Opportunity

Scholarship Opportunity

Information

The NSAL is offering two scholarship opportunities.
1. National Career Award Competition for Vocal Performance.
Recipient must be between the ages of 20-32
Top award is $10,000
2. Naomi Winston Scholarship for both Vocal performance and visual art.
Recipient must be between the ages of 16-22
Awards vary from $1000-5,000.
There are images of previous winners work on the site, which may be helpful to you and your students.
Up to $20,000 will be awarded 10,000 in vocal performance and 10,000 in visual art.
Visual art entries must be original 2-D work, no Computer generated work or photography will be accepted.

Requirements

Application deadline is 1 February 2008.
Certain age restrictions do apply for each scholarship.
Completed applications, together with required accompanying materials
and/or inquiries should be sent to:
Janice Cain Rodgers
Chair, VA/NC Winston Scholarships
4727 Amber Ridge Court
Charlottesville, VA. 22901
Phone 434-823-1120
Email: janibugblue@earthlink.net

Contact

Visit http://www.arts-nsal.org/ for applications and further information about each scholarship.

Opportunity

Internship Opportunity

Information

Interpretive Internships
An Interpretive Intern would support Interpretive Programs through exhibition research, content trainings and facilitating informal conversations in the galleries with the general public. Interns will periodically meet with museum staff, visit behind the scenes, and discuss interpretation techniques and their experience working with museum visitors.

Academic Year and Summer Internships
Four volunteer internships are available throughout the academic year on a part-time basis. The fall/spring internship program corresponds to the academic semester schedule, and runs from mid-September through mid-April. Five volunteer internships are available mid-May through mid-August.

Stipends and Awards
While both academic year internships and undergraduate summer internships are typically unpaid, academic credit can often be arranged through the interns’ own college or university. The following stipends and awards are available:

Hirshhorn Graduate Interns
Academic year interns who are currently enrolled as graduate students are eligible for funding. The Hirshhorn is providing two interns per semester with stipends of $1500 for nine weeks.

Summer Internships for Diversity in the Museum Profession
As part of the Hirshhorn’s commitment to increasing the diversity of candidates entering the museum profession, the museum offers summer internship funding for three outstanding candidates who have demonstrated a commitment to museum careers. The internship is open to U.S. citizens only. The program encourages applications from African-American, Alaskan Native, American Indian, Asian American, Hispanic, Middle Eastern and Pacific Islander candidates from DC and the surrounding area. Please indicate on your application if you wish to apply for this stipend. Stipends are $4000 for nine weeks of full time, five day a week commitment.

Requirements

This program is open to upper-level undergraduates, recent graduates, and graduate students. Candidates must possess a strong background in art history from 1960’s to the present, however students in good academic from studio art, writing, and education programs are strongly encouraged to apply. Research, writing, organizational skills, thorough knowledge of Microsoft Office, as well as sensitivity to interacting with the general public are required

Contact

Apply through the museums website at hirshhorn@si.edu

Opportunity

Call for entries.

Information

This competition is dedicated to supporting emerging women artists in college, graduate school, or recently graduated.

Requirements

Deadline is November 15 2007.

Contact

For details and application materials go to http://www.meredith.edu/art/images/furini-brochure.jpg or contact Sharon Hill at hills@meredith.edu for additional information.

Opportunity

Information Session

Information

There will be two general information sessions soon about the VCU Glasgow Artists and Writers Workshop to be held next summer in Scotland. Students with an interest are encouraged to come to one of the two meetings, or to contact Richard Fine (rfine@vcu.edu) in the English department.

Date: Tuesday November 13
Time: 2-3:30 PM
Place: Hibbs 308
OR
Date: Thursday November 15
Time: Noon to 1:30
Place: The Fishbowl (Room 302) Fine Arts Building (1000 W. Broad St.)

Offered every other summer, this program brings together participants interested in a range of the arts–literary, visual and performing—in a month-long residence at one of Britain’s premier art schools. Classes and studios take place at the Glasgow School of Art, designed by the renowned Scottish artist Charles Rennie Mackintosh. Participants register for 6-9 upper-level credits from a varied menu of courses. Class size is limited. The program includes special tours of several museums and galleries, theater performances and film screenings, readings by notable British writers, artist talks by Glasgow School of Art faculty, walking tours of Glasgow’s architecture, excursions to several sites out of town, and a weekend retreat to Hospitalfield House, a nineteenth-century estate on the east coast of Scotland now used for arts residencies.

Requirements

Contact

Please contact Prof. Richard Fine with questions.
Richard Fine
Professor of English
Virginia Commonwealth University

Phone: (804) 828 4483 or (804) 828-1331

Office Address: 210 Anderson House
(913 W. Franklin St.)

Mailing Address: English Department
Box 842005
VCU
Richmond, VA 23284

Opportunity

NAFSA: Association of International Educators and Abroad View are hosting the 2nd Annual Student Diplomat Essay Competition, inviting recently returned U.S. undergraduate study abroad participants to submit compelling stories that articulate how their undergraduate international experiences have helped meet the United States’ need to understand global situations and compete in the global arena.

Information

Essay Questions
Entrants are required to answer one of the following questions:

1. Shaping Your Identity
How has your study abroad experience influenced the way you view yourself as an American in the world? What lessons did you learn about being a global citizen?
2. Foreign Policy
Based on your study abroad experience, how do you think study abroad impacts U.S. leadership and foreign policy? How does it promote mutual understanding with other countries and cultures?
3. Countering Anti-Americanism Abroad
How did your study abroad experience help to inform your view about the United States? How did your encounters in your host country contribute to the development of cross-cultural understanding and dialogue?

Requirements

Deadline
November 15, 2007
Earlier submissions are welcome, as they will be reviewed on a rolling basis.
Terms
All submissions will be considered for publication by Abroad View and NAFSA: Association of International Educators. The winner will be awarded a cash prize of $150 and an STA Travel voucher worth $300.
Eligibility
The Student Diplomat Essay Competition is open to all U.S. students who have had an undergraduate study abroad experience, whether they are currently enrolled through an accredited college or university or have studied abroad since spring of 2003.
Guidelines
Essays should be 1,000 to 1,400 words.
All essays must include the following to be considered:
* full name;
* complete contact information including e-mail address;
* home school; and
* date and location of study abroad experience

Contact

E-mail your essay to studentdiplomat@nafsa.org. If you have questions or need further information, please e-mail studentdiplomat@nafsa.org.

Opportunity

An opportunity for students school-wide to exhibit their work in the hallways and waiting area of the Virginia Mechanics Institute at the MCV campus.

Information

Serving many students, not only from VCU, but also from the community at large, The Executive Director of Health Careers/Education and Special Services for Students, Cheryl Chesney-Walker at the VMI building, is looking for inspirational pieces from VCU students to adorn the walls of the building.

Requirements

Contact

Please contact Cheryl Chesney-Walker, M.Ed., for submission proposals.
Cheryl Chesney-Walker, M.Ed.
Executive Director of Health Careers/Education and Special Services for Students.
MCV Campus
Phone: 804-828-9782
Fax: 804-828-4609
or by email clchesneywal@vcu.edu

Opportunity

call for entries

Information

A new NASA contest encourages university art and design students to partner with science and engineering departments to create art representative of living and working on the moon. The goal is for students in the arts, science and engineering to collaboratively engage in NASA’s mission to return humans to the moon by 2020, and eventually journey on to Mars and other destinations in the solar system

The Advanced Planning and Partnership Office at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va., is sponsoring the “Life and Work on the Moon” contest. Winners will receive cash prizes up to $1,000. Winning artwork also will be exhibited online and across the country.

Students in architecture, industrial design, computer design, the fine arts and other disciplines are invited to submit entries in one of three categories: two-dimensional art, three-dimensional art or digital art. To ensure artistic concepts reflect the realities of the harsh lunar environment, art students are strongly encouraged to consult with science and engineering students and use NASA’s online resources.

A volunteer panel of judges will represent NASA, other government agencies, universities, industry and the professional art community. Judges will evaluate artistic qualities and whether the entry depicts a valid scenario in the context of the lunar environment.

In sponsoring the contest, NASA hopes to encourage more collaboration among scientists and engineers and the artistic and creative communities. Such collaboration may generate new ideas for living and working in extra-terrestrial environments, resulting in more successful long-duration space missions.

Winners of the contest will be offered the opportunity to exhibit their work in NASA facilities and science museums. An online public gallery will be available through a partnership with NASA’s Classroom of the Future, maintained by the Wheeling Jesuit University Center for Educational Technologies in Wheeling, W. Va., and the Christopher Newport University Institute for Science Education in Newport News, Va. Christopher Newport University will provide cash awards for top prizes.

Requirements

Entries are due no later than Dec. 1, 2007, and results will be announced in February 2008.

Contact

For more details about the contest, including NASA’s resources about the moon, visit: http://artcontest.larc.nasa.gov

For more information about NASA and agency programs, visit: http://www.nasa.gov

Opportunity

volunteer position for free admission

Information

1708 Gallery’s annual premier fashion event, Wearable Art X! is scheduled
for next Saturday, November 10th at La Diff.
Anyone interested in volunteering (and obtaining free admission) the night
of the show must be willing to show up before dress rehearsal, around
1pm the day of the show and stay through that night for clean up
(midnight).

Requirements

Contact

Interested? Please Contact:
Natasha Powell
Natasha.Powell@djj.virginia.gov
804-405-5937