we haven’t absconded with your donations,

and we’re close to setting a deadline for a summer grant round.

Here’s what happened. During the last grant round we found that this was simply more work than we could sustain given our jobs and other commitments. So we set about dreaming up a technological solution for which we didn’t have the skills, nor the money to pay someone else. But as I write this I’m thrilled to say that Alex, a generous volunteer and computer wizard, is working away at creating the underlying structure that will allow us to simplify and automate much of the grant procedure. So stick with us - we’ll be back with you within the next couple of weeks with an application deadline and a stronger, faster, more technologically savvy cadre!

Archeology of Wonder
curated by Kristina Newman-Scott
REAL ART WAYS
October 4, 2008 —January 4, 2009
Opening reception: Saturday, October 4, 2008, 4-7PM
Performance by Valerie Garlick, 4:30PM
Closing reception: Sunday, January 4, 2009, 3-5PM
56 Arbor St
Hartford CT 06106
860 232 1006
www.realartways.org

Archaeology of Wonder brings together two disparate approaches to the past - archaeology with its meticulous discipline, and wonder with its radical subjectivity - to examine contemporary works of art. This exhibition was conceived and is being curated by Kristina Newman-Scott, Real Art Ways’ Director of Visual Arts.

Central to the concept of the exhibition is the symbolic significance of archaeology: Freud used archaeological excavation as a metaphor for the process of remembering experiences in therapy. Indeed, such language has worked its way into our daily parlance; we often speak of “unearthing” facts and memories. Archaeology of Wonder posits questions about the way we use artifacts and art to approach those relationships to the past that are difficult to pin down, yet evoke inescapable reactions in the mind of the viewer, thus linking them to the world of wonder.

Artists include Elia Alba, Tom Bogaert, Julia Brown, Brian Burkhardt, Harriet G. Caldwell, Chad Curtis, Valerie Garlick, Heather Hart, Jennifer Knaus, Simone Leigh, Brian Lund, Justin McAllister, Sally B. Moore, Julia Gail Oldham, Javier Piñón, and Yuko Suzuki. Each of these artists incorporates historical items and facts-objects of existence-in ways that stimulate a lasting, emotional response in the viewer in his or her effort to decode their meaning

Ethnographies of the Future, Redux
curated by Sara Reisman
The Starry Night Fund of the Tides Foundation
September 10 - November 24, 2008
55 Exchange Place, Suite 406
@ Broad Street
New York, NY 10005
646.747.2248
Exhibition on view during business hours: 10am to 5pm and by appointment

The B Sides
@ALJIRA, Ac CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART
curated by Edwin Ramoran
November 22, 2008 to February 28, 2009
The major group exhibition The B Sides will bring together the cultural production of various artists based in the New Jersey and New York metropolitan area who have been influenced by dance music culture or have produced works within the context of club and house-ball culture. The exhibition will include works in various media including dance, drawing, fashion, installation, music, painting, performance, photography, sculpture, and video. A forthcoming catalog will provide some background and perspectives on dance music and contemporary art and culture and the intersections of race, class, gender, and sexual orientation. Curator: Edwin Ramoran, Director of Exhibitions and Programs, Aljira, a Center for Contemporary Art.
THE NEW YORK TIMES (08/01/08) Karen Rosenberg
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/01/arts/design/01gall.html?ref=arts

ARTINFO (07/10/08) Claire Barliant
http://www.artinfo.com/news/photos/1095/11983/

ARTFORUM (07/03/08) Colby Chamberlain
http://www.artforum.com/archive/id=20671

RHIZOME (7/7/08) Ed Halter
http://rhizome.org/editorial/news/?timestamp=20080707

ARTNET (8/8/08) Elisabeth Kley
http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/reviews/kley/kley8-4-08.asp

I have a few projects coming up to share with you.  I will be at Kala’s opening this Thursday, October 9, in Berkeley, and on October 20 at the artist reception for my first exhibition in London.  Presented by Rose Issa, I will be exhibiting works from a number of series including The Alphabet of Silence, Most Wanted as well as a new series of work entitled Heroes, Martyr, Legends.  I then head for Tehran in November to embark on a new project One Day that invites local artists to reflect on their everyday experiences.  The project will be developed and shared with audiences at Intersection for the Arts in May 2009.  Hope to see you in London/Tehran or the Bay Area soon!

All the best,

I was just included in the 1968: Then and Now exhibit, curated by Deborah Willis (through November 22).  I am also included in the Obama exhibit @ the Leica gallery (through November 8), and in the accompanying book.  The images from that exhibit [are above].

Work from my Hilltop High series was included in OjodePez #13, a Spanish documentary photography magazine, edited by Aaron Schuman.  Other featured artists include Todd Hido, Alec Soth, Stephen Shore, Tim Davis, Ryan McGinley, Richard Mosse, Kalpesh Lathigra, and Colby Katz.

Part 1:

I will be participating in the Headlands Fall Open House this Sunday in Building 960 (up the hill from the main buildings, in the door, down the stairs, on the left).

Just three times each year, Headlands invites you behind the studio doors of its internationally renowned Artist in Residence program to witness the creative processes of writers, musicians, dancers and visual artists of all kinds. Round up your family and friends to enjoy an exhilarating afternoon of art and ideas, fill your belly with a delicious organic lunch prepared by Chef Juliette Delventhal, and meet the artists developing today’s most exciting contemporary work.
When: Sunday, October 12 from noon - 5PM.
Mess Hall Cafe open from noon - 4:30PM.
Where: Headlands Center for the Arts, Buildings 944, 945 & 960
How: FREE Admission
On Sundays and holidays, MUNI bus #76 runs every hour between 9:30AM and 5:30PM. Click here for transit details and timetables.

To learn more about Fall Open House and current AIRs, click here.

Part 2:

I am a part of an artist collective that is curating and exhibiting in a very unique art show this weekend. Here is the info. I would love to see any of you there. If you can’t make it, you’ll be able to catch the documentary footage on our webpage in the coming weeks.

Sezio Presents : St{art}er Home

A house in Downtown Mountain View will be torn down in late October. Leading up to this demolition, a group of local artists will collaborate on an art installation within the 850 sq.ft. of this single family home. An artist reception will be held Saturday, Oct. 11th from 6 to 10pm, featuring a live DJ and adult beverages. A traditional open house will be held Sunday, Oct. 12th from 1 to 6pm, including hors d’oeurves and live music…visit www.sezio.org/starterhome for more details or email starterhome@sezio.org

Reception to follow: 6:30-7:30pm

EZRA AND CECILE ZILKHA GALLERY

Center for the Arts | Wesleyan University | Middletown, Connecticut

Internationally renowned documentary photographers Wendy Ewald,  Eric Gottesman, and Susan Meiselas join acclaimed writer and critic David Levi Strauss in a panel discussion about photography’s role in the world today. Wesleyan President and hiswill introduce the panel. A Q&A session will follow.
A reception and viewing of the exhibition Framing and Being
Framed: The Uses of Documentary Photography will begin

immediately after the panel in Zilkha Gallery.

Co-sponsored by The Allbritton Center for the Study of Public Life,

Center for the Arts, Center for the Humanities, History and Theory, and Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery.

RELATED EVENT

Artist talk with Perry Bard, creator of

Man With a Movie Camera: The Global Remake

Friday, November 7, noon-1pm

EZRA AND CECILE ZILKHA GALLERY

Please join New York artist Perry Bard as she talks about her

ground-breaking participatory video currently in Zilkha Gallery’s Framing and Being Framed: The Uses of Documentary Photography and shot by people around the world. You are invited to interpret Vertov’s 1929 experimental documentary film and upload your own footage to Bard’s site http://dziga.perrybard.net Several days later it will be projected in Zilkha’s North

Gallery alongside the original film. For additional information,

please contact Nina Felshin nfelshin@wesleyan.edu>

Sponsored by Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery

I thought you would be interested in this show I’m in at Wesleyan. It’s a show called “Framing and Being Framed,” curated by Nina Felshin, sort of about the role of the subject-photographer relationship. Other cool artist-photographers are in it (Wendy Ewald, Susan Meiselas, Alfredo Jaar, Emily Jacir, An-My Le, Koto Ezawa, and others). My installation is a collaboration with Sudden Flowers, the collective from Ethiopia with whom I have been working for 9 years. Members of the Ethiopian art collective designed the conceptual set-up of the show and I installed it, along with a video that they made.

Also, there is a conference around the themes of photography and historical interpretation on November 7-8: http://eyeofhistory.wesleyan.edu/conference/index.html.

Continuing its innovative pilot project for a second cycle, Idea Capital will grant a Metropolitan Atlanta artist a minimum of $500 to encourage an experimental and investigative art project. We seek to foster a new tone of experimentation and support in the Atlanta art world, as well as encourage a larger framework of support.

Idea Capital is investigating a support structure to encourage new ideas in art production across all genres of the arts; including visual, dance, literary, performance, new media, music, critical writing, film, and video. The grant is to encourage experimentation and investigation with funds designed to give artists permission to pursue new ideas.

As funding for individual artists from private and government sources has declined, Idea Capital seeks to reassert the role of the artist and to establish a new model for support outside of typical institutional models.

Emerging artists, as well as established artists and cultural workers, are encouraged to apply for these funds. We are seeking exciting ideas that foster a culture of change and create dialogue.

How does your idea need a small yet important boost?

Selection

The Idea Capital team will review the submissions. Our goal is simple: We want to foster our community and support innovative work. We are interested in new ideas, new artists and supporting emerging and established artists.

Eligibility

Open to artists of all disciplines eighteen years of age or older. For the current cycle, the Idea Capital committee will select at least 1 recipient. Additional recipients may be selected based on availability of funds. The grant is open to artists in the metropolitan Atlanta region.

Who is Idea Capital

Idea Capital is composed of Stuart Keeler, Susan Todd-Raque, Louise Shaw, Cinque Hicks, and Pam Rogers. We view this as the start of a movement. Idea Capital will continue to grow, as others contribute to the effort.

Calendar

Entries Due: Postmarked Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Notification: November 17, 2008

Submissions

All entries must supply the following in printed hardcopy form and also composed into a CD readable on both Mac and PC. No email submissions will be accepted. Any submissions that are not formatted correctly or do not open will not be reviewed. Slides are acceptable but not encouraged.

One typed page (your name at the top) answering all of these questions:

a) What is your idea?

b) How would an Idea Capital grant assist you with the production of your work? Or how would the grant support your work in progress?
c) How do you want to be held accountable for the grant?

Work sample description. Please provide the following information for each work sample:<
Year
Title
>Media (if applicable)
Dimensions (if applicable)
Duration of entire work (if applicable)
Work samples

• Visual art—Five (5) Images on CD at 150 dpi resolution, with your name on the CD. Files must be in jpeg format only, named with last name and a number in sequence. High resolution or other format files will not be reviewed due to time constraints.

• Performance, audio, dance, new media, film, and video—1 sample of no greater than 3 minutes as a multimedia presentation on CD or DVD. List URLs and active links.

• Literary, criticism—No more than 5 pages of writing.

Artist resume with your mailing address, email, and phone contact information no more than 2 pages in length.

PLEASE NOTE: Email submissions will be not reviewed.
Please do not contact the committee.
If you have questions, please email ATLartgrant@gmail.com
Please send submission package by the postmark deadline to
Idea Capital
c/o Susan Todd-Raque
P.O. Box 550911
Atlanta, Georgia 30355

Submissions will not be returned. All entries will be recycled. Do not send original artworks or other formats; they will not be reviewed.

Entry Fee

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