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Amplifier Arts is currently looking for freelance graphic designers to help with some work over the coming months. Head over to their instagram and leave your professional ig handle or a portfolio of someone they should check out.
GROUNDSWELL OPEN CALL FOR ARTIST
Groundswell is looking to expand their artist roster for upcoming programing. Open roles include Teaching Artist, Lead Artist, Fabrication Artist, Workshop Facilitator, Mural Operations Support, and Artist in Training (AIT).
Akumal Arts Festival & Residency is a community based, global initiative in Akumal, Mexico. The vision is to bring a fiesta of art to Akumal Pueblo through an international consortium of artists making art, engaging community, enhancing and beautifying the town for locals and our many worldwide visitors. Artist Open call is live now.
RxART, the nonprofit organization with the mission of helping children heal through the extraordinary power of visual art, seeks to fill the position of Operations Manager based in our New York office. RxART commissions exceptional contemporary artists to transform children’s healthcare facilities into engaging and inspiring environments full of beauty, humor, and comfort through projects in the US and Canada.
PROGRAM MANAGER/TEACHING ARTIST
Artistic Noise is seeking applications for a Program Manager / Teaching Artist for the Art and Entrepreneurship Program. This position will run from August 2021 through June 2022. Candidates should have a deep interest in social justice and youth development. Prior teaching experience in community settings is required. Strong management skills and adept emotional intelligence are required. The ideal candidate believes deeply in the mission of Artistic Noise and that the voices of system-involved youth must be heard.
YAI Arts seeks a Direct Service Professional to support a diverse group of artists with intellectual and developmental disabilities in expressing themselves creatively, exploring and developing new artistic skills, fulfilling unique personal goals, and seeking inspiration and creative connection in New York City.
COLLECTIONS AND PUBLIC ART MANAGER
MIT’s art collection is threefold: the Public Art Collection, the Student Lending Art Collection and the Campus Loan Collection. The Collections and Public Art Manager, under the supervision of the List’s Curator and Director, is the key administrator for all three aspects of MIT’s art collection, with a special emphasis on the Public Art commissioning process (Percent-for-Art). The position, in working with the Public Programs Manager, also implements public programs to complement the List’s collections.
ArtsWestchester seeks a full-time professional to assist in the operation of its grassroots grants programs as the Community Arts Administrator. The successful candidate will report to the Director of Grant Programs, and assist the Director and the Program Manager with facilitating ArtsWestchester's competitive grants-making process while conducting outreach to local artists and cultural organizations.
Indiewalls is seeking a hard-working, creative individual to join their Curatorial team. Indiewalls works on commercial art projects in the country and focuses on bringing independent artist to those spaces. Their clients include boutique hotels, restaurant owners, high-end residential designers, and big brands. As an associate curator you will be responsible for discovering, purchasing, and commissioning contemporary artwork from independent artists.
KDI is currently seeking a Landscape Design Associate to add to our growing team of 15 in downtown Los Angeles, CA. This is a fantastic opportunity for a creative, hands-on self-starter to work directly with under-resourced communities throughout Southern California and the U.S.. The candidate will work in a highly collaborative interdisciplinary studio environment including landscape designers, urban planners, artists, community organizers, and program development specialists. The candidate should excel in design thinking with strong representation skills.
ASSOC. DIRECTOR OF ART & CULTURE
The Centro de Estudios Puertorriqueños/Center for Puerto Rican Studies is a university-based research institute, housed at Hunter College. The Associate Director for Arts and Culture will play a key role in developing and fundraising for Arts & Culture Programming and launching the new Center for Cultural Research. Through its programmatic initiatives, the Center for Cultural Research seeks to historicize, contextualize, incentivize, and showcase the socio-cultural contributions of Puerto Rico and its diaspora, foster the research use of CENTRO’s arts and culture collections, and strengthen connections with the Puerto Rican artistic community.
The Program Manager will further the academic mission of the Institute for African American Affairs (IAAA) and the Center for Black Visual Culture (CBVC) at NYU with the implementation, supervision and administration of public programs and special events shaped by big ideas, African American and African diasporic Studies, black visual and performance culture, and deep research. The Program Manager will also manage budgets; develop marketing strategies to promote programs; and create policies and procedures concerning program and curriculum development.
Dia Beacon is looking for a Manager of Exhibitions. The Manager is responsible for maintaining the schedule and coordination of collection rotations, commissions, exhibitions, performances, and other projects at all Dia sites and facilities. Additionally, the Manager of Exhibitions works with Dia staff across departments to coordinate the production and installation of long-term commissions, exhibitions, performance series, and publications designed to advance Dia’s mission.
The Exhibits & Programs Department at the Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation is seeking a Curatorial Assistant. This position supports both historic and contemporary exhibitions and special projects including assisting with the research, development, production, and management of 5 – 7 rotating exhibitions/installations annually; and supporting programming staff on the development and execution of programs related to exhibitions and arts and cultural initiatives.
This legal clinic offers one-on-one 30-minute legal sessions on various art-related issues. The attorneys will be available to advise about issues including intellectual property, licensing, collaboration, nonprofits, and contracts, among other art-related topics.
Deadline: June 28th @ 1p EST
HARLEM ENTRPRENUREIAL MICROGRANTS
The Apollo, in partnership with 125th Street Business Improvement District (BID) and the Harlem Commonwealth Council (HCC), is pleased to present the return of the Harlem Entrepreneurial Micro-Grant Initiative to support local businesses and arts organizations and arts collectives in financial need. Through the initiative, twenty $1,000 micro-grants will be distributed to local merchants and organizations that define the culture and the vitality of Harlem.
Eligibility: Located & operating in Harlem for at least 6 months.
Deadline: June 30th
WAKE FOREST ARTIST OF COLOR PLACEMAKING PROJECT
The Wake Forest Public Art Commission seeks an artist of color for a creative placemaking project located in the Northeast community in Wake Forest, North Carolina. NOTE: This is a reopened call; if you have already sent in your submission, there is no need to reapply.
Eligibility: National
Deadline: July 2nd
CCCADI Innovative Cultural Advocacy (ICA) Fellowship trains mid-career professionals of historically marginalized communities of color for public leadership and management of cultural institutions and nonprofit arts organizations in New York City and across the nation.
Eligibility: 30 to 40-years-old, and have a minimum of 3 years of experience working in the arts and culture sector. Be an arts-based professional from a historically racially marginalized community.
Deadline: July 2nd @ 6p EST
Culture Strike is looking to commission #ClimateWoke artists who make video friendly work. Are you ready to creatively explore the intersections between climate, immigration, Black liberation, land back, and post COVID climate recovery?! Our #ClimateWoke series centers the experience of frontline communities who are most impacted by climate change and environmental destruction.
Deadline: July 2nd @11:59p PST
Black Art Futures Fund provides general operating support for U.S. small and community-based Black-led and Black-benefitting arts and culture organizations, whose annual budgets are $500k or below. Organizations can be independent 501c3 organizations or entities with a fiscal sponsor in place for more than one calendar year.
Deadline: July 5th
CITY ARTS CORPS BRIDGING THE GAP
ArtBridge is one of several nonprofit organizations selected to implement City Artist Corps -- a Mayor's Office initiative that will fund hundreds of artists to culturally revitalize NYC as it emerges from the pandemic. ArtBridge's component of City Artists Corps will consist of a large-scale expansion of our ongoing program, Bridging the Divide -- artists fellowships at New York City housing Authority (NYCHA) developments throughout the city, in which artists design public artworks that reflect the lives, histories, cultures, talents, and aspirations of NYCHA residents.
Deadline: July 5th
This Public Art Mural Grant is a four-week residency in which an artist will create an original work for WSW’s mural wall. The mural space at Women’s Studio Workshop faces the Wallkill Valley Rail Trail (WVRT), which is an active outdoor public trail used primarily for walking, running and cycling. The grant includes a stipend of $350/week, $500 for materials, $250 for travel, and free on-campus housing.
Deadline: July 6th @ 11:59p EST
STOCKTON BASKETBALL COURT MURALS
Stockton California City Council recently approved a City-wide Court Resurfacing Project which is scheduled to begin earlier this month. The project includes the resurfacing of 112 basketball, tennis, handball, and multi-use courts at 33 parks city-wide. In an effort to enhance the basketball court resurfacing taking place at Dentoni Park, the City is seeking proposals from qualified Artists or Art organizations with relevant experience designing and managing the installation of large-scale themed murals or abstract design to the playing surface of outdoor basketball courts and backboards or a surface similar in scale to the playing surface of a basketball court.
Eligibility: Preference tfor artists living and/or art organizations located in San Joaquin County and the City of Stockton.
Deadline: July 9th
BORDERLINE CURATORIAL FELLOWSHIP
The Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School (VLC) is pleased to announce the launch of the Borderlands Curatorial Fellowship, a part-time position based in New York City and reserved for an outstanding emerging curator of American Indian, Native Hawaiian, and/or Alaska Native background.
Eligibility: Curator with an American Indian, Native Hawaiian, and/or Alaska Native background
Deadline: July 10th
Black Girls Gather* is on a mission to foster entrepreneurship, business and personal financial literacy among Black women entrepreneurs in Atlantic Canada. This year’s theme “Launch It and Grow It!” aims to provide participants the tools, resources and networks they need to turn hide hustles into successful start-ups and small businesses the tools they need to attain sustainable , debt-free growth.
Deadline: July 12th
NY PORT AUTHORITY ART OPEN CALL
The Garment District Alliance (GDA) is seeking artists interested in submitting their preliminary concepts, qualifications and examples of their previous work to be considered for a large-scale temporary wall mural on a publicly accessible exterior wall of the Port Authority Midtown Bus Terminal (PAMBT) in Manhattan’s Garment District.
Deadline: July 12th
The Black Reconstruction Collective is seeking a visionary Executive Director to guide the next phase of development and work collaboratively with the ten founding board members to transition from a founding board to governing board towards our mission to provide funding, design, and intellectual support to the ongoing and incomplete project of emancipation for the African Diaspora.
Deadline: July 15th
The inaugural #BlackDesignVisionaries grant program — presented by Instagram's @design in partnership with the Brooklyn Museum — is an effort to empower, center, and invest in the global Black design community. We will award three $10,000 grants to aspiring Black designers between the ages of 18 and 30, as well as one $100,000 grant to a small, Black-led design business no more than 10 years into its practice.
Eligibility: Black-identifying designer between the ages of 18 and 30, or a Black-identifying leader of a small design business no more than 10 years into its practice
Deadline: July 16 @ 11:59p EST
The Studio Museum in Harlem's internship program provides college undergraduates, graduate students, and recent graduates with a wide range of experiences designed to provide insight into the workings of a professional museum environment. In addition to working on meaningful, engaging projects with museum staff, interns engage in a series of meetings and workshops around contemporary museology. There are 7 internship opportunities in the following departments: Chief of Staff, Communications, Curatorial, Curatorial Affairs, Development, Education, and Public Programs & Community Engagement.
Deadline: July 18th @ 11:59p EST
Vancover Mural Festival is looking to fill a Director of Development role. This Director leads the organization in sponsor and partnership opportunities for the festival’s emerging and established programs like the VMF Winter Arts this February 2O22, and the 7th edition of their flagship summer festival in August 2O22. This leadership position will play an integral role in ensuring the necessary partners are engaged, and public funding and private sponsorships are in place for these major events.
Deadline: July 25th
RUTH AND HAROLD FOUNDATION GRANT
The Ruth and Harold Chenven Foundation gives annual awards of $1500 to individual artists living and working in the United States in support of a visual art or fine craft project.
Deadline: July 31st
Audible is pleased to request proposals for the inaugural phase of the Newark Artist Collaboration. This initiative will provide ongoing opportunities to Newark-based artists and encourage local investment in our creative community. The program will commence this fall with twelve commissions for Audible’s newly renovated headquarters at 1 Washington Park and the surrounding downtown neighborhood. Opportunities and call for proposals include:
- Indoor and outdoor facade activations (murals, wall installations, etc.)
- Digital artwork and video
- Experimental and immersive media (light, sound, etc.)
- Interventions, functional sculpture and space design
- Design work in a collaborative framework (apparel, product design, etc.)
Eligibility: Newark-based artists and artist collectives who are currently living or working in Newark, NJ, or engaged in a current artistic practice in Newark, NJ.
Deadline: August 9th