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Call for Artists

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    Ephemerality
    Posted by:  Zoe Cohen, zcohen@schuylkillcenter.org
    Deadline:  August 29, 2008
    Ephemerality is an experimental gallery exhibition at the Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education, a 350- acre land preserve in Philadelphia, PA. Artists will be selected to create temporary artworks with natural materials on the grounds of the Schuylkill Center. The artworks created will last no more than 24 hours, and the installation, sculpture, intervention, or event created will be documented by the artist using photography or video, and text. The visual and written documentation will comprise the gallery exhibition. Visual artists of all disciplines are invited to apply, and collaborative or collective entries are welcome.
    Location:  8480 Hagy's Mill Rd, Philadelphia, PA 19128
    Web link:  http://www.schuylkillcenter.org/departments/art

    The Art of Action: Shaping Vermont's Future Through Art
    jzwick@vermontartscouncil.org
    Deadline:  August 28, 2008
    VISIONARIES WANTED! "The Art of Action: Shaping Vermont's Future Through Art". What's your vision of Vermont? The Vermont Arts Council, in collaboration with entrepreneur and philanthropist Lyman Orton, is commissioning two-dimensional works of art that articulate Vermont's social, political, environmental, and economic future and inspire people to take action.

    Ten artists will receive commissions ranging from $10,000 to $40,000 (average will be $25,000). Visual artists who are U.S. citizens and at least 18 years of age are eligible to apply. For more information visit http://www.vermontartscouncil.org. The complete RFQ and application information can be found at http://www.callforentry.org.
    Web link:  http://www.vermontartscouncil.org

    Penn State Architecture and Landscape Architecture Library
    Deadline:  August 29, 2008
    The Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts seeks to commission a unique work of art in any permanent media on behalf of the Pennsylvania State University for the Architecture and Landscape Architecture Library in the Stuckeman Family Building on Penn State's University Park campus. The work will respond to the values embodied in Penn State's new Stuckeman Family Building for the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture. The commission will be worth $33,000 to the selected artist.
    Location:  State College, PA, US
    Web link:  http://www.callforentry.org

    Last Call for Body/Landscape Workshop on Inis Oirr
    seamusd62@eircom.net
    Deadline:  August 29, 2008
    Last call for intensive 7-day workshop on Inis Oirr with Frank van de Ven. The workshop proposes strategies to confront our bodies with the multiplicity, unpredictability, directness and autonomy of the natural environment and to develop consciousness of the body as an ever evolving landscape within a greater surrounding landscape.

    Programme includes MB (mind/body, muscles/bones) dance training, practice of and reflection on physical and mental training, walking and wandering, silent walk, pilgrimage and nocturnal journeys and various modes of experiencing body, movement and landscape. Course runs from 14 to 20 September 2008. Applications to Frank van de Ven, Body Weather Amsterdam: E: frank.bwa@xs4all.nl Further information available from Seamus Dunbar at: E: seamusd62@eircom.net.
    Location:  Inis Oirr, Ireland

    Seeking a Green Video Blogger
    Posted by:  Samantha Rose, samantha@theorganicmechanic.org
    Are you creative? Has anyone ever said you're entrepreneurial? Do you love being in front of a camera? Do you think you're capable of reporting the news? Do you like to browse YouTube? Have you ever watched Jon Stewart's The Daily Show? Have you seen Rocketboom with Joanne Colan? If the answers to all of these questions were yes, then I might have the perfect OM position for you. We are searching for a creative, imaginative, entrepreneurial individual!

    The Video Blog Editor will be responsible for posting each of their blogs via video. You'll be required to own your own equipment and have knowledge and experience using Imovie or Windows Movie Maker. The Video Blog Editor will be responsible for locating guest bloggers, reaching out to local "green" business owners, activists, politicians, completing product reviews, or just doing general green blogging via video so that our blog is more personal.

    Ideally, we would love for this blogger to reside in a large city such as New York, Los Angeles, Miami, San Francisco, etc. This individual would be required to maintain the Organic Mechanic's YouTube page, while also posting their 10 videos to the blog. Eventually we would want this individual to produce podcasts.
    Web link:  http://www.theorganicmechanic.org/

    Mullingar Arts Centre: Call for Submissions
    mac@westmeathcoco.ie
    Deadline:  September 1, 2008
    The Mullingar Arts Centre is now accepting proposals for its 2008 - 2009 Gallery Programme. Proposals are especially welcome from established artists and from graduates seeking group shows. Group submissions are also welcome from established artists. Interested parties should include in their proposals: Slides / Photographs/CD of recent work Details about the proposed exhibition. C.V. of the artist and a biography/artists statement. Proposals should be marked Gallery Submissions September 2008 - July 2008. Closing date for proposals is September 2008.
    Location:  Maeve Murray (Gallery Supervisor), Market House Gallery, Market Square, Mullingar, CO. Westmeath, Ireland.
    Web link:  http://www.mullingarartscentre.ie/index.asp

    University of Maryland Interplay Sculpture Competition
    publicart@umd.edu
    Deadline:  September 2, 2008
    The University of Maryland Public Art Project announces a national competition called INTERPLAY. Interplay blends several objectives: to create a dynamic environment for public and social engagement, to serve as a contemplative place for individuals to experience contemporary art, and to embrace the scholarly spirit of a distinguished institution of higher education and research. Requests for Qualifications are invited from experienced artists or artist/design teams, to develop a site-specific public artworks for the University of Maryland. The work will be part of the renovation of a courtyard in proximity to the university's visual art and humanities buildings. Three individual projects will be considered, or a design that negotiates the entire space as one concept. The total budget for the project is $450,000 including all fees and associated costs.
    Location:  College Park, MD, US
    Web link:  http://www.publicart.umd.edu

    "Green" Exhibition at Haven Arts Gallery
    Posted by:  Carol Zakaluk, 718-585-5753, carol@havenarts.org
    Deadline:  September 13, 2008
    Haven Arts is putting together an exhibition of eco-art in its Gallery 2 space (17' x 33'), to run October 17 to October 25, 2008. Please send up to 10 jpegs of works you'd like to submit to carol@havenarts.org. Please let us know title, size, media, date, price, and your complete contact information. Depending on the number of responses, we will show several pieces by each of 5 or 6 artists, or one each from 30 or 35 artists.

    Haven will circulate a press release, invite 1000 on our email list, and provide an opening reception on October 17, Friday, from 5 to 9pm. We will also host an evening with speakers Lori Bongiorno (author of "Green, Greener, Greenest," and Eugene Linden (author of "The Winds of Change -- Climate, Weather, and the Destruction of Civilizations" one evening during the exhibit, date TBD.

    There is no fee for submission. If we sell your work, Haven Arts will keep 50%, with 50% going to the artist. Feel free to call with questions, at Haven Arts Sat and Sun from noon to 6. The gallery is open noon to 6 daily.

    Location:  Haven Arts, 50 Bruckner Blvd. Bldg. A, Bronx, NY 10454, US
    Web link:  http://www.havenarts.org/

    King County, WA + Site Specific Program
    Charlie.rathbun@4culture.org
    Deadline:  September 15, 2008
    Guidelines and applications for 4Culture's 2009 SITE-SPECIFIC program are currently available online. While all concepts will be considered for funding, SITE-SPECIFIC and Arts 4Culture especially welcome projects that commemorate the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition Centennial. Through historical themes, events and locations artists may consider proposals that enliven or reinterpret King County history and/or the future of King County for the next 100 years.

    SITE-SPECIFIC/2009 King County Performance Network will seek to connect local artists and arts organizations with heritage experts, organizations and local history. Join SITE-SPECIFIC in exploring our history, or help to create a vision for our future through theater, music and art installation in communities throughout King County.
    Location:  101 Prefontaine Place South , Seattle, WA 98104, US
    Web link:  http://www.sitespecificarts.org/

    Flax International Residency: Call for Submissions
    flaxartstudios@googlemail.com
    Deadline:  September 15, 2008
    Open call to all artists living beyond Ireland and the UK. Flax Art Studios offers three 2-month residencies at their studio complex in the heart of Belfast's cathedral Quarter. We accommodate international residents in the Flax house, located in a quiet street off the Antrim Road in North Belfast, a twenty-minute walk from the studios.

    The residency programme runs from 1 April 2009 to 31 March 2010. Successful applicants will receive a studio, accommodation and a GBP500 monthly stipend for materials and day-to-day living. To apply please submit a single-page proposal, CV and up to ten examples of your work. Proposals due 10 a.m. on September 15th.
    Location:  Brendan Jamison, Programme Coordinator, Flax Art Studios, United Optical, 44-46 Corporation Street, Belfast, BT1 3DE, Northern Ireland
    Web link:  http://www.flaxartstudios.org/

    Project Opportunity in Utah
    Posted by:  Jim GlennDeadline:  September 25, 2008
    Letters of interest and qualifications are requested from artists interested in creating art for the public spaces of this new Utah State multi-agency facility housing two State agencies - The Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) and the Department of Human Services (DHS) in Salt Lake City, Utah.

    DHS serves a particularly vulnerable segment of society, where the difficulties of human experience play out in a public policy stage. The work of DEQ to protect Utah's environment benefits all citizens by preserving essential elements of air, water and land. Art that incorporates these themes into the work will be well suited for a building housing these agencies. Budget $355,000 - Deadline: September 25, 2008. More information available on the website, follow the "commissions" link, or call 801-533-3586.
    Location:  Jim Glenn, Utah Public & Design Arts, 617 East South Temple, Salt Lake City, UT 84102, US
    Web link:  http://www.utahpublicart.org/

    Call for Eco-Artists: Earth's Journey
    earthsjourneyts@yahoo.com
    Earth's Journey is about to launch their website dedicated to environmentally friendly artisans and crafters. Artists using materials that are eco-friendly, recycled and/or up-cycled will have an opportunity to show their own "exhibit" online, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Tina Santillo, President of Earth's Journey stated, "We are very confident that Earth's Journey will do for eco-art what Ebay has done for auctions. Our mission is to provide an online environment where eco-artists can display their work without the limitations of a traditional gallery.
    Web link:  http://www.earths-journey.com/

    Eyes on the Planet - Photo Contest
    info@eyesontheplanet.org
    Deadline:  September 30, 2008
    "Eyes on the planet" photo Contest wants to alert the youth and the public opinion to the most current social-environmental emergencies, in order to testify the big changes of our planet. The objective of the Contest is double: on one hand, the promotion of the environmental sensitiveness through an evocative, emotional and high-potential instrument, as photography, which is more and more in vogue among youth, on the other hand, the creation of an opportunity of visibility and education for future photographers.

    The Contest is open to all Italian and foreign photographers, professional and not, who are between 18 and 35 years of age. In order to participate, it is necessary to be registered on the following website: www.eyesontheplanet.org and accept the present regulation with the disclaimer regarding the use of the photos. The participation in the Contest is free, there are no registration fees.

    A panel made up of 13 famous photographers and outstanding people from institutions and media will evaluate the pictures: the winners will be awarded products offered by sponsors, workshop and grant for professional or recreational training courses. In addition, web users can vote for the pictures: their preferences will generate a result list parallel to the official one. The winners will be announced and awarded on occasion of an event in Milan in November 2008.
    Web link:  http://www.eyesontheplanet.org/

    GULBENKIAN FOUNDATION: CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
    info@gulbenkian.org.uk
    Deadline:  October 10, 2008
    The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation supports projects which are genuinely original in their field. It has a number of different programmes, including an arts theme which supports professional artists and arts organisations, usually at an early research and development stage. The Arts in Public Spaces: This will be the third and final year of this programme and, although existing commitments to a few projects in urban areas will be honoured, those in rural areas will be prioritised.

    They particularly welcome applications from Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. The programme offers early research and development support for activities leading to especially imaginative and unusual projects devised for rural areas, to be eventually presented in non-conventional locations. The aim is to support high quality art, which may be created by international artists, including Portuguese artists, in projects which are well-facilitated, in order to involve and inspire people living locally. Partnerships with strategic locally based agencies are of particular interest. Deadline: May 23rd (for July meeting); October 10th (for November meeting). Further details about this and other programme of the Foundation on the website.
    Location:  Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (UK Branch), 98 Portland Place, London W1B 1ET , GB
    Web link:  http://www.gulbenkian.org.uk/

    Natural and Artificial Light - Artists Pool
    rtwedt@ci.palm-desert.ca.us
    Deadline:  October 10, 2008
    The City of Palm Desert's Art in Public Places Commission would like to develop a pool of artists for a project titled: "Embracing the Desert Light" and other potential projects that utilize light as the primary medium. Qualified artists should have experience in creating artworks that incorporate natural light during daylight hours and subdued artificial or reflected light at night. Artists that have previously worked with solar, LEDs, lasers, light reflective materials, materials that transmit light, any other materials that can utilize light, or any combination of them are highly desirable. Due to the harsh desert environment, qualified artists should have experience in working with materials that can withstand the climatic conditions.

    The Commission is particularly interested in vertical artworks that utilize some or all above components in pieces that can be sequential or multiple with a common design(s) and a small footprint of three to four feet for each piece. The entire array of the pieces can esthetically function as one piece over a course of a one half mile.
    Location:  City of Palm Desert, US

    The Efest Trash to Treasures Eco-Art Contest
    Deadline:  October 15, 2008
    The Efest Trash to Treasures Eco-Art Contest is an exciting and unique opportunity to have fun while promoting environmental awareness. The Efest Eco-Art Contest is an opportunity for artists and art organizations to inspire people about the potential of recycling and conservation, said Catherine Seress, one of the Eco-Art Contest coordinators for Efest 2008. The other coordinators include Rick Hughes with AnythingArts.com and Jesse White with Sarasota Architectural Salvage. Individual artists, art organizations or other groups must register before 5pm EST on October 15.

    Special prizes will be presented at 4pm on Sunday, November 16 to a first-prize winner in two categories: individual artist and group submission. Honorable mention prizes may also be presented by the three judges from the area's art community. The contest is open to everyone including experienced and aspiring artists or all ages and backgrounds. A People's Choice Award will also be presented to the entry voted most popular by participating visitors to Efest 2008. Visit website for entry details.
    Location:  Sarasota, FL, US
    Web link:  http://www.efest.us/php/EcoArt.php

    Project Greengrief
    ELandFGallery@yahoo.com
    Help Wanted: Mourner Mourner Wanted to grieve for loss by demolition of irreplaceable historical/cultural and architecturally unique block in downtown Lexington Kentucky(the Dame block),to apologize for our culture's sad lust for profit and to offer prayers of healing and hope. Mourner is asked to articulate these expectations for one hour during a weekday in August/September 2008. Honorarium: $100.00 To apply: No more than 100 words on what mourning means to you and why you would like to mourn for the loss of this cherished block. Applications/information by email only
    Location:  Lexington, Kentucky, US

    Stone Quarry Hill Art Park
    office@stonequarryhillartpark.org
    Deadline:  September 15, 2008
    The Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, a 104 acre Art Park, nature preserve, artist residency, and gallery, located in Cazenovia NY, has openings for six artist residencies for 2009. Open to all visual artists, writers, and poets, at least 21 years of age from emerging to established in their careers, interested in creating works relating to The Art Park's art in the landscape theme, as well as their own artistic development. Residency at the artist's lodge is free; artists provide their own food, materials and transportation. The Art Park is open 365 days a year and residencies are available spring, summer and fall.

    There is a $35.00 application fee that includes a one year membership to The Art Park.Applicants are encouraged to study The Art Park website in order to understand The Art Park's mission and the resources available. At this time The Art Park is not providing stipends or other financial assistance to visiting artists. Deadlines: Early applications are due September 15, 2008, Second round is due November 15, 2008.
    Location:  P.O. Box 251 , Cazenovia, NY 13035, US
    Web link:  http://www.stonequarryhillartpark.org

    ReUse/Eco Artist - Exhibition Opportunity
    natalukas@yahoo.com
    BRING Recycling, a Eugene, Oregon non-profit has established a gallery to highlight the creative efforts of artists that aim to improve our relationship with the natural world through the use of reclaimed and natural materials and by addressing pressing environmental issues in their art.

    We are currently seeking artist proposals for an exhibition in our new gallery space. We are looking for artists who are working with recycled and/or natural materials, and/or address environmental/sustainability issues in their art. (If you do both all the better!) We are looking to fill our 2008 exhibition calendar and will be doing both group and solo shows. If your art fits this description then send us some images with descriptions and/or a link to your website if you have one.
    Location:  BRING Recycling, Attn: Gallery Managers, P.O. Box 885 , Eugene, OR 97440-0885, US
    Web link:  http://www.bringrecycling.org/

    Leonardo Call for Papers, Artist's Statements, and Book Proposals on Nanotechnology, Nanoscale Science and Art
    leonardomanuscripts@gmail.com
    Leonardo, in collaboration with the Exploratorium under the auspices of the Nanoscale Informal Science Education Network, has begun publishing work exploring the intersections of nanotech/science and art. Manuscripts or artist's statements can be submitted for publication in Leonardo or in Transactions, a section of the printed Leonardo journal that publishes camera-ready manuscripts for rapid publication. Guest Editors: Tom Rockwell and Tami I. Spector.

    Interested artists and authors are invited to send proposals, queries and/or manuscripts to the Leonardo editorial office. We are especially seeking: Visual Artist's statements explaining the relationship of their work to nanotech/science; Manuscripts or artist's statements involving sound and tactile art works; Manuscripts from scientists, engineers and scholars exploring the connection between nanotech/science and art; Manuscripts and visuals aimed towards nanotech/science education that uses the arts as a pedagogical tool.
    Location:  Leonardo, 211 Sutter St, suite #501, , San Francisco, CA 94108, US
    Web link:  http://leonardo.info/isast/journal/call.html

    Seeking Artworks for Washington Department of Ecology Headquarters Building
    Posted by:  Jeffree Stewart, jste461@ecy.wa.gov
    The Art In Ecology program offers ongoing opportunities for northwest, USA artists to exhibit their work in two galleries and a variety of large, light-filled, and spacious public setting fitted with professional quality hardware and lighting systems. The work will be seen by over 1300 employees and countless visitors. Announcements for the show are published regionally. Artwork with some relation to the environment, natural or social is encouraged. Proposals for shows are reviewed as they are tendered. Interested artists are encouraged to schedule a tour of the facility. No commissioning funds available or commission fees taken. Listing courtesy of 4Culture.
    Location:  Lacey, WA

    Lake: A Journal of Arts and Environment
    Posted by:  Editors: Nancy Holmes and Sharon Thesen, lake.journal@ubc.ca
    "Art needs nature" has always been true. From the cave paintings of Lascaux to Wordsworth's "A motion and a spirit" in "Tintern Abbey," from Han Shan's perch on Cold Mountain to Georgia O'Keefe's flowers and bones, nature has been the prolific and unending source of inspiration, metaphor and materials. But today, we live in a time of growing concern about environmental degradation and destructive climate change. These are not abstract issues. They will alter the way we live in unimaginable - or all too imaginable - ways. Environmentalists, the scientific community, and an increasingly interested popular media have been focusing attention on this crisis, but recently, the role of art and writing in relation to ecological issues has been gaining ground. Artists are rising to the challenge of ecological crisis with creativity, energy, and imagination. Now, it seems that "Nature needs art" as much as art needs nature.

    Eco-critical art and writing are bridging the conventional gap between artistic imagination and scientific inquiry. An eco-critical perspective reminds us of our dependence on the integrity of the natural world for our health, welfare, and sanity. Lake: a journal of arts and environment has been established as a showcase for this perspective.

    Housed in the UBC Okanagan Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies, Lake will publish contemporary writing and visual art that engage with ecological issues and representations in provocative, entertaining, and beautiful ways. Striking reproductions of artworks, interviews, stories, poems, reviews, and creative nonfiction will be published in every issue. Lake will provide a space in which ideas and insights can jostle and critique one another, where questions can be asked and new visions articulated.
    Location:  Dept. of Creative Studies, University of British Columbia Okanagan, 3333 University Way, Kelowna BC, V1V 1V7, Canada
    Web link:  http://www.lakejournal.ca/

    Join the Whale of a Time Community!
    Posted by:  Irene Schleining, info@whaleofatime.org
    In the Whale of a Time Community are artists from many backgrounds including art, music, film and documentary, photography, writing and poetry. You can create your personal profile and upload your biography and artwork and share your inspirations with the world - send us an email to artists@whaleofatime.org Leave comments in the forum and read news in our blog! We organise gigs, exhibitions, parties where Whale of a Time Artists can showcase their talent. Join the Whale of a Time Community today and become a Whale of a Time Artist and get your message through!

    Whale of a Time exists to enrich our global culture with the spirit of nature, to achieve cultural change and build on a beautiful relationship with our environment.
    Location:  Online!
    Web link:  http://www.whaleofatime.org/

    The Morton Arboretum Outdoor Sculpture Exhibits
    Anamari Golf, agolf@mortonarb.org
    The Morton Arboretum, 25 miles west of Chicago, is seeking large-scale outdoor sculpture exhibits beginning in 2009. We encourage inquiries from artists whose work relates to our core themes--trees, shrubs, natural habitats, and the creatures that inhabit them in the upper Midwest.
    Location:  Lisle, IL

 

Funding

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    The Reclamation Project
    Posted by:  Fernando Bretos, 305-646-4200, fbretos@miamisci.org
    The Reclamation Project explores our ability to coexist with the natural world by focusing on the importance of mangroves to our ecosystem. For a few months, mangrove seedlings collected by volunteers will be exhibited in plastic water-filled cups in the coastal community where they thrived just a few decades ago. Similar installations and educational outreach efforts will also take place inside several schools. Afterwards, volunteers plant the seedlings along Biscayne Bay. Make a lasting contribution to the Reclamation Project at the Miami Science Museum by adopting a mangrove seedling. For $25, you can donate to the Reclamation Project and have one of the museum's 1,100 mangrove seedlings planted in your name or in honor of a friend. Your tax-deductible donation will support the Reclamation Project mangrove seedling exhibit at the museum, an eco-art piece that increases awareness about the importance of mangroves in South Florida and provides a way for the community to nurture mangrove seedlings until they are mature for planting.
    Location:  Miami Science Museum, 3280 South Miami Avenue , Miami, FL 33129, US
    Web link:  http://www.reclamationproject.net/

 

Volunteer

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    The Bayview Artpatch
    Jennifer Alexander, jwa@jennalex.com
    Help plan and develop a sculpture garden using recycled materials and native plants. Currently we are looking for artists and volunteers interested in working together to create something beautiful that provides an example of how to return health to the earth and how to make efficient and creative use of materials that are regularly thrown away.
    Location:  San Francisco, CA, US
    Web link:  http://www.jennalex.com/artpatch

 

Research

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    Deepening Eco-Community Relationships: An Art Based Co-operative Inquiry
    Posted by:  Virginia May, vmay42@yahoo.com
    Deadline:  July 27, 2008
    An invitation to visual artists and other creative people for the 2nd of several informal gatherings to explore the possibility of a collaborative research project on Art and Ecology. Sunday July 27, 11:30 to 1:30 (Bring a bag lunch). Hosted by Virginia May, PhD Candidate at California Institute of Integral Studies
    Location:  The Painted Door Studio, 421 2nd Street , Petaluma , CA 94952
    Web link:  http://www.virginiamay.blogspot.com

 

Education/Workshop

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    SHIFTING TERRAIN - Dancing new ways of perceiving,
    Lars Schmidt, contact@art-ecology-education.org
    3 - 7 September 2008. Four exceptional, intercultural days of exploring, sharing and developing your own understanding of the interconnected nature of all life on this planet. This retreat weaves together exploratory research in dance, somatics and holistic approaches to ecological thinking. Dive into the basis of sustainable living. Develop a new consciousness. Fee: 260 € / early registration discount (when booked by July 31st): 230 €, Food in Stolzenhagen: 60 €, Housing in Stolzenhagen: 28 € or more if you want a (semi-)private room. Facilitators: Satu Palokangas, Stefa Roth, Bruno Caverna, Lars Schmidt
    Location:  Ponderosa Guesthouse, Gut Stolzenhagen, 16248 Stolzenhagen, Germany.
    Web link:  www.art-ecology-education.org

    SHIFTING TERRAIN - Dancing new ways of perceiving,
    Lars Schmidt, contact@art-ecology-education.org
    3 - 7 September 2008. Four exceptional, intercultural days of exploring, sharing and developing your own understanding of the interconnected nature of all life on this planet. This retreat weaves together exploratory research in dance, somatics and holistic approaches to ecological thinking. Dive into the basis of sustainable living. Develop a new consciousness. Fee: 260 € / early registration discount (when booked by July 31st): 230 €, Food in Stolzenhagen: 60 €, Housing in Stolzenhagen: 28 € or more if you want a (semi-)private room. Facilitators: Satu Palokangas, Stefa Roth, Bruno Caverna, Lars Schmidt
    Location:  Ponderosa Guesthouse, Gut Stolzenhagen, 16248 Stolzenhagen, Germany.
    Web link:  www.art-ecology-education.org

    Stone and Wood Sculpture Courses in Galway
    Two sculpture courses in either stone or wood will be running in the bogland above Oughterard, Co. Galway from 4 to 8 August 2008 and from 6 to 10 October 2008. For more information, or to make a booking, please contact Kathleen O'Sullivan: 091 523871 or 086 3874225
    Location:  Ougherard, IE

 

Call for Proposals

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    Grant Possibility for Minnesota-Based emerging artists
    AOV@northern.lights.mn
    Deadline:  September 8, 2008
    The Jerome Foundation and Northern Lights, a new Twin Cities-based arts agency, with fiscal sponsor Forecast Public Art, announce Art(ists) on the Verge (AOV), a new two-track fellowship and mentoring program for Minnesota-based, emerging artists working experimentally at the intersection and technology, with a focus on practices that are social, collaborative and/or participatory.

    Informational sessions about the Art(ists) on the Verge Fellowship and Mentorship programs will be held July 21 at 6:00 pm at Intermedia Arts, 2822 Lyndale Avenue South, Minneapolis, and August 15 at 12:00 pm at the Jerome Foundation, 400 Sibley Street, Suite 125, St. Paul, MN.
    Location:  MN, US
    Web link:  http://northern.lights.mn/aov.html

    Island Time: The Fate of Place in a Wired, Warming World-- Call for Proposals
    Posted by:  Dan Philippon, danp@umn.edu
    Deadline:  November 15, 2008
    The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) invites proposals for its Eighth Biennial Conference, to be held June 3-6, 2009, at the University of Victoria, in British Columbia, Canada, on the theme of "Island Time: The Fate of Place in a Wired, Warming World." We seek proposals for papers, panels, roundtables, workshops, and other public presentations connecting language, nature, and culture. As always, we welcome interdisciplinary approaches; readings of environmentally inflected fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction; and proposals from outside the academic humanities, including submissions from artists, writers, practitioners, activists, and colleagues in the social and natural sciences.

    This year's theme uses the conference's temporal and spatial location on Vancouver Island as a metaphor for the past and future of place generally. In particular, it reflects the fact that ASLE's first conference outside the U.S. is a fitting location to consider how the Internet and globalization now connect us all (linking our different identities, nations, and communities), as well as how the threat of climate change is affecting our interpretation of texts and cultures, not to mention the material world itself.
    Location:  Vancouver Island, CA
    Web link:  http://asle.uvic.ca/

    The Art of Common Space
    Posted by:  Eileen Woods, eileen@gunpowderpark.org
    The Art of Common Space is a series of arts led events, commissions and debates, both live and virtual, which respond to the question: what is "common space" in our 21st century multicultural society? As built environments increasingly dominate our communities, this extensive exploration by creative professionals asks how open spaces can continue to provide a common experience. The Art of Common Space is an exceptional opportunity for all participants and visitors to engage with and contribute to a large scale, ongoing exploration of some of the most vital issues relating to public open space in our time: issues of ownership, identity, commonality, biodiversity and climate change.

    We are currently inviting artists, anthropologists, environmentalists, cultural and civic leaders to contact us with expressions of interest to participate in this project. Through interdisciplinary creative workshops and dialogues, site specific installations in the Park and partner venues, online mapping and networking, we aim to create a global exploration of the meaning and use of common space. Details of the project are available on the Gunpowder Park website. The first stage deadline is December 2007.
    Location:  Gunpowder Park, The Field Station, Sewardstone Road, Waltham Abbey, Essex EN9 3GP, GB
    Web link:  http://www.gunpowderpark.org/

    Earth Matters On Stage: Symposium on Ecology and Performance 2009
    Posted by:  Theresa May, ecodrama@uoregon.edu
    Deadline:  January 1, 2009
    Ecology is at the heart of burgeoning creativity and interdisciplinary scholarship across the arts and humanities. This Symposium, together with the concurrent Festival, invites artists, scholars and activists to share their work, ideas and passions with one another and with the larger community who attend the Festival.

    We welcome creative and innovative proposals for workshops, round-tables, panels, working sessions, installations or participatory community gatherings that explore, examine, challenge, articulate or nourish the possibilities of theatrical and performative responses to the environmental crisis in particular, and our ecological situatedness in general.

    The form and format is wide-open and we will schedule and shape the Symposium around the types of proposals received and selected. We encourage proposals that go beyond a recitation of ideas or positions, and instead bring presenters and participants together as they engage the driving question of how theatre has or might function as part of our reciprocal relationship with ecological communities. See website for further details.
    Location:  Earth Matters Symposium 2009, Theresa May, Director, Theater Arts, VIL 216, University of Oregon , Eugene, OR 97403, US
    Web link:  http://www.uoregon.edu/~ecodrama/proposals

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