The Baltimore Film Office at the Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts (BOPA) is accepting entries for the 16th annual Baltimore Screenwriters Competition. All screenwriters are encouraged to apply for this opportunity to craft a winning screenplay highlighting Baltimore. Screenplays may be submitted in both the feature and short categories, and scripts must be set in or able to be filmed in Baltimore. The Baltimore Screenwriters Competition is a project of the Baltimore Film Office in conjunction with film programs at Johns Hopkins University and Morgan State University.

Aosta International New Dance Festival Open Call

Deadline: January 15, 2021

Artist Residency – The Hambidge Center

Deadline: January 15, 2021

Apply now for the 2021 Summer Residency Session (May – Aug). Deadline: January 15, 2021. Open to visual artists, writers, dancers, musicians, ceramicists, arts & cultural administrators  – creative thinkers of all kinds. Located on 600 acres in the north Georgia mountains, each resident has a private studio & living space, with socially distanced meals provided four nights a week. Two-week to eight-week self-directed residencies. Financial aid and Distinguished Fellowships (provides stipend + fee waiver) are available. No references required. Application fee.

The Bogliasco Foundation

Deadline: January 15, 2021

The Bogliasco Foundation supports the Arts and Humanities by providing residential Fellowships at its study center in Italy’s most vibrant, historic crossroads, where gifted artists and scholars of all cultures come together to connect, create and disseminate significant new work. Bogliasco Fellowships are awarded to gifted individuals working in all the disciplines of the Arts and Humanities without regard to nationality, age, race, religion or gender. To be eligible for the award of a Fellowship, applicants should demonstrate significant achievement in their disciplines, commensurate with their age and experience. Please note that Bogliasco Fellowships are not awarded to students currently in a degree-granting program. The Foundation gives preference to those whose applications suggest that they would be comfortable working in an intimate, international, multilingual community of scholars and artists.

The In Art Gallery – Printmaking – January Show

Deadline: January 15, 2021

Tulsa Artist Fellowship

Deadline: January 15, 2021

Winter Passages

Deadline: January 15, 2021

2021 Shenandoah National Park Artist-in-Residence Program

Deadline: January 18, 2021

Bernheim’s Artist in Residence Program

Deadline: January 18, 2021

Call for submissions: McMaster Gallery at the University of South Carolina

Deadline: January 18, 2021

The McMaster Gallery welcomes Solo and Group Exhibition Proposals for the 2021-2022 academic year. The Gallery is located in the University of South Carolina’s School of Visual Art and Design in downtown Columbia, SC. The Gallery offers over 900 square feet of space with 140 linear feet of wall space. To apply, please send the following as one PDF file no larger than 20mb to Olga Yukhno, McMaster Gallery Director, at yukhno@mailbox.sc.edu with the subject line “2021-2022 Exhibition Proposal”:

Statement of Intent that includes all of the following:

• Biographical and contact information;
• Details of the intention of the exhibition you are proposing, including conceptual motivations, materials and processes, and the installation process;
• Description of how you and your work would interface with and appeal to the diverse program offerings and student body in the School of Visual Art and Design;
• If granted additional support to be a Visiting Artist, description of the activities you propose during your stay, such as public lecture, additional presentations to select students, workshops, graduate critiques, and/or class visits.

As well as:

•  15-20 high quality images of proposed work;
• Image list with the artist’s name, title, media, size and date
• Current Curriculum Vitae or Resume;
• Artist Statement or Curatorial Statement.

I-Park 2021 Site Responsive Art Residency & Biennial

Deadline: January 18, 2021

Fondation Fiminco Residency

Deadline: January 21, 2021

Fountainhead Residency for BIPOC Mothers

Deadline: January 21, 2021

The Baker Artist Portfolios were created to support artists and promote Greater Baltimore as a strong creative community. The online portfolios are open to artists working in all disciplines who live and work in Baltimore City and its five surrounding counties. The portfolios expose area artists’ work to regional, national and international audiences. The site has been viewed by hundreds of thousands of art lovers, critics, gallery owners, academics, and leaders in creative business in nearly every country around the globe. In order to respond to the needs of artists who have been severely impacted by COVID 19, the entire awards process for the 2021 season has been reconfigured. The $90,000 pool of funding usually reaches six artists annually. This year it will be awarded in the amount of $2,500 to 36 artists. Knowing that the need is urgent, GBCA will be accelerate the adjudication timeline and distribute the award funds as early as March 2021.For more information on the new, temporary award structure, please click here. Each of the 36 artists who receive an award this year will remain eligible for all awards in coming years. This year’s awards will not include an exhibition at the Baltimore Museum of Art, however selected artists will all have the opportunity to showcase their work in a series of public performances and online exhibitions.

Call for Papers – The 2021 Virtual Women’s & Gender Studies Conference “Gender, Race, Community, & Conflict: Pursuing Peace and Justice”

Deadline: January 22, 2021

The year 2020 ushered in the COVID-19 pandemic, which has exacerbated many unprecedented global crises. We have witnessed destruction of communities — often Black, Indigenous, immigrant, poor — and their habitats: the fires across the Amazon rainforest, the Dakota Pipeline construction, the Thirty Meter Telescope on Mauna Kea, and Indigenous communities ravaged by COVID. Major conflicts have worsened in these times of COVID-19, resulting in unspeakable suffering and violence in communities, from the threat of extinction of Indigenous populations, to the desecration of Indigenous lands and sacred spaces, to climate strikes and the epidemic of missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, two-spirit people, and trans women of color. How do feminists and their communities, Indigenous and settler colonial, cis, queer, and trans, address these issues/crises/problems, resist, and heal their communities? How have feminists and activists creatively strategized against or used the existing power structures to reverse the fragmentation of peoples and break down hierarchies? In pursuit of peace and justice, what are feminist activists doing within their communities to combat the pandemic, stop the divisions and violence while countering the hatred and demonization against the othered? How do we imagine peace and justice at this juncture? How might we move towards justice through the intersectional and transnational coalitions across genders, races, classes, sexualities, cultures, religions, nationalities? We invite and re-invite proposals that investigate the past, the present, and the future of the intersections of gender, race, and community that showcase feminist interventions in the tackling of conflicts. In what ways can feminist practices and movements counter the negative consequences of hate and white supremacy? What can we do to support communities struggling to align with the feminist agendas of peace, justice, and unity while honoring differences? How is the feminist body involved in community, conflict and the pursuit of peace and justice? How does feminism contribute to the pursuit of equity and equality? How has feminist storytelling narrated these struggles and contributed to/reshaped intellectual discourse? What can we do to ensure a more just and equitable world?

Mother’s Milk Artist Residency

Deadline: January 22, 2021

It is our pleasure to invite your submission for artistic contributions at The Nature of Cities Festival, a global virtual gathering of interdisciplinary thinkers and doers working toward greener cities for nature and all people. We will review submissions for artworks, performances, films, interventions, micro-talks, and practical workshops about cities and nature that resonate with the theme: radical imagination with nature and all people. We want to see your ideas for engaging participants in sensory experiences, as well as disturbing the habitual flow of traditional online convenings. Proposed works can address ideas such as social and environmental justice, multi-species / pluriverses, care or stewardship, the concept of reciprocity in cities and nature, or direct actions in the local landscape, considering how these actions/events/stories can be woven together in a more equitable, inclusive, global sense. This is a largely volunteer-produced event with many possibilities for free entry. With the exception of a small stipend for live performances, the festival does not have financial means to support the creation of new content. As such, we encourage submission of pre-existing works, or existing collaborations.

We are welcoming submissions to the Journal for Artistic Research. The Journal publishes three issues a year. JAR is an internationally recognized Open Access journal that publishes artistic research from all arts disciplines including (but not limited to) the visual arts, architecture, dance, design, film, literature, music, painting, performance, photography, poetry, sculpture, theatre, video art, urban planning, etc. The journal seeks submissions of artists and theorists focusing on artistic research, with or without academic affiliation, and at all stages of their research curriculum. Rethinking the traditional journal format, JAR offers its contributors a free-to-use online space called the Research Catalogue (RC) where text can be woven together with image, audio and video material allowing for creative modes of presenting and documenting artistic work. We are specifically interested in contributions that reflect upon and expose artistic practice as research, and welcome submissions from artists interested in opening up the processes that underlie their practice. Please view our archive to get a sense of what we publish. To be accepted for peer review, the Editorial Board considers the degree to which the exposition is conceptually and artistically strong, considered, and significant to the field, and whether the submission exposes artistic practice as research. This last aspect engages with questions and claims about knowledges within practice. For more information about the notion of ‘exposition’ please read the editorial to JAR0. If you don’t have one already, register for a free account on the RC and use the online space to design and submit your research. JAR provides editorial and technical guidance with these processes.

CMPFR.22c What will the World be like 100 Years from Now?

Deadline: January 31, 2021

CMPFR.22c is a collaborative storytelling project of speculative fiction, an episodic future history crossing genres and generations — stories told around the campfire where humans have gathered over thousands of years to share our experience, our wisdom, our hopes, and our fears. CMPFR.22c brings together storytellers, actors, artists, and sound artists-designers around a “sonic campfire” to create a collection of stories imagining the decades of the 22nd century. Collaborative groups develop a short story, perform the narration, and produce the accompanying soundscape. Each group’s 4-minute recorded sound composition tells the story of one decade in the future. The episodic decades are constructed sequentially over a 10-week period, each built upon the previous, to illustrate an entire century. The final project will be premiered on Radio Brennpunkt and made available on online and through streaming services as a serialized narrative. The works will all be licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. REALMOREREAL is an art brand, sociocultural production organization, and ongoing thought experiment that works with artists and culture workers to realize innovative or marginalized projects and interventions.

Kunstraum Lakeside – Statements – Open Call 2021

Deadline: January 31, 2021

Kunstraum Lakeside invites artists and cultural practitioners to participate in its 2021 program with their own “Statement”. We are in search of performative formats that relate to the Kunstraum’s annual topic and experiment with modes of representation in the visual arts, in the context of an institution at the interface between art, science, and technology. Kunstraum Lakeside focuses on one topic each year, which evolves from the local and institutional particulars of the exhibition, performance, and discourse space itself. Its association with a science and technology park and the correlations between the exhibition contents and the semester program at the University of Klagenfurt prompt questions about the role of artists in current knowledge production. Curated by Franz Thalmair and Gudrun Ratzinger, the program concentrates on fields of action encompassed under the term “artistic research”. Artistic research is conceived as a field that, in addition to just an aesthetic experience, enables one to reflect upon the conditions of his/her activities within artistic practice, while representing something in the artistic knowledge production process with the specific means of art. In essence, the Kunstraum Lakeside exhibition program tests whether the model of artistic research can be employed productively in a discussion process, which tackles fundamental issues in contemporary society.

Lake George Arts Project

Deadline: January 31, 2021

In a rugged desert environment in Northern New Mexico, SSB AWAY offers a two-week residency at Plaza Blanca (“the white place”), memorialized in countless paintings by Georgia O’Keeffe. The mesa is a space of deep solitude, silence, and emptiness—offering artists an ideal location to retreat, rest, recreate, and dream in the midst of pristine enchanted landscapes. Petroglyphs and pictograms abound, testament to a continuum of millennial history. The Genízaro village of Abiquiu (where Georgia O’Keeffe’s home is located), Ghost Ranch, Abiquiu Lake, and nine northern pueblos are nearby. On a remote mesa with spectacular views, the two-story casita on several acres of land includes a fully equipped kitchen and dining table, small light-filled living room with sofa and chairs, wood burning stove, desk, large second-story bedroom, full bath, and patio with outdoor seating. Extensive natural light and pristine natural environments abound. Please note that Plaza Blanca is at a high elevation (6,000+ feet) and may not be suitable for everyone. Applicants should take into account the retreat’s unique circumstances and historic location. The casita is surrounded by vast open space, but its small size offers limited indoor workspace. A $300 stipend is offered with the residency. Eligibility: Writers, visual artists, composers, musicians, performance artists, architects, designers, curators, and art workers of any kind—as well as activists, thought leaders, spiritual teachers, and others working to foster mutual respect and understanding. Preference will be given to mid-career artists and those seasoned in their chosen field. Students are not eligible.

Tanssin Aika festival (TAF) invites choreographers and dance artists to offer works for the 2021 edition of the festival for the two following categories:

TAF 2021 is curated by artistic director Janina Rajakangs in collaboration with youth and young adults. We will invite shows that draw our interest also outside of the open call. These are spoken word, band gigs and choreography made by young people. We also preserve the right to curate by invitation, works that don’t apply.

CURRENTS New Media is now accepting digital media art submissions in the fields of:

Every summer since 2010, CURRENTS New Media has been putting on one of the leading art and technology festivals in the United States. Located in Santa Fe, New Mexico, CURRENTS brings together the work of established and emerging new media artists from the USA and around the world. In August 2020, we presented our first entirely-online festival with great success. After a year of global change, adjustment and learning new ways to connect, we are planning an online festival with a smaller, onsite festival if COVID permits. Submission Fee: $25 for single submission, $20 per submission for multiple submissions. To apply, please read our submission guidelines and fill out the submission form on our website. CURRENTS New Media champions new media arts and supports artists in creating innovative work. Our annual festival, educational programs, and exhibition space give the public year-round access to immersive and expansive art experiences. The Festival is the result of a collaboration between Parallel Studios, its partners throughout the city and the many volunteers who invest their time to support this project.

Craft Choreography #12 and #13 – platform for presenting short choreographic works in Vienna!

Deadline for applications: February 1 & March 15, 2021

• space – it is an alternative white box with theatre lighting and dance floor
• audience + good atmosphere – after the performance we have an audience talk
• no real fees – just the audience donations

SciArt Open Call for March 2021 issue “Movement”

Deadline: February 1, 2021

• Art work submission: multiple art work images, with art work statement (first person) and artist bio (third person)
• Article submission: article on particular relevant topic with or without accompanying images (if images, images must come with image permissions)
• Interview submission: interview with artist(s)/practitioner(s)/expert(s) on relevant topics including images of their/relevant work (images must come with image permissions)

SITE: Brooklyn – Photography A Sense of Place

Deadline: February 1, 2021

Tides Institute StudioWorks Artist in Residence Program

Deadline: February 1, 2021

Woodwalk Gallery, one of Wisconsin’s premier galleries, is looking to host a virtual, online exhibition providing exposure for amateur and professional artists working in 2D mediums. We seek pieces that demonstrate ingenuity and inspiration. We want to see art that shows talent, keen perception, heart and will evoke excitement and emotion and in some way embody your idea of a beautiful possibility. Winners will be given a chance to display their prize winning works during the opening two months of the 2021 Door County, WI. art season. The theme is very broad, so you have the opportunity to choose your very best work to submit to this juried show. The competition is open to all 2D artists residing in the USA whose work is on paper, canvas or some type of board. The artist can work in all forms of painting, drawing, printmaking, photography, hand pulled prints, collages, graphics and digital arts. Prize money: 1st Place $500;  2nd Place $300;  3rd Place $100. In addition, the prize winning artists will be given the opportunity to submit their winning entry plus one additional piece (two total) for display in the gallery from May 1 through June 30, 2021. Display, shipping information and commission fees will be sent to the winners after their selection.

Detroit Science Gallery: Tracked and Traced

Deadline: February 5, 2021

Navasota Artist in Residence Spring 2021

Deadline: February 5, 2021

The Artists in Residence will have an opportunity to live and work in the historic Horlock Home in Navasota, Texas which includes living and studio space for each of the three participating artists as well as a retail gallery space. The term of each residency is roughly six (6) months. The City of Navasota will provide amenities including internet, cable, electricity, retail space, and live/workspace free of charge to selected artists with the purpose of providing artists the opportunity to create and sell their work. Each artist will also receive a one-time $600 stipend at the beginning of the residency to assist with groceries, fuel, and supply purchases.

Target Gallery Exhibition – Those Spaces Between Us

Deadline: February 5, 2021

Target Gallery invites artists to submit their work for consideration to a new digital and in-person exhibition Those Spaces Between Us. This all-media group exhibition will explore concepts of liminal or transient spaces and how we occupy them or, conversely, how we do not. This exhibition will present an introspective view on how spaces can offer a physical embodiment of ambiguity and transition, creating a narrative how we as people move through them.

Emerging Curator Program

Deadline: February 8, 2021

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.

Chamber Music American New Jazz Works

Deadline: February 12, 2021

The Allegany National Photography Competition & Exhibition

Deadline: February 12, 2021

Reflection – Women in Art

Deadline: February 13, 2021

Nuu Muse Contemporary Art will be hosting the Women In Art – Reflection exhibition curated by gallerist CJ Cowden. This exhibition will celebrate national womens month and help support a great organization, In My Shoes. Calling all women artists to submit their work for this amazing exhibition. There will be an opening reception followed by 2 weeks of display in Nuu Muse Gallery. This group show is open to women artitsts, 2D, 3D and photography. No reproductions of original works will be accepted. No digital prints will be accepted. Please submit up to 3 images for $35. Each additional image is $5 each. All images must be high resolution and 300 dpi.

EHESS at Camargo – Art & Social Sciences

Deadline: February 14, 2021

International Bad Video Art Festival

Deadline: February 14, 2021

The International Bad Video Art Festival (BVAF) is an independent artist-run initiative. Video artists and bad movie fans Natalia Monakhova and Andrey Slaschilin have once decided to find out whether there is something like bad video art. It is well known that bad movies have long ago formed a special cultural field with its own heroes and fans. In other arts sectors the issue of the bad has not been problematized so actively. There is no competition, no hype. Just bad video art from all over the world because it really exists in this world. And there are artists fearless enough to take part in the Festival without being afraid of labels or disrepute. Bad Video Art Festival is a good example of successful international communication beyond any geographical, social or cultural limits, or fictional ranking.

ArtsLink Back Apartment Residencies for US Artists and Curators in St. Petersburg, Russia

Deadline: February 15, 2021

The ArtsLink Back Apartment Residency program provides opportunities for US artists and curators to conduct research, create new work, collaborate with the local arts community, and create special projects in St. Petersburg, Russia. Each residency is individually designed to enable visiting artists and curators to learn about the Russian arts community, develop their own work, and share information about their work and cultural practice with local audiences. Artists and curators interested in learning about contemporary art in Russia and building relationships with the local arts community are invited to apply. Although preference is given to artists and curators working in socially engaged art and public art, applications from practitioners in other art fields will also be considered. CEC ArtsLink currently supports residencies only for artists and curators from the United States. CEC ArtsLink provides international travel, visa support and insurance (if needed), accommodation, and per diem. The duration of the Residency in St. Petersburg is 4 weeks for artists and 2 weeks for curators. Back Apartment Residency awardees are announced by mid-March, 2021.

Art Prospect Network Residencies for US Artists and Curators

Deadline: February 15, 2021

The Art Prospect Network Residencies offer a new transnational exchange opportunity for US artists and curators, focusing on exchange and collaboration in the field of socially engaged art and/or public art. CEC ArtsLink will place US artists and curators with host organizations in the eleven Art Prospect Network countries (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan), which share common strategies, concerns, and goals. Each Art Prospect Network partner will host an artist or curator for a one month residency to participate in a collaborative project, such as a public art festival or event, lead training programs, and/or conduct an independent project. US participants and host organizations will work together to define the residency goals and structure based on their reciprocal interests, needs and strengths.

Women Composers: Commission for Animo Flute and Piano Duo 2021

Deadline: February 15, 2021

We are a Flute and Piano Duo based in the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire UK. We launched our duo in 2019 in Gloucester Blackfriars at the same time we launched our 5 year ‘new music’ project asking composers worldwide to write music for us. We’ve had 6 composers so far all commissioned by us and we’ve had a wealth of styles and influences. We are now really keen to start our 2021 roster with a balanced number of 4 composers; 2 men and 2 women. Initially we were hoping to have an all women programme for 2021 but with the pandemic our plans have changed slightly. The 2021 new works will be featured on our ‘ANIMO three’ album! Our brief is simple: a 12 minute piece (either one or more movements/ sections). The commission fee is £1200 (terms to be discussed). If you are interested please send us your application to our email by midnight of January 22, 2021 with your photo, CV (or a link to your website) and samples of you work that relates to our duo. We are open to any genre, any classification, any idea (the more ambitious and far-fetched the better) and we welcome electronic or synth soundscapes or any other type of music we haven’t yet thought of. We are looking for female composers who are keen to collaborate with us – this is very important. We love experimentation. We are happy to collaborate online or face-to-face, if possible. The piece has to be completed by the end of June 2021. We will be asking for the exclusive right to perform and record the piece for two years (June 2024). We will endeavor to respond to everyone who applies by mid-February 2021. If you prefer to discuss this with us on Skype or Zoom please let us know in your email application.

Lens Culture Portrait Awards

Deadline: February 17, 2021

The 8th annual LensCulture Portrait Awards aim to discover and reward more than 35 photographers around the globe who are making exceptional photographic portraits today. These awards are open to photographers at all levels of experience, and all genres of portraiture are welcome — from professional studio shoots, to detailed environmental portraits, to casual candids. We’re open to all types of artistic approaches, too, including staged, fiction, fashion, metaphoric, self-portrait and conceptual work. Winners will enjoy career-changing opportunities including exhibition in New York, extensive media coverage, cash prizes and more. Scroll down to meet our expert international jury and read about our free entry option for single image submissions.

Art + Technology Lab 2021 Request for Proposals

Deadline: February 25, 2021

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) is pleased to share the application and guidelines for our Art + Technology Lab at LACMA grant program. To apply for an Art + Technology Lab at LACMA grant, please follow the application process guidelines below. Requests must be submitted electronically via the application portal by 11:59 pm Pacific Standard Time on February 25, 2021. All applicants will be notified by email regarding the status of their application in April. Art + Technology Lab Program: The Art + Technology Lab supports projects that explore artistic applications of emerging technologies and ideas related to technology and culture. The program offers artists and artist collectives financial and in-kind support for new projects, with the help of expert partners from the fields of science, technology, and engineering. The Art + Technology Lab is presented by Hyundai. The program is made possible by YouTube Learning and Snap Inc. with additional support provided by SpaceX, and other innovative companies and individuals. The Lab is part of the Hyundai Project: Art + Technology at LACMA, a joint initiative exploring the convergence of art and technology. Art + Technology Lab grants are open to individuals and collectives located anywhere in the world. Grants may provide financial support of up to $50,000 per project to cover artist fees and direct costs, including materials. Recipients may also receive in-kind support, such as mentorship, coaching, advice, and exposure to technologies in development at partner organizations, including Hyundai, Snap Inc., YouTube Learning, and SpaceX as well as independent artists and academics working in art and technology from the MIT Media Lab Space Exploration Initiative, and NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

The Magic Mountain

Deadline: February 28, 2021

Singapore Art Museum Residencies

Deadline: February 28, 2021

SAM Residencies is now accepting applications for the 2021 cycle for three residencies – the Artist Residency; Community & Education Residency; and Curatorial & Research Residency. Selected residents will be hosted in Singapore between July 2021 and March 2023, for a period of between one and six months. Open to both Singapore-based and international practitioners, across all discipline of the arts, the 2021 cycle focuses on processes and practices which engage with:

• Notions of “intimacy” and/or “infrastructures”
• Impact on technology on contemporary life – sociability of the internet; connectivity and capacity of networked platforms; agency and empowerment in civic technology; and digital participatory platforms

We’re Doing It ALL Wrong

Deadline: February 28, 2021

Barn Project

Deadline: March 1, 2021

Call Summary The Frederick Arts Council is seeking qualifications for Artist /Teams to submit their proposals for artworks to be displayed on and around multiple barns throughout Frederick County. Applications are due on February 1, 2021, and finalists will be selected by March 1, 2021. The Frederick Arts Council is commissioning artists to design and execute works to be displayed on barn exteriors throughout Frederick County. The work should be a temporary installation, ideally designed using natural or found materials which reflect the subtle beauty of the environment. Land art will also be considered although we request that artists take into account the possible necessities of barn owners. Projects spanning multiple barns will be considered. Qualifications: At this stage, we are requesting that interested applicants submit their CV, examples of their past work, as well as a link to their website or other portfolio platform. The budget for each barn is $2,000. Currently there are up to 20 barns available for use. This opportunity is open to all professional artists residing in Maryland and up to 80 miles from Frederick.

COAL Prize 2021 – Forest

Deadline: March 1, 2021

Kress Foundation History of Art Grants

Deadline: March 1, 2021

The History of Art Grants program supports scholarly projects that will enhance the appreciation and understanding of European works of art and architecture from antiquity to the early 19th century. Grants are awarded to projects that create and disseminate specialized knowledge, including archival projects, development and dissemination of scholarly databases, documentation projects, museum exhibitions and publications, photographic campaigns, scholarly catalogues and publications, and technical and scientific studies. Grants are also awarded for activities that permit art historians to share their expertise through international exchanges, professional meetings, conferences, symposia, consultations, the presentation of research, and other professional events.

Material Culture in an Increasingly Digital World Spring Symposium 2021 – Call for Papers

Deadline: March 1, 2021

On behalf of the Coalition of Master’s Scholars on Material Culture, the Symposium Committee is circulating a call for papers for their Spring 2021 online symposium, Material Culture in an Increasingly Digital World. As the world around us transitions into an increasingly digital environment, the way we interact with material culture becomes less physical and more virtual. How does this affect the field as a whole? How do we adapt from a hands-on practice to an interface-guided experience? And how does this change the definition of ‘material culture’? CMSMC welcomes papers discussing Material Culture grounded in historical, archaeological, art historical, and/or museum studies approaches. We are drawing from various types of works, including works in progress, book chapters, interdisciplinary approaches, and more. CMSMC looks forward to receiving proposals in response to the call, and is happy to respond to inquiries from interested parties. Questions may be addressed to the Executive Board – Hope Elizabeth Gillespie, Sydney Sheehan, and MaryKate Smolenski- via e-mail at admin@cmsmc.org. Please visit our website, cmsmc.org, for more information about the Spring 2021 Symposium and registration.

RUUKKU Call: Everyday utopias and artistic research

Deadline: March 1, 2021

In public discussion, a growing concern about the dissipation of political imagination and inability to envisage alternative futures has been articulated over the recent decades. Elements for imagining alternative social formations and futures seem restricted at this current conjuncture. The question of alternatives is, however, currently particularly acute as the climate emergency, growing social inequalities, pandemics, transformation of work and crisis of democracy push us to search for the prerequisites for ecologically and socially sustainable societies. On the one hand, the contemporary crises give rise to growing anxiety, dystopias and polarization of views, but on the other hand, they also animate the process of imagining alternative worlds and making and living utopias here and now. Art is one of the pivotal arenas in which alternatives are imagined and performed. Art has a complex and multifaceted relationship to what is going on in society: it reflects and comments on, organizes and articulates, manifests and makes things happen. In this special issue, we are particularly interested in the many different forms and methods through which artistic practices and everyday utopias gesture towards the future. We invite artist researchers from different disciplines to submit expositions for the special issue “Everyday utopias and artistic research”.

Prix Ars Electronica 2021

Deadline: March 3, 2021

The Prix Ars Electronica is the world’s most time-honored media arts competition. Winners are eligible for the coveted Golden Nica awards and monetary prizes of up to 10,000 euros in each category. They will also be featured at the Ars Electronica Festival from September 8 to 12, 2021! A project may be entered to both the STARTS Prize and the Prix Ars Electronica. It is therefore possible to win both the STARTS Prize and a Prix Ars Electronica award at the same time. To do so, submit your project to the specified Prix Ars Electronica category (Computer Animation, Artificial Intelligence & Life Art und Digital Musics & Sound Art) and in the appropriate entry field at the end of the submission confirm that the project is also to be considered for the STARTS prize. Submitters, who registered already for the Prix Ars Electronica, can use this account also for the STARTS Prize.

S+T+ARTS Prize ‘21

Deadline: March 3, 2021

Olin Art Gallery, Washington & Jefferson College

Deadline: March 15, 2021

The Olin Art Gallery on the campus of Washington & Jefferson College, Washington, PA, is now accepting exhibition proposals in any medium for the 2021-22 academic year. Proposals may include solo or group exhibitions. Submissions must include: 10-20 digital images (jpg-format), contact information, artist statements for all participating artists, an image list (including title, media, size, and date completed for each work), and a resume or CV. Proposals will be accepted via email only (email should be no larger than 10m – ZIP file, Mac compatible, preferred). Send proposal or questions to: Doug McGlumphy at: dmcglumphy@washjeff.edu

For projects taking place between July 1, 2021 and June 30, 2022. Certification sheets and letters of invitation are due by April 7, 2021. USArtists International supports performances by U.S. artists at impactful international festivals and performing arts marketplaces outside the United States and its territories. The program supports the engagements of exemplary solo artists and ensembles across all performing arts disciplines including dance, music, theater, multidisciplinary work, and folk/traditional arts. USArtists International is designed to encourage the presence of U.S. performing artists on international stages and in the global arts community; to support engagements that develop and expand both the careers and artistic goals of U.S. performers by providing connections with presenters, curators, and fellow artists; and to promote justice in the arts community by elevating the diverse voices contributing to the vibrant array of creative expression in the United States. USAI provides grants of up to $15,000 toward eligible expenses; please reference the guidelines for further detail.

Call for Scores for Gregory Wiest’s 15th program of modern songs in English

Deadline: June 30, 2021

For my 15th program of modern songs in English, I am looking for song cycles written after 2015 with texts in English (preferably by living poets), that run up to 20 minutes for any combination of tenor, piano and/or double bass. Submissions in MusicXML- or PDF-format can be sent to gwsings@gregorywiest.com. Chosen works will be performed and recorded live in Munich on a yet to be determined date in the 2021/2022 season, hopefully Post-COVID. There are no fees.

The Eyebeam Center for the Future of Journalism (ECFJ) is a grant-making program that supports artists producing innovative and revelatory journalistic work for major media outlets. Grant support will range from $500 to $5,000. In an effort to be responsive to an ever-fluctuating news cycle, artists and artist-journalist teams can apply to ECFJ for support of their work on a rolling basis. ECFJ supports a variety of work, including: text, photography, audio and video. Artists and artist-journalist teams with longer-term, research-intensive projects are also encouraged to apply.

Deadline: rolling

As a means of fostering new interpretations of art and nature in urban spaces, the City of Shoreline Public Art Program encourages artists to propose temporary artworks for display in parks (along trails, glades, meadows, and reclaimed gravel pits), especially Brugger’s Bog, North City, and James Keough Parks (but also other parks and sites), to encourage audiences to visit these resources as well as to exercise and spend time in comparative silence. Walking, way-finding, and searching for the “hidden” artwork is a primary component of the project. Placement within these sites may be proposed by the artist, with final determination by staff.  A display period of at least three months is preferred, with fall and winter providing early darkness for video projection or light art. Work that incorporates natural and/or re-cycled materials is especially welcome, as are projects that are less object-based and use GIS, GPS, sound, space, and light technologies. For object-based projects, we encourage artworks that are resistant to vandalism or damage, since the locations are remote and not secured by guards or video monitors. Landscaping materials like erosion control tubes, geotextile, burlap, jute, and edging, are encouraged. Use of on-site invasive flora (such as ivy vines or Scotch broom) or downed branches is also a possibility, pending consultation with arborists. The City is able to offer in-kind project support in terms of mechanical equipment, no-fee use of the park, and promotion (website and newsletters). Shoreline’s 14 different neighborhoods are also excellent resources for community engagement and outreach. For time and materials, selected artists are offered honoraria of $1500 following installation. Open to all but preference is given to Northwest regional artists (emerging or established).

Statues are not just bodies in bronze, and monuments are not just stone pillars. They instruct. They lift up the stories of those who are seen, dominate the stories of those who are unseen, and too often propagate menacingly incomplete accounts of our country’s past. Launched in October 2020, the Monuments Project, a five-year, quarter-billion-dollar commitment by the Mellon Foundation, will support efforts to recalibrate the assumed center of our national narratives to include those who have often been denied historical recognition. This work has taken on greater urgency at a moment of national reckoning with the power and influence of memorials and commemorative spaces. Mellon’s initiative will educate us about our shared collective past to shape a more just future. It will broaden our understanding of how we define commemorative spaces by including not only memorials, historical markers, public statuary, and permanent monuments but also storytelling spaces and ephemeral or temporary installations. The Monuments Project will transform the way our country’s histories are told in public spaces and ensure that future generations inherit a commemorative landscape that venerates and reflects the vast, rich complexity of the American story.

Grants made under the Monuments Project will fall under the following areas of activity: