the arts loan fund

The Creative Work Fund now invites letters of inquiry for projects featuring performing artists or visual artists. Collaborating artists must reside and organizations must be based in the following counties: Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Monterey, Napa, San Benito, San Francisco, San Joaquin, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Solano, Sonoma, or Stanislaus. This is the first time that San Benito and Santa Clara artists and organizations are eligible to apply. The deadline for letters of inquiry is 5:00 p.m. on November 6, 2009.

Their Web site offers information for applicants and grantees and a full list of application workshops. The East Bay Community Foundation just alerted Alameda and Contra Costa of these two:

• Friday, September 4, 2-3:30 p.m.
  James Irvine Foundation Conference Center
  De Domenico Building
  353 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza (near the 12^th Street BART Station)
  Oakland
• Sunday, September 13, 2:00-3:30 p.m.
  Moving Arts Dance
  1281-C Franquette Avenue (near the Sun Valley Shopping Center)
  Concord

Check the full schedule  and sign up at http://creativeworkfund.org/modern/seminars.html