Website: www.koro.no
Public Art Norway (KORO) is inviting artists working within the fields of visual art, arts and craft, to participate in a pre-qualifying round for two large-scale commissions for the new Performing Arts Center. See website for details.
Listing ID: 3569
Website: www.AA2A.org
The AA2A project offers artists & designer makers the opportunity to undertake a period of research or realise a project using art college facilities eg. workshops, IT facilities, lending library, & lecture programme. Access is free, for at least 100 hours, between Oct 2008 and April 2009 and a materials/travel grant of £220 is available. Closing dates for applications varies, depending on the college, and will be between 1st and 22nd Sept.
Listing ID: 3611
Website: www.craftscouncil.org.uk
The Crafts Council Development Award is an unique scheme, assisting makers in the first three years of setting up, to buy major pieces of equipment.
Listing ID: 3641
Lakeside Arts Centre, University Park, Nottingham NG7 2RD - Google Maps
Neil Walker
Tel: 0115 95131989
Website: www.lakesidearts.org.uk
The Djanogly Art Gallery hosts a residency scheme open to fine and applied artists at its studio at Lakeside Arts Centre. The studio is available from 12 months starting from October 2008. To apply send between 10 and 20 images on CD, with your CV and a short statement.
Listing ID: 3650
Tel: 01223 352124
Website: www.kettlesyard.co.uk/open
Open exhibition for all artists living or working in the Arts Council England East region. Exhibition dates 22 November 2008 to 11th January 2009.
Listing ID: 3651
Email: info@shapearts.org.uk
Website: www.adamreynoldsbursary.org.uk
An annual bursary for a disabled or deaf artist, £5000 plus a 12 week residency. This year based at The Bluecoat (Liverpool.
Listing ID: 3652
Email: contact@magneticevents.org
Website: www.magneticevents.org
Enchanted Parks is an innovative outdoor arts programme presented as part of the annual Newcastle Gateshead Winter Festival cultural programme. The commissions will be for not only visual arts but for proposals that use combined arts forms including sound, multi-media, music, spoken word. The event will be available for the public to see and enjoy for a period of up to fourteen days during the Winter Festival. Proposals are invited for outdoor artworks that can realised within a commission budget of £ 2,000 to £ 5,000. Ten to fifteen art works will be commissioned.
Listing ID: 3717
Tel: 01372 462190
Email: DE@parkerharris.co.uk
Website: www.parkerharris.co.uk
Yearly painting exhibition happening at The Mall Galleries, selected and curated by two critics, two artists and two collectors. Regional collections points will be provided. London submission days are 5 and 6 September.
Listing ID: 3577
roARaTorio, BP 6501, 75064 Paris cedex 02 - France - Google Maps
Website: www.art-action.org/en_info_appel.htm
Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid is a festival creating s a space of discovery and reflection between new cinema and contemporary art. Any artist can submit one or several proposals to the programming team of the festival. The call for entry is open to film, video and multimedia cycles, without any restriction of length or genre. All submissions are free
Listing ID: 3659
Email: Victoria@beam.uk.net
Website: www.beam.uk.net/news
Artists are invited to submit expressions of interest for 3 Public Art Commissions in Sheffield. Yewlands, Silverdale and Newfield/Talbot School are currently under construction and each school has completed a period of consultation on the individual Public Art Commissions. Each Commission has it's own specific theme and proposed site. Artists are welcomed to submit proposals for each individual commission or as a collaborative work.
Listing ID: 3703
Email: info@art-claims-impulse.com
Website: www.art-claims-impulse.com
The ART CLAIMS IMPULSE residency program consists of normally a 4 week working period in which artists are encouraged to develop and complete one or more works of art, which will be exhibited in the gallery space for a period of 2 weeks. Eligible for application are artists working with video and multimedia installations, as well as performance artists. A fee of 690 Euros is charged for the residency. Dates: 28 September to 26 October 2008.
Listing ID: 3720
Email: louisa@chesterperforms.com
Website: www.chesterperforms.com
Up the Wall is a glorified mass promenade along an area of the city walls, one of Chester's most famous features. Chester Performs is looking for artists to take part by contributing personal and relevant work to the route either through existing work or site specific installations.
Accepted work can be: New Media/digital installation - Sound installation - Installation art - Live art.
Listing ID: 3775
Email: curatorialopen@southbankcentre.co.uk
Website: www.southbankcentre.co.uk/visual-arts/hayward-touring
Hayward Touring: Curatorial Open 2009 is the inaugural exhibition of a series of three annual Hayward Touring curatorial open calls. Hayward Touring in association with a number of regional museums and galleries invites proposals for an innovative exhibition, touring to four UK venues in 2009. Applicants are unable to apply to tour a solo exhibition of their own work, and they must be at least one year outside of college.
Listing ID: 3660
Independent Photographers Gallery, 3 Old Brewery Yard, Battle, East Sussex TN33 0AF - Google Maps
Lucy Bell
Tel: 01424 775650
Email: info@ipgbattle.com
Website: www.ipgbattle.com
Website: www.ipgbattle.com/oneillaward
Second edition of the Terry O'Neill Award. Submit a series of three to six images as an exhibition series. Images must fall into the criteria of reportage, documentary, landscape, portraiture or fine art photography.
Listing ID: 3403
Email: abierto@madridabierto.com
Website: www.madridabierto.com
The 6th edition of this international public art programme will be held in 2009 and 2010. Madrid Abierto will hold debate sessions on public art and will generate a series of interventions of a temporary nature in the centre of Madrid, whose authors will mainly be selected through this open call for presentations. They specifically looking for Audiovisual and Sound work. The maximum budget for each selected artist is 15,000 euros, all expenses included.
Listing ID: 3711
Email: artgeneopps@btconnect.com
Website: www.artgene.co.uk/page.php?i=126
ArtGene is accepting applications for their (Inter)national Collaborative Fellowship 2008/09. Successful applications will be based on the quality of the artist's work, the artistic merit of the project, its compatibility with the physical space and services available. The successful applicant will spend the majority of their time focusing on the production of their own new work in response to Art Gene's research remit: "the role of artists in the regeneration of the social, natural and built environment". Fee: £4000 + studio provided.
Listing ID: 3724
Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, London WC2R 0RN - Google Maps
Linda Goddard
Email: Linda.Goddard@courtauld.ac.uk
This conference will ask what motivates artists to write, how they view the relation between their visual and textual practice, and how they use writing to manipulate or challenge the public reception and critical interpretation of their work. Challenging the myth of the visual artist as an intuitive anti-intellectual, it will demonstrate the extent and diversity of
artists' contributions to modern literature and criticism. Please send proposals (max 300 words) for presentations of 20 minutes.
Listing ID: 3587
Email: contest@dipcas.es
Website: certamenpintura.dipcas.es
The Contest is focused on the relationship and interaction between painting and other media, such as photography, video, installation, sculpture or new technologies. Painting will have to be the main medium. Each artist can present one only painting. Submission fee is 25.00 euros.
Listing ID: 3738
c/o The Devon Guild of Craftsmen, Riverside Mill, Bovey Tracey, Devon TQ13 9AF - Google Maps
Tel: 01626 832223
Email: rachel.mackie@crafts.org.uk
The fund is open to those who have finished their formal training and are working full-time or part-time but need money for specific projects such as setting up a workshop, buying equipment, or for research and travel. Awards, which usually range between £500 and £1,000, are made every other year, each time focusing on a specific craft discipline. For 2008 this will be WOOD and application forms are now available. Applications should be made by submitting the completed form, together with six images of recent work. Successful applicants will be notified in October.
Listing ID: 3475
The Nunnery Gallery, 183 Bow Road, Bow, London, E3 5SJ - Google Maps
Tel: 020 89235756
Email: visionsinthenunnery@googlemail.com
Website: www.bowarts.org
In October 2008 The Nunnery will be hosting a screening of work that relates to the changes that are taking place in the Olympic Park /Lower Lea Valley. Artists and film makers are invited to send in work that is engaging and specific to this area. Work considered can be in presented in a variety of styles e.g. animation, enhanced digital, documentary or short experimental works. Email them for more information on how to apply.
Listing ID: 3696
Email: artsandevents@enfield.gov.uk
Website: www.camden.gov.uk/filmfund
Awards worth up to £3,000 are available to make a short film. The North London Film Fund is open to residents over 18 living in Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. Successful applicants will receive professional mentoring, script surgery and locations advice. To find out more book yourself into the Information session on Wednesday 27th August 6-9pm at The Karamel Club, Chocolate Factory 2, 4 Coburg Road, Wood Green, London N22 6UJ.
Listing ID: 3773
Email: stephanie.barklam@farnhammaltings.com
Website: www.farnhammaltings.com
Seeking a practicing artist or ambitious graduate to take up a year's residency at The Maltings. Use of a fully equipped studio; in return they require a good all 'rounder' who can teach and inspire their existing students, as well as grow the classes they have on offer.
Listing ID: 3762
The Crafts Council, 44a Pentonville Road, London, N1 9BY - Google Maps
Annabelle Campbell
Email: a_campbell@craftscouncil.org.uk
Website: www.craftscouncil.org.uk
Spark Plug is the awards scheme, launched in July 2007, for curators to research and develop exhibition concepts over the course of a year. The exhibition proposal must relate to an aspect of craft. Awards: £5,000.
Listing ID: 2589
Unit 4, Sovereigh Quay, Havannah Street, Cardiff, CF10 5SF - Google Maps
Tel: 0845 2413684
Email: info@safle.com
Website: www.safle.com
Website: www.ruthincraftcentre.org.uk
Ruthin Craft Centre invites artists to apply to a 3-month residency based at the new centre, to research and take forward their practice in any discipline related to applied arts.
Listing ID: 3103
Zlatinka Hristova, Arts Development Officer
Email: zlatinka.hristova@croydon.gov.uk
Website: www.croydon.gov.uk/planningandregeneration/regenprojects/coulsdon
A public art commission of £100,000 is offered for the design and installation of art work/s for a regeneration project in Coulsdon town centre , Croydon. The public art could reflect local history, create gateways and announcements of Coulsdon, landmarks, stimulate pedestrian activity and /or be place marking.
Listing ID: 3747
Email: Jan.pauley@nottscc.gov.uk
Website: www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/home/leisure/arts/artsnews
Nottinghamshire County Council would like to commission an artist to produce a large sculptural piece for Devonshire Square, Sutton in Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, to coincide with the opening of the newly refurbished bus station, due for completion in March 09. They are seeking an artist who will respond in an imaginative way to the public space, with the aim of enhancing the environment for the benefit of local people and visitors to the town. The total budget for the commission will be £30,000 to include all fees, materials, installation and expenses.
Listing ID: 3790
Tel: 0870 286 0066
Email: maria@bcaf.info
Website: www.bcaf.info
First call for entries for the largest and longest established UK fair for artists selling directly to the public. Send 4jpegs of your work and your CV. Fair will take place 15-17 May 2009.
Listing ID: 3813
Bemis Centre for Contemporary Art, 724 South 12th Street, Omaha, NE 68102 - Google Maps
Email: info@bemiscenter.org
Website: www.bemiscenter.org
Seven live/live studios available for artists in residence. All artforms accepted. $750 a month to artists awarded a residency.
Listing ID: 3411
Freaksignal Productions Ltd, Studio G3, 128 Hoxton Street, London N1 6SH
- Google Maps
Mobile: 07866 617039
Email: info@siberiafilm.co.uk
Website: www.siberiafilm.co.uk
Siberia Film Nights are looking for experimental film and video work for a December 2008 screening in London. Work will need to be well presented, innovative and experimental - either in terms of method, focus or technique. The work must be suitable for screenings, rather than being installation based.
Listing ID: 3707