Deadline: May 31, 2012

The competition is open to all U.S. artists 18 years or older. Submitted work samples must have been completed in the last two years. Successful applicants will be commissioned to work outside at Bryant Park, creating representational images that will comprise a visual record of Bryant Park. Three painters will be selected for the program. This program includes a stipend. Awards will be announced June 20, 2012.

Program Details
-Subject matter: Landscapes and iconic features of the park
-Painting schedule: Daily. (Cancelled in case of rain)
-Stipend: $1000 per week plus one-time supplemental fund of $1000 for materials.
-Announcement of Award: June 20, 2012

For more information visit www.bryantpark.org/painterinresidence or email requests for application forms to promero@urbanmgt.com

Opening: Tuesday, May 22, 7:30PM-8:30PM

A woman considering suicide is visited by a pet horse and versions of herself at various ages while a man tries to take her hand. Will she go?

Made by Monk Parrots and conceived and directed by Luke Leonard, Here I Go hitches the emotional gamut of classic, country music with a romanticized depiction of Lynette, a cowgirl in her 60s contemplating suicide. Accusation and acceptance are major themes that prompt questions related to loss and sacrifice in Here I Go.

Location 59E59 Theaters 59 East 59th Street, New York

For more information about Monk Parrots, click here

Dates: May 12 - June 17, 2012
Location: NARS Foundation Studios, 88 35th Street | 3rd Floor, Brooklyn, NY 11232
Opening reception: May 1, 1 PM - 8 PM, in conjunction with NARS 5th Annual Open Studios

For more information, please visit http://narsfoundation.org/.

Deadline: June 15, 2012

Led by renowned fundraising experts, The Fundraising Lab will provide both training and coaching services, enabling teams not only to learn about but implement effective development practices that can take their organizations to the next level.

The program kicks off with a training workshop on Tuesday, June 26. Participating organizations will then receive five or more individualized coaching sessions. A second workshop will be held in October (date TBA) and coaching will conclude in November.

Thanks to generous underwriting from The New York Community Trust, participating organizations will pay only a small fraction of the actual expenses. Though the per-organization cost for the training and coaching exceeds $3,000, participation fees have been set at just $275 to $695 per team, based on budget size and Guild membership status.

To register or learn more about The Fundraising Lab, go to nationalguild.org/fundraisinglab.

The Watermill Center is currently accepting applications from individual artists and collectives for its international Fall 2012 / Spring 2013 Residency Program. The program invites artists of all disciplines to take up residence at The Watermill Center and create collaborative works that critically investigate, challenge, and extend the existing norms of performance practice. The Watermill Center has forged partnerships with leading institutions to help reach new networks and further the workshop projects. This current application cycle features partnerships with ArteEast, CPR – Center for Performance Research, Chez Bushwick, and Lincoln Center Directors Lab to ensure the quality of the work as well as provide vital continuing support of artist projects. To read more about the program and apply online please visit: http://www.watermillcenter.org/program/residencies.

About the Fall 2012 / Spring 2013 Residency Program

Since The Watermill Center Residency Program started in 2006, the Center will have hosted over 89 residency groups. The Residency Program runs from September to June and gives young artists the opportunity to live and work at the Watermill Center as a home to create and develop new work. Each residency varies in length according to artists’ and project needs and generally lasts a concentrated period of one to four weeks. A distinguished international selection committee composed of artists, academics, and cultural leaders across all disciplines meet in July to select the artists groups that will be invited to the residency program each year (see below for a full list).

In addition to creating and developing their work, artists share their creative process at Watermill with the public through open rehearsals, workshops, and/or artist talks. Through partnership initiatives, some residencies go on to showcase their work with other NYC institutions.

Click here to view The Selection Committee

Residency Partnerships

ArteEast: targeted for artists based in the Middle East and North Africa. (Note: there is a seperate application on the online portal for this partnership) CPR – Center for Performance Research / Chez Bushwick: offers a small selection of residencies the chance to showcase their work in Brooklyn/NYC following their time at The Watermill Center Lincoln Center Directors Lab: a Watermill residency for Directors Lab alumni to workshop their work and present at Lincoln Center in NYC for Directors Lab 2013

The Watermill Center | Mission Statement

Watermill is a laboratory for performance founded by Robert Wilson as a unique environment for young and emerging artists from around the world to explore new ideas. Watermill draws inspiration from all the arts and cultures as well as from social, human and natural sciences. Watermill is a global community of artists. Living and working together among the extensive collection of art and artifacts lies at the heart of the Watermill experience. Watermill is a haven for the next generations of artists, supporting their work among a network of international institutions and venues that embrace new interdisciplinary approaches.

About The Watermill Center

The Watermill Center is an interdisciplinary laboratory for the arts and humanities completed in 2006 on the Long Island, NY site of a former Western Union communication research facility. Founded by theatre and visual artist Robert Wilson as a place for young and emerging artists to work, learn, create, and grow with each other, Watermill integrates performing arts practice with resources from the humanities, research from the sciences, and inspiration from the visual arts. Watermill is unique within the global landscape of experimental theatrical performance, and regularly convenes the brightest minds from all disciplines to do, in Wilson’s words, “what no one else is doing.”

The Watermill Center supports projects that integrate genres and art forms from diverse view points and that break traditional forms of representation and cultural specifics. At the core of Watermill’s programming lies the year-round support of artists in residence. Through both the International Summer Program—a highly collaborative residency led by Wilson—and through one to four week individual residencies hosted from September through June, Watermill annually welcomes over 150 artists from around the world. This unparalleled global residency program is complemented by educational programs with schools and other local institutions, public events such as open rehearsals and lectures, tours of the building and grounds, and seminars and symposia.

The Watermill Center itself is a 20,000+ square foot flexible working space including a 6,000 volume research library, galleries, rehearsal and staging spaces, workshops, offices, and residences situated on six acres of artist-designed and landscaped grounds. The Watermill Collection of over 7,000 art and artifact pieces spanning the history of humankind is integrated into all aspects of the building and grounds as a reminder that the history of each civilization is told by its artists.

For more information, please contact Lorien Reese, Residency Manager at: 631.726.4628 or lorien.reese@watermillcenter.org

Join ArtHome Founder, Esther Robinson, for an Artist Homeownership Information session. Learn the basics that can assist you in your journey from a fellow artist: why and how homeownership can benefit you, the steps to owning a home and New York City programs and services offered by The New York Mortgage Coalition.

DATE: 7:15pm – May 8, 2012 LOCATION: Groundswell 540 President Street, Suite 1A Brooklyn, NY, 12115

More info: http://www.arthome.org/newsevents RSVP: info@arthome.org

Designed to enhance creativity and artistic achievement, this dynamic, two-year program is ideal for artists, students pursuing a career in the arts, post BFA study, international students, and arts educators.

The Studio Art Intensive serves to enhance evolving technique, clarify artistic direction, and define areas of concentration. Students will develop a professional portfolio, be mentored by artists, experience the arts scene in New York City, and will culminate their study with a solo exhibition and catalogue.

The Academy's faculty is composed of national and international professional artist-teachers. The Academy School's curriculum reflects this dynamic with educational offerings that are engaging, practical, and relate to the challenges of working as an artist today.

Curriculum
Working closely with an advisor, students select an area of concentration from painting, sculpture, printmaking or new media. A personalized studio curriculum is developed and may include art theory, critical thinking, or philosophy, in addition to studio-based classes.

For more information, click here.

On September 5th, 2011, an ensemble of dancers and drummers took over the Astor Place intersection in a site-specific dance theater piece! Watch the mayhem and look up...they might be coming to an intersection near you!

Each three-hour session provides a combination of seminar-style learning and hands-on group and individual exercises. Artists who participate in this seminar will gather essential personal financial information, gain a better understanding of their overall financial profile, develop skills in money management, identify their goals, connect with experienced financial and arts professionals, and access resources for ongoing learning.

The summer session can accommodate 20 artists. Due to high demand, space is limited and eligible participants will be selected through a lottery process. Only eligible and complete registrations will be included in the lottery.

The Chelsea Symphony — Rediscovering America
Celebrating the incredible richness of the American symphonic tradition, Rediscovering America will feature the music of Samuel Barber's Medea and works from other noted composers.

For a complete list of events, visit the Grantee Events calendar.

Valerie Hegarty "Altered States"
Marlborough Gallery
545 West 25th Street
Through May 5

To read the full review, please click here.

Cultured Stone will be the Ethan Greenbaum’s first New York solo exhibition. The show will include a new series of low relief photographs and double-sided plexiglas prints.
Simulating sidewalks, ceiling tiles, bricks and wall paneling, Ethan Greenbaum’s work embraces materials that fulfill the minimum architectural requirement of framing space and covering surfaces. Drawing connections between the blunt materiality of his sources and the imaginative space of painting, Greenbaum creates uncanny transcriptions of commonplace urban construction.

Location
Thierry Goldberg Gallery
103 Norfolk Street, New York
Gallery Hours: Wednesday-Sunday 11AM-6PM

For more information about Ethan Greenbaum, click here.

To watch her work and interview, click here.

Valerie Hegarty "Altered States"
Marlborough Gallery
545 West 25th Street
Through May 5

Twenty-one of America’s most vital and productive performing artists in contemporary dance, jazz, theatre and multidisciplinary work were announced today as the first class of Doris Duke Artists, sharing a total of $5.775 million awarded in an unprecedented new initiative of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation (DDCF). Each member of the first class will receive an unrestricted, multi-year cash grant of $225,000, plus as much as $50,000 more in targeted support for retirement savings and audience development. Creative Capital, DDCF’s primary partner in the Doris Duke Performing Artist Awards, will also offer the awardees the opportunity to take part in professional development activities, financial and legal counseling, and grantee gatherings—all designed to help the maximize the use of their grants.

The 2012 inaugural award recipients are:

in the Fields of Jazz, Contemporary Dance and Theatre
• Anne Bogart, theatre (New York, NY)
• Don Byron, jazz (New York, NY)
• Wally Cardona, dance (Brooklyn, NY), Former Swing Space artist
• Rinde Eckert, multidisciplinary performance (Upper Nyack, NY)
• Bill Frisell, jazz (Seattle, WA)
• Deborah Hay, dance (Austin, TX)
• John Hollenbeck, jazz (Binghamton, NY), Former Swing Space artist**
• Vijay Iyer, jazz (New York, NY) :River To River 2011 Performer
• Marc Bamuthi Joseph, multidisciplinary performance (Oakland, CA)
• Elizabeth LeCompte, theatre (New York, NY)
• Young Jean Lee, theatre (Brooklyn, NY), Former Swing Space artist
• Ralph Lemon, dance (New York, NY)
• Richard Maxwell, theatre (Brooklyn, NY)
• Sarah Michelson, dance (Brooklyn, NY), Former Swing Space artist
• Bebe Miller, dance (New York, NY and Columbus, OH)
• Nicole Mitchell, jazz (Long Beach, CA and Chicago, IL)
• Meredith Monk, multidisciplinary performance (New York, NY)
• Eiko Otake, dance (New York, NY), Former Swing Space artist
• Takashi Koma Otake, dance (New York, NY), Former Swing Space artist
• Basil Twist, theatre (New York, NY)
• Reggie Wilson, dance (Brooklyn, NY)

Valerie Hegarty:Altered States*
Marlborough Gallery
545 West 25th Street
Through May 5

To read the full review, please click here.

Deadline: June 24, 2012

Fair Dates: Every Saturday and Sunday in September 2012
Application Submission Fee: $35

Basing their decisions solely on the merit of the art itself, the 4heads judging panel selects over 100 artists to participate. Each artist gets a room in one of Governors Island’s historic structures to transform into an exhibit of their own design. Thousands of visitors (art world professionals and regular folk alike) flock to this island oasis across the New York Harbor to witness the results each year.

The exhibition space is free. Admission to the fair is free. Even the ferry ride to the island is free. And that frees up artists to present their art their way in a unique venue framed by the architecture of New York City's Governors Island.

For more information about the application guidelines, click here.

Featuring the work of:
ANGELIQUE ANDERSON • EMILY CAISIP • PIA CORONEL • LYDIA ENRIQUEZ • AMY FELDMAN • JON FEINSTEIN • MICHAEL FILAN • MAX GLASER • LILY GOLD • ROBERT HAMMOND • DAVID GREG HARTH • GREGORY HAYES • LIAM HOLDING • SUSAN JACOBS • JONAS LARA • DEANNA LEE • GJ LEE • ALEKSANDAR MAĆAŠEV • MARK MASYGA • XANDA McCAGG • CHERYL MOLNAR • AUGUSTUS NAZZARO • TEMPEST NEUCOLLINS • CECILIA SCHMIDT • POLLY SHINDLER • KIM SMITH • JULIA WHITNEY BARNES • MATTHEW WILLIAM ROBINSON • AMANDA VALDEZ

Tickets ($35 - $125) are on sale now.
For more information, http://art-bridge.org/artauction.