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It's common for weekly magazines such as Time and Newsweek to use their final issues of the year to do a "look back" at the significant events of the past twelve months.
With heavy workloads for all of us in the cultural sector, it's not often that we sit back and look at all that's been accomplished in a comprehensive way. So this month in our final newsletter of the year, I'd like to give you a sense of 4Culture's work during 2007.
A staff of under 20 people at 4Culture provide behind the scenes support to the true culture providers in our community—the many artists, arts and heritage organizations, heritage specialists, and preservationists throughout our region. Organizations and individuals that we fund and public artists we commission are certainly aware of how we may have helped them deliver their programs and services, but they may not always see the big picture.
So consider this:
- In our Cultural Programs section (Arts, Heritage and Preservation) in 2007, we made 564 awards with aggregate funding of $5.8 million. These include all of the lodging tax funded programs; King County funding to organizations through the annual King County budget process; and barn rehabilitation projects in partnership with the King County Historic Preservation Program.
- With Lodging Tax funds, the Arts Special Projects Program supported projects by 63 individual artists with a total of $199,000 and 67 organizations with another $182,000. Dozens of performance artists and ensembles presented SITE-SPECIFIC art happenings throughout King County. Thirty heritage organizations received operating support through the Heritage Sustained Support Program. One hundred sixty seven arts organizations and seventeen local arts agencies from suburban King County cities also received annual operating support totaling over $1.3 million.
- 4Culture's Public Art Program is at the top of its game, recognized at the annual Americans for the Arts conference in Las Vegas for commissioning or managing five of the 40 most innovative and exemplary public art projects in the country last year. Public art staff completed two integrated artworks and purchased 113 portable artworks for the Chinook Building, the new county office building on Goat Hill; launched a new education initiative, and purchased 43 works on paper for the county's portable collection that circulates throughout county facilities. And we've gone international, producing public art plans for the Cities of Richmond and Vancouver, B.C.
I could go on, because I'm nowhere near done telling 564 stories, or describing the impact of $5.8 million in cultural programs funding yet, or describing the full realm of public art projects currently in process, but you get the picture, and after all, we don't evaluate our impact by cold, hard numbers. Suffice it to say that 4Culture funding and activity in all of our program areas is spread far and wide, reaching into every community in King County.
And now, that's enough from me, below are some of your own words on the importance of public funding for your programs, as well as the impact of your programs on the community:
"I wonder if you could hear my 'YAHOO!!!' way over there when I read your letter...With our size, this (funding) makes a big difference to us."
—Vashon Allied Arts
"4Culture's Sustained Support awards provide vital funds that help small organizations like us survive...(this award) means that we can spend less time scrambling for funding and more time following our mission of supporting and affirming the many amazing poets in King County and Washington State."
—Floating Bridge Press
"Over the past 12 years, 4Culture has supported Studio East with so many major purchases; a 15-passenger van, theatre lighting and equipment, a network server, a keyboard for our theater, our street sign (and now, power to light it!) In each instance, your support has helped strengthen our organization and has contributed greatly to our growth and success."
—Studio East
"Without 4Culture's strong support over the years we would have found it very difficult to accomplish the Society's mission..."
—SW Seattle Historical Society/Log House Museum
"Densho's preservation and education efforts depend on the assistance of funders like 4Culture. Thank you for ensuring that the King County Lodging Tax supports the work of Densho and other heritage groups working to preserve our cultural legacy for future generations."
—Densho: The Japanese American Legacy Project
"This is important funding and we make it go a long way..."
—White River Valley Museum
"Like all of our King County colleagues, (our) bottom line is directly impacted by the health of the region's economy. The King County Lodging Tax fund is one of the most important indicators of the economy's strength, as well as a vital piece of the funding puzzle for area arts organizations."
—Seattle International Children's Festival
"We saw Malambo before OKidOK2. I liked Malambo more because they were really, really good, and you can tell they had practiced it a lot. There was a guitarist, a drummer, and two or three other people who used the boleadoras. Everyone in the audience seemed to like it when they took them out. A boleadora, by the way, is a long rope with a weight (a ball) on one end."
—Ben, attending Seattle International Children's
Festival
"The grant money we received from (4Culture) has enabled us to achieve a key long-term goal of having a museum space where we can display our every growing collection of Eastern King County and Skykomish Valley historical items and information."
—Skykomish Historical Society
"Support from 4Culture is an essential source of revenue, helping the Henry to achieve its ambitious artistic programming goals. As we mark our 80th Anniversary this year, and celebrate our position in the region as the oldest art museum presenting the newest art, we are extremely grateful for 4Culture's advocacy of a vibrant arts community for Seattle and King County."
—Henry Art Gallery
Thank you for all that you do—and look for more details on 4Culture's year in review in our 2007 Annual Report, available in early 2008.
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My Point of View provides a forum for ongoing culture-related dialogue. Each month, news4culture will feature the words of a guest writer, commenting on an issue related to arts, heritage, preservation and/or public art. It might be an opinion related to a current news story; maybe it's a rant, a rave, or a random thought about culture. Whatever it is, you write it and we'll print it.
What if we had a mix of public and privately owned neighborhood media centers where people could build skills across platforms - like recording studio engineering, video making, and writing for the stage, print, broadcast, and online?
I've been thinking about what might happen if we further resourced community based media in our county and at the city level. It could be incorporated into Parks and Rec departments and into the work of existing arts, culture, and heritage organizations.
Would it further amplify art, cultural expression, and stories about our heritage? Would it be a useful way to facilitate connection and cultural inquiry in our digital age? I think so.
Fast and light versions could start now, as portable digital equipment is inexpensive and many of our libraries and community centers have available meeting rooms for workshops. Video and sound files could be posted to linked Web sites serving as community media hubs. DVDs and CDs could be produced and presented at community listening parties with food. This could help us break out of our silos where parallel work often evolves separately...theory aside, who doesn't love a good party?
Many businesses and community based organizations are already doing work similar to this in our county. I have some favorites like KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio (where I work), Jack Straw Productions, Youth Media Institute at Youngstown Cultural Arts Center, Northwest Film Forum, OseaO, Hidmo Eritrean Cuisine, and the Museum of History and Industry.
One collaborative project I was involved with recently went some of the distance, but could have had even more broad-based community involvement using some of these ideas.
On November 17th, 206 Zulu, KBCS 91.3 FM, and Youngstown produced "Zulu Radio Live" as Zulu Nation celebrates November as Hip Hop history month. Prior to the event, producers Hollis Wong-Wear and Danny Kogita interviewed folks representing local Hip Hop's past, present, and future at the KBCS studios in Bellevue.
Cham Ba, Janice Kang, and Huyen Nguyen of Youth Media Institute then used equipment at Youngstown to edit the interviews into a short audio feature which aired on KBCS in advance of the event. 206 Zulu used the same content to produce segments which aired during the live broadcast.
Next time, I'd like us to hold a few workshops where local Hip Hop artists (who likely already know how to record and edit themselves) interviewed each other about what happened "back in the day", now, or where they hope to see the local scene go.
It was a good time as it was. You can see a short video from the event at www.kbcs.fm.
Let's make community based media happen more often. Email me at sroach@kbcs.fm. Let's talk.
Sabrina Roach
December 2007
Sabrina Roach is the Development and Outreach Director at KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and a co-director of Reclaim the Media. Most of her family has lived and worked in King County since 1903.
image: © Sabrina Roach
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deadline January 11, 2008
www.4culture.org/publicart/gallery
Applications are now available online for the 2008-2009 Gallery4Culture schedule of exhibitions, with an open call to independent artists or curators residing in King County. Dedicated to presenting solo exhibitions, small group, and curated exhibitions by artists living in King County and who are not currently represented by a commercial gallery, Gallery4Culture provides artists with exhibition space in the Tashiro Building, (located on the corner of Prefontaine Place and Third Avenue S in Seattle's Pioneer Square neighborhood), as well as curatorial direction. Artists working in all media and genres are encouraged to apply, including those whose method of work is under-represented in commercial and mainstream galleries. Program guidelines include more information about eligibility and the selection process.
image: © Gallery4Culture, Linda Davidson, installation detail
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deadline January 14, 2008
www.sitespecificarts.org
» Guidelines + Application
Artists doing whatever they want, whenever they want, wherever they want. Guidelines and applications for artists wanting to get involved with 2008 SITE-SPECIFIC are now available online. In addition, business owners, site managers and community agencies interested in hosting a SITE-SPECIFIC art happening should contact Charlie Rathbun for more information.
image: © SITE-SPECIFIC, King County Performance Network
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revised deadline January 22, 2008
www.4culture.org/arts/facilities
The Arts Cultural Facilities program funds the purchase, design, construction, and remodeling of arts facilities, and the purchase of equipment intended to be used by the recipient cultural organization for at least 10 years. In 2007, 50 arts facility and equipment projects received awards ranging from $2,500 to $110,000.
Please note: the January 22 deadline replaces the earlier January 21 published deadline.
image: © Arts Cultural Facilities
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www.4culture.org/preservation
Maritime heritage organizations in western Washington State are exploring the creation of a "Maritime National Heritage Area," which would raise public awareness of the region's rich maritime heritage. A designation, if approved by Congress, would boost efforts to preserve historic ships, lighthouses, and traditional maritime skills and offer access to as much as $900,000 annually for heritage tourism, interpretation, promotion, and development projects. A Puget Sound-based heritage area was discussed by 4Culture's Seattle/King County Task Force on Maritime Heritage in 2005.
A coalition of heritage groups will request $150,000 in funding from the Washington State Legislature during the 2008 Session for a feasibility study to fund a feasibility study, the first step in the designation process. The Park Service defines national heritage areas as places where natural, cultural, historic, and recreational resources combine to form a cohesive, nationally distinctive landscape arising from patterns of human activity shaped by geography. Congress has named 37 heritage areas, most of them in the eastern U.S.
image: © Photo by Ariel Erickson
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reception January 3, 2008, 6 to 8 p.m.
exhibition January 3-February 3, 2008
www.4culture.org/publicart
The spaces in Ross Sawyers' large scale photographs reflect our sense of compacted living in smaller spaces in increasingly dense neighborhoods and developments. Sawyers constructs models of houses to challenge his understanding of his surroundings. The models are deliberately not accurate copies of architecture or the real world. However, as the space in the photographs become more abstract, Sawyers has found it important to incorporate familiar details to ground the images in a sort of reality while at the same proposing situations outside the expected.
image: © Ross Sawyers, Untitled (Blue, Sky 1), 2007, Archival inkjet print
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Public Art 4Culture worked with studio arts teacher Sara Crinnion, administrator Sean Cassidy, and students at Redmond Junior High School in the spring of 2007 to design and install a collaborative temporary public art project for an entryway wall in the school. Public artist Sheila Klein visited the classroom to present her public artwork and jump-start the design process. Students photographed the site, worked in design groups, and collaborated on fabrication for the final artwork. The 4Culture Artist Registry Vol. V was utilized as a study tool and resource. Fabricated of glass and mirror mosaic, copper tubing, and fabric, the artwork measures 10 feet in diameter and serves as a focal point for a busy hallway and side entryway for the school. To receive curriculum direction and Ms. Crinnion's study guide email Tina Hoggatt.
image: © Redmond Junior High School
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www.4culture.org/publicart
Forty three works on paper were recently purchased for the King County Public Art Collection. The new works will be placed throughout King County facilities. The call for art was announced nationally with response from 397 artists. From those entries, a peer panel selected 43 works by the following artists: Anne Appleby, MT, Nola Avienne, WA, Deanne Belinoff, OR, Gretchen Bennett, WA, Leo Berk, WA, Nealy Blau, WA, Ava Blitz, PA, Michelle Bolinger, IL, Donnabelle Casis, MA, Amy Cheng, NY, Robert Connell, WA, Claire Cowie, WA, Timothy Cross, WA, Tony DeLosReyes, CA, Eric Eley, WA, Chris Engman, WA, Ken Fandell, IL, Claudia Fitch, WA, Victoria Haven, WA, Jenny Heischman, WA, Mary Henry, WA, Kristan Kennedy, OR, Doug Keyes, WA, Michael Knutson, OR, Hung Liu, CA, Mark Meyer, WA, Mark Newport, MI, Barbara Noah, WA, Nicholas Nyland, WA, Chris Papa, WA, Kristen Ramirez, WA, Barbara Robertson, WA, Dan Rule, PA, Ross Sawyers, WA, Jackie Tileston, PA, Laura Vandenburgh, OR, and Claude Zervas, WA.
image: © Dan Rule, Arboretum, serigraph, 2006 photo courtesy of the artist
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open until filled
www.4culture.org/heritage/advisor
The Heritage Advisor Newsletter, the email newsletter of the Association of King County Historical Organizations, seeks a part-time writer/editor to begin in January 2008. The Heritage Advisor Editor is responsible for gathering, editing, and writing brief articles and calendar items for the Heritage Advisor. Articles and calendar material may also appear on the AKCHO website. The Editor also manages the HA email subscription list and works closely with AKCHO members, especially with the Heritage and Historic Preservation programs of 4Culture. The Editor reports to a project manager at 4Culture who acts as a managing editor.
This is a one-year contract position, with strong potential for renewal, comprising approximately eight to ten hours per month. This is a flexible, telecommuting position, though some on-site meetings are required. Candidates should demonstrate at least one-year of full-time journalism or public relations experience. Volunteer or professional experience in a not-for-profit setting, especially in a museum, ethnic heritage association, or similar organizations, is preferred. Candidates should demonstrate good familiarity with online tools and word processing. To apply, send a resume and a writing sample or URLs to published material to heritageadvisor@4culture.org. Please put "Heritage Advisor Editor" in the subject line.
image: © Dougherty Farm, Duvall, WA
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4Culture Public Art Calls List
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Public Art 4Culture compiles a list of current public art opportunities available through Public Art 4Culture and other agencies across the country. The Public Art Calls List provides brief project descriptions, deadlines, and how to receive more information about each opportunity -- bimonthly, free of charge.
Musica Entertainment
The Martin Luther King County Executive's Awards For Excellence In Hip Hop
deadline December 24, 2008
www.musicaentertainment.org
Nominate your favorite performer (solo/group), B-boy/B-girl, visual artist, DJ, MC, media/journalist, publication, promoter, record label, Hip Hop Pioneer or Unsung Hero! The first Martin Luther King County Executives Awards for Excellence in Hip Hop acknowledges and honors innovative performance, community service and entrepreneurial achievement by locally based members of the hip-hop community whose work has had significant impact in Martin Luther King County. Does this sound like someone you know? Maybe even you? Self nominations are welcome. More information and application available online.
City of Shoreline
Call for Artists/Cromwell Park and Spartan Recreation Center
Deadline January 3, 2008
www.cityofshoreline.com
The City of Shoreline invites artists to submit qualifications for two separate public art projects. At Cromwell Park, selected artist(s) will work with the design team to visually enhance the environment at this central location on Meridian Avenue N. The park project includes extensive stormwater management re-development as well as new paths, play areas, gathering places and paths, $30,000 budget. At Spartan Recreation Center, the City seeks an artist to create a large suspended work to enhance the main entrance lobby, $11,000 commission. Contact Public Art Coordinator Ros Bird with questions.
NAMM Foundation
Program Grants
deadline January 4, 2008
www.nammfoundation.org
Grants are available to non-profit public service organizations for innovative music education and hands-on music-making programs that reach and serve new audiences with new protocols.
James W. Washington, Jr and Janie Rogella Washington Foundation
Spirit in the Stone Scholarship
deadline January 10, 2008
www.jameswashington.org
The Spirit in the Stone Scholarship of up to $5,000 is available to a promising art student enrolled in a Seattle high school or college and engaged in painting or sculpture. The student must be able to demonstrate creativity and artistic potential. The $5,000 will be applied to tuition to an educational institution and/or to an art supplier.
Washington Poets Association
2008 Burning Word
deadline January 15, 2008
www.burningword.org
Writers and readers are invited to nominate their favorite poet to share the stage with celebrated poets at the 5th annual Burning Word poetry festival on April 26, 2008 at Whidbey Island's scenic Greenbank Farm. More information and nomination forms available online at http://www.burningword.org/2008_burning_word_nomination_press_release.php.
Blue Earth Alliance
Call for Projects
deadline January 21, 2008
www.blueearth.org
Blue Earth Alliance sponsors photography projects that educate the public about threatened cultures, endangered environments and other social concerns. If your project meets this mission, you are invited to apply for sponsorship. Blue Earth, a 501(c)3 not-for-profit corporation, offers fiscal sponsorship to our projects permitting them to receive tax deductible contributions from foundations and individuals. Blue Earth provides assistance with project organization and mentorship, raising funds, outlets for their work and publicity. Blue Earth accepts proposals twice a year, see guidelines at www.blueearth.org/projects/submit.html.
Bellevue Sculpture Exhibition
2008: Sculpted Green Call for Artists
deadline January 25, 2008
www.bellevuewa.gov
Bellevue Sculpture Exhibition 2008 seeks outdoor and indoor sculptures for its biennial exhibition. All professional sculptors are invited to submit work for review. Artists are encouraged to submit work that relates art to ecology, environmentalism, and similar "green" notions. This theme can be addressed through artistic medium, technique, and/or content. Sculptures can be made, for example, from recycled materials, powered by solar or wind energy, and/or thematically linked to sustainability to inspire green thinking, dialogue and decision making. Sculptures will be selected based first on quality and aesthetic appeal. Entries aligning with the exhibition theme will then receive preferred consideration. Selection by an outstanding panel of regionally and nationally respected jurors. No fees. Honoraria, shipping and mileage reimbursement, insurance and free or assisted installation offered. For more information, contact bac@bellevuewa.gov or
425 452.4852.
Tasveer
2008 Call for Films Made by and about South Asian women
deadline January 30, 2008
www.tasveer.org
Tasveer, an independent film organization in Seattle, seeks short films, experimental films, documentaries, and narratives of any length made by and about South Asian women, for submission for Aaina: South Asian Women Film Focus. The event will take place in Seattle on March 28-30, 2008 on the occasion of International Women's Month. Film themes must have primary focus on issues pertaining to South Asian women (living anywhere in the world). "South Asia" includes Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Tibet. More information is available online at www.tasveer.org.
City of Snoqualmie
City of Snoqualmie
deadline January 30, 2008
www.ci.snoqualmie.wa.us
The City of Snoqualmie is building a new City Hall located near downtown Snoqualmie. The project includes $34,000 for public art. Artwork must relate well to the site and building design. Possible Locations include main entrance/plaza and/or main lobby. Installation will be in summer 2008. Site and building plans available upon request. Please contact Sandra Rossetter for more information at 425.888.5337.
President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities
2008 Coming Up Taller Awards
deadline January 31, 2008
www.cominguptaller.org
The annual Coming Up Taller Awards recognize and reward excellence in after-school and out-of-school arts and humanities programs for underserved children and youth. Award recipients receive $1,000 each, an individualized plaque, and an invitation to attend the annual Coming Up Taller Leadership Enhancement Conference. Programs initiated by museums, libraries, performing arts organizations, universities, colleges, arts centers, community service organizations, schools, businesses, and eligible government entities are encouraged to consider participating. Awards support after-school and out-of-school programs that are tangible examples of the power of the arts and the humanities to encourage young people's creativity and to provide them with learning opportunities, chances to contribute to their community, and ways to take responsibility for their own futures. (Seminfinalists for the 2007 program included local organizations SouthEast Effective Development/SEED Arts and Young Shakespeare Workshop!)
Eastside Arts Partnerships
2008 Funding Program
deadline January 31, 2008
workshop January 16, 2008, 10 a.m. at Bellevue City Hall
www.bellevuewa.gov
Eastside Arts Partnerships provides annual operating funds for arts organizations working on the Eastside. Funding is provided from two sources: the City of Bellevue and Standing Ovation, a private fundraising organization dedicated to supporting arts on the Eastside. A grant workshop will cover new information needed by applicants to relate their applications to the goals of the Cultural Compass. Workshop attendance by an applicant representative is strongly encouraged.
Washington State Historical Society
2008 Call for Nominations
deadline February 1, 2008
washingtonhistory.org
The Washington State Historical Society invites nominations for its annual awards recognizing excellence in advancing the field of history in the state of Washington through writing, teaching, historic projects, understanding cultural diversity and voluntarism. Help honor those who work to advance the Society's mission "to make the study of history in Washington illuminating and inspiring" by nominating candidates for four different awards. Award categories, program descriptions, and nomination form available online.
City of Bellevue Arts Commission
Special Projects Funding
deadline February 4, 2008
www.bellevuewa.gov
Special Projects funding supports arts activities that fall outside an organization's regular season; help create a livelier, more diverse arts scene in Bellevue; increase participation; encourage artists and arts groups to bring their work to Bellevue; and strengthen artists and arts groups already working in Bellevue. Artists, arts presenters and arts organizations proposing projects in Bellevue are eligible. Funding for projects generally ranges from $500 to $2,000.
Institute of Museum and Library Services/American Association of Museums
Museum Assessment Program
deadline February 15, 2008
www.imls.gov
Designed to help museums assess their strengths and weaknesses and plan for the future, The Museum Assessment Program (MAP) provides technical assistance for four kinds of assessments: (1) collections management; (2) governance; (3) institutional; and (4) public dimension. Assessments are funded on a first-come, first-served basis. Application materials can be obtained online at www.aam-us.org/museumresources/map.
Artist Trust
GAP Program
deadline February 22, 2008
workshop January 19, 2008, 1-3 p.m. at Northwest Film Forum
www.artisttrust.org
Artist Trust's GAP Program provides support for artist-generated projects, which can include (but are not limited to) the development, completion or presentation of new work. GAP awards are open to artists of all disciplines and offer a maximum of $1,500 for projects. An inter-disciplinary panel of artists and arts professionals selected from around Washington State select GAP recipients. Also, Artist Trust is accepting nominations for the Twining Humber Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement, an annual award of $10,000 given to a Washington State female visual artist, age 60 or over, who has dedicated 25 years of her life to creating art; deadline for nominations is January 25, 2008.
Pacific NW Writers Association
2008 Literary Contest
deadline February 22, 2008
www.pnwa.org
Pacific NW Writers Association is an organization dedicated to helping writers in the northwest connect to other writer,, publishers, agents, and editors across the country. The 2008 Literary Contest invites previously unpublished submissions in a variety of categories. $35-50 entry fee, $12,000 in prizes. Complete details at http://www.pnwa.org/associations/5651/files/2008_Literary_Contest_Form.pdf.
Road Closed Gallery
Call for Artists
ongoing
Road Closed Gallery will open in the South Lake Union neighborhood in February 2008. The gallery's first show invites entries on the theme of "mutationgenetics - an exploration of biotechnology". Small works of any medium are encouraged for this opening show. Written works will also be accepted, poetry, essays or short stories. For more information or to submit digital photos of work, contact girafgallery@gmail.com.
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Artist Trust
Business Manager
priority deadline December 20, 2008
www.artisttrust.org
Part-time, 32 hours/week. Salary doe. Please see complete description online.
Grantmakers in the Arts
Web/Knowledge Manager
deadline December 21, 2007
www.giarts.org
Full-time. Salary $35-40K, doe. Please see complete description online.
Path With Art
Artist Teachers
open until filled
www.pathwithart.org
Seeking diverse group of artists to lead 6-8 week workshops bringing art programming to previously homeless adults trying to rebuild their lives. Stipend offered. For more info, contact Deborah Blake at 206 650.0669.
Cinema Seattle
Seattle International Film Festival
open until filled
www.seattlefilm.org
Part-time. Salary doe. Please see complete description online.
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Windows to the River
exhibition January 9-March 25, 2008
reception January 17, 2008, 5 to 7 p.m.
Washington State Convention and Trade Center, Level 2, Galleria
www.windowstotheriverexhibit.net (available January 7)
Ten artists look at the river: Jacqueline Barnett, Linda Beaumont, Margi Beyers, Jill Bullitt, Sue Cook, Tina Hoggatt, Gene Gentry McMahon, Jeffry Mitchell, Virgina Paquette and Eva Skold Westerlind, in an exhibition of paintings, sculpture, photography and installations exploring the physical and psychological power of River. A cell phone tour and website will accompany the exhibit (both available January 7), with viewers invited to dial 1.888.411.4320 and listen to each of the artists talk about their work. The artist reception will feature both the River exhibit and Artistas Latinos en el Noroeste, an exhibit of work by photographer Hugo Ludeña.
On the Boards
Radiohole
January 10-13, 2008, 8 p.m.
www.ontheboards.org
On the Boards presents one of New York's most daring and up-and-coming experimental theater companies, Radiohole. In their first US appearance outside of NYC, Radiohole brings Fluke, a performance that integrates cutting-edge technology with 19th century spiritualism and Herman Melville's leviathan, Moby Dick. On a jury-rigged set that mimics a crowded boat at sea, the talented and irreverent ensemble combines philosophical musings with anarchic punk aesthetics to create a truly unique theatrical experience.
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Read it, get inspired: Ben Cameron's speech from NAMP Conference
artsmarketing.org
Always an engaging speaker, Ben Cameron of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation closed out the 2007 National Arts Marketing Project Conference in Miami, giving the plenary speech to the conference's 700 attendees. A transcript of Cameron's speech is now available online.
Space Available in Basic Health
www.basichealth.hca.wa.gov
Basic Health is a state-sponsored program providing affordable health care coverage through private health plans. Basic Health is for Washington State residents who are:
• within Basic Health's Income guidelines (found on their website or by calling 1-800-842-7712);
• not eligible for free or purchased Medicare;
• not institutionalized at the time of enrollment;
• not attending school full-time in the United States on a student visa.
Applications are accepted until the program fills up, application forms are available online at www.basichealth.hca.wa.gov.
Food for Thought: Product Placement at the Opera
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Andrew Druckenbrod, classical music critic for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, reported on Bruster's Ice Cream product placement as a novel new marketing strategy for the Pittsburgh Opera's production of "The Elixir of Love" in his November 14th article, "New scoop for opera with Bruster's sign". On November 16th, Druckenbrod wrote a follow-up article, "The Pittsburgh Opera's ice cream headache." Read both articles and decide for yourself what you think about product placement at arts performances.
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Heritage Advisor is the voice of the Heritage 4Culture Program of 4Culture and is produced as a technical assistance service to the heritage community of King County. Priority of coverage includes the program's own activities and other information that may be of interest to the program's funding partners and community. Deadline for inclusion is 10 days before the end of the calendar month. Heritage Advisor is produced monthly, except July and December. Listing or coverage in Heritage Advisor does not imply endorsement by the Program. For more information, e-mail heritageadvisor@4culture.org.
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top image: © Ross Sawyers, Untitled (Blue, Sky 1), 2007, Archival inkjet print
