A national nonprofit organization, Creative Capital works in long-term partnership with artists using a non-traditional approach to support that combines funding, counsel and career development services to enable a project’s success and foster sustainable practices for its grantees.
Founded nearly 60 years ago by a small group of artists working in the relatively new field of art jewelry and metal, Metal Arts Guild San Francisco now has professional and emerging artists, educators, students, collectors, and writers among its 200+ members.
The Bamboo Whisper was founded in 2006 by three NYC-based artists who joined efforts with artists in the town of La Mesa, Colombia (1-1/2 hours by car from the capital city of Bogotá), to open, equip and maintain an art school for 52 underprivileged children and adults. With donated funds, they have provided working space, instructors’ salaries and all necessary art supplies to the art school, “Paloma Azul” (Blue Dove).
The co-directors of the Philadelphia Art Hotel have moved their program into a new building, renovated it (check it out — it’s sweet!), and offered a full slate of artist residencies. Pretty impressive for their inaugural year…
The Greenwall Foundation is accepting applications for their Arts and Humanities program.
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Innovation and creativity in the visual, performing, literary, and media arts receive special Foundation attention. The Greenwall Foundation is interested in supporting New York City’s cultural life and encourages requests from local arts groups and institutions. The Foundation’s grant giving focuses on [...]
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The Union Square Awards are named for the park on 14th Street, a historic gathering place where since the nineteenth century [...]
The Connecticut Film Festival is taking place from June 2 - 7, 2009 in Downtown Danbury, CT. The festival is 6 Days & Nights of Indie Film & Music, Parties, Networking and Educational Events Celebrating Culture & Diversity Through Film.
Fractured Atlas is hosting a fundraising workshop at the Connectict Film Festival on June 6th in [...]
Colorado-based photographer Tom Loughlin is the creator of “Pictures of You: Images from Iran”, a powerful multimedia installation that is poised to tour the U.S. throughout 2009. Set exclusively in outdoor venues — specifically “high-traffic areas, [where] it will be encountered by viewers who do not typically seek out art” — “Pictures of You” features large-scale photographs of everyday Iranians that are printed on silk. Viewers walk through and around a mosque-like structure and come face-to-face with both the Iranian subjects of the photos and their fellow viewers, whose reactions to the installation they are able to see because of the translucency of the silk.
Founded in 2002, Flying Art provides opportunities for youth from around the world to share their culture through the exchange of their own artwork. Similar to the idea of pen-pals, Flying Art matches three schools from different countries per exchange to create and share artwork with one another, thereby inspiring an open exchange of ideas and cultural backgrounds.
“As a photographer, I am actually a small business owner as much as I am an artist.” – Anonymous Survey Respondent
In our quest to better understand the professional development needs of artists, we went beyond the survey/interviews and researched various external sources to find out what artists, arts managers, and industry experts were saying about career [...]
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