Creative Arts Festival Competition for Veterans: The Salisbury Veterans Administration Medical Center will accept submissions until 3 p.m. Feb. 6
Dimensions 2009: Associated Artists of Winston-Salem is accepting through Feb. 10 submissions of two- and three-dimensional fine art for its national juried competition and exhibition.
2.Independent Filmmaker Labs for Narrative & Documentary Features (IFP) announces its call for submissions. IFP designed its Independent Filmmaker Labs to assist filmmakers in tackling the creative and technical challenges of completing their projects before they are submitted to festivals. The labs support low-budget, independently produced films by first-time feature directors in the rough assembly stage that can benefit from the mentorship of experienced film professionals. The five-day program challenges filmmakers to realize the full potential of their footage and stories prior to industry exposure, providing a dynamic system of feedback and advice on technical, creative and post-production issues. Visit Independent Filmmaker Labs for more information. Deadline: February 13 for the Documentary Lab and April 17 for Narrative Lab
3.Dance Theater Workshop’s (DTW) Outer/Space Program supports facilities that provide viable and affordable rehearsal space to the greater dance community. Awards ranging from $2,000-$6,000 will be distributed in May 2009 in a continued effort to assist artists who manage public dance studios in Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx and Staten Island. Visit Dance Theater Workshop for more information. Deadline: February 20
4.Theater Methods announces a call for presentations for their International Festival-Fair. Theater Methods is the annual professional festival-fair bringing up the question of the bridge between tradition and contemporaneity in performing arts. Participants: actors, directors, dancers, choreographers, teachers, playwrights, stage designers, script writers, theater critics, journalists, cultural managers. Visit Theater Methods for more information. Deadline: February 20
5.Union Square Award announces its call for nominees. This initiative provides support to innovative and creative arts programs that are engaging youth and families in low-income communities across the city, especially those providing services to populations with limited access to the arts due to geography, language, or economics. Consideration will be given to all artistic disciplines — dance, theater, music, visual arts, media arts and creative writing. Organizations with current operating budgets exceeding $1 million are not eligible to apply. Prospective grantees are identified through a nomination process. Nominations are annually accepted from September through the end of February. Grants ranging from $25,000 to $50,000 will be distributed once a year in June. Visit Union Square Award for more information. Deadline: February 28
6.TRANS-POSITIONS along the Queensborough Bridge: Contemporary art production bridging the boroughs announces a call for artists. Submissions in all media, including video and installation, are invited for this exhibition that explores the multifaceted notions of traversing, bridging, or spanning through the creative processing of such actions. Some exhibited works may be concerned with the place of the artist and where art can be made to happen. Others may conjure dialectical or reciprocal conditions of seeing and knowing. Whatever their form or format, individual inclination or impulse, the artists in TRANS-POSITIONS will vividly and productively engage the dynamic potential of shifting, even de-stabilized artistic representation. Visit Long Island City Artists for more information. Deadline: March 1
7.The Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy is now soliciting submissions of short films for the 2009 Movies With A View outdoor movie series. Now in its 10th year, Movies With A View is one of New York City’s premiere film series and runs for eight Thursdays in July and August. To be considered, short films should run no longer than ten minutes and be suitable for a wide audience of 2,000-3,000. They cannot accept films with subtitles. Preference is given to local filmmakers and those that involve Brooklyn in some way. Final selections will be made in April 2008. Visit Brooklyn Bridge Park for more information. Deadline: March 1
8.Urban Divers Estuary Conservancy announces a call for entries for their 9th Annual Submerge Art and Environment Festival. The annual festival showcases video, photography and other art media produced by local and international artists that raises public awareness and/or celebrates our fragile aquatic environment. They are specifically interested in spectacular visual artworks and stories about the Hudson River, its tributaries, and the Long Island Sound. Selected entries will tour with UDEC to numerous spring/summer festivals throughout the region. Visit Urban Divers Estuary Conservancy for more information. Deadline: March 15
9.Art in General announces its open call for project proposals. Art in General commissions challenging new work to visual artists. With a yearly open call and a simple online application process, Art in General invites artists in the New York City area to propose projects in any medium or form—from painting to sculpture to performance to video to other, perhaps undefined, type of art or interdisciplinary work. This open call is for artists with studio or post-studio practice. It has no thematic or spatial parameters. Artists can choose to present a project proposal based on long-standing or emerging interests. Visit Art in General for more information. Deadline: March 31, 11:59 p.m.
10.Harpo Foundation announces its call for proposals. The foundation gives grants to nonprofit institutions that support artists who are under recognized by the field. Proposals to the foundation can take the form of installations, public interventions, residencies and exhibitions where the artist is commissioned to create new work. Projects and work that advance and cross the boundaries of media and artistic disciplines will be given first consideration. Grants will usually not exceed $10,000. Visit Harpo Foundation for more information. Deadline: April 1
11.Dumbo Arts Center(DAC) invites artists or curators (individuals or groups) of all levels of experience to submit exhibition proposals for realization in its gallery space in 2010. DAC is particularly interested in proposals that harness and interpret the space’s unique physical, spatial, historical, or psychological potential and which take an innovative, experimental approach to site-specific or site-responsive exhibition making. Proposals must be original and conceived for the DAC space. Visit Dumbo Arts Centerfor more information. Deadline: April 1
12.Eros 5: Lyndon Street Artworks is asking for submissions of erotic art in any media. Artists may submit an unlimited number of creations for $5 cash. Works selected will be on display from 7 to 10 p.m. Feb. 13. Entries will be accepted from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Feb. 9-11 at Lyndon Street Artworks, 205 S. Lyndon St., Greensboro. For more information, send e-mail to Charlotte and Erik Strom at charlotteart@hotmail.com or Andrew Comstock at andrew@k2production.com.
13.Dayton Literary Peace Prize – Dayton Daily News – Dayton,OH,USA
By Laura Dempsey The Dayton Literary Peace Prize is gearing up for next year’s awards, issuing a call for submissions of fiction and nonfiction books that …
