GCA

NCNA has released its Nonprofit Agenda: A Blueprint for Action, which contains policy recommendations based on a survey of state and local nonprofit leaders. Priority areas include nonprofit capacity building, advocacy rights, and workforce issues. For more information, visit the Website at www.ncna.org.

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Alliance of Artists Communities

A nation-wide consortium, which includes professionally run artist communities and other nonprofit organizations that support artists in the development of their work. For more information, go to www.artistcommunities.org, call 401-351-4320 or email aac@artistcommunities.org.

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Djerassi Resident Artists Program

This program offers four and five-week residencies, at no cost, to artists in the disciplines of media arts/new genres, visual arts, literature, choreography, and music composition. The Program is located in a spectacular rural setting in the Santa Cruz Mountains, one hour south of San Francisco. The postmark deadline for accepting applications is February 15th, each year, for a residency in the following year. Application forms and guidelines are available on the website www.djerassi.org . Artists may also request applications by sending a SASE to Applications, Djerassi Resident Artists Program, 2325 Bear Gulch Road, Woodside CA 94062.

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American Symphony Orchestra League

Informational Interview

Are you curious about a career in Orchestra Management? The League is offering informational interview opportunities across the country. These interviews are designed to give you a one-on-one opportunity with an experienced orchestra manager to explore career options, career paths and training programs - including the Orchestra Management Fellowship Program. Visit www.symphony.org/manage/interview for program details.

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Orchestra Management Fellowship Program

This is a year-long leadership training program designed to launch executive careers in orchestra management. Through residencies with orchestras of various sizes as well as leadership seminars and a comprehensive overview of the concert music industry, program staff and host orchestra executive directors nurture the leadership and management skills in each fellow. For additional program details and an application go to www.symphony.org/ola/fellowship or contact Ellie Schneider at 646-822-4020, eschneider@symphony.org.

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The National Endowment for the Arts is establishing three NEA Arts Journalism Institutes that will focus on improving arts criticism in classical music, opera, theater, and dance. The institutes are designed for journalists who cover the arts for print and broadcast outlets located outside the country's largest media markets, where professional development opportunities are limited. Institutes for dance critics will be hosted by the American Dance Festival at Duke University; for classical music and opera critics at Columbia University; and for theater critics at the University of Southern California. Visit the NEA website at www.nea.gov for more details.

Technical assistance grants are available for non-profit presenting organizations in the nine-state region (Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee) served by the Southern Arts Federation. The program encourages presenting organizations to contract a consultant for work in short and long term planning, board development, staff professional development, program assessment, marketing and promotion, and grantsmanship. For more information go to www.southarts.org or contact the organization by calling 404-874-7244.

Visual Artists’ Estate Planning Handbook
A Visual Artists’ Guide to Estate Planning, a comprehensive handbook designed to help artists plan their estates is available from the Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation. Part I of the guide introduces general estate planning concepts and offers pratical advice and a discussion of legal issues raised by artists. Part II, written by the Committee on Art Law on the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, consists of an in-depth discussion of policy and law on selected issues of estate planning and administration for visual artists. The guides are $10 (includes shipping and handling) and can be requested by calling 719-635-3220 or mailed to The Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation, 830 North Tejon Street, Suite 120, Colorado Springs, CO 80903.

eSeminArts
eSeminArts is a partnership of the Southern Arts Federation (SAF) and the Master of Arts Management (MAM) Program at Carnegie Mellon University.

eSeminArts' mission is to provide accessible, effective, appropriate, affordable, interactive, and academically rigorous professional development seminars in a distance learning format for early to mid-career arts anagers, trustees and artists affiliated with non-profit arts presenters, performing arts organizations, service organizations and related agencies.

Each course will be supported by instructors who are recognized nationally as leaders in their areas of expertise. At the present time, eSeminArts is in the pilot phase. A workshop course in marketing for performing artists -- Marketing Your Act -- is now available from www.performingbiz.com.

For information about eSeminArts programs, email seminarts at admin@andrew.cmu.edu or call the Southern Arts Federation