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July 8, 2009
It's All Downhill from Here
This 4Culture e-newsletter will reach you just in time for the arrival in Seattle/King County of the fifty-four vintage Ford Model T's that set off to cross the country along the back roads of 12 states to reenact the Ocean-to-Ocean Automobile Race, which launched the opening of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in Seattle in 1909. Like the original race, members of the Model T Ford Club International will drive west along nearly 4,000 miles of this country's oldest highways from New York to Seattle's University of Washington Campus, the site of the 1909 A-Y-P Exposition. Visit the Model T Club's website to read daily blogs about the cross-country trip.
One of the highlights of this year's A-Y-P Centennial celebrations, the Model T Rally will conclude in King County July 9-12, with a series of events called, It's All Downhill from Here. When the T's arrive at Snoqualmie Pass the evening of July 9, they will be greeted with speeches, live music (Cornucopia Concert Band), a no-host bar and a gourmet hotdog picnic. At dusk, the Ellensburg Film Festival will present the classic film, The Great Race on an outdoor screen. On July 10, the T's will follow historic highways down from the pass, traveling through North Bend and stopping for a Salmon Bake lunch, catered by the Snoqualmie Tribe Canoe Family, at Meadowbrook Farm from 12 - 2pm. The public will have an opportunity to view the cars at Meadowbrook, while enjoying the music of the Pony Boy All-Star Big Band and the Snoqualmie Tribe Canoe Family Drummers. The T's will then make their way to Issaquah via Snoqualmie, Fall City, Preston and High Point. On Saturday, July 11, drivers and crew will spend the day sprucing up their vehicles and mingling with the public at the Issaquah Depot Museum. On Sunday morning, July 12, the T's will drive from Issaquah to Renton, up Rainier Avenue, through the Arboretum to end their run at Drumheller Fountain on the UW campus.
These events are open to the public and free of charge, with the exception of food and drink. For more information visit www.aype.org or www.ayp100.org. Come be a part of history, and join your community in the celebrations!
Jim Kelly
Executive Director
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deadline August 10, 2009
Guidelines and Application
4Culture is pleased to announce an opportunity for Current Sustained Support program recipients to apply for American Reinvestment and Recovery Act (ARRA) funding through 4Culture to support job preservation and artist contracts. 4Culture applied for and received the maximum award of $250,000 from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to redistribute to King County non-profit arts organizations and local arts agencies.
Organizations may apply for up to $15,000 to preserve, restore or extend salaried positions or contract jobs that are in jeopardy or have already been eliminated or cut back due to the current economic climate. Proposals will be evaluated on the significance of the position(s) to the mission and core services of the organization, the potential of the position(s) to have an immediate impact, and the organization's ability to manage the funds. 4Culture expects to make 16 - 25 awards.
"Make no mistake about it, regionally, arts nonprofits employ thousands of citizens and stimulate spending in various sectors of the economy, from restaurants and hotels to construction and retail," said King County Executive Kurt Triplett. "The NEA funding will help 4Culture preserve local arts jobs, which will have a positive impact on the recovery of other industries. Throughout the county, from our largest cities to our rural areas, access to the arts creates excitement, nourishes a sense of pride and drives economic traffic for all communities."
image: © Courtesy of the Kent Arts Commission
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deadline July 20, 2009
Guidelines and Application
The Touring Arts Roster allows presenters a convenient way to identify regional artists available to perform in festivals, commercial venues, schools, libraries, conventions and parties.
4Culture is pleased to announce a call for artists to apply for the 2010 edition of the Touring Arts Roster (TAR), a juried directory of some of King County's most diverse and talented performing artists who are available for regional bookings.
Applications are due no later than July 20, 2009. Audition slots are filled on a first come, first served basis.
New additions to the roster are added each year following an application and audition process in the summer. The 2010 TAR will boast over 100 artists and ensembles representing a diverse range of performing disciplines and genres. The range of performing disciplines and genres allows the TAR to apply a wide range of individuals seeking performers for any event format, size or budget.
image: © José Carrión and Todo Folklore Cubano!, Courtesy of the artist
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The Estate of Su Job, 4Culture and Artist Trust were delighted to present Johnathan Heath Lambe aka Maxx Lexington the inaugural Conductive Garboil Grant at a June 11th event in Gallery4Culture.
Envisioned and endowed by artist Su Job before her passing in December 2008, the Conductive Garboil Grant is a new, non-restricted award of $3,000 for Seattle artists with a connection to the Pioneer Square neighborhood who have "demonstrated a profound ability to challenge the limits of creative discourse and its effects on our society, pushing the artistic act beyond accepted limits, definitions, or purposes while engaging audiences outside the aesthetic industrial complex." It was Job's wish to use funds originally designated for extended end of life care to establish the annual program. She chose Lambe as the first recipient. Lambe's resume, bio and work samples can be viewed on myartspace.com.
Are you a Seattle-based artist with a connection to Pioneer Square? The 2009 Conductive Garboil Grant cycle is open through July 27. View the guidelines and application. More details may be found at www.garboil.org.
image: © Lambe receiving Conductive Garboil Grant, Photo by Doug Vann
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deadline July 13, 2009
Guidelines and Application
Do you have a Landmark bricks and mortar project that needs some additional support? Preservation 4Culture is currently accepting applications for our newest program - Landmark Challenge Grants - providing strategic assistance countywide for projects involving highly significant, designated historic properties. City of Seattle landmarks, City of Bothell landmarks, King County and its interlocal city landmarks, and National Register sites in areas without a local landmarks ordinance are eligible to apply.
We seek to fund quality projects that:
- Face a high degree of imminent threat
- Have a strong project proponent(s)
- Offer substantial long-range public benefit
- Show thoughtful preliminary planning
- Demonstrate a high likelihood of success
image: © 2008 Landmark Challenge recipient, Former Seventh Church of Christ, Scientist in Queen Anne
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exhibit through July 31, 2009
www.4culture.org/publicart/gallery
Jennifer Towner - has been:becoming
Gallery4Culture is pleased to present an exhibition of new work by Seattle-based installation artist Jennifer Towner. Towner's mixed media works are narratives that traverse her personal history and explore what it's like to be an "almost" middle-aged, single (childless) woman in contemporary society. Memory, body image, relationship, and the reproductive time-clock are central themes in Towner's art.
Her work demonstrates a bent toward obsessive production. Sometimes funny, sometimes sad, Towner's unyielding introspection and penchant to produce are integral to her studio practice. Multiples play a significant role in her creative process and aesthetic. In the artist's words, "I take objects and incidents from my personal history and transform them through obsessive ritual into installations and events for everyone to see. I tell stories of my obsession through my work."
Learn more about Towner and Gallery4Culture
image: © Jennifer Towner, 2009, The Pinnacle (The Curse of the Hamilton Family Feet), plaster, shoe, Courtesy of 4Culture
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events all summer
It's summer in King County, and that means 4Culture's SITE-SPECIFIC is in full bloom. Not a week goes by that you can't see a free Site-Specific project at a park or venue near you. One exciting project running right now is ARTSPARKS - We have combined forces with the Seattle Parks Department and and the Seattle Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs for this project which is focused on bringing a wide variety of art experiences to three downtown parks. Also this month, you can look forward to the return of the Park Dancers in the Bellevue Downtown Park.
For more details and a full schedule of events, please visit our website at www.sitespecificarts.org
image: © Courtesy of the Tent Show
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Two 4Culture managed projects took awards at the 2009 Americans for the Arts annual convention held in Seattle, June 18 - 20.
Carol DePelecyn
ReTire (with Steve McGehee) and Terra Firma (with Dale Stammen)
Shoreline Recycling and Transfer Station, Shoreline, Washington
King County Solid Waste Division % for Art. Managed by 4Culture.
Sheila Klein
Columnseum Roosevelt and Greenlake Park-and-Ride, 65th and 8th Ave N.E., Seattle, Washington.
King County Transit Division % for Art. Managed by 4Culture.
"Great public art projects are created when a confluence of artists, public agencies and citizens commit to work together to express our cultural values in the built environment," said Cath Brunner, 4Culture's public art program manager. "We're proud of our region's culture of collaboration and innovation, and are pleased to have local artists' visionary civic work celebrated by Americans for the Arts."
Additionally, 4Culture congratulates Seattle artists Lorna Jordan and Dan Corson who were also recognized with Public Art Year in Review Awards, Seattle environmental artist Buster Simpson who was awarded the 2009 Public Art Network Award for his innovative contributions and exemplary commitment and leadership in public art, and Randy Engstrom who was presented with the 2009 Emerging Leader Award for his extraordinary work in the field of arts administration.
image: © Carol DePelecyn; 2008; Terra Firma; billboard; Steve McGehee, original photograph; King County Art Collection. Photo by Steve McGehee.
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Treasured venue that hosted young Jimi Hendrix & Billie Holiday will be transformed into nonprofit performing arts center.
4Culture is thrilled to announce Historic Seattle's purchase of the recently-designated Seattle Landmark Washington Hall in Seattle's Central District for $1,500,000. The deal closed on Friday, June 12, 2009. Historic Seattle, a Preservation & Development Authority, purchased the building from the Sons of Haiti Masonic Lodge with the intention of preserving the treasured hall for cultural use. Following upgrades this summer, the facility will be available as early as September 2009 as a rehearsal, performance and event space for arts, cultural, and social groups.
The building was purchased with $250,000 from Historic Seattle, $250,000 from 4Culture, (King County Lodging Tax), and a loan from Key Bank.
Located at 153 14th Avenue, Seattle, WA 98122, in Seattle's Central District, Washington Hall, was built in 1908 as a settlement house and meeting/dance hall by the Danish Brotherhood Society. Purchased in 1973 by the Sons of Haiti Masonic Lodge, the facility has hosted hundreds of community events over the decades, including legendary musicians Billie Holiday and Jimi Hendrix. Other notable performers like Marian Anderson, Mahalia Jackson, Duke Ellington and Count Basie are also said to have played in the hall. Likewise, W.E.B. du Bois, Joe Louis, and Martin Luther King Jr. are reported to have spoken there. On the Boards, a non-profit arts organization, leased the auditorium from 1978-1998 to present local, national and international contemporary performances in the facility, like the early work of Spalding Grey, Meredith Monk, Mark Morris and many others.
Over the last several decades, the building had fallen into extreme disrepair and upgrades were beyond the financial capacity of the Sons of Haiti. The building was put on the market in 2007. 4Culture staff nominated the building for City of Seattle Landmark status, which it received in January 2009.
image: © Courtesy of 4Culture
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Phoenix-based artist, Al Price was selected to join the King County Solid Waste Division and consultant HDR as a design team member for the new Factoria Recycling and Transfer Station in Bellevue, WA.
The new Factoria Recycling & Transfer Station is a redevelopment and expansion of the existing transfer station, which was built over 40 years ago and has outgrown its current capacity. As an anchor in the regional waste stream system, the new station will continue to provide a full range of mixed municipal solid waste disposal and will also offer recycling services.
Al Price is a sculptor fascinated by motion. He is known for interior kinetic sculptures and recent public projects that appear to twist, turn, and locomote with the moving viewer. With each design, Price strives to deal with material and form in significant, inventive and economical ways. Price recently completed projects for the new Sky Harbor Rental Car Center, the Arizona State University Foundation and Valley Metro Rail, Inc., and is currently working on a sculpture for the new Minnesota Twins Stadium in Minneapolis. Price was selected from a short-list of 41 artists from the new 4Culture Artist Registry Vol VI.
image: © Al Price, Kyrene Monte Vista Pedestrian Bridge
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On Saturday, June 20, over 2,700 people packed the historic Moore Theatre for Moore Inside Out. The Seattle Theatre Group partnered with the 4Culture Site-Specific program to envision and fund the event. Curators dk pan and nko, the entire Moore technical crew, and over 50 ambitious, generous artists worked around the clock for days leading up to the event, pushing boundaries to make amazing miracles happen at the Moore. A live-inhabited post-apocalyptic squat, a sculpture in the lobby of original elaborate forgotten crown moldings from the old box seats, a basement full of watermelons, the dramatic return of the missing 9th muse, a scaffolding installation that completely transformed the auditorium, an architect in flight.... it was a night to remember.
But you don't have to take our word for it, read these articles and blogs:
Seattle Weekly preview - 6/17, Stranger preview - 6/18, Seattle Times preview, Stranger Slog, Seattle Met, ArtsJournal, Seattlest, bandor, emily pothast, publicola, helloblackbird
image: © Joey Nix, 2009, J.A. Moore, Photo by gurldogg, from flickr
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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.
Poets & Writers
Accepting applications for Seattle literary events
Deadline: rolling
www.pw.org
The Readings/Workshops program provides small matching grants for public readings and creative writing workshops. Sponsoring organizations apply on behalf of a particular writer, but we encourage writers to pass on information about the R/W program to their hosts. Applications must be received at least eight weeks in advance of the event.
The Columbia City Gallery
ART in the ALLEY - 3rd Annual Outdoor Art Show
Deadline: applications considered in the order they are received
www.ColumbiaCityGallery.com
Accepting applications from artists and craftspeople in all media to participate in Southeast Seattle's outdoor visual arts festival. Every year, the gallery fills the alley just to the north of the gallery with art and the artists who make it.
Art in the Alley is on Friday, August 7 from 4 - 9pm, in conjunction with Beatwalk. Questions: art@ColumbiaCityGallery.com or 206 760.9843
Lynnwood Arts commission
Annual Juried Themed Exhibit - Celebrate 50
Deadline: July 31, 2009
www.LynnwoodArts.org
Seeking artists of all ages and abilities to create work that uses the ideas of celebration or 50, or both to help commemorate the 50th Anniversary of Lynnwood. Artwork selected will be on exhibit at the Lynnwood Library Gallery - 19200 44th Ave W, from September 25 - November 12. Prize winners will be selected by a judge and a public reception will be held on November 3.
2009 King County Harvest Celebration Farm Tour Project
Deadline: July 20, 2009, 5pm *not a postmark deadline*
king.wsu.edu
Washington State University King County Extension is seeking image rights to an original artwork, which captures the spirit of the King County Harvest Celebration Tour. The most competitive images will be contemporary, colorful expressions of agricultural themes. An honorarium of $500 will be offered for rights to the selected image of an artwork by a King County-based artist. The artwork will remain the property of the artist and may be for sale. Publication rights of the selected artwork must be granted through 2009.
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National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)
State and Regional Director
Deadline: December 30, 2009
federalgovernmentjobs.us
Full-Time, temporary position, not to exceed 2 years. Salary range: 120,830.00 - 153,200.00 USD per year. This position is located in the State and Regional Programs Office, Office of the Deputy Chairman for State, Regions, and Local Arts Agencies, National Endowment for the Arts. Incumbent reports to the Deputy Chairman and serves as the Agency's nationally recognized expert and authority on State arts agencies and regional arts organizations. The incumbent also serves as supervisor for the State/Regional Specialist assigned to the Office.
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Stephen Hilyard, Rapture of the Deep
Recommended by Heather Dwyer, Arts 4Culture
Platform Gallery
Through July 31
platformgallery.com
Stephen Hilyard, currently featured on 4Culture's media gallery, e4c has a concurrent exhibition of new work at Seattle's Platform Gallery. Rapture of the Deep, his second solo exhibition at Platform Gallery, consists of eight large prints of digitally manipulated landscape images. The series deals with the glamour of risk as personified by eight famous British mountaineers from the 70s and 80s, a golden age of high altitude mountaineering which made many of them national media figures. Hilyard is a Wisconsin-based artist and an Associate Professor, Digital Arts at the University of Wisconsin Madison.
Greg Lundgren: I Am From Bellevue
Recommended by Sara Edwards, Communications 4Culture
Open Satellite
July 10 - August 1, 2009
Artist Reception: July 10, 6-9 PM
Lundgren is a 2009 4Culture Individual Artist Project funding recipient. Join him at the opening of his exhibit, running one month in Bellevue.
ART/WORK, artist workshop and book signing
Recommended by Tamar Benzikry-Stern, Public Art 4Culture
July 15, 2009, 7:30pm
Elliott Bay Book Company, 101 South Main Street, Seattle
artworkbook.net
Join arts lawyer Jonathan Melber for "Ten Things Every Artist Should Know," a workshop based on his recently published book, ART/WORK: Everything You Need To Know (And Do) As You Pursue Your Art Career (Free Press). Co-authored with a New York gallery director, ART/WORK is a professional-development guide that shows artists of every level how to build their careers and protect themselves along the way.
Washington Bus, the Stranger, & the Recording Academy Present: Candidate Survivor signing
Recommended by Paige Weinheimer, Funding Programs 4Culture
July 28, 2009, 7 - 9pm
The Showbox, 1426 1st Ave, Seattle
Washington Bus
The Washington Bus, the Stranger, and the Recording Academy are bringing all the City Council candidates to the Showbox for a forum the likes of which Seattle has never seen before. There'll be lightning rounds, dancing VoteBots and the chance to vote candidates off the stage. That's right, at Candidate Survivor YOU have the power.
Yes, it's free. Yes, it's all ages. Come party for Democracy. It's Candidate Survivor, baby.
Save the Date
Arts in Crisis Tour: Kennedy Center President to visit Washington State
Recommended by Jim Kelly, Executive Director
August 20 - 21, 2009
www.ArtsEdWashington.org
As part of a national tour for Arts in Crisis: A Kennedy Center Initiative, Kennedy Center President Michael M. Kaiser will visit Washington state August 20 - 21 to conduct free arts leadership symposia in Seattle and Tacoma. The Seattle symposium will be Thursday, August 20, 10am - 12pm. The Tacoma symposium will be Friday, August 21, 9 - 11am. Venue information and registration for both events will be available shortly at www.ArtsEdWashington.org.
Right now, arts organizations need to balance their mission focused creative work with the pressures of a fiscal crisis in a rapidly changing cultural landscape. Mr. Kaiser's expertise will help us all make the case for the relevance and continued existence of arts organizations - in other words, why arts and why now?
These symposia will be aimed at engaging arts organization staff, trustees, volunteers and funders, as well as leaders in the arts education community in the discussion around sustainability.
ArtsEd Washington, a Kennedy Center affiliate through the Alliance for Arts Education Network, is proud to sponsor and convene these events. To sign up for a priority invitation to these free events, visit www.ArtsEdWashington.org.
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Seeking events for regional Bernstein celebration
All arts organizations in the region are invited to be a part of an exciting project Seattle Celebrates Bernstein. This collaborative venture will take place over April-June of 2010 and is imagined to be two months of varied and overlapping programming of works written by, inspired by or based on work by Leonard Bernstein. Your company's programming could be a one night only event or a production running three weeks - the more variety and depth, the better. This would create interest and excitement in each organization's programming as well as a huge PR and marketing advantage. The event will have a joint marketing campaign and website, allowing organizations of all size a fantastic opportunity to garner new audiences. Already confirmed are the 5th Avenue Theatre, Seattle Symphony, Seattle Men's/Women's Chorus, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Town Hall and Seattle Opera's Young Artist Program.
If you're interested in participating, please contact Mimi de Quesada at the 5th Avenue.
Intellectual Property and Website Issues for Nonprofit Leaders:
Protecting Your Assets and Recognizing Your Vulnerabilities
July 16, 2009, 8:45 am - 12:15 pm
The 2100 Building, 2100 24th Ave. S., Seattle, WA
waaco.org
Learn the basics of copyright, trademarks, patents, and trade secrets, learn how to protect your intellectual property on and off the web.
New Museologist Resource Website
sites.google.com/site/announcementsinthefield/
Museologists should check out this new google-site devoted to current news, job/internship postings, and conference/workshop postings in the field. You can download RSS feeds for each specific list on the site. If you have specific postings, or ideas for new sections of the site, don't hesitate to contact uwmuseology@gmail.com.
Arts Reach Conference Discount
Are You Ready for the Wave of Change? Breakthrough Strategies for Growing Audiences, Donors, and Boards in the Coming Decade
National Arts Marketing and Development Conference: October 8 - 11, 2009
Millennium Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles
www.artsreach.com
4Culture award recipients are eligible for a $120 discount, for this national arts conference. This discount is in addition to the 2 for 1 early bird discount if you register by July 31, 2009. More details online.
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image: © Model T's greeted outside Paxton, IL by the parents of Willow Fox (4Culture Public Art). Photo by Jon Griesenbeck. See more pics from the road.
