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The new generation of Oaxacan art

Defensa propia (2005)
oil on canvas, Demián Flores Cortés.

Links

Residencies - Awards - Events - Projects - Art History Conferences - Postdoc

International Symposium on the Arts in Society, New York, 23-2-2007

Demián Flores Cortés

Planeta.com - global journal of practical ecotourism

Noticias Voz e imagen de Oaxaca

Art-Atlas.Net, The International Art Directory, L'Annuaire International de l'Art

Residencies

Allenheads, Northumberland, Engalnd - Contemporary Arts 2 Residency Opportunities "BASE ELEMENTS"

Sweden - The Council of Bergen & Stiftelsen Kulturhuset USF offer a residency to professional artists, writers, directors, choreographers, composers & audio/new media artists.

Contemporary Artists Center, Massachusetts - focuses on emerging, professional contemporary artists.

Irish Museum of Modern Art - The Artists Residency Programme is a studio/residency programme intended to provide opportunities for artists to research and develop their work practice, and is open to artists of all nationalities working in any medium, by application or invitation.

The Leverhulme Trust - this scheme is intended to support the residency of an artist of any kind institution of higher education or a museum in the UK.

Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine, USA - an intensive nine-week summer residency program for emerging visual artists, providing an exceptionally stimulating and rigorous environment to support artistic creation and interaction.

Bernheim Outdoor Art Fellowship 2007 Bernheim is a beautiful 14,000-acre property located 25 miles south of Louisville. The Fellow recipient is required to live at Bernheim for up to three months while working on his/her project.

Rijksakademie Research Residency, Amsterdam - a working and meeting place for young professional artists from all over the world. Fifty studios are available for resident artists who work for one or two years on research, projects and production.

I-Park, Connecticut, USA - Environmental Art Grant/Residency Program Environmental artists, landscape/garden designers, multi-disciplinary artists are invited to submit proposals for site-specific works on the grounds of the 450-acre I-Park artists' community.

Four week residency in Hobart, Tasmania. The International Natural and Cultural Residency Program for international artists is in its second year of operation for international artists and applications are now open.

The European Cultural Foundation (ECF) welcomes art professionals, cultural operators, cultural researchers, cultural journalists and cultural translators from all European countries to apply for a travel grant.

Centro Cultural La Curtiduria, Oaxaxca, Mexico - Working and living space available in the oldest barrio of a beautiful Mexican city that combines ancient, and colonial elements towards contemporary creativity.

Awards

British Council - If you are a visual artist resident in the UK then the British Council may be able to help you with the costs of transporting work to an exhibition in a gallery abroad.

Arts Council England - Helen Chadwick Fellowship The British School at Rome and the Ruskin Laboratory at the University of Oxford invite applications for a Senior Research Fellowship. It is expected that the position will attract visual artists who have identified a project that could be made possible or enhanced by spending periods of time both in Rome and Oxford.

Royal Society International Joint Projects - programme designed to enable international collaboration by providing a mobility grant for researchers to cover travel, subsistence and research expenses. The collaboration should be based on a single project including two teams or individuals: one based in the UK and the other based outside the UK. (SCIENTISTS)

Commonwealth Arts and Crafts Awards

Japan 21 Awards - to support and encourage small-scale events/projects related to Japan and Japanese culture to take place in the UK.

The Wellcome Trusts Arts Awards - support for projects that engage the public with biomedical science through the arts.

Franklin Furnace Awards, New York- aim to support avant-garde art, especially forms that may be vulnerable due to institutional neglect, their ephemeral nature, or politically unpopular content.

Events

Birmingham, England - Plus International Design Festival, 17-21 October 2007. Plus is a unique design-led festival showcasing all that is innovative, pioneering, and novel in the world of graphic design

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Rotterdam, Holland - Dutch Electronic Art Festival Interact or Die! 10-29 April 2007.

Singapore Fringe Festival 2008

Kobe Biennale 2007 "Art in a Container" - Artists invited to submit plans for art works to be installed inside 40-foot dry freight containers measuring 12 meters length (deep), 2.4 meters wide and 2.5 meters tall.

AirVideo , Stoke-on-Trent, UK - a series of artists' film and video events , each film and video programme will be based around an issue prevalent in contemporary video practice. The events will take place on March 23rd and July 27th, 2007.

At Home In Europe - ISIS Arts (UK) and its international project partners BEK (Norway), InterSpace (Bulgaria) and RIXC (Latvia) are curating a new screening programme around the theme of European Identity for the Big M, ISIS Arts inflatable touring space.

Her Shorts Plugged Video Collective, Tucson, Arizona, USA - now accepting submissions for the 2007 Her Shorts Womens International Video Festival. The festival is dedicated to showcasing new video art created by emerging and established women artists from the USA and abroad.

5th International Art Festival 'Chania 2007,' Crete, Greece - Omma Center of Contemporary Art is organizing the 5th International Art Festival from June 5 until June 12, 2007.

Projects

Cambridge, England - Online collaborative environment for those in practice-based research.

 

 

Rita Duffy Studio, Belfast, Ireland - Nature at Work: Reflections on the Natural World & Responses to the Natural Environment. Please send a CV, six examples of work and a brief statement to: Rita Duffy Studio 5th Floor Scottish Mutual Building 16 Donegal Square South Belfast BT1 5JF

Art History Conferences

use this link people - Art History Information Exchange - Calls for Papers

Postdoc

The British Academy offers awards for postdoctoral research in the humanities and social sciences.

Sir Ernest Cassel Educational Trust Fund The British Academy administers funds on behalf of the Sir Ernest Cassel Educational Trust, to support travel costs relating to a research project.

 

  Thanks to John Atkin and Sandra Leeland at LUSAD for this info.