Of Note: StageSource’s Job Fair is held on Saturday, February 20th, at the Back Bay Events Center in Boston. Positions include Production, Design, Tech, Administration, Summer Stock, Internships. Learn more.
Artist Residency The Public Art Residency at the Boston Center for the Arts (BCA) will be selected through a juried, open call process. This twelve-week, process-oriented residency provides an environment for artists to experiment with their craft, develop their focus or test new ideas while simultaneously engaging in active public dialogue. The residency is awarded to one artist (or artist team) per year to create a temporary public artwork for the BCA’s historic plaza that highlights the BCA as an artistic hub. The program encourages artists to connect to the public not only by way of the completed, temporary artwork, but also throughout the process of developing and realizing their residency project. Artist or artist team will receive studio space and $6000 to fund the project. Learn more.
Deadline: February 21, 2016
Arts Conference Scholarships Scholarship opportunities are available to Massachusetts-based artists and professionals interested in attending the 2016 Annual Americans for the Arts Convention in Boston from June 16 -19, 2016. Learn more.
Deadline: February 26, 2016 (11:59 p.m. EST)
Call for Art The City of Holyoke, as part of a Community Development Block Grant has been awarded funding to complete an art installation in and/or around the area of Depot Square and the Holyoke Rail Platform at the corners of Main and Dwight Streets. The City of Holyoke seeks proposals for a permanent art installation which may include, but is not limited to painting, sculpture, lighting, projection and/or mixed media; with a project budget not to exceed $18,000. The Call for Art invites qualified artists and/or design professionals that can conceive, create and install public art infrastructure as described herein to submit proposals to provide those specific services. For the complete Request for Proposals/Call for Art containing the Scope of Work and Proposal Submission Guidelines please contact David Martins, City of Holyoke Chief Procurement Officer at 413-322-5650.
Deadline: March 9, 2016 (10:00 a.m.)
Residency Artists in all media are invited to apply for the 2016 White Mountain National Forest (WMNF) Artist-in-Residence program, a collaboration between the WMNF, the Arts Alliance of Northern New Hampshire and Friends of Mead Base. The program highlights the ways in which the arts can be used to explore and interpret the forest environment and forest-related ideas and issues. The residency offers professional and emerging artists in any art form from around the country including visual and performing artists, craftspeople, writers, composers and choreographers, eco artists and media artists. Learn more.
Deadline: March 15, 2016
Photographers The Griffin Museum of Photography is currently accepting entries for their 22nd Annual Juried Show, Peter Urban Legacy Exhibition. The juror is Elizabeth Avedon. Exhibition dates: July 7-August 28, 2016. Learn more.
Deadline: March 31, 2016
Open Call to Sculptors Boston Sculptors Gallery is accepting letters of interest in membership. BSG is an artist-run, cooperative gallery of 36 members. Members exhibit every 24 – 30 months, receive promotional benefits including gallery web site, catalogs, group shows and invitational offerings. Learn more.
Deadline: March 31, 2016
Call for Art/Technology Work The Boston Cyberarts Gallery, a non-profit space focusing on new and experimental media in Jamaica Plain, is looking for work that pairs art and technology in a thought provoking and visually engaging manner. They are particularly interested in pieces that use technology to facilitate art, or art to observe technology from a novel perspective, preferably some combination of the two. Boundary-pushing is desired and respected. Works that address, rather than use, technology on a conceptual level may also be considered. Learn more.
Deadline: April 3, 2016 (11:00 p.m.)
Call for Artists The Center for Women in the Arts and Humanities at Rutgers University invites all self-identified women artists to submit artwork for possible inclusion in Living in the Shadows: Underground Immigrant Communities, a group exhibition that will be on view from January – April 2017 in the Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series Galleries-Douglass Library, Rutgers University. Learn more.
Deadline: April 8, 2016
Craft Artists Radius, the Society of Arts and Crafts’ inaugural exhibition at 100 Pier 4, is a celebration of their new neighborhood’s rich craft community. It will feature talented makers across craft media who live or work within one mile of SAC’s new location. Applications are now open. No fee to apply. Work will need to be available by June; exhibition will open in Fall 2016. Learn more.
Deadline: April 30, 2016
Image: vintage photo of Gloria Swanson, star of Sunset Boulevard, performing a supported headstand in heels.
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