November 2008 Archives
IAM Podcast: Interview with Susan Isaacs, Part 2
December 12 - Second Annual Christmas Fundraising Party and Auction
Join us at Space 38|39 on Friday, December 12, 7:00-10:00 pm for our Second Annual Christmas Fundraising Party and Small Works Auction! This is a wonderful opportunity to obtain original work to hang on your wall or give to a friend at a low price, or a larger item at the silent auction.Festive drinks and appetizers will be served.
Suggested donation is $25 at the door (exhibiting artists admitted for free); small works auction tickets will be available for $75 - first come, first served (each auction ticket holder will take home one piece per ticket).
Planning to come? RSVP to rsvp@iamny.org.
ARTISTS: Are you an interested in exhibiting and auctioning your art for our movement? We are looking for small, gift-accessible works by Monday, December 1! Email alissa@iamny.org for information and submission forms.
IAM FRIENDS/MEMBERS: Do you have a non-art gift item or service you would like to donate for our silent auction? Examples of unique auction items include spa packages, concert/sporting event tickets, trips/tours, and gift cards. Donations should be valued at $100 or more. Email alissa@iamny.org for more information.
IAM Board Prez Featured in World
The piece, by Susan Olasky, explores the unique, rehumanizing business model Kiersznowski and his bride, Demi, have employed at the wholesale gift company they co-founded ten years ago, Demdaco. Olasky writes, "(Kiersznowski's) concern for living out what he calls 'an integral life' led to changes. He began to think about the physical space where employees spend so much time and decided that the new headquarters should be 'a place that's beautiful, creative, pleasing, and full of light.'"
International Arts Movement congratulates David and Demi for this recognition, and hope that many others will follow their commitment to bringing more beauty and life into the business sphere.
(Pictured below, David Kiersnowski (left) and Steve Garber of the Washington Institute for Faith, Vocation and Culture)
Playwrights: Call for Submissions
International Arts Movement is committed to gathering artists and creative catalysts to wrestle with the deep questions of art, faith and humanity, in order to inspire the creative community to engage with the world as it is, and help bring about the world that ought to be - a world of goodness, truth, hope and beauty.
To that end, IAM is seeking scripts for a one-act Directors Showcase taking place in New York City April 23-25. The scripts should have rehumanizing and/or redemptive elements.
Please send submissions to Christy Tennant (christy(at)iamny.org), or by mail to IAM, 38 W. 39th Street, 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10018. Deadline for submissions is January 20, 2009.
Gala for Limon Dance Dec 3
Gala for Limon Dance Dec 3
Published at: Wed Nov 19 10:39:00 UTC 2008
Author: Christy Tennant
From Gordon Pennington, on behalf of Limon Dance:You're invited to join us -- for one of the most artistically inspiring events of the year -- in New York City on Wednesday evening December 3rd, 2008!!
We'll be celebrating the Limon Dance Company Gala in New York City, in celebration of 100th anniversary of Jose Limon's birth! There will be a gala performance at the Joyce Theatre in the West Village followed by a specially designed food & wine reception at the Metropolitan Pavilion.
Limon is the oldest contemporary dance company in the world today -- at the height of their artistic and critical powers. On Monday, the Limon Company was awarded the National Medal of Art in memory of Jose Limon, the greatest Mexican-American choreographer in history. They have just performed to sold-out audiences in Mexico City and Guadalajara, Italy and Germany and will be performing at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC on January 16/17th, 2009 as well.
IAM Podcast: Interview with Susan Isaacs, Part 1
Freedom Initiatives & IAM
Proceeds from donated artwork will be donated to "The Tronie Foundation,"a Seattle-based org that creates safe houses for victims of human trafficking.
Any medium of artwork is welcome, especially digital designers, traditional painters, film makers, musicians, marketing strategists, web designers, etc.
Also, The Freedom Initiative is having a conference in May of 2009 in Seattle, featuring workshops speakers, etc.
Interested artists shoud contact Brandon at brandon@freedominitiative.org or Lindsey at lindsey@freedominitiative.org
IAM Congratulates Limon Dance
International Arts Movement congratulates Limon Dance for being awarded the National Medal of Arts in memory of Jose Limon, thought by many to be the greatest Mexican-American choreographers in history.
Limon Dance will be featured at IAM's Encounter 09 on February 28, 2009 - see http://www.iamencounter.com for more information.
Below is an invitation to a special gala on December 3, which we've been asked to extend to the IAM community.
Limon Dance will be featured at IAM's Encounter 09 on February 28, 2009 - see http://www.iamencounter.com for more information.
Below is an invitation to a special gala on December 3, which we've been asked to extend to the IAM community.
Rob Mathes Christmas Concert
The 15th Annual Rob Mathes Christmas Concert
Friday, December 19, 8 pm
Saturday, December 20, 8 pm
Sunday, December 21, 3 pm
The Performing Arts Center at Purchase College
PepsiCo Theatre
Tickets: $35 $45
Tickets available online at: http://www.artscenter.org/
Performing Arts Center Box Office: 914-251-6200
The Music Source: 203-698-0444
Employment Opportunity: Sculpture Position at Messiah College
Interested candidates should visit the Messiah College web site and apply for the position by completing and submitting the faculty employment application located here.
Please direct any questions to Christine A. Forsythe, Chair; Department of Visual Arts; CForsyth(at)Messiah.edu
Call for Applications (FILM)
Feature-film Production Grants
San Francisco, CA - October 15, 2008 -In its continuing effort to promote original filmmaking by individuals from around the world, the Global Film Initiative is pleased to announce the Winter 2009 cycle of its feature-film production grants program.
The Global Film Initiative production grants are awarded twice a year, in Winter and Summer, to filmmakers whose work exhibits artistic excellence, authentic self-representation and accomplished storytelling, while contributing to the development of local film industries and offering audiences a variety of cultural perspectives on daily life around the world. Monies received through GFI's granting program are used to support completion of film production, and to subsidize post-production costs, such as laboratory and sound mixing fees and access to modern editing systems.
This year, the Global Film Initiative will award production grants of up to $10,000 each to select applicants during its Winter granting cycle. These funds are made available following the Initiative's evaluation of an applicant's completed screenplay and early film-footage, and may be accompanied by a pre-sale option for exclusive U.S. distribution of an applicant's film by the Global Film Initiative. Individuals may submit more than one film for consideration per granting cycle but please note that only applications from qualifying countries or regions will be considered and that production grants are not available for documentary or short films.*
The Global Film Initiative strongly believes in supporting narrative storytelling traditions from around the world and invites all qualified applicants to submit their work for granting consideration. For Applications & Guidelines, click here.
Application deadline: January 15, 2009
San Francisco, CA - October 15, 2008 -In its continuing effort to promote original filmmaking by individuals from around the world, the Global Film Initiative is pleased to announce the Winter 2009 cycle of its feature-film production grants program.
The Global Film Initiative production grants are awarded twice a year, in Winter and Summer, to filmmakers whose work exhibits artistic excellence, authentic self-representation and accomplished storytelling, while contributing to the development of local film industries and offering audiences a variety of cultural perspectives on daily life around the world. Monies received through GFI's granting program are used to support completion of film production, and to subsidize post-production costs, such as laboratory and sound mixing fees and access to modern editing systems.
This year, the Global Film Initiative will award production grants of up to $10,000 each to select applicants during its Winter granting cycle. These funds are made available following the Initiative's evaluation of an applicant's completed screenplay and early film-footage, and may be accompanied by a pre-sale option for exclusive U.S. distribution of an applicant's film by the Global Film Initiative. Individuals may submit more than one film for consideration per granting cycle but please note that only applications from qualifying countries or regions will be considered and that production grants are not available for documentary or short films.*
The Global Film Initiative strongly believes in supporting narrative storytelling traditions from around the world and invites all qualified applicants to submit their work for granting consideration. For Applications & Guidelines, click here.
Application deadline: January 15, 2009
The Global Film Initiative accepts grant applications from countries in the following regions: Latin America, The Caribbean, Africa, The Middle East, Asia (excluding Japan, South Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan), and Oceania (excluding Australia and New Zealand).
The Global Film Initiative The Global Film Initiative is a U.S.-based, 501(c)3 organization specializing in the acquisition, distribution and support of independent film from Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. Founded in 2002 with the mission of promoting cross-cultural understanding through the universal language of cinema, each year the Initiative awards numerous grants to deserving filmmakers from around the world, and supports a touring film series entitled Global Lens. For more information about the Global Lens film series and Global Film Initiative programs, click here.
The Global Film Initiative The Global Film Initiative is a U.S.-based, 501(c)3 organization specializing in the acquisition, distribution and support of independent film from Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. Founded in 2002 with the mission of promoting cross-cultural understanding through the universal language of cinema, each year the Initiative awards numerous grants to deserving filmmakers from around the world, and supports a touring film series entitled Global Lens. For more information about the Global Lens film series and Global Film Initiative programs, click here.
IAM Member Samuel W. Kho Named Curator of ATP Gallery
As a graduate student in the Art Market at Fashion Institute of Technology - SUNY, Sam was curator in 2006 of the very idiosyncratic Breaking the Skin, an exhibition sponsored by IAM and the All Things Project at NCGV.
Sam likes to share his thoughts about contemporary art, and occasionally does so through writing (he currently has two articles in The Curator, IAM's online publication - see http://www.curatormagazine.com/samkho).
He has had many interesting art-related roles. He helped open the first U.S. gallery for a major Asian art firm. More recently, Sam happily co-directed a Los Angeles project space (un)known for launching a young art star or two.
To him, art, like life, is perhaps like cactus: it ought to be thorny just as it can be beautiful.
Sam joins the project this month and we look forward to a series of thoughtful shows under Sam’s direction beginning in January 2009.
The appointment was made possible by a generous matching grant from the Mustard Seed Foundation.
Manhattan Measure Doc at Big Apple Film Fest
IAM congratulates Gene Schmidt, one of the featured artists in Encounter 08's juried art exhibition. Gene's project "Manhattan Measure" was filmed, and the documentary will be shown at the Big Apple Film Festival this month. Details are below:
Manhattan Measure (the film)
Friday, November 21, 8:15 pm
Big Apple Film Festival
Tribeca Cinemas Theater 2
information and tickets: bigapplefilmfestival.com
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