GESTE Paris

GESTE Paris announces a juried Open Call for its upcoming Paris exhibition, Meta_Contra_Verse

GESTE Paris: Meta_Contra_Verse

MARR’s mission is to challenge the perception of waste culture by providing a unique platform for artists at the intersection of art, community, and waste systems. The Moab area is highly impacted by the tourism industry and, as a result, waste management. By facilitating artists’ direct engagement with the waste stream, MARR encourages resident artists to consider their studio practice through the lens of sustainability and to thoughtfully re-assess their processes of material sourcing and waste disposal.

Through a 4-week residency, the program offers artists studio space, project and community facilitation, a stipend, access to materials at local waste disposal sites, and the time and space to focus solely on their art. As a component of each residency, artists spend time providing opportunities for learning, dialog and enrichment within the community. 

Artist Residency Program

Since 2013, the Precipice Fund has provided critical support to unincorporated visual art collectives, alternative spaces, and collaborative projects in and around Portland, Oregon. Operating outside traditional forms of support, funded projects seek to promote dialogue, cultivate communities, and encourage generative and expansive artistic process while driving culture forward locally and nationally. The Precipice Fund recognizes these informal, experimental, and often anti-institutional projects as integral to the innovative spirit and vibrant art ecology of Metro Portland and surrounding areas.  

Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA) is pleased to announce Round 11 of the Precipice Fund, awarding grants of up to $5,000 to unincorporated visual art collectives, alternative spaces, and collaborative projects. For Round 11, we will only accept proposals for projects based in and around the City of Portland. We encourage applications from first-time grant writers, artists from underrepresented communities, and projects that reflect the region’s diversity of cultures, aesthetics, and creative practices.

 ROUND 11 IMPORTANT DATES:
Applications Open on Submittable: Monday, August 29, 2022, 12:00 PM PDT
Application Deadline: Friday, October 7, 2022, 11:59 PM PDT
Applicants Informed & Grantees Awarded By: Early December, 2022



Precipice Fund

About the East Bay Fund for Artists
Since 2003, the East Bay Fund for Artists at EBCF has partnered with more than 9,500 generous donors and more than 200 nonprofit organizations to commission new works by over 300 local artists. The East Bay Fund for Artists has leveraged almost $3.1 million in new financial support for the arts in the East Bay.

In 2019, the East Bay Fund for Artists refined its programmatic focus to invest in individual artists and arts organizations rooted in low-income communities of color and other disadvantaged communities to commission new work that advances racial justice and social equity. Research shows that individual artists are not adequately compensated. This guided our decisions to designate funding directly to the commissioned artist(s): composers, playwrights, choreographers, visual and media artists.

The East Bay Fund for Artists is committed to the diversity of artistic practices and organizations as well as providing opportunities for Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) communities to experience art that represents their culture and history in addition to building their own individual donor base to sustain their work.

This Fund is currently supported by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, MacKenzie Scott and Dan Jewett, and the generous donors of East Bay Community Foundation.



East Bay Fund for Artists at East Bay Community Foundation (EBCF) Initiative will be awarding grants of $5,000-$25,000 for the commissioning of new works by Bay Area artists. Awardees must hold a public presentation of their work within a year of receiving the grant award.

The East Bay Fund for Artists will fund up to 75 percent of the total project budget. (For example, up to $7,500 of a $10,000 project).

East Bay Fund for Artists

Valentina Pimanova

ISSP Riga Residency welcomes photographers, artists and curators working within photography to apply for 1-3 month residency in Riga, Latvia. There are no limitations regarding age, background or photographic style of the participants. The ISSP Riga Residency provides an opportunity for concentrated work on a personal project informed by interaction with Riga and its residents (or elsewhere in Latvia), or much needed time to rethink and complete ongoing work. The residency calendar is based on full month slots, from the first to the last day of the month. In 2023, the Residency is open from the period January – December. 

The participation fee is 350 EUR per calendar month and it covers accommodation costs. Three selected artists from a Nordic or Baltic country will receive a scholarship of 500 EUR, residency stay free of charge and covered travel costs to Riga.

The residents are housed in a spacious and fully equipped 3-bedroom shared apartment in the centre of Riga.

ISSP Riga Residency 2023 Open Call

TRUTH, Artist books and broadsides

 The concept of "truth" has been associated with books and the printed word for a long time, as in “going by the book” and other catch-phrases. Unfortunately the very notion of “truth” in the U.S.A. became politicized during the previous presidency and continues to take a beating in politics, the media and even in daily interactions between friends. Gallery Route One asks artists to consider what form truth takes and how they could EMBODY TRUTH in their work, within the artist book or broadside format. What does the word mean now: personally, politically or philosophically? How does an artist embody truth in their work?

Gallery Route One invites artists to submit expressions about truth in the form of handmade, handbound artist books both unique and in small editions, altered books, folded or sculptural books and very limited edition broadsides. 

Juror Sas Colby is a visual artist with over 5 decades of creating, exhibiting, and teaching art. Her artistic practice includes nontraditional artists books and work with text. A retrospective, Sisters of Invention: 45 Years of Book Art by Sas Colby, Betsy Davids and Jaime Robles, was exhibited at the San Francisco Center for the Book in 2015. Sas’ work was included in Possibilities: When Artists’ Books Were Young; Kathleen Walkup, curator at SFCB in 2022.

Eligibilty: All artists 18 or over currently residing in the United States.

Entries are limited to 3 artworks.

Fee: $30 for 1 to 3 submissions.

Submission dates are September 1 through October 15.

Notification by November 1.

Exhibition dates are January 7 through February 12

Jurying will be online only. Work that does not resemble the submitted image will not be displayed.

INSURANCE: GRO does not offer insurance to cover your artwork. If you require insurance for your piece, feel free to pursue thison your own.

SALES: Artwork need not be for sale. Work that is for sale will be for the price indicated by the artist upon submission of entry, plus tax. Your price should include GRO’s commission of 45%.

 Gallery Route One is a nonprofit organization that supports a gallery for contemporary art and several community outreach programs. The artist members at GRO believe that art can be a powerful force for change, and thatartists have much to contribute to the dialogue about critical problems we face as a society. Our Mission: To originate and presentcontemporary art exhibitions, educational programs and community outreach projects to inspire people to experience the world innew ways.

GRO was founded by 25 artists in 1983, and currently maintains a membership of 20 artists. Our Board of Directors is drawn frominterested community members, including artists. The organization supports two exhibition programs: member exhibitions andVisiting Artists exhibitions. Visiting artists exhibit work that addresses current issues of public debate: social justice, environmental crisis, racism, immigration. Truth, the upcoming juried exhibition is a project of the Visiting Artist Program.

Truth: Artist Books & Broadsides

River Oaks' small art spectacle returns for 2022. The 7th Annual 5x5x5 features a remarkably fascinating showing of miniature works from artists across the U.S., coinciding with the gift-giving season. The guest Juror for the 2022 feature is Ashley Kenneth Chavis. River Oaks is inviting all visual artists to participate in this annual miniature feature. The 5x5x5 Show is a signature event for the Arts Center, allowing patrons to purchase unique, original works of art for holiday gift giving or as additions to their expanding collections.

Guest Juror - Ashley Kenneth Chavis
Ashley Chavis is originally from southeast Georgia. In 1995 he received an art portfolio scholarship to the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) to study architecture. After a year at SCAD, he decided to transfer to Armstrong Atlantic State University in Savannah to take full advantage of the Hope Scholarship. During that time, Ashley fell in love with Fine Art and graduated from Armstrong with a Bachelor of Arts degree with a major in Studio Art. He completed graduate school in 2005 at The University of Mississippi where he earned the Master of Fine Arts degree with an emphasis in Ceramics.

Since 2007, Ashley has been a full-time art instructor at Northwest Mississippi Community College where he teaches foundation art courses in Drawing and Ceramics. Much of his creative energy is devoted to producing functional pottery with a simple aesthetic that synthesizes design, tactility, and function. In addition to clay, Ashley also experiments with mixed-media drawings; and in 2019, drawing was the focus of his residency and exhibition in Marnay Sur Seine, France. His most recent clay accomplishments include entry into the 29th Annual Strictly Functional Pottery National Exhibition in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and the SECAC 2021 Members Juried Exhibition in Lexington, Kentucky. Ashley’s work can also be found at Oxford Treehouse Gallery in Oxford, Mississippi. He is a member of the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA), Southeastern College Art Conference (SECAC), Southern Graphics Council International (SGCI), and Sycamore Arts Council. Ashley lives in Oxford, Mississippi with his wife, Virginia (who is also an artist), and their two children.

- 2D and 3D works accepted.
-Open to all media
-Original works only
-One image per entry
-3 entries max

7th Annual 5x5x5 Show

The Augusta Sculpture Trail

The Greater Augusta Arts Council, as the public art agency for the City of Augusta, Georgia, is seeking ten (10) leasable, pre-existing, outdoor sculptures to be installed for two years in Downtown Augusta, GA for the Augusta Sculpture Trail.

This will be a temporary (2 year) installation in Downtown Augusta. All of the ten (10) sculpture sites will have a 4’x4’ concrete base, and are fully accessible. The sites are spaced in a manner to promote walking from one sculpture to another, creating a trail to follow. Other public art installations already in place will augment the walking tour experience.

​All works will be heavily promoted as an arts destination attraction with online, printed, radio and TV ads. A digital walking tour will be created and all artists will be requested to submit content to be placed in that online platform. We will regularly bring public attention to the Augusta Sculpture Trail through in-person and online events. We will additionally promote the availability of the sculptures for purchase.

Selected artists will receive a stipend of $3,000 for the 2-year lease of their work ($1,500 upon installation, $1,500 upon de-installation).
There will be a purchase of artwork at the end of this temporary art installation to add to the City of Augusta's permanent public art collection.

Installation: January 2023
De-installation: December 2024


$1,500 upon installation, $1,500 upon de-installation

Augusta Sculpture Trail 2023-2024

‘ECHO III: for memory’s sake’ is an arts and heritage project that aims to bring together artists working in the fields of theatre, music, visual arts, and literature in order to explore tradition and culture through the themes of marriage, arranged marriages and nuclear families in the Balkan context. Specifically, the aim is to explore gender roles and norms through history and how all of the above affect young people and artists living in Europe. 

ECHO III is looking for 24 artists, 6 Greek, 6 Romanian, 6 Bulgarian, 6 Albanian, working in the fields of theatre, music, visual arts, and literature to participate in the three stages of the project:

1st phase (Ethnographic Research): Ethnographic research will be conducted by professionals from 4 Balkan countries (Greece, Romania, Bulgaria, Albania) based on the theme of marriage in the Balkans to explore how gender issues affect the new generation.
2nd phase of ECHO III (Presentation of the results): Research results will be presented to the public through 4 artistic events; a theatre performance (Athens), video poems screenings (Bucharest), a concert (Sofia) & a poetry night (Tirana). 
3rd phase of ECHO III (Wandering Arts Caravan): The goal of the Caravan is to keep talking about marriage, forced marriage and gender issues that are deep rooted in the Balkan societies, through culture. Thus, the last phase of ECHO III is for the contributors of the artistic events/results to go on a tour to Balkan cities, performing their art together and present the gender roles and norms through.
Applying artists pick one of four residencies taking place online and in the partner countries: Athens Art Residency (Theatre) during January 2023 – March 2023, Bucharest Art Residency (Visual Arts) in March 2023, Sofia Art Residency (Music) during January – February 2023, Albania Art Residency (Literature) in March 2023.  

ECHO III: Open Call for Artists

Earthwise Residency in Mols Bjerge, Denmark have announced an open call for two Curious Encounters residencies with a focus on the ‘more-than-human’ world – meaning all the other entities, species, or matter whom we share the planet with.

Winter 2023: 6 weeks during 9 January – 19 February 2023.
Spring 2023: 6 weeks during 17 April – 28 May 2023.

Each residency period is for two collaborating persons: one artist and one researcher or specialist. The researcher/specialist should be actively engaged in research processes and hold at least a master’s degree, preferably a Ph.D. degree. The researcher/specialist may have a background in the Humanities, Social Sciences or STS. The artist must pursue the residency theme of ‘more-than-human’ through primarily visual or performing arts.

The residencies are located in Denmark, at Earthwise Residency, which lies at the heart of National Park - Mols Bjerge.

Accommodation in private rooms in a house shared with Earthwise volunteers

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