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A monthly newsletter from the Arizona Commission on the Arts
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FEATURED OPPORTUNITIES
Competitive Grantwriting Workshop for Artists
Saturday, March 18, 2017 | 11:00 am - 1:30 pm
Raices Taller | Tucson, AZ
Join us at Raices Taller 222 in Tucson on Saturday, March 18, for a free workshop designed to help artists craft superior grant applications. Whether you're an emerging artist just learning the ropes or a seasoned pro looking to polish your presentation, this workshop covers the fundamentals while offering an insiders perspective on what funders and review panelists are looking for in a grant application. Using the Arts Commission's Artist Research and Development Grant as a model, participants will learn the essential components of a strong application as they play the role of reviewers in a mock grant review panel.
This event is free and open to the public, but space is limited, registration required.
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Create/Change: AZ
May 22 - May 24, 2017 | Tempe, AZ
Create/Change is a 3-day intensive institute developed by Anne Basting and the Time
Slips team, which focuses on transforming care for elders through creative engagement. Since 2012, the Institute has been held every other year in Milwaukee; Create/Change: AZ brings this exciting learning opportunity to Arizona!
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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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Call to Artists | Public Art Project
University Park Neighborhood Association
Location: Tempe, AZ
Deadline: March 20, 2017
University Park Neighborhood Association is announcing a public art opportunity for artists to design, produce and install art on irrigation standpipes that will welcome residents and visitors to our neighborhood. This project is open to all artists residing in Arizona. Collaborations of multiple artists are welcome.
Call for Entries
Arizona Abstract
Location:
Tucson, AZ
Deadline: March 22, 2017
Arizona artists are asked to contribute works of art that have been peeled from nature or that are products of an intense studio practice. ARIZONA ABSTRACT will create a visual document concerned with the true essence of the abstract elements found in nature and of the abstract ideas developed in the studio. The possibilities are endless. Artists from the region are invited to submit 2-dimensional or 3-dimensional works in any media for consideration in this juried exhibition.
Sedona Art Prize International Online Painting Contest
Sedona Arts Center / Gateway To Sedona
Location: Sedona, AZ
Deadline: March 31, 2017
The Sedona Art Prize is an international online juried painting contest open to painters world wide over 18 years of age. It is a collaboration and partnership between The Sedona Arts Center and Gateway To Sedona for the purpose of promoting artists and their work while helping the Sedona Arts Center to 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 residency in Sedona, Arizona through the Sedona Arts Center (to be completed in 2018).
Call for Entries | NightVisions 2017
Flagstaff Arts Council
Location: Flagstaff, AZ
Deadline: April 4, 2017
NightVisions is an art exhibition that celebrates the beauty of the night sky. As humans are increasingly afraid of the dark they are unable to enjoy it's beauty. NightVisions hopes to help close the gap between humans and the night. Showing for the sixth time, this international juried biennial exhibition is open to all artists 18 years of age or older, and to artwork in any media; 2-dimensional, 3-dimensional, poetry, photography, video, installation, etc.
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Children's Garden Sculpture Call to Artists
City of Flagstaff
Location: Flagstaff, AZ
Deadline: April 6, 2017
The City of Flagstaff, jointly with JLB Project, Inc., seeks to commission a sculptor to create an enduring, memorable sculpture to celebrate and recognize all babies and children who have passed on before us, regardless of age or circumstance. The Sculpture will be the physical and conceptual heart of the Children's Garden ("Children's Garden") located at Foxglenn Park.
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Call to Artist Prospectus | Visual Feasting Exhibition
The Herberger Theater Center Art Gallery
Phoenix, AZ
Deadline: May 1, 2017
Activate your reflections about food as life's enrichments. You may or may not choose to use actual imagery of food. Metaphors are welcome. Let your imagination soar. In addition to your work, some of the Valley's most innovative chefs will be invited to use food as a medium to make art. Their creations will be on display on opening night, and along with your work, will express our theme, "Visual Feasting."
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NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL ARTS OPPORTUNITIES
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2017 Juried Showcase
Western Arts Alliance Conference
Location: Seattle, WA
Deadline: March 31, 2017
Part of the official Western Arts Alliance conference program, September 5-8, 2017, Juried Showcases highlight artists from various disciplines who have been selected from a competitive pool of applicants by a committee of WAA members.
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Call for Artwork | Expressions of Hope
Conquer Cancer Foundation
Location: Alexandria, VA
Deadline: May 12, 2017
CCF invites anyone who has been affected by cancer--patients, family members, friends and caregivers--to share your hope through art and submit to the annual Expressions of Hope calendar. A variety of mediums will be considered including oil, watercolor, charcoals, acrylics, pencil, pen and ink, and crayon, among others.
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LIVE! 2017 | Open Call for Performance and New Media Artists
LandEscape
Location: San Francisco, CA and London, UK
Deadline: June 15, 2017
LandEscape is seeking submissions for the 8th edition of LIVE! The 2017 edition will be dedicated to contemporary performance art and will showcase artworks of over 40 new media and performance artists from around the globe. This edition will focus on the relationship between humans and environment and how this can be addressed through interdisciplinary collaboration.
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New York Arts Practicum
Location: New York, NY
Deadline: March 13, 2017
Applications are being accepted for the 2017 New York Arts Practicum, a summer arts institute where participants experientially learn to bridge their lives as art students into lives as artists in the world. The program is structured around apprenticeships with mentor artists, a critique seminar where participants produce work without access to their institutional facilities, and site visits to artist workspaces, galleries, and museums.
27th International Sculpture Conference Seeking Proposals
International Sculpture Center (ISC)
Location: Kansas City, MO
Deadline: March 13, 2017
The International Sculpture Center (ISC), is seeking panel proposals for the 27th ISC Conference in Kansas City, MO this October 25-28, 2017. This conference will feature the annual ISC littleSCULPTURE show, ARTSlams and mentor sessions, engaging panel discussions, evening parties, hands-on workshops, keynote address, open studios and gallery hops, optional art and culture trips, public art tours and visits to nearby sculpture sites, and more.
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Open Call: Residency for Artist/Writer/Curator
SEA Foundation
Location: Tilburg, Netherlands
Deadline: March 14, 2017
SEA Foundation invites visual artists, art critics and curators to apply for a residency in 2017. Candidates can apply for one term. Either April - June or September - November 2017. With it's AiR program, that affords opportunities for experimentation to try out new ideas, practices and strategies, SEA Foundation promotes internationally relevant artistic production, research and discussion in the Tilburg region, in the south of the Netherlands.
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Residency Opportunities
Sedona Summer Colony
Location: Sedona, AZ
Deadline: March 31, 2017
Sedona Summer Colony is a partnership between Sedona Arts Center and Verde Valley School, two community organizations with long histories in the Verde Valley. We've combined our cultural and educational missions to establish this new residency program in support of 21st Century culture. Applications for the fee-based 2017 program are now being accepted.
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Artist & Writers Residencies: Summer & Fall 2017
Arquetopia Foundation
Location: Puebla & Oaxaca, Southern Mexico
Deadline: April 2, 2017
Competitive professional opportunities for emerging and mid-career, national and international artists, designers, curators, art historians, art educators, writers, journalists, and cultural researchers age 23 and over.
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GDL > PHX Residencias Artísticas
CALA Alliance (Celebración Artística de las Américas)
Location: Phoenix, AZ and Guadalajara, Mexico
Deadline: April 10, 2017
GDL > PHX Residencias Artísticas offers fully sponsored residencies to artists from Guadalajara to travel and work in Phoenix, and to Phoenix Latinx artists to travel and work in Guadalajara at the former home and studio of Mexican modernist José Clemente Orozco. This program seeks to provide opportunities for artists to grow their creative practice, experiment with new approaches, and investigate complex cultural contexts while creating a dialogue between the Phoenix and Guadalajara contemporary art scenes.
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NOW Artist Residency
NOW open studio
Location: Portland, OR
Deadline: April 16, 2017
NOW open studio is accepting applications for the NOW ARTIST RESIDENCY for the upcoming summer two week program. Notifications will be made between May 15th - 20th, with the start date for the residency being on or around Sept 1, 2017. NOW Artist Residency is open for application by serious emerging or established artists, including student and recent BFA/MFA graduates.
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2017 Emerging Program Institute
Alliance of Artists Communities
Location: Washington, DC
Dates: April 18-20, 2017
This training combines best practices from the arts-and-cultural sector with specific, hands-on information about artists' residencies. Whether you are still in the early dreaming stage of creating an artist colony or working with an established institution that is developing a new residency program, the Emerging Program Institute will offer models for success, a community of peers, and access to residency leaders, funders, and connectors.
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Digital Transformation | A National Arts-in-Education Conference
Young Audiences Arts for Learning and The Center for Arts-inspired Learning
Location: Cleveland, OH
Dates: April 20-22, 2017
Digital Transformation addresses a theme that is most timely to the arts-in-education field--to find the innovative ways that technology and the arts can make students active participants in their own learning and bring schools, families, and communities closer together. Learn how to influence your teaching with STEAM methods and explore ways that apps, social media and documentation can enhance traditional art and education practices.
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Summer Arts Apprentice Program for Teens 15-18
West Valley Arts Council
Surprise, AZ
Deadline: April 27, 2017
GALLERY 37, the West Valley Art Council's 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.
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2017 WAA Annual Conference
Western Arts Alliance
Location: Seattle, WA
Dates: September 5-8, 2017
The WAA Conference convenes presenters, artists and agents around the shared goal of programming live performances. The four-day schedule is filled with exhibits, performances, networking, speakers, classes and workshops. The Commons--our meeting and exhibit space--cultivates discovery, business insight, and connection. For 2017, we return to Seattle, a city renowned for its vibrancy, diversity, energy, and motion.
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Sustaining the Arts Grants
City of Tempe
Location: Tempe, AZ
Deadline: 6 Weeks Before Event
Sustaining the Arts Grants are available to individual artists and non-profit organizations to fund initiatives that support the long-term development of communities, artists, and arts organizations. Projects supported by this grant could be in the form of civic dialogue, community organizing, panels, training, workshops, or conference. Initiatives funded by the grant must take place in Tempe and be open to other artists and organizations.
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Grants 2017-2018
LGBT&S Alliance Fund
Location: Tucson, AZ
Deadline: March 24, 2017
LGBT&S Alliance Fund seeks to fund a diversity of organizations, populations, programs and geographic areas. We encourage applications from rural areas. Organizations are required to have IRS 501(c)(3) nonprofit status or be under an umbrella of an organization with IRS 501(c)(3).
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Artists Grants
Contemporary Forum of Phoenix Art Museum
Location: Phoenix, AZ
Deadline: March 31, 2017
Contemporary Forum of Phoenix Art Museum is accepting applications from emerging Arizona artists for the annual Artists Grants competition. The selection committee will award up to five grants of $2000 each. The grant is intended to provide recognition and financial support for emerging professional artists focused on establishing their career.
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Visual Arts Grants
Robert Lehman Foundation
Location: New York, NY
Deadlines: April 1 and September 1, 2017
The Robert Lehman Foundation operates exclusively in the field of the visual arts. 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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Cultural Diplomacy Award Opportunities
Creative Arts Exchange
Location: Washington, DC
Deadline: April 10, 2017
The FY17 Creative Arts Exchange (CAE) initiatives are arts-based, international people-to-people exchange programs. They create partnerships through artistic collaboration and professional development that enrich both the international participants and the Americans with whom they meet. In FY 2017, CAE will focus on the following themes: Dance (DanceMotion, USA), Film (American Film Showcase), Music (American Music Abroad), and Music (OneBeat).
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AZ Humanities Grants and Mini Grants
AZ Humanities
Location: Phoenix, AZ
Deadline: Ongoing
Arizona Humanities supports innovative, community-based projects that use humanities disciplines to connect Arizonans to the cultures, peoples, and histories of the state and beyond. AZ Humanities welcomes proposals from a wide range of nonprofit organizations and encourages projects that are innovative in their approach toward the humanities and public programming.
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Arts Grants
Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation
Location: Albuquerque, NM
Deadline: Letter of Inquiry by August 1, for Deadline September 15
Funding from the Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation is currently available to support direct costs for catalogues and other publications accompanying contemporary art exhibitions and projects, especially those supporting emerging and under-recognized artists, and produced by organizations outside the nation's cultural centers. Limited funds are also available for publications related to the grantee organization and its programs or collections.
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Grants for Artists with Financial Need
The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc.
Location: New York, NY
Deadline: Ongoing
The Pollock-Krasner Foundation's 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. Artists must be actively exhibiting their current work in professional artistic venues, such as gallery and museum spaces.
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Development Administrator
Free Arts Arizona
Location: Phoenix, AZ
Deadline: March 12, 2017
Responsible for managing and administering the grants program, development calendar and reporting, and the donor database for non-profit organization which heals homeless and abused children through artistic expression. Free Arts programs include creative elements that promote safety, self-expression and a sense of belonging. All Free Arts programs, delivered by volunteers and artists, serve more than 8,000 children annually through partnerships with 42 social service child welfare agencies at 100+ sites across Maricopa County.
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Youth Arts Programming Assistant
City of Tempe Arts and Culture Division
Location: Tempe, AZ
Deadline: March 13, 2017
This position is responsible for programming early childhood arts events for 1-6 year olds at the Edna Vihel Center. Events include Free Art Fridays and Tea Time Thursdays, as well as developing and implementing new programming. This role requires related professional experience and completed coursework in early childhood education, arts education, visual arts, performing arts, museum studies and/or arts administration.
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Eastern Arizona College
Location: Thatcher, AZ
Deadline: March 27, 2017
Eastern Arizona College's District Offices are located in Thatcher, a beautiful rural area with easy access to arid as well as mountainous recreation. The College is located approximately 125 miles northeast of Tucson and 165 miles southeast of Phoenix. EAC is a comprehensive community college offering five associate degrees across nearly 50 programs of study.
Associate Director of Facilities and Operations
Scottsdale Arts
Location: Scottsdale, AZ
Deadline: Open until filled
Oversees the strategic and day to day planning, scheduling, preparing and maintenance of Scottsdale Arts managed facilities.Full time position, flexible hours (evenings and weekends included). Benefits package including medical, dental, vision, life, ltd. 401K after one year. Paid Time Off plan plus holidays.
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School Assistant
School of Ballet Arizona
Location: Phoenix, AZ
Deadline: Open until filled
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Registrar
Scottsdale Artists' School
Location: Scottsdale, AZ
Deadline: Open until filled
Scottsdale Artists' School was founded in 1983 by a group of artist and community members who shared a passion for art. The School is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization who is dedicated the artistic enrichment of the community and to developing the capabilities of artists and aspiring artists of all ages by teaching the applied fundamentals of fine art. The School offers year-round workshops and weekly classes, youth and teen programs, a classical training program, artists demonstrations, and open studio sessions.
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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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