Cambridge-area Artists Cambridge Meditation Group is offering free meditation sessions every Friday through May 26, 2023, at The Foundry in Cambridge (5:30-6:15 PM).
Grant for Artists The Burke Prize by the Museum of Arts and Design is a biannual contemporary art prize for a new generation of artists working in a world of expanded media with a foundation in glass, fiber, clay, metal, or wood. Selected by a diverse and distinguished jury of curators, artists, and scholars through an open-call application process, the Burke Prize winner receives an unrestricted award of $50,000. One Burke Prize artist will also be selected for the biannual Burke Residency at The Studio of The Corning Museum of Glass. The Burke Residency artist will receive a one-month to five-week residency. Learn more.
Deadline: April 28, 2023
Call to Artists The Kolaj Institute seeks short films, animations, & GIFs for a theater screening and projection event at Kolaj Fest New Orleans. Learn more
Deadline: April 30, 2023
Poets Entries are currently being accepted for the 2023 Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize. The judge is Mary Jo Bang. The winner received a $1,000.00 cash prize and publication of the book. Learn more.
Deadline: April 30, 2023
Call for Artists for State Police Southern Barracks This is a new public art commission for artwork for the R.I. State Police Southern Barracks to be built in West Greenwich. The budget for the artwork is $100,000. The Call is open to working artists, who reside in R.I., Mass., Conn., N.H., Vermont, Maine and N.Y. Undergraduate students are excluded. Learn more.
Deadline: May 1, 2023
Call for Art Fountain Street gallery in Boston is now accepting submissions for its 2023 international call for art titled, About Face. About Face invites commentary on artistic, personal, and cultural identity, as much as it is about the politics of authority, representation, inclusion, and exclusion. For this call, we would like to see work that ranges from bold and socio-political to subtle and poetic. This call is an open question that asks artists to interpret the concept widely when selecting works to submit. The work should speak to your message and your statement should explain intention, unique materials, processes or any risks taken. A curator’s choice and two honorable mentions will be awarded. Jurors: Michelle May and Payal Thiffault, founders of JUNIPER RAG, an independent visual art and lifestyle magazine. Learn more.
Deadline: May 1, 2023, 11:59PM
Business Entities for Artists Artists often hear that they should form an LLC or other business entity, but they are rarely given a clear idea as to why or why not. Rus Garofalo from Brass Taxes presents a free/pay-what-you-can online workshop LLCs, S-Corps, Sole-Proprietor, and Other Business Entities for Artists – Explained! on May 4, 2023, 6 PM ET, hosted by New York Foundation for the Arts. Learn more.
Printmakers Entries are currently being accepted for the The Boston Printmakers 2023 North American Print Biennial Exhibition (October 10–December 9, 2023) at the 808 Gallery, Boston University. 2023 Juror: Elizabeth M. Rudy, Curator of Prints at the Harvard Art Museum. $12,000 in prizes. Notifications emailed June 7, 2023. Learn more.
Deadline: May 12, 2023
Artist Residency VisArts in Rockville, MD is currently accepting applications for a six-month Studio Fellowship. The Studio Fellowship provides an opportunity to create or evolve works or develop a project in a supportive environment. Studio space is free of charge and artists receive a $500 per month stipend. Learn more and apply here.
Deadline: May 19, 2023
Boston Dancemakers Residency Produced through a partnership between Boston Dance Alliance and Boston Center for the Arts, the Boston Dancemakers Residency serves as a laboratory for ideas that are in the exploratory phase and need dedicated time and space to be fully realized. Learn more.
Deadline: May 30, 2023, 9 AM ET
Veterans Repertory Theater 10-Minute Playwriting Competition VetRep is accepting submissions for its 10-minute playwriting competition. Playwrights must meet one of the following criteria: current or former: US military, law enforcement, fire service, EMS, foreign service, intelligence service, DoD employee, DoD Contractor; or immediate family of the service member. The competition winner will receive a $1,000 grant, second-place finalist will receive a $750 grant, third-place finalist will receive a $500 grant. All winners and finalists also receive feedback from the panel of judges. In addition, winners and finalists may be invited to become VetRep Resident Artists where they will have the opportunity to develop and submit plays for commissioning and production at VetRep. Plays can be any genre and any subject matter. Playwrights may submit more than one play. Plays should not have been previously produced and/or published. Winners and finalists will be notified via email no later than December 31, 2023. Learn more.
Deadline: July 3, 2023
Image credit: Harry Warnecke, 1900 – 1984, Gus Schoenbaechler, active 1940s–1950s, Louis Armstrong, Photograph, 12 5/8 x 16 9/16″, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution.
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