German Goethe Institut launches Artist-in-Residence program

Environmental Artist David Jakupca, Founder and Director of the The International Center for Environmental Arts (ICEA) in Cleveland, Ohio is announcing that starting in September, 2005, the Goethe Institut will hold its first Artist-in-Residence program, enabling young artists and curators from Germany to work overseas for a period of four to six weeks.

This program will give scholarship recipients an opportunity to make contacts, gain ideas and form networks for future work in connection with an art project. Recipients will be tended on location by the Goethe Institutes in cooperation with local art academies and museums. Vital elements of this Artist-in-Residence program include mediating intense contacts with art galleries, curators and artists and including them in the cultural program work of the local Goethe-Institutes.

The Fine Arts Advisory Board of Goethe Institut will nominate artists and curators for the program while a three-member jury, reappointed annually from the members of the board in order to ensure the broad range of the program, will choose the scholarship recipients. The residencies will be held each year at five different sites within the worldwide Goethe Institut network.

In 2005, the following artists were selected and invited to receive a four-week scholarship: The photographers Christine Fenzl to São Paulo, Oliver Sieber and Katja Stuke to Toronto, filmmaker and author Hito Steyerl to Sarajevo and video artist Asli Sungu to Beirut. Nina Moentmann will journey to India for a six-week curator residency.

For more information contact the Goethe Institut.
http://www.goethe.de

International Center for Environmental Arts (ICEA)
P. O. Box 81496
Cleveland, Ohio 44181 USA
Phone/fax: 440-891-8376
Email: ICEA2000@aol.com
www.TheICEA.Org

About ICEA:
ICEA - The International Center for Environmental Arts (ICEA) is a force for socially responsible activity. ICEA's mission is to "Assist in understanding of the relationship between Humans and their Environment through the Arts". The International Center for Environmental Arts (ICEA) was founded by David and Renate Jakupca in 1987 to meet the compelling needs of ordinary citizens for access to current, balanced, understandable information about complex global issues. Over the years, ICEA has gained a reputation for excellence based upon a unique library of specialized, current information on global importance and a wide range of imaginative programming and collaborations with other organizations to meet the needs of a broad constituency. With affiliates across the globe, the ICEA supports research, information sharing and effective action promoting a sustainable culture of Peace.


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