The Virginia A. Groot Foundation received 274 applications for 3 grants in 2012.
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or about 1:91, or 1%
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Artists: I keep harping about professional development and won’t stop, certainly not without sharing this incredible opportunity. OK, so it’s a lottery, and it’s one more application you might get rejected from. So what? It’s free and normally would cost a LOT—and be worth every penny—so apply yo’self!
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The Artists Summer Institute (ASI), a free five-day professional development intensive, returns May 9-13! Offered through a partnership between Creative Capital and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC), ASI is open to 55 New York City artists working in the fields of visual, media, performing and literary arts. The participating artists will be chosen through a lottery process; only online registrations from NYC residents received before the March 30 deadline will be considered.
This is a unique opportunity for New York City artists to step outside their daily routine and focus on developing professional skills and artistic goals in a community setting. Designed to help artists build a path to greater sustainability and self-sufficiency, ASI combines the best of Creative Capital’s Professional Development Program (PDP) and LMCC’s Basic Finance for Artists program to provide a comprehensive range of training, tools and resources for working artists.
The program is intended for artists who seek arts-focused professional training in the areas of business and strategic planning, verbal communications, financial management, marketing, promotion and effective Internet strategies.
DATES, TIMES AND LOCATION
Wednesday, May 9 – Sunday, May 13, 2012
9:00am – 5:00pm
80 Broad Street, New York, NY
LMCC’s new artist studio and rehearsal space in lower Manhattan
REGISTRATION AND SELECTION
Register by 11:59pm, Friday, March 30, 2012
ASI can accommodate 55 artists. Due to high demand, eligible participants will be selected through a lottery process. In order to be included in the lottery, artists must complete the online registration form.
For complete program details and to register, including eligibility requirements and access to the registration form, click here.<
NOT A NYC RESIDENT?
Attend one of our upcoming webinars for artists!
Learn more about PDP’s Online Learning Program
We’ve had some good times, haven’t we? We’ve found great deals and explored odd lots, and gone on adventures in re-use and recycling.
I’ve learned a lot from you. But I think it’s time we part ways.
It’s not you.
Well, to be honest, it is you.
According to Creative Capital, artists would be well-advised to systematize least liked activities, making more time to savor favorite ones. Sourcing materials can be a drag sometimes. My materials can be wide-ranging, which means it’s necessarily unsystematic; I have to experience learning curves to reconcile my needs with various industries’ consumer products.
We’ve been indulging frugality and it’s been costing too much time. Our susceptibility to sticker shock and our refusal to be price-gouged has no immediate impacts except in only prolonging our procurement sagas. And, Inner Broke Art Student, you extend our stays in retail hell by calculating and re-calculating price comparisons, and compulsively trimming the fat from our shopping basket at the last minute.
You also refuse to accept the entropic nature of schlepping. Boards get scuffed, pristine papers get crinkled. Like the universe, elbows on the subway are indifferent to our petty human dramas. Getting a back-up won’t kill us.
Lastly, your distaste for shipping charges is costing us hours, and if you let us pay ourselves even just minimum wage for our time running errands, you’d see that we’re only saving pennies. Yes, I’m going to get more things shipped, even when it costs money. Don’t give me that carbon footprint line—we spewed more exhaust as Californians driving everywhere.
I know: I’ve changed. Call me a New Yorker, I can take it. That’s the difference between you and me: I don’t think we can go on like this, being our own free interns forever.
I’ve been working on my next project, and I gave myself the permission to experiment, play, and think big. That means being OK with throwing money at materials. I’m sorry to break the news: without your ‘broke’ mentality, it’s been liberating.
I’ve been working on Ribbon Texts, and before I knew it, I had a specimen sheet of sorts:
Studio snapshot: Ribbon Text specimen swatch wall.
I’ve just finished the latest Ribbon Text:
make space for unexpected positive revelations, 2012, ribbon, thread, pins, 59 × 39 in / 1.5 × 1 m.
It’s the first two-sided Ribbon Text thus far. There’s cream-colored ribbon for the front and fluorescent on the back.
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Soup’s On:
Voices of Home closes this Tuesday, February 28 at Jenkins Johnson Gallery.
In Other Words continues through March 24 at Intersection for the Arts.
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People art talking
Voices of Home was an NYC-Arts pick, in the February 16 episode (16:38).
From that pick, The preview image for Give Thanks, my installation of gratitude pennant flags, was re-blogged on this Tumblr featuring women artists. The unabashedly enthusiastic title is pretty awesome.
In Other Words has been reviewed in the S.F. Chronicle and the Zero1 blog, and reception photos are on ArtBusiness.com.
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I can’t stop thinking about this Terry Winters collage, featuring Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s Flow model (for more info, see prior blog post).
Terry Winters, Notebook 162 ,2003-2011, Collage 11 x 8 1/2 inches; 28 x 22 cm. Source: MatthewMarks.com
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Looking forward to the forthcoming art fairs coming to NYC in March, and especially Frieze on Randall’s Island in May.
Art Omi International Artists’ Residency received 850 applications for 30 artists-in-residence for the July 2012 residency.
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or about 1:28, or 3.5%
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The Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts received almost 600 applications for 14 artists-in-residence for the second half of 2012.
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or about 1:42, or 2%
Source: BemisCenter.org
[Cheers to the Bemis Center for publishing their figures and promoting transparency.]
Due to a reduction in residencies from 36 to 14, the latest call was over 2.5 times as competitive as a 2011 call.
Congrats to Stephanie Syjuco and the other residents!
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In 2011, the Franklin Furnace Fund received over 350 applications for 14 grants.
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or about 1:25, or 4%.
[Franklin Furnace publishes the numbers of applications and awards for annual competitions on their site. Cheers to them for promoting transparency.]
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I didn’t measure it by whether I had a day job or not. I measured it by what my work was, what I was doing, and how well the work was becoming. It was very clear to me that I was doing fine. [Laughs] It never occurred to me that I wasn’t.
—Phillip Glass, as told to Steven Thrasher.
More on surviving as an artist at the Village Voice.
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