Opportunity

Study in New Zeland over the summer

Information

The Department of Teaching and Learning and the Office of International Education are pleased to offer a unique opportunity for students to study literacy from an international perspective in exciting New Zealand. This program includes cultural excursions, service learning opportunities and attendance at the International Reading Association World Congress in Aukland. Students will enjoy dolphin watching, swimming at the hot water beach, hiking to stunning Cathedral Cove, and playing in the snow on the Whakapapa Ski Field and volcano. Participants will visit a Maori school and a living Maori village where they will experience a traditional hangi lunch. During the conference, participants will meet world renowned experts in the field of literacy education at conference sessions and events.

Requirements

For more information including requirements, program costs and itinerary please visit the link below.

http://www.international.vcu.edu/abroad/programs/vcu/programdetail/p67.aspx

Contact

 Please visit the link below for all contact information

http://www.international.vcu.edu/abroad/programs/vcu/programdetail/p67.aspx

Opportunity

Apply for an artists residency in South Carolina

Information

Elsewhere Collaborative is a living museum and experimental production environment in downtown Greensboro, North Carolina. Elsewhere is set within a three-story former thrift store, boarding house, and warehouse containing one woman’s enormous 58-year collection of American surplus, thrift, and antiques.  Elsewhere residencies invites experimental creators to join our collaborating community in utilizing this immense collection of objects, no longer for sale and now circulating internally, as material or inspiration for site-specific projects that become part of an endlessly transforming environment of objects and works.  Residents live and work within interactive installations that provide evolving frameworks for investigating collaborations, community structures, and creative processes. Our program provides people in the creative field an incredible opportunity to work within a dynamic environment, alongside a vibrant community of experimental artists and producers, with extensive resources and interpretive possibilities available at every turn.  Our internship program offers a one-of-a-kind experience with creative organization building and productions for less advanced creators.

Requirements

Residency opportunities are for students pursuing advanced degrees, alumni, and faculty. Elsewhere is now accepting applications from artists, curators, writers, musicians, designers, gardeners, makers, builders, scholars, producers, and creatives across media for our 2010 season which runs from mid-March to early November. Please visit the website for specific requirements.

http://elsewhereelsewhere.org/programs/residencies 

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Contact

Danna Rooth

Program Director

residencies@elsewhereelsewhere.org

847.702.8389

elsewhere artist collaborative

606 & 608 south elm street

greensboro, north carolina 27406

Opportunity

Long Lake Camp for the Arts is currently hiring staff for their summer camp.

Information

This is an awesome opportunity for anyone who’s interested in working with kids and teaching their trade, plus you get your own studio space. The age range of kids is 10-16 years old. As a teacher you would also be a bunk counselor, which means you would share a bunk with another counselor and thirteen kids, all in one age group. Camp is ten weeks long and you get full room and board, plus a paycheck.

Grace Johnston, a current VCUarts student, comments on her experience:
“Let me tell you, it was the BEST summer of my life. Really, I sound like a walking advert, but I can’t even express how incredible and life-changing this camp is.”

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http://www.longlakecamp.com/

Requirements

Contact

Grace Johnston (Current VCUarts Sculpture student)
johnstongd@vcu.edu

Geoff Burnett
Geoff@longlakecamp.com

Opportunity

The Departments of Theater and Dance and the Office of International Education are pleased to offer a journey to two destinations in Europe.

Information

During the first two weeks of the trip, students will be living in Belgrade, Serbia while doing intensive study (seven hours a day) of Grotowski/Barba based acting with the world renowned DAH Theatre in their studio. During this time, we will be joined by British voice trainer, Frankie Armstrong, and will explore the Agamemnon/Clytemnestra/Iphigenia story using text from The Greeks. Out of these explorations we will create a devised theatre/movement piece directed by DAH’s Dijana Milosovec which we will then take to Greece to perform in ancient ruins in the Peloponnesis. While in Belgrade, in the evenings we will attend lectures, demonstrations and performances. On our final day in Belgrade we shall take a silent walk through the ruins of Kalemegdan, an ancient Roman/Turkish fortress that overlooks the intersection of the Danube and Sava Rivers. In Belgrade, students will live with families and learn about their culture.

On June 6th we will fly to Athens, Greece where we will immediately begin our tour of Mycenae, Epidaurus, Argos and Delphi, among other locations related to the story of the Trojan War. Where possible, we will perform our devised piece, experimenting with the acoustics of the open air spaces.

Course and Credit Options:
3-6 undergraduate or graduate credits in THEA 340, 341, 640, 641 or in DANC 491 (for 3 or 6 credits)

Course Description: This program will expose students to exciting new concepts of European theatre and dance through physically, vocally and psychologically intensive workshop situations. It will give students an opportunity to meet and work with practicing artists who hold to the highest standards of discipline and practice within their cultures

For more information and to register: http://www.international.vcu.edu/abroad/programs/vcu/programdetail/p57.aspx

Requirements

Registration deadline: January 16, 2010. Applications will be considered in the order received.

Students must have at least a 2.0 G.P.A. to participate in this program. Note: This program is restricted to theatre and dance majors only and you will need to be very physically fit and in excellent health. We will be doing a lot of physical and vocal training and walking

Contact

Janet Rodgers, jrodgers@vcu.edu
Martha Curtis, mcurtis@vcu.edu

Office of International Education
Education Abroad
(804) 827- 788
abroad@vcu.edu

Opportunity

The Say Love Project is looking for both visual and performance submissions.

Information

Say Love is a project that celebrates the triumphs and struggles of the LGBT community. This month-long event and exhibition is about inclusion and we invite artists to showcase their stories and experiences through all forms of visual and performing arts. We encourage art that focuses on social and political topics that are currently affecting the LGBT community. This event is intended to not only express ourselves through art, but to inform all demographics across the board of the passions, struggles and triumphs we face.
-This year’s show is juxtaposing Love and Hate, and how that affects the LGBT community.
-We are looking for stories that deal with topics such as, Prop 8, “Don’t ask Don’t Tell”, Hate Crimes and The Matthew Sheppard Bill.
-We are accepting all forms of visual and performing art submissions.
-Although this is an LGBT-based show we encourage submissions from all sexual orientations.

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Requirements

The deadline for visual art submissions for display in our main gallery are Friday, December 11th. Please mail all visual art submissions to: visual@gallery5arts.org or mail submissions to: “Say Love” Gallery5 200 West Marshall St. Richmond, Virginia 23220

The submission deadline for performance art submissions is Wednesday, November 18th. Please email submissions to Jennifer Noel Catton at: sayloveensemble@gmail.com or drop your submissions in her mailbox on the second floor of the W. E. Singleton Center for the Performing Arts 922 Park Ave
Jennifer Noel Catton, MFA student, V.C.U. Theatre Department

Submissions for the two-night production must be no more than 10 minutes. We are ultimately looking to have 10 performed pieces keeping the show around 2 hours or less.
-If you would like to also participate in Gallery5’s opening reception for the “Say Love” exhibition on Friday, January 8th, please email your performance submission/proposals to Jennifer Noel Catton at: sayloveensemble@gmail.com

Contact

Opportunity

The Office of International Education and the Department of Art Education at Virginia Commonwealth University are pleased to offer a unique opportunity for students to engage in an arts-based service-learning experience in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala.

Information

Students will be enrolled in a 3 credit Art Education course on campus at VCU during the spring semester. Students will then travel to Guatemala for the one-week on-site portion of the program from March 13-20, 2010.

Course: TOPICS CLASS - ARTE 491
ART & TRANSFORMATION: MAYAN ARTS PROGRAM

The Office of Education Abroad will enroll students in the course upon receipt of the registration.

Course Description:
Students will use experiences in an arts-based service-learning project in Guatemala as the foundation for the examination of relevant social and cultural issues and personal reflection through art. In addition to travel overview and lesson creation, pre-trip preparations will include readings and discussions targeting social justice, arts advocacy, community building, the effects of colonialism, art/craft as cultural legacy, and education. In Guatemala, students will stretch their concept of culture and community as intercultural relationships are formed and as they become familiar with various social, economic and environmental issues facing both the indigenous Highland Maya. While there, students will work in a Mayan community alongside women leaders, teachers and elementary school children during Spring Break (typically on a community art project and/ or teaching lessons). After students return from the trip, the class and guest critics will help individuals develop a small body of work with an emphasis on social justice and action. This “body of work” is an opportunity for students to examine critical issues and personally relevant experiences. These can be works of art, dance, drama, film shorts, photography, short stories, essays, children’s books, or curriculum.

For more information, visit http://www.international.vcu.edu/abroad/programs/vcu/programdetail/p41.aspx

Requirements

Deadline to apply: December 15, 2009. Applications will be accepted through the online system (http://www.international.vcu.edu/abroad) until the deadline or until the end of the add/drop period.

Because a diverse mix of participants is desired, students who are interested in Painting and Printmaking, Sculpture, Crafts/Material Studies, Film/Photography, Kinetic Imaging, Communication Arts, Creative Writing, Theater and Education students are encouraged to enroll. Students will teach as well as make art and should be prepared to work independently and collaboratively. Students will also need to demonstrate situational flexibility necessitated by the constraints placed on international small groups. While students with these courses are probably sophomores or older, exceptional freshman will also be considered.

Contact

Office of International Education
Education Abroad
817 West Franklin Street, Room 122

Phone: (804) 827-7882
E-mail: abroad@vcu.edu

Opportunity

The Virginia Production Alliance invites you to attend  Friends With Benefits, a party celebrating Virginia’s creative community.

Information

Are you interested or involved in any aspect of Virginia’s media production industry including film, television, advertising, writing, acting,and audio production?  If so, Friends with Benefits is an event giving you the opportunity to network with other local professionals who have similar interests and pursuits.

When: October 7, 2009 at 6:30 pm

Where: Firehouse Theatre, 1609 W. Broad Street, Richmond

Parking:You can either park on the street or across Broad Street in the Lowe’s parking lot.

Requirements

Contact

If you are confused, lost or just need an answer about the event contact Kahil Dotay at 804-426-3394 or dotay@integfilms.com.

Opportunity

This Fellowship is a wonderful opportunity for students to enhance their professional standing, aid their pursuit of an advanced degree, or finance a special project within the field.

Information

The Kate Neal Kinley Memorial Fellowship is open to graduates of the College of Fine and Applied Arts of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and to graduates of similar institutions of equal educational standing whose principal or major studies have been in the fields of art, architecture, dance, landscape architecture, music, theatre, and urban and regional planning.

Three major Fellowships will be awarded:

-one of approximately $20,000 in any field of music.

-one of approximately $20,000 in architectural design and history, art and design, theatre, dance, or instrumental or vocal music.

-one of approximately $9,000 in art, architecture, dance, landscape architecture, theatre or urban and regional planning.

Requirements

Submission Deadline: December 3, 2009

Application requirements and submission forms can be found in the Kate Neal Kinley Application Form

Contact

Robert Graves, Dean and Chair, Kate Neal Kinley Memorial Fellowship Committee

T: 217 333 1661

E: rewilcox@illinois.edu

Opportunity

Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation annually supports regional artists in residence at The Millay Colony, Austerlitz, NY, and the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, VA

Information

Residencies support writers, composers, and visual artists. The visiting artist is provided with a private studio, room and board, and the company of other artists from around the nation, for an intensive period of self-guided creative exploration and development.

In addition to sponsorship support, a small travel subsidy is awarded to the selected artist. Artists must apply directly to the appropriate colony. More information and application materials are available online.  
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Admission to the VCCA is highly selective, based on a review of applications by panels of professional artists in each discipline. There are 11 panels (poets, fiction writers, nonfiction writers, playwrights, performance, film and video artists, painters, sculptors, photographers, installation artists, and composers), with a total of 48 panelists. The basis for admission by an application is professional achievement or promise of achievement.

Requirements

Application Deadline: September 15, 2009 and Janurary 15, 2010

To apply, artists submit an application form, curriculum vitae and samples of their work. Artists in Delaware, Maryland, the US Virgin Islands, Virginia, and West Virginia may apply to the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. www.vcca.com.
  

Contact

email: karen@midatlanticarts.org  
web: www.midatlanticarts.org

Opportunity

Seventh Point invites artists to apply for an event in Richmond.

Information

We are working on an upcoming event in Richmond with an arts based theme, and are looking to hire entertaining performance artists. Not the traditional definition of performance art, rather artists who while in the process of creating their art are entertaining to watch or incorporate entertainment into his or her process. This includes dramatic painters, musicians who bang drums with paint spattering to create art, etc.

Requirements

Application Deadline: July 1, 2009

Contact

Angela Prezioso
4752 Euclid Rd
Virginia Beach, VA 23462
757.473.8152
aprezioso@seventhpoint.com