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The Vermont Studio Center Announces the Brown Foundation Awards for Texas Artists & Writers

The Vermont Studio Center, the international creative community located in the heart of the Green Mountains in Johnson, Vermont, USA, announces the Brown Foundation Awards to fund four-week Residencies for three outstanding Visual Artists and Writers from Texas.

The Fellowship will provide 3 outstanding Texas artists and writers with 4-week VSC Residencies in 2007/08, including ample studio space, comfortable housing, 3 meals daily, as well as access to the 6 distinguished Visiting Painters, Sculptors and Writers who are in residence each month.

A Vermont Studio Center Residency is an ideal opportunity for fruitful interaction with American and international professional peers in a non-competitive, supportive environment. The Brown Foundation awards continue a well-established tradition at VSC of offering cultural exchange opportunities for national and international artists. VSC has other ongoing national Residency programs for artists and writers from New England, Indiana, New Jersey, North Carolina, Washington, and Wisconsin, as well as Residency Fellowships for Native American artists and writers. In addition, VSC has international Residency Programs for artists from Africa, Asia, the Middle East, the Caribbean, Central and Eastern Europe, Cuba, Latin America, and Mexico.

The Brown Foundation, in Houston, Texas, was established in 1951 by Margarett and Herman Brown and Alice and George R. Brown as a nonprofit charitable foundation. All funds donated to the foundation and income generated from these funds is used for public charitable purposes, principally for support, encouragement, and assistance to the arts and education. Since its inception, the Brown Foundation has awarded grants in excess of $185 million to artistic, educational, medical, and other charitable organizations.

The deadline for all applications is June 15, 2007. Please call Kate Westcott, VSC Receptionist, for more information (802) 635-2727, or visit our Web site (www.vermontstudiocenter.org) for detailed application procedures.
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It’s that time again, we are announcing our annual call for entries.

Women & Their Work announces Annual Statewide Call for Entries for 2008/2009

Women & Their Work is soliciting proposals for individual and curated group exhibitions for its Gallery Artist Series to begin in April 2008.Works in all media will be accepted

ELIGIBILITY
Women artists residing in Texas who have not had a solo exhibition at Women & Their Work within the past five years are eligible. Work done under supervision cannot be shown in the gallery. Enrolled Fine Arts students cannot exhibit. Recent or newly created work in all media will be considered. Artists must be able to exhibit their work by April 2008.The work to be exhibited must not have been previously exhibited in Austin.

HONORARIUM
Women & Their Work will award an honorarium to
the artists or curator.

CRITERIA
Selections are based on a strong, consistent aesthetic vision. Selections will be made by the W&TW Statewide Artists Advisory Council.

CALENDAR
JULY 20, 2007: Postmark deadline for all entry material.
AUGUST 31, 2007: Notification and slides mailed to applicants. Slides of accepted work will be retained by Women & Their Work.
April 2008 - Spring 2009: Exhibitions will be scheduled for five week periods between these dates.

More details at the Women & Their Work website