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Your tax-deductible donations can now be made securely on-line. Please help the Community Arts Partnership ensure Arts for Life in Tompkins County.
Thank you for supporting the arts!
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Calls for Artists
DOWNTOWN MURAL PROJECT
Keep
an eye on this section of the ArtsLetter for details on an upcoming
opportunity to install a large mural in a prominent downtown Ithaca
location.
The Downtown Ithaca Alliance, in conjunction with the City of Ithaca's Public Art Commission is awaiting final approval from City of Ithaca to announce the official call for artists.
1st Annual Juried
Art Exhibit
at Ithaca Tompkins Regional Airport
Theme: Flight
We will be accepting 15 pieces of work to be hung inside the airport and
3 sculptural pieces will be accepted for outdoor exhibit in front of the
airport. Works must have been completed in the last 2 years.
Please email Diane Goodman at dgithaca@gmail.com, for more information.
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Greetings!
Happy New Year! Only three weeks in, and 2010 is already a busy year. This month's ArtsLetter is filled with opportunities for artists and audiences to enjoy.
We're excited to announce another round of grant awardees for 2010. Artists, organizations, and schools from literally every corner of Tompkins County will receive funding from CAP this year, and I'm once again proud and amazed of the diversity of talent and effort being expended all over our community.
Keep an eye on ArtsPartner.org and the ArtsLog this year for stories from our grantees, and, if you haven't visited it already, please take a look at the new Artist Registry. We're proud to have many of our member artists already represented here, but we need MORE! If you're a member and haven't yet supplied the information for your profile, please submit it soon!
And if you HAVEN'T yet renewed your artist membership, please visit the Become a Member page on the site to make your annual donation of at least $25 (or simply download this PLEDGE CARD and send your donation by mail).
We have some great new services and programs planned for the new year (including the Arts Marketing Forums listed below), so please keep in touch and help us SPREAD THE WORD by forwarding this ArtsLetter to your friends!
Thanks,
Brett Bossard, Executive Director
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 ARTS MARKETING FORUMS BEGIN
JANUARY 18th
Each month, there will be a selected
topic that will start a group conversation about best practices in marketing
art, including all aspects of an art business such as advertising, shipping,
website management and promotion.
Attendees should come with a
willingness to share their own experiences and learn from the successes (and
challenges) of others in the group!
FIRST SESSION
Monday, January 18, 2010 @ 7 PM
CAP ArtSpace inside Center Ithaca
(Note: Center Ithaca Main entrance will be locked.
Enter via 171 The Commons - the Ticket Center/Visitor Center - directly to the left of 15 Steps.)
Guest: Vicki Taylor of Downtown Ithaca Alliance
Subject: Utilizing Social Media (e.g. FaceBook)
to promote your work
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 ARTS GRANTS AWARDED
FOR 2010NEW YORK STATE COUNCIL ON THE ARTS GRANTS
We're pleased to announce the distribution of $56,700 to
local arts organizations, artists and schools through three 2010 grant programs
funded by New York State Council for the Arts (NYSCA).
While CAP
provides a number of services, possibly the most wide-ranging are their grant
programs. Since 1992, the amount of
NYSCA funds alone that CAP has awarded totals $805,206! The three grant programs funded through NYSCA are as
follows:
1. Decentralization Grants for Community Arts Events
were
distributed to 31 Tompkins County not-for-profit agencies for 36 projects that
encompassed theatre performances, music concerts, children's programming, dance
performances, poetry readings and visual art exhibitions. Grant awards ranged
from $375 to $2,500, totaling $40,500.
2. CAP II Grants
were
distributed to 6 artists who are creating new work and involving the general
public in their art making process. A
total of $7,500 was distributed.
3. Arts-in-Education Local Capacity Building
Grants
were
distributed to Tompkins County schools and teaching artists for in the classroom.
6 collaborative
partnerships in the classroom. $8,700 was distributed.
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NOW at CAP ArtSpace
Daniel McPheeters
"Landscape/Skyscape/Dreamscape"
through January 31st, 2010
Artist Daniel McPheeters says that: "Over the past year I have
been working on a new series of pieces that I call
"Landscape/Skyscape/Dreamscape." This body of work represents my
lifelong interest in science, nature, and art and how these
interconnect. I live on a hilltop in the woods, far away from city
lights. Often the night sky, set against the forest's edge, is quite
dramatic and stirring. As an avid sky watcher I follow the
constellations as they change with the seasons and try to interpret
celestial events in my works. I capture my experiences in my pieces by
giving them a surreal, dreamlike quality.
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I often include lines and
grids in my pieces. As I contemplate the vastness of the heavens, with
hundreds of billions of galaxies, each with hundreds of billions of
stars, I am aware of how everything is connected. Even the smallest
sub-atomic particle is connected with every other particle in the
universe. The lines of quantum connection unify the universe in a
whirling cosmic dance of unknowable beauty." See more about Dan at his website, sculptedimage.com |
NYFA S.O.S. Applications - DUE January 27th, 2010
 
DEADLINE:
January 27, 2010 for opportunities in March - June 2010
SOS, a project of the New York Foundation for the
Arts, working in collaboration with arts councils and cultural
organizations across New York State, is designed to help individual artists
of all disciplines take advantage of specific unique opportunities that will
significantly benefit their work or career development.
Artists working in all disciplines (including literature, media arts, visual
arts, music, and theater) may request support ranging from $100 to $600 for
specific, forthcoming opportunities. These do not include works-in-progress.
The Program is administered regionally by
The ARTS Council of the Southern Finger Lakes
for the following counties: Broome, Chemung, Schuyler, Steuben, Tioga and Tompkins.
They will work with artists
individually to help them learn to write the best possible grant application.
Contact Lynn Dates for
assistance with your SOS grant application -
TheARTS@eARTS.org
Applications should be submitted to:
Lynn Dates
The
ARTS Council of the Southern Finger Lakes
32
West Market Street
Corning,
NY 14830
You can download copies of this application and find more information about
SOS on NYFA Interactive at www.nyfa.org/sos.
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CAP STAFF
Executive Director, Brett Bossard
Program Director, Robin Schwartz
Bookkeeper, Kit Wainer
Director of Ticketing Services, Jen Brown
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