If you have trouble reading this email, for the web version. Transforming Function, now showing at Conrad New York through end of 2012, and at Building 110: LMCC's Arts Center at Governors Island through September 30. Photo by Whitney Browne for LMCC 2012.
NEWS | PUBLIC PROGRAMS | ARTIST RESIDENCIES | GRANTS & SERVICES
NEWS
	LMCC Nominated for Chase Community Giving Voting Period: September 6-19, 2012 We are delighted to announce that LMCC has been nominated for a Chase Community Giving grant. Starting this Thursday, you can vote on Facebook for LMCC to receive a grant of $10,000 or more to support our innovative arts programs for artists and the community. Help us make art happen here—it just takes a click!
Photo courtesy of Kyoco Taniyama	LMCC Welcomes Kyoco Taniyama, Asian Cultural Council Fellow LMCC is pleased to be hosting Tokyo artist Kyoco Taniyama for six months through LMCC's partnership with the Asian Cultural Council. During her residency, Taniyama will be developing an installation in her studio in Building 110: LMCC's Arts Center at Governors Island.
PUBLIC PROGRAMS
	LentSpace Lunchtime Programs Program begins at 1PM every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday LentSpace, intersection of Canal Street and Sixth Avenue This month, LMCC presents a great line-up of young musicians at LentSpace. Artists include Paris jazz trio The Kandinsky Effect, encore performance from trumpeter Wayne Tucker, and Lincoln Center regular The Brain Cloud. Wednesday programming is brought to you by Hudson Square Connection.
ARTIST RESIDENCIES
Artist-in-residence Nancy Nowacek in her studio with guests. Photo by GODLIS for LMCC 2012	Open House at Building 110: LMCC's Arts Center Saturday, September 29 and Sunday, 30, 12-5PM Building 110: LMCC's Arts Center at Governors Island Please join us for an Open House at Governors Island with Open Studios; Transforming Function, a group exhibition in the gallery; and a performing arts presentation. Come meet the 20 visual artists-in-residence and watch a work-in-progress presentation by People Get Ready.
Photo by Whitney Browne for LMCC 2012	Transforming Function at Conrad New York Now through December 2012 Tuesdays–Thursdays, 12–6PM; Fridays & Saturdays, 12–8PM Conrad New York, 102 North End Avenue LMCC's sister gallery for Transforming Function at Conrad New York will be hosting tours to the public daily at 1PM. Transforming Function features artists who re-imagine elements of technology, science and architecture to offer new perspectives on interacting with and experiencing our environment.
Photo courtesy of Leah Beeferman	Transforming Function Artist Leah Beeferman Presents SPACE Saturday, September 8, 2PM Building 110: LMCC's Arts Center at Governors Island SPACE is a projected lecture and screening of selected audio and visual works, moving sketches, and semi-translucent drawings and diagrams, exploring topics of space and empty space, density, and vastness. Reservation required. RSVP here.
Photo courtesy of Kabir Carter	Transforming Function Artist Kabir Carter Presents Workshops and an Installation Workshop: Saturday, September 22 and Sunday 23, 2PM Installation: Saturday, September 29 and Sunday 30, 12-5PM Building 110: LMCC's Arts Center at Governors Island Listening Through Buttermilk Channel - September 22 and 23, 2PM Carter will lead a workshop at Yankee Pier entitled Listening Through Buttermilk Channel, in which hydrophones will be used to listen to sounds within Buttermilk Channel, a strait running alongside Governors Island. Through focused listening, an underwater soundscape will be revealed. RSVP required. RSVP here. Fill - September 29 and 30, Dock 102 Carter's installation, Fill, is a sound project comprised of live waterborne sound events and newly added sounds. A mixture of these materials will be projected into a land based listening space.
Photo courtesy of Melinda Ring	Melinda Ring/Special Projects Presents an Open Studio Wednesday, September 26, 12:15–1:45PM 80 Broad Street, 21st Floor Melinda Ring and performers Antonietta Vicario, Marilyn Maywald, Molly Lieber, Maggie Jones, and Talya Epstein, will introduce Forgetful Snow, a three-part work which will premiere at The Kitchen gallery space in 2014. The artists will share choreographic research, methods, and material developed during their current Swing Space residency and a past residency at Mount Tremper Arts. Reservation required. RSVP here.
Photo courtesy of Steven Reker	People Get Ready Presents a Work-in-Progress Saturday, September 29, 3PM Building 110: LMCC's Arts Center at Governors Island People Get Ready is a band that creates immense sonic landscapes through the interaction of bodies and analog technology. They also generate choreography based on their songs, including selections from their new album. See what they have been working on for their upcoming performance at New York Live Arts on October 18-20. Reservation required. RSVP here.
GRANTS & SERVICES
	Grants for 2013 Arts Projects - Application Deadline September 13 Thinking about applying for an LMCC grant to support a Manhattan-based arts project in 2013? Register now for one of our final information sessions and make sure to submit your completed application by September 13! 2013 guidelines and applications for LMCC's three grant programs, The Fund for Creative Communities (The Fund), Manhattan Community Arts Fund (MCAF), and Creative Curricula are available on our website. The final Fund/MCAF information sessions are at LMCC on September 6, 4PM and 6PM. Reservation required. RSVP here.
Patti Chilsen of Community-Word Project leads a workshop for teaching artists at LMCC.	Workshop: Building and Cultivating Relationships with Individual Donors Led by Dara Silverman, Fundraising Consultant Workshop for Individual Artists: Wednesday, September 19, 6:30-8:30PM Workshop for Small Arts Organizations: Thursday, September 20, 6:30-8:30PM Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, 125 Maiden Lane, 2nd Floor Good fundraising is all about cultivating relationships to build deep connections. At the same time artists and organizations are interested in ways to more fully engage their audiences and supporters. This workshop is designed to help participants learn how to strengthen and grow the base of relationships for themselves, their arts organizations, or art projects - today and for years to come. To register, visit LMCC's arts services webpage on Wednesday, September 12, at 12PM.
Nuclear Love Affair by 2012 MCAF Grantee Sanaz Ghajarrahimi/Built for Collapse	September 2012 Grantee Events Sanaz Ghajarrahimi / Built for Collapse – Nuclear Love Affair Following a critically-acclaimed Eastern European tour, experimental theater company Built for Collapse returns to New York with its award-winning theater production, Nuclear Love Affair, a dark and provocative pop culture spectacle featuring Marilyn Monroe, Charlie Chaplin, and the Atomic Bomb. human future dance corps – Danza Permanente Danza Permanente, created by choreographer DD Dorvillier and composer Zeena Parkins, transposes score into movement for four dancers, each taking the part of a single instrument. Drawing on a composition created in Vienna two centuries ago by a deaf Beethoven, Danza Permanente embodies the musical structure and dynamics of the string quartet behaving as sound, in silence. For more information and a complete list of grantee events this month, visit our grantee events calendar.
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