by The Alliance | Oct 12, 2022 | Member Opportunities, Member Wire
Guest Speakers: Rebecca Husk, Luci Creative, Project Coordinator and Rachel Strack, Luci Creative, Marketing Manager
Luci Creative is a full-service design studio that creates immersive environments for museums, corporate environments, and children’s interactive spaces. Working on large and small projects alike, the team at Luci expertly grow exhibit ideas from concept to completion. Guest speakers Rebecca Husk and Rachel Strack will highlight some of Luci’s recent exhibit project and discuss ways a professional exhibit design firm can partner with libraries and archives on projects.
RSVP by Friday, October 21st. Organizers will send registrants Zoom information shortly before the program.
Register here: http://www.chicagoarchivists.org/event-4995269
by Marie Rowley | Sep 15, 2022 | Member Opportunities, Member Wire
Many of you may remember that the Chicago Cultural Alliance and our Members were invited to provide input on the city’s We Will Chicago plan, a comprehensive citywide plan to encourage economic growth, address systemic inequality, and increase neighborhood livability over the next ten years. It is the first citywide plan since 1966. After gathering input from community leaders like all of you, the City has now released a draft of the plan for community feedback before they finalize the plan.
You can read a draft of the plan here. Our input is especially important for the Arts & Culture Pillar, which is the first section (after the introduction).
Then you can provide input at this survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/ArtsCultureWWC. (You can also go right to this survey if you’d like! It summarizes the Arts & Culture Pillar’s goals.) The city has asked for feedback from the community before November 1.
You also have the option to attend one of four We Will Chicago Informational Zoom Meetings coming up:
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- Wednesday, September 21, 2 PM-3 PM (https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_NjaabjVkQgSe0-1odQy1Bg)
- Wednesday, September 28, 1 PM- 2 PM (https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_1y9TQxuESWm8-AalvBbizg)
- Tuesday, October 4, 1 PM- 2 PM (https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_wJFR054WR0KiUEI2kFDVAA)
- Tuesday, October 11, 11 AM- 12 PM (https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_NMVNr9GcQqOnQgYMOAvxyw)
by Marie Rowley | Sep 8, 2022 | Member Opportunities, Member Wire
The Peace School invites all our Members to attend or participate on Monday, September 19th at 11:45 for Peace Day, an uplifting intercultural celebration to build peace in Chicago and the World!
Resource Table form. https://forms.gle/vJ97214hCZyMQjkn7
Please complete this form if you want to have Resource Table space for
your organization. Deadline is September 12th. Feel free to share this form
with peacebuilding/community service/cultural organizations that might
be interested.
Flag Bearer form. https://forms.gle/nQ1dgdD5njyk5PeR7
For anyone interested in carrying a flag in the World Peace Flag
Ceremony.
by Marie Rowley | Sep 8, 2022 | Member Opportunities, Member Wire
Arts Midwest is proud to be part of Welcoming Week, a global event taking place September 9-18! Together, neighbors of all backgrounds can work to build strong connections, create inclusive places, and achieve collective prosperity.
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Attend a Webinar on Welcoming & the Arts
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Wednesday, September 14 | 3 – 4 PM CT
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| Art is an essential tool for sustaining and strengthening welcoming work. Join Welcoming America, Students Rebuild, and Arts Midwest for a webinar discussion. We’ll explore how art, culture, and creativity can transform, deepen, and enrich immigrant inclusion work.
REGISTER HERE |
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by Marie Rowley | Aug 30, 2022 | Member Opportunities, Member Wire
GRANT OPPORTUNITY ($75,000): 2023 JOYCE AWARDS APPLICATIONS NOW OPEN
Awarded annually, the Joyce Awards support the creation of new works by artists of color to foster more culturally vibrant, equitable, and sustainable communities. In 2023, The Joyce Foundation will grant six Joyce Awards across visual, performing, and multidisciplinary arts to support new collaborations between artists of color and leading arts, cultural, and community-based organizations in the Great Lakes. Each $75,000 grant enables the creation and presentation of a new work that engages and builds community, with at least $25,000 of each grant awarded directly to the commissioned artist, while the collaborating commissioning organization receives at most $50,000 to use towards compensation of staff time, production costs, materials, participant stipends, and other expenses.
The deadline for pre-registration is September 7, 2022, with Letters of Inquiry due on September 12, 2022 at 11:59pm CDT.
For more details, eligibility criteria and other FAQs, please visit the Joyce Foundation website at [https://www.joycefdn.org/joyce-awards] or email Culture Program Director Mia Khimm at [email protected].
Who can apply?
Applications must be submitted by the commissioning organization, including questions for the artist. Applications must reflect a new collaborative commission between an artist of color and an arts or community-based organization located in Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, or Minneapolis-St. Paul. The artists can be living and practicing anywhere in the world, provided they are proposing a collaboration with an organization located in one of the above Great Lakes cities. Please see the full Eligibility Criteria & Guidelines and FAQs.
Joyce Award Eligibility
Artists
• Joyce Awards applications may be submitted by artists living and practicing
anywhere in the world, provided that they are proposing a collaboration with an
arts or community organization located in the metropolitan statistical areas of
one of six Great Lakes cities: Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Indianapolis,
Milwaukee, or Minneapolis-St. Paul.
• There is no restriction in regard to art discipline or medium.
• Artists must be commissioned by an unrelated entity – no self-commissions or
commissions by an arts organization or company founded or run by the artist.
Commissioned artists may be related to the commissioning organization, currently
or in the past, in a time-limited capacity, such as a residency, teaching artist, or
board member.
• As Joyce Awards support the commission of new works, an artist’s proposed
project should not have moved past the ideation stage.
• Although works need to be new, collaborations between artists and
commissioning organizations need not be new. Joyce Foundation welcomes
applications from artists and organizations who have worked together before.
• However, artists who have received a Joyce Award in the past are not eligible
to apply again as a commissioned artist. In addition, organizations that have
received a Joyce Award in the past may re-apply if proposing a commission
with an artist who has never received a Joyce Award in the past.
• Hallmarks of past Joyce Award recipients include artists whose work:
• Demonstrates artistic excellence as well as new thinking or approaches
while being firmly grounded in the history and evolution of an art
form and the discourse which surrounds it;
• Is as artistically and intellectually relevant to the current moment and
historical legacies in the place of commission as it is rigorous;
• Engages with and is informed by the stories and concerns of
diverse communities, including communities of color;
• Creates opportunities for community access and learning from the
ideation stage through the culminating production; and
• Will have a culminating and tangible program, product or process.
Arts and Community-based Organizations
• Arts or community-based organizations located in the metropolitan statistical
area (MSA) of one of the six cities where Joyce Awards are made (i.e. Chicago,
Cleveland, Detroit, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, or Minneapolis-St. Paul) may submit
an application.
• The most compelling applications have come from organizations that:
• Evidence the capacity to support an artist(s) through the
commission and presentation of an original art work;
• Are most likely to use the proposed project and collaboration with
the prospective artist to build upon and deepen connections with
surrounding communities, existing and potential institutional
partners and local civic leadership;
• Display the ability to harness additional funds as needed to ensure a
project’s completion within a 12- to 18-month timeframe (with projects
beginning no earlier than June 1, 2023); and
• Can design and execute a robust community learning, engagement
plan, and audience development strategy that will ensure the
community’s awareness of and access to the project from origination
through completion.
• Demonstrate a commitment to advancing racial equity in its work.
by Marie Rowley | Aug 18, 2022 | Member Opportunities, Member Wire
The Creative Placemaking Advanced Leadership Certificate grows and nurtures entrepreneurial, collaborative and culturally competent leaders. It is the kind of leadership that can most effectively enhance places through local arts and cultural activities. It is the right type of leadership for these uncertain and challenging times. The most effective leaders are both deep thinkers and strong communicators. The Certificate will help you master the knowledge and craft of creative placemaking leadership.
This low-residency program is designed for busy community-based professionals and social practice artists anywhere in the world. You can complete it in eight to 10 months.
Learn more about it here.
