PWD Artist Opportunities - Spring 2014 - FIRST DEADLINE - APRIL 11, 2014 Greetings from the VSA and Accessibility Office at the Kennedy Center! Please find below the VSA Artist Opportunities email, a quarterly offering of calls for art, professional development opportunities, and exciting upcoming events for visual and performing artists with and without disabilities. We hope this email allows for easy access to vital and timely information about opportunities from the field. Performing and Visual Arts Opportunities (listed in order of submission deadline) Call For Entries: 19th Annual International Screendance Festival Deadline: April 11, 2014 American Dance Festival is pleased to announce our annual call for submissions for the 19th annual International Screendance Festival. Created as a platform to showcase recent developments in the fields of dance and cinema, ADF’s International Screendance Festival, directed by dance filmmaker and curator Douglas Rosenberg, has screened more than 320 dance films by filmmakers from over 20 countries to audiences from all over the world. Residency: SOHO2O Chelsea Gallery Deadline: April 14, 2014 SOHO2O Chelsea Gallery is a non-profit artist-run gallery that has been promoting the work of women artists through gallery exhibitions and public programming since 1973. The Studio Residency Program awards one visual artist with a studio space in the heart of Chelsea for a three-month period, providing the artist with the opportunity to create, experiment, and exchange ideas while engaging with an international art community. The SOHO20 studio residency is open to underrepresented, emerging, and mid-career artists from all cultural backgrounds and disciplines, including drawing, painting, photography, sculpture, video, installation, performance and new media. The program is open to both men and women. Residency: MacDowell Colony Deadline: April 15, 2014 The MacDowell Colony offers creative individuals of the highest talent an inspiring environment in which they can produce enduring works of the imagination. The sole criterion for acceptance is artistic excellence, which the Colony defines in a pluralistic and inclusive way. Located in rural New Hampshire, the MacDowell Colony facilitates a balance between focused work and interdisciplinary interaction among composers, writers, architects, film and video artists, playwrights, interdisciplinary artists, and visual artists. A MacDowell Fellowship, or residency, consists of exclusive use of a studio, accommodations, and three prepared meals a day for up to eight weeks. Emerging as well as established artists are invited to apply. Call For Entries: Rochester Contemporary Art Center “6x6x2014” Show Deadline: April 20, 2014 Rochester Contemporary Art Center’s (RoCo) international small art phenomenon returns for the 7th year! Help us once again to build an incredible exhibition of thousands of artworks made and donated by celebrities, international and local artists, designers, college students, youths, and YOU. Each artwork must be 6x6 square inches (15cm) or mounted to a 6x6 board, signed only on the back, and exhibited anonymously. Artists may enter up to 6 artworks of any medium (2D or 3D) and there is no fee to enter. All entries will be accepted and exhibited in the gallery and online. All artworks will be offered for sale to the public for $20 each to benefit RoCo. Artist names will be revealed to the buyer upon purchase, and all artworks will remain on display through July 13, 2014. Call For Entries: FIGMENT NYC 2014 Deadline: April 25, 2014 FIGMENT NYC 2014 is a two-day participatory arts event held on Governors Island, showcasing art that encourages participants to play, dance, sing, create, engage, experiment, and explore their environment. The event accepts submissions from artists of all ages and experience. Theatre, dance, music, performance art, games, creative costuming, workshops and activities are all common genres found at FIGMENT. Competition: VSA Playwright Discovery Competition Deadline: April 28, 2014 The VSA Playwright Discovery Competition invites middle and high school students to take a closer look at the world around them, examine how disability affects their lives and the lives of others, and express their views through the art of script writing. Writers may write from their own experience and observations, or create fictional characters and settings. Scripts can be comedies, dramas, or even musicals --be creative! Young writers with and without disabilities are encouraged to submit a script. Entries may be the work of an individual student or a collaboration by a group of students. Competition: New American Paintings 2014 Western Competition Deadline: April 30, 2014 New American Paintings is a museum-quality, soft-cover art periodical, published bi-monthly by The Open Studios Press. Each 184 page volume is a regional exhibition-in-print, selling for $20 at 1,500 bookstores, museum shops and art supply stores nationwide. The books have become periodical resources for collectors and art world professionals. Competition winners retain all rights to their images and pay nothing to appear in New American Paintings. The current “West Competition” is now accepting entries from residents of AZ, CO, ID, KS, MT, ND, NE, NM, NV, OK, SD, TX, UT, and WY only. The competition’s 40 winners will appear in the Oct/Nov 2014 edition of New American Paintings. All styles and media are welcome, as long as the work is singular and two-dimensional. Call For Entries: The Painting Center Shifting Ecologies Exhibition Deadline: April 30, 2014 The Painting Center, an artist run, not-for-profit gallery in the heart of Chelsea, announces a call for entries for its upcoming, juried exhibition entitled Shifting Ecologies, running from June 17-July 12, 2014. Highly publicized with a catalog, the exhibition will feature a diverse group of artists who are exploring ecological issues and changes to the environment. We invite representational and abstract artists to submit work that considers all facets of ecological transformation. Residency: Avaloch Farm Music Institute Deadline: May 1, 2014 Avaloch Farm Music Institute provides a unique opportunity for chamber music ensembles at any stage of development to have the time and space to work intensively on repertoire; prepare for recordings, concerts or competitions; work with composers on commissions; and forge or reconnect to a group musical identity. In addition, Avaloch Farm intends to provide a setting for arts and educational organizations to meet to concentrate on their particular mission. Length of residencies can vary from one to six weeks. Residency: Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA) Deadline: May 15, 2014 The VCCA is a year-round community that provides a supportive environment for superior national and international visual artists, writers, and composers of all economic and cultural backgrounds to pursue their creative work without distraction in a pastoral residential setting. Admission to VCCA is highly selective, based on a review of applications by panels of professional artists. The current application is for a residency period stretching from October to January. Call For Entries: (e)merge Art Fair Deadline: May 30, 2014 The fourth edition of the (e)merge Art Fair will take place October 2-5, 2014, in Washington, DC, at the Capitol Skyline Hotel. Fair programming will include curator and collector panel discussions, tours, and performances. Artists currently without gallery representation whose proposals are selected by the vetting committee, including international artist Ai Weiwei, will have the opportunity to exhibit their works at no charge throughout the hotel and its grounds. Whereas work in all media (including painting, sculpture, works on paper, and photography) will be carefully considered, projects involving experimental works in non-traditional formats are especially encouraged. Such work may include installation, conceptual art, performance, new media, or the inventive use of materials to express challenging concepts. Each applicant will receive a complimentary day pass to the fair. Residency: ArtCenter Deadline: May 31, 2014 ArtCenter/South Florida’s Studio Residency Program is ideal for artists who are committed to experimentation and innovation, seeking artistic & professional development, and are interested in being a part of and contributing to a dynamic community of local, national and international artists and creative thinkers. Located in the heart of South Beach, ArtCenter offers a unique visual arts residency experience in an urban, yet tropical setting. With a constant flow of visitors, ranging from beach lovers to art collectors, ArtCenter resident artists engage with the public on a regular basis. An ArtCenter residency offers opportunities for cross-cultural exchange with South Florida-based artists and audiences, with 38 partially-subsidized workspaces appropriate for visual artists working in most mediums. Call For Entries: 18th Annual No Dead Artists International Juried Exhibition Deadline: June 16, 2014 Now in its 18th year, No Dead Artists has become an exhibition that has time and again discovered new and emerging talent and is one of the most celebrated art exhibitions in the South. Hosted each year by the Jonathan Ferrara Gallery in New Orleans, the exhibitions name is derived from the old adage that artists never achieve success until they are dead. No Dead Artists turns that notion on its head and gives emerging artists their first break in the art world. No Dead Artists is open to living artists working in the United States. All mediums are accepted, including, but not limited to, painting, sculpture, design, glass, metalwork, photography, video, mixed media and installation art. Call For Entries: VSA 2014 Emerging Artists Program Deadline: June 30, 2014 VSA and Volkswagen Group of America proudly announce the 2014 Emerging Young Artists Program call for entries. Emerging young visual artists with disabilities, ages 16-25, are invited to reflect on the theme The Journey- internal and external, personal and communal, human and technological - our journeys shape our aesthetic and environmental terrain and define our daily lives. 15 artists will be selected to travel to Washington, D.C. for professional development workshops and a reception on Capitol Hill. Selected work will tour nationally. With the generous support of Volkswagen, awards include a $20,000 grand prize, $10,000 for first place, $6,000 for second place, and 12 awards of excellence at $2,000 each. Competition: The International Competition for Composers and Soloists “The Respighi Prize” Deadline: June 30, 2014 The Respighi Prize has been established to encourage and offer a performance opportunity for young talented composers and soloists through the inspiration of Ottorino Respighi’s music. Participants must be currently enrolled in (or recent graduates of) music conservatory or college and under 40 years of age. Winners will receive a Certificate Award as Winner of The Respighi Prize, the chance to perform as a featured soloist with the Chamber Orchestra of New York, and a recording of the concert for archive and promotional use. Call For Entries: The Gallery Underground Deadline: Ongoing The Gallery Underground announces solo or group exhibition opportunities for artists from the Greater Washington, DC area. We are searching for talented professional artists with a cohesive body of work to exhibit in our new, 380 square foot Special Exhibitions space in the heart of Crystal City, Arlington. The Gallery Underground offers one evening reception, promoted in local publications and to our extensive patron list, and our full time gallery staff handles all sales, processes payments, assists in exhibit installation, and helps coordinate exhibit receptions
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