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State Arts News
For Nomination 
Guidelines on the UPCOMING 2011 Arts Awards Program
(click here)

 

NOTE: Nominations close on October 22, 2010

 

Click here for PDF fillable formOnce nomination 

form is completed, save 

as a new file to your 

computer, then attach to 

an email to: barbara.reed@

arts.alabama.gov 

 

or FAX nominations form to: 334-240-3269

 

You may need to update Adobe Reader in order to save the nomination form. Click here for FREE adobe reader software download.

COUNCIL NOW ACCEPTING SEPTEMBER 1 GRANT APPLICATIONS

The Alabama State Council on the Arts will be accepting electronic applications, through the eGRANT system, for the  September 1 deadline.  Using the eGRANT system you can create, complete and submit grant applications on line.  

 For the September 1 deadline, the system will open on July 1, 2010. 

Please note that both paper and eGRANT applications are due by 5 p.m. on September 1.  The on-line system will automatically close at 5 p.m. on September 1.  

Please remember that this is the last deadline for the submission of paper applications. Beginning with FY2012, all applications, with the exception of Folklife Apprenticeship, will only be accepted through the eGRANT system.

Access to eGRANT is available at https://alabamaarts.egrant.net There are three steps to submitting electronically.  You must first register your organization or as an individual.  Secondly, you must complete the electronic application form and submit the data electronically to the Council.  And, third, you must print out the Certification/Signature Page and mail it to the Council within 3 days past the application deadline date.  

Please note that the Final Report form for organizational projects and individual artist fellowships is also available through the eGRANT system.  The Alabama State Council on the Arts is moving toward a paperless process for application submission, review and reporting.

If you have questions, please contact Barbara Edwards at 334/242-4076, ext. 227 or send an email at barbara.edwards@arts.alabama.gov


THREE ALABAMA ARTISTS CREATE ILLUSTRATIONS FOR KEEPSAKE BIRTH CERTIFICATES. Art was commissioned from these artists: Bethanne Hill, Woodie Long and Cyd Moore. Funds raised will provide for programs protecting children from abuse and neglect. To learn more about this project, click here.  To view these colorful images, visit: www.adph.org/vitalrecords and click on keepsake birth certificates.


GRANTS AWARDED AT JUNE COUNCIL MEETING The Council awarded ten Fellowships and five Arts and Cultural Facilities Grants totaling $290,500 at its recent meeting in Montgomery. For info on grants awarded, please click here.


REPORT ALABAMA RECOVERY & REINVESTMENT ACT (ARRA) GRANT FRAUD OR ABUSE

As part of an ongoing effort by the State of Alabama to provide stakeholders with the opportunity to report the misuse of Stimulus funds, the Recovery Office is asking that all abuse and fraud be reported at: www.stimulus.alabama.gov  

A web form is available that allows individuals to report any possible misuse of Stimulus funds. That form can also be found at: http://stimulus.alabama.gov/fraud.aspx  


Carry On: Celebrating Twenty Years of the Alabama Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program. Photography by Mark Gooch. To view this publication and read more about these honored artists, click here.


(Left to right) National Endowment for the Arts Chairman 

Rocco Landesman, Alabama State Champion Youssef Biaz, and Poetry Foundation President John Barr.

ALABAMA STUDENT RISES TO THE TOP IN 
NATIONAL POETRY RECITATION COMPETITION

Youssef Biaz, a junior at Auburn High School, returned from Washington DC, where he competed in the Poetry Out Loud Recitation Contest at the national finals. This is the 5th year that Alabama has sent a state champion to the national finals, and the first time an Alabama student progressed from the semi finals in Washington DC to be a national finalist. During the semi finals, he placed in the top nine of 53 total participants, which included champions from each of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. For more information about Poetry Out Loud in Alabama, contact Diana Green at 334-242-4076 Ext. 241 or diana.green@arts.alabama.gov

To read about the National POE Finals, 
please
click here

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For info on the AL State POE Finals, please click here


AL HEAD CELEBRATES 25 YEARS 

AS EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR 

click here

 


Alabama hosted a Cultural Exchange with Pietrasanta, Italy April 2009

 

Pietrasanta, Italy Mayor Massimo Mallegni and 

Al Head initiate Alabama & Pietrasanta's Cultural Exchange, August 2007. 

 

To read more about this international event,

click here

 

Alabama Masters:  Artists and Their Work was produced in conjunction with the Alabama Year of the Arts, an initiative of the Alabama Bureau of Tourism and Travel and the Alabama State Council on the Arts.

 

For teachers using the Alabama Masters book in lesson plans, please click here.

 

Alabama Masters:  Artists and Their Work features forty-two artists and is a partnership publication between the Alabama State Council on the Arts and six major art museums in the state. The full color paperback features an essay and images of each artist’s work, with the goal of honoring the individual artists and highlighting museum collections. The selection of artists was based on guidelines determined by the museum directors. Al Head, executive director of the Alabama State Council on the Arts and Gail C. Andrews, the R. Hugh Daniel Director of the Birmingham Museum of Art, contributed essays. Georgine Clarke, visual arts program manager at the Alabama State Council on the Arts, coordinated the publication.

 

The National Endowment for the Arts has funded a series of projects throughout the country under the broad heading of American Masterpieces, and this publication is Alabama’s contribution. It is a major step toward compiling the state’s visual arts history, cultural fabric, and national contributions of its artists.

 

The six participating museums are Birmingham Museum of Art, Huntsville Museum of Art, Jule Collins Smith Museum of Art at Auburn University, Mobile Museum of Art, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, and Wiregrass Museum of Art in Dothan. Featured master artists range from turn-of-the-last-century painters John Kelly Fitzpatrick, Anne Goldthwaite, Louise Lyons Heustis, John Roderick Dempster MacKenzie, and Clara Weaver Parrish to contemporary artists Kerry James Marshall, Frank Fleming, William Christenberry, and Dale Kennington.

 

The book is available for a $25 donation to the Alabama Craft Council, 201 Monroe Street, Suite 110, Montgomery, AL 36104-3721. For additional info, contact Georgine Clarke at georgine.clarke@arts.alabama.gov

 

Links:

http://www.800alabama.com/

http://www.arts.alabama.gov

http://www.arts.endow.gov/


 

ALABAMA AL DIA: A Report On Hispanic Cultures. For more information about this  report, click here


Educational Resources Available. For more information, click here

 

 

Art Exhibitions

Alabama 

Artists Gallery

The Alabama State Council on the Arts is proud to showcase the work of Alabama artists in its Montgomery gallery in the RSA Tower 

Hours are Monday - Friday 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.  

 

Summer Blossoms: 

A Bouquet for Alabama

 

July 23 - September 3, 2010 

 

Floral images are popular subjects for artists and also for viewers. At the heart of  summer, we are bringing work by seven artists to help capture the beauty of our parks and gardens to brighten inside spaces. It also seems appropriate to create this “bouquet” in honor of all those struggling to clean our beaches and save our wildlife.

 

Artists in the exhibition:

William Colburn, Fairhope, 

metal sculpture

 

Dori DeCamillis, Birmingham

mixed media

 

Lynnette Hesser, Wellington, 

ceramic sculpture

 

Cam Langley, Birmingham, 

glass

 

Nall, Fairhope and France, 

mixed media

 

Mark Singer, Florence, 

oil painting on canvas

 

Robert Taylor, Birmingham, 

copper sculpture

 

Georgine Clarke, Visual Arts Program Director, Gallery Manager, 334-242-4076, ext 250

Click here for past exhibitions

 

 

Statewide Arts Education Summit October 6-8, 2010

MAKING IT HAPPEN: Request for Presenters  

Alabama’s statewide arts education advocacy summit will take place at the Hotel Capstone in Tuscaloosa, Alabama this October with a focus on “Making it Happen.” In January 2011 the Merce Cunningham Dance Company plans a legacy tour through Alabama. Cunningham, Cage and Rauschenberg were the first improvisational collaborators to create “Happenings” at Black Mountain College beginning in 1930, and even in the early ‘70’s, “Happenings” were still very much alive. A “Happening” was an arts event (improvisational, multi-disciplinary and non-linear) created by both performers and audience. Boundaries disappeared and the audience became part of the art. Often things were left to chance with no script or plot. “Happenings” developed on the spot.

For additional info, click here.

  

   Features

The purpose of the Alabama Arts License Tag Grant Program is to promote the arts in Alabama, especially arts education, including fine arts, dance, folk arts, drama and music. A six-person volunteer committee governs the program. Committee members serve on a voluntary basis and one member is appointed by each of the following organizations or individuals: the Alabama State Council on the Arts, The Alabama  Alliance for Arts Education, the State Department of Education, the Governor, the Lieutenant Governor and the Speaker of the House of Representatives.

"Support the Arts" License Tag Committee

Donna Russell, (Chairman) Montgomery

Jim Harrison, III, Tuscaloosa

Representative Jay Love, Montgomery

Rep. Tommy Sherer, Jasper

Sara Wright, Montgomery

 

Upcoming License Tag 

application deadline dates are:

Friday, July 30, 2010 

(for project period August 1, 2010 - 

December 31, 2010)

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Tuesday, November 30, 2010 

(for project period Jan 1, 2011 - May 31, 2011)

 

PLEASE NOTE: Applications must be received 

no later than 5:00 P.M. on deadline date 

to guarantee review.  

 

Next meeting date:  August 16, 2010

(Please note meeting date change. Grant submission date remains the same)  

Alabama State Council on the Arts Conference Room

(201 Monroe Street, Suite 110, 

Montgomery, Alabama - RSA Tower Bldg.)

 

If you have questions, please call (334) 242-4076, ext. 248

For Deadline:  The committee sets a system of rolling meeting dates and application deadlines. Please visit the websites for the Alabama State Council on the Arts and the Alliance for Arts Education for current deadlines. 

Program Requirements and Guidelines
* A grant may be submitted from non profit organizations with a 501 (c) (3) designation, schools or school systems.  Grants will not be considered for individuals.

* One grant request per organization up to $5,000 will be considered per deadline.

* Only one grant per organization will be awarded per fiscal year (October 1 - September 30)

* Projects with an arts education focus, statewide impact and/or are creative and innovative will receive priority funding.

The three page application must be completed in its entirety.   (Cover page, grant narrative, & budget)  Additional pages will not be accepted.

On line applications are not accepted at this time.  Please complete the forms and mail to: 

 
Support the Arts License Tag Committee
Attn.:  Donna Russell, Chairman
201 Monroe St., Suite 110
Montgomery, AL  36130-1800
Fax:  334/240-3269

If funded, the following statement must be included in all materials pertaining to the program/ project:
"This program/project is funded in part by the Support the Arts License Tag Fund"
 

 

The Alabama Legislature has approved the issue of a new Support the Arts auto tag. Proceeds from the sale of the tag will be used to fund a variety of school and community projects. Buy one the next time you renew your auto plate or exchange your current plate for one of the new Support the Arts plate at your county Probate Judge's Office.

For an application for funding your project, please click here

If you have already received a tag grant and need to complete a final report form, please click here

   Legislative

Alabama Legislative Audio Services
Listen to live internet audio feeds when the Senate is in session.

Alabama Legislative Audio Services
Listen to live internet audio feeds when the Senate is in session.

Alabama Legislature
Site contains a variety of information about the Alabama Legislature including pages for each Member of the House and Senate and current bills. A zip code look-up feature enables you to find the names of your Representatives and Senators.

AlaWeb
The Alabama Information Network. Visit the State of Alabama's Official Web Site. This site is your portal to Alabama state government information.

www.alabama.governor.gov

 

National Endowment for the Arts

Many of the programs and services of the Alabama State Council on the Arts as well as those of local arts groups in Alabama are made possible by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. (Listing of most recently awarded NEA
grants in Alabama.)

National Assembly of State Arts Agencies
Current national arts news including coverage of the Congress and NEA as well as features on arts activities in various states.

Arts Wire Current News
Current news and events reported by Arts Wire.

National Government Links

 

Grant Awards List

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