Sunspot Lit seeks a story, essay, excerpt from longer prose pieces, artwork, graphic novel, or poem that combines excellence in craft with reader or audience appeal. Feedback for fiction and nonfiction submissions available for additional fee. Prize: $500 cash and publication for the winner; publication for runners-up and finalists. Closes September 30, 2023. Enter through Submittable: https://sunspotlit.submittable.com/submit/269320/goldilocks-zone-2023-500-for-fiction-cnf-poetry-art-graphic-novel or Duotrope: https://duotrope.com/duosuma/submit/form.aspx?id=LEAD98D-LIXJW-LeLV84G.Â
Freelance
CALL FOR ARTISTS: CRIP’D ECOLOGIES: UNFURLING EXPANDED ENVIRONMENTS
Root Division invites Disabled* artists working in all media to submit work for Crip’d Ecologies: Unfurling Expanded Environments, co-curated by moira williams and Jeremiah Barber, to be presented at Root Division in February 2024.
The exhibition will feature Disabled artists addressing ecosystems that are personal, shared, imagined, and invites artists across disabilities to consider the following curatorial question: How can we bring dynamic Crip strategies into landscapes, ecosystems, and bodies impacted by climate change to support practices of becoming, grief, abundance, and multispecies relationships instead of scarcity?
How does Disability Justice and Environmental Justice intertwine? How can Environmental Justice movements become inclusive? How can we expand ideas of “environment” beyond binaries of urbanism and ableism? How do Disabled artists or communities address overlapping crises of racial inequity, housing, health, and environmental destruction? How can eco art open into a more complex reflection of our fear, anger, and desire? How can our movements to dismantle white supremacy, anti-Blackness, and colonialism truly happen when Disability Arts are underrepresented and under-valued?
Crip’d Ecologies invites submissions from people across disabilities to apply. Root Division encourages submissions from artists from diverse communities and cultural backgrounds including Black, Indigenous, POC & LGBTQQIP2SAA+. Submissions can include art in any media including sound, video, participation/participatory (sensorial and on-line), and text among others. Artists are encouraged to prioritize accessibility in their submission. These include: accessible sightlines, Image Descriptions, ASL translation of public text, Audio Descriptions, captioning, and more.
Confirmed artists include: Sharmi Basu, Vanessa Cruz, Octavia Rose Hingle, Bonnie Lewkowicz and Judith Smith, Tricia Rainwater, Jaklin Romine, Ruth Tabancay, Sunaura Taylor, and Anuj Vaidya.
Alongside the exhibition, Crip’d Ecologies: Unfurling Expanded Environments will also host a two day convening and offer hybrid, online and in person, programming.
*Disabled includes but is not limited to; Blind, Low Sighted, d/DEAF, HOH, ILL, Chronically ILL, MAD, FAT, Neurodivergent.
Performing Arts Grants from City of Culver City
Notice of Funding Availability and Applications for Culver City Performing Arts Grant Program
Grant guidelines and applications for 2024 performances are available
The City of Culver City offers grants for dance, music and theatre performances. Under the purview of the Office of Economic and Cultural Development and the Cultural Affairs Commission, the Performing Arts Grant Program is designed to support local arts organizations and provide enriching and accessible cultural opportunities for the city’s community, including residents, businesses, and visitors.
Performing arts organizations of all sizes are encouraged to apply. To be eligible for consideration, applicants must have a mission that is focused on performance, be based in Los Angeles County, and be a current 501(c)(3) organization or have an agreement with a fiscal receiver. Public performances from January to December 2024 are eligible to apply. Â
Grant workshops are available for all organizations and artists that are interested in applying. Email cultural.affairs@culvercity.org to attend an upcoming workshop.
Award Amounts and Matching Funds: The City Council has allocated funding for this program from the Art in Public Places Program’s Cultural Trust Fund. The amount of grant funding available is dependent upon the total deposits made into the City’s Cultural Trust Fund each fiscal year. There is a current grant limit of $15,000 per organization, and applicants must provide matching funds that are equal to, or greater than, their requested grant amount.Â
RFQ: City of San Diego: San Carlos Branch Library Public Art Project
San Carlos Branch Library Public Art Project
Art Budget:Â Approximately $380,000
Eligibility:Â Any artist or artist team authorized to work in the U.S.
Application Deadline:Â Thursday, August 31, 2023, 4:00 PM PDT
The City of San Diego is seeking applications from interested qualified artists to provide public art services for the San Carlos Library Branch Public Art Project. An artist or artist team is sought to design, fabricate and transport permanent, site-specific artwork and consult during installation of artwork at the site by the City. Go to the following URL to learn more and apply: https://www.sandiego.gov/arts-culture/publicart/artistopps
Abstract | Juried Art Exhibition
UPWARD Gallery invites artists worldwide to submit artwork to our juried art exhibition and competition, Abstract.
All artists 18 and older are encouraged to submit their work in any medium, style, and genre.
Acceptable mediums include all traditional art media (e.g., oil, watercolor, acrylic, pastel, mixed media, gouache, egg tempera, pen and ink; drawing media such as graphite, charcoal, colored pencils, scratch board, markers, metal point), digital painting, arts and crafts (beadwork, pottery, embroidery, floristry, batik, stained glass, two-dimensional collage and fabric art as well, etc.).
All accepted pieces will be displayed in our online gallery at upwardgallery.com.
The winners (1st place) are interviewed by the UPWARD Gallery editors for publication in the printed edition UPWARD’s Quarterly and on our site.
Each entrant of the competition receives a personal page in the UPWARD gallery. Selected works will be featured in curated galleries on our site. All entrants will receive digital certificates based on the results of the competition.
Entry fee: $12 for entry, $10 (2-4 entries), $9 (5 or more entries).
Visit https://upwardgallery.com/ad/competitions/63/abstract for a full information.
Call to Artists: Madera Community College Mural Project
 The Fresno Arts Council is seeking individual artists and/or artist collectives to submit proposals for a public art piece. The final design is to be painted or installed on-site on the Madera Community College campus Academic Village One building (AV1). The proposed concepts and designs should be reflective of the suggested themes identified for each mural. See link for full guidelines. Deadline August 31, 2023.
