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Attention Brooklyn-affiliated artists:
BCAT and Rotunda Gallery announce open call
for applications to Artist Residency Program
November 10, 2003 -- BCAT/Brooklyn Community Access Television and the Rotunda Gallery, both programs of BRIC/Brooklyn Information & Culture, announce the open call for applicants to their seventh annual joint residency program. Made possible by a grant from the Electronic Media and Film Program at the New York State Council on the Arts, the program provides Brooklyn-based artists the opportunity to explore video and multimedia as an artistic medium. The artists selected for the residency will receive technical training and access to BCAT's state-of-the-art media center to create their own projects, all at no cost. They will gain valuable experience in television studio production, digital and video equipment and editing, or multimedia production. The residencies will take place between February and June of 2004.
Applications and more information are available online at www.briconline.org/rotunda or call 718-875-4047 x10. The application deadline is Tuesday, January 20, 2004. Fifteen residency participants will be selected by a joint selection panel consisting of Rotunda Gallery, BCAT and BRIC staff, Advisory Committee members and professionals from the field. Artists of any level of experience with multi-media materials are eligible; a desire to explore the digital and video artistic mediums is all that is required. Residents will have a choice of workshops in the BCAT media center, based on their areas of focus and level of knowledge in the field. Last year's fifteen finalists received professional training in areas of the field as varied as robotic and manual camera use, audio recording equipment, video editing, animation, desktop publishing and webpage design.
BCAT is the developer and manager of four public access television channels, and the Rotunda Gallery is a non-profit exhibition space that promotes the work of Brooklyn-affiliated working artists.
The ROTUNDA GALLERY, housed in an award-winning space designed by Smith-Miller + Hawkinson, showcases the work of Brooklyn artists. The ROTUNDA GALLERY’s educational programs reach 6,000 students each year with gallery visits and in-school art making projects. Janet Riker is the Gallery Director; Meridith McNeal is Associate Director. The ROTUNDA GALLERY is a program of the not-for-profit BRIC/Brooklyn Information & Culture, Inc.
Located in Brooklyn Heights, just over the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges, the Gallery is also easily accessible by public transportation. It is a short walk from the 2,3; 4,5; M; N or R trains at the Court Street/Borough Hall station; or the A, C trains at High Street.
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