FW: USC Annnenberg Getty Arts Journalism Fellowship program application and information

From: Sandi Kurtz (sandik@slime.atmos.washington.edu)
Date: 12/10/01


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>Subject: FW: USC Annnenberg Getty Arts Journalism Fellowship program
>	application and information
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> Application Form and Information  -- -- APPLY NOW!
>
> USC ANNENBERG'S GETTY ARTS JOURNALISM FELLOWSHIPS
>
> New Perspectives for Mid-Career Arts & Culture Journalists
> April 6 - 27, 2002
>
> USC Annenberg School of Journalism
> Los Angeles, California
>
> The USC Annenberg Getty Arts Journalism Fellowship program is accepting
>applications from mid-career journalists to attend this unique
>expense-paid opportunity to improve arts journalism by bringing together
>artists, museum curators, theater directors, arts administrators, funders,
>and journalism colleagues, against a background of investigating Los
>Angeles's vast and complex cultural life.
>
> Based at the School of Journalism within the USC Annenberg School for
>Communication, the program seeks six arts writers, critics, reporters, or
>editors from print, broadcast, and online journalism who are passionately
>interested in learning more about artistic disciplines outside of and
>within their area of expertise, as well as in examining the business and
>politics of making art in the 2002 global community.
>
> Background
>
> Art is how we know we live; how we talk about the human condition and
>find real experience, employing these suspect ideas: beauty, nobility,
>ritual, truth, poetry, and magic.  Recent national surveys indicate that
>America is experiencing an unprecedented explosion of arts.  Yet the
>staffing of in-house arts writers and editors at newspapers and broadcast
>networks is not increasing.  The same surveys show that America is
>suffering from an erosion of arts funding and audience interest, in part,
>because the public is not well-educated about the arts.  What can we do?
>
> USC Annenberg's Getty Arts Journalism Fellowships are designed in
>recognition that journalists are the crucial interpreters and reporters
>about the arts to the public.  They are the bridge.  Improved coverage of
>the fine and visual arts, the performing arts, and new media arts is
>needed because the arts are how societies make sense of themselves,
>finding precise human, spiritual, and social aim.
>
> The Program
>
> The focus for the 2002 program is on cultural institutions.
>
> The program's emphasis is on intimate experiences: informal gatherings
>with well-known and emerging artists (such as Bill Viola, Robert Graham,
>Athol Fugard, Peter Sellars, Jennifer Steinkemp, Margaret Honda, Hirokazu
>Kosaka, Remy Charlip, and Osvaldo Golijov) over meals and in the spaces
>where art is made and shown.   Comprehensive and in-depth discussions of
>the cultural life of the nation and L. A.  will be held.   In addition,
>small seminars will be held on topics such as the current philanthropic
>climate, marketing and selling the arts. the changing relationship between
>non-profit and for-profit, and the erosion of arts instruction in public
>schools.
>
> Independent Study Projects are elements of the Getty Arts Journalism
>Fellowships,  through the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles County Museum
>of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Mark Taper Forum, CalArts, Long Beach
>Opera, and Los Angeles Philharmonic, as well as several of the city's
>other notable arts organizations and galleries.
>
>
> Who should apply?
>
> Applicants with at least five years of professional experience in arts
>and culture journalism are eligible – and international journalists are
>welcome – to apply for the fellowship that covers lodging, meals,
>reference and orientation materials, transportation for program events,
>and a travel stipend.  There is no stipend to supplement additional living
>expenses. There is no financial aid available.
>
> Applications should be mailed to:
> Sasha Anawalt, Director
> USC Annenberg Getty Arts Journalism Fellowship program
> USC Annenberg School for Communication
> 3502 Watt Way
> Los Angeles, CA 90089-0281
>
> Applications should include three copies each of:
>
>
>
>* A resume that includes your mailing address, phone numbers, fax, and
>e-mail address.  * A 500-word, typed statement of why this fellowship
>would be of value to you, incorporating a description of your journalistic
>experience and philosophy. You should identify specific arts institutions,
>cultural organizations, and artists with whom you’d like to work or
>interact while in Los Angeles. If you have an Independent Study Project in
>mind, describe it.  * A supervisor’s strong nominating letter agreeing to
>cover salary and non-fellowship expenses.  Or, if you freelance, an
>editor’s or supervisor’s strong nominating letter expressing support for
>your endeavor at USC Annenberg’s Getty Arts Journalism Fellowship program.
> Only one nominating letter will be accepted.  * Three published articles
>(editors may submit edited work, online journalists may submit internet
>printouts; broadcast journalists may send one audio tape, videotape or
>CD-ROM not over 30 minutes).  All samples must be dated and must have been
>aired or published within the last twelve months. Please mark your name in
>the upper right-hand corner of all material.
>
>
>
> Please do not send complete magazines or newspapers, books or scrapbooks,
>any irreplaceable materials, unpublished manuscripts, works-in-progress,
>or elaborate presentations.  Please submit only by mail; no faxes.
>Materials will not be returned.
>
> Deadline
>
> Completed application forms must be postmarked on or before January 15,
>2002. Notification of Admission Committee’s decision will be sent by
>February 6, 2002.
>
>
> QUESTIONS?
> Call Sasha Anawalt, Director, USC Annenberg’s Getty Arts Journalism
>Fellowships, 213-743-4988; Fax: 213-743-4985 or email anawalt@usc.edu.
>
> The Getty Arts Journalism Fellowship Program is a project of USC
>Annenberg’s School of Journalism with funding from the J. Paul Getty
>Trust.nawalt@usc.edu
>



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