COLLECTIONS MANAGER
The Collections Manager is responsible for the physical and intellectual aspects of the Weeksville Heritage Center collection of artifacts, documents, photographs, textiles, and other objects. The Collections Manager ensures that objects are properly cared for, often managing storage, conservation and record-keeping associated with objects. They will also be involved in developing policies and standards for acquiring and disposing of objects. These set out what objects the museum wants to collect, how it intends to collect them and why and how it might dispose of objects.
The George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum seeks a creative, highly motivated individual with strong organizational skills, professional demeanor, and great attention to detail for the endowed curatorship position dedicated to the textile arts of the Americas.
The Museum of the City of New York is seeking a Public Programs Manager. The Manager plays a central role in realizing the departments’ ambitious slate of public programs for adults. The Public Programs Manager is responsible for overseeing the day-to-day operations and administration of the department. The Public Programs Manager will provide essential support working with other Museum departments and contributing to the planning and production of individual programs and ongoing series—including liaising with program speakers and performers, ensuring the highest quality of program experience for Museum visitors (both virtual and in-person), and working on marketing strategies for public programs.
ACCESSIBILITY & INCLUSION MANAGER
Cooper Hewitt seeks an Accessibility and Inclusion Manager. The manager will provide guidance and counsel on accessibility and inclusion issues and participate in developing and implementing programs for relevant audiences ensuring that access is fully integrated across all museum activities.
ELIZA MOORE FELLOWSHIP FOR ARTISTS EXCELLENCE
The Oak Spring Garden Foundation will award the annual Eliza Moore Fellowship for Artistic Excellence to one outstanding, early-career artist who is developing new works that address plants, gardens, or landscapes in the broad sense. This award is open to visual artists, literary artists, dancers, and musicians. The award includes a $10,000 individual grant and requires a two-to-eight-week stay at Oak Spring.
Deadline: July 15@ 11:59p EST
EMORY UNIVERSITY COVID MEMORIAL
Emory University Hospital Midtown (EUHM) is accepting proposals for a public art piece to memorialize the COVID-19 pandemic. We wish for this piece to honor those who have survived COVID-19, remember those who we have lost and to celebrate care teams and the community who worked together during this pandemic.
Deadline: July 15th @5p EST
City Artist Corps Grants are intended to support NYC-based working artists who have been disproportionately impacted by COVID-19. The program will distribute one-time $5,000 grants to over 3000 artists to help sustain their practice and engage the public across New York City’s five boroughs this summer beginning July. Artists working in any discipline are eligible to apply.
Eligibility: NYC based artists
Deadline: July 20th @ 10am EST
TOLEDO GLASS CITY CONVENTION CENTER PUBLIC ART PROJECT
The Arts Commission of Greater Toledo’s Art in Public Places Program looks to commission new public art for the soon to be renovated Glass City Convention Center. A Design Review Board (DRB) plans to select three artists to design public art installations to be integrated into 3 designated areas with a budget ranging from $55,000 tp $190,000. Artists that work in a variety of 2D and 3D media will be considered.
Eligibility: National
Deadline: July 26th
SUNRISE TRAFFIC CONTROL BOX ART
The City of Sunrise is seeking applications from artists for artwork/designs that can be reproduced as vinyl wraps and applied to up to 16 traffic control boxes in the Sunrise Business and Entertainment District.
Eligibility: National
Deadline: July 26th
NC STATE UNIVERSITY WOLFPACK ART CALL
NC State University is seeking proposals from artists/teams to create a themed Wolfpack art installation for the newly completed Wellness and Recreation Center at Carmichael Gym, located in the Central Campus precinct.
Eligibility: National
Deadline: July 30th
The Johnson County Public Art Commission in Kansas is seeking Artists or Artist Teams to closely collaborate with the Architect and Contractor to develop innovative, original art for a new library to replace the Antioch Branch Library. Library is under construction so there are no preconceptions on what the artwork should be, or where it should be located within the Library. The Public Art Commission is open to artwork that brings joy, sparks curiosity, sparks a sense of wonder, makes one think, engages one with the place…all the things that great art can do.
Eligibility: National
Deadline: July 30th
Monument Lab is excited to announce Re:Generation – an open call for locally-grounded, grassroots art and justice projects in 2022. They invite applications from collaborative teams rooted within a neighborhood, city, or region in the United States inclusive of Indigenous nations and communities, U.S. territories, and cross-border collectives. Each Re:Generation team will receive a total of $100,000 toward their local commemorative campaign or project. Proposed projects might include: reimagining a city’s arts commission; developing a reparations-driven policy for public parks and places; redesigning public spaces with new proposed monuments through the lenses of racial and gender justice; visualizing narratives and networks of diaspora and migration; developing a public curriculum that tells a region’s story of urban renewal, land dispossession, or rural exploitation; creating a digital resource and archive that incorporates oral histories and a virtual interface or public exhibition; devising new art and history installations at sites of legacy monuments; or pursuing a variety of other approaches to creative campaigns.
CREATE CHANGE FELLOWSHIP & RESIDENCY
The Laundromat Project invites all NYC-based artists, activists, neighbors, designers, organizers, healers, storytellers, and cultural producers to apply for the 2022 Create Change program as we explore social practices through a community engagement lens. The program will consist of a series of hybrid (virtual and in-person) convenings to engage The LP’s community-based art pedagogy and practices, which center collaborative, cooperative, and co-created art projects.
Deadline: August 1st @ 11:59p EST
Hidden Turtle Residency is an immersion opportunity in a very unique, exquisitely gorgeous and delicate ecosystem along the Southeastern coast of Mexico in the jungle adjoining the Caribbean coastline. We invite a global range of individuals working across a range of disciplines including visual/media/literary/performing arts, natural and social sciences, scholars, makers, designers.
Deadline: August 1st
The Sunroom Project Space is a venue for New York-area emerging artists to develop a site-specific project as a solo exhibition at Wave Hill. The two exhibition spaces for 2022 are the windowed Sunroom and Sun Porch in Glyndor Gallery. We are seeking artist projects that engage with the site, Wave Hill’s history, other aspects of the grounds, or surrounding communities. Projects in any media will be considered. Four artists will be selected for solo exhibitions indoors. Selected artists will receive an honorarium of $2000, exhibition support, and professional development.
Eligibility: Eligible artists must not be represented by a commercial gallery, not be a student, and not have previously shown at Wave Hill. Artists should live within a 50-mile radius of the Bronx
Deadline: August 1st
NEWARK ARTS FESTIVAL OPEN CALL
Newark Arts Festival now in its 20th year, will celebrate “Creative Resilience,” as it returns to in-person programming. NAF amplifies the voices of established and emerging Newark artists, gallerists, creative entrepreneurs. In it’s call, NAF are looking for Artists, Curators, Gallerists and Creative Organizers who are interested in participating in the 2021 festival and are seeking temporary wall space for their work or a temporary venue to host an exhibit, show or creative event.
Deadline: August 1st
Our Town is the National Endowment for the Arts’ creative placemaking grants program. These grants support projects that integrate arts, culture, and design activities into efforts that strengthen communities by advancing local economic, physical, and/or social outcomes.
Deadline: Part 1 - August 5th @ 11:59p EST
KANSAS CITY GRAND AVE PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE
The City of Kansas City, Missouri One Percent for Art program seeks to commission a professional visual artist, or artist team, to design art for the protective fencing area on the new Grand Avenue Pedestrian and Bike Bridge.
Eligibility: National
Deadline: August 6th @11:59p MST
CRITICAL MASS CALL FOR SUBMISSION
Critical Mass has chosen “Where do we go from here?” for its 2021-2022 programming theme. They are looking for multiple artists to lead them in generating conversations and safe community engagement art activities. They are seeking 4 Artists in Residence, 2 Sound Artists, 2 Community Artist Leaders and 2 Artist Innovators who want the opportunity to examine these important issues with Critical Mass and the Port Hope community over the next year.
Deadline: August 8th
This residency is dedicated to artists who were born outside of the United States and now live and work within its borders. At the core of Fountainhead’s mission is the belief that artists and their work can shift hearts and minds toward a more hopeful and equitable future. Three artists will be selected to take part in this residency from October 2-31, 2022.
Eligibility: Visual artists over the age of 23 who were born outside of the U.S.
Deadline: August 15th
Through the Creative Futures Grant, Black Artists and Designers Guild is providing opportunities to four selected undergraduate and graduate Black students in Architecture, Design and Fine Art to receive the $5000 award, a chance to join the cannon of Black Art & Design and bring their art and design dreams closer to becoming reality.
Eligibility: Black-identifying third and fourth-year undergraduate students & graduate students currently enrolled at US-based institutions. US citizenship is not a requirement for eligibility but you must have a US-based bank account for award disbursement.
Deadline: August 16th
SHADE SCREENS FOR PHOENIX TRANSIT SHELTERS
The Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture’s Public Art Program is requesting qualifications from artists to design perforated steel shade screens for multiple City of Phoenix bus shelters to increase shade coverage for transit users. The new bus shelters will promote a distinctive identity for communities and expand the Public Art Program’s award-winning series of artist-designed shade structures. This is an excellent opportunity for 2D artists (painters, printmakers, muralists, graphic designers, weavers, fabric artists, etc.) with little to no public art experience to step outside their studio practice to work with the community to enhance bus shelters with original artwork and provide additional shade for commuters.
Eligibility: National
Deadline: August 26th
FIVE POINT ARCHWAY PUBLIC ART PROJECT
Greenville, NC’s Pitt County Arts Council invites visual and graphic artists to create an original design for the Five Points Archway Public Art Project in this call for proposal. The design should have an emphasis on community, innovation, and/or culture. The selected design that will be reproduced on large vinyl banners measuring 120 x 204 inches and installed in five archways.
Eligibility: National
Deadline: August 28th