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Artists and Photographers Submissions are now being accepted for a highly public, large-scale projection event for Photo Nights Boston, a four-night event to occur in October 2012. Finalists will receive a $1,000 proposal development fee. The project budget is $10,000. Learn more.
Deadline: February 3, 2012

Residency Fellowships The Vermont Studio Center has multiple residency fellowships available. The Educational Foundation of America Fellowships are three merit-based fellowships available to emerging and mid-career artists and writers of color from the United States and the Harpo Foundation Native American Fellowships which are two fellowship awards open to Native American artists living in the U.S.  Learn more.
Deadline: February 15, 2012

Request for Exhibition Proposals Proposals to produce exhibitions at the Coconino Center for the Arts (main gallery) and the Jewel Gallery are now being accepted. Successful proposals will meet the criteria, complement Flagstaff Cultural Partner’s mission, and be a collaborative endeavor with Flagstaff Cultural Partners.  Learn more.
Deadline: March 2, 2012

Painters over 45 Provincetown Art Association and Museum has applications now available for the Lillian Orlowsky and William Freed Foundation Grant, a source of funding for mature American painters. Grants are offered to American painters aged 45 or older who demonstrate financial need. Questions: 508-487-1750 or gryderomalley@paam.org
Deadline: April 2, 2012 (postmarked)

Collage Artists Kolaj Magazine seeks submissions. Submit 3-5 images for publication online and/or the print edition. The selection of images should be cohesive and demonstrate an aspect of the artist’s collage making practice or conceptual approach. Artists should first complete the online submission form on which they will be asked to enter a statement (100 words) about the work and a brief bio (100 words). Questions: submissions@kolajmagazine.com. Learn more.

Image credit: Photograph of stained glass depiction of the Great Seal of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts by ArtSake.

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Choreography, Fiction/Creative Non-fiction, and Poetry Fellowships  The MCC is accepting applications for artist fellowships in choreography, fiction/creative non-fiction, and poetry. Fellowship awards are $7,500 and finalist awards are $500. Learn more.
Deadline: January 30, 2012

Call to Artists The  2012 Monson Arts Council’s Spring Art Exhibition & Sale called Imagine That! is now accepting entries. Learn more.
Deadline: February 10, 2012

Artists and Writers The Vermont Studio Center is now accepting applications for their annual fellowship deadlines. Learn more.
Deadline February 15, 2012

Choreographers Applications for performing companies (student, amateur, and professional) and workshop teachers will be on the Massachusetts Dance Festival web site soon for their annual Massachusetts Dance Festival. Learn more.
Deadline: March 1, 2012

Studio Fellowship The Women’s Studio Workshop in Rosendale, NY is now accepting applications for their studio fellowship. The WSW opportunity is designed to provide concentrated work time for artists to explore new ideas in a dynamic and supportive community of women artists. The cost to fellowship recipients is $200 per week plus materials. The award includes on-site housing and all-hour access to their studios for intaglio, silkscreen, hand papermaking, photography, letterpress, and ceramics. Learn more. Questions: sandra@wsworkshop.org.
Deadline: March 15, 2012

Call to Artists spaces Gallery, the Cultural Center at Eagle Hill is now accepting proposals for their exhibition Fundamental Composition. spaces Gallery seeks proposals from artists who can’t escape the right-brain, left-brain metaphysical lure of geometry. “Mighty is geometry; joined with art, resistless.” – Euripides. Exhibits are being arranged for the 2012–2013 school year. Works in all media and sizes will be considered. Learn more. Questions: pbock@ehs1.org or 413-477-6000.
Deadline: April 2, 2012

Image credit: Der Maler in seiner Werkstatt, oil on oak panel, by Adriaen van Ostade, 1663

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Call to African American Artists under 40 The Art Gallery at Bunker Hill Community College is now accepting entries for their exhibition That’s A Fact: Young, Gifted and Black, an invitational group exhibition of Massachusetts and Boston-area African American Artists under 40 years old. Work should address themes of race, injustice, identity, and aspiration. For guidelines and application, contact  lmontgomery@bhcc.mass.edu or 617-228-2093.
Deadline: January 30, 2012

Photographers The Center for Photography at Woodstock is now accepting entries for their annual call to artists. From traditional to digital, all photographic techniques and approaches are welcome. Learn more.
Deadline: January 20, 2012

Call for Artists OKW is now accepting entries for their 3rd Annual Small Works Show. This year’s theme is Endurance. Dates of show: February 17 – April 2, 2012. Delivery of art: February 3 – 10, (10am – 5pm, closed Feb. 5). Artist may bring 1 or 2 pieces of work. Each piece cannot exceed a 64″ perimeter, including outside of frame. All art will be for sale: 75% to artist, 25% to OKW. Label all art on back of work with your name, e-mail, title of work, medium, and price. OKW is located at 631A Tremont Street, Boston, MA. Store hours: 10 – 6:30 M-F, 10 – 5 Sat, closed Sun.
Deadline: e-mail Arlene with your intent to participate by January 20, 2012.

Choreographers The Movement at the Mills at the Boston Center for the Arts is currently accepting applications.  Movement at the Mills is an exhibition of dance by local and national choreographers and companies. The program follows an annual schedule of three sessions per season, hosting a variety of dance artists: national, regional, and local. Performances occur in numerous areas of the space while audience members are invited to walk through the gallery and observe dance as artwork. Questions: ablesso@bcaonline.org. Learn more.
Deadline: January 30, 2012

Call to Artists The Monmouth Museum is now accepting entries for their juried exhibition The Art of Illusion. Illusionist art is represented in a variety of styles including but not limited to trompe l’oeil, photorealism, surrealism, 3D, hidden elements, and optical illusion. Artwork will be considered in all media except film/video. Learn more.
Deadline: February 15, 2012

Call for Artists The Young Masters Art Prize 2012, a not-for-profit initiative presented by the Cynthia Corbett Gallery is now accepting entries. They welcome artists working in a range of practices including painting, sculpture and installation, printmaking, drawing, video, and sound. Their aim is to encourage emerging and newly established artists to apply, as well as those who are perhaps established abroad but less well-known in the UK. Questions: info@young-masters.co.uk. Learn more.
Deadline: April 30, 2012

Free Screenings Wednesday Night Art Flicks at the Concord Art Association. Art of the Steal, 1/18 at 7 PM; What Remains, The Life and Work of Sally Mann, 2/15 at 7 PM; Rembrant’s J’Accuse, 3/14 at 7 PM. Email gallery@concordart.org to reserve your space.

Image credit: The Moneylender and his Wife by Quentin Matsys (1514), Oil on panel, 71 x 68 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris.

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How many of your new year resolutions have already gone by the wayside? No need to let these artist opportunities melt away.

Call for Artist Proposals – Frame 301 Gallery is currently accepting proposals for their alternative exhibition space. Frame 301 is a storefront window that has been converted into an alternative exhibit space on 301 Cabot Street in Beverly, MA. Each month a regional, national, and/or international artist is selected to install his or her work in the space. Learn more.
Deadline: Ongoing

Poetry Submit book-length collection of poems for the Colorado Prize for Poetry, a $2,000 honorarium, and book publication. Final judge is Elizabeth Willis. $25 entry fee includes subscription to Colorado  Review. Complete guidelines: Colorado Prize for Poetry, Center for Literary Publishing, 9105 Campus Delivery, Colorado State University, Fort Collins CO 80523-9105. Learn more.
Deadline: January 14, 2012

Networking Workshop ArtMorpheus presents a workshop called Networking and the Art of LinkingIn, a hands-on workshop for people in the arts on January 18, 2012 at City Year, 287 Columbus Avenue, Boston, 6:30 PM. Learn more.

Free Panel Discussion Falling Through the Cracks: Funding Integrative Socially-Engaged Practice is a panel discussion featuring Cuong Hoang, Director of Programs at Mott Philanthropic, Andrew Sempere from the Awesome Foundation, and Nerissa Cooney and Alex Hage of FeastMass. The conversation will be moderated by artist Lisa Gross, founder of the Boston Tree Party and Hybrid Vigor Projects. Thursday January 19, 7-9 PM at the Cambridge Public Library – Main Branch, 449 Broadway, Cambridge, MA.

Call to New England Visual Artists The Jamaica Plain Open Studios Juried Exhibition is currently accepting applications for their annual springtime event. The exhibition will occur in the Footlight Club, America’s oldest community theater, in downtown Jamaica Plain. The main gallery is open to the public and on show nights, hundreds of people pass through and spend intermission among the artwork. This year’s theme is Under the Influence. Learn more.
Deadline: January 31, 2011

Visual Art Summer Residency The Kuenstlerhaus Dortmund in Germany, an artist-run, non-profit space for contemporary and experimental arts is now accepting applications for their summer studio residency. Learn more.
Deadline: January 31, 2012

Visual Artists Project Grants The Harpo Foundation is now accepting proposals that directly support the production of new work by visual artists and/or collaborative teams who are under recognized by the field. This production may happen in the context of an installation, public intervention, residency, or exhibition. Learn more. Questions: deamer@harpofoundation.org.
Letters of Inquiry Deadline: February 1, 2012

New Media The Liedts-Meesen Foundation is now accepting entries for their New Technological Art Award 2012, an international art competition. Learn more.
Deadline: March 31, 2011

Jazz Musicians The French-American Jazz Exchange, a partnership of the Cultural Service of the French Embassy and Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, is a program designed to foster the creative and professional development of jazz artists from France and the US through collaborative investigation of artistic practice and exposure to new audiences, music concepts, and professional relationships. Learn more.
Deadline: May 1, 2012

Filmmakers and Screenwriters The Rhode Island International Film Festival is now accepting entries for their annual competition. There are no category restrictions. Each work is juried solely on its own merits. The Festival seeks any combination of inventive, incisive, bold, vital, and otherwise provocative work of any style or genre. Learn more.
Deadline: May 15, 2012

Image credit: Illustration of two women writing in the snow from Puck, v. 66, no. 1713 (1909 December 29).

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Playwrights  LGBTQ theatre company seeks full-length scripts at any stage of development that have not had a full production for their XYZ Festival of New Works at About Face Theatre (2012-2013 Season, Chicago, IL). Scripts that break traditional ideas about dramatic form, structure, and presentation are encouraged. Selected plays will receive seated or staged readings with the support of professional directors and actors. Learn more. Questions: literary@aboutfacetheatre.com.
Deadline: January 8, 2012

Visual Artists Caladan Gallery is now accepting entries for their online exhibition CREATURES: Swim, Fly, Crawl. Learn more. Questions: director@caladangallery.com.
Deadline: January 15, 2011

Visual Artists UFORGE Gallery is now accepting entries for their February 2012 exhibition called Elements. Work must focus on the four elements found in nature; Earth, Water, Air, and Fire. Learn more.
Deadline: January 15, 2012

Camera Phone Photography Submissions are now being accepted for the iSpy exhibition at The Kiernan Gallery in Lexington, VA. The Kiernan Gallery seeks images taken with cell phones that span all genres of photography. Only images taken with a cellular phone will be accepted for this exhibition. Use of apps (e.g. Hipstamatic, Instagram, Darkroom, Tiltshift, Pano, etc.) is acceptable and encouraged. Learn more.
Deadline: January 26, 2012

Knit and Crochet Artists  No basketball court should be without a net. With that said, the Knit & Crochet artists have a call for submissions to cure what they have dubbed as the empty net syndrome. A little back court info: over a year ago NCAA (New Craft Artists in Action) team captain launched MOLTENi Net Works in Boston. Bringing together makers and players in collaborative exchange, the project aims to create functional, hand-crafted basketball nets for neglected public hoops. Inspired by DIY slow production, this process fosters creative problem solving, urban upkeep, and re-purposing of abandoned space to build a pro-active network between artists, athletes, and neighbors. Learn more. Expression of interest requested by January 31, 2012 to molteninetworks@gmail.com.

Temporary Public Art The Boston Center for the Arts (BCA) is currently accepting applications for Occupy 539, a unique platform for artists to engage with audience through public art projects that explore ways in which people congregate, occupy, and linger in public spaces. Artists are invited to submit proposals for a temporary public art project that will be exhibited on the Plaza of the BCA campus for July – September, 2012. Learn more. Questions: bfriedberg@bcaonline.org.
Deadline: February 6, 2012

Image credit: Images courtesy of MOLTENi Net Works.

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Emerging Fields, Literature and Performing Arts On February 1, 2012, Creative Capital will begin accepting online Letters of Inquiry for grants in Emerging Fields, Literature and Performing Arts. To be eligible to apply, an artist must be A U.S. citizen or permanent legal resident, at least 25 years old, a working artist with at least five years of professional experience, and not a full-time student. Selected grantees receive up to $50,000 in direct support and a suite of services valued at more than $40,000. The Inquiry Form will be open until March 1, 2011. Learn more.

Wanted: Technology-based Art COLLISIONcollective has a call for proposals for experimental, technology-based artwork for its 17th COLLISION exhibition. Submissions will be judged according to the following criteria (in decreasing order of importance) – work should be: technological in production or product; safe to patrons; completed and available (including artist); size-appropriate for AXIOM Gallery space; exciting/novel; thought provoking; high quality in its craft. See samples of past successful work. The show will open March 2, 2012 and run for four weeks. Learn more.
Deadline: January 14, 2012

Artists in Residence Program I-Park announces its 12th season hosting its multi-disciplinary residency program in a 450-acre natural woodland retreat in East Haddam, CT. Self-directed artists’ residencies will be offered May-November 2012. Most sessions are four weeks in duration and are offered to those working in the Visual Arts, Music Composition, Creative Writing, Moving Image, and Landscape/Garden Design. Except for the $30 application fee, the residency is offered at no cost to accepted artists and includes comfortable private living quarters, a private studio, and meal program. Learn more.  Questions: applications@i-park.org or 860-873-2468.
Deadline: January 30, 2012

Cambridge Artists The Cambridge Arts Council invites visual & performing artists working in all media, who either live or work in Cambridge, to participate in the fourth annual citywide Cambridge Open Studios. Show your work in your own studio or in one of the common venues along with other artists. Register and learn more.
Deadline: Tuesday, January 31, 2011

Artist Toolbox Program for Musicians A partnership between the Arts & Business Council and the Berklee College of Music Rethink Music Initiative, this series of topic-specific workshops and webinars begins in February and culminates in the Rethink Music Conference in April. Topics range from marketing and business strategy to copyright issues in the digital age, artist management, and fundraising. The Toolbox is designed to meet the needs of jazz, classical, rock, and folk musicians. The cost of the program is $495. Fee includes admission to the Rethink Music Conference. Learn more.
Deadline: February 1, 2012

Photographers Photo Nights Boston is seeking submissions. As part of Photo Nights Boston’s October 2012 public art event, an artist will be selected to design and produce a photography-based work of public art as a focal point for the program. Open to artists 18 years of age or older with no geographic restriction. Finalists will receive a $1,000 proposal development fee. The project budget is $10,000. Learn more. Questions: photonightsboston@gmail.com.
Deadline: Friday, February 3, 2012

Time-Based Work ASPECT: The Chronicle of New Media Art, a biannual DVD publication, is currently accepting submissions of time-based work for V20: THE CINEMATIC. They seek works that explore the complex relationship between cinema and new media. They will review installation, video, performance, sound, and any other work best documented in time-based format. Learn more. Questions: esmith@aspectart.org.
Deadline: April 1, 2012

Image credit: From the Town Art Collection of Provincetown, MA. Josephine T. Arico’s “Untitled”, Oil on canvas, 26 x 18.25.

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Free Public Art Discussion Series The New England Foundation for the Arts will present a talk about working in the public art realm on January 23, 2012, 6-9 PM at the Roxbury Center for the Arts, Hibernian Hall, 184 Dudley Street, Roxbury, MA.  Learn more.

Photographers Viridian Artists 2nd Annual International Juried Photography Competition is now accepting entries. This year’s juror is Jennifer Blessing, Curator of Photography Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Learn more.
Deadline: January 7, 2012

Poets The Cultural Center of Cape Cod’s 6th Annual Poetry Competition is now accepting entries. A National Prize will be awarded for a single, unpublished poem that has not won 1st prize in any national competition. Open to all U.S. residents 18 years and older. A regional prize will be awarded for a single, unpublished poem (that has not won 1st prize in any national competition) by an adult resident of Cape Cod, Nantucket, or Martha’s Vineyard. For more information and guidelines call Lauren Wolk at 508-394-7100.
Deadline: January 16, 2012

Music Ensembles The American Music Abroad program sends American music ensembles from a wide variety of musical genres on month-long musical exchange tours. Includes Hip Hop, Rock & Roll, Jazz, Country, and other American roots music including but not limited to Native American, Latin, Afro-Caribbean, Blues, Bluegrass, Cajun, Gospel, and Zydeco. The program is the flagship cultural diplomacy program of the U.S. Department of State, and is administered by American Voices. Learn more.
Deadline: January 16, 2012

Sketchbook Project Art House Co-op has announced their new project: The Limited Edition Vol. 1! , a collaborative series of art books created by 5,000 artists from across the globe. Sign up to receive a blank sketchbook in the mail, then fill it up and send it back. Work will be cataloged in the Brooklyn Art Library in NYC and published in the Limited Edition art book series. Learn more.
Deadline: January 30, 2012

Image credit: Photograph 3D Glasses (2010), Digital Silver Gelatin Print, 20″ x 24″, by Matthew Gamber, MCC 2011 Photography Fellowship Finalist.

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Collage Art The Cambridge School of Weston’s Thompson Gallery is currently accepting entries for an exhibition on collage-based art. All media considered. Learn more.
Deadline: December 31, 2011

Media Art Massachusetts Convention Center Authority and Boston Cyberarts is issuing a call for media art for display on the new marquee outside the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center. This 80-foot-tall marquee offers more than 3,000 square feet of display area on 7 screens, providing full-motion video. They are looking for ten 30-second videos, animations or computer generated work, using the entire marquee in colorful and creative ways. Learn more.
Deadline: January 3, 2012

Cape Cod Dune Shack Residencies for Artists & Writers Applications are now being accepted for the Dune Shack Residencies for Artists & Writers. Residency applications for 2012 are for the Fowler and C-Scape Dune Shacks in the Cape Cod National Seashore. One to three weeks stays available, including a 3-week $500 fellowship for a visual artist, and two funded weeks for writers. Learn more.
Deadline: January 15, 2012.

Cell Phone Photography Entries are now being accepted for Color Coded: An Instagram/Postagram Themed Exhibition. Color Coded explores the ever-expanding creative roll of cell phone photography and its image manipulation/publication via the popular Instagram/Postagram app. The exhibition will feature Instagrams that explore the colors Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo and Violet. All submissions should be sent via the Postagram App. Send entries to: East Georgia College/Color Coded, 131 College Circle, Swainsboro GA 30401. Learn more. Questions: dpurcell@ega.edu.
Deadline: January 20, 2012

Documentary Filmmakers The next Letter of Intent (LOI) deadline for requests to the LEF Foundation’s Moving Image Fund for Production and Post-Production support is 5 PM on Friday, January 27, 2012. LEF supports independent film and video artists creating new work of documentary film. Learn more.
In-hand deadline: January 27, 2012

Call to Artists The Maud Morgan Arts and the Chandler Gallery are now accepting entries for the 2012 Small Works Salon 2D Exhibition to take place in Spring 2012. The juror is Victoria Munroe of Victoria Munroe Fine Arts. Learn more.
Deadline: February 3, 2012

Call to Artists and Writers Triple Canopy, an online magazine, workspace, and platform for editorial and curatorial activities, has announced its third annual call for proposals. Commissions will be considered under six project areas and published in the course of the next year. Learn more.
Deadline: February 13, 2012

Craft Artists Residency The Houston Center for Contemporary Craft in Texas is now accepting applications for their Artist Residency Program. Media Accepted: Wood, Glass, Metal, Fiber, Clay, and Mixed Media. Includes 3, 6, 9 or 12-month residencies; monthly stipend; quarterly living/materials bonus; free studio space. Learn more. Questions: 713-529-4848 x112 or mmendoza@crafthouston.org.
Deadline: March 15, 2012

Funding for Women Artists The Money for Women/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund awards grants of up to $1,500 to poets, fiction and nonfiction writers, visual artists — as well as for a mixed-genre category (illustration and text) — who are feminist women. Application fee is $20. Two application deadlines each year: December 31 (art and fiction) and June 30 (nonfiction and poetry). Fund does not maintain email, phone, or website. To request application materials, write to  Susan Pliner, Executive Director, Money for Women/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, Inc.
P.O. Box 309, Wilton, NH 03086. Be sure to include a SASE.

Call for Proposals The Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs (DGCP) has an open call to curators, writers, art historians, and artists to submit proposals for exhibitions. Proposals are reviewed quarterly, and if accepted, curators are awarded a $2,000 curatorial fee at the time of the exhibition. Learn more. Questions:  info@dorsky.org or  718)-937-6317.

Image credit: Photograph of children and a dog on a street in East Brooklyn, NY, 05/1973 by the Environmental Protection Agency.

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Playwrights The Provincetown Theater Company invites local Massachusetts and Rhode Island based authors to submit work to the 2012 Winter Reading Series. Seeking submissions for one-act plays, collections of shorts running approximately an hour, and full-length plays. Learn more. Questions: operations@provincetowntheater.com.
Deadline: December 17, 2011 (postmarked)

Photographers Uforge Gallery is now accepting entries for their photography exhibition called Space. Work should focus on the environment that surrounds you at any given moment whether it be vast or minute. Learn more.
Deadline: December 18, 2011

Artist Residency Banff Artist in Residence programs in Canada offer independent periods of study where artists, curators, and other arts professionals are free to experiment and explore. Participants are provided with an individual studio accessible 24 hours a day, as well as use of Visual Arts facilities including printmaking, papermaking, ceramics, sculpture, and photography. BAIR offers short- and long-term opportunities to work at a remove from the constraints of everyday life. Learn more.
Deadline: Ongoing opportunities.

Poets The Poetry Society of America is now accepting entries in multiple categories for their annual awards. Learn more.
Deadline: December 22, 2011

Playwrights The National New Play Network, c/o Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company is now accepting entries for the Smith Prize, a $5,000 cash award that is split between the winning playwright and the first National New Play Network member theatre that chooses to produce the winning play. Work must specifically focus on American politics. Learn more. Questions: jojo@nnpn.org
Deadline: December 30, 2011

Women Writers The Orlando Prizes and eMessage competitions are open to all women regardless of nationality. All submissions must be unpublished works written in English. Categories include short fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and flash fiction. Learn more.
Deadline: January 31, 2012

African American Women Artists The National Coalition of 100 Black Women Rhode Island, invites New England-based African American women artists to submit original work for a juried fine art exhibition, AFROCENTRIC at Gallery Z, in Providence, RI, next April/May 2012. The juror is L’Merchie Frazier. For information, prospectus, entry form: cmscott1@verizon.net
Deadline: February 10, 2012

Call For Artists Violence Transformed 2012 seeks entries in any medium for exhibition and digital projection at the Massachusetts State House and other curated venues in April, May, and June. They welcome artworks addressing issues of protest, refuge, healing, and commemoration and are particularly interested in works that give expression to the transformative power of art by imagining alternatives to violence. Submit disk containing up to 6 jpeg images, printed image list (title, medium, dimensions), c.v., artist’s statement and $15 submission fee to: Violence Transformed, c/o Gail Bos, 48 Sheridan Street, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130. Learn more.
Deadline: February 18, 2011

Call for Exhibition Proposals The Soap Factory,  a 120-year old ex-industrial warehouse on the banks of the Mississippi River in Minneapolis,  exhibits work in its galleries throughout the year. Exhibitions curated from submissions are typically comprised of 8-10 artists. Learn more.
Deadline: April 30, 2012

Image credit: Photograph by ArtSake.

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Poets The Jane Kenyon Poetry Prize of $1,000 is now accepting submissions. All submissions must be original, unpublished work. Read more.
Deadline: December 1, 2011 (postmarked)

Poetry Chapbook Competition The Center for Book Arts invites submissions to its annual Poetry Chapbook Competition. The winning manuscript will be chosen in May 2012 and will be awarded with the publication of a beautifully designed, letterpress-printed, limited-edition chapbook printed and bound by artists at the Center for Book Arts. The edition is limited to 100 signed and numbered copies, ten of which are reserved for the author and the remainder of which will be offered for sale through the Center. The winning poet will also receive a cash award of $500, and a $500 honorarium for a reading, to be held at the Center in the fall of 2012, as well as an exclusive opportunity to stay at the Millay Colony for the Arts in Austerlitz, New York as one of their Winter Shakers. This year’s judges will be Phillis Levin & Sharon Dolin. Read more.
Deadline: December 1, 2011

Public Art Riverscaping, an international and northeastern US public realm/public art/design-build competition on the Connecticut River in Massachusetts is now accepting proposals. Learn more. Questions: angela@riverscaping.org.
Deadline: December 10, 2011

Visual Artist Grants The Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation has an Individual Support Grant program for painters, sculptors, and printmakers who have been creating mature art for at least 20 years and who are in current financial need. Grants are available through an open application process. Application forms are available by mail only. Learn more.
Deadline: December 15, 2011 (postmarked)

Call for Artists Heritage Museums and Gardens are looking for submissions from contemporary artists to create a “fanciful but working garden gate”. Work will be for sale. For guidelines and application form, contact Jan Crocker at JCrocker@heritagemuseums.org or 508-888-3300 x102.
Deadline: December 31, 2011

Artists Residencies Wanna get away? The MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, NH, offers creative individuals of the highest talent an inspiring environment in which they can produce enduring works of the imagination. The sole criterion for acceptance to The MacDowell Colony is artistic excellence. Learn more.
Deadline: January 15, 2012

Artist Residency The Bemis Center in Omaha provides three months of uninterrupted, self-directed work time with their Artists-in-Residencies program. Learn more.
February 28, 2012

Image credit: Photograph of hallway by ArtSake. Photograph of garden gate courtesy Heritage Museums and Gardens.

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