Arts Grants
Student Entries Invited for VSA arts Playwright Discovery Award
Program
Deadline: April 15, 2004
The VSA arts (
http://www.vsaarts.org/ )
Playwright
Discovery Award program is designed to challenge
middle
and high school students of all abilities to take a
closer
look at the world around them, examine how
disability
affects their lives and the lives of others, and
express
their views through the art of playwriting.
Two scripts are selected for professional production at
the
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Award
recipients each
receive a $1,000 scholarship award and a
trip to Washington, D.C., to
view the production. To be
eligible for the program, playwrights
must be a middle or
high student (grades 6 through 12, or equivalent)
and a
citizen or permanent resident of the U.S. Entries must
be
original, unproduced, and unpublished.
VSA arts also offers the Playwright Discovery Teacher
Award
to recognize middle and high school teachers who
creatively bring
disability awareness to the classroom
through the art of playwriting.
One teacher will be
selected to receive funds to purchase
playwriting
resources and a trip to Washington, D.C., to be honored
at
the Kennedy Center.
For complete program guidelines and to download a
resource
guide on developing students' playwriting skills, see
the
VSA arts Web site.
Or send an e-mail to
nlopez@aed.org. The deadline
is
January 12, 2004.
National Dance Project Announces Production Grant
Guidelines
Deadline: April 2, 2004
Administered by the New England Foundation for the Arts
(
http://www.nefa.org/), the National Dance
Project
(NDP) provides grants for the production and touring
of
contemporary dance work by regionally and
nationally
significant artists in the United States and abroad.
NDP Production Grants provide funding for the creation
of
new dance work that will tour nationally. Funds support
a
project's development through the time of its premiere,
covering costs
related to producing the work. Grants
generally range from $15,000 to
$35,000 and are awarded
to between fifteen and twenty dance projects
annually.
The program is highly competitive.
Grants are awarded to dance projects based on
nominations
NDP receives from presenters, artists, artist
managers,
and agents. In selecting projects, NDP considers
scale,
geography, and the representation of diverse
ethnicities
and artistic forms.
All projects nominated should make possible the creation
of
regionally or nationally significant work that will
eventually tour;
offer the potential to engage and diver-
sify audiences; explore
collaborations within and across
disciplines; and involve creative and
dynamic partnership
with one or more presenter partners in the
development of
the work.
See the NEFA Web site for compete program
guidelines,
application procedures, and forms.
High School Artists Invited to Compete in Americans for the
Arts Poster Contest
Deadline: February 13, 2004
High school students interested in a design career
are
invited to enter the Poster Design Scholarship
Competition,
sponsored by the Art Institutes and Americans for the
Arts
(
http://www.americansforthearts.org/
).
Students will create original poster artwork that
expresses
the slogan, "Life is Better with Art in It."
More than $200,000 in
scholarships will be awarded, with
the first-place prize-winning
student receiving a $25,000
scholarship to study design at one of
thirty Art Insti-
tutes locations throughout North America.
The competition will take place in two stages: a
prelim-
inary competition to be held at Art Institutes
locations
in the United States and Canada in March; and a
final
stage in April featuring winners from the
preliminary
competition.
The first-place winner and all preliminary
competition
winners' work will be used in a promotional calendar
for
Americans for the Arts, to be distributed to high
schools
across North America. In addition, Americans for the
Arts
will create an online gallery of all scholarship
winning
artwork on its Web site and will use the
first-place
winner's poster in national marketing materials.
The contest is open to graduating high school
seniors
interested in pursuing a career in design. Students
must
submit an original poster design, a current high
school
transcript, and a statement describing their
design
process and why they want to attend an Art
Institute
school.
For further information, see the Americans for the Arts
Web
site.