Grass Lake Fall Harvest Festival – September 20, 2008

The Grass Lake Regional Chamber of Commerce will host its second annual Grass Lake Fall Harvest Festival on Saturday, September 20, 2008. This event will combine several activities into one and will include farm tours, a possible farmer’s market, the 8th Annual Michigan’s Center for the Photographic Arts Fall Focus Festival children’s program, live entertainment, an Art and Craft Show in the Village as well as many other family activities throughout the day. Last year’s initial event attracted an audience of over 4,000 attendees and was a smashing success!

At this time, we would like to begin soliciting fine art and craft vendors. Artist’s applications may be obtained through the chamber’s website www.grasslakechamber.org. If you have questions, or need more information, please contact Patti Lyons at the Dale Fisher Galleries (517) 522-3705 or through email at dfisher@dalefisherphoto.com Reservation deadline is August 1, 2008.

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National Storytelling Network Invites Applications for Applied Storytelling Award

The National Storytelling Network (http://www. storynet.org/) invites applications for the fifth annual Brimstone Award for Applied Storytelling.

The award focuses on the transformational properties of storytelling and aims to increase understanding of the ways storytelling can promote change in individuals and communities.

The award provides a grant of $5,000 for a project that will be completed in calendar year 2009. The grant will support a model storytelling project that is service-oriented, based in a community or organization, and to some extent replicable in other places and situations. Many different sorts of projects can be considered for the award, including community, organizational or institutional programs, curricular activities, short residencies, and projects combining complementary art forms.

Applicants who are not members of the National Storytelling Network must pay the current membership fee to become an NSN member.

Program information and an application form are available at the NSN Web site http://www. storynet.org/

Deadline: May 2, 2008 Preliminary Proposals

Link to Complete RFP http://www.storynet.org/Programs/Grants/Brimstone/index.html

Governor’s Residence Artist’s Program - Call for Artists

The Alden B. Dow Museum of Science and Art of the Midland Center for the Arts is working in conjunction with Governor’s Residence Artist’s Program to assist the Governor in putting together a body of artwork for the Governor’s Residence.

The Museum is doing so by coordinating a juried invitational exhibition. Artists can submit up to 4 works for consideration and inclusion in the project.

To have your work considered, you should submit digital images of the works that you would consider putting on loan and exhibition at the Governor’s residence. Selected works would be on exhibit in the Governor’s residence from August 2008 through July of 2009 and cannot be withdrawn from the exhibition until it is completed in 2009.

The submitted works would go through a three-phase jury process to be included in the final exhibition. The first jury will be conducted by a team of jurors at the Alden B. Dow Museum of Science and Art. The works selected would be organized in a PowerPoint presentation for the Residence Selection Committee to make a second selection. After this, the selected works will be delivered to the Alden B. Dow Museum of Science and Art where the staff of the museum will load and transport the works to the Governor’s residence where the third and final selection of works would be completed by the First Family. The Museum Director and Preparator would personally install the works in the residence.

Deadline for submission of slides or digital images of works for the first jury are due May 23, 2008 at the Alden B Dow Museum of Science and Art, 1801 West St. Andrews, Midland, MI 48640. The Residence Selection Committee will do the second jury on June 30th. The selected works will then be delivered to the Alden B. Dow Museum of Science and Art, July 14 -18 from 10 am – 4pm. The First Family will make their final selections July 28th and the works will be installed July 28 and 29, 2008. An opening reception will be held in fall of 2008 and all participating artists will receive an invitation to attend.

For an entry form e-mail Mersmann@mcfta.org or call Armin Mersmann 989-631-5930 x1404

Art-o-mat Kerplunks Culture

What is an Art-o-mat?
Art-o-mat machines are retired cigarette vending machines that have been converted to vend art. There are 82 active machines in various locations throughout the country

What do you get from an Art-o-mat?
The experience of pulling the knob alone is quite a thrill, but you also walk away with an original work of art. What an easy way to become an art collector.

Want to be an Artomat artist?
There are around 400 contributing artists from 10 different countries currently involved in the Art*o*mat project. We are always searching for fresh work. Click Here to Learn More...

Capital Region Community Foundation Sponsors Art Scholarship Alert!

Art Scholarship Alert, a high school scholarship exhibition sponsored by a $6, 489.00 Grant from the Capital Region Community Foundation and the Lansing Art Gallery, will be held April 4, 2008 through April 30, 2008. Art Scholarship Alert is a juried art and scholarship exhibition featuring students from over twenty Lansing area communities. The exhibition is designed to give recognition and financial assistance to outstanding art students to advance the visual arts. In the past twenty-four years Lansing Art Gallery has received over 28,000 portfolio submissions and exhibited more than 3,000 artworks.

The mission of the Capital Region Community Foundation is to serve the charitable needs and enhance the quality of life in Michigan’s Ingham, Eaton, and Clinton Counties. The foundation serves and seeks out a wide-range of donors to build permanent endowments which are used to meet the changing needs and interests of the community. The Community Foundation is a non-political philanthropic charity, with 501 (C) (3) status. The foundation is a collection of endowment funds, and serves as a community-wide resource for donors, professional advisors, non-profit agencies,
municipalities, corporations and others seeking to achieve charitable goals. The foundation currently holds assets estimated at some $65 million, and annually grants approximately $2.4 million from its more than 300 unique funds.

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