Call For Artists:

January 2020

By January 03, 2020
Larry Ossei-Mensah, the senior curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, serves as the guest juror for the 45th Juried Exhibition at the Lyndon House Arts Center in Athens, Georgia. Entries may be submitted on January 23 and 24.

Maureen Egen Writers Exchange Award

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Location: West Virginia
Deadline: January 6, 2020

Writers from the state of West Virginia are invited to apply for the Maureen Egen Writers Exchange Award. One fiction writer and one poet will be selected. Winners receive an all-expenses-paid trip to New York City to meet with top literary professionals, including editors, agents, publishers, and prominent writers.


MASS MoCA Studio Residency

Location: North Adams, MA
Deadline: January 8, 2020

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Artists receive a private studio, housing, meals, and financial and business coaching through the staff of MASS MoCA’s Assets for Artists program.


MASS MoCA’s Puerto Rico Artist Fellowship Program

Location: North Adams, MA
Deadline: January 8, 2020

Artists of all disciplines whose primary residence is Puerto Rico are welcome to apply to MASS MoCA’s fellowship program, which comes with $800 travel stipend, a $100 per week food stipend, and four weeks of access to private studio and nearby housing.


Hambidge Center Fellowships

Location: Rabun Gap, GA
Deadline: January 15, 2020

Applications for residencies taking place between May and August 2020 are due by January 15. All new applicants will automatically be considered for the currently available Distinguished Fellowships which provide a $700 stipend and remove residency fees for two weeks.


Women’s Studio Workshop Parent Residency Grant

Location: Kingston, NY
Deadline: January 15, 2020

The Parent Grant is a four-week residency for an artist with at least one dependent child under the age of 18. Artists may choose to work in any of our studio disciplines: intaglio, letterpress, papermaking, screenprinting, photography, or ceramics.


45th Annual Juried Exhibition

Location: Athens, GA
Deadline: January 24, 2020

Larry Ossei-Mensah, the senior curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, serves as the guest juror for the 45th Juried Exhibition at the Lyndon House Arts Center in Athens, Georgia.


The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society Fellowships

Location: Cambridge, MA
Deadline: January 31, 2020

This opportunity is for those who wish to spend 2020-2021 in residence as part of the Center’s vibrant community of research and practice, and who seek to engage in collaborative, cross-disciplinary, and cross-sectoral exploration of some of the internet’s most important and compelling issues.


Callanwolde Juried Exhibition

Location: Atlanta, GA
Deadline: February 2

Open to Metro Atlanta artists working in any two- or three-dimensional medium that can hang on the wall. All work must be original and completed in the last two years. This year’s juror is Atlanta artist Peter Ferrari. The artist selected as Best in Show will present a solo exhibition at Callanwolde in 2021. There is a $20 entry fee, and Callanwolde will retain a 20% commission on works sold.


City of Atlanta’s Bike Rack Project

Location: Atlanta, GA
Deadline: February 3

The City of Atlanta Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs’ (OCA) Public Art Program seeks proposals from local visual artists to adorn 20 metal bike racks with original painted artwork for the City’s Mural Bike Rack Project by Monday, Feb. 3, 2020. Twenty artists will be selected to paint mural bike racks that will reside along the Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive Innovation Corridor, between Northside Drive and I-285. Selected artists will receive an artist fee of $800 for their work.


Atlanta Photography Group: Portfolio 2020

Location: Atlanta, GA
Deadline: February 23

Atlanta Photography Group (APG) invites photographers world-wide to enter images using any photographic process for our upcoming juried exhibition, “Portfolio 2020”. This exhibition features strong, cohesive bodies of work. The Juror for “Portfolio 2020” is Dr. Sarah Kennel, Photography Curator for the High Museum of Art, in Atlanta, GA. All exhibiting artists are be eligible for the 2020 APG/ Museum Purchase Award of $2500, which is slated for placement into the High Museum’s permanent collection.


Rhizome Microgrant Program

Deadline: rolling

The microgrant program awards $500–$1,500 to proposals with a compelling vision for net art, which considers political radicalization and the internet.


Blackacre Writing Residency

Location: Louisville, KY
Deadline: rolling

The writer receives a $200 honorarium, and resides, for 1 – 2 weeks, in a furnished house, on the grounds, offering all of the modern domestic necessities.


Find more upcoming artist opportunities in these compilations published by Creative Capital , resartis and BOMB.

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