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

EMERGING ARTISTS: NEW MEDIA GRANT WITH TECHNICAL SUPPORT

For a fourth year, the Caisse populaire Desjardins du Mont-Royal and OBORO in Montreal unite to offer a creative grant to an artist under 35 access to OBORO’s New Media Lab resources and equipment (a $5,000 value). The grant will be awarded to produce an innovative project that delves into the realm of new media (video, audio, web, or multimedia). In addition to basic technical support, the chosen artist will have the opportunity to present his or her completed work to the public in an artist talk. The winning project will also be given a choice spot in OBORO’s annual programming. OBORO also offers prizes for short films and videos and help with production assistance for creative media projects. For a complete project description go to: http://www.oboro.net/pdf/press/0809/news/bourse_pop_eng.pdf For Questions and further info, email:oboro@oboro.net

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(ALL, MEDIA ARTS, etc.) Fabrica
Via Ferrarezza, 31050 Catena di Villorba, Italy. One year residency with stipend and travel money. Fabrica is the Benetton Research and Development Communication Centre. Led by an international team, Fabrica is an applied creativity laboratory, a talent incubator, a studio of sorts in which young, modern artists come from all over the world to develop innovative projects and explore new directions in myriad avenues of communication, from design, music and film to photography, publishing and the Internet. It is currently offering residencies to artist, designers, creative engineers to do applied research in the following areas: web design, social networking, online gaming, physical computing, device art, 3D. It is also possible to apply for the following disciplines: Media (Music, Video and Film), Photography, Visual Communication, Writing.
Fabrica is housed in a stunning building by Japanese architect Tadao Ando and is situated outside Treviso in North Italy.
Fabrica offers bursaries to successful applicants. The bursary includes travel to fabrica, as well as accommodation, living expenses and a small grant.
Fabrica is located in Catena di Villorba, 12 km from Treviso (a medieval town in the north of Italy with a population of around 80,000). The town is 3 hours from Milan and 5 hours from Rome.
For more info, email or go to the site:
E-mail fabrica@fabrica.it
www.fabrica.it