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Teaching Artists Opportunity for The Maysles Institute Summer Documentary Film Program
The Maysles Institute is looking to hire Teaching Artists for our Summer Documentary Film Program, a six week intensive for high school students. Their youth programs are committed to connecting young people from the Harlem, Northern Manhattan, and South Bronx communities to the resources and support they need to become active storytellers and creative participants in digital media.
JOB DESCRIPTION
They are seeking engaging and dynamic Teaching Artists for our Summer Documentary Film Program, a six-week intensive film program for high school students where participants work in small production teams to learn how to shoot and edit short documentaries.
The Teaching Artist will:
• Work collaboratively to create a six-week documentary-arts curriculum for high school aged students that covers concepts and practices of digital filmmaking and video production
• Facilitate meaningful learning and proactively support empowerment of young people in their growth as individuals and artists
• Connect youth to the wider filmmaking, arts, and activism communities through exchanges, opportunities, and events
• Participate in supervisory and staff meetings as needed including training days and assessments
• Maintain overall cleanliness and manage the day-to-day usage of video and equipment
Qualifications
• Experience in teaching film/video to youth and demonstrated commitment to youth development
• Ongoing artistic practice in film/video and technical proficiency in Final Cut Pro
• Commitment to working with youth from various racial, ethnic, and economic backgrounds
• Solid interpersonal, communication and organizational skills
• Strong belief in the arts as an empowering educational tool
• Spanish language skills, a plus
• Additional graphics, sound, or technical skills, a plus
Time Commitment
Program Development and Staff Meetings begin in mid-June. Summer Program runs from July 5-August 15th (Monday, Wednesday, Friday 10am-4pm, with additional hours for prep and closeout).
Salary
Teaching Artists are compensated at competitive rates. Salary is commensurate with experience.
How to Apply
Please send a cover letter and resume to: Christine Peng, Education Director at christine@mayslesinstitute.org.
For more information about The Maysles Institute , please visit www.mayslesinstitute.org.
May 18, 2012permalink
New Museum will present Former Workspace resident LaToya Ruby Frazier’s PROPOSITION
Jim Kidd (Save Our Community Hospital), 2011. Silver gelatin print, 20 x 16 in (50.8 x 40.6 cm). Courtesy the artist
LaToya Ruby Frazier will be presenting The Proposition at the New Museum.
LaToya Ruby Frazier's Proposition will address her concern for preserving the stories and lives of residents in her hometown of Braddock, Pennsylvania. Starting this summer, Frazier will be an artist in residence at the Andrew Carnegie Braddock Library, one of America's first Carnegie libraries. While most of Frazier's photographic works address psychological space, in her new project she will explore an architectural public space. Frazier will face the challenge of how to create a new archive that preserves local memory and a process that opens space to reflect on the current state of revitalization.
Date & Time
Day 1 Thursday May 17th 7:00 pm LaToya Ruby Frazier Lecture
Day 2 Saturday, May 19, 3:00pm Sharon Zukin Response
Special Guest
Sharon Zukin:
Part of a Proposition by LaToya Ruby Frazier: FRAMEWORK: Activism, Memory, and the Social Landscape
Propositions is a public forum that explores ideas in development. Each two-day seminar introduces a topic of current investigation in an invited speaker's own artistic or intellectual practice. Over the course of a seminar session, these developing ideas are responded to, researched, and discussed to propel them forward in unique ways.
The structure of Propositions is typically as follows:
Day 1 – Initial proposition and lecture
Day 2 – Guest speaker responds, followed by discussion with audience
The Proposition this month is by LaToya Ruby Frazier.
The collaboration between LaToya Ruby Frazier and her family blurs the line between self-portraiture and social documentary. Frazier uses photography to explore themes of the body and landscape, familial and communal history, private and public space, and the human condition. Frazier studied at Edinboro University in Pennsylvania, where she developed an interest in social and personal documentary-style photography. Her fascination with the photography projects commissioned by the Farm Security Administration during the Great Depression has informed her work, which explores issues of propaganda, politics, and the importance of subjectivity. She attended Syracuse University, where she studied with Carrie Mae Weems. As a result of conversations with Weems, Frazier began investigating issues of class, capitalism, and the postmodern condition in her work. Recently, Frazier has focused on creating photographs that address environmental injustices and explore issues of healthcare and class.
Sharon Zukin is Professor of Sociology at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center. She is the author of Loft Living, Landscapes of Power, The Cultures of Cities, Point of Purchase, and most recently, Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places. Zukin received the C. Wright Mills Award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems for Landscapes of Power, and the Robert and Helen Lynd Award for Career Achievement in Urban Sociology from the Community and Urban Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association. She holds a PhD from Columbia University and lives in New York City.
For more Information, click her.
May 17, 2012permalink
LaToya Ruby Frazier will present The Proposition at the New Museum
Jim Kidd (Save Our Community Hospital), 2011. Silver gelatin print, 20 x 16 in (50.8 x 40.6 cm). Courtesy the artist
LaToya Ruby Frazier will be presenting The Proposition at the New Museum.
LaToya Ruby Frazier's Proposition will address her concern for preserving the stories and lives of residents in her hometown of Braddock, Pennsylvania. Starting this summer, Frazier will be an artist in residence at the Andrew Carnegie Braddock Library, one of America's first Carnegie libraries. While most of Frazier's photographic works address psychological space, in her new project she will explore an architectural public space. Frazier will face the challenge of how to create a new archive that preserves local memory and a process that opens space to reflect on the current state of revitalization.
Date & Time
Day 1 Thursday May 17th 7:00 pm LaToya Ruby Frazier Lecture
Day 2 Saturday, May 19, 3:00pm Sharon Zukin Response
Special Guest
Sharon Zukin:
Part of a Proposition by LaToya Ruby Frazier: FRAMEWORK: Activism, Memory, and the Social Landscape
Propositions is a public forum that explores ideas in development. Each two-day seminar introduces a topic of current investigation in an invited speaker's own artistic or intellectual practice. Over the course of a seminar session, these developing ideas are responded to, researched, and discussed to propel them forward in unique ways.
The structure of Propositions is typically as follows:
Day 1 – Initial proposition and lecture
Day 2 – Guest speaker responds, followed by discussion with audience
The collaboration between LaToya Ruby Frazier and her family blurs the line between self-portraiture and social documentary. Frazier uses photography to explore themes of the body and landscape, familial and communal history, private and public space, and the human condition. Frazier studied at Edinboro University in Pennsylvania, where she developed an interest in social and personal documentary-style photography. Her fascination with the photography projects commissioned by the Farm Security Administration during the Great Depression has informed her work, which explores issues of propaganda, politics, and the importance of subjectivity. She attended Syracuse University, where she studied with Carrie Mae Weems. As a result of conversations with Weems, Frazier began investigating issues of class, capitalism, and the postmodern condition in her work. Recently, Frazier has focused on creating photographs that address environmental injustices and explore issues of healthcare and class.
Sharon Zukin is Professor of Sociology at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center. She is the author of Loft Living, Landscapes of Power, The Cultures of Cities, Point of Purchase, and most recently, Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places. Zukin received the C. Wright Mills Award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems for Landscapes of Power, and the Robert and Helen Lynd Award for Career Achievement in Urban Sociology from the Community and Urban Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association. She holds a PhD from Columbia University and lives in New York City.
For more Information, click her.
May 17, 2012permalink
New Museum will present Former Workspace resident LaToya Ruby Frazier’s PROPOSITION
Jim Kidd (Save Our Community Hospital), 2011. Silver gelatin print, 20 x 16 in (50.8 x 40.6 cm). Courtesy the artist
LaToya Ruby Frazier will be presenting The Proposition at the New Museum.
LaToya Ruby Frazier's Proposition will address her concern for preserving the stories and lives of residents in her hometown of Braddock, Pennsylvania. Starting this summer, Frazier will be an artist in residence at the Andrew Carnegie Braddock Library, one of America's first Carnegie libraries. While most of Frazier's photographic works address psychological space, in her new project she will explore an architectural public space. Frazier will face the challenge of how to create a new archive that preserves local memory and a process that opens space to reflect on the current state of revitalization.
Date & Time
Day 1 Thursday May 17th 7:00 pm LaToya Ruby Frazier Lecture
Day 2 Saturday, May 19, 3:00pm Sharon Zukin Response
Special Guest
Sharon Zukin:
Part of a Proposition by LaToya Ruby Frazier: FRAMEWORK: Activism, Memory, and the Social Landscape
Propositions is a public forum that explores ideas in development. Each two-day seminar introduces a topic of current investigation in an invited speaker's own artistic or intellectual practice. Over the course of a seminar session, these developing ideas are responded to, researched, and discussed to propel them forward in unique ways.
The structure of Propositions is typically as follows:
Day 1 – Initial proposition and lecture
Day 2 – Guest speaker responds, followed by discussion with audience
The Proposition this month is by LaToya Ruby Frazier.
The collaboration between LaToya Ruby Frazier and her family blurs the line between self-portraiture and social documentary. Frazier uses photography to explore themes of the body and landscape, familial and communal history, private and public space, and the human condition. Frazier studied at Edinboro University in Pennsylvania, where she developed an interest in social and personal documentary-style photography. Her fascination with the photography projects commissioned by the Farm Security Administration during the Great Depression has informed her work, which explores issues of propaganda, politics, and the importance of subjectivity. She attended Syracuse University, where she studied with Carrie Mae Weems. As a result of conversations with Weems, Frazier began investigating issues of class, capitalism, and the postmodern condition in her work. Recently, Frazier has focused on creating photographs that address environmental injustices and explore issues of healthcare and class.
Sharon Zukin is Professor of Sociology at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center. She is the author of Loft Living, Landscapes of Power, The Cultures of Cities, Point of Purchase, and most recently, Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places. Zukin received the C. Wright Mills Award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems for Landscapes of Power, and the Robert and Helen Lynd Award for Career Achievement in Urban Sociology from the Community and Urban Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association. She holds a PhD from Columbia University and lives in New York City.
For more Information, click her.
May 17, 2012permalink
Bryant Park Painter in Residence Program Opportunity Deadline: May 31
The Bryant Park Corporation is accepting applications from artists for positions in the inaugural Bryant Park Painter in Residence program.
Deadline: May 31, 2012
The competition is open to all U.S. artists 18 years or older. Submitted work samples must have been completed in the last two years. Successful applicants will be commissioned to work outside at Bryant Park, creating representational images that will comprise a visual record of Bryant Park. Three painters will be selected for the program. This program includes a stipend. Awards will be announced June 20, 2012.
Program Details
-Subject matter: Landscapes and iconic features of the park
-Painting schedule: Daily. (Cancelled in case of rain)
-Stipend: $1000 per week plus one-time supplemental fund of $1000 for materials.
-Announcement of Award: June 20, 2012
For more information visit www.bryantpark.org/painterinresidence or email requests for application forms to promero@urbanmgt.com
May 16, 2012permalink
Former Swing Space Group Monk Parrots Presents Here I Go at 59E59 Theaters
Former Swing Space group Monk Parrots presents Here I Go at 59E59 Theaters from May 22 - June 3
Opening: Tuesday, May 22, 7:30PM-8:30PM
A woman considering suicide is visited by a pet horse and versions of herself at various ages while a man tries to take her hand. Will she go?
Made by Monk Parrots and conceived and directed by Luke Leonard, Here I Go hitches the emotional gamut of classic, country music with a romanticized depiction of Lynette, a cowgirl in her 60s contemplating suicide. Accusation and acceptance are major themes that prompt questions related to loss and sacrifice in Here I Go.
Location 59E59 Theaters 59 East 59th Street, New York
For more information about Monk Parrots, click here
May 14, 2012permalink
Objects in Motion
New York Art Residency and Studios (NARS) Foundation is excited to present Objects in Motion, an exhibition featuring the NARS International Artist Residency Program Season I 2012 participants: Santina Amato, Suzanne Goldenberg, Tang-Wei Hsu, Hisao Ihara, Jacqueline Hoang Nguyen, Anna Tihanyi and Cullen Washington, Jr. Opening concurrently with NARS fifth annual Open Studios weekend, the exhibition will showcase a group of seven international artists whose work explores mobility across cultural, physical, and imagined spheres. Some pieces consider portability and adapt to the impermanence of tangible materiality. Others reference the state of flux of our sociopolitical practices while some disperse through a more ethereal or geometric space. Each piece is imbued with a quality of motion and rhythm, stimulating circulation around parameters both concrete and abstract while embracing movement across diverse terrains.
Dates: May 12 - June 17, 2012
Location: NARS Foundation Studios, 88 35th Street | 3rd Floor, Brooklyn, NY 11232
Opening reception: May 1, 1 PM - 8 PM, in conjunction with NARS 5th Annual Open Studios
For more information, please visit http://narsfoundation.org/.
May 14, 2012permalink
Fundraising Lab Program for Small-to-Mid-Sized NYC Arts Education Providers
The National Guild for Community Arts Education has announced a new program designed to help leadership teams from New York City's small to mid-sized nonprofit arts education providers increase their organizations' development capacity, broaden their base of support, diversify revenue streams, and raise more money.
Deadline: June 15, 2012
Led by renowned fundraising experts, The Fundraising Lab will provide both training and coaching services, enabling teams not only to learn about but implement effective development practices that can take their organizations to the next level.
The program kicks off with a training workshop on Tuesday, June 26. Participating organizations will then receive five or more individualized coaching sessions. A second workshop will be held in October (date TBA) and coaching will conclude in November.
Thanks to generous underwriting from The New York Community Trust, participating organizations will pay only a small fraction of the actual expenses. Though the per-organization cost for the training and coaching exceeds $3,000, participation fees have been set at just $275 to $695 per team, based on budget size and Guild membership status.
To register or learn more about The Fundraising Lab, go to nationalguild.org/fundraisinglab.
May 11, 2012permalink
Former Swing Space artists participating in MORE ART
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Posted May 9, 2012permalink
LMCC Grantee Naomi Goldberg Haas/Dances for a Variable Population is featured in Stories for Change
Congratulations to Naomi Goldberg Haas/Dances for a Variable Population, whose tremendous dance and choreographic work with seniors is featured in "Stories for Change," a report by Partners for Livable Communities funded by MetLife Foundation, which offers leadership examples that expand the arts to new audiences. This compendium showcases the notable strategies that increase access to arts and culture for older adult and immigrant populations. LMCC is proud to be a longtime supporter of Naomi's work through grants, residencies and presenting opportunities.
May 8, 2012permalink
The Watermill Center Now Accepting Applications
Who: The Watermill Center What: Fall 2012 / Spring 2013 Watermill Residency Program at Robert Wilson’s Watermill Center is now accepting applications from multi-disciplinary international, emerging artists Application Deadline: Friday, June 1, 2012 Where: The Watermill Center; 39 Watermill Towd Road, Water Mill, NY 11976 Online Application: http://www.watermillcenter.slideroom.com
The Watermill Center is currently accepting applications from individual artists and collectives for its international Fall 2012 / Spring 2013 Residency Program. The program invites artists of all disciplines to take up residence at The Watermill Center and create collaborative works that critically investigate, challenge, and extend the existing norms of performance practice. The Watermill Center has forged partnerships with leading institutions to help reach new networks and further the workshop projects. This current application cycle features partnerships with ArteEast, CPR – Center for Performance Research, Chez Bushwick, and Lincoln Center Directors Lab to ensure the quality of the work as well as provide vital continuing support of artist projects. To read more about the program and apply online please visit: http://www.watermillcenter.org/program/residencies.
About the Fall 2012 / Spring 2013 Residency Program
Since The Watermill Center Residency Program started in 2006, the Center will have hosted over 89 residency groups. The Residency Program runs from September to June and gives young artists the opportunity to live and work at the Watermill Center as a home to create and develop new work. Each residency varies in length according to artists’ and project needs and generally lasts a concentrated period of one to four weeks. A distinguished international selection committee composed of artists, academics, and cultural leaders across all disciplines meet in July to select the artists groups that will be invited to the residency program each year (see below for a full list).
In addition to creating and developing their work, artists share their creative process at Watermill with the public through open rehearsals, workshops, and/or artist talks. Through partnership initiatives, some residencies go on to showcase their work with other NYC institutions.
Click here to view The Selection Committee
Residency Partnerships
ArteEast: targeted for artists based in the Middle East and North Africa. (Note: there is a seperate application on the online portal for this partnership) CPR – Center for Performance Research / Chez Bushwick: offers a small selection of residencies the chance to showcase their work in Brooklyn/NYC following their time at The Watermill Center Lincoln Center Directors Lab: a Watermill residency for Directors Lab alumni to workshop their work and present at Lincoln Center in NYC for Directors Lab 2013
The Watermill Center | Mission Statement
Watermill is a laboratory for performance founded by Robert Wilson as a unique environment for young and emerging artists from around the world to explore new ideas. Watermill draws inspiration from all the arts and cultures as well as from social, human and natural sciences. Watermill is a global community of artists. Living and working together among the extensive collection of art and artifacts lies at the heart of the Watermill experience. Watermill is a haven for the next generations of artists, supporting their work among a network of international institutions and venues that embrace new interdisciplinary approaches.
About The Watermill Center
The Watermill Center is an interdisciplinary laboratory for the arts and humanities completed in 2006 on the Long Island, NY site of a former Western Union communication research facility. Founded by theatre and visual artist Robert Wilson as a place for young and emerging artists to work, learn, create, and grow with each other, Watermill integrates performing arts practice with resources from the humanities, research from the sciences, and inspiration from the visual arts. Watermill is unique within the global landscape of experimental theatrical performance, and regularly convenes the brightest minds from all disciplines to do, in Wilson’s words, “what no one else is doing.”
The Watermill Center supports projects that integrate genres and art forms from diverse view points and that break traditional forms of representation and cultural specifics. At the core of Watermill’s programming lies the year-round support of artists in residence. Through both the International Summer Program—a highly collaborative residency led by Wilson—and through one to four week individual residencies hosted from September through June, Watermill annually welcomes over 150 artists from around the world. This unparalleled global residency program is complemented by educational programs with schools and other local institutions, public events such as open rehearsals and lectures, tours of the building and grounds, and seminars and symposia.
The Watermill Center itself is a 20,000+ square foot flexible working space including a 6,000 volume research library, galleries, rehearsal and staging spaces, workshops, offices, and residences situated on six acres of artist-designed and landscaped grounds. The Watermill Collection of over 7,000 art and artifact pieces spanning the history of humankind is integrated into all aspects of the building and grounds as a reminder that the history of each civilization is told by its artists.
For more information, please contact Lorien Reese, Residency Manager at: 631.726.4628 or lorien.reese@watermillcenter.org
May 8, 2012permalink
Artist Homeownership Information Session Tonight!
Artist Homeownership Information Session Co-sponsored by New York City Council members, Brad Lander and Steve Levin and the Brooklyn Arts Council.
Join ArtHome Founder, Esther Robinson, for an Artist Homeownership Information session. Learn the basics that can assist you in your journey from a fellow artist: why and how homeownership can benefit you, the steps to owning a home and New York City programs and services offered by The New York Mortgage Coalition.
DATE: 7:15pm – May 8, 2012 LOCATION: Groundswell 540 President Street, Suite 1A Brooklyn, NY, 12115
More info: http://www.arthome.org/newsevents RSVP: info@arthome.org
May 8, 2012permalink
Studio Art Intensive Opportunity at New York’s National Academy School
New York’s National Academy School is accepting an application for the Summer Studio Art Intensive Classes.
Designed to enhance creativity and artistic achievement, this dynamic, two-year program is ideal for artists, students pursuing a career in the arts, post BFA study, international students, and arts educators.
The Studio Art Intensive serves to enhance evolving technique, clarify artistic direction, and define areas of concentration. Students will develop a professional portfolio, be mentored by artists, experience the arts scene in New York City, and will culminate their study with a solo exhibition and catalogue.
The Academy's faculty is composed of national and international professional artist-teachers. The Academy School's curriculum reflects this dynamic with educational offerings that are engaging, practical, and relate to the challenges of working as an artist today.
Curriculum
Working closely with an advisor, students select an area of concentration from painting, sculpture, printmaking or new media. A personalized studio curriculum is developed and may include art theory, critical thinking, or philosophy, in addition to studio-based classes.
For more information, click here.
May 2, 2012permalink
MCAF 2011 Grantee Jesca Prudencio presents “We Walk We Stop” video on Youtube
Check out Jesca Prudencio's videoWE WALK, WE STOP on Youtube. WE WALK, WE STOP is a site specific dance theater work this is orchestrated by the city rhythm of the crosswalk signals. Director Jesca Prudencio and choreographer Ben Hobbs make New Yorkers' mundane 49 seconds of waiting and walking, a thrilling happening of performance with an ensemble of dancers and live musicians.
On September 5th, 2011, an ensemble of dancers and drummers took over the Astor Place intersection in a site-specific dance theater piece! Watch the mayhem and look up...they might be coming to an intersection near you!
May 2, 2012permalink
Current Workspace Resident Valerie Hegarty featured in the Artforum.com
Valerie Hegarty, Ghost Ship (Small clipper ship) with Chinese wallpaper (Flood Damage), 2012, canvas, stretcher bars, acrylic paint, foam, glue, paper, sand, dimensions variable.
Artforum.com features current Workspace artist Valerie Hegarty's exhibition "Altered States" in its Critics' Picks section.
Valerie Hegarty "Altered States"
Marlborough Gallery
545 West 25th Street
Through May 5
To read the full review, please click here.
