Save the date for Art-B-Que!
Sunday, August 10, 2008 :: Gas Works Park, Seattle

The second annual Art-B-Que celebrates Artist Trust members, the 2008 Grants for Artist Projects (GAP) recipients, and 2008 EDGE Professsional Development Program participants and alumni. Get your membership now to be sure you get invited to this super-fun event!

Native Artists' Networking Event
Tuesday, August 26, 2008 :: 6-9pm
Deadline for images: August 1, 2008

Native Artists of Washington State are encouraged to participate in this Artists' Networking Event. Come meet other Native artists practicing in Washington State, check out our Artists' Assets Area, and enjoy coffee and treats. All artists are invited.

A slide show of artwork will be running continuously during the event. To participate in the slide show please submit three images (including title, medium and dimensions) to miguel@artisttrust.org. Include your name and contact information with the submission. Deadline for images: 8/1/08.
 
Suggestions for networking events are welcome and encouraged. To bring an Artists' Networking Event to your area, please contact lila@artisttrust.org.

Artist Trust Workshop: How to Build a Strong Grant Application
Tuesday, August 26, 2008 :: 7-9pm

Free Workshop for Artists Working in All Disciplines!

Monica Miller, Artist Trust's Director of Programs, will present information on how to apply for grants successfully. The workshop will give tips on preparing a strong grant application, including "dos and don'ts" for work samples, artist résumés, project proposals, and more. Artist Trust's Grants for Artist Projects (GAP) application will be used as an example and guide. The workshop will also share insider's knowledge about panel and selection processes. Along with receiving detailed information on how to prepare all grant-application materials, participants will learn how to access the vast array of grant possibilities available to Washington State artists.

Location: The Paradise Theatre School, 161 Center Road, Chimacum

This workshop is free but pre-registration is required. Please contact Jay Steingold, Programs Assistant at 206/467-8734 x10, 866/218-7878 x10 (toll-free) or jay@artisttrust.org to register.

Opportunities & Resources for Artists

Check out our up-to-date listings of the most current opportunities for artists, including calls for art, grant deadlines, studio and housing listings, auditions, residencies, health care information, and tons more. Even easier, set up an RSS feed and be the first on your block to know about opportunities like this:

• Live Historic recently purchased an enclave of vintage buildings on Seattle's Capitol Hill known as the BelBoy, which they are making into condominiums. Before putting the condos on the market, Live Historic is offering them to the arts community at discounted prices, with financial assistance opportunities. They will also offer artists the choice to purchase their home with an un-renovated interior at an additional 10% discount.
  
  
• The Clinic for Performing Artists at Virginia Mason in Seattle provides evaluation and treatment for the special problems of performing artists, including musicians, dancers, singers, actors, conductors and other artists.
  
  
• Washington Lawyers for the Arts presents "VIDEO GAME LAW: A Discussion for Video Game Artists, Content Developers, & Players." August 21. Join attorney and Artist Trust Board member William Rava for a discussion of the important legal issues facing video game artists, content developers, and gamers.

Late Saturday Afternoon: Portrait
August 2, 2008 :: 5-6pm

2007 Grants for Artist Projects (GAP) recipient Maki Morinoue directs Late Saturday Afternoon: Portrait, an experiment on waves of repetitive movement and progressive sounds. Dancers will perform in the center of the sidewalk so that pedestrians must walk through them. Music is an original sound score by Morinoue broadcast from speakers attached to the dancers' costumes.
 
Late Saturday Afternoon: Portrait is made possible in part by Artist Trust's Grants for Artist Projects (GAP) Program.

Warmth, Giant Black Toobs

2008 Grants for Artist Projects (GAP) recipient Susan Robb has installed her Warmth, Giant Black Toobs at the Sammamish Farmers Market.

"In Warmth, Giant Black Toobs, the artist uses solar power and ambient breezes to give life to the ever-present black plastic garbage bag. Polypropylene garbage bags, 50 feet tall by 30 inches in diameter, are inflated with air by allowing the wind to fill them or by running with them. One end is staked to the ground; the other end is free... Solar-produced buoyancy, breezes, and internal convection work to transform this symbol of the (American) cycle of consumption and waste into seemingly sentient creatures, live plastic hybrids whose choreography brings to mind the very sea creatures our epoch's mass of waste effects. Warmth is sited in park locations for practical reasons (the Toobs need wide open green space), but also on conceptual grounds as it creates a dialogue with the park itself pointing to the fact that the park is man-made vision of the natural world, a vision of nature control while the Toobs appear to have a mind of their own."
 
Warmth, Giant Black Toobs was made possible in part by Artist Trust's Grants for Artist Projects (GAP) Program.

Arts Events Across Washington

Check out these and other arts events across the state on our online Events Calendar, and post your own events there! 

• Becky Frehse, Betty Sapp Ragan, and others are exhibiting at the Grand Impromptu Gallery (Tacoma);
  
  
• Punch Gallery presents Summerfest! Three days of art, music, studio tours, and more (Thorp);
  
  
• The 15th annual Seattle Festival of Dance Improvisation's Off the Cuff performances feature John Dixon, Tonya Lockyer, and others.

News from Artist Trust Grant Recipients & EDGE Graduates

Congratulations to:

• Jane Richlovsky, who's currently exhibiting her work in Butte, Montana;
  
  
• Lynn Shelton, whose "My Effortless Brilliance" has been acquired for worldwide release by IFC Films;
  
  
• Otto Youngers, who recently completed a residency at the 3rd International Art Workshop in Thailand.

And check out:

• Frederic Wong's new website.

Please let us know what you're up to! And see more accomplishments of our grant recipients and EDGE graduates.

Artist Trust Seeks Pograms Interns

We need interns in our Programs Department, starting in September. You'll receive a free one-year Artist Trust membership, free entry to any public Artist Trust event, and a peek into our organization and the artists and resources in Washington State.

Take the Pulse®

The CodeBlueNow! Pulse® is a public policy tool that surveys Americans' ideas and values on what is important to them in a new health care system. The findings measure the pulse of the public's views on health care reform. The Pulse® is designed to report on areas of consensus and common ground by measuring how strongly people feel on a range of issues. The tool gathers input on respondents' views on a delivery system, how it should be paid for, and who should manage it. It was developed by CodeBlueNow!, whose mission is to create strong public will for change by engaging the public in designing, shaping and promoting a template for a new health care system.

Artist Trust and the Washington Artists Health Insurance Project (WAHIP) have been asked by CodeBlueNow! to reach out to artists of all creative persuasions so that their opinions will be included in the core data. This data will be used to develop proposals to present to elected leaders for policy reform. By completing this survey the voices of artists are kept in the conversation. The data from the survey will also help us in tracking information on artists and health coverage. Take the Pulse now (or paste http://www.questionpro.com/akira/TakeSurvey?id=10088633 into your browser).

Free Raffle to Support Artist Trust
Deadline: September 22, 2008

Want to help win money for Artist Trust? Pride Foundation's Raffle With a Twist will be giving away $7,500 to nonprofit organizations, and you can help increase the odds of Artist Trust winning! Enter the raffle online for free, and name Artist Trust as your favorite nonprofit. The more Artist Trust is named, the more likely it is that we'll win. Thanks for your support!