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Join Life Is Art at the 2012 Knight Arts Challenge Town Hall Meeting on March 14, 2012

Be sure to attend the Knight Arts Challenge Town Hall Meeting on March 14 at the Little Haiti Cultural Center! Ask all your questions, get tips and hints about applying, meet some of the people from the Knight Foundation, and tell them HOW MUCH YOU LOVE LIFE IS ART!

The Knight Arts Challenge is a low-paperwork grant program. You do not have to be a 501(c)3 non-profit to apply. They fund anyone from individuals up to mega-establishments. Anyone can apply. Anyone. All you need is a cool idea.

To apply, all you need to do is fill out a short form describing your idea. Then, if you are chosen for the semi-finals, they work with you on creating a full pitch for the final round.

IF YOU HAVE A COOL IDEA TO PROMOTE THE ARTS IN SOUTH FLORIDA, YOU SHOULD APPLY!

Yes, I yelled that. Do not be scared. Do not be lazy. It is so easy to apply. It only takes a few minutes. DO IT!

And, please join us at the Little Haiti Cultural Arts Center on Wednesday, March 14 at 6pm. Life Is Art has applied every year for more money to help you, the arts, and south Florida. Come by and support! We would love to see you there. Plus, you will gain some useful knowledge and get inspired to put in your own idea!

More Information about the Knight Arts Challenge Miami

Town Hall Meeting
6 p.m. Wednesday March 14
Little Haiti Cultural Center
212 NE 59th Terr.
Miami

Q&A in Spanish at 7 p.m.; Creole-speaking interpreter availalble.

And don’t forget, applications are due March 19. Apply Now.


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From Knight Foundation: Dream Big and Give Us Your Best Idea!

Have you heard about the Knight Arts Challenge? If not, read below!

Miami video artists and Challenge Winners Lucas Leyva and Jillian Mayer of Borscht Corp. produced this music video for the 2012 Knight Arts Challenge/Miami.

Apply now for the Knight Arts Challenge, funding innovative arts ideas that engage and inspire South Florida.
Anyone can apply. There are just three rules:
1. The idea must be about the arts.
2. The project must take place in or benefit South Florida.
3. Winners must find funds to match Knight Foundation’s commitment.

For more: www.KnightArts.org.

Ask questions during a web chat on KnightArts, 1 p.m. Wednesday March 7

Knight Arts Town Hall:
Wednesday March 14, 6 p.m.
Little Haiti Cultural Center
212 N.E. 59th Terrace
 Miami, FL

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Knight Arts Challenge Contest Opens For Applications – Submit your best idea February 21 until March 19, 2012

Knight Arts Challenge- Submit your best idea!

Such projects now have a home here in town because of the Knight Arts Challenge:
New World Symphony’s Sound and Sight Video series. Sleepless Night Miami Beach. Miami Lighthouse for the Blind. Bass Museum’s TC Temporary Contemporary public art project. AIRIE Encountering art in the Everglades. Miami-Dade County Public Schools Cultural Passport. Little Haiti Cultural Center’s Haitian Heritage Art Project. Florida Grand Opera in unexpected places. Dawntown Architecture Contest. Playground Theatre’s world premiere production of “The Red Thread.” Cuban Museum’s Sweet Home Museo Cubano. Rhythm Foundation’s Big Night in Little Haiti. Karen Peterson’s Inclusive Dance for MDPS students. DDA’s Downtown Miami Concert Series Summer Shows at the Gusman. Noches Tropicales/Tropical Nights free music and dance concerts in Miami Dade Parks. Free Gospel Sundays at the Arsht, Borscht Film Festival. O Cinema, Miami International Film Festival. South Florida Composers Alliance’s The Listening Gallery. Cleveland Orchestra and Miami City Ballet together. Bas Fisher Invitational’s Weird Miami Bus Tours. Seraphic Fire’s Miami Choral project. Peter London Global Dance Theater. City Theatre’s CityWrights training mentorship project. Hannah Kahn Poetry Foundation. Commissioned site-specific contemporary art works at Vizcaya….and so many more.

And all it took was a good idea!

Knight Arts Challenge Contest Opens For Applications
 
Bginning Feb. 21, South Floridians can begin applying for a share of millions in funding through the fourth annual Knight Arts Challenge. The community-wide contest to find the best ideas for the arts in South Florida is sponsored by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.

Applications will be accepted between Feb. 21 and March 19, 2012 at KnightArts.org.

There are only three rules for applying: The idea is about the arts; the project takes place in or benefits South Florida; and applicants must find other funding to match the Knight Foundation grant.

Individuals, nonprofits and for profit organizations are eligible to apply.
In just four years, Knight Foundation has invested close to $19 million in projects for the Challenge, which aims to bring South Florida together through the arts. Local arts supporters are doubling that amount with matching funds.

In 2011, the winning ideas included expansion of the Hispanic Theatre Festival, the launching of free concerts downtown and in Miami-Dade Parks, expanding the Artist in Residence program in the Everglades, launching a new dance company and initiating a teen creative writing mentorship project, among other creative endeavors that bring the arts into people’s everyday lives.

“This contest is about innovative ideas, artistic excellence and inspiring our community. The best projects will help weave culture into the everyday fabric of this region.  We want to hear from everyone with a great idea,” said Dennis Scholl, VP Arts/ for Knight Foundation, who leads the initiative.  

Have an idea? Visit www.KnightArts.org through March 2. The two-question application is designed to be simple to attract applicants who aren’t traditional grant seekers.

About the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation advances journalism in the digital age and invests in the vitality of communities where the Knight brothers owned newspapers. Knight Foundation focuses on projects that promote informed and engaged communities and lead to transformational change. For more, visit www.knightfoundation.org.

The contest is part of Knight Foundation’s five-year, $40 million Knight Arts initiative, to help bring the S.. FLA community together through the arts. Over the past four years, the Knight Foundation has invested almost $19 million in this community based contest.

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From Broward County: Applying for Project Grant Funding for the Artist May 14

A great seminar from the Broward County Cultural Division on applying for a project grant. Highly recommended.

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Applying for Project Grant
Funding for the Artist
Saturday, May 14, 2011 – 9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. at
Nova Southeastern University, 3100 Ray Ferrero, Jr., Blvd., Fort Lauderdale

BROWARD COUNTY, Fla. – Broward County Commission’s Cultural Division, Nova Southeastern University, and the South Florida Artists Association will host a unique training session to assist individual artists, working in all disciplines, with preparing effective proposals for “project-based” grant funding.
The workshop will be held at Room 4009 – Alvin Sherman Library, Research, and Information Technology Center, Nova Southeastern University, 3100 Ray Ferrero, Jr., Blvd., in Fort Lauderdale, on Saturday, May 14, 2011, 9:00AM – 1:00PM.

Participants will learn how to: develop an artist’s biography and artist’s statement; Prepare an audience profile (identify the qualities and characteristics of audiences attracted by one’s art work and utilize the profile in the proposal process); Create a proposal description based on the project’s vision; Develop a project/proposal budget (w/case study to explore the budget development process); Preparing work samples. This workshop will help artists plan and prepare successful proposals for residencies, project funding, professional development, career advancement, and fellowship opportunities.

In addition, the session will prepare Broward artists who wish to learn how to prepare a submission to the Creative Capital professional development seminar: Internet for Artists Weekend Workshop: Using the Internet to Build Community, Promote Your Work and Increase Administrative Effectiveness and the Division’s Mini-Grant Program project grant for Broward artists. Broward artists will submit proposals to both opportunities by an online application and will be chosen by a competitive review and panel process.

The facilitator, Luz Rodriguez with Visionary Allies, is a seasoned fundraising professional, educator, and artist who combines her artistic sensitivities with her knowledge of U.S. philanthropy to guide and inspire artists of all genres to equip them with the information and tools they need to bring their project visions to reality. Her professional development workshops for artists have been offered nationally and internationally at Artist Space in New York and Centro Leon Cultural Center in the Dominican Republic. Ms. Rodriguez has more than 20 years of fundraising, coalition building and organizational development experience in advocacy and social justice movements. She has held staff and board leadership positions in community-based organizations in the fields of reproductive justice of women of color; youth development; hunger and homelessness. Her oral history and papers are included in the Voices of Feminism archival project at the Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College. She is currently a bilingual training coordinator, at the Foundation Center, NYC, where she is responsible for designing and implementing fundraising training programs with a special focus on delivering English and Spanish training to under-resourced, grassroots organizations.

The workshop fee is $25 which includes resource materials. Registrants will receive a parking pass for the garage near the library. Checks made payable to: The Cultural Foundation of Broward, or by credit card online. For more information, call Adriane Clarke, grants specialist with the Broward Cultural Division at 954-357-7530.

Click HERE to register online.

The South Florida Artists Association will host a “Meet-up” the evening of May 14 at Full Circle Gallery 201 SW 5th Street, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301. Ms. Rodriguez will provide a talk on preparing artist statements for the group, and any interested artists. For more information on this “Meet-up” event go to: www.south-florida-artists.com or contact 954-695-1587.
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Press Release: Miami Art Museum and Miami Dade College InterAmerican Campus Form Collaboration

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Miami Art Museum and Miami Dade College InterAmerican Campus Form Collaboration
to Bring More Meaningful Art Opportunities to Student Body

Partnership Supported by MetLife Foundation Museum and Community Connections Grant

MIAMI – February 28, 2011 – Miami Art Museum and Miami Dade College’s (MDC) InterAmerican Campus will collaborate on a project that will create a unique bridge between the world of academia and the arts. Centered around Miami Art Museum’s upcoming Rivane Neuenschwander: A Day Like Any Other exhibition, the partnership will increase access and arts opportunities for Miami Dade College students, both on campus and at the Museum. The collaboration is made possible with support from MetLife Foundation Museum and Community Connections grant.

This partnership was formed to enhance the Miami Dade College, InterAmerican Campus Arts Institute and to provide Miami Dade College students with special access to Miami Art Museum and Brazilian artist Rivane Neuenschwander. This partnership will create an on-campus satellite exhibition of Neuenschwander’s video, Quarta-Feira de Cinzas/Epilogue (Ash Wednesday/Epilogue), 2006, bring the artist to the InterAmerican Campus to lecture and speak with art students, introduce students to the arts as a professional career opportunity, and enhance art activities at InterAmerican Campus. Miami Art Museum will also host all Miami Dade College students for a special college night at the Museum.

“The summer collaboration between the Museum and MDC InterAmerican Campus will give our students a unique opportunity to meet the visiting artist, Rivane Neuenschwander, enjoy more art experiences by attending many of the activities at the campus and MAM, bring an awareness of career opportunities in the world of art, and most importantly, broaden their vision and appreciation of modern and contemporary art,” said Michaela Tomova, Chairperson of Communication, Arts & Philosophy Department at the MDC, InterAmerican Campus. “We all look forward to the summer art activities which will bring Miami Art Museum to our students and community.”

Only eight grants were awarded to museums for imaginative exhibitions and educational public programming that extend their reach in diverse communities, making art part of people’s lives. Miami Dade College has over 170,000 students overall and is recognized for meeting the multiple and unique needs of Miami’s diverse population.

“MetLife Foundation has long understood that the arts and art education play vital roles in progressive communities and are particularly important in promoting community cohesiveness within diverse populations,” said MAM Director Thom Collins, “While this initial program focuses on the InterAmerican Campus, just three miles from the Miami Art Museum, our hope is that this partnership will pave the way for other vital, long-term collaborations.”

Miami Art Museum’s collection and artistic focus reflect the diverse population of its region, and its wide-ranging and powerful educational outreach programming serves more than 30,000 annually. Miami Art Museum is always free for students, and docent-guided tours are provided to college and university groups, free of charge.

Exhibition organization and support
Rivane Neuenschwander: A Day Like Any Other has been organized by the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York in collaboration with Irish Museum of Modern Art.

The presentation of the exhibition at Miami Art Museum is supported by donations to MAM’s Annual Exhibition Fund and a MetLife Foundation Museum and Community Connections grant. Additional support for educational programming is provided by Espírito Santo Bank.

Rivane Neuenschwander: Quarta-Feira de Cinzas/Epilogue (Ash Wednesday/Epilogue) is organized by Miami Art Museum in conjunction with the exhibition Rivane Neuenschwander: A Day Like Any Other (July 17 – October 16, 2011). Support for the installation is provided by a MetLife Foundation Museum and Community Connections grant.

Miami Art Museum
Miami Art Museum, a modern and contemporary art museum located in downtown Miami, FL, is dedicated to collecting and exhibiting international art of the 20th and 21st centuries with an emphasis on the cultures of the Atlantic Rim—the Americas, Europe and Africa—from which the vast majority of Miami residents hail. Recently, Miami Art Museum has presented exhibitions of works by Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller, Carlos Cruz-Diez, Quisqueya Henriquez, Guillermo Kuitca, Wifredo Lam, Susan Rothenberg and Yinka Shonibare, and its Permanent Collection includes works by Doug Aitken, José Bedia, Mark Dion, Marcel Duchamp, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Ann Hamilton, Arturo Herrera, Alfredo Jaar, Sol LeWitt, Vik Muniz, Wangechi Mutu, Robert Rauschenberg, Gerhard Richter, James Rosenquist, Tomas Saraceno, Lorna Simpson and Rachel Whiteread. Miami Art Museum’s educational programming currently reaches more than 30,000 people every year, with the largest art education program outside the Miami-Dade County Public Schools. The new Miami Art Museum at Museum Park, designed by Herzog & de Meuron, is scheduled to open to the public in 2013. The new facility will provide room to showcase growing collections, expanded exhibition space to bring more world-class exhibitions to Miami-Dade County, and an educational complex. For more information about Miami Art Museum, visit miamiartmuseum.org or call 305.375.3000.

Accredited by the American Association of Museums, Miami Art Museum is sponsored in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs and the Florida Arts Council, and the National Endowment for the Arts; with the support of Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs, the Cultural Affairs Council, the Mayor and the Board of County Commissioners. Miami Art Museum is an accessible facility. For sign language interpretation or assistive listening devices please call Miami Art Museum’s education department 305.375.4073 at least five days in advance. Materials in accessible format may be requested.

Miami Dade College InterAmerican Campus
The InterAmerican Campus is located in the heart of Little Havana, one of the most colorful and lively neighborhoods in Miami’s historic Latin Quarter. The seed for the InterAmerican Campus was planted in 1972 when the College offered two night courses at the Belen Jesuit Prep School. Sixty students enrolled. By 1979, the program had blossomed into the Wolfson Campus’ Division of Bilingual Studies, enrolling 2,000 students.

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Help Gallery I/D Stay Open: Truth on Display at Gallery I/D

Received this request for support from Gallery I/D. What they are doing seems like an important effort. Take a look at the information and see if you think you can help. The below is from Gallery I/D.

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Gallery I/D Website.

Click here for the fundraising campaign.

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Knight Arts Challenge Contest Opens For Applications Deadline March 2, 2011

Knight Arts Challenge Contest Opens For Applications

Starting today, South Floridians can begin applying for a share of millions in funding through the fourth annual Knight Arts Challenge. The community-wide contest to find the best ideas for the arts in South Florida is sponsored by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.

Applications will be accepted through March 2 at KnightArts.org

There are only three rules for applying: The idea is about the arts; the project takes place in or benefits South Florida; and applicants must find other funding to match the Knight Foundation grant.

Individuals, nonprofits and for profit organizations are eligible to apply.
In just three years, Knight Foundation has invested $17.5 million in projects for the Challenge, which aims to bring South Florida together through the arts. Local arts supporters are doubling that amount with matching funds.

In 2010, the winning ideas included commissioning original films telling unique Miami stories through the Borscht Film Festival, exposing 130,000 Miami-Dade students to the arts through an annual field trip and promoting traditional Haitian art through a youth training program in Homestead.

“This contest is about innovative ideas, artistic excellence and inspiring our community. The best projects will help weave culture into the everyday fabric of this region. We want to hear from everyone with a great idea,” said Dennis Scholl, Miami program director for Knight Foundation, who leads the initiative.

Have an idea? Visit www.KnightArts.org through March 2. The two-question application is designed to be simple to attract applicants who aren’t traditional grant seekers.

About the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation advances journalism in the digital age and invests in the vitality of communities where the Knight brothers owned newspapers. Knight Foundation focuses on projects that promote informed and engaged communities and lead to transformational change. For more, visit www.knightfoundation.org.

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Pepsi Challenge Grant Update

Hi Everyone,

I wanted to talk a little bit more about our $50,000 Pepsi Refresh Grant proposal. This may be a bit long, but I hope you will stay with me.
http://www.refresheverything.com/lifeisart

You know that Life Is Art’s mission is to help support the south Florida art community. That is you. That is all of us who live here. This $50,000 goes directly towards that goal. If you are an artist, an art lover, or just like our parties, if you live in south Florida, this money is really for you.

Our plan is to produce a series of large scale fine art fairs throughout the coming year specifically to showcase south Florida artists and arts, including one during the big Art Basel weekend.
http://www.refresheverything.com/lifeisart

The reason for the grant is so that we can spend plenty on real advertising and marketing, rent a large venue, provide real professional booth spaces and still keep the cost very low to the artists and to the attendees. It would mean we can dedicate more hours to the project, bringing in more sponsors and more value to the area. It really means a much bigger event at a much lower cost to you, the artists. This means more opportunity to show and sell your work with less financial outlay. This is just like money in your pocket.

If you are an art lover, this is good for you, too. Not only will you have some wonderful art fairs to attend, but it helps grow your art scene as a whole, giving you more opportunity to enjoy it. Even if you are just on this list because you like the parties we throw, it is good for you. This money will help us throw bigger and better events at less cost to everyone.

But it really is more than just this set of art fairs. This grant will allow us to devote more time to our mission, in general. This way we can bring grant money and more sponsorships to south Florida and we can produce more events, more seminars, networkers and art showcases, as well as more big art fairs. In the long term, this one grant could mean hundreds of thousands of dollars funneled into the south Florida arts scene and community. That is money that directly benefits you.

So, please, take a moment to vote every day. Tell your friends, family and colleagues about this and encourage them to vote. Share it on your Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Blog and other social media networks. Let us know you are voting by posting in the comments, or on our blog, or on our webpage. It only takes a couple minutes to sign up, and maybe 30 seconds a day to vote. We are working hard for your success and we hope you will help us help you. We CAN make this happen, but only with your help. This is really important and it really is that easy.

http://www.refresheverything.com/lifeisart

Thank you very much for your time.

Sincerely,
James Echols
Co-founder
Life Is Art, Inc.
www.lifeisartfest.org

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Please Vote! Help bring $50,000 to the south Florida Arts!

Life Is Art has entered the Pepsi Refresh Project to bring $50,000 to the south Florida arts and community! Yes, you read that right, fifty-thousand dollars. That money goes straight to support you, the arts and community.

http://www.refresheverything.com/lifeisart

We need your help. We need you to show your support by voting. Vote ONCE (just once) per day. It literally takes 2 minutes to vote. You do have to sign up the first time, but it is fast. This is really important, it means real, big benefit to our community. This money will be used to directly enhance the south Florida art scene and the community at large.

http://www.refresheverything.com/lifeisart

Please, tell your friends and family. Vote once per day. Two minutes. This not only allows us to create several large and inexpensive art shows, but will be catalyst to give us the ability to create more of events, networkers, seminars, art showcases, and to create more value in the long term, directly benefiting our artists, as well as the community as a whole. It will allow us to dedicate more hours to our mission of helping the south Florida arts. Help us help you!

http://www.refresheverything.com/lifeisart

There is a description of the exact program on that page.

http://www.refresheverything.com/lifeisart

Thank you very much!

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From Florida Department of State Division of Cultural Affairs: How to Apply for 2011-2012 GPS and SCP Grants webinars April 19 and 21, 2010

Some good information from the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs. We’ll be logged in, for sure.

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“How to Apply for 2011-2012 GPS and SCP Grants” webinars to be held in April

Join the Division for “How to Apply for 2011-2012 General Program Support and Specific Cultural Projects Grants” webinar sessions in preparation for the June 11 deadline! Program Managers will speak about eligibility, how to apply, choosing your program and grant type, and deciding request amount. Web staff will speak about using the online grant application for 2011-2012 grants. There will be time for questions and answers.
There will be two sessions for your convenience. Follow the links to register for the sessions: April 19 at 3:00 p.m. ET and April 21 at 10:00 ET.

For more information, email Jennifer Hoesing or call 850.245.6462.
www.florida-arts.org

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