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ABOUT NEFA
| NEFA supports artists with grants and professional resources; establishes vital connections between artists, arts programmers, and the public; and strengthens the region's creative economy through research that informs public policy.
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LAST CHANCE CALLS TO ARTISTS
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- Due June 8, 2012
- RFQ for Art Glass installation for Oakland Airport Connector Art Program, Oakland, CA
- Due June 8, 2012
The Public Art League in Champaign-Urbana hosts sculpture competition, IL - Due June 11, 2012
RFQ for San Jose Art + Technology Roster, TX - Due June 15, 2012
RFQ for $50,000 permanent memorial at McDonogh School, Owings Mills, MD
Remember, these are just a few of the great listings available on the NEFA Network. Calls are posted several times a week, so visit today and check back often!
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NEFA'S PUBLIC ART DISCUSSION SERIES | |
 The last Public Art Discussion Series event of the 2011-2012 season was spent observing a public art panel at Rhode Island State Council on the Arts. Attendees learned the ropes of panel management from RISCA's Public Art Director, Liz Keithline, and gained valuable insight about effective proposal presentations from the three selected artists - Marilyn Bogdanffy, Cindy Kelly and Mela Lyman. Couldn't make it to the event? Check out the photos from the panel on NEFA's Facebook page!
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UNVEILING OF LYNNARTS MURAL
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Photo: Elysian McNiff
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LynnArts recently celebrated the unveiling of the Lynn Mural Project, a three-story community based mural funded in part by NEFA's Fund for the Arts. Artists David Fichter, Yetti Frenkel and Joshua Winer not only painted the mural, but helped Lynn public school students to create the mosaics that are integrated in the artwork. The opening also celebrated Lynn's designation as a Cultural District by the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Congrats to Lynn!
Photos from the opening can be found on NEFA's Facebook page.
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FUND FOR THE ARTS PROJECT SPOTLIGHT
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Fort Point Arts Community Public Art Series received a grant in 2011
from NEFA's Fund for the Arts. Heidi Kayser's performative public art work, "The Remodeling Project," is the last installation in the series. During the month of May, Kayser kayaked to a platform between the Summer Street and Congress Street bridges in Boston's Fort Point Channel. The platform served as a site for unscheduled guerrilla interventions about shared ideas of "home" and "social identity" that were informed by crowd sourced survey data.
If you missed seeing Heidi paddling to the platform, doing laundry, having a picnic, and working away in her new office space, then visit the project website for images, videos and blog posts.
Photos (clockwise): Sarah Rushford, Tim Murdoch, Rushford, Heidi Kayser
Have photos of a NEFA-funded work? Send them to emcniff@nefa.org to have them featured in a future publication.
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Photo: Kristen Parker
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NEFA's Public Art Intern Elysian McNiff (pictured), participated in
Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts' Tricks of the Trade panel, "The State of Public Art," at Maya Gallery in North Adams. The panel was the last of the Culture Making 2011-2012 series, a year-long program of professional development seminar series for artists and creatives.
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