Calling All: Visual artists, Writers and Composers and Musicians

(WOMEN WRITERS) Grants of $500 to $1,500 each are given twice yearly to feminist writers. Women poets and creative nonfiction writers who are citizens of the United States or Canada are eligible. Submit three copies of a manuscript of up to 25 pages, a project description, a budget, and a resumé with a $20 entry fee during the month of June. Send an SASE for the required entry form and complete guidelines.

Money for Women/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, Individual Artist Grants for Women, P.O. Box 309, Wilton, NH 03086. Susan Pliner, Executive Director. No website available. Deadline: July 1, 2011

(WRITERS) Margolis Award & Residency—A stipend of $5,000 and a month long residency at the Blue Mountain Center, an artists colony in Blue Mountain Lake, New York, is given annually to a writer of nonfiction (including creative nonfiction with the exception of memoir) whose work recalls that of Richard J. Margolis, a journalist, essayist, and poet who wrote about those whose voices are seldom heard. Submit three copies of at least two writing samples totaling no more than 30 pages and a project description by July 1. There is no entry fee. Send an SASE or visit the Web site for complete guidelines.

Blue Mountain Center, Richard J. Margolis Award, c/o Margolis & Bloom, 535 Boylston Street, 8th Floor, Boston, MA 02116. Harry Margolis, Contact. Website:

http://www.award.margolis.com

(ALL) ART342—ART342 is now accepting artist-in-residence applications for Fall 2011 Residency dates: September 12 – December 16, On-line application: https://art342.slideroom.com/.

offers 14-week residencies to emerging and established artists, writers and composers. Studios, a kiln and basic equipment are available for most visual artists, including ceramicists. Quiet spaces exist for creative or scholarly writers. The composer’s studio is outfitted with a Steinway B, computers and software for writing and recording.

Awards for accepted applicants include 24-hour access to free studios, living space and a modest stipend. Residents are responsible for personal expenses and travel to and from the site. Situated in a semi-rural area, ART342 is just 6 miles north of Historic Old Town in Fort Collins. Up to 7 studios and 5 living spaces are maintained as private places for creative work. Pets, children, visitors and partners are strongly discouraged. $30 application fee

For more information regarding application and residency details, visit: www.art342.org Deadline is (I think) June 13 but please check the website to make sure.

(ALL) Camac and Fondation Ténot Residencies in France—Call for visual artists, writers and composers/musicians. Since 1999, Camac Art Centre with Fondation Ténot has promoted creativity and international exchange in the artist community.

Camac and Fondation Ténot offers each year a residency bursary (fellowship) to one visual artist, one writer and one musician or composer in order to create new career prospects for artists.

Camac is located 60min away from Paris in the village of Marnay sur Seine within the scenic Region of Champagne-Ardenne. This multi-disciplinary creative centre offers a unique environment for visual artist, writers or musicians. Camac aims at fostering communication and creativity among individuals and groups working on the evolution of ideas or realization of works.

Nature of the bursary:
- 2 month residency (dates to be arranged by mutual agreement between the artist and the institution)
- Return ticket, board and lodging
- Private bedroom with bathroom, individual studio.
The laureate must provide his/her own visas and health insurance.

Deadline June 20, 2011. For more information, write: jycoffre@camac.org or go to the website: http://www.camac.org

LATE-BREAKING DEADLINES FOR MUSICIANS, WRITERS AND ARTISTS

Good morning to you all... I still am having formatting problems when I switch from a word doc or from an email to my blog post. The font size changes and other snafoos occur. I'm doing my best to figure this out...sorry once again if things look a little off. Drives me crazy! Anyway, below are some upcoming fall deadlines...best wishes, Mira.

(WRITERS) Biography Fellowships
The Leon Levy Center for Biography is offering resident fellowships at the Graduate Center, CUNY in New York City for the academic year beginning September 2010. Awards include writing space, access to research facilities and a $60,000 stipend. Deadline is October 15, 2009. For more information, go to: www.leonlevycenterforbiography.com.

The following announcements are from Kathleen Bitetti from Artist Alliance, an arts advocacy group. Check them out: www.artistalliance.us. Thanks Kathleen!

(MUSICIANS/MUSICOLOGISTS) Grammy Foundation Grants
DEADLINE OCTOBER 1st!: Funded by the Recording Academy, the Grammy Foundation Grant Program administers grants annually to organizations and individuals to support efforts that advance the archiving and preservation of the music and recorded sound heritage of the Americas. The foundation will also award Scientific Research Project grants up to a maximum of $20,000 each to organizations and individuals to support research on the impact of music on the human condition. Examples might include the study of the effects of music on mood, cognition and healing, as well as the medical and occupational well-being of music professionals and the creative process underlying music. Priority is given to projects with strong methodological design as well those addressing an important research question. The Foundation's Archiving and Preservation Project grants support efforts that advance the archiving and preservation of the music and recorded sound heritage of the Americas. The Archiving and Preservation area has two funding categories: Preservation Implementation ($20,000 maximum award each); and Planning, Assessment, and/or Consultation ($5,000 maximum award each).

A Letter of Inquiry is now required before submission of a full application. Inquiries must be received by no later than October 1, 2009. If the project is recommended for further consideration, the applicant will be invited to submit a full application in early November. Full applications will be due within approximately four weeks of notification and wards will be announced in March 2010. For more information, please go to: http://www.grammy.com/GrammyFoundation/

(FILMMAKERS) Native American Film Awards
National Museum of the American Indian seeks submissions of films on Native American Veterans. The National Museum of the American Indian is seeking submissions of four-minute films about Native American veterans that illustrate the impact and meaning of participation in the military for native peoples. All types of nonfiction film, including documentary, experimental, and animation, will be accepted. Prizes will be awarded to winners, and selected films will be shown on Veterans Day 2009 during a special program at the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C. Deadline October 18, 2009. Visit the Web site of the National Museum of the American Indian for further information: http://www.americanindian.si.edu/fvc/veterans/

(ARTISTS) NYFA Award for Excellence in Painting
New York Foundation for the Arts Announces New Award for Excellence in Painting. As part of this year's New York State Artists' Fellowships program, the New York Foundation for the Arts has announced a special award for excellence in painting. The Basil H. Alkazzi Award for Excellence in Painting will provide two painters with an award of $20,000 each. The award is open to painters of all nationalities, provided they are residents of New York State. All those who apply to Fellowships program will automatically be considered for the Award for Excellence in Painting. The awards will first be presented in 2010 and on a biennial basis thereafter. The Artists' Fellowships painting category accepts work that involves painting of any kind upon any surface. The deadline for the painting category is November 3, 2009. Visit the NYFA Web site for complete award information and Artists' Fellowships program guidelines: http://www.nyfa.org/level3.asp?id=658&fid=1&sid=1

AUDIO STORIES COMPETITION

First, I want to thank you all for responding to my last post (http://miraslist.blogspot.com/2009/05/calling-all-artists-writers-composers.html) where I asked you to tell me how you found my blog and what you are looking for in terms of a grant, residency, etc. I have stored your comments inside my fecund and ever curious brain and will, over time, try to help at least some of you in your endeavors. If you haven't answered the questions on that post, please feel free to now by clicking on the above link.

AUDIO STORIES: Okay, so I don't normally announce competitions because I really like to focus on grants, fellowships and residencies and there are enough sites that you can go to (see my sidebar on the right for some) that post deadlines for competitions, exhibitions, publishing opportunities, film festival competitions, etc. But because more and more writers (and other artists) are doing audio stories and sound projects for radio, I think you all need to know about the Third Coast International Audio Festival and their competition coming up next month. They are now accepting entries for this year’s TCF / Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition and up to $26,000 will be awarded across the following categories: Best Documentary (Gold, Silver,
Bronze, Honorable Mentions, Directors’ Choice), Best New Artist, Radio Impact and Best News
Feature. Winning stories will be featured on the 2009 Third Coast Festival Broadcast, which airs
on more than 120 stations nationally. I am and have always been a radio buff so I am particularly appreciative of Third Coast and hope to make it to their annual festival this fall in Chicago.

Additionally, the TCF will present the Audio Luminary Award to an honoree for his/her outstanding contributions to the audio field. Radio fans and professionals alike are encouraged to submit nominations for the 2009 ALA, and for the first time ever the nominator of the ALA recipient will receive a free plane ticket to Chicago and a ticket to the 2009 Awards Ceremony. This year, also for the first time, entries will be submitted online (!), with the help of Public Radio Exchange (http://www/PRX.org). EARLY DEADLINE - Midnight (PST), June 19, 2009 LATE DEADLINE - Midnight (PST), July 10, 2009. For more information about the Third Coast International Audio Festival, go to http://www.thirdcoastfestival.org/ or send an email to: info@thirdcoastfestival.org or you can even call! 312-948-4682

ARTIST TRUST FELLOWSHIPS FOR WASHINGTON STATE ARTISTS

(ALL) The Artist Trust/Washington State Arts Commission Fellowship awards $7,500 to practicing professional artists of exceptional talent and demonstrated ability. The Fellowship is a merit-based, not project-based award. Artist Trust seeks applications from individual generative artists for the 2009 Fellowship. This year artists in the following categories are invited to apply: Music, Media, Literary and Craft Arts (Emerging Fields, Cross-Disciplinary, Performing, Visual and Traditional & Folk Artists can apply in June 2010.)
Deadline: June 12, 2009