TO: Nashville Arts Organizations,
4 April 2001
Environmental Sculptor Chris Drury Presents Public Art Forum Lecture
British sculptor Chris Drury, noted for his site-specific works created within the natural landscape, will be guest speaker on the Public Art Forum series Thursday, April 19, 2001.
Drury's slide lecture begins at 7 p.m. in room 114 of Furman Hall on the Vanderbilt University campus, Nashville. The event is free and open to the public. Furman Hall is located adjacent to the Law School and Wilson Hall, just off 21st Avenue South.
This program is sponsored by the Metro Nashville Arts Commission, the Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery, the Vanderbilt University Medical Center Office of Cultural Enrichment, the Visual Arts Alliance of Nashville (VAAN), and the Frist Center for the Visual Arts. Co-sponsor of Drury's Nashville visit is the Robert Penn Warren Humanities Center at Vanderbilt.
Drury has gained an international reputation for his installations and commissions, which include shelters, cairns, vessels, earthworks, woven vessels and growing plants. Using the "canvas of mother earth" and "materials from the skin of nature," Drury's work can be seen as environmental art, although that is not how he sees it.
The artist says "the work simply reflects the moving from moment to moment in the world as it is, and so it is nature itself that communicates."
In an essay about Drury's art, Kay Syrad writes: "Most of his works disintegrate, others he dismantles. Some, if they are unobtrusive, remain. The art lies in the ideas, in the process of making, in judging of formal and spatial relationships, as well as in the assembled or made objects, which are often breathtaking in their beauty."
Drury studied sculpture at the Camberwell School of Art, London. A prolific artist, his installations, site-specific commissions, and individual works can be found throughout Great Britain, in Europe, Japan, and the United States.
For more information, call the MNAC at (615) 862-6720, or the Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery, at (615) 322-0605 or (615) 343-1704.
The Public Art Forum series is made possible in part by a grant from the Tennessee Arts Commission.
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Grant Proposals Match Previous Year
Although interest in grant funding is at an all-time high, with 13 new organizations signing in at the Metro Nashville Arts Commission annual grant orientation workshop, the MNAC received only one more grant proposal than last year. Total grant fund requests increased by only $18,000, an increase of less than one percent. Interestingly, there was very little change or movement in grant fund requests, reports Jane Ann McCullough, MNAC grants coordinator.
The Basic I proposal requests totaling $2,167,500 nearly matched last year's amount, both in proposal quantity and fund requests. Although the number of Program II grant requests and fund amounts decreased, Creation grant and Program I requests increased enough to balance this year's request with last year's.
In it's FY2002 budget requests, the Metro Arts Commission asked for $1.5 million in the Contributions for the Arts category.
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MNAC's Artist Registry Connects to California
A cardiologist's web designer from San Francisco called the MNAC recently seeking information on how to contact someone on the Artist Registry. If you are an artist living in Davidson County or a contiguous county and work or exhibit primarily in Nashville, the MNAC Artist Registry may be your "ticket" to a commission or a sale of work. If you are on the Registry, please visit your entry and make sure all your contact information is correct and current. Forward all corrections to arts@metro.nashville.org or call Teri McElhaney at (615) 862-6720.
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Arts Internships Available
The National Network for Artist Placement (NNAP) presents Arts Internships 2001/2002 Edition, a national directory citing over 1,250 host organizations and 3,000 internships. For more information, call (323) 222-4035 or visit www.artistplacement.com.
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Arts Accessibility Guide Developed
The Step by Step Guide to Accessible Arts in California, developed by the National Arts and Disability Center at UCLA, offers guidance to develop a plan to bring arts organizations into compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. The guide will help communities actively involve people with disabilities. The guide is available online at nadc.ucla.edu/conference.html or call (310) 794-1141.
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AOL Time Warner Foundation Aids Arts
Visit www.aoltwfoundation.org to learn of another arts funding foundation. The AOL Time Warner Foundation is a newly formed foundation that lists as one of its four priority areas "engaging communities in the arts."
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Grantsmanship Center Arts Database Available
The Grantsmanship Center has compiled a database of over 650 proposals, all selected by major government funders from among their highest-rated grant applications. Visit www.tgcigrantproposals.com to search the proposal abstracts free of charge.
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Competition Announced
Montgomery County and the Montgomery County Millennium Commission are conducting an open competition to select a permanent public art piece. The competition involves the design and execution of an exterior water sculpture with a budget of $92,000. Deadline is April 30, 2001. For more information contact Gregg Schlanger, schlangerg@apsu.edu, or visit www.apsu.edu/sculpture/millenniumplaza/ for a full prospectus.
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New MNAC Web Address
For faster access to arts news, the Metro Nashville Arts Commission has a new internet service provider plus a new domain name
The new name is an easy reminder that the MNAC is your key source of arts information. The new ISP gets you to the source quicker. Check out the site, bookmark it, and visit often.
Note: The Metro Government web address is www.nashville.org
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We Want to Hear from You!
Nashville arts organizations that have not yet submitted a completed FY 2000 Arts in the Economy survey are urged to set aside time to do so as soon as possible. Study results help make the case for the value of arts to Nashville.
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