The Call for Content for the Alliance of Artists Communities' 2015 Conference is officially open! Join us in one of the most artist-centered cities in the U.S. as we explore ways in which we can advance today's artists - and their role in developing healthy, vibrant, engaged communities. The 2015 Conference will bring together arts leaders, funders, policy-makers, board members, educators, and artists from...
Rhode Island composers Shawn Greenlee, Bevin Kelley and Peter Bussigel have been awarded $25,000 fellowships by the Rhode Island Foundation through the Robert and Margaret MacColl Johnson Fellowship Fund. The program is considered to be one of the largest no-strings-attached awards available to composers in the United States. The Alliance of Artists Communities has managed the application and selection for the awards since 2011.
The fund provides three artistic fellowships each year,...
Carl Djerassi, founder of Djerassi Resident Artists Program, died this past week at his home in San Francisco.
A longtime friend of the Alliance, Djerassi had amassed a delightfully varied set of accomplishments in his 91 years. Best known for being a brilliant scientist and key contributor to the birth control pill, Djerassi was the author of numerous novels, plays, and poems, a professor of Chemistry at Stanford University, as well as a prominent art collector and supporter....
What is the road between a first idea and the launch of a new residency program? In LAUNCH PAD we are checking in with Emerging Program Institute alumns to hear about the challenges, triumphs, and many surprises on the road to launching a residency.
This month we spoke with Seattle-based writer Jane Hodges, who is preparing to launch Mineral School, a new residency program set in a once-abandoned 1947 elementary school in rural Washington....
In the spirit of nurturing creative research, development, and action, The Hambidge Center for Creative Arts & Sciences and The Goat Farm Arts Center have joined forces to launch an exciting new public action project in Atlanta. FIELD EXPERIMENT aims to fully realize an ambitious singular vision with the following support: $20,000 commission, a residency, and administrative & production support.
The program...
