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This Week: A Fall Mixer of Dance at Baltimore Theatre Project, Symphony in the City at Morgan, Levester Williams opening reception at UMBC, three exhibitions opening at Goucher, High Zero Festival, ‘Openings’ at SNF Parkway, Suchitra Mattai exhibition opens at NMWA, fiber colloquium at the Lewis Museum, Ada Pinkston opening reception + meet the artist at Transformer DC, Tea with Myrtis featuring Monica Ikegwu at Galerie Myrtis, Mount Vernon Plein Air show, and Preoccupied free community day at the BMA — PLUS Open Works EnterpRISE 2024 applications and more featured opportunities!

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A Fall Mixer of Dance
Tuesday, September 17 :: 7pm
@ Baltimore Theatre Project

Baltimore Theatre Project presents PDCM – A FALL MIXER OF DANCE!

Featuring five of Maryland’s professional dance companies together on one stage in an exciting evening of dance art.

Join us and experience the magic of dance coming together in a one night spectacular event!

The Professional Dance Collaborative of Maryland (PDCM), featuring:

BAD Ballet
Ballet Theatre of Maryland
Dance & Bmore
Full Circle Dance Company
VTDance

 

 

Symphony in the City
Wednesday, September 18 :: 7:30pm
@ Morgan State University Murphy Fine Arts Center

The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra proudly announces the return of its free, three-concert community series, Symphony in the City on Wednesday, September 18, at 7:30 pm at Morgan State University.

Held at the Gilliam Concert Hall in the Murphy Fine Arts Center, the first Symphony in the City concert of the season is led by BSO Music Director Jonathon Heyward and features selections from Beethoven’s Symphony No. 6, “Pastorale,” known for its vivid depiction of nature and rural scenes. In conversation with Beethoven’s timeless work, the concert will also showcase compositions by James Lee III, whose works are infused with vibrant narratives and deep cultural resonance.

The Symphony in the City series will continue with performances across Baltimore, including a tribute to Veterans on November 20 at War Memorial and a celebration of Black History Month on February 7 at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum.

SYMPHONY IN THE CITY: MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY

Wednesday, September 18, at 7:30 PM

Murphy Fine Arts Center
Morgan State University
2201 Argonne Dr.
Baltimore, MD  21218

Jonathon Heyward, conductor

BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 6, “Pastoral” I. Awakening of cheerful feelings on arrival in the countryside
JAMES LEE III Amer’ican
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 6, “Pastoral” II. Scene by the brook
JAMES LEE III Captivating Personas III. Bored Comfort
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 6, “Pastoral” IV. Thunderstorm
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 6, “Pastoral” V. Shepherd’s song. Cheerful and thankful feelings after the storm

 

 

Levester Williams, all matters aside | Opening Reception
Thursday, September 19 :: 5-7pm
@ UMBC Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture

The Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture presents the early-career survey Levester Williams: all matters aside, an exhibition curated by Lisa D. Freiman, professor of art history at Virginia Commonwealth University, on view at the CADVC gallery from September 20 through December 14.

Levester Williams: all matters aside presents a selection of the Philadelphia-based conceptual sculptor’s work from the past decade including sculpture, video, sound art, and installation. Williams’s research-based practice, which includes explorations of diverse archives, studies of materials, and explorations of the charged sites of public spaces, is vitally linked to an art practice that sees the world as a nuanced spectrum of human identities and experiences entangled in designations of race, gender, sexuality, and aesthetics.

Levester Williams’s artworks are steeped in the significance of their constitutive materials and their layered connections to specific sites. When he uses specific media, such as Maryland’s Cockeysville marble, or found objects, such as used penitentiary bedsheets from a Virginia detention center, he channels their layered associations with Black experience, history, and memory into new contexts and forms.

On display in all matters aside are new works with origins in Williams’s 2015-initiated project of a beyond, where he began to examine the connections among blues singer Billie Holiday, Cockeysville marble, and Baltimore’s built environments. During an artist residency at CADVC, Williams continued this research into the histories and mythologies of Cockeysville marble, a material used in both the Washington Monument in Baltimore’s Mount Vernon neighborhood and the iconic exterior steps of local rowhomes.

The exhibition will be accompanied by the first in CADVC’s public art projection series with a new video art gallery set into the open amphitheater of the UMBC Fine Arts Building. New single-channel videos commissioned by the Center result from research and movement workshops that included UMBC students and other Baltimore residents. The commissions were part of the Center’s Exploratory Research Residency Program, launched in 2022 and sponsored by the “Big Ideas” initiative of the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences (CAHSS) Dean’s office. Artist Nia Hampton, a current UMBC Intermedia + Digital Arts (IMDA) graduate student, and her mother, artist and arts advocate Sheila Gaskins, both Baltimore natives, are featured performers in this series of works. The filmic work was assisted by IMDA graduate student Bao Nguyen and artist Savannah Knoop, who served as an intimacy coordinator and facilitator. According to Williams, the project underscores the “intertwined history of African-Americans’ plight to self-determined agency and full citizenship, with a rather benign stone.”

The projection project was seeded by a public art planning grant through the Maryland State Arts Council, with artist Kelley Bell and art historian Kathy O’Dell serving as advisors, and artist Rahne Alexander convening a series of public programs that developed this planning effort. The construction of this public projection space was supported by the CAHSS Dean’s office and the Division of Research and Creative Achievement at UMBC.

Opening Reception

The exhibition will open on September 19 from 5 to 7 p.m. with public programming featuring Levester Williams, Michelle D. Wright, and Lisa Freiman. Please visit here for additional information.

 

 

I’ll do it tomorrow // My Mother’s Closet // Soak/Scorch | Opening Receptions
Thursday, September 18 :: 5-8pm
@ Goucher College Silber + Rosenberg Galleries, Roselie Sturtevant Bond Art Window

I’ll do it tomorrow: Goucher Faculty Exhibition

I’ll do tomorrow is a multimedia exhibition featuring the works of fourteen current faculty at Goucher College. Ranging from installation, sculpture, photography, painting, printmaking, and costume design, the work coalescence in the gallery space to bring forth a vibrant vision of what faculty at Goucher are working on.

Artists include: Stuart Abarbanel, Jason Austin, Allison Campbell, Sam DiMeo, Rick Delaney, Cyrus Feldman, David Freidheim, Ian Jackson, Dara Lorenzo, Allyn Massey, Christina McCleary, Matthew McConville, Pamela Thompson, and James Year.

My Mother’s Closet

Looking through the lens of the female experience, My Mother’s Closet is a multimedia exhibition that conveys various life experiences such as war, fashion, bodily autonomy, and historical legacies.
Artists: Emily Wisniewski, Dominique Zeltzman, Elena Volkova, Julia Kim Smith, and Bria Sterling-Wilson

Soak/Scorch

Caryn Martin’s monotype installations use fragile materials and provisional processes to speak to the tenuous state of the environment. Dramatic shifts in weather and long-term climate changes inform these large-scale pieces.

Her process reflects both intention and improvisation as she constructs layered, atmospheric tracing paper installations. The pieces embrace transformation in their shifting use of color and varying states of material degradation. Ultimately, her installations reflect the constantly-changing environment—vulnerable, at times volatile, and yet still beautiful.

An ongoing interest in dualities has informed the piece on view in Goucher’s Roselie Sturtevant Bond Art Window. Soak/Scorch was inspired by the contrasting weather patterns and water levels across the United States, and influenced by images of forest fires, storms, and flooding. This iteration of Soak/Scorch will be ever-evolving. Martin will be transforming the piece through the run of the exhibition, so please stop by again to see how the work has evolved.
This compact gallery, visible from the exterior of the Athenaeum, is an installation space devoted to solo projects by artists working in video, sculpture, performance, installation, photography, and painting.

Found in the Athenaeum, the Bond Window is viewable from the outside such as the Van Meter Parkway in front of Mary Fisher Hall, or from the Athenaeum’s Van Meter entrance.

 

 

High Zero Festival
Thursday, September 19 | Ongoing through September 22
@ Faddensonnen + Baltimore Theatre Project

High Zero Festival is one of the world’s most unusual music festivals. It puts musicians from around the world on a stage together with no planning and asks what will happen? These musicians come from many backgrounds of improvisation and experimentation.

The fact that this festival has persisted this long means its so amazingly special. There’s a devoted following and hard working volunteers that make it happen every year.

You can now join our friends who help us meet our needs by participating in our Patreon.

 

 

Openings
Friday, September 20 | Ongoing through September 22
@ SNF Parkway

With Openings, the Parkway has launched an exploration into the conceptual, technological, and cultural innovations that push us forward. How does a new idea, invention, or experience shift the way we see the world and our place in it? What does it take to create and respond to these “openings” when they appear?

To honor the bold, inventive filmmakers who submitted their work for our inaugural Windows on Charles installation, we’ve put together a weekend-long celebration of the power of filmmaking. Openings intermixes some of cinema’s most groundbreaking works with over 50 new visionary shorts, animations, documentaries, and youth-made films featured last month in storefront windows throughout Station North.

In what ways did the technological innovations of Metropolis and 2001: A Space Odyssey transform the medium of filmmaking? What was the lasting impact of Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner on our nation’s cultural norms? How did Run Lola Run disrupt the way that we construct narratives? And how are Baltimore’s media creators pushing their craft in new directions now? Openings presents a unique opportunity to bring audiences and creators together to watch, talk and celebrate.

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Suchitra Mattai: Myth from Matter
Friday, September 20 | Ongoing through January 2025
@ National Museum of Women in the Arts

Combining richly colored textiles, found objects, beads, and more, multidisciplinary artist Suchitra Mattai (b. 1973, Georgetown, Guyana) explores themes of history, identity, and belonging. The forces that lead certain stories to be remembered, or forgotten, are central to her art. Drawing on her Indo-Caribbean roots, Mattai weaves together personal narratives, collective mythologies, and colonial history. Her two- and three-dimensional works offer a reimagined vision of the past that centers the perspectives of women and people of color, especially those from Southeast Asia.

Suchitra Mattai: Myth from Matter is the artist’s first solo exhibition in Washington, DC. Large-scale textile installations, sculptures, collages, and paintings by Mattai are presented with a selection of related historical artworks from Europe and Southeast Asia. The juxtapositions initiate a visual conversation between old and new, East and West, and history and mythology.

Mattai’s work also interrogates other binaries, such as male and female, art and craft, and labor and leisure. By questioning whose presence persists throughout history and who is monumentalized in visual culture, the artist draws attention to those who have been left out. In doing so, she begins to create new mythologies that reclaim colonial spaces, materials, and histories. With bright, warm hues and soft materials, Mattai’s art manifests a more egalitarian future.

Mattai is a multidisciplinary artist of Indo-Caribbean descent whose work explores how memory, myth, and oral traditions can be harnessed to unravel colonial and patriarchal narratives. Mattai received an MFA in painting and drawing and an MA in South Asian art from the University of Pennsylvania. Her work has been presented in group and solo exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (Bentonville, Arkansas), Boise Art Museum (Idaho), Center for Visual Art at the Metropolitan State Museum of Denver, and the Sharjah Biennial (United Arab Emirates). In addition to Suchitra Mattai: Myth from Matter at NMWA, the artist is featured in solo exhibitions in 2024 at Socrates Sculpture Park (Queens, New York), Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco, and the Tampa Museum of Art. She lives in Los Angeles and is represented by Roberts Projects.

 

 

Colloquium – Fiberations: The Evolution and Tradition of African American Fiber Aesthetics
Saturday, September 21 :: 10am-5pm
@ The Reginald F. Lewis Museum

The Reginald F. Lewis Museum  is excited to present Fiberations: The Evolution and Tradition of  African American Fiber Aesthetics. Cutting edge fiber artists, scholars and curators are invited to discuss the evolution of Black women fiber artistry from the past to the present through artist conversations, a roundtable discussion and  loom weaving demonstrations.  Guest artists include: Bisa Butler, Joyce Scott, Sanford Biggers, Karen Baker,  Murjoni Merriweather, Nastassja Swift and  Vera Hall.  A curator’s highlight tour of Black Woman Genius: Elizabeth Talford Scott- Tapestries of Generations with curator Imani Haynes will conclude the day. Moderators include Dr. Leslie King-Hammonds. Lunch will be provided.

 

 

Ada Pinkston: I Am Not Your Superwoman | Opening Reception + Meet the Artist
Saturday, September 21 :: 12-2pm
@ Transformer DC

I’m not your superwoman
I’m not the kind of girl that you can let down and think that everything’s okay
Boy, I am only human
—Daryl Simmons, Kenny “Babyface” Edmonds and L.A. Reid.<

“The recital in this song sung by Karyn White and released in her self-titled debut album in 1989 is one that still resonates to Black women today. In 2024.” – Ada Pinkston

Transformer launches its 22nd Annual Exhibition Series this September 2024 with I’m Not Your Superwoman – a solo exhibition by Baltimore, MD based artist Ada Pinkston. Inspired by artist William Pope.L, Pinkston performed a ‘crawl’ series at three federal buildings in Washington, DC this summer. The inhabitants and visitors of each building offered a different response, but similar to the ways that police responded to Pope. L in the 90s, those whose job is meant to surveil people in these spaces saw a Black person crawling as a threat.

“As the USA is on the heels of electing our first woman President, many questions continue to circulate. Does the world still place superhuman expectations on women? Does the world still place superhuman expectations on Black women? Do we place superhuman expectations on ourselves? Does the internet manosphere escalate these schisms, or just place a mirror on what we already know to be true?” – Ada Pinkston

Repetitive images of Pinkston’s crawl performance documentation will be placed throughout Transformer to render and create abstract moments of experiencing her movements within and outside the ‘art space’ context. This image repetition is also intended as a reminder of both the repetitive cycles of the artist’s questions, and the positionality of our bodies. I’m Not Your Superwoman is Ada Pinkston’s first solo exhibition.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Ada Pinkston is a multimedia artist, educator, and cultural organizer living and working in Baltimore, Maryland. Her performance work has been featured at a variety of spaces including The Smithsonian Arts and Industries Building, The Baltimore Museum of Art, The Walters Art Museum, The Peale Museum, Transmodern Performance Festival, P.S.1, The New Museum, Light City Baltimore and the streets of Berlin, Baltimore, Orlando, Washington DC, and New York. A graduate of Wesleyan University (B.A.) and Maryland Institute College of Art (M.F.A.) she is a lecturer at Towson University. She has presented public lectures on memory and public space at The French Embassy, NYU, UCLA, USC, Columbia University, and The National Gallery of Art. Her work has been supported by The Yaddo Artist Residency and McDowell Colony. Her work can be found in the permanent collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the augmented reality sculpture garden at Magic Johnson Park in South Central Los Angeles. Limited editions of her most recent work can be found at The Mimosa House London.

 

 

Tea with Myrtis | Extensions: A Journey Beyond the Glance
Saturday, September 21 :: 2-4pm
@ Galerie Myrtis

“Tea with Myrtis” is a series of art salons where we engage in lively conversations with artists, art collectors, and the nation’s leading arts professionals to discuss trends in the contemporary art movement. The series is inspired by a deep appreciation for the transformative power of art and a desire to create a space where meaningful conversations about contemporary art can thrive.

Join us on September 21, from 2:00 to 4:00 pm, for an intimate and enlightening conversation between Monica Ikegwu and Dr. Myrtis Bedolla. Ikegwu will share the unique stories and inspirations behind her latest body of work. And provide insight into her personal journey and creative process.

 

 

The Mount Vernon Place Plein Air Art Show
Sunday, September 22 :: 1-4pm
@ Mount Vernon Place

The best of Baltimore’s history and art come together on September 22 at one of Baltimore’s most spectacular historic places: the Garrett-Jacobs Mansion. This spring and summer, artists from the Mid-Atlantic Plein Air Painters Association brought their easels to Mount Vernon Place to capture its magnificent history, landscapes and architecture. On Sunday, September 22, we’ll have nearly 100 original paintings of Mount Vernon Place on display and for sale.

We hope you will join us for a chance to see…and take home!…great art by local artists capturing our city in its finest light. Doors open at 1:00 pm and the event will end at 4:00 pm.

Online registration is encouraged and pre-purchased tickets are $15! Tickets will increase to $20 at the door.

The event is a partnership between Baltimore Heritage, the Garrett-Jacobs Mansion Endowment Fund, and the Mount Vernon Place Conservancy.

 

 

Preoccupied: Indigenizing the Museum Community Day
Sunday, September 22 :: 1-5pm
@ The Baltimore Museum of Art

Bring family and friends of all ages to celebrate Preoccupied: Indigenizing the Museum, a wide-ranging BMA initiative that significantly increases the presence of Native voices, experiences, and artworks across the Museum.

The afternoon festivities include special performances by Uhwachi-Reh Dance Troupe, a Baltimore-based Native American dance company, and a special tour of the exhibition Dana Claxton: Spark led by the artist. Learn about Native American beadwork and create a beaded wearable or jewelry in the Joseph Education Center Studio with guest artist Nina Gover Brooks. Local Native artists and organizations will be available to talk about their work and offer items for purchase. Illustrated guides to East Baltimore’s Historic American Indian “Reservation” will be available for pickup.

This program has been developed with guidance from Louis Campbell (Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina), who also served on the 10-member Community Advisory Panel for Preoccupied.

 

 

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EnterpRISE 2024 Business Competition
deadline September 29
posted by Open Works Baltimore

Calling All Aspiring Entrepreneurs! We’re thrilled to be a part of EnterpRISE 2024, the ultimate business competition for manufacturing startups. Whether you’re competing for the $10,000 top prize or taking advantage of the free resources and mentorship, this competition is your launchpad to success!

Don’t miss out—apply today

#EnterpRISE2024 #Entrepreneurship #StartupSupport #Innovation #SupporterName

 

 

Fisher Island Fellowship Program
deadline October 1

Our Fellowship Program supports a diverse range of cultural producers working in the vanguard of their creative fields. Fellowships are six weeks in length, occur year-round and provide fellows with housing, food, studio space, and $1,750 in financial support.

Fellows enjoy a private bedroom and share a kitchen, bathrooms, and living space in a 3-story Victorian house. All dietary needs are accommodated, and on most nights, Lighthouse Works staff cook for and eat dinner with the fellows. Studios are located about 1.5 miles/a 30 minute walk from the fellowship house.

The studio building, “The Annex,” is adjacent to Silver Eel Cove, where the ferry arrives and departs the island. Studios are private, flooded with light, and face the ocean. Additionally, Lighthouse Works maintains a wood and metal fabrication shop, and a kiln.

While in residence, our fellows’ primary obligation is to pursue their work. Still, we ask every fellow to participate in two events—an Artist Talk and Open Studio—which bookend the fellowship. Given the size and intimacy of our program, everyone gets to know each other through our program. Thus the fellowship allows for conversation, critique, and collaboration.

 

 

Call for Submissions: Frame & Frequency IX
deadline October 4
posted by VisArts

Frame + Frequency is an ongoing international new media, film, and video art screening series presented by VisArts in Rockville, Maryland (a suburb of Washington, DC). The series highlights artists who explore contemporary visual culture through new media, experimental film, and video and presents an intimate panorama of the variety and breadth of video art in artistic practice today.

This year’s edition will be held on November 22, 2024. It will include a special section highlighting works that address climate change and its intersection with social, racial, and environmental justice.

Frame + Frequency features a diverse group of artists representing a range of cultural backgrounds, nationalities, generational experiences, and personal histories while demonstrating the artists’ impressive command of video and new media technologies.

 

 

The Contempoary Portrait
deadline October 6
posted by SE Center for Photography

The Portrait. We use portraits as objects of remembrance and reverence, of seduction and glorification. From the keepsakes in lockets as tiny remembrances of love, to the likenesses of leaders meant to inspire and seduce with their power. They can stir, and confront, and drive us to action. Just as they can lull in longing for a time since passed. They act as a mirror in whose reflection we find the inward experiences of ourselves, or as a window from which we look out toward the virtues of another.

Analog and digital manipulation in all its forms welcome. Monochrome or color, all subjects, analog, digital or antique processes, photographers of all skill levels and locations are welcome.

 

 

Heritage Award Nominations
deadline October 11
posted by Maryland State Arts Council

The Maryland State Arts Council (MSAC) began accepting nominations for the 2025 Maryland Heritage Awards on Monday, August 26. We invite you to nominate individuals, places, and traditions that have demonstrated outstanding achievement in traditional arts and culture in Maryland. Awards are $10,000 each. Nominations are due Friday, October 11, at 11:59 p.m. ET. Begin a nomination using MSAC’s application system, SmartSimple.

Maryland Traditions, the traditional arts program of MSAC, has given Heritage Awards annually since 2007. Awards are given based on a nominee’s sustained commitment to a particular traditional practice, current importance to communities in which that traditional practice is important, and past contributions to that traditional practice. Each year, winners are chosen in the categories of Person or People, Place, and Tradition. Click here to see a list of recent winners and read the Heritage Awards guidelines and evaluation criteria.

Those interested in making a 2025 nomination are recommended to view a recent webinar, “How to Nominate: Heritage Award,” available by clicking here.

 

 

The Artist-in-Residency (AIR) program at Arkansas Tech University
deadline October 11

The Artist-in-Residency (AIR) program at Arkansas Tech University is an immersive experience within an art and educational community. AIR is a program intended to advance the careers of practicing artists, present the residents as role models for the ATU community, and to strengthen the public’s awareness toward the significance of making art and its effect on the surrounding community. The residency will take place over a five-month period, giving the artist time and space to focus on the creative process. The AIR program for Spring 2025 will select an artist who works two or three-dimensionally to create an outdoor artwork that will enhance the ATU campus.

The AIR program is supported by a generous grant from the Windgate Charitable Foundation.

ABOUT ARKANSAS TECH

Founded in 1909, Arkansas Tech is a state supported comprehensive institution, maintaining regional accreditation from the Higher Learning Commission and classification as a Southern regional Education Board level III institution. It has an enrollment of approximately 12,000 students. The Russellville campus is located between the Ozark and Ouachita Mountains in the scenic Arkansas River Valley and is just one hour from the capital city of Little Rock. It offers over 100 undergraduate and more than 25 graduate degree programs across four academic colleges and two campuses. Arkansas Tech University strives to provide a solid educational foundation for life-long learning in a diverse community.

The Department of Art at ATU offers dynamic degree programs in Fine Art, Graphic Design, Game and Interactive Media Design and Art Education. The art faculty is comprised of professional and award-winning artists, active scholars and passionate educators who offer their skills and guidance to prepare students for the arts professions. Our state-of-the-art facility in Norman Hall features a professional gallery, computer lab, lecture hall and fully equipped art studios for painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, and graphic design.

 

 

PRISMA ART PRIZE – ROME – 16th EDITION
deadline October 14

The 16th edition of the Prisma Art Prize is now accepting entries. As an international platform, we aim to showcase a diverse and inclusive array of paintings, drawings, and engravings, reflecting the myriad possibilities of these mediums. Our goal is to act as a prism that reveals the spectrum of artistic expression.

Annual Competitions and Awards:

Cash prize: €2300 distributed over four quarterly competitions.

Service prizes: Over €3,000 in services offered by our partner Biafarin and VivivaColors distributed over four quarterly competitions.

Exhibition Opportunity: Participate in a collective exhibition in December 2024 at the Contemporary Cluster in Rome—a beacon in the international contemporary art scene.

Solo Exhibitions: Opportunities for solo shows at Isorrophia Gallery and the Pallavicini-Dettori Home Gallery.

Artist Resiencies: A two-week residency at Dar Meso, located in the heart of Tunis and three-week residency for two artists at Casacon Sirolo, Italy.

Key Details:

Submissions Open: Aug 9, 2024

Deadline: October 14, 2024

Winner Announcements for Cash and Service Prizes: October 2024

Winner Announcements for Annual prizes(Exhibitions, Catalogue and residencies): October 2024

Catalog Publication: December 2024

Exhibition Date: December 2024

Submission Fees:

€29 for 1-3 works. Up to 5 additional works can be registered at €5 each.

This competition is curated by Domenico De Chirico with the artistic direction of Marco Crispano

For more information on awards and to submit your work, visit our website at Prisma Art Prize Submission. Follow us on Instagram @prismaartprize for updates.

Production: Il Varco Creative Hub

Media Partner: DailyLazy

Submission link https://www.prismaartprize.com/submit/

More information at www.prismaartprize.com

instagram: https://www.instagram.com/prismaartprize

email: [email protected]

 

 

CONTACTS AND CONNECTIONS | Call for Entry
deadline October 15
posted by LoosenArt

Bauman’s vision has allowed us to see the world we live in as an interconnected fabric, as the same technologies that we use daily determine our existence in the world, where space and time are less and less experienced as an obstacle, and where someone’s actions in a certain place can have immediate repercussions in another place.

Every discovery, invention or creation, reveals the innate human need to create contacts and establish connections with others, with self and with reality, in the form of objectives and interests.

The works collected in the exhibition will express, as a whole, a shared feeling, a common participation, a feeling of participation and cohesion of intent.

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Submissions » http://bit.ly/loosenartcalls

 

 

SAAM Fellowships
deadline October 15

The museum invites scholars to apply by October 15 for two unique fellowship opportunities.
Smithsonian Institution Fellowships at SAAM
Deadline to apply: October 15

The Smithsonian American Art Museum and its Renwick Gallery encourages applications for its 2025-2026 research fellowships, awarded through the Smithsonian Institution Fellowship Program (SIFP). Residencies are available at the graduate, doctoral, postdoctoral, and senior levels.

Scholars from any discipline who are researching topics relating to U.S. art, craft, and visual culture are encouraged to apply, as are those who foreground new perspectives, materials, and methodologies. Fellowships are residential and support full-time research. SAAM is devoted to advancing inclusive excellence in art history and encourages candidates who identify as members of historically underrepresented groups to apply.

The stipend for a twelve-month SIFP fellowship is $45,000 for predoctoral scholars and $57,000 for postdoctoral and senior scholars, with a supplemental research allowance of up to $5,000. Applicants who need less time to complete their research may apply for as few as three months with a prorated stipend. Residencies should take place between June 1, 2025, and August 31, 2026.

SIFP graduate student fellowships are available for ten-week summer terms and carry a stipend of $10,000. For more information visit AmericanArt.si.edu/research/fellowships/apply or email [email protected].

 

 

Betsy James Wyeth Fellow in Native American Art
deadline October 15
posted by Smithsonian American Art Museum

Applications are open for the Betsy James Wyeth Fellowship in Native American Art, 2025–2026, a one-year residential opportunity at the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) and National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) that seeks to foster new scholarship on Native art of the United States.

The proposed independent project may focus on historic or contemporary Native American artists, designers, and makers, and will center and elevate Indigenous methodologies, knowledges, and communities. The recipient will be jointly advised by a SAAM and NMAI staff member and provided with access to both museums’ resources. One fellowship will be awarded to a predoctoral researcher for a twelve-month term or to a postdoctoral or senior-level scholar for a nine-month term.

Residencies must take place between June 1, 2025, and August 31, 2026. The stipend is $53,000 with a supplemental research allowance of up to $5,000. For more information and the application, please visit AmericanArt.si.edu/research/fellowships/betsy-james-wyeth or email [email protected].