[Sponsored Listing] Altera Vita Photography announces a call for artists for “Portfolio.” The prize is a month-long gallery exhibition for up to 9 photographers. Submit 6 of your best limited-edition photographs that represent your work. There is not a theme but should represent a cohesive body of work.
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Enter by: 28 Nov 2021
Entry fee is for all 6 photographs
One-month exhibition in a photography gallery for up to 9 artists. All 6 prints from the artists will be represented at the Portfolio show. Photographers will have the opportunity to sell work through the venue. Framing through the gallery. You only have to ship prints. Host gallery does not receive funds from the contest but will benefit from the great work that will be for sale. Juror, Stephen Perloff, will select the winning photographs. Gallery show will start in January 2022.
About Altera Vita Photography
Altera Vita Photography was created to provide a vehicle for unrepresented and under-represented photographers to show their work in a photography gallery. No money goes to the gallery to get your work shown. The only way for the gallery to make money is to sell your work.
For more information, contact alteravitaphoto@gmail.com.
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[Sponsored Listing] Superfine Art Fair Los Angeles announce a call for artists. Meet your next collector. Begin your journey with a booth at Superfine Art Fair in LA on February 3-6, 2022. Booths are 70% sold out.
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Enter by 2 Feb 2022
Are you frustrated by marketing your art or struggling to connect with buyers and art collectors?
Superfine Art Fair Los Angeles is the next step in your journey as an artist. Unlike most conventional art fairs, Superfine removes the exorbitant barriers to entry and maintains the highest quality of marketing for individual artists. Whether you are seeking guidance on curation or pricing, Superfine is actively involved in your success.
Artists receive expert advice on the curation and marketing of their art work. If you aren’t confident about your pieces, then your art immediately becomes more difficult to sell. At every Superfine Art Fair event, artists are assisted to ensure connections are made and goals are reached. In addition to the private assistance, Superfine brings in pre-qualified buyers to the fair – those with disposable incomes and desire to buy art. Free webinars and seminars are held throughout the duration of the fair and the Artist Business Plan Podcast serve as other means of educating artists.
“The fair itself was an amazing experience, the atmosphere was so welcoming and warm. I met a lot of buyers, interested gallery owners and public art representatives as well as brilliant fellow artists and the very juicy cherry on top was that I sold 13 pieces over the 4 days! On top of that I also sold 2 more pieces after the fair had finished thanks to being on the Superfine website. It felt like I was part of a great family and I can’t wait for the next one!” -Valerie Auersperg, Superfine Exhibitor
“The art-world antidote to ‘the bloated, oversized art fair model.’” -Sarah Cascone & Caroline Goldstein, Artnet
“Giving the traditional model of selling and acquiring art a run for its money.” – Sam Manzella, Logo’s NewNowNext
“Superfine isn’t a traditional art fair.” – Amanda Lauren, Forbes
About Superfine Art Fair
From East to West, Superfine is all over the map. They started with Superfine art fairs in NYC and Miami and quickly expanded to the first DC art fair in October 2018. Shortly afterward, they brought their unique approach to art fairs to LA and San Francisco. In every city, they connect top local and global artists to an art-hungry populous eager to discover new artists and their work. What’s up next? Art fairs in Seattle, Dallas, and Chicago are coming up in the future. Stay tuned as Superfine Art Fair continues to grow into one of the best art fairs in the US.
For more information, contact info@superfine.world.
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[Sponsored Listing] Cabarrus County, North Carolina is seeking artists or artist collaborations to create innovative, original, and site-specific artwork for the Cabarrus County Courthouse Expansion that is currently under construction in downtown Concord, NC.
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Enter by: 20 Dec 2021
The Art Selection Committee for this project is seeking an artist or artist team who can understand and express, in a suspended, permanently-installed, large-scale piece, the Courthouse’s role in providing sound and fair justice. The location of the art will be in the main public lobby, where high windows afford views of the artwork from outside the building on three sides, as well as inside.
The total public art budget for the Courthouse Expansion project, including all aspects of design, fabrication, transport, and installation, is $350,000. One (1) to three (3) finalists will each receive a $2,500 stipend to cover design costs for their proposal and travel/ presentation.
About the Cabarrus County Courthouse
When completed, the new Cabarrus County Courthouse will be a 313,000 SF court facility that includes a new 240,000 SF addition to the existing 1975 courthouse. Together with the new construction, the existing 73,000 SF facility will undergo complete interior renovation and repurposing to fulfill long-term, multi-generational space requirements.
As noted in the Designers’ Narrative for the project, “While the existing courthouse fronting Union Street will be completely renovated, a new addition and public entry (off Means Ave Pedestrian Plaza) will reshape the identity of the courthouse campus. The intentional siting of this new primary entry is the defining element of the concept.”
Similarly, the artwork commissioned for this project will reshape and help define the perceptions of those entering or passing the Courthouse and frame a new experience of a ‘house of justice.’
The artwork will not only complement the architecture of the building, and provide an attraction – and distraction – for those entering; but also it shall help shift mindsets.
For more information, contact kdbilafer@cabarruscounty.us.
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[Sponsored Listing] The Piermont Flywheel Gallery is currently accepting submissions from artists for their annual Guest Artists Showcase, now back following last year’s hiatus. A 4-week guest show will allow artists to share and showcase their talent with gallery visitors.
The show will run from Thursday, January 13th through Sunday, February 6, 2022.
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Enter by: 9 Dec 2021
Selected works will be chosen by a jury of gallery member artists. The number of pieces selected depends on the size of your work and the overall number of artists participating.
The showcase is a great way to come and experience the gallery and meet and mingle with current and prospective artists.
Piermont is an affluent and desirable place to live and visit. Cyclists from as far away as Brooklyn and day-trippers from New York City and New Jersey visit Piermont to take in the beautiful landscape, enjoy the Hudson River, shop the galleries and boutiques on Main Street and the Pier, and dine at its world-class restaurants.
“We want people to sense something special when they enter our gallery.” – Jeanne Treat-Tozer
About Piermont Flywheel Gallery
In 1992, Piermont’s first artist-run gallery opened its doors to the public. Twenty-four artists joined forces to create a cooperative gallery dedicated to exhibiting the finest work of artists living and working within the New York tri-state area. Piermont was still a relatively quiet community enjoying its lovely Hudson River setting.
Today, the village bustles with visitors from far and wide. The Flywheel Gallery is no longer the only co-op gallery. There is another one next door and many commercial galleries.
The Flywheel; however, can boast of being there from the beginning. When this dedicated group of artists got together to create an elegant, functional, and friendly artist-run space, Jeanne Treat-Tozer, a painter and one of the gallery’s founders, explained at the time, “We want people to sense something special when they enter our gallery. We want them to feel comfortable and confident when selecting works.”
Among the more notable members of the gallery was Alan Gussow, whose untimely death in May of 1997 was a shock to the arts community worldwide.
For more information, contact submissions.pfg@gmail.com.
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[Sponsored Listing] Innovate Grant is now accepting submissions for the Innovate Grant Fall 2021 Cycle, awarding $550.00 grants to one visual artist and one photographer. In addition to receiving a grant award, winners will be featured and recognized on the Innovate Grant website and join a growing community of vibrant and talented artists.
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Enter by: 14 Dec 2021
Visual artists and photographers 18 years and older, from all around the world, are eligible to apply for the Innovate Grant Fall 2021 Cycle. All media and genres are accepted. All applicants retain the right to the work they submit.
Innovate Grant supports artists and photographers through quarterly grants. They simplified the grant process, so that artists and photographers can focus on making their innovative work. The work should speak for itself and the application reflects that.
Innovate Grant Testimonials
“I am truly grateful for this grant! It’s rare as an artist to receive this kind of unrestricted funding that so directly supports your practice. This grant will contribute to material costs and the production of my next body of works.”
— Lynnea Holland Weiss, Innovate Grant Recipient Winter 2020
“Receiving this grant will allow me to carry on with my project, which I had to pause in 2020, and start 2021 with more positivity. It makes me so happy knowing that there are people out there who believe in what I do and want to support my practice. Thank you so much Innovate Grant.”
— Giulia Parlato, Innovate Grant Recipient Fall 2020
“The Innovate Grant helps to continue my research and expand my practice. I am profoundly grateful for that. I am constantly seeking out new ways of working and incorporating new materials into my practice and will make great use of this support.”
— Bianca Barandun, Innovate Grant Recipient Summer 2020
“The Innovate Grant will assist me in hiring help to create a series of molds for my next sculpture. In a time where things are particularly tight, I am grateful more than ever for this support.”
— Kylie Lockwood, Innovate Grant Recipient Spring 2020
“I have immense gratitude for the Innovate Grant and the way it will allow me to continue expanding on my current and future series of paintings. This funding will help provide for those needs and will be integral to pushing my practice forward. ”
— Taylor O. Thomas, Innovate Grant Recipient Winter 2019
About Innovate Grant
Innovate Grant supports artists and photographers through quarterly grants. They believe that new ideas come from sparks of inspiration and aim to provide just that, access to small and mighty bursts of financial support so that you can focus on making your important and innovative work.
Innovate Grant was created out of the frustration of applying to grants with time-consuming requirements. These lengthy applications took valuable time and energy away from making new work. Countless hours were sacrificed in either writing artist statements, crafting project proposals, or getting letters of recommendation. Time is one of the most valuable components to fostering creativity and innovation. Their aim is to provide the time you need to be fully immersed in your ideas and in creating your work. Keeping the grant process simple enables Innovate Grant to continue to support you on your important journey of creation, inspiration, and innovation.
For more information, contact email@innovateartistgrants.org.
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[Sponsored Listing] The Midtown Greenway Coalition has issued a call for sculpture concepts to select an artist for a proposed Midtown Greenway Light-emitting Sculpture. This sculpture will be an important improvement to the Midtown Greenway, Minnesota’s busiest non-motorized transportation corridor that serves thousands daily, and the East Phillips Neighborhood in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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Enter by: 3 Dec 2021 4pm CT
Showcase how public art can be a functional item that lights up a dark area and inspires additional projects elsewhere along the 5.5 mile-long Midtown Greenway, the #1 urban bikeway in the U.S. This Light-emitting Sculpture is an opportunity to work directly with an impacted community in a largely low-income and very diverse neighborhood.
An Advisory Team composed of neighbors will select three finalists. The Advisory Team for the sculpture is composed of residents on the two blocks adjacent to the proposed sculpture location and includes Latina, African American African immigrant, white, and queer people. The public will vote for their favorite design from among those three, based largely on the sculpture’s likelihood of making viewers say “Wow!” A contract for up to $8,000 will be offered to the winning artist for the design phase, resulting in a detailed design that can be used to pursue approvals to install the sculpture in public space. An additional contract for construction and installation will likely be offered to the winning artist to achieve sculpture installation by late August 2022. The sculpture will be unusual in that it will be a thing of beauty and quality in a high crime neighborhood where morale needs a boost.
About The Midtown Greenway Coalition
The Midtown Greenway Coalition is the grassroots nonprofit organization that advocated for public agencies to create the Midtown Greenway. The Coalition continues to serve as the community’s voice in protecting, improving, and promoting the use of the Midtown Greenway.
For more information, contact thegreenwayguy@gmail.com.
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[Sponsored Listing] Yamana Gold announces a call for artists to submit paintings, drawings, sculptures, and photography as entries to Passion to Perform. Yamana Gold is a leading gold producer with operations and properties throughout the Americas that integrates a commitment to sustainability and stakeholder engagement best practices in all its business activities. This commitment complements a performance-based culture driven by an entrepreneurial passion that is mirrored in the passion and commitment demonstrated by many emerging artists.
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Deadline: 28 Feb 2022
Free to enter
Passion to Perform celebrates the interconnection between performance and passion. Yamana Gold aims to award winning entrants with meaningful compensation that can positively impact each artist’s practice and encourage them to pursue their passion.
The competition is open to any person practicing art. Each artist can submit up to 2 entries. The panel of judges will initially review entries made through the online system. Following this, approximately 35 artists will be short listed. Only works that are short listed from the initial digital submission will be reviewed for final judging. Notifications and instructions on the regional collection process will be sent to the short listed artists only via email.
Passion to Perform prizes will be awarded in $USD based on a jury selection:
- $7,000 for first prize
- $2,500 for second prize
- $1,500 for third prize
In addition, a fund has been established to acquire artworks from the shortlist of finalists, which will then become part of the permanent collection of Yamana Gold. Pieces of art that become part of the permanent Passion To Perform collection may be displayed in Yamana Gold’s offices, thereby visually communicating a sense of performance to employees and visitors alike.
About Yamana Gold
Yamana Gold is a Canadian-based precious metals producer with a high quality, diversified portfolio, including significant gold and silver production. Long-life production assets including development stage properties and exploration properties are located throughout mining-friendly jurisdictions across the Americas, in Canada, Brazil, Chile, and Argentina. Yamana plans to build on this base through sustainable expansion and optimization initiatives at existing operating mines, development of new mines, the advancement of its exploration properties, and by targeting other consolidation opportunities – with a primary focus in the Americas.
The company is committed to responsibly and transparently operate, strengthen sustainable shareholder returns, and align business and societal outcomes by creating transformational impact. Yamana’s shares are traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange, New York Stock Exchange, and London Stock Exchange.
For more information, contact artwork@yamana.com.
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[Sponsored Listing] Allez! Missoula is looking for 1-3 artists (or art teams) to take over their alleyway for the 2022 Fall/Winter mural exhibit. The final exhibit of the year is for the most ambitious of artists. In this show, artists are invited to paint a minimum full 4’ x 16’ mural display section, or up to our entire alleyway, 4′ x 56′. The exhibit will run the second Friday of October through the end of February 2022.
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Deadline: 10 Nov 2021
Artist/s will have full range of artistic choice in theme, and can choose from any of Allez! Missoula’s layout options. Murals are featured in a custom-made framing system. Because of this, exact measurements and layouts of proposed artwork are necessary. Check out the guidelines on the “Painting Process and Wall Layout” page from the link above. View and click to download layout options. Use these to design your proposed artwork. Follow the measurements provided to make your own layout or insert your images into the forms provided.
All Allez! 2022 Mural Exhibit accepted artists will be paid for their work depending on size.
- Digital artwork file: $300 per image used
- 4’x16’ Mural (full bay): $2,200
- 4’x32′ Mural (2 bays): $4,400
- 4’x56’ Mural (3 bays, full alley): $7,700
Allez! is a unique opportunity in that the artist’s work is featured as both public art and as a gallery setting. The artwork is fully visible to public view and available for purchase. The alley is attached to Radius Gallery, the most prestigious gallery in Missoula with a roster of collectors from all over the world. Allez! creates unique artist interview documentaries free of charge to the artist.
About Allez! Missoula
Allez! is a revolving outdoor urban art gallery which activates the alleyway of the beautiful 120 N Higgins Avenue building in the Original Townsite of Missoula. They engage, promote, and sponsor a wide variety of artists and artistic visions. Allez! provides a custom display system on a lighted alley wall for showcasing quality artworks that represent the region. They strive for ways to create a tangible, stable economy for artists by partnering with other community organizations, nonprofits, schools, and businesses to promote sponsored public events.
Allez! envisions a Missoula downtown with all alleys activated with good lighting, mediated blight, beautiful artistic expression with safe, and welcoming public-access for all. Allez!:
- Values a public art space for all to share safely
- Envisions a stable economic framework for working artists
- Strives to remedy downtown’s visual blight, one panel at a time
- Provides space for education and workshops
- Believes that the courage and creativity of the human spirit is worth championing
For more information, contact lillian.allezmissoula@gmail.com.
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[Sponsored Listing] The Hopper Prize announces a call for artists for their Fall 2021 artist grants, offering 2 grants in the amount of $3,500 and 4 grants in the amount of $1,000. Grants will be awarded through an open call art competition juried by leading contemporary curators.
The Hopper Prize was established in order to increase the recognition of artwork created by artists and photographers. The aim is to advance artists’ careers by providing them with unrestricted financial support that is coupled with a platform for increased visibility.
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Deadline: 16 Nov 2021
The Hopper Prize is open to all artists aged 18 and older working in any media. There are no restrictions on genre, subject matter, or media. Entries in all media are welcome. The Hopper Prize is committed to supporting artists from diverse cultural backgrounds at all stages of their professional careers. All artists are encouraged to apply.
Total Awards: $11,000.00 USD for Visual Artists
- $3,500.00 – 2 artists will each receive a $3,500 (USD) grant
- $1,000.00 – 4 artists will each receive a $1,000 (USD) grant
- 30 artists will have their work archived on The Hopper Prize’ website
- A selection from the submissions will be featured on The Hopper Prize’ Instagram
- Additional exposure will be available to winners through Journal: Insights into Contemporary Art
Jurors for the current awards are Tyler Blackwell, Associate Curator of the Blaffer Art Museum and Caitlin Julia Rubin, Associate Curator and Director of Programs of the Rose Art Museum. Jurors will select 6 artists from the open call who will each receive an unrestricted cash grant. 2 artists will win $3,500 and 4 artists will win $1,000. Grant awards are unrestricted and may be used any way the recipients choose. The jurors will also select a shortlist of 30 artists who will have their work archived on the Hopper Prize’ website.
When submitting your work, you will have the option to opt-in to be considered for possible featured posts on the Hooper Prize’ Instagram, where they currently reach an audience of over 60k. Editors will be featuring select submissions on a rolling basis prior to the application deadline.
In addition to grant awards, the shortlist, and Instagram reach, The Hopper Prize will provide a platform for exposure via the online Journal: Insights Into Contemporary Art. This digital publication gives artists a new channel to amplify their voice while providing an in-depth look at their work, practice, and background. Grant recipients and shortlisted artists will receive the opportunity to publish an interview to include any work of their choosing as a means of providing continued support beyond the open call.
Recent Winners
- Abi Salami, Dallas
- Abigail Lucien, Baltimore
- Hasani Sahlehe, Atlanta
- Laura Berger, Chicago
- Jennifer Sirey, Brooklyn
- Cielo Felix-Hernandez, Richmond
- Akihiro Boujoh, Utrecht
- Joey Solomon, Brooklyn
- Lynnea Holland-Weiss, Cleveland
- Susan Chen, Hartford
- Yannick Lowery, Philadelphia
- Andrea Ferrero, Mexico City
- Christopher Desanges, Boston
- Dominic Hawgood, London
- Kira Dominguez Hultgren, San Francisco
- Vikesh Kapoor, Sunset Pines
- Adrian Coleman, London, United Kingdom
- Trish Tillman, New York, New York
- Nicholas Moenich, Brooklyn, New York
- Elena Bajo, Los Angeles, California
- Vanessa da Silva, London, United Kingdom
- Mark Baugh-Sasaki, San Francisco, California
- Genevieve Cohn, Bloomington, Indiana
- Sydney Cook, Baltimore, Maryland
- Jinyong Park, London, United Kingdom
- Isabel Yellin, Los Angeles, California
- Alex Callender, Northampton, Massachusetts
- Alicia Eggert, Denton, Texas
- Daniel McCarthy Clifford, Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Juan Giraldo, New York, New York
- Maja Ruznic, Los Angeles, California
- Letitia Huckaby, Benbrook, Texas
- Tracy Kerdman, Saugerties, New York
- Lebohang Kganye, Johannesburg, South Africa
- Christopher Meerdo, Chicago, Illinois
- Erik Parra, San Francisco, California
About The Hopper Prize
The Hopper prize made their $3,500 Artist Grants application simple to reduce the stress of submitting your work and save you time. The application is short and can be completed in under 20 minutes.
To apply for a grant, you only need to submit this information:
- Name and Email
- Instagram Username (optional)
- Up to 10 Image or Video attachments
- Artwork captions
- Artist Statement and Biography (optional)
The Hopper Prize collaborates with contemporary curators holding prominent positions at major institutions in order to select grant winners. The open call provides you with a direct path to get your work in front of these forward thinking exhibition makers.
For more information, contact info@hopperprize.org.
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[Sponsored Listing] Artist’s Eye Books announce a call for artists and illustrators for Artist’s Eye On Galway, a beautifully finished publication prominently displaying the works of art that celebrate the wonderful locations and landmarks of Galway City and County, Ireland. It will be a visual tour of these places as viewed through the artists’ eyes.
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Deadline: 31 Jan 2022
Artists will feature prominently in a published book, along with their details and links to their website/social media accounts. These will be promoted nationally, online, and to a private list of art collectors and patrons.
From the works accepted to our publication, a number of these will be featured in a physical launching exhibition which will be held in Galway City, Ireland, in a prominent city-centre hotel during July 2022 when tourists flock to this thriving city of the arts.
About Artist’s Eye Books
Artist’s Eye Books is founded and run by a group of local artists. Being artists, they understand how difficult it can be to get exposure and exhibition time. They are dedicated to giving this access to other artists. Artist’s Eye has teamed up with a local independent publisher who is delighted to be able to organize the publishing and printing aspects of the project. The publisher has a track record of creating good-quality printed books.
For more information, contact artistseyegalway@gmail.com.