Bill Ivey.

Bill Ivey, Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) since 1998 has announced that he will resign in September, eight month before the period of his elected term of four years. Ivey was a prosperous advocate for the arts, with federal funding for the NEA increasing according to $7 million during his possession Ivey's announcement also comes forward the heels of the NEA's April 26 announcement of their awarding of the secondary round of grants for Fiscal Year 2001 which includes nearly $54 million in 832 grants. sum of two units hundred and fifty-nine grants totaling nearly $6 million were awarded to arts education programs. through $35 million, 42% of the grant store was awarded in the form of Parternship Agreements. For replete grant listings visit http://arts.endow.gov....James T Yee former Executive Director of Independent Television Service (ITVS), has died at age 53 after an 18-month battle with cancer. From 1994-2000 Yee serv as the executive director of ITVS, which was established in 1991 by means of Congress to increase the diversi ty of public television programming permanent funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Among the original farmers that fought for its formation, Yee was a passionate advocate for ITVS, with tough leadership and aesthetic vision. There are couple funds one can contribute to in memory of Yee: The James T Yee Family capital c/o NAATA, 346 Ninth St San Francisco, CA 94103 and The James T Yee Mentorship Program, sent to the same address, attn: James T Yee Mentorship Program.... The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has announced the winners of its 77th annual fellowship award. single in kind hundred and eighty-three artists, scholars and scientists picked from nearly 2700 applicants will receive awards totaling $6588000 The selections are approved at a Board of expert advisors and approved from the Board of Trustees. The awards are granted onward the basis of distinguished past achievement and exceptional promise for that will be accomplishments. This year's Fellows in Photography are Martha Burges Marcia Lea Die, Robb ert Flick, David Hilliard, Jocelyn to leeward Stephen Scheer, Taryn Simon and Mike Smith, as well as Richard s Street for photographic studies. The University of Minnesota Pres announced the premiere issue of The Moving image, The Journal of the Association of Moving Image Archivists. This recent journal will be dedicated to the preservation of visual history and will be a benefit of AMIA membership. For more information forward The Moving Image, or the Association of Moving Image Archivists visit www.amianet.org.... International Center of Photography (ICP) announced the winners of the 17th Annual Infinity Award. Mary Ellen Mark was awarded the secondary annual Cornell Capa Infinity Award for distinguished achievement as a photographer. Her work will be honored in the major ICP exhibition running in consequence of June 17, "Mary Ellen Mark: American Odyssey" Roger Therond, the former editor of Paris Match, was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award. Also being recognized are Elinor Carucci for Young Photographer; Unclassified: A Wa lker Evans Anthology, according to Jeff L. Rosenheim and Douglas Eklund in the Publication category; Eugenia Parry's Crime Album Stories, Paris 1886-1902 for Writing; Andreas Gursky for Art; Luc Delahaye's Winterreise for Photojournalism and Philip-Lorca diCorcia for Applied Photography. The honorees will receive their awards at a gala parade held at Cipriani 42nd road in New York City forward May 15....Mother Jones International supply for Documentary Photography has announced its 2001 Award Winners. The top prize, the Medal of valuable point [i]or[/i] property [i]or[/i] characteristic ($7000), was awarded to Ukraine photographer Aleksandr Glyadyelov for his documentary film Spare. The film addresses the question s faced by abandoned and underprivileged youth struggling to survive in post-communist Ukraine. The following photographers will also receive $7000 awards: Abir Abdullah (Bangladesh) for his contrive Freedom Fighters: Veterans of the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971; Yasser Alwan (Iraq) for his portrait series I Have No Name; David Maawad (Mexico) for his docu mentary A Graphic History of Mining in Mexico; Victor Matom (South Africa) for his essay "Sifikile" and Brenda Ann Kenneally (US) for her scheme Money, Power, Respect: The Legacy of Crack Cocaine. The Mother Jone Photo stocks awards grants annually to documentary photographers in the following six regions of the world: North America, Latin America, Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Europe The works of the award winning artists will be upon display at the Friends of Photography in consequence of July 15 or visit www.motherjones.com/photofund.... U.K.-based Wallflower Pres is joining with Columbia University Pres for distribution in the U Headquartered in London, Wallflower Pres has been publishing film and media volumes since 1998. Despite a primarily student-based readership, Wallflower's main division s are intended to peak the interest of film enthusiasts and professionals, along with academics worldwide. Columbia will be handling the publicity, sales, marketing, advertising, part sale clubs and promotion for Wallflower upon this side of the Atlantic. Wallflower's repertoire provides an accompaniment to Columbia's already impressive program in film and media studies....National Black Programming Consortium (NBPC) announces 2001 "Open Solicitation" winners. each year the NBPC requests proposals for African American films and videos for broadcast forward public television. The three winners, chosen from 80 proposals, will receive funding grants awarded to the producers: Beyond Beats & Rhyme agriculturist Byron Hurt, God Bless the Child Productions, Inc., Central Islip, NY will be awarded $50000; The Domestic Violence Film delineate producer Stanley Nelson, Firelight Media Inc., of recent origin York, NY will be awarded $100000; The Accidental Hero: apartment 408 producer Tern DeBono, Mac and Ava Motion Picture Productions, Monterey CA will be awarded $50000 Beyond Beats & Rhyme will explore issues brought up in rap and hip-hop music--race, sexism, misogyny, violence, homophobia--from the first-hand perspective of a fan using a combination of narrativ e and "talking heads." The Domestic Violence Film concoct will tell the stories of abuse--the women who have lived by the agency of the violence, the men who have perpetrated the violence and those who are trying to stop the violence--through first-hand interviews of the men and women victimized from domestic abuse. The Accidental Hero: apartment 408 documents the story of the succes of an ethnically diverse high exercise team in a blue-collar town by the agency of following the coach and the team around for a year and capturing the rehearsals, frustrations and triumphs of their daily lives. NBPC will not away these programs to the Public Broadcasting National Service Corbis, who bought the historic 17 million-piece Bettman photographic archive in 1995 is planning to cover the collection in a limestone mine 60 miles from Pittsburgh. Corbis states that the incite is for archival purposes and that the strange venue will preserve the photographs better than the commerical freezer that the mostly vulnerable images are currently housed in in Manha ttan. Corbis has assured the photographic field that the storage area, speficially designed for this design wil keep the photographs safe from theft, vandals, nuclear and natural disaster. The trouble raised by historians, researchers and editors alike, is the question of access. While all written information about the collection will be in a database by dint of the time of the prevail upon Corbis's digital archive of 225000 images, which will also remain available, portray by actions less than 2% of the entire collection. Corbis claims that if researchers ne access to particular images housed in the mine, they can be defrost and scanned. The collection is slated for removal to the mine beginning this fall. For more information visit www.corbisimages.com.... ArtsLink has announced its latest awards for U artists' and curators' plots in Central and Eastern Europe These awards are intended to provide opportunities for artistic and curatorial collaboration between the brace geographic regions. The awarded media artists in clude photographer Bill Crandell, who will work with Czech photographer Viktor Kolar in Belarus, and filmmaker George Csicsery, who will travel to Hungary and Romania to document the work of Romanian folk musicologist Zoltan Kallos. fresh York arists Rene Gabri, Linda Ganjian and Taleen Berberian have been awarded stores for residencies in Armenia. ArtsLink's Independent exhibit awardees include filmmakers Sead and Nihad Kresevljakovic, who will collaborate with choreographer Yoshiko Chuma, and Zoran Pantelic and Bojana Petric of the Yugoslav artist collective Apsolutno, who will be in residence in California [ note: descry Afterimage 28, no. 4, the special issue upon Media Art in the Balkans for more upon Apsolutno].... The documentary film about women inmates, Woman to Woman/Prison to Prison: 900 Women is scheduled to embark in succession a cross-country tour of the nation. 900 Women is a film documenting the lives of inmates and employee at the Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women Women Make Movies and Gabriel Film s co-sponsored the film, directed at Laleh Khadivi, that will travel for 10 weeks, visiting 10 states and 25 prisons and will be viewed by way of thousands of women. Khadivi and Ava Berkofsky--the film's photographer--are travelling with the film to initiate discussions about issues facing women in prison. For more information about the tour visit www.gabrielfilms.com/roadtour.html.

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