PLOP!: Call for Writers
Deadline: September 6, 2010
PLOP! Literary Series is a monthly series hosting writers and musicians from across the Northwest in an intimate house setting. Providing artists with an opportunity to challenge, shape and engage their work and the audience by thinking in new ways about space. With support from local small business sponsors, we provide you with only the best in performance, fresh seasonal pies, and drinks on the house.
Center for Documentary Studies/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography
Deadline: September 8, 2010
The Center for Documentary Studies (CDS) at Duke University and The Honickman Foundation (THF), co-sponsor this prestigious biennial prize for American photographers. The only prize of its kind, the CDS / Honickman First Book Prize competition is open to American photographers of any age who have never published a book-length work and who use their cameras for creative exploration, whether it be of places, people, or communities; of the natural or social world; of beauty at large or the lack of it; of objective or subjective realities.
Residency: Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
Deadline: September 15, 2010
Situated among 400 acres of rolling Blue Ridge farmland, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in Amherst, VA, offers two-week to two-month residencies for writers, composers, and visual artists from around the world. Residents receive meals and private studios and bedrooms. The Center asks residents to contribute to the cost of their residency if able, but financial ability does not figure into the selection process.
Arteles Residency Program, Haukijärvi, Finland
Deadline: September 17, 2010
For Winter 2010 and Spring 2011 Arteles is calling open-minded creative participants from all disciplines such as music/sound, fine art, photography, contemporary research, film/video, multidisciplinary arts, installation, painting, new media etc. Also other fields of creativity are now open such as graphic design and fashion. The selection of artists is done by the Arteles administration along with selected network members or invited creative professionals.
Writers Residency: Whidbey Island
Deadline: September 23, 2010
The Hedgebrook Writers in Residence Program on Whidbey Island, WA, is accepting applications for its 2011 residency season (February – November). Residencies range from two to six weeks and are open to women writers from around the world. Residents live in handcrafted cottages on the property’s 48 acres of forest and meadow with access to nearby Double Bluff beach, and enjoy a nightly communal dinner prepared with locally and organically grown food.
Second Use’s Salvage Art Contests
Deadline: September 25, 2010
Calling all Artists, Do-it-Yourselfers, and Crafty Creative Types for our annual Salvage Art Contests, a celebration of all that is great about salvage – the search, the inspiration, and the unexpected result.So, pull out your paintbrush or hammer and get cracking on the next great salvage masterpiece. Prizes awarded.
University of Iowa Press: The Iowa Short Fiction Award
Deadline: September 30, 2010
Any writer who has not previously published a volume of prose fiction is eligible to enter the competition. Previously entered manuscripts that have been revised may be resubmitted. Writers are still eligible if they have published a volume of poetry or any work in a language other than English or if they have self-published a work in a small print run. Writers are still eligible if they are living abroad or are non-US citizens writing in English. Current University of Iowa students are not eligible.
The American Academy in Berlin: Residency Fellowship
Deadline: October 1, 2010
The Academy welcomes emerging as well as established scholars, writers, and professionals who wish to engage in independent study in Berlin. Around two dozen Berlin Prizes are conferred annually. Past Berlin Prize recipients have included historians, economists, poets, art historians, journalists, legal scholars, anthropologists, musicologists, public policy experts, and writers, among others. The Academy does not accept project proposals in mathematics and the hard sciences.
Vermont Studio Center Residency
Deadline: October 1, 2010
The Studio Center provides 4-12 week studio residencies on an historic 30-building campus along the Gihon River in Johnson, Vermont, a village in the heart of the northern Green Mountains.VSC awards a number of Fellowships for 4-week residencies throughout the year. Open to all artists and writers. In addition to VSC Fellowships, a variety of special fellowships are also available for full or partial funding.
T-shirt Design Contest: World’s Fair Anniversary
Deadline: October 20, 2010
Seattle Center Foundation invites sketchers, designers, artists and all with a creative mind to make a delightful, inspiring and future-focused t-shirt design for the Arts, Culture & Design theme for The Next Fifty, the 50th Anniversary of the 1962 Seattle World’s Fair.
Call to Artists & Curators: The Center for Wooden Boats
Deadline: October 31, 2010
The Boathouse Gallery is pleased to announce a call to Artists + Curators for solo shows and curated exhibits for semi-annual shows at The Center for Wooden Boats [CWB] in Seattle. Artists + Curators with interest in water or waterways, craft or craftsmanship, in the real or the abstract are encouraged to apply. For each exhibit, the artist or curator will participate in CWB’s 3rd Friday Speaker Series as part of the opening festivities, sharing their inspiration, process and insights into the show with the public. Contact: gall...@cwb.org
International Film Event, Mono No Aware, Brooklyn
Deadline: November 5, 2010
MONO NO AWARE is an international film event open to any person or group of persons making work that incorporates Super8mm or 16mm film format as part of that presentation. (Expanded Cinema) In previous years 16 film was blended with dance performance, Super8 with live spoken word/audience involvement, & multi-projections with live jazz/musical devices. Dancers, Sculptors, Musicians, Theorists, Scientists, Athletes, Visual artists, everyone, AND Film-makers are encouraged to submit.
Gallery 110: Call for Submissions
Deadline: November 1, 2010
Gallery 110 is a non-profit collective gallery of professional artists located in Seattle, Washington.The Call for Submissions is for an international juried show titled “Couplings”. Gallery 110 is calling for artwork that explores personal relationships that celebrate parings and the power of the bonds they create. Juror is Rock Hushka, Curator of Contemporary and Northwest Art for the Tacoma Art Museum in Tacoma, WA.
Northwest Film Forum: Pocket Film Challenge
Deadline: November 8, 2010
Northwest Film Forum announces their latest obstruction for the frisky filmmaker: The Pocket Film Challenge-a small screen, big picture experience.Filmmakers are asked to use mobile phones to shoot and edit three-minute, one-take films. One-take-films are shot without interruption, from the moment of turning the camera on to the moment of turning the camera off. Any text or music must be added using only what is technologically capable with the mobile device. We’ll put all submitted small screen images in our big screen cinema.
If you’re interested in opportunities in public art, please be sure to check out our extensive list of possibilities for public artists, including local, national and international calls.
Photo: © 2010, Arteles Swimming Spot, Arteles Residency Program, Finland
