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	HEADLONG PRESENTS HOTEL POOL, a new work performed in and around the swimming pool of a hotel. Presented by the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art at the Williams Inn swimming pool, Williamstown, MA, 413 662 2111, www.headlong.org. April 20–22

	CAROLINE LATHAN-STIEFEL will have a solo exhibition at Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, 535 Means Street NW, Atlanta, GA, www.thecontemporary.org, 404 688 1970. June 18–August 13

	YERBA BUENA CENTER FOR THE ARTS (YBCA) will present the fourth Bay Area Now, a triennial, multi-disciplinary art festival celebrating Bay Area artists. Artists Liz Cohen and Ted Purves are among those selected for the visual arts exhibition, and filmmakers Ellen Bruno, Bill Daniel, Sam Green, and Caveh Zahedi have been selected for the film/video component, in which new work commissioned by YBCA is premiered at the festival. July 16-November 6

	SANDI DUBOWSKI’S FILM TREMBLING BEFORE G-D has won the Henry Hampton Award for Excellence in Film and Media from The Council on Foundations. The award will be presented at their annual conference in San Diego, April 10-12. In addition the film will be screened at the Council's 2005-06 Film and Video Festival.

	CREATIVE CAPITAL PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOPS are designed to help artists to organize, plan, and sustain creative careers. These workshops use an integrated approach to cover the topics of marketing/public relations and fundraising with an emphasis on strategic planning for individual artists. New York area artists interested in registering for our upcoming April One-Evening Workshop Series can visit our website: http://pd.creative-capital.org.

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Jem Cohen’s films are featured in a six-page article titled “Eyes Wide Open” in the March issue of Artforum.

Jeanne C. Finley is a Spring 2005 Artist in Residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts, 944 Fort Barry, Sausalito, CA, 415 331 2787, www.headlands.org.

Art in America’s March issue includes “The Producers,” a feature article on the work of Jennifer and Kevin McCoy.

Well, a play by Lisa Kron that premiered in New York last year at the Joseph Papp Public Theater, is being presented in San Francisco this year by the American Conservatory Theater and was named one of the top 10 plays of 2004 by The New York Times, The Advocate, and the Associated Press.

A documentary special has been produced by NHK on Basil Twist's Dogugaeshi and was aired on NHK BS1 (NHK's satellite broadcasting channel 1) on March 8 nationwide in Japan.

Daniel Bernard Roumain is the first composer-in-residence at New York’s Bowery Poetry Club. He will present monthly showcases through June.

Sandi DuBowski’s film Trembling Before G-d has won the Henry Hampton Award for Excellence in Film and Media from The Council on Foundations. The award will be presented in April at their annual conference in San Diego.

Steve Kurtz participated in “Attacking Academic Freedom in American,” a conversation with his art activist group Critical Art Ensemble at CUNY, Center for the Humanities (Elebash Recital Hall). Other lectures are scheduled for March 30 with Rebecca Schneider at the Performance Studies Conference, Providence, RI; and April 7 with Claire Pentecost at the Arab Cultural Forum, Beirut (tentative), www.caedefensefund.org.

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Critical Art Ensemble’s Biotech Initiative and Rachel Mayeri’s work Stories from the Genome: An Animated History of Reproduction was seen at Wignall Museum/Gallery Chaffey College, 5885 Haven Avenue, Rancho Cucamonga, CA, www.chaffey.edu/wignallgallery.

Work by Dread Scott was included in the exhibition Open Secret: A Laboratory, Visceglia Gallery at Caldwell College, 9 Ryerson Avenue, Caldwell, NJ, 973 618 3457.

American Conservatory Theater presented the West Coast premiere of Lisa Kron's Well, ACT's Geary Theater, 415 Geary Street, San Francisco, CA, (415) 749-2228, www.ACT-SF.org.

Erica Chough’s work was seen in the exhibition Still Present Pasts: Korean Americans and the “Forgotten War”, CMAC, 41 Second Street, Cambridge, MA, www.stillpresentpasts.org.

Beverly McIver’s solo exhibition entitled Raising Renee was on view until March 28 at LewAllen Contemporary, 129 West Palace Avenue, Santa Fe, NM, 505 988 8997, www.lewallencontemporary.com

Ela Troyano’s work La Lupe: Queen of Latin Soul was screened at Aaron Davis Hall’s Harlem Film Festival, 212 650 7100, www.aarondavishall.org.

From March 9–13, Donna Uchizono and her dance company performed Butterflies From My Hand at REDCAT, 2nd & Hope Streets, Los Angeles, 213 237 2800, www.redcat.org.

The twelfth annual New York Underground Film Festival (March 9–15) screened several grantee works, including Kevin Everson’s Spicebush, James Fotopoulous’s The Ant Hill, Reynold Reynolds and Patrick Jolley’s Sugar, and Peter Sillen’s Grand Luncheonette at Anthology Film Archives, 32 2nd Avenue @ 2nd Street, New York, NY, www.nyuff.com.

Erica Chough had a solo exhibition featuring new work that closed on March 15 at the Hudson D. Walker Gallery at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA, www.fawc.org. Her work can also be seen in a group exhibition at Shreve, Crump and Lowe Gallery in Boston from March 11 to April 9.

The San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival (March 10–20) featured Roddy Bogawa’s documentary I was born, but… (2005) and Spencer Nakasako and Sokiy Ny’s A.K.A. Don Bonus (1995).

In collaboration with the 29th annual Cleveland International Film Festival, the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland screened films by Miranda July on March 15 at the Tower City Cinema, 216 623 3456, www.clevelandfilm.org.

Come Home Charley Patton, the finale of Ralph Lemon’s Geography Trilogy, was presented at the African American Cultural Center in Pittsburgh, PA, as part of the performance’s spring tour, www.africanaculture.org.

In January, Premieres, a program of the Museum of Modern Art’s Department of Film and Media, featured new work by Bill Morrison, Janie Geiser, Miranda July, Lewis Klahr, Peter Sillen, and Jem Cohen. Cohen’s film in the program, CHAIN, was also selected for numerous festivals including Berlin, Edinburgh, Vancouver, Cinematexas, and Vienna. In addition, it received an IFP Independent Spirit Award and was chosen as one of the 20 Best Undistributed Films of the Year by the Village Voice.

At this year’s College Art Association's (CAA) Annual Conference, an all-day program titled "Creating and Teaching ECOtistical Art" included Suzanne Lacy, Maureen Brennan, and Mel Chin in a panel of artists whose work explores art and ecology. In addition, staff member Sean Elwood participated in a session titled "Funding Workshop for Visual Arts."

Rafael Sanchez presented his project Balloons Umbrellas Turntables at Participant, Inc. in New York this past fall. The exhibition was reviewed in The New York Times and has inspired a new work, REVOLVER, a film that will be shown later this year.

sixty weak knees, an installation by Matthew Geller, was presented earlier this year at Arthouse’s Lounge! in Austin, Texas. The project was selected from a nationwide search for proposals.

Erica Chough was one of seven visual artists included in the Out 100 2004 list, Out Magazine’s annual selection of 100 people honored for their remarkable contribution to gay culture.

Vijay Iyer debuted a commissioned piece, “Mutations,” earlier this year as part of the series ZOOM/composers Close Up at Merkin Hall in New York.

Resisting Paradise, Barbara Hammer’s award-winning documentary, closed the art activist conference “And So Forth” earlier this year in Brooklyn, New York.

Vocal Gestures, a solo exhibition by Meredith Monk, was presented in January by Frederieke Taylor Gallery in New York.

Recent paintings by Beverly McIver were on view at Tyndall Galleries in Chapel Hill, NC.

Nick Cave was included in the group exhibition The Whole World is Rotten: Free Radicals and the Gold Coast Slave Castles of Paa Joe at Jack Shainman Gallery in New York City, which closed on March 12th. Cave was among the artists mentioned in The New York Times review of the exhibition.

Carrie Moyer participated in the exhibition New York’s Finest: A Painting Show at CANADA in New York.

Jennifer and Kevin McCoy were included in the exhibition Look Out: Video and Media Installation at the University of Hartford, and presented their work in Conversations with Contemporary Artists at The Museum of Modern Art on March 4 at the Museum of Modern Art.

The following artists were featured at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, UT, (January 20–30): Maya Churi’s film Forrest Grove (2005) in the online category, Jake Mahaffy’s short film Motion Studies #3: Gravity (2004) in the Frontiers category, and Reynold Reynolds and Patrick Jolley’s feature length film Sugar (2005).

Also at Sundance, Miranda July’s feature film Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005) was included in the dramatic competition category and won a special jury prize. July was also featured in Variety’s “ Ten Directors to Watch” list in the January 2005 issue.

The International Film Festival Rotterdam held from January 26–February 6 featured world premieres of the work of several grantees, including: Tony Cokes, 1! (2005) and Evil.8 / Evil.7 / Evil.9 (2005); Kevin Everson’s Spicebush (2005) as part of “Cinema of the World: Time and Tide”; and Caveh Zahedi’s I am a Sex Addict (2005). Also featured at the festival was the performance of Sound Check Live: Jem Cohen & Terry Riley (2004–05) and Peggy Ahwesh’s film Heaven’s Gate (2001).

Carrie Moyer’s work was included in a group exhibition at Marlborough Chelsea in New York.

Edgar Arceneaux’s work was included in the Art and the Afterall Effect exhibition at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco and in a show called Remembering at the University of California Riverside’s Sweeney Art Gallery.

Cindy Bernard has recently had two solo shows, at the Margo Levine Gallery in Los Angeles and at the Donna Beam Fine Arts Gallery at the University of Nevada, Los Vegas.

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