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New Jersey Individual Artist Fellowships Deadline Approaching!
 Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation is administering on behalf of the New Jersey State Council on the Arts their individual artist fellowships program for 2012. Artistic categories eligible for consideration include crafts, photography, playwriting, poetry, and sculpture. Applying artists must be residents of New Jersey. To view the New Jersey guidelines or access the online application, please click here. The application deadline for the 2012 New Jersey fellowships is July 15, 2011.
The New Jersey State Council on the Arts is offering technical assistance workshops to explain the application process and review important information about the online application. The final workshop is scheduled for:
June 25, 2011| 10:00 AM - 12:00 NOON The Arts Council of Princeton
102 Witherspoon Street
Princeton, NJ |
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Phil Woods Named BNY Mellon Jazz 2011 Living Legacy Award Recipient  Alto saxophonist Phil Woods has been named the winner of the BNY Mellon Jazz 2011 Living Legacy Award. A renowned bandleader, composer-arranger and soloist, Woods has also been the recipient of four Grammys and the NEA Jazz Master Award. Woods will be honored in a special ceremony at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC on Friday, October 14, 2011. The celebration will include a reception, the award ceremony, and a performance by 2010 Legacy Awardee Roy Haynes in the Terrace Theatre. Conferred by the Foundation since 1994, the award annually honors living jazz masters residing in the mid-Atlantic region who have achieved distinction in jazz performance and education. For more information on the BNY Mellon Jazz Living Legacy Award and the 2011 event, click here. |
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Maryland Individual Artist Award Workshops Reminder
 The Maryland State Arts Council and Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation will offer workshops and webinars to prospective applicants on the online application system being used for the 2012 Individual Artist Award program. Training will include how visual artists should submit digital images with their applications. The workshops will be offered for Maryland residents on the following dates and locations:
Workshop 1:
June 27, 2011 | 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Montpelier Arts Center
9652 Muirkirk Road
Laurel, MD
Workshop 2:
June 29, 2011| 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM Chesapeake Arts Center
194 Hammonds Lane
Brooklyn Park, MD
Online webinars will be offered on July 11, 2011 from 2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. and July 13, 2010 from 10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. To register to attend a Maryland workshop or webinar, please contact Ann Turiano at Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation at 410-539-6656 x 101 or ann@midatlanticarts.org. |
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Annual Fund!
MAAF's 2011 annual fund campaign is coming to a close on June 30th. Thank you to all of our loyal supporters who have donated to Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation this year. Your assistance helped to make all of the wonderful programs that you read about in ArtsInk possible. With our deadline fast approaching, we still have a little way to go in order to meet our 2011 goal. If you have not already done so, please consider making a gift to MAAF and support our arts community. |
