1. Call for applications, VCUarts Foundation, Deadline April 1
The VCUarts Fountainhead Fellowship in Painting and Printmaking is a 9-month residency for recent MFA graduates. Fellows are offered the chance to concentrate on their work, build their community, and gain valuable teaching experience with high-quality students in a world-class program. The residency is sited in a live-work complex built to eco-friendly, EarthCraft standards. This mixed-use community includes artists’ studios, apartments, an outdoor swimming pool, a dog park and other amenities in addition to being near campus.
For more information go to this website
2. Call for Artists and critical Studies Residencies, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Deadline April 1
The Core Program awards residencies to highly motivated, exceptional visual artists and critical writers who have completed their undergraduate or graduate training and are working to develop a sustainable practice.
Applications for the 2020–21 Core term are due April 1, 2020. For instructions and more information, visit mfah.org/core.
3. The AAF/SEEBACHER Prize for Fine Arts, Deadline April 10
Each year, The AAF/Seebacher Prize for Fine Arts offers US fine arts graduate students, or those who have completed their graduate studies within the past two years, the opportunity to study at the Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts in Austria. The AAF/Seebacher Prize for Fine Arts is funded through the generosity of AAF trustee Gerhard Seebacher and his wife Angelika. A list of previous AAF/Seebacher Prize for Fine Arts fellows can be found here.
Please visit their website for additional information on the Academy and its programs.
4. The Creative Time Emerging Artist, Deadline March 15
We welcome proposals from emerging artists, regardless of age, at a critical career juncture in which the opportunity to experiment and receive resources from a major arts organization would be impactful. Artists must have experience conceiving and executing works or projects, but have not yet received substantial support from a major arts institution. Artists must be over 21, and based in the New York City area. Artists cannot be currently enrolled in a degree program.
5. Call for Textile Artist, Textile Arts Center AIR Cycle, Deadline March 16
6. Call for Submissions, Yale’s Asterick* Journal of Art, Deadline March 5
Asterisk* Journal of Art is one of the few peer-reviewed, intercollegiate, art history and art journals at the undergraduate level. We are looking for high quality essays that subvert traditional narratives in art and artworks that will offer new perspectives. These works can be a version or part of a course research paper/project, independent study, or honors thesis.
For essays: please submit a 300-word abstract that details the thesis of your essay along with the logical line of argumentation that gets you to it. Furthermore, attach a 2,500-3,000-word essay in a Microsoft Word Document with all the images you reference in the essay. It would be preferable if the essay was already in Chicago citation style (including footnotes, bibliography, etc.). We will peer review all essays. Writers selected for publication will receive drafts for revision, prior to final publication.
For artworks: please submit a photograph of your artworks as individual and high-resolution “.jpgs” with their titles as file names. Furthermore, please attach a 200-word description of the artwork in a Microsoft Word Document. All photographable mediums of creative work will be considered (painting, photography, digital art, drawings, etc.).
To submit both artworks and essays, please email asteriskjournal@gmail.com. Please indicate your full name, your university, your class year and your email. The title of the email should be “Lastname, Firstname Submission.”
7. Call for Submissions, Model Minority Magazine
Model Minority is an Asian American identity magazine, dedicated to highlighting creative work by/about/for Asian Americans, subverting the myth of the model minority, and, ultimately, “reclaiming our stories.” We’re opening submissions for our Spring 2020 issue, and we’re looking for artists/writers/creatives to help us build this platform. We’re open to any form of creative expression, ranging from fiction to essays to poetry to visual art. Send submissions via our google form. Please don’t hesitate to reach out to us at modelminorityemory@gmail.com with any questions or concerns. We can’t wait to review your work!
Here is a link to our website.
8. Call for Artists, AAA Arts Fund
The AAA Arts Fund will provide support to American and Australian emerging or early career artists pursuing or wishing to pursue artistic development in each other’s country. These scholarships and grants support artists in the fields of theatre, film, television, dance, music, visual arts, design, literature, photography and fashion.
For further information regarding scholarship eligibility, please visit our website.
For inquiries, please contact the Education Manager: scholarships@aaanyc.org | Tel: +1 212 338 6860 x 208
9. Call for Artists, Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship, Deadline May 6
Jerome Hill Artist Fellowships support Minnesota or New York City-based artists, early in their careers, who generate and create bold, innovative and risk-taking new work that explores and/or challenges conventional artistic forms.
For more information go to this website.
10. Studio manager position, Tribeca, (P/T or F/T)
11. Call for Director, Performance Space New York
Performance Space New York is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Applicants from populations underrepresented in the theater/dance/performances fields are strongly encouraged to apply. All qualified applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, familial status, sexual orientation, national origin, ability, age, or veteran status.
For more information go to this website
12. Call for submissions, Parsons MFA, Deadline March 15
HAOS!?… (working title) is an exhibition project that will explore chaos in all its multitudes. We invite makers of any and all creative disciplines (visual art, sound, fashion, architecture, interdisciplinary design) to present works that engage with chaos as a subject, process, or theoretic framework. Suggested terms to consider as entry points into chaos include:
disorder, randomness, nonsense / failure, dysfunction, disappointment / emptiness, nothingness, the void / unknowing, confusion, forgetting / anarchy, rebellion, revolution / abstraction, distortion, glitch / luck, chance, coincidence / irony, parody, satire / subversion, inversion, transgression / non-normativity, queerness, deviance / utopia, dystopia, futurity / degeneration, entropy, erasure / conflict, mayhem, disaster / reinvention, reconfiguration, regeneration / exploration, migration, displacement / transcendence, catharsis, extacy / dreams, fantasy, magic / supernatural, paranormal, otherworldly / infinity, eternity, beyond…
Submission requirements – TO BE COMPLETED IN SUBMISSION FORM BELOW:
- Documentation of work (3-5 images, image list, materials, dimensions)
- Brief bio (100 words)
- Artist statement (250 words)
- how do you engage with a feature of chaos / chaotic thinking?
- Project proposal (250 words)
- how do you propose activating / engaging with the concept and format of the show? Ie: non-conventional installation, performance / interactivity, spatial / relational experimentation, etc
– Libby Paloma and Kaeten Bonli, curators
palol221@newschool.edu, bonlk760@newschool.edu
13. Call for Application, Federal State of Lower Saxony, Deadline March 26
The scholarships are part of the programme of the State of Lower Saxony for the support of emerging artists at the HBK Braunschweig. The programme is aimed at young artists who are interested in working intensively on artistic projects in the close environment of an art academy.
For more information and application, please visit Call for Application.
14. Call for Artist, Creative Time!, Deadline March 15
Emerging Artist Open Call is back. Following the resounding success of last year’s project, The Privilege of Escapeby Risa Puno — we are excited to once again invite New York City-based emerging artists to submit proposals for a socially engaged public artwork.
Applications are accepted electronically via Submittable.
For more information, including application guidelines and FAQs, click here.
15. Call for Artists, Halcyon, Deadline March 23
16. Call for Artists, Provincetown Community Compact, Deadline March 27
17. Call for Artists, Flux Factory, Deadline April 3
18. Call for artists, Lenore G. Tawney Residency for United States-based Fiber Media Artists at ISCP, Deadline March 31
Residency dates: July 1 – September 30, 2020Stipend: approximately $8,000Click here for more details and to download the application (scroll down).
19. Call for artists, Ukrainian Institute Residency at ISCP for artists and curators from Ukraine, Deadline April 5
Residency dates: August 1–September 30, 2020
Stipend: travel costs
Click here for more details and to apply.
20. Call for artists, Salomon Foundation Residency Award at ISCP for visual artists under 35 from member countries of the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie, Deadline April 26
Residency dates: January 1–June 30, 2021
Stipend: $24,000
Click here to download the application.
