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MFA Students: Apply for a CAA Fellowship

Full details on the recently restored Professional-Development Fellowships in the Visual Arts, including the application form, have just been posted to the CAA website.

Later this fall, CAA will award five grants of $5,000 each to outstanding students who will receive MFA degrees in calendar year 2011. Honorable mentions, awarded at the discretion of the jury, will receive a free one-year CAA membership and complimentary registration to the Annual Conference.

CAA’s Professional-Development Fellowships in the Visual Arts offer financial assistance to promising MFA candidates. Fellows are honored with grants to help them with various aspects of their work, whether it be for job-search expenses or purchasing materials for the studio. CAA believes a grant of this kind, without contingencies, can best facilitate the transition between graduate studies and professional careers.

Applications must be postmarked by Friday, October 1, 2010.

*Open to other WCA Chapters and The Women’s International League of Peace and Freedom branches joining the Travel Exhibition.

Women and Water Rights, Rivers of Regeneration Exhibition Project will explore a local and global  water related issues problem through art exhibitions and related programs beginning at the University of Minnesota Nash Gallery from February 23 to March 25, 2010. We now are approaching the deadline for the grant. Need to  confirm with those below that will take part in this travel exhibition to keep the message and momentum moving for the next. three years!.

• The main sponsors are The University of Minnesota, Department of Art, http://www.art.umn.edu/, Women’s Caucus of Art, WCA, nationalwca.org http://nationalwca.org/, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, WILPF, http://www.wilpfmn.org/.
Here is a very tentative schedule: Check our website at www.womenandwater.net for updates.

Two months time slots to receive, exhibit, repack and send on.• ALL TENTATIVE DATES   * Some dates have changed from previous schedules, please see if these changes will work for you.
•1) Missoula, Montana    Rebecca Kramer      Montana3826@msn.com  May/June 2010
 2)    Open …..July/ August, 2010
3)     Open …… September, October, 2010
4)   LA  ( possibility Ann Isolde   aisolde@roadrunner.com ……..November,  December 2010
5) NYC(would like to secure the United Nations as venue if possible)
Linda Gilbert Schneider   gilbertschneider@yahoo.com  ……..Jan. / Feb. 2011
6)   Open……March, 2011
6) Chicago      Judith Roth        judithroth@sbcglobal.net  —-April/  May  2011
7) Boston        Karen  Frostig     karenfrostig@comcast.net …..June/ July 2011
 Open ……August / September 2011
9)  MI   Yueh-mei  Cheng     yueh-mei.cheng@finlandia.edu …….October/ 2011
!0)   Portland,OR  Madeline Meza Janovec   mmjanovec.com   …….November 2011
10)   Dayton, Ohio Jeanne Philipp chimaeramedia@hotmail.com ….. December 2011 /Jan. 2012
11)    Open …….Feb./March 2012
 12) Dubai                 Jenny Barrow        jennybarrow1@yahoo.de ……..April/May 2012
13)  India                  Meena Mangalvedhekar         meenanew@gmail.com …….. June/July 2012
14)  Japan   Yumiko Inomata    Yumiko.Inomata@artsmidwest.org ……… August/September/October/2012
15) Mexico City           Jenette Lever                  j_lever@msn.com …….. Nov./Dec. 2012
16) MN           Liz Dodson          lizartist@me.com ……. Return

Contact Liz Dodson, lizartist@me.com or  612 333 8150

The third workshop at the Muriel Wright Residential Center, San Jose, California taught by SBAWCA artists was completed with an exhibition during Works San Jose Annual Fundrasing, Friday December 4, 2009. The five SBAWCA artists who participated as instructors in the workshop are: Cheryl Battiato, Fabienne Bismuth, Alejandra Chaverri, Dana Eaton and Conni Rizzuto.  Fabienne Bismuth was the leader of the “Sculpture-figurative bas relief workshop.”

Thanks to Cheryl Batiatto, who wrote a grant to the Association of Clay and Glass Artists of California, ACGA, the workshop received funds to cover the materials for the completed taller with the teenagers.

Link with details about the workshop below:
Muriel Wright Residential Center-Fall, 2009 Workshop

A.I.R. GALLERY FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM
18-month professional development program and solo show opportunity for emerging and under-represented women artists.

Deadline: October 31, 2009
Click HERE<https://www.airgallery.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=main.page&pagename=Fellowship&pageid=148&apply=1&prt=1 <https://www.airgallery.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=main.page&amp;pagename=Fellowship&amp;pageid=148&amp;apply=1&amp;prt=1> > to apply online. Click HERE<http://www.airgallery.org/FellowshipApplication.pdf> to download an application.

2009 – 2010 Panelists: Lowery Stokes-Sims, Curator, Museum of Art and Design; Harriet Senie, Art Critic and Art Historian; and Catherine Morris, Curator of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at The Brooklyn Museum.

A.I.R. Gallery
111 Front Street, #228 Brooklyn, NY 11201
Gallery Hours: Wednesday - Sunday 11am - 6pm
212-255-6651
info@airgallery.org <mailto:info@airgallery.org>
www.airgallery.org <http://www.airgallery.org>

As part of our sponsorship of the Art Calendar’s Studio Makeover Contest, we would like to invite you to participate in the contest simply by clicking on the link below.

The prize total is over $9,000! The Grand prize winner receives more than $8,000 in prizes, Second Prize $750 in prizes and  Third Prize $350 in prizes.

In these tough economic times, we all strive to “give back” and this contest is a perfect way of stirring excitement in the fine arts community. There is NO ENTRY FEE whatsoever to enter this contest.

http://www.artcalendar.com/StudioMakeover/

Good luck!

March 1 is the opening of the Traditional Fulbright Scholar competition. Over 800 grants are available for lecturing, conducting research, or combining both in over 130 countries around the globe. The deadline is August 1. For information on Fulbright Scholar Awards, consult our website at www.cies.org  for descriptions of awards and new eligibility requirements.  If you are interested in requesting materials, please write to scholars@cies.iie.org