The Alliance of Artists Communities needs your help in letting talented yet under-recognized California visual artists know about the 2009 "Visions from the New California" residency award. Funded by The James Irvine Foundation, the purpose of this multi-year project is to identify and support highly talented, yet under-recognized artists who represent the new demographics of California. Six artists will be chosen to receive a one-month residency, to take place in 2010, at one of the six participating California residency programs, as well as an unrestricted $4000 stipend. The artists' residency experiences will later be documented in a publication designed to assist their careers and publicize the artist residency opportunities available to all artists.
Please note that there is a June 1, 2009 postmark deadline.
Please forward and circulate these materials widely.
Please note that this year interested artists can, if they prefer, APPLY ONLINE at
http://www.visionsfromthenewcalifornia.org.
We ask that you share this information with talented visual artists whom you feel would most benefit from a Visions residency. Applicants must be California residents, not students, and they must not have previously been in residence at any of the participating sites: 18th Street Arts Center, Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Exploratorium, Headlands Center for the Arts, Kala Art Institute, and the Sally and Don Lucas Artists Programs at Montalvo Arts Center. Additionally, applicants should have been awarded no more than one previous residency, have not had extensive solo exhibitions at galleries or museums, and have not received any major grants or fellowships for individual artists. While artists living and working in the San Francisco and Los Angeles metropolitan areas are eligible, we are especially interested in identifying artists from other parts of California. If there is a particular artist whom you feel should receive an individual invitation to apply from us, kindly provide us with his or her name and contact information, and we will gladly do that. This multi-year project will have lasting effects on the participating artists as well as the residency programs, which will be better equipped to reach out and serve previously untapped artistic talent. We hope that
you will embrace this opportunity to help us recognize and assist a number of talented artists.
Thank you for your help!
Sincerely,
Russ Smith Development & Program Manager Alliance of Artists Communities
255 South Main Street Providence, RI 02903 401.351.4320 401.351.4507 (fax) rsmith@artistcommunities.org www.artistcommunities.org
LAUSD and the Arts
The Los Angeles Unified School District recognizes that education in the arts make a unique and vital contribution to a child*s cognitive development. Therefore the District is committed to providing all students with opportunities to attain a substantive education in the visual and performing arts at all grade levels, an education that will prepare them to create, collaborate, problem solve, perform, and appreciate works of art.
On July 22, 1999, the Los Angeles Unified School District*s Board of Education unanimously passed a resolution to commence a 10-year effort to establish arts for all students, at all grade levels, in all schools, in all four art forms. To accomplish this goal, LAUSD*s Arts Education Branch began Arts Program Schools (APS) at the elementary level. In the first eight years of the program the number of schools participating has grown from 54 to 392 and it is projected that by 2010 all elementary schools in the District will have the opportunity to participate in the APS project.
In the 2007 - 2008 school year the Arts Education Branch launched a new project at the middle school level to meet the needs of middle and high school arts teachers. The Arts Bridging Teacher Project assigns various visual and performing arts teachers to feeder schools in order to build enrollment and experience in individual art forms .
In addition to the four arts content areas mentioned above, Dance, Music, Theatre and Visual Art, the Los Angeles Unified School District, Arts Education Branch (AEB) seeks to establish and support Media Arts as a fifth standards-based Arts Content discipline. Media Arts are an art form comprising of a range of creative and expressive uses of media and communications technologies, including, but not limited to , digital imaging, graphic and web design, video/film production, television, digital music, video gaming, mobile devices and interactive media.
Work has begun on the next 10-year District Arts Education Plan. The second 10-year plan must extend the critical and necessary components of a well-rounded, dynamic and rich arts education and will focus on a K - 12 continuous and articulated curriculum. The Los Angeles Unified School District recognize that the Arts programs benefit students from the entire spectrum of educational programs and demographics, including special education, at-risk, GATE, and English Learners. LAUSD further understands that the Arts, (all five) increase student engagement, empower students' creative voices, and promote active participation in an increasingly networked world.
On July 22, 1999, the Los Angeles Unified School District*s Board of Education unanimously passed a resolution to commence a 10-year effort to establish arts for all students, at all grade levels, in all schools, in all four art forms. To accomplish this goal, LAUSD*s Arts Education Branch began Arts Program Schools (APS) at the elementary level. In the first eight years of the program the number of schools participating has grown from 54 to 392 and it is projected that by 2010 all elementary schools in the District will have the opportunity to participate in the APS project.
In the 2007 - 2008 school year the Arts Education Branch launched a new project at the middle school level to meet the needs of middle and high school arts teachers. The Arts Bridging Teacher Project assigns various visual and performing arts teachers to feeder schools in order to build enrollment and experience in individual art forms .
In addition to the four arts content areas mentioned above, Dance, Music, Theatre and Visual Art, the Los Angeles Unified School District, Arts Education Branch (AEB) seeks to establish and support Media Arts as a fifth standards-based Arts Content discipline. Media Arts are an art form comprising of a range of creative and expressive uses of media and communications technologies, including, but not limited to , digital imaging, graphic and web design, video/film production, television, digital music, video gaming, mobile devices and interactive media.
Work has begun on the next 10-year District Arts Education Plan. The second 10-year plan must extend the critical and necessary components of a well-rounded, dynamic and rich arts education and will focus on a K - 12 continuous and articulated curriculum. The Los Angeles Unified School District recognize that the Arts programs benefit students from the entire spectrum of educational programs and demographics, including special education, at-risk, GATE, and English Learners. LAUSD further understands that the Arts, (all five) increase student engagement, empower students' creative voices, and promote active participation in an increasingly networked world.
Thursday, March 26, 2009
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