2015 South Florida Cultural Consortium for Visual and Media Artists

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Entry Deadline: 10/31/14 Days remaining to deadline: 30 REQUIREMENTS: Media Images - Minimum: 0, Maximum: 10 Audio - Minimum: 0, Maximum: 1 Video - Minimum: 0, Maximum: 1 Total Media - Minimum: 1, Maximum: 10 WORKSHOPS: DEMYSTIFYING THE PROCESS How are recipients selected and how can an applicant improve his/her chances of being noticed?  Find out at one of four workshops being offered across the South Florida region.  Workshops generally run one (1) hour. BROWARD  ArtServe 1350 East Sunrise Boulevard, Fort Lauderdale 6 PM on Thursday, September 9, 2014 Please RSVP to 954.357.7457 MIAMI-DADE Stephen P. Clark Center 111 NW 1st Street, Suite 625 3 PM on Thursday, October 2, 2014 Please RSVP to 305.375.4634 MONROE Gato Building 1100 Simonton St 1PM Wednesday, September 24, 2014 Please RSVP info@keysarts.com or 305.295.4369 PALM BEACH The Robert M. Montgomery, Jr. Building 601 Lake Avenue, Lake Worth, FL 2:30 PM Tuesday, September 23, 2014 Please RSVP to 561.471.2901 FELLOWSHIP AMOUNTS Fellowships of $15,000 and $7,500 are awarded to selected visual and media artists from Broward, Martin, Miami-Dade, Monroe and Palm Beach counties.  No more than two fellowships of $7,500 may be awarded in each county. AM I ELIBIGLE? All emerging, mid-career and established South Florida professional artists (those residing in Broward, Martin, Miami-Dade, Monroe or Palm Beach counties) are eligible to apply. The Consortium defines a professional artist as a person who has created a recognized body of original works of art within an artistic discipline over a sustained period of time, and who is striving to achieve the highest level of professional recognition. You may apply if you’re an artist serving as a volunteer on the boards, committees, task forces and/or similar advisory bodies of South Florida Cultural Consortium member agencies, so long as you’re not directly involved with the decision-making process for the Fellowship program. Applicants must be over 18 years of age. WHO IS NOT ELIGIBLE? You are not eligible if you are engaging in art work as a hobby, an employee of the participating County governments or of the South Florida Cultural Consortium’s member local arts agencies, or a non-professional student artist pursuing an undergraduate or graduate degree. REQUIREMENTS You must have resided and worked in one of the participating five counties from October 25, 2013 to October 25, 2014 and must apply from the county of your residence. The Consortium awards the Fellowships contingent on proof of residency, which may include one or more of the following: property tax record; lease agreement; voter’s registration; or an IRS income tax return for 2013. WHEN IS THE DEADLINE? Applications must be received no later midnight, October 31, 2014.  Refer to HOW DO I APPLY? for details. REVIEW CRITERIA Submissions will be judged by the following general criteria: Degree of artistic excellence Evidence of an established and recognized body of work over a sustained period of time Consistency in the submitted body of work                                 All samples of your work submitted for review must have been completed within the last three years prior to the application date.  Failure to comply with this condition will result in disqualification. HOW DO I APPLY? On or before the October 31, 2014 deadline, visual and media artists must submit applications in digital format and online, via CaFÉ™ athttps://www.callforentry.org, At this site you will find step-by-step instructions on how to register, apply and prepare your images for upload. There is no application fee to apply or to use the CaFÉ™ online application system. VISUAL ARTISTS If you are a visual artist, once you are registered, you will be asked to provide the following: {C}·       Contact Information {C}·       Ten (10) digital images presenting an overview of your work {C}·       Title, dimensions, medium and date of each work {C}·       A resume (include exhibitions, commissions and/or educational background)  {C}·       A statement about your work {C}·       No more than 2 support materials (newspaper reviews, catalogues, etc.) in .pdf or MS Word format (Support materials are optional) NOTE: Visual artists who work in sound, installations and kinetic sculpture may submit a 3 minute video, audio or dynamic media file in lieu of still images to further describe their work.  Artists must submit a complete the application and upload a video file representing the visual component of the work to the CAFÉ™ website. Maximum length is 3 minutes total. Please be sure to include the title, date and media of the work. MEDIA ARTISTS If you’re a media artist, once you are registered, you will be asked to provide the following: {C}·       Contact Information {C}·       A video file in one of the following formats: 3GP, WMV, AVI, MOV, ASF, MPG, MP4, M2T, MKV, M2TS. The file should not exceed 100 MB and must not exceed 10 minutes in length. {C}·       A resume (include exhibitions, commissions and/or educational background)  {C}·       A statement about your work {C}·       No more than 2 support materials (newspaper reviews, catalogues, etc.) in .pdf or MS Word format (Support materials are optional) PLEASE NOTE: o    Maximum length is 10 minutes total. o    Include no more than three multiple work samples. o    Please remove all credits or identification of artist from the actual work You will also be asked to provide the following: o    Title of work o    Date work was completed o    Length of complete work             Because film and video is often a collaborative media, we need you to indicate on the identification sheet what your specific role was per each of the work samples you’ve submitted (for example, director, screenwriter, etc). The panel gives priority to applicants credited as director of at least one submitted work sample. SELECTION PROCESS Submissions are grouped by County, assigned a number upon entry into the CAFÉ system, and projected for viewing according to the sequence of their assigned numbers.  A regional panel consisting of regional visual and media arts experts reviews the submissions in the visual arts and media arts categories and forwards its recommendations to the national panel. The regional panelists review submissions anonymously, without the use of support materials.  The national panel consists of experts in the visual and media arts. The national panel reviews the recommendations from the regional panel.  Support materials are provided to the national panel for their review. The national panel’s recommendations are reviewed and ratified by the South Florida Cultural Consortium. All panelists are required to follow the conflict of interest policy established by the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs.  FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS I’ve already won a Fellowship. May I apply again? A moratorium of five years is imposed on recipients who received the $15,000 fellowship between 2010 and 2014 (applications submitted 2009-2013). A moratorium of three years is imposed on recipients of a $7,500 fellowship between 2012 and 2014 (applications submitted 2011-2013). How many artists applied for 2014? The number of visual arts applications for the 2013-2014 cycle from the Consortium counties was: Broward, 80; Martin, 3; Miami-Dade, 147; Monroe, 23; and Palm Beach 60.  Total number of applicants: 310. How many fellowships will be awarded in 2015? The number of fellowships granted per Consortium county for the 2015 cycle depend on the panel’s decisions regarding award levels for each county (i.e., the panel can make all $15,000 awards or has the option to award two $7,500 fellowships per County) and therefore can be: three or four for Broward; six or seven for Miami-Dade; and one or two for Palm Beach and one or two for the collective counties of Martin and Monroe. Please note that funding for the fellowship program is contingent upon the approval of FY2014-2015 budgets of the individual member counties of the South Florida Cultural Consortium. What if I need more information? We strongly encourage you to attend one of four workshops offered this fall by the Consortium.  We have tried to ensure that the application information and instructions are clear and complete. Please consult the CAFÉ Web site for information on how to prepare digital images or complete an application. For technical support, contact CAFÉ at café@westaf.org Monday through Friday between 10:30 am and 7 pm EST. For questions about eligibility and other requirements, contact Brandi Reddick at the Miami-Dade Department of Cultural Affairs,brandi@miamidade.gov or 305.375.5436. SCHEDULE AND EXHIBITION Regional and national judging will take place in January/February 2015 Recipients will be announced in spring 2015 Awards will be presented in summer 2015 Exhibition will take place in the fall of 2015 This schedule is subject to change. THE SOUTH FLORIDA CULTURAL CONSORTIUM Michael Spring Chair, South Florida Cultural Consortium Director, Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs Earl Bosworth Director, Broward Cultural Division Rena Blades President and CEO, Palm Beach County Cultural Council Nancy Turrell Executive Director, The Arts Council, Martin County Elizabeth S. Young Executive Director, Florida Keys Council of the Arts Para mas informacion, llame a nuestra oficina, (305) 375-4634.  Gracias. Pou plis enformasyon sil vou ple rele biwo nou nan numewo, (305) 375-4634.  Mesi. Pour informations supplementaires, contactez notre bureau au numero, (305) 375-4634. It is the policy of Miami-Dade County to comply with all of the requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act.  To request materials in accessible format, sign language interpreters, and/or any accommodation to participate in any County-sponsored program or meeting, please contact Francine Andersen 305-375-4634 culture@miamidade.gov five days in advance to initiate your request. TTY users may also call 711 (Florida Relay Service.) The South Florida Cultural Consortium reserves the right to revise the guidelines and application form. The South Florida Cultural Consortium provides equal access and equal opportunity in services and does not discriminate on the basis of race or ethnicity, color, creed, national origin or religion, age, gender, sexual orientation, in accordance with Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Age Discrimination Act of 1975 and Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 as amended (42 U.S.C. 2000d et seq.).  The South Florida Cultural Consortium supports and advocates compliance with the requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990, and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 which prohibit discrimination on the basis of disability. The South Florida Cultural Consortium is funded in part with the support of the National Endowment for the Arts, the Florida Department of State Division of Cultural Affairs and the Florida Arts Council, the Boards of County Commissioners of Broward, Miami-Dade, Martin and Monroe counties, and the Palm Beach County Cultural Council. LIABILITY AND TAXATION The South Florida Cultural Consortium is not responsible for loss or damage to video tapes, audio cassettes, DVDs and support materials.  Please note that fellowships are taxable as provided by federal law.  Refer to IRS Publication 520, “Scholarships and Fellowships” for complete information (www.irs.ustreas.gov).