Deadline Approaching for free Rural Development Webinar: The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today is inviting rural leaders to join a webinar on Wednesday, Jan. 8 at 10 a.m. ET, to learn about resources to invest in local arts and community centers, which are key to enhancing economic growth and quality of life in rural areas. USDA Rural Development offers programs and services to build, expand and improve community-based businesses, including movie theaters and performing arts venues. Program staff will discuss how funding can upgrade equipment, install renewable energy systems, finance expansions and more. Staff will preview a new resource guide that will help people better navigate these programs. USDA expects to make the guide publicly available in the coming weeks. Learn more and register.
Call to Artists Entries are currently being accepted for New England Collective XV, Galatea Fine Art’s annual juried exhibition showcasing the diverse and dynamic talents of artists across New England. This highly anticipated show celebrates creativity in all its forms, featuring works in painting, sculpture, photography, mixed media, and more. Don’t miss this opportunity to exhibit your work in a professional gallery setting and connect with a vibrant community of artists and art enthusiasts. Exhibition Dates: February 2 to March 7, 2025. Juror: Kaveh Mojtabai, Founder and Publisher of Artscope Magazine. Learn more.
Deadline: January 10, 2025
Of Note: TransCultural Exchange’s 2025 International Conference on Opportunities in the Arts: Avenues for Daring, will take place March 7-9, 2025 at The Foundry, with additional events at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA. Early Discount Registration ends January 10th. This is the opportunity to meet important residency directors, curators, critics, and others who support artists’ work and are eager to find new artists for their programs. Join countless workshops, talks, roundtable discussions, and networking sessions. Share your art with your fellow attendees and the more than 150 presenters from down the block, across the nation, and around the world. Think this is not for you? Think again. By attending this Conference, more than 70% of our past attendees received a tangible outcome – a job offer, an exhibition, or a residency invite. Curious about who you will meet at the Conference?
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Artists-in-Residence Program The New York Latin American Art Triennial (NYLAAT) Artist Residency Program is process-based, with the expectation or promise of a final exhibition of the work. The program provides artists, designers and creative thinkers time, space and a supportive community in which to develop ideas and focus on their artistic direction. In addition to our time-honored studio residencies, a variety of innovative professional immersion program provide opportunities for artists to explore new areas of social and technological practice and engage critically within their field. A unique combination of creative and professional resources provides a rich environment for growth and opportunity in the current, vibrant art scene. Learn more.
Deadline: January 15, 2025
National Endowment for the Arts Translation Grants Guidelines for Literature Fellowships for Translation Projects are now available. Learn more.
Deadline: January 16, 2025
Call for Art The Monotype Guild of New England is accepting entries for their open national juried exhibition 40 Years of Unique Prints at The Art Complex Museum in summer 2025. Over $1800 in cash prizes, as well as materials awards. Juror: Karen Kunc. Open to all US artists working in the monotype and monoprint printmaking medium. Submissions must be original, one-of-a-kind prints created in the last five years. Learn more.
Deadline: January 19, 2025 at midnight.
Artist Residency in Nevada Dessert The Montello Foundation provides a solitary retreat where artists can experience the vastness of a desert landscape from a safe building, a “base camp” a unique space for inspiration and creation, a place that provides a shield from distractions in the solitude of the desert. Learn more.
Deadline: January 19, 2025
Call to Artists Entries are currently being accepted for the NH Art Association’s Fledgling: Artists Under 30, a juried exhibit highlighting the work of up-and-coming New England artists under 30. Artists selected for this exhibition who have never been members of the NHAA before will receive a free one-year membership. Cash prizes will be awarded. First place will receive $300, second place $200, and third place $100. Don’t miss this opportunity to showcase your work in our gallery in downtown Portsmouth! If this is your first time submitting to an art exhibition and you have questions, please reach out. The exhibition will be juried by Amy Regan, owner of See Saw Art Gallery in Manchester, NH. Learn more.
Deadline: Jan 31, 2025
Call to Artists The Nave Gallery in Somerville, MA, in partnership with the Clarendon Hill Presbyterian Church invites artists to participate in the curated exhibition Water Marks. Water Marks seeks art that reflects the impacts, impressions and realities relating to water and the human experience. This call asks artists to share work created in response to various states of water: ecological, communal, cultural, natural, financial, political, spiritual…essential. Work should consider all states of water, in any of its forms and permutations; whether it be gas, liquid or solid, either a droplet or an ocean, scarce or sacred. All themes, subjects and perspectives will be considered, especially those focused on social and environmental justice. All mediums will be accepted. Installations are encouraged, as well as performance art. Learn more.
Deadline: January 20, 2025
Call to Artists The Mosesian Center for the Arts in Watertown is accepting entries for the exhibition Gorky and the Language of Drawing. Artists are invited to submit artwork that recognizes the importance of drawing as a vital artistic practice. We are looking for work that uses drawing as a vehicle of self-expression, drawing as a way of recording thoughts and experiences, and use drawing as a form of visual thinking. In addition, drawing is also a way to communicate, a language of marks and lines that tells stories. We invite artists to submit work that is drawing based, stretches the definition of drawing and is either conceptual in nature, narrative, or process oriented. Learn more.
Deadline: January 21, 2025
Call for Artists The National Nurses United (NNU), the largest and fastest-growing union of registered nurses in the nation, invites you to submit work exploring the theme “Resistance and Resilience,” a juried exhibition. Artists are welcome to submit existing work or a proposal for new art. Please note: Work does not need to depict nurses. Learn more.
Deadline: January 24, 2025, 5 pm PST
Arts and Science Residency Program Residencies in Peaked Hill Truest (PHT) Arts and Sciences Program consist of one-week to two-week stays in the dune shacks of the Cape Cod National Seashore. In addition to supporting projects in the visual arts, the PHT residency program is designed to encourage a broad sweep of creative projects in the arts and sciences. Learn more.
Deadline: February 15, 2025
Call for Experienced Digital Artists, Designers and Illustrators The Town of Montague, MA will install six large scale, temporary paper murals on historic brick buildings in May of 2025. Three artists will each receive $4,000 for two mural designs which integrate themes identified by the community. Selected applicants are not responsible for printing or installing their projects. This project is funded through the New England Foundation for the Arts. The Montague Wheat Paste Mural Project is administrated by RiverCulture, the municipal arts program of the Town of Montague and juried by a steering Group comprised of Town staff, business owners and residents with art and/or design experience. Learn more.
Deadline: February 16, 2025 (11:59pm)
Plein Air Painters Applications are currently being accepted for the Wayne Art Center Plein Air Festival, one of the longest-running and most popular outdoor painting events in the country. Founded in 2008, the Wayne Art Center Plein Air Festival has welcomed over 500 artists to paint the splendor of the Philadelphia area and has become one of the most eagerly anticipated cultural events in the region. The 17th Annual Wayne Art Center Plein Air Festival kicks-offPon May 4, 2025, with the arrival of 32 juried, nationally recognized, and emerging artists who have ventured to Wayne, Pennsylvania to capture the exceptional beauty of the Delaware Valley. As one of the premier plein air events in the country, Wayne Art Center offers artists the unique opportunity to showcase over 300 works created during the festival in the art center’s spacious, light-filled, and state-of-the-art exhibition galleries. Learn more.
Deadline: February 20, 2025
Image credit: Watercolor and pencil painting of Cheshire Cat (costume design for Alice in Wonderland, 1915), by William Penhallow Henderson, born Medford, MA 1877. From the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
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