New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Art Collection

The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation will be opening our new George & Joyce Wein Jazz & Heritage Center this December. With the generous support of the Helis Foundation, artworks that reflect the music and culture of Louisiana will be purchased and commissioned to be on exhibition in the Center. Artworks selected will be displayed on the walls throughout the Center and must be created by artists living and working in Louisiana.

Interested artists are invited to submit existing work and/or a proposal of work(s) they would create for the project. The deadline for submitting work is Friday October 10, 2014.

Eligibility: Open to professional artists living in Louisiana.

Medium: painting, photography, printmaking, sculptural work suitable for wall installation.

Application deadline: October 10 by 5 pm. Questions: dmarshall@jazzandheritage.org

The Helis Foundation is a Louisiana private foundation funded by the William Helis Family. Enriching the cultural life of New Orleans, the Diana Helis Henry and Adrienne Helis Malvin Art Funds of The Helis Foundation sustain, provide free admission to, and acquire works of art for institutions throughout the Greater New Orleans region. The foundation also underwrites and invests in major exhibitions and projects including the Poydras Corridor Sculpture Exhibition, Prospect.3’s “Basquiat and the Bayou” scheduled for late 2014, the Enrique Alferez Sculpture Garden in City Park’s Botanical Gardens scheduled for 2015, and the Contemporary Art Center's "Thirty Americans” exhibition in 2014.

The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation, Inc. is the nonprofit organization that owns the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival presented by Shell, proceeds from which support the foundation's year-round community development activities in the areas of education, economic development and cultural programming. Programs and assets of the foundation include: radio station WWOZ 90.7-FM; the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation Archive; the Don Jamison Heritage School of Music; the Tom Dent Congo Square Lecture Series; the Jazz Journey concert series; and the Community Partnership Grants program. The Foundation also produces community events such as the Crescent City Blues Festival, the Congo Square Rhythms Festival, the Louisiana Cajun Zydeco Festival and the Treme Creole Gumbo Festival.

https://www.callforentry.org/festivals_unique_info.php?ID=2133

Utah Public Art Program: Utah State University Eastern

Utah Arts & Museums Public Art Program
Requests Artists Qualifications
for the USU Eastern Central Instruction Building - Price, Utah

DEADLINE FOR MATERIALS: November 14, 2014

This document with images available at www.utahpublicart.org

THE CENTRAL INSTRUCTION BUILDING

The new Central Instruction Building is uniquely located where the heart of campus and the community intersect. The facility itself is envisioned as a device to support a welcoming union between these two
essential environments. Furthermore, the project will create enhanced connections to the historic Geary Theater and Reeves classroom building.

The facility consists of interior and exterior gathering spaces which are intended to serve the community, students, and faculty alike. The floor plan provides fluid circulation paths which are intended to invite curious meandering, and foster interaction between faculty and student.

Building program and interior design:
The building program is complex with a multiplicity of departments and programs that include the Music, Theater, Visual and Fine Arts, Communications, and Criminal Justice departments as well as general and distance learning classrooms, gathering spaces, study spaces, faculty offices and support spaces.

With the varied instructional classrooms, music, theater and fine arts spaces, and state of the art materials labs, creating identity for each of these programs became an important driver for the organization and design concept for the building. Without the benefit of each of these departments having their own building the idea of branding and creating a unique identity for each of the programs within the building became vital.

Emerging out of this requirement of the building program came the idea to put each of the programs on display and to give each of them a unique identity while at the same
time unifying them with a clear and cohesive design language. In particular it became important to express the programs within the arts that have a strong public component. As a result the design of the music and fine arts programs are uniquely expressive through scale, material, and form as three distinguished volumes.

The black box theater is formed as a cube to maximize internal versatility. The volume is clad in dark raw hot-rolled steel panels. The use of this raw steel is reflective of the mining industry in the region and expressive of the refinement of this material into an elegant surface. The surfaces which face the
interior common areas will remain raw but dark and pristine and un-rusted, while those surfaces on the exterior façade will weather into rich reddish tones.

In contrast, the band and choral rooms are shaped irregularly in response to their acoustic performance and to evoke landforms of the local region. This volume is wrapped in finely crafted slatted cedar wood planks for its natural warmth and reference to the instruments held within. This is also a reference to the local mining industry and the old tradition of forming mine shafts with raw wood planks while at the same time refining the material and execution of this material to reflect the music and higher education environment within the building.

A public sculpture gallery is engaged with the choral room at level one, but narrows before penetrating the roof for natural daylight through a skylight. The walls surrounding the gallery are canted inward creating a two story canyon-like space within. The gallery is centrally located to welcome and orient the
first time visitor or frequent user alike.

Exterior organization and materials:
The exterior materials palate is intended to be minimal and clearly organized via simple interacting geometry between the concrete base, light brick veneer, and sections of glass wall. The exposed concrete base is formed by wood planks. This board forming strategy is inspired by historic construction and mining techniques used locally and echoes the warm wood cladding on the building’s interior. The concrete base blends seamlessly into the site via raised terraces, planters and walkways.
The light tone brick veneer is inspired by the local geologic strata and to form a stronger visual connection to the campus central library. Geometrically, the brick cladding visually interacts with the glazing system to place emphasis on solid and transparent surfaces, thus creating opportunities to frame
views to the building’s dramatic interior spaces and to put the programs within on display.

PRICE CITY, UTAH and CARBON COUNTY
The city is home to the USU-College of Eastern Utah, as well as the large USU Eastern Prehistoric Museum affiliated with the college. Price is located within short distances from both Nine Mile Canyon and the Manti-La Sal National Forest. The city is noted for its history as a mining town. The
population was 8,715 at the 2010 census. Price is the county seat of, and largest city in, Carbon County.

USU Eastern was established in 1937 as a community college. Part of the College’s mission is to be "committed to respond to the educational needs of the communities it serves"

COMMITTEE STATEMENT
The Central Instruction Building is informed by and reinforces a group of key symbolic
messages. The College’s campuses in Price and Blanding serve a vast rural region of Southeast Utah, of high desert plateaus, canyons carved through layers of stone, and rows of cliffs mountain ranges that recede to the horizon. The building celebrates the natural beauty of Utah, with limestone and rock colors and textures.

In addition to references to the beauty of the natural setting, the building celebrates the
region’s history and culture of mining and related industrial enterprises. The building’s designincludes multiple architectural references to this economic culture – weathered steel, boardformedconcrete, industrial textures and colors.

The building is designed to function in a very specific rural location, Price City, which has a quite distinctive culture. With approximately eleven thousand residents, the City is the seat of Carbon County, and the populace of the City, County, and surrounding region is a rich mixture of diverse ethnic and cultural influences, composed of Native Americans, Mormons, Greeks,Eastern Europeans, Japanese, Hispanics, Italians and others who settled and remain in the area.

The Central Instruction Building occupies a pivotal location in the City and on the Price Campus, toward a prominent “T-juncture” of two City traffic arteries, allowing the building to as the symbolic entry to the campus. With large glass facades oriented to the public
thoroughfares, the building is purposefully designed to put academic programs on full display, the community into the College and reinforcing the College’s mission to “prepare the who create and sustain our region.”

Additionally, a small amphitheater in the front of building will be a venue for outdoor public events, reinforcing the relationship between the and its broader community.

The design of the building makes symbolic reference to the natural setting, to the cultural and history of the region, and to the continuing commitment of the College to serve the in the region. Ideally, artwork should harmonize with and reinforce these key symbolic messages.

The Committee will be open to artist suggested sites for this public art project. Please keep in the exterior front plaza is designed as a meeting / performance space so any involvement that site would need to incorporate that multiple use intention. The Committee reserves the to commission more than one artist.

BUDGET
$148,000 is available for all related expenses of this Public Art commission(s) including (but
not limited to) artist fees, fabrication, insurance, shipping, travel, installation, documentation, etc.

ELIGIBILITY
Resident American or legal resident artists / artist teams are encouraged to apply. Art Selection members, staff of Utah Arts & Museums and Method Studio are not eligible to for this commission. All Art Selection Committee members will declare any conflict of and recuse themselves from the vote when reviewing artist applications.

SUBMISSION OPTIONS, INSTRUCTIONS AND REQUIRED MATERIALS
Interested artists may submit applications online or by compact disc/DVD. The deadline is the same for methods and is not a postmark deadline. Please do not include supplemental materials beyond the
requirements listed below. All applications must include the following:

ON-LINE METHOD:
· www.callforentry.org - follow the directions for this Public Art Request for Qualifications. If the artist’s work cannot be documented well with still image he/she may submit movie files via the Disc or DVD Method” listed below. Movie files cannot be submitted via the online method.

COMPACT DISC METHOD:
· A PC compatible CD labeled with applicant's name, and contact information containing:
· A letter of interest of not more than two typewritten pages in pdf format. This letter should the artist’s reasons for interest in this project in particular. In doing so, the artist should describe how his/her work and/or experience relates to the project.
· Up to six (6) images maximum of previous site-specific public work. All images must be in JPEG, 1920 pixels maximum on the longest side, 72 dpi, with compression settings resulting in best image quality under 2MB file size. The image files should be named so that the list sorts the order of the image listing.
· A pdf document indentifying each image to include title, year, medium, dimensions.
· A professional resume in pdf format
If the work cannot be documented well with still images a DVD (of no more than 3 minutes) may be as documentation of artist’s projects.

Please note only one media, movie file or images, can presented to the committee per artist in this preliminary phase.

If the artist wishes the material returned, an addressed and stamped envelope of ample size and for return of the CD or DVD should be included. Material that is not accompanied by a stamped cannot be returned.

Utah Arts & Museums will not be responsible for applications delayed or lost in transit. While all care will be taken in the handling of materials, neither the Utah Division of Arts & Museums the USU Eastern CIB Art Selection Committee will be liable for late, lost or damaged materials or files. Faxed or e-mailed applications cannot be accepted.

USU Eastern CIB Art Selection Committee reserves the right to withhold the award of a commission or-release the call for entries.

DEADLINE
Complete application packages must be RECEIVED on or before November 14, 2014 by 5 p.m. (THIS IS A POSTMARK DEADLINE.) All supporting materials must accompany application.

Please send, deliver or courier applications to: Jim Glenn, Utah Public Art Program
Attention: USU Eastern CIB
Utah Arts & Museums
300 S Rio Grande
Salt Lake City, UT 84101

SELECTION PROCESS AND SCHEDULE
The Selection Committee will review all material properly submitted. Finalists will be selected from the phase of applicants submitting qualifications. Selection of the commissioned artist(s) will be based
on proposals presented to the Selection Committee on January 27.

Once selected as a finalist we will work to provide as much information and access as possible to assist the artist’s research while developing their proposal.

An honorarium will be extended to the finalists to assist with the costs associated with the preparation a proposal and travel. This honorarium will be applied toward the commission amount for the artist(s)
awarded the commission.

Schedule:
September 24, 2014 - Release RFQ
November 14, 2014 - Deadline for receipt of preliminary materials
December 2, 2014 - Committee Review
January 27, 2015 - Finalists interviews

ARTIST SELECTION COMMITTEE

Brian Bales - Utah Division of Facilities Construction & Management
Sheila Burghardt - USU Eastern, Director of Facilities
Noel Carmack - Artist, USU Eastern Assistant Professor of Art
Thomas A. Graham - Architect, Utah State University, Facilities Design and Construction
Eric Mantz - USU Eastern, Associate Vice Chancellor
Pam Miller - Utah Division of Arts & Museums Board of Directors
Joe Peterson - USU Eastern, Chancellor
Joe Smith - Method Studio Architecture

If you have any questions about this or other projects information is available at: www.utahpublicart.org
Or contact: Jim Glenn at 801-245-7271 or e-mail at: jglenn@utah.gov
Felicia Baca at 801-245-7272 or fbaca@utah.gov

Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowship: Sculpture/Installation/New Genres (video)

The Massachusetts Cultural Council (MCC) Artist Fellowships provide direct, unrestricted support to Massachusetts artists in recognition of exceptional original work, to foster the creation of new art in the Commonwealth. Artist Fellowships in a range of disciplines are awarded to primary creators of original works of art. The Artist Fellowships provide competitive grants of $10,000 and finalist awards of $1000.

Applying to the Sculpture/Installation/New Genres Category (submitting video)

SCULPTURE/INSTALLATION/NEW GENRES Category Definition: This category includes original three-dimensional sculpture, installation art, time-based media works of art, conceptually driven work, experimental, hybrid, and community-based practice in the visual arts. If you have not already, please read full program guidelines: http://www.massculturalcouncil.org/applications/fellows_guidelines.asp

Fill out the online form in CaFE. You will need to upload at least one video to your CaFE Portfolio to add to your MCC Artist Fellowship application in Sculpture/Installation/New Genres. (If you intend to upload images instead of video, please apply here instead.)

Work Samples

Work samples that do not adhere to the following guidelines will not be reviewed. Work completed prior to 2011 is ineligible.

Upload up to three video files into your CallforEntry.org (CaFE) Portfolio. The total length of all video files should be no longer than 5 minutes total running time. (Read tips on preparing your videos.)

Panel review of work samples is anonymous. Therefore, neither your name, nor any information identifying commissions, awards, reviews, and/or presentations should appear within your work sample itself. Work samples will be tracked by title #1.

Deadline for MCC Artist Fellowships applications in Drawing: Monday, October 6, 2014

Charlotte Street Foundation 2015 Visual Artist Awards

Charlotte Street Foundation invites visual artists living and working in the 5-County Greater Kansas City Metro Area to apply for its 2015 CHARLOTTE STREET VISUAL ARTIST AWARDS.  

Three unrestricted cash Awards of $10,000 each will be distributed in 2015.

The intent of the Charlotte Street Visual Artists Awards is to recognize and significantly support Kansas City-based visual artists of all media who are creating exceptional, contemporary work. Providing artists with financial support, critical recognition, and public exposure, these Awards aim to reward artistic accomplishment to date and to support the continued development of artists' work and careers.

Awarded artists will be those who: 

• Are actively generating exceptional new work as visual artists
• Are creating work that is accomplished, imaginative, and contemporary 
• Demonstrate sustained commitment to the development/deepening of their work and artistic practices

Through recognizing and supporting exceptional visual artists living and working in Kansas City, Charlotte Street Foundation seeks to empower and propel individual artists, enhance the artistic culture of our region, and increase Kansas City’s desirability as a place for artists to live and work.

Each 2015 Charlotte Street Visual Artist Award Fellows will: 

• Receive an unrestricted cash grant of $10,000
• Be recognized by Charlotte Street Foundation at the time of Award announcement and throughout the year 2015, including announcements to media, web-based promotion, special events, etc.
• Have their work featured in the 2015 Charlotte Street Visual Artist Fellows Exhibition at the H&R Block Artspace, accompanied by a printed brochure with images and commissioned writing about their work.

New! One of the three Visual Artist Award Fellows will additionally be awarded the Byron C. Cohen Award. This award provides one fellow with up to $1,800 in funding to attend Art Basel Miami, or another leading international art fair of particular interest. The Byron C. Cohen Award honors gallerist and collector Byron C. Cohen’s passion for art, artists, and travel, and his desire to connect Kansas City and its artists to the national and international art world. 

CRITERIA FOR SELECTION: 

• Strength of artistic work to date
• Promise for future artistic achievement
• Commitment to and demonstration of innovation/experimentation in terms of form, content, process, and/or presentation
• Potential impact of Award on continued artistic development

ELIGIBILITY: 

All applicants MUST: 

• Currently live, and have lived for at least one year prior to application deadline, in the Five County Greater Kansas City Metro area (Clay, Jackson, Johnson, Platte, Wyandotte)
• Be at least 21 years of age by application deadline
• Be at least one year out of undergraduate school, and/or not currently enrolled as a full-time undergraduate or graduate student. Applicants must also not already have made arrangements to be a full-time student in either capacity from January 1-December 31, 2015. (Note: while there are restrictions relative to an applicant’s academic enrollment status, applicants do not need to have attended undergraduate or graduate school to be considered for this award.) 

Note on collaborative groups: 

The Visual Artist Awards are intended to recognize and support outstanding visual artists as individuals. Collectives/collaboratives are eligible to apply as a collective/collaborative in the event that: 1) ALL members of the collaborative/collective meet the eligibility criteria described above; 2) the group is well established and creating work in an ongoing, deeply collaborative, committed manner as a collective/collaborative; 3) that the primary work of each individual member of the group is as a member of the collaborative group, rather than as an individual; 4) each member of the group is playing an essential role in the creation of the work; and 5) the collective/collaborative is not incorporated as a 501(c)3 non-profit organization.  

Note: Artists applying as a collaborative group should submit individual resumes as well as a group resume, and should detail the nature of their collaboration in the narrative portion of the application.

Additional eligibility requirements:

• Awarded artists will be expected to be residents of Kansas City (or one of the eligible five counties) for the Award year (2015). (Artists are, however, able and encouraged to participate in residencies, travel, etc., during the year);
• Awarded artists will be expected to keep Charlotte Street Foundation informed of all scheduled exhibitions and public engagements throughout the period of the Award year;
• Awarded artists will be expected to have work available for exhibition in the 2015 Visual Artist Awards Exhibition, to take place Fall 2015, and to work in a collaborative manner with the exhibition curator and other representatives in order to select and prepare work for the exhibition and associated publication;
• Awarded artists will be expected, as reasonably possible, to be available for associated Awards events, receptions, public programs, etc.

Note: Previous Charlotte Street Award recipients are NOT eligible to apply.

SELECTION PROCESS: 

The 2015 Charlotte Street Visual Artist Fellows will be selected through an OPEN CALL for applicants followed by a competitive selection process.  A selection panel of regional and national visual arts professionals will be solely responsible for selecting the 2015 Awards Fellows.  Neither staff nor the Charlotte Street Board members have any input in the final decisions.

THE SELECTION PROCESS WILL BE CONDUCTED AS FOLLOWS:

Midnight, Monday, NOVEMBER 17, 2014:  Application deadline

DECEMBER 2014-JANUARY 2015: Panel review of applications; selection of 10 semi-finalists for in-person studio visits.

Semi-finalists notified in early February 2015. 

FEBRUARY/MARCH 2015 (EXACT 2-DAY PERIOD TO BE DETERMINED): 

In-person visits & final selection by panel

• 10 finalists will receive 30-minute in-person studio visits with the selection panel, providing opportunity for artists to share their work and respond to questions from the panel. (If a space to show work is needed, Charlotte Street staff will work with the finalist to identify a space for the presentation.) 
• Following studio visits and final panel deliberations, the 2015 Visual Artist Fellows will be notified.

APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS:

All applications must be completed online through www.callforentry.org.

The title of the call is “Charlotte Street Foundation 2015 Visual Artist Awards”.

Deadline for applications is Monday, November 17, 2014, at midnight. No late applications will be considered.

Note: Artists requiring technical assistance may contact Charlotte Street Foundation at 816.221.5115 or info@charlottestreet.org. In-person assistance will be provided upon request.

ARTISTS ARE REQUIRED TO SUBMIT ALL OF THE FOLLOWING MATERIALS:

1. ARTIST’S STATEMENT (500 words or less): 

Your artist’s statement should clearly address 1) the work that you create; 2) the intentions that drive your work; 3) the ideas and influences that inform your work; and 4) the methods, materials, processes, etc. that are significant to the creation or presentation of your work. 

Note:  If applying as a collaborative/collective, please describe the work of the group as a whole, your approach to collaboration, and the role and contributions of each individual.

2. RESUME/ CV including history of exhibitions/visual arts projects (5 pg max)

3. WORK SAMPLES: IMAGES or VIDEO files
Note: WORK SAMPLES are the most important component of applications, and should be carefully selected and prepared to most strongly represent your work.

Artists may submit EITHER A, B, or C below 

A. IMAGES: 10 max

For artists whose work can be represented through still images, please submit up to 10 jpeg images of work you have created in the past 3 years.

B. VIDEO:  10-min max

For artists whose work is time-based, please submit up to 5 video work samples of work you have created in the past 3 years, totaling no more than 10 minutes in length. The preferred form of work sample submission is ONE 10-minute compilation representing 2-5 works, which makes for efficient review by panelists. This compilation should aim to provide panelists with a substantial view of your current work and its content through carefully selected samples. In lieu of one compilation, artists may submit 2-5 separate work samples/excerpts, totaling no more than 10 minutes in length.  Submit video work samples either as URL links (preferred) or as video files uploaded through the café system. (See below for more information about audio and video files.) 

C. COMBINATION: (6) images and (1) 5-minute video, or (2) images and (2) videos totaling 8-minutes

For artists creating both still and time-based work, you may submit a combination of documentation of work completed in the past three years. You may submit either (6) images and (1) video totaling no more than 5-minutes, or (2) images and (2) videos totaling no more than 8-minutes. Complilation videos, as described above, are encouraged.

4. WORK SAMPLE LIST

Your WORK SAMPLE LIST should correspond to your work samples. Please list relevant details including title, date, media, dimensions/duration, and a brief description if relevant. If involving significant collaboration with others, please list collaborators and specifically explain their roles in its creation.

More about audio/video work samples: 

The preferred method of submitting video work samples for this application is to upload them elsewhere (suggested host sites: Vimeo or YouTube) and to provide URL links rather than uploading files through the CaFE system. However, artists WILL NOT be penalized for uploading files through CaFE.

Click this link for more about submitting video files.

Questions: Please contact Charlotte Street Foundation at 816.221.5115 or email info@charlottestreet.org.

About Charlotte Street Foundation:

For over 17 years, Charlotte Street has challenged, nurtured, and empowered thousands of artists, distributed almost $900,000 in awards and grants to artists and their projects, and connected individual artists to each other and to the greater Kansas City community. Charlotte Street – with its community of artists – strives to be a primary catalyst in making Kansas City a vibrant, creative metropolis, alive with collaboration, passion, ideas, and surprise. For more information about Charlotte Street, its awards, programs, and initiatives, visitwww.charlottestreet.org

Outdoor public art commission at hospital entrance in Sweden

http://www.webbhotell.sll.se/sv/Kultur/Konst-i-landstinget/Konstnarlig-gestaltning-K12-01/Announced-artistic-design-commission/Treatment-building-northern-entrance-New-Karolinska-Solna-University-Hospital-NKS/

The Stockholm County Council Cultural Committee invites artists to apply for proposal opportunities for an outdoor public art commission at the northern entrance of the Treatment building, New Karolinska Solna University Hospital (NKS).

Background and site conditions

The Treatment building is set in a strategically important location where the Academic Mall merges into the hospital park. Seven floors high, the building is situated on sloping ground where the differences in level are resolved by the terrace formed at the end of the Academic Mall.

The northern entrance to the new Treatment building will be used by patients and relatives coming to the hospital for radiation treatment. Here a well-designed and thoroughly planned outdoor environment is of the utmost importance.

There is a car park in front of the building, interspersed with small trees and shrubs. A generously sized pavement runs between the car park and the building, ending to the east with steps up to Anna Steckséns gata. Seating and flower beds for shade-loving plants are planned beside the entrance. The ground is covered by grey concrete slabs.

Description of the commission

The call for proposal concerns the outdoor environment in front of the northern entrance to the new Treatment building. The site is ideal for sculptures, light installations, reworking of ground coverings, etc.

Great emphasis will be placed on the strength of the public art work to harmonize with the architectural design, enrich the location and create a welcoming outdoor environment in front of the entrance.

Visitors to the hospital must be allowed an experience of the artwork regardless of the time of the day or season of the year.

The proposal should take into account issues of accessibility and other practical aspects.

Requirements specification

You will find basic information concerning the open call on our website www.kultur.sll.se under Konst i Landstinget (Art at the County Council) and Aktuella konstnärliga gestaltningsuppdrag (Current public art commissions).

Budget

Proposal: 50 000 SEK excluding VAT.

The cost range for the production of the public art commission, includ-ing the proposal, is budgeted at 1 600 000 SEK excluding VAT. All costs connected to the execution and installation of the artwork, such as the artist's own project planning time, material costs, mounting arrange-ments, subcontractors/assistants, travel, transport, insurance, the artist's own fees for executing the work and artistic fees, must fit with-in that range. An environmental check-list and maintenance instruc-tions are also included in the artist's obligations. Advice for maintenance and arrangements for maintenance must also be indicated in the budget. Construction-related costs for design, mounting and installation of the artwork are funded via the construction project budget.

Timetable

• 2014-12-02, start meeting for the proposal process
• 2015-01, proposal review
• 2015-03-10, proposal submission
• 2015-04, decision made on which proposal will be selected.
• Production of artwork according to the timetable of the project
• Mounting/installation of the artwork will be coordinated with the construction project.

Who can apply?

In order to receive public art commissions from the Stockholm County Council Cultural Committee, you must fulfill the following require-ments:

1. You must be a professional artist
2. When a commission is awarded, you must have the ability to send us legally valid invoices in compliance with relevant tax regulations. Should you be awarded a commission, copy of cer-tificate(s) from relevant tax authority must be provided on re-quest.

In addition, we require that:

• The artwork must take into consideration the specific characteristics and operational conditions of the healthcare environment.
• You should be able to provide solutions for the operation and maintenance of the artwork and ensure that a sufficiently high level of durability is achieved.
• Environmental issues should be taken into consideration in the selection of materials and production methods.

Expression of interest

Fill in the expression of interest form that you will find in the right-hand column on this page.

Notification of selection for proposal submission

A decision on which artists will be invited will be made by the NKS Art Committee after a presentation by the NKS Art Council and will be published on the Cultural Committee's website www.kultur.sll.se in week 47, 2014. The artists invited to submit a proposal will be notified by e-mail.

Contact

Questions concerning expression of interest, or the project, should be sent in writing via e-mail to Torunn Skoglund. Questions should be received no later than 2014-10-01 to allow for replies before the deadline for expressions of interest.

Commissioning agency

Stockholm County Council is the commissioning agency and will be party to the agreements with the artists. The Stockholm County Council Cultural Committee manages art pro-jects, which include the tasks of application processing and selection.

Queens Arts Fund Grant Applications

2015 Queens Arts Fund grant applications are now available.

Application Deadline is October 9th.

Please read the grant guidelines and FAQs prior to starting the application process and click the links below to access the applications. You must complete a distinct application for each grant you wish to apply for. Each application requires you to sign up the first time you access your application and you will have to log into each distinct application after the initial sign up. Your login will be your email address. You can use the same login and password to access all of your applications, but you will have to sign into each one separately.

Your login and password from last year will not be valid. Please create a new login and password. You can use the same information from last year when creating a new account.

For example if you want to apply for the QAF for Organizations funded by NYSCA, you must click on the corresponding link below for that grant application and sign into that distinct application. If you want to also apply for the QAF grant for Organizations funded by DCA GNYADF, you must click on the corresponding link below and sign in to complete the application. Each application must be accessed through the links below. Your login and password from last year will not be valid.

When working on an application, the system will automatically save your work every ten minutes. You can also save your work by clicking “Save Draft” at the bottom of the application.

Click “Submit” at the bottom of the application to submit your grant. Once your application is submitted, you can no longer make changes. You will receive an email confirming your application submission.

Queens Arts Fund for Organizations and Individuals with a fiscal sponsor funded by NYSCA

Queens Arts Fund Community Arts Commissioning for Individual Artists funded by NYSCA

Queens Arts Fund Grant for Organizations funded by DCA GNYADF

Queens Arts Fund Grant for Individual Artists funded by DCA GNYADF

NYC International Artist Residency Program

The NARS Foundation offers a residency program that supports emerging and mid-career artists as well as artists with established national and/or international reputations for whom a change of environment may offer refreshment and inspiration. The program offers full and partial residential fellowships for a minimum of three month and up to twelve months. The number of awards and the amount may vary depending on sponsorship available at the time of application.

The artists-in-residence are offered a Studio that range in size from 280sq. ft. to 325sq. ft. with Wi-Fi connections and 24/7 access. The workspaces are located in the Sunset Park neighborhood of Brooklyn. Other than the core residency artists, the artist-in-residence can also take advantage of the interaction with New York City artists working in the NARS studios.

The NARS International Artist Residency Program offers professional development through panel discussions, lectures, workshops, artist talks and artist salons scheduled throughout the year. In addition, regularly scheduled studio visits with NYC art professionals offer the artists-in-residence the chance to meet with curators, critics, art historians, and gallerists to discuss their work in an intimate setting. Furthermore, open studios and group exhibitions at the NARS Gallery provide the opportunity to share new work and works in progress with the general public. Artists-in-residence are also expected to interact with the local community through public programs and community outreach programs offered in collaboration with other local not-for-profit organizations.

NARS currently offers 6-month residencies for U.S. based applicants and 3-month and 6-month residencies for international applicants. Only U.S. based artists are eligible for the Full and Partial Residency Fellowships at this time. International artists who need funding to cover the program fee, travel, materials, and accommodations should apply to other sources for this support.

International Curator Residency Program

The curatorial residency offers an emerging or mid-career curator with a furnished Internet ready office space located within the NARS studios with easy access to over 30 NARS artists as well as a chance to network with a wide range of artists and art professionals. Candidates who may benefit from a fellowship in New York City are chosen based on their past exhibition projects and potential growth. The residency provides the curator with a chance to meet new artists, do research, and develop future projects.

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Seniors Partnering with Artists Citywide

(SPARC) is a community arts engagement program that places artists-in-residence at senior centers across the five boroughs of New York City. The program provides selected artists with a stipend in exchange for the creation and delivery of arts programming for seniors. Artists will engage participating seniors in an art project or series of cultural programs over the course of the residency, which will also include a public program component –exhibits, readings, performances, open houses or other cultural interactions open to the surrounding community.

This initiative seeks to connect artists with seniors in senior centers and aims to positively impact the well-being of older adults through arts-based activities. SPARC seeks to place artists who are sensitive to the needs of older adults and who are interested in engaging their communities. Each senior center is unique and offers access to different types of spaces, resources and communities. Selected artists will work with the senior center where they are placed to further refine project goals and coordinate a schedule for residency activities and use of facilities.

SPARC is a collaboration between the Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA), the Department for the Aging (DFTA) and the City’s five local arts councils situated in each borough – Brooklyn Arts Council, Bronx Council on the Arts, Staten Island Arts, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and Queens Council on the Arts. SPARC began in 2012 and was developed as a part of Age-Friendly NYC, a citywide effort to make the City more livable for seniors. In 2015, SPARC is supported, in part, by public funds from the Department for the Aging.

LMCC is proud to be a part of this program on behalf of the borough of Manhattan. LMCC will accept applications from artists seeking residencies at participating senior centers in Manhattan only.

Application Deadline: September 30, 2014

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BRIC Idea Lab in Brooklyn

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BRIC is collaborating with Our Goods, a network for the creative community that hosts a bi-monthly Idea Lab where 3-4 facilitators lead a group of 25-30 people in a peer-to-peer resource-sharing meet-up. Find out more on the Our Goods website. 

What happens at an Idea Lab?

• Artists of all disciplines break into small groups.
• Each artist shares a challenge they are working on.
• The group brainstorms resources and ideas to meet that challenge.
• Whether you need help refining an idea, access to space or equipment, connections to a collaborators, or information about  venues for your work, you can find it at an Idea Lab.
• It's FREE! You just have to RSVP.

SIGN UP NOW TO JOIN THIS IDEA LAB!

Daiwa Foundation Art Prize

http://www.dajf.org.uk/grants-awards-prizes/daiwa-foundation-art-prize

The Daiwa Foundation Art Prize offers a British artist a first solo show at a gallery in Tokyo, Japan. In addition to an exhibition, the winning artist will be given a period of support and introductions to key individuals and organisations in the Japanese contemporary art world.  The winning artist is also awarded a participation fee of £5000.

The triennial prize is open to British artists resident in the UK who have not previously had a solo exhibition in Japan.  Artists applying for the prize are required to submit documentation of four recent works, in any medium (including painting, photography, drawing, sculpture, installation, video etc), a supporting CV and personal statement.  The judging panel select a short list of three artists.  Works by all three of the short list are exhibited at the Daiwa Foundation Japan House Gallery and a winner is announced later that year.

Two Daiwa Foundation Art Prizes have been awarded so far – to Marcus Coates in 2009 and to Haroon Mirza in 2012.

Artists are invited to submit works for the Daiwa Foundation Art Prize 2015

The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation is delighted to announce the third Daiwa Foundation Art Prize, which offers a British artist a first solo show at a gallery in Tokyo, Japan. In addition, the winning artist is awarded a participation fee of £5000, and a period of support and introductions to key individuals and organisations in the Japanese contemporary art world.

The judging panel is:

Hideki Aoyama, Gallery Director, Aoyama | Meguro Gallery, Tokyo

Richard Deacon, artist

Mami Kataoka, Chief Curator, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo

Chris Orr RA, artist

Jonathan Watkins, Director of Ikon Gallery, Birmingham

The triennial prize is open to British artists resident in the UK who have not previously had a solo exhibition in Japan. The judging panel will first select a shortlist of three artists whose works will be exhibited at the Daiwa Foundation Japan House Gallery, London in June 2015, during which time a winner is announced.

The two previous Daiwa Foundation Art Prizes were awarded to Marcus Coates in 2009, who had a solo exhibition at Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, and to Haroon Mirza in 2012, whose solo show was held at SCAI THE BATHHOUSE, Tokyo in early 2013. The 2015 Daiwa Foundation Art Prize winner will be invited to exhibit at the Aoyama | Meguro Gallery in Tokyo.

Deadline for applications: 30 September 2014

Artists applying for the prize are required to submit documentation of four recent works, in any medium (including painting, photography, drawing, sculpture, installation, video etc), a supporting CV and personal statement. Entry is free. Applications are made online.

For further information and to apply please visit: www.parkerharris.co.uk

For any queries please contact the project coordinators, Parker Harris:

T. 01372 462190

E. dfap@parkerharris.co.uk

Key Dates:

30 September 2014: Closing date for applications

25 October 2014: Shortlisted artists announced

June 2015: Short-listed exhibition at the Daiwa Foundation Japan House Gallery, London

Autumn/winter 2015: Winner’s exhibition at Aoyama | Meguro Gallery, Tokyo

LAND-SHAPE: Open Call for Land Art

Contact shj@jammerbugt.dk Signe Hoejmark Phone: +45 41911867 Address www.land-shape.dk/open-call/subscription-for-open-call/ Jammerbugt Kommune Toftevej 43 9440 Aabybro Denmark Info Open Call period: August 4-November 1 2014 followed by a project preparation period and a visit to Denmark

LAND-SHAPE is a large land art project and focus area in the cultural agreement, named KulturKANten, 2013-2016 LAND-SHAPE aims at creating large scale land art works around the 11 municipalites of North Jutland through an open call and curation. Key information:  10 winning projects will be selected 10.000,- DKK (1.350 EUR) in order to participate in the LAND-SHAPE festival 2015 with a conceptual representation of a site specific land art piece for North Jutland 10 day stay in Denmark, highlighting the winners at the LAND-SHAPE Land Art North Denmark Festival June 2015 where further development and actual realization of the projects will be investigated, negotiated and planned LAND-SHAPE festival Prize: 50.000,- DKK (EUR 6.700 EUR) LAND-SHAPE public choice Prize: 25.000.DKK (3.300 EUR) Realization of a site specific land art piece in North Jutland, Denmark including help for matchmaking in Denmark with professionals, assistants, materials etc. during the period June 2015 – December 2016.