Assets for Artists

Harvestworks New Works Program

Harvestworks strives to create an environment where artists can make work inspired and achieved by electronic media. The Artist in Residency (AIR) program is designed to assist individual working artists and their collaborators on new works which may include multiple channel audio or video installations, interactive performance systems, data visualization or projects involving hardware hacking, circuit bending or custom built interfaces, as well as projects that use the web. Harvestworks offers commissions of up to $5000 to make a new work in their Technology, Engineering, Art and Music (TEAM) lab. Applicants must reside within the United States.

Rockland Center for the Arts

The Rockland Center for the Arts aims to provide the region with a broad range of contemporary art expressions that support artists and curators. RoCA is currently requesting submissions for the 2012-14 seasons for all five of their exhibition spaces. Curators are expected to have a hands-on approach and are required to be on the premises during the exhibition installation, however it is RoCA policy that curators may not include their own work in exhibitions that they are curating. Curators receive an honorarium.

ArtSpace Maynard

The ArtSpace- Maynard Gallery is currently accepting exhibition proposals from artists and curators for its 1,800 sq. ft. of exhibition space, with 150 ft. of linear wall space quipped with 16 ft. of built-in glass display cases. Proposals should be for solo or group exhibitions and present a coherent theme; the exhibit should be based on a unifying concept – social, historical, philosophical, cultural, political or other. If your proposal is accepted, ArtSpace-Maynard is responsible for listings in Art New England, Artscope, local and regional media, all  press releases, as well as mailing and postage for ArtSpace’s mailing list.

Center for Contemporary Printmaking

The Center for Contemporary Printmaking is now accepting applications for printmaking residency fellowships at the Center for Contemporary Printmaking (CCP) during 2012. A selected Fellow receives support for a two-week creative residency in the Helen Frankenthaler Printmaking Cottage, travel allowance, a small materials stipend, accommodations, and an honorarium. Artists-in-residence are required to participate in a community activity such as a lecture, panel discussion or open studios hours during the residency. Applicants must be 18 years of age or older, reside in the USA or Puerto Rico and be able to work independently.

Amherst Biennial

The Amherst Public Arts Commission (APAC) is pleased to announce the second Amherst Biennial: Art in Expected & Unexpected Places this fall (Oct./Nov. 2012). The Biennial will take place all over town, including sites at Amherst College, UMass & the Emily Dickinson Museum. Artists from Western Massachusetts are encouraged to apply; work in all media welcome. All participating artists are included in a catalogue of the  Biennial.

Northampton Arts Council

The Northampton Arts Council offers a second round of ArtsEZ grants every spring with money raised through annual events. Funds will be available in the following categories: dance, film/video, literature, mixed media, music, schools, theater, and visual arts. Last spring, the Council awarded $12,500 to 16 recipients with grants ranging from $500-$1,100. Projects must start no earlier than July 1, 2012, and must be completed by June 30, 2013. Eligible applicants include artists who are either Northampton-based or those whose projects will be held in Northampton, Florence, or Leeds.

Arts on the Arcade

Arts on the Arcade provides summer entertainment at the community arcade adjacent to Cambridge Street and City Hall Plaza once a week from July 11 to August 29, 2012. A three-tiered approach including local visual artists, performers, and a farmers markets gives the public a rich vibrant market experience. Visual artists interested in exhibiting and selling their original works of art are encouraged to apply. People will have the opportunity to peruse the booths of local artists and to interact with the various artists who have created the artwork on display. All work must be original and handcrafted by the artist (sales representatives and agents are not eligible). Mass produced or manufactured works are not acceptable. Preference will be given to Boston-based artists, but all are welcome to apply.

Beverly Main Streets

Beverly Main Streets (BMS) is launching Art Alfresco, a year-long outdoor sculpture exhibit along the sidewalks and in the parks of downtown Beverly. This exhibit will coincide with the launch of the Main Streets Museum initiative which includes a 10-day festival of events that celebrates Beverly’s rich heritage and history. The program is open to all artists and includes a $250 stipend as well as the opportunity to sell exhibited work.

Mud Flat Studio

The mission of Mud Flat Studio is to promote and expand the appreciation of and participation in the ceramic arts. In 1998, Mudflat began offering a one-year residency position to clay artists. The residency includes 24-hour access to a private studio space, a monthly materials and firing stipend, as well as the opportunity to teach and exhibit new work. Applicants should have knowledge of a variety of clay techniques and some kiln firing experience, the ability to work independently, and enthusiasm and willingness to be part of an urban clay community. This year-long residency runs between September 1 and August 31.

Cape Cod Art Association

The Cape Cod Art Association is a non-profit membership group serving the community with a variety of fine art programs and events. The 2012 All Cape Cod exhibit offers artists from around the world the opportunity to both show and sell work. Eligible artists include those working with oil, acrylic, watermedia, pastel, printmaking, drawing, mixed media, sculpture, fine art, and photography, and does not include crafts. Paintings may not exceed 48” in any direction, including frame. The show will take place between May 17 and June 11, 2012, and is open to artists worldwide.

Worcester Center for Crafts

The Worcester Center for Crafts‘ Artist-in Residence program is a one to two year appointment that provides studio space and facilities within a supportive studio community. This residency includes 24-hour access to facilities, as well as an individual studio space. Residencies are offered in clay, glass, and metals, and offer the opportunity to teach, exhibit, and sell new work. Applicants should keep in mind that this residency does not include housing.

Frame 301 Gallery

Frame 301, a unique art installation space occupying the street-side window of Montserrat College of Art‘s 301 Gallery, is seeking artist proposals for the 2012/13 calendar year. Although there is no theme to Frame 301, the project promotes innovative, original, and site-specific installations. Each of the selected artists will be exhibited for a month-long period. Interested artists should submit a proposal for window installation, including a written description and visual examples of how the artist intends the installation to appear. All entries must be sent for consideration to the project manager at least two months before the proposal would be installed, pending selection.

John Michael Kohler Arts Center

JMKAC functions as a catalyst for and explorer of new art forms and new ideas that will impact the lives of both artists and public. Artists have the opportunity to spend two to six months creating works of art utilizing the Kohler Company’s industrial materials and equipment. Participants are exposed to a body of technical knowledge that enables them to explore forms and concepts not possible in their own studios and to undertake fruitful new ways of thinking and working. Artists-in-residence may work in the Kohler Co. Pottery, Iron and Brass Foundries, and Enamel Shop to develop a wide variety of work in clay, enameled cast iron, and brass including but not limited to murals and reliefs, temporary or permanent site-specific installations, and functional and sculptural forms. Artists-in-residence are given studio space in the factory that generally is accessible 24 hours a day, seven days a week. In addition, they receive free materials, use of equipment, technical assistance, photographic services, housing, round-trip transportation, and, for American artists, modest honoraria.The program is open to artists worldwide.

La Petite Escalère

Located in the Southwest of France, La Petite Escalère is host to more than 50 sculptures by renowned modern and contemporary artists. Nearly forty years after its creation, it has become essential for LPE to carry on its human and artistic history while looking ahead, in order to establish its unique garden and collection as a platform dedicated to creation, research and exchange around art, landscape and environment. The residency program at LPE undertakes three major goals : to promote LPE’s unique natural and artistic heritage, to encourage and support contemporary artistic practices, and to be involved in the development of the local and national artistic scene. Residencies are between two and four weeks in length for artists living outside of France.

Prairie Center of the Arts

Prairie Center of the Arts was founded in 2003 to attract emerging and established artists from around the world, to provide these artists and local artists with opportunities for research and development of new work, and to provide an accessible facility for art and creativity that embraces the Peoria area community offering equipment and new technologies not currently available to the general public. The word “artist” is used in its broadest sense to include traditional art forms such as printmaking, photography, drawing, painting, sculpture, and design, as well as installation and conceptual artists, writers and poets, composers, architects and others who envision and change the world through their creative endeavors. A residency award includes housing and studio space, and runs from July 1 to September 30.

Northern Clay Center

The seventh annual Fogelberg Studio Fellowship Program at the Northern Clay Center is designed to provide emerging ceramic artists an opportunity to be in residence for one year, where they can develop their own work as well as exchange ideas and knowledge with other ceramic artists. The facilities include four gas kilns, 12 electric kilns, one raku kiln, three glazing areas, three wheel classrooms with 44 wheels, handbuilding classroom with slab roller and other equipment, plus off-site wood-fire kiln. In addition to the work space, each fellowship includes materials and a firing stipend.  Recipients’ work will be included in a group exhibition featuring several artists, which will take place in January of 2014. Eligibility is restricted to clay artists who have completed all formal undergraduate academic training by the start of the grant period (September 1, 2012), who are not currently enrolled full or part-time in a degree-granting institution (including BA, MFA, or a teaching certification program), and who are not employed full-time as a ceramics teacher at the college level.

Massachusetts Dance Festival

The Massachusetts Dance Festival believes that dance, as a major component of arts and culture, is essential to meaningful lives and healthy communities. Their goal is to successfully establish dance artistically, financially and operationally, throughout the state, and thereby contribute to the economic vitality of our communities. The Festival will feature a variety of companies, showcasing many of Massachusetts’s most prominent dance troupes in many genres of dance. Acceptance will be determined by quality, variety of artistic disciplines, and appropriateness for the market.  Priority will be given to those companies who are able to perform in June and September with MDF; the festival will take place at Boston University June 23^rd and 24^th and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst September 22^nd and 23^rd.

The Nave Gallery

The Nave Gallery’s exhibition Alter-Ego Part II will celebrate the quirky, personal, non-digital point of view of artists bucking the trend in the world of 21st century photography. The proliferation of toy cameras, pinhole camera kits, and how-to-manuals for alternative processes suggest that film is, in fact, not dead; In the current era of digital media, many photographers are reaching for ways to create work that is relevant in the world today, but by using manual processes that have enriched photography since it’s inception. All themes will be considered. Work of a collaborative, non-commercial nature is especially encouraged. This is a follow up to the 2009 exhibit Alter-Ego curated by Bridget Kane and Greer Muldowney.

Art on the Marquee

The Massachusetts Convention Center Authority and Boston Cyberarts is issuing a call for media art for display on the Marquee outside the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center. The 80-foot-tall Marquee offers more than 3,000 square feet of display area on 7 screens, providing full-motion video. Art on the Marquee is looking for ten 30-second videos, animations or computer generated work, using the entire Marquee in colorful and creative ways. The Marquee is viewed by more than 100,000 pedestrians and motorists from 7am to 10pm daily.  It is recommended that artists submitting visit the site before submitting their proposal in order to grasp the full potential of the Marquee.  Eligibility is limited to artists and artist teams who reside in Massachusetts.

The Cambridge Center for Adult Education

The Cambridge Center for Adult Education (CCAE) is repeating their very successful program — Community Supported Art (CSArt) — in 2012. CSArt is modeled on the “community supported agriculture” programs that have flourished across the country for the past 20 years. Like community supported agriculture, CSArt is designed to link producers – in this case, artists who are interested in developing a limited edition of an original work of art – with consumers who buy shares and receive three deliveries of art this fall. The works might include a limited run of 50 small sculptures, paintings, stained glass, line drawings, lithographs, or photographs. The challenge will be to design a product that is appealing, well made, and low cost and then to complete 50 pieces by September 1. Artists who are selected to participate in CSArt will receive a $1,500 stipend, a $500 scholarship toward classes at CCAE, inclusion in the 2012 CSArt exhibition, and numerous opportunities to establish relationships with other artists who share an interest in developing a business model, other small business owners, and local consumers of art. Application is now open to artists from the Greater Boston art communities.

Provincetown Conservation Trust

The Provincetown Conservation Trust is spearheading a not-for-profit arts event – “Appearances” – to take place in the spring. “Appearances” is a “Green Arts Festival”, bringing awareness to the local community and to visitors of environmental concerns and opportunities by creating kinetic artworks, recyclable artworks and works that will be transformed by the elements during the duration of the event, as well as eco-centric works from other artistic disciplines such as painting, photography, poetry, readings, short films and performance art exhibited or performed at sites throughout Provincetown. Outdoor sculpture/installation submissions are strongly encouraged and will be displayed on Provincetown Conservation Trust sites and other settings.

Burlington City Arts

The Seven Below Arts Initiative Artist-In-Residence Program was established to foster artistic development and to support arts education in the state of Vermont. Seven Below, in partnership with Burlington City Arts, is pleased to request proposals for six-week residencies at The Barn near Burlington, Vermont. The residencies are designed to provide artists with a peaceful, inspiring, and supportive environment for individual and/or collaborative new work. The residency program is open to artists at any stage of their career and working in various visual arts media. The ideal applicant should be an artist with a history of rigorous work, excellent communication skills, and enthusiasm for interacting with other artists and the public. Although Burlington City Arts cannot subsidize travel to Vermont, they encourage the participation of artists from outside New England as well as locally.

Attleboro Arts Museum

The Attleboro Arts Museum is known for making and presenting dynamic work in the visual, performing and language arts, and has a strong reputation for its exhibitions, education programs, and facilities. On the Threshold is a national juried exhibition seeking artists in all mediums and concepts that communicate your literal or emotional views of “On the Threshold,” i.e. looking in or out of your door, interiors, vistas, and/or transitions. The show will be on display at the Attleboro Arts Museum from July 14–Aug 10, 2012, and six juror’s prizes of $100 each will be awarded.

Experimental Media & Performing Arts Center

Founded by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, EMPAC offers artists, scholars, researchers, engineers, designers, and audiences opportunities for wide-ranging creative exploration. EMPAC operates nationally and internationally, attracting creative individuals from around the world and sending new artworks and innovative ideas onto the global stage. The scope and intent of residencies may vary. They can either be short-term or part of a longer-term development process. A residency may be used to develop a part of a project, to explore a concept, to research artistic and technical feasibility of a certain idea, to develop computer programs or specific hardware, to bring an audiovisual work through post-production, to rehearse, or to test a work at full production scale. Any artist working in experimental media and performing arts is eligible to apply. EMPAC welcomes great diversity in their applicants’ nationality, age, and discipline.