Creative Alliance of New Orleans

Kickstarter Highlight: Crescent City Choreographers

CANO — Mon, 07 May 2012 14:35:57 +0000

Crescent City Choreographers proposes to create and produce a full length (1 1/2 hr) Dance Theatre Production, “Distorted Images” on October 5 & 6 2012 (2 evening shows and 1 matinee for the general audience and one matinee show for students/schools in Orleans Parish) based on the unrealistic expectations of female body image.

Distorted Images is a work inspired by the self image, discontent, truth, and ultimately encouragement with a positive outlook on unrealistic expectations of the female body. Please click on this link to donate money to this exceptional project.

Job Opportunity: Acrylic Painting Teacher

CANO — Wed, 02 May 2012 20:56:46 +0000

Fun, innovative painting instruction business looking for artists with teaching experience to work in a creative, entertaining environment. Must be able to guide classes of up to 36 people to paint an acrylic painting in two to three hours. Primarily evening classes. Please go to our website www.corksncanvas.com to familiarize yourself with our business and the type of art you will be expected to teach. Please send resume with samples of your work to Mandeville@corksncanvas.com.

Funding for Artist Residency Programs

CANO — Wed, 02 May 2012 20:54:26 +0000

Awardees

Doris Duke Artist Residencies will support at least 50 residencies for artists at dance companies, theaters, presenting organizations and/or select service organizations in Part Three of the Initiative.

Selection Process

Joint applications from artists and organizations will be accepted beginning from June 4, 2012.

Organizations wishing to apply are required to submit an Intent to Apply form by June 1, 2012.

Click here to submit an Intent to Apply Form.

Click here to preview the preliminary application. Information allowing organizations to fill out the preliminary application form will be sent only after DDCF has received the completed Intent to Apply Form, no later than June 1, 2012.

Qualifications

Residencies will support attempts by exemplary artists and organizations to increase demand for jazz, theatre and contemporary dance. Artists and organizations must have a prior history of working together and will mutually conceive the residencies.

Kickstarter Project Highlight:

CANO — Wed, 02 May 2012 20:48:53 +0000

This week CANO highlights local artist Wesley Stokes: Check out his kickstarter for his solo show here:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/849923069/wesley-stokes-caligula?ref=discover_rec

Creative and Cultural Producers Registry

CANO — Wed, 02 May 2012 18:14:48 +0000

This program is in the planning stages and will be linked to CANO’s membership program. Look for more information on this program later in the year!

Professional Development for Creative and Cultural Producers

CANO — Wed, 02 May 2012 18:13:08 +0000

Creative Alliance of New Orleans, Creative Capital and Moving Stories Dance Project have partnered to present yearly workshops that have been described as a “crash course in self-management, strategic planning, fundraising and promotion” for artists of all creative genres. This workshop takes artists on a three day retreat led by nationally renowned arts professionals. The experience is limited to 24 artists from Louisiana. All applications will be reviewed by a selection committee with the goal of assembling a very diverse group of artists from varied artistic genres and cultural backgrounds. Applicants must create original works. We encourage visual artists, composers, filmmakers, choreographers and all other mediums to apply. Applications will come out in late 2012 for the 2013 workshop. The Creative Alliance and Moving Stories believe that this program presents an opportunity for Louisiana artists to learn new methods in improving their professional careers in the arts.

Eighth Ward Community Cultural Center

CANO — Wed, 02 May 2012 17:49:45 +0000

The 8th Ward Cultural Community Center is a Multi-Tenant Arts Facility that will provide offices, studios, rehearsal, performance and exhibition space for small and mid-sized arts organizations (nonprofits) and independent artists. CANO, partnering with the National Performance Network (NPN), and Young Audiences is developing the project.

In addition to providing stable, affordable office space, 8th Ward CCC is also envisioned as a centralized office where “back office” functions can be shared – copier, postage meter, kitchen and break room, meeting rooms, receptionist, other staff, telephone system and internet access. These shared resources will allow organizations and artists to organize their work more effectively and better serve their constituents and communities. The development of the 8th WardCCC will streamline and provide an economy of scale for small non-profit business needs, and will be an important contributing factor to the success of these organizations. The 8th Ward CCC will provide much needed performance space for the New Orleans community as well as studio/work space for creative producers. This will be the only nonprofit owned and operated arts facility in New Orleans and we believe it will be a catalyst for unifying not only the 8th ward, but the 6th, 7th and 9th as well. This project is built on looking at, listening to, and asking questions of the people who live, work and play in this particular space. We want to discover the needs and aspirations and use this information to create a common vision that will unite and empower our community.

CANOpeners

CANO — Wed, 02 May 2012 17:26:59 +0000

CANO has developed for the first time in 2012 a quarterly networking/informational series of events called CANOpeners. A focus of each of these events will be promoting cross discipline information, collaboration and innovation. Each one of these events partners with a new organization and occurs in a different neighborhood in order to ensure that CANO is reaching a wide variety of participants throughout our community. The first CANOpener occurred on March 13^,2012 in conjunction with Idea Village’s Entrepreneurship Week. This event brought together digital producers from New Orleans Digital Entertainment (NODE) and cultural and creative producers from CANO’s Creative Capital Professional Development Workshop. This event was held at the Contemporary Arts Center. Over 100 artists and entrepreneurs attended this event. This event was successful in that about 40% of attendees were artists and 60% entrepreneurs in the digital industry. We aim to bring together 50%/50% from each distinct sector.

Art Home New Orleans

admin — Wed, 02 May 2012 17:22:52 +0000

Art Home New Orleans is an annual event open to the public one weekend a year as well as a year round earned income program for CANO. Staring in 2010, Art Home New has organized over 70 locations of private art collections and artists’ studios. Last year approximately 250 people participated in this popular program which allowed visitors a glimpse into both the process of how art is created as well as the life of a work of art once it is bought by a collector. The major goal of this program is to encourage participants to collect local art and to support their local artist community. Over $5,000.00 in art was purchased due to this program in 2011 alone. CANO regularly presents panel discussions in conjunction with this event such as 2011’s “Conversation on Collecting” which assembled 8 stellar artists, collectors, curators and dealers such as Jonathan Ferrara, Amy Mackie, Miranda Lash, Ron Bechet, Robert Tannen and others to explore strategies for collecting. These panel discussions are free to all participants who purchased tickets to Art Home New Orleans.

Job Opportunity: Graphic Designer

CANO — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 16:32:24 +0000

Search Influence, a New Orleans based search engine marketing firm on the 2011 Inc. 500 list of fastest growing private companies, is looking for a technical minded Graphic Designer to join our quickly growing team. This is a full-time, entry level Graphic Design position. Overtime is available, and promotion is inevitable if your work ethic and performance are a fit for our team. Please include your preferred pay range along with your resume and portfolio.

You get first look by having any and/or all of these skills: *Photoshop *An interest in typography *Facebook landing pages *Image editing *Basic HTML *Basic CSS

A successful candidate must:
— possess incredible attention to detail
— take pride in a tremendous work ethic
— be on time without prompting
— manage time well
— type a minimum of 30 wpm
— have reliable transportation

The duties of this position may also include:
— Internet research
— creative problem solving
— data entry
— basic copywriting
— quality assurance
— editorial review

Our office is casual, but our work pace is not. Ready to apply? Do not apply through WorkNola. Send your resume to jobs@searchinfluence.com