Artwork by: Erika Lee Sears @erikaleesears
The Bronx Council on the Arts (BCA) is pleased to announce an exciting new resource launched in the summer of 2020 as part of our renewed Membership Program: the BCA Bronx Artist Registry (BAR). Functioning as a comprehensive directory of local artists, the Registry is accessible on BCA’s website and allows artists of all disciplines, particularly those with a minimal online presence, to gain visibility among BCA’s 4K monthly website visitors from The Bronx and beyond. Artists can create their own profiles and upload selected work samples (images, video, text), as well a bio, professional statement, contact information, and more!
Deadline: Rolling
#ArtOnLink showcases local artists creating work that celebrates life in NYC. The scenes, people, icons, and sentiments showcased represent NYC and create an immediate connection between the art and the city for citygoers and visitors alike.
Eligibility: NYC, Philadelphia & Newark artists
Deadline: Rolling
Secret Walls has hosted unparalleled live illustration battles in more than fifty countries and has collaborated with some of the world's most iconic brands and built a global network of creatives. They are looking for new battle artists for 2022!
The Avenue Concept, the leading public art organization in RI is looking for artists. They are interested in meeting formally trained or self-taught artists with diverse artistic experience and backgrounds. They have a busy spring/summer season of public art planned for 2022 and seek to meet artists of all interests and have some specific opportunities for artists working to address socially-engaged themes. BIPOC, LGBTQ+, female/femme-identifying artists and other artists representing historically marginalized communities are encouraged to express their interest.
The Project Manager will provide support for the development of Museum Hue’s online platform centering Black, Indigenous, and all people of color arts and culture entities. This position recommends and implements procedures and communications, as well as maintains accurate records of organizational plans. This position will ensure the efficient management of data and content needed.
Community-Word Project is a New York City arts-in-education organization that facilitates culturally responsive, multidisciplinary art programs for students, teaching artists, and communities to develop and amplify their voices and creative skills. Job Description: The Program Manager works closely with the Community-Word Project (CWP) Programs team, including managing CWP Collaborative Arts Residencies, close collaboration with the CWP Programs Admin and Teaching Artist Staff, and liaising with and supporting the needs of school partners and other administrative staff.
Urban Design Forum mobilizes civic leaders to confront the defining issues facing New York City. We work with our 750 members to investigate complex challenges in the built environment, study alternative approaches from cities around the world, and advance progressive strategies to build a more dynamic and democratic city. The part-time Program Coordinator to manage a new fellowship supporting emerging and underrepresented critics.
BRIC seeks an experienced Director of Operations who, as a member of our senior leadership team, will oversee, lead and strategize around the overall functions of BRIC’s day-to-day facilities operations and event management. Responsibilities include building/facilities management, rental events and event management, and visitor services. In providing these services to BRIC, the Director of Operations will liaise with other departments including but not limited to Production, Technology and various Programming departments.
GOTTLIEB FOUNDATION INDIVIDUAL SUPPORT GRANT
For painters, sculptors and printmakers who have been creating mature art for at least 20 years and who are in current financial need. The Foundation wishes to encourage artists who have dedicated their lives to developing their art, regardless of their level of commercial success.
Eligibility: Global
Deadline: Jan 14th
NATIVE AMERICAN ARTIST FELLOWSHIP
The Indian Arts Research Center (IARC) offers three artist-in-residence fellowships annually to advance the work of established and emerging Native American artists. Each fellowship includes a monthly stipend, housing, studio space, a supplies allowance, full access to the IARC collections, and travel reimbursement to and from SAR. These fellowships provide time for artists to explore new avenues of creativity, grapple with new ideas to further advance their work, and strengthen existing talents.
Deadline: Jan 15th
JEROME EMERGING ARTIST RESIDENCY
The Anderson Center’s Jerome Emerging Artist Residency Program offers month-long residency-fellowships at Tower View to a cohort of early-career artists from Minnesota or one of the five boroughs of New York City for concentrated, uninterrupted creative time to advance their personal artistic goals and projects.
Eligibility: NYC or Minnesota artists
Deadline: Jan 15th @ 11:59p CST
ART IN THE EDUCATION LAB COMMISSION
The Zuckerman Institute is seeking an artist to produce commissioned work for their Art in the Education Lab program. Zuckerman particularly welcomes submissions from artists in Upper Manhattan and the South Bronx. There is no fee to apply.
Eligibility: NYC based artists
Deadline: Jan 17th @ 11:59p EST
Public art projects, graffiti, street art, large-scale public and private works, community engagement projects; the field of public arts is diverse, ever-changing, and continuously growing. We are excited to announce this open call geared toward this creative community that expresses itself through public engagement and experience whether it's on walls, inside and out, on the streets or sidewalks, in parks, and playgrounds.
Eligibility: Global
Deadline: Jan 18th
Hattiesburg Alliance for Public Art (Mississippi) is pleased to announce a Call for Artists for innovative and creative utility box designs along several of Hattiesburg’s streets and throughways. Artists are invited to submit up to three original artworks for consideration.
Eligibility: National
Deadline: Jan 19th
BOWIE STATE UNIVERSITY PUBLIC ART
Founded in 1865, Bowie State University is the oldest Historical Black College/University in Maryland. This public art project represents an opportunity for BSU’s history and heritage to be communicated visually through two and three dimensional site-specific artwork at the new MLK Jr. Communications Arts & Humanities building, being designed by Perkins & Will.
Eligibility: National
Deadline: Jan 19th @ 5p EST
ANKHLAVE GARDEN PROJECT FELLOWSHIP
Six BIPOC Artist Fellows of will receive a stipend of $500, and will have access to Materials for the Arts to produce a work under the theme "Amplify". Each artist will create two works that are in conversation with each other. The first will be a public artwork presented summer 2022 on the grounds of the Queens Botanical Garden, and another exhibited in a traditional gallery setting following the public art installations.
Eligibility: Artists who are of Black, Latinx, Indigenous, and or POC background
Deadline: Jan 20th
Forge Project is pleased to announce its open call for applications for its 2022 funded fellowship program for Indigenous artists, scholars, organizers, cultural workers, researchers, and educators.
Eligibility: Indigenous artists
Deadline: Jan 21st @ 11:59p EST
Bronx Council on the Arts is proud to be part of the SU-CASA program. SU-CASA is a community arts engagement program that places artists and organizations in residence at senior centers across the five boroughs of New York City. BCA will accept applications from individual artists seeking residencies at participating senior centers in the Bronx only.
Deadline: Jan 24th @ 11:59p EST
The NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship is a $7,000 unrestricted cash grant available to artists awarded in 15 different disciplines. The fellowship is not a project grant, but is intended to fund an artist’s vision or voice, at all levels of their artistic development.
Eligibility: New York State resident, and/or a resident of one of the Indian Nations located therein
Deadline: Jan 26th @ 5p EST
ARTWorks is a fellowship program at the Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning (JCAL) focused on career sustainability for emerging, underrepresented visual artists in NYC and Long Island—and with Queens-based artists receiving priority. ARTWorks Fellows receive practical knowledge to navigate the aesthetic and socioeconomic complexities and substructures of the New York art world. Through fiscal and technical support, the five Seminar Fellows and two Resident Artists develop a creative vision and practice; expand their professional network through regular meetings and exploring diverse topics; and exhibit their work. (Resident Fellows also receive free studio space.)
Eligibility: NYC & Long Island based artists
Deadline: Jan 28th
Frederick Arts Council (Maryland) seeks qualifications from artists or artist teams to design a mural for Hill Street Skatepark. The eventual mural will fill the skate pools and/or full street areas in the park with a unique and distinctive design that strengthens a sense of community and neighborhood unity, marks the neighborhood, provides a venue for community events, and/or reflects nature and the surrounding ecology.
Eligibility: National
Deadline: Jan 28th
The Bronx Council on the Arts is seeking two artists with teaching experience to lead 12-week residencies in collaboration with Bronx-based community organizations.
Deadline: Jan 31st@ 11:59p EST
FUTURE CULTURE CREATIVE PLACEMAKING
The Future Culture Creative Placemaking Grants are meant to support Staten Island artists creating new work in a community setting that connects places and people using arts and culture on Staten Island’s North Shore.
Eligibility: Staten Island based artists
Deadline: Jan 31st
DCA Premier Grants support first-time applicants — both individual Staten Island artists, collaborative groups of individuals, and community arts and cultural organizations — who produce art or cultural programming.
Eligibility: Staten Island based artists
Deadline: Jan 31st
Staten Island Arts currently administers two types of arts education grants: ABC regrants for artist residencies in K-12 schools (funded by the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency); and SU-CASA grants for artist residencies in senior centers.
Deadline: Jan 31st
The Luminary residents will participate in a 10-month hybrid residency with equal focus on individual projects, collaborative work, and collective study. The residency will feature visiting guests from relevant artistic and cultural fields for conversations and workshops. Each applicant will select a methodological focus: Arts Administrator-In-Residence, Curator-in-Residence, Designer-in-Residence, or Educator-in-Residence.
Eligibility: National
Deadline: Feb 2nd
The Municipal Art Society of New York (MAS) invites the public to submit nominations for the 32nd annual Brendan Gill Prize. The Gill Prize is given each year to the creator of a specific work; a book, essay, musical composition, play, painting, sculpture, film, or choreographic piece, that best captures the spirit and energy of New York City. The 2022 Gill Prize will be awarded to two honorees, covering works produced between 2020 and 2021.
Eligibility: NYC based artists
Deadline: Feb 7th
NOMAA 2022 SMALL GRANTS FOR INDIVIDUALS ARTISTS
NoMAA will provide small grants, ranging from $2,500 to $5,000 to individual artists residing in the neighborhoods of Washington Heights, Inwood and West Harlem to support original work in the disciplines of the visual arts, playwriting/screenwriting, media, theater, musical composition and choreography.
Eligibility: Artists residing in Northern Manhattan
Deadline: Feb 7th
Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning (JCAL) is building new relationships with inventive, adventurous Teaching Artists for in-person and remote-learning opportunities for individuals of all ages.
Deadline: Feb 9th
New Work Grant supports emerging Queens-based individual artists, collaborations between artists, and unincorporated artist collectives of all artistic disciplines in their creation and public sharing of “new work” — work that has not been produced or work-in-progress that has not been presented to a public audience before.
Eligibility: Queens based artists
Deadline: Feb 14th
FOGARTY SCHOOL OF NURSING AT RI COLLEGE
The RI State Council on the Arts and Rhode Island College will commission artwork for the Zvart Onanian School of Nursing wing in the entrance lobby or exterior sites adjacent to the building. The artwork could reinforce stated goals of the building to increase collaborative space and sense of community, or reflect the goals and values of RIC’s public art master plan.
Eligibility: National
Deadline: Feb 15th
MOSQUITO CONTROL BUILDING PUBLIC ART PROJECT
The Orange County Public Art Review Board seeks one or more artists or artist team(s) to develop artwork for the Mosquito Control Building to be constructed in the Pine Hills Community.
Deadline: Feb 20th
The Fellowship is designed to be a paid fellowship and project funding opportunity to support community leaders associated with non-profit community based organizations in designing and developing hyper-localized solutions in their community using Service Design* methodology. Service design is a discipline which develops solutions to complex problems that are rooted in insights about the lived experiences of those affected by public services. It considers people, processes, communications and technology as part of the solution.
Deadline: Feb 21st @11:59p EST
The Sustainable Arts Foundation is inspired by anyone who is making creative work while raising a family. They will award 20 artists with children $5,000 The awards offer unrestricted cash, and recipients can use the funds as they see fit.
Eligibility: Artists with at least one child under the age of 18 and a strong portfolio of polished work are welcome to apply.
Deadline: Feb 25th @ 5p EST
Public Art for the Cass Avenue Bridge is a project of the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT). The Cass Avenue Bridge is designated a “Community Connector” bridge because it connects commercial and cultural corridors where civic/neighborhood zones are present adjacent to the bridge. Community Connector bridges may have more intensive landscaping and feature public art that highlights the community in order to soften the transition between the freeway and residential and commercial areas.
Deadline: Feb 28th
UPTOWN ARTS STROLL POSTER CONTEST
The Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance (NoMAA) has produced the Uptown Arts Stroll since 2008. The Uptown Arts Stroll started as a volunteer driven one-day event the Sunday before Thanksgiving 2003 and has grown into a month-long festival celebrating Northern Manhattan’s performing and visual artists.
Eligibility: Artists must be West Harlem, Washington Heights or Inwood residents
Deadline: March 27th
NUYORICAN/DISAPORICAN ART CALL FOR PAPERS
While the Nuyorican movement is recognized for its tradition of socio–political activism, poetry, and music—to date, the visual arts remain under-examined in scholarly literature and the public imagination. This conference and edited print volume will address this invisibility by focusing on Nuyorican visual culture. Latinx Project seek contributors exploring the creative work and practices of Nuyorican artists from the 1960s onwards. They welcome papers on all genres of visual art such as: street art, muralism, printmaking, painting, photography, performance art, conceptualism, architecture, advertising, fashion and more.
Deadline: March 31st
