Notes from the Field (2003)

Ann Fessler of Rhode Island School of Design, has been named a fellow by the Radcliffe Institute for 2003. A visual artist, she is one of 56 scientists, scholars, artists and writers to be selected for the 2003 honor. Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Studies was established in 1999 with the merger of Radcliffe College and Harvard University. According to Dean Faust. The purpose of a residential fellowship like ours is to bring artists and scholars together to interact in ways that will change both them and their work. We strive to offer enough similarity--clusters of common intellectual concern--and enough difference to generate intersections that are predictable as well as ones that are unanticipated and even surprising. Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative announces the recipients of it's 2003 exhibition grants. following awards were made. Fabric Workshop and Museum: $200,000 for Experiments with Truth, a thematic film/video exhibition; Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania: $180,000 for Accumulated Vision: Barry LeVa, a retrospective exhibition: Main Line Art Center: $150,000 for Past Presence: Contemporary Reflections on the Main Line, a site specific installation; and Goldie Paley Gallery, Moore College of Art and Design: $181,500 for Jorg Immendorff, a retrospective exhibition. Additionally, a planning grant of $15,000 was awarded to Taller Puertorriqueno for Tainos: Pre- Columbian Art and Culture. Independent Curators International (ICI) appoints Susan Hapgood as Director of Exhibitions. With an M.A. in Art History from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York, Ms. Hapgood was most recently Curator of Exhibitions at the American Federation of Arts, New York. U.S. House of Representatives voted to increase the NEA (National Endowment for the Arts) budget by $10 Million. Senate was expected to take up its version shortly. funding hike is earmarked for the agency's Challenge America initiative, which is designed to make the arts more widely available in under-served communities across the country. bipartisan Slaughter-Shays-Dicks amendment was sponsored by Representatives Louise Slaughter (D-NY). Chris Shays (R-CT), co-chairs of the Congressional Arts Caucus, and Norm Dicks (D-WA), Ranking Minority Member on the Interior Appropriations Subcommittee. amendment provides an increase of $10 million for the Arts Endowment, in addition to President George W. Bush's fiscal year 2004 budget request of $117.480 million. agency's fiscal year 2003 funding is $115.731 million. NEA Chairman Dana Gioia welcomes this vote of confidence just as state, local and organizational budgets across the country are being slashed. A recent (2002) NEA survey shows that attendance at art related activities is up 5 million since 1992, despite the impact of September 11, with about one-fourth of adults saying that they visited an art gallery and 40% reporting personally performing or creating art. Additionally, the NEA has issued a report calling for greater involvement of the arts in health care as the arts have been proven to provide benefits to patients, their families, and care providers as well. 2003 Arles Awards were recently announced, with prizes of $10,000 awarded to photographers in many different categories. Among the winners were Anders Peterson (Sweden) who received the Photography Award, Zijah Gafic (Bosnia) who received the Discovery Award. Thomas Demand (Germany) who received the No Limit Award, Fazal Sheikh (USA/Switzerland) who received the Humanity Award, and Jitka Hanzlova (Czech Republic/Germany) who was awarded a Project Grant. World-renowned French photographer Lucien Clergue received the Legion of Honor Award at Arles on July 4th. award was presented by the French Minister of Culture and Communications, Jean-Jacques Aillagon, as part of the opening festivities of the 34th annual Les Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, founded by Clerque in 1969, and now the largest of its kind in Europe. …