Mass Cultural Council Artist Fellowships Applications are now available for Drawing & Printmaking, Poetry, and Traditional Arts. Fellowship awards are $15,000 each and finalists receive $1,500. Learn more.
Deadline: October 7, 2019
Call to Artists The Arlington Center for the Arts is currently accepting entries for the exhibition Very Superstitious. This autumnal gallery show is open to artwork of all types and in all mediums, and works should explore themes of signs, symbols and superstitions, as well as omens and totems of all kinds. Learn more.
Deadline: September 23, 2019
Latinx Artists The NALAC Fund for the Arts (NFA) is accepting applications from Latinx artists and arts organizations based in the United States and Puerto Rico working in all arts disciplines. For this upcoming cycle, national NFA grant awards have doubled to $10,000. Additional opportunities are available for emerging filmmakers, organizers, artists in Puerto Rico, and artists in San Antonio. Learn more.
Deadline: September 25, 2019, 11:59pm CST
Professional Development for Artists MASS MoCA’s “Assets for Artists” (A4A) program seeks proposals from New England- or New York-based artists to lead workshops on areas of professional development for artists (addressing the non-art parts of sustaining an artistic practice and career). They are hoping to hear from artists based in New England or New York in any discipline with strong technical and presentation/teaching skills. Artists may propose a workshop(s) on the professional development topic(s) of their choice. We are especially excited to hear from POC and LGBTQ+ artists. Learn more.
Deadline: September 30, 2019
Opportunity Fund The Opportunity Fund provides grants of up to $2,000 to support individual artists, increased access to the arts, and local arts events. Learn more.
Deadline: September 30, 2019
Studio 170 – Call for Proposals The Goethe-Institut Boston is starting up a new open space project called Studio 170 and is looking for proposals. The first residency is in December. Learn more.
Deadline: September 30, 2019
Of Note: The Duplessy Foundation is organizing a sales workshop for the Arts community on October 8, 2019 at 6pm at The Assemblage, 70A Sleeper Street, Boston. The workshop will be donation for entry. The Duplessy Foundation works with women, immigrant, and minority entrepreneurs on improving their sales process. Over the last 4 years, they have helped entrepreneurs generate $3.8M in revenue. It’s part of their mission to help more people do meaningful work. Learn more.
Boston Area Choreographers Grant Next Steps for Boston Dance provides multi-layered support for Greater Boston’s choreographers. This program, an initiative of The Boston Foundation and Aliad Fund, supports Greater Boston choreographers creating original work in any dance genre and at any career level, post-college, to move forward and take a “next step” in their careers. Award includes $5,000 in implementation funds to create or complete a project as well as rehearsal space, expert advice, peer meetings, and more. Learn more.
Deadline: November 4, 2019
Dancers, Choreographers Designed to support original, innovative and risk-taking artistic ventures and to nurture and grow the careers of choreographers, Next Steps for Boston Dance responds to the needs of dance artists working in a variety of genres. The goal is to give artists the flexibility to push creative boundaries, work in dedicated spaces and access mentorship and/or skill development opportunities. Six grants will be awarded with an emphasis on including a variety of genres and career stages, from artists who are just beginning a professional career, to mid, and to those who are well-established. All artists are strongly encouraged to apply. Learn more.
Deadline: November 4, 2019
Public Art Public Art Learning Fund provides small grants of $500 to $2000 to support professional development opportunities for New England artists to strengthen their public art practices. Through the Public Art Learning Fund, NEFA intends to foster the continued development of more equitable, inclusive, and vibrant public spaces and public life throughout New England. Learn more.
Deadline: November 12, 2019
Call for Art Fountain Street gallery in Boston is now accepting submissions for its international call for art that push traditional classification, titled Out of Place. Out of Place is intended to reveal and reposition what it means to belong. It is a commentary on artistic, personal, and cultural identity, as much as it is on the politics of authority, representation, inclusion, and exclusion. They are looking for work that ranges from the bold and socio-political to the subtle and poetic. All mediums accepted. Installation and new media work is encouraged. A curator’s choice and two honorable mentions will be awarded. Juror: Jameson Johnson is a writer and community organizer based in Boston. She is the Founder and Editor in Chief at Boston Art Review, an online and print publication committed to facilitating discourse around contemporary art in Boston and beyond. Learn more.
Deadline: Sunday, October 6, 2019, 11:59PM
Image credit: Photograph of Mary Lou Williams by by W. Eugene Smith/LIFE/Getty.
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