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Pier-2 Art Center Photographers-in-Residence Program
Pier-2 Art Center is located in Taiwan’s second largest city, Kaohsiung. During October 2017-December 2017, PAIR will host a residency for photography. At the end of residency, selected artist will ha …
Watershed Artist in Residence
Watershed’s Artist in Residence call is an invitation to research and make work at the intersection of art and technology. It is open to all artists of any discipline, who have been practising for two …
The Horniman Residency
The annual research residency from Artquest in partnership with the Horniman Museum and Gardens is now open for applications. The 2017 residency is focused on the museum’s music collection. One select …
East London Group Commissions
The Nunnery Gallery is looking to commission three contemporary in-situ artworks on and around Bow Road, London. These works will be the focus of walking tours of the local area that will run alongsid …
Blueproject Foundation Residency
Blueproject Foundation, Barcelona, opens a call for artists-in-residence, a public programme open to all types of formats, ideas, artistic and cultural proposals. Submissions should be for original an …
Bloomsbury Festival In A Box
Bloomsbury Festival and the University of London are seeking to commission an artistic response to materials associated with their ‘Festival in a Box’ project. This artwork will be programmed during t …
Tenderflix 2017
The submissions are now open for the 2017 edition of Tenderflix. Tenderflix is an experimental film and video competition organised by Tenderpixel. In 2017, the theme is ‘Daydreaming’. They are mainly …
New Light Prize Exhibition
Entries are now open for New Light Prize Exhibition, with prizes including the £10,000 Valeria Sykes Award, Emerging Artist Award and Printmakers’ Prize. Shortlisted works will be exhibited in the Bow …
Akiyoshidai International Art Village Residency
The residence program at Akiyoshidai International Art Village, Japan invites applications for a residency to take place in January – March 2018. The theme of the residency is The Future of This Land. …
EVA International Curatorial Scholarship
Applications are invited for the 2017–2019 EVA International Curatorial Scholarship: MA Practice-Based Research in Curatorial Studies at EVA International in partnership with Limerick School of Art an …
Public Artwork Commission
Trafford Council are seeking expressions of interest for new permanent site-specific public artworks to be suited in Sale, Greater Manchester, commemorating 200 years since the birth of physicist Jame …
Matieschön Residency
Matieschön, visual arts team at Club Cultural Matienzo, independent cultural venue in Buenos Aires, invites artists who live outside Argentina –active in visual or audiovisual arts, new media, context …
Adam Reynolds Memorial Bursary
The 2018 Shape Arts Adam Reynolds Memorial Bursary, an annual award to support mid-career disabled artists is now open for applications. The award offers the successful recipient an award of £10,000 a …
Firecracker Photographic Grant
The Firecracker Photographic Grant is an annual award providing funding for a female photographer to aid with the completion of a documentary photographic project. The Grant fund is a minimum financia …
aceartinc Exhibition Program
aceartinc. in Winipeg, Canada exhibits 5 exhibitions a year by contemporary visual artists. They encourage applications from all contemporary artists and curators, groups and collectives in all visual …
Harvest Short Film Competition
Harvest Film Festival is hosting the competition of short films on the themes of farming, food and land. A selection of submissions will be showcased at the festival, to be held at Lower Hewood Farm i …
Standpoint Futures
Standpoint Futures visual art development residencies are for emerging/mid career artists, based outside Greater London. Standpoint Futures awards artists a 6 week residency, working at residency part …
Chronus Art Center Research and Creation Fellowship
Chronus Art Center (CAC) invites applications for a 3-month research and creation fellowship. This program is designed to host one international artist and researcher of in the area of new media art i …
Emergency 2017
Emergency is an annual platform for live art and contemporary performance. In 2017 the eighteenth Emergency takes place on Saturday 30 September, at Z-arts, Manchester. Artists working in live art and …
National Trust Commission
Call out for Expressions of Interest from artists/designers/architects. National Trust Castle Drogo wishes to appoint a socially engaged creative practitioner to work with them in 2017-2018 during the …
William Morris Gallery Artist in Residence
The William Morris Gallery is inviting applications for a three month residency to take place in the autumn/winter of 2017 (timing negotiable). The opportunity is aimed at emerging and mid-career arti …
Bomb Factory Artist Film Festival
The Bomb Factory Artist Film Festival series offers artists the opportunity to have their films screened in a cinema setting where they will be watched in their entirety. They welcome single-channel f …
Practice Makes Practice Residency
Practice makes Practice ~ A Social Residency is a 1-month residency at The NewBridge Project. It will provide artists with time & space to reflect on their practice through interaction & colle …
Design Residency & Exhibition
The Gallery at Plymouth College of Art invites proposals from designers to develop a new body of work for exhibition, through a residency at Plymouth College of Art, making use of their workshop facil …
Kostka Gallery
MeetFactory, a centre for contemporary art in Prague, announces an open call for the submission of projects to complement the Kostka Gallery 2018 exhibition program. Kostka Gallery is characterized by …
Bridgeman Award
Bridgeman Images announces this year’s Bridgeman Studio Award competition. They are calling artists to submit artworks of any medium, on the theme of ‘Dark Summer’. One entrant will be selected to win …
ICAF Lagos Artist-In-Residence
ICAF (Iwaya Community Art Festival) Lagos 2017 is calling for works and artistic ideas from artists that explore issues in the area of spiritual, economical, sociological, ecological and marital dimen …
Settlers Commission
Oxford University Museum of Natural History announces an artist commission to coincide with their new exhibition, Settlers, opening in February 2018. The Museum would like to commission up to two piec …
Bauhaus Residence
The Bauhaus Dessau Foundation invites international artists to live and work in the Schlemmer house in Dessau. The programme is catering to artists with an overall interest in the areas that are histo …
LUX London Critical Forum
The LUX Critical Forum is a free monthly discussion, development and support group for artists who work with the moving image. The aim of the group is to develop a new mutually supportive environment …
British Seaside Photography Exhibition
Call for photographic work to be included in a major photography exhibition at Turner Contemporary in Summer 2019. The exhibition will examine the relationship between photographers, photography and t …
Research Fellowships
Annually, the Canon Foundation in Europe grants up to 15 Fellowships to European and Japanese researchers. European Fellows are expected to pursue a period of research in Japan whereas Japanese Fello …
Muralism
The city council of Sant Feliu de Llobregat (Barcelona, Spain) is launching a public competition to paint a large mural (400m2), with artistic residence. This intervention is part of the full remodeli …
Travelling Fellowships
Winston Churchill Memorial Trust awards Travelling Fellowships for research projects which involve overseas travel. Two important criteria for Travelling Fellowships are that they could not be carried …
Media Arts Residency
This residency program is part of the “Project to Support Nurturing of Media Arts Creators” organized by the Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan (Bunka-cho). Emerging artists in Media Art …
Artists Access to Art Colleges
The AA2A project (Artists Access to Art Colleges) is offering 50 placements, giving artists and designer makers the opportunity to undertake a period of research or realise a project using art college …
Columbia Threadneedle Prize
A first prize of £20,000 and a solo exhibition is awarded for a work of figurative and representational art. A further prize of £10,000 is awarded by visitors to the exhibition, which takes place at M …
International Awards for Art Criticism
The Fourth Edition of the International Awards for Art Criticism (IAAC 4) of 2017 is open to candidates from anywhere in the world, writing in Chinese or English about any contemporary art exhibition …
Ingram Collection Purchase Prize
The Ingram Collection annual Young Contemporary Talent Purchase Prize Exhibition is open to artists who have graduated from a UK art school within the last three years. Successful finalists will have …
Public Art Residency Grant
Women’s Studio Workshop invites applications for the Public Art Residency Grant. The Public Art Grant is a four-week residency for women artists to create new public art projects along the Wallkill Va …
Contemporary Talents Competition
Through the competition “Contemporary Talents” competition, François Schneider Foundation wishes to support creative artists by acquiring their works and showing them at the Foundation’s center of ar …
Rebecca Vassie Memorial Award
Applications for the 2017 Rebecca Vassie Memorial Award are open. The award offers a grant of £1,250 to complete a photography project, support from industry professionals, plus £1,150-worth of printi …
Research Bursaries
This scheme supports individuals working on small and medium-scale research projects that focus on library or archive collections supported by the Wellcome Trust. Research Bursaries are for academic r …
The Elephant Trust Grants
The Trust was set up in 1975 to make it possible for artists and those presenting their work to undertake and complete projects when frustrated by lack of funds. It is committed to helping artists and …
VIA Arts Prize
The Embassy of Brazil to the UK, in partnership with ACALASP (the Association of Cultural Attachés of Latin America, Spain and Portugal), People’s Palace Projects (Queen Mary University of London) and …
Camargo Foundation Residency
The Camargo Foundation, located in Cassis, France, is a residential center offering programming in the Arts and Humanities. The Camargo Foundation welcomes applications from all countries, nationaliti …
Thalie Lab Residency
Based on an examination of artisanal practices and new forms of food production, Thalie Art Foundation invites visual artists, curators, designers and chefs to submit a project on the theme of deceler …
Artist’s Book Residency Grant
Women’s Studio Workshop in Rosendale, NY invites applications for the Artist’s Book Residency Grant. The Artist’s Book Grant is a six- to eight-week residency for artists to produce a limited edition …
Art Worlds
Interested in writing for Artquest about your local art scene? Art Worlds gives an insider, day-in-the-life view of the current realities of living and working as an artist in different places around …
STEP Beyond Travel grants
STEP Beyond Travel grants support the mobility of emerging artists and cultural workers – between EU and neighbouring countries – in cross-border projects. The application deadline for Step Beyond tra …
Pollock-Krasner Foundation
The Foundation welcomes applications from visual artists who are painters, sculptors and artists who work on paper, including printmakers. There are no deadlines. The Foundation encourages application …
Pacitti Company Think Tank Residencies
Pacitti Company Think Tank Residencies provide space for artists to research and develop new ideas and projects in their White Room. Each residency is offered for a period of one or two weeks, with lo …
ARC Getaways
ARC, Stockton Arts Centre can offer performance based artists or companies free accommodation and workspace for one week. ARC Getaways can be used for research and development processes, rehearsals, w …