Location: Providence, RI
Start Date: immediate
Full Time
Temporary

Job Description
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CityArts is a non-profit community arts center on the SouthSide of Providence.  CityArts mission is based on the ideal that all children should have access to quality arts  learning experiences  as part of their childhood and development.  CityArts serves over 1,200 urban at-risk youth between ages 8-14, through free afterschool, summer and daytime arts-integrated residency programs in communities and within schools across Providence and in Central Falls.  CityArts engages 25 teaching artists , 26 AmeriCorps and VISTA members, and 5 program/admin staff.

CityArts seeks a full-time Summer Camp Director to manage a 4 week camp at our Broad Street Arts Center, anticipated to support 120 youth between ages 8-14, in two 2-week sessions of multi-disciplinary arts classes. This position requires a dynamic arts educator/administrator who is passionate about Summer Learning, and the role of teaching artists and community youth arts programs to build skills and nurture the creative development of urban at-risk youth.  This is a temporary, full-time employment opportunity from June 17 through August 2, to support a site-based summer arts camp for 120 youth over 4 weeks.  Summer Arts Camp Director will be supported by a VISTA program coordinator and a Youth and Families Coordinator.

Responsibilities of this job will include, but are not limited to:
• Cultivate a positive arts learning environment for youth through team-building, creative programming, and staff leadership
• Orient, train, and supervise a summer program team of 10-15 staff—including 4 specialized teaching artists, 4 AmeriCorps teaching artists, 2 AmeriCorps Summer VISTAs, teaching assistants, junior counselors, and volunteers.
• Assist Teaching Artists in aligning their lesson plans to CityArts summer arts learning goals
• Manage the efficient use of resources—supplies, staff, summer budget, volunteers
• Oversee and respond to behavioral incidents, as needed by Youth and Family Coordinator
• Track and report payroll hours bi-weekly, and confirm hourly reporting of AmeriCorps timesheets.
• Coordinate and manage field trip activities, and end-of –session celebrations
• Conduct end-of-session surveys and youth reflection meetings, generate end-of-session program report

Required Skills and Experience
• Bachelor’s degree, Master’s preferred in Arts, or Arts Education
• 2-3 years of Supervisory experience in a school or community youth arts program—Summer Camp leadership experience is a plus
• Positive youth leadership and organizing skills
• Excellent communication skills—Spanish is a plus for working with families
• Excellent interpersonal skills and positive energy
• Humor, flexibility, creativity, grace under pressure, and energy for challenges are musts
• Some knowledge of youth development, education, and social justice issues

How to Apply
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Send inquiries, cover letter and resume to betty@providencecityarts.org by May 31, 2013 for consideration.  No Calls, please. As an equal opportunity employer we hire without consideration to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, or disability.

Apply for a NEST grant by March 1, 2013

NEFA’s New England States Touring (NEST) grant program provides support to New England-based
nonprofit organizations (known as presenters) for performances and community
activities by select New England performing artists.

DEADLINE

Applications are due by March 1, 2013 for projects
beginning on or after June 1, 2013.

The National Endowment for the Arts’ Shakespeare for a New Generation program supports high-quality performances and educational activities for underserved middle- and high-school students in the United States. Managed by Arts Midwest, the program invites proposals from nonprofit professional theater companies interested in performing works by Shakespeare and related educational activities between August 1, 2013, and July 30, 2014.

Up to forty theater companies will be awarded matching grants averaging $25,000 to perform a Shakespeare play in partnership with schools or school districts and provide related educational activities (workshops, discussions, or seminars) that reach a minimum of ten middle or high schools. While productions may be abridged, they must offer students the opportunity to hear Shakespeare’s text and to experience, to the extent possible, a full performance of the play. Productions loosely based on Shakespeare’s text will not be considered.

To be eligible, a theater company must be a U.S.-based nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization with a minimum of three years experience providing performances and educational activities at middle or high schools. The company must have produced a play by Shakespeare or from the classically-based repertoire within the past five years.

Reviewed by an advisory panel of theater experts, applications will be selected based on the artistic and educational excellence and merit of the production and the company’s ability to carry out the proposed activities while engaging underserved schools. In addition, all funds must be matched on a one-to-one basis with non-federal funds.

Complete program guidelines and application instructions are available at the Shakespeare in American Communities Web site.

Contact:
Link to Complete RFP

Primary Subject: Arts and Culture
Geographic Funding Area: National

FUSED DEADLINE

French-U.S. Exchange in Dance (FUSED) grants support organizations hosting residencies and/or presenting U.S. and French artists in the partner country. Learn more.

WHO MAY APPLY

Any U.S. or French nonprofit presenting organization, such as a theater or festival, may apply.

U.S. organizations presenting French artists apply through NEFA.

French organizations presenting U.S. artists apply through FACE.

DEADLINE

February 8, 2013.

NDP FUSED Artist David Wampach in Batterie
Grantee: Henry Street Settlement – Abrons Art Center
Photo: Fanny Lacour

FRENCH ARTISTS AT APAP|2013
Opportunities to learn more at APAP|2013. Hosted by the Office National de Diffusion Artistique (L’ONDA); visit their website for details and reservations.
French Artists’ Salons
Friday 1/11 1:30-3:30, FIAF, Le Skyroom
Monday 1/14 3:30-5:30, Cultural Services of the French Embassy
French Artist Showcases (see website for details)

NEFA’s National Dance Project is made possible with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, with additional funding from the MetLife Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, and with funding for special initiatives from the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, the French American Cultural Exchange, and the McKnight Foundation.

Established by children’s book author and illustrator Ezra Jack Keats, the Ezra Jack Keats Foundation is accepting applications from public schools and public libraries anywhere in the United States and its territories for program or event mini-grants of up to $500.

The mini-grants program is intended to support projects that foster creative expression, collaboration, and interaction with a diverse community. The funding program provides an opportunity for educators, whose efforts are often inadequately funded or recognized, to create special activities outside the standard curriculum and make time to encourage their students.

Projects funded in the past include murals, pen pal groups, quilts, theater productions, newspapers and other publications, intergenerational activities, and programs that bring disparate communities together.

Public schools and public libraries are eligible to apply. Preschool head start programs also are eligible. Only public organizations are eligible; private and parochial schools should not apply. Charter schools also are ineligible. Applicants must be located in the U.S. or its commonwealths or territories, including Puerto Rico and Guam. Only one application from each library or school will be considered.

Complete program guidelines, a video tutorial for applicants, and the application form are available at the Ezra Jack Keats Foundation Web site.

Contact:
Link to Complete RFP

CONTACT: Adrienne Petrillo Program Manager 617.951.0010 x527

Elizabeth Bouchard Program Coordinator 617.951.0010 x516

NEFA SUPPORTS ARTISTS WITH GRANTS AND PROFESSIONAL RESOURCES; ESTABLISHES VITAL CONNECTIONS BETWEEN ARTISTS, ARTS PROGRAMMERS, AND THE PUBLIC; AND STRENGTHENS THE REGION’S CREATIVE ECONOMY
THROUGH RESEARCH THAT INFORMS PUBLIC POLICY.
Read more about NEFA.

CONNECT WITH NEFA!

Apply for a NEST grant by December 3, 2012.

NEFA’s New England States Touring (NEST) grant program provides support to New England-based nonprofit organizations (known as presenters) for performances and community activities by select New England performing artists.

DEADLINE

Applications are due by December 3, 2012 for projects beginning on or after March 1, 2013.

View grant program details and apply today.

Need travel support to attend the

2013 APAP conference* or other upcoming events?

NEFA’s Presenter Travel Fund supports travel costs for arts programmers or curatorial staff in New England so that they may research new or unfamiliar artists or ensembles.

DEADLINE

Applications must be received by NEFA no later than one calendar month prior to the departure date of the proposed trip. It is strongly recommended to apply early as funds are granted on a first come, first served basis.

View grant program details and apply today.
* Visit NEFA at the 2013 APAP Conference in America’s Hall II, Booth #702!

NEFA’s New England States Touring and Presenter Travel Fund programs are made possible with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts Regional Touring Program and the six New England state arts agencies.

The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
is seeking nominations for the 2013 Kennedy Center/Stephen Sondheim
Inspirational Teacher Awards, a series of annual grants that recognize
inspiring teachers in the United States.

Now in their third year, the awards were created in honor of American
composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim, who frequently attributes his
success to the teachers in his life. The awards are presented each year
on Sondheim’s birthday — March 22 — to a handful of teachers,
kindergarten through college, who are nominated via the Kennedy Center
Web site.

To be eligible, nominees must be legal residents of the U.S.
Nominations must be based on experience as a full-time classroom teacher
in a K-12 school in the U.S. or as a college or university instructor
in the U.S. Nominators must be at least 18 years of age and have been a
student of the nominee. Nominations for teachers by peers, parents,
relatives, or other individuals based on non-teacher-student
interactions will not be reviewed.

Last year, ten teachers were recognized for their outstanding
influence on students. The recipients each received a $10,000 prize and
their stories, as told by the nominating student, were featured on a Web
site dedicated to inspirational teachers.

Complete program information and the online nomination form are available at the Kennedy Center Web site.

Contact:

Link to Complete RFP

Administered by the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation with support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation,
the USArtists International program is committed to ensuring that the
impressive range of performing arts in the United States is represented
abroad, and that American artists can enhance their creative and
professional development through participation at international
festivals.

Through USAI, grants are available to American dance, music, and
theater ensembles and solo performers that have been invited to perform
at international festivals and/or for performance engagements that
represent extraordinary career opportunities anywhere in the world
outside the U.S.

Applicants must be a dance, music, or theater ensemble or solo
artist, including practitioners of folk and traditional forms, working
at a professional level; be a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization or have a
U.S.-based fiscal sponsor that has nonprofit 501(c)(3) status; if an
ensemble, have the majority of its members be U.S. citizens or permanent
residents (whether a U.S.-based ensemble or a collaborative project
with artists in the host country); and, if a solo performer, be invited
to perform as a soloist without accompaniment and be a U.S. citizen or
permanent resident.

For the program’s purposes, a festival is defined as an event
consisting of live performances by multiple international performing
artists/ensembles in dance, music, or theater that takes place within a
contiguous period of three months or less. To be eligible festivals must
be sponsored or organized primarily by a non-U.S. based organization;
be international in scope, with representation from at least two
countries outside the host country, or have a U.S. theme with
representation from at least three U.S. ensembles and/or solo artists;
reach a wide audience and be open and marketed to the general public;
provide some support in the form of cash remuneration or paid or in-kind
contributions toward eligible project expenses; and provide the
applicant with a signed letter of invitation or signed contract to
perform at the festival.

In exceptional instances, USAI will consider applications for
international performance engagements that take place outside of
festivals if the engagement represents an extraordinary career
opportunity for the artist(s) and meets other criteria.

Grants, which will seldom cover the applicant’s total expenses,
generally range from $1,000 to $10,000, and will not exceed $15,000.

The December 7, 2012, deadline is for engagements taking place between March 1, 2013, and February 28, 2014.

Complete program guidelines and the application form are available at the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation.

Contact:

Link to Complete RFP

NEFA’s NEST grant program provides support to New England-based nonprofit
organizations (known as presenters) for performances and community activities by select New England performing artists.

Program Description

The Cultural Exchange Fund (CEF) is a travel subsidy program supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to assist U.S. based presenting professionals and their organizations and companies in building partnerships and collaborations with international touring artists, companies and their collaborators and to experience the work of artists from around the world in its cultural context. The Association of Performing Arts Presenters (APAP) recognizes that promoting global exchanges of artists and their work and cross-cultural programs is essential to fully engage audiences and communities in the breadth and diversity of performing arts experiences and provides an opportunity for presenting professionals to expand and deepen their knowledge of artists, traditions and cultures from around the world. APAP strongly encourages but does not limit travel to the following regions: the Middle East, Asia, Latin America and Africa.

APAP awards travel subsidies to individual presenting professionals including agents, managers and producers, presenting organizations and to groups of presenting professionals traveling to see the work of artists and companies, or to develop and advance projects with international artists and their collaborators.  All applicants must be active members of the Association of Performing Arts Presenters.

Beginning in the fall of 2011, the Cultural Exchange Fund will launch a pilot travel subsidy program for artists who wish to travel abroad to conduct research for a project or presentation. The Cultural Exchange Fund will not fund artists that are performing in festivals or touring in or outside of the United States, or traveling abroad to meet with international presenters about performance opportunities.

Artists — please note: Artists seeking funding for festival performances should visit the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation.

CEF does not fund for-profit organizations that cannot demonstrate a mission and history of relationship building, or project development that serves the presenting field, presenting organizations, or a particular community.

http://www.apap365.org/KNOWLEDGE/GrantPrograms/Pages/CEF3.aspx

Information for 2012 Applicants

The deadline for 2012 award applications is now extended to August 15th.

The Ruth and Harold Chenven Foundation gives annual awards to individual
artists and craftpersons living and working in the United States, and
who are engaged in or planning a new craft or visual art project.
Applicants should have a developed body of work. The Foundation does not
accept film, video, performance art or music submissions.

An independent jury of three artists or curators will judge the
submissions and make its recommendations to the Foundation Board of
Directors for final approval. The maximum award is 1,500 dollars.
Previous winners of a Foundation grant are not eligible for a second
award.

Winning submissions will be retained by the Ruth and Harold Chenven
Foundation and may be used by the Foundation for publicity purposes.

http://chenvenfoundation.org/index.html

Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation Invites Colleges and
Universities to Apply for Guest Artist Initiative Program

The Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation, the not-for-profit
foundation affiliated with the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, has announced a
Call for Proposals for the SDCF Guest Artist Initiative Program, a grant program
for colleges and universities to fund and facilitate the hiring of professional
stage directors and choreographers as guest artists. Through this program, SDCF
has funded six productions across the United States and has facilitated an
additional four productions.

To be eligible for this grant, the project must be produced by a regionally
or nationally accredited college or university located in the U.S.; be mounted
by December 31, 2013; and be fully funded. It is not required for the producing
school to have hired guest artists in the past. Projects for which the guest
artist has already been selected are ineligible.

SDCF will furnish up to $6,000 to be shared by at least two schools.

Program guidelines, application procedures, and information on previous grant
recipients are available at the SDC Web site.

Contact:
Link to Complete RFP

Association of Performing Arts Presenters and MetLife Foundation Announce
New Community Engagement Grant Program

The Association of Performing
Arts Presenters and MetLife
Foundation have announced the launch of a new program, All-In: Re-imagining
Community Participation, to support innovative strategies that target the full
spectrum of community members from all generations and populations in
community-based performing arts programs.

The program will support APAP-member presenting organizations that exhibit
outstanding approaches to community engagement.

The program is designed to identify and support organizations committed to
learning about and integrating new approaches to fostering the participation of
an entire community; support the planning and implementation of community
engagement projects that go beyond conventional audience development strategies;
and share new and adaptive strategies from funded projects in an effort to
increase the effectiveness of community engagement practices.

Projects should target one or more populations that lack significant
engagement in the arts and cultural life of the applicant’s community. Targeted
populations may be based upon demographics unique to the community (e.g.
ethnically diverse/immigrants, generational/older adults, economically
disadvantaged, people with disabilities, or others).

Applicants must be nonprofit entities and be a current member of the
Association of Performing Arts Presenters.

One-year grants of up to $25,000 will be awarded to presenting organizations
in support of promising new approaches to community engagement through the
performing arts. A total of $100,000 is available. One grant will go to an
organization focusing on global cultural exchanges.

Visit the APAP Web site for complete program guidelines and application
materials.

Contact:
Link to Complete RFP

Up to $3000 will be awarded. Submit 10 digital
images, image list, proposal, budget and resume. Deadline for receipt of
materials is May 25, 2012. For the prospectus send a SASE to Visual Arts Sea
Grant, Department of Art & Art History, 105 Upper College Rd, Kingston, RI
02881 or go to www.uri.edu/.artsci/art/index.html

The Visual Arts Sea Grant was established in 1988 to
encourage professional artists from New York and New England to address the
issue of the environment of the ocean and it’s coastal communities.

The Gucci Tribeca Fund provides finishing funds to feature-length documentaries which highlight and humanize issues of social importance from around the world. For films that are in production or post-production with the intended premiere exhibition in late 2012 or 2013. Deadline is March 6th, 2012. http://www.tribecafilminstitute.org/filmmakers/gucci_documentary/about

April 28 – 30, 2012, Hosted by American University’s Center for Social Media in Washington D.C.
This interactive three-day workshop is designed to develop the skills required to be a community and audience engagement coordinator for social issue documentaries and cross-platform media projects.
The Deadline to Apply is March 9th. http://workingfilms.org/reelchange

Offers  support to filmmakers through completion, premiere, marketing and  distribution of their first feature film.
Documentary Deadline: March  9th, Narrative Deadline: April 6th. http://www.ifp.org/programs/labs