Hi everyone,
I hate to be the bearer of bad news but....if anyone is applying for JACOB J. JAVITZ fellowship this year, an astute Mira's List fan just informed me that the program was closed by Congress this year and they don't know when it will reopen again. And for some reason, they are not posting about the closing on their site and apparently will not email you in writing about it. You have to call them to hear about it over the phone. This is unfortunate because this fellowship is a great one for those of you applying for MFA programs in the arts. But things do change year to year so check back on their website next season. In the meantime, you should know about this and maybe call their office to double check about the status of the fellowship or just not waste your time applying for the Sept. 30th deadline this fall.
Showing posts with label MFA PROGRAMS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label MFA PROGRAMS. Show all posts
Urgent Deadline: International Low-Residency MFA & Practice-Based PhD
Hi everyone, I wanted to leave Ayun Halliday’s great interview up longer but I just found this announcement below in my spam folder and wanted to get it out there because the deadline is SOON. I also have something really important to post tomorrow or the next day, plus a ton of new opportunities and yet another interview so keep your eyes open for a lot of things this coming week! If you’d like to read about the amazing zinester and author Ayun Halliday, check out her interview with me HERE. Also, in a recent post, there were some discrepancies that a diligent and kind reader alerted me to. She said the following regarding the residency at the Islip Art Museum Carriage House:The Islip Art Museum Carriage House In Process link to http://jasonparadisart.com/ reports different submission specifications that the Islip Art Museum. Also, this curator is requesting that submissions be sent to him directly; the museum site indicates they should be sent directly to the museum. I also just noticed that the deadlines are different. The museum posts December 1, and http://jasonparadisart.com/ posts December 15.
Okay...here’s the deadline I wanted you to know about...oh, one more thing, even during times when I am incredibly busy and cannot post for several days, I almost always at least post a bunch of quick deadlines on twitter and facebook, and many of these are the kinds of things that I don’t post about on my blog, including contests, book prizes, exhibition oppportunities, etc. If you are on Facebook, just go to my Mira’s List page for late-breaking news: http://www.facebook.com/pages/MIRAS-LIST/72394590508 and if the post isn’t too long, it automatically is fed into twitter (my twitter name is miraslist). And on twitter, I often retweet many great opportunities, including arts jobs, from international sources.
It might be way too late for applying for this program but at least you can check it out for the following year if you don’t make the deadline on Dec. 15th:
(ARTISTS/ STUDENTS) MFA Creative Practice – Three Spaces With Advanced Standing For Spring 2011: Three spaces are available in the MFA program for applicants with graduate level course credits in art, media, design and related fields from other institutions to begin studies in January. With a transfer of a minimum of 15 credits (30 ECTS) accepted applicants can complete the MFA Creative Practice in three semesters by summer 2012. An application form is online. http://www.transartinstitute.org/Admissions.html
Application deadline December 15, 2010!
International Low-Residency MFA Program
Transart Institute offers the MFA Creative Practice, a fully accredited international masters program for working artists with summer residencies in Berlin, winter residencies in New York and one-on-one advisement during two academic years - wherever students work and live. Students are free to pursue work in any art-related genre and to create their own course of study, working independently and with the support of self-chosen studio and research advisors. Short periods of intensive residency permit students to continue with their professional work and keep a balanced personal life while participating in the program. The majority of Transart students are emerging and mid-career artists and teachers at tertiary institutions.
The new MFA Creative Practice is a student-centered, project oriented postgraduate art program which fosters independent thinking, risk-taking and the creation of an informed and sustainable art praxis. The Institute is also a platform for faculty to expand their teaching praxis by making space for creativity and experimentation. Beyond its educational objectives, Transart Institute is engaged in building an international community in support of students, alumni, faculty and their artistic and academic goals. The institute offers its former students a virtual and material basis for artistic practice, the exchange of ideas, opportunities and critiques, supporting individual and collective growth beyond the duration of the program.
Scholarships
Several scholarships are available to students of the MFA Creative Practice program: Developing Country Scholarships, Achievement and Merit Scholarships are being awarded. The scholarships provide a reduction in tuition from 10 to 50%. More information on scholarships can be found on the Transart Institute website
http://www.transartinstitute.org/admissions.html
Practice-based PhD
An information session will be held at the Transart Institute winter residency on January 9, 2011 in Brooklyn, New York about admissions and the course of studies for Transart Institute's practice-based PhD expected to begin in July 2011. The session will be by invitation only and 50% of seats will be reserved for graduates of Transart Institute's MFA program. To be considered for the information session please send an email with an outline or draft of your proposal including references and resources along with a short CV or bio to cella@transartinstitute.org. Transart is particularly keen on encouraging proposals from the areas of documentary art making, language/image, software studies and network culture. The proposal should demonstrate systematic study, independence, critical competence and originality. It should include a record of the 'practice' element and also serve to contextualize the practice intellectually while cle arly demonstrating its contribution to knowledge.
Portfolio Review for the MFA Creative Practice
Transart Institute seeks independent, inquisitive and imaginative artist to apply to its MFA Creative Practice program starting summer 2011. Interested artists, teachers and all professionals in related fields who are seeking advancement in visual arts and new media are invited to come to the Transart winter residency (January 7-9, 2011) for feedback on their portfolio as suited for admission. In addition, these sessions will give prospective applicants the opportunity to learn more about the program, attend a public lecture and mingle with Transart faculty and students in person. To RSVP please email info@transartinstitute.org
More details for all programs are online. http://www.transartinstitute.org/Profiles.html
Application deadline for admission with advanced standing: December 15, 2010 Application deadline for summer 2011: rolling admissions Application fee for the MFA program: 25 USD Application deadline for the PhD info session: December 11, 2010
For more information please contact Selina Heaton: info@transartinstitute.org
Transart Institute
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Mail:Transart Institute,
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New Deadlines for: Performing Artists, Emerging Filmmakers and MFA Students in Visual Arts!
(PERFORMING ARTISTS) Artists-in-Residence Program in Tribeca :The Tribeca Performing Arts Center is currently accepting applications for the 2010-11 Artists-in-Residence season! Beginning in Fall 2010, the selected artists will have weekly access to the theaters and the opportunity to present during our "Work & Show Festival" in the spring of 2011. We encourage performing artists of all backgrounds and styles to apply! Please visit http://www.tribecapac.org/air.htm for more information about the application process and our current artists. The application deadline is June 21, 2010!
(MFA STUDENTS/VISUAL ARTS) CAA Professional Development Fellowships: Full details on the recently restored Professional-Development Fellowships in the Visual Arts, including the application form, have just been posted to the CAA website.
(MFA STUDENTS/VISUAL ARTS) CAA Professional Development Fellowships: Full details on the recently restored Professional-Development Fellowships in the Visual Arts, including the application form, have just been posted to the CAA website.
Later this fall, CAA will award five grants of $5,000 each to outstanding students who will receive MFA degrees in calendar year 2011. Honorable mentions, awarded at the discretion of the jury, will receive a free one-year CAA membership and complimentary registration to the Annual Conference.
CAA’s Professional-Development Fellowships in the Visual Arts offer financial assistance to promising MFA candidates. Fellows are honored with grants to help them with various aspects of their work, whether it be for job-search expenses or purchasing materials for the studio. CAA believes a grant of this kind, without contingencies, can best facilitate the transition between graduate studies and professional careers. Applications must be postmarked by Friday, October 1, 2010. For more information, go to the CAA website: http://www.collegeart.org/fellowships/
(FILM) Reach Film Fellowship: Cinereach is currently seeking applicants for its annual Reach Film Fellowship (RFF), a seven-month program that pairs filmmakers with a $5,000 grant, mentorship and other resources as they make artful short films with socially relevant themes. The fellowship is open to emerging filmmakers who have completed at least one short film. Applicants must reside in the New York Tri-State area from August through April of 2010/2011. Application and guidelines can be found on their website: www.cinereach.org.
GRANTS FOR EMERGING WRITERS, MUSICIANS, MEDIA ARTISTS AND MORE!
Greetings all and Happy Solstice. Below are a few upcoming grants and opportunities for writers, musicians and the like. Happy hunting!
(WRITERS) Grants for Emerging Writers
The Elizabeth George Foundation offers grants to unpublished fiction writers, for unpublished and published poets, and emerging playwrights. There is no website; you need to request funding through a well-written letter. In your letter, emphasize the importance of your project, the marketability of your work, a rough financial message about your situation, and details on how you'd utilize funds. Keep requests reasonable in light of these economic times. Deadline July 1, 2009. Write to: Elizabeth George, Director, PO Box 1429, Langley, WA 98260 also 4111 Shorebreak Drive, Huntington Beach, CA, 92649-2184. If you want to read my article, "Finding Money for Your Dreams," about the grant writing process, go here: http://miraslist.blogspot.com/2009/04/finding-money-for-your-dreams.html. You might find it useful if you are an emerging writer (or artist).
(WRITERS)Whidbey Writers Workshop MFA Scholarships
The Elizabeth George Foundation also now sponsers a Full Scholarship for a Whidbey Writers Workshop MFA Student. In the first phase of building its scholarship and student loan program, the Whidbey Writers Workshop, located on Whidbey Island in Washington State, is pleased to announce a full-tuition merit scholarship with the establishment of the Elizabeth George Foundation scholarship.The organization is seeking additional support to aid students. In addition to the Elizabeth George Foundation full scholarship of $12,000 for an incoming student that is renewable for a second year, the WWW is also building funding for half-tuition and quarter-tuition scholarships and for financial aid assistance. For more information, go to: http://www.writeonwhidbey.org/mfa/scholarship.htm.
(MUSICIANS/COMPOSERS) LaRue Travel Fund
The LaRue Travel Fund for Research Travel to Europe: The American Musicological Society (AMS) Jan LaRue Travel Fund is intended to encourage and assist Ph.D. candidates, post-doctoral scholars, independent scholars, and junior faculty to travel to Europe to carry out research. The fund honors the memory of Jan LaRue (1918–2004), a distinguished scholar and AMS member admired for his pioneering work on style analysis, the eighteenth-century symphony, and early computer applications in musicology. The current maximum award is $1,000. Eligible applicants must currently attend or have graduated from a doctoral program in a North American university. If they seek to conduct research for their dissertation, they must have completed all other requirements for the Ph.D. (or the equivalent doctoral degree in any field of music scholarship). If they seek to conduct post-doctoral research or are independent scholars, they should have completed the Ph. D. within the past five years. All materials music be submitted by 5 p.m. EST, 25 July 2009 to the office of the AMS. For more information and application guidelines, please visit the website: http://www.ams-net.org/awards/.
(ALL DISCIPLINES) Soros Fellowships for New Americans
The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans: The Soros Fellowships provide opportunities for continuing generations of able and accomplished new Americans to achieve leadership in their chosen fields. The Fellowship provides half tuition and $20,000 maintenance for two years. Candidates must be either holders of green cards, naturalized citizens, or children of naturalized citizen parents. For more information, go to: http://www.pdsoros.org/overview/application.shtml. The deadline is Nov. 1, 2009.
***By the way, I believe that most people applying will be seeking funding in fields such as engineering, medicine, etc. I have heard that you actually have a better chance if you are NOT in those fields. This could be one of those rare grants/fellowships that being an artist is an advantage! Go for it!
(MEDIA ARTS) Residencies and Scholarships
Residencies: 911 Media Arts Center is considered Washington State’s premiere media arts center, dedicated to supporting the expressive use of innovative new media by providing the access, training, and environment needed to create and exhibit works of artistic excellence. The Artist in Residence Program supports innovative new media artists of all disciplines, including digital filmmakers (narrative, documentary, experimental), animators, media installation and internet art. Program is flexible depending on the artist’s needs, but typically consists of project budget, equipment and facilities access, technical assistance, exhibition or screening support, and artist honorarium. Residencies range from three to six months in duration. No travel or housing support is offered.
Scholarships: Each year 911 Seattle Media Arts Center recognizes promising new voices in the media arts with one of our coveted scholarships, offering the opportunity for an artist to learn from our instructors and further their studies in the media arts field. 911 Media Arts Center hopes to increase these scholarship funds with the help of our generous donors.
1. The Artist Media Scholarship provides financial support to seed interest and exploration in the digital media arts. Open to artists of all disciplines, the $1,000 award is to be used for classes in digital media, including video and video editing offered by 911 Media Arts Center. The funds may also apply to additional resources offered at 911 Media Arts Center such as rental of video and editing equipment, and for artist projects needing technical assistance. All levels of experience (including no experience at all) in digital media are eligible.
2. The Youth Tech Scholarship was created to introduce and motivate young people to experiment, explore and succeed in media arts and technology. This $1,000 award is solely for classes at 911 Media Arts Center as well as special programs specifically geared for young students at 911 Media Arts Center. Currently we are accepting applications from individuals, ages 16 to 19 years old. All levels of experience in digital media are eligible for this scholarship as well. Applications due September 15th, 2009 for both scholarships. Check website for details and application guidelines: http://www.911media.org/education/scholarships.
(WRITERS) Grants for Emerging Writers
The Elizabeth George Foundation offers grants to unpublished fiction writers, for unpublished and published poets, and emerging playwrights. There is no website; you need to request funding through a well-written letter. In your letter, emphasize the importance of your project, the marketability of your work, a rough financial message about your situation, and details on how you'd utilize funds. Keep requests reasonable in light of these economic times. Deadline July 1, 2009. Write to: Elizabeth George, Director, PO Box 1429, Langley, WA 98260 also 4111 Shorebreak Drive, Huntington Beach, CA, 92649-2184. If you want to read my article, "Finding Money for Your Dreams," about the grant writing process, go here: http://miraslist.blogspot.com/2009/04/finding-money-for-your-dreams.html. You might find it useful if you are an emerging writer (or artist).
(WRITERS)Whidbey Writers Workshop MFA Scholarships
The Elizabeth George Foundation also now sponsers a Full Scholarship for a Whidbey Writers Workshop MFA Student. In the first phase of building its scholarship and student loan program, the Whidbey Writers Workshop, located on Whidbey Island in Washington State, is pleased to announce a full-tuition merit scholarship with the establishment of the Elizabeth George Foundation scholarship.The organization is seeking additional support to aid students. In addition to the Elizabeth George Foundation full scholarship of $12,000 for an incoming student that is renewable for a second year, the WWW is also building funding for half-tuition and quarter-tuition scholarships and for financial aid assistance. For more information, go to: http://www.writeonwhidbey.org/mfa/scholarship.htm.
(MUSICIANS/COMPOSERS) LaRue Travel Fund
The LaRue Travel Fund for Research Travel to Europe: The American Musicological Society (AMS) Jan LaRue Travel Fund is intended to encourage and assist Ph.D. candidates, post-doctoral scholars, independent scholars, and junior faculty to travel to Europe to carry out research. The fund honors the memory of Jan LaRue (1918–2004), a distinguished scholar and AMS member admired for his pioneering work on style analysis, the eighteenth-century symphony, and early computer applications in musicology. The current maximum award is $1,000. Eligible applicants must currently attend or have graduated from a doctoral program in a North American university. If they seek to conduct research for their dissertation, they must have completed all other requirements for the Ph.D. (or the equivalent doctoral degree in any field of music scholarship). If they seek to conduct post-doctoral research or are independent scholars, they should have completed the Ph. D. within the past five years. All materials music be submitted by 5 p.m. EST, 25 July 2009 to the office of the AMS. For more information and application guidelines, please visit the website: http://www.ams-net.org/awards/.
(ALL DISCIPLINES) Soros Fellowships for New Americans
The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans: The Soros Fellowships provide opportunities for continuing generations of able and accomplished new Americans to achieve leadership in their chosen fields. The Fellowship provides half tuition and $20,000 maintenance for two years. Candidates must be either holders of green cards, naturalized citizens, or children of naturalized citizen parents. For more information, go to: http://www.pdsoros.org/overview/application.shtml. The deadline is Nov. 1, 2009.
***By the way, I believe that most people applying will be seeking funding in fields such as engineering, medicine, etc. I have heard that you actually have a better chance if you are NOT in those fields. This could be one of those rare grants/fellowships that being an artist is an advantage! Go for it!
(MEDIA ARTS) Residencies and Scholarships
Residencies: 911 Media Arts Center is considered Washington State’s premiere media arts center, dedicated to supporting the expressive use of innovative new media by providing the access, training, and environment needed to create and exhibit works of artistic excellence. The Artist in Residence Program supports innovative new media artists of all disciplines, including digital filmmakers (narrative, documentary, experimental), animators, media installation and internet art. Program is flexible depending on the artist’s needs, but typically consists of project budget, equipment and facilities access, technical assistance, exhibition or screening support, and artist honorarium. Residencies range from three to six months in duration. No travel or housing support is offered.
Scholarships: Each year 911 Seattle Media Arts Center recognizes promising new voices in the media arts with one of our coveted scholarships, offering the opportunity for an artist to learn from our instructors and further their studies in the media arts field. 911 Media Arts Center hopes to increase these scholarship funds with the help of our generous donors.
1. The Artist Media Scholarship provides financial support to seed interest and exploration in the digital media arts. Open to artists of all disciplines, the $1,000 award is to be used for classes in digital media, including video and video editing offered by 911 Media Arts Center. The funds may also apply to additional resources offered at 911 Media Arts Center such as rental of video and editing equipment, and for artist projects needing technical assistance. All levels of experience (including no experience at all) in digital media are eligible.
2. The Youth Tech Scholarship was created to introduce and motivate young people to experiment, explore and succeed in media arts and technology. This $1,000 award is solely for classes at 911 Media Arts Center as well as special programs specifically geared for young students at 911 Media Arts Center. Currently we are accepting applications from individuals, ages 16 to 19 years old. All levels of experience in digital media are eligible for this scholarship as well. Applications due September 15th, 2009 for both scholarships. Check website for details and application guidelines: http://www.911media.org/education/scholarships.
MFA PROGRAMS
**I just got this question from a reader and although I normally don't deal with MFA issues, I thought I'd post it because it's a common question that keeps popping up in my email box:
Q: Dear Mira,
Do you know of low-residency MFA programs (poetry) that offer financial aid in the form of grants, not simply loans? Or can you point me to a resource that lists these? I can't imagine there are very many such programs. I've done some searching, but "financial aid" usually seems to focus on loans, and I can't go into more debt, so I'm looking for some balance of loans and grants, if I am to pursue an MFA. I live in western MA, and something near here would be especially good, but a low cost, quality program is my priority.
A: That's a tough question, one I had to research for myself a few years back when I was applying for MFA programs in fiction. I opted out of the low-residency system because when I was looking, the programs I was interested in didn't offer funding at the time (although some might now...I'm not sure). However, the Warren Wilson program now offers some scholarship funding so others might too. You need to pick the places you are interested in and just see what they offer. Since you are in Western, MA, if it is possible for you to do a full MFA Program, you have one of the best in the country at Umass Amherst (where I went to) and they give funding via teaching fellowships, internships at literary journals, etc. For info on both low-residency and traditional MFA programs, the best site I have found is a blog: http://creative-writing-mfa-handbook.blogspot.com. There's a link regarding funding and many other helpful links. Sorry I don't know enough about this subject but if anyone else out there does, please comment below! And check out the creative-writing-mfa-handbook blog. It's excellent! And good luck!
Best Wishes, Mira
***BTW: (For those of you who do not know what a low-residency program is, it is an MFA program for working adults who cannot go to grad. school on a daily basis. You attend intensive workshops, lectures, and so on, for ten days twice a year for two to three years and send your manuscript you are working on (or images from your art portfolio) about every three weeks to your teacher/mentor for feedback. There are programs like this all over. A couple of the most famous ones are Warren Wilson in Asheville, North Carolina, and Bennington in Vermont. For more information on MFA Programs, here is a great blog I just came across: http://creative-writing-mfa-handbook.blogspot.com (and for specific low residency info: http://creative-writing-mfa-handbook.blogspot.com/2006/03/from-low-residency-queen.html).
Q: Dear Mira,
Do you know of low-residency MFA programs (poetry) that offer financial aid in the form of grants, not simply loans? Or can you point me to a resource that lists these? I can't imagine there are very many such programs. I've done some searching, but "financial aid" usually seems to focus on loans, and I can't go into more debt, so I'm looking for some balance of loans and grants, if I am to pursue an MFA. I live in western MA, and something near here would be especially good, but a low cost, quality program is my priority.
A: That's a tough question, one I had to research for myself a few years back when I was applying for MFA programs in fiction. I opted out of the low-residency system because when I was looking, the programs I was interested in didn't offer funding at the time (although some might now...I'm not sure). However, the Warren Wilson program now offers some scholarship funding so others might too. You need to pick the places you are interested in and just see what they offer. Since you are in Western, MA, if it is possible for you to do a full MFA Program, you have one of the best in the country at Umass Amherst (where I went to) and they give funding via teaching fellowships, internships at literary journals, etc. For info on both low-residency and traditional MFA programs, the best site I have found is a blog: http://creative-writing-mfa-handbook.blogspot.com. There's a link regarding funding and many other helpful links. Sorry I don't know enough about this subject but if anyone else out there does, please comment below! And check out the creative-writing-mfa-handbook blog. It's excellent! And good luck!
Best Wishes, Mira
***BTW: (For those of you who do not know what a low-residency program is, it is an MFA program for working adults who cannot go to grad. school on a daily basis. You attend intensive workshops, lectures, and so on, for ten days twice a year for two to three years and send your manuscript you are working on (or images from your art portfolio) about every three weeks to your teacher/mentor for feedback. There are programs like this all over. A couple of the most famous ones are Warren Wilson in Asheville, North Carolina, and Bennington in Vermont. For more information on MFA Programs, here is a great blog I just came across: http://creative-writing-mfa-handbook.blogspot.com (and for specific low residency info: http://creative-writing-mfa-handbook.blogspot.com/2006/03/from-low-residency-queen.html).