Opportunities, funding, and resources for the Baltimore artist community | |
Deadline for Free Fall Baltimore grant applications extended | |
Each year through the Free Fall Baltimore grant program, BOPA provides grants to Baltimore City-based organizations and local venues/event spaces with operating budgets under $300,000 to produce free cultural events in Baltimore City during October. Individual artists/creatives can apply if their event is also free and open to the public and located in a public space or Baltimore City-based venue. Grants will be given in the amount of $1,000 to all grantees. The new deadline is Thursday, July 18, 2024. For details and to apply, click below. | |
Applications are open for Gamescape activation at Artscape | |
Gamescape is a section of Artscape highlighting the local game creator community. It will feature games by local indie developers and students as well as game-themed art and music pieces. It will be held at The Fitzgerald during Artscape, August 2–4, 2024. Applications are now open for two Gamescape opportunities: Game Submissions and Art & Music Submissions. The deadline for both applications is Sunday, July 21, 2024. Click the buttons below for each application. | |
Experience Artscape behind the scenes as a volunteer | |
BOPA is seeking enthusiastic and hardworking volunteers to support Artscape 40. Volunteers can expect to support different front-facing and behind-the-scenes areas during Artscape, August 2–4, 2024, alongside diverse groups of staff and volunteer teams. Please note that all volunteer opportunities require various levels of skill, commitment, flexibility, and are subject to availability. If your application is accepted, you will receive a follow up email with next steps from our volunteer coordinator. For details, perks, and to apply, click the button below. | |
Competitions & calls for art | | |
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Chesapeake Arts Center's (CAC) "Photos From Around The World" exhibition highlights photography made within the last five years in the Maryland, D.C. or VA area. Artists over the age of 18 are invited to submit. The deadline is July 15, 2024. Click the button below for full open call details and requirements. | | |
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Online art gallery Light Space & Time currently has five competitions with open calls for art. Deadlines range from July 27 to October 28, 2024. Topics include Landscapes, Patterns, and Animals, among others. There is a fee to submit work, and each competition has an early bird deadline and discount. Click below for details. | | |
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The Made to Read & Investigate Writing Prize is a unique flash fiction contest. Winning stories will be published by The Hopkins Review and serve as the basis for a new scientific study of people’s brain activity while reading stories. High school & adult writers in Baltimore City can enter. The deadline is July 31, 2024. | | |
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Maryland Art Place (MAP), in partnership with Lumina Solar, announced an open call for an upcoming exhibition exploring the dynamic, controversial, and multifaceted concept of "energy." All mediums are welcome. The deadline is August 12 at midnight. Click below for details and to submit. | | |
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Global Creative Graduate Showcase is open to all undergraduate, graduate, & postgraduate art and design disciplines for those that have graduated between September 2023 and August 2024. The showcase is free to enter. The deadline is August 31, 2024. Click below for important details and to submit. | | |
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Another open call from Maryland Art Place (MAP), this time in partnership with Quinn Evans. Artworks can be literal or abstract, but must examine the relationship between energy systems and architectural spaces, and how it shapes our daily lives, environments, and future. The deadline is September 2, 2024. | |
Virtual workshops on decolonizing theater basics and more | |
Groundwater Arts, led by theater-makers Annalisa Dias and Tara Moses (Seminole/Mvskoke), has announced its new mission and programming. Upcoming virtual workshops include Decolonizing Theatre Basics, Consensus Decision Making, and Climate Justice + Theater-Making, among others. Get details and tickets for each workshop below. | |
Be part of a show featuring stories from HBCU alumni | |
The Short Kuts Show debuts at the Enoch Pratt Library's Central Branch Main Hall on August 22, 2024, with the third volume of its "School Dazed" HBCU live stand-up storytelling experience. If you are an HBCU alum with a tale you want to tell on stage, you must attend one of the virtual info sessions. The next one is Thursday, July 11, at 6:00 p.m. Click below for details and for the link to the info session. | |
Virtual info session on how to apply for a public art project | |
The Maryland State Arts Council (MSAC) invites artists to apply for the public art project, Maryland Monument to Honor Black Patriots who served in the Revolutionary War. The deadline to apply is August 9, 2024. There is a virtual information session on Thursday, July 11, at 2:00 p.m. that will include information on how to apply. Click the button below to register for the free info session. | |
Baltimore residency provides a local studio & financial support | |
Blue Light Junction (BLJ) opens a fourth round of applications for The Ibura Art and Research Residency in Central Baltimore. The fall 2024 residency cycle is September 15–December 15. BLJ is seeking two people for the Fall 2024 residency. The Ibura Art & Research Residency provides a studio, financial support, and thought partners for researchers to explore their work and practice through the lens of people, plants, and place. The deadline to apply is July 14, 2024. Click below for program guidelines, requirements, and how to apply. | |
Request for proposals deadlines 5pm this Monday | |
Baltimore creatives are invited to submit proposals to activate the vacant retail space at the Fitzgerald from September 1, 2024, to August 31, 2025. This is a project of Midtown Baltimore, in partnership with MCB Real Estate and Bloom Arts Strategy. They are looking for projects that utilize the space for rehearsals, performances, or related programming as well as engage the larger community in creative activities, commerce, and programming. The submission deadline is 5:00 p.m. on July 15, 2024. For prospective applicants, there is a virtual info session on June 24, and an in-person site visit on June 25. For call details, and to RSVP to the info session or the site visit, click the button below. | |
Networking event for film & TV crew at the Eubie | |
Do you work behind the scenes in TV or Film? CREW CALL is a community for creatives like you! Every department. Every skill level. On July 18, 2024, from 7:00–9:00 p.m., attend a film & TV networking event at the Eubie Blake Cultural Center. The goal is to create clear pipelines for local production talent to gain opportunities and grow. It's free to attend, but click the button below to reserve your spot. | |
Submit your puppet skit to Black Cherry's next Slamwich | |
Do you have a short puppet sketch to share? Black Cherry Puppet Theater's next Puppet Slamwich is on September 21, 2024, and they are on the lookout for acts! The slam will take place at Current Space and there will be two shows at 5:00 p.m. & 8:00 p.m. If you have a new piece, an old piece to revamp, or a brilliant idea for a new puppet skit, submit it by Friday, July 19, 2024. Click below for details on how to submit. | |
Two-day home-buying workshop for local creatives | |
Make Space was founded and designed to help eradicate the vacant house crisis Baltimore City currently faces by creating live-work spaces for creative business owners and documenting the impact. Make Space believes that artists and creative entrepreneurs have the capacity to sustain communities if provided with the economic tools, multi-generational mentorship, and support from the current residents. The organization is hosting two upcoming two-day workshops on home-buying for creatives. Attendance is limited so participants will need to apply. Click the button below for the application. | |
Arts-integrated fellowship opportunity for school principals | |
The 2024-25 Principal Fellowship offered by Arts for Learning Maryland will support 14 outstanding principals in developing an action plan that utilizes the arts for school-wide improvement. Applications are being accepted from principals in Baltimore City and Baltimore, Prince George's, Montgomery, and Charles counties. The program kicks off in September 2024. The final deadline to apply is July 31, 2024. Click the button below for program details and to apply. | |
Grant applications for Native artists deadlining July 22 | |
The Artist in Business Leadership (ABL) Fellowship offered by First Peoples Fund is a yearlong program that helps independent Native artists pursue art as a way to build a business to support themselves and their families. The ABL Fellowship awards $10,000 in funding towards a proposed project that will help artists launch or grow a successful arts business. Applications are open to artists at all stages of their career. Click below to apply. | |  |
First Peoples Fund's Cultural Capital (CC) Fellowship is a yearlong program offering financial support and guidance to culture bearers & artists who are committed to passing on ancestral knowledge within their Native communities. The CC Fellowship awards $10,000 in funding to artists & culture bearers to support their cultural work in their community through the arts. This fellowship is open to artists at any stage of their career. Apply below. | |
Applications are now open for 4 literary arts grants | |
PEN America "champions the freedom to write, recognizes the power of the word to transform the world, and works to unite writers and their allies to celebrate creative expression and defend the liberties that make it possible." The organization currently has four open grant opportunities for literary artists, including one for children's and young adult novelists, one for translations, and one for literary oral history. Applications for all grants are due August 1, 2024. Click below for details on each. | |
Federal placemaking grants for nonprofits | |
Our Town is the National Endowment for the Arts’ creative placemaking grants program for nonprofits. Through project-based funding, the program supports activities that integrate arts, culture, and design into local efforts that strengthen communities over the long term. Competitive projects are responsive to unique local conditions, develop meaningful and substantive engagement in communities, center equity, advance artful lives, and lay the groundwork for long-term systems change. The deadline to apply is August 1, 2024. Get details below. | |
Exhibit at next year's American Craft Made Baltimore event | |
American Craft Made Baltimore returns February 21–23, 2025, at the Baltimore Convention Center and applications are now open for exhibitors. First-time applicants are encouraged to attend an information session before submitting their application. The deadline is August 2, 2024. For event details, how to apply, and registration for the info session on July 17, click the button below. | |
Free arts integration conference for Baltimore City teachers | |
This year’s Summer Arts Integration Conference is August 7–8, 2024, at Baltimore Design School. This annual summer conference provides teachers in all content areas from Baltimore City and the surrounding regions with engaging opportunities to learn about arts integration and how it can positively impact student learning. Conference attendance can be counted towards Professional Development Points (PDP) upon completion of proper paperwork and approval by school-based supervisors. Click below for conference details and to register. | |
Opportunity for Black women & non-binary playwrights | |
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In its third year, Two Strikes Theatre Collective's (TSTC) Brown Sugar Bake-Off will focus on a new theme: mental health and what it means to reclaim wellness in the face of emotional labor and generational trauma.
TSTC is searching for Black women and non-binary playwrights to write short plays using selected "ingredients" and a specific "recipe." A panel of readers will select the plays for live production in October 2024. Stipends will be provided to all festival participants. The deadline for play submissions is August 12, 2024. To see what you need to include in your play and to submit, click the button below.
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Apply for a fully-funded, three-week residency in California | |
Based in a lively urban neighborhood in Pasadena, California, The Residency Project @ 880 provides space to live and work in an intimate, shared-living environment with access to the thriving arts scenes, diverse cultural landscape, and natural resources of Los Angeles and the San Gabriel Valley. Applications are now open for three-week funded residencies in Winter/Spring 2025. The deadline is August 20, 2024. Artists and writers at any stage of their career are invited to apply. Click the button below for full program details. | |
General operating support grants of $10,000 for nonprofits | |
Maryland Humanities’ grants program funds general operating support to nonprofits conducting work in the humanities throughout Maryland. The Strengthening the Humanities Investment in Nonprofits for Equity (SHINE) grant program awards $10,000 to eligible nonprofits. The application deadline is September 1, and there is a virtual information session on July 17, at 3:00 p.m. Click below for grant details and to apply. | |
Fellowship opportunity for students in arts administration programs | |
The Association of Arts Administration Educators (AAAE) seeks its 2024/25 Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Research Fellow(s) to investigate the intersection of EDI and arts management programs. The Fellow will work under the supervision of an AAAE board member. The Fellowship will begin in early October 2024 and will conclude at the end of the AAAE annual conference, May 22-25, 2025, in Pittsburgh. Compensation for the selected fellow includes a $2,000 stipend. The deadline is September 9, 2024. Click below for details and to apply. | |
Local arts & culture jobs | |
APPLY TO BE THE MORNING RADIO HOST ON WYPR
WYPR 88.1 FM is Baltimore’s NPR radio station is looking for a Morning Edition News Host who will guide listeners through daily news programming in ways that are listener-focused, engaging, personable, and timely. See the job posting and apply at the link below.
APPLY HERE
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CHILDREN'S LIBRARIAN WANTED AT PRATT LIBRARY
The Pratt Library is looking for individuals who are passionate and eager to deliver services and programs to children and youth in the Neighborhood Library Services Division. This position reports to the branch manager. Click the link below for details and to apply.
APPLY HERE
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ARTS CENTER SEEKS CLAY STUDIO SPECIALIST
The Education Support Clay Studio Specialist at Annmarie Sculpture Garden & Arts Center plays a key role in the daily maintenance and supervision of the studio, as well as teaching clay class for all ages and abilities. The deadline is July 19. Click below to apply.
APPLY HERE
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FULL- AND PART-TIME ADMINISTRATIVE JOBS AT CSC
Chesapeake Shakespeare Company (CSC) has two administrative positions open: one part-time (Executive Assistant) and one full-time (Individual Giving Manager). See both job descriptions, including compensation and responsibilities, at the link below.
APPLY HERE
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