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Opportunities, funding, and resources for the Baltimore artist community

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Closing this weekend

The 2024 Rubys Artist Grant application is open! Outstanding proposals will move on to round two, where applicants are asked to outline their full project narrative, budget, and public components. The maximum award is $15,000. The deadline is March 28, 2024, at 11:59 p.m. ET. Click below to apply.

The Baltimore County Arts Guild is accepting applications to be considered as one of the featured artists of this year's Arts & Drafts Festival, June 22–23, 2024, at Guinness Open Gate Brewery. The deadline for submissions is March 29, 2024. Click the button below for details and to apply.

Manifest Gallery in Cincinnati, Ohio, is seeking entries for its 18th Annual International MFA/MA exhibit of Emerging Masters. This call is open to current graduate students and MFA/MA (or PhD) degree recipients since January 2023. The deadline is March 29, 2024. Click below for details and to submit.

Manifest Gallery in Ohio has also put out an international call for works exploring real or

imagined animals in art. This call for art is open to all artists working in all traditional and non-traditional genres and mediums. The deadline for submissions is March 30, 2024. Click the button below for how to submit.

The Gallery at the Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts (RICPA) is accepting submissions of photorealistic art. This call is open to AI generated or enhanced images, painting, drawing, printmaking, and all forms of digital images. The deadline is March 30, 2024. Click below for call details.

The Berkeley Arts Council (BAC) in Martinsburg, West Virginia, announces the 14th Annual Art & Earth Juried Art Exhibit. Entries should reflect the artist's view of nature, the environment, or reflect an Earth Day-related theme. The deadline is March 31, 2024, at midnight. Click below for details.

Two residency programs at a creative research gallery & drawing center

The Manifest Creative Research Gallery and Drawing Center is located in East Walnut Hills in Cincinnati, Ohio, and is currently accepting applications for both its Artist Residency and Scholar in Residence programs. Both residencies are open to artists of all levels. They are particularly beneficial to those who just graduated from a college program or starting their careers, but previous Resident Artists have included recent graduates, mid-career professors on sabbatical, and professional veterans, among others. The deadline is April 1, 2024. For details on each program and how to apply, click below.

Call for entries from undergraduate & graduate students

The Philadelphia Sketch Club (PSC) is America's oldest art club, and is currently seeking entries for its first Undergraduate & Graduate Student Art Show, running from May 5–26, 2024. Submitted pieces can be 2D or 3D in any medium. Jurors will choose a maximum of two works submitted by any one artist for display . All works must be offered for sale and PSC takes a 25% commission for any sales. The deadline is 11:59 p.m. ET on April 3, 2024. Click below for details.

Call for entry for second annual group photography exhibition

The Image Flow invites photographic artists who are closely tied to the LGBTQIA2+ community to submit work to its 2nd Annual juried photography exhibition, "Queer Conscience 2024." This national call for entry is open to all photographic artists living or working in the United States and its territories. All entries must be original works of art and entirely the work of the entrant. Accepted entries will be exhibited at The Image Flow in San Anselmo, California, and in the online gallery. All accepted artwork must be framed to professional standards. The deadline is April 5, 2024, at 11:59 p.m. Click the button below for full open call details and to submit.

Apply to a four-week residency for printmakers in Dublin

Black Church Print Studio's International Artist-in-Residence program is a four-week term in Dublin, Ireland, for emerging, mid-career and established professional artists who are practicing printmakers. Artists will have a private room in shared accommodations and access to etching, lithography, screen printing, relief presses, and digital equipment. The deadline is April 5, 2024. Click the button below for program details and instructions on how to apply.

International art residency program in Brooklyn, New York

Since 2018, Uncool Artist has been providing an exclusive international art residency program for visual artists in Brooklyn, New York, and they currently have a limited number of slots remaining for the Summer/Fall 2024 cycle. The Uncool Artist Residency (UAR) studio is a workspace only. Artists are responsible for their own housing while in NYC. The deadline is 11:59 p.m. ET on April 7, 2024. For full program details, fees, and how to apply, click the button below.

Pratt Street Market seeks food vendors, artisans, and more

The Pratt Street Market, presented by PNC Bank returns to Pratt & Light Streets this May, and Downtown Partnership of Baltimore (DPOB) is searching for vendors to join this popular lunchtime market. Pratt Street Market will be open on Thursdays from 11:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m. and runs May through September beginning May 2, 2024. Applications are due no later than April 8, 2024. Click below for details.

Opportunity for Oglala Lakota culture bearers and artists 

The Oglala Lakota Artspace Artist-In-Residence Program is designed to support Oglala Lakota culture bearers, and artists working in the continuum of Lakota art. Residencies are for two–six weeks and include living accommodations, a food stipend, workspace, material stipend, transportation to and from the residency space, and time to concentrate on creative practice. The residency is open to Oglala Lakota visual artists, writers, composers, choreographers, interdisciplinary artists, performance artists, and collaborative teams, with established or emerging artists encouraged to apply. The deadline is April 8, 2024, at 11:59 p.m. MT. Click the button below for details.

Submit your story to an award-winning podcast on the performing arts

ARTS. WORK. LIFE. is an award-winning podcast from the Association of Performing Arts Professionals (APAP) that is comprised of first-person narratives related to life working in the performing arts. Submit your story idea now for Season 3. The deadline is April 9, 2024. Click the button below for requirements and how to submit.

No fee to submit work to this summer photography exhibition

"Vision(ary) | Portraits of Cultures, Communities, and Environments" is the Griffin Museum of Photography’s summer public art exhibition dedicated to the art of visual storytelling. Photographers are invited to submit their work for consideration. There is no fee to submit. The resulting exhibition and selected stories are presented throughout the Winchester community as part of the Winchester Waterfield Summer Arts Festival. The installation will run from June 7–September 13, 2024. The deadline is April 10, 2024. Exhibiting artists will be announced the first week of May. Click the button below for details

Open call for ACCI Gallery's first ever Pride exhibition

The Arts & Crafts Cooperative, Inc. (ACCI) Gallery has announced its first ever Pride show. The exhibition is open nationally to LGBTQ+ artists of all backgrounds and ages. Artists may submit up to three pieces of original artwork, made within the last two years, for consideration. The deadline is April 12, 2024. Click below for open call details.

Two opportunities from Maryland Federation of Art (MFA)

Grants for photographers working with still, film-based photography

The Film Photo Award offers two award cycles per year, each providing three distinct grants of professional photographic film and film processing by Griffin Editions to photographers who demonstrate a serious commitment to the field and are motivated to continue the development of still, film-based photography in the 21st century. The award is open to all emerging, established, and student photographers based in the United States who are 18 years old or older. The entry deadline is April 14, 2024. Click below for full contest details.

Funding support for collaborative, public-facing projects

The Grit Fund awards money proposals that use the visual arts to create collaborative public-facing projects. Grit Fund will provide up to $10,000 to Baltimore City- and Baltimore County-based artists for collaborative projects led by visual and performing artists, cultural organizers, collectives, collaboratives, and/or artist-run spaces. The fund will disperse $60,000 in project grants. Applications are due by April 15, 2024. There will be an online information session on Thursday, March 28, from 6:00–7:00 p.m. For more information, including how to register for the info session, and to apply, click below.

Vendors & artisans wanted for the Sowebo Arts & Music Festival

The Sowebo Arts and Music Festival takes place from noon–8:00 p.m., on the Sunday of Memorial Day Weekend in the streets surrounding the historic Hollins Market. This event is all about bringing together local music, visual artists, entertainers, great food, neighbors, and fun for all ages. The festival is currently accepting applications for food vendors, artisans and crafters, commercial vendors, and nonprofit organizations. Early registration ends April 15, 2024. Click below for more information about the festival and links to all applications.

Up to $20,000 in environmental project support for women artists

The Anonymous Was A Woman Environmental Art Grants awarded by the New York Foundation for the Arts provides up to $20,000 to support projects on environmental issues led by women-identifying artists in the United States and U.S. Territories. The funded project or phase of the project must be completed by August 2025. Apply by 5:00 p.m. ET on April 16, 2024. Click below for grant details.

Year-long stipended residency program with free private studio space

Mudflat Studio in Somerville, Massachusetts, invites applications for its Year-Long Residency Program, a one-year position to clay artists. This highly competitive program includes private 90-square-foot studio space, 24/7 access, a monthly stipend of $75 to be applied to clay materials and firing costs, a monthly stipend of up to $800 for housing assistance, paid teaching opportunities, opportunities for retail sales at Open Studio events and at Mudflat Gallery, and a solo exhibition and reception at Mudflat in July to showcase work created during the residency year. The deadline to apply is April 16, 2024. Get details below.

Eight-week summer residency in Baltimore City

The Joshua Johnson Council (JJC) Artist in Residence (AIR) program will select two artists living and working in Baltimore City for the summer residency. Applicants are not required to be alumni of MICA. Selected artists are offered studio space for eight (8) weeks, access to MICA facilities, a materials stipend of $2,500, and the opportunity work with low-residency MICA graduate students. After the residency, each artist will give a public presentation. The deadline is April 17, 2024. Click below for details and a link to the application.

Apply to be the next Baltimore Youth Poet Laureate

In partnership with the Baltimore City Mayor’s Office, DewMore hosts an annual poetry slam for youth ages 13–19 as an extension of its Poetry League after-school program. Send all poetry submissions and applications for 2024 Baltimore Youth Poet Laureate by email. The deadline is April 21, 2024. Click below to submit.

Reatreat space for working artists, scholars, & clergy

South Porch Artists Residency is a retreat space for working artists, scholars and clergy to pursue creative projects on a historic property in downtown Summerville, South Carolina. Up to six residents at a time are offered comfortable lodgings and studio work space. Residents apply for stays of one, two, three, or four weeks, arriving and departing on a Monday. Artists and thinkers, ages 21+, ranging from emerging to established, and working in variety of genres are welcome to apply. The deadline is April 30, 2024. Click below for details.

Deadline extended for NEA's Challenge America grant program

Challenge America, a program of the National Endowment for the Arts, offers support primarily to small organizations for projects that extend the reach of the arts to underserved groups and/or communities. Challenge America features an abbreviated application, a robust structure of technical assistance, and grants for a set amount of $10,000. Grants require a cost share/match of $10,000 consisting of cash and/or in-kind contributions. Total project costs must be at least $20,000 or greater. The deadline has been extended to April 30, 2024. (Please note: Grants.gov will be down for maintenance from April 20–23.) Click the button below for more information and to apply.  

Artist-in-residence program in a national forest

The Challis Arts Council in Idaho is putting out a call for artists to participate in an Artist in Residence program. The program will connect artists with Forest Service employees to create a collaborative relationship, with the natural ecosystems, heritage, and wilderness that are abundant on the Salmon-Challis National Forest. Selected artists will stay in remote cabins that sit on the edge of wilderness. The length of the residency will run between 2–4 weeks during late June through September. Housing will be provided and possibly a stipend. Artists of all mediums are encouraged to apply. Applicants must be 18 years of age. The deadline is 11:59 p.m. on May 1, 2024. Click below to apply.

Cover the cost of attending the AMA conference in person

Thanks to support from organizations across the arts, heritage and cultural sector there are 16 bursaries available that cover the full cost of an in-person Arts Marketing Association (AMA) Conference 2024 delegate place. Click below to find the details of each bursary, including links to the simple online application forms. You can also find information on other grants that can be applied for to help cover the delegate cost of attending a conference in person. The deadline is May 3, 2024.

Submit your work to a juried show in Ellicott City

The Artists’ Gallery of Ellicott City invites visual artists (both 2D and 3D) to submit original work in any media for a juried show. Award winners and some accepted works will be displayed in the gallery for the month of July. All accepted artwork will be on the website and available for online purchase. Artists 18 or older living or working in Maryland or surrounding areas are eligible to apply. The deadline is May 5, 2024. Click below for more information and to submit.

Jobs in the arts & culture sector

BOPA IS LOOKING TO FILL SEVERAL OPEN POSITIONS

We are looking to hire dedicated arts professionals to fill a number of roles, including Director of Development, Multimedia Specialist, and Farmers' Market Coordinators. Click the link below to see the full descriptions for each job and how to apply.

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MSAC IS LOOKING FOR A SENIOR PROGRAM DIRECTOR

The Maryland Department of Commerce is seeking qualified applicants for the position of Senior Program Director within the Division of Tourism, Film and the Arts, Maryland State Arts Council (MSAC). Click the link below for qualifications, compensation, and how to apply.

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POST PRODUCTION OPERATIONS COORDINATOR WANTED

PRODUCERS, a full-service video production and post production facility in Baltimore, is in search of a Post Production Operations Coordinator. Click the link below to see the full job description, including responsibilities, benefits, and how to submit an application.

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INTERNSHIP FOR ACADEMIC CREDIT IN RESTON, VIRGINIA

Tephra Institute of Contemporary Art (Tephra ICA) in Reston, Virginia, seeks an intern who is interested in and gaining experience in gallery management, arts administration, communications, and education for contemporary art organizations. Compensation is academic credit.

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