• Porter Distinguished Visiting Artists & Lecturers
• Porter College Mini_Grants
• Porter College Production Funding
• Hitchcock Poetry Fund
• Porter Festival Funding
• By-Laws of the Fellows of Porter College (PDF)

Porter Distinguished Visiting Artists & Lecturers

Fellows and Associate Fellows of Porter College are invited each spring quarter to apply for funds for visiting artists and lecturers for the following academic year. At the discretion of the Porter Executive Committee, precedence may or may not be given to Fellows and Associate Fellows in that order.

Deadline:

Applications are due in the Porter College Office or must be received via email by Provost Assistant Susan Beach at porterprovost@ucsc.edu by noon on Thursday, April 22, 2010.

Application Form:

Application may be downloaded here. As detailed in the form, your proposal must include a simple statement of support from any co-sponsors, the nominee's vitae and/or bio, a description (list) of the candidate's activities while at UCSC, and a complete line-item budget.

Criteria:

• Priority will be given to those activities that enhance Porter academic and/or intellectual endeavors and which are likely to serve a cross-section of Porter beyond a particular course or a particular major. In this way, Porter Visting Artists and Lecturers funds serve a purpose distinct from departmental course support funds. While presenters supported by Porter A & L funds are often invited to present to non-Porter classes, the presentations must be open and likely to be of interest to a constituency broader than the course participants. Alternatively, a presenter likely to be of general interest may be invited to give one specialized talk to upper division or graduate course and a second talk to a general audience.

• Nominations of individuals who would contribute to the college theme ("Arts in a Multicultural Society") are especially encouraged. Nominations for candidates who might contribute to a two-unit course a faculty member would mount in the college would be appropriate as would artists whose work might be featured in Porter's Courses, or teach a college course.

• Proposals should show clear evidence of forethought and planning. For example:

• Proposed venues should accommodate the projected size of the audience
• Groups and individuals (other than the participant) likely to share an interest in the presenter should be contacted and their responses included in the application.
• Proposal must include statement of participation by any faculty co-sponsors (whether Porter Fellows or not).

• Budgets must be broken down to include line items for any essential honoraria, lodging, technical support and any anticipated publicity (beyond Porter College flyers). Amount for each line item should be clearly reasonable and (if questionable) clearly explained.

• In applying for funds, the applicant states their willingness to make all arrangements for the Porter Visiting Artist/Lecturer. These arrangements may include:

• Contacting the presenter with contracts for honoraria.
• Gathering publicity materials and creating an emailed and/or printed flyer.
• Arranging for the presenter's lodging and parking, if necessary.
• Arranging for the presenter's transportation to and from campus as needed.

• All proposals for Porter Visiting Artist and Lecturer Funding will first be considered in light of the criteria given above. In a second screening, however, all proposals for Artist and Lecturer Funding and for Production Funding will be weighed against one another and funded according to the priorities of the Porter Executive Committee.

Questions:

Please contact Provost Assistant Susan Beach at porterprovost@ucsc.edu.

Porter College Mini-Grants

While Porter Distinguished Visiting Artists & Lecturers grants are awarded each Spring for the following year, small grants ($100 to $300) are sometimes available on a shorter turnaround for small projects favorably evaluated on the same criteria. If available, these grants are provided from any unspent funds from the previous year's Artist & Lecturer Funds. As with the larger A&L grants, the mini-grants require that there be a public presentation and that students and other Fellows of the College (not just individual departmental classes) benefit.

An application form may be downloaded here.

Porter College Production Funding

Fellows and Associate Fellows of Porter College are invited each spring term to apply for Porter College Production funding for the following academic year. At the discretion of the Porter Executive Committee, precedence may or may not be given to Fellows and Associate Fellows in that order.

Deadline:

Applications are due in the Porter College Office or must be received via email Provost Assistant Susan Beach at porterprovost@ucsc.edu by noon on Wednesday, April 21, 2010.

Application:

Application form may be downloaded here.

Criteria:

• Priority will be given to those activities that enhance Porter academic and/or intellectual endeavors and which are likely to serve a cross section of Porter beyond a particular course or a particular major. Preference will be given to productions that take place in whole or in part at the College or in conjunction with Porter College courses. Qualifying projects must entail significant involvement of Porter faculty and students. Preference will be given to projects that are interdisciplinary in nature.


• Proposals should show clear evidence of forethought and planning. Proposal must include statement of participation by any and all faculty co-sponsors (whether Porter Fellows or not).


• Budgets must be broken down to specific expenditures. Amount for each line item should be reasonable and (if questionable) clearly explained.


• In applying for funds, the applicant states their willingness to undertake responsibility and oversight for all aspects of the proposed production. A list of event organizer responsibilities is attached to the application form.


• All proposals for Porter Production Funding will first be considered in light of the criteria given above. In a a second screening, however, all proposals for Artist and Lecturer Funding and for Production Funding will be weighed against one another and funded according to the priorities of the Porter Executive Committee.

Questions:

Please contact Provost Assistant Susan Beach at porterprovost@ucsc.edu.

Hitchcock Poetry Fund

Porter College is soliciting applications for funding for poetry-related projects to be undertaken during the upcoming academic year. Grants will be provided from an anticipated gift of $20,000 for the year from Porter Emeritus George Hitchcock. This gift comes in association with an endowment provided by Professor Hitchcock in enduring support of poetry at Porter College. (Please see "Background of the Hitchcock Poetry Fund" below.)

Funds may be requested in any amount. However, requests are expected to exceed available funding by a factor of three or more and many proposals will very likely receive no funding at all. Last year the Advisory Committee distributed funding over a number of smaller projects rather than two or three large endeavors. Funding decisions will be made according to the criteria below and according to the priorities and judgement of the Poetry Advisory Committee, the Porter Executive Committee, and the Porter Provost.

Deadline:

Eligibility:

Criteria:

Proposals will be evaluated on the basis of the quality of the work, the numbers of UCSC students and faculty involved and/or affected, and relevance to Porter College students and faculty. (While students and faculty not associated with Porter are specifically included in this call, each project must, in SOME aspect, involve Porter College students and/or faculty and the degree of Porter involvement will be a factor in the selection process.)

To Be Considered:

Background of the Hitchcock Poetry Fund:

The Porter Provost, in consultation with the Porter Executive Committee, will make final decisions on the uses of these funds. Initial decisions, however, will be made by an advisory committee set up by Mr. Hitchcock. This advisory group includes Doug McClellan (Emeritus in the Art), David Swanger (Professor of Education, Literature), Tilly Shaw (Emeritus in Literature), Marjorie Simon (poet).

Application for Hitchcock Poetry Funds

PORTER COLLEGE FESTIVAL FUNDING

Each fall quarter, Porter College calls for applications for up to $10,000 to $50,000 in Porter College Festival Funding to be used in support of a festival & conference of the arts during the following 1-2 academic years. Deadlines for applications is generally set for early the following February. This year the date is set for Monday, February 8, 2010.

Purposes of Funding

1. to call attention to UCSC as a national center of activity in the proposed field,

2. to provide venues for the public presentation of artwork by UCSC faculty and to provide public forums in which these artists can discuss their work,

3. to bring to UCSC artwork and/or performances by innovators in the field and to provide public forums in which these artists can discuss their work,

4. to educate and to spark the imaginations of undergraduates and graduate students at Porter College and throughout UCSC as to the current and possible states of the arts,

5. (optionally) to serve as the public face of a concurrent scholarly conference bringing together practitioners, theorists, and historians in related fields for lectures and paper sessions. Normally Porter’s support would be directed to purposes 1-4 above while the organizers seek additional funds from other sources for purpose 5.

Given the purposes stated, the focus of such a festival might be highly interdisciplinary or highly specialized depending upon the vision of those involved.

Examples of Previous Festivals Funded by this Grant:

The Digital Arts/New Media Festival was staged from May 4-7, 2006 at several locations at UCSC, The Museum of Art & History @ The McPherson Center, and elsewhere in Santa Cruz. Featuring exhibitions, film screenings, symposia, performances and satellite events, the festival drew national attention to the UCSC DANM Program.

A festival entitled Directions in Contemporary Opera, staged in April 2007, featured nationally and internationally known composers, performers, and scholars in opera performances, panels, and lectures. The centerpiece of the festival was a highly reviewed world premiere performance of a new version of Lou Harrison’s Young Caesar in April 2007 in the UCSC Music Center Recital Hall in conjunction with a number of other presentations and performances.

A festival entitled Interventions: Art as Creative Disruption, Art as Relationship was created and coordinated in Spring 2008 by Dee Hibbert-Jones and other faculty primarily from the UCSC Art department. The Interventions Festival featured a three-day symposium within a month long series of artist activities and exchanges. Artists — including internationally known UCSC faculty and guests — exhibited in and outside of the gallery.

Professor Maggie Morse and Lecturer Soraya Murray's conference on collaboration will be held during October 2009. This conference is timed to coordinate with the appearance by Ed Catmull, President of Pixar and Disney Animation Studios, at UCSC's Foundation Day Forum, an event in which several UCSC Arts Department faculty will also participate.

A December 2009 festival/conference of the International Society for Improvised Music will be directed by Professor Karlton Hester. Current plans call for the festival to feature saxophonist Wayne Shorter and other internationally recognized musicians including members of the UCSC faculty.

The Spring 2010 Pacific Rim Music Festival will be directed by Professor Hi Kyung Kim. Planning for this event has drawn international interest and will involve participants from Korea, China, Germany, and Australia as well as the US.

What Expenses Are and Are Not Covered by Porter Festival Funding:

Administrative coordination can be supported with funds provided by this grant. However, the primary use of Porter Festival funding must be for honoraria, publicity, programs, technical support, administrative supervision and assistance associated with the proposed festival.

It would be inappropriate to use Porter Festival Funds to defray ordinary operating costs and salaries associated with on-going departmental or divisional facilities and personnel at UCSC.

While funds for such a festival are not intended directly to support the creation of new faculty work, the festival should serve as a nationally visible venue for creative work by prominent artists very much including UCSC faculty. NB: The involvement of a core group of faculty in developing and coordinating such a festival is essential to its success. Proposals must clearly identify faculty who are willing to be involved in this way and must include corroborating statements of intent from faculty so identified.

How to Apply:

Proposals should be up to eight pages in length and should include the following:

• Tentative Event Title

• Name/department/rank/contact information of the primary faculty coordinator of festival.

• Names and contact information of any secondary faculty coordinators of festival.

• Preliminary event-by-event description of the festival as envisioned.

• Tentative dates of festival.

• Likely venues and information regarding related costs & any necessary permissions.

• A line-item budget including estimates of administrative & technical costs, honoraria, etc. for the ENTIRE endeavor (even parts not to be funded by Porter College).

• Funding to be sought or already secured from other sources.

• Funding requested from Porter College.

• Addendum (in addition to <8 page proposal): Expressions of interest (emails OK) from UCSC faculty who identify themselves as willing to participate in the festival by presenting their work, chairing symposia, coordinating panels, etc.

Proposals are generally considered by the Porter Executive Committee late in Winter quarter. Please feel free to direct questions to David Evan Jones, Provost Porter College at dej@ucsc.edu or call 459-2564.