Artist Opportunities

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 $500 and $3,000 for 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.

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.

The Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Emergency Grant program is intended to provide interim financial assistance to qualified painters, printmakers, and sculptors whose needs are the result of an unforeseen, catastrophic incident, and who lack the resources to meet that situation. Each grant is given as one-time assistance for a specific emergency, examples of which are fire, flood, or emergency medical need. Deadline: Open.

Cucalorus seeks magical movies and outrageous videos for this fall’s 28th Annual Film Festival.

Black Theatre Coalition (BTC) is seeking applications for their BTC Fellowship from Black theatre professionals for placement across several offices, productions, and theatrical institutions.

The North Carolina Arts Council is recruiting new teaching artists to be on the Teaching Artist Roster for cARTwheels, an Arts in Education Grant Program, to develop programmatic content that will directly responds to timely and important issues being faced by students and educators in communities across the state.

The Mary Duke Buddle Foundation Arts Grant Program opens on June 1. These one- or two-year grants are open to organizations that elevate the Triangle's Arts sector, document and preserve the Triangle's cultural communities, and/or support and encourage the next generation of artists in the area.

South Arts invites applications for their Professional Development & Artistic Planning Grants, which offer up to $1,000 to support artistic planning and the professional development needs of Southern presenters, programmers, or curators.

New York Foundation for the Arts has opened applications for its national Rauschenberg Medical Emergency Grant program, which provides support for recent, unexpected medical, dental, and mental health emergencies experienced by artists in need who are practicing in the disciplines of visual arts, film/video/electronic/digital arts, or choreography.

Cycle 13 has with a deadline of Tuesday, June 7, 11:59 PM EST, for emergencies occurring October 1, 2021 and after.

Cycle 14 will open July 5, with a deadline of August 2, for emergencies occurring December 1, 2021 and after.

Seeking poetry submissions for online poetry journal. Publication. 

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.

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.

Fault Line Theatre invites submissions for Irons in the Fire 2023, their year-round reading series of new plays in development.

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 North Carolina Literary Review is seeking pedagogical submissions--essays, unit/lesson plans, an assignment, website, digital repository--on "Teaching North Carolina Literature" in K-12 or post-secondary classes.

Seeking entries for the Emerging Playwright Award. Cash award. 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 Southern Collective Experiences is accepting submissions to The Blue Mountain Review for poetry, fiction and visual arts. Visit website for deadlines.

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. 

USArtists International is a grant program from the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation that supports performances by U.S. dance, music, and theater ensembles and solo artists invited to perform at important cultural festivals and performing arts marketplaces anywhere in the world outside the United States and its territories.

Deadlines:

December 1, 2021 by 11:59 PM Eastern
For projects taking place between March 15, 2022 and March 14, 2023. Certification sheets and letters of invitation are due by December 8, 2021.

March 30, 2022 by 11:59 PM Eastern
For projects taking place between July 1, 2022 and June 30, 2023. Certification sheets and letters of invitation are due by April 6, 2022.

The 2022 – 2023 deadlines will be posted in summer 2022.

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.

Resource: Founded in 1980, Art Table is a national non-profit organization of over 1,200 women who are leaders in the visual arts. Members expand their circle of colleagues, gain special access to art world events, and grow through professional development and mentorship opportunities. Awards recognize innovative women leaders across the country and identify emerging leaders in the field.

Artist Relief has produced a series of free wellness videos to help artists’ physical, mental, and emotional well-being. These sessions led by artists include discussions of movement, meditation, herbalism, sound therapy and music, poetry and writing prompts, and more.

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.

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.

Join artEquity for a two-day training that will provide a baseline framework for antiracist strategies and action. 

2022 Dates:

• Thursday, April 14 - Friday, April 15, 2022
• Friday, June 10 + Monday, June 13, 2022
• Monday, August 29 - Tuesday, August 30, 2022
• Saturday, October 15 - Sunday, October 16, 2022
• Thursday, December 1 - Friday, December 2, 2022

Join PineCone and Triangle ArtWorks on September 12 for the workshop "Agreements Keep Everyone Happy - The 3 Agreements Every Recording Artist/Songwriter Should Know," part of the Legally Speaking professional development series, which will cover how musicians create and negotiate producer agreements, publishing agreements, and recording agreements

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.

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.

Join PineCone and Triangle ArtWorks on October 9 for the workshop "Don’t Sign That: Basic Legal Advice for Artists" as part of the series "SEEDS: Plant Your Own Career with Rissi Palmer" to discuss basic legal knowledge for musicians of all kinds with lawyer/artist Gabriella Logan.

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

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.

Join Triangle ArtWorks starting on September 15 for the workshop, "TikTok Marketing for Small Creative Businesses + Artists," to learn how to use TikTok to market artwork and make sales.

WoodFire NC 2022: Envision, on May 27-29, 2022, is hosted by STARworks, brings ceramic artists from around the world to discuss wood firing practices. The conference is preceded by pre conferences wood firing workshops in Seagrove and NC Mountains.

The Downtown Greenway seeks a North Carolina based Artist or Artist Team to design and install an artist designed and/or fabricated bench. The artist work with residents from Greensboro’s College Hill neighborhood to capture the essence of the neighborhood’s past, present and/or future, and incorporate their findings into a creative public art installation.

Sawtooth School for Visual Art invites ceramic artists to apply for their Artist in Residence Program. The program is designed to encourage and enhance the creative, intellectual, professional, and personal growth of emerging visual artists. It is a period of time for artists to focus intensely on their work, explore new ideas and techniques, and push their work to new levels. Residencies range from a few months for short-term and up to two years for long-term. Rolling application deadline.

Respite in the Round in Berea invites applications from SOLO (or Covid-Safe POD) Creative, Cultural Organizer for residency or retreat. Rolling deadline.

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.

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 Thompson Art Gallery at Furman University invites established artists to submit a proposal for solo and group exhibitions during the 2023-24 academic year. 

Waterworks Visual Arts Center invites artists from all over North Carolina to come together to celebrate unique identities, personal/cultural stories and connections in the art exhibition, “ART 4 ALL: I AM: Identity. Stories. Connections.”

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.

The Arts Council of Moore County invites local artists to submit their work for the 2022 Fine Arts Festival.

Seeking North Carolina artists for potential opportunities. 

DIYabled is excited to announce that they will be working with Revolve gallery to have an art show of disabled artists in July, Disability Pride month. If interested in participating, email diyabledgo@gmail.com with "Disabled Art Show" in the subject line.

The North Carolina Botanical Garden seeks submissions of outdoor sculpture for the 34th annual Sculpture in the Garden exhibit. 

Call for Artists: Harper College 44th National Juried Exhibition. National juried show of Small Works, including all media except jewelry, film/video. Maximum 24 inches, largest dimension, including framing. Entry fee: $30.