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Workshops- Americans for the Arts National Conference
- Art Workshops - Plattsburg, MO
- ARTS ADVENTURES for 2008
- Arts Midwest Conference, Kansas City
- Craft Alliance
- Craft Alliance Artist In Residency Program at Grand Center
- MCKNIGHT FOUNDATION NONPROFIT TOOLKIT
- Prairie Arts Management Institute 2008
- PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR RURAL PERFORMING ARTS TEACHERS
- PuppetFest MidWest 2008
- Soorya Performing Arts
- Americans for the Arts National Conference
American Evolution: Arts in the New Civic Life
June 20 - 22, 2008
Sheraton Philadelphia City Center
Philadelphia is the birthplace of American democracy, and today it is a leader in the evolution of civic life. From history to hip, the city is alive with creativity. Cultures abound in Philadelphia, an open and engaged metropolis that welcomes a diverse community of artists, innovators, and creators.
Andrew Zolli
Keynote Speaker
Come Early, Stay Late
There is so much to do and see in Philadelphia you'll want to come early or stay late to take it all in. It's a great opportunity to bring the family. For a comprehensive list of cultural activities surrounding your stay in Philadelphia, visit PhillyFunGuide.com. Check out these tours arranged just for Americans for the Arts attendees!
Advance Workshops
This year, there 10 Advance Workshops taking place on Thursday, June 19. These in-depth workshops allow more time and focus on specific topics that matter to you and your work.
Register Online Today and book your hotel!
ww3.artsusa.org/events/2008/convention/003.asp
- Art Workshops - Plattsburg, MO
Workshops
Laurel DeFreece, Instructor, Artist & Host (816)539-2063
Laurel's Studio
710 NW 270th St., - P.O. Box 43, Plattsburg
laurelsart@gmail.com
to register
Come join the fun! Lunch provided. Experience art, great food, fun, nature, friendship, inspiration and laughter.
A Day of Photography - Photo 101:How to Take Better Images (limit of 10, min. of 3)
$50.00, 1 session Date: June 14th (rain date-TBA) 10am - 4pm
Instructions, Insight & Ideas; Cropping, Composition, Essential Photographic Skills You will see how much fun you can have with your camera. Both digital and film cameras are welcome. Some classroom time and field sessions, and later critiques of students work. Bring your own camera (throw away/one time use camera is fine)
Plein Air Workshop - Landscape Study (8 spaces available, min. of 3)
$50.00, 1 session Date: TBA 10am - 4pm
Work on location using a variety of media, your choice. Explore the immediate & spontaneous elements. This workshop is designed to let you feel comfortable drawing or painting outdoors. Bring your paint and paper or canvas & essentials.
Scrapbooks on the Go! (8 spaces available, min. of 3)
$50.00, 1 session Date: TBA 10am - 4pm
Combine your love of travel with this incredible opportunity to create a one of a kind travel journal and a work of art while discovering collage. Bring maps, brochures, photos, etc from your travel adventures
Sketch 4 Fun (8 spaces available, min. of 3) Youth Class
$50.00, 1 session Date: TBA 10am - 4pm
Learn to Relax - have fun and sketch. We'll learn the basics. How to see contour, composition, texture and values. Using pencil and charcoal, working on location and learning fundamental landscape drawing techniques. Includes material.
Creating a Collage Journal (8 spaces available, min. of 3)
$50.00, 1 session Date: TBA 10am - 4pm
Discover your Talent! Collage journaling is a powerful creative outlet - even if you never thought of yourself as an "Artist" or "Writer". Incorporating pictures and words as a collage journal is fun and personally revealing. Unwind – Unstress and let your creative juices flow! No prior art or writing experience is necessary to enjoy this class.
Girls Night Out! Create a "Cork" Board (8 spaces available, min. of 3)
$50.00, 1 session Date: TBA 4pm - 10pm
This is a creative retreat for WINE. Dinner and wine tasting. All materials included. Experience art, great food and wine, friendship and laughter. You'll leave with a complete cork board project and a new wine list!
- ARTS ADVENTURES for 2008
Arts Council announces its schedule of ARTS ADVENTURES for 2008
The Springfield Regional Arts Council has put together a slate of exciting destinations for its 2008 Arts Adventures and invites all members of the community to hop on board for these fun "road trips". As an "art roadie", you'll be travelling along with other art lovers and part way through the journey, the Arts Council's resident "art expert", Bucky Bowman, will give a lecture on fascinating details of what you will be seeing at the various locations. Here is the schedule of planned trips:
Saturday, May 24 - Missouri Botanical Gardens, St. Louis
A return visit to these gorgeous gardens as requested by our Adventurers who enjoyed a visit here last season... we'll enjoy a 6:30AM coffee reception in the Arts Council offices before departing at 7AM for St. Louis. A dutch-treat lunch will be taken at the Garden's wonderful Cafe Sassafras and adventurers will then have the entire afternoon to stroll through the exquisite floral landscapes, tour Buckminster Fuller's Climatron which houses exotic desert and tropical flora and fauna, and before departure, check out the great gift shop. On the way home, there will be a dutch-treat dinner stop at Sybill's Restaurant in St. James with return to the Creamery by 9:30pm. Cost is $80/person and includes Gardens entrance fee and Champagne and chocolates on the return.
Saturday, June 21 - Oklahoma City Museum of Art, OKC
Here's a "once in a lifetime" chance to see the exhibit, "Roman Art of the Louvre" being exhibited for the first time outside of Paris. Coffee and Danish will be served in the Arts Council office at 6:30a.m. and the group will depart the Creamery at 7:00a.m. Described as the "best collection of Roman art outside of Italy", the Louvre collection includes sculptures of Jupiter, Athena and other deities, fantastic creatures such as griffins, golden jewelry worn by Rome's elite as well as artifacts of daily life. A dutch-treat lunch will be taken in the Museum Cafe followed by a docent-led tour of the collection. At mid-way point on the way home, a dutch-treat dinner will be enjoyed with return to the Creamery by 9:30pm. Cost is $80/person which includes fees for the museum entrance and tour, Champagne and chocolates on the return trip.
Saturday, July 19 - Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art and Liberty Memorial, Kansas City
A coffee reception will be held in the Arts Council office at 7:30a.m. and the tour will depart at 8:00a.m. and return to the Creamery by 6:30p.m. The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, designed by the Eero Saarinen-trained Latvian-American architect, Gunnar Birkerts, is where Thomas Hart Benton served for years as an art teacher to Jackson Pollock and other contemporary artists. The museum is known for its ever-changing cutting-edge exhibits. The group will enjoy a dutch-treat lunch stop at Cafe Sebastienne where the walls are covered with one painting, "The History of Art", by Frederick J. Brown. After lunch, the adventurers will tour the $102million restoration of the Liberty Memorial which celebrated the conclusion of the "war to end all wars". Marechal Foch and General John J. Pershing were among the dignitaries who attended its opening on Nov. 11, 1926. Cost for this tour is $60/persons and includes entry fees and Champagne on the return.
Saturday, August 16 - Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa
Former mansion of Waite and Genevieve Phillips (of Phillips 66) from 1927 to 1938, the museum is Tulsa's "crown jewel" and Oklahoma's leading privately-supported art museum featuring European art of the 18th and 19th centuries, early Tuscan paintings and Venetian paintings of the 15th and 16th centuries and High Renaissance and Baroque paintings of the 16th through 18th centuries. Asian ceramics and paintings as well as American landscape paintings, African and Native American collections, contemporary craft, sculpture and decorative arts are all included in the three-story museum. Additionally, there are 23 acres of formal gardens as well as a wonderful gift shop.
A mid-way return dutch-treat dinner stop will be made. Cost is $60/person including entry fee and Champagne.
Saturday, Sept. 27 - Sprint Center (Kansas City) and Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art (Overland Park, KS)
The Sprint Center which opened in Oct. 2007 with a concert by Sir Elton John, features an 18,500 seat arena and is home to the College Basketball Experience and the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame which was designed by Edwin Schlossberg (husband of Caroline Kennedy). A dutch-treat lunch will be taken at the popular Webster House. The Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art was designed by Kyu Sung Woo Architects and houses the collections of Jerome and Margaret Nerman of American modern art featuring works of Frank Stella, Elsworth Kelly, Jasper Johns, Mark Rothko,and others. After a 6:30a.m. coffee reception in the Arts Council offices, the tour will depart at 7:00a.m.and return by 7:00p.m. Cost is $60/person including entry fees and Champagne on the return.
Saturday, Oct. 25 - Gilcrease Museum of Art, Tulsa
The Gilcrease houses the world's largest collection of art and artifacts of the American West and is one of the country's best facilities for the preservation and study of American art and history. Set among 460 acres of rolling hills, the museum features paintings by Malvina Hoffman, Will James, Frederic Remington, Charles Russell and N.C. Wyeth, among others. A dutch-treat lunch will be taken at the museum's Osage Restaurant. Coffee will be served in the Arts Council office at 7:30a.m. and the tour will depart the Creamery at 8:00a.m. and return by 9:00p.m. Cost is $60/person including entrance fee and Champagne on the return.
To book a space for any or all of these exciting Arts Adventures, contact the Springfield Regional Arts Council, 417-862-ARTS(2787).
- Arts Midwest Conference, Kansas City
The 21st Annual Midwest Arts Conference
September 17 - 20, 2008
Kansas City, Missouri
At the Kansas City Convention Center and the Kansas City Marriott Downtown
Expand your network of performing arts colleagues, resources, and opportunities.
Learn new skills and gain valuable insights into issues relevant to the
performing arts.
Discover artists from a diverse range of disciplines in the Marketplace exhibit hall and at live performances.
Experience the energy and momentum of gathering with fellow performing arts professionals committed to bringing the arts to communities across the Midwest and beyond.
For more information and registration, click here: http://www.artsmidwest.org/programs/mac/registration/index.html
- Craft Alliance
The St. Louis Craft Alliance provides inspiration and education in fine contemporary craft to the entire community through exhibitions, sales and instruction. For more information on classes, registration or sales please visit their website at www.craftalliance.org or call 314-725-1177. Located at 6640 Delmar Boulevard, St. Louis, MO.
- Craft Alliance Artist In Residency Program at Grand Center
ANNOUNCING:
Craft Alliance Accepting Applications For New Artist-In-Residency Program
At Satellite Location in Grand Center Opening Summer 2008
Craft Alliance, a non-profit arts education center in St. Louis, MO that offers programs and exhibits showcasing contemporary craft art is offering an Artist-in-Residency Program for emerging or mid-career artists with a body of work in clay, metals or fiber at its new satellite location in Grand Center in August 2008.
Artists will be provided with free studio space, equipped with Internet. They will have access to new state-of-the art metals, clay, fiber, and graphics studios and water/sink facilities. All associated utilities will be absorbed by Craft Alliance.
Residencies are available for 3, 9, or 12 months. Artists have the opportunity to exhibit and sell work from their studio space. Selected artists will be compensated for classes they teach and/or may work in the exhibition gallery as an assistant.
To Download an Application and Get More Info Go To ,www.craftalliance.org
And Click on Artists-in-Residence Program (pdf)
Residency Facts:
Who: Craft Alliance, a non-profit arts education center in St. Louis, MO that offers programs and exhibits showcasing contemporary fine crafts.
What: An Artist-in-Residency Program for emerging or mid-career artists with a body of work in clay, metals or fiber.
Where: At the Kranzberg Cultural Art Center located in the Woolworth Building on the corner of Grand and Olive in Grand Center, a historic cultural district in the city of St. Louis.
When: Residencies are scheduled to begin August 1. Applications reviewed on an on-going basis.
Artists Selected By:
*Quality of work
*Space availability
*Desire to interact with the public and arts community
Program Description At A Glance:
*Residencies available for 3, 9, or 12 months.
*Each artist receives a 180 sq. ft. rent-free studio space equipped with Internet access. Artists will have access to new state-of-the art metals, clay, fiber, and graphics studios and nearby water/sink facilities.
*All associated utilities will be absorbed by Craft Alliance.
*Artists have the opportunity to showcase their works once a year in a special exhibit.
*Artists can sell work from their studio space.
*Selected artists will be compensated for classes they teach and/or may work in the exhibition gallery as an assistant.
Artists Are Required To:
*Work in their studios for a minimum of 20 hrs./wk. during public hours of Tues. - Sun. Visitors can watch the artists at work and purchase their work from their space.
*Work a minimum of 5 hours/wk. on studio maintenance.
*Pay for their housing and living expenses and the costs of materials associated with producing their work.
To Download an Application and Get More Info Go To www.craftalliance.org
And Click on Artists-in-Residence Program (pdf)
For more information, contact Craft Alliance, 6640 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, MO, 63130, 314-725-1177 or Anne Murphy at programsgc@craftalliance.org
- MCKNIGHT FOUNDATION NONPROFIT TOOLKIT
MCKNIGHT FOUNDATION NONPROFIT TOOLKIT
www.mcknight.org/resources/toolkit.aspx
The Nonprofit Management Toolkit on the McKnight Foundation website offers fundraising resources, tips for honing your nonprofit's message for the media and the public, and advice about effectively evaluating programs and services. 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.
- Prairie Arts Management Institute 2008
Prairie Arts Management Institute - In its 8th Successful Year
Funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts
2008 INFORMATION
Practical Arts Leadership Training
Professional development and practical training for staff of small and mid-sized community arts organizations with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts and Arts Midwest
Begins: Tuesday, June 3 at 5:30pm
Ends: Friday. June 6 at 9:00pm
Augustana College, Sioux Falls, South Dakota
Click here for more information and registration: www.sdarts.org/pami/index.htm
- PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR RURAL PERFORMING ARTS TEACHERS
Deadline: June 4, 2008. The Dana Foundation Rural Arts Initiatives grants fund professional development programs for performing arts teachers in rural communities. The foundation is primarily interested in training for in-school arts specialists and professional artists who teach the performing arts to students pre K - 12 in the public schools.
www.dana.ovrg/grants/rural
- PuppetFest MidWest 2008
This year's PuppetFest MidWest runs from Tuesday July 8 to Sunday July 13, 2008 in Trenton, Missouri.
You can download the registration form and get more information at:
www.puppetfestival.org
We are excited with our confirmed line-up of workshop leaders and performers. They are:
Drew Allison - Grey Seal Puppets
Nick Barone - Nick Barone Puppets
Luman Coad - Coad Canada Puppets
Pam Corcoran - Corcoran Puppets
Art Grueneberger - Puppet Art Theater
Phillip Huber - The Huber Marionettes
Lynne Jennings - San Diego Guild of Puppetry/Puppetry Center of San Diego
Karen Konnerth - Calliope Puppets
Randel McGee - McGee Productions
Paul Mesner - Paul Mesner Puppets
Jim Napolitano - Nappy's Puppets
Pix Smith - Dallas Puppet Theater
- Soorya Performing Arts
Classes and Performances Available
Soorya is a not-for-profit organization foundation for Dance, founded in 2003, in order to fulfill needs of all people interested in Indian culture. The goal of Soorya is to disseminate all aspects of Indian culture especially its traditional art forms of Dance and Music. Based in Saint Louis, Missouri, Soorya offers year-round classes in the dance disciplines of Bharathanatyam and Kathak. Soorya also offers training in Carnatic Music. The curriculum is designed using traditional teaching approaches that are continuously scrutinized and modified to suit the needs and experiences of students in the United States. The dance training program has clearly defined achievement levels. To become a full-fledged dancer it is important to undergo training in three levels. At the basic level steps and jathis are taught along with instruction in dance theory. The intermediate level includes practical instruction and training to learn dance performance numbers along with advanced theory. In the final stage: the student achieves expertise in abhinaya (facial expression), nattuvangam (dance conducting) and is offered opportunities for choreography. The summer program gives intensive training in both practical and theoretical aspects for students who wish to pursue dance to a more serious level.Students of Soorya Dance perform regularly in various community events and senior students accompany Gurus Prasanna Kasthuri and Seema Murthy, the founder-directors of Soorya Dance in the presentation of their programs nationwide. In addition to imparting training in dance, music, dance theory and yoga, Soorya Foundation for Dance also organizes performances and workshops by both local and visiting artists.
Please visit their website for examples and more information: www.sooryadance.com or to enroll in classes or book a performance, email Prasanna Kasthuri at prasanna@sooryadance.com
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