Lower East Side Printshop, New York, offers free year-long studio residencies for emerging artists.

Application deadline is September 9, 2007; residencies start on October 1st.

Keyholder Residencies include free 24/7 access to a large shared studio, professional printmaking facilities, storage and basic supplies, exhibition opportunities, educational programming, and support services. Artists from all disciplines are eligible; printmaking skills are not required; basic instruction in printmaking is available at no cost.

For more information about the studio facilities, and application requirements, please visit http://www.printshop.org/web/Create/KeyholderResidences/index.html

Contact:
Lower East Side Printshop, Inc.
306 West 37th Street, 6th Floor
New York, NY 10018
212-673-5390
info@printshop.org

http://printshop.org

Lower East Side Printshop, Inc. (LESP) is a non-profit printmaking center in New York City that promotes excellence in the art of printmaking by enabling artists to create new artwork and offering educational programs for the general public. Founded in 1968 as a community art center, the Printshop has provided thousands of emerging artists with studio space, technical and financial assistance. The Printshop enriches the field by promoting high professional standards in printmaking, artistic collaboration, innovation, and environmentally friendly practices. Printshop is the largest openly accessible print workshop in New York City, with studios open 24/7.The Lower East Side Printshop's programs are supported by the public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. Private funders include: the Lily Auchincloss Foundation, Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation, Carnegie Corporation of New York, Con Edison Company of New York, Ford Foundation, The Greenwall Foundation, The Hyde and Watson Foundation, Jerome Foundation, Wolf Kahn and Emily Mason Foundation, MacDermid Printing Solutions, New York Community Trust, New York State Artist Workspace Consortium, The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc., The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, our members, and numerous generous individuals.

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Saturday, September 15, 2007, 10am - 3pm

Where: VLA, 1 East 53rd Street, Auditorium, NY, NY 10022

Making the choice to major in the visual arts can be a tough decision; getting in is even harder. Not only do applicants have to go through rigorous academic admissions requirements and the added pressure of submitting a portfolio and written statements of their creative work, but also compete against hundreds of talented and qualified applicants.

An applicant's application packet represents them to an art school or college as a potential student and artist. For most university art programs and private art schools, the portfolio and statement are the determining factors in the highly competitive admission process. Although the application process should not be a paralyzing experience, it must be handled in a serious, detailed, and thoughtful manner. This four-hour workshop will help the applicant in creating the best application packet possible while easing the anxieties created by this stressful process.

This workshop is aimed at undergraduate students and recent graduates interested in applying to MFA art programs, and artist programs and residencies such as the Whitney Museum's Independent Study Program, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, LMCC Workspace, and the Yale Summer School of Art. Additionally, this program will also benefit high-school students wishing to apply to art schools.

The Following Topics Will Be Covered:

· Application Requirements
· Portfolio requirements: Aesthetics and mechanics
· Tailoring your portfolio: Deciding which and how many projects to include
· Writing personal and artist statements: Copy and content editing
· Writing a résumé and curriculum vitae
· Letters of recommendation
· Interviewing skills
· Deciding between a conceptual vs. formalist art program
· Tailoring your application to particular and individual programs
· Strict application deadlines vs. rolling admissions
· Financial aid
· Special questions concerning international students (TOEFL)

If you would like to attend this workshop, a $45 fee applies ($55 at the door) for admission to workshop with book. The book is also available for $30.00. Please go to http://www.vlany.org/#sb07 or www.clancco.com for registration form and more information, or email Sergio Muñoz- Sarmiento at: ssarmiento@vlany.org

This workshop will be taught by Sergio Muñoz Sarmiento and is sponsored by Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts and CLANCCO.

Sergio Muñoz Sarmiento is an artist, writer, and lecturer. He has previously taught in the studio and art history departments at Harvard University, the University of Southern California, California Institute of the Arts, Occidental College, and the University of California at Irvine, and has lectured and presented papers in the United States and abroad, most recently at Columbia Law School, The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, The School of Visual Arts, The Department of Visual Studies at SUNY-Buffalo, Cornell Law School, and the Centre Sociologie de l’Innovation, Ecole des Mines de Paris.

Sarmiento received his BA in Art from the University of Texas-El Paso in 1995, and was awarded a Philip Morris Fellowship to attend the California Institute of the Arts, where he received his MFA in Art in 1997. He was a Van Lier Fellow at the Whitney Museum’s Independent Study Program in Studio Art the following year. In 2000 Sarmiento was awarded a studio residency at the World Trade Center by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. He received his Juris Doctor from Cornell Law School in 2006.

His work has been shown in national and international exhibitions, including Mexico, Germany, Spain, Dallas, New York City, and Los Angeles, and has published essays and projects in Five Continents and One City Exhibition (catalogue essay, Mexico), Capital Art: On the Culture of Punishment (catalogue essay, US), Cabinet Magazine (US), and Law Text Culture (Australia). In April of 2007 he was awarded a Swing Space grant by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.

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The Performing Arts Japan (PAJ) program was started by the Japan Foundation
to promote Japanese performing arts in the United States. PAJ supports
the initiatives taken by U.S. nonprofit organizations to expose geographically
diverse American audiences to Japanese performing arts, and encourages
collaborations between Japanese and American artists.

The Japan Foundation is now accepting grant proposals for fiscal year
2008-2009. The Touring Grant assists the presentation of Japanese
performing arts in the U.S. and Canada, emphasizing locations outside
major metropolitan areas, and the Collaboration Grant allows collaborating
artists to create new works with the potential to develop into a touring project.
PAJ will fund up to 50% of the project costs.

Applications are due by October 29, 2007 for projects taking place between
April 1, 2008, and June 30, 2009. Visit the Japan Foundation New York
Office's website (www.jfny.org/jfny_paj.html) for guidelines and
application
form.

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Con Edison and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council are launching a video contest for teenagers in celebration of the 125th anniversary of the Pearl Street generating station. This is a great chance for teenagers to share their videos, as well as win excellent prizes including laptops, an ipod, or a chance to exhibit their work in a downtown public venue.

For more information or to apply, check it out here. Submissions are due August 17th, 2007.

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We're seeking friendly and dependable volunteers interested in spending a Saturday afternoon on Governor's Island listening to world music, having fun, and helping out with the production of In the Pocket, our summer councert series. Duties will include:
- Directing the crowd
- Answering audience questions
- Pre-concert set-up
- Post-concert strike

In the Pocket is taking place Saturdays, August 4, 11, 18, 25 from 1-4 pm on Governor's Island. Lunch will be provided. If you are interested in volunteering at this event, please send a copy of your resume to ekester@lmcc.net or for more information call 212-219-9401 x106.

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