A Blade of
Grass (a non-profit organization)
provides valuable RESOURCES to ARTISTS who demonstrate artistic excellence and serve as
innovative conduits for SOCIAL CHANGE. To that end, ABOG is inviting Letters of
Interest for its Fellowship for Engaged Art!
Happy Birthday to US!!
The
ABOG fellowship supports socially engaged projects that promote ART as a CATALYST
for social change (NOTE: I COULD argue
that ALL ART is a catalyst for social change, but that is a blog in itself!);
projects that feature artists in leadership roles; dialogue-based projects that
emphasize active and sustainable partnerships with communities; and projects in
which artists engage community members as equal partners on locally relevant
issues, or globally relevant issues as they apply to the local context. *Projects in which co-creation with
non-artists is part of the process are highly encouraged.
Fellows
will participate in a program that features a range of services, including a
two-day orientation that explores ABOG's documentation and assessment models
and includes workshops on strategies for community engagement; quarterly
co-assessment meetings with other fellows to share progress and offer feedback
to one another; support and feedback for ongoing self-assessment in the form of
collaborative action research; and assessment by an “outside evaluator”.
Eligible applicants include
individual artists as well as artists’ collectives with projects that engage
directly with a specific community or communities. NOTE: Artists may not
currently be enrolled as students and must be legal United States residents or
U.S. citizens who are at least 25 years of age. In addition, applicants must
have a website with contextualized examples of past work that a selection panel
can review.
Letters of Interest must be
received no later than November 24, 2014. Upon review, selected applicants will be invited
to submit full applications.
For
complete program guidelines, information about previous fellows, and application
procedures, visit http://www.abladeofgrass.org/ .
Namast-YEAH!
The Radically Honest
ART Cheerleader
Kelly N Patterson
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