Weekly Initiative News 7/30/12

This week, admire large scale murals, get involved with some artistic cooking and eating and participate in a range of workshops and events.

http://machineproject.com/archive/events/2012/08/09/giant-leaps-for-mankind-and-the-future-of-the-past/ – Machine Project

http://bayareaartgrind.com/2012/07/24/call-for-applicants-grant-opportunity-southern-exposures-2012-grant-program-alternative-exposure-round-6/ – Southern Exposure

http://www.ultimateheights.com/stories/400894-events-lawndale-art-center-to-present-collaborative-mural – Lawndale Art Center

http://www.strattonfaxon.com/blog/real-art-ways-creative-cocktail-hour/ – Real Art Ways

http://thepeoplescook.wordpress.com/2012/07/27/call-for-artists-for-feed-be-fed-due-august-12/ – Intermedia Arts

http://www.printeresting.org/tag/space-gallery/ – Space Gallery

http://fresharts.org/eventdetail.asp?eventid=2654 – Aurora Picture Show

http://pushingtheflywheel.com/non-profit-formation-workshop-with-the-kansas-city-artists-coalition/ – Kansas City Artists Coalition

Image courtesy of Alex Luster for Lawndale Art Center.

Weekly Initiative News 7/23/12

A marathon reading event at Printed Matter, Powerpoint art at Artist’s Space and a musical at Out North – some great events for the summer…

http://galleristny.com/2012/07/rhizomes-new-executive-director-is-heather-corcoran/ – Rhizome

http://artistsspace.org/programs/powerpoint-and-the-perfume-of-reading/ – Artist’s Space

http://www.artist-at-large.com/2012/07/20/artists-film-international-at-ballroom-marfa/ – Ballroom Marfa

http://www.bentalaska.com/2012/07/spring-awakening-at-out-north/ – Out North

http://www.booklyn.org/news/000630.php – Printed Matter

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/nby/eve/3153807022.html – Headlands Center for the Arts

http://www.missiontix.com/events/product/14781_1/lux-maryland-art-places-2012-fall-benefit-and-juried-invitational-exhibition – Maryland Art Place

http://machineproject.com/seeking-assistant-director/ – Machine Project

Image courtesy of Marshall Weber (who will be performing a 48-hour-long marathon reading of appropriative texts at Printed Matter)

Weekly Initiative News 5/29/12

Take part in some creative paper-folding, check out experimental music by dogs or just ogle the spectacular Ballroom Marfa drive-in proposal (picture above!)

http://www.nyfa.org/opp_detail.asp?type=Job&id=94&fid=1&sid=54&oppid=40057&print=true – Art in General

http://www.songkick.com/concerts/12452738-wye-oak-at-crowley-theatre-at-ballroom-marfa – Ballroom Marfa

http://bigbendnow.com/2012/05/county-enters-into-99-year-lease-for-ballroom-marfa-drive-in-project/ – Ballroom Marfa

http://www.chron.com/life/society/article/All-won-at-Luck-of-the-Draw-3576712.php – DiverseWorks

http://trendfactory2012.tumblr.com/ and http://blogs.houstonpress.com/artattack/2012/05/free_for_all_the_emotional_lif.php – Lawndale Art Center

http://thebolditalic.com/events/4752-southern-machine-exposure-project – Southern Exposure/Machine Project

http://artistsspace.org/programs/performing-institution-event/ – Artist’s Space

Image: Rendering of Ballroom Marfa drive-in, courtesy of MOS architects.

Weekly Initiative News 5/14/12

BYOB, Art Cars, and more in this edition. Happy belated Mother’s Day to all the Initiative moms out there.

http://rhizome.org/announce/opportunities/58504/view/ – Artspace

http://legionarts.org/legion-arts-to-host-vermont-theatre-company-residency – Legion Arts

http://www.pitchengine.com/www.vidalexus.com/lexus-moving-expressions – Self Help Graphics

http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2012/may/07/new-childrens-museum-birthday/ – Machine Project

http://www.pressherald.com/life/go/get-around_2012-05-10.html – Space Gallery

Image: From Lexus, Jamie “Vyal” Reyes and Patssi Valdez created work for this CT200h hybrid vehicle.

Weekly Initiative News 5/7/12

An opportunity to work in a Haunted Basement. Unless that’s how you already describe your current offices.

http://fiberartcalls.blogspot.com/2012/04/maryland-art-place-curators-incubator.html – Maryland Art Place

http://timeoutchicago.com/arts-culture/art-design/15289721/threewalls-helps-hull-house-museum-open-art-lending-library – Threewalls

http://www.hallwalls.org/community/5245.html – Hallwalls

http://losangelesartresource.wordpress.com/2012/05/01/51-jobs/ – LACE: job opportunity

http://charlottesvillearts.org/blog/arts-education-workshop-with-second-street-gallery-and-vmfa/ – Second Street Gallery

http://rhizome.org/announce/jobs/56997/view/ – Rhizome: job opportunity

http://www.springboardforthearts.org/haunted-basement-company-and-stage-manager/ – The Soap Factory:job opportunity

http://cabinetmagazine.org/events/shell.php – Cabinet

http://www.fh-joanneum.at/aw/home/Studienangebot_Uebersicht/fachbereich_information_design_technologien/ind/News_Events/ind_events/~cjup/120515_allen/?lan=de – Machine Project

http://events.marinij.com/san_francisco_ca/events/show/258085724-southern-exposures-annual-monster-drawing-rally – Southern Exposure

Image of the Soap Factory’s Haunted Basement, via Lindsey Lyford.

Weekly Initiative News 4/16/12

This week in Initiative organization news.

http://thinkplaycreate.org/news_releases/ncm_040512.html – Machine Project

http://www.knightarts.org/community/miami/a-first-look-at-the-miami-rail – Brooklyn Rail

http://www.sjica.org/uploaded/files/master_printer_job_description_april_2012.pdf – San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art

http://www.songkick.com/concerts/12452738-wye-oak-at-crowley-theatre-at-ballroom-marfa?utm_source=1471&utm_medium=partner – Ballroom Marfa

http://aurorapictureshow.org/calendar.asp?pageid=119&calid=749 – Aurora Picture Show

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/132795122/first-element-mobile-theater-project – Intersection for the Arts

http://www.saljournal.com/news/story/Art-center-director-leaving-5-12-12 – Salina Arts Center

http://www.three-walls.org/programs/csa/current/ – Threewalls

Image: Sneak peek at the Miami Rail, via the Brooklyn Rail.

Weekly Initiative News 4/9/12

A few items this week including some opps for filmmakers at Aurora Picture Show and a big project happening at Charlotte Street. Also be sure to look into NAMAC’s Leadership Institute. Information about that is here. Deadline is April 15th!

http://www.lavendermagazine.com/calendar/intermedia-arts-presents-open-kitchen-mero-cocineros-love-at-first-bite-friendly-dessert-contest/ – Intermedia Arts

http://machineproject.com/archive/events/2012/04/07/poetry-hike-with-eileen-myles/ – Machine Project

http://girlsclubcollection.org/locust-projects-looking-for-solo-exhibitions-from-south-florida-mfa-students – Locust Projects

http://www.ultimatemontrose.com/stories/323221-events-aurora-picture-show-film-festival-accepting-entries – Aurora Picture Show

http://www.charlottestreet.org/2012/04/ – Charlotte Street Foundation

Weekly Initiative News 3/25/12

Starting a trial project here on the blog. Each week we’ll round up some links from Initiative organizations around the country. These may be program updates, news coverage, or even the occasional Kickstarter project. We’ll keep it simple -just some links and the org they refer to.

http://soex.org/Event/345.html – Southern Exposure

http://structureandimagery.blogspot.com/2012/03/momenta-art-spring-benefit.html – Momenta

http://elpasotimes.typepad.com/pullen/2012/03/concert-update-feist-in-marfa-royalty-flaming-lips-beatles-randy-rogers-and-more.html – Ballroom Marfa

http://machineproject.com/archive/news/2012/03/20/aquacoustica-2/ – Machine Project

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/machineproject/transdimensional-hallway – Machine Project

http://rhizome.org/announce/jobs/56986/view/ – Rhizome

http://www.dallasartnews.com/2012/03/lawndale-art-center-announces-artist-opportunities/ – Lawndale

http://clatl.com/culturesurfing/archives/2012/03/22/stuart-horodner-pastes-together-scraps-of-the-art-life – Atlanta Contemporary Art Center

And don’t forget that we’ve launched the new travel grants as well. See previous blog post for information on applying.

Image: Ballroom Marfa.

PROJECT CONNECT: Confuse-a-tron Seeks Venues

The above video is from LA’s Machine Project and documents their recent event, Confuse-a-tron at the Berkeley Art Museum. In its Berkeley incarnation, the event included workshops in multiple, distinct, and previously unrelated areas of practice: Tranimal Makeup, Plant Cloning, Music from Melons, and Kimchi production.

As this represents an infinitely adaptable model, Machine is seeking partner organizations to host new iterations of the Confuse-a-tron project around the country. If interested in presenting Confuse-a-tron at your space please contact Machine’s director, Mark Allen to learn more.