The Creative Work Fund now invites letters of inquiry for projects featuring performing artists or visual artists. Collaborating artists must reside and organizations must be based in the following counties: Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Monterey, Napa, San Benito, San Francisco, San Joaquin, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Solano, Sonoma, or Stanislaus. This is the first time that San Benito and Santa Clara artists and organizations are eligible to apply. The deadline for letters of inquiry is 5:00 p.m. on November 6, 2009. This Web site offers information for applicants and grantees and will list application workshops that will be offered in September and October.
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Jennifer Kroot collaborating with the Legion of Graduate Students of the San Francisco Art Institute Filmmaker Jennifer Kroot’s 86-minute documentary. It Came from Kuchar will be screened as part of Frameline33 on June 21, 6:30 p.m. at the Castro Theater in San Francisco. George and Mike Kuchar will be on hand to receive the Frameline award, presented by Christopher Coppola. Visit http://www.frameline.org for the festival schedule or to order tickets. It Came from Kuchar tells the story of the legendary, underground filmmaking twins George and Mike Kuchar. The film interweaves the Kuchar brothers’ lives, their admirers, a history of underground film, and a “greatest hits” of Kuchar clips into a stream of consciousness story. George Kuchar has long taught at the San Francisco Art Institute and his current and prior students, through their campus organization the Legion of Graduate Students, played varied collaborative roles in the film’s development.
On Saturday, March 7, composer Paul Dresher, percussionist Steven Schick, and director Rinde Eckert are premiering Schick Machine, developed in collaboration with mechanical sound artist Matt Heckert. Other collaborators include instrument inventor and builder Daniel Schmidt, lighting and production designer Tom Ontiveros, and sound designer and engineer Gregory Kuhn. click for more...
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