Artist Opportunities

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 Bull City International Film Festival is open internationally to all filmmakers and screenwriters who understand that film is much more than expensive equipment and sets with impractical budgets. We are seeking films and scripts with character driven plots. Insightful stories relying on human expression more than special effects.

For a documentary film to make a difference, a solid strategy for audience engagement and strong partnerships are key. Filmmakers often lack time to do this work themselves or the expertise and the funds to pay for it. Emerging artists, creators of color, and other underrepresented filmmakers can face the biggest hurdles, despite the potential of their projects. Working Films’ response to this challenge is Impact Kickstart, a program offering in-kind strategy development to underrepresented documentary makers with feature films in progress that hold great promise to catalyze action to address critical social and environmental issues.

Longleaf Film Festival, a program of the North Carolina Museum of History in downtown Raleigh, is officially accepting entries for the sixth annual Longleaf Film Festival, to be held Friday and Saturday, May 8 and 9, 2020. For 2020, Longleaf Film Festival is thrilled to announce its partnership with Come Hear North Carolina, which is Presenting Sponsor for this year’s event. @ComeHearNC—a yearlong initiative between the state Department of Natural and Cultural Resources and the North Carolina Arts Council—celebrates the rich legacy of North Carolinians’ groundbreaking contributions to American music while also recognizing the contemporary artists who continue this tradition of making innovative music.

To be eligible for selection in Longleaf 2020, filmmakers and/or films must have a North Carolina connection and/or be one of Longleaf’s former Official Selection filmmakers. Submission information is available at LongleafFilmFestival.com.

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. 

For a new blog series celebrating the life of James Baldwin in Saint-Paul de Vence, we are soliciting submissions of articles, book excerpts and personal essays that address the elder Baldwin, from the years 1970 to 1987. 

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.

Seeking flash fiction and original short fiction for their online publication. Payment. 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.

Seeking submissions of reviews of exhibitions on view within six months of submission date. 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.

The competition is open to all writers regardless of geographical location or prior publication. Submit up to 3,000 words of an unpublished fiction manuscript - short story or self-contained novel excerpt. The Thomas Wolfe Fiction Prize honors internationally celebrated North Carolina novelist Thomas Wolfe. The prize is administered by the Great Smokies Writing Program at the University of North Carolina at Asheville. Final judge: Randall Kenan. Sponsored by the North Carolina Writers' Network.

Seeking entries for the Emerging Playwright Award. Cash award. Rolling deadline.

VAE is requesting proposals from artists and creatives who have artwork, programming, exhibition ideas, and event ideas that compliment one of our major 2020 projects: De aqui y de alla (of here and there) which highlights the creative contributions of Latinx artists.

This emergency grant provides financial assistance to painters, printmakers, and sculptors whose needs are the result of an unforeseen incident, and who lack the resources to meet that situation. Rolling deadline.

The Midwest Sculpture Initiative is proud to be organizing a total of 15 outdoor sculpture exhibits for the 2020-2021 exhibition year. The “Spring Series” will host 10 exhibits, with the “Fall Series” hosting 5. Both the Ella Sharp Museum and the City of Port Huron have moved their exhibits to the “Fall Series” and will feature solo exhibits. The Call for Entries for the Fall Series will be released July of 2020. Attached you will find the Midwest Sculpture Initiative's Call for Entries for the 2020-2021 “Spring Series”. All exhibits offer a stipend of $850 per sculpture.

Roots Artist Registry is an online registry and directory of visual, performing, and literary artists. Listing fee.

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.

Emerging organizations can apply for fiscal sponsorship through NYFA. Fees. Dealines on June 30, September 30, December 31, and March 31

Call for 10-minute comic play by female and female identifying playwrights. Between twelve and fifteen 10-minute plays are selected by an international jury and presented as readings in New York on April 6, 2020. The best three to five plays receive a semi-staged presentation during the Opening Night of In Scena! Italian Theater Festival NY on April 27, 2020. Languages admitted: Italian, English, Spanish, Turkish, French, Portuguese, Polish and Greek.

The Filmed in NC Fund supports emerging and established artists with a proven record for producing singular and original work, exhibiting potential for meaningful community impact and generating substantial economic activity in North Carolina. Projects at various stages of production (existing and new projects) are eligible to apply. The program supports narrative, documentary, and experimental films. The program prioritizes funding for female, African American, and Latinx filmmakers. 

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. 

A digital marketing consulting firm for the arts that offers free webinars throughout the year and hosts an annual Digital Marketing Boot Camp for the Arts Conference.

The theme for the 2020 Spring Workshop Series is “Financials & Operations for Makers”. Though some may view the topic of financials and operations as “serious business,” these workshops are designed to be accessible, informative and engaging for artists and makers, even at the earliest stages of business development.

The CYC Spring Workshop Series will feature the following:

1. A networking event to kick off the series
2. 3 separate workshops on preparing for the upcoming tax season, positioning your business to scale and how to work with buyers
3. The series will then conclude with Alpine for Makers, an intensive 5-week course for existing businesses facilitated within a cohort learning environment

Empower yourself to make good financial decisions in 2020!

Designed and led by Creative Capital Awardee Amy Smith, a working artist with expertise in bookkeeping, budgeting, tax preparation, and financial management, this workshop is designed to better your money management skills and raise your financial literacy. Smith will provide an overview of essentials including terms, current economic conditions, valuing time, negotiating pay, expense tracking and taxes, budgeting, saving/retirement, credit, and debt management. She will also discuss alternative forms of financial management, including systems for resource sharing, collective thinking, and financial self-determination.

The workshop is appropriate for individual artists working in any genre and at any point in their careers.

This emergency grant provides financial assistance to painters, printmakers, and sculptors whose needs are the result of an unforeseen incident, and who lack the resources to meet that situation. Rolling deadline.

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.

As we advance Southern vitality through the arts, South Arts offers a limited number of Professional Development and Artistic Planning grants to nonprofit performing, visual, media/film, multidisciplinary and literary arts presenting organizations in our nine-state region with support from the National Endowment for the Arts. Funding up to $1,000 is available to support the professional development needs of Southern presenters/programmers/curators, strengthen program design, and increase organizational capacity. For the purposes of these guidelines, “presenters” are defined as organizations that present or host guest artists for engagements in their communities. 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 School of Making Thinking is an artist-thinker residency program, experimental college, and nomadic investigation into collaborative practice. Its mission is to create a unique environment where participants are able to create original work that challenges disciplinary conventions of art-making and thinking.

Springboard’s Work of Art: Business Skills for Artists is a professional development curriculum designed to teach business skills to artists in all disciplines.

Arts Access is partnering with the Durham Arts Council we pilot the Durham Arts Inclusion Project (DAIP). The goal of DAIP is to increase participation by children with disabilities in the full range of cultural arts activities in Durham County, specifically through teaching artist residencies. Training focuses on planning and implementing inclusive residencies and residencies specifically designed for students with disabilities.

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: Writers & Books is a literary center in Rochester, N.Y. that fosters and promotes reading and writing as lifelong activities. Programs include: writing classes and workshops; outreach programs; readings and talks by visiting and regional writers; residency programs at our rural retreat center; an annual Regional Playwriting Competition; internships; and other programs.

The Town of Cary desires to integrate public art into the Phase III new segment of Higgins Greenway that extends from Union Street to Kildaire Farm Road and incorporates the historic Hillcrest Cemetery built in 1840. This RFQ announces a call to artists to focus attention along the Higgins Greenway of the historic cemetery by transforming the visual experience while honoring this cemetery in Cary’s history. The following opportunities include gates and entry features at entry and exit segments of the cemetery, seating, and special paving treatment of the greenway. The initial budget is $46,400. 

The Turchin Center for the Visual Arts at Appalachian State University in Boone, NC is accepting submissions for the juried 34th annual Rosen Outdoor Sculpture Competition 2020-2021 which is part of its annual summer arts celebration, An Appalachian Summer Festival. Ten sculptures will be selected for installation in outdoor, public settings across the university campus. Cash prizes are awarded for first, second, and third place.

The Black Mountain Press is pleased to announce its new writer/artist in residence program. The residence takes place in our previous location which was a converted child care center. There is plenty of room to stretch out in this house with large fenced yard, minutes away from hiking trails, trout streams, & biking trails!

This is a commissioning and residency development program for New York City-based performing artists to explore and expand the possibilities of their work in music, dance, theater, and multidisciplinary performance. The program supports artists with stipends, mentoring, and space to develop works-in-progress.

McColl Center for Art + Innovation is a nationally acclaimed artist residency and contemporary art space in Charlotte, North Carolina. We invite artists to take risks in their processes and explore their ideas within the context of Charlotte. Fall 2020 Artist-in-residence (in partnership with UNC Charlotte College of Arts + Architecture) Residency Dates: September 8 – December 8, 2020 (13 weeks) Application Deadline: January 30, 2020 Application Fee: $35 nonrefundable

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.

Seeking applications for 2018 residencies. Rolling deadlines.

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.

stARTup Art Fair San Francisco is the contemporary art fair designed for artists, by artists. stARTup runs April 24-26, 2020 at the hip and retro Hotel del Sol. Taking place concurrently with the SF Art Market gallery fair, exhibitors will be able to expose their work to myriad collectors, curators, and consultants who will be in SF for a weekend of contemporary art. stARTup artists sell work on their own terms and keep 100% of the proceeds. There are application and exhibitor fees. 

New gallery debuting in April 2020 is seeking both established and new artists for month-long shows. We will curate three to four artists who inspire us with their concept, technique, and expression.

This call is open to ALL MEDIUMS and artists from ALL LOCATIONS centering around the theme of love, or more specifically "Love Hurts" for this Valentine's Day exhibition. Cutting edge Hermosa Beach gallery is looking for the best working artists to feature in an upcoming group exhibition at ShockBoxx Gallery opening on February 14th, 2020. The top artist submissions will win a Cash Prize and Award Certificate.

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.

Cary Gallery of Artists Twelfth Annual Small Treasures Juried Exhibition: Small Works of 2D and 3D Art by NC Artists

The Delaplaine Arts Center introduces Graphic Era, a celebration of the graphic arts by digital design and illustration artists from around the U.S. The juried exhibition will feature a selection of artists who are using illustration to engage larger audiences via social, digital, and print media. Graphic Era introduces visitors to the digital arts and artists who have begun adapting this art form to a new generation and their interests.

The DAC 2020–2021 Annual Call for Artists is now open! The Durham Arts Council issues an annual call to 2-D visual artists to select work for exhibit in its Allenton and Semans Galleries. The DAC is also searching for artists who create large 2-D works to exhibit in the pre-function corridor of the Durham Convention Center in downtown Durham. Exhibits selected through this Call for Artists will take place between July 2020 and July 2021. Application fee is $15.

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.

Are you interested in displaying your work at the GPAC? We are always interested in seeing new works and helping artist gain the exposure they deserve! Complete our free online application to get started. Rolling deadline.

The Hillsborough Arts Council Gallery’s mission is to empower local artists to forge productive cultural and socio-economic ties with their community through professional exhibit opportunities in HAC Gallery. We are a gallery founded on the principle that art is a vehicle for intellectual, cultural, and socio-economic growth and that it is the community’s responsibility to collectively support the arts. We provide a free space with no commercial pressure so that you can make your best work and actively engage with this community in the way you choose. Rolling deadline.

Provides emergency support to artists working in painting, sculpture, and/or drawing, who have suffered significant losses after natural or manmade disasters that have affected their community.

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.

The cultural association Il Varco is glad to announce its 4TH PRISMA Art Prize, an exhibition entirely organized by artists for the artists. A painting competition with $2000+ in Cash Awards and many other prizes, which takes place seasonally and yearly in Rome. Bringing together the spirit of community and collaboration and the efforts of many young artists involved, it is meant to create a place for art and artists to grow and share their work in a friendly and competitive environment.

Challenge the social custom of giving boring store-bought greeting cards for every occasion. Artist Klaire A. Lockheart wants you to help celebrate her birthday by altering a standard greeting card into a work of art, which she will display at Gallery 110 at the University of South Dakota. All entries that follow the guidelines will be included in the show from March 4-27, 2020. 

Waterworks presents three rotating exhibitions in its galleries every year, and welcomes professional artists to submit their work for consideration. Submission deadlines are January 30 and September 30 of each year.