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From the Guardian:

"Bristol city council is planning to let the public vote before murals on buildings, walls and fences are scrubbed clean or painted over. If citizens decide they like it, the work will remain."

Photo-documentation of a performance from danah bella DanceWorks, from the Virginia Humanities Conference, Spring 2009, featuring Salvador Barajas (production, additional percussion) and John Priestley (sound system design/construction/operation).

Photos by Patrick Vickers.

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2010 Conference Theme
Intersections
Mind, Body, Time, Space

March 11 to 13, 2010 - El Paso, Texas

HERA invites a 250-word proposals for papers, panels, roundtables, and workshops, for inclusion in the program of its 2010 conference to be held in El Paso, Texas. Papers should be planned for twenty minutes. Panels, roundtables, and workshops should be planned for an hour and thirty minutes. Proposals should include a notation of any audio-visual equipment required.

HERA also invites proposals from all areas of the humanities including art, art history, dance, English, film, foreign languages, history, interdisciplinary studies, music, philosophy, religious studies, and theater. Topics in the above humanities disciplines related to both Western and non-Western cultures will be considered. We are especially interested in proposals that take interdisciplinary and intercultural approaches.

Please send all proposals by email to both:

Marcia Green
HERA
P.O. Box 715
Pacifica, CA 94044
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Dr. Ronald Weber Director, Program in Humanities
LART 233
University of Texas at El Paso
El Paso, TX 79968
915-747-5835
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courtesty of http://www.h-e-r-a.org/hera_call.htm

Residencies, Workshops, Exchanges
Women's Studio Workshop
Deadline: 11/15/09

The residency grant is designed to enable artists to produce a limited edition book work at WSW. Working intensively in our studios for six to eight weeks, artists print and bind their own books. WSW technical assistance includes training on new equipments, introduction to new materials, and assistance with production.
The grant includes a stipend of $2,000 to $3,000 for six to eight weeks, materials up to $750, access to all studios, travel costs (within the Continental US), and housing. Projects are chosen by a jury of outside artists and curators.
http://www.wsworkshop.org/_art_opp/artopp_grant_abr.htm

(courtesty of CAA)

Here's the link:

http://www.efn.org/~acd/resources.html

This looks like it was set up as a resource for art history graduate students, but its a great collection of funding sources for humanities and other folks as well.