CFA Announcements

Click link for next week's calendar so you can plan ahead:

http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/ecs/Jan273.pdf

LabA6 Podcast: Lehane on the Opera "The Consul" ____________________________

Listen to an interview with Gregory Lehane, the stage director for the School of Music production of the opera "The Consul" on the podcast LabA6 at link.

http://www.cmu.edu/cfa/labA6.html

"The Consul" runs from Jan. 24 - 27 in the Philip Chosky Theater in the Purnell Center for the Arts. Tickets are still available by calling 412-268-2407.

Events _____________________________________________________________________

The Carnegie Mellon School of Drama presents:
2008 Winter New Play Festival
Jan. 27 - Feb. 9 and Feb. 10 - Feb. 23

New Works Schedule:

PAST PERFECT/FUTURE TENSE
By John-Paul Nickel
Directed by Allegra Libonati
Jan. 30, 8 PM Feb. 6, 8 PM
Feb. 1 4 PM Feb. 8, 8 PM
Feb. 2 8 PM Feb. 9, 2 PM

TIGHTROPE
By Rob Smith
Directed by Max Montel
Jan. 31, 8 PM Feb. 7, 8 PM
Feb. 1, 8 PM Feb. 8, 4 PM
Feb. 2, 2 PM Feb. 9, 8 PM

GRAE MATTERS
By Carol J. Godart
Directed by Kate Pines
Feb. 13, 8 PM Feb. 20, 8 PM
Feb. 15, 4 PM Feb. 22, 8 PM
Feb. 16, 8 PM Feb. 23, 2 PM

FATI¹S LAST DANCE
By France-Luce Benson
Directed by Dana Friedman
Feb. 14, 8 PM Feb. 21, 8 PM
Feb. 15 8 PM Feb. 22, 4 PM
Feb. 16 2 PM Feb. 23, 8 PM

Admission is FREE. Seating is limited. Tickets are available at the door 1 hour before performance. John Wells Studio Theatre. Purnell Center for the Arts.
For more information contact Rob Smith at resmith@andrew.cmu.edu.

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The Risë Wilson lecture, tomorrow at 4:30 pm in the Kresge Recital Hall, will be available through a webcast, live, and then archived afterward at this link:

http://destination.cfa.cmu.edu/index.php.
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The School of Architecture presents a lecture by Paul Lewis, of the award winning New York City firm Lewis Tsurumaki Lewis Mon. Jan. 28, at 6:30 pm, at the Giant Eagle Auditorium in Baker Hall room A5. Lewis Tsurumaki Lewis is a young architecture firm that has won many awards and represented the US at the Biennale in Venice. They recently published the acclaimed book
³Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis: Opportunistic Architecture² (Princeton Architectural Press, 2007) about their work. Their work deals very much with issues of light, materials, and assembly. For more information visit http://www.ltlwork.net. This lecture is sponsored by Velux.

Based on the success of the Carnegie Museum¹s 2001 ³Light!² exhibit, and the rich tradition and continued importance of ³light² in modern and contemporary art, the museum has decided to expand its Oakland building complex with a ³Light Museum,² an annex across Forbes Ave. that will be purpose-built to explore light in art and architecture. Students in the School of Architecture were tasked to submit designs for this annex sponsored by Velux. The winning designs will be announced at the lecture Jan. 28.

Grant Opportunity _________________________________________________________

School of Art Interdisciplinary Project Grant $5000 to be awarded annually to multidisciplinary student teams.

Proposals due: April 1
Award to be announced at the annual School of Art Awards Picnic $5000 will be awarded each year for the purpose of facilitating interdisciplinary research or creative projects. A single grant may be awarded, or several smaller grants constituting a total of $5000.
The grant or grants will be given to teams consisting of at least one Junior, Senior or Graduate Student in the School of Art and at least one collaborator from another department within CFA or CMU.
(Note: application will be made one semester in advance: i.e. Spring semester of the Sophomore year, Junior year, first year of graduate study or second year of graduate study. No awards will be given to departing
students.)

The awards will be given based on the following criteria:
* Creativity: The artistic, scholarly, or practical merits of the project.
* Interdisciplinary Scope: Projects must engage methods, content and processes from multiple fields of study. Proposals which aim to do so in innovative and ambitious ways will be prioritized.
* Potential Impact: Projects which hold strong promise of making an artistic, intellectual or practical impact within or beyond the university will be prioritized.
* Feasibility: Proposals must be sufficiently challenging to merit support, and sufficiently well-organized to prove that they are clearly feasible.

Proposals will be screened by a committee to consist of the Head of the School of Art, the Dean of CFA, and a third juror from outside the College of Fine Arts.
The committee will reserve the right to give partial funding rather than granting the entire amount requested. In the event that none of the submitted proposals are deemed to be of sufficient quality, the award would not be granted in that year.

School of Art Interdisciplinary Project Grant Application Guidelines

Proposals must contain the following information:

Abstract: A one-paragraph summary of the project, its rationale and methodology.

Team Members: Names, qualifications, departments, and respective roles in the project.

Project Description: A detailed discussion of your proposed project, including purpose, research objectives, methods, materials, etc. This section must explain your project clearly and in detail.

Please consider the following:
· What are you trying to achieve?
· What makes it original?
· Why is it important?
· How does this project relate to prior research or artworks?
· How does it relate to the larger world or culture?
· What concern, problem, or need will the work address?
· What materials will you be using and why?
· What special equipment or space is needed and how will it be accessed?
· What is your vision for the final project?
· How will the results be published or exhibited or otherwise
distributed?
· What are the sources of inspiration for this project?

Timeline: Provide a detailed timeline, including:
1. Pre-production and research
2. Project schedule itemizing tasks and allocating time 3. Event information such as exhibition, performance, publication, etc.
3. Post-production, if applicable

Budget: List all estimated proposed expenses. The budget must be as detailed and accurate as possible. Indicate other sources of funding if applicable.

· If you propose to purchase durable equipment, books or software, you
must make it clear that these items are not accessible to you via other means (such as clusters, equipment lending, inter-library loan, etc.)

· Any travel costs must be integral to the project.

Supporting Materials
Provide supporting visual materials to clarify the proposal as necessary.
These should be concise, and carefully selected to support your proposal.

Supporting materials may include:
· Examples of prior creative work (prints or CD/DVD documentation)
· Weblinks
· Sketches of proposed work
· Preliminary research
· Data
· Etc.

General Requirements
Your proposal may be up to three pages in length; the budget may be a fourth page.

Put your project title at the top of the first page followed by the names of all students submitting the proposal.

Please submit three complete copies of your proposal.

Proposals must be submitted in hard copy form to the School of Art office:
CFA room 300

Social Enterprise Business Plan Competition __________________________

This semester the Institute for Social Innovation is sponsoring a social enterprise business plan competition that will award a total of $20,000 in prizes. This seed funding will support emerging leaders who are building organizations that stand to make a significant and sustainable impact on our local or global community's health, well-being and vitality, broadly understood.

1st, 2nd, and 3rd prizes of $5,000, $3,000, and $2,000 will be awarded in two categories: 1) Pittsburgh-based enterprises; 2) enterprises focusing on one or more developing communities around the world.

Please see the competition announcement for application instructions, deadlines, and other useful information at link:
http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/ecs/SEC.pdf