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When a dear friend was in the process of moving the inevitable down sizing occurred.  Things were going up on Craig’s list.  I got a note saying, oh, I think the overhead projector is priced too low. I’m also worrying about the space for the easel.

So, last Monday I trucked on up to the edge of Oro Valley.  Or maybe it’s technically in the town of Marana.  I don’t know.

Anyway, look what came home with me.  I’ve learned something about manifesting abundance.  I have always known that first you notify the universe and then you get to work.  That has now been technologically enhanced.

I use Firefox  as a web browser.  It gives me the ability to open innumerable tabs and my macbook remembers them from one day to the next.

I had been researching easels.  I must have had every style and every manufacturer and every retailer of easels in my tabs.  At the end of getting my web work done I would browse through all the easel tabs.  Finally I deleted them.  That’s when I got the note from my good friend.

Yes, the universe does work in interesting ways.

 Job listing courtesy of the Tucson/Pima County Arts Commission

a 501(c)(3) nonprofit private foundation headquartered in Tucson (AZ) and serving the greater Tucson area, seeks an experienced executive who has demonstrated commitment to youth voice and innovation, and is a dynamic, motivated, and visionary leader with strong administrative, organizational, communication, community networking, advocacy, and team-building skills. Complete position description can be viewed at www.everyvoicefoundation.org . To apply, submit (e-mail only) a cover letter, addressing the position description and major qualifications, and current resume, including the names and contact information for three references (references will be contacted for finalists only), by 08/01/08 to: searchcommittee@everyvoicefoundation.org

Press Release courtesy of the Tucson/Pima County Arts Commission
The American Folklife Center (AFC) at the Library of Congress announces a new pilot program that will train members of indigenous communities to document their own cultural traditions, archive this heritage for future generations, and undertake the task of protecting their intellectual property rights to these recordings and the traditions they document. The project is collaboration among the AFC, the Center for Documentary Studies (CDS) at Duke University in North Carolina, and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) based in Geneva, Switzerland. http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2008/08-095.html

Press Release courtesy of the Tucson/Pima County Arts Commission

American Masterpieces: Three Centuries of Artistic Genius is a major initiative to acquaint Americans with the best of their cultural and artistic legacy. Through American Masterpieces, the National Endowment for the Arts sponsors performances, exhibitions, tours, and educational programs across different art forms that reach large and small communities in all 50 states. This year, awards will be offered in four areas: Chamber Music, Dance, Presenting and Visual Arts Touring. Deadlines are different for each area – but all are September or November. For further details see  http://www.arts.gov/national/masterpieces/index.html

 National Endowment for the Humanities: Interpreting America’s Historic Places -

Deadline August 27
As part of the NEH’s We the People program, Interpreting America’s Historic Places grants support public humanities projects that exploit the evocative power of historic places to address themes and issues central to American history and culture, including those that advance knowledge of how the founding principles of the United States have shaped American history and culture for more than two hundred years. For more information visit: http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/IAHP_Planning.html or contact NEH’s Division of Public Programs at 202-606-8269 or email: publicpgms@neh.gov.

Fantastic Public Art!  Press Release courtesy of the Tucson/Pima County Arts Commission
“The New York City Waterfalls” is one of the largest works of art, public or otherwise, of our modern era. (Let’s not get in a shouting match with ancient civilizations, where autocratic rule made all sorts of things possible.) The piece is an heir to the monumental site-specific artworks whose most spectacular examples were made (and in some cases still are being made) in the distant reaches of the Nevada and Utah deserts starting in the late 1960s and the ’70s by earth artists like Robert Smithson, Walter De Maria, James Turrell and Michael Heizer. Ever since, younger, less isolationist artists have figured out ways to do something similar in the urban environment, within reach of a large public. In this they have followed the example of Christo and Jeanne-Claude, whose 2005 work “Gates” ostentatiously swathed Central Park in orange. The four waterfalls together form a mammoth work of shoreline land art called “The New York City Waterfalls.” It is the brainchild of the Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson working with the tireless Public Art Fund and a host of public and private organizations and donors. Between 90 and a 120 feet high and up to 80 feet across, they cascade into the East River from four dense, plumbed scaffolding structures on or just off the coasts of Manhattan, Brooklyn and Governors Island, making some of New York’s most thrilling waterside vistas more so.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/27/arts/design/27wate.html?ex=1215230400&en=91e37a999e7f8ffc&ei=5070&emc=eta1