ArtConnect

We’re on the lookout for exceptional new artistic talents from across the globe to highlight on ArtConnect in 2021. 

Take part in our open call for Artists to Watch for the chance to win exciting prizes that are sure to get you noticed.

Naz Cuguoğlu

David Reves

Radu Sticlea

Romeo Alaeff

Meaghan Gates

Kaija Hinkula

Jia-Jen Lin

Elinor Sahm

Ayin Es

Lisa McCleary

Dorsey Kaufmann

Anne-Marie Giroux

Laura Hart Newlon

Artists to Watch 2021

Hopper Prize

The Hopper Prize is now accepting entries for our Fall 2021 artist grants. 

We are offering 2 grants in the amount of $3,500 and 4 grants in the amount of $1,000.

Grants will be awarded through an open call art competition juried by leading contemporary curators.

The Hopper Prize was established in order to increase the recognition of artwork created by artists and photographers. Our aim is to advance artists' careers by providing them with unrestricted financial support that is coupled with a platform for increased visibility. We accept submissions twice a year via an open call.

We are currently accepting submissions for the Fall 2021 grant cycle.
Grant awards are unrestricted and may be used any way the recipients choose.

Tyler Blackwell - Associate Curator, Blaffer Art Museum

Caitlin Julia Rubin - Associate Curator & Director of Programs, Rose Art Museum

Christopher Meerdo, Chicago, Illinois

Erik Parra, San Francisco, California

Abi Salami, Dallas

Abigail Lucien, Baltimore

Hasani Sahlehe, Atlanta

Laura Berger, Chicago

Jennifer Sirey, Brooklyn 

Cielo Felix-Hernandez, Richmond 

Akihiro Boujoh, Utrecht

Joey Solomon, Brooklyn

Lynnea Holland-Weiss, Cleveland

Susan Chen, Hartford

Yannick Lowery, Philadelphia

Andrea Ferrero, Mexico City 

Christopher Desanges, Boston

Dominic Hawgood, London

Kira Dominguez Hultgren, San Francisco

Vikesh Kapoor, Sunset Pines

Adrian Coleman, London

Trish Tillman, New York

Nicholas Moenich, Brooklyn

Elena Bajo, Los Angeles

Vanessa da Silva, London

Mark Baugh-Sasaki, San Francisco

Genevieve Cohn, Bloomington

Sydney Cook, Baltimore

Jinyong Park, London

Isabel Yellin, Los Angeles

Alex Callender, Northampton

Alicia Eggert, Denton

Daniel McCarthy Clifford, Minneapolis

Juan Giraldo, New York

Maja Ruznic, Los Angeles

Letitia Huckaby, Benbrook

Tracy Kerdman, Saugerties

Lebohang Kganye, Johannesburg

$3,500 Artist Grants

Envision Arts

Still Life II will be our second virtual installment of contemporary and fine art works depicting a still life arrangement. All genre’s and art styles accepted. The gallery will be on virtual display between November 1 – November 30, 2021. 

HOW TO ENTER
Please read the full guidelines and terms before completing the application process. Please review the dates and deadlines at the bottom of this page. Entries can only be submitted online via the website. A separate application must be filled out for each exhibit.    
NUMBER OF ENTRIES + APPLICATION FEE
Each artist is limited to six (6) images per submission. There is a $10 (USD) non-refundable/non-transferable fee, for up to six (6) images. Payments must be submitted online at the time of application. Deadline to submit work is October 28, 2021 at 11:59 PM CST.

Still Life II Art Exhibit

Amber II will be our second virtual installment of contemporary and fine art works that exemplify the color orange. All submitted entries should be at least 50% comprised of the color, range, tint or shade of orange. The gallery will be on virtual display between November 1 – November 30, 2021. 

Amber II Art Exhibit

DigitalArt4Climate

The DigitalArt4Climate Art Competition, organized by IAAI GloCha in collaboration with the UN-Habitat youth programme, Unique Network, Social Alpha Foundation,  Exquisite Workers, HubZine and Palette69 wants to inspire and promote climate action through the power of culture and technology and empower the uptake of digital innovation by the creative community in an accessible and meaningful way.

HUMANITY CHALLENGED BY CLIMATE CHANGE

We welcome you to submit a creation that embodies your personal interpretation of the ’humanity challenged by climate change’ theme and to reimagine the impact creators can have on the world and on healing of our Mother Earth. In terms of visual storytelling we are envisioning 3 sub-themes: Storm, Haven and Angel. 
These are just a few ideas and should in no way limit the artist into how the theme can be represented.

NFT PLATFORM

The DigitalArt4Climate’s features include – based on its use of the Unique Network NFT platform -  full proof-of-stake (PoS) infrastructure with Polkadot and Kusama (a sustainable blockchain and approach to NFTs), decentralized media storage, credit-card & crypto payments, automatic collaborator splits and payments on primary and secondary markets, customizable royalties, and the ability to create positive impact and undertake the climate change action.

The selected Artworks which enter the public voting of the Art Competition and the COP26 collection will automatically enter the auction in summer 2022 on the NFT marketplace and will receive a share of 15 % of the net revenues or gross proceeds from the auction (NFT sales) on the primary market if there are any. DigitalArt4Climate will promote the winning Artists’ names. Any remaining proceeds will benefit youth climate action projects as well as global technical and institutional Action for Climate Empowerment support infrastructure development, including World Environment Situation Room Youth engagement programme. Creative direction may be provided to the Artist for final release on the website and the DigitalArt4Climate public voting.

Artists whose artwork will be shortlisted for the Art Competition by the curators, but who do not make it into the initial DigitalArt4Climate COP26 collection, will nevertheless have the opportunity to have prime-access to the DigitalArt4Climate NFT marketplace platform during its first months live (summer 2022).

UNITED NATIONS DigitalArt4Climate Art Competition

Grey Cube Gallery

Grey Cube Gallery proudly presents the second Monochrome online art contest for the month of November 2021. 

Artists from around the world are welcome to submit. The gallery invites artists and photographers to share their artistic vision using any work with interpretation of natural environment (forests, meadows, farmlands, savannas). 

Forests & Meadows Art Contest

Goyki 3 Art Inkubator

The residencies under the AiR Goyki 3 programme will be dedicated to a wide group of artists – creators of visual art, writers, performance artists and individuals involved in the popularisation of science from Poland and abroad – and they will consist in supporting the activities of residents in the space of Art Inkubator.

In 2022 we invite to participate artists from the fields of literature and visual arts.

In AiR Goyki 3, we are interested in creative process and dialogue with artists. We are driven by critical reflection on the modern world and society. We do not specify what end results should be; we do not impose topics. We support well-thought-out activities and research-focused projects referring to the place of their implementation, i.e. the city of Sopot and the space of Art Inkubator, as well as those focused on building relationships between people and their surroundings. By inviting residents from various fields, we hope to promote networking and cooperation which will result in multidisciplinary projects.

Dates of AiR Goyki 3 in 2022:
04.04 – 04.06.2022
05.09 – 05.11.2021

Accommodation for two residents in Sopot during the April – June residency periods

AiR Goyki 3

Fabrica

The In Between Gallery is a temporary exhibition platform for Fabrica’s picture window in central Brighton. This exciting initiative is now in its fifth year. 
 
Fabrica is partnering with Spectrum Photographic, Photo Fringe and Loupe Magazine to present excellent photographic work by UK-based artists who consider themselves to be early to mid-career. 
 
The judging panel will be made up of our partners as well as being joined by photographer and curator Ibrahim Azab, currently exhibiting in the In Between Gallery and independent curator Cairo Clarke.


About
There is no theme to address but artists are asked to submit a work that will function well within the context of a large format print set within the window frame.. Measurements are approximately: 270cm x 225.5cm. 
 
The window faces directly onto Duke Street, one of Brighton’s busiest pedestrianised quarters, located between The Lanes and Churchill Square, two very popular shopping destinations. The main city centre pubs and clubs are also nearby so the street is normally busy into the evening and throughout the night.
 
The image would be exhibited from early December 2021 – mid-February 2022 when there is no large-scale exhibition in Fabrica’s main space.  
 
One artist/artist group and one image will be selected.


Open Call: Photography 

Atsue Pingleton (Ms.) and  Mayumi Itamura (Ms.)

“KASHIMA BEPPU ARTIST IN RESIDENCE” is a residence program that BEPPU PROJECT has held in Beppu since 2008. In Japanese, “KASHIMA” refers to the name of the place of your stay in order to heal your body and soul in a bath and spa. One of the aims of this residence program is to promote and develop creations, in connection with local community and the artists. 

We are calling for collaboration projects that domestic artists and foreign artists can cooperate using online. While the continuous influence of COVID-19, it is time to challenge for expressions and creations that can be done with this circumstance. Any genres will be welcome.

Numbers of Acceptance: 3 pairs of 2 people 
A pair refers to 1 domestic (Japanese nationality and residence) artist who stays in Beppu during the program and 1 foreign (non-Japanese nationality and residing outside Japan) artist from his/her residing area via online.

A project proposal must be created by these 2 artists to cooperate to have an international-collaboration


Accommodation and work studio will be either a house or apartments within Beppu chosen by BEPPU PROJECT; may need to share toilet(s) and the kitchen with other artists. 

KASHIMA 2021 | BEPPU ARTIST IN RESIDENCE

Dr. Dormagen-Guffanti-Stiftung

The Dr. Dormagen-Guffanti-Foundation invites artists from the drawing and graphics sectors to participate in the Dr. Dormagen Guffanti Scholarship 2022. The call is for artists who have their place of work and residence in the Federal Republic of Germany.

The equal participation of people with and without disabilities in society is the key idea of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, which was adopted in 2008 Already about 150 years ago, the donor has Dr. Hubert Dormagen donated his fortune for the purpose of disabled-people's care in Cologne. He also draws back the idea of using the art to ′′ accelerate the healing of the sick ".

The Foundation's Board of Trustees has decided to use the foundation's income to award the Dr. Dormagen Guffanti scholarship to be awarded to artists from the field of fine arts after a public call for proposals. The aim is to create opportunities for and / or for people with disabilities to participate under artistic aspects.

Céline Berger

Claudia Mann

Vera Drebusch

Marion Anna Simon

(1500 per month + 1000 one-off for materials)

Dormagen-Guffanti-Scholarship 2022

National Park Arts Foundation

NOW is the time to artistically interpret this magnificent world wonder. NPAF is now offering Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park residencies, and close to some of the best beaches on the island. For an approximately one-month term in Summer of 2022.

*We recommend you apply for this residency as soon as possible. The call for artists for this residency can be canceled at any time without notice*

This residency opportunity is open to Single Artists, Families, Artist Couples, artist collectives, or arts troupes.

Residency artists will stay at a spacious house just outside the park boundaries. Close to the beaches, 28 miles to Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park Visitors Center.

We are excited to continue our artist-in-residence program at Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park. The Park boundaries include two legendary and sacred volcanoes, Kīlauea and Mauna Loa, as unique flora and fauna, as well rainforests and mysterious and ever-changing active lava flows. Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park is also an International Biosphere Reserve and a World Heritage Designated Site. This is a unique dramatic environment for all artistic media to flourish and to inspire new breakthroughs in process and result. Possible Art donation through NPAF to NPS Collection at Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park.

Travel, equipment, food and insurance costs to be covered by the artist

Will Oldham

Byron Yasui

Emma Stibbon

Hasan Elahi

Two storey, 3 Bedrooms, 3 Bathrooms with views of the Ocean

HAWAI’I VOLCANOES NATIONAL PARK | Artist in Residency Program

Les Nouveaux Riches is pleased to announce the open call for an international art wall calendar. What do you expect from the year 2022? Following the motto ‚ÄúThis Time Tomorrow‚Äù, we would like to create a single art piece, amalgamating artists‚Äò thoughts from all over the world. A single art piece to guide us all throughout the year. The open call is directed towards all kinds of artists.

Art wall calendar topic: This Time Tomorrow 
Calendar format: 42 cm width x 61 cm height

What art styles are accepted? Text art, painting, sculpture, photography, digital art, illustration, performance (‚Ä¶) Almost anything is possible, and creativity is given free rein. Non-published material is not a precondition but is preferred.

How can you apply? Send your work (just one) as .jpg with a resolution of 300 dpi, to: mail@les-nouveaux-riches.com / Subject: LNRCalendar

Submission deadline. All applications must be submitted until 29th of October. Only submissions that can be published under the theme ‚ÄúThis Time Tomorrow‚Äù will be accepted. 12 works will be selected from all submissions. The selected artists will be notified by email till the 31th of October.

Transparency and LNR Statement. We want to create a contemporary art calendar with artists and give the artists the opportunity to present themselves to a wider audience. The calendars have an edition of 200 pieces and will be sold from the end of November in our online store and at distribution partners for 30 euros ‚Äì shipping costs 4.50 in Austria and 9.50 in Europe. The proceeds will benefit the association and will be used to cover running costs and to implement further projects in 2022. Every artist who is in the calendar gets 4 free copies. The calendar will be available from 29th of November 2021 in our online store and with our distributors.

About Les Nouveaux Riches. Since April 2019, the association for contemporary art and culture has been dedicated to offering young and emerging artists as well as already established artists, gallery owners and creatives a platform on which to present themselves to a wide audience. In addition to a cost-free magazine, articles about and interviews with national and international artists are continuously published online. Further, collaborations with other actors of the cultural scene are realised and events organized.

Open Call. Art wall calendar 2022