ArtsLab2014

Maryland Citizens for the Arts’ Arts Lab 2014: Customizing Arts Advocacy, 365 Days a Year

Wednesday, October 1, 2014
9:30 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.

Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts
801 Chase Street
Annapolis, MD 21401

REGISTER FOR ARTS LAB 2014 HERE! RSVP Required

Artists, administrators, volunteers and patrons all have an opportunity to engage in Arts Advcacy every day! Gather with your colleagues from around Maryland to investigate building your personal advocacy strategy for the coming year. Put your unique spin on supporting the common goal of increased public and private support for, and participation in the arts in Maryland.

In light of fall elections, a new Administration in Annapolis, and new members of the General Assembly, Presenters and Facilitators will focus on a “Back to Basics” approach to advocacy; elections will also change leadership locally. But advocacy goes beyond politics to community stakeholders too. Each situation requires a customized approach.

ArtsLAB 2014, MCA’s third annual capacity building conference for the Maryland arts sector, will focus on helping you create your individual arts advocacy appeal for the year ahead!

Join us! Be one of the first to see the newly renovated theater at Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts!

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THE URBAN ARTS LEADERSHIP PROGRAM IS NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FOR

THE 2014-2015 FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM

ABOUT THE PROGRAM:

The Urban Arts Leadership Program (UALP) diversifies and strengthens administrative leadership in cultural organizations by connecting emerging professionals to training and resources that will help position them as leaders. The Program will provide information and organizational placement that will help participants develop new and expanded skills and networks. It is open to all applicants with a particular focus on serving emerging leaders of color.

The development of UALP has been guided by community input and the participation of more than 30 administrators from partnering arts organizations. The UALP Professional Development Intensives are an immediate response to the needs of emerging arts professionals in Baltimore.

PROGRAM STRUCTURE:

  • For the 2014-15 training year, a cohort of up to ten fellows will be selected for the program.
  • Fellows will participate in up to ten weekend intensives, which will begin in October. Weekend Intensives’ topics will include, but are not limited to: Professional networking strategies; Fundraising tactics/how to write a grant; Professional etiquette; Resume/CV preparation; Team building and group dynamics; Financial literacy for individuals and organizations; Effective community engagement.
  • The following dates have already been scheduled for the UALP weekend intensives, but are subject to change. The intensives will run Fridays from 6:30pm – 9:00pm and Saturdays from 9:00am – 6:00pm:
    • October 31 – November 1, 2014
    • November 7 – November 8, 2014
    • November 14 – November 15, 2014
    • December 5 – December 6, 2014
    • December 12 – December 13, 2014
    • December 19 – December 20, 2014
    • January 9 – January 10, 2015
    • January 16 – January 17, 2015
    • January 23 – January 24, 2015
    • March 13 – March 14, 2015
  • Partnering with regional arts organizations, UALP fellows will also spend three to six months in up to two culture-based organizations working on meaningful projects that advance the work of the host organization as well as build the fellows’ professional skillset. Fellows will begin fellowship placements in Feburary 2015 and will conclude all work within organizaitons in July 2015.

IN ORDER TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR THE 2014-15 UALP PROGRAM, APPLICANTS MUST BE ABLE TO COMMIT 20 HOURS PER WEEK FOR THE DURATION OF THE PROGRAM AND BE ABLE TO ATTEND ALL WEEKEND INTENSIVES.

ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS AND APPLICATION MATERIALS FOR FELLOWSHIP APPLICANTS:

FELLOWSHIP APPLICATIONS ARE DUE AT NOON ON MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2014.

ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS AND APPLICATION MATERIALS FOR PARTNER ORGANIZATIONS:

PARTNER ORGANIZATION APPLICATIONS ARE DUE AT NOON ON WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2014.

Questions regarding 2014-15 Urban Arts Leadership Program and the 2014-15 Fellowship and/or Partner Organization applications should be directed toartsleadership@baltimoreculture.org.

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Season II of the Station North CSA is here! Purchase your share on Brown Paper tickets.

Station North Arts and Entertainment District is pleased to announce Season II of its Community Supported Art (CSA) project. Based on the same concept as Community Supported Agriculture, the Station North CSA will provide participating shareholders with the freshest art that Baltimore has to offer. We’ve assembled a jury of Station North art celebrities to select artists to produce work for the second season.

At each presentation event (see below for dates), 4 CSA artists will give short presentations on their work and shareholders will rank their preferred artists. Ranking is used to ensure that shareholders aren’t getting a box full of kale at pick-up when they’d rather have beets. These events are also an opportunity to network, mingle, and meet CSA artists.

The goal of the Station North CSA is to create an engaged community of local arts supporters by establishing relationships between gallerists and local patrons and creating an exciting new model of art support and distribution. Shareholders will each receive work from 6 of the 12 participating artists in their track; art distribution will be determined by shareholders’ preferences.

 

Each shareholder will receive 6 works of art, each created by a different artist, for $350.
Buy your share today!

SEASON II PARTICIPATING ARTISTS

IMPORTANT DATES- Season 2 (Tuesday Track)

  • 09.22.14 @ 5:00PM: Last chance to purchase shares for the Station North CSA
  • 09.30.14 @ 6:00PM: Round 1 Artist Presentations
  • 11.11.14 @ 6:00PM: Round 1 Art Pickup & Round 2 Artist Presentations
  • 12.09.14 @ 6:00PM: Round 2 Art Pickup & Round 3 Artist Presentations
  • 01.06.15 @ 6:00PM: Round 3 Art Pickup

IMPORTANT DATES- Season 2 (Wednesday Track)

  • 09.22.14 @ 5:00PM: Last chance to purchase shares for the Station North CSA
  • 10.01.14 @ 6:00PM: Round 1 Artist Presentations
  • 11.12.14 @ 6:00PM: Round 1 Art Pickup & Round 2 Artist Presentations
  • 12.10.14 @ 6:00PM: Round 2 Art Pickup & Round 3 Artist Presentations
  • 01.07.15 @ 6:00PM: Round 3 Art Pickup

Please note which track you prefer when purchasing your share.

RESOURCES

 

PURCHASE A STATION NORTH CSA SHARE

Visit stationnorthcsa.brownpapertickets.com to purchase your share today!

 

The Station North CSA is made possible through the generous support of the Robert W. Deutsch Foundation, the Warnock Foundation, and the Aaron and Lillie Straus Foundation.

 

 

 The Station North CSA has teamed up with Full Circle, a local full service imaging, printing, and fine art frame shop to provide discounted framing  packages for CSA shareholders. Email Allison Gulick, CSA Coordinator, for a full list of framing options and pricing.

The Call for Submissions for School 33′s Annual LOTTA ART benefit is now open!

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Click here for the application!
DEADLINE for registration: September 20, 2014
To learn more about the LOTTA ART event, click here!

School 33 Art Center is dedicated to providing opportunities for artists through exhibitions, art classes, workshops, a Studio Artist Program, and special events. School 33 Art Center is a program of the Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts, Inc., and is supported in part by grants from the Mayor and the City Council of Baltimore, the Maryland State Arts Council, and through private contributions to School 33 Art Center.

CALL TO BALTIMORE ARTISTS: APPLY FOR THE HOT WALLS PUBLIC ART SERIES!

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In the HOT WALLS series, Luminous Intervention aims to work with Baltimore artists to create video projected murals to be presented in Baltimore neighborhoods. All artists are welcome to apply. Using our large-scale video projection equipment, we will work with artists to turn walls or buildings into animated surfaces full of light, color and local creativity. Digital skills are a plus, but not required. We are happy to work with artists to turn non-digital visual artwork into a digital video projection.  We encourage applications from artists of any age (youth to elders and all in between).

As members of Luminous Intervention, we want to share our digital video equipment and meet other artists in Baltimore.  We have found that large-scale projections are attention grabbing and can gather people together for sharing stories, envisioning creative futures, inspiring critical discussion, and voicing concerns. We believe that the arts should reflect all of our lived experiences, not just the experiences of those connected to powerful institutions.

Luminous Intervention can offer a modest stipend to participating artists. We will also contribute our time and labor for running the projection equipment.  Artists will choose where in Baltimore to project their HOT WALLS artwork.  Artists are encouraged to project in their own neighborhoods, but that is not required.

We will accept applications on a rolling basis starting July 6, 2014.

HOT WALLS will begin presenting artists’ projections in September 2014. The simple online application can be found at http://bit.ly/hotwalls

For more information or questions, please: visit our website (http://luminousintervention.org/hot-walls)
email us (contact@luminousintervention.org) or join us for one of our Informations Sessions where you can ask us questions in person or talk to us your ideas.

Information Sessions:
Wednesday, July 23 at 7pm at the SNAED Chicken Box (corner of North Ave + Charles St)
Thursday, July 24 at 6pm at Jubilee Arts (1947 Pennsylvania Ave)
Saturday, July 26 at 2pm at School 33 Arts Center (1427 Light St)

Please check our website (http://luminousintervention.org/hot-walls) for additional locations

What the HOT WALLS might look like:
* paintings or drawings made into a digital animation or light-mural
* “movie night” with neighborhood residents, complete with popcorn
* candlelit vigils for important local figures from the past
* growing projected flowers onto an otherwise abandoned lot
* dance performances that include a projected partner
* emphasizing the importance of historical locations
* your digital, or non-digital, artwork
* poetry text, scrolling on a wall or building
* your video art scaled up to building-size

About Luminous Intervention Luminous Intervention is an artist collective that uses large-scale video projections in public spaces to highlight social and economic issues. We formed in 2012 to creatively support local and national activism, provoke critical dialogue, and interject powerful imagery onto familiar city edifices. Building facades, bridges, and other urban structures become backdrops for temporary video projections. Over the last two years, we have completed almost thirty different projections.

One of our aims is to collaborate with artists and community activist groups to support and amplify social justice messages, such as demanding fair labor practices, dismantling rape culture, banning armed drones, ending the school to prison pipeline, and creating alternatives to unfair development. We also work towards supporting neighborhood health and relationships through documenting community stories. In the past we have collaborated with the United Workers, Baltimore Redevelopment Action Coalition for Empowerment, FORCE: Upsetting Rape Culture, Communities for All Ages, Witness Against Torture, Backbone Campaign, Johns Hopkins Human Rights Working Group, and many others.

If you have questions about HOT WALLS, please contact Luminous Intervention at contact@luminousintervention.org

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Pyramid Atlantic Accepting Show Proposals: Ongoing

Submit a Proposal For A Show In Our Gallery

Interested in having a show at Pyramid Atlantic in the gallery?

Pyramid Atlantic is seeking out artists and artists collectives interested in month long shows in our fabulous gallery beginning August 1 of 2014.

Exhibits in all media and disciplines will be considered.

Pyramid Atlantic will supply event postcards and pay for wine for the reception.

Interested artists and artist collectives should email jdominguez@pyramid-atlantic.org for information on gallery fees and other proposal details.

Franz and Virginia Bader Fund Grants for Artists 2014

Bader Fund grants are intended to provide visual artists with financial assistance to allow them to concentrate on their art. Minimum award size is $15,000. In 2013, the Fund made four awards totaling $65,000.

To be eligible for consideration for an award, you must be a visual artist, work in any medium except film, video, and performance, be 40 years of age or older, and live within 150 miles of Washington, DC.

Applications must be postmarked no later than September 15, 2014.

For details and application forms: www.baderfund.org.

E-mail inquiries to grants@baderfund.org.