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Subject: California LGBT Arts Alliance MONTHLY E-NEWSLETTER - Volume 2
No. 9, September 1, 2005
Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2005 15:26:39 -0700
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California LGBT Arts Alliance MONTHLY E-NEWSLETTER
Volume 2 No. 9, September 1, 2005
The mission of The California LGBT Arts Alliance is to promote artistic
and financial partnerships that strengthen and deepen the cooperative
relationship among California’s LGBT non-profit arts organizations and
individual artists.
This month the CALGBT Arts Alliance Newsletter is being sent to you
courtesy of The Queer Cultural Center (http://www.queerculturalcenter.org).
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Table of Contents:
News
National
º Recommendations for Nonprofits Presented to Congress
State
º Political Art Removed from California Display
º California Arts Day
Local
San Francisco
º GFTA 04/05 Annual Report
Los Angeles
º L..A. County Arts Commission Announces over $2 million in Grants
Featured Organization
Jon Sims Center for the Arts
Membership
CALGBTARTSALLIANCE Members
º Queer Cultural Center
º (a)eromestiza
º Purple Moon
º Centro Cultural de la Raza
º QueLACo
º Frameline
º liquidFire
º Femina Potens
º Highways
º Fresh Meat
º The Harvey Milk City Hall Memorial
º QWOCMAP
º Jon Sims Center for the Performing Arts
Opportunities , Resources, Funding
º Regional Partnership Grant Program – NEA
º NEA Grants for Europalia International 2007
º California Council for the Humanities’ California Story Fund
º Network of Cultural Centers of Color/National Performance Network
Collaborative Subsidy Project
º City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department Youth Arts and
Education Service Grant
º California Council for the Humanities Documentary Project
º CAC Job Opportunity
º Port of Los Angeles PUBLIC ART/SCULPTURE
º San Francisco Women's Film Festival
º Asia Pacific Performance Exchange Program 2006
º San Francisco Arts Commission - Special Projects Grants
NEWS
NATIONAL
Recommendations for Nonprofits Presented to Congress
The Panel on the Nonprofit Sector, a collaboration of America's
charitable organizations, compiled a comprehensive series of
recommendations intended to strengthen the ability of the nation's
charities and foundations to serve the public. In the report it
presented to Congress, the Panel recommended more than 120 actions to be
taken by charitable organizations, by Congress, and by the Internal
Revenue Service, which together would strengthen the sector's
transparency, governance, and accountability. For more information, go
to http://www.independentsector.org/media/20050622_Panel_Report.html .
NEWS
STATE
Political Art Removed from California Display
by Brendan Coyne
Aug 26 - Citing "concerns about the current situation in the Middle
East," California’s attorney general opted last week to pull three
pieces of art from a state Justice Department exhibit held in the
building’s independently-operated café. State conservative groups had
protested the pieces.
One painting in particular – an image of the United States flag sliding
into a toilet – prompted the most criticism. Artist Stephen Pearcy,
creator of the flag painting, equated California Attorney General Bill
Lockyear’s action to censorship, the San Francisco Chronicle reports.
The works now hang in a hallway away from the restaurant.
Previous Related Item
* California Republicans Seek Removal of Anti-Bush Artwork (Jul 21, 2005)
"The decision to move it was based on the content and the viewpoint
being expressed," Pearcy insisted.
In late July, conservative media personalities and the state Republican
Party called on Lockyear to remove the flag painting, "T’anks to Mr.
Bush," from the exhibit. Groups circulated a petition and held protests
outside the building.
Lockyear’s office said the protests had nothing to do with the decision
to pull the three paintings from public display. The other two paintings
carried potent political messages as well. One reportedly depicts Bush
driving a church-shaped tank and the other is emblazoned with the
statement, "Palestine – Stop US-Financed Genocide in the Middle East."
The exhibit, "Creative Merger," is sponsored by the Justice Department,
California Arts Council, California Lawyers for Art and the Side Bar
Café, the installation’s site. Prior to the Justice Department showing,
the artwork was displayed at the Sacramento County Public Law Library.
Reprinted in accordance with The NewStandard.reprint policy.
The NewStandard: http://newstandardnews.net/content/index.cfm/items/2285
California State Fair's - California Arts Day - October 7, 2005
The California State Fair's arts day was just the precursor to the big
event in the fall--the annual "California Arts Day" on Friday October 7.
Arts Day was created five years ago to recognize the role that the Arts
such as music, theater, visual art, poetry, and dance among others play
in California.
"Every time I speak to people I ask them, 'Can you imagine a world
without art?'" says Muriel Johnson, Director of the California Arts
Council. "California Arts Day is the perfect day to celebrate the arts.
Everyone can participate--professional artists, children, and ordinary
citizens who can't sing a note or draw a tree, but who love the arts
anyway and want to support them in schools and communities."
Please slate Friday, October 7, on your calendars for the fifth annual
event. The CAC will post updates on the website and in this e-newsletter
throughout the summer. Museums, libraries, theaters, schools, art
centers and other venues are expected to participate.
If you have an idea for California Arts Day and would like to submit it
to the CAC, please email Mary Beth at [log in to unmask] with the
subject heading "California Arts Day idea."
LOCAL
San Francisco
Grants for the Arts 2004/2005 Annual Report now available. Download a
PDF version at http://www.sfgfta.org/etc/annualreport04_05.pdf (482 KB
file)
If you'd like a paper version mailed to you, please call Grants for the
Arts. 415.554.6710 or email [log in to unmask]
Los Angeles
L..A. County Arts Commission Announces over $2 million in Grants
Los Angeles County Arts Commission announced in July $2,259,000 in
grants to 199 nonprofit arts organizations for fiscal year 2005-6
through its Organizational Grant Program. The grants create visual and
performing arts projects, strengthen infrastructure, provide access to
the arts for children and adults, and represent a total allocation
increase by 15% from 2004-5. A complete list of grantees for 2005-6 is
online on the L.A. Arts Commission's web site,
http://www.lacountyarts.org/OGP_granteeslist05-06.pdf .
CALGBTARTSALLIANCE Members News
(Each Month the Alliance will feature one of our Members in our Alliance
Newsletter)
Featured Organization
Jon Sims Center for the Arts
http://www.jonsimsctr.org
Jon Sims Center for the Arts (JSC) supports artistic expressions of the
gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender experience. JSC ensures access to
the creative process, providing resources that support and promote new
and existing arts programs. We believe that the process and product of
creative activity have equal value, that all talent is worthy of
development, and that artistic expression is essential to our
community's health.
The Jon Sims Center is located at 1519 Mission Street (between 11th
Street and South Van Ness), South of Market, San Francisco, CA 94103
Photo Exhibit
Lenore Chinn and Pamela Peniston
Now to September 17, 2005
Qcc’s Lenore Chinn and Pamela Peniston at opening reception.
Photo by Rink
Pinguero’ed
Reading of a Work-in-Progress Part I
By Cedric Brown
Saturday, September 3, 2005 at 7:30pm
Bad Gays
A Comedic Performance Piece by Alan Reade
Friday & Saturday, September 9 - 10, 2005 at 8:00pm and Sunday, Sept 11
at 6:00
Friday & Saturday, September 16 - 17, 2005 at 8:00pm and Sunday, Sept 18
at 6:00
Friday & Saturday, September 23 - 24, 2005 at 8:00pm and Sunday, Sept 25
at 6:00
Friday & Saturday, September 30 - October 1, 2005 at 8:00pm
JSC Staff
Crystal Mason, Executive Director
Crystal Mason has just returned from Berlin, Germany where she has lived
and worked for the last nine years. Her last project in Berlin was a
two-year long European Union funded film project ending in August 2004
dealing with multi-dimensional discrimination faced by lesbians of color
and immigrant lesbians in Berlin. From 1997-2001 she also owned and
operated with her partner a Women's art and culture café called the
Schoko Café. Over a four-year period the Café hosted or produced
hundreds of performances and events serving the women's and lesbian
community in Berlin. While living in San Francisco from 1989-1995
Crystal was a well known AIDS activist and organizer; she spent three
years working at the San Francisco AIDS Foundation in the Women's and
Children's program where she created one of San Francisco's first
programs doing outreach to women in prison and jail with HIV/AIDS. For
three years she also raised funds for and organized the annual Christmas
Party for women and Children with HIV/AIDS in San Francisco. From
1993-1995 she was the co-founder and co-artistic director of Luna Sea
Women's Performance Space along with Miriam Kronberg. Crystal has worked
for the last fifteen years in the LGBT community creating and promoting
queer visibility and art. She is a welcome addition to the JSC family.
Marta Tejeda, Operations Manager/Technical Director
Marta Tejeda is originally from the North Side of Chicago and has lived
here in San Francisco since 1991. A Cinema graduate in 2000 from San
Francisco State University, she composed a short film Danza Azteca,
which was selected to appear in the 1999 Women In The Director’s Chair
International Film and Video Festival in Chicago, the 22nd. Annual Cine
International Film Festival in San Antonio (1999), the Cinematheque
Spring" Homegirl Visions" series here in San Francisco (1999), and was a
finalist in the 38th Annual Film Finals Festival at San Francisco State
University. Marta is also a part-time DJ and a designer/display builder.
CALGBTARTSALLIANCE MEMBERS
Active LGBT Organizational memberships. Please check out their web sites
for current calendars of events!
Queer Cultural Center:
Visit: http://www.queerculturalcenter.org
The Queer Cultural Center (QCC) is a multi-racial community-building
organization that fosters the artistic, economic and cultural
development of San Francisco’s LGBT community. We implement our mission
by operating programs that commission and present Queer artists, that
promote the development of culturally diverse LGBT artists and arts
organizations and that document significant Queer arts events taking
place in San Francisco. QCC selects the programs and the artists we
present to reflect our community’s racial, ethnic and gender diversity
and to develop a multicultural perspective on the LGBT experience.
(a)eromestiza
Visit: www.devilbunny.org
(a)eromestiza is dedicated to presenting cutting-edge performance, sound
and video based work by artists who challenge stereotypical notions of
identity and community. (a)eromestiza’s productions articulate a new
vision of a diverse community that is not conceived in binary terms
(i.e., black/white, male/female, gay/straight); The organization’s
vision "(a)eromestizaje," is a contemporary, aerodynamic, ethereal and
sex positive interpretation of "mestizaje," the Spanish word used to
describe the essence of Latin American and Filipino culture, which
evolved over many generations of colonialism as a result of the
processes of slavery and labor migration that led to the "mixture" of
Spanish Catholicism, indigenous native, African, Asian cultures.
Purple Moon
Visit http://www.purplemoondance.org
The mission of Purple Moon Dance Project is to promote social change,
peace and healing in our society, and develop a greater appreciation and
visibility for lesbians and women of color, through the medium of dance.
Centro Cultural de la Raza
Visit: http://www.centroraza.com
The Centro Cultural de la Raza is a very special place. With a mission
of creating, promoting, preserving, and educating about Mexicano/a,
Chicano/a, Latino/a and Indigenous art and culture in the San
Diego/Tijuana Border Region, the Centro stands alone.
The Centro’s programs include a multi-disciplinary educational
component, performing and literary arts presentations, visual arts
exhibits and film/video screenings. The Centro not only preserves
time-honored traditions such as Ballet Folklorico and Día de los
Muertos, but is also on the cutting edge of technology, with its new
digital storytelling capabilities.
The Centro's legendary circular facility is known for its vivid murals,
its 300-seat performance space, and its 6000-square-foot exhibition
space. Strategically located in Balboa Park, the Centro provides easy
access to residents and tourists alike. It is truly a unique asset to
the City of San Diego.
QueLACo
Visit www.quelaco.org
QueLACo is a nonprofit organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual and
transgender Latina/o artists dedicated to promoting the arts within our
diverse community. As an organization, we strive to gain voice,
recognition and prominence within the larger landscape of our vibrant
arts world.
Frameline
Visit: www.frameline.org
Frameline's mission is to strengthen the diverse lesbian, gay, bisexual,
and transgender community and further its visibility by supporting and
promoting a broad array of cultural representations and artistic
expression in film, video, and other media arts.
LiquidFIRE
Visit: www.liquidfire.org
liquidFIRE Productions empowers lesbians of color to create, develop and
stage original theater that authentically expresses their experiences
and that promotes social change and solidarity among women of all colors
and income groups. The company’s full-length productions explore
sexuality, race, body image and gender identity issues, address the
interests and concerns of an underserved audience and provide emerging
lesbian theater artists of color high-visibility performing opportunities
Femina Potens
Visit: www.feminapotens.com
Founded in 2000, Femina Potens is a community-building multidisciplinary
arts space serving lesbian and transgender artists and audiences. Our
programs inclusively exhibit and present emerging lesbian and
transgender artists, provide a safe and accessible venue for our
community’s audiences, provide young lesbians and transgenders access to
resources and tools for education, empowerment and artistic expression,
and expand public understanding of individuals who live outside the
female-male gender binary.
Fresh Meat
Visit: http://www.freshmeatproductions.org
Fresh Meat Productions builds community by organizing year-round
multidisciplinary arts programs that examine gender, sexuality and
racial identity issues from a transgender perspective. The company’s
work transgresses the boundaries of mainstream experience, not by
exploiting stereotypes, but by authentically reflecting the experiences
of transgender people. To implement our mission, Fresh Meat conducts
programs featuring transgender and queer performing, visual, media and
literary artists and sponsors a resident dance company that stages
local, national and international touring performances of the Artistic
Director’s original choreography. Fresh Meat’s long-range goal is to
build a strong non-profit arts organization with the capacity to support
the ongoing evolution of Trans art and culture, to expand the repertoire
of original work authentically exploring the transgender experience and
to heighten the visibility of our community’s most innovative artists.
The Harvey Milk City Hall Memorial
Visit: www.milkmemorial.org
In January 2003, San Francisco Supervisor Matt Gonzalez proposed
establishing a donation drive to place a memorial to slain Supervisor
Harvey Milk to honor Harvey's contributions to the City of San
Francisco. As one of the nation's first openly-gay elected officials,
and an unabashed radical, Harvey Milk transformed City Hall and the
Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Community in the historic moment of his
election then galvanized it with the tragedy of his death.
The memorial will be similar in likeness to the bronze sculptures of
historic figures and former San Francisco Mayors which grace the halls
of San Francisco's resplendent City Hall. It is designed to incorporate
this important historical figure into the art history of the City of San
Francisco and the world as the first-ever depiction of an openly gay
individual to be permanently placed in a civic institution
Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project
The Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project (QWOCMAP) promotes the
creation and exhibition of films and videos that address social and
political issues and that reflect the experiences, stories and lives of
queer women of color (i.e., African American, Asian American, Latina,
Mixed-Race, Native American and/or Pacific Islander lesbians or
bisexuals). We implement our mission by conducting free 16-week
workshops that provide low-income queer women of color access to
professional-quality training and equipment, and by organizing an annual
film festival that enables emerging media artists to reach their target
audience. Through our programs, we intend to build a vibrant community
of queer women of color media artists.
Jon Sims Center for the Arts
Visit http://www.jonsimsctr.org
Jon Sims Center for the Arts (JSC) supports artistic expressions of the
lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) experience. JSC
ensures access to the creative process, providing resources that support
and promote new and existing arts programs. We believe that the process
and product of creative activity have equal value, that all talent is
worthy of development, and that artistic expression is essential to our
community's health.
Highways
Visit: www.highwaysperformance.org
Highways develops and presents innovative performance and visual art,
nurturing interaction among people of diverse cultural and sexual
identities, fostering critical dialogues on social issues. The mission
is fulfilled through our performance programming, which includes
festivals, community rituals and special events; through our Performance
Lab, which provides culturally specific training in performance, writing
and movement technique; and through our Gallery Program which includes
exhibitions and live events.
OPPORTUNITIES , RESOURCES, FUNDING
FUNDING Opportunities
Regional Partnership Grant Program - NEA
The NEA has grants available for regional arts organizations, in two
basic categories. One type of grant is for basic support for
organizations on the regional level, and the other's intent is to give
access to excellence in the live performing arts for underserved
communities. Applications must be postmarked (or show other proof of
mailing) no later than October 7, 2005. Awards will support activities
that are scheduled to begin on July 1, 2006, or any time thereafter. For
more information, go to
http://www.arts.gov/grants/apply/Partnership/regionals.html .
NEA Grants for Europalia International 2007
The National Endowment for the Arts, in partnership with the U.S.
Department of State and Europalia International, will present the
culture of the United States of America at one of Europe's largest
international arts festivals. Centered in Belgium, Europalia.USA 2007
will showcase the very best of American arts and culture for European
audiences. The 2007 festival will take place from October 2007 through
January 2008. The Arts Endowment will provide grants to organizations to
showcase the excellence, diversity, and vitality of the arts in the
United States through a series of performances, exhibitions, lectures,
and symposia.
Statement of Interest Receipt Deadline: September 30, 2005.
Formal Application Receipt Deadline: December 15, 2005. For more
information go to http://www.arts.gov/grants/apply/Folk.html .
California Council for the Humanities’ California Story Fund
Deadline: October 1, 2005 The California Council for the Humanities
(CCH) is an independent, nonprofit state affiliate of the National
Endowment for the Humanities. The Council has supported and created
programs that bring people together around their history and culture for
more than 25 years. Grants offered by the California Council for the
Humanities may support folk and traditional arts and folklife programs.
Requirements include focusing on public programming and non-profit
501(c)(3) status.
The California Story Fund is a quarterly grants program of CCH and
supports public humanities projects that bring to light compelling new
stories from California’s diverse communities. This program awards
grants of up to $5,000 for photographic and interpretive exhibits, radio
or video documentaries, digital media, dramatic presentations and
interpretive artwork.
Guidelines, applications, and examples of past projects can be found on
the CCH website.
link: http://www.calhum.org/programs/story_intro.htm
City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department
Youth Arts and Education Service Grant 2006-2007
Grants to Organizations
Deadline: August 12, 2005
(Restricted to Los Angeles County Applicants)
This grant supports arts programs within the City of Los Angeles. Only
non-profit art organizations are eligible to apply and the non-profit
must be arts mandated and be headquartered in Los Angeles County. The
application guidelines for this grant have changed from previous years.
All interested non profit arts organizations, returning and new
applicants, are strongly encouraged to attend a workshop. Grant workshop
dates and locations will be announced shortly on the website. Call the
office first to participate (213) 473-7750.
California Council for the Humanities Documentary Project
Deadline: October 3, 2005
This grant supports the work of experienced photographers, radio
producers, and video- and filmmakers who document contemporary
California life and explore issues of significance to Californians. An
online application for the California Documentary Project will be
available on the California Council for the Humanities’ website on
September 1, 2005.
OPPORTUNITIES & RESOURCES
CAC Job Opportunities
The California Arts Council has a brand-new "Job Opportunities" site on
our webpage. To view the latest job postings, go to
http://www.cac.ca.gov/?id=157 . If you'd like to post a job, go to
http://www.cac.ca.gov/?id=275 , and follow the directions for getting a
free CAC account and a password sent to your email inbox. (All current
subscribers to the Update have an account and simply need to obtain a
password in order to use the service.)
Port of Los Angeles PUBLIC ART/SCULPTURE
As part of the Bridge to Breakwater Development Project, the Port of Los
Angeles is seeking Los Angeles County-based public artists to submit
qualifications for the design of the following functional elements for
the Southern Pacific Slip: seating and/or lighting, and/or paving and
landscape elements. These art elements will be integrated within the
overall architecture and landscape plans for the Slip. Submission
deadline: September 15, 2005, no later than 5pm (not a postmark
deadline). For more information, go to http://www.sanpedrowaterfront.com .
San Francisco Women's Film Festival
The San Francisco Women's Film Festival has announced its call for
entries for the 2006 festival, which will take place in the Bay Area,
April 3-10, 2006. Films of all lengths and genres are being accepted,
including documentaries, feature films, animation and experimental works
that are either directed or co-directed by women. For more information
about how to submit a film, go to
http://womensfilmfestival.us/submit_your_film.html . No entry fee, and a
formal deadline was not provided.
Asia Pacific Performance Exchange Program 2006
Deadline: November 10, 2005
The Asia Pacific Performance Exchange (APPEX) is an international
artists residency program, hosted by UCLA, that promotes cross-cultural
dialogue and interdisciplinary exploration; develops rigorous strategies
for art making that reflect the nuances of cultural differences; and
fosters new ways to create, combine, and interpret artistic expressions.
APPEX is a six-week intensive residency. For five days a week, artists
will engage in all-day master classes, studio workshops,
experimentation, and collaborative projects. On weekends and evenings,
participants will be introduced to the vibrant arts and culture context
of the host city through specially planned field trips and concerts.
Each Fellow will be provided with travel expenses, shared
accommodations, and meals for the duration of the residency.
Traditional and contemporary performing artists from Asia and the United
States are invited to apply. Special care will be given in the selection
process to ensure a balance across disciplines. Artists who are active
in the community as educators, artistic directors, and cultural workers
are encouraged to apply.
APPEX 2006 is made possible by a grant from the U.S. Department of State
Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, and the Ford Foundation.
For Application information please visit UCLA’s World Arts and Culture
Program website.
Link: http://www.wac.ucla.edu/cip/appex/index.htm
San Francisco Arts Commission
http://www.sfartscommission.org
Special Projects Grants
Deadline: Quarterly (September 30, December 31, March 31, June 30)
Cultural Equity Grants offers a limited number of small Special Project
Grants, up to $1,000, for very small, volunteer-based arts groups
throughout San Francisco’s neighborhoods in order to stimulate the
production and dissemination of works of art.
Project window:
Within 9 months of application.
http://www.sfartscommission.org
THANK YOU
The CALIFORNIA ARTS COUNCIL
The California LBGT Arts Alliance is funded by the California Arts Council.
For information about CAC visit their website: http://www.cac.ca.gov
Get your personalized ART license plate.
website: http://www.cac.ca.gov/feature/arts_plate.cfm
Proceeds from the plate sales will benefit the California Arts Council
(CAC).
QUEER CULTURAL CENTER
The California LBGT Arts Alliance is hosted by The Queer Cultural Center.
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Ray Anne Lockard, Head Librarian
Frick Fine Arts Library
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
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mind. And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the
blood boils with hate and the mind has closed, the leader will have no
need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry,
infused with fear and blinded with patriotism, will offer up all of
their rights unto the leader, and gladly so. How do I know? For this
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