Wide-Eyed Artist Opportunities

Pre-Production or Early Development Film Funding Through the Moving Image Fund, LEF Foundation supports the work of New England-based filmmakers across all phases of a project’s production. The foundation is currently accepting applications for Pre-production ($5,000) and Early Development ($2,500) grants. Learn more about how to apply.
Deadline: August 16, 2024 at 11:59pm ET

Call to Artists Artists are invited to submit up to two pieces of artwork that embody the theme “Beyond the Expected: Art in Flux.” This theme highlights the artist’s ability to innovate continually, adapt their practices, and explore new frontiers in artistic expression. It suggests artistic processes incorporating elements of chance, spontaneity, or unexpected outcomes, and may refer to works created through experimental techniques or unconventional materials. Exhibition dates: Friday September 6 – 29, 2024. Galatea Fine Art, 460B Harrison Ave, #B-6 | Boston, MA 02118.  Juror is  LaiSun Keane, LaiSun Keane Art Gallery located at SoWA, Boston. The organizer is Claudia Fiks, New England Art Center Founder and Director. Learn more.
Deadline: August 18, 2024, 11:59 PM ET

Photographers The Lucie Foundation is proud to support professional and emerging talent with vision and dynamic ideas that challenge and progress the art form of still photography into work that compels. Our support of photography is broad, from Fine Art to Documentary and Photojournalism, to digital and film-based works. Our concern is to support photographers producing work that is at once gripping, and original. The Lucie Foundation offers four cash grants and a variety of prizes to support the work of emerging and established photographers. Learn more.
Deadline: September 1, 2024

Fundraising Consultant Mass Cultural Council seeks proposals from qualified fundraising consultants to research, document, and build a potential prospect list of new funding opportunities – from state, federal, public, and private entities – that will then be shared with the cultural sector. This initiative is critical to support the Agency’s advancement work in research, advocacy, and infrastructure development, with the goal of expanding the financial resources available to bolster the continued growth and development of the Commonwealth’s cultural sector. Learn more.
Deadline: September 4, 2024

Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant Created in 1993 to further FCA’s mission to encourage, sponsor, and promote work of a contemporary, experimental nature, Emergency Grants provide urgent funding for visual and performing artists who: have sudden, unanticipated opportunities to present their work to the public when there is insufficient time to seek other sources of funding; incur unexpected or unbudgeted expenses for projects close to completion with committed exhibition or performance dates. Our mission is to support experimental artistic practices. Learn more.
Deadline: Ongoing

Call to Artists The Massachusetts Pollinator Network and the TILL Wave Gallery present the exhibition New England Pollinators. The Massachusetts Pollinator Network works to protect pollinators and their habitat across the state. Part of the work is to educate people about the importance of these tiny creatures we often overlook completely or are afraid of. With that in mind, we want to showcase the beauty of pollinators and their plants. Email high quality images of up to 3 pieces to tillartwave@tillinc.org. All mediums are considered. Please include your name, contact information, brief artist statement, price (if for sale) and description of pieces, including dimensions. Please include names of pollinators and plants in the piece (including scientific names if possible). The pollinator may be native to New England, and ideally, any plants that may be in the art also native to the ecoregions of New England. The exhibition will be on display at the TILL Wave Gallery from September 26th through November 22nd, with an opening reception the evening of September 26th from 4-7pm.
Deadline: September 6, 2024

Artadia Awards The Artadia Awards provide financial support, exposure and recognition to artists. The awards are unrestricted, allowing artists to use the funds in any way they choose. Learn more.
Boston Deadline: September 15, 2024

Public Art Learning Fund The New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA) offers Public Art Learning Fund (PALF) grants of $500 to $2,000 to support professional development opportunities for New England artists to strengthen their public art practices. Through PALF, NEFA intends to foster the continued development of more equitable, inclusive, and vibrant public spaces and public life throughout New England. Learn more.
Deadline: September 16, 2024

Request for Proposals Payette Architects, on behalf of the Division of Capital Asset Management & Maintenance (DCAMM) of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and The Massachusetts Veterans Home at Holyoke (MVH), invites artists, designers, architects, landscape architects, students and/or other design professionals to submit conceptual proposals for the design, fabrication, and installation of an outdoor public art memorial to complement the MVH in Holyoke, MA. The budget for this project is up to $200,000, and the timeframe for completion is approximately 24 months from the signing of the contract. The selection committee will review complete submittals and award one artist/team the contract to execute their public art concept(s). Learn more.
Deadline: November 6, 2024, 5 PM EST

Image credit: Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zuñiga (1784–1792), Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) Spanish, 1787–88, Oil on canvas, 50 x 40 in. (127 x 101.6 cm), from the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.