CRA SEEKING APPLICANTS

The Community Redevelopment Agency is seeking five qualified individuals to serve on its Arts Advisory Committee, which will play a significant role in planning and implementing the new downtown Art in Public Places Program.

Those eligible must be respected in their fields, knowledgeable about contemporary art (particularly in a public outdoor context), familiar with downtown Los Angeles, able to attend regular meetings for two years, capable of working effectively in a jury process situation and willing to carry out the agency’s Art in Public Places Program policy and redevelopment objectives.

Gallery owners, dealers, business managers, agents and other profit-oriented intermediaries are ineligible.

Deadline for applications is March 31.

The agency’s Board of Commissioners will review all applications and appoint five community members for staggered, non-renewable two-year terms.

The committee will include one artist, two arts professionals (such as curators, academics, arts administrators or art critics), one developer and one representative of the Cultural Affairs Commission.

Members of the committee will be compensated for their time. Their primary duty will revolve around the art selection process of the Art in Public Places Program. Committee members also will appoint selection panels for individual projects, as well as review and approve developers’ plans in compliance with the 1%-for-art requirement. The committee may ask non-voting advisers to participate on a project-to-project basis.

Individuals may obtain a Request for Qualifications form by sending a postcard to Art in Public Places Program, Community Redevelopment Agency, 354 S. Spring St., Suite 700, Los Angeles 90013.

The second of four interarts panels sponsored by the Southern California Women’s Caucus for the Arts, “Dialog, LA ‘85/86,” begins at 1 p.m. today at At My Place, 1026 Wilshire Blvd., Santa Monica.

Writer and lecturer Andrew Reichter will moderate a panel consisting of writers Wanda Coleman, William Franklin, Paul T. Owens, Carolyn See and Joan Torres.

A $5 donation is requested. Information: (213) 489-4554.

The Third Western States Biennial Exhibition contains works by 45 artists selected from 14 Western states including Alaska and Hawaii. Of the nine Californians chosen, five--Jo Ann Callis, Eileen Cowin, Mark Lere, Sabina Ott and Boyd Wright--are from Southern California and four--Squeak Carnwath, Harry Fritzius, Pat Klein and Anita Margrill--are from the Bay Area. Callis and Lere declined to participate in the show, citing an overabundance of exhibition commitments.

The exhibition will travel to six locations nationwide and will be seen in Southern California at the Palm Springs Desert Museum in May.

Two recently awarded grants will help preserve Grandma Prisbey’s Bottle Village in Simi Valley.

The California Arts Council gave $4,564 (the council’s third grant to the village) and the Skaggs Foundation of Oakland awarded $5,000 (the second gift from Skaggs) to the Preserve Bottle Village Committee in support of its struggle to save the state historical landmark.

One of a handful of folk-art environments in California, Bottle Village was built over 25 years by Tressa (Grandma) Prisbey, who started to work on it in her 60s.

The Friends of Photography announces that a brochure containing guidelines for the 1986 Ferguson Grant and Ruttenberg Fellowship is available from Friends of Photography, Box 500, Carmel, Calif. 93921. Include a stamped, self-addressed business envelope with all grant requests.

Applications for the Ferguson will be accepted April 1-15; for the Ruttenberg, May 1-15.

The Ferguson Grant is a $2,000 award presented yearly to a photographer who has demonstrated excellence in and commitment to creative photography. Its purpose is to assist in the professional and artistic growth of the recipient.

The Ruttenberg Fellowship, initiated in 1982, is designed to support a specific photographic project and assist in the creative development of the recipient.