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Calling all artists! Are you ready to take the spotlight and share your story with the world? The ArtConnect Magazine curatorial team is on the hunt for talented individuals who have a unique perspective and talent in the art world. We want to give you the opportunity to showcase your work and share your insights with our members and readers through a personal interview feature in the ArtConnect Magazine!

If you're eager to be a part of this opportunity, all you need to do is make sure your ArtConnect profile is up to date with your latest works (at least 6 pieces) and bio, then hit the apply button. 

Don't miss your chance to be a part of something big. We're looking for artists from all backgrounds, styles, and experience levels to be a part of this series.

We can't wait to see your artworks and hear your inspiring stories. Apply now, and let's create something amazing together!

Artists must be members of the ArtConnect Artist Plan in order to apply.

New Voices: An Open Call for Emerging Artists

Free for artists on the ArtConnect Artists Plan

The Artists to Watch Prize is a premier award for emerging artists seeking to make their mark in the art world. Each year, a distinguished panel of curators and art professionals come together to evaluate and honor the most exceptional talent from around the globe. The winner of the Artist Prize will not only be recognized for their artistic merit but also receive valuable exposure to the art world. We encourage all emerging artists to apply for this esteemed honor and take the first step towards realizing their artistic dreams.

ArtConnect is collaborating with three renowned international curators to identify exceptional artistic talent from around the world. These selected individuals will be designated as ArtConnect Artists to Watch for 2023.

Artists to Watch 2023

FUNIBER has organized the international photography contest, PHotoFUNIBER’23, for the fifth consecutive year, as a space for contemplating images on diversity. We value plurality and talent, acting in more than 30 countries through distance education, with a network composed of students, professors and researchers from the different corners of the world. 

We appreciate the critical, but positive, views on the future. 

We organized the PHotoFUNIBER’23 contest, within the FUNIBER Cultural Works framework, with the aim of getting to know the varied perspectives on our world: perfectionism, intelligence, creativity, effort and the mysteries that surround us in photographs as chosen and constructed to telling stories.

PHotoFUNIBER’23 Contest

Ithra Art Prize is an annual leading art initiative launched in 2017 by the King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture (Ithra). This 5th edition continues to extend its geographical reach to include established contemporary artists from or residing in the 22 Arab countries. 

Submissions will be evaluated by a renowned jury of international and regional experts from the contemporary art scene. The winning artwork will receive $100,000 and be unveiled at Ithra’s 5th year anniversary grand event.

Ithaca Art Prize 2023

Casa África announces its XIII Photography Contest «Objetivo África», which will reward the photographs that best publicise the positive aspects of the African continent in the field of Public spaces in Africa, this year's theme. 

Public spaces in Africa, community life and shared environments have the weight of the idiosyncrasies of African communities. 

African communities. They are central and vital spaces for citizenship. They are meeting places for the whole community, places for cultural transmission, for celebration, for debate, for making decisions that affect the community, places also for trade, for the informal economy, fundamental for economic development.

Public spaces have become important for cities and towns all over the world, but they have always been important in Africa. They are unique spaces where opinions, ideas and identity are shared, freely debated and celebrated. Now, public spaces can help urban centres achieve the targets set by the Sustainable Development Goals, such as Goal 11: "Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable". 

 In the face of the new mega-cities, these spaces run the risk of disappearing, of not being integrated into the new city models, and that is why we consider it necessary and interesting to focus on these spaces of interaction, diversity and integration of communities on the African continent.

Photography Contest 'Objetivo África'

ChoreoComp (dance Choreography & music Composition), August 21-26, is meant for young (pre)professional choreographers and composers. Royal Conservatoire Dance is awarding 3 scholarships to emerging choreographers who apply before June 1st 2023.

ChoreoComp is an intensive six-day course (21-26 Aug.’23) for choreographers and composers who are interested in (speed) creating movement and music with live musicians and dancers. Choreographers and composers who apply should be able to make fast decisions, able to improvise, able to work together/communicate clear with the musicians and dance ensemble and be practical when it comes to producing strategies. 

After receiving an artistic assignment in the morning, The three composers and choreographers will pair up every two days to work out a concept. Composers will work independent on these concepts together with their musicians in their studios in Amare while the choreographers work with dancers in the dance studios. At the end of the first day a recording is made of the sketches so far by the composer so that the dancers can already start working with sound. The second day composers/musicians and choreographers finish their work and rehearsals take place for the presentation in the evening. Every second day there is a performance of three new pieces! 

The ChoreoComp will be coached by Martijn Padding (Composer & Main subject teacher composition) and Jan Linkens (Choreographer & Head dance department).

ChoreoComp Program Scholarships

We want to hear what artists are concerned with in the world today, and how your artistic response is a call to arms, a healing process, or a road map to a different, better future. 

We focus on presenting work fuelled by socially engaged practice. We are looking for robust artistic processes and accessible presentations that are centred on responding to gaps in communities, collaborative, and tackling current issues of the day. 

Your work should be a contemporary, cutting edge and socially engaged piece that can be presented as a live or digital performances, or a participatory event. We welcome proposals that use alternative models of presentations to include the disabled and immunocompromised, to encourage environmental sustainability, and/or to reduce air travel.

Open Call - M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2024

The John Fluevog Shoes Emerging Artist* Grant is intended to help emerging artists develop their skills and increase the visibility of their artwork. The winner will receive $10,000 towards their artistic work, a pair of Fluevogs and a heap of recognition within the best community of shoe fans ever! 

As makers of unique soles for unique souls since 1970, John Fluevog Shoes has long been a friend to artists of the gifted and aspiring variety. Constantly inspired by the individuals we are fortunate to call ‘Fluevogers’, both admiration and gratitude drive us to support the growth and development of such up-and-coming talent. 

 The Award is open to a variety of visual artistic media including but not limited to photography, textiles, painting, drawing, illustration, sculpture, mixed-media and others. Emerging artists who don’t have access to major funding are encouraged to apply.

The Fluevog Emerging Artist Grant

Experimental Film and Video Festival in Seoul (EXiS) 20th edition is looking for entries.

Experimental Film and Video Festival in Seoul, a.k.a EXiS, was founded in 2004 by Moving Image Forum in order to screen experimental films and contemporary moving images that explore the unknown forms and territories of cinema. We value artists’ films made with an original vision that take challenges and aesthetic adventures. We are one of the few places in Asia that still screen works of many important artists who work with celluloid film.

The 20th edition of EXiS will take place from 20 – 27 July 2023. 

20th EXiS Festival Call for Entries

OpenArt is an exhibition that takes place in the city center of Örebro every second summer. Contemporary artworks are displayed outdoors and available for public interaction day and night during the exhibition period. For each edition the festival presents a large number of artists working in a wide variety of art mediums and techniques. The majority of the artworks are sculpture and installations but we welcome artists working in all disciplines, interested in the intersection between art and the public. 

OpenArt is primarily an outdoor exhibition, which is promoted in this year's selection of artworks. Artists who intend to apply to OpenArt 2024 should primarily apply with artwork that can be placed outdoors. There will be an opportunity for applicants to add a portfolio with more ideas or existing artworks if indoor areas arise later in the planning.

OpenArt books and pays for travel and accommodation during installation.

Call for OpenArt Exhibition 2023

How many talented photographers, in France or elsewhere, lack the means to finish a project? How many, after spending several months documenting a subject, stop. Because their subject is more complex than they had thought, because it requires more time than they imagined. Photographers then go on to other things hoping to find a more lucrative story, requiring less of their own funding.

It is to support these difficult projects that the ImageSingulières festival, the news newspaper Mediapart and ETPA, a school of photography and game design based in Toulouse, have been committed, since 2018, around two awards. The "ISEM Grand Prix" is open to photographers from all over the world. 

With 8,000 euros, he intends to contribute to the development and completion of ongoing documentary work. This prize must be used to continue the rewarded work. This work will be screened during the presentation of the "ISEM Grand Prix" on Saturday, May 20, 2023 at ImageSingulières in Sète, and published on the Mediapart website in the weeks following the presentation of the Grand Prix and the following year. 

ISEM Prize for Documentary Photography 2023

Since 1993, Fundación Botín has awarded Art Grants each year, aimed at artists of any nationality. Each grant provides funding of 23,000€ and promotes and supports those artists who need resources to carry out a research project or training. The result of this process is displayed in the Itinerarios joint exhibition and in a catalogue.

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