Artist Opportunities: June 2024
Our curated list of artist opportunities for June 2024, including grants, calls for art, residencies, and more.
Jazz Road Tours
Deadline: June 1, 2024
Jazz Road Tours offer grants of up to $15,000 to develop tours into communities across the country. The grant supports small, three- to six-site tours at an array of venue types, often in rural communities and other areas traditionally underserved by the genre. Applications now open for tours occurring October 1, 2024 - April 1, 2025.
McColl Center Artist-in-Residence Program
Deadline: June 1, 2024
Charlotte, NC
McColl Center's Artist-in-Residence Program is an internationally acclaimed program that serves as a catalyst for artistic growth for emerging and mid-career artists. Artists-in-Residence receive private housing adjacent to McColl Center, a large-scale private studio in Uptown Charlotte, curatorial guidance, marketing and PR support, and a $6,000 stipend. Artists have the freedom to fully focus on artistic research, exploration, and creation while also engaging with McColl Center’s Igniters community and the local creative sector. Artists also have access to shared labs and studios including a 3D lab, ceramics, darkroom, media lab, and woodshop.
Specific Cultural Projects
Deadline: June 3, 2024
Florida
The Specific Cultural Project (SCP) grant by The Florida Division of Arts and Culture is designed to fund a single cultural project, program, exhibition or series. The grant activities must support the mission of the organization or artist and further the state's cultural objectives. Florida-based organizations and individuals are both eligible to apply.
Colony Emerging Design Studio Residency
Deadline: June 3, 2024
NYC
The Colony Residency in NYC works to introduce the international design market to emerging American talent. Through an 8 month incubator program resulting in an exclusive collection, The Residency ushers forth a new generation of designers, artists and makers into the contemporary design vernacular of today. Colony will also fund up to $1,700 worth of studio fees for residents.
2024 Dance & Movement Awards
Deadline: June 6, 2024
California
The Gerbode Foundation’s supports the creation and development of new dance and movement-based projects by California choreographers, culture bearers, traditional and tradition-based artists, and movement-based artists. The new dance works will be commissioned and produced by Bay Area nonprofit artist-centered organizations that can apply for grants of $50,000 each.
Flow Photo Contest
Deadline: June 7, 2024
$6 application fee
The Flow Photo Contest presented by MPB (previously known as the Whalebone Magazine Photo Contest) will award $5,000 cash prizes for each of their five categories: Film, Water, Human, Adventure, and Happy. Winners will be announced later in July 2024 and featured in The Photo Issue of Flow Trip Magazine. Two additional finalists in each category will also win $800, and $100 for honorable mentions. All entries automatically receive a chance for their image(s) to be published in The Photo Issue of The Flow Trip Magazine, and a portion of all entries will be donated to Re:wild.
10X10X10XTIETON
Deadline: June 7, 2024
$30 application fee for first two submissions, $14 for each additional artwork
Tieton Arts & Humanities in Tieton, WA announces the 15th annual international juried exhibition, 10x10x10xTieton. Artists are invited to create artwork no larger than 10 inches in any dimension, featuring about 150 artists from around the world. With no media restrictions, the exhibition presents a broad range of pieces, from sculpture to painting, sound collage, book arts, photography and everything in between.
BEYOND THE SCARS
Deadline: June 7, 2024
$25 application fee for first submission, $10 for each additional entry
Art Fluent invites artists worldwide to submit artwork to their online exhibit, BEYOND THE SCARS. All accepted pieces will be displayed in their online gallery at art-fluent.com. The Best of Show will be awarded $750, and two Director’s Choices will be awarded $250 each.
Outta Pocket
Deadline: June 7, 2024
$25 application fee
Outta Pocket is an upcoming exhibition at Manhattan Arts Center that highlights creative work using clay or ceramics in an atypical, non-traditional, eclectic or eccentric way. This could include work utilizing mixed media, cold or alternative surfaces, new technologies, or emerging hybrid practices.
2024 Black Cinema Collective Filmmaker Microgrant
Deadline: June 9, 2024
Black Cinema Collective’s juried grant offering two Black filmmakers $7,500 each towards a short or feature film of any genre in post-production. Awardees will also receive 6-month subscriptions to MUBI and opportunities for bi-coastal screenings with Northwest Film Forum and New York African Film Festival.
Artist Professional Development Grants
Deadline: June 9, 2024
Kentucky & Indiana
Great Meadows Foundation provides grants that promote the growth and development of visual art in Kentucky by helping improve the critical skills, resources, knowledge, and connections of fine artists. Grants range between $500 and $6,000. Applicants must reside in the Great Meadows Foundation region which encompasses the 120 counties of Kentucky, and the Greater Louisville area of Clark and Floyd counties in Indiana.
2025 Vilcek Prizes for Creative Promise in Visual Arts and Curatorial Work
Deadline: June 10, 2024
The Vilcek Foundation will award three Vilcek Prizes for Creative Promise of $50,000 each to young, immigrant visual artists and three Vilcek Prizes for Creative Promise of $50,000 each to young, immigrant curators who demonstrate outstanding early achievement in their field.
Generations of Multitude
Deadline: June 10, 2024
$10 application fee
SaveArtSpace x PLAYGROUND DETROIT announce an open call for immigrant and first-generation artists to submit new or previously shown artwork that demonstrates the beauty and struggles of holding many contrasting priorities close to you and the challenge of finding your whole in a world that asks for concise oneness and the quick read. Curated by Martyna Alexander, they welcome all works inherently about or influenced by an artist’s split identity and the idea of fitting into multiple worlds, cultures, or ideologies. This is an opportunity to have your work placed on billboard ad space in Metro Detroit, Michigan.
Headlands Center for the Arts Grants & Residencies
Deadline: June 10, 2024
$25-$45 application fees
The Artist in Residence (AIR) program located on Northern California’s Pacific Coast in the Marin Headlands offers fully sponsored residencies and studios to local, national, and international artists working in all disciplines. Application fee: $45.
The Chamberlain Award is a fully sponsored artist residency and $10,000 prize to support an artist working in the social practice discipline. This award supports artists employing non-traditional media to creatively engage with social concerns of the day. Application fee: $25.
The Chiaro Award is a fully sponsored artist residency and $15,000 prize for two mid-career painters residing in the United States. The Chiaro Award residency includes a private studio, and inclusion in a dynamic network of Headlands’ creative practitioners and thinkers. Application fee: $25.
17th International ARC Salon Competition
Deadline: June 13, 2024
$93 application fee for first entry, $73 for additional entries
Dedicated to 21st Century Realism, the International ARC Salon will provide over $130,000 in cash awards and international recognition through partnerships with magazines, galleries, museums, and more. Categories include: Figurative, Portraiture, Imaginative Realism, Drawing, Landscape, Still Life, Plein Air Painting, Fully From Life, Sculpture, Animals, and a special category for teens. Submission fee includes a free copy of the 17th/18th ARC Salon book.
Weather Photographer of the Year
Deadline: June 18, 2024
Now in its ninth year, Standard Chartered Weather Photographer of the Year showcases the world's most striking weather and climate photographs and provides an international platform to raise awareness about the environmental issues putting our planet at risk. Open to photographers of all ages and abilities, including professionals and amateurs, and is free to enter. Cash prizes include £5,000, £2,500, £1,000, and £750.
OPEN CALL: Fall Movement 2024
Deadline: June 18, 2024
Center for Performance Research (CPR) invites proposals for live performance works to be presented as part of Fall Movement on December 6 and 7, 2024. Fall Movement is an opportunity for artists to present new work in dance, performance, and time-based art in a shared program, and is curated by an independent panel of artists through an Open Call. Individual artists, collectives, and companies may propose a live performance work that is 15-20 minutes in length. CPR encourages applicants to submit work with experimental approaches to content, form, and aesthetic, and values risk-taking and the unexpected. Each selected work will receive an honorarium of $350.
Innovate Grant
Deadline: June 20, 2024
$35 application fee
Innovate Grant supports artists and photographers through two quarterly $1,800 grants. Their grant application is straight forward so that you can spend your valuable hours making new work rather than on time-consuming requirements like writing statements, proposals, and obtaining letters of recommendation. In addition, 12 honorable mentions (six in art and six in photo), will be featured on their website.
The Evolution Grant
Deadline: June 21, 2024
$35 application fee
Art Fluent’s Evolution Grant will provide an unrestricted $1,000 grant to an individual artist with recognized artistic excellence in fine art media and a demonstrated commitment to their art.
Grants for Artist Projects
Deadline: June 21, 2024
Washington State
Grants for Artist Projects (GAP) are unrestricted project-based grants of $1,500 awarded to 65 artists working in all disciplines across Washington State.
Imagine 2200: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors
Deadline: June 24, 2024
Grist’s Imagine 2200: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors is an invitation to writers from all over the globe to imagine a future in which solutions to the climate crisis flourish and help bring about radical improvements to our world. The winning writer will be awarded $3,000. The second- and third-place winners receive $2,000 and $1,000, respectively. An additional nine finalists will each receive $300. All winners and finalists will have their story published in an immersive collection on Grist’s website. Submissions must be original fictional stories of between 2,500 and 5,000 words that have not been previously published.
IDA Open Call
Deadline: June 25, 2024
International Documentary Association (IDA) has streamlined their grant applications, allowing artists to apply to their Enterprise Documentary Fund and Pare Lorentz Fund simultaneously. The theme for the 2024 Pare Lorentz Fund will be Gender Justice, leaving the theme broad and open to interpretation on purpose. This year, the Fund is open to artists worldwide. Pare Lorentz will also be selecting one immersive nonfiction project for the 3-project cohort. The Enterprise Documentary Fund supports in-depth explorations of original, contemporary stories that integrate journalistic practice into the filmmaking process.
Fiberart International 2025
Deadline: June 30, 2024
$45 application fee
Contemporary Craft’s Fiberart International 2025 seeks to exhibit the best of contemporary art and invites submissions that reflect a wide range of works related to the fiber medium. The exhibition is recognized around the world as a benchmark that documents trends and innovations in the field. The goal of the exhibition is to include innovative work rooted in traditional fiber materials, structure, processes and history, as well as art that explores unexpected relationships between fiber and other creative disciplines. There is a $5,000 cash award to the winning entry.
Illuminations Grant for Black Trans Women Visual Artists
Deadline: June 30, 2024
Queer|Art’s Illuminations Grant is an annual $10,000 grant awarded to provide critical support to Black trans women whose work has often been under-recognized in the visual art field. Four distinguished finalists will be awarded $1,250. Qualified artists must be self-identified Black trans women working in visual art and based in the United States.
Robert Giard Grant for Emerging LGBTQ+ Photographers
Deadline: June 30, 2024
$10 application fee
Queer|Art’s first international grant provides an award of $10,000 for the winner and $1,250 for distinguished finalists, to support the creation of new work by emerging LGBTQ+ photographers. Named in honor of photographer Robert Giard (1939-2002), a portrait, landscape, and figure photographer whose work focused on LGBTQ+ lives and issues, the grant focuses on supporting emerging LGBTQ+ photographers whose projects address issues of sexuality, gender, or LGBTQ+ identity.
Pine Meadow Ranch Center for Arts & Agriculture Residency
Deadline: June 30, 2024
Central Oregon
The PMRCAA residency program is designed as a retreat experience to pursue personal creative work and share collegial interaction within a small community of creative thinkers. They welcome a wide variety of artists, scientists, scholars and researchers working on individual or collaborative interdisciplinary projects and other forms of creative work. This year’s theme is “Care & Stewardship.” Stipends are provided to offset living and travel expenses for out-of-town residents.
Art Workshops For Adults
FREE HART Closet’s 2024 Novice Nights: Felted Bowls
Date: Tuesday, June 11, 2024
Hartford, CT
6-8pm
FREE HART Closet is a free art supply shop located in Hartford, CT. Founded in 2022, FREE HART was created to make art more accessible to adults. Create felted bowls used to hold jewelry, keys, change, or any tiny things. All materials will be provided, but feel free to bring your own roving if you want specific colors. Register here.
FREE HART Closet’s Sashiko!
Date: Wednesday, June 19, 2024
Hartford, CT
6-8pm
Hosted by Rachel B. Harriet, Sashiko is a Japanese Mending and Embroidery practice. A simple running stitch creates bold, geometric patterns on textiles. With focus on exploring decorative aspects of the craft, workshop participants will learn how use Sashiko’s “small stabs” to stitch designs onto small squares to create a pair of coasters.
All tools and materials are provided to complete two Sashiko embroidered coasters: one to finish in class and one to complete at home.
Light refreshments will be served. Space limited to 12 participants. Registration will open on June 1. In an effort to reduce no-shows, a limited amount of pay-what-you-can tickets will be released at 9 AM on Friday, June 14.
FREE HART Closet’s Intro to Resin Casting
Date: Wednesday, June 26, 2024
Hartford, CT
6-8pm
Hosted by Alyssa Haley of Born & Bred. The materials needed to make two coasters from molds will be provided. Participants are encouraged to bring some of their own elements to incorporate into their pieces (smaller, flattened objects work best!) Participants will go through the resin process, talk about design, mix epoxy and pour, and work through any troubleshooting. After the resin sets for 24 hours, you will have two beautiful pieces to bring home and enjoy.
This workshop will only be open to 8 participants. Registration will open June 5.
In an effort to reduce no-shows, a limited amount of pay-what-you-can tickets will be released at 9 AM on Friday, June 21.
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