The Alberta Foundation for the Arts (AFA) has created a new initiative; the AFA Fellowship for Emerging Curators, to support the growth and development of Curatorial talent. The AFA invites individuals and groups of individuals to submit a proposal for an online exhibition of Albertan visual art. The exhibition will be posted on the AFA’s Art House website and is intended to create exposure for the AFA collection, especially for artworks that cannot be used in regular AFA programming. The project is intended to bring a new perspective to the artworks and artists featured in the AFA collection. The AFA will ensure the successful projects are formatted and made available online, through the eMuseum platform.
Funding of up to $10,000 per proposal is available for this project. A maximum of three (3) Fellowships will be awarded. Please see attached document for full proposal details.
Timeline:
Application Deadline: December 22, 2014 at 4:00 PM Alberta Time
Projected Start Date: January 1, 2015
Project Completion Deadline: March 20, 2015
Eligibility Requirements:
Proposals may be submitted by:
- Emerging curators; persons with less than 10 years of professional artistic practice or less than 10 years of experience curating exhibitions in Alberta, Canada or abroad (equivalencies and combinations of experience will be considered);
- Individuals, sole proprietors’, or groups of individuals working in professional partnerships or curatorial collectives as long as all members can be classified as “emerging curators”;
- Individuals enrolled in graduate level, post-secondary education; individuals in undergraduate programs are not eligible to apply;
- Canadian citizens or permanent residents; Individuals residing outside of Alberta are eligible to apply.
The following projects and applicants are ineligible:
- Exhibitions already completed, or due to be completed, before the commencement of the funding period; funding will not be provided retroactively;
- Exhibitions prepared as part of post-secondary programs or where academic credits are given;
- Exhibitions that have been previously published, produced or exhibited;
- Costs for business start-up and the purchase of basic equipment (e.g. personal computer and software);
- Proposals submitted by commercial firms or corporations.
Proposal Requirements:
Applicants must include the following in their application:
A curatorial statement outlining the exhibition theme/idea/concept they want to develop;
The target audience of the exhibition; Suggested artworks from the AFA collection[1] ;
The suggested timeline for the project; Resumes of all curators involved in the submission; Sample curatorial statements, educational packages and/or interpretive guides to demonstrate the applicants’ experience or to support the proposal;
A statement outlining their approach to preparing educational or interpretive packages to accompany the exhibition;
Applicant proposals may also include a maximum of one (1) recommended acquisition for the AFA Collection (note, recommendations should meet AFA Collection Development Plan criteria);
A suggested minimum of one (1) on-site visit to the AFA collection in Edmonton, AB;
A proposed budget for the project, including travel costs to view the Collection.
Application Requirements:
Curators can include themselves as artists in the proposals;
All artworks included in the exhibition must be from the Alberta Foundation for the Arts Collection;
Late applications will not be considered; Incomplete applications will not be accepted.
Applications and inquiries can be mailed or e-mailed to:
Erin McDonald, Manager,
Art Collections The Alberta Foundation for the Arts
10708 105 Avenue Edmonton, AB T5H 0A1
erin.mcdonald@gov.ab.ca
Read more at http://www.affta.ab.ca/Arts-In-Alberta/Arts-Opportunities/AFA-Emerging-Curator-Fellowship---Call-for-Proposals
CALL FOR PROPOSALS: A NEW PLAY
A new national conversation is about to start. Through an innovative use of arts and technology, Canadians will be engaged in an evolving dialogue – both live and virtual – envisioning our nation’s next 150 years on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the conferences which led to the creation of our country. This is a call to write a play that will spark conversation about our hopes and fears for Canada in the next 150 years.
9 Plays
PEI’s acclaimed Watermark Theatre will commission nine short plays designed to spark conversations about the future of our country. The audiences’ responses will then be shared with the rest of the country through an interactive website in order to keep the dialogue going.
2 Languages
The plays, between 2 and 20 minutes long, will be written in either English or French. We will translate them into the other official language. They will be written in any style and could include music, movement or any form of imaginative expression. They will not be averse to laughter. They will be unusual, unexpected, challenging, accessible, entertaining.
20 Communities
Across Canada, 20 communities (Quebec City, St John’s, Iqaluit, Whitehorse, Yellowknife, Victoria, Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Saskatoon, Regina, Winnipeg, Thunder Bay, Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, Fredericton, Moncton, Halifax and Charlottetown) will each host three performances in a 150-seat theatre between January and May 2015.
150 Community Builders
Each theatre will identify and invite 150 people who represent the diversity of our nation to the first performance in that location. At the end of the tour, one person from each location will be selected by their community to travel to Charlottetown, where they will sit with the 19 other representatives around the table where the first conversation was held. There, a new conversation about Canada’s next 150 years will begin.
APPLICATION
Watermark Theatre invites eligible playwrights to submit a three page proposal containing the following elements:
A. A summary of your idea
B. A plan for executing your idea.
C. An estimate of both production requirements (scenery, projections, costumes, number of actors, actors with specific talents, etc.) and the length of your play
Please note, the proposal should be no more than three pages.
Unpublished writers, please include three examples of your work (no more than five pages each) and three references the committee may contact about your work.
We invite you to visit our website for more information, and to download an application form: www.watermarktheatre.com. Proposals on no more than three pages without an application form are also welcome.
DEADLINE
Please submit this proposal electronically by August 22, 2014 to Lynda Turnbull of Watermark Theatre:
lynda@watermarktheatre.com
IMPORTANT DATES
Selected playwrights will be informed by September 5, 2014. Only selected playwrights will be contacted. The writing timeline will be:
First draft due: November 17, 2014
Second draft due (if required): December 22, 2014
Rehearsal period: January 5 to February 7, 2015
Playwrights will be welcome to attend rehearsals (location TBD).
NOTES
Eligibility
To be considered for this opportunity, the playwright must:
A. Be a Canadian citizen or a permanent resident of Canada
B. Be 16 years of age or over
C. Provide three references and examples of their plays, or be a published or produced playwright
Selection Criteria
Plays will be selected based on the relevance of the material within the context of the organization’s mission and relative to the other plays commissioned. The selection of plays will be made by a committee of seven artists who represent Canada’s diversity in as many ways as possible, including but not limited to region, ethnicity, language and sexual orientation. These seven artists will be supported by a circle of advisors who support and enhance this diversity.The plays will be performed by no more than five actors.
Remuneration
All selected playwrights will receive a commission fee of $1500 and royalties of up to $500 for the performance of the play on tour. As no admission fee will be charged for the performances, a percentage of box office admission as a royalty will not be available. All rights remain the property of the creator after the tour.
Read more at http://www.affta.ab.ca/Arts-In-Alberta/Arts-Opportunities/Call-For-Proposals-A-New-Play
