• Opportunity: Study Abroad.
• Information: This Summer VCU is offering 30 exciting opportunities to study abroad. If you've always wanted to travel but never had the time or the right reason, let VCU be the excuse you need to go out and experience another land and culture. There is an opportunity for everyone. New programs span the gamut from Anthropology in Guatemala, Ecology in Costa Rica, Fashion in Italy, Women's Studies in Spain, Aboriginal studies in Australia, and Zulu studies in South Africa.
• Contact: Check out the summer programs website: http://www.vcu.edu/oie/eao_ss/

1708 Gallery is sponsoring an all night art event/celebration for their 30th anniversary and Richmond’s first annual light-inspired contemporary arts happening.  Modeled after Paris’ Nuit Blanche, the event will be a spectacle of multi-media instillations and performances.

From 7pm, Friday 5 September 2008 to 2am Saturday 6 September, the 300, 200, and 100 blocks of W. Broad St. in Richmond, VA will serve as sites for art works.  Various locations within these blocks have been identified as primary and secondary sites, for instance walls, parking lots, storefronts, doorways, and median strips.

Artists are also welcome to explore roving performances/instillations (i.e. the street as canvas).  Select sites will showcase instillations that remain on view throughout the evening, and possibly longer.  Other sites will target performances and instillations that rotate over the course of the evening.

Light is the theme, so all work proposed should be inspired by light in some way.  Any interpretation of light is welcome, from light as a medium to light as an abstract idea.  Interdisciplinary projects are encouraged but not required.  Existing work will be considered as well as proposals for new work.

For details and images of sites, please visit 1708’s blog at www.inlightrichmond.blogspot.com

Contact the gallery at 804.643.1708

1708 Call For Entries Document

• Opportunity: recruiting opportunity
• Information: Wednesday, February 6, 2008 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. Check-in at the Richmond Salons University Student Commons, 2nd floor See who is attending & what they are recruiting for: http://vcu.erecruiting.com/stu/cf_details?fhnd=2876

• Opportunity: Internship
• Information: Interns with the General Services Administration (Fine Arts Program Assistant), help research and develop interpretive information on historic buildings, artists, and works of art installed in Federal buildings nationwide. Information may be in the form of plaques, brochures, or other publications. The intern creates computer images of artwork utilizing digitizing/scanning and computer graphics equipment, maintains automated databases and archives of fine arts installed in GSA’s historic and contemporary buildings, assists in the research, inventory, and cataloging of Federally-owned artwork in non-Federal repositories nationwide. 400. hour internship.
• Requirements: Application deadline is 15 February 2008.
• Contact: The information is available on the Web site of the National Park Service at www.cr.nps.gov/hps/tps/hpit_p.htm and the National Council at www.preservenet.cornell.edu/employ/ncpe.html . A downloadable application will be available from each site as well.

• Opportunity: Call for entries.
• Information: Friends of Oakdale Cemetery, Wilmington, NC, are seeking new proposals for a memorial monument commemorating the victims of the 1862 Yellow Fever epidemic who are buried in Oakdale Cemetery. Oakdale, the earliest rural cemetery in NC, has abundant funerary art, and is rich in cultural and historical heritage and natural resources. The outdoor monument will be erected in the cemetery and will accommodate the names of four hundred victims buried in the area.
• Requirements: Eligibility: All current residences of USA. Award: $1,000 awarded for accepted proposal The Yellow Fever epidemic proposed monument must be: • Structurally sound, free-standing object and safe for visitor viewing • Maximum height of ten feet; maximum footprint of 65 square feet • Must have surface area to accommodate engraving of 400 names • Capable of withstanding adverse weather conditions • Must be of contemporary design, reflective of its era of creation Paperwork must include artist's name, media, dimensions and include the following: • Proposal design and narrative; installation specifications such as concrete pad size, securing instructions and equipment/manpower • Budget estimate to create the monument • Sample visuals: slides or digital images of recent work (limited to ten samples) • Descriptive list of visuals submitted • Artist r?sum? • Enclose SASE for return of materials submitted Timeline: September 1, 2008: Proposals (images/slides/professional information) due December 2008: Award notification
• Contact: Entry: Forward proposals to: Friends of Oakdale Cemetery 520 North 15th Street Wilmington, NC 28401 E-mail Inquiries: connera@uncw.edu, Ann Conner

• Opportunity: workshop series with Hope Ginsburg
• Information: Hope Ginsburg, a recent addition to VCU's Art Foundation Program, has tranformed Solvent Space into spongespace. spongespace is an immersive environment designed to host three Sponge workshops. Each Sponge workshop includes hands-on projects, visiting experts, projected films, participant presentations, and the assembly of a Sponge Reader. WORKSHOPS: Visit: http://www.spongespace.net for workshop details & advance registration. Feltmaking Sponge February 2nd, 10am-5pm; February 3rd, 10am-5pm Sponge Water & Sound Feburary 9th, 10am-5pm; February 10th, 10-am-5pm Meta-Sponge February 15th, 10-am-5pm; February 16th, 10am-5pm HOPE GINSBURG Sound design by Stephen Vitiello Wall design by Leah Beeferman January 25th-February 23rd OPENING: Friday January 25th, 6-8PM Solvent Space Plant Zero Arts Complex Hull & 4th Streets, Richmond VA

• Opportunity: Exhibition Opportunity
• Information: Burlington County College in Pemberton, NJ invites sculptors over 18 years of age to submit works for the 21st Annual Sculpture Garden exhibition. Works must be free-standing and able to withstand changing weather conditions. There is a $10.00 entry fee for three pieces, and artists may submit up to three views of each work. Selected sculptures will be exhibited for a period of one year, with installation in August, 2008. Artists will receive a $250.00 stipend plus travel expenses and sales of the works will be encouraged. An exhibition catalog will be printed. The competition will be judged by Amy Lipton, Director, The Fields, Art Omni International in Ghent, NY.
• Requirements: Postmark deadline for entries is April 7, 2008.
• Contact: For prospectus, go to http://staff.bcc.edu/sculptur or contact Leslie Kaufman, 215-413-9126 lesliekaufman@verizon.net

• Opportunity: Exhibition Opportunity
• Information: Philadelphia Sculptors is offering a great opportunity for artists interested in making artistic statements about environmental issues. We are sponsoring a major sculpture exhibition on the theme of global warming during Fall 2008. “Global Warming at the Icebox” will be exhibited at the large and uniquely appropriate Icebox Project Space in the Crane Arts Building in Philadelphia. We are seeking submissions from artists working in three dimensions who can present original ways of approaching the theme and exploring the diverse ramifications of climate change. Interactive, multi-media, and installation works are encouraged. and the show will run from October 5, 2008 – November 15, 2008. All work must be submitted digitally. Selected artists will receive an honorarium of $750. The jurors are Adelina Vlas, Assistant Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Cheryl Harper, Independent Curator. The entry fee is $15 for Philadelphia Sculptors members and $25 for non-members (or discounted membership and entry fee of $45 for new members.)
• Requirements: Postmark deadline for entries is March 15, 2008.
• Contact: For prospectus and more information, go to www.philasculptors.org/globalwarming or contact Leslie Kaufman at 215-413-9126, lesliekaufman@verizon.net.

• Opportunity: Exhibition Opportunity
• Information: The Lessedra Gallery, in Sofia, Bulgaria, is announcing their annual "World Art Print" exhibition. Lessedra Gallery's mission is to form international print annual with the premise that no art form has broader implications in contemporary society than that of the print. Their aim is to gather and exhibit contemporary art print works from all over the world and to contribute to the contacts and the exchange between artists, art lovers and collectors and to stimulate the research into paper, inks, and other materials used in printmaking. Along with the exhibition, Lessedra will produce a print catalogue for worldwide distribution. Lessedra Gallery & Contemporary Art Projects will publish an exhibition catalogue including all accepted artists. Every participating artist is kindly requested to send a brief biography and a personal photograph on a CD or via E-mail for the web presentation of the project. Lessedra Gallery & Contemporary Art Projects reserves the right to photograph and reproduce works in the printed catalogue, in CDR, in the Internet gallery and also for advertising, commercial and publicity purposes.
• Requirements: CONDITIONS FOR PARTICIPATION 1. Each artist should send no more than 3 works: original prints, created in 2007/2008. Entries may feature any type of method of printmaking and should be signed and numbered by the artist. The maximum dimensions of a work are 29 x 23 cm. (paper size). Please note: works exceeding the limited size shall be neglected! 2. The application (entry) form should accompany the work, including the name and the nationality of the artist as well as the title, price, year and the technique used in the work. 3. The works should be sent to LESSEDRA Gallery & Contemporary Art Projects as PRINTED MATTER by registered air-mail in a simple packet, unframed, without mount, bearing the declaration "No commercial value". Please note: packages with declared amounts arrive directly in the customs so they shall be returned back from the customs for the costs of the sender. 4. Participation fee is 50 EUR for all European and 70 USD for all another countries and it covers catalogue production, organization of the exhibition, invitations, posters, advertise materials, print return and catalogue postage. It has to be paid with the message "Lessedra Annual Exhibition" on the name of Lessedra Gallery
• Contact: Visit http://www.lessedra.com/entry.php?d=conditions for contest rules and regulations. Visit http://www.lessedra.com/entry.php?d=form for the entry form.

• Opportunity: Scholarships Listserve
• Information: Find out which VCUarts scholarships are for you. Visit www.vcu.edu/arts/scholarships for further information.