The following listings are for artist calls happening outside 4Culture and compiled as a resource for you! Please contact the appropriate organization above if you have questions about a listing. If you would like to see your own “call for artist” listed on Blog4Culture, please email it to i...@4culture.org with “blog” in the subject line.
The Playwrights Foundation
Deadline: November 30, 2009
The Playwrights Foundation’s programs are open to all playwrights writing in English and living in North America. Each play submitted is directly considered for the Bay Area Playwrights Festival
White Pine Press Poetry Prize
Deadline November 30, 2009
The Sixteenth Annual White Pine Press Poetry Prize competition will open for submissions on July 1. The award consists of a $1,000 cash award and publication by White Pine Press. Manuscripts must be between 60 and 80 pages in length. Poems must be original, but may have appeared in magazines, anthologies, or chapbooks. Translations are not eligible.
Fish Short Story Prize
Deadline: November 30, 2009
The Fish Short Story Prize welcomes stories on any theme written in English, with a maximum of 5,000 words. The Anthology will be launched during the West Cork Literary Festival, July 2010. Publication in the anthology has been a stepping stone for many into successful writing careers.
Residency at Sculpture Space
Deadline: December 1, 2009
Sculpture Space, Utica, NY, invites artists to apply for a residency between September 2010 and August 2011. Twenty new artists are selected each year; each receives a $2000 stipend to help with residency expenses. A maximum of four artists stay at any one time, for ample workspace. The Artist Review Committee, with one rotating guest panelist, makes the selection in January.
STIFF
Deadline: December 1, 2009
Seattle’s True Independent Film Festival is accepting submissions for STIFF 2010. There is no fee to submit and the winner receives a one hour meeting with a executive from Hollywood Video. This event lasts for ten days with afterparties nightly.
Residency, Lower East Side Printshop
Deadline: December 2, 2009
The Lower East Side Printshop invites emerging artists of all disciplines to apply for the 2010 Special Editions Residency, a competitive residency program that allows emerging artists to create new work through an exploration of printmaking. The Printshop offers an opportunity for artists to complete an important new body of work in collaboration with our experienced master printers, entirely sponsored by the Printshop.
19th Annual Underwood New Music Readings & Commission
Deadline: December 4, 2009
American Composers Orchestra announces its 19th Annual Underwood New Music Reading Sessions to be held in New York City at Miller Theatre at Columbia University on May 20-22, 2010. Up to six composers in the early stages of their careers will be selected to participate. One will be awarded a $15,000 commission to write a new work to be performed by ACO.
Camera Club of New York 2010 Darkroom Residency
Deadline: December 5, 2009
CCNY invites emerging photographers who are not enrolled in college or graduate photo programs to apply for a three-month darkroom residency at its facility at 336 West 37th Street, New York City. A jury will select four residents for the 2010 year. Residents will receive cash stipends and will have access to CCNY’s darkrooms and shooting studio, with up to three printing/shooting sessions per week during a three-month term.
Residencies, PACT Zollverein, Germany
Deadline: December 7, 2009
PACT Zollverein runs a residency programme, for the development and realization of projects and productions, which is open to professional artists from Germany and abroad, working in the fields of dance, performance or media art. Awarded twice yearly by a jury, residencies provide artists with rehearsal space and local accommodation. By arrangement and subject to requirement, PACT Zollverein also offers its residents technical support and advisory assistance with press and public relations and dramaturgy.
Scientists, Technologists and Artists Generating Exploration
Deadline: December 15, 2009
STAGE – Scientists, Technologists and Artists Generating Exploration – is a unique collaboration between the Professional Artists Lab, a dynamic artistic laboratory, and the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI), an esteemed science institute, both housed at the University of California, Santa Barbara. The prestigious STAGE International Script Competition, which awards a $10,000 prize to the best new play about science and technology, is now accepting scripts for its fourth round.
Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, Inc.
Deadline: December 15, 2009
The Foundation wishes to encourage visual artists who have dedicated their lives to developing their art, regardless of their level of commercial success. This program was conceived in order to recognize and support the serious, fully-committed artist, and we hope these individuals will consider applying. Twelve grants are awarded each year.
Residency, La Galerie, France
Deadline: December 16, 2009
La Galerie, a Contemporary Art Centre located in the suburbs of Paris, hosts each year a foreign curator in residence for a period of three months. First organised in 2006, the aim of the residency is to put on an exhibition at La Galerie within the context of an art centre, and to meet artists and professionals working in the contemporary art field in France. Information: laga...@noisylesec.fr
Seattle’s City Hall Galleries
Deadline: January 5, 2010
The Office invites community and artist groups to submit proposals for exhibitions in two City Hall gallery spaces in 2010 and early 2011. The galleries—the City Hall Lobby Gallery and the Anne Focke Gallery—focus on artworks that reflect the broad diversity of Seattle’s communities and showcase the work of regional artists, nonprofit organizations and community groups.
