Artist Opportunities

Northern Clay Center continually solicits guest curators and exhibition opportunities for the Emily Galusha Gallery.

The Actors Fund provides services and financial support to entertainment professionals facing personal or work-related problems. It is also a conduit for emergency financial assistance in times of pressing need or in response to catastrophic events.

Twenty Summer has launched an emergency fund for artists and arts organizations suffering from unexpected and unmanageable financial loss as a result of the COVID-19. Artists can receive up to $500, while arts organizations can receive up to $1,000.

CERF+’s Get Ready Grants award up to $500 to individual artists working in craft disciplines to conduct activities that will help safeguard their studios, protect their careers and prepare for emergencies.

We encourage any artist in need of support due to cancellations from the outbreak of COVID-19 to fill out this application. This fund is a money-in, money-out fund. ArtsGreensboro will disperse funds weekly, based on the amount donated.  This fund is directed to working artists, not organizations or nonprofits. 

The Carnegie Fund for Authors awards grants to published authors who are in need of emergency financial assistance as a result of illness or injury to self, spouse, or dependent child, or who has had some other misfortune that has placed the applicant in pressing and substantial pecuniary need.

CERF+ emergency relief assistance includes grants, no-interest loans, access to resources, waivers and discounts on booth fees, and donations of craft supplies and equipment.

The Durham Artist Relief Fund is managed by NorthStar Church of the Arts. Funds donated here go directly to artists and arts presenters in Durham who have been financially impacted by cancellations due to COVID-19, with priority given to to BIPOC artists, transgender & nonbinary artists, and disabled artists. 
 

Do you have an unanticipated opportunity to present your work? Did you incur an unexpected expense that you didn’t budget for? The Foundation for Contemporary Arts offers Emergency Grants between $200 and $2,500 for visual and performing artists. They review applications once a month, so you can quickly take advantage of momentum or solve any budget errors. Rolling deadline.

The Blues Foundation established the HART Fund (Handy Artists Relief Trust) for Blues musicians and their families in financial need due to a broad range of health concerns. The Fund provides for acute, chronic and preventive medical and dental care as well as funeral and burial expenses. Throughout the year at various events the HART Fund provides free health screenings for musicians, with services including but not limited to checking blood pressure, cholesterol, diabetes, prostate cancer, Hep C, anemia, thyroid, kidney and liver testing via blood work. 

The Joan Mitchell Foundation has opened the 2020 application to our Emergency Grants for individual artists, which provides grants of up to $6,000 to US-based visual artists who have been impacted by a natural or man-made disaster affecting a region on a broad scale. The Emergency Grant is intended to help reestablish their studio practice. We accept applications on a rolling basis and will consider requests for up to three years following such an event. 2020 is the final year we will be accepting applications for artists affected by 2017 events: Hurricanes Harvey, Maria, and Irma, and 2017 California Wildfires.

The Max’s Kansas City project provides emergency funding and resources to professionals in the creative arts.

The Musicians Foundation provides grants to U.S. musicians in any genre in a time of acute need due to personal, medical, dental, or family crisis, natural disaster, or other emergency situation.

Artists who experience personal hardship or who are impacted by a large-scale disaster, or who need funding for a last-minute opportunity can find critical resources in NYFA's Emergency Resources Directory. Coupled with the NYFA Source Hotline, this portal works as a centralized repository and a lifeline for artists experiencing both unexpected and long-term, chronic challenges.

The PEN America Writers’ Emergency Fund is a small grants program for professional—published or produced—writers in acute or unexpected financial crisis. Depending on the situation and level of need, grants are in the range of $2,000. Apart from exceptional circumstances, the Fund does not give repeat grants within a three-year period. The Writers’ Emergency Fund does not exist for research purposes, to enable the completion of writing projects, or to fund publications or organizations. The Writers’ Emergency Fund is for U.S.–based writers or journalists whose primary professional occupation is writing. Self-published authors or those published by vanity presses are not eligible. Writers do not have to be Members of PEN America to receive a grant. Applications are considered at meetings of the Fund’s committee, which take place every 3-4 months.

The Kennedy Center is hosting Processing Together: Arts Education for Students with Disabilities During COVID-19. Together, attendees and panelists will troubleshoot, gather ideas, and share resources. Arts educators, teaching artists, and parents/guardians seeking support and resources are welcome. Thursday, April 2nd at 6pm EST. Free webinar registration required.

This relief fund provides financial assistance to all types of career musicians and music industry workers who are struggling to make ends meet because of COVID-19.

Format has put together a $25,000 relief fund designed to help photographers facing financial difficulties during the COVID-19 outbreak. The fund offers $500 per person.

The Engage Art Contest is a juried competition for original Visual Art, Music Video, Film and Performing Arts. The topic is the Spiritual Battle described in Ephesians 6:10-20 and related verses. Download/sign-up in our mobile app, which will help you engage Scripture (including our contest topic). 

The 9th annual Surfalorus Film Festival takes place September 17-19, 2020 on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. This three-day celebration showcases the year's best surf films, supporting the work of award winning veterans to first-time filmmakers. Surfalorus is presented by Come Hear NC and is a partnership between Cucalorus and the Dare County Arts Council. Festival venues include Jennette' Pier, Jack Brown's, Roanoke Island Festival Park, and the NC Aquarium on Roanoke Island.

The Cucalorus Works in Progress (WiP) Lab supports social justice docs by African American filmmakers. Spend a week immersed in strategy building and community dialogue with Working Films organizers on the Cucalorus Campus in downtown Wilmington from Sept. 27 to Oct. 2. Then return for the fest in Nov. to celebrate and connect.

The Creative Catalyst Fellowship in Community Engagement at Elsewhere will focus on creating long-term plans for reactivating the Black Lunch Tables, a piece created by artist Heather Hart as part of South Elm Projects in 2015. The Fellow will assist in researching the impetus behind the project, connect with the artists for insight, and create community connections to aid Elsewhere in finding a sustainable solution for the piece.

As a Creative Catalyst Fellow, the Program Coordinator at the Thomas S. Kenan Institute for the Arts will work closely with the Program Manager in implementing programs and assisting in the management of programmatic spaces for the Creative Catalyst Program.

At the intersection of art and social change, this five-month residential fellowship is designed to provide support and resources to emerging artists working on projects which address issues of social justice, civic engagement, and community building. Arts Lab fellows strive to expand their practices and grow as leaders in their respective fields.

South Arts is now accepting applications for Jazz Road Tours, a national program offering grants of up to $15,000 to support tours by emerging and mid-career jazz artists. Artists can apply for funds to build tours that include three to six sites, with an emphasis on reaching rural, isolated, and underserved communities in combination with dates at more traditional venues. These awards will support tours taking place between August 15, 2020 and August 14, 2021. Rolling deadline.

The Individual Artist Career Opportunity Grant is a pilot program to support a milestone opportunity in an individual artist’s career that is likely to lead to substantial and significant career advancement. Grants of up to $2,000 are available to support opportunities taking place between April 1, 2020 and August 30, 2021. Applications are due at least 60 days prior to activities. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis until this program’s funds are depleted.

Further your involvement in the literary world with our friends at @AestheticaMag. The Creative Writing Award is now open for entries. Submit your #Poetry and #ShortFiction work and win £1,000 + publication within an inspiring anthology. 

Bear Review is a biannual journal of poetry, art and micro prose based in Kansas City. Submissions are accepted on a rolling basis. Turnaround time is fast. All published writing is automatically considered for an annual editor's prize which includes an honorarium and interview. The first editor's prize will be judged this fall and will consider work from this issue and the fall issue. Submit up to five original, previously unpublished poems or micro prose pieces (fiction or nonfiction, 500 words or fewer). Rolling deadline.

Blue Ridge Motorcycling Magazine features personality profiles of interesting, attractive and successful riders in the Blue Ridge region, rides to interesting or historic places in the Blue Ridge, and business profiles/reviews of restaurants, breweries or wineries. Articles should be 1,200 to 2,500 words in length. Rolling deadline.

The literary journal Inch is looking for flash fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Rolling deadline.

A new online poetry journal seeking new poets. Cash awards. Rolling deadline.

Hamline Lit Link intends to connect current and past students within, or interested in, the realm of the English major. We are constantly looking for submissions of various types of writing. Rolling deadline.

Linden Avenue Literary Journal publishes poetry, short fiction,and creative non-fiction which highlights the intersection between art and everyday life. Please be sure to include your social media information, website,  and a brief biography with your submission. Rolling deadline.

We are currently accepting micro and low budget projects that will be developed solely by LLeju Productions and Films. We do not finance the projects of other companies, nor do we accept animation, biography, or period pieces. LLeju Productions and Films believe that there are many talented individuals who are creating quality material that would be suitable for the production of motion pictures. Therefore, we strive to have an open and inclusive submission policy that does not require you to obtain an agent or a manager. Rolling deadline.

The Centifictionist is an online literary magazine that publishes powerful, compelling, and memorable international microfiction in 100 words or less. The Centifictionist publishes two online issues per year, a Spring/Summer issue and a Fall/Winter issue. All issues of The Centifictionist will include thirty pieces of microfiction in each issue, with each individual piece being 100 words or less. Rolling deadline.

Haunted Waters Press now seeking submissions for consideration in Tin Can Literary Review—our upcoming fiction anthology celebrating the works of new, emerging, and seasoned authors. We seek stories told in as little as 500 words and as many as 12,000. Contributors to be paid $250 per published story. 

Contemporary Art Room Gallery is proud to announce their 3rd “Colors” Online Art Competition for the month of April 2020. This is an international competition and artists from around the world are welcome to submit their work. In this open subject competition the Colors theme is with a concentration of color. Artworks with one color or a multitude of colors will be accepted. A variety of interpretations of Colors theme can be submitted (representative, abstract, conceptional).

The Engage Art Contest is a juried competition for original visual art, music video, film & performing arts. The topic is the Spiritual Battle described in Ephesians 6:10-20 & related verses. Contest runs until 5-31-2020 & is open to people 18 or older in North America. $100,000 Total Cash Prizes Awarded. We invite everyone—novice to professional—to submit original work. Each Artist may enter two entries in each category for free. Ten (10) winners in each category will receive cash prizes.

The Rooted in Rights Blog is a platform dedicated to amplifying the authentic perspectives of disabled writers. We invite you to pitch us, because your words have power, and we want to help you share them. Please read the details before submitting your pitch using the form at the bottom of the page. Rolling deadline.

This is an Open Call to ALL THEMES, MEDIUMS and artists from ALL LOCATIONS. Cutting edge Hermosa Beach gallery is looking for the best working artists to feature in an upcoming group exhibition at ShockBoxx Gallery at the beginning of May, 2020. The top artist submissions will win a Cash Prize and Award Certificate, as well as receiving Featured Wall Space in the exhibition. Since the call is wide open, we leave it up to you to choose your very best artwork to submit.

Awesome Disability is a chapter of the Awesome Foundation, a global micro-granting community. How it works - Every month, people with awesome ideas submit a grant application. The winner is given $1000, no strings attached. Submit your application by July 15 to be considered for November's grant. Ongoing, rolling deadline.

The Schuylkill Center’s environmental art department accepts submissions of environmentally themed visual artwork. Entry free. Rolling deadline.

Seeking applicants to showcase their work in a unique outdoor environment. Rolling deadline. 

Bluegrass bands can apply to perform on the StreetFest during IBMA Bluegrass Live!, powered by PNC, in Raleigh, NC. Festival dates: October 2 – 3, 2020. ALL bluegrass bands are encouraged to apply.

Resource: Allied Media Projects cultivates media strategies for a more just, creative and collaborative world. Serving a network of media makers, artists, educators, and technologists working for social justice, AMP holds an annual conference and supports individual artists by offering fiscal sponsorship and financial management.

In this three-part online workshop series, Benjamin Kerr of Kerr Law Firm will explore the most common law questions artists should know. Kerr will discuss basic principles and provide an overview of contract law, negotiations, business entity formation, and fundamental terms and enforcement with an emphasis on practical applications for artists in the real world. The workshop is appropriate for individual artists working in any genre and at any point in their careers.

Topics include:

• Copyright & Copyright Registration
• Intellectual Property
• Licensing
• Contracts
• Business Entity Formation

Resource: Arts + Public Life, an initiative of UChicago Arts, builds creative connections on Chicago's South Side through artist residencies, arts education, and artist-led projects and events.

Offering one-on-one Artist Business Brainstorm Sessions for artist entrepreneurs. 

Offering professional development courses through their podcasts, Thriving Artist.

Resource: Creative Capital supports innovative and adventurous artists across the country through funding, counsel, and career development services. Its venture philanthropy approach helps artists working in all creative disciplines realize their visions and build sustainable practices.

Preserving and perpetuating the traditional artforms of Central Appalachia is essential to our region's identity. There are in-state opportunities for developing mentor-apprentice relationships, but what if state lines separate the artists? The Folk & Traditional Arts Cross-Border Mentor-Apprentice Program bridges this gap by supporting mentor artist and apprentice relationships that cross state borders with $5,000 in order to develop shared cultural heritage in Central Appalachia. This program is open to mentor artists from eligible counties in Kentucky, North Carolina, and Tennessee who apply with an apprentice from an eligible county in a different state. Apprentices may reside in ARC counties in Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, or West Virginia. 
 

Resource: Knight Foundation works with partners who create or present art that engages, educates and delights residents in ways that reflect the rich diversity and identity of each community. The foundation endeavors to make art integral to communities by funding anchor institutions seeking wider audiences and by supporting grassroots initiatives of individual artists and organizations.

Resource: The Loveland CreatorSpace is a non-profit, members-funded and -operated, cooperative “makerspace” for engineers, artists, musicians and tinkerers of all kinds. Like a traditional “hackerspace”, the primary
objective of LCS is to provide a community-driven work shop that offers its members access to tools, machinery and classes to help promote creative engineering in Loveland and Northern Colorado.

Resource: National Arts Strategies (NAS) supports individuals, organizations, and the field to help realize the full potential of creatives in a time when that potential is most needed as a means of self-expression, to promote equity, inclusion and help support a more civil society. NAS develops market-leading education services for individuals who play a variety of roles in the arts and culture ecosystem: artists, cultural entrepreneurs, board members, staff members and executives.

The NCTC Producing Gathering is North Carolina's premiere professional development conference for theatre producers and administrators. Network with colleagues, attend panels and workshops, and hear from industry thought leaders July 19 - 21 in Raleigh. You’ll leave the Producing Gathering with new contacts, fresh ideas, and renewed energy. 

Lawyer Benjamin Kerr explores the most common law questions artists should know, including contract law, copyright, negotiation, and fundamental terms and enforcement with an emphasis on practical applications for artists in the real world.

Resource: Patreon is a membership platform that provides business tools for creators to run a subscription content service, as well as ways for artists to build relationships and provide exclusive experiences to their subscribers, or patrons. Popular among YouTube videographers, web comic artists, writers, podcasters, musicians, and other categories of creators who post regularly online, it allows artists to receive funding directly from their fans, or patrons, on a recurring basis or per work of art.

The microgrant program awards $500–$1,500 to proposals with a compelling vision for net art, which considers political radicalization and the internet. Rolling deadline.

South Arts’ new Express Grant program is an opportunity for presenting arts organizations in rural Southern communities (with populations of 50,000 or below) to receive fee support to present Southern guest performing or literary artists from outside of the presenter’s state. These quick turnaround grants offer more flexibility for programming that may not fit within South Arts’ annual grantmaking schedule. Touring support is awarded to theater, music, opera, musical theater, dance, fiction, creative nonfiction and poetry projects that contain both a public performance or reading and an educational component. The maximum request is 50% of the artist fee, up to $2,000. These grants are very limited and awarded on a first-come/first-served basis; so early submission is encouraged. A dollar-for-dollar cash match is a requirement. Rolling deadline.

Resource: The Sustainable Arts Foundation is a non-profit foundation supporting artists and writers with families whose mission is to provide financial awards to parents pursuing creative work.

Offering online courses and certificate program in cultural planning and development. Fees.

Resource: Working Artists and the Greater Economy is a New York-based activist organization whose mission is to establish sustainable economic relationships between artists and the institutions that contract their labor, and to introduce mechanisms for self-regulation into the art field that collectively bring about a more equitable distribution of its economy.

Resource: Women in Photography (WIP)is an innovative website that showcases the work of women artists. It focuses on exhibiting work outside of the traditional model of the commercial art world, allowing it to reach a global audience and to provide opportunities at no cost. In 2009 WIP launched the Grant & Mentor Program which awards funds and materials to support women artists.

The Madison County Economic Development Board is seeking an artist to design and develop a permanent piece of outdoor artwork for the Madison Manufacturing Public Art Park, located on the Dr. W. Otis Duck Greenway in Mars Hill. The project budget is $6,000.

Formed in the face of rising awareness in the performance industry, the Brave Space Project is creating interventions to prevent sexual assault and harassment in small theaters. This residency seeks a small, diverse group of artists to participate in a five day workshop on the Cucalorus Campus in Wilmington, NC. Apply now! 

No Boundaries International Art Colony is currently accepting applications for its 23rd colony. Founded in 1998, the colony is hosted on Bald Head Island for the first two weeks of November in the historic Captain Charlie's cottages. The goal of the residency is to provide artists from around the world and the local/regional community a forum for free expression and cross-cultural dialogue, with an exhibition at the end of the 2 week residency. Please visit our website for more information.

Emerging artists are invited to apply for The Bascom’s Residency and Internship Programs with focuses on ceramics, education, community, and 2D and 3D artists.

Vermont Studio Center’s Displaced Artists Fund exists to assist visual artists and writers displaced due to natural disasters, climate change, or political turmoil or threat by providing residencies in a safe and supportive community of creative peers. Rolling deadline.

Offering various residencies and internships in printmaking, book arts, ceramics, and photography.

The Foothills Folk Art Festival is a juried folk art-themed show. The festival's artist committee is looking for themed artwork intensely influenced by and displaying the spirit of folk, visionary, and outsider art.

Nobody knows what the next hour holds right now. What we do know is that the creatives have a moment to capture and a story to tell. This show is currently planned to open in June. We are making this a long open call because we want you to capture this experience as it unfolds. Circumstances and information are going to be evolving or devolving on the fly and we want you to know, we are in it with you. One way or another, the show goes on. This is an Open Call to ALL MEDIUMS and artists from ALL LOCATIONS.

Accessible Art Fair (ACAF) is a contemporary art event bringing together artists and the public. Founded in 2006, the mission of the Accessible Art Fair remains unchanged: forging a bond between the artist and the buyer. This 4-Day event offers a platform for artists to exhibit their work in a cultural and prestigious space. We strive to make quality artists accessible to the public and the public to the artists.

ReimagineIt Grants are unconditional, non-matching awards made directly to individual artists to help launch or support careers in the inspiring world of repurposed art. Cash awards. Rolling deadline.

The Upper Gallery at the Black Mountain Center for the Arts is currently seeking submissions for a group show entitled: Appalachian Impressions. The show will feature two and three dimensional works reflective of or inspired by the Appalachian Mountains and/or the Appalachian Trail. An adjudication committee will determine which pieces will be selected. The show will run from August 7th - August 28th. 

Cape Fear Studios is proud to announce its 10th National 2D Competition. This juried competition is open to all artists, 18 or older, in the United States. The Exhibit will be on display June 26, 2020 through July 21, 2020 in the Cape Fear Studios Main Gallery in Fayetteville, NC.

Art@Work is a newer DAG program designed to connect local artists to local businesses. The primary goal being to sell (or lease) local art to local businesses to be displayed in their corporate offices and private or public buildings. Membership fee and non-cash awards. 

The Art Committee reviews applications in early January, April, July and October of each year. You will receive notification on the status of your application by the 15th of the month following the review. The artist is responsible for the exhibit installation and de-installation. Rolling deadline.

Seeking North Carolina artists for potential opportunities. 

Il Varco srls creates and organizes the first edition of the Passepartout Photography Prize, a six-monthly online photography prize with cash prize, which will end with an annual exhibition of some of the finalists artists chosen by the art director. The date of the exhibition at 28 Piazza di Pietra gallery in Piazza di Pietra, Rome, in 2021 will be communicated later on the website and by updating the present call.Photographic works of all sizes are admitted.

Individuals or collaborating pairs of artists/makers/creators working in 2-D mediums, performance and words, who live and work outside of the Twin Cities area of Minnesota are welcome to apply for a no-cost, 10-day residency. Individual artists or pairs of collaborating artists will be chosen. 

Each month, ATI hosts 2nd Friday ArtWalk artists! Throughout the year, we showcase our clinical programs, individual clients and community based artists. If you are interested in showing your work, apply to be an artist! Rolling deadline.

Calling all plein air painters! The world is filled with captivating landscapes, people, and culture. We are calling on you to submit your awesome paintings to be exhibited at UNC REX Healthcare’s North Carolina Heart & Vascular Center. 

Put your work in front of distinguished jurors to be part of the San Francisco Bay Month of Photography. $3,000 in Prizes. Gold and Silver Medal Awards featured on Bokeh Bokeh Photo. Gallery Award photographs exhibited in the signature Exhibition of the Month of Photography. Portfolio Awards receive solo features on Bokeh Bokeh Photo. Open theme and photographers worldwide are invited to participate.