The Tracey Baran Award for an emerging female photographer

The Tracey Baran Award was established to honor the memory and achievement of Tracey Baran, a young photographer who died after a short illness in 2008. This annual award, with a fellowship grant of $5000, will be given to one emerging female photographer who is a citizen of the United States. The grant recipient will…

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Subscribe to Broward County Cultural Quarterly

  A free service of the Broward County Commission’s Cultural Division, the Cultural Quarterly fine arts magazine, provides in-depth articles on the local, cultural scene, revealing profiles of exceptional artists and detailed listings of events and attractions. The magazine has gone green and is now fully-accessible online. Subscribe here.

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Demystifying the 2012 South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship

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 90 minutes. General Information The South Florida Cultural Consortium is a partnership among the local arts agencies of Broward, Martin, Miami-Dade, Monroe and…

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Information Meetings on Application Process for Creative Capital Seminar

Broward County Cultural Division invites Broward-resident artists of all disciplines and creative endeavors to attend the last informational meeting on May 5, to learn about the application process for Creative Capital’s transformative seminar-Internet for Artists Weekend Workshop: Using the Internet to Build Community, Promote Your Work and Increase Administrative Effectiveness. Twenty-four Broward County artists, will…

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Applying for Project Grant Funding for the Artist from Broward County

Applying for Project Grant Funding for the ArtistSaturday, May 14, 2011 – 9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. at Nova Southeastern University, 3100 Ray Ferrero, Jr., Blvd., Fort Lauderdale Broward County Commission’s Cultural Division, Nova Southeastern University, and the South Florida Artists Association will host a unique training session to assist individual artists, working in all disciplines,…

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!Women Art Revolution, a film by Lynn Hershman Leeson.

Through intimate interviews, art, and rarely seen archival film and video footage, !Women Art Revolution reveals how the Feminist Art Movement fused free speech and politics into an art that radically transformed the art and culture of our times. Read  The New York Times story here. Learn more at the film’s website http://www.womenartrevolution.com/.

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‘Artist as an Entrepreneur’ Returns to South Florida!

A series of full-day sessions to be offered on four Saturdays,starting June 4, 2011 at ArtServe Inc., 1350 East Sunrise Boulevard, Fort Lauderdale Broward Cultural Division, The Community Partnership for Arts and Culture (CPAC), and ArtServe, Inc. announce The Artist as an Entrepreneur Institute (AEI) for South Florida artists to be presented on four Saturdays…

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CALL FOR INSTALLATION ART BY WOMEN

Florida Museum for Women Artists (not required to reside in Florida) Show title: Witness To Creativity II The exhibition is site-specific installations. It allows the public to witness the creative process as these works come to life. This is not an exhibit of an artist’s body of work in gallery style. The work may consist…

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PANEL DISCUSSION on Women Artists in Miami at FIU Frost Museum April 15

IN PERSPECTIVE: WOMEN ARTISTS IN CONTEMPORARY MIAMI Introduction: A&V students Moderator: Carol Damian Artists: Karen Rifas, Cristina Lei Rodriguez, & Antonia Wright Time: Friday 15 April, from 3:30 – 5:00 Location: Frost Art Museum, Room 107 for more info, visit: http://hon.fiu.edu/~av/ read more about Aesthetics and Values from Miami New Times here.

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Joan Snyder Artists Residency at Women’s Studio Workshop in Rosendale, NY

Every year Women’s Studio Workshop honors an outstanding woman artist as part of our annual fundraising gala. Proceeds from this fabulous event go towards funding a studio residency for an artist hand-picked by our honoree from our pool of yearly applicants. Last fall WSW was pleased to honor world re-known painter and printmaker Joan Snyder,…

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400 Artworks by Women Are Donated to the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts

By CAROL VOGEL Believing that women are underrepresented on the walls of most art museums, Linda Lee Alter, a Philadelphia collector and artist, donated some 400 works by artists including Louise Bourgeois, Kiki Smith, Alice Neel, Nancy Spero and Louise Nevelson to the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Ms. Alter, who started collecting in the…

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