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CALLS FOR ARTISTS / ARTS OPPORTUNITES
STATE OF THE ART GALLERY DECEMBER 2011 REGIONAL JURIED ART EXHIBIT ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: All adults, 18 years or older, living within the Ithaca, New York and Finger Lakes area are eligible to submit two works in any media, excluding photography, video or any digital art which derives from recorded or scanned imagery. Works must be original and completed within the last two years. DATES: November 7: Deadline for all entries November 14-18: Notification of acceptance/rejection. CONTACT: james@levelgreen.com for submissions and more info Full prospectus at www.soag.org
ARCADES PROJECT ANNOUNCES DECEMBER 2 EVENT
CALL FOR SMALL PRESS & INDEPENDENT PUBLISHERS, MAKERS OF GAMES AND GAME-RELATED ARTWORKS, VIDEO, PERFORMANCE AND MULTI-MEDIA ARTISTS AND ARTWORKS
Arcades Project is a curated event featuring artists, designers, and independent presses.The December event will incorporate these elements but will shift its aesthetic focus to the poem of display in an effort to create a gift economy that highlights elements of chance and play. As such we are featuring gamers, games, and video art as well as book arts, and strongly encouraging applicants to include a well-thought out artistic design that describes how to display their wares. Deadline for applications: First round due October 3, then rolling as space allows DOWNLOAD APPLICATION More info here.
ART WORKSHOP FOR COMMUNITY ARTISTS AND ART TEACHERS Art, Transformation and Social Change: with Lily Yeh, celebrated artist October 24, 2011 8:30am - 3:30pm One World Room, Anabel Taylor Hall, Cornell University
Fee: $40, limited scholarships are available Sponsored by the Center for Transformative Action and the Johnson Museum of Art To register contact Holly Kazarinoff by October 7, hkazarinoff@tstboces.org
CALL TO ARTISTS HOMEGROWN ART at FRANKLIN STREET GALLERY Homegrown Art is an exhibit that celebrates our thriving agricultural traditions and its evolution in New York's Finger Lakes Region. The maple collection buckets, weary old tractors, and barns all inspire and nourish our sense of home and our creativity. Muse over the animal sanctuary, the goat and dairy farms and the seasons that provide for our prosperous wineries. Eligibility: Entries must be original, entirely the work of the entrant, executed within the last 5 years and without the supervision of an instructor.
Entries must not be copied, derivatives, or based on other copyrighted or published paintings or photographs
Entry Fees There is a non-refundable entry fee of $15 per entry with a maximum of three entries. Make checks payable to Franklin Street Gallery. Credit card transactions are available at the gallery. Deadline for entry is September 26, 2011 for more info, call 607.535.2571
ONLINE RESOURCES Regular listings for calls for art can also be found at: -CallsForArt.com -Art Deadlines List OTHER ONLINE RESOURCES AVAILABLE AT ARTSPARTNER.ORG
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Greetings!
That first day of fall is sneaking up quickly, as are plenty of deadlines for grant-seekers. One of the many ways artists and organizations get the support they need, the grants administered here at CAP and elsewhere in the state are detailed below in this month's ArtsLetter.
While we're on the subject of supporting the arts, I wanted to let you know of a new fun and interesting way for you to support us here at CAP.
 A new website called GoodInKind.com just launched in Ithaca, and it provides a way for you to support us by either offering a service of some kind to other members of the community or by purchasing a service offered by others. The proceeds from the transactions are channeled directly to us to support our mission.
For example, if you're good at tennis, you can offer a tennis lesson to someone for, say, $50. When you post that offer on GoodInKind.com, you choose Community Arts Partnership Of Tompkins County Inc as the recipient of the funds. When someone sees your offer, they contact you through GoodInKind to make arrangements for the lesson, enter their credit card information, and GoodInKind then channels the $50 to us.
A fun video explaining how it works can be seen at the homepage - www.goodinkind.com.
Of course, you could also always set up an easy monthly donation plan right on CAP's own Support Us Page. As little as $5 a month goes a long way to help us continue promote the Arts as a vital part of everyday life in Tompkins County.
Cheers!
Brett Bossard, Executive Director
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2012 GRANT DEADLINES ARE APPROACHING!
 One of CAP's primary goals is to get funds into the hands of artists and arts organizations for programs and projects that will enrich Tompkins County's already vibrant arts community.
With funding support from the New York State Council on the Arts as well as local donors and supporters, we're able to offer a number of grant programs.
Applications & Guidelines for the following grants are now available at ArtsPartner.org:
To find out more about CAP's grants, contact
Program Director, Robin Schwartz - programs@artspartner.org
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 NYFA EXTENDS SOS DEADLINE
The New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) has announced that the application deadline for Strategic Opportunity Stipends (SOS) has been extended to 5pm, Monday, September 26.
The decision to extend the deadline was made because several areas of upstate New York have been without power and/or Internet service due to Tropical Storm Irene.
SOS provides grants designed to help individual artists of all disciplines take advantage of specific, unique opportunities that will significantly benefit their work or career.
In our region, the SOS program is administered by our friends at the ARTS Council of the Southern Finger Lakes.
Applications can be downloaded here. Completed applications should be emailed to Emily Marino at The ARTS, at grants@eARTS.org . Please email Emily with questions or call her at 607-962-5871 x226.
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NOW AT THE CAP ARTSPACE
Ben Altman, "False Memory Mechanism",
through September 30
"False Memory Mechanism" an exhibit by local artist Ben Altman, is an installation using composite panoramas of a wedding, a funeral reception, a going-away party, dinner with long-lost cousins, and a graduation. Ben memorializes these rites of passage with large hand-made prints of photographs created by incomplete frame advances and accidental double exposures. The pieces, mounted using a complicated suspension system, explore how the medium becomes the memory.
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CAP Fall 2011 Workshops!
Full descriptions and more information
at CAP's workshop page
Registration Required. Sign up early!
All workshops are in our offices in Center Ithaca.
$20 ($15 for 2010/2011 supporters)
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Elissa Cogan
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Money & the Self Employed Artist. Elissa Cogan Thursday, October 13, 5:30 to 7:30pm
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Brett Bossard
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Social Media. Brett Bossard Wednesday, October 26, 5:30 to 7:30pm Marketing & Promotion for Arts Orgs. Brett Bossard Thursday, November 3, 5:30 to 7:30pm
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Robin Schwartz
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Organizing the Artist Studio. Robin Schwartz Thursday, November 17, 5:30 to 7:30pm
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NEXT AT THE CAP ARTSPACE
Melissa Zarem
"Close to the Skin"
Oct 1 through October 31
Local Artist Melissa Zarem's exhibit "Close to the Skin" shows colorful and vibrant abstract paintings. She says "The phrase 'close to the skin' refers to advice (given to me by a friend from Trinidad) to use care when peeling a mango because the sweetest flesh is always closest to the skin. This is good advice as well as a good metaphor."
Melissa's work playfully combines expressive gesture, layered texture and graphic formal elements.
Reception: Fri, October 7, 5-8 Part of Gallery Night
Artists' Talk: Mon, October 17, 6:30 - 7:00pm in the CAP Artspace
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Save the Music Campaign Seeks Donations for Flood Victims in Southern Tier
As you may have heard, the Southern Tier of New York has just experienced record breaking flooding and has been declared a major disaster area by the governor of NY. The City of Binghamton as well as the small town of Owego, New York was among the hardest hit areas leaving local families and businesses devastated. Even the schools were affected. The SAVE THE MUSIC campaign seeks to help two elementary school music departments rebuild by collecting donations of playable concert instruments and/or checks to replace hundreds of instruments.
Please check your attic and rescue some long neglected instrument by placing it in the hands of a young music student. It will make all the difference for OWEGO ELEMENTARY and MACARTHUR ELEMENTARY (Binghamton).
We are seeking every kind of concert band instrument including several dozens each of flutes, oboes, clarinets, saxophones, trombones, French horns, drums, timpani, keyboards, electric guitars, amps, and all instrument accessories.
Basically everything but your Grandma's Steinway!!
DATE/TIME: ASAP and ONGOING UNTIL NEEDS ARE MET Instrument drop-off locations in Tompkins County: McNeil Music, Triphammer Mall Hickey's Music Center, 104 Adams Street The Community School of Music and Arts, 330 E. State Street Ithaca Antique Center, 1607 Trumansburg Road, Ithaca
For more info: contact Carolyn Mrazek at 607-229-0497 or email savethemusic2011@gmail.com
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