Friday, April 10, 2020

Lest we forget


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Thursday, April 09, 2020

More grants for artists in dire $$$$ needs

To support artists during the COVID-19 crisis, a coalition of national arts grantmakers have come together to create an emergency initiative to offer financial and informational resources to artists across the United States: Super easy to apply for artists experiencing dire financial emergencies due to the COVID-19 pandemic:

 Click here!

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Wednesday, April 08, 2020

More Arts Resources: Wherewithal Recovery Arts Grants Opens Today!

Wherewithal Recovery Grants
from the Washington Project for the Arts
 
Recognizing the profound economic and artistic toll that the COVID-19 virus is taking on visual artists in our region, Washington Project for the Arts (WPA) is launching a recovery fund with $60,000 in seed funding from a $100,000 grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

Wherewithal Recovery Grants are available to professional visual artists, as well as moving-image / performance / sound artists with a history of presenting or performing in visual arts contexts (galleries, museums, etc.), living inside the DC-area Beltway. The $1,000 grants are intended to help offset lost income from cancelled exhibitions, performances, or lectures, and from canceled or furloughed employment.

The application portal will open on Tuesday, April 7th and can be accessed at www.wherewithalgrants.org. WPA staff will review applications every two weeks on a rolling basis until all the funds have been dispensed.

Preference will be given to artists who can demonstrate need and whose practices are in alignment with one or more of WPA’s values: collaboration, experimentation, and inclusivity. The names of all applicants and awardees will be kept confidential.

For questions about Wherewithal Recovery Grants, please contact Nathalie von Veh at nvonveh@wpadc.org.

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Tuesday, April 07, 2020

The Coronavirulization of Stimulus Packages

If/when there's another pandemic stimulus package, before the politicos fill it with pork, how about including a special pay, one time bonus - $25K - $50K per person, to doctors, nurses, hospital staff, first responders, cops, grocery workers, truck drivers, etc.? 

 In other words, to all those who are putting their cojones on the line for the rest of us? 

 Send your elected representatives a note! You can get their address and or phone number below:

 I'm looking at you Nancy Pelosi!

 I'm looking at you Schiff!

 I'm looking at you McConnell!

 I'm looking at you Schumer!

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DC Metro Virtual Town Hall: Strategies for Survival in the Visual Arts

DC METRO VIRTUAL TOWN HALL
STRATEGIES FOR SURVIVAL IN THE VISUAL ARTS

 Tues, April 14, 6-7:30pm

 Co-hosted by the Third Space Network, McLean Project for the Arts/VA
VisArts/Rockville/MD & Hamiltonian Artists/DC

 The Third Space Network (3SN) announces DC Metro Virtual Town Hall:
Strategies for Survival in the Visual Arts on Tuesday, April 14, 2020, 6-7:30pm. 

 The event will address the impact of Covid-19 on the visual arts in the DC metropolitan cultural community, an invitation for visual arts organizations, galleries, artists, curators, and other arts professionals to participate.

 To register/access the event, visit the Third Space Network’s Crowdcast online platform: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/dc-metro-virtual-town

 The DC Metro Virtual Town Hall will include short presentations by local arts leaders and funders along with open public dialogue intended to share solutions for the following: funding sources, future programming, support for artists, and engagement in community outreach. The event will also be an information resource for organizations facing the challenge of migrating their public events and exhibitions to the online medium. The Virtual Town Hall is envisioned as
a timely opportunity to call for a regional-wide arts consortium for initiating collaborative projects and joint funding: helping to unite arts & cultural communities in the DC region during these extraordinary times of crisis.

 Confirmed Guest Speakers: Nora Halpern, Vice-President of Leadership Alliances, Americans for the Arts; Jack Rasmussen, Director of the American University Museum/Chair, Maryland State Arts Council; Robert Goudie, Virginia Commission for the Arts; Sarah Burford, Media Arts Specialist/Visual Arts, National Endowment for the Arts: TBA, DC Commission on
the Arts & Humanities.

 Planning Group: Randall Packer, Creative Director & Christina Papanicolaou,
Communications Strategy, Third Space Network; Nancy Sausser, Curator/Exhibitions Director, McLean Project for the Arts; Susan Main, Gallery Director/Curator & Frank McCauley, Assistant Curator, VisArts/Rockville; Lily Siegel, Executive Director, Hamiltonian Artists/DC; Richard Dana, Artist/Co-founder, Take Me to the River Project; Kerry Brougher, former Chief Curator/Deputy Director, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.

 Guest Speakers: Nora Halpern, Vice-President of Leadership Alliances, American for the Arts, is an art historian and curator. She joined Americans for the Arts in 2001, while also maintaining a rigorous practice as an independent curator.

 Jack Rasmussen, Director and Curator of the American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, Washington, DC since 2005, he previously held Executive Director positions at di Rosa Preserve: Art & Nature, Maryland Art Place, and Rockville Arts Place. He also currently serves as Chair of the Maryland State Arts Council. 

 Robert Goudie was appointed by Gov. Ralph Northam to the Virginia Commission for the Arts in 2019. He is also the executive director of the Reston Town Center Association, has been Board Chair for the Greater Reston Arts Center the last six years, and helped found Public Art Reston and serves on its Board of Directors.

 Sarah Burford is Media and visual arts program manager for the National Endowment for the Arts. She is also a curator and creative professional with expertise in program development and management; philanthropy and grant-making; modern and contemporary art; museums; government; non-profit management; and the public sector. 

 Co-Hosts:
Third Space Network (3SN) is an artist-driven Internet platform for staging creative dialogue and live performance. 

 https://thirdspacenetwork.com/ f thirdspacenetwork / t @thirdspacenet / i
@thirdspacenet

 Hamiltonian Artists is a dynamic catalyst for DC’s creative economy and a vibrant center for contemporary art in Washington, DC. https://www.hamiltonianartists.org/

 McLean Project for the Arts (MPA) exhibits the work of emerging and established artists from the mid-Atlantic region, offers instruction and education in the visual arts, and promotes public awareness and understanding of the concepts of contemporary art. https://mpaart.org

 VisArts in Rockville transforms individuals and communities through the visual arts. Their vision is a vibrant, diverse community enriched and connected by the visual arts. https://www.visartscenter.org/

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Monday, April 06, 2020

Coronavirus Resources

COVID-19 RELIEF AND RESOURCES
WORKING AND CREATING AT HOME

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Sunday, April 05, 2020

Another reason why the Washington Post sucks

These are some of the things that really super fucking piss me off about how the WaPo views its local DMV arts presence - they hire an Italian artist to write about daily life in Milan (from an artist's point of view) during the coronavirus outbreak... how about hiring a fucking DMV artist to do that from your own backyard's perspective?
If you don't get it... you don't get it!

And when was the last time that a DMV artist got a center spread like this?


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