Individual Artist Fellowship Guidelines NOW AVAILABLE

The annual deadline for the Individual Artist Fellowship Program is coming up on June 1, 2007.  This year applications to the program are being accepted in the disciplines of Visual Arts (both 2 and 3 dimensional) and Media Arts.  The guidelines are available on the Division's website at the following link: http://www.florida-arts.org/grants/fellowship/guidelines.htm. 

This is the first cycle of the fellowship program where applications will be accepted through OASIS.  Applications must be submitted through OASIS by midnight EST on June 1st with all support materials and work samples postmarked on the same date.  Support materials and work samples will still be mailed to supplement the electronic submission.   Don't forget, this application deadline for the fellowship program is for Visual Arts and Media Arts applicants only.  Artists in other disciplines will be eligible to apply to the next deadline of the fellowship program, June 1, 2008. 

Panel meetings to determine these fellowship awards will be held in October 2007 in Tallahassee.  Dates and locations of the meetings will be published closer to the date. 

Next Artist Enhancement Grant Deadline Coming Up!

The next deadline for applications to the Artist Enhancement Grants Program will be July 12, 2007.  This deadline will be for applications for activities or purchases occurring between October 1, 2007 and June 30, 2008.  To download the program guidelines for the Artist Enhancement Grants Program, visit the following link: http://www.florida-arts.org/grants/ae/. 

The Artist Enhancement Grants Program serves Florida's Individual Artists through monetary awards that allow them to take advantage of specific career building opportunities to advance their work and careers.  For more information about the Artist Enhancement Grants Program, visit www.florida-arts.org. 

Individual Artist Workshop Opportunities Coming Up! 

Bruce Baker discussing slide selection and presentation at a 2006 workshop in Florida.

Division of Cultural Affairs is delighted to announce that we will be hosting another series of Visual Artist Career Development Workshops with Bruce Baker, a nationally-recognized consultant from Vermont.  These workshops will be a great opportunity for Visual Artists to gain more information about marketing their work, selecting slides for jury review, and trends in the market for artwork today.  The free workshops will take place at two locations in the Florida Panhandle:

Tallahassee- June 14, 2007
Location TBD
Time: 9am - 4 pm
Hosted by COCA Council on Culture and Arts for Tallahassee/Leon County
For more information contact: Clint Riley (clint@cocanet.org)
*More information/Location will be posted on the Division's website as it becomes available. 

Pensacola- June 15, 2007
The Pensacola Museum of Art
Time: 9am - noon
Hosted by the Pensacola Museum of Art
To RSVP: Leah Griffin, Assistant Curator
850.432.6247 or leah@pensacolamuseumofart.org

**PLEASE NOTE:  These workshops are offered free of charge, but advance registration is required.**  The Division is able to offer these workshops for individual artists through generous support from the National Endowment for the Arts Challenge America Program.  More information on the NEA can be found at www.nea.gov. 

Deadline: May 14, 2007
BUDGET: $30,000 Call to Artists – Pinellas County Cultural Affairs Department is advertising a Public Art project open to Tampa Bay area artists (residents of Pinellas, Hillsborough, Polk, Hernando, Pasco, Sarasota, and Manatee Counties). Artists are invited to submit qualifications for a community-based project that focuses on environmental sustainability. For complete project information, graphics, and application instruction, visit the Pinellas County Cultural Affairs public art web page at www.pinellasarts.org or contact Mark Flickinger, Public Art & Design Program Director, at (727) 453-7869 or mflickin@co.pinellas.fl.us. 

Deadline: May 5, 2007
Call to Artists: The Feminist Art Project - Florida (TFAP-FL)** is organizing a juried exhibition of work by women photographers living in Florida. The Feminist Art Project-Florida (TFAP-FL) is one of several regional organizations that began to form in mid-2006 in order to develop awareness of feminists' contributions to art and to the Feminist Art Movement. The images chosen will be in an exhibition and also included in a limited edition boxed suite available for purchase. Terri Weissman, Ph. D. will be the juror. Please submit a disc with up to 10 images in jpg format of your work (images should be 5” x 7” 300 dpi resolution). Subject is open, color or black and white. This disk will not be returned. Please write your name and contact information (telephone and address) on the disc. No biographical information is necessary.

Please address your submission to:
TFAP-FL Submission
Bernice Steinbaum Gallery
3550 N. Miami Ave
Miami, Florida 33127 

For further information on TFAP-FL, please go to:  http://thefeministartprojectflorida.pbwiki.com7

Deadline: May 7, 2007
Residency Program - McColl Center for Visual Art is an artists' residency program and gallery dedicated to promoting contemporary art and supporting artists regionally, nationally and internationally. Fusing a regional character with a national and international perspective, The Center is a place where artists work, conduct research and where exhibitions introduce a broad public to a variety of contemporary art practices by artists from around the world. The Center's goal is to present art and artists in a way that engages and enriches the public while revealing the creative process through open studios, outreaches, community projects, exhibitions and educational programs. McColl Center for Visual Art is seeking applications from regional, national and international artists interested in participating in its residency program. Artists are selected for either a Fall 2008 session, (September 8 - November 24) or Winter 2009 session (January 5 - March 23, 2009). Artists-in-Residence participate in McColl Center for Visual Art's open houses, artist forums, outreaches, workshops, education programs and interact with other regional, national, and international artists who are in residence. Artists are provided with a 230-819 sq ft studio and have twenty-four hour access to the Center's facility including a media lab, machine, metal and woodshop, dark room, printmaking studio, ceramic studio and blacksmith shop. In addition to the use of these extraordinary facilities, each artist is given housing accommodations, a travel allowance, $2,000 for materials, and a stipend of $3,300. A panel comprised of artists, curators, and arts professionals will select artists based on the quality of their work, professional commitment, and interest in participating in a stimulating and creative environment. For application guidelines visit our website at www.mccollcenter.org. For questions call Claudia Gonzalez-Griffin at cgriffin@mccollcenter.org. 

Deadline: May 18, 2007
20th Annual Northern National Art Competition Open to all 2-D art by artists 18 or older who are living in the US. Three $1000.00 Awards of Excellence. Over $8500.00 in prize money. Esteemed Juror/Judge: Art Professor Allan Peterson, formerly with SUNY, Geneseo and more recently the gallery director and later chair of the Art Department and director of the Anna Lamar Switzer Center for Visual Arts of Pensacola Junior College in Florida. Entry Fee $25.00 - 2 slides. All proceeds from sales go to artists. For Prospectus send business sized SASE to NAC PO box 916, Rhinelander, WI. or email your USPS address to Gallery Director: Katherine Ralph: kralph@nicoletcollege.edu. Entry Postmark deadline May 18, 2007. Opening Reception July 24, 2007. Web:http://www.nicoletcollege.edu/artgal/artgall.htm Contact: Katherine Ralph 715-365-4556 or Dori Brown, Northern Arts Council 715-362-3963.

Deadline: June 1, 2007
Accepting Proposals for Grants funding. The Harpo Foundation supports artists that are unrecognized by the field. This applies to all artists whether emerging or further along in their careers. Proposals to the foundation can take the form of installations, public interventions, personal projects, residencies, and under certain conditions, exhibitions. Proposals should include a project description, examples of the artist's work (in digital format) and a resume. A detailed budget breakdown is not necessary, however grant will usually not exceed $10,000. For more information, please contact the Harpo Foundation at 305.442.8242 or email harpofl@earthling.net, harpofoundation.org.

Deadline Not Specified
The Palm Beach County Artists' Association announces a call to artists. The mission of The Palm Beach County Artists' association is a coalition created and managed by artists, for artists of all disciplines. We are dedicated to empowering individuals in the arts by reaching out to our diverse community, cultivating professional and social resources and opportunities for our members, and developing collaborative relationships. With several of the events that have been hosted around the county, this organization has many plans to continue this mission. Part of our focus is to create small, intimate gatherings among artists of multidiscipline within the county. The intimate connections will be done by way of Koffee Klatches (which are small home or studio gatherings among artist friends who you feel would benefit from this organization) and By Artists for Artists Enrichment projects (which are mini workshops or seminars given by PBC artist for PBC artists). We are looking for hosts for these events as well as people who are willing to house some of these events at their homes, studios, galleries, conference rooms, dance halls or any type of roomy space that will allow the artists to expand their talents with each other. For more information, please contact Tracy Rosof-Petersen, 561.585.1411 or eartists@bellsouth.net. 

Many more opportunities for individual artists can be found on the Division's website at http://www.florida-arts.org/jobs/individual.htm

Meet an Individual Artist Fellowship Recipient

The 2007 Individual Artist Fellowship Awards were awarded in the categories of Literature, Theatre, Music, Dance, Folk Arts and Interdisciplinary.  In each edition of the Artistlink for 2007 we will feature information on different Grant recipients from the Division's grants programs.  Below meet Reginald Shepherd, recipient of the Individual Artist Fellowship in Literature for 2007. 

Reginald Shepherd, Individual Artist Fellowship Recipient
Pensacola, Florida

Reginald Shepherd is the editor of The Iowa Anthology of New American Poetries (University of Iowa Press, 2004). He is the author of five volumes of poetry, all published by the University of Pittsburgh Press: Fata Morgana (2007), Otherhood (2003), a finalist for the 2004 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, Wrong (1999), Angel, Interrupted (1996), and Some Are Drowning (1994), winner of the 1993 Associated Writing Programs’ Award in Poetry. His poetry has appeared in four editions of The Best American Poetry, as well as in such journals as The Kenyon Review, The Nation, The New York Times Book Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, and The Yale Review. It has also been widely anthologized. His collection of literary essays, Orpheus in the Bronx, will be published in the University of Michigan Press Poets on Poetry Series in 2008. Shepherd is the recipient of the 1993 “Discovery”/The Nation Award and of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Illinois Arts Council, and the Florida Arts Council, among other awards and honors.