Artist Opportunities

The N.C. Arts Council is delighted to provide the following opportunities for artists. Please contact the organization listed if you have any questions.

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Visual Artists

Winston-Salem Seeks Artists for Downtown Project
Forsyth County has issued a request for qualifications from artists interested in providing commissioned works for the new Downtown Center for the Arts in Winston-Salem. Work on the Center is scheduled for completion in fall 2010. The request is being circulated nationwide and submissions must be posted online at intothearts.slideroom.com.

Deadline: Friday, May 15, 2009
For more information: www.intothearts.org

Southern Exposure: A Thematic Exhibition
Hollingsworth Gallery (Palm Coast, FL) presents the group thematic exhibition, Southern Exposure. The exhibition will be held at the Hollingsworth Gallery from June 13 – July
5, 2009 and is open to all southern artists who would like to express their heritage, environment, ideals, and issues concerning the south. Southern Exposure is open to all artists, working in any media, residing in Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, and West Virginia. Maximum height of work is 84 inches, maximum width is 144 inches. Entrants must be 18 years of age or older to apply.

Deadline: May 25, 2009
For more information: Download a prospectus at www.hollingsworthgallery.com/CALLS_FOR_ARTISTS.html.

Literary Arts

The Creative Capital | Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant
The Creative Capital | Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant Program supports individual writers whose work addresses contemporary visual art through grants ranging from $3,000 to $50,000. Writers, who meet the program's eligibility requirements, are invited to apply in the following categories:

• articles
• blogs
• books
• new and alternative media
• short-form writing

Deadline: June 8, 2009
For more information: Get guidelines and additional eligibility requirements at www.artswriters.org.

Performing Arts

Partners in Performance
Bring great chamber music to your community! Since 2003, Partners in Performance has co-sponsored recitals by Midori in fifteen venues across America with the aim of stimulating local interest in classical music. Community concert attendance and donorship have significantly increased as direct results of PiP concerts.

Partners in Performance provides two (2) concerts for the benefit of the selected presenting organization, whose financial obligation consists of a token administrative fee paid to PiP—substantially less than an artist's usual fee. The two concerts will take place within consecutive concert seasons: the first, a recital by a high-profile artist such as Midori and Jonathan Biss; the second concert to be a solo or duo recital by a rising young artist with a local connection. The presenter keeps all proceeds from ticket sales, to be used at its discretion to fund future classical music projects or programs. 

Deadline: June 1, 2009
For more information: Get application forms and full eligibility guidelines at www.pipmusic.org.

General Artist Opportunities

The Mountain Arts Program (MAP) — Deadline Extended
Sponsored by the Western Arts Agencies of North Carolina (WAANC), MAP is seeking artists in all disciplines to participate in a program of residencies in the public schools in western North Carolina counties. Visual artists, dramatists, dancers, jugglers, mimes, folk and classical musicians, photographers, craftspeople, and writers are sought to work in schools with students of all grade levels. The residencies range from single day visits up to full week-long residencies. Students are given hands-on sequential arts experiences.

New Deadline: May 22, 2009
For more information: Find information, fee structure, and an application at the WAANC Web site at www.waanc.org, or contact the Toe River Arts Council at trac@toeriverarts.org or (828) 682-7215.