Artist Funding Opportunities Vol. 8
New Jersey State Council on the Arts | Folk & Traditional Arts Fellowship | The Folk & Traditional Arts Project (FTAP) grant program provides emerging to mid-career folk and traditional artists access to opportunities that significantly advance skills in their art form. For this grant opportunity, emerging to mid-career artists are individuals with more than five years of experience in their art forms. Applicants may request up to $10,000 to cover the costs of a structured learning experience opportunity in their art form. Proposed projects must demonstrate measurable outcome that the applicant intends to achieve, which futhers their work in their folk and traditional art form. The proposed outcome must support artmaking skills in folk/traditional art forms that are passed on between two or more artists in an ongoing, structured relationship (i.e. mentor/apprentice, small group learning, and/or directed research). | Application | Intent to Apply Deadline: December 6, 2023
DC Gallery & Studio | Holiday Shoppe Open Call to Artists | DC Gallery & Studio is seeking artists to participate in our upcoming holiday exhibition. Open Call for jewelry, woodworking, small original art, prints, cards, glass, fiber art, ceramics, and unique items of all mediums. All items must be tagged for sale, with artist name included, display racks/stands are encouraged but not mandatory. Consignment sales: 60% to artists. Opening reception: Friday, December 15 6pm-8pm. Submit images to Danielle@dcgallerystudio.com | Deadline: December 8, 2023
The Puffin Foundation | Annual Artist Grant | We will be accepting requests for applications for the 2024 grant cycle from 9/15/23-12/1/23 for projects in fine arts, music, photography, and environmental artistic activism. | Application | Deadline: December 2, 2023
West Windsor Arts | Open Call to Artists: Manifesting Beloved Community | West Windsor Arts Council and Art Against Racism, (both 501(c)(3) organizations), invite artists to submit artwork for “Manifesting Beloved Community” a juried exhibition of work exploring the relationship of community health with race, racism, and efforts to create an antiracist society. “Manifesting Beloved Community” invites artists to visualize what it means to create or live in a nation or world designed around social and economic justice beyond the ills of structural racism. Inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., “Beloved Community” represents a global vision where all people share in the wealth of a healed planet. We ask that artists explore one or more themes in their work that relate to: Economic justice, Healthcare, Housing, Employment, The environment, and Cultural expression. Selected work will also be shown in online galleries at Artagainstracism.org and WestWindsorArts.org | Application | Deadline: December 5, 2023
Coffee Table Art Book | Call for Artists | The Coffee Table Art Book aims to celebrate unique and diverse artist perspectives by creating a community around one thing we have in common: love for coffee. We are seeking artwork for a new project created by and for art and coffee lovers featuring a curated selection of coffee-inspired artwork. We want this project to be fun and reflect the artists' personalities. Interested artists (worldwide) are encouraged to submit their work below for consideration. | Application | Deadline: January 31, 2023
New Jersey History and Historic Preservation Conference | Call for Posters | The Poster Session is an opportunity for undergraduate students, graduate students, new professionals, and organizations to present project-based work in historic preservation, history, archaeology, architecture, planning, museum studies, and/or public history in a creative, visual format. Posters chosen for display at the conference will have the opportunity to be entered in the Poster Competition. Through a generous donation by the New Jersey Council for the Humanities, a first-place prize of $250, a second-place prize of $150, and a third-place prize of $100 will be awarded to the top three posters. | Application | Deadline: March 1, 2024
Art Fluent | Call for Art: Emotional Thresholds | Art Fluent invites artists worldwide to submit artwork to our online exhibit, EMOTIONAL THRESHOLDS. Navigating the edge of our feelings is a complex process. Art is a channel that can help us explore emotions we experience when confronting challenging situations, heartaches, or personal growth. Embrace the power of feeling as a creative muse and delve into its boundless depth and complexity—joy, sorrow, love, fear, hope, and every sentiment that colors the human experience. We seek to celebrate the rich tapestry of emotions that make us human, the emotion that brings us to the edge of our feelings. Show us EMOTIONAL THRESHOLDS from your perspective. | Application | Deadline: December 15, 2023
Create! Magazine | Call for Art Print Issue #43 |Create! Magazine is now accepting submissions for Issue #43, curated by NYC curator, Jennifer Rizzo. This is a fantastic opportunity for artists to get their work seen by a broad audience, including artists, curators, collectors, art professionals, and art enthusiasts. We understand the importance of visibility for emerging artists, and we are dedicated to offering this platform to help you gain the recognition you deserve. Submit your artwork now for a chance to be featured print and digital issue! This issue will feature the work of selected artists working in a wide array of media, disciplines and creative backgrounds. Each published artist gets a two-page feature or more. | Application | Deadline: December 15, 2023
Tiger Strikes Asteroid | Annual Open Call | Tiger Strikes Asteroid Philadelphia (TSA Philadelphia) is pleased to announce an open call to our annual three-person exhibition, (re)FOCUS at Tiger Strikes Asteroid. This group exhibition will run from January 20, 2024, to February 24, 2024, and will be one of many exhibitions taking part in (re)FOCUS: Then and Now, a city-wide 50th-anniversary celebration of Philadelphia Focuses on Women in the Visual Arts/1974. TSA Philadelphia invites visual artists to submit work for an opportunity to be featured in a curated exhibition that reimagines, questions, and/or explores themes centered around gender identity, representation and visibility, marginalization, social equality, self-determination, and/or empowerment. | Application | Deadline: December 20, 2023
Explore all funding opportunities here: https://www.sjca.net/learn/resource-library/funding-grants/
