Aurora has launched a new Kickstarter campaign to raise money for their relocation. Here’s the link for more information.

BYOB, Art Cars, and more in this edition. Happy belated Mother’s Day to all the Initiative moms out there.

http://rhizome.org/announce/opportunities/58504/view/ – Artspace

http://legionarts.org/legion-arts-to-host-vermont-theatre-company-residency – Legion Arts

http://www.pitchengine.com/www.vidalexus.com/lexus-moving-expressions – Self Help Graphics

http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2012/may/07/new-childrens-museum-birthday/ – Machine Project

http://www.pressherald.com/life/go/get-around_2012-05-10.html – Space Gallery

Image: From Lexus, Jamie “Vyal” Reyes and Patssi Valdez created work for this CT200h hybrid vehicle.

An opportunity to work in a Haunted Basement. Unless that’s how you already describe your current offices.

http://fiberartcalls.blogspot.com/2012/04/maryland-art-place-curators-incubator.html – Maryland Art Place

http://timeoutchicago.com/arts-culture/art-design/15289721/threewalls-helps-hull-house-museum-open-art-lending-library – Threewalls

http://www.hallwalls.org/community/5245.html – Hallwalls

http://losangelesartresource.wordpress.com/2012/05/01/51-jobs/ – LACE: job opportunity

http://charlottesvillearts.org/blog/arts-education-workshop-with-second-street-gallery-and-vmfa/ – Second Street Gallery

http://rhizome.org/announce/jobs/56997/view/ – Rhizome: job opportunity

http://www.springboardforthearts.org/haunted-basement-company-and-stage-manager/ – The Soap Factory:job opportunity

http://cabinetmagazine.org/events/shell.php – Cabinet

http://www.fh-joanneum.at/aw/home/Studienangebot_Uebersicht/fachbereich_information_design_technologien/ind/News_Events/ind_events/~cjup/120515_allen/?lan=de – Machine Project

http://events.marinij.com/san_francisco_ca/events/show/258085724-southern-exposures-annual-monster-drawing-rally – Southern Exposure

Image of the Soap Factory’s Haunted Basement, via Lindsey Lyford.

Steal this painting stolen, Frieze Art fair, and opportunities for artists.

http://blogs.artinfo.com/artintheair/2012/04/24/steal-this-art-painting-stolen-from-bushwick-gallery-momenta-art/ – Momenta Art

http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/events/satz.php – Cabinet

http://downtown.wgrz.com/news/arts-culture/65463-cepa-gallery-offers-summer-photography-camps – CEPA Gallery

http://www.philadelphiaweekly.com/arts-and-culture/148731875.html – Slought Foundation

http://www.asmk.ca/WP/?p=1044 – Exit Art

http://bayareaartgrind.com/2012/04/25/san-jose-institute-of-contemporary-art-ica-call-for-artists-sandbox-projects/ – San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art

http://blog.calarts.edu/2012/04/26/literary-la-east-of-borneo-black-clock-events-this-weekend/ – East of Borneo

http://artistsspace.org/programs/materials-money-crisis-2/ – Artists Space

http://www.galleristny.com/2012/04/artists-space-plans-frieze-week-club-nights/ – Artists Space and White Columns

http://urbanculturestudioresidents.wordpress.com/2012/04/27/ucp-open-studios-may-18-and-19/ – Charlotte Street Foundation

Image: Detail of a painting from Adam Simon’s “Steal This” series, stolen from Momenta.

Low Lives Festival, puzzle hunts, artist opportunities and job openings in this week’s roundup.

http://houston.culturemap.com/eventdetail/insightout-diverseworks-presents-stephan-koplowitz/ – DiverseWorks

http://www.sjica.org/uploaded/files/sandbox_application.pdf – San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art

http://bayareaartgrind.com/2012/04/15/headlands-center-for-the-arts-call-for-applications-affiliate-artists-program/ – Headlands Center for the Arts

http://legionarts.org/events/low-lives-festival – Legion Arts

http://www.clevescene.com/cleveland/downright-dotty/Content?oid=2949112 – Spaces Gallery

http://artistsspace.org/programs/w-a-g-e-survey-release/ – Artists Space

http://www.mitchellcenterforarts.org/resources/?p=2027 – Lawndale Art Center

http://bayareaartgrind.com/2012/04/18/job-associate-director-at-southern-exposure-soex-san-francsico-ca/ – Southern Exposure

http://dumbo.is/community/posts/you-will-go-home-a-winner-from-the-smack-mellon-derby-party – Smack Mellon

http://artvoice.com/issues/v11n16/art_scene/the_real_thing – Hallwalls

http://whatsupmiami.blogspot.com/ – Locust Projects

Image: Spaces artist Dott Schneider, via Cleveland’s Scene Magazine.

This week in Initiative organization news.

http://thinkplaycreate.org/news_releases/ncm_040512.html – Machine Project

http://www.knightarts.org/community/miami/a-first-look-at-the-miami-rail – Brooklyn Rail

http://www.sjica.org/uploaded/files/master_printer_job_description_april_2012.pdf – San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art

http://www.songkick.com/concerts/12452738-wye-oak-at-crowley-theatre-at-ballroom-marfa?utm_source=1471&utm_medium=partner – Ballroom Marfa

http://aurorapictureshow.org/calendar.asp?pageid=119&calid=749 – Aurora Picture Show

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/132795122/first-element-mobile-theater-project – Intersection for the Arts

http://www.saljournal.com/news/story/Art-center-director-leaving-5-12-12 – Salina Arts Center

http://www.three-walls.org/programs/csa/current/ – Threewalls

Image: Sneak peek at the Miami Rail, via the Brooklyn Rail.

A few items this week including some opps for filmmakers at Aurora Picture Show and a big project happening at Charlotte Street. Also be sure to look into NAMAC’s Leadership Institute. Information about that is here. Deadline is April 15th!

http://www.lavendermagazine.com/calendar/intermedia-arts-presents-open-kitchen-mero-cocineros-love-at-first-bite-friendly-dessert-contest/ – Intermedia Arts

http://machineproject.com/archive/events/2012/04/07/poetry-hike-with-eileen-myles/ – Machine Project

http://girlsclubcollection.org/locust-projects-looking-for-solo-exhibitions-from-south-florida-mfa-students – Locust Projects

http://www.ultimatemontrose.com/stories/323221-events-aurora-picture-show-film-festival-accepting-entries – Aurora Picture Show

http://www.charlottestreet.org/2012/04/ – Charlotte Street Foundation

Here’s a selection of Initiative links for the week. And congratulations to the Headlands on the launch of their new website, pictured above.

http://jobsplus.baltimoreculture.org/2012/03/23/maryland-art-place-map-announces-call-for-curators-to-participate-in-curators-incubator-exhibition-competition/ – Maryland Art Place

http://lawndaleartcenter.org/studio-program/application12-13.shtml – Lawndale Art Center

http://fuseboxfestival.com/ohana/aurora-picture-show-big-bad-wolf – Aurora Picture Show

http://houston.culturemap.com/newsdetail/03-29-12-aurora-new-home/ – Aurora Picture Show

http://www.forumartisti.altervista.org/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=179 – Charlotte Street Foundation

http://headlands.org/event_detail.asp?key=20&eventkey=1351 – Headlands Center for the Arts

http://www.artplaceamerica.org/articles/the-5m-project-2/ – Intersection for the Arts

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/30/mtv-revives-1985-art-brea_n_1391196.html – Creative Time

http://rhizome.org/editorial/2012/mar/27/rhizome-seven-seven-conference-earl-bird-tickets/ – Rhizome

Starting a trial project here on the blog. Each week we’ll round up some links from Initiative organizations around the country. These may be program updates, news coverage, or even the occasional Kickstarter project. We’ll keep it simple -just some links and the org they refer to.

http://soex.org/Event/345.html – Southern Exposure

http://structureandimagery.blogspot.com/2012/03/momenta-art-spring-benefit.html – Momenta

http://elpasotimes.typepad.com/pullen/2012/03/concert-update-feist-in-marfa-royalty-flaming-lips-beatles-randy-rogers-and-more.html – Ballroom Marfa

http://machineproject.com/archive/news/2012/03/20/aquacoustica-2/ – Machine Project

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/machineproject/transdimensional-hallway – Machine Project

http://rhizome.org/announce/jobs/56986/view/ – Rhizome

http://www.dallasartnews.com/2012/03/lawndale-art-center-announces-artist-opportunities/ – Lawndale

http://clatl.com/culturesurfing/archives/2012/03/22/stuart-horodner-pastes-together-scraps-of-the-art-life – Atlanta Contemporary Art Center

And don’t forget that we’ve launched the new travel grants as well. See previous blog post for information on applying.

Image: Ballroom Marfa.

We are happy to let you know about a new funding opportunity available to you through the Warhol Initiative. Although the foundation is not currently inviting new organizations to join the Initiative or planning any future convenings, we do still hope to foster and support meaningful connections among Initiative grantees and thereby continue to help build the capacity of individual organizations as well as the capacity of the network. After much thought and discussion with our advisors and with many of you, we determined that the most effective way to accomplish this goal at this time is to offer grants for staff travel.

Over the next year (from March 2012-April 2013), Warhol Initiative organizations and journals from the Arts Writing Initiative are eligible to apply for a one-time $5,000 travel grant.  These grants are meant to enable executive directors, curators, key staff and/or board members to visit their peers across the country (or abroad) to experience programming first-hand, exchange information and expertise, establish collaborative relationships, investigate institutional models and research regional artistic communities and practices.  We encourage but do not require grantees to visit fellow Initiative organizations with these funds. Grantees may pool their resources to organize group retreats or may use funds to attend conferences, festivals or other relevant events. Other possible uses of travel funds include study trips to strengthen the knowledge base or leadership potential of staff; travel to an organization for formal or informal coaching or mentoring; and exploratory visits to new spaces.

To apply for these grants, please send us a letter explaining where you would like to travel and why.  You may apply for more than one trip involving more than one staff member, but please try to send just one letter detailing all requests and include a rough budget. We will ask you to report on the grant after the funds have been spent and encourage you to document your travels. We are hopeful that, taken together, these trips will strengthen and deepen the network that the Initiative has fostered over the past twelve years.

We look forward to hearing from you.
Rachel and James

Image: © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.