOUSE PRESS (Minneapolis, MN) $50,000 to support the publication, promotion and national distribution of fiction and creative nonfiction by contemporary women writers. Selected writers include Norah Labiner, Anne Waldman, Carol Ann Sima, Mary Caponegro, Judith Kitchen, Maxine Chernoff and Nancy Lord.

CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER (Consortium) (New Orleans, LA) $10,000 to support the presentation of new theater works and to present a series of interactive neighborhood outreach programs. Contemporary Arts Center, Junebug Productions and Ashe Cultural Center will collaborate on this project.

DA CAMERA SOCIETY OF TEXAS (Houston, TX) $10,000 to support concerts and pre-concert panel discussions that combine music and literature. Two concert productions will take place in Houston's Wortham Theater Center with panel discussions at the University of Houston in February and April 2002.

DANSPACE PROJECT (New York, NY) $30,000 to support the fourth year of a program for New York choreographers. The goals of City/Dans are to nurture these artists throughout various stages of their development, and to provide audiences with a deeper understanding of the full range of New York choreographers.

DARTMOUTH COLLEGE (Hanover, NH) $20,000 to support MY/OUR VOICE: INSIDERS AND OUTSIDERS, a multidisciplinary series of commissions, presentations and interactive Web sites. The College's Hopkins Center will partner with arts presenters in New England and across the country to develop additional presentations.

DEAF WEST THEATRE (North Hollywood, CA) $15,000 to support the creation of a new theater piece and video. Mark Medoff, author of CHILDREN OF A LESSER GOD, has been commissioned to write a new deaf and hearing theater piece.

DENVER ART MUSEUM (Denver, CO) $10,000 to support an exhibition and catalogue titled AMERICAN DESIGN, 1975 - 2000. The project will focus on areas of contemporary American design and offer a critical analysis of the design arts. rm CLEO

EVERGREEN STATE COLLEGE (Olympia, WA) $15,000 to support the first U.S.-based INDIGENOUS VISUAL ARTISTS OF THE PACIFIC RIM GATHERING. This gathering will bring together internationally renowned indigenous artists to share teachings and techniques in printmaking, painting, weaving, beadwork, ceramics and carving.

EXPERIMENTAL SOUND STUDIO (Chicago, IL) $8,000 to support production residencies for Chicago-area artists through an Artists' Residency Program.

EXPERIMENTAL TELEVISION CENTER (Newark Valley, NY) $10,000 to support a year-long residency program for 45-50 media artists from throughout the United States.

FICTION COLLECTIVE (Tallahassee, FL) $5,000 to support the publication, promotion and distribution of two novels published by Fiction Collective Two -- AUNT RACHEL'S FUR by Raymond Federman and GIRL BESIDE HIM by Chris Mazza.

GUILD COMPLEX (Chicago, IL) $10,000 to support the 10th Annual MUSICALITY OF POETRY SERIES, which features performances and workshops linking poetry with live music. Proposed artists include Joy Harjo and her band Poetic Justice, performance poet Kamau Daaood with jazz trumpeter Orbert Davis, and novelist Jessica Hagedorn with hip hop turntablist Madrid.

GUADALUPE CULTURAL ARTS CENTER (San Antonio, TX) $45,000 to support the development of NUEVA OBRAS/NEW WORKS. This project will serve up to 60 emerging artists who will be able to receive funding, mentoring, publicity assistance and presentation of new work.

HEART-HUMAN EQUITY THROUGH ART (Pittsburgh, PA) $5,000 to support publication expenses, including artists' fees, for issues of HEART QUARTERLY. Writers under consideration for the issues include Lucille Clifton, Sharon Olds, Sherman Alexie, Sandra Cisneros, Yusef Komunyaaka and Henry Louis Gates.

INDIANA REPERTORY THEATRE (Indianapolis, IN) $8,000 to support a consortium project to produce play development workshop sessions, staged readings and playwriting activities for students, as well as the co-commission and workshop of a play by James Still.

INTERNATIONAL SCULPTURE CENTER (Hamilton, NJ) $15,000 to support the "Departments" section in ten issues of SCULPTURE magazine. The section includes short feature articles on emerging, mid-career and under-recognized artists and on public art sites and projects.

JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL (San Francisco, CA) $20,000 to support the 2001 Jewish Film Festival and expansion of the organization's Web site.

THE KITCHEN (New York, NY) $35,000 to support a consortium project with Mass MoCA involving the commissioning and presentation of interdisciplinary projects. Artists will have access to both organizations' facilities (in New York City and North Adams, MA), allowing a choice between city or rural environments.

LOG CABIN LITERARY CENTER (Boise, ID) $10,000 to support BookFest, Idaho's only free literary festival.

MASTER MUSICIANS FESTIVAL (Somerset, KY) $5,000 to support the Master Musicians Festival. This three-day event will honor master musicians over the age of 50, and will offer workshops and master classes to attendees and students.

MEREDITH MONK/THE HOUSE (New York, NY) $30,000 to support residencies and a national tour.

MIDWEST CENTER FOR THE LITERARY ARTS (Kansas City, MO) $10,000 To support POETS-AT-LARGE 2001, a festival featuring poetry readings and discussions at artists' studios within the Kansas City metropolitan area. Scheduled for April 2001, the festival will be hosted by the Center's programming arm, The Writers Place, and feature poets such as Lorna Dee Cervantes, Amiri Baraka, Martin Espada, Linda Hogan and Naomi Shihab Nye.

NATIONAL PERFORMANCE NETWORK (San Francisco, CA/New Orleans, LA) $70,000 to support 40 dance residencies and related educational activities in over 40 cities throughout the United States. The National Performance Network offers artists a defined system of fee subsidy in order for them to engage in extended residencies in communities.

NEW JERSEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA (Newark, NJ $22,500 to support the creation and presentation of new orchestral works by composers Bun-Ching Lam, Hannibal Lokoumbe and Thomas Oboe Lee.

NEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS (New York, NY) $47,000 on behalf of Strange Attractions to support the production of an experimental documentary film by Peter Friedman and Roger Manley which will examine the meaning of the word "belief"; $25,000 on behalf of Parents of Cerebral Palsy Film Company to support production and post-production costs for a documentary film by Charles Schultz on Samuel Mockbee and his students; $25,000 on behalf of the African Film Festival to support the exhibition and tour of a series of films from Africa.; $10,000 on behalf of Maureen Fleming Performance to support MOTHER/CHILD.

ON THE BOARDS (Seattle, WA) $30,000 to support the three year initiative REDEFINING THE PERFORMING ARTIST: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH. The initiative will consist of four performance residencies and a local festival in which new productions will premiere.

PAMPHLET ARCHITECTURE (New York, NY) $30,000 to support an open competition for architects, landscape architects, urbanists and planners who have been out of school for one to ten years. The juried competition will offer a venue for designers to do work that is both exploratory and experimental, with winning proposals published in book form or presented on a Web site.

PORTLAND STAGE COMPANY (Consortium) (Portland, ME) $22,000 to support the development and co-production of LEAVING QUEENS, with book and lyrics by Kate Moira Ryan and music by Kim D. Sherman. The Portland Stage Company in partnership with the Womens's Project and Productions will collaborate on a new musical about an Irish American woman discovering her family history.

SANTA FE OPERA (Santa Fe, NM) $60,000 to support the commissioning of three full-length operas by American composers.

SOUNDPRINT MEDIA CENTER (Laurel, MD) $30,000 to support THE PAIRING PROJECT in which six emerging radio producers work with Soundprint and their local public radio stations to create new audio documentaries.

SPACE ONE ELEVEN (Birmingham, AL) $15,000 to support a residency program by Alabama artist Lonnie Holley. Holley will conduct workshops, master classes and demonstrations during an extended 18-month residency.

YELLOWSTONE ART CENTER FOUNDATION (Billings, MT) $20,000 to support a touring exhibition of the work of contemporary American artist Terry Allen, with accompanying catalogue and education programs.

The Arts Endowment's Literature Fellowships represent one of the agency's most direct investments in American creativity by supporting writers in the development of their work. The program's goal is to encourage production of new work by affording artists the time to write. Simultaneously, the fellowships give writers national recognition and invaluable validation of their talent to peers, agents, publishers and presenters around the country. The Endowment will award $800,000 through Literature Fellowships -- 34 fellowships in poetry and six fellowships for translation of poetry into English from other languages. Each grantee will receive 20,000. Among them are:

Enrique P. Barot; (Oakland, CA)
Sharona Ben-Tov Muir; (Perrysburg, OH)
Roy Bentley; (Granville, OH)
Judith A. Berke; (Miami Beach, FL)
Bruce C. Bond; (Denton, TX)
Gary Duehr; (Somerville, MA)
Susan K. Kim; (Milton, NY)
Noelle Kocot; (Brooklyn, NY)
John A. Latta; (Ann Arbor, MI)
Anna Rabinowitz; (New York, NY)
Kay Ryan; (Fairfax, CA)
Boyer Rickel; (Tucson, AZ)
Virgil Suarez; (Tallahassee, FL)
Nance Van Winckel. (Cheney, WA)

With 60 grants totaling $2,272,000, Organizational Capacity will support projects that develop future arts leaders and enhance the skills of those already working in the field. This new grant category is the result of 10 colloquia convened in 1999 by the Arts Endowment to discuss strategies for strengthening arts organizations. It refines the goals of the Endowment's earlier grant category, Planning & Stabilization. All grants to organizations must be matched at least dollar for dollar. Among the Organizational Capacity awards are:

ALLIANCE OF ARTISTS' COMMUNITIES (Portland, OR) $45,000 to support a national symposium examining the artist's role in society.

AMERICANS FOR THE ARTS (Washington, DC) $70,000 to support the Public Art Network (PAN) and national publication activities.

ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY (Tempe, AZ) $10,000 to support a symposium to explore and promote the relationship between culture, design, planning, art and ecology within urban environments. The project will be jointly sponsored by the School of Planning and Landscape Architecture and the International Association of Landscape Ecology.

ARTIST TRUST (Seattle, WA) $12,000 to support the expansion of professional development information and resources to the artists of Washington State.

ASIAN AMERICAN ARTS ALLIANCE (New York, NY) $28,000 to support leadership in Asian American arts across ethnicities and arts disciplines.

ASSOCIATED WRITING PROGRAMS (Fairfax, VA) $50,000 to support the production, printing and distribution of THE WRITER'S CHRONICLE, the AWP Job List, continued development of its Web site, and the 2002 AWP Conference in New Orleans, LA.

ATLATL (Phoenix, AZ) $25,000 to support The Native American Arts Leadership Institute.

DANCE/USA (Washington, DC)$80,000 to support a regional professional development project.

LEAGUE OF CHICAGO THEATRES FOUNDATION (Chicago, IL) $15,000 to support the planning and implementation of the CommUNITY Conference of 2001. The project will bring together members of the Chicago theatre community for a weekend of presentations, panel discussions and unity-building events.

LINCOLN ARTS COUNCIL (Lincoln, NE) $25,000 to support the Lincoln Arts Combined Enterprise (LACE). LACE will enable senior arts administrators and emerging arts leaders in the Lincoln area to participate in leadership development and skill building activities aimed at integrating technology into the operation of arts organizations.

NATIONAL ALLIANCE OF MEDIA ARTS CENTERS (San Francisco, CA) $50,000 to support technical assistance and leadership development programs. The project is designed to help media arts managers stabilize and strengthen their organizations, and provide leadership skills toward the advancement of their own organizations and the field at large.

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF ARTISTS' ORGANIZATIONS (Washington, DC) $25,000 to support the Leadership Development Initiative: the Co-Generate Project and the Peer Arts Service Organization program. These efforts build the organizational capacity of the National Association of Artists' Organizations membership and the capacity of artist-centered service organizations to better serve their communities.

NEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS (New York, NY) $50,000 to support CAPACITY BUILDING FOR THE 21ST CENTURY. This initiative offers technical assistance programs to assist small arts organizations through workshops,

OPERA AMERICA (Washington, DC) $100,000 to support the Field Services Program for small and mid-sized opera companies. During 2001-02, national resources, technical assistance and peer networks will be provided for artistic initiatives, as well as for development, marketing, public relations, education, new technologies, strategic planning and governance.

PHILADANCO (on behalf of the International Association of Blacks in Dance) (Philadelphia, PA) $17,000 to support a two-part leadership enhancement project that will take place in New York and San Diego. The project will develop a program to prepare future leaders for the black dance arts community and conduct planning for the 2002 conference.

POETS & WRITERS (New York, NY) $75,000 to support the publication of POETS & WRITERS MAGAZINE; the continued development and promotion of its Web site; and Literary Horizons, a series of seminars, panels, lectures and pamphlets providing writers with practical information on the business of writing.

WISCONSIN ASSEMBLY FOR LOCAL ARTS (Madison, WI) $18,000 to support the 2001 Arts Leadership Program. The program will expand the management and leadership skills of paid and volunteer leaders of Wisconsin's community-based cultural organizations.

With seven grants totaling $1,045,000, the Endowment's Leadership Initiatives funds will support significant national projects in accessibility, dance creation and touring, and the commissioning of music.

MEET THE COMPOSER (New York, NY) $100,000 to support the fifth year of the COMMISSIONING MUSIC/USA PROGRAM. This landmark program engages consortia of music organizations in the commissioning of new American works, provides creative opportunities for emerging composers, promotes wider knowledge and appreciation of contemporary American works, and encourages organizations to work together to strengthen the American musical repertoire.

NEW ENGLAND FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS (Boston, MA) $500,000 to support the sixth year of the National Dance Project, which supports the creation and touring of dance. The program provides presenters, dance companies and audiences across the country with access to contemporary dance.

SOCIETY FOR THE ARTS IN HEALTHCARE (Washington, DC) $50,000 to support the second phase of the first-ever national technical assistance project that trains arts administrators and artists as consultants to healthcare institutions across the country. The project is establishing comprehensive, professional arts programming within these institutions.

AMERICAN COMPOSERS FORUM (St. Paul, MN) $150,000 to support the continuation of CONTINENTAL HARMONY, a commissioning and composer residency program in geographically diverse, rural and urban, underserved areas of the country.

For more information and complete lists of grants, visit the NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS WEB SITE at http://www.arts.gov/endownews/news01/Announce1-11.html

Upcoming NEA deadlines are:
JAZZ MASTERS FELLOWSHIPS -- Nomination deadline: Jan. 26, 2001
CHALLENGE AMERICA FAST TRACK GRANTS -- Feb. 1 and May 1, 2001
GRANTS TO ORGANIZATIONS: CREATIVITY -- March 26, 2001
GRANTS TO ORGANIZATIONS: ORGANIZATIONAL CAPACITY-- March 26, 2001

Links to guidelines, information about deadlines, guidelines, and applications for NEA grants are available on the NEA web site at http://www.arts.gov/guide/

Opportunities for Artists

DTW: OUTER/SPACE PROGRAM TO SUBSIDIZE REHEARSAL SPACE IN NYC

"In response to Manhattan's inflated real estate market, over the past few years, more Manhattan-based dance and rehearsal spaces have been forced to move or close down.Cropping up in their place is a number of performance and rehearsal spaces in the outer boroughs, most of them independently managed by artists," Dance Theater Workshop (DTW) states. In response to this growing trend and with funds from the City of New York, DTW has created Outer/Space to assist artists who manage dance spaces in Brooklyn, Bronx, Queens, and Staten Island.

Outer/Space will disburse grants ranging from $5,000-$10,000 in an effort to encourage these spaces to stabilize, grow, and in turn offer affordable space to the dance community.

Complete information is available on the DTW WEBSITE at http://www.dtw.org or on the Arts Wire CURRENT "Calls" page at http://www.artswire.org/current/calls.html

WASHINGTON, DC - Dance/USA has received $1 million from The James Irvine Foundation to administer three years of The Irvine Dance In California Program, an expanded regranting program designed to foster artistic excellence and advance choreographic development in the California dance community.

Two complementary activities will be supported by The Irvine Dance in California Program. The first, the California DanceMaker Grants, provides support for the development of work to a select group of dance artists who have evidenced steady artistic promise. The second program continues support for artists who had been selected in the first three-year period of the Irvine Fellowships in Dance Program.

"This grant provides testimony to our belief that talent should be nurtured, and that a vibrant, healthy artistic community is an essential component of a healthy society," said Danton S. Miller, program officer at The James Irvine Foundation.

"The expansion of this program will provide much needed funding to individual choreographers for the creation of new work and will heighten public awareness of an important group of dance leaders in the state," commented Dance/USA executive director Andrea Snyder.

The California DanceMaker Grants will offer California dancemakers with promising artistic futures non-renewable grants of $10,000 for the making of new dance works. Ten grants will be available in each of the three years; funded project activity may span up to one year. Eligible artists will submit applications for an open, competitive review by a panel of experts in dance.

The deadline for the submission of applications will be in March. In late January, 2001, guidelines will be available online at http://www.danceusa.org and in hardcopy at the program office housed at The James Irvine Foundation's Los Angeles.

Phase Two of the Irvine Fellowships in Dance Program will provide continued financial support to the 24 exemplary dance artists selected as fellows over the last three years. Funds will enable each of them to connect the learning and creative process generated by their Phase One projects to the general public.

The Irvine Dance in California Program will be administered out of a program office housed at The James Irvine Foundation's Los Angeles office. For further information, please contact the project director at 213-489-5906.

The James Irvine Foundation-- http://www.irvine.org -- is a private grantmaking foundation dedicated to enhancing the social, economic, and physical quality of life throughout California, and to enriching the State's intellectual and cultural environment.

Dance/USA-- http://www.danceusa.org -- the national service organization for not-for-profit, professional dance, was founded in 1982 to advance the artform of dance through a variety of programs. These include publications, advocacy, information services, professional development, public communications and regranting initiatives.

Deadline: Ongoing, papers on The Role of Artists and Scientists in Times of War, LEONARDO

Deadline: 28 February 2001, public art, CITY OF BUFFALO POLICE STATIONS, THE BUFFALO ARTS COMMISSION

Deadline: April 2, 2001, site-specific outdoor installations, BYRDCLIFFE OUTDOOR EXHIBITION, BYRDCLIFFE ARTS COLONY, WOODSTOCK, NY

Deadline: For an exhibition which runs July 30 - September 7, 2001, motorcycle related artwork, MOTARTCYLCE! APEX GALLERY OF THE SOUTH DAKOTA SCHOOL OF MINES AND TECHNOLOGY

Details about these and other opportunities are available on Arts Wire's Web Site at http://www.artswire.org/current/calls.html

To submit "calls" for either artists or organizations, send email to artswire@artswire.org

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, The Theater Coalition,(Reno, NV)

DIRECTOR, The Carol Autorino Center for Arts & Humanities, Saint Joseph College, (West Hartford, CT)

ENGLISH FACULTY APPOINTMENT, Theater and Performing Arts, Saint Joseph College, (West Hartford, CT)

INSTRUCTORS IN PHOTOGRAPHY, Orange Coast College, (Costa Mesa, CA)

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, Dance Program, Florida State University System, (Miami, FL)

DANCE PROGRAM DIRECTOR, Florida State University System, (Miami, FL)

MANAGING DIRECTOR; PROGRAM DIRECTOR; DEVELOPMENT COORDINATOR, National Performance Network, (New Orleans, LA)

CURATOR OF ISLAMIC ART, Brooklyn Museum of Art, (Brooklyn, NY)

CURATOR OF EDUCATION, Triton Museum of Art, (Santa Clara, CA)

CURATOR OF EDUCATION, MANAGER, FOUNDATION & CORPORATE RELATIONS; Tacoma Art Museum, (Tacoma, WA)

FAMILY PROGRAMS EDUCATOR, Whitney Museum of American Art, (New York City, NY)

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR, Louisiana Division of the Arts, Office of Cultural Development, Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism, (New Orleans, LA)

TECHNICAL DIRECTOR, Theatre Arts/Dance,University of Minnesota, (Minneapolis, MN)

PRODUCTION MANAGER/TECHNICAL DIRECTOR; Chicago Opera Theater, (Chicago, IL)

TECHNICAL DIRECTOR, Lyric Opera Cleveland, (Cleveland, OH)

COMPUTER GRAPHIC ARTIST, MegaMedia, Inc., (Glenside, PA - just outside of Philadelphia)

REGISTRAR, Suzuki-Orff School for Young Musicians, (Chicago, IL)

DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT, Carolina Ballet, (Raleigh, NC)

RECRUITERS - NEW YORK, Thomas & Associates, (New York City, NY)

ACCOUNT MANAGER - NEW YORK AND CHICAGO, Thomas & Associates, (New York City, NY)

DIRECTOR OF ADMINISTRATION, (contemporary ballet company), (Miami, FL)

MANAGEMENT POSITION, (modern dance company), (New York City, NY)

DIRECTOR OF MARKETING, Boston Lyric Opera, (Boston, MA)

MARKETING AND PUBLICITY ASSOCIATE, Dance Theater Workshop, (New York City, NY)

MARKETING & PROGRAMMING ADMINISTRATOR, Dance Forum-New York, (New York City, NY)

ASSISTANT TO THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, (Bronx, NY)

OFFICE MANAGER, Performing Arts Agency, (New York City, NY)

PROGRAM AND DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANT, NCSU Center Stage & Arts Outreach / Arts Development, North Carolina State University, (Raleigh NC)

DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATE, The Renaissance Society, (Chicago, IL)

SALES ASSOCIATES, (revised listing) OPENING FOR TWO (2) PART-TIME, Urban Gateways Center for Arts Education, (Chicago, IL)

INTERNSHIPS, WHitney Museum of American Art, (New York City, NY)

Details about these and other jobs are available on Arts Wire's Web Site at http://www.artswire.org/current/jobs.html To submit jobs to ARTS WIRE CURRENT JOBS, send email to joblist@artswire.org

A growing list of links to job resources for artists and arts administrators is available on Arts Wire's Web Site at http://www.artswire.org/current/jobres.html

"This season we challenge, dissect, and re-define the word 'Dance'. The 2000/2001 season will bring plenty of the contemporary work for which the Dance Council has become internationally famous. The season also holds an unprecedented 5 Pittsburgh premieres and 3 blockbuster returns!" the PITTSBURGH DANCE COUNCIL states on its home page at http://www.dancecouncil.org/

The 2000-2001 season has included MOMIX; Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company; White Oak Dance Project; and the Stephen Petronio Dance Company. On February 16-17, Rennie Harris Puremovement will perform ROME AND JEWELS, an urban retelling of Shakespeare's ROMEO AND JULIET: "Witness an evening of love, revenge and tragedy with a gritty twist as the Pittsburgh Dance Council presents another premiere! Rennie Harris Puremovement is one of the hottest tickets in contemporary dance today! Rennie incorporates Hip-Hop and Street Dancing into his works and his dancers sizzle."

Other upcoming performances include Dance Theater of Harlem, Tango Mujer, and Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo.

Visit the site to find out more.

WASHINGTON, DC -- Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information Gregory L. Rohde has announced that approximately $42.5 million in grants will be awarded in 2001 by the Commerce Department's National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) to state, local, and tribal governments, colleges and universities, and non-profit entities. The purpose of the matching grants is to extend the benefits of advanced telecommunications technologies to all Americans, especially those in inaccessible, rural and underserved urban communities.

"Since 1994, the TOP program has reflected my philosophy of digital inclusion by helping communities to develop and to explore useful applications of new technologies that deliver the benefits of the digital era," Commerce Secretary Norman Y. Mineta said.

Grants with cultural components have included $394,775 to the University of Alaska Fairbanks for providing access to museum-sponsored programs via the Internet to students in rural, isolated areas in order for them to gain a better understanding of their own indigenous culture; and $375,000 to the Vermont Council on the Arts for using technology to ensure the availability of arts education in rural schools and providing online arts mentors to students.

NTIA will immediately begin accepting applications for this year's TOP competition. Applications are due by March 22, 2001.Grant applicants are encouraged to develop projects of national significance which demonstrate how digital network technologies can be used to extend valuable services and opportunities to all Americans, especially the underserved.

For information on how to apply as well as a schedule of free regional Technical Assistance Workshops, visit http://www.ntia.doc.gov/otiahome/top/index.html

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