Artist Opportunities

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

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

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

Accepting exhibition proposals for gallery space. Honorarium and non-cash awards. 

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.

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.

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

Seeking North Carolina artists for potential opportunities. 

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. 

Calling all artists (photographers, quilters, sculptors, new media and digital artists, etc.). Have your work exhibited at Durham County Library.

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.

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 Submit up to five original, previously unpublished poems or micro prose pieces (fiction or nonfiction, 500 words or fewer).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.

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.

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 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.

Waterworks presents three rotating exhibitions in its galleries every year, and welcomes professional artists to submit their work for consideration.

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

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: 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.

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: 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.

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.

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.

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 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. 

This emergency fund can provide up to $200 for people of color that are either working artist or art administration and are affected by COVID-19.

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

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

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. 

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.
 

In this recorded workshop (via YouTube), Elaine Grogan Luttrull, CPA-PFS, AFC, answers questions and provides tangible strategies to help artists cope with the unique financial challenges they face in these uncertain times, including a look at small business loans, filing for unemployment, and more. 

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.

The Durham Arts Council Arts Recovery Fund provides grants to working artists, arts organizations, arts venues and arts businesses that have suffered financial loss due to the cancellation of events because of COVID-19. 

Individual applicants must live in Durham County, be at least 18, have practiced their art form for at least three years and have suffered a documented loss due to COVID-19. Organizational applicants must be based in Durham County and have been in operation for at least three years. This fund does not make awards for projected losses.

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. 

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 Cape Fear Rising Fund supports Black, Latinx, and other folks of color in creative, community-based social justice projects that advance racial equality.  Individuals and community groups are eligible for this grant. Rolling deadline.

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.

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.

Studio Practice Workshops offer artists training and mentorship to advance their practices in McColl Center’s art labs. Each series is taught by a McColl Center lab professional who provides equipment training and one-on-one technical guidance focused on each artist’s independent projects.

MOJOAA Performing Arts Company invites Black playwrights/playwrights of the African diaspora that are writing primarily in English to submit short plays, monologues, one acts and full length plays.

Different Strokes! Performing Arts Collective and the American Myth Center are soliciting applications from Black playwrights for the new-works development series A Different Myth. The goal of the new program is to tell Black stories by Black writers for Black actors. Rolling deadline.

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

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.

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

Smart Kinston City Project Foundation is seeking applications for their Smart Kinston Residencies program from artists working in all mediums.

Open call for pet or wildlife related stories, cartoons, photos or quotes for Critter Absurd magazine.

South Arts presents the 2022 Creative Placemaking Leadership Summit: South & Appalachia, which will be held November 3-4, 2022, in Chapel Hill North Carolina.

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.

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.

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.

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 Museum, Arts and Culture Access Consortium is hosting a series on Inclusive and Accessible Employment for Cultural Organizations through the month of June. The virtual series will consist of four workshops for employees at cultural organizations who wish to examine their employment practices to be anti-ableist, accessible, and inclusive. All sessions will take place on zoom. All parts of the series will be captioned and ASL interpretation will be provided.

Emerge Gallery and Art Center invites submissions for the Schwa Show, a national juried competition recognizing excellence in fine arts and crafts.

Join Triangle ArtWorks on September 21 for the virtual class "Pricing for Profit: Abandoning the Starving Artist Myth," which will cover the details of a profit-driven pricing strategy for artists.

Join Triangle ArWorks on September 10 for the virtual workshop, "The Business of Art Licensing," where participants will learn about the art licensing industry and the layers of consultants, art directors, and product developers who collaborate with artists to put their artwork on consumer products.

The Poetry Coalition, a network of 25+ poetry organizations coordinated by the Academy of American Poets, is accepting applications for the 2022–2023 Poetry Coalition Fellowships.