Upcoming Deadline: NYSCA Presentation Funds for Electronic Media and Film

Posted by L.M. on May 21, 2013
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2013_EMF_postcard_front_flatPresentation Funds for Electronic Media and Film
NYSCA (administered by The ARTS Council of the Southern Finger Lakes)
Deadline: June 1, 2013
Website: http://www.earts.org/index.asp?pageId=96

The ARTS Council of the Southern Finger Lakes is pleased to announce its 2013 partnership with the New York State Council on the Arts to award Presentation Funds for Electronic Media and Film.

Presentation Funds offers partial support to non-profit organizations located in New York State for in-person appearances by independent artists working in moving image media and sound art, including video, digital and computer-based works. The mission of the program is to encourage opportunities for conversations between artists and audiences, support the creative programming of independent media-makers, and help increase appreciation for electronic media and film as an art form throughout New York State. Presentation Funds is supported by the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA).

ELIGIBLE ORGANIZATIONS
Non-profit arts, cultural and educational organizations located in New York State may apply. Publicly supported educational institutions, public schools, local government units, and NYS agencies or departments are not eligible. Individual artists cannot apply directly but are encouraged to inform exhibition venues of this funding resource.

Matching funds are not required, but organizations are expected to provide additional support for the event.

ELIGIBLE PROJECTS, PROGRAMS AND EVENTS
The program provides funding for artist fees related to in-person presentations of moving image media and sound art, including video, digital and computer-based works. No other expenses are supported.The program is committed to the exhibition of works that approach electronic media and film as art forms. Programs featuring works that are primarily commercial, instructional, educational or promotional, or intend only to document other art disciplines are not eligible.

Programs must be open to the public and advertised as such. Classes, courses, workshops or other events that are open to a limited enrollment or student population are not eligible.

Funding Opportunities for International Cultural Exchange: Mobility Funding Guides

Posted by L.M. on May 21, 2013
Posted in: Funding Research, International. Tagged: , .

Mobility Funding Guides
Website: http://culture360.org/asef-news/mobility

Initiated by the Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF)  through its online portal culture360.org, these 20 mobility funding guides are a concrete output of the mapping of funding opportunities for international cultural exchange in 18 countries in Asia. The research was conducted with the cooperation of Korea Arts Management Service-KAMS, Japan Center, Pacific Basin Arts Communication-PARC, Tokyo Performing Arts Market-TPAM and Arts Network Asia-ANA.

The main objectives of the mapping are to make available online, in a transparent way, the existing information on funding for the international mobility of artists and cultural operators in Asia and to give input to funders on how to fill in the existing gaps in funding for international cultural exchange in Asia.

These guides list national resources, when available, and regional and international sources of funding – be they public or private. Only regular opportunities accessible online are listed; funds for which information is only available offline, not based on open calls, and ad hoc or short-term funding are not included.

Apart from the mobility funding guides focused on the respective 18 Asian ASEM countries,there are also find two additional guides, one focused on Asia and another one on funding opportunities open to any nationality.

For more information contact:
Valentina Riccardi
Project Manager, Cultural Exchange
valentina.riccardi@asef.org 

Webinar: Building a Strong Art Works Proposal for the NEA

Posted by L.M. on May 21, 2013
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Building a Strong Art Works Proposal for the National Endowment for the Arts
Grant Center Webinar
Wednesday, May 29, 2013
1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. EDT
To register: http://events.meetingbridge.com/Register/?06123343995

In 2011, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), a longtime supporter of public broadcasting, restructured their popular grant programs funding arts projects to create the Art Works grant program. Art Works funds arts focused projects that address NEA’s key outcome areas of creation, engagement, learning and livability, and cover a broad range of disciplines including media arts, arts education and more recently arts journalism. The next round has an August 8, 2013 deadline. To help you prepare, on Wednesday, May 29, 2013 at 1:00 p.m. EDT, the Grant Center will host the Director of Media Arts at NEA, Alyce Myatt, for a discussion on this important opportunity. The conversation will focus on your questions, and is intended to help you shape a strong and successful Art Works proposal.

The most recent round of Art Work grantees include Alabama Public Television, WMMT-FM, KBEM-FM and KCET providing support for television and radio production as well as multimedia educational curriculum development. You can access the full list of recent grantees on the NEA website.

Alyce Myatt is no stranger to the Grant Center, and was featured as a presenter on an April 2012 Grant Center webinar to discuss the changing landscape of media grants at NEA. To watch the event archive and to download additional resources, access the official webinar page.

Call for Funding Request: International Fund for Cultural Diversity

Posted by L.M. on May 21, 2013
Posted in: Grant, International. Tagged: .

International Fund for Cultural Diversity: Fourth Call for Funding Request
UNESCO
Deadline: June 30, 2013
Website: http://www.unesco.org/new/en/culture/themes/cultural-diversity/diversity-of-cultural-expressions/call-for-funding-requests/

The IFCD has launched its fourth call for funding requests for projects and preparatory assistance requests that aim to foster the emergence of a dynamic cultural sector at the national and/or local level, primarily through activities facilitating the introduction of new cultural policies and cultural industries, or strengthening existing ones.

Since 2010, the IFCD is providing more than USD 3.5 million in funding for 61 projects in 40 developing countries, covering a wide range of areas, from the development and implementation of cultural policies, to capacity-building of cultural entrepreneurs, mapping of cultural industries and the creation of new cultural industry business models.

Government authorities and NGOs from developing countries that are Parties to the 2005 Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions, as well as international non-governmental organizations (INGOs), are eligible to apply.

Special attention is given in this fourth call to projects aiming at capacity building for cultural policies, understood as those policies designed to have a direct effect on the creation, production, dissemination, distribution of and access to cultural activities, goods and services. Important information:

  • Government authorities and NGOs are to consult their National Commissions for UNESCO for the submission deadline at the national level.
  • National Commissions for UNESCO will forward pre-selected projects to the UNESCO Secretariat for evaluation by 30 June 2013, midnight CET.
  • INGOs can send their applications directly to the UNESCO Secretariat before the deadline 30 June 2013, midnight CET.

Definitions of NGOs and INGOs:

For the purpose of this Convention, civil society means non-governmental organizations, nonprofit organizations, professionals in the culture sector and associated sectors, groups that support the work of artists and cultural communities. Criteria identified in the Operational Guidelines on civil society are: civil society have interests and activities in one or more fields covered by the Convention; they have a legal status in compliance with the established rules of the jurisdiction in the country of registration; they are representative of their respective field of activity, or of the respective social or professional groups they represent. Applications are welcome from:

  • Non-governmental organizations coming from developing countries that are Parties to the Convention, which meet the definition of civil society and criteria regulating admission of its representatives at meetings of organs of the Convention as mentioned in the operational guidelines relating to the role and participation of civil society.
  • International non-governmental organizations, which meet the definition of civil society and criteria regulating admission of its representatives at meetings of organs of the Convention as mentioned in the operational guidelines relating to the role and participation of civil society, and which present projects with impact at the sub-regional, regional or inter-regional level.

For more information contact: ifcd.convention2005@unesco.org

Upcoming Deadline: Project:Connect – Summer Youth Programming Competition

Posted by L.M. on May 16, 2013
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Project:Connect – Summer Youth Programming Competition
The MacArthur Foundation and the Born This Way Foundation
Amount: up to $10,000 per award
Deadline: June 10, 2013, 5pm PS
Website: http://dmlcompetition.net/ and http://dmlcompetition.net/summer-youth-programming/summer-youth-programming-competition

The MacArthur Foundation and the Born This Way Foundation are supporting a new competition that will award $150,000 to libraries, museums, and other nonprofits to provide hands-on learning opportunities this summer for youth across the country to help make the online experience more civil, safe, and empowering. Grants will support a series of local hands-on events from July through September where young people collaborate and compete through activities such as hackathons, maker spaces, digital journalism and communications labs, and mentoring workshops. Programs must be based on the understanding that learning happens anywhere, anytime and should be equitable, social, participatory, and reflect kids’ interests.

Timeline: Project:Connect-Youth Summer Programs will be held July-September, 2013.

Awards: Up to $10,000 per institution; winners to be announced in early July 2013.

Who is eligible to apply: U.S.-based non-profit learning development and civic engagement institutions and organizations (including learning development organizations such as museums, libraries, after school and summer programs). Additional eligibility requirements.

What: The Project:Connect-Summer Youth Programming Competition supports single or multi-day participatory and hands-on learning experiences (labs, hackathons, pop-up events) to be held at U.S.-based organizations from July-September, 2013. Workshops or hackathons will support youth working with peers, mentors, and educators on learning and creating experiences toward a better web for all. Based on the principles of Connected Learning—learning that is equitable, social, and participatory—Project:Connect Summer Youth Programs will give young people hands-on experience creating, testing, and investigating ways to make using the web a better place to learn, connect, make, contribute, and share.

Winning proposals will create:

  • Social Tools for Social Good – Enabling people to create a culture of kindness, respect, and safety that enhances civic participation for youth.
  • Social Tools that Enable Control of Information – Helping youth understand how to control their information, and manage privacy and security.
  • Social Tools that Enable Literacy – Helping youth build, access, and understand the web in ways that support interest-driven learning, and empower learners to connect in safe ways with resources, mentors, and peers.

Program participants may design or create:

  • Social apps – Create apps, including mobile apps, that promote and enable civic engagement with peers, community building, and kindness to others.
  • Badging programs – Create apps, including mobile apps, that leverage badging and other recognition and feedback methods to inspire youth to develop civic engagement with peers and community building in connected, cooperative, collaborative, safe, and respectful ways.
  • Learning content – Create learning content, curricula, media promotions, and other approaches about how to foster a more engaged, egalitarian, safe, and sharing internet.

Project:Connect Summer Youth Programs may include:

  • Hackathons, that involve youth in connection with mentoring developers and educators in designing, prototyping, and/or coding software; or developing learning programs that promote a better web for learning through connecting and connecting through learning.
  • Digital learning labs, that provide hands-on experience using digital tools for connecting safely, collaborating purposefully, and communicating effectively via the web.
  • Testing labs, that involve young people in evaluating software and online learning programs that promote good web citizenship, or a better web for learning and sharing.
  • Mentoring or leadership workshops, that identify potential peer instructors and mentors, and provide them with opportunities to learn how to support and mentor others effectively and respectfully in web-based connected learning programs and applications.
  • Journalism and communications labs, where young people – acting as reporters, bloggers, and podcasters – participate in the creation of public media that engages questions of equity, good citizenship, privacy, collaboration, and sharing on the web.
  • Badge development workshops, that provide youth with the tools to develop badges for recognizing and rewarding effective digital citizenship, promoting privacy, effective web participation, and connected learning opportunities.

Networking
Awardees will be invited to attend joint online webinars in preparation for their awarded events. Webinars will discuss mentoring for the respective programming, post-event activities around the program themes for youth participants, and ongoing web networking for youth participants to make, test, and apply apps concerned with promoting effective digital citizenship, safety, and privacy (with parental/guardian input) for awarded and non-awarded participants alike.

All awarded programs will be considered part of and networked with the Summer of Making and Connecting programs.

New York State / Quebec Artist-in-Residence Exchange Program

Posted by L.M. on May 15, 2013
Posted in: International. Tagged: , .

New York State / Quebec Artist-in-Residence Exchange Program
NYSCA (administered by Arts Services Initiative of WNY)
Deadline: May 31, 2013 (host organizations)
Website: http://www.asiwny.org/programs/artist-residence-exchange/

Later this year three artists from New York State will go to Quebec for a three-month residency and three Quebec artists will come to New York State for their residency.

The disciplines included in the residency are:

  • Architecture
  • Crafts & Folk Arts
  • Cinema & Video
  • Dance & Choreography
  • Digital Arts
  • Literature & Poetry
  • Multidisciplinary Arts
  • Music & Composition
  •  Theatre & Playwriting
  • Visual Art

Artists in residence will work with a partner venue to develop their project, engage with the local community, and foster exchange with local artists. They will receive a stipend of $9,000 to cover their costs for travel, materials, and labor.

Would your venue like to host a Quebec artist in late 2013?

In May, Arts Services Initiative of WNY (ASI) will develop a listing of potential venues from across New York State that are interested in hosting an artist(s) from Quebec.  There is no commitment right away. The venue can decide if a partnership with the interested artist is viable. The applicant artists are required to make contact with a venue to determine the viability for a partnership and obtain a letter of support. This will become part of the artist’s application.

All interested venues will be included on a list of potential partners given to the Quebec applicant artists.

 To be included in our initial outreach to prospective artists, please fill out an application form by May 31, 2013, or complete the form before July 5 for inclusion on our website as a potential venue.  Questions? Please email asiwnyoffice@gmail.com.

Call for Work: Eastern State Penitentiary 2014 Season

Posted by L.M. on May 15, 2013
Posted in: Call for Work.

Call for Work: 2014 Season
Eastern State Penitentiary
Amount: 7,500.00 per project
Deadline: Thursday, June 13, 2013, at 4:00 pm
Website: http://www.easternstate.org/visit/site-rentals-special-arrangements/artists-proposals-2011-season

More than sixty artists have created installations for Eastern State Penitentiary’s cellblocks and yards. Many of these installations were among the most successful programming the site has offered, and brought perspectives and approaches that would not have been possible in traditional historic site programming.

Eastern State Penitentiary seeks installaions that will explore the site’s history, and evoke a broad range of emotions, including work that will make connections between the complex history of this building and its legacy in current prison policies and conditions.

Funding
The historic site will fund a maximum $7,500.00 per project. This funding indicates approval to exhibit. All projects that are approved will be installed for one full tour season (typically March 15 through November 30), unless the proposal states otherwise. Artists may apply for future installation cycles, and should assume that the same guidelines, deadlines, and funding levels will apply.

Proposal Development
The historic site does not accept proposals for project development. The review committee may offer, at its discretion, development funds to applicants whose proposals look promising, but whose ideas require additional resources to get a better idea of the final direction the work will take.

Extending an Installation
Artists whose work is currently installed may request that the Review Committee extend their installation by one tour season. They are merely required to submit this request in writing by the same deadline that applies to new applications. Many artists have kept work on view for multiple tour seasons through this process.

Contact:
Sean Kelley
Senior Vice President, Director of Public Programming
sk@easternstate.org
(215) 236-5111 x13