ARTSLINK GRANTS.ArtsLink has announced the recipients of this year's Collaborative Projects grants. Eighteen awards totaling $110,000 were awarded to artists and arts organizations in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . The recipients will collaborate with artists and arts groups in Eastern and Central Europe Central Europe is the region lying between the variously and vaguely defined areas of Eastern and Western Europe. In addition, Northern, Southern and Southeastern Europe may variously delimit or overlap into Central Europe. on projects in the visual, literary and performing arts. Selected from over 100 applicants, the grantees will work together with artists in 12 countries including Armenia, Belarus, Lithuania, Russia, Poland and the Czech Republic Czech Republic, Czech Česká Republika (2005 est. pop. 10,241,000), republic, 29,677 sq mi (78,864 sq km), central Europe. It is bordered by Slovakia on the east, Austria on the south, Germany on the west, and Poland on the north. . Since its emergence in 1992, ArtsLink has awarded 179 Collaborative Project grants totaling over $750,000 to artists and organizations throughout the U.S. Among the recipients is Jon Rubin, a Brooklyn artist who will collaborate with Belarusian film director Yury Khashchavatski on the Floating Cinema Project, a multi-screen film performance to be presented on the Neman River Neman River Lithuanian Nemunas Belarusian Nyoman River, central Europe. Rising in Belarus, south of Minsk, it flows west into Lithuania and between Lithuania and Kaliningrad province, Russia, to empty into the Baltic Sea. . Bruce Checefsky from Cleveland will work with Agnes Eperjesi and the Association of Hungarian Photographers on a book and exhibition of digital photographs, photograms and photomontages to be shown at the Liget Galeria in Budapest. Tony Oursler Tony Oursler (American, born 1957). Oursler is known for video, performance and installation art. He is married to the abstract painter Jacqueline Humphries[1]. He's part of the rock group, Poetics, with fellow CalArt students Mike Kelley and John Miller. and Warren Niesluchowski from New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. will exhibit work using imagery projected onto puppets as well as Polish and English text at the Center for Contemporary Art at the Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw. Eight artists from the Mobius Artists Group in Boston will work with Croatian artists to create installations and performances that address the idea of liberty and the role of artists in Croatian and U.S. society for a project entitled Osvajanje Slobode/Taking Liberty. The work will be exhibited at the Cvajner Gallery in Pula Pula (p  `lä), Ital. Pola, city (1991 pop. 62,378), W Croatia, on the Adriatic and at the southern tip of the Istrian peninsula. and the Open Universi ty
Gallery in Novigrad.
A new ArtsLink program, Independent Partnerships, awards grants to Central and Eastern European arts professionals to collaborate on projects with U.S. colleagues. This year's recipients of $5000 grants include Emese Benczur of Hungary, a textile artist who will participate in Apex Art's Studio Program in New York City; Shagdarguntev Enkhbayar of Mongolia, who will organize an international arts festival An arts festival or art fair is a festival that focuses on the visual arts, but which may also focus on other arts. Arts festivals in the visual arts are exhibitions. to take place in Ulan Bator with San Francisco's SomArts Cultural Center; and Kristaps Gulbis, a Latvian sculptor who will spend a three-month residency at the Tyron Center for Visual Art in Charlotte, NC. With these programs ArtsLink aims to encourage the exchange of artistic skills and technical information in a creative, cultural dialogue that expands and promotes an international arts network. |
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