Submit opportunities to qca@queenscouncilarts.org or submit to our Facebook page.
CLASSES/WORKSHOPS
BrickHouse Ceramic Art Center
Classes
www.brickhouseny.com/classes.html
Year round classes in wheel throwing, hand building, sculpture and glaze application for beginner, intermediate, unique programming and visiting artist workshops, High quality Instruction, access to a fully equipped ceramic studio that contains electric potter’s wheels, slab rollers, extruders, a separate glaze laboratory, a spray booth, storage and lockers. Associate Artist Studio for advanced level students and clay artists who wish to work independently.
Lessons by Anne Mironchik
Private Piano and Voice Instruction
www.annemironchik.com
Anne Mironchik is an experienced, supportive and trusted teacher with outstanding references and a conservatory degree in jazz. Lessons taught in her comfortable, home studio in Astoria/L.I.C. in Queens, or in your home with a quality piano. All ages and levels. Reservations being accepted for regular weekly lessons beginning in September. Affordable rates and discounts for monthly plans. Call or reply now to inquire. songs@annemironchik.com or (718) 306-2940
Kundiman
Writing Workshop
www.kundiman.org/
A nationally renowned Asian American poet will facilitate each writing workshop. Workshops will consist of writing exercises and group discussions on fellows’ poems. At each workshop, fellows will be expected to write and workshop new poems. Fellows will have the opportunity to take a workshop with every Faculty member. In order to help foster relationships between fellows themselves, each fellow will be assigned a home group, and will remain in that home group for the duration of the retreat.
Women’s Studio Workshop
Classes
www.wsworkshop.org/index.htm
Women’s Studio Workshop offers a variety of art classes for artists at any level of experience. Our Summer Arts Institute offers paper-making, printmaking, book arts, photography, and ceramics classes. Artists come from around the country to participate in two to five day intensive workshops. WSW also presents year-round ceramics courses (typically eight-weeks long) and private instruction in any one of our studio areas.
Art League of Long Island
Classes
www.artleagueli.org
We offer classes in Drawing & Painting, Watercolor, Printmaking, Pastel, Sculpture & Jewelry, Clay, Computer Graphics, Decorative Arts, as well as, Ongoing Open Studios and more for Adults, Teens, and Children. Our classes are conveniently offered in the morning, afternoon and evening and are available to all levels of experience: beginners through advanced. For more information call (631) 462-5400 or visit the website above.
Dance Entropy
Workshop/Classes
www.danceentropy.org/workshops.html
Dance Entropy is a professional modern dance company that abstracts the potential chaos of the body and creates order through expressive movement reflecting the world within which we live. The following classes are taught in New York City by Valerie Green and are also available for residencies, and other engagements: Contemporary Dance Technique, Adult Beginner Modern & Motivations for Choreography-ways to create outside the box.
Teachers & Writers Collaborative
Workshops
www.twc.org/workshops
Teachers & Writers Collaborative (T&W) provides school-based and after-school writing programs led by professional writers for K-12 students; professional development workshops for teachers and administrators; and writing workshops for young people and adults at community sites and T&W’s Center for Imaginative Writing.
Asian American Writers’ Workshop
Workshops
www.aaww.org/
The Asian American Writers’ Workshop, Inc., is a nonprofit literary arts organization founded in support of writers, literature and community. Visit the website above for upcoming workshops.
FELLOWSHIPS
Suggest Fellowship opportunities to QCA
FILM/VIDEO
Tribeca Film Institute
Submissions Are Now Open for TFI’s Grant Programs!
www.tribecafilminstitute.org/filmmakers/taa/news/126866293.html
We’re now accepting applications for Tribeca All Access, the TFI Documentary Fund, the TFI Sloan Filmmaker Fund and the TFI Latin America Media Arts Fund. More than just grants, these programs include invaluable year-around support and industry contacts. Find out more.
Queens World Film Festival
www.queensworldfilmfestival.com
1) Queens World Film Festival: we are going to rely on our volunteers to make sure every selected film is seen in the best possible light with as many people present as we can get there. With three venues and over 100 films, that means that we need you now! Choose to help out year-round, just during the week of the festival…or both! It’s a terrific way to meet other film lovers, support the arts and see a little-known-gem-of-a-film. Want to Volunteer? Contact Katha Cato at kcato@queensworldfilmfestival.com (917) 562-9648.
2) The Queens World Film Festival is looking for unappreciated & overlooked filmmakers. We are looking for documentaries, features, shorts, animation and films by young filmmakers. We even have the Going Rogue category for those films that are hard to describe. You can submit via our website: www.queensworldfilmfestival.com and there are discounted rates for Queens Filmmakers! Questions? Contact Katha Cato at kcato@queensworldfilmfestival.com or (917) 562-9648.
3) QWFF Youth Filmmakers Program: The participating youth will attend the week-long workshop and create their own films, attend a panel featuring successful artists, filmmakers, actors and other industry professionals. The youth will get the opportunity to work at the festival, attend all red carpet events with their families and have their work shown at the festival award ceremony where they will also assist with the host duties. Questions? Contact Katha Cato at kcato@queensworldfilmfestival.com or (917) 562-9648, or Don Cato at dcato@queensworldfilmfestival.com or (917) 755-6536.
GRANTS
Suggest Grant opportunities to QCA
LITERARY ARTS
Cairn Press
Call for Submissions
Website: http://www.cairnpress.com
Cairn Press is currently seeking remarkable, completed, fine-tuned fiction manuscripts. We prefer novels, but great short story collections are always welcome. We ask that authors send a one-page query and the opening twenty pages in an email to: editor@cairnpress.com. We love to hear from readers and writers alike, but please be aware that we do not publish genre driven materials, such as romance, sci-fi or fantasy. More information may be found at our website at: http://www.cairnpress.com.
Poetz
Poetz was founded in 1999, mostly as a way of letting local writers know about upcoming features at a new reading series at the Pink Pony Cafe on Ludlow Street. Poetz presently maintains calendars in seven locations: NYC, Hudson Valley, Long Island, Colorado, Connecticut, Vermont and Pittsburgh. Each calendar has its own Curator, a local poet who donates their time.
Jackson Heights Poetry Festival
The Jackson Heights Poetry Festival (JHPF) goal is to spread the joy of poetry and promote poetry as a means of representing and uniting communities. We organize an annual three-day poetry festival, a student poetry contest open to all middle and high school students in New York City, a series of critically-themed panel discussions and poetry workshops, a monthly open poetry reading, a monthly video interview series with noted poets and arts organizers, and maintain an active website.
Queens Poet Lore
Paolo Javier here, your Queens Borough Poet Laureate through 2013. Author of several books and chapbooks of poetry, as well as the publisher of a Queens-based tiny press, 2nd Avenue Poetry (2ndavepoetry.com). I’ll be posting QPL news, including upcoming readings, workshops, exhibitions, literacy outreach, writing project/s, festivals, and much more. Contact info: poetlaureate@queensbp.org. For QPL history, write to phyllis.cohen-stevens@qc.cuny.edu of Queens College Communications.
Ozone Park Journal
We accept electronic submissions in the categories of fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, short plays and play excerpts, literary translation, and comics. All submissions to Ozone Park Journal must be original, previously unpublished work in English. We welcome simultaneous submissions with the understanding that you will immediately inform us if your work is accepted elsewhere.
Sullivan Street Press
Sullivan Street Press is in business to change the publishing paradigm.
We do this in the following ways:
* We only publish e-books–for environmental and financial reasons
* We seek out the stories we all need to read in order to fully participate in a rapidly changing world
* We provide community–by using a variety of distribution, social networking and new tools for writers.
Visit website for more information.
Creature Press
www.creaturepress.blogspot.com
Feel free to contact me via email with any queries, suggestions, or heads-ups.
Cy Gist Press
Publishers
www.cygistpress.blogspot.com
Cy Gist Press is a micro-press with a loose focus on ekphrastic poetry. The press was founded by editor Mark Lamoureux in 2005. All chapbooks are produced in-house by hand. Cy Gist Press is not currently accepting unsolicited submissions, and is not likely to do so in the near future. If you feel your work urgently belongs on Cy Gist Press, please speak to the editor in person.
2nd Avenue Poetry
Publisher
www.2ndavepoetry.com
People’s Poetry Gathering
NYC-based poetry organization with events in all five boroughs of NYC.
Boundless Tales Reading Series
www.boundlesstales.blogspot.com
Boundless Tales Reading Series is a new series in Astoria, NY that began in September 2011.
The goal of this series is to provide a venue for writers who are passionate about their writing, and who would like to share their work in a public forum. How to submit: Submissions are on a rolling basis. We are always looking for great writing! We are still looking for readers for February, March and the upcoming months. Submit your best writing (fiction/non-fiction, poetry, plays) to: boundlesstales@gmail.comNovel or play excerpts are also welcome Please submit the work you intend on reading and keep in mind that each reader is given 10-15 minutes to read their work.Choose work that will not go over the given time limit. Put: (genre – your name) in the subject heading. For example: Fiction submission – Sally Jones. Paste your submission in the body of the email. Include a brief third person bio, and include a website or blog address if you have one. Your bio will be read prior to your reading, and included in the evening’s program. Promote your reading! Make sure to tell your family and friends.
MEDIA
Fluid New Media Lab/ Local Project
Call for Artists
http://fluid.localproject.org/fluid/Open_Calls_2012.html
1. Call for Submission for media that relates to the concept of DystoRpia, and/or addresses alternatives for political, social, and economic upheaval that deals with technology. DystoRpia is a critical view of society with torpid visions that deal with people abusing technology, or by individuals or collectives who are able or not to properly deal with technology that has progressed far more rapidly than humanity’s spiritual.Presented work can be: Experimental Video, Video Art, Short Story, Installation or Performance. Deadline for applications – June 21, 2012. DystoRpia will be presented by Fluid New Media Lab in a collaboration with e-fagia, during the Fall of 2012 in New York at the Queens Museum of Art, Outpost Artists Resource, & Local Project Art Space.For more information and to download an application follow this link: http://fluid.localproject.org/openCallDystorpia.pdf
2. Call for submission for media that relates to the genre of horror. We are looking for pieces that take the viewer through the means of the macabre and/or of the supernatural. We will present the selected works on November of 2012 at our Long Island City Horror Film Festival, on top of a NYC rooftop with multiple projections arranged in a 3D Mapping installation, plus a main screen for showcased horror films and performances. Presented work can be: Short Story, Experimental Video, Performance and/or Installation. Deadline for applications – August 21, 2012. For more information and to download an application follow this link: http://fluid.localproject.org/openCallHorror.pdf
3. Call for submissions for new media performances. We seek projects including, but not limited to, performance art, public actions and interventions, happenings, and acts taking place in both real and virtual places. The chosen pieces will be presented as part of our events and exhibitions scheduled for the Fall of 2012 and 2013. Deadline for applications – June 21, 2012. Selected performances will be presented by Fluid New Media Lab in a collaboration with e-fagia, during the Fall of 2012 in New York at the Queens Museum of Art, Outpost Artists Resource, Local Project Art Space, Thought the Outdoor Art Space, and M55 gallery. http://fluid.localproject.org/openCallPerformances.pdf
MISCELLANEOUS
Partners in Preservation
When: May 5 and May 6 all day: Open House Weekend
Where: 40 sites throughout NYC, including 5 sites in Queens
Description: Visit the 40 historic sites competing for $3 million in Partners in Preservation. During Open House Weekend, come experience fun, family-friendly activities and learn about our historic gems. Then, vote early and often (one vote per user per day) for your favorite site at http://partnersinpreservation.com or http://www.facebook.com/partnersinpreservation.
Queens Museum of Art
Made in Queens Open Call!
www.queensmuseum.org/visi/for-artists
Calling all Queens-based designers, artisans, jewelry makers, etc. Do you envision your creations being sold in a museum shop? The Queens Museum of Art is on a quest to display and sell the best items made by the talented people of our borough. To be considered for an opportunity to be featured in our shop, send a little something about yourself, images of your goods, and, if you have one, a link to your website, blog or whatever form of virtual display you use. or Email: museumshop@queensmuseum.org, or, if you prefer, send to: Made in Queens Open Call: Queens Museum of Art, NYC Building, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens, NY 11368.
MADE HERE
View the Videos, Join the Discussion, and Post Your Own Stories at MADE HERE- a new documentary series and interactive website dedicated to exploring the challenges and eclectic lives of NYC performing artists. Visit the website above for more information.
Artists Health Insurance Resource Center
Health Insurance for Artists
www.ahirc.org
The Artists Health Insurance Resource Center (AHIRC) website has helped artists everywhere get affordable, quality health insurance and health care. AHIRC is a carefully researched, constantly updated and revised database of annotated links that quickly connect you to the information and services you need. Our website is completely unbiased. We do not accept advertising or commercial endorsements. The only thing we promote is the healthy artists with full access to health care.
New York Media Arts
New York Media Arts website has some exciting new features. Building on the dynamic features this resource offers, each participating organization now has an individual blog and a new ”about” page that has been re-designed to allow for greater options and functionality. The goal of these new features is to help organizations better promote their activities and stay aware of each others work. For more information Click Here.
Materials for the Arts
Materials for the Arts NYC helps artists realize their visions, provides students with a richer educational experience, and furnishes businesses with a simple and efficient way to enhance the cultural life of their city while promoting environmental awareness and reuse. If you are interested in becoming a materials recipient please click here to see if you qualify.
EntryThingy
Call for Entries
www.entrythingy.com
Receive and manage entries, host online and offline jurying and show galleries of your entries. On your organization’s website. Add a voting app to your Facebook fan page. Make your entrants, jurors and community smile. And you will too!
PERFORMANCE
The Secret Theater
Call for Artists
www.secrettheatre.com/sixth.html
Each year The Queens Players invite new writers to submit new one acts. Although a predominantly classical acting company like most actors the members of the QP encourages and supports the mounting of fresh, new plays every year. The festival takes place over 3 weeks in three stages. The program of plays in the first two weeks are selected by audience votes and the winning plays and casts go on to the final third week climaxing on the closing night with the winning play, playwright and cast being presented with a trophy followed by an after party.
Astoria Performing Arts Center
New play and musical submissions are welcome.
http://www.apacny.org/opportunities/new-works-audition/
New Play and Musical submissions are accepted on a rolling basis throughout the year. Before you submit please be sure to read: How to Submit Your Play to APAC & 7 frequently asked questions about submitting your play to APAC. Please e-mail a copy of your script to literary@apacny.org and include with it a resume and a brief cover letter that describes how you heard about us and why we are a good fit for your work. Please be aware that, due to the volume of submissions, no materials can be returned. We prefer e-mail submissions, but if you would rather send a hard copy of your work, please send it to:
Please mail a hard copy of the material to:
Astoria Performing Arts Center
PO Box 195, 34-23 Steinway St. Astoria, NY 11101
ATTN: Tom Wojtunik
Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning (JCAL)
Artistic Partnerships
www.jcal.org/performing_arts/partnerships.html
The JCAL Performing Arts Department is always seeking new artistic partners for its programming. Interested parties are invited to submit theater, music or dance concepts and projects that are already a work-in-progress. Previously performed projects are not eligible unless they contain significant changes that equate to “a new work” status. info@jcal.org
Hip to Hip Theater
Volunteer your Talent
www.hiptohip.org/support.html
If you can act, sing or play an instrument, then we could use your talent on stage; if you can sew, paint, organize fundraisers or set up a tent, then we could use your talent behind the scenes. Email for more information: contact@hiptohip.org
RENTALS/SPACE
Chashama
Looking for artists to rent subsidized space in Long Island City!
www.chashama.org/rentals
There are a few different ways to gain access to any one of our current roster of chashama gallery spaces. You can rent a venue, which will expedite your process by bypassing submissions and meetings, or you can try for our free or subsidized opportunities by taking part in our application, interview and selection procedure. Each chashama gallery, studio, and rehearsal rental is competitively priced, and is usually one of the best deals on space in New York City! We also rent our equipment out, and it can be used in chashama venues and elsewhere. From lighting to trusses to ladders to sound equipment and projectors, we can provide the tools to help your installation and exhibition be a success. Click for more information LIC RFP
Creative Wellness
Space Rental
creativewellnessllc.com/default.aspx
Creative Wellness, LLC welcomes therapists, and other wellness practitioners to rent space to conduct sessions, workshops, small meetings, or seminars. Any interested parties should contact Candace Crawford at (718) 323-9181 or via e-mail at info.creativewellnessllc@gmail.com for details.
Greater Astoria Historical Society
Office Space Opportunity for non-profit group
www.astorialic.org
The Greater Astoria Historical Society’s gallery space is available to rent for standard events. All rental fees help to support the Society’s collections, services, and programs
- Furnished: Desks, chairs, cabinets included!
- Elevator and loading dock. – 1000 sq ft: $1,500/month
- Four blocks from N, R, M, Q service. – 15 minutes from mid-town.
- Near Museum of Moving Image and Astoria-Kaufman Studios.
- Shopping and dining on Broadway/Steinway Street at front door.
- Other cultural groups on floor.
- Meeting space and fully appointed AV 1,200 sq ft lecture hall for available for an extra fee.
Please email info@astorialic.org or call us at (718)278-0700 to inquire about availability.
Arts Cure Center
Studio Rental
www.dpsny.org/rental.html
The Arts Cure Center is available for studio rental for Dance Rehearsals, classes, auditions, workshops, ]seminars, meetings, conferences, photo shoots, receptions, etc. (In the case of events such as receptions that may possibly harm the floor or generate considerable garbage, please ask for rates.) Please contact us via Email to reserve studio and for further questions. artscure@dpsny.org
LaGuardia Performing Arts Center
Rent a Theater
www.lagcc.cuny.edu/lpac/rentals.aspx
Whether you are planning a concert, theater production, recital, graduation, conference, or fundraiser, our professional and courteous staff will help you organize a successful event. Located on the campus of LaGuardia Community College in Long Island City, the LaGuardia Performing Arts Center is easily accessible by public transportation and only ten minutes from Manhattan. We offer state-of-the-art facilities for rental at reasonable rates.
Flushing Town Hall
Flushing Town Hall Theater
www.flushingtownhall.org/rentals/theater.php
Built in 1862, this magnificent historic building has garnered seven different awards for restoration and design over the past ten years. We have incredible spaces available for rental. Visit web for more information.
RESIDENCIES
Exploring the Metropolis
2012 Con Edison Musicians’ Residency: Composition Program
Deadline:June 1, 2012
http://exploringthemetropolis.org/musicians-residency/
Exploring the Metropolis is happy to announce the fourth round of the Con Edison Musicians’ Residency: Composition Program for 2012-13. The residency provides free space in cultural and community facilities for composition work. This year, we will select eight NYC-based composers for residence in four facilities. Composers receive three months of free workspace and a $1,000 stipend. All composers must complete one public program in cooperation with the host facility. Check link above for more details.
ArteEast
Watermill Center- ArteEast Residency
Deadline: June 1, 2012
http://arteeast.createsend1.com/t/ViewEmail/r/609E84CC59337549/086992E25C3A77BD81176E9AA71FFAE9
ArteEast is pleased to share the news that we are accepting applications for our Residency Initiative with the prestigious Watermill Center in Long Island, NY. This is an opportunity for artists from the MENA region to receive a fully-funded residency at one of the leading programs in the U.S. and gain access to a wide international arts community.
Lower Manhattan Cultural Center
Workspace Residency
www.lmcc.net/space
Workspace: is a process-based studio residency program for visual artists and writers. Residents receive free studio space in Lower Manhattan for nine months, a modest one-time stipend, access to a community of peers, weekly Salon evenings with arts and literary professionals, and exposure to new audiences through open studios and other public programs.
VISUAL ART
Reis Studios
Project 10 x 10 OPEN CALL to All Artists working in Long Island City
http://www.reisstudios.com/news.php?newsID=33
Reis Studios is accepting entries for the Inaugural Exhibition of its new exhibition space as part of the 10-year anniversary celebration AND the Grand Opening of the 2nd LIC Arts Open Festival. Artists are asked to create one or more than one individual artwork on 10” by 10” surfaces provided by Reis Studios. All artworks will be silent auctioned during the week of the Arts Festival with a starting bid of $100.00 and a $10.00 increment. All proceeds to benefit the LICArtsOpen.org (50%) and the Queens Council on the Arts scholarship for the High School to Art School (HS2AS) program (50%). Both organizations are not-for-profit and will provide artists with proper tax documentation. Send email to info@ReisStudios.com Subj.: 10” by 10”, including bio and studio address to confirm your participation. We will contact you to provide you with the 10” by 10” surface.
Harlem Arts Alliance
Request for Proposals – Banner Designs
Deadline: May 18, 2012
http://www.harlemaa.org
The 125th Street Business Improvement District , the Harlem Arts Alliance and Harlem Community Development Corporation request proposals for the design of banners for the fourth annual BID ON CULTURE project. Banner designs selected through this Request for Proposal (“RFP”) will help to further brand and celebrate 125th Street as the center of culture in Harlem, a community that enjoys worldwide name recognition and has an unparalleled history of contribution to the nation in all fields of human endeavor. This RFP is open to professional visual artists who are at least 21 years of age and have an interest in Harlem. Special consideration will be given to artists currently living and/or working in Harlem.
Artists Wanted
Open Call for Entries : Art Takes Times Square
Deadline: May 25, 2012
http://www.artistswanted.org/arttakestimessquare/?f=atts12pr1
In concert with the Times Square Alliance and curatorial partner Chashama, a non-profit group for creative space transformation, Artists Wantedhas produced Art Takes Times Square, a worldwide call for entries searching for inspired works by artists, designers, photographers and all creative talents from across the globe to determine one creative visionary whose artwork – in an opportunity of a lifetime – will receive a radiant presentation on Times Square’s digital billboards before millions of viewers this summer. Participation is free and open to anyone of 18+ years of age. Submissions will be accepted through May 25, 2012 11:59pm EST. Artists Wanted is also awarding $16,000 in cash grants and printing a limited edition book on selected artists from the competition.
CUE Art Foundation
Curatorial Project: Call for proposals
Deadline: 6pm EST on Wednesday, May 30, 2012
http://www.cueartfoundation.org/open_call.html
This new program provides one deserving curator the necessary time and resources to realize an innovative project, with the aim of encouraging curatorial research in tandem with exhibition planning. CUE will provide institutional guidance and resources to the curator, who will produce a group exhibition in CUE’s space with related public programming and an accompanying exhibition catalogue in June 2013. The curator will be selected through an open application process, and candidates must submit a comprehensive proposal for a group exhibition.
4Heads
2012 Governors Island Art Fair
Deadline: June 24, 2012
http://www.4heads.org/callforentries/page4.html
Basing their decisions solely on the merit of the art itself, the 4heads judging panel selects over 100 artists to participate. Each artist gets a room in one of Governors Island’s historic structures to transform into an exhibit of their own design. Thousands of visitors (art world professionals and regular folk alike) flock to this island oasis across the New York Harbor to witness the results each year. The exhibition space is free. Admission to the fair is free. Even the ferry ride to the island is free. And that frees up artists to present their art their way in a unique venue framed by the architecture of New York City’s Governors Island.
Yen Yen Woo
Creators/Intellectuals/Artists/New Media Producers Welcome!
www.meetup.com/The-Queens-Creative-Community-Group
I am a resident in Flushing, Queens and I have a start-up comics studio in Flushing producing a comics series inspired by Queens. I am looking for an illustrator to working on penciling, inking and coloring on the comics series and was wondering if your organization might be able to help me find this illustrator in Queens. This is a paid freelance gig and I would like to encourage artists of color to show us their portfolios. Since I am based in Queens, I have also started a meetup group called the Queens Creative Community to try and get the creative community to support each others work. Here’s the URL: http://www.meetup.com/The-Queens-Creative-Community-Group/ Email: wooyenyen@mac.com
5Pointz Aerosol Art Center, Inc
5Pointz Aerosol Art Center, Inc. is an outdoor art exhibit space in Long Island City, New York, considered to be the world’s premiere “graffiti Mecca,” where aerosol artists from around the globe paint colorful pieces on the walls of a 200,000-square-foot factory building. Anyone who wants to paint is welcome at 5Pointz. For more information please contact MeresOne@aol.com
Jamaica Center for Arts Learning
Curatorial Submissions
www.jcal.org/visual/submissions.html
One of JCAL’s four major exhibitions is devoted to emerging curators. Guest curatorial proposals are reviewed on an ongoing basis. Proposals should include the following items: 1 page curatorial statement exploring the curatorial concept; Visual materials of the works included in the exhibition; List of artists and slide script; Resumes of curator and bios of artists; Projected exhibition budget; SASE.
Artist Submission and Slide Registry
www.jcal.org/visual/registry.html
The Visual Arts Department maintains a slide registry of artists that serves as a resource for our staff as well as for outside curators. Professional artists can make a proposal to JCAL for an exhibition opportunity on an ongoing basis. All proposals will be automatically included in the slide registry. The exhibition proposal should include: A maximum of 20 slides of work; a letter of intention; Artist resume and artist statement; SASE.
JOBS/INTERNSHIPS
Chinese Theatre Works
POSITION: Internship Program
www.chinesetheatreworks.org
Interns at Chinese Theatre Works gain valuable hands-on experience in various aspects of running an award-winning theater company locates at Long Island City, Queens. Internships may focus on particular areas of operation, including: communications and marketing; office administration; theater production; and research and archive. It is a great opportunity for students to gain cross-cultural experience and workbehind the scene at a unique theater company. Arrangements can be made for school credit. For more information contact: chinese.theatre.works@gmail.com
Department of Cultural Affairs
POSITION: Percent for Art Internship Program
www.nyc.gov/html/dcla/html/about/employment.shtml
Program interns are responsible for maintaining the image registry and assisting with the artist selection process. Maintenance of the image registry includes answering requests and soliciting new artists, processing artists’ registration and assisting visitors who use the registry. Program interns are also responsible for assisting with the artist selection phase of new Percent for Art projects. This may include: writing community profiles, soliciting images from recommended artists, preparing image presentations, writing meeting minutes and preparing correspondence. For more information visit website above or call Percent for Art (212) 513-9300 Fax: (212) 442-6981.
POSITION: Arts Program Specialist
www.nyc.gov/html/dcla/html/about/employment.shtml
The Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA) seeks to fill the position of Capital Projects Manager in its Capital Projects unit. The Capital Projects unit oversees the administration of a multi-million dollar capital program supporting the expenditure of City capital dollars funding design and construction projects and major equipment purchases at cultural facilities located throughout the City. This constituency represents an array of internationally renowned and community-based organizations including performing arts centers, museums, theaters, botanical gardens and wildlife centers. Project range from the creation of new performing arts facilities to basic infrastructure improvements.
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