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Someone Is Looking Out For Our Featured City

Walked around just now, just to feel what a Featured City feels like.

Lori Zook sends this in:

Thanks to the lobbying of a few Bay Area artists organizations, the Contemporary Artists Center in North Adams, MA (CAC NAMA) has chosen to award a minimum 40% fellowship to all artists living or working in the SF Bay Area who apply for residencies by the summer (May 15) or fall (July 15) deadline.

Additionally we will provide one Bay Area artist with a 100% fellowship for a two-week artist residency. The artist will be chosen by LoBot Gallery Director, Adam Hatch, from among all the applications received at the CAC by the postmark date of May 15.

CAC NAMA focuses on emerging, professional contemporary artists. We seek artists who want to produce, explore, test new concepts and take an active role in making the CAC a new type of Research & Development art laboratory. CAC NAMA accepts artists for residencies who offer quality in their art and encourages diversity of style, medium and concepts.

Located in the Berkshire Mountains, CAC NAMA is part of one of the most important contemporary art regions outside of metropolitan cities. The nations largest contemporary visual and performing arts museum, MASS MoCA, is located here, as are the Clark Art Institute, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Tanglewood Music Festival, Jacob's Pillow Dance, Berkshire Museum as well as other cultural venues.

The Beaver Mill, home of the CAC, is a 130,000 sq ft historic brick and stone mill situated on 27 acres of woodland and adjoining the Natural Bridge State Park. The CAC NAMA comprises 25,000 sq ft of the building and houses five galleries, a residency hall, and approximately 12,000 sq ft of studio space.
During a summer residency, artists also have the opportunity to participate in other CAC programs, including residency exhibitions, studio and museum visits, workshops, demonstrations and artist's lectures.

CAC NAMA provides merit, need based, or featured city awards to approximately 90% of Residents. Please apply by priority deadlines for consideration. Award amounts range from $50/wk to full cost.

Studio One Public Art Commission

Had I known this (I was at the meeting! Nothing was mentioned!) I'd-a shouted a lettle earlier:

Please help us announce a great opportunity for lovers of Oakland and the arts. We're making one last big push to distribute this Call for Artists. It's been out now since mid-January and the deadline is a few weeks away (March 15). This is a major public art project, open to artists nationally, for the City of Oakland's own Studio One Art Center. You can assist by passing on the RFQ (attached as a .pdf file) to any artists who might be interested. You can also refer people to the RFQ posted on the Web at: http://www.oaklandculturalarts.org/main/documents/Studio1RFQfinal.pdf

The Studio One public art project is one of the Measure DD projects approved in the annual public art plan. In January the RFQ was mailed to our database of 1200 artists and posted on numerous websites; we've had a lot of interest from artists already. For more information on the project, prospective applicants can contact Christin Hablewitz, Measure DD Public Art Project Manager, at (510) 238-2105.

Thank you,
Steven Huss
Public Art Coordinator
City of Oakland Cultural Arts Department
1 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza, 9th Floor
Oakland, CA 94612
phone 510.238.4949 fax 510.238.6341
[email protected]
www.oaklandculturalarts.org

call for proposals: city of oakland public art program

From: "Babcock, Roberta"
To: [email protected]
Subject: FW: Open Proposals RFP-City of Oakland
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 19:27:44 -0800

The Public Art Program has announced an Open Proposals call for artists. We
are accepting proposals from artists, community organizations and
neighborhood groups for the creation of public art projects throughout
Oakland. For full announcement go to web page www.oaklandculturalarts.org
under call for artists/ artists opportunities.

Proposal deadline: Friday April 30, 2004

Roberta Babcock
Acting Public ARt Coord.
Cultural Arts and Marketing Dept
City of Oakland
510-238-2155