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Winterhouse Awards for Design Writing & Criticism

Winterhouse Awards for Design Writing & Criticism
Deadline : June 01, 2009

10,000 USD Prize (1,000 USD Student Prize)

A yearly program of AIGA and Winterhouse Institute with prizes of 10,000 USD and 1,000 USD for outstanding writing about design. The AIGA Winterhouse Awards for Design Writing & Criticism were founded by William Drenttel and Jessica Helfand of Winterhouse Institute to recognize excellence in writing about design, and to encourage the development of young voices in design writing, commentary and criticism. Writings on all design types are welcome: architectural, environmental, fashion, graphic, industrial, information, interactive, product, strategic and social innovation.

The Writing Award of 10,000 USD is open to writers, critics, scholars, historians, journalists and designers and given for a body of work. The Education Award of 1,000 USD is open to students (high school, undergraduate or graduate) whose use of writing in a single essay demonstrates originality and promise.

http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/writing-awards

 

2009 Jurors

William Drenttel, Chair
William Drenttel is a designer, publisher and design leader, and a partner with Jessica Helfand at Winterhouse. He is co-founder of Design Observer, senior faculty fellow at the Yale School of Management, former trustee of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum and president emeritus of AIGA.

Rick Poynor
Rick Poynor is writer at large for Eye, which he founded, contributing editor and columnist for Print, and a research fellow at the Royal College of Art, London. His books include No More Rules, the essay collections Obey the Giant and Designing Pornotopia, and Jan van Toorn: Critical Practice, a monograph about the radical Dutch designer.

Alice Rawsthorn
Alice Rawsthorn is the design critic of the International Herald Tribune, and a columnist for The New York Times Magazine. Her columns are syndicated to newspapers and magazines all over the world. A prominent broadcaster and public speaker on design, Alice is also a board member of Arts Council England and the Whitechapel Gallery in London.

Michael Sorkin
Michael Sorkin in principal of Michael Sorkin Studio, Distinguished Professor of Architecture and director of the graduate program in urban design at City College of New York, and president of Terreform. He is the author of more than fifteen books, most recently Indefensible Space: The Architecture of the National Insecurity State and Twenty Minutes in Manhattan.

 

 

Arts Writers Grant Program

Arts Writers Grant Program
Deadline : Monday, June 8, 2009

The Creative Capital | Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant Program supports individual writers whose work addresses contemporary visual art through grants ranging from 3,000 to 50,000 USD.

Writers who meet the program's eligibility requirements are invited to apply in the following categories:

• articles
• blogs
• books
• new and alternative media
• short-form writing

We regret that due to legal constraints we can only fund U.S. citizens, permanent residents, and holders of O-1 visas. For guidelines and additional eligibility requirements, please visit http://www.artswriters.org

Online application form opens - Monday, April 27, 2009
Application Deadline - Monday, June 8, 2009

ART WRITING WORKSHOP

The Arts Writers Grant Program is pleased to announce a new writing workshop offered in partnership with the International Association of Art Critics/USA Chapter. For more information, please visit http://www.aicausa.org

'art art art' -"The New Cultural Imperialism" Issue: Call for Submissions

The New Cultural Imperialism, art art art
Deadline : May 10th, 2009

We are currently seeking new writing for the Summer issue of 'art art art' which will focus on The New Cultural Imperialism. Cultural Imperialism has been defined as the practice of promoting, categorizing, separating, or artificially injecting the culture or language of one culture into another.

The issue may examine themes and ideas inspired from economical, political and cultural issues that challenge existing cultural boundaries. This realm has continued to challenge and undermine the social construct of art, and we would be interested on hearing your opinion on the subject.  If you would be interested in submitting a feature article or review relating to these issues please email a 100 - 250 word proposal to submissions@mattroberts.org.uk by May 10th. 

If selected the final copy deadline for any articles or reviews will be June 1st.

The New Cultural Imperialism will then be distributed to our online readership of nearly 10,000 artists and curators in late June 2009.    

'art art art' is a free quarterly E-publication which seeks to share information and opportunities with artists across the UK and beyond. If you would like to access the current issue please visit www.artartartgallery.com/home 

Writing is currently unpaid but contributions will encourage future paid commissions when a greater budget is established.

Writers and Poet Needed, America’s Chinatown Voices, New York

Writers and Poet Needed, America’s Chinatown Voices, New York
Deadline : July 2009

America’s Chinatown Voices
Public Project
Site: Columbus Park
Date: May to August 2009

Nathalie Pham and Avani Patel are looking for anyone in the Chinatown community and/or any writers who can share in writing their experiences in/about Chinatown, NYC. We are thinking about key experiences such as growing up in Chinatown, observing the community at large, thoughts on family values, difference between the Wall Street communities versus the Chinatown, curious cultural encounters with Chinatown residents. We are looking for thoughts that happened recently or 60 years ago. All ages are encouraged to respond.

The format can be either in Chinese or in English. But it cannot exceed 260 characters in English. It can be a random thought, or a poem or a one-liner or a teeny paragraph. All formats are encouraged. (Think Twitter)

We are collecting them from no until July 2009. And we will post them on the panels of our public art installation in Chinatown, NYC. You can email them to us at:
nat@npham.com .

Our proposal: We are working on a public project approved by Asian American Art Center and New York City Department of Parks and Recreation on show string budget. A community projects is about past and future of Chinatown and collecting stories, images or any poetic writing about Asians in Chinatown. They will have about 80 panels 18” x 24” around Columbus Park painted in red, gold; black about the culture of Chinese in New York City and also about other diversity grew up in Chinatown. We are changing the panels (not all of them but a few) on a weekly basis.

Our reception will be on May 14th, 2009 from 7- 9 pm and we will probably have a short walking tour before hand talking about our project. The reception will be at the Asian American Art Center.

For more info, please, visit us after May 01, 09 at http://www.nycmetropoles.com/.

P.S: Donation for the project is more then appreciated. You can contact Nathalie or Avani about it at nat@npham.com.

FRIEZE WRITER'S PRIZE 2009

CALL FOR ENTRIES : FRIEZE WRITER'S PRIZE 2009
Deadline: 26 June 2009

frieze, the leading magazine for contemporary art and culture, is inviting entries for the Frieze Writer’s Prize 2009. Frieze Writer’s Prize was established in 2006 and is presented annually. The aim of the prize is to promote and encourage new critics from across the world, and many of the previous winners and commended entrants, including Mia Jankowicz and Jeffrey Ryan, have gone on to contribute frequently to frieze magazine.

The judges for 2009 will be critic and art historian James Elkins; the novelist and critic Ali Smith and Jennifer Higgie, co-editor of frieze magazine.

Writers are invited to submit an unpublished 700-word review in English of a recent contemporary art exhibition. Applicants must be over 18 years old and must not have had more than three pieces of writing on art published in a newspaper or magazine. The closing date for entries is 26 June 2009 and the winner of the prize will be announced in September.

The winner will be awarded £2000 and commissioned to write a review for the October issue of frieze.

Jennifer Higgie, co-editor of frieze commented: ‘The Frieze Writer’s Prize successfully encourages young talent and gives the best young critics an international platform. The quality of entries is always so high that it’s a difficult and exciting process choosing the winner.’

frieze magazine was set up in 1991. It is published eight times a year and includes essays, reviews and columns by today’s most forward-thinking writers, artists and curators. The May 2009 issue of frieze magazine is out on 30 April. To subscribe to email updates, join the Frieze Newsletter at www.frieze.com

Entries should be emailed as a word attachment to writersprize@frieze.com
Please do not send images

Contact:
www.frieze.com
tel: +44 (0) 20 3372 6111
writersprize@frieze.com

Semina - where the novel has a nervous breakdown, Book Works, London

Semina - where the novel has a nervous breakdown, Book Works, London
Deadline : 29 May 2009

We are looking for artists and writers interested in experimental prose fiction, who transgress all the boundaries separating art and literature. Think of the ways in which Paul Gilroy theorised the history of modernism through the rubric of the Black Atlantic, W.E.B. Du Bois and double-consciousness, and the inescapable links between race and class: Anthony Joseph, Kathy Acker, Amiri Baraka, Samuel R. Delany, Darius James, Ishmael Reed, Ann Quin, Clarence Cooper Jr, Claude Cahun etc. Above all we're looking for artists and writers willing to take risks with their prose and who demonstrate total disregard for the conventions that structure received ideas about fiction.

Semina takes its inspiration from a series of nine loose-leaf magazines issued by Californian beat artist Wallace Berman in the 1950s and 1960s. The series is commissioned and edited by artist and writer Stewart Home. The series will publish nine books, six of which will be selected from open submission, two commissioned by the editor, with Blood Rites of the Bourgeoisie by Stewart Home the final title in the series.

The selection from open submissions will be made by Stewart Home and Book Works. The series is designed by Fraser Muggeridge studio.

Contact gavin@bookworks.org.uk or visit our website for more information http://www.bookworks.org.uk

Semina series:
No. 1 Index by Bridget Penney (2008)
No. 2 One Break, A Thousand Blows! by Maxi Kim (2008)
No. 3 Bubble Entendre by Mark Waugh (2009)
No. 4 Rape New York by Jana Leo (2009)
No. 5 To Whom Life by Ashkan Sepahvand (2009)
No. 9 Blood Rites of the Bourgeoisie by Stewart Home (2010)

Book Works
19 Holywell Row
London
EC2A 4JB

http://www.bookworks.org.uk

Art Art Art: UK Regional Editors Required

Art Art Art: UK Regional Editors Required
Deadline Friday 6th February 2009

Art art art is a quarterly e-magazine that reaches an audience of 10,000 artists and curators both nationally and internationally. To see the latest issue and download previous copies, see www.artartartgallery.com 

We are currently recruiting regional editors for the publication in order to ensure the best quality coverage of news and events across the UK.  Editors will be required to handle the promotion and organisation of art art art events in their region.

They would need to make contact with galleries and institutions in their area and encourage contributions from local writers and you will be expected to research exhibitions and inform us of shows that are relevant to the latest art art art issue.  We require no more than two days work a month and
believe editors would gain invaluable management and arts admin experience with the support of a well-established team in London.

You would have creative input into the topics and output of art art art, offering valuable editorial experience.  If you are interested please send a CV and covering letter highlighting your relevant experience, what you can personally bring to the project, and your availability.  

All applications should be emailed to submissions@mattroberts.org.uk  Deadline Friday 6th February 2009  Matt Roberts Arts is a not for profit art organisation based in London. Founded in 2006 to create opportunities for early career artists in new locations, and to link up networks in London with potential partners across Britain.

 

DOROTHEA LANGE-PAUL TAYLOR PRIZE

DOROTHEA LANGE-PAUL TAYLOR PRIZE
Deadline: January 31, 2009

Overview
The year 2009 marks the nineteenth anniversary of the Dorothea Lange–Paul Taylor documentary prize, a $20,000 award given annually by the Center for Documentary Studies. First announced a year after the Center's founding at Duke University, the prize was created to encourage collaboration between documentary writers and photographers in the tradition of the acclaimed photographer Dorothea Lange and writer and social scientist Paul Taylor. In 1941 Lange and Taylor published An American Exodus, a book that renders human experience eloquently in text and images and remains a seminal work in documentary studies. The Lange-Taylor Prize honors their important collaborative work.

The Lange-Taylor Prize is offered to a writer and a photographer in the early stages of a documentary project. By encouraging such collaborative efforts, the Center for Documentary Studies supports the documentary process in which writers and photographers work together to record the human story.

More Information
http://cds.aas.duke.edu/l-t/

Guidelines

Description
The prize is intended to fund collaborative work by a writer and a photographer in the formative or fieldwork stages of a documentary project. Submissions on any subject are welcome. Winners of the Lange-Taylor competition will have their work featured in Document, a periodical published by the Center for Documentary Studies, as well as in a virtual gallery on the CDS Web site. The amount of the award is $20,000.

Eligibility
Collaboration is essential to the nature of the work this award supports; therefore, individual submissions will not be considered. More than two people may apply as long as one of the collaborators is a writer and one is a photographer working with black-and-white or color still photography. Individuals currently associated with the Center for Documentary Studies are not eligible for the prize.

Deadline
All required materials must be submitted under one cover during the month of January and postmarked no later than January 31, 2009.

Selection and Notification
Each year a judging panel, including a prominent photographer and an accomplished writer, as well as individuals with experience in a variety of documentary arts, arts management, and publishing, is selected by the director and staff. Winners will be chosen and notified by mid-summer 2009. Public announcement of the winners will be made by the end of the summer. Return of all submissions will be made after the final decision has been reached.

The award will be reported to the winners on a 1099-Miscellaneous tax form. It is the responsiblity of the winners to file their tax liability.

Because of the volume of applications it is not possible for us to be available by telephone for inquiries. Please note that application forms on-line must be printed and submitted. It is not possible to submit applications electronically. If you have questions about the grant or the Center for Documentary Studies, please write to us at:

Dorothea Lange–Paul Taylor Prize Committee
Center for Documentary Studies
1317 W. Pettigrew Street
Duke University
Durham, NC 27705

 

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS - LANDSCAPE, DRAWING, WRITING, and PRINTMAKING - Manifest Creative Research Gallery and Drawing Center, Cincinnati, Ohio

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS - LANDSCAPE, DRAWING, WRITING, and PRINTMAKING - Manifest Creative Research Gallery and Drawing Center, Cincinnati, Ohio

 

TERRA FIRMA
An International Competitive Survey of Approaches to Landscape

Deadline October 3rd

Terra Firma will focus on interpretations of a theme not yet thoroughly explored by Manifest. Landscape can be so very widely interpreted and expressed. From the most observational depictions of geographic locations to conceptual or nearly abstract spaces, landscapes are generally considered works representing real or imagined ‘land’ or natural spaces. However, even larger scale architectural conceptions, or combinations of the natural and man-made are often categorized as such. Therefore, Manifest invites artists to submit contemporary works in any medium that explores the concept or subject of Landscape.

Complete entry info here.
http://www.manifestgallery.org/terrafirma

Printable PDF form/prospectus here.
http://www.manifestgallery.org/terrafirma/prospectus_terrafirma.pdf

CONTEMPORARY PRINTMAKING
An international call for works of contemporary printmaking

Deadline November 7th

Like photography, printmaking is a genre of creative work that is underscored by its processes. Some artists are steadfast traditionalists, anchoring themselves in age-old technical methods. Others push the boundaries of the discipline, exploring just what constitutes ‘printmaking’. In this exhibit Manifest will call to artists to submit works of contemporary printmaking, and will strive to explore the range of methods and results currently being achieved within the bounds of such processes, including traditional and non-traditional approaches.

Complete entry info here.
http://www.manifestgallery.org/print

Printable PDF form/prospectus here.
http://www.manifestgallery.org/print/prospectus_print.pdf

4th Annual INTERNATIONAL DRAWING ANNUAL
A Competitive Annual Publication of Works of Contemporary Drawing
and Writing About Drawing

Deadline December 31st

The International Drawing Annual is an extension of Manifest's Drawing Center activities. Its goal is to support the recognition, documentation, and publication of excellent, current, and relevant works of drawing from around the world. A natural question will be "what is drawing?" and that is exactly the question the Annual is meant to investigate from year to year. Furthermore the goal is to ask "what is exceptional drawing?" Therefore submissions are expected to vary, including a range of drawing types, from the most academic to the most experimental, but all with some relevance to the artists' honest understanding of the practice of "drawing."

With the inclusion of a call for writing about drawing Manifest eagerly pursues a deeper understanding of how drawing is realized, discussed, and interpreted in contemporary society. Works of writing will be selected to complement the artwork chosen for inclusion in the publication.
 

Complete entry info here.
http://www.manifestgallery.org/inda2008

Printable PDF form/prospectus here.
http://www.manifestgallery.org/inda2008/inda_2008.pdf

Learn about previous volumes of the INDA here.
http://www.manifestgallery.org/nda

Manifest Creative Research Gallery
and Drawing Center
2727 Woodburn Avenue
Cincinnati, Ohio 45206
513-861-3638
www.manifestgallery.org

myspace: myspace.com/manifestgallery

 

The Creative Capital | Warhol Foundation, Arts Writers Grant Program

Arts Writers Grant Program
Online application form will open on Monday, August 4, 2008
Deadline for completed applications is Monday, September 22, 2008

The Creative Capital | Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant Program announces its third round of grants as part of the Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Initiative.

The online application form will open on Monday, August 4, 2008 and the deadline for completed applications is Monday, September 22, 2008.

The Arts Writers Grant Program recognizes and supports individual writers working on contemporary visual art through project-based grants ranging from 3,000 USD – 50,000 USD. Writers who meet the program's eligibility requirements are invited to apply for grants in the following categories: articles, short-form writing, and blogs/new and alternative media. (Please note that the program also funds book projects; however, the deadline for applications to this category has already passed.)

For guidelines and eligibility requirements, please visit http://www.artswriters.org