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A monthly newsletter from the Arizona Commission on the Arts
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FEATURED OPPORTUNITIES
AZ ArtWorker: Entrepreneurial Workshop for Indigenous Artists
Featuring Linda Essig, Jacob Meders, and First Peoples Fund
April 22, 2017 | 10:00 am - 4:00 pm | Heard Museum
Native American artists are invited to join us for a daylong professional development workshop led by Linda Essig, Jake Meders, and First Peoples Fund. You will learn how to develop your entrepreneurial thinking skills, marketing basics, budgeting, and receive a free copy of the Arizona Arts Entrepreneur Toolkit.
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Professional Development Grants
Deadline: 11:59pm Thursday, May 4, 2017
Professional Development Grants provide funding support for participation in artistic development and skills building activities or opportunities that contribute to professional growth and career development.
The application period for Cycle A is for activities with a start date between July 1, 2017 and June 30, 2018.
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Create/Change: AZ - AARP Workshops
May 23, 2017 | Tempe, AZ
AARP members are invited to a series of free arts workshops for caregivers and older adults interested in learning/growing through the arts. Through these fun, hands-on arts experiences, participants will learn more about using creative engagement to enrich the lives of adults across the aging spectrum.
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Liz Lerman's Critical Response Process: One-Day Intensive
Sunday, May 21, 2017 | Tempe, AZ
This introductory workshop explores the values that support useful critique and offers hands-on experience in the four steps and three roles of Liz Lerman's Critical Response Process. Registration discount available to Create/Change: AZ registrants.
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Master-Apprentice Award Program | Southwest Folklife Alliance
This year Southwest Folklife Alliance (SFA) will make 8 awards to pairs of Arizona-based artists/tradition bearers: at $2,500 for the Master along with $500 to an emerging artist/tradition bearer engaged in learning and transmission of traditional knowledge. The pair should anticipate working together for one year.
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| ARIZONA ARTS OPPORTUNITIES |
International Online Painting Contest
Sedona Art Prize
Location: Sedona, AZ
Deadline: April 30, 2017
Competition and exhibition open to painters world wide over 18 years of age for the purpose of promoting artists and their work while helping the Sedona Arts Center support ongoing projects. In addition to monthly and year-end cash prizes, the Grand Prize winner will also be offered the opportunity for a 2 week artist residency.
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Bushmaster Park Mural
City of Flagstaff
Location: Flagstaff, AZ
Deadline: May 4, 2017
The City of Flagstaff seeks to commission a muralist to install a community-based mural at Bushmaster Park. The City, through its Beautification and Public Art Commission will select the artist in accordance with the call.
ASU Gammage
Location: Tempe, AZ
Deadline: May 18, 2017
ASU Gammage Auditorium is currently accepting proposals from Arizona visual artists for exhibitions of their work during the Fall 2017/Spring 2018 art season. Work will be considered in any medium that can be displayed by hanging on walls. Artists must be prepared to hang their own work and remove it when the exhibition is over.
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Pumpkin Fiesta & Autumn Art Show
Location: Tucson, AZ
Deadline: August 8, 2017
Sonoran Glass School invites Tucson-area artists working in all media to participate in our 2017 Pumpkin Fiesta and Autumn Art Show. Work must include glass and integrate well into a autumn-themed show.
Call to Artists | Colors of Copper
Greenlee County Tourism Council
Location: Clifton, AZ
Deadline: October 1, 2017
Artists are invited to demonstrate their creativity by using the multitude of colors copper imparts. Submissions of 2 or 3 dimensional art works will be accepted. Prize Money: 1st $1,000, 2nd $500, 3rd $300, People's Choice $200.
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NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL ARTS OPPORTUNITIES
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Summer 2017 Submissions
The Matador Review
Location: International
Deadline: May 31, 2017
Alternative art and literature magazine is seeking submissions for publication. Poetry, fiction, flash fiction, and creative non-fiction, inviting all unpublished literature written in the English language (and translations that are accompanied by the original text) as well as many forms of visual art.
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Poster Contest
Mississippi Delta Blues & Heritage Festival
Location: Greenville, MS
Deadline: June 30, 2017
Mississippi Action for Community Education, Inc., (MACE), a Mississippi non-profit, announces a design contest to select the graphic for use as the 40th Annual Mississippi Delta Blues & Heritage Festival Poster and T-shirt graphics.The winner will be awarded a $500 prize.
National Juried Exhibition | Colors of the Night
Smithtown Township Arts Council/Mills Pond Gallery
Location: St. James, NY
Deadline: June 30, 2017
Seeking submissions for upcoming juried fine art exhibition. Juror/Judge Tim Newton. This exhibition/competition will encompass all varieties of nocturnal art. No subject is off limits. Open to USA artists age 18 or older. All media considered except photography and computer generated art. Entry fee $45 for up to 3 images. Awards: $1,000 Best of Show, $500 Second Place, $250 Third Place.
Call for Artists | Anima Mundi, Venice
It's LIQUID Group
Location: Venezia, Italy
Deadline: August 27, 2017
Artists, photographers, video/film makers, architects, designers, galleries, museums, institutions, universities and art professionals are invited to submit their project proposals on the festival themes for the exhibitions in Palazzo Ca' Zanardi and other prestigious venues and historical buildings during the festival.
Artist Opportunity | Aesthetica Art Prize
Aesthetica Magazine
Location: York, England
Deadline: August 31, 2017
The 11
th Aesthetica Art Prize is now open for entries, presenting an opportunity for emerging and established artists to further their involvement in the art world. The award is an internationally renowned prize presented by Aesthetica Magazine and judged by industry experts. Categories for entry: Photographic & Digital Art; Three Dimensional Design & Sculpture; Painting, Drawing & Mixed Media and Video, Installation & Performance.
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FREE Webinar: Putting Your Skills to Work for Social Change
Creative Capital
Location: Online
Deadline: April 26, 2017
Led by artist and co-founder of the Center for Artistic Activism Steve Lambert and leadership consultant and C4AA Board Chair Patricia Jerido, this free webinar gives practical guidelines on how to be an effective and resilient creative agent for social change. The webinar leaders, who have over 25 years of combined experience training people to plan and implement actions, will show how artists can best lend their expertise and perspectives to campaigns and movements that create real change in the world.
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Summer Arts Apprentice Program for Teens 15-18
West Valley Arts Council
Location: Surprise, AZ
Deadline: April 27, 2017
Award-winning youth arts employment program pairs students ages 15 to 18 years-old with professional artists in order to design, develop and install a permanent piece of public art for display in the West Valley. An expert team of master artists lead the six-week program and provide all necessary training and support in each phase of the project..
Ox-Bow 2017 Fall Residency Program
Ox-Bow School of the Arts
Location: Saugutuck, MI
Deadline: May 1, 2017
Offers artists and writers the time, space, and community to encourage growth and experimentation in their practice. During the fall residents are given the time, solitude, and focus often unavailable to so many working artists. Accepted residents are fully funded. Artists can apply for additional stipends within the application.
Free DataArts Workshops in Tempe
DataArts
Location: Tempe, AZ
Deadline: May 3, 2017
DataArts' (formerly Cultural Data Project/CDP) will present a free workshop geared toward assisting arts and culture organizations better understand and utilize data collection and reporting. For new or prospective DataArts users, the workshop will be preceded by a new user orientation session.
Arizona Commission on the Arts
Location: Phoenix, AZ
Deadline: May 10, 2017
Provides emerging leaders in the arts with the opportunity to investigate and participate in the operations of a state arts agency. Through a combination of learning experiences, work projects and group collaborations, interns develop essential skills, acquire valuable experience, and prepare to become the next generation of arts, nonprofit and cultural leaders.
Artist Residency Program in Upstate NY
Main Street Arts
Location: Clifton Springs, NY
Deadline: May 31, 2017
Accepting applications for the summer quarter of our residency program (July-September). Artists in residence will have 24-hour access to studio space on our second floor, the option to show work in the gallery, and the opportunity to teach paid workshops. Facilities include 200 sq. ft. studios, an electric kiln, potters wheel, etching press, and more.
Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts
Location: Nebraska City, NE
Deadline: September 1, 2017
The Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, located in Nebraska City, NE offers from sixty to seventy juried residencies per year to visual artists, writers, composers, and interdisciplinary artists from across the country and around the world.
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Visual Arts Grants
Robert Lehman Foundation
Location: New York, NY
Deadline: September 1, 2017
Grants are made on an individual basis to museums, arts organizations, educational institutions and other cultural organizations with the goal of enhancing the role of the visual arts within American and world culture. Within these broad parameters, the Foundation is open to a wide range of projects from art education programs, museum exhibitions and outreach to art history lectureships and scholarly publications.
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Arts Grants
Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation
Location: Albuquerque, NM
Deadline: Letter of Inquiry: August 1, for Deadline September 15.
Dedicated to fostering awareness and appreciation of contemporary visual art, primarily through the support of catalogues and other publications that document exhibitions of work by emerging or under-recognized artists. Of particular interest are projects that attempt to bring together artists and the community, support artists from marginalized populations, and provide exposure to contemporary art where it may not otherwise be seen.
Accepting Applications from Artists with Financial Need
Pollock Krasner Foundation
Location: New York, NY
Deadline: Ongoing
Dual criteria for grants are recognizable artistic merit and demonstrable financial need, whether professional, personal or both. The Foundation's mission is to aid, internationally, those individuals who have worked as professional artists over a significant period of time.
The Foundation welcomes, throughout the year, applications from visual artists who are painters, sculptors and artists who work on paper, including printmakers. There are no deadlines.
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Technical Production Supervisor
Yuma Art Center
Location: Yuma, AZ
Deadline: April 17, 2017
Under general supervision, plans, coordinates, and supervises a variety of technical and operational theater production activities for the Yuma Art Center, and related facilities, assets and infrastructure.
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Director of Development
Durango Arts Center
Location: Durango, CO
The Durango Arts Center (DAC) seeks an outstanding, innovative and dynamic fundraising professional for the position of Director of Development (DD). Working closely with the Executive Director and Board of Directors, the DD supports DAC's success by engaging current and potential supporters in managing a diversity of fundraising initiatives. The DD must have the ability to conceive, assemble and manage DAC's fundraising scope from beginning to end.
Family Programs Assistant
Phoenix Art Museum
Location: Phoenix, AZ
Deadline: Open until filled
Phoenix Art Museum is looking for a detail-oriented Family Programs Assistant to provide programmatic support for inter-generational education programs.
Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum
Location: Tucson, AZ
Deadline: Open until filled
The Graphic Technician utilizes diverse skills in the creation of temporary & permanent Museum signage (directional & interpretive) as well as sign construction, installation, upkeep and maintenance. Job will be 85% technical and 15% design. Proficiency in working with various power tools, vinyl-lettering applications, acrylic material, wood, paint sprayers and related materials is required, as well as suitable graphic design skills on a Mac (Adobe CS) platform. Ability to work and communicate effectively with vendors, volunteers & Museum personnel is essential. Person must be energetic, highly organized and a creative problem-solver with the ability to work independently and professionally.
Youth Arts Program Assistant
City of Tempe
Location: Tempe, AZ
Deadline: Open until filled
This position is responsible for the early childhood arts programs (1-6 year olds) at the Edna Vihel Center. Programs include Free Art Fridays, Tea Time Thursdays and Holiday Workshops. This role requires related experience and/or completed coursework in early childhood education, arts education, visual arts, performing arts, museum studies and/or arts administration. Position is 10 hours a week; Thursdays from 9:30am-2:30pm & Fridays 8am-1pm.
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This monthly online newsletter from the Arizona Commission on the Arts provides Arizona artists with relevant local, national and international opportunities, including announcements of agency programs and services, upcoming artist grant opportunities and application deadlines, and much more.
Job and Arts Opportunities listings on the website are maintained by Arts Commission staff and are not comprehensive. Questions regarding a listed opportunity should be directed to the corresponding contact person identified in the posting.
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