[CW-Grad] Extended deadline to June 18th for application to UCR Culver Center Residencies for Faculty and Grad Students

[Adrienne Thomas]

To the Faculty in the Departments of Art, Art History, Creative Writing,
Dance, Media & Cultural Studies, Music, and Theatre, 

This is a follow up from a May 14th email that announced solicitations for
applications to a C.A.R.L. Residency at UCR’s new Culver Center of the Arts
in downtown Riverside. Since that announcement, we have received a handful
of applications. In recognition of how busy schedules can become at the end
of the academic year, UCR ARTSblock staff and the Culver Center Faculty
Advisory Committee have opted to extend the deadline for applications until
next Friday, June 18th. An updated application with this new date is
attached, and can be downloaded from http://culvercenter.ucr.edu.

Please make sure to forward to graduate students too.

Please find attached a residency application for faculty and grad students
from the  arts departments in CHASS. This application is for proposals that
may be funded for up to $5000 to be developed at UCR’s new Culver Center of
the Arts. It is our hope to select projects that will occur in FY2010-11.
The Culver will open to the public during a gala weekend, October 7-9, 2010.

This email has been sent to all of the full-time faculty listed on the
website of each the seven departments listed above, which will be given
priority consideration. Please forward it to adjunct faculty and to your
graduate students as soon possible, and post on your department’s website
and present at the next faculty meeting. Proposals for use of Culver
beginning in fall quarter, and beginning no earlier than October 7th, 2010,
must be postmarked or hand-delivered by June 18, 2010. Notification of
acceptance will be no later than June 30, 2010. Proposals can also be for
winter and spring quarters in 2011. The guidelines are downloadable from
http://culvercenter.ucr.edu

For those of you who may not be aware, UCR’s Culver Center of the Arts has
been under construction for the past couple of years in downtown Riverside.
It is housed in a renovated 19th-century department store building that sets
next to UCR’s California Museum of Photography. Together, they will be the
third largest arts organization in the UC system outside of Berkeley Art
Museum and Hammer Museum. Within the state, among all higher-educational
systems, it will be one of less than a handful situated in an off-campus
setting, which places it in the unique situation of being an important
bridge between campus and community, and underscores further UCR’s
commitment to the arts as a significant aspect to a research institution.

Culver consists of three floors. The top, or second floor, is intended for
the development of new projects by faculty and graduate students, and is
referred to as the Culver Arts Research Lab, or C.A.R.L. The ground floor is
for public programming which includes a café, screening room, atrium
gallery/performance space, and UCR’s Sweeney Art Gallery, and is a place
where projects developed on the second floor can take place. The basement is
an extension of ARTSblock facilities, such as CMP’s permanent collection.

The attached application is nine-pages. It contains a preamble in which we
hope that the intended use and spirit of the Culver is communicated,
followed by application guidelines, an example application for guidance, and
floor plans of the first and second floors.

Many of you attended one of many open-house tours to each department this
past fall 2009. However, the building has since been completed and you are
once again invited to tour at any time. Just contact myself or ARTSblock
executive director, Jonathan Green, to make an appointment:
tyler.stallings at ucr.edu, jonathan.green at ucr.edu. In fact, we encourage
anyone serious about an application to take a tour first in order to best
understand the context for project development.

You are also highly encouraged to contact your department representative
that sits on the Culver Faculty Advisory Board to answer questions too: 

1.	Art: Brandon Lattu 
2.	Art History: Pat Morton 
3.	Creative Writing: Michael Jayme 
4.	Dance: Susan Rose 
5.	Media & Cultural Studies: Derek Burrill 
6.	Music: Deborah Wong 
7.	Theatre: Eric Barr


Thank you for your attention and support of this exciting new venture at UCR
and in Southern California!

-Tyler


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Tyler Stallings
Director
UCR Sweeney Art Gallery
University of California, Riverside
3834 Main Street
Riverside, CA 92501

Main: 951-827-3755
Direct: 951-827-1463
Fax: 951-827-4797

Tyler.stallings at ucr.edu

http://sweeney.ucr.edu

For other UCR ARTSblock happenings and exhibitions, see
http://artsblock.ucr.edu and
http://cmp.ucr.edu. UCR ARTSblock consists  of three premier art
institutions—the California Museum of Photography, the  Sweeney Art Gallery,
and the future Culver Center of the Arts (2010)—located  on a single city
block in downtown Riverside to create an integrated arts  complex.

 

 

Adrienne

 

Adrienne L. Thomas

MFA Coordinator

Creative Writing and Writing for the Performing Arts

University of California, Riverside

900 University Ave

4145 INTS Building

Riverside, CA 92521

Voice: (951) 827-5568 

Fax: (951) 827-3619 

 

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