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February 5, 2009
Arts Day in Olympia
Every year, the state-wide arts advocacy organization, Washington State Arts Alliance, sponsors Arts Day. Arts Day is a day in which artists, arts administrators and arts advocates from around the state travel to Olympia during the legislative session to talk to state Senators and Representatives about the value of the arts in their communities and the issues that are important to the arts in the current session.
This year Arts Day was on February 3rd and the turnout of arts advocates was the most impressive in recent years. I'm not sure what to attribute that to, except to surmise that everyone is concerned about the harsh economic environment's impact on the nonprofit arts community.
On Arts Day small groups of people meet with as many legislators as they can in the course of the day to advance the year's arts agenda, as recommended by the Alliance.
This year the Alliance focused on five issues:
- The extension of King County's use of lodging taxes for arts and heritage programs is due to expire at the end of 2012. During the 2008 legislative session, a bill was passed that provides an extension. However, this bill expires on July 1, 2009. The Alliance is working to have the expiration lifted, enabling continued support of arts and heritage organizations in King County.
- The Prosperity Partnership's Cultural Access Fund: Arts to Zoos. This bill authorizes communities across the state to create publicly funded Cultural Access Authorities, which could seek a voter-approved .1% increase to the sales tax to increase access of students and the general public to cultural experiences. HB 1666, SB 5786
- Nonprofit Art, Scientific and Museum Property Usage. Currently, nonprofits of all types may earn income by renting their facilities to for-profit or other private entities up to twenty-five times a year without jeopardizing their federal, nonprofit tax exemption. The bill introduced this year would increase the number of rentals to fifty. HB 1304, SB 5680
- Support for Building for the Arts, the state's arts capital program. Governor Gregoire's budget included $12 million for arts capital projects statewide.
- The Washington State Arts Commission's Biennial budget. Governor Gregoire realizes the importance of the creative economy and proposed a modest cut to WSAC biennial budget. The Alliance hopes the legislature accepts the Governor's proposed WSAC budget.
That's it. A fairly modest agenda in a year in which the state is dealing with its largest budget deficits in history.
Stay tuned for Museum Day coming up March 3 - 4, 2009.
Jim Kelly
Executive Director
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reception February 5, 2009, 6 to 8pm
exhibit February 5 to 27, 2009
www.4culture.org/publicart/gallery
Mike Simi: Daydrunk
Seattle-based mixed media and audio installation artist Mike Simi merges technology with everyday objects to create art systems and installations that question the poetics of human interaction. Daydrunk is the second chapter in Simi's dark humored triptych that divides life into distinct stages and explores the essence of post-modern man who, filled with longing, loneliness and confusion, searches desperately in an everyday abyss for the joys that were promised (reference borrowed from the Neo-Existentialism writer/philosopher Michael Szymczyk). The focus of the show is an installation of 45 identically dressed, life-sized figures entitled The Guy Who Bought Your Van. The automatons emit an intermittent, distorted, music-like soundtrack inspired by a psychological (and physical) trip to Home Depot, Huey Lewis and the News', If This Is It, and Phil Collins' song, Against All Odds.
Listen to an audio clip from the installation
image: © Mike Simi, I Want to Make Something Beautiful But Find It Extremely F...ing Difficult To Do So (Bowl Of Fruit Loops) (detail), 2009, Cast plastic, cereal, Photo by the artist
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Walk, bus or drive by 4Culture in February and view electronic visual art pieces by six artists/artist teams from the sidewalk outside our offices. E4c consists of four, large LCD monitors adjacent to Gallery4Culture at 101 Prefontaine Pl S, Seattle WA 98104 at the corner of Third and Prefontaine. Pieces run from 6am to 10pm Monday through Friday.
Thom Heileson & Wyndel Hunt: Oov
Gazelle Samizay: Nosh-e Jan (Bon Appétit)
Kamran Sadeghi: Kha Variations/Passing
Robert Zverina: 180
Salise Hughes: Shiny Things; Everyone I Have Ever Known; How to Draw Clouds;
There Were Houses Here
Relja Penezic and Victoria Jordanova: Fragments of Unused Time
Read about the works and artists
Read a review of some of these pieces in the Seattle PI
image: © Courtesy of 4Culture
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Applications
You don't just love us for our funding, do you? If you're an artist, arts group, heritage specialist or educator, or someone needing help to rehabilitate a landmark, now is your time to apply to 4Culture for project support.
Heritage Special Projects deadline March 2, 2009
Heritage Education deadline March 2, 2009
Arts Special Projects Groups + Individuals deadline March 2 + 9, 2009
Landmark Rehabilitation deadline March 9, 2009
Workshops
All applicants are encouraged to attend a workshop prior to submitting an application. These free workshops provide you an opportunity to ask questions, understand specific guidelines, and be taken through a step-by-step review of the application process. Available at locations throughout the county. Reservations are not necessary.
Arts Workshops (next one in Kirkland this Friday)
Heritage Workshops (next one in Kirkland this Friday)
View the full funding calendar for 2009
image: © John Grade, Collector, 2007
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PUBLIC ART
Robert Hutchison
A principal architect with Hutchison and Maul of Seattle, the Public Art Advisory Committee will benefit from Robert's experience in his architectural practice and background in structural engineering, as well as his teaching in the Architecture Departments of the University of Washington and Washington State University. Hutchison is active as a design juror and brings an artist's eye to his work with the Committee. His scholarship has been regularly published and presented to the public in lectures. Hutchison takes a chair at the table that has remained empty since the departure of structural engineer Doug Leosch.
ARTS
Eduardo Mendonca
Eduardo is a resident of Renton and native of Brazil. He is a professional composer/musician and Director of Show Brazil Productions, a local Brazilian music and dance group well known throughout King County at numerous fairs and festivals. Eduardo is also the Co-Founder and Director for BrasilFest, an annual ethnic festival held at Seattle Center. He is a voting member of The Recording Academy (Grammy and Latin Grammy). Eduardo's street performance has been a part of 4Culture's Site Specific Program and he has served on several 4Culture peer review panels.
Dan Mayer
Dan is the interim Executive Director for the Kirkland Performance Center where he has served as Associate Director for the past two years. Dan has an extensive history of nonprofit arts experience in King County, as a free-lance planning consultant providing crisis and transition management for a number of arts organizations including On the Boards, Empty Space, Spectrum Dance Theatre, Photographic Center Northwest, The Jewish Film Festival, and nationally with the National Performance Network, Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts in New York and Chicago, and Arts International.
Shelley Brittingham
Shelley is a recreation coordinator with the City of Bellevue Parks and Recreation Department and former Assistant Director of the King County Parks and Recreation Division. She has a dance background and extensive experience conducting arts programs for school aged youth with the parks department, after school programs and the Girls and Boys Club of America. She has presented at numerous national and local conferences on age and youth care issues. Shelley is a Burien resident and also serves on the Burien Arts Commission.
HERITAGE
Karen Lee Bouton
Karen joined the South King County Genealogical Society in 1994, serving as Vice President for two terms. In 2004, she became the Society's Historian and later, the Saar Cemetery Project Coordinator. For her cemetery work, Karen received the 2007 Washington State Genealogical Society award and King County's John D. Spellman Historic Preservation Award in 2008. At the Greater Kent Historical Society, Karen has been the organizer of the Society's obituary project since 2005 and has served as secretary on the Society Board since 2006. In 2007, Karen received a Certificate in Genealogy and Family History from the University of Washington Extension.
James Rasmussen
Born and raised in Seattle, James is the third generation of his family to serve on the Duwamish Tribal Council. After graduating from Franklin High School, James attended the Berkley School of Music in Boston for two years, before completing his music performance major at Western Washington University. As a classical and jazz musician, James has toured nationally and internationally with established artists and ensembles, as well as forming an award-winning group, the Jazz Police, which he conducts and directs. Additionally, James is Director of the Duwamish Longhouse & Cultural Center and President of the Green Duwamish Watershed Alliance.
PRESERVATION
Kathleen Brooker
Kathleen Brooker is the new Executive Director of Historic Seattle Preservation and Development Authority. Before coming to Seattle, she spent fifteen years as president and CEO of Historic Denver. Prior to that, she served as deputy state preservation officer in the New Mexico State Historic Preservation Office. Kathleen was also executive director of the Lowell Historic Board in Lowell, Mass. She has long held an interest in both the arts and heritage, and came to preservation and her interest in the built environment through her training as an architect.
Marc Brown
Marc Brown is an architect with Snyder Hartung Kane Strauss (KHKS) Architects in Seattle, where he works on large-scale institutional projects involving research and preservation design. He is co-owner of Cristalli Brown, Inc., providing building design services and fabrication of hand-forged architectural metalwork and fine art. In earlier positions with Cardwell Thomas and others, he managed the design and construction of high-end residential projects incorporating original artworks, managing a large staff of architects, engineers and specialty consultants.
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Heritage 4Culture and HistoryLink.org are pleased to announce a new curriculum for elementary and middle school students, Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition (A-Y-P): Centennial 1909 - 2009, available as of February 19, 2009. The unique curriculum connects children with the history and centennial celebration of the 1909 Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition, the region's first World's Fair, and an event that promoted the Northwest's growing prosperity as a portal to the Pacific. The curriculum is the first project developed through a new education partnership between Heritage 4Culture and HistoryLink.org aimed at developing a more comprehensive selection of relevant, up-dated and accessible heritage education resources for Pacific Northwest teachers and students.
A team of award-winning heritage specialists, each experienced in planning, designing and implementing innovative and relevant educational programming, created the A-Y-P curriculum. Carefully developed activities encourage elementary and middle school students to explore how the A-Y-P reflected life in the Pacific Northwest 100 years ago, and to challenge them to find similarities and differences in life today. When posted, the curriculum may be downloaded at no charge from HistoryLink's Study Aids page at HistoryLink.org.
Read the full article
image: © A-Y-P Children of All Nations Day, courtesy of Frank Nowell Collection, MOHAI
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Artist Cliff Garten and Public Art 4Culture recently received the 2007 American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC) Silver Award for Structural Systems for York Bridge, a King County Department of Transportation project in Redmond. Garten served as design lead on the bridge, influencing the arch structure and pedestrian walkways as well as creating the beautiful braided aluminum railings. AECOM, the engineering firm on the project, described the team's efforts as "a model for solving engineering challenges in a manner that is cost effective, environmentally friendly and responsive to the community." From a user's perspective, the elegant span over the Sammamish River and the Burke Gilman Trail increases and eases access to the landscape and the river. Cliff Garten expresses the value of the artist in the built environment in this way: "When we invest in the visual and psychological aspects of the public realm, we are investing in ourselves."
In the same award cycle, Shoreline Recycling and Transfer Station, site of Carol DePelecyn's ReTire and Terra Firma installations, received the ACEC Gold Award in the Environmental category. KPG, Inc. was the engineering firm on the project. The Shoreline RTS is also the only solid waste processing facility and the only industrial building to be awarded LEED Platinum Certification, one of only 60 other such projects in the United States, helping King County to meet its sustainability goals.
These two public art projects exemplify the role artists can play in construction that involves seismic, structural and environmental issues, and the way their thinking and artwork can influence infrastructure and eloquently connect the public to site, function and soul of place.
Learn more about York Bridge.
Learn more about Shoreline Recycle & Transfer Station
image: © York Bridge, Cliff Garten, 2007, Redmond, Photo by Ned Ahrens, 2007
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In January 2009, the state Department of Archaeology and Historic Preservation was awarded $150,000 from Preserve America to expand their study of a national maritime heritage area along Western Washington's coast. The proposed maritime heritage area could potentially cover Puget Sound, the Strait of Juan de Fuca, and the state's Pacific Ocean coastline. Completion of the study could lead to a congressional designation of the area within the next few years. A national heritage area focused on the maritime theme would boost efforts to preserve historic ships, lighthouses and traditional maritime skills. In the recent past, heritage area designation has had access to as much as $1,000,000 annually for heritage tourism, interpretation, promotion and development projects.
A maritime heritage task force sponsored by 4Culture and King County heritage groups first recommended creation of the heritage area in 2005. The Pacific Northwest Maritime Heritage Council, an umbrella group of maritime heritage organizations in Oregon, Washington and British Columbia, worked with 4Culture during the 2008 Legislature to secure the study funding. With guidance from a steering committee, DAHP hired Parametrix to conduct the survey and deliver a report by June 30, 2009.
For more information, visit the Preservation 4Culture web page.
image: © courtesy of 4Culture
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4Culture is pleased to announce its partnership with the National Trust for Historic Preservation Green Lab, which will be located in Seattle in 2009. The purpose of the lab will be to create sustainable development policy and showcase energy-efficient rehabilitation projects. For more information on the lab and other Seattle-related preservation issues, read Crosscut's January 8th article "What's good for preservation is good for the greens".
image: © Rehabilitation of Quaale Log House, 2003, photo courtesy of Lisa Blanchard
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Hing Hay, International District
February 25, 2009
www.lucianeare.org
You may be out walking some night when the new moon is barely a sliver and encounter a magical sight: dancing white horses, promenading cats and giant illuminated stars hoisted by performers in tails and top hats marching to the whimsical strains of violins and accordions. Someone may hand you a cake or a white rose.
Lullaby Moon is a year-long invitation for Seattle to explore a world of dreams. A celebration of the night sky, the series of performance events brings bedtime whimsy and wonder to parks and other public spaces throughout the city, enlivening and enlightening the dark time of each month. Performances take place on each new moon for an entire lunar year beginning in October 2008 in various parks throughout the city and county.
The work is supported by 4Culture's Site-Specific program, the Seattle Mayor's Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs and Seattle Parks and Recreation.
image: © Lullaby Moon, Lucia Neare, Photo by Michael Doucett
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Last Friday hundreds of our constituents working in arts, heritage, preservation and public art, from all corners of King County, gathered together in Georgetown (the original seat of King County). Amongst the colorful paper lanterns of the Georgetown Ballroom we enjoyed performances from the 2009 Touring Arts Roster, including the high octane salsa of Mambo Cadillac, and chatted about what resources 4Culture can offer in 2009, as well as made new connections and built alliances to help this community weather any possible storms ahead.
Did you attend and take pictures? Please join our Flickr group pool and share them with us!
Keep an eye on our website for the online launch of the 2009 Touring Arts Roster in March.
Thanks again to our sponsors the Georgetown Ballroom, the Georgetown Brewing Company, All City Coffee, Organics to Go and The Pike Place Market (for the complimentary calendars).
image: © 4Culture
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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.
Urban Art Fair
Calls for dance, demonstrations, affordable art, spoken word artists, musical entertainment
Deadline: February 15, 2009
Urban Art Fair (March 8, 2009) seeks visual and performing artists to show your talent. C Art Gallery and My World Dance & Fitness both located at ArtSpace Hiawatha Lofts in Seattle invites artists to come together for one day under one roof to celebrate urban life. The Urban Art Fair will bring over 50 artists and arts organizations representing different art mediums and backgrounds to blend together and offer incredible art for purchase and information on art programs. Participate and experience the colorful world of art at this one day event featuring artists from throughout the Pacific Northwest.
Spokane Street Viaduct Project
Call for Public Artist
Deadline: February 17, 2009
www.seattle.gov/arts
The Seattle Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs in partnership with the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) seeks an artist or artist team to develop permanent artwork in conjunction with the widening of the South Spokane Street Viaduct in Seattle's SoDo (South
Downtown) neighborhood. The call is open to established professional artists living in the United States. The budget for design is $60,000 and includes travel costs. It is anticipated that $340,000 will be available for fabrication and installation, for a total project budget of $400,000. The application deadline is 11pm (PST), Tuesday, Feb. 17. A link to the online application and guidelines is available online.
17th Annual Miniature Show
Parklane Gallery
Deadline: April 28, 2009
www.parklanegallery.com
Parklane Gallery has hosted an annual miniature show for the past 17 years, one that has grown to an international art event. This year it all happens May 5 - 31, 2009. Prospectus available online. For further information, contact Shan Koenig, Chair at 425 492.6871.
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Shunpike
Development Specialist
Deadline: February 12, 2009
www.shunpike.org
Part-time. Development position sought for growing Seattle-based nonprofit offering fiscal sponsorship and organizational development consulting to local small and mid-sized arts groups.
Wing Luke Asian Museum
Call For Curators / Request For Proposals
Deadline: March 3, 2009, 5pm
www.wingluke.org
The Wing Luke Asian Museum seeks one curator to curate a group show of contemporary photography, film, video and digital media by Asian Pacific Islander American artists. The exhibition will be displayed in the Wing Luke Asian Museum's George Tsutakawa Art Gallery. Questions
Northwest African American Museum (NAAM)
Education Assistant
www.naamnw.org
40 hrs per week (occasional weekend and evening hours) $33,500 annually. Benefits include vacation and sick leave; full medical, dental and vision insurance coverage. Position open until filled.
The Kirkland Performance Center
Executive Director
Deadline: February 15, 2009
www.kpcenter.org
Full Time. Competitive compensation and benefits package. Salary will be commensurate with relevant experience.The Executive Director serves as primary leader and the internal manager for the Kirkland Performance Center. Apply to edsearch@kpcenter.org. No phone calls, please. References and a writing sample will be requested during the interview process. The position will remain open until filled. KPC is an equal opportunity employer.
Whatcom Museum in Bellingham, WA
Development Director
Salary range $49,000 - $55,000, negotiable. Benefits available. Directs the activities of the Development Department, including Annual Campaign, Capital Campaign, Corporations and Foundations, Special Project Fundraising, Planned Giving, and Government support. Contact sschroeder@cob.org with a letter, resume, and three references.
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ALL OUT
Recommended by Tamar Benzikry-Stern, Public Art 4Culture
February 9, 2009, 6:30 to 8:30pm
Benham Gallery, 1216 1st Avenue, Seattle
On second Mondays of every month, join Arts Leadership Lab's ALL Out, an opportunity for artists and arts administrators to come together for conversation, networking and fun. February's edition is in partnership with La Sala, an initiative to coalesce and mobilize the local and growing Latino-Hispanic arts community. A specially curated show of work by La Sala artists will be featured, together with live music and drinks at the Benham Gallery.
Email info@artsleadershiplab.org to join the mailing list and learn more about these upcoming events. Read more or join ALL on: Facebook or MySpace
Northwest Seaport's Chantey Sing Along
recommended by Heather Dwyer, Arts4Culture
Aboard the Historic Steamship Virginia V
Lake Union Park, Seattle
February 13, 2009, 8pm
Northwest Seaport and the Virginia V Foundation have teamed up for both the February and March Chantey Sings to be held onboard this marvelously restored steamship.
Annual evening tax workshop for artists and the attorneys representing them
Recommended by Heather Dwyer, Arts 4Culture
911 Media Arts Center, 402 9th Ave N, Seattle
February 18, 2009, 7 to 10pm
Neil Sussman's popular tax workshop is back to guide artists and their attorneys through yet another season of gains, losses, formulas and forms. Learn all the basics plus special tips and what's new for the 2008 tax returns.
To register, click here to visit Brown Paper Tickets online, or call 800.838.3006. To pay at the door, RSVP to Washington Lawyers for the Arts at 206.328.7053. Please note that the event is subject to cancellation; visit thewla.org or call 206.328.7053 for more information.
John Boylan's Next Conversation
Recommended by Willow Fox, Public Art 4Culture
Sculpture
February 19, 2009, 7 to 9pm
Vermillion, a lounge and art gallery at 1508 11th Ave, Seattle
This roundtable conversation series. This month we're talking about sculpture, about a devotion to the imaginative possibilities in the plasticity and power of materials and objects. Featuring guest participants Jen Graves, art critic; Beth Sellars, curator; Lauren Grossman, sculptor; Cris Bruch, sculptor.
Intermission Impossible
Recommended by Sara Edwards, Communications Manager
www.ontheboards.org
February 20, 2009, 7pm
On the Boards celebrates it's 30th Anniversary with a performance party where everything is possible except intermissions. They're opening up every room in the house and pulling out all the stops with performances by local artists (past and present), videos, karaoke, interpretive dance, food, refreshments and general mayhem.
First Annual Take Part In Art Festival
Recommended by Sara Edwards, Communications Manager 4Culture
February 20 - March 1, 2009
www.TakePartInArt.org
More than 60 arts organizations are offering discounted art events and performances throughout the region, providing a fun, affordable way for families, couples, and individuals young and old to experience an art form they haven't tried before.
The Take Part in Art Festival is organized by the Market the Arts Taskforce working in partnership with ArtsFund, which raises money to support and advocate on behalf of the region's arts organizations. The specific discounts will vary by arts organization; a complete list of all events, dates, participating organizations and downloadable coupons for many of the festival discounts can be found online.
The First Official Ouch My Eye Annual International Invitational
Recommended by Heather Dwyer, Arts4Culture
Now through February 22nd, 2009
1022 1st Avenue South
Seattle, WA 98134
www.ouchmyeye.com
Ouch My Eye is proud to present local and emerging artists for our first show of the 2009 season, with work ranging from painting, photography and sculpture. When a famous international art critic was asked to comment on the assembled works: "With regard to the issue of content, the disjunctive pertrbation of the spatial relationships spatially undermines a participation in the critical dialgo of the 90's."... [sic] Truly, something we as an art community have failed to address...Until now!
Rainier House Grand Opening
Recommended by Willow Fox, Public Art 4Culture
February 23, 2009, 3 to 5pm
5270 Rainier Ave S
Join the grand opening of the Rainier House - the future home for 50 currently homeless, mentally ill adults. The event features a "warming the neighborhood" with handmade lanterns along Rainier Avenue, care of SEEDArts and the Gateway Project. Contact: mmillican@desc.org or (206) 515-1538
Free Lunch Time Concerts
Recommended by Debra Twersky, Funding Programs 4Culture
Classical Music for Lovers
February 26, 2009, noon
The former First United Methodist Church sanctuary
5th & Marion, Seattle
In the last historic church in downtown Seattle, a monthly noon-time concert series continues with artist-in-residence Mark Andersen. Free and open to the public
The Northwest Chapter of the Association for Preservation Technology (APT NW)
Recommended by Flo Lentz, Preservation 4Culture
Historic Wood Workshop
March 14, 2009, 9am to 4pm
University of Washington (UW) Seattle Campus in Room 100 of Gould Hall
Presentation topics will include wood and historic preservation; pathological tendencies of wood; environmental replacement options; evaluation and analysis options; wood repair, restoration and replication; and structural and seismic upgrades. Technical sessions will be augmented with an historical case study and a walking tour of wood construction examples on the UW campus. Lunch and snacks will be provided. Workshop is $40. Please RSVP no later than February 27, 2009. To RSVP or for more information contact Tyler Sprague, UW, tylersprague@gmail.com , 206.369.2028; or Rhoda Lawrence, BOLA, rlawrence@bolarch.com, 206.447.4749.
Association for African American Historical Research and Preservation (AAAHRP)
Recommended by Eric Taylor, Heritage 4Culture
AAAHRP 2009 Biennial Black History Conference
March 21 and March 22, 2009
Seattle University
At the AAAHRP 2009 Biennial Black History Conference, discover history that won't be found in mainstream books as experts from across the country and other nations come to Seattle to share their knowledge of black history.
AAAHRP conferences have become the benchmark for excellence. The 2009 history conference, with the theme. Black History: Full Disclosure, promises to be the best ever. The AAAHRP two-day black history conference, the only one of its type held in the Pacific Northwest, will include paper sessions, panels, roundtables and workshops. You can find additional conference information, including the names of the scholars and historians scheduled to appear on the "Conference Info" page of www.aaahrp.org.
9th Northwest Biennial
Recommended by Esther Luttikhuizen
Tacoma Art Museum
Now through May 25, 2009
W. Scott Trimble (seen at Gallery4Culture in January) will be represented at TAM's fantastic Biennial show.
American Association for State and Local History
Recommended by Eric Taylor, Heritage 4Culture
Online Workshops
An affordable and efficient online resource to help heritage museums learn basics about archiving, adopting "green" practices and volunteer/board development.
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American Association of Museums
Finding Calm in Crisis: A Museum Survival Guide
www.aam-us.org
A public, online resource offering museums advice on fundraising, cutbacks, marketing and management in these financially difficult times.
The Institute of Museum and Library Services
Connecting to Collections Bookshelf, a library of conservation and preservation publications
January 5 - March 9, 2009
The IMLS Services will award 1,000 additional sets of the Bookshelf in 2009. This is the last time this library of self-help books will be offered for free. A 12-question application is posted on the American Association for State and Local History website.
Washington Museum Association
Call for Proposals for sessions at the 2009 WMA annual conference
Deadline: February 20, 2009
Theme: Change, Challenges, and Connections. Conference is June 10 - 12, 2009 Washington State University - Pullman, Washington. Share your expertise! Gather panelists to debate a topic!
Create a learning opportunity! To propose a session (or to request a session topic) or for more info, email collect@yakimavalleymuseum.org or call 509.248.0747.
Renton Municipal Arts Commission
2009 Arts Commission Financial Grant Program
Deadline: February 27, 2009
The Arts Commission is accepting proposals from organizations and individuals that desire to initiate, organize and promote arts and education in Renton in art disciplines including dance, drama & theatre, music, visual arts, literary arts, media arts and performing arts. If you have questions about this grant application, please contact Jennifer Davis Hayes, Community Development Project Manager, at 425.430.6589.
Allied Arts Foundation
Grants for artists and small arts groups
Deadline: March 1, 2009
King County artists and small arts groups are encouraged to submit applications for project funding during the current annual granting cycle of the Allied Arts Foundation (AAF). This year, AAF will distribute $10,000 in grant awards ranging between $500 and $1,500. Applications and guidelines for submission are available by e-mail request to AAFgrants@q.com by mail to Allied Arts Foundation, 5109 Keystone Pl. N., Seattle, 98103, or by calling a foundation representative at 206.624.0432.
Black Rock Arts Foundation Grants
Deadline: March 13, 2009
Grant giving is at the core of BRAF's mission. Applications for 2009 are now available on our website. Read more about grant criteria and on how to apply here.
3rd Annual Eastside Arts Coalition Arts Education Fair
Recommended by Charlie Rathbun, Arts4Culture
April 25, 2009, 11am to 4pm
Crossroads Bellevue
www.eastsidearts.org/fair
Registration is now available for the 3rd Annual arts education fair. A mix of workshops, live performances and informational booths, the fair is an exciting way to introduce your family to dance, music, theater, heritage, visual and literary arts on the Eastside of King County.
Save Our History Grant Program
Deadline: June 6, 2009
This program, available to AASLH members and the field at large, provides funding to history organizations that partner with schools on a local community preservation project. Save Our History will award grants of up to $10,000 to historical organizations to fund hands-on, experiential educational projects that teach students about their local history and actively engage them in its preservation. For guidelines and criteria, important dates, and to apply, please visit www.saveourhistory.com, and click on grants. Any questions can be directed to info@saveourhistory.com.
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