Archive for June 30, 2007

Fotovision hosts lecture “The Legal Landscape of Street Shooting” July 24th

June 30, 2007 at 1:52 pm · Filed under Funding the Arts, Market Musings, MVS BUSINESS BOOK, MVS MUSTS, MVS PHOTO FAVORITES, READING MATTERS

Fotovision will offer this important lecture on July 24th, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. at UC Berkeley:

From their Newsletter:
“Whether you are out on the street shooting as a freelance, staff photographer or a private citizen, you need to understand your legal rights and how those rights are interpreted in today’s social landscape. Despite press freedoms guaranteed in the Bill of Rights, the government routinely challenges individual journalists and the general public. For example, freelanceer and blogger, Josh Wolf, was jailed and served 226 days in jail for refusing to comply with a Grand Jury subpoena to turn over a collection of videotapes he recorded during a demonstration in San Francisco.

This will be a really interesting evening discussion about First Amendment concerns for photographers, principally regarding privacy liability, defamation and copyright. You will have the opportunity to hear in plain English what the issues are, what your legal rights are, and ways to protect yourself.

Fotovision is fortunate to have scheduled the very busy and high powered team at The First Amendment Project, dedicated to protecting and promoting freedom of information, expression, and petition. FAP provides advice, educational materials, and legal representation to its core constituency of activists, journalists, and artists in service of these fundamental liberties.

Location: The Center for Photography, North Gate Hall
Graduate School of Journalism at UC Berkeley, Hearst & Euclid.

Instructors: David Greene, Executive Director of The First Amendment Project is an experienced litigator for First Amendment issues, a founding member of the Internet Free Expression Alliance, author and lecturer.
Pondra Perkins is a Staff Attorney and Environmental Advocacy Fellow at the First Amendment Project. In addition, she has a background in software engineering which she used to build digital applications for various media companies such as Getty Images.
James Wheaton, is a litigator in cases involving civil rights at the state and federal level, co-founder of the First Amendment Project. He is also a registered lobbyist, and has been involved in the passage of amendments to the California law. Please refer to their website for full biographies.

Class size: 100 participants.
Cost: $10.00

Go to this link and at the bottom of the page is access to register for this event online.”

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Reminder: TPS 16 Entries due JULY 5th

June 30, 2007 at 4:43 am · Filed under APPROACHING DEADLINE, Funding the Arts, MVS MUSTS, MVS PHOTO FAVORITES, READING MATTERS

I applaude the Texas Photographic Society for not only publishing a full-color catalogue of this show, but taking it on the road to an even broader audience. By entering, you increase your visibility, support a great non-for-profit organization, AND, it’s a great way to introduce your work to this important Juror!! Submissions accepted via email, so try to make this deadline!

From the TPS Website:

“TPS 16: The National Competition
Exhibition will be on view in it Houston, Abilene, New York and San Francisco.

Amateur and professional photographers are invited to submit slides or digital files of their color and black and white works to the Texas Photographic Society (TPS) by July 5, for TPS 16: The National Competition. The exhibition will open at St. Edward’s University Art Gallery and be exhibited at galleries in Odessa, TX; Houston (as part of FotoFest International); New York City and San Francisco. An artist’s reception will be held September 22 in Austin.
TPS 16: The National Competition will be juried by Michelle Dunn Marsh, Director of Aperture West. She will award $2,750 in Cash prizes: First Place $1,000, Second Place $650, Third Place $350, and at her discretion, up to 5 Honorable Mention awards at $150 each. A color catalogue of the exhibition will be printed and sent to all entrants, collectors, museum curators and photography magazines, with exhibitors receiving 3 copies. The exhibit will tour for one year

Plans are being made to have the show in Houston at Fotofest 2008 during March and April of 2008. The exhibt will travel to New York City to be viewed at the Calumet Photo Art Gallery from May 12 – June 27. From there the show will travel to the Calumet Photo Art Gallery in San Francisco, California. The show will open July 21 and close August 17.

The Fotofest 2008 theme is China and Transformations. The National Competition will have the theme of Transformations. The TRANFORMATIONS theme, however, is not limited or restricted to China-related work. It can be interpreted however artists and curators would like to represent it. It could related to youth and age, urban environments, physical or psychological metamorphosis, passage of time, architecture, war, technological change, and history, to name just a few areas. Within the theme of “Transformations,” TPS is especially interested in issues of self and community. We encourage submissions that focus on physical/psychological metamorphosis and urban/suburban/rural change.

Juror’s Statement
I want to see work that examines and informs today’s experience of this beautiful, turbulent planet to which we cling. Images that explore a sense of self and community interest me, because I believe that personal and pro-found change can occur through photography and we exist in a time where change on many levels is needed.

In my early days at Aperture, we often invoked Minor White’s concept of transcendence in identifying works for publication and exhibition —”images that after the seeing of which we are never the same.” After ten years with the Foundation, I have been altered on a variety of levels through a wide range of work. Part of the power of photography is in the viewer’s ability to truly absorb an image and be transformed by an act of deliberate seeing. As an advocate for artists, my role is to provide multiple platforms for viewers to have that experience of transformation through an artist’s work.
Michelle Dunn Marsh
Seattle, Washington

To download the exhibition brochure (legal size paper), click here.

To download the exhibition brochure (letter size paper), click here.”

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ArtsTech Award Nominations due JULY 4; part of the Technology In The Arts Conference, Pittsburg OCTOBER 12/13

June 30, 2007 at 3:21 am · Filed under APPROACHING DEADLINE, Market Musings, MVS MUSTS, MVS PHOTO FAVORITES, READING MATTERS

“The Center for Arts Management and Technology would like to welcome you to the 2007 Technology in the Arts Conference. Join us in Pittsburgh this October as we build upon the insights and enthusiasm shared last year. Technology in the Arts: the place for you to connect with the entire arts community in collaborative discussion and learning!

The goal of Technology in the Arts is to be a resource for the arts community, sparking dialogue around the role of technology in our planning and programming, discussing best practices as well as lessons learned, and providing hands-on, practical skills where possible.

The Technology in the Arts conference brings together the full spectrum of organizations within the arts, from the local to national levels, to examine the commonalities that exist in useful technologies as well as the opportunities for partnership.

Beyond discussing the adoption and integration of technology in the arts at the conference, CAMT hopes to establish a platform for continual dialogue through the connections made at the conference, online forums, and other ways that make sense to you.

To wrap up the conference, everyone is invited to a Close-Out Bash. This evening of performance and revelry, featuring art and music, will be open to conference attendees as well as the entire Pittsburgh community.

For complete information on attending, including scholarships, travel/hotel and registration information, visit www.technologyinthearts.org/attend

ABOUT CAMT:

An applied research center within the Institute for the Management of Creative Enterprises, the Center for Arts Management and Technology (CAMT) investigates ways technology can improve and enhance the practice of arts management. When appropriate, CAMT develops technology solutions (such as artist rosters and online grant applications) that meet critical needs in the field. Located in the Heinz School of Public Policy and Management at Carnegie Mellon University, CAMT leverages the university’s strength in information technology, while benefiting from the expertise of its sister initiative, the Masters of Arts Management program. CAMT serves visual and performing arts organizations, arts agencies and service organizations, ranging from the local to national levels.

ABOUT IMCE:

The Institute for the Management of Creative Enterprises (IMCE) acts as a cohesive vision for the contributions made by the Master of Arts Management program, the Master of Entertainment Industry Management program, the Center of Arts Management and Technology and the Arts and Culture Observatory to the multifaceted arts industry. By supporting these endeavors more administratively than theoretically, each entity is given the space to evolve and function as an independent institution. The effect is a varied and objective conglomerate that seeks to share the many innovations of the art field.

ArtsTech Award:
CAMT is now accepting nominations for this year’s ArtsTech Award, to be presented at the 2007 Technology in the Arts conference. The ArtsTech award is presented annually to an individual who has made a significant contribution to the arts through technology.

Nominations for the 2007 ArtsTech Award will be accepted through July 4th. To nominate an individual (including yourself), send an email to Cary McQueen Morrow with the following information:

Nominee name:
Nominee address and phone number:
Nominee email address:
Nominee website (if applicable):

200 word description of Nominee’s contribution to the arts through technology.

Nominator name:
Nominator address:
Nominator email address:”

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Creative Capital/Andy Warhol Foundation ARTS WRITERS GRANT PROGRAM Application Procedures Announced

June 30, 2007 at 2:54 am · Filed under APPROACHING DEADLINE, Funding the Arts, READING MATTERS, Uncategorized

From the website:

“The Creative Capital | Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant is a three-year pilot program designed to support writers whose work addresses contemporary visual art through project-based grants issued directly to individual authors. The first program of its type, it was founded in recognition of both the financially precarious situation of arts writers and their indispensable contribution to a vital artistic culture.

In its first year, the Arts Writers Grant Program issued awards for books, articles, and experiments in new and alternative media. This round, it introduces a new grant category for short-form writing (texts of 1,000 words or less). In addition, the program seeks an increased engagement in the coming grant round with article-based projects and with art of the current moment. Of particular interest are articles that identify and explore pressing issues in the contemporary visual arts. Also of interest are texts that illuminate the value contemporary art holds for all viewers through its ability to complicate and enrich our understanding of our world and ourselves and to offer a space of freedom from and critical engagement with prevailing norms.

Through all its grants, regardless of topic or category type, the Arts Writers Grant Program aims to honor and encourage:

Writing about art that is rigorous, passionate, eloquent and precise
Writing about art in which a keen engagement with the present is infused with an appreciation of the historical
Writing about art that is neither afraid to take a stand, nor content to deliver authoritative pronouncements, but serves rather to pose questions and to generate new possibilities for thinking, seeing, and making
Writing about art that is sensitive to both the importance and difficulty of situating aesthetic objects within their broader social and political contexts
Writing about art that does not dilute or sidestep complex ideas but renders accessible their meaning and value
Writing about art that challenges creatively the limits of existing conventions, without valorizing novelty as an end in itself
The Creative Capital | Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant is spearheaded by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts as part of its broader Arts Writing Initiative and administered by Creative Capital.

The Arts Writers Grant Program is spearheaded by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts as part of its broader Arts Writing Initiative and administered by Creative Capital. Grants are awarded on an annual basis in amounts ranging from $3,000 to $50,000.

For complete grant guidelines, click here.

2007 GRANT CALENDAR

Application Posted: Online (only): 10:00 a.m. EST, Monday, August 6, 2007
Application Deadline: Online (only): 4:59 p.m. EST, Wednesday, September 12, 2007
(transmittal times will appear on electronic applications)
Notification of application advancing to final review: December 1, 2007
Announcement of grants: Late February 2008

For information on the 2006 grantees click here.

Creative Capital is a national nonprofit organization that supports artists pursuing innovative approaches to form and content in the media, performing and visual arts, and in emerging fields.

If you would like to receive automatic updates on the Arts Writers Grant Program, click here to join Creative Capital’s e-mail list.”

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