The application deadline has been extended to November 29th.
Applications can be found at https://franconia.submittable.com/submit.
This is the first year we are able to offer a stipend of $750 to Emerging Artist Residents while Fellows receive a $5000 stipend! This is an excellent opportunity for your BA and MFA-level students who will receive professional development by way of skills-building, curator studio visits, workshops, and more.
A reminder that ARC’s 2021 Poetry Fellowship application is due this Sunday, November 15th at 11:59pm PST! To apply, please click here.
UC Berkeley’s Arts Research Center (ARC) is spending two years exploring Poetry and the Senses, thanks to a generous grant from the Engaging the Senses Foundation. The program is grounded in the relevance and urgency of lyrical making and storytelling in times of political crisis, and the value of engaging the senses as an act of care, mindfulness, and resistance. We support poetry in its broadest definition; our fellows have had connections with English and Comparative Literature; Theater, Dance and Performance Studies; Art Practice; Berkeley Center for New Media; Global Urban Humanities; Native American Studies; Spanish & Portuguese; Music; and Near Eastern Studies departments at UC Berkeley. Amplifying under-represented voices is part of ARC’s bigger mission. To learn more about the program, click here.
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Matchbox Magazine, an annual UC-wide literary & arts publication, is currently accepting submissions for our 15th edition (prose, poetry, visual art, music, and spoken word). Submissions are limited to UC undergraduates only. You may have seen our older editions around your office and elsewhere on campus and we are really hoping to have a large UCLA presence in this year’s issue.
To learn more, you can visit our website www.matchboxmagazine.org or contact me with any questions.
https://www.tombowusa.com/art-scholarship
ATLANTA – Tombow is proud to announce the third annual Create Your Best Work Art Scholarship to aid two promising art students with tuition costs.
Tombow’s Create Your Best Work Art Scholarship is available to high school seniors graduating by June 2021 and college freshmen and sophomores in the United States. To qualify, students must be currently enrolled or accepted and seeking a visual arts degree at a U.S. university, college or art school. (more…)
We are pleased to announce Visitor Welcome Center’s Winter residency — a room with a view and a couch. Since March, our main gallery space has been unoccupied and we wish to invite artists to make use of the space. From November 30, 2020 to January 24, 2021, we will offer four (4) two-week residencies to applicants looking for a safe, sunny, and quiet studio to work, create, and play.
Applications to the LACE Lightning Fund are due November 20, just a little over two weeks are left, so APPLY NOW!
Applications will be reviewed by a panel of local cultural workers, artists, and members of the LACE staff. Panelists will evaluate applications based on a combination of eligibility; application content, including demonstration of both financial need and active artistic practice; and a commitment to equity. We encourage applications from artists whose communities are underrepresented in relationship to visual art opportunities, economies, and funding streams. Strong consideration will be given to Black, Indigenous, POC, elder, LGBTQ+, disabled, immuno-compromised, and migrant artists.
Click here for more information about the Lightning Fund and to apply.
The Emerging Curator Program is designed to discover curatorial talent in Los Angeles and provides opportunities for emerging curators to partner with LACE. For the program’s seventh installment one project will be selected for presentation in spring 2022. This year, the program is accepting curatorial proposals centered on performance, rather than exhibition. Emerging Curators are encouraged to propose projects that can function as a live performance as well as be presented virtually. Proposals may be geared toward a single performance or a series of performances (keeping budget in mind.) Note: this call is specifically for curators and not artists submitting performance proposals of their own work.
Click here for more information about the Emerging Curator Program and apply.
Deadline to Submit: January 4, 2021.
We are writing with a reminder that Foundation for Contemporary Arts (FCA) continues to offer one-time $2,000 relief grants through the FCA Emergency Grants COVID-19 Fund. We hope you will share this resource with artists in your community who may benefit from this grant.
FCA is accepting applications from experimental artists who have lost income from an engagement that has been canceled or postponed due to COVID-19 any time after March 2020. Financial losses will be considered holistically (inclusive of various income sources). Artists can apply with opportunities that may not have been confirmed before being canceled or postponed (e.g. if you were in conversation with a presenter but dates were not set and a fee was not decided).
Artists who are interested in applying are encouraged to read the eligibility guidelines. The application is straightforward and is not intended to be time-intensive; it requires basic contact information and a few work samples.
Eligible artists who apply and are approved by the COVID-19 Fund bimonthly review panel will receive one-time $2,000 grants. Artists are only eligible to receive one grant through this program. The program will be open through December 31, 2020.
Open Ceilings is a completely undergraduate-run literary magazine specifically dedicated to creative writing and the arts. With the support of the English Department and members of the Davis community, Open Ceilings aims to capture and preserve in print the creative work of students, staff, faculty, and community members in Davis, and now the larger UC system. As a semiannual publication releasing summer and winter issues each year, Open Ceilings accepts short fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. The magazine also features photography and artwork submissions.
Like you, Open Ceilings is adapting to the changes posed by the global response to COVID-19, and despite the unique challenges our team is facing, we are proud to support the creative community through the uncertainty. We strongly believe artwork and creative expression is healing and can serve as a healthy escape from the various challenges and stresses we all face. That is why we are committed to moving forward with our production of upcoming issues. We are currently collecting submissions for our Summer 2021 issue and would love to see any work you have to submit!
For a chance to appear in our upcoming issue, send your work to submitopenceilings@gmail.com. The deadline to submit is December 31st, 2020.
For submission guidelines and more information, please visit our website or email our team at contactopenceilings@gmail.com.
To purchase the current issue of Open Ceilings, visit our store.
Best regards,
Indra Waters
Senior Acquisitions Editor | Summer 2021
The Cowles Center is now accepting applications for Program Assistant, McKnight Fellowships for Dancers and Choreographers.
The Program Assistant is responsible for supporting and advancing the goals of the McKnight Dancer and Choreographer Fellowship program. This part-time position would begin at the start of the new year.
The full job description is available below.
Download a pdf of the job description from The Cowles Center’s website or the McKnight Fellowships for Dancers and Choreographers website.
Read about the upcoming staff leadership transition at mcknightdancechoreo.org/news.
Applications are due by or on November 23, 2020.