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MAIL: ASK ERICA . Part Five

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JOBS FOR ARTISTS?

I have been sending tons of resumes to schools, arts centers, groups, agents, you name it. No dice. And those recruiters, they are faceless, useless and out of reach. Erica, I taught art and art history for three years in Santa Fe. I moved to New York looking for a better opportunity. You know New York is New York but New York id not smiling for me. Where do I start? Where do I go? I will do anything, just please give me a chance. Any job listings I can look at? Job billboards? Anywhere, somewhere? I need your assistance. Thanks a million.

Steve Polansky, New York, New York, USA

Steve, check out the recent postings below. They are all in your neck of the wood. Gee, I wish if I could help you Steve in your search. I will make some contacts for you. But, you know, it might take a while since I am in Europe and your are in New York. Keep me posted. Good luck.

Recent Postings (5/18/2003 - 5/24/2003) PROVIDED BY NYFA

Organization	Job
Film Forum (New York, NY)	ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT Full job description link Approved: 2003/05/22 Expiration date: 6/21/2003
Capital Repertory Theatre (Albany, NY)	ART TEACHER APPRENTICE Full job description link Approved: 2003/05/22 Expiration date: 7/21/2003
VSA arts (Washington , DC)	ARTIST SERVICES COORDINATOR Full job description link Approved: 2003/05/22 Expiration date: 6/21/2003
The School of Visual Arts Library (New York, NY)	Assistant Circulation Manager Full job description link Approved: 2003/05/22 Expiration date: 6/21/2003
California Institute of the Arts (Valencia, CA)	ASSISTANT TECHNICAL DIRECTOR Full job description link Approved: 2003/05/22 Expiration date: 6/21/2003
Columbia Artists Management Inc. (New York, NY)	BOOKING AGENT Full job description link Approved: 2003/05/22 Expiration date: 7/21/2003
California Institute of the Arts (Valencia, CA)	BOX OFFICE MANAGER Full job description link Approved: 2003/05/22 Expiration date: 6/21/2003
Capital Repertory Theatre (Albany, NY)	CHOREOGRAPHER APPRENTICE Full job description link Approved: 2003/05/22 Expiration date: 7/21/2003
bALLET dEVIARE (NY, NY)	dancer Full job description link Approved: 2003/05/22 Expiration date: 6/21/2003
University at Albany Art Museum (Albany, NY)	Director of Art Museum Full job description link Approved: 2003/05/22 Expiration date: 6/21/2003
Long Wharf Theatre (New Haven, CT)	DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT Full job description link Approved: 2003/05/22 Expiration date: 7/21/2003
The Washington Chorus (Washington, DC)	Director of Development Full job description link Approved: 2003/05/22 Expiration date: 6/21/2003
Capital Repertory Theatre (Albany, NY)	DIRECTOR/ACTING TEACHER APPRENTICE Full job description link Approved: 2003/05/22 Expiration date: 8/20/2003
Capital Repertory Theatre (Albany, NY)	EDUCATION DEPARTMENT APPRENTICE Full job description link Approved: 2003/05/22 Expiration date: 8/20/2003
The Philadelphia Singers (Philadelphia, PA)	EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Full job description link Approved: 2003/05/22 Expiration date: 7/21/2003
Edward Thorp Gallery (New York City, NY)	GALLERY ASSISTANT Full job description link Approved: 2003/05/22 Expiration date: 6/21/2003
Organization of Independent Artists (New York, NY)	GALLERY INTERN Full job description link Approved: 2003/05/22 Expiration date: 6/21/2003
Count Basie Theatre, Inc. (Red Bank, NJ)	General Manager Full job description link Approved: 2003/05/22 Expiration date: 6/21/2003
David Tunick, Inc. (New York, NY)	INTERN/ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT Full job description link Approved: 2003/05/22 Expiration date: 6/21/2003
Blue Medium (New York, NY)	Internship with Arts PR/Marketing firm Full job description link Approved: 2003/05/22 Expiration date: 6/21/2003

RECENT ART JOBS POSTINGS

Organization	Job
(Albany, NY)	MUSICAL DIRECTOR APPRENTICE Full job description link Approved: 2003/05/22 Expiration date: 7/21/2003
The Builders Association (New York, NY)	Production Manager Full job description link Approved: 2003/05/22 Expiration date: 6/21/2003
Carnegie Hall Corporation (New York, NY)	PROGRAM PLANNING COORDINATOR Full job description link Approved: 2003/05/22 Expiration date: 6/21/2003
fine art photography gallery in Chelsea (New York, NY)	RECEPTIONIST Full job description link Approved: 2003/05/22 Expiration date: 7/21/2003
AMS Planning & Research Corp. (Fairfield, CT)	RESEARCH DIRECTOR Full job description link Approved: 2003/05/22 Expiration date: 6/21/2003
eyestorm (New York, NY)	SENIOR SALESPERSON Full job description link Approved: 2003/05/22 Expiration date: 6/21/2003
Mark Morris Dance Group (Brooklyn, NY)	SOUND SUPERVISOR Full job description link Approved: 2003/05/22 Expiration date: 6/21/2003
Kidstock! Creative Theater (Winchester, MA)	Summer Art Teacher Full job description link Approved: 2003/05/22 Expiration date: 6/21/2003

NYFA Current Jobs is made possible with funds from the William Randolph Hearst Foundation and individual donors.

Opportunities for Artists

Below are a list of opportunities for artists submitted to NYFA during the past week. They are listed in alphabetical order by type of opportunity. New listings appear every Sunday. For other opportunities posted in previous weeks, please click on "View Past Postings" at the top right corner of the list below. Also, be sure to check out these two additional NYFA programs, which list opportunities for artists:

NYFA Source
NYFA Source is the most extensive national database of awards, services, and publications for artists of all disciplines. Artists can access information on over 3,400 arts organizations, 2,800 award programs, 3,100 service programs, and 900 publications for individual artists nationwide, with more programs added every day.

NYFA Quarterly
Dozens of additional opportunities for artists can be found in the Deadlines section of NYFA Quarterly. NYFA Quarterly is published the first week in January, April, July, and October.

Organization	Opportunity
artLink steamboat.org (Steamboat Springs , CO)	ART AND THE WEST: CONTEMPORARY WESTERN ART EXHIBIT AND SALE Full opportunity description link Approved: 2003/05/22 Expiration date: 6/21/2003
Pentimenti Gallery (Philadelphia, PA)	Artists Wanted Full opportunity description link Approved: 2003/05/22 Expiration date: 6/21/2003
VSA arts (Washington, DC)	CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS Full opportunity description link Approved: 2003/05/22 Expiration date: 8/20/2003
Terra Nova (Newark, NJ)	Collection of Art and Writing on Globalization Full opportunity description link Approved: 2003/05/22 Expiration date: 7/21/2003
New Jersey Tap Ensemble (Bloomfield, NJ)	FIRST COMPANY AUDITIONS Full opportunity description link Approved: 2003/05/22 Expiration date: 6/21/2003
Cultural Development Authority of King County (Seattle, WA)	PERIMETER-SCREENING FOR ATLANTIC/CENTRAL BASE Full opportunity description link Approved: 2003/05/22 Expiration date: 6/21/2003

Dear Erica:

Besides, the National Endowment for the Arts, are there really out there, bona fide organizations which really grant financial aid to starving artists? I guess you have to be an insider to get a grant. No matter how many organizations I write to, I end up with empty hands. To tell you the truth, they don’t care a bit. Hey, what I am going to loose, let me ask you one more time if there are out there some good folks who can help. Thank you.

Rick Flavel, New York, USA

I know what you mean. Sometimes, it is pure politics. Some other times, connections. Anyway, try those listed below. Have a look at the recent national grants statement of NEA. It could be useful and informative.

GRANTS FOR ARTISTS IF YOU ARE LUCKY!!

NEA Awards $66 million in Latest Round of FY03 Grants

The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has announced that it will award more than $66 million through 903 grants in the second round of FY03 grants. The Arts Endowment will distribute $66,042,860 to nonprofit national, regional, state, and local organizations across the country -- funding 839 projects in the Access, Arts Learning, Heritage/Preservation categories and in Leadership Initiative categories of Radio and Television and Folk Arts Infrastructure. Sixty-four partnership agreements with state and regional arts councils will also be funded.

"I have a simple philosophy for the National Endowment for the Arts," said Dana Gioia, Chairman of the Arts Endowment. "A great nation deserves great art. From providing preschool children with arts instruction, to encouraging a higher level of arts criticism, to funding a new public television show that will teach viewers about classical music, these projects will further the NEA's mission to bring the best possible art to the greatest number of Americans."

In the category of ACCESS -- projects that seek to reach underserved populations or citizens whose opportunities to participate in the arts may be limited -- 316 grants for a total of $8.35 million were awarded. Funded projects include:

Dancing in the Streets (New York, NY)
$30,000 to support the presentation of dance companies in free performances at public sites throughout New York City. Companies to be presented include Eiko and Koma; Taylor 2; Nrityagram Dance Ensemble; and nicholasleichter dance.
Clay Studio (consortium) Philadelphia, PA
$18,000 to support a traveling exhibition of work by contemporary Chinese ceramic artists. The project is a collaboration with the Orange County Center for Contemporary Art.
Houston Grand Opera Association (Houston, TX)
$95,000 to support Discover America: Community Connections Initiative - Phase II. The initiative will focus on free and discounted performances in order to reach a broader base of young and diverse audiences.
Fishtrap, (Enterprise, OR)
$10,000 to support writing workshops, discussions and readings for residents of the rural Northwest. Themes will include the changing demographics of the West, the urban-rural divide, aging of rural populations, new immigrants of color, and the resurgence of Native-American culture.
Grand Performances (Los Angeles, CA)
$20,000 to support INTERSECTION AFRICA -- the effects of the African diaspora on contemporary arts. The free series will host spoken word, dance and music performances by local, national and international artists, in addition to an intergenerational poetry workshop.
Women's Philharmonic (San Francisco, CA)
$10,000 to support COMPOSING A CAREER, a symposium and an annual music festival at Yerba Buena Center for the Performing Arts. The symposium will include MUSIC IN THE MAKING, new music reading sessions that will showcase emerging American women composers.
Alaska Design Forum (Anchorage, AK)
$28,000 to support a lecture and workshop series on the built environment with internationally recognized architects and designers. Lectures and workshops will be presented in Anchorage, Fairbanks, and Juneau.

In the category of HERITAGE/PRESERVATION -- grants that preserve artistic expression and practice that reflect this country's many cultural traditions -- funding is being awarded to 172 projects for a total of $4.02 million. Recipients include:

Women Make Movies (on behalf of Travel film Company) (New York, NY)
$30,000 to support a documentary that depicts the history of Mason City, Iowa through a narrative about one building. The Park Inn, a hotel designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, will be documented, presenting the building through its relationship to the city and urban history.
Grupo de Artistas Latin-Americanos (aka GALA, Inc.)Washington, DC
$35,000 to support a production of VALOR, AGRAVIO, Y MUJER by Ana Caro. The theater will commission an original translation and will offer free simultaneous English interpretation at all shows.
Natya Dance Theatre (consortium) Chicago, IL
$10,000 to support dance workshops for South Asian and Middle Eastern immigrant families in crisis. Natya Dance Theatre, an Indian classical dance organization, will work in consortium with Apna Ghar, a social service agency.
Cornerstones Community Partnerships (Santa Fe, NM)
$35,000 to support educational workshops on the preservation of historic adobe structures in Mora County, New Mexico. The project will train rural communities in the preservation of their historic adobe buildings with a traditional building technique central to the Hispanic and Native-American cultures of the Southwest.
California Indian Basket weavers Association (Nevada City, CA)
$30,000 to support the CALIFORNIA INDIAN BASKETWEAVERS GATHERING. The annual gathering contributes to the revitalization of indigenous basket traditions in California by bringing together basket weavers to learn from one another, share experiences, discuss issues, and exhibit their work.

Private Art Organizations that give grants and other forms of support to artists.

Alberta Foundation for the Arts - source of grant funding in the province.

American Artist Relief Organization Network, Inc. - encouraging celebrities and developing artists to lend their talents to needy causes.

American Arts Alliance - The mission of the American Arts Alliance is to be the principal advocate for America's professional nonprofit arts organizations and their publics in representing arts interests and advancing arts support before Congress and other branches of the Federal government. To achieve this mission, the Alliance will inform legislators and policy makers of the vital role of the arts in American society, and advocate the development of national policies which recognize, enhance and foster the contributions that the arts make to America

Nour Foundation: The Khalili Collection of Islamic Art - more than 20,000 objects documenting Islamic art. Site offers information on the collection, exhibits and the foundation.

New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) - enables contemporary artists to create and share their works and provides the broader public with opportunities to experience and understand the arts

The Visual Resource Association site includes information about the Association, information about copyright issues, and information about affiliate organizations.

Thunderbird Foundation for the Arts, The - provides scholarships, endowments, and internships for the visual arts in the name of Maynard Dixon, the American modernist painter. Also offers the Dixon studio as a retreat for aspiring artists.

National Foundation for the Advancement of the Arts - with the mission to "identify young, emerging artists and encourage them with moral and financial support to pursue their dreams."

Society of Architectural Historians and its members invite the support and active participation of all who share our interest in architecture--past, present, and future. Founded in 1940, the Society encourages scholarly research in the field and promotes the preservation of significant architectural monuments that are an integral part of our worldwide historical and cultural heritage.

The Texas Coalition for Quality Arts Education acts as a common voice for fine arts education in Texas, representing the over three million students enrolled in the fine arts in Texas, their parents, educators, community leaders, and arts advocates involved in and supportive of fine arts education, both publicly and privately.

The National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) is a professional organization of individuals whose interests, talents, or careers are primarily focused on the ceramic arts. It became an independent organization in 1967 after several years of affiliation with the Ceramics Education Council of the American Ceramic Society.

The 500, Inc - non-profit all volunteer fund raising organization dedicated to serving the cultural arts community.

The Society of Illustrators was formed to promote and stimulate interest in the art of illustration, past, present and future, and to give impetus generally toward high ideals in the art by means of exhibitions, lectures, educational programs, social intercourse, and in such other ways as may seem advisable.

Society of Publication Designers - For over a quarter of a century, the Society of Publication Designers has been a driving force for quality and innovation in publication design. It is the one venue to which the best of the best continually strive.

Sanskriti Foundation - provides preservation and promotion of artistic and cultural resources.

Pauline Oliveros Foundation - furthers research in arts technology and sponsors the exploration and uses of art for the education and development of human consciousness, making the results available to the public.

Open Studio: The Arts Online - Cash awards to nonprofits to provide internet access and training in support of increasing the arts online. Run by Benton Foundation and NEA

The Society of American Silversmiths is the world's #1 resource for anything related to the silversmiths' art and craft. SAS was founded in April 1989 as nation's only professional organization solely devoted to the preservation and promotion of contemporary silver smithing, specifically in the areas of holloware, flatware, and sculpture.

Princess Grace Foundation - identifies and assists young artists in the fields of dance, theater and film in the United States.

Royal Dublin Society - promotes the development of arts, science, agriculture and industry in Ireland.

Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc. - providing financial assistance to individual working artists of established ability.

Pierre-Gianadda Foundation - art exhibition, sculpture park, Gallo-Roman museum, automobile museum, cultural center in Martigny.

The National Cartoonists Society is the world's largest and most prestigious organization of professional cartoonists. As defined in the NCS by-laws, a professional is one who earns 50% or more of one's living by drawing cartoons. The by-laws define a cartoonist as "a graphic story teller, whose drawings interpret rather than copy nature in order to heighten the effect of his or her message."

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