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ARTSEDGE Worldwide Web pages and Arts Information Gallery Gopher are now available on the internet courtesy of The John F. Kennedy Center with support from the NEA and U.S. Dept. of Ed. Send your own information and browse in areas including K-12 arts education and Goals 2000. Gopher purple.tmn.com & select artsedge information gallery.
Non-Profit Organizations sponsoring art competitions in any discipline can apply to the Arts Foundation of Michigan for prize money for Best of Show awards, deadline May 1. Kim Adams, AFM, 645 Griswold, #2164, Detroit MI 48226. 313-964-2244
"The Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs 1995 Art Fair Directory" now available. Send #10 SASE with $.78 to MCACA, 1200 6th St., Detroit MI 48226.
Wildlife Art Sought for glass-domed building near the entrance of the Detroit Zoo. The City of Detroit-Detroit Zoological institute seeks work which is interpretive , not depictive. Send labeled slides or photos and SASE to: DZI, 8450 W. 10 Mi. Rd. P.O. Box 39, Royal Oak MI 48068-0039.
New Children's Plays sought by Jordan River Arts Council by Apr. 1 deadline. Plays should be for a child & teen performers and 45-90 min. length. Musicals must be accompanied by a cassette of the music & lyrics. Mail entires with SASE to: Playwrighting Comp., Jordan River Arts Council, Jordan MI 49727. 616-536-2151
"95-96 Disney Studios Fellowship Program" deadline Mar. 13-Apr. 7. Fellowships are offered in the feature film and television divisions. $30,000 salary for 1 yr. starting mid Oct. Application packet: Ron Baham, Studio Liason, Walt Disney Studios Fellowship Program, 500 Buena Vista St., Burbank CA 91521. 818-560-6894
"6th Annual All Michigan All Media Competition" deadline Mar. 31. $1000 Best of Show plus other prizes. For prospectus: Krasl Art Center, 707 Lake Blvd., St. Jospeh MI 49085. 616-983-0271
"Arts Midwest/NEA Regional Visual Artist Fellowships" deadline May 15. Crafts, photography & sculpture. Application: AMW, 528 Hennepin Ave., #310, Minneapolis MN 55403-1899. Arts Midwest Funding Associates Sandra LeBlanc-Boland or Scott Staupe 612-341-0755
Art Reach of Mid Michigan deadline Apr. 1 for entries for 95-96 season. Schedules shows: Textiles, Art from Recycled Materials, Native American Art, Folk Art, Flowers. Limit of 10 slides or photos of recent work. Edie Allen, Gallery Committee, P.O Box 166, 319 S. University, Mt. Pleasant MI 48804-0166. 517-773-3689
Ceramics Classes offered by Pewabic Pottery, 10125 E. Jefferson. Detroit begin Apr. 1 and run 10 weeks. Classes are offered at all levels including professional workshops for teachers and the sel-employed. 313-822-0954
"Great Lakes Poetry Project" now accepting submissions until Mar. 31 deadline. 1994 edition now available at Shaman Drum Bookstore. Send max. of 3 poems, prose, b&w photography, pen & ink or charcoal drawings with themes centering on concrete, natural images with positive overtones, with S.A.S.E and $5, to The Great Lakes Poetry Project, c/o Marquette Poetry Society, 201 S. Front St., Ste. 218, Marquette MI 49855.
"EMU Chalk Happening" 11 am-5 pm. Everyone invited to draw on the sidewalks outside Ford and Sherzer Hall on EMU campus, Ypsilanti. Chalk provided. Sponsored by Intermedia Gallery Group. Rain date Apr. 4. 487-1268
"Conference to Discuss the Underground Press" Aug. 18-20, De Paul University, Lincoln Park Campus, Chicago. Seminars discuss production of 'zines & chaps, fundraising, marketing, distribution, electronic publishing. Also: exhibitions, sales displays & parties. Mary Kuntz Press, P.O Box 476617, Chicago IL 60647. mkuntz@aol.com or 3120486-0685
"Air," "Earth(en)," "Water," "Fire" Slide deadline Mar. 15. Accepting work in several media for first four shows of '95 season of Michigan Gallery, 2661 Michigan Ave., Detroit. Carl Kamulski 313-961-7867
"24th Artists and Craftsman Show" Accepting sample work Wednesdays in March, Plymouth Community Arts Council, 774 N. Sheldon Rd., Plymouth. Show dates Aug 9-10, booth $100. 313-4164 ART
"Gifts of Art" program of U-M Hospitals soliciting slides from Michigan artists for approx. 80 art exhibits every yr. i 9 galleries. All media considered. Info: Gifts of Art, NI-5B01, NIB, 300 N. Ingalls, Ann Arbor MI 48109-470. 936-ARTS
"17th Annual Nimrod/Ruth G. Hardman Awards" Postmark deadline Apr. 10. Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Fiction and Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry, $1,000 1st prize, $500 2nd for each genre, publication in Nimrod: International Journal of Prose and Poetry. Contest rules: send #10 SASE to NIMROD Contest Information, 2210 S. Main, Tulsa OK 74114. Cheryl Gravis, Mng. Ed., Nimrod, 918-584-3333
"Ann Arbor Sculpture Garden" New 90 min. video tour of over 40 prominent area sculptures available at Ann Arbor Public Library and U-M Bentley Historical Library. Vine Productions, 747-8831
Art & Humanities Supporters can respond to the current threat to national funding by using two national phone campaigns to send messages to their elected officials in Washington. Live operators will provide details (incl. cost): 1-900-370-9000 (Emergency Committee to Save Culture & the Arts); 1-800-651-1575 (Cultural Advocacy Group). Concerned Citizens for the Arts in Michigan 313-961-1776
"1995 Arts & Apples Festival" Slide deadline Mar. 1. Fine arts & crafts fair in Rochester [MI] Municipal Park, Sept 9-1-. Est. attendance 125,000, booth fee $260, app. $15. For app. form, send SASE to: Art & Apples Festival, Paint Creek Center for the Arts. 407 Pine St., Rochester MI 48307. 810-651-7418
"Art Birmingham '95" Application deadline Mar. 15. Fine arts & crafts fair in downtown Birmingham, June 3-4. Est. attendance 2,000, single booth $225. Art Birmingham '95, 340 E. Maple, Birmingham MI, Birmingham MI 48009. 810-644-2150