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Strive to Thrive
April 9, 2025
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Systems of Support
Let's be honest: no matter where you fall—SILENCED, STRUGGLE, SURVIVE, or THRIVE—you should attend the Artists Thrive Summit to make that system of support even stronger!
If you are SILENCED....
If you are STRUGGLING...
If you are SURVIVING...
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ARTISTS THRIVE SUMMIT SPOTLIGHTS | | Take a Look at Some of the Speakers! | | |
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New Pilot Program
LAST CHANCE!
Summit Student Coaching
Want to make a real difference in the lives of emerging artists? Join our new student coaching program! We're partnering with KCAI to connect their students with experienced professionals like you at the Artists Thrive Summit (May 6-8, 2025, Kansas City, MO). Share your expertise and receive $50 off your Summit registration.
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ARTIST SPOTLIGHT
LUIS VALDERAS
Bishop&Valderas, LLC
Tell us about yourself.
I am a multidisciplinary artist from the border and grew up in a family owned & operated flower/ceramic shop. Collaboration with others is a familiar and long held aspect of my practice—with my peers in the field I’ve produced many installations that elicit audience engagement. I am a Xicanx Futurist–my imagery is based on Meso-American mythology intermingled with science fiction, outer space and my ancestral stories. I take icons and transform them revealing a connection through the past, present and future. I focus on creating work and spaces that reveal a visual experience to the community both as a spectator and participant in order to imagine and participate in an intermingled future.
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Artists Thrive Monthly Meet Up
Join us for this month's virtual meet up with Artists Thrive community members
April 21, 2025 at 4PM EST
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WANT TO BE FEATURED IN THIS NEWSLETTER?
We’d love to showcase YOU (or your arts organization) in our newsletter! Whether you're an artist or part of an arts organization, we want to highlight your work and impact. Interested?
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The latest update from Americans for the Arts highlights a growing crisis: the current Administration is slashing federal support for the arts, including devastating cuts to the NEH and IMLS. These moves threaten jobs, local economies, and the very fabric of our cultural identity. Now more than ever, we must speak up. Learn how you can take action and stand united in support of America’s creative and cultural institutions.
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Daily Meditation & Contemplative Practice Offerings: Breathing breaks, reflection journaling, monthly morning practice, midweek mantras, mindful drawing, and meditation. This is a virtual offering from Pratt Institute and is free & open to all.
Sign Up for a Session
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A few featured grants, residencies, creative job postings, and more. | | |
Select Job Openings
Director of Operations & Finance, The Natural History Museum
The Operations & Finance Director is a new, senior role at The Natural History Museum––a traveling 'museum for the movement' dedicated to climate and environmental justice. Created by the nonprofit arts organization Not An Alternative, we produce award-winning arts, media, and activism projects with and for communities across the U.S.
Salary: $80,000/annual
Location: Remote (U.S.).
Start date: June 2025
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Teaching Artists, Partners for Rural Impact (PRI)
Partners for Rural Impact (PRI) is now accepting applications from artists in all disciplines to join our roster of teaching artists. PRI teaching artists serve primarily as independent contractors to conduct artist visits and workshops in rural school- and community-based settings, particularly in our Appalachian Kentucky service area. PRI provides free training and professional development opportunities for artists on our roster, as well as opportunities for networking and mentorship with other artists and arts advocates. Additionally, PRI teaching artists are included in a public directory we publish and share with partner schools and community organizations interested in collaborating with artists.
For more information and a link to apply.
Apply by April 30, 2025.
| | Select Grant Opportunities | | | Grant Opportunity | Eligibility | Deadline | Grant Amount | | KODA - Artist Residency Peace-Building Open Call | Peace-Building theme, residency, mid career, 30+ years old, cannot be enrolled in school | 4/10/25 | $1,000;
Studio space | | Velvet Park - Visual Artist Residency 2025 | Visual Arts, LGBTQ, Brooklyn | 4/13/25 | FEE: $25
Studio space | | Bemis Center - 2026 Sound Art + Experimental Music Artists-in-Residence | US based artists, international artists, sound, composition, voice, and experimental genres and tools | 4/14/25 | $1,250 monthly stipend,
$750 travel stipend,
$2,500 materials budget | | Anonymous Was A Woman Environmental Art Grants | female identifying artists, individual artists (not orgs) | 4/15/25 | $20,000 | | Sozo Fellowship | full time mid-career artists, contemporary, multi-disciplinary performing arts, new media and technology | 4/18/24 | $1,500;
1-1 coaching | | Center for Craft - 2026 Curatorial Fellowship | Craft and community vitality theme, 21+ years old, individuals, two-person teams, and collectives | 4/18/24 | $5,000 | | | |
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