For a limited time, Sunspot Lit is calling for single works of novella-length fiction or nonfiction in any category, including memoir, literary, genre, and historical. Open October 1 through October 31. Guidelines and submission forms at Submittable: https://sunspotlit.submittable.com/submit or Duotrope: https://duotrope.com/duosuma/submit/sunspot-literary-journal-LIXJW.
Freelance
Future? | Juried AI Art Exhibition
UPWARD Gallery excited to introduce the Future? juried AI art exhibition. All artists 18 and older are encouraged to submit their work in any medium, style, and genre created using AI.
The exhibition is open to artists who use artificial intelligence (AI) to create their work. The work can be created using AI generators either fully or partially.
Awards: Interview and other publications in our print edition of UPWARD’s magazine and on the website, digital certificate, personal artist page on the gallery website. The exhibition will be promoted online on the our website and social media channels such as Instagram. All artists retain 100% of sales with inquiries directed to them.
Fee: $15 for entry, $12 (2-4 entries), $10 (5 or more entries).
Deadline: November 5, 2024
Visit https://upwardgallery.com/ad/competitions/75/future for a full information.
The UPWARD Gallery was founded in 2021. Our online platform is designed to share art with new audiences using modern technologies. We help emerging artists to become known and established artists to expand their influence.
In the Heart of Life, Juried Decorative Arts Online Exhibition
The DECARTS Gallery is pleased to announce a juried decorative arts online exhibition, In the Heart of Life.
All artists 18 and older from US, Canada, and Mexico are encouraged to submit their work in any medium, style, and genre.
Acceptable mediums include all decorative art media (e.g., beadwork, pottery, embroidery, floristry, batik, stained glass, two-dimensional collage and fabric art as well, etc.).
Awards: Interview and other publications in our hard copy magazine and on the website, digital certificate, personal artist page on the gallery website. The exhibition will be promoted online on the our website and social media channels such as Instagram. All artists retain 100% of sales with inquiries directed to them.
No entry fee. The number of entries are limited to 2 (two) artworks.
Deadline: October 29, 2024
Visit https://decarts.gallery/ad/competitions/88/heart-life for a full information.
DECARTS gallery is part of the group of projects of the online platform UPWARD Gallery, which offers artists and artisans a new format for promoting their art. Our online platform is designed to share art with new audiences using modern technologies. We help emerging artists to become known and established artists to expand their influence.
Call for Art: Those Who Tend
Those Who Tend: Juried Exhibition in New York City
Visionary Art Collective is partnering with Warnes Contemporary Gallery in New York City to present our annual in-person juried group exhibition, Those Who Tend, curated by Kaylan Buteyn. These days, we have so much to tend to—countless demands that deserve our attention. Our art practice needs nurturing, our children need feeding, our gardens need weeding, and our inboxes need clearing. We are pulled in many directions, tending to various aspects of life. Yet, the most important tending we often overlook is towards ourselves. This call is a reflection for “those who tend”—an invitation to submit work created amidst the challenges of balancing a life full of responsibilities. Artist parents who are juggling their art practice, careers, domestic tasks, caregiving, and carving out time for self-care are invited to submit their work.
Those Who Tend will be presented at Warnes Contemporary in Brooklyn on April 24, 2025 and will run for approximately six to eight weeks. This exhibition will be actively promoted through social media on Visionary Art Collective, Warnes Contemporary, and the Artist/Mother Podcast. Additionally, a select number of artists will be chosen for an exclusive interview on the Artist/Mother podcast and featured in New Visionary Magazine.
Eligibility: This opportunity is open to artists who identify as parents and caregivers based in the United States. We welcome artists of all career levels to apply.
We accept all 2D & 3D mediums, including painting, drawing, photography, digital, prints, fiber art, collage, mixed media, sculpture, ceramics, and installation art. We do not accept film or video at this time.
This exhibition will be curated by Kaylan Buteyn, artist, curator, and founder of the Artist/Mother Podcast and Kinhouse Artist Residency. Buteyn’s work investigates physical representations of generational care through paintings, quilts, domestic textiles, abstraction and collage. She has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions at galleries that include Peep Space in Tarrytown, NY, Ground Floor Gallery in Nashville, TN, Janice Charach Gallery in Detroit, MI, Spilt Milk in Edinburgh, Scotland, among others. She has been the recipient of artist grants from the Indiana Arts Commission and Metro Arts Nashville and her work has been featured in publications including Milked Mag and Create Magazine. In 2019, as a social extension of her art practice, Buteyn founded the Artist/Mother Podcast sharing interviews of working artists who are mothers. Buteyn has spent the last 7 years facilitating community for artists in many forms including creating exhibition opportunities for artists worldwide, organizing a critique group program for hundreds of participants, facilitating virtual programming, in-person artist retreats and more. Buteyn is the founder of the Kinhouse Artist Residency and co-directs Kinhouse Gallery in Fort Wayne, IN. She holds a BA in Communications and a BA in Studio Art from Houghton College and an MFA from the New Hampshire Institute of Art. She lives with her partner and their 3 children in Fort Wayne, IN.
Commission:
Artwork included in this exhibition must be for sale. The artist will receive 50% of profit from sold artwork and Warnes Contemporary will receive 50%. Selected artists will sign a consignment agreement prior to the exhibition, and must include a return shipping label upon mailing their artwork to the gallery.
Additional info:
You may submit 1-2 images of your work for $22, 3-4 images for $25, or 5-6 images for $28.
Requirements:
Please be sure to include high-quality images of your work, 72 DPI, minimum 800 pixels wide
All 2D images must be cropped to show only the artwork
3D work must be photographed against a white background
Bio, 300 words max
Artist Statement, 300 words max
Files no larger than 10 MB
Artists will be notified eight to ten weeks after the deadline. All communication regarding this exhibition will take place via Submittable.
Visionary Art Collective’s mission is to connect contemporary art with education. The submission fees we receive go towards funding our platform, and enable us to continue providing opportunities and free educational resources to artists and educators around the world.
Questions? Email us: admin@visionaryartcollective.com
Forms and Shapes | Juried Online Exhibition
UPWARD Gallery invites artists to submit artwork for our juried online exhibition, Forms and Shapes.
All media is welcome, including: painting, drawing, digital painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography, textiles, mixed media, etc.
Awards: Interview and other publications in our print edition of UPWARD’s magazine and on the website, digital certificate, personal artist page on the gallery website. The exhibition will be promoted online on the our website and social media channels such as Instagram. All artists retain 100% of sales with inquiries directed to them.
Fee: $15 for entry, $12 (2-4 entries), $10 (5 or more entries).
Deadline: October 15, 2024
Visit https://upwardgallery.com/ad/competitions/89/forms-and-shapes for a full information.
The UPWARD Gallery was founded in 2021. Our artistic platform is designed to share art with new audiences using modern technologies. We help emerging artists to become known and established artists to expand their influence.
Request for Proposal – Arts Now Marin: Arts Education Equity Coalition
Request for Proposal
To lead and facilitate
Arts Now Marin: Arts Education Equity Coalition
a cohort of Marin County arts and education leaders, to expand equitable access in arts education for all Marin’s TK-5th grade students
Requested by Marin Cultural Association in cooperation with the Marin County Office of Education and Youth in Arts
ISSUE DATE: September 9, 2024
REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL
The Marin Cultural Association, in cooperation with the Marin County Office of Education, and Youth in Arts
seeks an experienced consultant to lead the planning, management, and facilitation of Arts Now Marin: An
Arts Education Equity Coalition. Working closely with community educators, advocates, and arts leaders over a three-year period, the selected consultant will lead the development of the Arts Now Marin Education Plan to expand equitable access to arts education for Marin’s TK-5th grade students across 15 school districts.
BACKGROUND
In 2019, the Marin County Board of Supervisors adopted the Marin Arts Education Plan as part of an overall
Cultural Arts Plan declaring that arts education should be accessible to all Marin County students. In November 2022, California voters passed the landmark Proposition 28 – Arts and Music in Schools (Prop. 28 – AMS) Act, that provides ongoing funding for arts education across the entire state. Arts Now Marin will ignite these movements to ensure artists, funding, and support are reaching Marin’s most marginalized students.
With funding support provided by the Marin Community Foundation’s new Community Power Initiative, Arts
Now Marin will have four key strategic priorities over three years. These include:
1. Accurately survey, assess, and map the landscape of arts education provision, funding and access across
Marin County for TK-5 Students;
2. Convene and catalyze a coalition of educators, leaders, and funders, dedicated to ensuring students have
access to a robust arts education;
3. Create a strategic resource and guide for how to utilize Proposition 28 funding to truly supplement (not
supplant) arts education while bolstering systemically under resourced sites/districts;
4. Launch a county-wide, equity focused pilot funding and program model for TK-5 arts education in Marin
SCOPE OF WORK
Arts Now Marin will hire and work with an objective consultant with acumen in education, the arts, the
nonprofit sector, and community development to lead and facilitate the collaborative’s efforts as part of a
three-year initiative. Aligned with the aforementioned strategic priorities, the leadership team has drafted a
project roadmap that includes the following goals:
Year 1
• Arts Now Marin releases a request for proposal and hires consultant
• Engage all 15 district stakeholders in arts education specific think tanks
• Engage arts education organization leaders in discussion and listening sessions
• Survey and asset map arts education profession and funding across the county for TK-5
• Construct a clear understanding of arts education funding and provision across 15 districts
• Release comprehensive results about arts education gaps, challenges, and questions
• Utilize Youth in Arts’ equity-model, equal access partnerships, and engagement with leaders and
stakeholders in San Rafael City Schools as a case study, pilot, and learning
Year 2
• Solidify and convene Arts Now Marin stakeholders (4-6x meetings per year) including education leaders, arts
leaders, and advocates
• Identify communities and sites as focus areas with an equity lens
• Facilitate funding conversations with all public school foundation leadership
• Draft a TK-5 arts education strategic plan in partnership with consultant and stakeholders
• Present findings from Arts Now Marin Education Equity Exploration
Year 3
• Launch Arts Now Marin Education Plan for TK-5
• Implement pilot program/collective impact that leverages funding from foundations and Prop 28 to provide
equitable access across the county
• Bolster specific arts education deserts and under resourced communities
• Expand professional development for educators and teaching artists
Supporting documentation for the Arts Now Marin: Arts Education Equity Coalition is available upon request.
PROJECT SCHEDULE
September 30, 2024
Deadline for delivery of proposal to Arts Now Marin
October 7-10, 2024
Consultant interviews and meetings with Arts Now Marin leaders
November 1, 2024
Selected consultant notified
December 1, 2024
Work to begin; please suggest possible start dates for which you are available in proposal
PROPOSAL PREPARATION AND SUBMISSION
Applicants must submit one (1) digital copy of their application via email no later than September 30, 2024 to
ArtsNow@marincounty.org and include the following:
Title Page
Include the name of the firm or lead contractor, address, telephone, email, contact person, and date of
submission.
Table of Contents
Identify subjects and materials by section and page number. Attachments and appendices should be numbered and listed in the table of contents.
Introduction
Provide a general introduction including a purpose statement describing your understanding of the proposed
project and required services.
Consultant Qualifications
Proposals should include the following:
1. Company Profile—brief profile outlining history and philosophy;
2. Team Composition, Experience, and Success—list all key personnel who will be assigned to this project
including their relevant experience and qualifications, roles and responsibilities, and a listing of past
successful projects of a similar size and scope including a description of team members’ roles in each
project, project dates and contact information.
Work Plan
Provide a detailed work plan describing your approach to designing, managing, and coordinating this project.
Identify the expected approximate duration of each task and reflect associated personnel and other resources
required for all tasks to be performed. Clearly delineate any tasks for which the consultant expects Arts Now
Marin to take responsibility, in whole or in part. Include a schedule of deliverables including:
1. Scope of Work—The description should include all tasks listed under “Scope of Work.” In addition,
include any steps/tasks not included in the “Scope of Work” that you would recommend to strengthen
the overall goals and quality of this project.
2. Project Objectives—describe your understanding of the project objectives and vision and how these
will be achieved.
3. Project Support—Identify the types of information, data, and assistance expected from Arts Now Marin
leaders, and how you will meet the administrative support needs of the project.
4. Deliverables—Describe what will be delivered and when, including the expected outcome and benefit
to the Arts Now Coalition.
Project Price
Provide an estimated budget of services including the following:
1. Project Budget—Provide a “not to exceed” line-item expense budget indicating all costs for carrying out
the proposed work, including personnel, travel, lodging, meals, supplies, materials, overhead and all
other necessary expenses. Clearly itemize the pricing for each of the segments described in the scope
of work.
2. Value Added Services—Describe any unique services and benefits that you would provide to the project
that contributes to your competitive advantage. This could include any innovative approaches you have
previously used to help communities develop their plans or skills that have enabled you to overcome
unusual planning challenges in the past.
Supplemental Information
Proposals should include the following:
1. Reports of similar projects you have completed;
2. Promotional material describing consultant’s professional services; and
3. Three recent and similar client references.
INQUIRIES
Direct all inquiries regarding this proposal to ArtsNow@marincounty.org
