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Museum-Led Incubator NEW INC (New York, NY), the first museum-led incubator, wants to foster cultural value, not just capital value. The incubator based at NYC’s New Museum is a 12-month program (September through August) that includes business and entrepreneurial training with seasoned experts, mentorship programs, group critiques, peer-to-peer learning, and critical discourse about the changing nature of culture, technology, and entrepreneurship. There is currently an open call for applications. Learn more.
Deadline: May 13, 2016
Proposals for New Plays Set in Boston SpeakEasy Stage is accepting proposals for The 2017 Boston Project, which includes a $2,500 commission and a year of development on a brand-new play about Boston. Playwrights should submit proposals for unwritten plays set in Boston or its surrounding areas, taking place within ten years, plus or minus, of the present day. The development process will culminate in a two-week workshop and invited staged reading in Winter/Spring 2017. Learn more.
Deadline: May 15, 2016
Residency The Ragdale Foundation is accepting applications for residencies for visual artists, musicians, writers, dancers, media artists, and choreographers. Organization provides housing, meals, and studio space in Lake Forest, IL. Learn more.
Deadline: May 15, 2016
State Dept Art Programs The Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) of the U.S. Department of State currently has three opportunities in the arts. First, the Creative Arts Exchange, which includes funding for international exchanges through the Hip Hop Collaboration program and the Community Arts Incubator (a visual arts/based program). Second, the Arts Envoy Program is soliciting proposals to send U.S. artists and experts in all arts fields for short-term projects with U.S. Embassies and Consulates in all world areas. Third, the Communities Connecting Heritage is soliciting proposals for an exchange program focused on connecting U.S. and foreign communities around themes of intangible and tangible cultural heritage. Learn more.
Deadline for Creative Arts Exchange: May 26, 2016
Deadline for Arts Envoy and Communities Connection Heritage Programs: May 27, 2016
Emerging African American Poets The 2016 Gregory Pardlo Scholarship provides a full scholarship to attend the Poetry Seminar at The Frost Place in New Hampshire, July 31-August 5, 2016, including room and board and a featured reading slot at the Seminar. Named for Pulitzer Prize winning poet Gregory Pardlo, the scholarship is open to African American poets writing in English who have published up to one book of poetry. Learn more.
Deadline: May 31, 2016
Toy and Lo-fi Photography The Somerville Toy Camera Festival seeks entries for its fourth annual celebration of toy and lo-fi photography. Images of any subject matter, made with a “toy” camera – a low-tech camera with plastic lenses and a lack of reliable exposure control – are eligible. Selected work will exhibit at Brickbottom Gallery, Nave Gallery Annex and Washington Street Art Center September-October, 2016. Learn more about eligible cameras and call details.
Deadline: June 15, 2016
Biology and Art Art+Bio Collaborative integrates art and life sciences through research, innovation, and education. The organization has two immersive field programs to provide hands-on experiences blending biology and art: DESERT LIFE: Field Studies of Art+Nature in the Southwest in west Texas/southwest New Mexico and ISLAND LIFE: Tropical Field Studios of Art+Nature in Puerto Rico.
DESERT LIFE Dates: July 10-16, 2016
ISLAND LIFE Dates: August 15-20, 2016
Call for Art The Principle Gallery (Charleston, SC) is now accepting application for their exhibition Root to Bloom: The Places Artists Call Home. The exhibition will feature paintings representative of where the featured artists call “home”. This theme can be applied to a range of views, from a studio interior to a street scene, from a rural landscape to an aerial view of city or countryside. Learn more.
Deadline: September 28, 2016
Image: LET’S TRY SOMETHING DIFFERENT from the GIF Artists Collective.
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