2011 Grant Cycle

In 2010 Harpo Foundation initiated a thematic focus to explore the relationship between art and site in a dematerializing world. (2010 funding focus) The 12 projects that received Harpo Foundation´s support are addressing this theme in various ways. Several evoke the tension between global dynamics and hyper-locality. Others seek to stimulate local activation by investing in a community´s sense of place. A few quietly translate the existential experience of place while others draw on a locale´s unique history as a springboard for the work. For more detailed descriptions about these funded projects, visit the Past Grant Recipients section of our website.

Harpo Foundation will continue this thematic focus in 2011 but with a renewed emphasis on projects that directly address the interchange and dialogue between the existential and the virtual. Wanting to expand our understanding of the role each play in contemporary life, artistic projects that grapple with the dialectic between the non-locality of the digital world and the existential physicality of our everyday environment will be considered first. Projects that put these two worlds into dialogue with each other, so as to comment upon each other and allow the qualities of each experience to be illuminated, are of specific interest to the Foundation.

harpofoundation 3851 Kumquat Avenue, Coconut Grove, FL 33133 305.442.8242 [T] 305.447.0624 [F] info@harpofoundation.org

harpofoundation.org/grants.html

Intervention in the public space

Within the framework of the project Ceci n’est pas une voiture. Nomadic devices loom around the museum,Idensitat, CanXalant. Centre de Creació i Pensament Contemporani de Mataró and ACVic Centre d’Arts Contemporànies launch an open call for ideas to develop two projects of intervention in the public spaces ofMataró and Vic.

The project Ceci n’est pas une voiture. Nomadic devices loom around the museum is born as a documentation and reflection exercise on the construction of mobile devices as elements of an expanded concept of the Museum or going as far as being an alternative to it. It is a research project that aims at cataloguing and reflecting on those projects which, circulating in the public space, challenge the conventional notion of the Museum and reformulate instead the functions of the exhibition display as a nomadic platform nurturing direct and self-managed participation, development of social research and dissemination of educational experiences. The project is carried out as a series of activities each of which is designed as a Parking episode. Parking 01, the first of this series, was developed and presented in Can Xalant in July 2010. The project as a whole is a build up of successive Parkings to be carried out throughout 2011. A more detailed definition of the project can be found on the following websites:
idensitat.net - canxalant.org – acvic.org

Wattis Internships

A Wattis Institute internship represents a unique opportunity to experience a contemporary arts institution firsthand.

Working directly with the curatorial team on implementing the institute's exhibition program, interns are involved in a wide range of tasks, from the initial artist research to helping with the opening reception. Tasks vary from project to project and depend on the stage of each exhibition.

Time Period

There is no set application deadline for an internship, and inquiries are welcome throughout the year. However, we offer internships roughly coinciding with each academic term (January to May and September to December) and over the summer (June through August).

The internships are designed to cover a three-month period, with a minimum commitment of three days per week.

Requirements

Applicants must have a good understanding of art history and, preferably, be enrolled or have graduated from an art historical, visual arts, or curatorial degree program.

Applicants need to be flexible, willing to take on a range of tasks and actively participate in the institute's day-to-day activities. Projects are assigned according to the institute's changing needs and the skills and interests of each intern.

Basic computing skills (Mac OS, Word, Excel, and email) are required.

Academic Credit

This is an unpaid internship and no stipends are available, although academic credit may be available. Please contact Sue Ellen Stone at 415.551.9202 or sstone@cca.edu for more information.

Application

To apply for an internship, please send a resume with a cover letter to Sue Ellen Stone at sstone@cca.edu or CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, California College of the Arts, 1111 Eighth Street, San Francisco CA 94107.

www.wattis.org/about/internships.php

HOME...is where the camera is

Home. We photograph our houses, our yards, our children, our friends, our celebrations, our anxieties. And we move beyond ourselves to photograph homes of others--strangers, as well as people we know. Home is where the camera is, and it's where we use it to record our lives and the lives of others. PhotoPlace Gallery is honored that esteemed photographer Julie Blackmon will act as juror for this exhibition on the theme of "Home." She will choose forty photographs for exhibition at PhotoPlace Gallery from March 1st through March 26th, 2011. She will also choose an additional thirty-five photographs of these subjects for the gallery’s “On-Line Annex.” All selected work will be included in a full-color exhibition catalogue available for purchase. To help artists defray costs, PhotoPlace Gallery offers to mat and frame work selected for exhibition free of charge, providing artists print their images to our pre-cut mat and frame sizes.

Julie Blackmon is known for her photographs of home and family that underscore moments of contemporary life while also drawing on art historical traditions of seventeenth-century Dutch genre painting. Her photographs have appeared on magazine covers and won prestigious awards, including the 2006 Critical Mass Book Award for "Domestic Vacations," named one of PDN's top 30 photographers in 2007 and American Photo's Emerging Photographer of 2008.

www.vtphotoworkplace.com/id100.html

The New York Foundation for the Arts

Great opportunities for fellowships, internships, residencies and call for entries in the US and Europe. It is constantly updated. Right now deadlines are January 31st

http://www.nyfa.org/nyfa_current_detail.asp?id=17&fid=1&curid=884

Global Museum

There are several opportunities under the section Museum Jobs including internships, curatorial fellowships and also opportunities in the fields of public relations and management in museums.

http://www.globalmuseum.org/

The Summer Institute in Art Museum Studies at Smith College

The Summer Institute in Art Museum studies is a co-educational program designed especially for college undergrads and for recent recipients of the B.A. degree who have not yet enrolled in graduate school. The six-week program is based on the Smith College campus, in Northampton, Massachusetts, and associated with the Smith College Museum of Art. Enrollment is limited to fifteen participants. A certificate will be awarded to all who complete the program successfully.

Dates for the 2011 session are June 12-July 22. The application deadline is March 11, 2011. Generous financial aid in the form of full and partial scholarships is available for students with need.

http://www.smith.edu/siams/

ARTstor Travel Awards 2011

While the digital age is opening up new ways of using images of the world's cultural heritage in teaching and scholarship, there is no substitute for engaging with original works and sites or primary source material, or for attending conferences with colleagues. In recognition of this need, ARTstor is providing five travel awards in the amount of $1,500 each (to be used by December 31, 2012) to help support the educational and scholarly activities—such as flying to a conference—of graduate students, scholars, curators, educators, and librarians in any field.


To be considered for an award, applicants must create and submit an ARTstor image group (or a series of image groups) and a single accompanying essay that creatively and compellingly demonstrates why the image group(s) is useful for teaching, research, or scholarship. These submissions will help us better understand the uses that scholars and teachers are making of the ARTstor Digital Library's content and tools and will provide insight into how we can better serve the educational community. The five winning submissions will be determined by ARTstor staff. Please note that this award is not intended to sponsor new photography for the ARTstor Digital Library.


Deadline for entries: 11:59 PM EDT March 15, 2011;
Winners announced: May 1, 2011;
Awards will be made by: May 15, 2011


more information

Rijksakademie

The Rijksakademie Residency in Amsterdam is an international place of research and production for emerging professional artists from all over the world. Resident artists work in an individual studio for one to two years on research, experiment, projects and production. Next to technical facilities there are a library and an artists' documentation centre. The Rijksakademie also organizes the Prix de Rome, manages historical and contemporary collections and makes them accessible by way of publications and presentations.

On November 27 and 28 the Rijksakademie is OPEN.

During RijksakademieOPEN 2010 more than 50 artists will show their work.

Please visit www.rijksakademieOPEN.nl for more information.

The Rijksakademie has fifty-five studios. Annually, approximately half of these become available for new residents. For more information and for the online application form: www.rijksakademie.nl. One can apply for the residency 2012 between December 1, 2010 and February 1, 2011.

Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten

Sarphatistraat 470

1018 GW Amsterdam

The Netherlands

www.rijksakademie.nl

www.rijksakademieopen.nl

Berlin Biennale

Within the framework of the 7th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art in 2012, curated by Artur Żmijewski, artists from all over the world are requested to send in their artist material for a research investigation, following the conditions below.

We accept artistic material in hard copy formats not bigger than A3 (297 x 420 mm or 11.69 x 16.54 in.), printed images, digital data, as well as DVDs.

PDFs in A4 (297 mm x 210 mm or 11.7 x 8.3 inches) or fax will also be accepted.

Please do not send any original artworks.

We welcome all possible languages of your artistic comments and explanations. However there should equally be an English version.

As the research also focuses on the question whether artists consider themselves to be political, please inform us about your political inclination (e.g. rightist, leftist, liberal, nationalist, anarchist, feminist, masculinist, or whatever you identify yourself with) or whether you are not interested in politics at all.

Please send your artistic statement or presentation as a hardcopy via regular mail, via e-mail or fax to the following address or number before January 15, 2011:

Berlin Biennale

– Open Call –

KW Institute for Contemporary Art

Auguststr. 69

10117 Berlin/Germany

www.berlinbiennale.de

2nd edition The Jacob Riis Award

The Worldwide Photography Gala Awards organize the second edition of THE JACOB RIIS AWARD (named after the Danish-American photographer, 1849-1914) benefiting Save the Children Foundation. It will focus in portfolios (minimum of 8 and maximum of 12 images) inviting photographers working in all mediums, styles and schools of thought. Traditional, contemporary, avant-garde, creative and experimental works that include old and new processes, mixed techniques, and challenging personal, emotional or political statements will be welcome.

The Award is open worldwide to all professional and amateur photographers working with digital or traditional photography or combinations of both. There is no theme for this Award, and the images will be evaluated as a cohesive body of work (a theme or images representing the artistic trajectory of the photographer), rather than individual images.

The Jakob Riis Award

Second Edition of The Julia Margaret Cameron Award

The Worldwide Photography Gala Awards (WPGA), with the sponsorship of Save the Children and ZOOM Magazine invites women photographers worldwide to submit images to the Second Edition of The Julia Margaret Cameron Award.

The winner images will be published in ZOOM Magazine. As in other contests organized by WPGA who partner with Save the Children, sales of works in exhibitions will be donated to that humanitarian organization.

WPGA will be inviting in this occasion photographers working in all mediums, styles and schools of thought. Traditional, contemporary, avant-garde, creative and experimental works that include old and new processes, mixed techniques, and challenging personal, emotional or political statements will be welcome.

The Julia Margaret Cameron Award

If you’re ready to submit click HERE or go to page Submit

Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts

Call for Entries 2011: Artist Residencies

Artists who are awarded a month-long residency at the Saltonstall Arts Colony are given time, space, and support for their own creative research. As visual artist, Edith Isaac Rose said, "the spacious, comfortable live/work quarters are perfect. The size of the group was perfect. Our particular group formed a community very quickly....when I think of the Saltonstall, I think of a place I came to and didn't want to leave."

In 2011 there will be 4 month-long sessions, beginning in May and running through September. Artists are chosen by a panel of jurors for each dicipline, and scheduled for one of the 4 sessions.

The categories for 2011 are as follows:
Painting/Sculpture/Visual Art
Photography
Fiction
Creative Non-Fiction

All visual and literary artists are invited to apply for the month-long Summer Residencices at the Saltonstall Arts Colony, located in the heart of the Finger Lakes region of New York State. For each of the four sessions, five artists are chosen to be in residence; one photographer, two visual artists, and two literary artists. Each artist has a private apartment and bath with ample work space. There are two large, well-lit studios for the visual artists and a black/white darkroom for the photographer.

The postmark deadline for application is January 15, 2011.

Please visit www.saltonstall.org for more detailed information about the Saltonstall Foundation, the Summer Residency Program and Saltonstall Arts Colony.

Saltonstall Arts Colony

The Saltonstall Arts Colony is situated on 198 acres. Although just minutes from downtown Ithaca, we are surrounded by fields and woods, offering the artist a quiet studio in a beautiful setting, and the time to let the creative process unfold. Past residents have said the Saltonstall Arts Colony provides one of the best residency experiences in the country. Since its inception in 1995, this small but singular colony has provided time and space for more than 200 outstanding photographers, writers, poets, biographers, sculptors, painters, and visual artists. For them, the Saltonstall experience has been invaluable.

Especially in these times of great economic uncertainty we continue to say to the artists of New York State, "Come here, be fed and housed, walk our beautiful fields and woods, and perhaps, because of this, something you produce will touch and enhance the lives of others in a profound or significant way."

The Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts

Before Connie Saltonstall died in 1994, she hoped that this place, her home, where she had found so much peace and inspiration, would would become a retreat where artists and writers could live and work. The results of Connie's gift have been astounding and continue to multiply. The 200-acre property has seen the comings and goings of many artists with an extraordinary commitment to their work. The creative spirit that infuses this place has profoundly influenced many. As we continue into our second decade, we strive to serve future generations of writers, visual artists and photographers.

For more information go to www.saltonstall.org
Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts | 435 Ellis Hollow Creek Road | Ithaca, NY 14850 | (607) 539-3146