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A MONTHLY NEWSLETTER OF THE ARIZONA COMMISSION ON THE ARTS | |
Apply Now: Grants for arts Organizations, Festivals and Engagement Programs | The Arizona Commission on the Arts is now accepting applications for Fiscal Year 2024 grants for arts organizations, arts festivals, and arts engagement programs! | | | |
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Creative Capacity Grants
CCGs provide general operating support to nonprofit organizations whose primary mission is to produce, present, teach, or serve the arts.
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Festival Grants
Festival Grants support organizations in their efforts to provide quality arts programming through festival activities..
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Youth Arts Engagement Grants
Youth Arts Engagement Grants support arts learning projects for young people that occur outside of traditional school hours.
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Application due date for all programs is Thursday, April 6, 2023 | |
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Project Mesquite Grants
Arts Foundation for Tucson and Southern Arizona
Location: City of Tucson, City of South Tucson, Pima County, Pascua Yaqui Reservation, or The Tohono O’Odham Nation
Arts Foundation for Tucson and Southern Arizona is now accepting applications for Project Mesquite Grants.
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stART Grant
stART Grant provides individuals, collectives, and co-ops awards funds through two alternate tracks of support: Community Impact track and Artist Development track.
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New Works Artist Project Grant
Supporting individual artist projects that meet the highest standards of excellence across a diverse spectrum of artistic disciplines and cultural expressions.
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Pima County Youth Arts Scholarship
Designed to identify and reward high school seniors within Pima County who demonstrate excellence in dance, music, theater, visual arts, media arts, literary arts, poetry, spoken word, craft, or art related to cultural preservation.
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The opportunities featured below are selected from listings submitted for inclusion on our website's Jobs and Arts Opportunities boards by the organization or company offering the opportunity. Questions regarding a particular opportunity should be directed to the organization or company listed with the opportunity.
While Arts Commission staff endeavor to offer a broad selection of quality opportunities, inclusion here should not be interpreted as an endorsement.
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Request for Qualifications: Sierra Verde Park Well Site Public Art
City of Glendale, Arizona
Location: Glendale, AZ
Due Date: 9/13/2022
Goal is to artistically enhance the exterior enclosure wall(s) of the Sierra Verde Park well site, currently under construction at 71st Avenue & Rose Garden Lane, Glendale, Arizona.
Call for Artists | Bike Rack / Wall Mural
DAVIS
Location: Phoenix, AZ
Due Date: 2/28/2023
A restaurant is opening a space in a historic overlay neighborhood on Grand Ave. We would love to tie into the art community and overall artistic vibe in this area by having a local artist / artists involved in two aspects of the design.
Tempe Public Art | Kiwanis Park Public Art
City of Tempe
Location: Tempe, AZ
Due Date: 3/3/2023
Tempe Public Art invites artists to submit their qualifications for creating permanent artwork to be integrated into the Kiwanis Park North Improvements Project.
Traffic Signal Cabinet Art Project | City of Goodyear
City of Goodyear - Arts & Culture
Location: Goodyear, AZ
Due Date: 3/5/2023
The city of Goodyear is seeking West Valley artists to aesthetically treat utility infrastructure throughout the community. Artists will transform traffic signal control cabinets in Goodyear from only being functional infrastructure to colorful, inspired works of art.
Tempe Public Art | Call for Portable Interactive Art
City of Tempe
Location: Tempe, AZ
Due Date: 3/8/2023
The City of Tempe invites professional artists to submit qualifications and proposals to weave creative play throughout the city. We are looking to commission artists who will create interactive artworks, imaginative games, or creative engagements.
RFQ | Pre-Qualified Mural Artists List
City of Glendale Arts & Culture
Location: Glendale, AZ
Due Date: 3/10/2023
The City of Glendale Arts & Culture invites artists and artist teams to submit qualifications to be considered for the city's Pre-Qualified Mural Artists List.
Sculpture Garden Call to Artists
Tucson Jewish Community Center
Location: Tucson, AZ
Due Date: 5/11/2023
The Tucson Jewish Community Center is now accepting applications for its Annual Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition. All materials should be appropriate for an outdoor, desert environment and anyone is encouraged to apply.
MuncieArts Requests Qualifications for Public Art Projects
MuncieArts
Location: Muncie, IN
Due Date: 12/31/2024
The following RFQ will be used to generate a pool of prequalified artists for current and future public art projects in the City of Muncie. Outdoor public artworks, including sculpture, installation, and murals are being planned through 2024.
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Christmas Card Design Contest
Christmas Spirit Foundation
Location: St. Louis, MO
Due Date: 3/1/2023
The Christmas SPIRIT Foundation (CSF) is inviting both children and adults to artistically portray their own idea of Christmas Spirit through a nationwide card design contest.
Plein Air Painting Competition
City of Glendale
Location: Glendale, AZ
Due Date: 3/4/2023
The event is open to artists (18 years of age & older) who paint using the Plein Air technique in oil, watercolor, acrylic or pastel. Plein Air (open air) paintings are executed outdoors.
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Rauschenberg Medical Emergency Grants
NYFA and Robert Rauschenberg Foundation
Location: National
Due Date: 3/17/2023
The Rauschenberg Medical Emergency Grants program provides one-time grants of up to $5,000 for recent unexpected medical, dental, and mental health emergencies.
Emergency Financial Assistance
The Actors Fund
Location: National
Due Date: Ongoing
Emergency financial assistance is available for people who are unable to pay their basic living expenses (food/housing/health care) over the next two months. We ask that if you have the resources to cover that period, please wait to apply.
Emergency Grant
Foundation for Contemporary Arts
Location: National
Due Date: Ongoing
Do you have an unanticipated opportunity to present your work? Did you incur an unexpected expense that you didn’t budget for? The Foundation for Contemporary Arts offers Emergency Grants between $200 and $2,500 for visual and performing artists.
Gottlieb Emergency Grant Program
Gottlieb Emergency Grant Program
Location: Online
Due Date: Ongoing
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.
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Fellowship for Cultural Exchange in the Literary Arts
Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing
Location: Tempe AZ
Due Date: 3/5/2023
The Fellowship for Cultural Exchange in the Literary Arts provides a summer stipend of up to $5,000 (depending on proposed budget) to support a project involving cross-cultural or international exchange.
NEW Innovate Grants for Art + Photo
Innovate Grant
Location: National
Due Date: 3/23/2023
WINTER 2023 OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS — Innovate Grant is thrilled to introduce our newly increased award amounts of $1,800.00. Innovate Grant awards (2) $1,800.00 grants each quarter, to one Artist and one Photographer.
Artist Grants | Hopper Prize
The Hopper Prize
Location: National
Due Date: 5/16/2023
The Hopper Prize is offering artist grants in the amount of $3,500 USD (2 available) and $1,000 USD (4 available) to artists worldwide working in all media. Submissions will be juried by leading curators.
Artist Grants
The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc.
Location: National
Due Date: Ongoing
The Foundation welcomes, throughout the year, applications from visual artists who are painters, sculptors and artists who work on paper, including printmakers. There are no deadlines.
Kresge Foundation Arts & Culture Grants
Kresge Foundation
Location: Troy, MI
Due Date: Ongoing
The Kresge Foundation supports established Creative Placemaking practitioners that work in disinvested communities and seek to improve the bedrock conditions of low income people.
Adobe Creative Residency Community Fund
Adobe
Location: Online
Due Date: Ongoing
The Adobe Creative Residency program supports creators of visual digital work, offering grants of $500–$5,000 for either a portfolio project or a paid Adobe project commission.
Grants | Eyebeam Center for the Future of Journalism
Eyebeam Center for the Future of Journalism
Location: Online
Due Date: Ongoing
The Eyebeam Center for the Future of Journalism (ECFJ) is a grant-making program that supports artists producing innovative and revelatory journalistic work for major media outlets. Grant support will range from $500 to $5,000.
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Call to Artists | Desert Artisans' Gallery
Desert Artisans' Gallery, Tucson, AZ
Location: Tucson, AZ
Due Date: 2/27/2023
Desert Artisans' Gallery, Tucson's longest running art cooperative, is currently jurying for full-membership 2D and 3D artists. We are looking for artists whose focus is not only artistic excellence, but a collaborative approach to the art business
Art Vendor Opportunity at BICAS
BICAS
Location: Tucson AZ
Due Date: 3/5/2023
BICAS Art is currently accepting applications for our art market. The deadline to submit is March 5th. Scholarship opportunities are also available!
New York Open Call | SCRIBBLES
Carter Burden Gallery
Location: United States
Due Date: 3/7/2023
Carter Burden Gallery, a non-profit gallery located in Chelsea, New York, is accepting applications for the juried exhibition SCRIBBLES. Jurors: Amy Cheng and Lois Bender. Submission Deadline: March 7. Show Dates: June 1 - 28, 2023.
Call for Gallery Proposals 2023-2024
Pittsburg State University
Location: Pittsburg, KS
Due Date: 3/10/2023
The Department of Art at Pittsburg State University welcomes Solo and Group Exhibition
Proposals for the 2023-2024 academic year. Artist working in any media are encouraged to apply.
Call to Artists | Your Wildest Dreams
Vestige Concept Gallery
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
Due Date: 3/11/2023
Exploring the frontiers of reality, fantasy, and perception, Your Wildest Dreams seeks to showcase the surreal, the bizarrely-imaginative, and the vibrant worlds in which the artist resides (or creates...)
Jazz Road Tours Application Open
SouthArts
Location: US
Due Date: 3/1/2023
South Arts has officially re-opened Jazz Road Tours for new applicants! As a reminder, this is a national initiative for jazz artists to apply for grants of up to $15,000 to support touring around the country.
Call for Art | nice; 01
MidwestNice Art
Location: Aberdeen, SD
Due Date: 5/15/2023
nice; 01 is MidwestNice Art's first annual physical juried exhibition. This is an open call for art for all mediums and artists over age 18 living in the United States.
Call for Visual Artists for ASU DPC Library Gallery
Arizona State University Downtown Phoenix Campus Library
Location: Phoenix, AZ
Due Date: 5/1/2024
Arizona State University at the Downtown Phoenix campus (DPC) Library is looking for applications from local visual artists (painters, photographers, etc.) interested in exhibiting their work in its Vault Gallery.
The Store at Mesa Arts Center Artists Cooperative Gallery Openings
The Store at Mesa Arts Center, an Artist Cooperative
Location: Mesa, AZ
Due Date: Ongoing
The Store at Mesa Arts Center has openings for new artist members. In this unique nonprofit collaboration, artist members run The Store's operations, do in-store demos during open hours, and sell their work.
Call to Performers for Performance Pop-Ups
Herberger Theater Center
Location: Phoenix, AZ
Due Date: Ongoing
The Herberger Theater Center seeks performing artists and groups to participate in our ‘22/’23 Performance Pop-Up series! These 60-90-minute performances are held on evenings and weekends and are opportunities to showcase your work and more.
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EDUCATION & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT | |
Vision & Sound Symposium
Vision & Sound, ASU Center for the Study of Race and Democracy
Location: Sedona Arts Center
Due Date: 2/27/2023
The Symposium will feature a dynamic keynote lecture and interactive workshops, all of which will feature opportunities for professional development certification. This year’s Symposium keynote speaker is L’Merchie Frazier, Executive Director of Creative Strategic Partnerships for SPOKEArts in Boston.
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AIR.HMC | Budapest Artist Residency
Hungarian Multicultural Center (HMC)
Location: Budapest, Hungary
Due Date: 3/1/2023
AIR/HMC, Budapest Artist Residency is an opportunity for a small community of artists to work independently for a short term in Budapest.
Rockland Residency Fall 2023 & Winter 2024
Rockland Residency
Location: Bremerton, WA, USA
Due Date: 3/30/2023
Rockland Residency is accepting applications for its upcoming season Fall and Winter. All disciplines are accepted.
AMAZÓNICA Artists-in-Residence | OPEN CALL
Correlacion Contemporanea
Location: Peru
Due Date: 3/31/2023
Production and research residency program in the Amazon Rainforest, Peru. The program received national and international artists, curators and cultural workers in general.
Call for International Artists 2023 | Altofest Naples
Altofest
Location: Naples, Italy
Due Date: 12/2/2023
Application may include one or more original and finished works conceived for a formal space, already performed in front of an audience. Repertory or archived works that are to be reactivated are also eligible.
Artist in Residence Opportunities | National Park Service
National Park Service
Location: National
Due Date: Ongoing
There are programs for visual artists, writers, musicians, and other creative media. Programs vary, but residencies are typically 2 to 4 weeks in length and most include lodging. Often artists are invited to participate in park programs by sharing t
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Audio Supervisor
TheaterWorks
Location: Peoria, AZ
Deadline: June 1, 2023
Insures that the audio quality of TheaterWorks productions and presentations is of the highest caliber. Sound Design and/or engineer/operate the majority of Mainstage, YouthWorks, educational productions and special events. Maintain sound equipment in both theaters at the Peoria Center for the Performing Arts.
Managing Director
Contra-Tiempo
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Deadline: March 6, 2023
CONTRA-TIEMPO Activist Dance Theater, based in Los Angeles, seeks a Full Time Managing Director (MD) who will provide support in the areas of organizational and relational development, fundraising and growing the reach of CONTRA-TIEMPO.
Public Art Assistant
Tempe Public Art
Location: Tempe, AZ
Deadline: Open until filled
This position assists with projects related to public art. This includes providing administrative assistance to the Public Art Manager, Coordinator, and Specialist; meeting planning; clerical support; research assistance; and project documentation.
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ARTS LEARNING STAFF
Kesha Bruce
Director of Artist Programs
kbruce@azarts.gov
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AGENCY NEWSLETTERS
AZArts Newsletter
News, information, and resources for Arizonans working in, with, and for the arts.
AZArts Learning
News, information, and resources for Arizonans working to facilitate learning in, through, and about the arts.
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AZArts Learning is published monthly by the Arizona Commission on the Arts
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