Location: International
Website: en.unesco.org/creative-cities/home
The UNESCO Creative Cities Network (UCCN) was created in 2004 to promote cooperation with and among cities that have identified creativity as a strategic factor for sustainable urban development. The 116 cities which currently make up this network work together towards a common objective: placing creativity and cultural industries at the heart of their development plans at the local level and cooperating actively at the international level.
By joining the Network, cities commit to sharing their best practices and developing partnerships involving the public and private sectors as well as civil society in order to: strengthen the creation, production, distribution and dissemination of cultural activities, goods and services; develop hubs of creativity and innovation and broaden opportunities for creators and professionals in the cultural sector; improve access to and participation in cultural life, in particular for marginalized or vulnerable groups and individuals; fully integrate culture and creativity into sustainable development plans.
The Network covers seven creative fields: Crafts and Folk Arts, Media Arts, Film, Design, Gastronomy, Literature and Music. The Creative Cities Network is a privileged partner of UNESCO, not only as a platform for reflection on the role of creativity as a lever for sustainable development but also as a breeding ground of action and innovation, notably for the implementation of the post-2015 Development Agenda.
Showing posts with label Arts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Arts. Show all posts
Monday, December 21, 2015
Thursday, October 15, 2015
Brooklyn Arts Council
Location: Brooklyn, NY
Website: brooklynartscoucil.org
Who We Are:
We are the arts council for the borough of Brooklyn. We bring leadership and energy to every part of Brooklyn’s arts scene, supporting and connecting it all. It doesn’t matter where you fit into the arts—artist, audience member, participant, venue, educator or supporter—we want you to create and experience the arts in every neighborhood of Brooklyn.
What drives us? Our impassioned belief in the intrinsic value of the arts and artists, as well as what they can do. Art has a unique ability to bridge cultures, inspiring positive transformation in individual lives and entire communities.
What We Do:
BAC gives grants, presents free and affordable arts events, trains artists and arts professionals, teaches students, incubates new projects and promotes artists and cultural groups across our borough. As Brooklyn’s cultural anchor since 1966, BAC has also been the catalyst helping the arts community grow. We continually evaluate and evolve what we do to meet the changing times, and keep our commitment to community engagement, diversity and inclusion when it comes to the arts in our borough.
Website: brooklynartscoucil.org
Who We Are:
We are the arts council for the borough of Brooklyn. We bring leadership and energy to every part of Brooklyn’s arts scene, supporting and connecting it all. It doesn’t matter where you fit into the arts—artist, audience member, participant, venue, educator or supporter—we want you to create and experience the arts in every neighborhood of Brooklyn.
What drives us? Our impassioned belief in the intrinsic value of the arts and artists, as well as what they can do. Art has a unique ability to bridge cultures, inspiring positive transformation in individual lives and entire communities.
What We Do:
BAC gives grants, presents free and affordable arts events, trains artists and arts professionals, teaches students, incubates new projects and promotes artists and cultural groups across our borough. As Brooklyn’s cultural anchor since 1966, BAC has also been the catalyst helping the arts community grow. We continually evaluate and evolve what we do to meet the changing times, and keep our commitment to community engagement, diversity and inclusion when it comes to the arts in our borough.
Sunday, June 7, 2015
Arts Council New Orleans
Location: New Orleans, LA
Website:artsneworleans.org
Now in its 40th year, the Arts Council New Orleans is a private, nonprofit organization designated as the city’s official arts agency. We are one of eight regional distributing agencies for state arts funds and we administer municipal arts grants as well as the Percent For Art program for the City of New Orleans.
The Arts Council New Orleans’ mission is to support and expand opportunities for diverse artistic expression and bring the community together in celebration of our rich, multicultural heritage. We operate in three conceptual areas and measures our accomplishments as follows:
People:
Inspiring and Connecting: Supporting participatory arts, youth arts education, and events that inspire and connect,
Transforming Landscape:
Emphasizing design solutions and a heightened awareness of the built environment,
Artists:
Investing in our Cultural Assets: Professionalizing the capabilities of local artists and organizations while seeking markets and exchange opportunities.
We administer grant funding, we produce the city’s largest arts market, we manage the city’s Percent for Art Program, we design youth engagement and social justice initiatives, and you better stop us now because we could go on. Please take a tour of our new website for the full scope of our activities and initiatives.
Hopefully we’ll have the opportunity to meet you. One great way to make that happen is to join our team of members. Another is to attend our annual Community Arts Awards celebration. Please sign up to be included on our mailing list. And you simply can’t miss LUNA Fête, when the entire city unites in celebration of the arts. We’ll see you there.
Website:artsneworleans.org
Now in its 40th year, the Arts Council New Orleans is a private, nonprofit organization designated as the city’s official arts agency. We are one of eight regional distributing agencies for state arts funds and we administer municipal arts grants as well as the Percent For Art program for the City of New Orleans.
The Arts Council New Orleans’ mission is to support and expand opportunities for diverse artistic expression and bring the community together in celebration of our rich, multicultural heritage. We operate in three conceptual areas and measures our accomplishments as follows:
People:
Inspiring and Connecting: Supporting participatory arts, youth arts education, and events that inspire and connect,
Transforming Landscape:
Emphasizing design solutions and a heightened awareness of the built environment,
Artists:
Investing in our Cultural Assets: Professionalizing the capabilities of local artists and organizations while seeking markets and exchange opportunities.
We administer grant funding, we produce the city’s largest arts market, we manage the city’s Percent for Art Program, we design youth engagement and social justice initiatives, and you better stop us now because we could go on. Please take a tour of our new website for the full scope of our activities and initiatives.
Hopefully we’ll have the opportunity to meet you. One great way to make that happen is to join our team of members. Another is to attend our annual Community Arts Awards celebration. Please sign up to be included on our mailing list. And you simply can’t miss LUNA Fête, when the entire city unites in celebration of the arts. We’ll see you there.
Sunday, November 16, 2014
National Performance Network
Location: Nationwide
Website: www.npnweb.org
The National Performance Network (NPN) is a national organization supporting artists in the creation and touring of contemporary performing and visual arts.
NPN is about community engagement, touring, creating, sharing ideas and knowledge. NPN is about representing all artists who create something new and supporting the presenters who take the risk in showcasing it.
The National Performance Network (NPN) has brought innovative performing artists to all corners of the United States for more than 25 years. Begun in 1985 by David White at Dance Theatre Workshop in New York, NPN was founded to address the issues of artistic isolation and the economic constraints of moving art around the country and the sharing of artistic and community voices. From a beginning of 14 organizations as “primary sponsors,” the network now numbers 61,
In 2007 the Visual Artists Network (VAN) began as a pilot program and was formally launched with the selection of 15 VAN Partners that are leading contemporary arts organizations from across the United States.
As an artist-centered, field-generated network, the National Performance Network is unique in its structure. Its active and engaged network of presenters form an interconnected web or relationships through which support and services are strategically designed, effectively distributed, and successfully leveraged. The National Performance Network and the Visual Artists Network are closed networks, intentionally kept small to facilitate active participation, build sustainable relationships, and measure impact over time. The national infrastructure meets NPN’s goal to support artists and the creation of new work in the context of community engagement. Every few years, a small number of organizations are invited to join the Network following a rigorous nomination and application process.
Website: www.npnweb.org
The National Performance Network (NPN) is a national organization supporting artists in the creation and touring of contemporary performing and visual arts.
NPN is about community engagement, touring, creating, sharing ideas and knowledge. NPN is about representing all artists who create something new and supporting the presenters who take the risk in showcasing it.
The National Performance Network (NPN) has brought innovative performing artists to all corners of the United States for more than 25 years. Begun in 1985 by David White at Dance Theatre Workshop in New York, NPN was founded to address the issues of artistic isolation and the economic constraints of moving art around the country and the sharing of artistic and community voices. From a beginning of 14 organizations as “primary sponsors,” the network now numbers 61,
In 2007 the Visual Artists Network (VAN) began as a pilot program and was formally launched with the selection of 15 VAN Partners that are leading contemporary arts organizations from across the United States.
As an artist-centered, field-generated network, the National Performance Network is unique in its structure. Its active and engaged network of presenters form an interconnected web or relationships through which support and services are strategically designed, effectively distributed, and successfully leveraged. The National Performance Network and the Visual Artists Network are closed networks, intentionally kept small to facilitate active participation, build sustainable relationships, and measure impact over time. The national infrastructure meets NPN’s goal to support artists and the creation of new work in the context of community engagement. Every few years, a small number of organizations are invited to join the Network following a rigorous nomination and application process.
Sunday, October 19, 2014
New Orleans Airlift
Location: New Orleans, LA
Website: www.neworleansairlift.org
New Orleans Airlift is an artist-driven initiative that collaborates and creates alongside the artists and communities we support. Founded in 2008, New Orleans Airlift was founded by musician and artist manager Jay Pennington and Delaney Martin, a multi-media artist installation artist, in response to the unparalleled destruction of Hurricane Katrina and its devastating aftermath which left local artists, like all New Orleanians, struggling for their lives and livelihoods.
Jay and Delaney recognized a need for new audiences who could support these artists as they rebuilt their city. They dreamt up a one-time project that took city artists to Berlin and called it The New Orleans Airlift after the Berlin Airlift of WWII. Other exchange projects that used an import/export model and a multidisciplinary approach soon followed and the name stuck.
Airlift programming highlights our city's underground art and under-the-radar artists, transporting the dynamic street culture, living folk culture and growing contemporary arts scene of New Orleans to far-flung locations around the world for exhibitions, workshops, festivals, performances, and collaborative projects. Airlift also brings influential artists from abroad to participate in collaborative endeavors with local artists in our own community. We believe that collaboration between artists and across communities shares resources, empowers learning and unites disparate groups in common and powerful goals. New Orleans is the last great bastion of living folk culture in the United states. Airlift projects honor tradition alongside innovation, leading our artists, culture and communities in meaningful new directions.
Website: www.neworleansairlift.org
New Orleans Airlift is an artist-driven initiative that collaborates and creates alongside the artists and communities we support. Founded in 2008, New Orleans Airlift was founded by musician and artist manager Jay Pennington and Delaney Martin, a multi-media artist installation artist, in response to the unparalleled destruction of Hurricane Katrina and its devastating aftermath which left local artists, like all New Orleanians, struggling for their lives and livelihoods.
Jay and Delaney recognized a need for new audiences who could support these artists as they rebuilt their city. They dreamt up a one-time project that took city artists to Berlin and called it The New Orleans Airlift after the Berlin Airlift of WWII. Other exchange projects that used an import/export model and a multidisciplinary approach soon followed and the name stuck.
Airlift programming highlights our city's underground art and under-the-radar artists, transporting the dynamic street culture, living folk culture and growing contemporary arts scene of New Orleans to far-flung locations around the world for exhibitions, workshops, festivals, performances, and collaborative projects. Airlift also brings influential artists from abroad to participate in collaborative endeavors with local artists in our own community. We believe that collaboration between artists and across communities shares resources, empowers learning and unites disparate groups in common and powerful goals. New Orleans is the last great bastion of living folk culture in the United states. Airlift projects honor tradition alongside innovation, leading our artists, culture and communities in meaningful new directions.
Tuesday, July 29, 2014
Afrotopia
Location: Detroit, MI
Website: afrotopiaisnow.com
IDEA
Creating imaginative and effective solutions to address social challenges. By fusing elements of science fiction, magical realism, ancient history, and non-western cosmologies, AFROTOPIA serves as an invitation to actively create tomorrow and consciously control destiny.
PLACE
AFROTOPIA, the place, is constantly being created, altered, and augmented. At its core, AFROTOPIA is the physical manifestation of time and space dancing together, blurring the lines between the familiar and the imagined.
AFROTOPIA, the project, focuses on the city of Detroit and includes exhibitions, workshops for youth and adults, and events that imagine the future of Detroit using the Black American cultural legacy of experimental creative practices as inspiration.
Website: afrotopiaisnow.com
IDEA
Creating imaginative and effective solutions to address social challenges. By fusing elements of science fiction, magical realism, ancient history, and non-western cosmologies, AFROTOPIA serves as an invitation to actively create tomorrow and consciously control destiny.
PLACE
AFROTOPIA, the place, is constantly being created, altered, and augmented. At its core, AFROTOPIA is the physical manifestation of time and space dancing together, blurring the lines between the familiar and the imagined.
AFROTOPIA, the project, focuses on the city of Detroit and includes exhibitions, workshops for youth and adults, and events that imagine the future of Detroit using the Black American cultural legacy of experimental creative practices as inspiration.
Saturday, April 12, 2014
Banff Centre
Location: Banff, Canada
Website: www.banffcentre.org
New art and ideas are born at The Banff Centre every day. We support ground-breaking artists. We inspire visionary leaders. We convene trailblazing researchers.
The Banff Centre is the largest arts and creativity incubator on the planet. Our mission is inspiring creativity. Over 8,000* artists, leaders, and researchers from across Canada and around the world participate in programs at The Banff Centre every year.
Through its multidisciplinary programming, The Banff Centre provides them with the support they need to create, to develop solutions, and to make the impossible possible.
The Banff Centre adds to Canada's and the world's cultural repertoire by commissioning, supporting, and producing new creative works. We develop multidimensional artists for the international stage in an artistically rich learning environment.
Our leadership programs equip people who want to change the world with the skills to do so. Moving forward, the Centre will disseminate the art and ideas developed in Banff using new initiatives in digital, web, radio, and broadcast media Arts programs are at the core of The Banff Centre. Programming supports the commissioning and creation of new work by individual artists and arts collectives, and provides resources for collaboration and applied research. Training and professional development is offered at the post-graduate level in more than a dozen art forms including, music, theatre, dance, opera, Indigenous arts, literature, ceramics, print-making, painting, papermaking, photography, sculpture, audio engineering, digital film and video, and new media. Work is showcased in public performance, events, and exhibitions throughout the year, culminating in the annual Banff Summer Arts Festival; and is disseminated beyond Banff through Banff Centre LIVE.&The Centre also partners with national and international arts institutions to bring art incubated in Banff to stages and concert halls around the world.
Leadership Development programs equip people who want to change the world with the skills to do so. More than ever, the world needs high-performing, creative leaders who are ready to face increasing complexity and change, while keeping their organizations ahead of the curve. At The Banff Centre, we inspire leaders to make a meaningful difference for their organizations, their communities – and themselves. Leaders developed in Banff are equipped with the skills to manage people and projects under conditions of uncertainty. Leaders developed in Banff are innovators and creative entrepreneurs who identify untapped opportunities and potential. Leaders developed in Banff experience transformational growth to provide the new perspectives needed for their organization's toughest challenges. Conferences at The Banff Centre provides delegates from Alberta, Canada, and around the world with exceptional meeting facilities in an environment that fosters inspirational learning. Net revenue from the Centre’s conference operations supports arts programming.
Website: www.banffcentre.org
New art and ideas are born at The Banff Centre every day. We support ground-breaking artists. We inspire visionary leaders. We convene trailblazing researchers.
The Banff Centre is the largest arts and creativity incubator on the planet. Our mission is inspiring creativity. Over 8,000* artists, leaders, and researchers from across Canada and around the world participate in programs at The Banff Centre every year.
Through its multidisciplinary programming, The Banff Centre provides them with the support they need to create, to develop solutions, and to make the impossible possible.
The Banff Centre adds to Canada's and the world's cultural repertoire by commissioning, supporting, and producing new creative works. We develop multidimensional artists for the international stage in an artistically rich learning environment.
Our leadership programs equip people who want to change the world with the skills to do so. Moving forward, the Centre will disseminate the art and ideas developed in Banff using new initiatives in digital, web, radio, and broadcast media Arts programs are at the core of The Banff Centre. Programming supports the commissioning and creation of new work by individual artists and arts collectives, and provides resources for collaboration and applied research. Training and professional development is offered at the post-graduate level in more than a dozen art forms including, music, theatre, dance, opera, Indigenous arts, literature, ceramics, print-making, painting, papermaking, photography, sculpture, audio engineering, digital film and video, and new media. Work is showcased in public performance, events, and exhibitions throughout the year, culminating in the annual Banff Summer Arts Festival; and is disseminated beyond Banff through Banff Centre LIVE.&The Centre also partners with national and international arts institutions to bring art incubated in Banff to stages and concert halls around the world.
Leadership Development programs equip people who want to change the world with the skills to do so. More than ever, the world needs high-performing, creative leaders who are ready to face increasing complexity and change, while keeping their organizations ahead of the curve. At The Banff Centre, we inspire leaders to make a meaningful difference for their organizations, their communities – and themselves. Leaders developed in Banff are equipped with the skills to manage people and projects under conditions of uncertainty. Leaders developed in Banff are innovators and creative entrepreneurs who identify untapped opportunities and potential. Leaders developed in Banff experience transformational growth to provide the new perspectives needed for their organization's toughest challenges. Conferences at The Banff Centre provides delegates from Alberta, Canada, and around the world with exceptional meeting facilities in an environment that fosters inspirational learning. Net revenue from the Centre’s conference operations supports arts programming.
Tuesday, December 24, 2013
The Steel Yard
Location: Providence, RI
Website: www.thesteelyard.org
The Steel Yard offers arts and technical training programs designed to increase opportunities for cultural and artistic expression, career-oriented training, and small business incubation.
Our work is made possible through a combination of program-related earned income, private and government grants, corporate giving and individual philanthropy.
We are located at the historic Providence Steel and Iron site, along the Woonasquatucket River in the heart of Providence's industrial Valley neighborhood.
Our 10,000 square foot industrial shop includes:
- Welding, blacksmithing, jewelry, ceramics, and foundry space,
- Ceramics Cooperative,
- Jewelry Cooperative,
- Studio Access Opportunities, and
- Outdoor multi-use work and exhibition space.
The Steel Yard's programs cater to working artists, students, community members, tradespeople, arts educators and entrepreneurs.
Website: www.thesteelyard.org
The Steel Yard offers arts and technical training programs designed to increase opportunities for cultural and artistic expression, career-oriented training, and small business incubation.
Our work is made possible through a combination of program-related earned income, private and government grants, corporate giving and individual philanthropy.
We are located at the historic Providence Steel and Iron site, along the Woonasquatucket River in the heart of Providence's industrial Valley neighborhood.
Our 10,000 square foot industrial shop includes:
- Welding, blacksmithing, jewelry, ceramics, and foundry space,
- Ceramics Cooperative,
- Jewelry Cooperative,
- Studio Access Opportunities, and
- Outdoor multi-use work and exhibition space.
The Steel Yard's programs cater to working artists, students, community members, tradespeople, arts educators and entrepreneurs.
Thursday, September 26, 2013
Flint Public Art Project
Location: Flint, MI
Website: www.flintpublicartproject.com
We organize workshops and temporary installations to inspire residents to reimagine the city, reclaim vacant and underutilized buildings and lots, and use innovative tools to steer Flint's long-range planning.
We support collaboration among local residents and organizations as well as with leading artists, architects, planners and community organizers from around the world, connecting Flint to regional, national and global movements to revitalize neighborhoods and cities through art and design.
We will document and amplify the many ways local residents, businesses and institutions are transforming Flint and its public image and identity, and will broadcast this new story to audiences throughout the city and the world.
Executive Director Stephen Zacks is an internationally recognized architecture and urbanism reporter, theorist and cultural producer based in Greenpoint, Brooklyn and a native of Flint, Michigan. Co-founder of the Bring to Light–Nuit Blanche New York festival, he is currently writing Beautiful Ruin: The Generation that Transformed New York, 1967-1986,a nonfiction narrative about New York during the mid-70s fiscal crisis
Director of Programs Jerome Chou is an urban planner and landscape architect. Previously he was Director of Programs for the Design Trust for Public Space, where he led projects to retain garment factories in Midtown Manhattan and to expand urban agriculture throughout New York City. He also has worked for the Baltimore City Planning Department, as a community organizer for ACORN, and for the nonprofit book publisher The New Press.
Architect-in-residence Andrew Perkins recently completed a collaborative Master's thesis project at the University at Buffalo, which transformed an abandoned house into his year-long off-the-grid home, using only waste materials. Focusing on areas of blight, depopulation, and economic tension, he uses waste materials as the common denominator to transcend social and financial gaps. His work with Flint Public Art Project involves transforming the long-vacant Spencer's Mortuary into a cooperative art space and model for material reuse.
James Andrews is an artist, educator, organizer, curator, and arts producer based in New York City. His work involves exploring new forms of social organization and experimental groups. Prior to studying systems approaches to art and collaboration with Paul Ryan at The New School, Andrews was artist in residence at the Banlozi Camp for Refugees in Bosnia-Herzegovina. In 2003 he co-produced Art, Circuitry, and Ecology, a conference at the City University of New York Graduate Center and Berkeley Hall of Science, honoring the anthropologist Gregory Bateson. Andrews has exhibited, taught, performed, and organized extensively, including shows and events at Postmasters Gallery, Sculpture Center, the National Gallery of Bosnia and Herzegovina, ABC No Rio, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Deitch Projects, and the Queens Museum. Andrews is a founding member of Nsumi Collective. Nsumi creates collaborative artwork that combines fine art, architecture, community engagement and experimental design. They produce and participate in exhibitions and events, conduct research on public art, pedagogy and emerging collaborative practices. Andrews has organized numerous public workshops and lectures on topics such as formal decentralization, swarm intelligence and emerging forms of civic protest with the Museum of Arts and Design, Storefront for Art and Architecture, School of the Future, and Creative Time as a part of the Living as Form show, with Trade School NYC.
His collaborative work has been covered by NHK TV (Japan), The New Yorker, Metro NY, Total Theater Magazine, Archinect, the New York Times, Art News, Waging Non-Violence, and The Economist.
Website: www.flintpublicartproject.com
We organize workshops and temporary installations to inspire residents to reimagine the city, reclaim vacant and underutilized buildings and lots, and use innovative tools to steer Flint's long-range planning.
We support collaboration among local residents and organizations as well as with leading artists, architects, planners and community organizers from around the world, connecting Flint to regional, national and global movements to revitalize neighborhoods and cities through art and design.
We will document and amplify the many ways local residents, businesses and institutions are transforming Flint and its public image and identity, and will broadcast this new story to audiences throughout the city and the world.
Executive Director Stephen Zacks is an internationally recognized architecture and urbanism reporter, theorist and cultural producer based in Greenpoint, Brooklyn and a native of Flint, Michigan. Co-founder of the Bring to Light–Nuit Blanche New York festival, he is currently writing Beautiful Ruin: The Generation that Transformed New York, 1967-1986,a nonfiction narrative about New York during the mid-70s fiscal crisis
Director of Programs Jerome Chou is an urban planner and landscape architect. Previously he was Director of Programs for the Design Trust for Public Space, where he led projects to retain garment factories in Midtown Manhattan and to expand urban agriculture throughout New York City. He also has worked for the Baltimore City Planning Department, as a community organizer for ACORN, and for the nonprofit book publisher The New Press.
Architect-in-residence Andrew Perkins recently completed a collaborative Master's thesis project at the University at Buffalo, which transformed an abandoned house into his year-long off-the-grid home, using only waste materials. Focusing on areas of blight, depopulation, and economic tension, he uses waste materials as the common denominator to transcend social and financial gaps. His work with Flint Public Art Project involves transforming the long-vacant Spencer's Mortuary into a cooperative art space and model for material reuse.
James Andrews is an artist, educator, organizer, curator, and arts producer based in New York City. His work involves exploring new forms of social organization and experimental groups. Prior to studying systems approaches to art and collaboration with Paul Ryan at The New School, Andrews was artist in residence at the Banlozi Camp for Refugees in Bosnia-Herzegovina. In 2003 he co-produced Art, Circuitry, and Ecology, a conference at the City University of New York Graduate Center and Berkeley Hall of Science, honoring the anthropologist Gregory Bateson. Andrews has exhibited, taught, performed, and organized extensively, including shows and events at Postmasters Gallery, Sculpture Center, the National Gallery of Bosnia and Herzegovina, ABC No Rio, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Deitch Projects, and the Queens Museum. Andrews is a founding member of Nsumi Collective. Nsumi creates collaborative artwork that combines fine art, architecture, community engagement and experimental design. They produce and participate in exhibitions and events, conduct research on public art, pedagogy and emerging collaborative practices. Andrews has organized numerous public workshops and lectures on topics such as formal decentralization, swarm intelligence and emerging forms of civic protest with the Museum of Arts and Design, Storefront for Art and Architecture, School of the Future, and Creative Time as a part of the Living as Form show, with Trade School NYC.
His collaborative work has been covered by NHK TV (Japan), The New Yorker, Metro NY, Total Theater Magazine, Archinect, the New York Times, Art News, Waging Non-Violence, and The Economist.
Friday, August 30, 2013
Brooklyn Box
Location: Brooklyn, NY
Website: www.bkbxgallery.com
bkbx [Brooklyn Box] is an exhibition space located in the former National Packing Box Factory on the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn, NY.
An independent Project-in-Residence at Proteus Gowanus, bkbx was founded by eleven artists who came together through their association with Proteus Gowanus.
bkbx artists come from a wide variety of stylistic and conceptual practices, but share a dedication to forming a meaningful alternative model to today’s art environment. In the community, creativity is experienced as a form of generosity.
A portion of all bkbx sales goes to support our non-profit “parent” organization "Proteus Gowanus".
Location: 543 Union Street,Brooklyn, NY 11215 - entry is around the corner via the Alleyway on Nevins Street.
Enter through Proteus Gowanus.
Hours: Thursday and Friday from 3 – 6, Saturday and Sunday from 12 – 6, or by appointment.
Website: www.bkbxgallery.com
bkbx [Brooklyn Box] is an exhibition space located in the former National Packing Box Factory on the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn, NY.
An independent Project-in-Residence at Proteus Gowanus, bkbx was founded by eleven artists who came together through their association with Proteus Gowanus.
bkbx artists come from a wide variety of stylistic and conceptual practices, but share a dedication to forming a meaningful alternative model to today’s art environment. In the community, creativity is experienced as a form of generosity.
A portion of all bkbx sales goes to support our non-profit “parent” organization "Proteus Gowanus".
Location: 543 Union Street,Brooklyn, NY 11215 - entry is around the corner via the Alleyway on Nevins Street.
Enter through Proteus Gowanus.
Hours: Thursday and Friday from 3 – 6, Saturday and Sunday from 12 – 6, or by appointment.
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
ArtsMemphis
Location: Memphis, TN
Website: www.artsmemphis.org
We support the Memphis art, music and theatre community through engagement and participation.
Celebrating our 50th year in 2013,
ArtsMemphis raises funds to ensure excellence in the arts and build a vibrant cultural community for everyone. ArtsMemphis provides annual support, financial oversight, advocacy and mentoring to many diverse organizations through annual grants in several grant categories.
We fund arts education & outreach projects and oversee an Audience Development Initiative to enhance and build local cultural audiences.
ArtsMemphis has allocated $40 million over the past 10 years to support our arts community. More than 95% of every dollar raised through the annual campaign is reinvested in the community through arts support.
Our mission is to funds to ensure excellence in the arts and build a vibrant cultural community for everyone. We were founded by volunteer community leaders in 1963. We have allocated over $40 million in the last 10 years.
Completed the historic Memphis for the Arts campaign in 2005, raising over $27 million for the ArtsMemphis endowment.
More than 95% of every dollar raised through the annual campaign is reinvested in the community through arts support
Website: www.artsmemphis.org
We support the Memphis art, music and theatre community through engagement and participation.
Celebrating our 50th year in 2013,
ArtsMemphis raises funds to ensure excellence in the arts and build a vibrant cultural community for everyone. ArtsMemphis provides annual support, financial oversight, advocacy and mentoring to many diverse organizations through annual grants in several grant categories.
We fund arts education & outreach projects and oversee an Audience Development Initiative to enhance and build local cultural audiences.
ArtsMemphis has allocated $40 million over the past 10 years to support our arts community. More than 95% of every dollar raised through the annual campaign is reinvested in the community through arts support.
Our mission is to funds to ensure excellence in the arts and build a vibrant cultural community for everyone. We were founded by volunteer community leaders in 1963. We have allocated over $40 million in the last 10 years.
Completed the historic Memphis for the Arts campaign in 2005, raising over $27 million for the ArtsMemphis endowment.
More than 95% of every dollar raised through the annual campaign is reinvested in the community through arts support
Tuesday, April 16, 2013
SCORE
Location: Atlanta, GA
Website: www.scoreatl.org
SCORE is a city wide, multi-venue collaborative art exhibition in Atlanta that celebrates our wonder, passion, and fascination with sports and art & design. An exhibition that is fresh and original, SCORE explores the art of the game and the game of art. SCORE will open in February 2014 (coinciding with the Winter Olympics).
SCORE strives to create a deeper appreciation of the arts among sports fans and expand the audiences of Atlanta's arts institutions. Programs will engage, enliven and educate the community.
Teaming several arts institutions including The Museum of Design Atlanta (MODA), The Museum of Contemporary Art Georgia (MOCA GA) and Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport and others, SCORE will capture the creative power of the Atlanta artistic community.
Website: www.scoreatl.org
SCORE is a city wide, multi-venue collaborative art exhibition in Atlanta that celebrates our wonder, passion, and fascination with sports and art & design. An exhibition that is fresh and original, SCORE explores the art of the game and the game of art. SCORE will open in February 2014 (coinciding with the Winter Olympics).
SCORE strives to create a deeper appreciation of the arts among sports fans and expand the audiences of Atlanta's arts institutions. Programs will engage, enliven and educate the community.
Teaming several arts institutions including The Museum of Design Atlanta (MODA), The Museum of Contemporary Art Georgia (MOCA GA) and Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport and others, SCORE will capture the creative power of the Atlanta artistic community.
Thursday, April 11, 2013
Machine Project
Location: Los Angeles,CA
Website: www.machineproject.com
Machine Project is a storefront space in the echo park neighborhood of Los Angeles that hosts events about all kinds of things we find interesting – scientific talks, poetry readings, musical performances, competitions, group naps, cheese tastings and so forth. We usually do about two events a week, open to the general public and free of charge. Usually at 8pm. Information on upcoming events can be found on our future page.
Machine Project is an informal educational institution located in the the same storefront space as mentioned above. We teach all kinds of things we find interesting – electronics, sewing, pickling, computer programming, car theft and so forth. We usually have one or two class going a week, open to the public for a fee by pre-registration. Information on upcoming classes can be found on our classes page.
Machine Project is a loose group of artist/performer collaborators, who do projects together when invited by other people and institutions, usually museums. Information on special projects can be found on our projects page.
A huge gracias to our generous donors!
Machine Project is a 501c3 non-profit corporation.
More information that you will probably want to read can be found on our FAQ page
Website: www.machineproject.com
Machine Project is a storefront space in the echo park neighborhood of Los Angeles that hosts events about all kinds of things we find interesting – scientific talks, poetry readings, musical performances, competitions, group naps, cheese tastings and so forth. We usually do about two events a week, open to the general public and free of charge. Usually at 8pm. Information on upcoming events can be found on our future page.
Machine Project is an informal educational institution located in the the same storefront space as mentioned above. We teach all kinds of things we find interesting – electronics, sewing, pickling, computer programming, car theft and so forth. We usually have one or two class going a week, open to the public for a fee by pre-registration. Information on upcoming classes can be found on our classes page.
Machine Project is a loose group of artist/performer collaborators, who do projects together when invited by other people and institutions, usually museums. Information on special projects can be found on our projects page.
A huge gracias to our generous donors!
Machine Project is a 501c3 non-profit corporation.
More information that you will probably want to read can be found on our FAQ page
Thursday, February 7, 2013
Artspace
Location: Nationwide
Website: www.artspace.org
Founded in 1979 and based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Artspace is the nation’s leading nonprofit real estate developer for the arts.
The mission of Artspace is to create, foster, and preserve affordable space for artists and arts organizations.
Artspace owns and operates 30 projects in 19 cities and 13 states. Twenty-four of the 30 are live/work projects with a total of 1,008 residential units. The others are non-residential projects that provide space for artists and cultural organizations.
Many of the live/work projects also include non-residential space such as studios, offices for arts organizations, rehearsal and performance venues, and space for arts-friendly businesses.
A “live/work” project is a residential building in which each unit has extra space (usually 100 to 150 square feet) that the artist can use as a studio. Other design elements, such as high ceilings, large windows, durable surfaces, and wide doorways, accommodate a wide variety of creative processes. Artspace live/work projects also include common spaces that encourage cooperation and community involvement.
Communities interested in having an Artspace project invite Artspace to assess the feasibility of developing a project there. In an average year Artspace makes 20 to 25 feasibility visits to cities around the country; of these, two to four typically lead to projects.
In most cases an Artspace project takes from three to five years. As a nonprofit developer, Artspace does not bring its own investment capital to a new project. Instead, it assembles the requisite financial resources from a variety of public and private sources. This is a time-consuming process, but it has an important upside: Artspace projects are fully funded when it breaks ground.
The money come from Low Income Housing Tax Credits, Historic Tax Credits, CDBG and HOME funds, Federal Home Loan Bank funds, Tax Increment Financing, city and state cultural facility grants, a conventional first mortgage, and philanthropic gifts.
Artspace also utilizes federal, state, and local resources available through established funding programs that assist in the creation of affordable housing and economic development projects.
Artspace live/work projects qualify as affordable housing for low- to moderate-income households under Section 42 of the IRS Code. In setting rents, Artspace adheres to affordable housing guidelines set by the U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). HUD uses a complex formula based on the Area Median Income (AMI) of the city or county in which the project is located, the degree of affordability of any given unit (expressed as a percentage of the AMI), the number of bedrooms in the unit, and the number of people in the artist’s household.
While rents vary by community, Artspace buildings provide live/work spaces that are significantly larger and usually less expensive than other comparable spaces. And Artspace buildings remain affordable in perpetuity.
Anyone who qualifies for affordable housing may apply for residency in an Artspace project, but we give preference to those applicants who participate in, and are committed to, the arts.
Artspace defines the term “artist” broadly to include a wide variety of creative pursuits, including arts forms such as clothing design, weaving and canoe making. All applicants are interviewed by a Selection Committee. The committee looks for evidence that the applicants are seriously committed to their art and that they will be good neighbors. The committee does not judge the quality of their work.
Artspace, unlike “turnkey” developers, remains involved as owner/operator of its projects. In this way, it ensures that rents remain affordable over the long term.
Artspace projects are financially self-sustaining through tenant rents, which are sufficient to meet mortgage payments and operating costs. Revenues in excess of expenses are set aside for preventive maintenance, commons area improvements, and building upgrades. To date, Artspace has never had to ask a community for support for a project.
Website: www.artspace.org
Founded in 1979 and based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Artspace is the nation’s leading nonprofit real estate developer for the arts.
The mission of Artspace is to create, foster, and preserve affordable space for artists and arts organizations.
Artspace owns and operates 30 projects in 19 cities and 13 states. Twenty-four of the 30 are live/work projects with a total of 1,008 residential units. The others are non-residential projects that provide space for artists and cultural organizations.
Many of the live/work projects also include non-residential space such as studios, offices for arts organizations, rehearsal and performance venues, and space for arts-friendly businesses.
A “live/work” project is a residential building in which each unit has extra space (usually 100 to 150 square feet) that the artist can use as a studio. Other design elements, such as high ceilings, large windows, durable surfaces, and wide doorways, accommodate a wide variety of creative processes. Artspace live/work projects also include common spaces that encourage cooperation and community involvement.
Communities interested in having an Artspace project invite Artspace to assess the feasibility of developing a project there. In an average year Artspace makes 20 to 25 feasibility visits to cities around the country; of these, two to four typically lead to projects.
In most cases an Artspace project takes from three to five years. As a nonprofit developer, Artspace does not bring its own investment capital to a new project. Instead, it assembles the requisite financial resources from a variety of public and private sources. This is a time-consuming process, but it has an important upside: Artspace projects are fully funded when it breaks ground.
The money come from Low Income Housing Tax Credits, Historic Tax Credits, CDBG and HOME funds, Federal Home Loan Bank funds, Tax Increment Financing, city and state cultural facility grants, a conventional first mortgage, and philanthropic gifts.
Artspace also utilizes federal, state, and local resources available through established funding programs that assist in the creation of affordable housing and economic development projects.
Artspace live/work projects qualify as affordable housing for low- to moderate-income households under Section 42 of the IRS Code. In setting rents, Artspace adheres to affordable housing guidelines set by the U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). HUD uses a complex formula based on the Area Median Income (AMI) of the city or county in which the project is located, the degree of affordability of any given unit (expressed as a percentage of the AMI), the number of bedrooms in the unit, and the number of people in the artist’s household.
While rents vary by community, Artspace buildings provide live/work spaces that are significantly larger and usually less expensive than other comparable spaces. And Artspace buildings remain affordable in perpetuity.
Anyone who qualifies for affordable housing may apply for residency in an Artspace project, but we give preference to those applicants who participate in, and are committed to, the arts.
Artspace defines the term “artist” broadly to include a wide variety of creative pursuits, including arts forms such as clothing design, weaving and canoe making. All applicants are interviewed by a Selection Committee. The committee looks for evidence that the applicants are seriously committed to their art and that they will be good neighbors. The committee does not judge the quality of their work.
Artspace, unlike “turnkey” developers, remains involved as owner/operator of its projects. In this way, it ensures that rents remain affordable over the long term.
Artspace projects are financially self-sustaining through tenant rents, which are sufficient to meet mortgage payments and operating costs. Revenues in excess of expenses are set aside for preventive maintenance, commons area improvements, and building upgrades. To date, Artspace has never had to ask a community for support for a project.
Monday, January 7, 2013
ArtPlace
Location: Nationwide
Website: www.artplaceamerica.org
ArtPlace is a collaboration of 13 leading national and regional foundations, eight federal agencies including the National Endowment for the Arts, and six of the nation’s largest banks to accelerate creative placemaking across the U.S.
ArtPlace is investing in art and culture at the heart of a portfolio of integrated strategies that can drive vibrancy and diversity so powerful that it transforms communities. To date, ArtPlace has awarded 80 grants to 76 organizations in 46 communities across the U.S. for a total of $26.9 million.
Participating foundations include Bloomberg Philanthropies, The Ford Foundation, The James Irvine Foundation, The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, The Kresge Foundation, The McKnight Foundation, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The William Penn Foundation, The Rockefeller Foundation, Rasmuson Foundation, The Surdna Foundation and two anonymous donors. In addition to the NEA, federal partners are the departments of Housing and Urban Development, Health and Human Services, Agriculture, Education and Transportation, along with leadership from the White House Office of Management and Budget and the Domestic Policy Council.
ArtPlace funds in all 50 states and U.S. territories. Certain ArtPlace funders have a deep commitment to their local communities and have provided funding for specific states or communities.
Currently, these include: Akron, Charlotte, Detroit, Macon, Miami, New York City, Philadelphia, San Jose, and St. Paul, as well as communities in Alaska, Arizona, California, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Washington and Wisconsin.
Therefore, we particularly invite projects in these areas, although applications are welcome and grants are awarded to projects from all across the US. We continue to expand our funding with the goal of supporting the broadest possible geographic array of communities.
Funds committed to ArtPlace are overseen by the Nonprofit Finance Fund, a nonprofit lender and financial consulting organization that serves as investment and grant manager for the collaboration.
ArtPlace is also supported by a $12 million loan fund capitalized by six major financial institutions and managed by the Nonprofit Finance Fund. Participating institutions are Bank of America, Citi, Deutsche Bank, Chase, MetLife and Morgan Stanley.
ArtPlace works to accelerate creative placemaking by making grants and loans; by striking important partnerships with those who share our passion; with solid but imaginative research; and with communication and advocacy that we hope will influence others to engage in this work.
Website: www.artplaceamerica.org
ArtPlace is a collaboration of 13 leading national and regional foundations, eight federal agencies including the National Endowment for the Arts, and six of the nation’s largest banks to accelerate creative placemaking across the U.S.
ArtPlace is investing in art and culture at the heart of a portfolio of integrated strategies that can drive vibrancy and diversity so powerful that it transforms communities. To date, ArtPlace has awarded 80 grants to 76 organizations in 46 communities across the U.S. for a total of $26.9 million.
Participating foundations include Bloomberg Philanthropies, The Ford Foundation, The James Irvine Foundation, The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, The Kresge Foundation, The McKnight Foundation, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The William Penn Foundation, The Rockefeller Foundation, Rasmuson Foundation, The Surdna Foundation and two anonymous donors. In addition to the NEA, federal partners are the departments of Housing and Urban Development, Health and Human Services, Agriculture, Education and Transportation, along with leadership from the White House Office of Management and Budget and the Domestic Policy Council.
ArtPlace funds in all 50 states and U.S. territories. Certain ArtPlace funders have a deep commitment to their local communities and have provided funding for specific states or communities.
Currently, these include: Akron, Charlotte, Detroit, Macon, Miami, New York City, Philadelphia, San Jose, and St. Paul, as well as communities in Alaska, Arizona, California, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Washington and Wisconsin.
Therefore, we particularly invite projects in these areas, although applications are welcome and grants are awarded to projects from all across the US. We continue to expand our funding with the goal of supporting the broadest possible geographic array of communities.
Funds committed to ArtPlace are overseen by the Nonprofit Finance Fund, a nonprofit lender and financial consulting organization that serves as investment and grant manager for the collaboration.
ArtPlace is also supported by a $12 million loan fund capitalized by six major financial institutions and managed by the Nonprofit Finance Fund. Participating institutions are Bank of America, Citi, Deutsche Bank, Chase, MetLife and Morgan Stanley.
ArtPlace works to accelerate creative placemaking by making grants and loans; by striking important partnerships with those who share our passion; with solid but imaginative research; and with communication and advocacy that we hope will influence others to engage in this work.
Friday, September 28, 2012
Downtown Doodles
Location: Columbus, IN
Website: www.artsincolumbus.org/caac/index.cfm/calendar/downtown-doodles-exhibit
Columbus Area Arts Council (Indiana)
A community-based art project to celebrate National Arts & Humanities Month, October 1–15
October is National Arts and Humanities Month and we wanted to celebrate. So, we've created a community-based art project. From October 1–15, visit one of the participating downtown restaurants, grab a special napkin and pen, and start doodling. There's no pressure to create a masterpiece. Just take some time to create something.
During the month of November, we will have a display at Hotel Indigo's gallery of the doodles. A public reception is planned for Thursday, November 8 at 5:30 PM.
Participating restaurants include Bistro 310, The Garage Pub & Grill, Smith's Row, 4th Street Bar, Zaharakos, Tre Bicchieri, and The Fork.
Website: www.artsincolumbus.org/caac/index.cfm/calendar/downtown-doodles-exhibit
Columbus Area Arts Council (Indiana)
A community-based art project to celebrate National Arts & Humanities Month, October 1–15
October is National Arts and Humanities Month and we wanted to celebrate. So, we've created a community-based art project. From October 1–15, visit one of the participating downtown restaurants, grab a special napkin and pen, and start doodling. There's no pressure to create a masterpiece. Just take some time to create something.
During the month of November, we will have a display at Hotel Indigo's gallery of the doodles. A public reception is planned for Thursday, November 8 at 5:30 PM.
Participating restaurants include Bistro 310, The Garage Pub & Grill, Smith's Row, 4th Street Bar, Zaharakos, Tre Bicchieri, and The Fork.
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
Visual Artillery
Location: International
Website: www.visualartillery.org
We're Visual Artillery, an international street art collective, and a certified nonprofit organization.
We function as a network for artists, and as an educational service to developing countries and struggling communities to provide them with art, training, and experience.
We're "against" the destruction of property, and we're "for" the empowerment of society through street art, graffiti art, and urban-inspired art.
Website: www.visualartillery.org
We're Visual Artillery, an international street art collective, and a certified nonprofit organization.
We function as a network for artists, and as an educational service to developing countries and struggling communities to provide them with art, training, and experience.
We're "against" the destruction of property, and we're "for" the empowerment of society through street art, graffiti art, and urban-inspired art.
Friday, August 17, 2012
architreasures
Location: Chicago, IL
Website: www.architreasures.org
archi-treasures is an arts-based community development organization reducing social isolation by creating grassroots partnerships to build public spaces, empowering individuals to shape their future and the future of their community.
Founded in 1996, archi-treasures was largely formed by architects and members of community development organizations around Chicago, who recognized the urgent need for Chicago communities to organize, build capacity and participate in the redevelopment of their neighborhoods.
The skills and training of artists, architects, and designers can be mobilized for the benefit of communities, in order to implement community ideas.
Useful, accessible and attractive public space is critical to the process of successful community building.
Community ideas can be accessed through a participatory design process which is central to every archi-treasures project.
Projects begin with identifying, activating, and supplementing community assets and resources.
archi-treasures projects are developed in partnership with a strong community-based organization that can and will contribute resources to the project.
The step-by-step process of planning and making things brings people together.
All communities, even the poorest, should have critical input into how their environment looks, feels and is used.
Everyone has something to contribute.
We value our relationships with community leaders and organizations, volunteers, corporate partners and residents, for it is through our work together that we truly make a difference.
Website: www.architreasures.org
archi-treasures is an arts-based community development organization reducing social isolation by creating grassroots partnerships to build public spaces, empowering individuals to shape their future and the future of their community.
Founded in 1996, archi-treasures was largely formed by architects and members of community development organizations around Chicago, who recognized the urgent need for Chicago communities to organize, build capacity and participate in the redevelopment of their neighborhoods.
The skills and training of artists, architects, and designers can be mobilized for the benefit of communities, in order to implement community ideas.
Useful, accessible and attractive public space is critical to the process of successful community building.
Community ideas can be accessed through a participatory design process which is central to every archi-treasures project.
Projects begin with identifying, activating, and supplementing community assets and resources.
archi-treasures projects are developed in partnership with a strong community-based organization that can and will contribute resources to the project.
The step-by-step process of planning and making things brings people together.
All communities, even the poorest, should have critical input into how their environment looks, feels and is used.
Everyone has something to contribute.
We value our relationships with community leaders and organizations, volunteers, corporate partners and residents, for it is through our work together that we truly make a difference.
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