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Welcome to the May 2024 Issue of TAF's Artist Opportunities Digest!
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Ripple & Company
Seeking Tango Dancers & Guitarist
6/14 - Chef's Table - Argentine Wine Dinner: 6-9PM
We are still planning this dinner, but we would like to have a pair of dancers do tango dancing as entertainment during dinner(tentatively 6:45-7:45pm) and possibly a guitarist playing during cocktail hour (tentatively 6:00-6:45pm).
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Eiteljorg Museum
Seeking Festivals Manager
The Festivals Manager is an engaged, full-time team member responsible for spearheading the development and execution of Indian Market & Festival, Jingle Rails, and other public markets and events. This role involves close collaboration with various departments including public programs, facilities, advancement (marketing and development), and curatorial teams. Acting as a project manager, the Festivals Manager oversees project facilitation, budget management, contracting, and vendor relations. This position operates within a dynamic environment, necessitating flexibility in scheduling, including evening and weekend availability. Reporting to the VP for Public Programs and Beeler Family Director of Education, the Festivals Manager plays a pivotal role within the public programs division.
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Conner Prairie
Seeking Manager of Events and Programs
The Senior Manager of Events and Programs is responsible for overseeing the design and implementation of all public programs that the organization offers, including festivals, adult programs, youth and family programs and select onsite added-value experiences.
Directly supervises Program Developers, Technical Coordinator and Production Supervisor. Indirectly supervises Production Coordinators, Production Assistants and Crew. Employee carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization's policies and applicable laws. Responsibilities include interviewing, hiring, and training employees; planning, assigning, and directing work; scheduling and approving time worked; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing complaints and resolving problems.
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Prairie Arts Council
Call for Artists
Attention All Artists & Vendors to sell their Fine arts, fine crafts, foods, produce, and collectibles. PAC is accepting artists & vendors for the ART in the Alley on July 27th. Applications will be available in early May. Final Applications are due July 2nd.
12’ x 12’ Booth Fee: $20 for Members, $40 for Non-Members. New vendors must submit a $10 Application Fee with their form. If accepted, they must submit the remaining balance for their booth.
Sign Up Now!
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Gallery Walk Lafayette
Call Out for Artists and Musicians
Exciting news for Downtown Lafayette. The Gallery Walk is returning for the 2024 season, May 17, July 19, and September 20, from 6-9 p.m. on Main Street and beyond. If you are a business or gallery in the Downtown Lafayette area or an Artist or musician who would like to get involved, go to our website and find the link under GET INVOLVED - ARTISTS or GET INVOLVED - BUSINESS if you are a Gallery or Business and want to add to our contact list.
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Art Museum of Greater Lafayette
Art on The Wabash Applications Open
Now accepting applications for Art on the Wabash, an art fair in Tapawingo Park on Sunday, Sept 29, 10-4.
Deadline: May 31, 2024
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The Bindery Artist Studios
Artist Call!
The Bindery Artist Studios in collaboration with LaLa is looking for musicians, teachers, and artists to pop-up on Saturdays to play, sing, teach workshops and sell your art from 10AM-12PM out front the Bindery. For more information, please fill out our contact form on our website.
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Stevens Point Sculpture Park
Juried Call for Public Artwork
The Stevens Point Sculpture Park, located in central Wisconsin, is accepting submissions of sculpture work for their annual, three-year outdoor sculpture exhibition. A local jury will choose pieces for display from August 2024 through August 2027.
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Phoenix Theatre
Seeking Sketches, Short Scenes & Songs for A Very Phoenix Xmas 16
The Phoenix Theatre is requesting submissions of sketches, short scenes and songs for its 2024 holiday production of A Very Phoenix Xmas 16: (Insert Witty Title Here)! We are asking for your funniest bits, hottest takes and skewed satirical viewpoints related to the holiday season! This year's theme will be Holiday Movies! We're asking all sketches to draw inspiration from the characters, plots, titles and tropes from the endless array of films related to the holidays. Submissions are due June 1!
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The Elaine Food Art
Seeking Food Related Artwork
Help The Elaine, your neighborhood food & clothing pantry brought to you by Southeast Community Services and Fletcher Place Community Center, beautify their space. We are looking for food-related artwork from artists of any age or background to fill our front windows and celebrate food culture. You can depict any food theme, such as gardening, your favorite food(s)/meal, food’s role in cultural celebrations and heritage, what a shared meal looks like in your home, the impact of food on health, or anything else you can dream up. However, please do not include any trademarks, brand information or offensive language/imagery as these submissions will not be considered.
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Phoenix Theatre
Seeks Sketches, Short Scenes, and Songs for a Very Phoenix XMAS 16
The Phoenix Theatre is requesting submissions of sketches, short scenes and songs for its 2024 holiday production of A Very Phoenix Xmas 16: (Insert Witty Title Here)! We are asking for your funniest bits, hottest takes and skewed satirical viewpoints related to the holiday season! This year's theme will be Holiday Movies! We're asking all sketches to draw inspiration from the characters, plots, titles and tropes from the endless array of films related to the holidays. Submissions are due June 1!
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Central Library
Exhibit Space Available
Opportunity for artists, community groups, nonprofits, and individuals to display their work at Central Library.
Central Library has display cases available for civic, educational, artistic, or cultural exhibits. This exhibit space is free to utilize, and it is not intended for commercial purposes. Central Library's goal is to highlight voices, spotlight nonprofit efforts, enhance lifelong learning, and bring relevant talking points to the community.
The exhibits will change quarterly, running from January to March, April to June, July to September, and October to December, providing the public with ample opportunities throughout the year to share their work. Individuals can display infographics, signs, paintings, photography, sculpture, documents, artifacts, and ephemera in the cases.
Individuals interested in sharing their work should reach out to Public Services Librarian Stephanie Flood at sflood@indypl.org.
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Discover Downtown Franklin
Seeking Artists for Ethos Celebration of the Arts
Discover Downtown Franklin is excited to host the 2024 Ethos Celebration of the Arts event in the heart of beautiful, historic Downtown Franklin on June 22, 2024 from 11:00am - 6:00pm. The festival features local and regional juried artists showcasing original art in both 2D and 3D categories. Artists will set up booths to showcase and sell their art throughout the day. Day-of judges will award prizes in each category totaling $2500. The event will include live music and a beer/wine garden.
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Carmel International Arts Festival
Seeking Artists
The 27th Annual Carmel International Arts Festival will be held on September 28 & 29, 2024 in Carmel, Indiana. Artists from around the world gather in the heart of Old Town Carmel's Arts & Design District at the intersection of Main Street and Rangeline Road. The Carmel International Arts Festival is a juried exhibition with prizes totaling $7,000. Annually, 30,000 festival goers enjoy an admission-free opportunity to view and purchase art, mingle with artists, tour local galleries, dine at fine restaurants in the area, and enjoy the Festival's entertainment on our multiple stages.
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Blue Koi Gallery
Artists' Choice
The Koi Artist Award is our way of extending a hand to emerging and established artists. All backgrounds and experience levels accepted. Open to artists around the world. Must be 18+ to enter. Accepting entries of all mediums, styles, and genres, up to 8 pieces of work are required. The KAA is Open theme (Artist’s Choice) giving the creators artistic freedom for self-expression. We believe in the power of artistic freedom, which is why we’re excited to see what you’ll share/create given full creative reign.
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Call For Entry:
Abstract Juried Art Exhibition
An exhibition of abstract art. Open to all Indiana artists. Pieces will be judged on theme (abstract), creativity and use of material/medium. Must be 18 years old or older.
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Torchfire Film Festival Call for Entries
Torchfire Film Festival, an exciting celebration of independent cinema, is set to ignite the screens of the historic Artcraft Theatre in Franklin, Indiana in its inaugural year. Embracing the spirit of creativity and diversity in filmmaking, Torchfire Film Festival promises to be a beacon for both seasoned filmmakers and emerging talents alike.
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Wayne County Mural Program Seeks Artists
The Wayne County (Indiana) Mural Program announces the 2024 season of up to 10 murals at various locations throughout the county. Artist commission fees vary; plus, there are $10,000, $5,000 and $2,500 awards.
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Innovate Grant
SPRING $1,800.00 Innovate Grants for Art + Photo
Innovate Grant is thrilled to introduce our newly increased award amounts of $1,800.00.
Innovate Grant awards (2) $1,800.00 grants each quarter, to one Visual Artist and one Photographer. In addition, (12) honorable mentions (6 in art and 6 in photo), will be featured on our website and join a growing community of vibrant and talented artists. Innovate Grant's commitment extends beyond the grant cycle by promoting the work of selected winners and honorable mentions into the future.
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Blue Sky Artists Award
$1000.00 in Artist Grant
Introducing the Blu-Sky Artist Award (BSAA), your launchpad to art recognition and success. With an unrestricted grant that includes: $500 grant to two artists, a published interview, and a dedicated artist profile.
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City of Indianapolis Neighborhood Grant Program's Applications are Open
The 5th and final round of the Neighborhood Grant Program will be available for neighbors to fund projects that beautify, develop, and engage their neighborhoods.
Organized by The City of Indianapolis and administered by INRC, this program aims to fund and support Indianapolis neighborhood associations and neighborhood-based organizations' visions for enhancing the places they call home.
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Public Art for Neighborhoods Grants Available
Public Art for Neighborhoods is a City of Indianapolis program that ensures that City incentive funding for private development in certain districts returns benefits to neighborhoods in the form of increased arts and cultural activity. At least 50% of funds granted through this program will support projects in neighborhoods where the average household income is less than 138% of the current Federal poverty line.
The Community Connection Grants are designed to support the work of artists leading in their own communities, partnering with their neighborhoods and neighborhood-based organizations, to help address community-based challenges. Projects that address needs identified in the 2022 Public Art for All equity census will be prioritized for funding; however, any neighborhood-based arts project is eligible. Through this funding, artists can help envision a more connected, just, and equitable future for everyone.
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Indy Arts Council Offers Mental Health & Wellness Grants
Indy Arts Council is now offering Mental Health & Wellness Grants to support artists and creative workers in navigating and preventing addiction and substance abuse.
These grants aim to help artists who are experiencing social and emotional challenges, but don’t have sufficient means to obtain treatment.
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Andy Warhol Foundation
Arts Writers Grants Available
The Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant supports emerging and established writers who write about contemporary visual art. Ranging from $15,000 to $50,000 in three categories—articles, books, and short-form writing—the grants support projects addressing both general and specialized art audiences, from short reviews for magazines and newspapers to in-depth scholarly studies. The program also supports art writing that engages criticism through interdisciplinary methods and experiments with literary styles.
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DeHaan Artist of Distinction Award
The DeHaan Artist of Distinction Award provides contemporary visual artists with grants of up to $10,000 to pursue aspirational projects. The final projects are shown during a special exhibit at Gallery 924.
The Christel DeHaan Family Foundation and Indy Arts Council launched the award program in 2017 and opened the program to artists statewide in 2021.
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Adolph & Esther Gottlieb Foundation Emergency Grant
The Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Emergency Grant program is intended to provide interim financial assistance to qualified painters, printmakers, and sculptors whose needs are the result of an unforeseen, catastrophic incident, and who lack the resources to meet that situation.
Each grant is given as one-time assistance for a specific emergency, examples of which are fire, flood, or emergency medical need.
This program has no deadlines.
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FCA Emergency Grant
Created in 1993 to further FCA's mission to encourage, sponsor, and promote work of a contemporary, experimental nature, Emergency Grants provide urgent funding for visual and performing artists who:
- Have sudden, unanticipated opportunities to present their work to the public when there is insufficient time to seek other sources of funding
- Incur unexpected or unbudgeted expenses for projects close to completion with committed exhibition or performance dates
Emergency Grants is the only active, multi-disciplinary program that offers immediate, project-based assistance of this kind to artists living and working anywhere in the United States, for projects occurring in the U.S. and abroad.
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B-Side Creative Campus Seeks New Residents
B-SIDE is home to the Ozone Artist-in-Residency program that provides year long subsidized residencies to mid career artists.
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Space on Space
Space on Space Artist Resource Guide
Without artists, Space On Space Magazine would be nothing. Our magazine is here to support artists in their creative practices. Here is an ever-growing list of resources we’ve compiled for you to use.
Download the Resource Guide Here!
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Indy Arts Center
Seeking Volunteers for OneAmerica Broad Ripple Art Fair
Hey, here's the scoop: we're on the hunt for volunteers to join the OneAmerica Financial Broad Ripple Art Fair (May 17-19)! Not only do you score a free weekend pass, but you also nab an awesome free tee and become part of the most epic art extravaganza around!
Choose your shift, and get ready for the FUN:
Sign Up Now!
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The Marilyn Rose Center
Development Internship
The Development Internship spans throughout the summer, with the possibility of a full time job, depending on funding availability. Lotus Education and Arts Foundation headquarters at 105 S. Rogers St., and will be expected to conduct the majority of their internship in the office. Periodically there will be work that can be completed remotely or during off site events.
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Indy Arts Council
Offering Free IndyGo Passes to Artists
Thanks to a grant from the IndyGo Foundation, Indy Arts Council is providing free 10-Trip IndyGo bus passes to artists of any discipline residing in central Indiana.
Artists may claim one free 10-Trip pass every 30 days (while passes last) by completing a short form that includes demographic questions. This information helps us ensure that our programs and services are equitable and that we can be accountable to the community for our equity commitments. The information you provide may be reported to the public; however, it will be reported as part of aggregate statistics without individually identifying information.
Artists who are approved for an IndyGo pass will be notified by email. These passes can start anytime, but once the first trip is started, they need to be used within 30 days or the fares expire. To ensure that those who will really use them have access, please do not apply for a pass that you are unlikely to use up within 30 days.
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Town of Clarksville
Seeking Public Art Proposals
The Clarksville (Indiana) Historic Preservation Commission is seeking qualifications of artists interested in creating public art honoring the contribution of brothers George Rogers Clark and William Clark in defining and securing the borders of the young United States to shape the country as we know it. This installation may be in any medium, but should be appropriate for outdoor placement.
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Indiana Humanities
Offers Wilma Gibbs Memorial Fellowships
Indiana Humanities is pleased to offer the Wilma Gibbs Moore Fellowships, which provide $5,000 stipends to support new humanities research that explores anti-Black racial injustice and structural racism in Indiana and that considers how Black Hoosiers have responded.
We believe that the humanities provide context for understanding complex issues and that they can be a force for strengthening the civic fabric of our state. Outstanding public humanities programs, which can bring Hoosiers together to talk through differences and solve problems, are rooted in high-quality humanities scholarship. Our purpose is to increase the amount and quality of such humanities scholarship about Indiana.
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Pro Bono Indiana Offers Free Legal Assistance to Artists and Organizations
Pro Bono Indiana’s (IndianaLegalHelp.org) Lawyers for the Arts project provides legal assistance at no cost to artists and small arts organizations. To obtain help, please call 812.402.6303. Calls from artists and small arts organizations are taken on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. (Central Time). Support for this service is provided by the Indiana Bar Foundation.
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The Learning Tree Seeks Four Poets in Residence for Poetic Justice Program
The Learning Tree seeks four Indianapolis-area poets for their Poetic Justice Poet in Residence program. Poetic Justice is a peace-building and community safety program that integrates poetry and creative writing to foster social connectedness and cultivate visions of safe, nurturing communities through writing and asset-based community projects. We currently seek poets interested in having their original written work studied during our cohort sessions and participating in several of our meetings.
Poets should be Indianapolis residents, able to commit to three 1.5 hour meetings within the 15 weeks and be actively involved in the community within the last 5 years. Poetic Justice uses a cohort model, meeting once a week for 15 weeks. Poets in residence are expected to share at least one poem for a cohort to read, lead at least one poetry writing workshop and discussion, attend at least three PJ sessions, and offer one original writing to the Poetic Justice anthology.
Writers in residence will receive a $1,500 stipend.
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Imagine IFF 3-Day Program from the Indiana Fashion Foundation
Ever wondered where to start with your design ideas? Concerned about costs, finding customers, or the production process? Say no more!
Join the IMAGINE IFF 3-Day Program (Bootcamp Style), where the Indiana Fashion Foundation will guide you from ideation to a vetted concept. Stop wondering and start creating your fashion journey!
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Dawn Dilley Clinical Health Psychologist
Stress Management for Teens
Make art and learn about yourself. Join a six week psychotherapy group using art. Build coping skills and get to know yourself better through art expression and creativity. No art experience required, all supplies provided.
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Artist Studios for Rent at the New Wapahani Art Center
Applications are now being accepted for ARTIST STUDIOS FOR RENT at the WAPAHANI ART CENTER at 1103 Kentucky Avenue in Downtown INDY. Within a few feet of the beautiful waterfront wilderness of White River, Wapahani Trail, studio spaces range from 250 – 650 sq.ft. Prices start at $350.00 per month. Space includes utilities, common area maintenance, free parking and artist event nights. Most spaces have sinks and windows.
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Indiana Arts Commission Hosts Artist Needs Survey
Beginning in the Fall of 2023, the Indiana Arts Commission (IAC) launched a statewide Artist Needs Assessment. The goals of the Artist Needs Assessment are threefold:
- Create an opportunity for local artists to network, connect, and learn from peers.
- Inform new and refined services and programming for individual artists in Indiana.
- Provide an open forum for artists of a variety of backgrounds to voice opinions, concerns, experiences, and needs connected to their experience as an Indiana creative.
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Ohio State University Seeking Participants to Measure Artists' Challenges and Resilience After COVID-19
Are you a part of the creative economy? Has the COVID-19 Pandemic impacted your life and career? Share your experiences and become a part of a longitudinal study to help us understand the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on creatives.
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Wabash and Erie Canal Present:
Historic Trades Classes
Have you ever wondered how to hand-make your own bucket, or how to weave your own creations, or how to make a broom or basket, or how to cook food in a fireplace, or how to work wool with a needle for ornamentation?
Now is your opportunity to learn from skilled artisans in a historic village setting. Choose as many classes as you want; register and pay ahead so you can make sure you have a spot in the classes. All of our classes will be offered in the Pioneer Village at Canal Park in Delphi, Indiana. Upcoming classes are on the calendar below. If you have any questions please email classes@canalcenter.org.
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