Bulletin

              In Us This Day
On the Occasion of the Inauguration of Janet
Napolitano, Governor of the State of Arizona
Speak to the animal in us
And the animal will answer.
Speak to the human in us
And a voice in song will rise.
Sometimes, we are brutal and dark green.
We are the fishhook thorns on the wild cactus.
But sometimes as well, we are the sky itself,
That great blue living room filled with endless space
In every direction there is to see. We are,
As things turn out, the answer and the problem both.
Every day we must choose our suit of clothes.
All of Arizona stands here today.
Today, we inaugurate ourselves.
Today, everything is possible.
Every vote is filled after all with a dream.
But onward, now, to the work of the dream,
To the work and its complex surprises:
We are so many, and our problems so great
They insist themselves in front of our joys.
But joy is our greater truth, our common destination.
We are in a border time,
The border between countries, between centuries,
The border between yesterday and tomorrow,
What we have been and what we are going to be.
We are a state of many languages, many cultures.
We must translate this into a state with many ideas.
Let us choose the best from this treasury of dreams.
Let us create a future
We would want to speak in any language.
We should not try to predict the future-
Instead, let us make it, and let us make it our own.
- Alberto Rios
Governor Napolitano asked Alberto Rios to write and
read a poem at her inauguration. Rios is regents pro-fessor
at Arizona State University and a recent nominee
for a National Book Award.
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Linking Artists and Communities January/February 2003
#266
2003 - 2004
Guide to Grants
Organizations & Schools
Guidelines and Applications
Now Available Online
www.ArizonaArts.org
Postmark Deadline:
Thursday, March 20, 2003
Our grant program guidelines are now available online: Project
Grants; General Operating Support Grants; Arts Education
Project Grants; After School/Anti-Drug A.P.P.L.E. Corps
Grants; Arts Builds Communities Grants; and Resources.
Producing this publication online is one of the Commission’s
cost-saving measures. Many local public libraries and local arts
agencies have public access to the Internet. If you don't have an
in-house computer, ask to use theirs.
You should be able to read the online Guide using the two most
common browsers. If you need to get a free updated version,
visit Netscape at www.netscape.com or Internet Explorer at
www.microsoft.com. If, as a last resort, you do need us to mail
you a hard copy of the Guide, call us at (602) 255-5882.
Guidelines and applications are online for you to download.
You do not apply electronically; you will still mail a signed
paper copy. On this new process, we welcome your feedback.
National and State News
Artist Credit: Christina Ramirez, "Crowded Room," November 1999,
Oil and Urethane on Board
State News
The “Borders and Boundaries” exhibit
features photography of teenagers looking
through the lens at their lives. The work
offers a view into how identity is
expressed by youth from five diverse and
unique communities: Guadalupe,
Arizona; Second Mesa, Arizona; Cuidad
Obergan, Sonora, Mexico; Mesa,
Arizona; and the northeastern section of
the Navajo reservation, Utah. The photo-graphs
in this exhibition give us a glimpse
of how community is defined and
expressed in the eyes of these youth.
Whether a snapshot of a piñata party taken
in a backyard or photographs of the sky
and land that stand out as culturally signif-icant,
the images are a record of sponta-neous
and comfortable interactions with
their world and deliver intimate, momen-tary
glances of community in everyday
life. Urban or rural, cultural or geopoliti-cal,
the resulting images speak to a cross-ing
and blending of borders and bound-aries
and evoke a strong sense of culture
resonating in history, to the present.
Number of works: 45 photographs
Space Requirements: 58 running feet
Security Requirements: Limited
For information on booking this show
or other Traveling Exhibitions, call:
602/255-5882 or visit:
www.ArizonaArts.org/tep.
Photograph by Laura Toledo, 1980. Courtesy of Bruce Hucko,
artist/instructor.
Update On The
State Arts Budget
Fiscal Year 02-03
The Legislature approved cuts to the
State budget in November to address a
portion of the current year’s deficit The
impact on the Commission was a reduc-tion
of $230,000, in addition to a reduc-tion
of $74,100 made in July. The
Commission has made plans to accom-modate
these changes by reducing both
internal agency progams and the largest
grants awarded this year.
The Legislature also removed $1 million
of principal from Arizona ArtShare, the
state’s arts endowment. This fund,
designed to build an endowment of
$20 million over 10 years, was to
receive annual deposits of $2 million.
ArtShare had already received deferrals
of its 2002 and 2003 deposits, extending
the length of time necessary to build the
endowment. This removal of endow-ment
principal will reduce the amount of
interest earned and made available to
arts organizations and schools.
Fiscal Year 03-04
Governor Janet Napolitano has just
released her budget which recommends
a flat amount for the Commission for the
next two years. The legislative budget
plans will be released soon and are
expected to be much more challenging.
This said, it is vital for policy makers to
have accurate information on the impact
of state funding in Arizona communities
as they make difficult decisions. For
information on contacting your legisla-tors
and attending the Arizona Arts
Congress on February 10, 2003 to speak
directly with your legislators, contact
Arizonans for Cultural Development at
602/253-6535, or www.azcd.org.
Traveling Exhibitions
Upcoming Dates
Feb. 10, 2003
Arizona Arts Congress at the
Capitol. For more information
visit:
http://www.azcd.org/Congress03.htm
Feb. 25, 2003
Commission Meeting at Arts
Commission office 2-5 p.m.
March 20, 2003
Postmark deadline for organiza-tions
and schools to apply for
grants from ACA. For more
information visit:
http://www.ArizonaArts.org/guide04
March 25, 2003
Governor's Arts Awards at the
Camelback Inn, Paradise Valley.
For more information visit:
http://www.azcd.org/GAAD03.htm
The Corpstein Duplex on Roosevelt: home of the Arizona
Commission on the Arts
Artist Project Grants and Poetry Fellowship Awards
The Arizona Commission on the Arts
awarded Artist Project grants to six
Arizona artists. Offered yearly, each
Artist Project grant awards up to $5,000
to artists to help them complete pro-posed
artistic works. There were 86
applications.
Tom Miller (Tucson), a writer, was
awarded $5,000 to complete New York's
Martí, Martí's New York, an impression-istic
biography of José Martí's years in
New York City, placing the great Latin
American poet in the middle of fin de
siècle America.
Delisa Myles (Jerome), a dancer, was
awarded $5,000 for "Mothership:
Dances of the Fluid Feminine," an artis-tic
investigation into the aging process
of women. Seven women, performing
and visual artists, ranging in age from 25
to 82, will collaborate under the direc-tion
of Delisa Myles to create perform-ance
and photography exhibitions based
on the questions, fears and mysteries of
growing older
Alfred Quiroz (Tucson), a visual artist,
was awarded $4,993 for "The Parade of
Humanity," a collaboration between two
artists from Nogales, Sonora, Mexico,
and Quiroz. They propose to create 15
portable painted cutout aluminum fig-ures
to be installed temporarily on the
metal wall of the United States/Mexican
border at several locations.
Shawn R. Skabelund (Flagstaff), a
visual artist, was awarded $5,000 for his
three-dimensional media/installation,
"Virga (The Hunt for Water)." The
installation - a series of conceptual
sculptures - focuses on water as one of
the most central issues at stake in this
region and how this finite resource
impacts the diverse cultures and ecosys-tems
of the Colorado Plateau.
Tim Vanderpool (Tucson), a writer,
was awarded $5,000 to complete Border
Twilight, a novel. The main character, a
reporter for the Nogales newspaper,
explores the border finding it to be "a
zone of abstraction - a wandering line on
a tattered map - and a ruthless break
between those who have and those who
want."
Sharon Wahl (Tucson), a writer, was
awarded $5,000 to write I Also Dated
Zarathustra, and Other Philosophical
Romances, a collection of love stories
based on classic philosophical texts.
Three additional artists whose projects
were not recommended for funding but
were determined to be of exceptional
merit were selected by the panelists for
$500 Professional Development
Awards: Cliff Keuter (Mesa), Yves
Amu Klein (Scottsdale) and Kay
Sather (Tucson).
André Licardi, a member of the
Commission, chaired the panel.
Panelists included Mark E. Cull, Editor
and Publisher, Red Hen Press, Granada
Hills, CA; Ken Chu, Program Director,
Visual Arts and Emerging Fields,
Creative Capital, New York, NY; Meg
Linton, Executive Director, Santa
Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum,
Santa Barbara, CA; and Claudia
Norman, Artist Manager and Cultural
Consultant specializing in performing
arts of the Americas, New York, NY.
Arizona Poetry
Fellowships Announced
The Arizona Commission on the Arts
awarded Creative Writing Fellowships
to nine Arizona poets. The awards were
for $5,000 each. There were 182 appli-cants,
more than double the number of
previous poetry fellowship applications
in 2001. Each applicant submitted a six-to-
10 page poetry manuscript which was
reviewed by a panel of three poets from
outside the state. The panelists read
some 1,800 pages of anonymous manu-scripts
and made their selections using
artistic quality as the sole criterion.
The fellowship recipients can be found
across the state: Jorn Ake (Phoenix);
Marianne Botos (Tempe); Megan
Gannon (Prescott); Michael Gregory
(McNeal); Andrea Kayser (Tucson);
Sean Nevin (Tempe); Natalie Peeterse
(Tucson); Judith Sands (Tucson) and
Miles Waggener (Prescott).
In addition, five awards of merit were
made to Arizona poets to encourage
writing that showed great promise. Each
merit award was for $500. Merit Award
recipients: Will Clipman (Tucson);
Allan Guisinger (Tempe); Jeannine
Savard (Tempe); Lilvia Soto (Tucson);
and Heidi Vanderbilt (Benson).
The fellowship panel was chaired by
Dennis Kavanaugh (Mesa),
Commission member, on November 8,
2002. The other panelists were poets
Alfred Arteaga (Berkeley, California);
Peggy Shumaker (Fairbanks, Alaska)
and Natash Saje (Salt Lake City, Utah).
To read more of the fellowship poets'
writings, visit our website:
www.ArizonaArts.org.
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Artists Opportunities
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for artists and organizations on our web-site
in the ArtsFlash section. Due to the
overwhelming numbers of items, we
cannot post notices of shows and per-formances
but we do share them inter-nally
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The Arizona Commission on the Arts
awarded Choreography Fellowships to
two Arizona choreographers. The
awards were for $5,000 each. There
were 23 applicants. Each applicant sub-mitted
videotapes of his or her work
which were reviewed by a panel of two
choreographers from outside the state
who made their selections using artistic
excellence as the sole criterion.
Applicants were anonymous during the
review process.
The $5,000 fellowship recipients were:
Ib Anderson (Phoenix) and Cynthia
Gutierrez-Garner (Tempe). In addi-tion,
an award of merit of $500 to
encourage choreography that showed
great promise was made to: Mary
Fitzgerald (Tempe).
Commenting on the work of Arizona
choreographers, the panelists said much
of the work they reviewed was well con-structed,
simple and beautiful. They
noted many strong voices that pulled
original relationships out of the music.
The fellowship panel was chaired by
Gary Avey (Phoenix), Commission
member, on December 19, 2002. Other
Panel members were Yuri Possokhov
(San Francisco) and Marlies Yearby
(New York City).
Choreography Fellowships