“One of the best things in the world of art today”

– David Medalla, Director, The London Biennale.

Boston University will host TransCultural Exchange's 2013 Conference on International Opportunities in the Arts: Engaging Minds, October 10-13, 2013.
The Conference panels will focus on topics meant to inspire and address many artists' desire to engage in other fields of discipline; while, at the same time, preserving the Conferences' aim to serve as the international forum for practicing artists and related professionals, including:
• Extensive networking opportunities and social events.
• Portfolio reviews with funders, curators, gallery owners, residency directors and critics.
• 50 panels with topics ranging from cultural diplomacy to paid residencies.
• Workshops on marketing, grant writing and copyright law.
• Visits to Boston’s attractions, including MIT's Art and Architecture program.
• Gallery receptions, concerts and readings.

Register before September 20th (late registration fees apply after September 20th): http://www.transculturalexchange.org/conference_2013/registration.htm

Meet Trans Artists at Our Conference & Discuss Residency Opportunities

Call for Artists Residencies - Register Today!

Register today for TransCultural Exchange's 2013 Conference on International Opportunities in the Arts: Engaging Minds, October 10-13, 2013, hosted by Boston University. There you can meet members of Trans Artists and discuss their water-related artist in residency programs.

Check out Trans Artists projects and open calls listings: http://www.transartists.org/article/water-cycle

Register for TransCultural Exchange's Engaging Minds Conference - register before September 20th to avoid late fees: http://www.transculturalexchange.org/conference_2013/overview.htm

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Attend Our 2013 Conference on International Opportunities in the Arts

Photo credit: Ian Koebner

 

We love hearing the great successes of our past Conference attendees! Check out what Ian Koebner, a 2011 Conference Attendee, had to say about his experience:

"The 2011 TransCultural Exchange Conference on International Opportunities in the Arts: The Interconnected World was the finest conference I have participated in for many years. My primary function was as a panelist in the workshop entitled, “Integrating Art and Social Good.” The panel was moderated by the brilliant Doris Sommer, Director of Harvard’s Cultural Agents Initiative. I discussed my not-for-profit, Sacred Slam, and our flagship program YAWP: Youth @ War & Peace - a global platform for youth from conflict and post-conflict regions around the world to create art based on their experience and understanding of the great abstractions ‘war’ and ‘peace.’
Over the weekend I met inspired artists and residency directors from around the world. I not only laid the ground-work for dynamic ...collaborations with artists, academics, and curators to expand and engage with the YAWP collection, but also had unique access to resident directors and representatives that enabled me to refine my own search for a residency. As a direct result of participating in the TCE conference I secured two remarkable residencies – CAMAC - Centre D'Art - Marnay Art Centre, France, and the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center in Bellagio, Italy. The inspired and focused time these residencies offered allowed me to formalize YAWP’s curriculum, and greatly increase the access and impact of our program.
I am extremely grateful to the TCE for their work and hope to stay a partner for years to come."

JOIN US THIS OCTOBER FOR OUR ‪#‎EngagingMinds‬ CONFERENCE
Visit http://www.transculturalexchange.org/conference_2013/index.htm

2-for-1 Discount Incentives to International Arts Conference

TransCultural Exchange’s 2013 Conference on International Opportunities in the Arts: Engaging Minds
Four full days: October 10th - 13th, 2013, Boston University

Thanks to a recent National Endowment for the Arts grant to expand our demographics, TransCultural Exchange is offering 50, 2-for-1 tickets to artists age 35 or younger or who live 250 miles outside of Boston. (Tickets are $355; $215 for students.) Help us spread the word.

    

Meet renowned curators. Attend Laurie Anderson's keynote performance. Receive feedback from critics and dealers. Learn about international residencies from the people who run them. Join panels on marketing, grant writing and funding your work. Tour museums, MIT's Art and Architecture Program and other local attractions. Engage. Network. Shake up your world.

"It was the single most interesting, enjoyable, and productive conference that I have ever attended . . . I have already received invitations for two U.S. exhibitions and two international residencies.” - 2011 Conference Attendee

"One of the best things in the world of art today." - Director or the London Biennale, David Medalla

More information at http://www. transculturalexchange.org/ conference_2013/overview.htm

 

34th World Congress of the International Society for Education through Art

Upcoming Conference - Sign up to learn more

Located in the Asia Pacific, this Congress will consider key themes which demonstrate artistic diversity and celebrate the innovations of the present against the backdrop of the past. The growth of a contemporary art in many nations throughout Asia will be a major theme, as will the revived awareness of traditional and indigenous cultures throughout the Pacific region. Particular emphasis will be placed on Australian Indigenous culture and its emergence as an international art force and the creative potential offered by the multiple visual resources resulting from migration and the multicultural community.

34th World Congress of the International Society for Education through Art
Venue: Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG), Melbourne, Australia
Dates: 7 - 11 July 2014
Website: www.insea2014.com
Contact: Rebecca Hardman rebeccah@icmsaust.com.au
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Scholarships to the 2013 Conference on International Opportunities in the Arts

Call for Applications

The 2013 Conference on International Opportunities in the Arts presented by TransCultural Exchange will take place in Boston on October 10–13, 2013. This four-day event brings together curators, galleries, funders, critics, artist-in-residency directors and artists from around the world for a unique cross-disciplinary platform to network, showcase, support and promote artists' work.
Full and partial scholarships to the 2013 Conference are based solely on need. Only those making an annual, adjusted gross income of $25,000 or less are eligible to apply.

To apply, please send a letter (no longer than 1 page) with:
1. the amount of your 2011 adjusted gross income (as entered on line 37 of your 2011 Federal Tax form; not your Schedule C), including a statement testifying that this amount is true and accurate.
2. the reason why you would like to attend this Conference and
3. why the full registration cost to this Conference is beyond your current financial means.

Letters must be received (not postmarked) by April 1, 2013.

Letters should be sent to:
TransCultural Exchange
516 East Second Street, #30
Boston, MA 02127
Attn: 2013 Scholarship Committee

For more info, please visit: http://transculturalexchange.org/conference_2013/scholarships.htm

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International Art Receives Boston Boost

Exciting News From TransCultural Exchange

A New Letter of Agreement has been signed betweenTransCultural Exchange and Boston University’s College of Fine Arts. The Agreement provides a framework for TransCultural Exchange and the College of Fine Arts to be better able to help artists build networks around the world. It offers new possibilities for both to expand their activities, enable more artists to interact with their international peers and showcase Boston’s strengths to the international community.

Already the two organizations have begun to collaborate on the planning of TransCultural Exchange’s 2013 Conference on International Opportunities in the Arts for which Boston University will be the academic host.  The Conference will take place October 10-13, 2013.

The Conference’s theme “Engaging Minds” will underscore TransCultural Exchange’s more than two decades of cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural exchange programming. Its goal is to encourage artists not only to attend programs where they can meet and work with their international peers, but also to address many artists’ growing desire to engage in other fields of study.

For instance, one panel entitled “Entrees Into New Worlds” will present innovative ways for artists to contribute to new forms of research. The panel’s speakers will include the Director of the CERN artist-in-residency program Ariane Koek, the head of the new art program at the Nobel Science Institute Helene Larsson and the engineer who modeled the Guatemalan Siamese twins' brains and skulls for their successful separation, Crispin Weinberg. Weinberg also has worked with such artists as Michael Day Jackson and Kikki Smith.

In addition, the Conference offers an entire day of professional development workshops, portfolio reviews, Pecha Kucha presentations by art programs from more than thirty countries, tours of local museums and a guided walk-through of MIT’s Art and Architecture Program.

The preliminary schedule with the panels and speakers will be available on TransCultural Exchange’s website (www.transculturalexchange.org) the end of February.

 

Press Contact: Mary Sherman, Director, TransCultural Exchange

Press Inquires: +1. 617.413.0967, msherman@transculturalexchange.org
516 E. 2^nd Street, #30, Boston, MA 02127

Artist Residencies Gathering in Tokyo

Register Today!

The Artist Residencies International Conference, Worldwide Network of Artist Residencies / Res Artis General Meeting 2012 TOKYO will be held from October 26 to October 28.

For the first time in 14 years, the General Meeting of the worldwide network of artist residencies Res Artis will focus on Asia. With this region’s rapid economic growth matched by an increasing attention on its artists, artist residencies take on greater significance. Allowing artists the time, space and often funding to create work in an atmosphere of international dialog and exchange, these programs also offer new possibilities for collaboration among museums, biennales, universities and municipalities throughout the world.

They provide artists with the means to help us all consider new visions of the future.  Bringing together speakers from around the globe to offer their perspectives, Res Artis 2012 Tokyo will consider how we can contribute to this vital interchange, assist the trans-national flow of ideas, further the mission and goals of art centers and support residency programs.

Dates: October 26, 2012 (Fri.) - October 28 (Sun.),

Registration on 10/25 (Thu.) and Excursion on 10/29 (Mon.)

Main venues: U Thant International Conference Hall (United Nations University), Tokyo Women's Plaza

Organizer: Tokyo Metropolitan Government, Res Artis General Meeting 2012 TOKYO Japan Committee

Co-organizer: United Nations University and the others

Contact: Res Artis General Meeting 2012 TOKYO Japan Committee Executive Office

Tokyo Wonder Site, COSMOS Aoyama SOUTH 3F,
5-53-67 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0001
E-mail: contactinfo@resartis2012tokyo.com

http://www.resartis2012tokyo.com/en/index.html

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Artist Residencies Gathering in Tokyo

Registration is Open

Tokyo Wonder Site is pleased to announce its role as the host of Res Artis 2012 Tokyo. For the first time in 14 years, the General Meeting of the worldwide network of artist residencies Res Artis will focus on Asia. With this region’s rapid economic growth matched by an increasing attention on its artists, artist residencies take on greater significance. Allowing artists the time, space and often funding to create work in an atmosphere of international dialog and exchange, these programs also offer new possibilities for collaboration among museums, biennales, universities and municipalities throughout the world. They provide artists with the means to help us all consider new visions of the future. Bringing together speakers from around the globe to offer their perspectives, Res Artist 2012 Tokyo hopes to engage and contribute to this vital interchange, assist the trans-national flow of ideas, further the mission and goals of art centers and support Asia’s growing rise in residency programs.

New Horizons for Creative Platforms, A Constellation of Cultures –

An Asia, Middle East and Global Network
In the span of a few years, we have been forced to reconsider our world. The world after 9.11, the political uprisings in the Middle East and 3.11 in Japan. As we enter the 21st century, we also are faced with an environmental crisis of overwhelming proportions, the collapse of economic systems and the collision between East and West. There is no way that such agendas and art are unrelated. As ideal breeding ground for intercultural dialogue and the production of new ways of approaching our world, residencies have an important role to play in opening up exciting possibilities and glimpses of new horizons. With this Conference, we will discuss these compelling issues with cultural leaders throughout the world.

We also aim to use this opportunity to consider the role of institutions in Asia and the Middle East – regions where cultural currents are rapidly forming and collaborating and networking can create great impacts. Asian residencies, in particular, need to consider their cultural strength. Cooperation here is not based on a single, unifying system or set of values; it is an approach that recognizes and embraces differences. Just as a star exists as an individual entity within a constellation, we will explore how new cultural constellations can be formed by single stars united through collaboration and how global networks can help facilitate this goal.

Dates:October 26 (Friday) to October 28 (Sunday), 2012
-With an additional excursion offered on October 29, 2012 (Monday).
Registration begins on October 25, 2012.

Main venues: U Thant International Conference Hall (United Nations University), Tokyo Women's Plaza

Organizers: Tokyo Metropolitan Government, Res Artis General Meeting 2012 TOKYO Japan Committee

Co-organizer: United Nations University and the others (tentative)

Contact: Res Artis General Meeting 2012 TOKYO Japan Committee
Tokyo Wonder Site, COSMOS Aoyama SOUTH 3F, 5-53-67 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0001

Schedule (tentative): http://www.resartis2012tokyo.com/en/share/schedule_EN.pdf

Register: http://www.resartis2012tokyo.com/en/index.html

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