Alternatives
Each month, Colossal shares alternatives for artists and designers, together with open calls, grants, fellowships, and residencies. In the event you’d wish to checklist a possibility right here, please get in contact at [email protected]. You can even be part of our month-to-month Alternatives Publication.
$1,800 Innovate Grants for Artwork + PictureFeatured
Innovate Grant awards two $1,800 grants every quarter to 1 visible artist and one photographer. As well as, twelve candidates will obtain honorable mentions, be featured on the web site, and be part of a rising group. Worldwide artists and photographers working in any medium are eligible.
Deadline: 11:59 p.m. PST on September 12, 2024.
Open Calls
RAISE YOUR ZINE! third Version (Worldwide)
THE DOCKS invitations photographers worldwide to undergo the third version of RAISE YOUR ZINE! Chosen candidates will produce a fanzine and exhibit work on the RAISE YOUR ZINE! competition in Naples. There’s a €15 software charge.
Deadline: 11:59 p.m. CET on September 1, 2024.
Archtober’s “Greetings From…” Postcard Competitors (New York Metropolis)
The Middle for Structure and Archtober have teamed up for a contest that asks artists to design a 4×6-inch postcard consultant of the New York Metropolis they envision. Three profitable designs might be printed and distributed on the Middle for Structure all through October 2024. All are invited to submit—architects, illustrators, design fanatics, and so on.—and there’s a $500 money prize.
Deadline: 5 p.m. ET on September 3, 2024.
AAP Journal 42 Shapes (Worldwide)
All About Picture is searching for cohesive our bodies of labor for its forty second concern centered round shapes and “the elements that abstract into light, texture, shape, and shadow.” Winners will obtain $1,000 awards, and the submission charge is $30 per three photographs.
Deadline: September 3, 2024.
Refrain Arts ‘Featured Artists’ 2024/2025 (U.Okay.)
A brand new visitor curator overseeing this yr’s Refrain Arts program will choose as much as 10 artists to hitch the group. Chosen artists might be included in group exhibitions, a guide, workshops, and occasions, and obtain steering from the curator.
Deadline: Septemner 8, 2024.
Artadia Awards (Boston and Atlanta)
Three visible artists will obtain unrestricted funds of $15,000, and one artist will obtain the Marciano Artadia Award of $25,000. Honorariums can even be supplied to finalists.
Deadline: September 15, 2024, for Boston, and October 1, 2024, for Atlanta.
SPIE Worldwide Day of Mild Picture Contest (Worldwide)
Photographers of all ranges are invited to undergo this yr’s contest below the theme of “The Power of Light,” which considers how gentle impacts each side of life. One winner will obtain $2,500 with further prizes starting from $500 to $1,000.
Deadline: September 16, 2024.
2024 Foundwork Artist Prize: Worldwide Open Name (Worldwide)
One artist will obtain an unrestricted $10,000 grant, and that honoree and three shortlisted artists can even be invited for interviews to additional public engagement with their practices. Artists should register and preserve a printed profile on Foundwork with a minimum of six artworks and an artist assertion all through the 2024 choice interval.
Deadline: 11:59 p.m. PT on September 26, 2024.
Gen-Artwork: Exploring Creativity Throughout the Generations (U.S.)
GEN-ART is a nationwide all-ages open juried exhibition inviting artists to submit as much as three works as a private illustration of their era. This open name welcomes all mediums and types, together with sculpture, set up, digital, and literature. There’s a $30 software charge.
Deadline: October 4, 2024.
The Bennett Prize (Worldwide)
Ladies figurative realist painters are eligible for this prize, which provides one winner $50,000 and a solo present, with a further finalist receiving $10,000. There’s a $40 software charge.
Deadline: October 4, 2024.
Passepartout Picture Prize (Worldwide)
Open to any type, course of, or material, this annual prize provides €500, an exhibition in Rome, and a publication. Enter earlier than June 10, 2024, for the early charge of €20.
Deadline: October 7, 2024.
NSMA Worldwide Portray Competitors (Worldwide)
Open to professionals and college students, this competitors focuses on modern realism in portray, and all material is welcome. One winner will obtain $25,000, and finalists might be exhibited on the New Salem Museum and Academy of Tremendous Artwork.
Deadline: 11:59 p.m. EST on January 15, 2025.
Sony World Pictures Awards 2025 (Worldwide)
Open to photographers worldwide capturing on any system, this contest consists of high prizes of $25,000, a solo exhibition in London, Sony digital imaging gear, press and media protection, and extra.
Deadline: January 10, 2025.
Grants
Decrease Manhattan Cultural Council Arts Grants (Manhattan)
Artists, collectives, and nonprofits are eligible for as much as $16,000 in funding for arts programming in any self-discipline in Manhattan.
Deadline: 5 p.m. ET on September 10, 2024.
Important Impacts Environmental Pictures Grants and Mentorships (Worldwide)
Important Impacts is providing one $20,000 grant to a longtime environmental photographer within the U.S., together with six $5,000 grants to rising photographers from throughout the globe. Along with the grants, the group will choose ten rising photographers to take part in an intensive mentorship program and invite all candidates to a web-based mentorship collection.
Deadline: September 15, 2024.
Rauschenberg Emergency Grants (U.S.)
These grants of as much as $5,000 help direct dental, medical, or psychological health-related therapy bills. Artists working within the visible arts, movie, video, digital, digital arts, and choreography are eligible.
Deadline: 5 p.m. ET on October 1, 2024.
VIA Artwork Fund Creative Manufacturing Grant (Worldwide)
This grant awards particular person artists, nonprofit organizations, and establishments between $25,000 and $100,000 to fee works exterior museum or gallery partitions, throughout the public realm, or in nontraditional exhibition environments. Tasks should have a confirmed exhibition venue.
Deadline: November 4, 2024.
The Adolf and Esther Gottlieb Emergency Grant (Worldwide)
The Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Emergency Grant program gives one-time interim monetary help to certified painters, printmakers, and sculptors whose wants resulted from an unexpected catastrophic incident and who lack the assets to fulfill that scenario. Awardees usually obtain $5,000, as much as $15,000.
Deadline: Rolling.
Adobe Inventive Residency Neighborhood Fund (Ukraine)
Adobe’s Inventive Residency Neighborhood Fund commissions visible artists to create firm tasks on a rolling foundation. Awardees will obtain between $500 and $5,000.
Deadline: Rolling.
Pollock-Krasner Basis Grant (Worldwide)
The muse welcomes purposes from actively exhibiting visible artists who’re painters, sculptors, and artists who work on paper, together with printmakers. Grants are meant for one yr and vary as much as $50,000. The artist’s circumstances decide the scale of the grant, {and professional} exhibition historical past might be thought of.
Deadline: Rolling.
Residencies, Fellowships, & Extra
Kimmel Harding Nelson Middle for the Arts Residency (Worldwide)
The middle provides as much as 70 two-to-eight-week residencies yearly to visible artists, writers, composers, and interdisciplinary artists. Residents obtain $175 per week, housing, and a personal studio. There’s a $35 software charge.
Deadline: September 1, 2024.
The Hodder Fellowship (Worldwide)
Open throughout disciplines, this fellowship gives $90,000 to artists who spend ten months at Princeton College. No formal educating is required.
Deadline: 11:59 p.m. ET on September 10, 2024.
Princeton Arts Fellowship (Worldwide)
Early profession visible artists, filmmakers, poets, novelists, playwrights, designers, administrators, and efficiency artists who would profit from two years of educating and dealing at Princeton are eligible for this fellowship. A $ 90,000-a-year stipend is supplied.
Deadline: 11:59 p.m. ET on September 10, 2024.
MacDowell Residency (Worldwide)
Round 300 artists are awarded fellowships yearly, which provide a studio, housing, and all meals for as much as six weeks. Monetary help is obtainable to reimburse journey, lease, misplaced earnings, and childcare prices.
Deadline: 11:59 p.m. ET on September 10, 2024.
Middle for E-book Arts Artist Residency (New York)
As much as six rising and mid-career artists might be awarded this year-long residency, which features a $1,500 stipend of $1500, as much as $6,000 in programs provided at CBA, and 24-hour entry to CBA’s printing and binding studios in Manhattan.
Deadline: September 15, 2024.
ARTS Southeast’s ON::View Artist Residency Program (Worldwide)
Purposes are actually open for the On::View Artist Residency Program in Savannah, Georgia. The residency helps artists working in all media. Chosen artists acquire entry to a high-visibility studio area to finish a brand new challenge, proceed an in-progress endeavor, or to conduct analysis exploring conceptual, materials, performative, and social practices.
Deadline: 11:59 p.m. ET on September 16, 2024.
Tyler College of Artwork and Structure Edgar Heap of Birds Household Artist Residency (Worldwide)
This five-month residency is for an artist whose work is targeted on the historical past and lived expertise of North American federally acknowledged tribal residents and who works in artwork and activism. The residency consists of a person studio, a $1,500 supplies finances, a solo exhibition, and a $3,500 month-to-month stipend.
Deadline: September 23, 2024.
McColl Middle Summer season 2025 Guardian + Educator Artists-in-Residence (Worldwide)
Mother and father and educators who in any other case wouldn’t have the chance to take part in McColl Middle residency are eligible for this program. Non-public housing, studio area, and a $6,000 stipend can be found, together with shared 3D, ceramics, and media labs and a woodshop.
Deadline: September 25, 2024.
2025 Museum of Glass Visiting Artist (Worldwide)
A Visiting Artist Residency within the Scorching Store permits artists to discover new concepts and strategies or push the boundaries of a present collection. Candidates could usually work in any medium.
Deadline: Midnight PT on November 2, 2024.
The Bray Artist Residencies (Worldwide)
By means of summer time and long-term studio experiences, this program provides the chance to work inside a group of worldwide artists actively creating new work.
Deadline: December 19, 2024.