Deadline:  September 17th

Apply for opening on the Board of the Creative Portland Corporation (1 Creative Enterprise Sector, 1 Creative Organization, 1 Artist, and 1 Real Estate position).

The Creative Portland Corporation (CPC) is a newly established non-profit organization created to receive donations, grants, and contributions in support of and to assist the City of Portland’s economic development efforts which enhance, support, and create creative economy business and arts district development and employment opportunities.

The Board of Directors shall consist of thirteen individuals, two of which shall be ex officio members (the Mayor or City Council member, and the City Manager or designee associated with the Economic Development Division). Qualifications: three representatives from each private creative category (creative enterprises, creative organizations, and artists), and two members representing higher education and real estate. All Directors, with the exception of the ex officio members, must be either residents of, own a business located in, or work in the City of Portland.

Additional information is available in the City Clerk’s office, on the City’s website at www.portlandmaine.gov or at 874-8677. Deadline for submission is September 17, 2010. Please send a resume and cover letter to Appointments Committee Chairman, c/o Linda C. Cohen, City Clerk, 389 Congress Street, Portland ME 04101 or lcc@portlandmaine.gov. Applicants will be contacted for interviews.

Wednesday, September 15, 2010, from 5:30 pm-7:30pm
113 Masterton Hall on the USM Portland Campus

Please register at intern@mainecenterforcreativity.org

University of Southern Maine and the Maine Center for Creativity invite you to the second installment of this year’s Creative Toolbox & Survival Guide lecture series. This is a topic-specific series of lectures for innovative
individuals who work in Maine’s Creative Economy. Thanks to KeyBank for their generous sponsorship.

Cynthia Thompson, owner of Transformit, www.transformit.com will moderate the panel discussion during the second of this year’s lecture series.

Speakers will include Skip Bates of Bangor Savings Bank, Jane Harmon of Key Bank, Frederick Lipp of Bernstein Shur, Peter Moore of Corporate Finance Associates, Linzee Weld of Slow Money Maine and Nord Samuelson of North Main
LLC.

The discussion will cover how to bridge the different financing options for businesses within the creative sector.

Questions asked of the speakers will include:

1. Where is there common ground between finance and creative?
2. How does one identify what type of funding or investment that you need?
3. How does the Creative prepare for Finance?
4. How does Finance prepare for the Creative?
5. How do you support Genius?

The 2011 Arts Guide Portland is seeking listings! All city arts galleries and artist studios that are open to the public at least 2 days a week receive an annual free listing. Simply fill out this form to be part of this passport to the visual arts, music, dance, stage performances – all things expressive and artistic – in Portland.

Questions about listings or advertising in the guide?

Contact | Tom Urban, Advertising Account Manager

207.772.3373 ext. 112 |turban@themainemag.com

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The Business of Fashion:
What Every Designer and Practitioner Needs to Know

The Intellectual Property Section of the Maine State Bar Association & The Maine Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts
Presents:
 
The Business of Fashion:
What Every Designer and Practitioner Needs to Know
Wednesday, September 8, 1:30 – 3:00 pm
Location: Wischamper Center, University of Southern Maine (Portland Campus)

Speaker:  Barbara Kolsun

Ms. Kolsun is a prominent Fashion Lawyer, Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Stuart Weitzman, LLC, and Author of Fashion Law. Mrs. Kolsun will speak to the day-to-day concerns and needs of small and growing fashion labels and companies, what fashion law includes (protection strategies, counterfeiting, import/export and distribution, licensing, employment issues, and more) CA’s Proposition 65, the current status of design piracy protection in the United States and abroad, and other issues relating to the legal aspects of the design, manufacturing, and retail of getting products to consumers.
 
This event is free of charge – but due to the limited seating, please contact Chelsea Fournier at chelsea@fgd-law.com to reserve your seat.

Maine Arts Commission Survey-Help us to Help You

In an effort to evaluate our programs and services, and to gather critical information about the cultural sector in Maine, the Maine Arts Commission is administering a short survey to our constituents. Your input will allow the agency to provide services and programs that best suit your needs. You need not be intimately familiar with the Maine Arts Commission to provide helpful information.
 
We estimate that it will take you no more than 15 minutes to complete the survey. Simply click on the link to begin. Take this survey:  http://survey.constantcontact.com/survey/a07e2yxtie6gbmesxpn/a01qmgdtfyt91/greeting

Film: Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child 

Thursday, September 9, Doors at 7:00 PM, Starts at 7:30 PM, Ends at 9:30 PM, $7 / $5 for SPACE Members, All Ages
 
Location: Space Gallery, 538 Congress Street
 
Centered on a rare interview that director and friend Tamra Davis shot with Basquiat over twenty years ago, this definitive documentary chronicles the meteoric rise and fall of the young artist. In the crime-ridden NYC of the 1970s, he covers the city with the graffiti tag SAMO. In 1981 he puts paint on canvas for the first time, and by 1983 he is an artist with “rock star status.” He achieves critical and commercial success, though he is constantly confronted by racism from his peers. In 1985 he and Andy Warhol become close friends and painting collaborators, but they part ways and Warhol dies suddenly in 1987. Basquiat’s heroin addiction worsens, and he dies of an overdose in 1988 at the age of 27. The artist was 25 years old at the height of his career, and today his canvases sell for more than a million dollars. With compassion and psychological insight, Tamra Davis details the mysteries that surround this charismatic young man, an artist of enormous talent whose fortunes mirrored the rollercoaster quality of the downtown scene he seemed to embody.

Featuring interviews with Julian Schnabel, Larry Gagosian, Bruno Bischofberger, Tony Shafrazi, Fab 5 Freddy, Jeffrey Deitch, Glenn O’Brien, Maripol, Kai Eric, Nicholas Taylor, Fred Hoffmann, Michael Holman, Diego Cortez, Annina Nosei, Suzanne Mallouk, Rene Ricard, Kenny Scharf, among many others.

FMI:  www.space538.org

SPACE Gallery BLOCK PARTY!

a community event involving blocks, breaking barriers, and a Brazilian band
Saturday, September 11, Starts at 6:00 PM, Ends at 9:00 PM, Free, All Ages
BLOCK PARTY! is an unprecedented event for SPACE Gallery, in collaboration with Portland Ovations, The Portland Museum of Art, Children’s Museum & Theatre of Maine,Pickwick Independent Press, Portland Symphony Orchestra, and numerous neighbors on Congress Street. The shops, galleries and venues from One Longfellow Square down to Port City Music Hall will transform their “front yards” with the help of local artists. Stop by in front of the PMA to check out Andrea Zittel’sGroup Formerly Known as Smockshop installation and launch event. Make way for the steamroller making giant woodblock prints by some of your favorite Portland artists with Pickwick Press at the controls! Take the kids down the street for hands-on activities and performances provided by the Children’s Museum & Theatre of Maine, plus giant grid games and a host of surprises as we once again close off a portion of Congress Street to celebrate the vitality of Portland’s Arts District. And what block party is complete without dancing? At 7pm we’ll be treated to a special outdoor performance by Sao Paulo, Brazil’s Garotas Suecas who are making waves bringing the best tropicalia and soul to the northern hemisphere.
For detailed event info check out the SPACE website:  www.space538.org.

Mighty Big Yard Sale for Artists

Art supplies, art equipment, studio furnishings, etc. . .
MIGHTY CHEAP

When and Where: 
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18th from 10 – 2pm
54 COVE STREET, PORTLAND

TO SHOP:
Come visit us at The Cove Street Art Center at 54 Cove Street, home of running with scissors studios & find amazing bargains!

TO SELL YOUR STUFF:
Bring your “no longer needed” art supply & studio related stuff & a table and set up at 8:00 am on 9/18 in our parking lot & make some money! No vendor charge!

RSVP to scissorsart@gwi.net

RAIN DATE SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 19

Executive Director for the Portland Arts and Cultural Alliance and the Creative Portland Corporation

The Portland Arts and Cultural Alliance (PACA) was founded in 1985 and designated as the City of Portland, Maine’s local arts agency in 1997. PACA’s core programs include First Friday Art Walk and Creative Conversations. PACA also provides support to the City of Portland’s Public Art Committee and serves as a fiscal sponsor for other organizations.

The Creative Portland Corporation (CPC), established November 2008, is a non-profit organization created to support the City of Portland’s economic development efforts to enhance and create creative economy business and arts district development and employment opportunities.

Because of the similarity of mission, values, and aspirations, PACA and CPC are moving toward integration. The first step was undertaken in June 2010 when PACA became a subsidiary of the CPC; the second step, beginning in August 2010, is the creation of a series of committees that will include members from each group to work together on a range of mutual interests and tasks. These committees will include events, advocacy, economic development, and a ‘central’ committee to be the interface between the Executive Director and the boards.

The position of Executive Director will be full-time. The Executive Director will support the organization through its committees to advance the missions of the organizations. The Executive Director will manage and direct the business operations of the Creative Portland Corporation(CPC) and the Portland Arts and Cultural Alliance (PACA), including fund raising, grant writing, financial accounting and reporting, public representation and correspondence, and web site operations. Duties include:

• Manage the implementation of Board directed goals and objectives.
• Direct the day-to-day operations of the organization including project and program support for all committees which currently include:

- Central Committee

- Economic Development

- Research

- Events

- Advocacy

• Assist the Central Committee, and through them the PACA and CPC Boards in implementing funding strategies to meet financial goals.
• Act as the informational liaison to the Central Committee, and through them to the PACA and CPC Boards.
• Facilitate communications, coordination and collaboration between the community of individual artists and businesses, government, educational institutions, civic, cultural and other community groups.
• Promote Portland as an artistic and creative enterprise community.
• Oversee and coordinate all consultants and suppliers.
• Manage and advance the websites, social media endeavors, and branding initiatives of PACA and CPC.
• Provide leadership and vision in the Portland arts and culture community.

QUALIFICATIONS OF THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

You are the ideal candidate for this job if you:

• Currently live and/or work in Portland.
• Have the capacity for inspirational leadership and effective representation.
• Are highly motivated, visible and flexible, as well as creative, personable, energetic, and self directed.
• Love to attend networking and community events, including but not limited to City Council meetings, arts events, etc.
• Can cultivate and maintain relationships.
• Have excellent skills in communication (both verbal and written) and event planning and management.
• Have excellent organizational skills, the ability to multi-task, anticipate, set priorities and meet deadlines.
• Have proficiency in social media and Microsoft Office applications, including database management.
• Are passionately interested in the Portland arts community!

Please note this search has closed. Thanks for your support of the Portland arts community!