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Artist Opportunities Roadtrip

April 5, 2016 Leave a Comment

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Environmental Art Proposals Appearances: Provincetown Green Arts Festival is now accepting proposals for their annual event. Submission is free. Learn more.
Deadline Extended: April 9, 2016

Women Poets Finishing Line Press is offering a prize of $1,000 and publication for a chapbook-length poetry collection in perfect-bound print edition. Open to women who have never before published a full-length poetry collection. Learn more.
Deadline: April 15, 2016

Residencies for Writers and Poets Cirenaica is an artist residency in rural Fall Creek, Wisconsin where writers and poets can devote uninterrupted time to their work in a picturesque environment and work closely with prominent Midwest writers. Learn more.
Deadline: April 15, 2016

Call for Temporary Public Art Proposals Fort Point Arts Community (FPAC) seeks proposals for two temporary public art projects and two participatory projects in conjunction with Fort Point Spring Open Studios. The works of art will engage the public, highlight the Fort Point neighborhood and its creative community and promote Open Studios. Four Awards Available: One $7,500 award and one $5000 award for temporary public art installations (sites are described on the full RFP) and two $750 awards for participatory public art projects to be produced on Saturday and Sunday of Open Studios Weekend, June 18 and 19, 2016. Learn more.
Deadline: April 17, 2016 (midnight)

Artist and Ecologist Residency Program The Sitka Center for Art and Ecology (Otis, OR) provides artists, writers, musicians, architects and natural science scholars the opportunity to conduct their work in the unique environment of Cascade Head and Salmon River estuary. Up to six residents at a time, usually from different disciplines and stages in their careers, live and work on campus for up to 3 1/2 months free of charge. Learn more.
Deadline: April 18, 2016

Call to Artists The Chelsea Art Walk (Chelsea, MA) is currently accepting entries for their annual event. All mediums considered. Learn more.
Deadline: April 30, 2016

Call to Artists The Arsenal Center for the Arts is seeking the work of young, emerging artists from the Greater Boston area for its upcoming summer exhibition, Framework. All media is accepted, 2D and 3D. Learn more.
Deadline: May 1, 2016

Development Funds for Digital Series Independent Television Service (ITVS) has issued the Digital Open Call, which provides “up to $30,000 in R&D funding to develop and pilot digital series concepts on any subject, and from any viewpoint, for public media’s digital platforms.” Learn more.
Deadline: May 2, 2016 at 5pm PST

Playwriting Award The Relentless Award, established in honor of Philip Seymour Hoffman by The American Playwriting Foundation, is the largest annual cash prize ($45,000) in American theater awarded to a playwright in recognition of a new play. They are looking for plays that are challenging, that exhibit fearlessness, that are not mainstream, that exude passion, and are relentlessly truthful. Learn more.
Deadline: May 2, 2016

Artist Project Proposals  Urbano in Jamaica Plain, is calling for artists of all disciplines to develop proposals that combine a place-based education approach and a participatory public intervention. Their theme “The Commons/The Other” offers a unique opportunity to utilize the common spaces and places in Egleston and Jackson Squares as social laboratories where notions of representation, identity and social interaction are explored through art. Projects may range from (but are not limited to) large-scale public art interventions and performances, to nomadic sculptures and audiovisuals. Learn more.
Deadline: May 9, 2016 (11:59pm EST)

Drawing Prize The 2016 Williams Prize in Drawing for Emerging Artists is now accepting entries for applicants who are creating 2D drawings with either traditional methods, or more experimental contemporary approaches and materials, excepting digitally created or enhanced art. Drawing media that are encouraged include, but are not limited to, chalk, charcoal, color pencil, Conté, graphite, marker, metal-point, pastel, and pen & ink. Learn more.
Deadline: May 15, 2016

Image credit: Photograph of actress Jayne Mansfield and two dogs sitting in the front seat of a convertible car. In public domain.

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Filed Under: call to artists, funding, recent posts, residencies Tagged With: Appearances: Provincetown Green Arts Festival, Arsenal Center for the Arts, ArtSake, Chelsea Art Walk, Cirenaica, Finishing Line Press, Fort Point Arts Community, Independent Television Service, Massachusetts Cultural Council, MCC, Relentless Award, Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, Urbano, Williams Prize in Drawing for Emerging Artists

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