BEHIND THE BULLSEYE trailer -- premieres July 1, 2009 (NYC) from Kevin Doyle on Vimeo.

Annual MAP fund awards total over $1,000,000 to support adventurous live performance, with additional short-term funds to stabilize operating budgets during a time of need.

The MAP Fund, a program of Creative Capital supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The Rockefeller Foundation, announced today its 2009 grants underwriting 40 new projects spanning the field of performing arts practices. A panel of peers selected this year's grantees in four disciplines - Dance, Theater, Music Composition and Interdisciplinary Works - from more than 700 submissions, which represents the largest number of applications in the program's 20-year history.

Tali Hinkis, La Superette co-founder, is awarded in the Interdisciplinary Work category.

For the Poetry category, Marcella Durand, Alan Gilbert, Jennifer Hayashida, Willie Perdomo have been selected.

NYFA chose Chitra Ganesh, Lisa Iglesias, Catarina Leitao, Kymia Nawabi in the Printmaking/Drawing/Artists' Books category.

Tamara Kostianovsky and Simone Leigh are awarded in the Sculpture category.

Living and Dreaming is the 29th edition of the Bronx Museum of the Arts' milestone Artist in the Marketplace (AIM) exhibition series. The exhibition features a range of works by 36 artists from New York City and the environs who have completed the most recent of the museum’s highly competitive 13-week-long series of AIM seminars. 

The Bronx Museum of the Arts
1040 Grand Concourse
Bronx, New York 10456
718.681.6000

Museum Hours Thursday, Saturday, Sunday, from 11 – 6 pm. Friday from 11 – 8 pm. Closed Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.

Rhizome is pleased to present "The World Is Flat," an exhibition to be included in X Initiative’s No Soul For Sale: A Festival of Independents. Featured artists and collectives include B'L'ing, Anna Lundh, Oliver Laric, Lizzie Fitch, Alexandre Singh and David Horvitz. Curated by Lauren Cornell, Brian Droitcour and Ceci Moss.

The exhibition takes the perceived flatness of culture, or the free availability and distribution of information enabled by the Internet, as its departure point. Works included celebrate this availability, such as Oliver Laric’s Touch My Body, a green screen template of Mariah Carey’s hit song which was remixed widely by YouTube users, or B'L'ing’s bootleg trading station and video RGB, while others reveal paranoid fantasies that have emerged in response to increased accessibility of information, as in Anna Lundh’s Hollywood Internet, a video installation that compiles footage from Hollywood films that represent the Internet as a threatening decentralized network. “The World Is Flat” includes installation, collage,  sculpture, video as well as internet-based works along with a limited, reading library and a poster.

Events include the HEXA_FLEXAGON_F_EVER workshop/performance by Anna Lundh on Saturday June 27th from 2-3pm on the first floor, which will walk participants through the process of hexaflexagon construction and present a short history of the hexaflexagons in the form of a corporate seminar. The workshop is an extension of the artist’s HEXA_FLEXAGON_F_EVER, which investigates the interconnected people and stories surrounding the hexaflexagon, in analog and digital contexts.
Two artist-centered publications, Private Circulation and Free Internet, will also be displayed.

June 24 - 28, 2009, 1-9 pm
Opening reception: June 23, 6-9 pm

548 West 22nd Street
New York, NY 10011

With: Samantha Allen, Catherine Galasso, and Ryan Rosales
Featuring music by: Tarentel, Yves Larock and DJ Roland Richards, M83, Brian Eno

Part of: DANCE @ DMAC WEEK 2
Featuring new works by: Catherine Galasso, Kim Grier, Claire Porter, Deganit Shemy, Yin Yue.

Wednesday, June 17 - 8pm
Friday, June 19 - 8pm
Tickets $10

DMAC- Duo Multicultural Arts Center
62 East 4th Street
New York, NY 10003
212-598-4320
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Thursday, July 9, 6:00-9:00pm
NYFA offices (20 Jay Street in DUMBO, Brooklyn)
Workshop fee: $65.00

To attend this workshop, please register before July 2, 5:00pm.

This introductory workshop, based on Creative Capital's acclaimed weekend Professional Development workshop model, employs an integrated approach to Strategic Planning, covering topics such as time management, business management, communications and negotiation. The workshop aims to help artists break the crisis management cycle and increase their satisfaction in their art practice and career. In addition to lecture presentations, attendees participate in interactive exercises and are given a Strategic Planning workbook to help guide their process. The workshop will be led by Creative Capital strategic planning consultant Colleen Keegan along with painter and Creative Capital grantee Jeffrey Gibson.

Workshop leaders:

Colleen Keegan developed the strategic planning program at Creative Capital, which to date has provided personal strategic planning coaching to over 400 Creative Capital grantees as well as offered strategic planning workshops to over 2000 artists across the country. She is a partner in Keegan Fowler Companies, an equity investment and consulting firm specialized in providing strategic planning and business affairs services for companies in the communications and entertainment industries. Previously, Keegan was a principal in The Strategic Planning Partnership. Her client list includes American Express, Bandai, Citi Group, ESPN, FM Japan, Hanna-Barbera, Paramount Pictures, Sprint, Sony New Technologies and Sony Pictures Entertainment. Keegan served as the president of Pacific Arts Video Production and Washington Video Services prior to establishing Keegan Fowler Companies. She has also worked as a producer for MTV Networks, WETA and Showtime. Keegan developed the Strategic Planning Program at Creative Capital where she currently serves as Co-Chair of the Endowment Committee. She has served on numerous Boards of Directors including the American Refugee Committee, the MS Foundation, Texas Film Commission, Emily's List, the NOW Legal Defense Fund and Senator Dianne Feinstein's Advisory Council.

Jeffrey Gibson is a painter and installation artist living and working in Brooklyn, New York. His artworks have been shown nationally and internationally at museums, galleries, and at art fairs. During the past year his paintings and sculptures were included in exhibitions at The National Museum of the American Indian and The Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum in 2007 and at The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art in 2006. He is a 2005 recipient of a visual arts grant from the Creative Capital Foundation and recently completed a residency at The Art Omi International Artist Residency. His work has been reviewed in various publications, including The New York Times, ArtNews, The Boston Globe, NY Arts Magazine, and has been featured on Bloomberg Television, NY One, and New Jersey Network TV. Upcoming exhibitions include solo exhibition at Dust Gallery in Las Vegas and at Sala Diaz in San Antonio, and group exhibitions at The Institute of American Indian Arts, The Minneapolis Institute of Art and Design, Flushing Town Hall, and a project for the Circa Art Fair in Puerto Rico. In addition to working as an artist, Jeffrey consults and develops arts education programs for underserved communities and incarcerated youth with The Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation in New York.

For more information email Krista Fabian DeCastro, PDP Workshop Manager of Creative Capital.

To see A Midsummer Night's Dream on stage for FREE:
* June 16-28, except Monday 7:30 p.m. Pinkney Park 177 Rowayton Ave. Rowayton CT
* July 4 to July 12, except Monday 7:30p.m. Baldwin Park 100 Arch Street Greenwich, CT

Beauty Underfoot
curated by Jeanne Gerrity
Adriana Farmiga, Petrova Giberson, Isola and Norzi, Fawad Khan, Gareth Long, Alison Owen, Mike Quinn, Yumi Janairo Roth, Jen Schwarting, Secret School and the K.I.D.S., Charwei Tsai

Yumi Janairo Roth, Pallet::Paleta (Made in the Philippines), 2005

Apropos of Robert Rauschenberg, John Cage once remarked, “Beauty is now underfoot wherever we take the trouble to look.” His comment suggests not merely that the commonplace can be transformed into art, but that this art has the potential for beauty. The artists in this exhibition take the banalities of life and transform them into poetic statements. The source material for these striking works, ranging from the dust on the floor of the gallery to text from a local newspapers, are rendered virtually unrecognizable by the artists' aesthetic commitment.
The artists in Beauty Underfoot synthesize every moment of our daily experience, creating a sense of the sublime that paradoxically hovers between an extreme connection and a highly removed detachment from its derivation. Each work exists as a testament to their ability to mutate the quotidian into the lyrical. However, Beauty Underfoot goes even further, challenging the viewers to move beyond the aesthetic object, reviewing and confronting its source. When examined more closely, the works refer to mundaneness, hardship, and even injustice without any didacticism. The artists do not shy away from reality, but nor do they allow it to eclipse their creativity. The works in the exhibition ultimately transcend the ordinary, transforming it into the extraordinary.

While participating in a residency in the Philippines, Yumi Janairo Roth constructed shipping pallets using techniques associated with local handicrafts. She carves intricate designs in the pallets, and then reintroduced them into circulation. Upon her return to the United States, Roth continued to build shipping pallets from scratch, and in Paleta:Pallet (Made in the U.S.A.), she adorns the seemingly purely functional piece with a mother-of-pearl inlay. Roth’s pallets draw attention to otherwise overlooked objects, which transport goods around the world without retaining a sense of origin.

Staring at the Sea is one manifestation of Isola and Norzi’s current research into the conceptual relationship between everyday objects and the underwater world as a mental escape space. A lifeguard chair, positioned toward the East River outside Smack Mellon’s window, is intersected with an aquarium full of living sea urchins. Staring at the Sea merges two different attempts to domesticate nature—the aquarium and the beach—in a paradoxical lyrical statement.

Artists’ reception: Saturday, June 20, 5-8pm

Exhibition dates: June 20 – August 2, 2009
Hours: Wednesday-Sunday, 12-6pm

Smack Mellon
92 Plymouth Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201
718 834 8761

"With this project, we hope to encourage innovation as we visualize the future fifty to one hundred years from now." -Mary Mattingly

The Waterpod demonstrates future pathways for nomadic, mobile shelters and water-based communities, docked and roaming.
It embodies self-sufficiency and resourcefulness, learning and curiosity, human expression and creative exploration. It intends to prepare, inform, and provide an alternative to current and future living spaces.
As a malleable and autonomous space, the Waterpod is built on a model comprised of multiple collaborations. The Waterpod functions as a singular unit with the possibility to expand into ever-evolving water communities; an archipelagos that has the ability to mutate with the tides.

The Residency supports contemporary electronic media art projects. The studio workshop environment offers access to an image processing system, intensive individualized instruction and time for exploration and personal creative growth. Artists have an opportunity to study the processes and techniques of analog and digital imaging and to then use the system independently in the creation of new works. Participating artists have complete aesthetic and technical control over all aspects of the making process.

The image processing system is a hybrid tool set which facilitates interactive relationships between older historically important analog instruments such as colorizers and keyers, and new digital technologies using a G5, several G4s, a customized Doepfer A-100 system with sonic and control modules, software including Max/MSP, Jitter and Pluggo, as well as DVD authoring and editing software, DVD Studio Pro and Flash. Recording is mini-DV/DV and DVD. This rich electronic environment encourages artists to explore boundaries and intersections within narrative, documentary and social issue traditions as well as more experimental forms.
A complete list is available by email and on the web.

The postmark deadline is July 15th. You are encouraged to email the written materials.
To apply please send the following:
1. A brief project description
2. A current bio or resume
3. A prioritized set of dates between September 1, 2009 and January 31, 2010.
4. A sample of completed work with SASE if you wish it returned.

Experimental Television Center
Sherry Miller Hocking, Assistant Director
109 Lower Fairfield Rd.
Newark Valley NY 13811
607 687-4341

PL115's new production of Caucasian Chalk Circle re-imagines Brecht's master work as a distinctly American fable. Set in a half-finished building taken over by squatters, and using modernized "disaster ballad" folk songs to drive the story, the company mines material from their six-month residency with Mabou Mines (2007-08) to bring the play into contemporary relief.

With the economy at a standstill, ongoing wars, and a disintegrating environment, our society is closer to the dark landscape of Brecht's mythical Grusinia than perhaps at any time since his own post-war Germany. By focusing on the divide between the haves and have-nots, and how quickly fortunes can change, the production asks: what is our responsibility to each other in times of crisis?

June 25-July 11, 2009
Wed - Sat at 8PM

Tickets are $15
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The Chocolate Factory
5-49 49th Avenue
Long Island City, NY

The Arts Annual exhibit is scheduled for September 29, 2009 – November 6, 2009 in the Brennan Gallery in the rotunda of the Justice William Brennan Court House, 583 Newark Avenue, Jersey City NJ.
The Brennan Gallery, established in 2003, is a public gallery that hosts 12+ group exhibits each year. The gallery is open daily Monday – Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. During the Arts Annual the gallery is also open during the weekend of the Jersey City Artists Studio Tour, October 3rd and 4th from 12 noon to 6:00 p.m.

Past curators/jurors have included Jeffrey Wechsler from the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Museum; Ann Aptaker, Curator of Exhibitions for the Morris Museum; and Rocio Aranda-Alvarado, Curator for the Jersey City Museum among others.

Responsibilities of the curator include: theme for show, outreach, selection of artwork, installation and de-installation of all artwork, and as a gallery host during the Jersey City Studio Tour hours.

HCOCHA/TD will provide all publicity, promotional materials, press releases, receiving of work, and the opening reception.

Proposals and resumes need to be received by June 8th and can be emailed to Eileen Gaughan and Meredith Lippman.

Curators interested in this opportunity are invited to visit the Court House prior to submitting their proposals and resumes. Please contact HCOCHA 201-459-2070. Interviews will be scheduled for June12 & 15.

ArcheTime: Cross-Disciplinary Conference and Exhibition on Time
Dedicated to the exploration of differences and synchronicities between artistic, academic and scientific concepts of Time.

Conference: June 6 - 7, 2009
Exhibition: June 4 - 14, 2009
Supported by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Tank Space for Performing & Visual Arts, and the New York Future Salon

See the Archetime Conference Program
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THE TANK SPACE FOR PERFORMING AND VISUAL ARTS
354 West 45 th St.
New York, NY 10036