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Home My WebLink About01-27-25 Correspondence - MT Arts Council - Welcome to ARTeries_ news from the Montana Arts Council! XFrom:Montana Arts CouncilTo:Bozeman Public CommentSubject:[EXTERNAL]Welcome to ARTeries: news from the Montana Arts Council!Date:Thursday, January 16, 2025 4:52:25 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. ARTeries Masthead Welcome to ARTeries! How can the Montana Arts Council serve you better? You asked us to become more of a hub, a connector, a drumbeat of art news and creative possibilities. We created this newsletter to answer your questions, share opportunities and resources, and build more connectivity amongst our creative community so widely spread across the Montana landscape. Arteries are the tiny vessels that bring oxygen-rich blood from your heart to all of your body’s cells, keeping your body alive and healthy. Here at the Arts Council, we’re contemplating new ways we can do the same for all of you out there laboring in the salt mines of art. This bi-weekly e-letter is one way to connect us all, the way arteries connect the heart with the organs and muscles that make a body thrive. Just one more thing to read, right? Yeah, but this one’s designed to skim quickly, get the info that helps you, click on a few links, and get on with your day. And hopefully glean a little spirit-lifting inspiration to fill your gas tank. Happy January. Make art. Krys Holmes Executive Director krys.holmes@mt.gov Artist Spotlight Now and then a person wakes up and said, “I’d like to build a pipe organ.” I’m sure this has happened to you. Today’s quick feature alights on Missoula's The Instrument Shop, where imagination, enthusiasm, wood, goatskin, a plethora of tools turn ideas into musical instruments. The Instrument Shop offers classes to people of all ages, building guitars, pipe organs, banjos, harmonicas, keyboards, ukuleles, confidence, and trust. They’re not just building instruments. They’re really building joy. Check out this Artists In Schools and Communities grantee. The Instrument Shop: Youth Instrument Building Program Image: Missoula Instrument Shop founder Ben Simon demonstrates the wooden pipe organ. Deadlines and Opportunities White Divider White Divider MAC arts education grants: Applications are open now for Artists in Schools and Communities Residency grants. Deadline is March 17 and April 17 for Experiences grants. Applicants are strongly encouraged to chat with Monica Grable before submitting: monica.grable@mt.gov. Check out our guidelines and link to applications here. Image: Athena Barret helps create new art in Missoula through the Missoula Art Museum's Teen Art Project. AISC Writer/musician residency: Dear Butte offers 10-day solo residencies to writers and musicians of all kinds to work on a project in the home of the late Montana writer Ed Dobbs. Deadline is Jan. 30th / $25 application fee. Apply here. Dear Butte | Application Zootown Arts Center has opened its annual Mini Show Art Call 2025. Deadline: Feb 10. Info here. Zootown Arts Community Center Submission Manager - Mini Show Art Call 2025 The Big Read: $5,000-$20,000 in NEA support for organizing events around a Big Read project. Jan 23 deadline for submitting an Intent to Apply; Jan 30 deadline to apply. Click here. NEA Big Read - Arts Midwest Other NEA grants: Deadlines will come soon for other NEA grants including Grants for Art Projects (Feb 13), Creative Writing Fellowships (March 12), and Challenge America (April 24). It pays to get on these early. Go here for info. Grants | National Endowment for the Arts ZACC Logo Traditional artists and Indigenous arts and culture organizations can apply for the new Walking Together, offering $15,000 to individuals and $50,000 to organizations that show a deep commitment to sustaining folklife rooted in cultural communities. Deadline is March 19. There are three webinars for potential applicants: Jan 30 for organizations, Feb 4 for artists/practitioners, and Feb 11 in Spanish. More information: Walking Together – US RAO. This is a new program. MAC staff will help applicants navigate the process! Image: Eva Boyd creates Salish-style baskets. Artists Communities Alliance hosts a website of open calls for artists of all disciplines, across the US and abroad, with both specific and rolling deadlines. Check it out. Log Congressional art competition for high-school students: Know a high-school artist whose work should be on exhibit in the US Capitol? There’s an annual nationwide high school visual art competition to recognize and encourage artistic talent. They like to exhibit works from every congressional district. Learn more here. Art Competition | house.gov TransCultural Exchange conference: Think you might be ready to take your work international? Make contacts and build relationships at the 2025 International Conference on Opportunities in the Arts, in Cambridge, MA March 207. Learn more here. Conference 2025 - TransCultural Exchange Congressional Institute Logo Film Graphic The Big Sky Film Grant program builds and supports partnerships with filmmakers and production companies to create Montana film industry jobs. In addition to providing grant funding, the program elevates and supports Montana filmmakers, crew and businesses and individuals providing products, services and locations to the film industry. To qualify, a production must film 50% or more of the principal photography days in Montana. Big Sky Film Grant: Deadline Feb 7. Link: Big Sky Film Grant | Montana Department of Commerce News From the Field Calling all arts and culture nonprofits: Think your legislators understand the value of your nonprofit organization, or even how nonprofits work? (Many don’t.) Do you wish you had a day to celebrate your good work with your lawmakers, and share your common concerns? Montana Nonprofit Association is hosting an all-day Nonprofit Day at the Capitol Thursday, Jan. 30th. Panels, shared information, exhibit opportunities by state region – and the chance to invite your legislator to have lunch with you. The whole day is free, but you have to register here. Nonprofit Day at the Capitol - Montana Nonprofit Association Art From the Heart In Ohio, artists and engineers are collaborating to turn iron oxide sludge from the polluted Sunday Creek into pigment for paints. “Works just the same as any pigment you pick up in any art store,” they say. Read about it here. Turning Water Pollution into Oil Paints—Arts Midwest Top image: Belgrade sculptor Jim Dolan checks to make sure his newly-acquired Governor's Arts Awards medal is the genuine article. This email was sent to comments@bozeman.net using GovDelivery Communications Cloud on behalf of: MontanaArts Council Bottom Quote MAC Logo Teal Manage Subscriptions | Unsubscribe All | Help | Montana Arts Council | 830 N. Warren Street | Helena, MT 59601 | art.mt.gov