Please excuse multiple postings. >User-Agent: Microsoft-Outlook-Express-Macintosh-Edition/5.02.2022 >Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2001 12:03:10 -0800 >Subject: FW: USC Annnenberg Getty Arts Journalism Fellowship program > application and information >From: William Anawalt <anawalt@earthlink.net> >To: Sandra Kurtz <sandik@slime.atmos.washington.edu> >Mime-version: 1.0 > > > 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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