Archive Content by Tag ‘grants’

08/01/12 Call for Artists: Deadlines for August 2012 and Beyond

This month Atlanta’s own Creatives Project and the Atlanta Office of Cultural Affairs have put out calls for artists.

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02/01/12 Call for Artists: Deadlines for February and Beyond

Check out the most recent grants, calls for proposals, and residency opportunities for artists in Georgia and throughout the U.S.

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11/02/11 Burning News: Artadia Gives $45,000 to Atlanta Artists!

Just minutes ago, Artadia: The Fund for Art and Dialogue announced $45,000 in grants including $15,000 awards to emerging artist Jason Kofke and local veteran Rocio Rodriguez, as well as five other winners listed below!

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08/19/11 Artadia Provides Cash and Connects Artists Outside Atlanta

Artadia: The Fund for Art and Dialogue seeks to help local artists and vibrant art communities across the country by providing unrestricted cash awards and community support. Artadia expanded its outreach to include Atlanta in 2009 and received over 300 applicants in the city’s first award cycle. Applications for its current cycle for awards from [...]

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06/15/11 Questioning the Mayor’s Gift and the Mythology of Economic Crisis

Following on the heels of a proposed cut to the arts and subsequent responses from Atlanta artists, Mayor Kasim Reed appeared at last month’s Metropolitan Atlanta Arts Fund luncheon with a seemingly grand and heroic announcement. Gathered that afternoon with the knowledge that 50 percent of the Office of Cultural Affairs’ Contracts for Arts Services [...]

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04/21/11 Artadia: 5 Cities 41 Artists leaps beyond clichés of second-city angst

Just what is it that makes Atlanta’s art so different, so appealing? Or, for that matter, what about Houston’s or Boston’s? Various incarnations of this question are posed in the essays that introduce each chapter of 5 Cities 41 Artists: Artadia 08/09. The book is the first in what will be a biannual publication produced [...]

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04/02/11 MOCA GA awards $36,000 to Dettmer, Turk, and Whittington

Burning News! The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia (MOCA GA) announced this morning the winners of its annual Working Artist Project award. Michael Rooks of the High Museum served as a guest juror in helping the museum select three artists of merit working in the metro Atlanta area, furthering the project that has promoted [...]

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01/11/11 February deadlines for ACP, MOCA GA, Flux Projects, and more

Artists and creative thinkers watching the grant-application cycle this year will note that February is a big month for deadlines. There are no less than five calls for proposals available from metro-Atlanta organizations (though not all exclusive to local applicants), and the due dates are all just around the corner. 1. FLUX 2011 call for [...]

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09/30/10 Possible Futures helps buy your membership to the Contemporary

Breaking news: The Atlanta-based foundation Possible Futures continues to kindle the flurry of excitement it has generated in the Atlanta art world this month. The new foundation has announced a challenge grant to boost student and artist membership at the Atlanta Contemporary Arts Center (ACAC). Through the month of October, students and artists can buy [...]

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09/14/10 Possible Futures grants $90,000 to local Atlanta arts criticism

Dear readers, I would like to pause for a moment and reflect on everything you’ve helped us achieve over the past two years. It gives me immeasurable pleasure to announce that BURNAWAY has been awarded a $30,000 grant from Possible Futures, a new Atlanta-based foundation established by Louis Corrigan.

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