Professional Development Grants  

Professional Development Grants (PDG) are designed to assist Arizona artists, arts administrators and arts educators with funding support for participation in professional development and skills-building activities which contribute to significant professional growth.

Learning activities include (but are not limited to) the following:

• Participation in conferences or symposia
• Artist or administrator residencies
• Training with mentors/master artists

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Call for Art | Resistance, Resilience and Hope
Femme Fotale
Location: Tempe, AZ
Deadine: September 29, 2017
What does resistance, resilience, and hope look like to you?  Femme Fotale invites you to submit 3 images for our V photographic book depicting these themes. Femme Fotale is a photographic, submission based project by women for everyone. We provide artistic platforms for women, femme identifying and GNC individuals to show their art regardless of class or education.
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A Call to Writers and Artists for the Fall 2017 Blue Guitar Magazine
Arizona Consortium for the Arts
Location: Phoenix, AZ
Deadine: October 4, 2017
The Blue Guitar literary and arts magazine seeks literary submissions for the Fall 2017 Edition from Sept. 1 through Oct. 4. Submissions are sought in all genres - fiction, poetry, plays, creative nonfiction. Writers must submit original work and must live part- or full-time in Arizona. Simultaneous submissions will be accepted, but the writer must notify the magazine as soon as possible if the work is accepted elsewhere.
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Request for Proposals | Summer 2018 Scottsdale Civic Center Library Installation
Scottsdale Public Art
Location: Scottsdale, AZ
Deadine: October 6, 2017
Scottsdale Arts Education & Outreach and Scottsdale Public Art wants to hear your ideas for the next summer installation in the Gallery @ the Library, Civic Center, exhibiting May through August, 2018. They are partial to ideas relating to star-gazing, but are not ruling out other creative themes. They are looking for installations that are family-appropriate, interactive and fun for all ages of visitors to return to many times over the summer.
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Rio Salado and McClintock/Priest Underpasses | Tempe Public Art Opportunity
City of Tempe
Location: Tempe, AZ
Deadine: October 13, 2017
The City of Tempe invites artists to submit qualifications to create permanent artwork along two walls at the underpasses along the Rio Salado Multi-use pathway system. The selected artist(s) will be tasked with creating artwork that can be wall mounted and made of permanent materials (ceramic, metal, concrete). This is not an opportunity for painted murals. The intent of the artwork is to compliment the experience for users and to create a beautiful, engaging experience for those using the path.
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Request for Qualifications for Pre-Qualified vendor List of Arizona Artists
City of Tempe
Location: Tempe, AZ
Deadine: October 13, 2017
The City of Tempe invites Arizona artists to submit qualifications for inclusion in an artist prequalified vendor list that will be used to select artists for upcoming projects with budgets up to $10,000. Artists selected for these projects will have the opportunity to work directly with residents in the creation of artworks within their communities.
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Call for Entries | Desert Corridors
Tohono Chul
Location: Tucson, AZ
Deadine: October 17, 2017
DESERT CORRIDORS begins with what we can see along the path, and continues into the realm of what we can't; bigger ideas of migration and immigration, and concepts of metaphoric consequence that try to answer the age old questions: Where did we come from? Where are we going? And, How do we get there? Artists are asked to contribute works of art that try to answer these questions and that offer proof of how we move through this world and how the world moves around us. Artists from the region are invited to submit 2-dimensional or 3-dimensional works in any media for consideration in this juried exhibition.
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Call To Artists | Phoenix Pride Creative
Phoenix Pride Community Foundation
Location: Phoenix, AZ
Deadine: November 5, 2017
The Phoenix Pride Creative is seeking original artwork to convey a message that brings recognition to achievements, attention to struggles, challenges, and expression of individual experiences within the LGBTQ community.
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Alternative art and literature magazine seeks work for Winter 2018
The Matador Review
Location: Online
Deadine: November 30, 2017
Alternative art and literature magazine The Matador Review is now accepting submissions for the Winter 2018 publication. They publish poetry, fiction, flash fiction, and creative non-fiction, inviting all unpublished literature written in the English language (and translations that are accompanied by the original text) as well as many forms of visual art.
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Emerging Writers and Artists
Absolutely Wild Enchanted Faerie Portals & Other Whimsy
Location: Online
Deadine: January 5, 2018
This is a call for young writers and creatives (ages 15-ish to 25-ish)-and invited professionals-to submit content for potential inclusion in The Storytelling Book of the Ancient Traveler. James Artimus Owen-author/illustrator of the Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica-contributed his brilliant work to jump-start the book with his opening pages.
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5th Annual New Music Festival Application
Oh My Ears
Location: Phoenix, AZ
Deadine: September 30, 2017
Oh My Ears (OME) is a new music presenting organization in Phoenix, AZ that seeks to connect emerging composers, ensembles, and musicians with each other and with the greater Phoenix community. For their 5th Annual New Music Festival, OME is looking for music that comes out of traditions of artists like Pauline Oliveros, Steve Reich, George Lewis, John Cage, Laurie Anderson, Lou Harrison, Morton Subotnick, Unsuk Chin, or Julia Wolfe. New music is generally music of the 21st Century (though late 20th Century is most welcome). They program chamber ensembles like reed quintets, string quartets, or any group of musicians who play together, including experimental groups, modular synth artists, soloist and multi-genre/multi-media projects.
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Call for Artists | Alchemic BODY | FIRE . AIR . WATER . EARTH
IT'S LIQUID Group
Location: Bogota, Colombia
Deadine: September 30, 2017
It's LIQUID Group, in collaboration with Jorge Jurado Gallery, is selecting all interesting photography, painting, installation/sculpture, video art and performance art works to include in the next 2017 exhibition ALCHEMIC BODY | FIRE . AIR . WATER . EARTH, International photography, painting, installation, video-art and performance art festival, that will be hosted in Bogotà (Colombia), at Jorge Jurado Gallery, from November 01 to November 30, 2017. The exhibition is organized and curated by Arch. Luca Curci (director of It's LIQUID Group).
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Tempe Galleries Call for Art
Gallery at Tempe Center for the Arts
Location: Tempe, AZ
Deadine: October 13, 2017
The Gallery at Tempe Center for the Arts is pleased to announce new exhibition opportunities for local artists at their satellite gallery spaces, including the Tempe Public Library and the Tempe Post Office on Mill Avenue. These spaces receive hundreds of visitors from the community every week. Whether you are an experienced professional artist or a newly emerging artist, the satellite galleries are an excellent opportunity to give back to community, share ideas and experiences with other artists and community members
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ILLUMINATE Photography Call for Entry | Open Internationally
The Center for Fine Art Photography
Location: Fort Collins, CO
Deadine: October 18, 2017
Join The Center for Fine Art Photography for this exciting event by submitting your photographs to our ILLUMINATE call for entry and exhibition. All images will be selected by Juror Peggy Sue Amison, the Artistic Director for East Wing, a platform for international photography founded in Doha, Qatar. All subject matter, genres, capture types, post production processes and sizes are eligible for exhibition. Awards, reception, exhibition and artist promotions offered by The Center for Fine Art Photography.
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Call to Artists | Sculpture Show & Sale
SculptureTucson.Org
Location: Tucson, AZ
Deadine: October 20, 2017
The first annual Sculpture Show & Sale of SculptureTucson.Org will take place at Brandi Fenton Memorial Park in Tucson the weekend of April 6-8, 2018. This event offers sculpture artists an opportunity to showcase and sell their artwork to the public in one of Tucson's beautiful outdoor Southern Arizona settings.
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Call to Artists | Western Ave Rocktoberfest
Historic Avondale
Location: Avondale, AZ
Deadine: October 21, 2017
The Historical Avondale Merchants Association is seeking Veteran and First Responder Artists and Crafters for the Western Ave Rocktoberfest Block Party for the purpose of holding a salute to our Veterans and First Responders. The event will be held on Saturday October 21, 2017, 10 am - 5 pm on Western Avenue.
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Pima County Public Library | Call to Artists
Pima County Public Library
Location: Pima County, AZ
Deadine: October 28, 2017
Joel D. Valdez Main Library welcomes over 40,000 visitors each month. The space is incredibly visible to a vibrant and growing downtown community. A jury will select 24 artists to show their work in a month-long solo exhibition in the Main Library during the 2018-2019 juried exhibit season.  Artists may be asked to show at other libraries, as well.
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Call to Artists | 35mm Slide Show
Fort Worth Community Arts Center
Location: Fort Worth, TX
Deadine: November 1, 2017
This is an international call to artists over the age of 18, open to all disciplines with no theme. The only stipulation is all works must be presented on 35mm slide to be displayed on a rotating projector during the month of December. All artwork submitted must not infringe upon any copyright or the rights of any person.
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Call to Artists | Holiday Festival of the Arts
Southern Arizona Arts & Cultural Alliance
Location: Oro Valley, AZ
Deadine: November 3, 2017
The Oro Valley Holiday Festival of the Arts has quickly become one the largest regional art events in Southern Arizona. Held twice annually, this two day festival features up to 150 artists and exhibitors in all mediums, live music, food vendors, Holiday Tree Lighting and TUBACHRISTMAS, as well as family arts activities.
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Tucson Skies Photography Exhibition
Tubac Center of the Arts
Location: Tubac, AZ
Deadine: November 10, 2017
An exhibition of photography illustrating the skies over Tucson in collaboration with the Tucson Symphony Orchestra, photography will display in an exhibition at the Tubac Center of the Arts and subsequently select digital images of the work will be shown at the Tucson Symphony Orchestra during an original composition of Tucson native composer Anthony Constantino. Photographs should illustrate Tucson skies at day, dusk, and/or night.
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stARTup Art Fair LA 2018 | Call for Independent Artists
stARTup Art Fair
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Deadine: November 15, 2017
stARTup Art Fair Los Angeles is a juried contemporary hotel art fair for independent artists. Taking place the same weekend as Art Los Angeles Contemporary in Santa Monica, stARTup Art Fair is the only other LA satellite event that week where the public can view and acquire work from 50+ independent artists. At stARTup, artists will have access to the myriad of international collectors, curators, dealers, consultants, art writers, and designers who come to Los Angeles for a weekend of art.
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13th International Art Renewal Center Salon Competition
Art Renewal Center
Location: Port Reading, NJ
Deadine: November 15, 2017
The Art Renewal Center (ARC), a non-profit institution leading the revival of realism in the Visual Fine Arts, is now accepting entries for the 13th International Art Renewal Center Salon competition, the largest, most prestigious realist art competition in the world. Entrants will compete for over $100,000 in cash awards and exclusive opportunities with magazines, galleries and museums.
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Open Call to Visual Artists | Ormond Memorial Art Museum
Ormond Memorial Art Museum
Location: Ormond Beach, FL
Deadine: November 27, 2017
The Ormond Memorial Art Museum is accepting submissions from artists in a variety of styles and media for exhibitions in late 2018 and 2019. Individual and small group submissions are welcome. The museum is not able to cover shipping costs of work. Details for submitting can be found at ormondartmuseum.org. Follow the "get involved" tab on the top right to the Call for Artist link.
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Emerging Artists 2018
Limner Gallery
Location: Hudson, NY
Deadine: November 30, 2017
EMERGING ARTISTS 2018 is the 26th annual competition for exhibition at the Limner Gallery. This exhibition is devoted to the discovery, introduction and promotion of Emerging Artists. The exhibition will be held in March 1 - 24, 2018 at the Limner Gallery and is open to all artists working in any media.
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60th Haggin Museum Juried Exhibition
Stockton Art League
Location: Stockton, CA
Deadine: March 16, 2018
The 60th Juried Exhibition at the Haggin Museum sponsored by the Stockton Art League. May 17 - July 15, 2018. Cash awards over $5000. Open to all US artists. No photography or computer art. Deadline March 16, 2018
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2017 Holiday Artisan's Market | Tucson Museum of Art & Historic Block
Tucson Museum of Art & Historic Block
Location: Tucson, AZ
Deadine: Open until booths art filled
Tucson Museum of Art & Historic Block is currently accepting returning and new artisan applications for their 32nd annual outdoor Artisan Market, which will take place November 17-19, 2017.
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Grammy Museum Grant Program
Grammy Museum
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Deadine: October 1, 2017
The GRAMMY Museum is now accepting Letters of Inquiry for their 2018 grant cycle. With funding generously provided by The Recording Academy®, the GRAMMY Museum Grant Program awards grants each year to organizations and individuals for audio preservation projects, as well as scientific research efforts. The program's aim is to advance the archiving of the recorded sound heritage of the Americas and to explore the impact of music on the human condition.
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Artist Fellowships | First Peoples Fund
First Peoples Fund
Location: Rapid City, SD
Deadine: October 31, 2017
Twenty to twenty-five artists are selected annually for First Peoples Fund's one-year fellowship programs. Fellows receive $5,000 project grants, technical support and professional training to start or grow a thriving arts business and to further their important work in their communities. Applicants Must be an enrolled member or provide proof of lineal descendancy of a U.S. federally recognized tribe, a state recognized tribe, or be an Alaska Native or Native Hawaiian.
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Funding Opportunity | Centerline Arts & Cultural Initiative
City of Glendale Public Art Program
Location: Glendale, AZ
Deadine: Rolling
The Glendale Public Art Program is pleased to announce an expansion in funding for arts and culture, the 2017-2018 Centerline Arts and Cultural Initiative. The city has developed this program to motivate, increase and support free cultural events and performances to enrich the quality of life and experiences of all Glendale citizens, while increasing foot traffic in the Centerline District. The Glendale Arts Commission awards support up to $10,000 per applicant for unique visual and temporary interactive arts events, theater, dance, music and interdisciplinary performing arts.
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Henry Luce Foundation Grants
The Henry Luce Foundation
Location: New York City, NY
Deadine: Rolling
The Henry Luce Foundation seeks to bring important ideas to the center of American life, strengthen international understanding, and foster innovation and leadership in academic, policy, religious and art communities. The Luce Foundation pursues its mission today through the following grant-making programs: American Art; East Asia; Luce Scholars; Theology; Higher Education and the Henry R. Luce Professorships; the Henry R. Luce Initiative on Religion in International Affairs; Public Policy and the Environment; and the Clare Boothe Luce Program for women in science, mathematics and engineering.
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Hearst Foundation Grants
Hearst Foundation
Location: New York City, NY
Deadine: Rolling
The Hearst Foundations fund cultural institutions that offer meaningful programs in the arts and sciences, prioritizing those which enable engagement by young people and create a lasting and measurable impact. The Foundations also fund select programs nurturing and developing artistic talent.
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US Japan Creative Artists Program Residencies
Japan US Friendship Commission
Location: Washington, DC
Deadine: February 1, 2017
The Japan U.S. Friendship Commission offers leading contemporary and traditional artists from the United States the opportunity to spend three to five months in Japan through the U.S.-Japan Creative Artists Program.  Artists go as seekers, as cultural visionaries, and as living liaisons to the traditional and contemporary cultural life of Japan.  They also go as connectors who share knowledge and bring back knowledge. Their interaction with the Japanese public and the outlook they bring home provide exceptional opportunities to promote cultural understanding between the United States and Japan.
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The Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers Fellowships
Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers
Location: New York City, NY
Deadine: September 29, 2017
The Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers is an international fellowship program open to people whose work will benefit directly from access to the collections at the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building-including academics, independent scholars, and creative writers (novelists, playwrights, poets). The Center appoints 15 Fellows a year for a nine-month term at the Library, from September through May. In addition to working on their own projects, the Fellows engage in an ongoing exchange of ideas within the Center and in public forums throughout the Library.
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Chacas | Artist-in-residence Open Call
Correlacion Contemporanea
Location: Andean Mountains, Peru
Deadine: September 30, 2017
"Chacas" is a residency programme for artists and other disciplines located in the Peruvian Andean white mountains. The residency is located in the Chacas district in the department of Áncash, at 3359 masl and 3 hours from Huaraz by car. The residency program "Chacas" welcomes visual artists, architects and other disciplines; national and international for the period of 3 weeks (21 days) to develop projects related to: Geography: Peruvian Andean Mountains, white range - Cordillera Blanca; Community: Don Bosco artisans, sacred art and Operazione Mato Grosso; Pre Columbian cultures: Chavin, Recuay, Huari. The programme aims to create a space for dialogue and exchange to promote production and research in geographical, social and historical aspects of Chacas city and Ancash region.
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Self-Directed Artist Residencies: Art, Design, or Photography | Arquetopia Foundation-Puebla, Mexico
Arquetopia Foundation and International Artist Residency, Mexico and Peru
Location: Puebla, Mexico
Deadine: October 8, 2017
The Art Production, Design Production, or Photography Production Residency is a self-directed, non-instructional residency for emerging and mid-career, national and international artists, designers, curators, art historians, art educators, journalists, writers, and cultural researchers age 22 and over. Residents are strongly encouraged to explore various ways of cultural exchange as part of their artistic and/or research goals and to actively engage in critical discussions as part of their residency experience.
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Dementia Care Fellowship Program
Hospice of the Valley
Location: Phoenix, AZ
Deadine: October 13, 2017
Hospice of the Valley-a long-established leader in dementia care and education-is sponsoring a fellowship program to enhance workforce development and dementia care programming. Up to twelve people from a variety of fields will be selected to participate in the year-long fellowship starting January 2018. They could be nurses, social workers, teachers or even artists with ideas about using sensory experiences to engage people with dementia.
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Chamber Music America Residency Partnership Program
Chamber Music America
Location: National
Deadine: October 15, 2017
The Residency Partnership Program supports professional ensembles and presenters in building audiences for small ensemble music through residency projects. The program funds activities that take place in community settings and that are not part of a regular concert series.
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HMC International Artist Residency Program, a not-for-profit arts organization based in Dallas, TX / Budapest, Hungary - provides national and international artists to produce new work while engaging with the arts community in Budapest, Hungary.
HMC
Location: Budapest, Hungary
Deadine: November 20, 2017
HMC International Artist Residency Program, a not-for-profit arts organization based in Dallas, TX / Budapest, Hungary - provides national and international artists to produce new work while engaging with the arts community in Budapest, Hungary.
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Artist Residency in Upstate New York
Main Street Arts
Location: Clifton Springs, NY
Deadine: November 30, 2017
Main Street Arts is accepting applications for the first quarter of our 2018 residency program. Artists in residence will have 24-hour access to a large studio on our second floor, the option to show work in the gallery, and the opportunity to teach paid workshops. Facilities include 200 sq. ft. studio spaces, an electric kiln, potters wheel, etching press, and more.
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Creative Gateways Resident Artists
Creative Gateways
Location: Sedona, AZ
Deadine: Rolling
Creative Gateways is now accepting applications for resident artists. This residency supports artists working across all disciplines through one year residencies, creating a space for artistic dialogue and cultural exchange. Creative Gateways offers 24/7 access to unfurnished, private studio spaces (169-208 sq. ft.) in our diverse artist community in Sedona, Arizona. As a studio based residency, the focus is on the artistic process and the cross-collaboration that results from working alongside other artists.
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Artistic Director | Phoenix Chorale
Phoenix Chorale
Location: Phoenix, AZ
Deadine: November 1, 2017
This individual will exhibit exemplary musical, conducting, and artistic skills, demonstrate an innate ability to nurture and lead the Chorale's singers, and offer a charismatic personality and energetic attitude for engaging in meaningful ways with the Chorale's local and national audience. The selected Artistic Director will join the Chorale's leadership team to implement the organization's future vision to serve its audience through the art and passion of music.
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Education Publication Coordinator
Desert Botanical Garden
Location: Phoenix, AZ
Deadine: October 7, 2017
This position develops and coordinates the education class catalog, which serves as the primary marketing and promotion piece for adult and children's public programming at the Desert Botanical Garden. The successful candidate will work collaboratively with members of the education, marketing and membership departments to ensure a high level of customer and member satisfaction with content, delivery and communication related to educational programming.
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Dance, Music, and Drama Teachers
Arts for All, Inc.
Location: Tucson, AZ
Deadine: Open until filled
Arts for All seeks teachers of Dance, Music, and Theatre. Since 1985, Arts for All, Inc., a Tucson-based, 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, has been inspiring children with and without disabilities to participate in the arts. An adult day program was added in 1998. They offer services through creative programs including Adult Day activities, Out-of-School Time, and Summer and Winter Arts Camps.
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