Your source for regional creative opportunities!
May 22, 2019
Welcome to your exclusive source for current creative opportunities in the arts and cultural sector! This resource is brought to you by the Arts Council of Greater Lansing. For additional opportunities, visit our website at lansingarts.org.
Funding *

Place-based Grant Opportunities (Kresge Foundation)
Instrument Matching Grant (Classics for Kids)

* Please be aware that some opportunities may be time-sensitive.
Employment/Volunteer

REACH Studio Art Center is seeking a part-time development manager. This position will oversee REACH's Point of Entry Showcase Tour events, cultivate, coordinate and inspire Showcase tour hosts and more. Please apply no later than May 27.

Grand Ledge School District is currently seeking an art teacher at the elementary level. This position would begin in the 2019-20 school year.

Downtown Lansing Inc. is hiring an Executive Director who is energetic, enthusiastic, visionary and professional to take the lead of its organization and help make downtown Lansing an even better place. The ideal candidate will be a high-energy person who lives and breathes everything downtown and seizes this opportunity to make a big impact on the future of Lansing.

If you are currently hiring for a part- or full-time position, offering an internship, or looking for volunteers, please let us know! Email the Arts Council at info@lansingarts.org to put your opportunity in our next Creative Connection!


Conferences, Classes and Creative Opportunities

The Allen Neighborhood Farmers Market is currently seeking featured artists for their summer market days. In much the same way they have featured local musicians and dancers at the market for years, they would like to provide exposure for local visual artists (painters, photographers, potters, glass artists, jewelers, textile artists) and increase art appreciation and awareness among their patrons.

Register  today for the third annual nonprofit Talent Strategy Summit. This premier event is a great opportunity to learn and share strategies to recruit, develop and retain diverse talent.  Attendees can expect to be part of high level discussions and gain immediate practical leadership skills. 

Collective Contests announces a Script to Screen Challenge. Using a provided script,  make a two-minute narrative film. You'll need actors and a location, but most importantly you'll need to tell the story in a unique and engaging way. The script is deliberately vague to be transferable across genres- horror, comedy, drama, etc. 

Creative Placemaking Summit 5: Forward Momentum is coming Sept. 26! The Arts Council invites their members to take a look at the 2019 speaker RFP which closes on July 1. Follow along at #LansingPlacemakers to see what is happening in the world of creative placemaking and look for more details to be released soon.


Featured Creative Opportunity
     


Clinton County Arts Council: Sidewalk Poetry Contest


The Sidewalk Poetry Contest is open to all current and former residents of Clinton County.

Clinton County Arts Council is  looking for poems that reveal and celebrate the writer's connection to the artistic, creative and cultural life of St. Johns.

Some parameters for the contest:
  • Please use Times Roman 12 pt. font
  • Set your right and left margins to 2.25 in. each.
  • Poems should not exceed 20 lines. This count includes title, author's name and all blank lines and stanza breaks.

Poets retain ownership of the work, but the Clinton County Arts Council reserves the right to use reproductions of the work.

The deadline for submission is Aug. 2 with final etching taking place in early September.

Please see the website for more information.
Arts Council of Greater Lansing
1208 Turner St.
Lansing, MI 48906

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This resource is generously supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs.