[FAC] Visions from the New California Award

[Maria Franco]

Artists interested in residency programs should consider applying for this
award. It’s a great opportunity to spend a month devoted to making art.
Joyce

Contact: Carla V. Wahnon
401.351.4320 or aac at artistcommunities.org

California Visual Artists Invited To Apply For Visions From The New
California Award

The Alliance of Artists Communities invites artists throughout the state of
California to apply for the 2009 Visions from the New California Award. Now
in the second of a three year program, the third round of awardees will be
selected from applicants from the call for artists in addition to the
nomination process used in previous years of the project. The six selected
artists will receive a one-month residency at one of the participating
residency programs* and a $4000 stipend. Each artist's residency experience
and creative results will be documented in a widely distributed publication
designed to assist the careers of the award recipients as well as publicize
artist residency opportunities available to all artists.  The deadline for
submitting materials is May 16, 2008. Application materials including
submission requirements are available at www.artistcommunities.org.

The Alliance of Artists Communities, the nation's only service organization
for artists' communities and residency programs, directs the Visions from
the New California awards which seek to celebrate, support and promote the
work of outstanding California visual artists from geographically and
ethnically diverse communities. Funded by the The James Irvine Foundation,
the purpose of the award is to identify and serve highly talented, yet
under-recognized, visual artists who represent the new California
demographic. One of the project's aims is for a greater number of diverse
artists to apply to and attend residency programs in California and
ultimately across the US.

Applicants must be permanent California residents who are not currently
students. The program seeks to promote visual artists who are under-served,
under-recognized or under-represented in the mainstream and thus have not
had extensive solo exhibitions at galleries or museums or have not received
any major grants or fellowships for individual artists. Applicants should
display artistic excellence and be committed to an artistic career.
Individuals who have completed residencies at participating CA Visions sites
are ineligible as are those who have been awarded more than one previous
residency elsewhere. The program aims to recognize artists who represent the
racial/ethnic demographic mix of California, who live throughout the state
(particularly beyond the San Francisco and Los Angeles metropolitan areas)
and who work in a range of visual art media.

Application and work samples will be reviewed by a prestigious panel of
artists and art professionals from California as well as by representatives
from each of the six artist residency programs. All applicants will be
notified by August 1, 2008. Residencies will take place in 2009.

The James Irvine Foundation is a private, nonprofit grantmaking foundation
dedicated to expanding opportunities for the people of California to
participate in a vibrant, inclusive, and successful society. The
Foundation's grantmaking is organized around three program areas: Arts,
Youth, and California Perspectives, which focuses on increasing public
understanding of critical issues facing the state. Since 1937 the Foundation
has provided over $900 million in grants to more than 3,000 nonprofit
organizations serving the people of California.  For more information about
The James Irvine Foundation, please visit www.irvine.org.

Based in Providence, RI, the Alliance of Artists Communities contributes to
the nation's cultural vitality by giving a collective voice to artists'
communities, promoting successful practices in the field, and advocating for
creative environments that support the work of today's artists. The Alliance
represents programs that support artists in all disciplines, believing that
collaboration and exchange that cross traditional boundaries furthers our
culture's progress.  For more information on the Alliance and this project,
visit www.artistcommunities.org, or contact the Alliance at 401.351.4320.

*Participating residencies: 18th Street Arts Center (Santa Monica), Djerassi
Resident Artists Program (Woodside), Exploratorium (San Francisco),
Headlands Center for the Arts (Sausalito), Kala Art Institute (Berkeley),
and The Sally & Don Lucas Artists Programs at Montalvo (Saratoga).
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