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1 March: Lighting Artists
Website: www.koro.no/en/projects/ongoing_projects/web/statlige_bygg/stavanger_new_concerthall/
Solo artists and collaborating groups are hereby invited to take part in an international pre-qualifying round for a lighting project in the New Concert Hall in Stavanger, Norway to be completed in 2012. Participants in the competition will receive a fee of approx. £7,000 for each entry. The total budget for the art project is 2,000,000 NOK (approx. £215,000).
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1 March: The Fifty:Fifty Programme
Charlotte Dew
Email: c_dew@craftscouncil.org.uk
Website: www.craftscouncil.org.uk
TheCrafts Council seeks UK based galleries and venues to co-curate and deliver partnership exhibitions that are match funded by the Crafts Council. Funds, ideas and resources will be joined and shared on a 50:50 basis.
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1 March: Cockpit Arts Award
Tel: 020 7419 1959
Email: adrian@cockpitarts.com
Website: www.cockpitarts.com
Applications are invited for the newly launched Cockpit Arts Award. Cockpit Arts is the only creative business incubator for designer-makers in the UK and this award aims to provide the space and time for an established designer-maker to significantly grow their business, increase their profitability and develop their profile. The Cockpit Arts Award recipient will be awarded a studio space at a Cockpit Arts incubator for a year - worth £4,000, plus business and professional development services including on-site coaching, a personalised development plan, a Business Development Toolkit, access to finance, workshops and events.
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1 March: NAN Go and See Bursaries
Email: nan@a-n.co.uk
Website: www.a-n.co.uk/nan/topic/473133
Go and see bursaries are artist-led, peer-reviewed bursaries supporting travel between artists' groups and networks in the UK or elsewhere, in order to explore new links and provide a focus for critical exchange, research and peer development. The aims of the bursaries are intended to promote the aspirations of artists and the development of practice through peer dialogue and exchange. An artists' group can be two or more artists working together, or engaged in collective activity who consider themselves to be a group or network.
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1 March: Hereford Festival Commission
Caitlin Griffiths
Email: caitlin@photofest.org
Hereford Photography Festival are seeking to appoint a photographer to develop a proposal and undertake a research-led commission. The purpose of the brief is for the creation of high quality new photographic work to celebrate the history, regional cultural significance and international presence of 'The Hereford' breed of cattle. When: April - June 2010. Fee: £3,000 Artist fee (to include all expenses) plus production budget to be agreed. Please email for full brief.
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2 March: Self Imaging - Video
Website: videochannel.newmediafest.org/blog/
Website: www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1852
VideoChannel Cologne would like to invite artists working in the field of the moving images to submit their self-portraits in video. VideoChannel Cologne is planning to extend an already existing collection of artists video self-portraits through new exciting films and videos to be launched in May 2010 on VideoChannel online, optional screenings in sequence.
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5 March: BANFF residencies
Email: arts_info@banffcentre.ca
Website: www.banffcentre.ca/va
The Banff Centre in Alberta, Canada is currently accepting applications to a number of its 2010 and 2011 visual arts Thematic Residencies as follows: 'Beyond Former Heaven (or the Institute of Surrealist Ethnography)' with Olivia Plender, for July to August 2010. This residency will encourage participants to work, live, play, and think collaboratively.
The next residency is: 'The distance between our minds and thoughts equals the distance between our words and mouths' with Jan Verwoert, freom September to 29 October 2010. Application deadline wil be 14 May 2010. This residency is about acts, ideas, and emotions that constitute community in a different manner, through enacted difference and standing apart together.
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5 March: Newcastle Commissions
Kate Calvert
Tel: 0191 211 6927
Email: kate.calvert@newcastle.gov.uk
Newcastle city council in partnership with BNG seek to appoint up to 4 professional practicing artists to develop with the local community 4 gateways/ entrance features into Harbottle Park, Byker, Newcastle Upon Tyne. For further information send an email.
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11 March: Film & Video Umbrella Commission
8 Vine Yard, London, SE1 1QL —
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Tel: 020 7407 7755
Website: www.freetoair.org.uk
This is an opportunity for a London-based artist to produce a major new film, video or digital media work to be commissioned and produced in collaboration with Film and Video Umbrella during 2010. The work will be staged at two London venues during the Autumn, alongside a screening programme and other contextual activities. The work will also go on to be exhibited at further UK venues as part of Film and Video Umbrella's UK-wide programme of touring exhibitions. The commissioned artist will be offered an artist's fee.
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12 March: Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
Tel: 020 7300 5929
Website: www.royalacademy.org.uk/summer-exhibition
An artist may enter a maximum of two works for the consideration of the judges, for a handling charge of £25.00 per work. The co-ordinators have agreed that the theme for 2010 will be Raw, but adherence to this is not a condition of entry and all submissions will be welcome. Please note that the deadline for purchasing an Entry Form online is Tuesday 3 March and we will no longer be sending forms abroad after this date.
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12 March: Marland Bursary 2010
Council House79-113 Marylebone Road, London, NW1 5PT —
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Tel: 020 7641 1018
Email: info@westminsterarts.org.uk
Website: www.westminsterarts.org.uk
This is a bursary of up to £1,000 to assist the artistic development of a young person aged 16-25 years and is open to all artforms. Applicants must live in the City of Westminster, proof will be requested. The maximum award is for up to £1,000. Areas that they will consider funding:
Arts education, training or practice (outside the formal education sector) Activities that broaden horizons through artforms such as dance, drama, music, creative writing, visual arts. Capital costs (e.g. equipment, Instruments etc.)
Activities or programmes that test out new ideas or practices.
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15 March: Artists public commission
Website: www.wyreway.org
Wyre Borough Council is looking for a multi-disciplinary team comprising landscape architect, architect and an artist to undertake a unique combination of projects to improve the cultural attraction of our coastal location. For the first deadline they are asking that you forward a selection of case studies and images to support your application, along with some concise answers to four questions you'll find on their website.
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18 March: Short-term residency - Edinburgh
Emma Keating
Email: ekeating@gritandpearl.co.uk
The residency's aim is to develop proposals for the spiritual spaces at the new Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh. Your proposal for a permanent commission will be developed in consultation with the Chaplain, the architect and specialists such as the Infection Control and Health & Safety Officers. These discussions will determine the direction that your proposal might take, but at this early stage it is anticipated that likely outcomes will be focused on the overall atmosphere of the room and on creating craft items such as glass windows/screens etc. The fee for this short-term residency is £3000 (inc. VAT), inclusive of all travel, accommodation, materials. Interviews will be held on Saturday 20th March at the RHSC, Edinburgh.
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22 March: Three Artist Residencies
Gwenno Eleri Jones: Events Manager
Tel: 01352 702471
Email: gwenno.e.jones@flintshire.gov.uk
Flintshire County Council is looking for 3 visual artists to work in residence at Talacre Beach and along the Flintshire Coastline. Each artists will work in different mediums. The artists will be based, one per term, in a workshop/studio and will be expected to facilitate 15 days workshops. Fee: £7,500 per artist. Times: Sept-Dec 2010, Jan-Apr 2011 - Apr-July 2011.
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25 March: Elsewhere Residencies
606 S Elm St Greensboro, North Carolina 27406 USA —
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Email: residencies@elsewhereelsewhere.org
Website: elsewhereelsewhere.org/programs/residencies
Elsewhere Collaborative, a living museum and experimental production environment in downtown Greensboro, NC, is now accepting applications from artists, curators, writers and creatives across media for residencies in 2010. Elsewhere is set within a three-story former thrift store, boarding house, and warehouse containing one woman's enormous 58 years collection of American surplus, thrift, and antiques. Elsewhere residencies invites experimental creators to join our collaborating community in utilizing this immense collection of objects, no longer for sale and instead circulating internally, as material or inspiration for site-specific projects that become part of an endlessly transforming environment of objects and works. Artists live and work within interactive installations that provide evolving frameworks for investigating collaborations, community structures, and creative processes. Each resident pays a $250 flat fee ($50 deposit, $200 program fee upon arrival), funds their own travel, and participates in their food co-operative at the cost of $35 per week. Funded residencies are currently available through a small number of education fellowships and curated residency events.
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26 March: RE: animate, Oriel Open Competition 2010
Matthew Richardson
Oriel Davies Gallery, The Park, Newtown, Powys, Wales SY16 2NZ UK —
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Tel: 01686 62504
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01686 623633
Email: enquiries@orieldavies.org
Website: www.orieldavies.org
Entries of new or recent works (made within the last
year) are invited which explore animation in its most broad and experimental sense. 1st Prize £1000 2nd Prize £500 + Student Prizes. As well as receiving their cash prizes, both 1st prizewinners will be offered an exhibition at Oriel Davies Gallery in Summer 2011. There is a non-refundable entry fee of £15 for 1 entry, £20 for 2 entries and £25 for 3 entries.
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26 March: War and the Body - call for Artists
Sarah Maltby
Email: maltby@warandmedia.org
Website: www.warandmedia.org/warandbodye/index.htm
How is the body in war transformed, classified, displayed, utilised, represented and produced through the visual art form? What do these visual forms show us about war and its transformative power? To what extent does the artist embody war through the lived creative process? The War and the Body exhibition explores the intertwining of war and body in the sculpture, drawing, painting, photography and installation art work of contemporary artists.
If you would like to be included in the exhibition please email
at least 3 examples of relevant works for the exhibition, a synopsis of why your work is appropriate for the exhibition;
a CV and biog; details of your availability between 8th and 13th June 2010. Shortlisted applicants will be notified by 9th April . The exhibition is running in coordination with the War and Body Conference taking place in June 2010 at London War Museum.
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29 March: Public Commission - Bury
Tony Trehy, Arts & Museums Manager
Bury Art Gallery, Moss Street, Bury, BL9 OBN —
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Email: t.trehy@bury.gov.uk
Bury Council is seeking to commission an artist to create a public artwork in Whitefield Park. Budget: £20K for fees and implementation. Send email for more information.
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30 March: Artists Film and Video submissions
Gordon
Marmalade Publishers of Visual Theory, Studio 4, 21 London Fields Eastside, London E8 3SA —
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Email: post@gordonshrigley.demon.co.uk
Website: www.filmarmalade.co.uk
Marmalade, publishers of visual theory, would like to invite artist film makers to submit film and video works for publication on their new artists film and video dvd label: Filmarmalade. Every year they will publish a series of films, selected through a process of invited and open submission. Each dvd will include one film only, however long or short, so as to maintain the individuality of each work and will be published as a limited edition.
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31 March: Daiwa Foundation Small Grants
Website: www.dajf.org.uk
The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation offers grants from £1,000- £5,000 to individuals, societies, associations or other bodies in the UK or Japan to promote and support interaction between the two countries. Grants can cover all fields of activity, including educational and grassroots exchanges, research travel, exhibitions, and other projects and events that fulfil this broad objective. There are two application deadlines each year, 31 March and 30 September.
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31 March: Montehermoso Art and Research
Centro Cultural Montehermoso Kulturunea, C/ Fray Zacarías Martínez, 2, 01001 Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain —
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Email: comunicacion@montehermoso.net
Website: www.montehermoso.net
Montehermoso presents the Art and Research call, the aim being to facilitate the production, diffusion and exhibition of eight contemporary art projects. Aid is offered for: the Production of contemporary art projects, Curatorship, the Research and development of a cinema script.
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31 March: National Sculpture Prize 2010
The Bluecoat, College Lane Entrance, Liverpool, L1 3BZ —
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Website: www.bluecoatdisplaycentre.com/exhibitions1.asp?ExhID=66
The National Sculpture Prize 2010 seeks to find six artists, whose work is new, exciting and thought provoking. Not only will the six short listed artists see their work on display at the Bluecoat gallery, they will also be eligible for £1000 cash prize. There will also be a 'Peoples Choice Award', for the artist nominated by members of the public. £10 fee to submit.
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