An update and an NEA document

Hello all,
I am posting some carnivalesque good news, I am employed- there is hope. I will be joining Michelle in Houston come August to work at the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft as their Curatorial Fellow. Basically, I will get to work under the Curator of Craft on exhibitions and curate exhibitions of my own in the smaller gallery space.

Secondly, I'm working for a few weeks at the City before leaving town. Mainly I've been doing research on applying for an NEA grant (daunting!) and designing public art signage. Several weeks ago I sifted through NEA information and discovered there is a Freedom of Information Act, (FOIA) that would allow me to ask for copies of successful grants similar made by organizations similar to the City. After learning how to request such information I did so. And then I waited, and never heard back assuming that the government would not pull through. Then today in my inbox there it was - two example grant pdf files! I was so excited! And really thought the only people who would understand would be y'all (I'm trying to embrace Texas).

Hope everyone is having a great start to summer!
AW

Hello All!

Greetings to everyone far and beyond from Bloomington! Thought I would drop a line to say hello! Things are going well here, I have been working for Campus Art (yes....still) on a pretty cool project. "The Bradley Project" is a project focusing on the sculptural works of Morton C. Bradley, Jr.- a true renaissance man. He was a conservator, writer, and artist. My job is three-fold: to plan a round table discussion about Mr. Bradley (we have some big guns coming, very cool), subsequently publish a book about Mr. Bradley based on the ideas generated in the discussion, and to get the sculptures out into the big wide world.

The last part has been quite fun- right now sculptures are on their way to the Children's Museum of Phoenix, The Indianapolis Children's Museum, and hopefully a few venues in Boston, where Mr. Bradley lived. If any of you out there in Arts Admin land are at an institution that would be interested in having a piece- let me know! Here is the website...look!

http://www.iub.edu/~iuam/online_modules/bradley/index.html

Hope everyone is having a great summer and doing exciting things. I was really lucky this past week I got to have lunch with Kelly one day, and Eric and Justin another! Natalia and I also went to the Friday art walk thing last week and it was pretty cool thanks to this new place. It's called "The Venue", its right behind Laughing Planet, and has some really neat artwork.

I miss you all!
Liska