SaveArtSpace CALL FOR ENTRIES: Miami Art Week - Art on billboards, bus shelters, plus $500!

 

SaveArtSpace is proud to present Neo.Rev, a public art exhibition on bus shelter and billboard ad space during Miami Art Week 2021 and Art Basel. APPLY HERE.

A new renaissance? A birth of the new age? What will our post pandemic reality become? We’ve went from being self-involved to being self-reflective; Reinventing ourselves to form a new strategy from our collective experience. Creating a new chapter to push ourselves to do more for oneself and ones community. Now is the time to be reborn back into a new era of creativity.

Curated by local Miami artist Haiiileen.

SaveArtSpace invites artists of all ages, talents and mediums to submit their artwork between August 25 and October 11, 2021. 

Nine artists will be selected from the open call and have their artwork on both a bus shelter and a billboard, receive a $500 honorarium, and the potential to have their original artwork exhibited in a gallery or art fair in Miami during Miami Art Week and Art Basel.

There is a $10 donation per image submission to participate, each donation is tax deductible and goes to producing the public art. Each artist is encouraged to submit up to 10 images. The selected artists will be announced after October 25th and will be exhibited on ad spaces in Miami, FL, starting November 22, 2021 for at least one month.

The Hopper Prize: $3,500 Artist Grants

 

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.

Program Highlights

Total Awards: $11,000.00 USD for visual artists

$3,500.00 – 2 artists will each receive a $3,500 (USD) grant

$1,000.00 – 4 artists will each receive a $1,000 (USD) grant

30 artists will have their work archived at hopperprize.org

A selection from the submissions will be featured on our Instagram feed @hopperprize

Additional exposure will be available to winners through our Journal: Insights into Contemporary Art

Connect with Curators

We collaborate with contemporary curators holding prominent positions at major institutions in order to select our grant winners. Our open call provides you with a direct path to get your work in front of these forward thinking exhibition makers. Jurors for the current awards are:

Tyler Blackwell, Associate Curator - Blaffer Art Museum & Caitlin Julia Rubin, Associate Curator & Director of Programs - Rose Art Museum.

Our jurors will be selecting 6 artists from our open call who will each receive an unrestricted cash grant.

2 artists will win $3,500 and 4 artists will win $1,000.

The jurors will also select a shortlist of 30 artists who will have their work archived at hopperprize.org.

Grant awards are unrestricted and may be used any way the recipients choose.

When submitting your work, you will have the option to opt-in to be considered for possible Instagram features on our feed @hopperprize, where we currently reach an audience of over 60k. Our editors will be featuring select submissions on a rolling basis prior to the application deadline.

In addition to grant awards, our shortlist, and Instagram reach, we will be providing an additional platform for exposure via our online Journal Insights Into Contemporary Art. We launched this digital publication to give artists a new channel to amplify their voice while providing an in-depth look at their work, practice, and background. Grant recipients and shortlisted artists will all receive the opportunity to publish an interview to include any work of their choosing as a means of providing continued support beyond the open call.

Eligibility

The Hopper Prize is open to all artists age 18 and older working in any media. There are no restrictions on genre, subject matter, or media. We welcome entries in all media.

We are committed to supporting artists from diverse cultural backgrounds at all stages of their professional careers. All artists are encouraged to apply.

Recent Winners

We support artists working in all media, from diverse backgrounds, in wide-ranging geographic locations. Recent grant winners include:

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, United Kingdom

Trish Tillman, New York, New York

Nicholas Moenich, Brooklyn, New York

Elena Bajo, Los Angeles, California

Vanessa da Silva, London, United Kingdom

Mark Baugh-Sasaki, San Francisco, California

Genevieve Cohn, Bloomington, Indiana

Sydney Cook, Baltimore, Maryland

Jinyong Park, London, United Kingdom

Isabel Yellin, Los Angeles, California

Alex Callender, Northampton, Massachusetts

Alicia Eggert, Denton, Texas

Daniel McCarthy Clifford, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Juan Giraldo, New York, New York

Maja Ruznic, Los Angeles, California

Letitia Huckaby, Benbrook, Texas

Tracy Kerdman, Saugerties, New York

Lebohang Kganye, Johannesburg, South Africa

Christopher Meerdo, Chicago, Illinois

Erik Parra, San Francisco, California

Simple Application

We made our grant application simple to reduce the stress of submitting your work and save you time. The application is short and can be completed in under 20 minutes.

To apply for a grant, you only need to submit this information:

Name & Email

Instagram Username (optional)

Up to 10 Image or Video attachments

Artwork captions

Artist Statement & Biography (optional)

$40 submission fee

Apply Now

Show us your work at https://hopperprize.org / Deadline: November 16, 2021

YoungArts National Arts Competition

 

Are you a 15- to 18-year old visual, literary or performing artist?

The YoungArts application is now open. APPLY HERE.

2019 YoungArts Winner Aisha Mpiana. Photo: Jason Koerner

Why Apply?

Cash awards

Receive cash prizes between $100 and $10,000.

Mentorship by accomplished artists

We provide mentorship opportunities with accomplished artists to help award winners prepare for and navigate a career in the arts.

A lifetime of creative and professional support

YoungArts is more than an award. Artists access resources and opportunities at every stage of their development to support a sustainable practice.

A robust network

YoungArts award winners join a community of distinguished artists that provides a long–term, robust network to help artists at all stages of their education and career.

Nomination for U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts

Each year, the White House Commission on Presidential Scholars selects 20 YoungArts award winners  at the Finalist level as U.S. Presidential Scholars in the Arts, one of the nation’s highest honors for high school students who exemplify academic and artistic excellence.

National recognition  

The prestigious award gives emerging artists a headstart by demonstrating that they have received national recognition from highly respected artists in their field early on in their artistic journey.

Learn More / APPLY HERE / Deadline: October 15, 2021

Eligibility 

I am either a citizen of the United States, a permanent resident/green card recipient, or I can demonstrate that I am legally able to receive taxable income in the United States.  

I am in grades 10–12 or 15–18 years of age on December 1 of the year I am applying.

If I’m selected as a Finalist, this would be my first time attending National YoungArts Week.

Pérez Art Museum Miami Announces New Acquisitions by Thirteen Artists for Permanent Collection

 

PAMM's Collection Expands with Artworks by Hélio Oiticica, Bisa Butler, Tania Bruguera, Coco Fusco, Karon Davis, Sonia Gomes, Nathaniel Mary Quinn, and More

Hélio Oiticica. Macaléia, 1978. Installation with stainless steel, wire mesh, gravel, asphalt, bricks, plants, planters. Cube: 86 1/2 x 86 1/2 x 86 1/2 inches. © Hélio Oiticica. Courtesy Lisson Gallery

(MIAMI, FL — August 17, 2021) — Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) is pleased to announce significant acquisitions of works by diverse artists for the museum's permanent collection, including artists of Cuban and Brazilian origin as well as eleven women artists. Several of the artists are entering the museum's collection for the first time, including Karon Davis, Kenturah Davis, Bisa Butler, and Christine Sun Kim. Among the new acquisitions are Brazilian artist Hélio Oiticica's Penetrável Macaléia (Malaceia Penetrable) from 1978—purchased with funds from Jorge M. Pérez—a walk-in installation inspired by the favela communities of Rio de Janeiro; Coco Fusco's The Undiscovered Amerindians Tour, a series of photographs purchased by PAMM's International Women's Committee Endowment; and Karon Davis' Bobby Seale and The People's Free Food Program, a major installation purchased with funds from PAMM's Collectors Council and various patrons that features a life-size sculpture of Bobby Seale, co-founder of the Black Panther Party.  "The collection is not only a reflection of who we are but who we aspire to be. In addition to the Oiticica, which is truly a masterwork of experiential and conceptual art, we added two more Brazilian artists, in Leda Catunda and Sonia Gomes, whose work is currently on view in Allied with Power: African and African Diaspora Art from the Jorge M. Pérez Collection," said PAMM Director Franklin Sirmans. "Tania Bruguera, like Oiticica, is vitally important to our collection's focal points, and this particular piece is one of the artist-activist's most documented and well known examples of her sculptural and performative artworks. We are fortunate to have resources and patrons who are engaged with the growth of the collection in a way that furthers our view of art as a catalyst for meaningful conversations in society."  The new acquisitions underscore PAMM's longstanding commitment to highlighting underrepresented artists from the U.S. Latinx experience, the African diaspora, Latin America and the Caribbean. These thirteen works also exemplify the museum's dedication to displaying a collection in constant dialogue with the most pressing issues of the present. Works purchased by PAMM's Collector Council: Bisa Butler's Black is King, a newly created portrait from a series inspired by contemporary individuals shaping the discourse of race around the world. Karon Davis' Bobby Seale and The People's Free Food Program, a major installation of plaster sculptures from Davis' recent exhibition at Jeffrey Deitch in New York City that examined the life of Bobby Seale. The figure of Seale is surrounded by sculpted grocery bags of food, representing the Black Panther Party's initiatives to combat food insecurity in the 1970s. Works purchased by PAMM's International Women's Committee Endowment: Coco Fusco's The Undiscovered Amerindians Tour, a series of photographs documenting a satirical performance by Fusco and Guillermo Gomez-Pena  from 1992-94 commenting on the quincentennial anniversary of Christopher Columbus' "discovery."  Kenturah Davis' Black As the Most Exquisite Color, a large portrait of a young woman consisting of the repeated phrase "black as the most exquisite color" rendered in rubber stamped lettering. Gifts and museum purchases: Liset Castillo's large-scale photographic print Pain Is Universal but So Is Hope, which depicts a fictional city made up of diverse cultural, historical, and geographic symbols.   Sonia Gomes' Untitled from the series Torções (Twists), a textile work made by knotting and twisting pieces of fabric that deals with decolonizing the past and reclaiming the present.  Leda Catunda's Dedinhos (Little Fingers), a multilayered composition of finger-like shapes with nails painted in gold acrylic. Tania Bruguera's 1994 installation Tabla de salvación (Table of Salvation), which commemorates  the untold numbers of people who lost their lives in the Florida Straits during the Cuban raft exodus of the mid 1990s. Hélio Oiticica's Penetrável Macaléia (Malaceia Penetrable), a walk-in installation that immerses the viewer/participant in color while evoking and celebrating the favela communities of Rio de Janeiro. Christine Sun Kim's Close Readings, a satirical video work in which the artist invited deaf collaborators to create new captions for five different films.  Thania Petersen's Of Birds and Trees and Flowers and Bees, a tapestry that takes the form of a Muslim prayer mat, which comprises the most intimate space of the Islamic faith.  Montserrat-born Veronica Ryan's Bundle 1, a handcrafted sculpture made of paper and crochet that engages the artist's Afro-Caribbean heritage. Nathaniel Mary Quinn's The Worry, a striking collage portrait using a combination of materials including charcoal, gouache, pastel, oil stick, and oil paint on paper.  ABOUT PAMM Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), led by Director Franklin Sirmans, promotes artistic expression and the exchange of ideas, advancing public knowledge and appreciation of art, architecture, and design, and reflecting the diverse community of its pivotal geographic location at the crossroads of the Americas. The 37-year-old South Florida institution, formerly known as Miami Art Museum (MAM), opened a new building, designed by world-renowned architects Herzog & de Meuron, on December 4, 2013 in Downtown Miami's Maurice A. Ferré Park. The facility is a state-of-the-art model for sustainable museum design and progressive programming and features 200,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor program space with flexible galleries; shaded outdoor verandas; a waterfront restaurant and bar; a museum shop; and an education center with a library, media lab, and classroom spaces. ### Accredited by the American Alliance of Museums, Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) is sSponsored in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Arts and Culture and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture. Support is provided by the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners. Additional support is provided by the City of Miami and the Miami OMNI Community Redevelopment Agency (OMNI CRA). Pérez Art Museum Miami is an accessible facility. All contents ©Pérez Art Museum Miami. All rights reserved.

6th Annual Florida International Trade and Cultural Expo (FITCE) 2021

 

Call to Artists: The Florida International Trade and Cultural Expo (FITCE) Cultural Program Committee will be selecting professional artists to exhibit and engage audiences during the upcoming 2019 Florida International Trade and Cultural Expo (FITCE) on November 17 & 18, 2021 at Broward County Convention Center. Artists (all disciplines) interested are invited to complete, and submit, this application in order to be considered. 

From November 17-18, 2021, Broward County and all of South Florida will welcome local and international companies for a unique opportunity to engage key leaders, experts and attendees from around the world to participate in dialogues relating to international trade, foreign direct investment and culture. The goal of FITCE is to expand Broward County as the premier importing and exporting trading capital, while helping to establish new businesses and nurture existing businesses to spur continued growth. 

Participants: Meet one-on-one with international delegates, former presidents, government leaders, entrepreneurs, chambers of commerce leaders, business alliance and councils, seasoned importers/ exporters, and representatives from Broward County’s leading public economic engines: Port Everglades, Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, The Greater Fort Lauderdale Convention & Visitors Bureau as well as Broward County’s Cultural Division, Enterprise Florida, and The Greater Fort Lauderdale Alliance. FITCE VISION: To welcome new businesses, to collaborate and connect while providing tools and resources for those wanting to live and work in South Florida.

Application Due October 3, 2021 at 11:59PM.

WHO MAY APPLY: https://www.broward.org/Arts/Funding/Pages/FITCE.aspx

Individual Broward-based practicing emerging and professional artists, who is at least eighteen (18) years old or older, residing in Broward County and who has lived continuously in Broward County for the immediate twelve (12) consecutive months prior to filing date of the FITCE Artist application.

Applications are encouraged from Broward-based practicing professional artists working in any discipline. An artist is defined as a person who has created a recognized body of original works of art within an artistic discipline over a sustained period of time, and who is pursuing this work as a means of livelihood and/or a way to achieve the highest level of professional recognition. 

Applications will also be accepted by art students who are pursuing full-time undergraduate or graduate degrees. 

NOT ELIGIBLE:

Current employees, consultants, board members, funders of the Broward Cultural Council the Broward Cultural Division, or artists who engage in art work only as a hobby.