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BAC 2015 Community Arts Grants
Deadlines: Local Arts Support (LAS): September 16, 2014
Community Arts Fund (CAF): September 23, 2014

Brooklyn Arts Council is pleased to announce that applications for the 2015 Community Arts Grants are now available. Brooklyn-based professional and pre-professional artists, artist collectives and non-profit organizations are invited to apply for up to $5,000 to support arts projects occurring in Brooklyn throughout 2015.

New applicants and applicants who have not received a BAC grant since the 2012 funding cycle are require to attend an informational seminar in order to be eligible. Seminars include an overview of the eligibility guidelines and funding opportunities offered, a detailed explanation of the application process and the online application, a chance to meet BAC staff and other applicants, a question and answer session, and tips on writing a successful grant application.

Seminar registration is now open.

Space for Artists

Space for Artists: Spaceworks
Deadline: July 31, 2014

In partnership with Brooklyn Public Library, Spaceworks is creating four visual art studios at the library’s Williamsburgh branch, located at 240 Division Avenue in the heart of one of the borough's most exciting creative communities. Spaceworks is redeveloping the second floor of Brooklyn Public Library’s Carnegie-era Williamsburgh neighborhood branch into approximately 4,000 square feet of artist work space including visual art studios and rehearsal spaces. The new facility is slated to open in EARLY 2015. The artist studios at the Williamsburgh branch will range in size from 180 to 225 square feet.

All New York City resident visual artists are invited to apply. Eligible entries will be added to the Williamsburgh Visual Art Studio Rental Lottery. The lottery will randomly select submissions to be reviewed by an Intake Advisory Committee comprised of artists and leaders from the field.

Space for Artists: Two Trees NY Cultural Space Subsidy Program
Deadline: Open

Through the Cultural Space Subsidy Program, Two Trees will offer 50,000 RSF to be rented at a reduced rate to arts, education, and community focused groups. Spaces will be rented at a rate of $12 per square feet per year for three year terms. The program is open to arts, education, and community focused groups - primarily, but not limited to, 501c3 nonprofit organizations. Professional artists with a strong exhibition history or community focused practice are eligible to apply.

Call for Artists

Call For Artists: Level Hotel Brooklyn
Deadline: September 15, 2014

In partnership with Brooklyn Arts Council, Level Hotel Brooklyn is pleased to announce the launch of a Lobby Art Commission. The partnership will invite Brooklyn artists to apply for a $200,000 commission of a large scale sculptural artwork for the hotel lobby, scheduled to open in Williamsburg in early 2016. 

Artists can be emerging, mid-career or established, but must be able to demonstrate capability to see a project of this nature to completion.

Application available now!

Call For Artists: The Humble Arts Foundation
Deadline: Open

At Humble Arts Foundation, every day is Feline Friday. Or Caturday. Or Hissunday. It's getting to be a bit of a problem. In celebration of their undying love for cats, the late "hissSummer" show will exclusively feature cats, titled New Cats in Art Photography. Don't worry, this will be free of memes and link-bait conundrums, instead, they're looking to see how artists have addresssed this potentially tired subject with new and inspired eyes.

Call For Artists: The Seattle Office of Arts&Culture
Deadline: Open

The Seattle Office of Arts & Culture, in collaboration with the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT), seeks an artist or artist team to create a public artwork that engages play as a theme and activity for Waterfront Seattle, a project to create 20 acres of new parks and public spaces on Seattle’s Central Waterfront. The commissioned work should engage the site as well as the history of art and play, resulting in a work or works that actively support interaction and play.

Call for Artists: Human Impacts Institute Creative Climate Awards
Deadline: August 4, 2014
As an official part of Climate Week NYC and in partnership with Positive Feedback and Artbridge, the Human Impact Institute's Fourth Annual Creative Climate Call to Action brings together the visual arts, performance art, and film to install climate-inspired public works throughout New York City. Creative Climate Awards use the creative process as a tool to inspire audiences to explore the consequences of their actions, think critically about pressing issues, and to make the environment personal. For 2014, they welcome artists and artists’ collectives working in the following disciplines: 2D work, performance, and short film.

Call for Artists: El Paso Public Art Program
Deadline: August 14, 2014

The City of El Paso Public Art Program of the Museums and Cultural Affairs Department seeks to commission a professional artist or artist team to design, fabricate and install site-integrated artwork or artworks for the El Paso Zoo Plaza Area. The artist or artist team will be selected to design, influence, and enhance various aspects of the Plaza gathering area to seamlessly integrate art into the architectural and landscape design with both large and small gestures to set the ambiance in the space. 

The Portland Oregon Women’s Film Festival (POWFest) is now accepting entries for its eighth annual festival scheduled to take place March 12 - 15, 2015. POWFest places a spotlight on women directors by showcasing their work and empowering the community of women in film. POWFest encourages women to find their voice and to share their stories through innovative and quality filmmaking.

The Art League of Long Island invites artists from the tri-state area to submit entries to the upcoming juried photography competition “Pattern and Rhythm Through the Lens” showing in the Jeanie Tengelsen Gallery September 28 through November 2, 2014.  

The Alexia Foundation for World Peace of New Jersey is pleased to announce the call for entries for the 2014 Women’s Initiative Grant which will provide a $25,000 grant for a project to be produced on a significant issue involving and affecting women.

This annual competition and exhibition of contemporary crafts was started in 1987 and is now in it's 28th year. Recognized nationally, Materials: Hard & Soft attracts hundreds of entries from every state in the union. Nationally recognized jurors select the show from slides and then award $5000 in prize money.

The Artist in the Marketplace (AIM) program, now in its 34th year, provides professional development opportunities to emerging artists residing in the New York metropolitan area. The program consists of a 13-week seminar that addresses practical concerns, and cultivates networking opportunities. Every two years, AIM introduces the work of 72 artists to a greater audience via exhibition and catalogue. Participating artists are encouraged to build their networks through the program's collaborative structure.

The City of Richmond Public Art Commission seeks to commission an artist to create outdoor public art along the James River adjacent to or within the project site for the Brown’s Island Dam Walk and Southbank Pathways.

The Lazarus Gallery at United Hebrew of New Rochelle looks forward to presenting the Home is Where the Art Is exhibition. This juried exhibition hopes to broaden ideas of home and place by featuring a wide range of artists' diverse interpretations of the theme. Artists are invited to explore and to visually express their concept of home, from a physical space to an abstract emotion.

Call for Artists: MONO NO AWARE of Brooklyn
Deadline: October 31, 2014

MONO NO AWARE is an international exhibition open to any person or group of persons making contemporary art that incorporates Super 8mm, 16mm, 35mm or altered light projections as part of a sculpture, installation, dance, or expanded cinema performance. For example: blending film & theater performance, musicians creating a visual experience for their sound, & experimental filmmakers working with story tellers. Submissions including digital projections will not be considered. All moving images should be from an analog source.

Each year, the Foundry offers one successful candidate The Tom Proehl Creative Producing Fellowship – a thirteen month, full-time residency with the company for artists/theatre makers and theatre practitioners who are interested in the intersections of artistic and community programs, in building their knowledge/understanding of the 'means of production', and creating new relevance for theatre within the fabric of the citizenry. They are especially interested in working with directors, dramaturgs, self-producing artists, and people running or beginning to run their own companies. Email lauren@thefoundrytheatre.org for more information.

The DeVos Institute of Arts Management is currently accepting applications for the 2014-2015 Performers in Transition program. . A structured blend of formal and hands-on training, the program combines arts management training with applied experience in producing a performance with a New York based organization.The program is designed to serve NYC-based professional performing artists interested in transitioning into arts management. It is provided free of charge through a partnership with the  Brooklyn Academy of Music.

This one-year fellowship, administered on behalf of the Edward and Sally Van Lier Fund of the New York Community Trust, provides valuable mentorship and exhibition opportunities, including learning from the curatorial staff about the creation and interpretation of exhibitions and arts programming and working with arts professionals to define career paths over the course of the program (January–December 2015). Van Lier Fellows will be given a studio space during the Winter Workspace Program and a solo show in the Sunroom Project Space.

Residencies

Residency: National YoungArts Residency in Visual Arts
Deadline: August 15, 2014

YoungArts, with the generous support of The Related Group, has established the YoungArts Residency in Visual Arts, the first of several residency programs in the visual, literary, design and performing arts the organization is developing as it expands its support of the next generation of artists in the United States and strengthens its place as a creative-catalyst for Miami's growing cultural landscape. The YoungArts Residency in Visual Arts will be extended to at least three outstanding visual artists a year, offering them the opportunity to become immersed in the Miami community while developing their work. 

Residency: Wyoming's Ucross Foundation Residency Program
Deadline: October 1, 2014

The Ucross Foundation Residency Program is currently accepting applications for residencies of 2-6 weeks. Located on a 20,000 acre working cattle ranch in the foothills of Wyoming's Bighorn Mountains. Individuals from all stages of their professional careers are invited to apply.

The Art & Law Program (“The Program”) is a semester-long seminar series with a theoretical and philosophical focus on the effects of law and jurisprudence on cultural production and reception. An examination of how artistic practices challenge, rupture, and change the apparatus of law completes The Program. The Program aims to attract qualified individuals in the areas of visual art, architecture, writing, curating, and law. This list is non-exclusive. Artists with new genre and post-studio practices are especially encouraged to apply, as are lawyers and legal scholars interested in the cultural effects of law. The Art & Law Program takes place in New York City from mid-January to early May and is held in collaboration with Fordham Law School.