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Governor artfully surprises audience
By Bruce Dancis
The Sacramento Bee
03/05/2008
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger told about 350 representatives of state arts groups Tuesday that there will be "more money for the arts in the future." The governor was a surprise guest at the California Arts Council conference at the Memorial Auditorium. The theme of the day: "The Future--What's Next." Schwarzenegger was introduced by his sister-in-law and CAC Vice Chair Malissa Feruzzi Shriver as "a member of SAG (the Screen Actors Guild), an art patron and a wonderful artist."

Read the full article here: http://www.sacbee.com/capolitics/story/761358.html

Arcus grants $9.6M more, mostly for LGBT groups
By Jay Stevenson
3/27/08 (Issue 1613 - Between The Lines News)

(excerpt) The Arcus Foundation announced a new list of grants totaling $9.6 million in the final 2007 round, taking the total amount granted out last year up to $16.8 million. Over 90 percent of the funds are awarded to LGBT organizations and projects, and the remaining $783,000 was awarded to groups in great ape conservation.

The Arcus Foundation's total 2007 awards puts it in league with the Gill Foundation of Colorado, which awarded $15.4 million in 2006 to LGBT groups.

Read the full article here: http://www.pridesource.com/article.shtml?article=29728

LGBT center to mark sixth anniversary in good financial shape
By Seth Hemmelgarn
Bay Area Reporter – San Francisco

As San Francisco's LGBT Community Center celebrates its sixth anniversary, new executive director Rebecca Rolfe said there's plenty to be happy about.

"At six, we're really coming into our own," said Rolfe, who was named as permanent executive director for the center in February. "... This really has been an effort by everyone in the community."

Read the full article here: http://www.ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=2830)

When Girls Will Be Boys
From The New York Times Magazine
By Alissa Quart
3/16/08

(excerpt) Rey’s story, though, had some unusual dimensions. The elite college he began attending last year in New York City, with its academically competitive, fresh-faced students, happened to be a women’s school, Barnard. That’s because when Rey first entered the freshman class, he was a woman.

Read the full article here: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/16/magazine/16students-t.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&th&emc=th

Painting Cuba
By Christopher Murray
Gay City

The artist and documentarian James Rauchman, 55, has been doing a colossal series of work about gay life in Havana, Cuba. What began as the expression of a sexual obsession has grown into a major series of works in different forms - oil, watercolor, film - that embraces the kaleidoscopic contradictions of gay people's experiences in Cuba.

Read an interview with the artist here: http://www.gaycitynews.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=19429564&BRD=2729&PAG=461&dept_id=569333&rfi=6

Bill T. Jones Starts a New ‘Chapter'
by Andrew Davis
Windy City Media Group

(excerpt) It speaks to Bill T. Jones' iconic status that he is revered by so many different groups of people—including dance enthusiasts, the African-American community and the LGBT demographic. Part of the reason he is idolized is because his works with the New York City-based Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company ( co-founded in 1982 with his late life and business partner ) still push the boundaries of modern dance. The other facet involves Jones' own seemingly regal bearing, composed of curiosity, intellectual authority and his courage to come forward as a Black, gay, HIV-positive individual.

Read an interview with Bill T. Jones here: http://www.windycitymediagroup.com/gay/lesbian/news/ARTICLE.php?AID=17888

FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES, ARTISTS’ CALLS, RESOURCES

FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES

Challenge America: Reaching Every Community
National Endowment for the Arts
Deadline – June 2, 2008

Challenge America: Reaching Every Community grants are for support, primarily to small and mid-sized organizations, of projects that extend the reach of the arts to underserved populations – those whose opportunities to experience the arts are limited by geography, ethnicity, economics, or disability. Grants are for $10,000.

For more information, including guidelines and instructions to apply, visit the National Endowment for the Arts’ website.

Artists’ Resource for Completion
The Durfee Foundation
Deadline: April 29, 2008
Restricted to Los Angeles County

The Durfee Foundation’s Artists' Resource for Completion grants provide rapid, short-term assistance to individual artists in Los Angeles County who wish to enhance work for a specific, imminent opportunity that may significantly benefit their careers. Artists in any discipline are eligible to apply. The applicant must already have secured an invitation from an established arts organization to present the proposed work. The work must be scheduled for presentation within six months of the application deadline. Applications are reviewed quarterly.

Grants of up to $3,500 will support purchase or rental of materials, equipment, or space to complete work already scheduled for a specific event – an exhibition, performance, publication, reading, etc; auxiliary travel or shipping associated with the proposed event; and stipends/fees for collaborating artists (performers, designers, etc.) whose participation would expand or enhance the proposed work.

Google Offering Free Adwords Advertising In-Kind Grants
from the CAM eNewsletter
Google is offering free Adwords Advertising in-kind grants. Google grants support organizations demonstrating a philosophy of community service to help the world in areas such as science and technology, education, global public health, the environment, youth advocacy, and the arts. Grant recipients can use their award of free AdWords advertising on Google.com to raise awareness and increase traffic to their respective site. There is no deadline to apply. More information is available at http://www.google.com/grants .

Doris Duke Charitable Foundation's Arts Program Announces National Projects Fund
from the UCIRA listserve
As part of a new initiative to help strengthen the national performing arts sector, the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation's Arts Program will support select national projects that strengthen the health of the dance, jazz, presenting, and/or theater fields.

During a two-year pilot phase, the National Projects Fund will award a total of up to $1 million in grants to support key national projects in the dance, jazz, presenting, and/or theater fields. Grants will range from $60,000 to $200,000 each, and cannot exceed 40 percent of a project’s total cost. National projects engage a broad national constituency, occur once (or periodically) rather than annually, and have the potential to significantly impact a field. Types of projects eligible for support include national research, national public awareness activities, cross-discipline collaborations (including national meetings or conventions), and other national activities.
http://www.ddcf.org/

City of Los Angeles (C.O.L.A.) Individual Artist Fellowships
For submission deadlines. http://www.culturela.org/grants/08-09/Organizations08-09/Deadlines2.pdf
The prestigious City of Los Angeles (C.O.L.A.) Fellowships honor a selection of the best of Los Angeles contemporary arts. These awards allow very accomplished artists to focus on creating new works. Meanwhile, the Cultural Affairs Department collaborates with community partners to organize a museum exhibition, a performing arts showcase, and publish an illustrated catalog that promote the new work by these artists and distinguish Los Angeles as a major center of creative activity in the United States. Eligible artists must reside in Los Angeles County and demonstrate an active exhibition and/or production record of at least 15 years.

CALL FOR LGBT IMMIGRANT PERFORMERS
We are a group of Bay Area LGBT immigrant artists and community activists who are producing an evening performance show in June 12^th at SomArts featuring performances by and about LGBT immigrants and their experiences. This show will be part of the Queer Cultural Center's month-long 11th Annual Queer Arts Festival during the month of June.

We are looking for LGBT immigrant performers who are interested in being part of this project. We need more representation from Asian and Pacific Islander, Arab, African, and European (also Canadian, Australian, etc.) communities. We will meet as a group to decide the structure of the show.

If you would like to perform or be part of the production team, please contact Trilce Santana at trilces@hotmail.com or by calling 415.574.6433

Call for Panel Members
Deadline for abstract Submissions: April 15, 2008

"The Life and Legacies of Simone de Beauvoir" & "Queer Readings of Simone de Beauvoir" a special session at The Enkidu Summer Conference 2008: Storytelling, Memories and Identity Constructions
México City, 3 - 7 July, 2008

Focus for the 5th Edition of this Conference Cycle: "Border cultures,
Multi-Culturalism, Diasporas and Cosmopolitanism"

• Deadline for abstract Submissions: April, 15 2008
• Note: The submission deadline for abstracts for this session has been extended for this session)
• Paper proposals are being accepted in the following languages: English, Castilian, German, French and Nahuatl
• Conference languages: English and Castilian

Conference Homepage: http://enkidumagazine.com/eventos/identities07/intro.htm

Call for Panel Members
Deadline for abstract Submissions: 15. April, 2008

"The Life and Legacies of Simone de Beauvoir" & "Queer Readings of Simone de Beauvoir" a special session at The Enkidu Summer Conference 2008: Storytelling, Memories and Identity Constructions México City, 3 - 7 July, 2008

Focus for the 5th Edition of this Conference Cycle: "Border cultures, Multi-Culturalism, Diasporas and Cosmopolitanism"

Deadline for abstract Submissions: 15. April, 2008
Note: The submission deadline for abstracts for this session has been extended for this session)

Paper proposals are being accepted in the following languages: English, Castilian, German, French and Nahuatl

Conference languages: English and Castilian
Conference Homepage:
http://enkidumagazine.com/eventos/identities07/intro.htm

CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Galería de la Raza and QueLaCo (Queer Latino Artist Coalition) are inviting individuals or groups to submit an exhibition proposal presenting work by LGBT Latino artists for QueLACo’s annual visual art exhibition. The winning proposal will be produced and sponsored by QueLaCo and will be presented in the main gallery of Galeria de la Raza in conjunction with the Latina/o Queer Arts Festival and the National Queer Arts Festival in June 2008.

The selected Curator/s will work with Galería de la Raza’s Assistant Curator, Raquel de Anda, to produce a two month exhibition. Galeria de la Raza and QueLACo will provide:

• Gallery space
• Publicity and press coverage
• An opening reception and programming space
• Technical assistance

Submission Process
Latino LGBT curators will submit a hard copy and a CD with digital files that include the following:

• A one-page thematic curatorial statement detailing the premise of the exhibition and its pertinence to the Latina/o Queer Arts Festival.
• A list of Latino artists under consideration
• 3 to 5 digital images representing the artistic work of each selected artist
• For complex installations, we ask that proposals include a preliminary floor plan with exhibition distribution and special installation needs. (Floor plan available at www.galeriadelaraza.org)
• List of equipment needs (if necessary)
• Curator’s resume

Notes:

• Individuals may submit only one proposal for consideration.
• As the production budget is very limited, we suggest curators to consider work that is ready to hang.
• Installation details will be fine-tuned with support of the Galeria Staff.

Please submit Application to:
Raquel de Anda
Galería de la Raza
2857 24th St.

Artists - Writers - Directors - Dancers - Choreographers - Actors - Musicians - Filmmakers - Performers - Producers
Boot Camp for Artists
Taught by Jessica Robinson
Intensive skills for raising money and attention
Mondays, April 14 - May 19, 6:30-9:30 pm @ CounterPULSE
10% discount for EARLY registration by February 15th

Whether you're a choreographer who's self-producing for the first time, a director who's ready to expand your company, an experienced artist looking to brush up on skills, or a performer looking to get a part-time job in arts administration, this crash course will give you the skills you need to kick-start your career. 

Each session includes two 3-hour sessions of hands-on instruction.  Sign up for the entire series and receive a half hour of individual consultation for free. Your art deserves the investment!

Getting the Money – Grantwriting and Fundraising
April 14 & 21
Session II
Getting Attention – Marking & Publicity
April 28 & May 5

Session III
The Show – Production
May 12 & 19

Cost: $250 for the series or $100 per session.  Early registration discount of 10% if registered by February 15, 2008.

Space is limited.  Advanced registration is required.  Contact CounterPULSE at (415) 626-2060 or via email to register.

Sessions take place at CounterPULSE
1310 Mission @ 9th in San Francisco
For more information: www.counterpulse.org

CALL FOR ARTWORK
by transgender and gender variant artists
Fresh Meat in the Gallery V: RIOTS AND REEVELATIONS
Submissions Deadline: April 30th

Fresh Meat Productions is now accepting all sizes of artwork for the Fifth Annual Fresh Meat in the Gallery Exhibition in San Francisco. This year’s theme is Riots and Revelations.

Do you make visual art?
Are you trans, transgender, transsexual, genderqueer, gender-variant, gender-fabulous?
Do you want to have thousands of visitors from around the world see your art during San Francisco’s Pride month?

Then send us art on the theme of Riots and Revelations that is:
Artwork of any size that can hang on the wall
(We are unable to exhibit free-standing sculpture, video, or other 3D work. Only wall mountable works will be considered.)

We welcome work from international, incarcerated, professional, emerging and new artists!  Your work does not necessarily have to deal with gender. See below for mailing address and submission guidelines.

About the theme: RIOTS AND REVELATIONS
How have riots and revelations been part of your history and how will they shape the future?  How do you find peace in a time of war on our bodies and communities?  Do you create powerful, exciting, and energizing riots?  Are revelations quiet and introspective or publicly celebrated moments, movements, and histories?  What are your personal riots and/or revelations?  How are communities around the world rising up?  What new ways of living are being revealed for the future?

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

1) Send us up to three images, as medium-resolution JPEGs, saved onto a CD. Images should be no larger than 5x7 inches and between no larger than 150 dpi. Please do not send large files!
2) Send us a completed Artist Information Form
[download form from http://www.freshmeatproductions.org/callartwork.html]
3) To send your submission via MAIL: burn your JPG images and Artist Information Form to a CD and mail them to:
Fresh Meat Productions
3128 16th Street, PMB #240
San Francisco, CA
94103
4) Or send us your submission via EMAIL: simply email your JPGs and completed Artist Information Form to exhibitions.freshmeat@gmail.com

Call for Workshops, Papers, Performance, and Art Femme2008: The Architecture of Femme
Chicago Wyndham O'Hare
August 15th - 17th, 2008
www.femmecollective.com
Submission deadline is May 1, 2008.

Femme2008: The Architecture of Femme is a multi-threaded conference and forum for those who think about, talk about, and create Femme as a queer gender and identity.

Following our Femme2006 conference in San Francisco, where over 400 femmes and allies gathered for three days of workshops, panels, and performances, we again invite community members, artists, academics, homemakers, geeks, techies, activists, femmes of all kinds, and their allies to continue the conversation by participating in Femme 2008 as presenters and participants.

We are invested in having Femme2008 continue to reflect the diversity and complexity of femme gender, identity and contributions. We hope for this conference to be a community-building event, as well as an exploration and celebration of what it means to build and live queer femme identities.

Submissions of all kinds are welcome, particularly submissions by femmes. We encourage proposals by and for people of color, working-class people, fat folks, and people with disabilities. We encourage submissions that work outside and alongside identity and gender, as well as those reflecting directly upon identity and gender.

Femme2008 will continue the community dialogue begun at Femme2006. In particular, we hope that the intersections of femme with race, region, class, access, ability, privilege, and marginalization will be talked about, given space, meditated upon, constructed, and deconstructed.

We began this conference in 2006 out of a desire to see femme explored and discussed from a variety of perspectives. We wanted a conference that held the complexities of Queer Femme as its central focus, while building community. We feel we accomplished that in 2006, and in 2008, we want to continue to build femme community and bridges, supporting each other across borders and differences.

We hope to draw participants from across disciplinary, medium, and social boundaries. We encourage submissions from anyone interested, regardless of gender or sexual identity. We do ask that you read our mission statement before submitting.

We are soliciting contributions from anyone interested, including (but not limited to):

• Workshops
• Performances
• Research presentations
• Skill shares
• Activist & organizational topics
• Visual art
• Video or film

To submit a proposal, please submit the following to us at http://www.femmecollective.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=27&Itemid=42

For research presentations, send a 300 word abstract
For workshop and skillshare proposals, send a 300 word description of your workshop or skillshare ideas
Visual artists should send samples of work and a 300 word description of their artistic vision
Performers, filmmakers and other creative artists should contact us for more information
To learn more about us, our mission and to contact us with any questions, comments or concerns, please find us at our website: http://www.femmecollective.com

LAUNCHPAD SERIES at the SF LGBT Center:
CALL FOR PERFORMERS
Deadline: On-going
The LaunchPad Series at the SF LGBT Center seeks original performance pieces to be produced throughout the upcoming year. LaunchPad is a new project at the Center that seeks to support queer performance in the Bay Area by producing the work of local emerging queer performing artists and by cultivating local LGBTaudiences.

Projects produced by LaunchPad so far include a drag musical, a solo performance and an ensemble theater piece. For most productions, we will be pairing two 45-60 min projects to create a full evening of performance. This format introduces audience members to  pieces they might not otherwise see and encourages collaboration and camaraderie between artists.

Visual Artists Sought for the Art on Market Street Program in San Francisco--Change from Past Year’s Program
Deadline: ongoing
The Public Art Program from the City of San Francisco announced in late July that the Art on Market Street Program is discontinuing its annual competition.  However, artists are invited to submit documentation of past artwork for consideration for future Art on Market Street projects, both for the Kiosk Poster Series and The Temporary Projects, on an ongoing basis.  All artists must reside in the San Francisco Bay Area, and artists who have participated in the past may not be eligible.  Detailed guidelines at http://www.sfartscommission.org/pubart/projects/market/application_guidelines.htm .  Questions can be directed to the Public Art Program Associate at (415) 252-2594.

Atlantic Center's residency program
Deadline: on-going
Since 1982, Atlantic Center's residency program has provided artists from all artistic disciplines with spaces to live, work, and collaborate during three-week residencies. Located just four miles from the east coast beaches of central Florida, the pine and palmetto wooded environment contains award-winning studios that include a resource library, painting studio, sculpture studio, music studio, dance studio, black box theater, writers' studio, and digital computer lab. Each residency session includes three master artists of different disciplines. The master artists each personally select a group of associates - talented, emerging artists - through an application process administered by ACA. During the residency, artists participate in informal sessions with their group, collaborate on projects, and work independently on their own projects. The relaxed atmosphere and unstructured program provide considerable time for artistic regeneration and creation. Atlantic Center for the Arts provides housing (private room/bath with work desk), weekday meals (provided by ACA chef) and 24 hour access to shared studio space. Financial Aid is available to qualified applicants.

For more information on how to apply, please telephone (386) 427-6975 or (800) 393-6975 (domestic US only) or visit www.atlanticcenterforthearts.org or email us at program@atlanticcenterforthearts.org.

Poets & Writers
Poets & Writers will launch Readings/Workshops Presents, a new quarterly e-newsletter geared to organizations and writers who participate in the presentation of readings and workshops. Each issue will contain updates on funding available from P&W, highlights of the programs we support, and helpful advice on presenting literary events. To sign up for the newsletter here:
http://www.patronmail.com/pmailweb/PatronSetup?fid=1504

Artist Call is a monthly list of current opportunities for artists published on-line by the California Arts Council.
http://www.cac.ca.gov/?id=257

Ahmanson Foundation Provides Grants to Nonprofits in Los Angeles
The Ahmanson Foundation supports nonprofit organizations serving Los Angeles County, CA in the areas of the arts and humanities, education, medicine and health and human services. Support is also provided for building funds, renovation and equipment, capital campaigns, endowments, institutional scholarship funds, matching grants and special projects and programs.  http://www.theahmansonfoundation.org/.

Bank of the West Grants for Cultural Activities
Bank of the West provides grants for well-managed cultural activities in communities which the Bank serves. Bank of the West's Charitable Contributions Program operates on a year-round basis. Contribution requests are granted based on the nonprofit organization's ability to meet the Bank's charitable giving criteria, eligibility, need, and availability of charitable funds. http://www.bankofthewest.com/BOW/main.jsp?ChId=6f8dc2d8b4d2ff00VgnVCM10000087c35c92

Boeing's Grant Guidelines and Application Process
Boeing provides charitable contributions to U.S.-based nonprofit 501(c)(3) charitable or educational organizations in five focus areas: education; health and human services; arts and culture; civic; and the environment. Boeing also considers requests for in-kind donations and services. (A Boeing office is located in Seal Beach, CA.)  http://www.boeing.com/companyoffices/aboutus/community/guidelines.htm

Liberty Hill Foundation Lesbian & Gay Community Fund
The Lesbian & Gay Community Fund was created to provide critical support to new or ongoing projects addressing the issues of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered (LGBT) communities. Grants of $10,000 to $25,000 are targeted to groups actively working for institutional, policy, or public opinion changes that improve LGBT life and well-being and build alliances between LGBT and straight communities.

In 2006, a total of $230,000 was given through the Lesbian & Gay Community Fund. This is the largest amount of money Liberty Hill has ever given through this fund, due to the generosity of many individual donors and foundations such as The California Endowment and the Durfee Foundation.

http://libertyhill.org/media/lesbianandgay.html

McKnight Foundation Offers Online Resources For Arts Groups
from the CAM eNewsletter
The Nonprofit Management Toolkit on the McKnight Foundation Web site offers fundraising resources, tips for honing your nonprofit's message for the media and the public, technology assistance, and advice about recruiting and working with volunteers. The fundraising resources section provides links to information compiled by the Foundation Center, the Association of Fundraising Professionals, Charity Channel, Idealist.org, the Minnesota Council on Foundations, and other organizations. To access the Nonprofit Management Toolkit, see http://mcknight.org/resources/toolkit.aspx .

Online Training Course to Master Proposal Writing
The Foundation Center is hosting an online training course, titled Proposal Writing: The Statement of Need, to help grantseekers develop skills in constructing a compelling statement of need. The course includes interactive exercises and assignments, case studies, a final exam, and a printable certificate of completion. Lessons can be taken at any pace, and can be reviewed often. For more information visit the Foundation Center’s website.

Wells Fargo Funding
In 2005, through corporate and foundation grants, Wells Fargo gave 5,435 grants to nonprofits that totaled over $38 million. Wells Fargo gives first priority to requests where the primary purpose of the grant is to benefit people and communities of low and moderate income. While Wells Fargo accepts requests for financial support from organizations which enhance a community's quality of life--including cultural, arts, civic projects, and other activities--these grants are not one of their funding priorities. For California funding guidelines:https://www.wellsfargo.com/about/charitable/ca_guidelines

You can read the un-edited newsletter on the CA LGBT Arts Alliance website at:  http://www.calgbtartsalliance.com/Pages/Newsletter.html

Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department
The City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs serves as a catalyst for the delivery oof high quality arts and cultural experiences. The strategies for accomplishing our mission are centered around marketing, communication and relationsips with community partners.
www.culturla.org

Los Angeles County Arts Commission
The mission of the Los Angeles County Arts Commission is to foster excellence, diversity, vitality and accessibility of the arts in the County of Los Angeles. The Commission plays a leadership role in cultural services for the county, providing information and resources to the community, artists, arts organizations and municipalities.
www.lacountyarts.org

California Arts Council
The California Arts Council (CAC), a state agency, was established in January 1976 to encourage artistic awareness, participation, and expression; to help independent local groups develop their own arts programs; to promote employment of artists and those skilled in crafts in the public and private sector; to provide for exhibition of artworks in public buildings throughout California; and to enlist the aid of all state agencies in the task of ensuring the fullest expression of our artistic potential.
www.cac.ca.gov