🌸 **SPRING 2023 OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS — Innovate Grant is thrilled to introduce our newly increased award amounts of $1,800.00\.** 

  
Innovate Grant awards (2) $1,800.00 grants each quarter, to one Visual Artist and one Photographer. In addition, (6) honorable mentions (3 in art and 3 in photo), will be featured on our website and join a growing community of vibrant and talented artists. **Innovate Grant's commitment** extends beyond the grant cycle by promoting the work of selected winners and honorable mentions into the future. For more information and to apply visithttps://innovateartistgrants.org

  
**Innovate Grant** supports artists and photographers through quarterly grants. We've simplified the grant process, so that artists and photographers can focus on making their innovative work. The work should speak for itself and our application reflects that. 

  
**Innovate Grant** awards**:**

\+ 1 x **$1,800.00** Grants to a Visual Artist

\+ 1 x **$1,800.00** Grants to a Photographer

\+ 6 x Honorable Mentions Interviews

  
**How to Apply:** Visual Artists and Photographers 18 years and older, from all around the world, are eligible to apply. All media and genres are accepted. All applicants retain the right to the work they submit. Apply today at https://innovateartistgrants.org

  
**Explore the work of ALL Past Innovate Grant recipients and read their interviews at** https://innovateartistgrants.org

  
**Category**:Multiple disciplines and genres accepted

**Deadline**: June 22, 2023, Submit by 11:59PM PST

**Region:** US & International

**Awards:** 2 x $1,800.00 USD Grants // 6 x Honorable Mentions Interviews

  
**Apply Online Today**

https://innovateartistgrants.org

  

**Innovate Grant** awards**:**

\+ 1 x **$1,800.00** Grants to a Visual Artist

\+ 1 x **$1,800.00** Grants to a Photographer

\+ 6 x Honorable Mentions Interviews

NEW * $1,800.00 Innovate Grants for Art + Photo

The Twenty Something Project, part of the European Capital of Culture programme, will organise a literary residency on the theme ‘visible and invisible’ in 2023\. The residency, organised by Mesto knjige (City of Books) festival and the Carinarnica Cultural Centre, is aimed at writers, poets, essayists and committed publicists between the ages of 20 and 29 from the following countries: Slovenia, Italy (FriuliVenezia Giulia, Veneto, South Tyrol, and Emilia-Romagna only), Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, Kosovo, Macedonia, Serbia, and Germany (Chemnitz and surroundings only). During a 12-day programme, artists will be able to explore writing and literary creation practices. 

  
The Twenty Something project aims to promote the practice of writing in public spaces, focusing on mentoring young talented writers and preparing them to enter the publishing world. Special attention will also be given to helping writers get to know each other, both literary and cultural professionals from other fields, and bringing them to a wider audience. 

**The organisers provide travel expenses up to €300 (up to 650 km, use of train (2nd class) or bus is compulsory, except for people with disabilities)**, accommodation, and pocket allowance for daily expenses (€ 40/day).

Twenty Something Literary Residency (Slovenia)

Art + Australia is calling for proposals from artists, designers, architects, theorists and historians for ‘Issue 58.2\_The Mirror’, dedicated to exploring AI and its burgeoning role in contemporary art through a uniquely Australian lens. We encourage submissions that investigate the ways in which AI intersects with artistic practice, its broader cultural and social implications, and challenges our understanding of the human.

In 2023 OpenAI launched ChatGPT-4 as a range of new, highly sophisticated AI technologies flooded the data-sphere. The new apps allow for complex image and video generation, text generation and code writing, which are rapidly becoming a new, non-human labour force instructed to perform novel tasks that edge us ever closer to artificial general intelligence. These AI interfaces have led to widespread debate, consternation and have reignited conversations around authorship, labour, technology, desire, value, surveillance, and education.

For this issue of Art + Australia, we welcome proposals that engage with the overarching theme of "The Mirror", an object and symbol of reflection, self-examination, and representation. Is AI technology simply a democratising mirror as Tim O’Reilly discusses? Does AI, as Franco “Bifo” Berardi argues, further disassemble and augment desire? Does it have the potential to eschew or reconfigure our current labour practices? What does art tell us about AI’s uses, fallibility, and bias? What futures are artists imagining with AI? Is AI yet another techno-bureaucracy accelerating the global feedback of contemporaneity?

— Art + Australia provides an 80c p/word fee for articles published on Art + Australia

— A fee a equivalent will be determined on a case-by-case basis for all creative or experimental submissions

Call For Proposals: Issue 58.2_The Mirror

Illustrators and artists from Ukraine, Germany and Poland who work with the topics of gender equality and feminism and are interested in the implementation of socially significant projects and international cooperation, and are also ready to work with the topic of war, are invited to participate in the online laboratory. 10 project participants selected as a result of the open round will work with materials from the archives of partner organizations, and will also receive recommendations for independent work with personal stories. Illustrations based on archival research will be collected into a collective zine and presented at exhibitions in Lviv and Berlin in November 2023, together with the results of a summer residency program for young Ukrainian female artists, which will be recruited separately. The summer program provides a training program of practical direction with the support of experienced artists,

  
Joint work will last for 5 months and will include mandatory joint synchronization meetings at least once a month. Project participants will be offered various forms of group and individual work, mentoring support and lectures by invited experts. In addition, there will be a two-day offline networking event for all project participants in Berlin.

* a one-time scholarship in the amount of 550 euros
* covering all production costs related to preparation for exhibitions and publication
* an all-expenses paid trip to Berlin in November 2023

  

Her Gaze

CUNE Comics-in-Residence Programme (CUNE CiR) gives comic artists and other professionals a chance to explore the culture, the people and the local comics scene of neighbouring countries. Through individual projects and collaboration with local comics actives, the artists can form new professional and personal ties and exchange essential know-how.

In 2023, the programme is accepting applications from comic artists and professionals living in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Iceland.

The residency benefits for the selected artist include a project allowance of 900€, accommodation, and **return travel expenses**.

CUNE Comics-in-Residence Programme 2023

The Dëkandoo Artistic Residence, in collaboration with the Cultural Section of the Spanish Embassy in Senegal, Cultura Dakar, the Instituto Cervantes of Dakar, the Cultural Centers of Spain in Bata and Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, and Casa África launch a call for research and production residencies for exhibition, aimed at artists of Spanish or Equatoguinean origin, as well as all those who identify with these territories and wish to develop a research and artistic creation project linked to the commune of Gandiol and the Natural Park of the Langue de Barbarie.

This five-week residency (beginning 1 November 2023) is conceived as an immersion experience in the local environment that will trigger a creative process in dialogue with the geographical, natural, social, economic, historical or even spiritual context. The call is open to a wide variety of disciplines that can be encompassed within visual art. Proposals that explore expanded artistic media, such as textile art, ceramics, woodworking or recycling, in which design, creativity and innovation play a central role, are strongly encouraged. Work with local artisans and/or artists will also be fostered. As a conceptual objective, the aim is to create works that provide a reflection on the territory and the relationship of human beings with their physical and natural environment, including their beliefs and cultural practices.

As a result of the residency, and in the context of the Partcours 2023 programme, a group exhibition will be held at the headquarters of the Instituto Cervantes in Dakar, which will host the works created during the stay, as well as material documenting the process of creation. The Partcours initiative arose from the desire to promote the activity of art spaces, galleries, museums and foundations operating in the city of Dakar, creating synergies and mobilising the public around contemporary art. With eleven editions held to date, it has become an unmissable event for the cultural sector in Senegal, with an increasingly international projection, and constitutes a true platform for all those interested in art. Through this exhibition, the artistic diversity of the Spanish-speaking world and the networks of Spanish cultural institutions that make the project possible will be highlighted.

Selected artists will receive a compensation of 800 euros gross for the participation and creation of works. A financial endowment will be provided for the production. **In addition, travel expenses and accommodation will be covered by the organisers.** Travel and accommodation in Dakar during the opening of the exhibition will also be covered.

Dëkandoo: Visual Artist Residency (Senegal)

CIMAM launches an international call for travel grant applications to attend the CIMAM 2023 Annual Conference in Buenos Aires.

  
CIMAM’s 2023 Annual Conference will be held from 9-11 November 2023, hosted by the Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, Argentina. CIMAM will award over 50 travel grants to attend the CIMAM 2023 Annual Conference, titled ‘The Co-Creative Museum: Social Agency, Ethics, and Heritage’.

  
CIMAM Travel Grants aim to support the curatorial and research development of applicants through their attendance at the Annual Conference, where the most current concerns on contemporary art practices are being discussed.

Grants are addressed to modern and contemporary art museum directors and curators, researchers, and independent curators whose field of research and specialisation is contemporary art theory, collections, and museums. Partner organisations set the eligibility for their supported grants – see the CIMAM website for the full list.

A grant covers conference registration (includes access to all conference sessions, lunches, dinners, refreshment breaks, access to organised visits, and coach service to and from planned visits during the 3 conference days), **round trip economy flight tickets**, four nights of accommodation in one of the hotels recommended by CIMAM, membership of CIMAM for the period awarded.

Travel Grants to CIMAM Buenos Aires 

**Yadkin Arts Council 2023 Juried Exhibition Prospectus**

**_Jurors: Owens Daniels, Sharon Grubbs, and Nicole Uzzell_**

The Yadkin Arts Council, located in the Yadkin Cultural Arts Center at 226 East Main Street in Yadkinville, NC is pleased to announce our 2023 Juried Art Exhibition. This exhibition, to be featured collectively in the Welborn Gallery and Red Wall Gallery, is a celebration of some of the finest creativity in North Carolina. Eligibility for entry is open to 2D and 3D Fine Art artists that are a minimum of 18 years of age and reside in North Carolina. There will be $3,500 in combined prizes awarded to the best artists!

_Awards_ 

First Place: $1250 / Second Place: $850 / 3rd Place: $500

People’s Choice: $200 / People’s Choice Runner-Up: $100

Honorable mentions (6): $100 each

  
_Important Dates_ 

DEADLINE FOR ENTRY: June 11, 2023 (by midnight)

JURY PROCESS: June 12-14, 2023 

ACCEPTANCE/REJECTION ANNOUNCEMENT: Via email by 5pm on June 16, 2023 

DELIVERY OF ACCEPTED ARTWORK: June 26-June 29, 2023 (by appointment 9:30am-4pm) 

OPENING RECEPTION/AWARDS CEREMONY: July 14, 2023 (5-7pm)

EXHIBIT DATES: July 14-September 1, 2023

PICKUP OF UNSOLD ARTWORK: September 5, 2023 

_Specifications_ 

* Artists may submit up to two original works of art for consideration. If the artist is chosen to exhibit in this show, only one of their two submitted pieces may be selected. Submitted art must not have been shown previously at the Yadkin Cultural Arts Center.

* _Only original works of art (no reproductions) produced within the past three years will be accepted in the following mediums: painting, pastel, drawing, sculpture, ceramic, glass, photography, fiber arts, original hand-pulled prints, jewelry, weaving, basketry, marquetry, wood, mixed media, and digital_

* All works to be hung must be professionally framed (or gallery wrapped) and securely wired, and if subject to damage must be framed under plexiglass or glass. No Sawtooth or clip mounting will be accepted. Please note that our gallery features a wire hanging system that will be utilized for this exhibit and all wall hanging pieces must be able to work with this system.

* Three-Dimensional work must sit solidly on a flat surface or be properly mounted for hanging. Wall hanging pieces must not exceed 40 inches in width (including frames), nor weigh more than 40lbs. Any 3D pieces that require a pedestal provided by the Welborn Gallery must be able to be placed on a base that is no bigger than 24 inches by 15 inches. Any artist supplied pedestals or freestanding pieces must not exceed 40 inches in width or 24 inches in depth and must stand securely on their own.

* Two-Dimensional pieces should not exceed 40 inches in width or 60 inches in height (including frame) and must weigh no more than 40lbs.

* It will be up to the jurors’ discretion as to whether or not to reject pieces that exceed these guidelines. Please call in advance if you have questions before submitting your piece. No refunds will be given after submission.

* All Entries must be for sale (75% of sale price will go to artist with a 25% commission being retained by the Yadkin Arts Council), and all work must remain hanging until the end of show. No early withdrawals.

Submission Checklist 

* Read entire prospectus before registering/submission
* Complete the official entry form and follow guidelines for payment located on CAFÉ
* Submit one hiqh-quality JPEG image that clearly displays your work for each entry.
* Include a short artist biography.
* Complete entry must be received by midnight on Deadline for Entry Date.
* All entries will be notified by email regardless of whether or not the entry was accepted.
* Accepted works may be hand-delivered or shipped by the artist.
* Remember to include a prepaid return shipping label if you are shipping your artwork.
* Each accepted piece of artwork must be labeled with Artist Name, Address, Phone, Email, Title, Medium, and Retail Price (Retail Price should include 25% Yadkin Arts Council commission).
* All pieces must be for sale – no inflated pricing please.

Entry Fees 

All entry fees are non-refundable. $40 – Entry fee covers the option to submit up to two pieces of art per artist. Please note that entering this competition and paying an entry fee does NOT guarantee that your work will be accepted. No refunds will be given. If you are chosen to exhibit in this show, up to only one of your entered pieces will be accepted due to space limitations.

Sales 

The Yadkin Arts Council will retain 25% commission of all sales during this exhibition. Payment from sales will be made to the artist within 30 days after the close of the exhibit.

Disclaimer 

Not All entries will be chosen to display in this exhibit. No Refunds will be given if your work is not selected. The Yadkin Arts Council reserves the right to refuse any work that does not comply with all specifications or differs greatly from submitted digital images. Your electronically submitted entry form signifies your agreement with the terms and conditions stated herein, including permission to the Yadkin Arts Council to use accepted entries for advertising purposes.

Return of Art 

We are very limited on space, so any art not picked up by the deadline will remain the property of the Yadkin Arts Council unless other arrangements have been agreed upon in advance. Artwork that is shipped must include a prepaid return shipping label. Artists will be notified by email when return shipping has been picked up by the shipping company. 
  
  

**_Awards_** 

**First Place: $1250 / Second Place: $850 / 3rd Place: $500**

**People’s Choice: $200 / People’s Choice Runner-Up: $100**

**Honorable mentions (6): $100 each**
  
  

Yadkin Arts Council 2023 Juried Exhibition

**Heartland Art Club** (HAC)- The Center of Representational Art in America, is excited to announce a call to artists for their inaugural National Juried Exibition, **_REPRESENSATIONAL 2023_** with over **$9,000** in cash awards. Selected artists will be featured in the Galleries at Heartland Art Club in beautiful and busy Kirkwood, Missouri, as well as online at **Heartlandartclub.org** from August 16 - October 14, 2023\. 

  
All visual artists from around the country are encouraged to submit their best representational artworks: painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, hand-created graphics, and mixed (traditional) media. Any subject matter holding to the broadly defined concept of representational art is acceptable for this National Juried Exhibition. Thoroughly abstract works are not appropriate for this call. Application deadline is June 11, 2023.

  
Show Juror and Judge, **Patricia Watwood** will award $3,000 for First Place, $2,000 for Second Place, $1,000 for third Place, three Honorable Mention Awards at $500 each, $1000 for the David Cornell Composition Award, and various merchandise awards. Certificates of Recognition will be sent to every juried artist who participates the exhibit. 

  
All entries must be submitted online by setting up a profile and applying through CaFE (CallforEntry.org). See eligibility, rules, and terms for details. **Please carefully read the full prospectus here: https://heartlandartclub.org/represensational-2023**

  

Show Juror and Judge, **Patricia Watwood** will award $3,000 for First Place, $2,000 for Second Place, $1,000 for third Place, three Honorable Mention Awards at $500 each, $1000 for the David Cornell Composition Award, and various merchandise awards. Certificates of Recognition will be sent to every juried artist who participates the exhibit. 

REPRESENSATIONAL 2023

CERCO International Prize supports and promotes the contemporary creation of ceramics since 2001\. The contest is positioned as one of the prizes with more experience and allows to make visible the evolution and trends within contemporary ceramics through its international catalogs and exhibitions .

The contest is open to all contemporary artists of any age, emerging or established, individuals or members of groups, and without restrictions on thematic or nationality, who use ceramic as an artistic medium.

Those selected for the Prize will hold an exhibition in which a jury made up of important figures from the world of art will decide on the CERCO Prize endowed with 6000 euros and two second prize. The winning work will become part of the funds of the Association of Artisans of Aragon and will be exhibited permanently together with the rest of the prizes awarded since the beginning of the contest.

XVIII INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY CERAMICS AWARD

The Vilcek Foundation will award three Vilcek Prizes for Creative Promise of $50,000 each to young, immigrant designers who demonstrate outstanding early achievement in design. 

  
## Who Should Apply

* You were born outside the United States to non-American parents
* You are not more than 38 years old
* You have 5 years of professional experience in design and possess a strong track record of creative and high-caliber work

## Why Should You Apply

* Unrestricted cash prize of $50,000 is awarded to each prizewinner
* Reflect on how your experience as an immigrant has shaped your success
* Receive an invaluable endorsement from leaders in your field
* Receive a comprehensive public relations campaign to promote you and your work

## Eligible Categories

* **Digital design**: experience design, game design, information design/data visualization, interaction design, software design, systems design, etc.
* **Graphic design**: branding, communication design, identity, packaging design, etc.
* **Product design**: furniture design, industrial design, lighting design, materials design, transportation design, etc.
* **Social design**: ecological design, equitable design, inclusive design, service design, sustainable design, etc.

  

The Vilcek Foundation will award three Vilcek Prizes for Creative Promise of $50,000 each to young, immigrant designers who demonstrate outstanding early achievement in design. 
  
  