I think that the apparition of huge pierced cocks would make the breaking up process of smoother

Calls for Work, Auditions & Competitions
The following local and national calls for work have recently been announced. If you would like to receive e-mail notification of new competitions and opportunities in the arts, contact Nancy Yager, Development Associate at (716) 856-7520.

Calls for Visual Art
Beyond / In Western New York Call for Entries
Hallwalls Resolutions 2004
Courage Cards Seeks Art
Schoharie County Arts Council 2004 National Small Works Exhibition
'Homage to Salvador Dali' Call for Work
World Peace Art Exhibition and Auction
Artists: Sell Your Work at CustomMadeArt.com
Art Deadline.com
Artists Wanted to Exhibit at Churches
Squealer Call for Writing/Art
Art for Greeting Cards
Arnot Art Museum Call for Entries
Call for Work: Myth and Legends in Art


Calls for Singers/Actors

Performers Wanted for Ethnic Festivals at Darien Lake

Misc.
Princess Grace Awards in Theater and Playwrighting
National Trust Preservation Awards
Civic Empowerment Awards Applications Available
Nonprofits: Enter to Win a Ford Van

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Beyond / In Western New York Call for Entries



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Courage Cards Seeks Art

CourageCards announced today that it is conducting a nationwide art search to find artwork for its 2005 original fine art holiday greeting card collection.All artists, particularly those with a disability, are encouraged to submit artwork for the 2004 Courage Cards Art Search.

The 2004 Courage Cards Art Search seeks colorful original fine art that is suitable for holiday greeting cards, including traditional Christmas, Thanksgiving and general holiday greeting images. Additional themes needed are wintertime scenes of major cities and world peace designs. In addition to national exposure from the distribution of more than 800,000 catalogs, a licensing fee will be paid for each artwork selected.

Entries for the 2004 Courage Cards Art Search will be accepted from January through May 2004. Between 30 and 40 images will be selected for inclusion in the 2005 Courage Cards collection on the basis of artistic merit, suitability o
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bject matter and color. Winners of the 2004 Courage Cards Art Search will be announced in December 2004.

For a copy of the 2004 Courage Card Art Search guidelines, please visit the Courage Cards Gifts Web site at www.couragecards.org, email at artsearch@courage.org or call Courage Center at 763-520-0211 or 1-888-413-3323.

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Nonprofits: Enter to Win a Ford Van

The Ford Dealers of WNY is inviting nonprofit organizations in the 8 counties of WNY and 2 counties in Northern Pennsylvania to apply for its annual van giveaway program. The deadline is April 30, 2004.

To receive an application, go to www.wnyford.com, or write to: Ford Friendship Express Program, 50 Fountain Plaza, Suite 1000, Buffalo, NY 14202

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National Trust Preservation Awards

Each year the National Trust (www.nationaltrust.org) celebrates the best of preservstion by presenting the National Preservation Awards to individuals and organizations whose contributions demonstrate excellence in historic preservation.

For 2004, the award categories are as follows:

The Trustees’ Award for Organizational Excellence (Deadline: March 1, 2004)
The John H. Chafee Trustees’ Award for Outstanding Achievement in Public Policy (Deadline: March 1, 2004)
The Trustee Emeritus Award for Excellence in the Stewardship of Historic Sites (Deadline: March 1, 2004)
The National Trust/HUD Secretary’s Award for Excellence in Historic Preservation (Deadline: March 1, 2004)
The National Trust/Advisory Council on Historic Preservation Award for Federal Partnerships in Historic Preservation (Deadline: March 1, 2004)
The National Preservation Honor Awards (Deadline: May 1, 2004)
See the Preservation Trust Web site to download detailed program information and a nomination form.

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Civic Empowerment Awards Applications Available

Presented by the Buffalo Niagara All-America City Committee, the Civic Empowerment Awards Program recognizes successful collaboration between citizens, government, businesses and non-profits. Since 1996, 81 community projects have been honored that utilize partnerships to enhance the quality of life in the Erie-Niagara Region. Applications will be accepted from both Erie and Niagara County. The application is a simple two-page format and no filing fee is required.

The 9th Annual Civic Empowerment Awards Honorees will be introduced during a community celebration dinner at the Adam’s Mark Hotel on Tuesday, May 4th, 2004. In addition, the All-America City Committee will present the “Louis Billittier, Sr. Exemplary Civic Action Awards.”

Civic Empowerment Award Applications may be obtained by writing the Buffalo-Niagara All-America City Committee C/O Wellness Institute of Greater Buffalo-Niagara, 65 Niagara Sq. Room 607 Buffalo, NY 14202, calling 851-4052, faxing 851-4309, e-mailing: wellness@ch.ci.buffalo.ny.us or downloading the application from the All-America City Web page at: www.city-buffalo.org/document_246.html

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Schoharie County Arts Council 2004 National Small Works Exhibition

Cobleskill, NY, June 4 - July 2, 2004
Entry deadline: April 1, 2004
April 26: Accepted entries notified, others by May 1.
May 27: Deadline for delivery of artwork.
June 4: Opening Reception, 5:30-7:30 PM.
July 2: Exhibit closes.

For more information and an application, please visit www.SchoharieCountyArtsCouncil.com.

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nPrinc
ess Gr
ace
Awards Available for Theater and Playwright Programs

Deadline: March 31m 2004

The Princess Grace Awards ( www.pgfusa.com) are dedicated to identifying and assisting emerging young artists in theater, dance, and film to realize their career goals through scholarships, apprenticeships, and fellowships.

Applications for 2004 are now available for the following programs:
Theater (Deadline: March 31, annually)
Playwriting: (Deadline: March 31, annually)

See the Princess Grace Foundation Web site for complete program guidelines and forms, as well as information on the foundation’s programs for dance and film artists.

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Artists Wanted to Exhibit Work at Local Churches

As part of our Community Music, Arts and Wellness Program, North Park Church is initiating a cooperative program between churches and artists.

For centuries the church was a primary supporter of the arts. Many churches today have prominent areas to beautifully display an artist's work. This sharing of space and art benefits you by providing exhibition space which is seen by many people each week. The arrangement benefits the church by providing points of interest within the church and exposure to an artist's work they may not see otherwise.

If you, or someone you know, would like to exhibit your art in a local church, please call Melissa Foster, North Park Church, at (716) 838-2150 for more information.

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Articulate, Inc. Seeks Art for Greeting Cards

Articulate Ink is a new company dedicated to the promotion and purchase of fine arts through greeting cards.

If greeting card customers wish to purchase the art featured on the card they may do so from our website. The website address is indicated on the back of each card. The majority of the revenue goes back to the artists.

We are currently looking for original works of art to feature on our greeting cards as well as on our web site. All forms of art are welcome.

Please send a maximum of three digital photos of artwork, pricing and contact information to artwork@articulate-ink.com if you have any questions or need additional information.

You may also visit for more information.

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Call for Work: Myth and Legends in Art

We are planning a special exhibition at the Museum of European Art
for OCTOBER 2004 on the theme MYTH AND LEGENDS IN ART.

Works of art inspired not only by the Greek and Roman mythology, but
also from other cultural and geographical areas and other times,
older or more recent.

Special emphasis will be also on Celtic mythology, which has been
experiencing a revival in recent years.



Artists interested to take part in the exhibition should contact us
already now, so we can have a many-sided, interesting exhibition.


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"Homage to Salvador Dali" Call for Work

As part of our SPRING 2004 art exhibition, we will include a 'HOMAGE
TO SALVADOR DALI", in honor of the 100th birthday anniversary of the
genius from Catalonia, Spain.

Exhibited will be a selection of his limited edition LITHOGRAPHS,
SCULPTURES, COLOR WOODCUTS, AND OBJECTS OF ART.

WE INVITE artists from BUFFALO AREA and TORONTO, who have been in
some way INFLUENCED OR INSPIRED by the life work of Salvador Dali, to
JOIN this HOMAGE by showing some of their works at this art exhibition,
which OPENS ON APRIL 22, 2004 at the Mu
seum of Eu
ropean Art
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nDeadline is March 20, 2004, BUT space is limited.


Interested artists should contact John Zavrel at

zavrel@meaus.com



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World Peace Art Exhibition and Auction

Exhibition to be held at the University of Toronto, April 25th-May 5th, 2004

• all proceeds to Amnesty International – exhibition/auction also online.

• Artists whose work is auctioned for $50 or more will receive a receipt for tax purposes

Work must be received by no later than April 19th, 2004

For more information contact Maxi Boyd 416-466-8425 or maxiboyd@yahoo.com

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Artists: Sell Your Work at CustomMadeArt.com

+ FREE LISTINGS for Online Gallery - Custom Made Art .com +

All listing fees are waived for "excepted" artists who can provide these products..."Handmade" Lamps, Toys, Tableware, Furniture under $1500, Sinks & Tile, Baby items, Blankets & Pillows, Bags, Jewelry and Sculpture. We're also open to other highly functional art that is used in everyday living.


Artists will recieve for free...their listings within our catagories and a personal page for a one year duration. When an item sells the gallery will recieve payment as a small commission, artists recieve 70% of final value plus their shipping, an additional 10% or more depending. Please provide the following for free gallery representation listings ...

SUBMIT ONLY BY MAIL. Deadline is 4/1/04
10-30 Art product examples that are available for sales.
Your Contact Information. Email address required.
Description of your Medium & Technique.
An explaination of how you can customize your art to suit clients needs.
SASE - If you would like your images sent back to you.
All must be in English - Thank you!
Images can be sent as a digital printout, traditional photo, or saved onto a C.D.

Please Mail Submissions to:
Custom Made Art.com
Att: New Artist Submit
1556 Shore Club Dr.
St. Clair Shores, MI USA 48080
We can be viewed at www.custommadeart.com to see what we currently have to offer.
Excepted artists will be notified by 5/1/04. Thank you.
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Performers and Groups Wanted for Ethnic Festivals at Darien Lake

Starstruck Productions will be producing two events at Darien Lake this summer that use ethnic entertainment; in July a Hispanic festival and in September an International Festival showcasing all ethnicities. Please pass along our information to cultural organizations that have dance groups, bands, and/or other types of presentations.

For more information, please contact Tom McGill at Starstruck Productions, (716) 896-6666 or www.StarstruckProductions.net.

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Hallwalls Resolutions 2004

Early deadline: April 5, 2004, $10 submission fee
Late deadline: May 3, 2004, $20 submission fee
Please note: Fees are waived for residents of Buffalo, NY

The first annual RESOLUTIONS FESTIVAL, October 22 through 24th, 2004, celebrates Hallwalls¹ return to downtown Buffalo with a focus on original media and performance work that highlights the experimental and resolutely unique. Send us your short (under 20 min.) single-channel video, sound pieces, installations, online art, performance propositions, and film work for consideration and become part of the first RESOLUTIONS FESTIVAL.

All submission fees go towards the design and printing of posters, a brochure detailing all RESOLUTIONS events, and towards the soon-to-be prestigious Most Resolute Award.

All work produced since Jan. 1 2002 will be considered. Include a short biography/
resume, a brie
f description
of the work
you¹re submitting, and whether or not it¹s screened/been performed before and where. Make sure that your submission (VHS in NTSC or PAL, CDs, DVDs, and URLs) is labeled with the maker¹s name, the title of the piece, and total running time. Please send a SASE with your work if you wish to get it back, otherwise your tapes will be recycled. These details are important—any submissions not including all requested information will not be considered.

Send submissions to:
J. Raczynska
c/o Hallwalls
RESOLUTIONS 04
2495 Main St. suite 425
Buffalo, NY 14214

I couldn't resist my bed in the end. It least I got the packages out. It's time to start working on other stuff now that I'm awake again. It looks like another all nighter. This time I'll try to stay up all day tomorrow. My apartment is a mess now. I need to make a comic that promotes worship of the mother goddess.

Nice bed, soft bed, stop calling to me. I feel like skipping class today. I've been up all night preparing stupid packages to go out today. I'm sending out three of them and hopefully some of these institutions will want to play my stuff. I hate that step. I like actually screening. I live for that, it's fun. I'm sleepy as all get out now! Time is speeding up. Where is my time? What happened to it? Where is my money, will, inclination, and humor?

I send my praises to Terry. He is a mighty fine cook, he is! Thanks for a lovely evening y'all.

We were girls experimenting in ecstasy.

"An unjust law is no law at all"
- Saint Augustine (via MLK)


When machines and computers, profit and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered
-Martin Luther King, Jr. Declaration of Independence From the War in Vietnam, April 4, 1967

Paul I'm yer biggest fan

Yes, the choices suck but Bush is the king of bastards. A total turd. He sucks more than a black hole. I wish that he would have a heart attack, a car wreck, a plane crash, or good old-fashioned kidnapping and torture. Yes, Bush is bad. It almost makes me want to vote, almost... but not quite.
It is sad this anti-voting mind set of mine but the truth is all the candidates are fuckers and not anyone who I would choose as a leader. Where are the fucking lady leaders in this cuntry? eh? It's not that I hate guys, I love dick but I think dick is the wrong choice to lead the people. The woman god has been crushed for long enough. Fucking Laura Bush, What kind of Bitch is she? Not a good one I'd say. I hope she dies a painful death and burns eternally in the fiery depths of hell, even though we all know hell is a bull shit concept. I just hope for a minute that it's real because surly the Bushes would Burn.
So no, as tempted as I am to vote for some other shithead just to do my part in the attempt to get the super shithead out of office, I will refrain. I refuse to make an effort and waste my energy until there is someone worth voting for in the line up.
If however this shithead bush does end up in office again, I predict mass protest, the kind of protest that haven't been seen since the late sixties. Oh dear God I would be a part of that uprising. I would gleefully die for a cause that is correct and progressive.
I'm sick of all these old white men.

Joy,

Well, the first day of my African aesthetics class the teacher, Deborah Jack played a bunch of music for us and one of the songs was Strange Fruit by Billie Holiday. So I looked up information on the song and here is what I found.


Abel Meeropol wrote the poem strange fruit, in 1937 after seeing the enclosed photograph. He was a Jewish schoolteacher who adopted the Rosenberg boys after their parents were executed by our government.


Billie Holiday made the poem famous through song.
Strange Fruit


Southern trees bear a strange fruit,
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root,
Black body swinging in the Southern breeze,
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees.

Pastoral scene of the gallant South,
The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth,
Scent of magnolia sweet and fresh,
And the sudden smell of burning flesh!

Here is a fruit for the crows to pluck,
For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck,
For the sun to rot, for a tree to drop,
Here is a strange and bitter crop.







so what does this have to do with my granny? Well, last night at about 4 or 5 in the morning I was trying to sleep but I had a terrible headache and just kept thinking about the development or my personal construct of race. This starts out within the family and then later on school and other social environments.

I remembered how my dad once told me that he remembers being on a school bus chanting "2, 4, 6, 8, we don't want to integrate." He was a teenager. Then I started thinking about what a poor and miserable mill town my dad grew up in. He definitely had issues about class. He went to school in the neighboring town and all the kids from his part of town (or side of the river) were looked down upon as poor trashy "river rats." I think that my dad as a child learned to displace his personal feelings of inadequacy onto Afro-Americans. That rationalization does little to explain the historical racism of rich whites.

Thinking of my dad though made me think of my granny. She worked in this tiny mill in Bynum NC from the age of 12 to 76. A mill town is a pretty miserable environment. The community consisted of a group of houses all close together, similar to a subdivision with outhouses, I guess. The people who worked in the textile mill were also dependent on the mill owners for their housing. Granny was born in 1909. So she would have been our age at the start of the great depression and 28 when Strange Fruit was written.

My granny died when I was 16 so I was trying to remember things that she told me when she was growing up. Then I remembered this story. I'll try to tell it as I remember her telling it to me but it was a long time ago so its probably not totally accurate.

Granny's story

Everybody was gathered around because they were going to hang this man. The man was up in from of the crowd about to be hung when he said "Lord, if I am innocent, let the wind shake this tree" and right then and there the wind came and shook up the tree. I went home after that, they still hung the man but I didn't want to see it because I knew it wasn't right. They should have let him go.

Well, that's a story or history that troubles me. I was a little girl when my granny told me that. I remember when Granny said she left after the wind shook the tree I asked her why. This is sick but I think that a hanging seemed like something exciting to me when I was little. I didn't know anything about lynching so I didn't make the connections that I can make today. When I was researching strange fruit I came across Lynching Statistics from A. Red Record. It's fucked up and sad that so many people were murdered in one year alone. I don't know if my granny was talking about a lynching. She never said that word and she never specified the race of the man they hung but still, I d
on
'
t kn
ow. I'm sorry to bring all this heavy information down on you Joy but you asked so... I delivered. Are you sorry you asked? What do you think of Granny's story? It bothers me that she knew it wasn't right but didn't do anything about it.

Robin

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Robin,
Hey I know that you are going to be shocked but I emailed a copy of this letter to artnews..Why? because your story hit me , and I feel that millions of other people have the same story ..It is sad to say that my great granny never told me stories like that instead she told me stories about how she had sex with a white man in the town while she was still married to her husband but in that town no one could do such a thing...She got pregnant with my grandma, and she wanted to keep the baby..I remember her mostly telling me that the white man was a doctor , and one day she told my grandma"do you want to know who your real dad is " so she took my grandma into town to his office..She wasn't allowed in even though that white blood ran through his body. He came out of the store gave her a lollipop and said ..You can't come back down here anymore.. I wondered how my granny felt ....I wonder does she think about her dad..I wonder what the town would have been like if she would have announced it....Race is not just about color..Well at least that is what I think it's this long threaded out history .....And even though some people think that it is over it is not....It shapes are existence.. I mean what if my great granny told the whole town.....Would I even be here today..So yeah it is a dechotamy of so many things......so many grey stories..... I mean I can remember hanging out with my friends and being the only black girl at a table of ten...Of course it made me aware....Also dating white guys and meeting there parents..I know in their eyes I raise old buried stories , of what they did , or said and didn't do....but the generation is changing ....I don't know to what..but I think we all are hanging in trees..haunted by an illusion of what we think is truth.
Joy


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