Artist Opportunities

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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.

The Artists’ Fellowship provides emergency aid to professional fine artists and their families in times of sickness, natural disaster, bereavement or unexpected extreme hardship. At this time, we are temporarily limiting relief and assistance applications to those qualified applicants who are dealing with immediate MEDICAL emergencies and their aftermaths. 

Since 1917, the Authors League Fund has helped professional authors, journalists, poets, and dramatists who find themselves in financial need because of medical or health-related problems, temporary loss of income, or other misfortune. Most of those we help suffer severe health problems but have inadequate insurance; some face eviction; many are older writers whose income has ceased through no fault of their own. The Fund exists to help professional writers continue their careers with dignity by providing no-strings-attached “loans” to pay for pressing expenses. Repayment of this emergency support is not required.

The Chatham Artist & Arts-Worker Relief Effort (CAARE) is available to performing, visual, or literary artists or arts-workers living in Chatham County, NC – and in need of financial assistance due to COVID-19 cancellations and closures. (For the purpose of CAARE, we define arts-worker as someone who earns some part of their income in the arts by making arts projects possible, including exhibition managers, artist managers, stage managers, arts nonprofit administrators, sound technicians, etc.)

Decisions will be made each Thursday, beginning April 9. Applications must be received by Tuesday at 4:59 p.m. to be considered by the CAARE committee for that week’s funding. Applications received after Tuesday at 5 p.m. will be reviewed the following week. Disbursements will be made weekly.

As artists attempt to maintain a sense of "business as usual" when things are anything but usual, Rhonda Wheatley discusses lessons in healing and wellness to manage the growing isolation, anxiety, and uncertainty we are all facing during this recorded workshop (via YouTube). Wheatley closes with a guided meditation.

If you're thinking about livestreaming for the first time during COVID-19, it can be hard to know where to start. Yara Travieso and Brighid Greene suggest using livestreaming less as a final product, and more as a way to continue a creative practice. In this recorded workshop (via YouTube), they assess different platforms and what to know when just getting started.
 

DGF provides emergency financial assistance to individual playwrights, composers, lyricists, and bookwriters in dire need of funds due to severe hardship or unexpected illness.

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

The Rauschenberg Medical Emergency Grants program provides one-time grants of up to $5,000 for unexpected medical/dental/mental health emergencies. Emergencies are defined as taking place within the last six months (July 1, 2020 or later). The New York Foundation for the Arts partners with the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation to administer these grants, available to visual and media artists and choreographers who live anywhere in the U.S., its Territories, and the District of Columbia. Artists of color, artists with disabilities, and those living outside of the East and West coasts are particularly encouraged to apply.

Arts NC joined with the NC Arts Education Association, NC Dance Education Organization, NC Music Education Association, NC Theatre Arts Educators and NC Theatre Conference to produce a guide, Recommendations for Arts Educators as North Carolina Reopens Schools, as well as a recorded webinar.

MONO NO AWARE is a cinema-arts non-profit organization, educational lab space and film-positive community based in Brooklyn, New York. In an effort to maintain an active role in serving the community while public events are on hold, we have established a zero-contact film care package initiative. If you have a project or photo-chemical film practice affected by COVID-19 and would like to participate, please fill out a questionnaire. Each week MONO NO AWARE will select a handful of artists to receive film, related materials, equipment or motion picture services by mail free of charge.

The Orange County Arts Commission invites public school arts educators in Orange County Public Schools and Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools to apply for small grants of up $250 to help with costs related to their creative and professional development.

The Durham Arts Council invites applications for the Emerging Artists Program, a project grant program that provides financial support to developing or established professionals by funding a project pivotal to the advancement of their careers as artists, from artists living in Durham, Orange, Alamance, Granville, and Pearson counties.

South Arts invites emerging and mid-career jazz artists to take your music to places it's never been and apply for Jazz Road Tours grants. Jazz Road Tours offer grants of up to $15,000 to develop tours into communities across the country.

Expedited awards of up to $2,000 for rural communities to present Southern artists, including filmmakers, performing artists, writers/poets, and visual artists. Rolling submissions accepted.

The Crow's Nest artist farm is located on 40 acres of beautiful pasture and woodlands nestled in the heart of the southern Appalachian Mountains. The private artist residency space is located in a renovated loom house and fiber arts studio. And is complete with it's own kitchenette, composting toilet bathroom, propane wall heater, upstairs bedroom, and a spectacular view.

South Arts invites applications for their Traditional Arts Touring Grant, aimed to increase the public awareness, understanding, and appreciation of the traditional arts in the South by bringing artists together in Southern communities. Grants of up to $5,000 are available for organization in South Arts' nine-state primary region (AL, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, and TN) to engage a traditional artist/ensemble for multi-day residencies in their community. 

The Writers' Workshop in Asheville invites writers to submit a memoir of 5,000 words or less.

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.

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

Gibson House Press seeks fiction manuscripts for their 2023 list.

Hermit Feathers Press accepts full-length poetry manuscripts on an ongoing basis. Manuscripts should be introduced via query. Rolling deadline.

Seeking fiction, nonfiction, and poetry for publication. Cash awards. 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.

Immersion is an interactive art space looking to create an innovative environment that will captivate the City of Columbia. To do this we need the help of all local creative individuals to help us fill our space with creative immersive artworks.

Neighborhood Art Funds support collaborative art projects for Raleigh’s neighborhoods that support artistic and cultural exploration, connection, and understanding. 

Level I funds are open to neighborhoods and grassroots community groups, including groups of neighbors who are not part of an organization. These funds provide up to $250 for community-driven art projects that enhance your neighborhood.

Level II funds are open to organizations, groups, or associations that are currently registered under the Raleigh Neighborhood Registry. These funds provide up to $1,000 for projects that demonstrate community input and involvement and show that the project will benefit the neighborhood.

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

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

This program is a weekly online performance featuring Durham musicians. Tune in to the @downtownDurham Facebook page at 1 p.m. on Tuesdays to experience some of what you love about Durham and connect, virtually, to the downtown Durham community. 

Join artists, arts leaders, educators and funders from across the country to collaborate, gain inspiration, engage and align September 27-30 for the Artists Thrive Summit, which is designed to support artists as we work individually and collectively to change conditions so artists can thrive.

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.

Art World Conference is a series of actionable, inclusive workshops and events, both in-person and online, focused on business and financial health to build and sustain careers in the arts. We believe financial health and sustainability for cultural producers is a social justice issue.

Programming includes panel discussions and in-depth workshops addressing many of the unique opportunities and challenges faced by visual artists, freelancers, and arts professionals. Topics range from sales, marketing, grants, taxes, managing debt, building credit, investing, and legal issues, to defining and asserting value, solidarity, new technologies, legacy planning, and growing and sustaining community. The emphasis of all programming is on personal and professional development and empowerment.

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.

Join Creative Capital for "Career Documentation and Your Legacy as an Artist" on September 29th, a workshop that will provide a summary of, and rationale for, entering into the career documentation process.

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.

Arts Access and VAE invites artists to join the Disabled Artists/Artists with Disabilities Group every Thursday at 7pm. Open to all disabilities and artforms, this group will share resources and provide mutual support, constructive criticism, and informal instruction.

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 an artist or arts administrator, you have to balance a lot of different plates, from HR to shipping work, to collaborating and accounting. It can get overwhelming.

Triangle ArtWorks has partnered with artist, marketer, and project manager extraordinaire Mikki Stith to bring you a FREE video series on how to integrate project management concepts into your career so you can focus on making art.

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

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.

The City of Raleigh is seeking proposals from artists who live or work in North Carolina to design artwork for glass windscreens at Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) stations as part of the Wake BRT: New Bern Avenue Corridor.

 Art League of Henderson County invites residents of Hendersonville to submit a proposal for a banner to be displayed on Main Street, the downtown avenues, and the Historic 7th Avenue District as part of ArtScape Hendersonville 2022.

The City of Raleigh is seeking proposals from artists who live or work in North Carolina to design and create concrete integrated artwork and wayfinding at up to 19 Bus Rapid Transit stations along the Wake BRT: New Bern Avenue corridor.

Keep Gastonia Beautiful’s Art Committee seeks to commission artwork for the downtown area of Gastonia, North Carolina titled “Great Place to Bee” and include interactive smaller art pieces that will weave/waggle their way through Main Street to a larger art piece. The artwork will be sited in a prominent location at a Gateway to the new FUSE Baseball Stadium.

In collaboration with the City of Durham’s Public Works Department, the City of Durham’s Cultural and Public Art Program is seeking an artist or artist team with experience in projects centered around environmental design and functional, sculptural and integrated artwork to design and fabricate a series of public art installations at the new South Ellerbe Restoration project.

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! 

The Bascom invites applications from photographers for their spring 2022 Photography in Residence program.

The Stochastic Labs offers fully-sponsored residencies to engineers, artists, scientists, and entrepreneurs from around the world. Residencies include a private apartment at the mansion, co-working and/or dedicated work space, shop access, a $1k monthly stipend and a budget for materials. Rolling deadline.

The Bascom invites artists and faculty across the Southeast to apply for their Winter Resident Artist Program to submit site-specific installation proposals for their unique and beautiful Thompson Gallery. 

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.

We are inviting area photographic artists, arts organizations, galleries, and vendors to participate by having a booth at the Click! Photo Fair, which will be held during the Click! Photography Festival in the covered market at Durham Central Park on Sunday, October 17 from 10:00am–2:00pm. 

Ellington-White Contemporary Gallery invites current and former Visual Art Education Professionals to submit entries for their national juried exhibition, Artists Who Teach, to showcase the arts as an essential part of a complete education, no matter if it happens in the home, school, or community.

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. 

Craven Arts Council and Gallery is seeking submissions of Artwork featuring Chrysanthemums for the 2021 Mum’s the Word Exhibition. The artwork will be featured in the Main Gallery at Bank of the Arts for the month of October, with one work to be selected for the 2022 Mumfest logo.

Craven Arts Council and Gallery is seeking submissions of Artwork featuring Chrysanthemums for the 2021 Mum’s the Word Exhibition. The artwork will be featured in the Main Gallery at Bank of the Arts for the month of October, with one work to be selected for the 2022 Mumfest logo.

The Pamlico Rose Institute is in search for their next Artist-in-Residence, a 6-month program for aspiring artists who are women Veterans, active military or current/former health care workers who worked primarily with Veterans

The Wilma W. Daniels Gallery at Cape Fear Community College is currently seeking exhibition proposals for the 2022 exhibition year.