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Show Regional Initiative offering art grants BOUNTIFUL Regional Initiative In-itiative is offering several grants to artists in the six-state region of Utah, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada and Wyoming and is currently cur-rently soliciting applications, according ac-cording to Carol Nixon, director, Utah Arts Council. The grants, ranging from $1,000 to $5,000, will fund artists' projects that are innovative, adventurous, and that explore new definitions of art forms andor cultural traditions. Approximately $23,000 in funding provided by the National Endowment Endow-ment for the Arts' Inter-Arts Program Pro-gram and the Rockefeller Foundation, Founda-tion, with additional funding from the Apache Corporation, will be awarded in 1991. Projects done by one artist (or two or more collaborating artists) may involve one or more of the 4 following disciplines: dance, musicsound, theatre, visual arts, videofilm, text, installations, environmental en-vironmental art, and environmental performance works. Projects that deal with contemporary contem-porary subject matter, experiment within a specific cultural tradition or that may not have access to other funding sources are encouraged. Guidelines and applications are available from the Utah Arts Council Coun-cil or from New Forms: Regional Initiative, co Helena Presents, 9 Placer, Helena, MT 59601. For further fur-ther information call Galen McKibben or Suzanne Wilcox at (406)933-8384. Deadline for application ap-plication is a postmark date at Feb. 1. Helena Presents and the Colorado Dance and New Performance Perfor-mance Festival co-administer the New Forms program in the region. |