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APPLY NOW / INICIE SU TRAMITE APPLY NOW / INICIE SU TRAMITE View this email in your browser News & Opps // March 17, 2020 News As the COVID-19 pandemic unfolds, we at the Arts Foundation for Tucson and Southern Arizona plan to continue publishing News & Opps, our bi-weekly e-newsletter that supports the arts community through the sharing of resources and funding opportunities. Stay tuned, as we plan to release a letter specifically addressing COVID-19 from our leadership tomorrow. PUBLIC ART - Call to Artists: Pima County Public Library Martha Cooper Library Expansion Budget for Artwork: $31,500 Application Deadline: March 20, 2020 Project Description: The Pima County Facilities Management Department is seeking an artist or artist team to create design/fabricate/install art work as a part of the work for the upcoming expansion of the Martha Cooper Library within the library system and the Garden District neighborhood community within which it exists. The design of the expansion will begin with the hiring of the Architect pending the approval by the Board of Supervisors at their board meeting anticipated on March 17, 2020. The design of the expansion is consequently not set at this time. The art work will need to be incorporated into the design of the expansion and site improvements. The budget reflects the inclusion of the design, fabrication and installation for the public artwork. New Works Artist Project Grant $4000 individual awards for Visual Arts, Literary Arts, Video/Film/Moving Image The New Works Artist Project Grant seeks to support the depth and breadth of innovative new artwork created and produced in the City of Tucson and Pima County. It supports individual artists’ projects that meet the highest standards of excellence across a diverse spectrum of artistic disciplines. Creation activities must include the production of new artwork with an original and imaginative approach to content and form, as well as a public sharing, premiere, or presentation of the final piece. Application deadline: April 6, 2020
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News
As the COVID-19 pandemic unfolds, we at the Arts Foundation for Tucson and Southern
Arizona plan to continue publishing News & Opps, our bi-weekly e-newsletter that
supports the arts community through the sharing of resources and funding opportunities.
Stay tuned, as we plan to release a letter specifically addressing COVID-19 from our
leadership tomorrow.
PUBLIC ART - Call to Artists: Pima CountyPublic Library Martha Cooper Library ExpansionBudget for Artwork: $31,500Application Deadline: March 20, 2020
Project Description: The Pima County Facilities Management Department is seeking an artist or artist team to createdesign/fabricate/install art work as a part of the work for the upcoming expansion of the MarthaCooper Library within the library system and the Garden District neighborhood community withinwhich it exists. The design of the expansion will begin with the hiring of the Architect pendingthe approval by the Board of Supervisors at their board meeting anticipated on March 17, 2020.The design of the expansion is consequently not set at this time. The art work will need to beincorporated into the design of the expansion and site improvements. The budget reflects theinclusion of the design, fabrication and installation for the public artwork.
New Works Artist Project Grant$4000 individual awards for Visual Arts, Literary Arts, Video/Film/Moving Image
The New Works Artist Project Grant seeks to support the depth and breadth of innovative newartwork created and produced in the City of Tucson and Pima County. It supports individualartists’ projects that meet the highest standards of excellence across a diverse spectrum ofartistic disciplines. Creation activities must include the production of new artwork with an originaland imaginative approach to content and form, as well as a public sharing, premiere, orpresentation of the final piece.
Application deadline: April 6, 2020
New episode of Artistories on KXCI 91.3FMArtistories is a KXCI program from the Arts Foundation that highlights
the work of our grantees.
In this episode we hear from Cassandra Bendickson of LuftBassoons, a Tucson based band ofbassoons on a mission to bring the magic of the bassoon everywhere and anywhere. Cassandradescribes the variety of genres the quartet enjoys performing, and their grant-funded projectaimed at bringing locally-composed music to their stage.
Artistories is a project of the Arts Foundation for Tucson and Southern Arizona, which ispartially funded by the City of Tucson and Pima County.
Grantee & Sponsorship Spotlight
News and events from Arts Foundation awardees, supported by the City of Tucson
and Pima County
Behold the Big Top: Jean LeRoy's Circus Parade Exhibition*
February 4 - May 10, 2020
The Mini Time Machine Museum | 4455 E. Camp Lowell Dr.
This exhibit of hand-carved folk art is a nostalgic slice of Americana– depicting the circus' main attractions
parading down Madison Wisconsin's Main Street, along with behind-the-scenes dioramas of circus life, as
experienced by LeRoy during the 1930s when he was a clown with the Cole Brother's Circus. Find out more
here: https://theminitimemachine.org/exhibitions/behold-the-big-top/
The Mini Time Machine Museum is a GOS Grantee 2019-2020.
*For the well-being of our visitors, staff, volunteers, and community-at-large during the COVID-19 outbreak, the
museum will be temporarily closed, and all programming cancelled, through March 31, 2020.
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About News & Opps The Arts Foundation for Tucson and Southern Arizona News & Opps provides information for artists includingcalls for exhibitions, commissions, fellowships, employment and free professional developmenttraining/workshops, and educational opportunities. News & Opps does not announce exhibit openings, fee-basedopportunities, programming, workshops or performances, fundraising events, or commercial art venues*. News& Opps is a free service highlighting submissions received by the Arts Foundation for Tucson and SouthernArizona that are aligned with its mission.
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