Art/Journ Announcements

Sundance

The U.S.-based Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program will award up to $1.5 million in grants to support documentary films focused on contemporary social issues. Interested participants must submit a copy of their film dialogue transcript along with an application by July 7. The program encourages the exploration of innovative nonfiction storytelling, and promotes the exhibition of documentary films to a broader audience. Awards will be announced in November. To apply, applicants must complete an application, available at http://www.sundance.org/pdf/DocFundApp082206.pdf, and send materials to: Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program, 8530 Wilshire Blvd. 3rd Floor, Beverly Hills, CA 90211. For additional information, contact sdf@sundance.org or Tel: (310) 360-1981

Ateneo Art Awards

The Ateneo Art Gallery, together with Asian Art News, Metro Society, Shangri-La Plaza, UnionBank and YStyle of the Philippine Star, is proud to announce that ten artists who were featured in twelve exhibitions have been short-listed for the 2008 Ateneo Art Awards. The works of this year's shortlisted artists exemplify a spirit of diversity, eschewing convention by producing innovative works in painting, photography, video, installation, performance, assemblage and sculpture. The short-listed artists are as follows:

• Poklong Anading for Fallen Map, 26 January - 14 February 2007, Magnet
  - Katipunan
• Marina Cruz-Garcia for Embodied Dolls in Sungduan Extension, 17 August - 18 September 2007, Museum of Three Cultures, Cagayan de Oro; Embroidered Landscape of My Mother's Life in Philippine Art Awards,25 October 2007; and Recollections, 1 - 18 February 2008, Art Informal
• Kawayan De Guia for Incubator, 28 July - 19 August 2007, The Drawing Room
• Christina Dy for Curtains Marching Carpet, 18 July - 4 August 2007, Silverlens gallery
• Lyra Garcellano for Short Stories, 13 September - 2 Oct 2007, Finale Art Gallery - Megamall
• Robert Langenegger for Irish Bull of the Mother and Child, 23 Aug - 11 Sept 2007, Finale Art Gallery - Megamall
• Mark Salvatus for Wrapped, 31 May - 11 June 2007, National Art Studio, Goyang, South Korea
• Rachel Rillo for Manila, 13 February to 8 March 2008, Silverlens Gallery
• Mac Valdezco for The 8th, 8 April - 3 May 2008, Avellana Art Gallery
• Mark Valenzuela for War Zone, 7 - 31 July 2007, Galleria Duemila