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This Week: Panel discussion at UMBC with author Myriam J.A. Chancy, Morel Doucet and Myrtis Bedolla in conversation at Hillwood Museum, Art Around Hampden, ‘Pride and Prejuduce’ opens at Baltimore Center Stage, Queer Climate Cabaret at Creative Alliance, OUT LOUD film fest at SNF Parkway, ‘The Cradle Will Rock’ at Baltimore Theatre Project, Sweaty Eyeballs Animation Festival, Danny Simmons exhibition opens at the Lewis Museum, and Baltimore Clayworks’ Fire Fest — PLUS apply for a CERF+ Get Ready Grant and more featured opportunties!

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What Storm, What Thunder Panel Discussion
Tuesday, October 15 :: 4-6pm
@ UMBC Albin O. Kuhn Library

Maryland Humanities developed the One Maryland One Book (OMOB) initiative “to bring together diverse people in communities across the state through the shared experience of reading the same book.” After all, one of the greatest joys of reading is sharing our favorite books and starting a conversation about the ideas they present.

This year’s One Maryland One Book is What Storm, What Thunder by Myriam J.A. Chancy. UMBC has been invited to participate in a statewide conversation about this title, which explores the impact of a 7.0 earthquake on the intersecting lives of a community in Haiti. What Storm, What Thunder was named a best book of the year by NPR, Kirkus, Library Journal, The Boston Globe, and The Globe and Mail, and was awarded the American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation.

This panel discussion — Community Restoration and Building the Future — is hosted UMBC’s Department of Emergency and Disaster Health Systems, Center for Global Engagement, and Albin O. Kuhn Library and Gallery. The event will include snacks, drinks, and an exciting conversation led by Ellen Kohl in conversation with faculty and students from the Department of Emergency and Disaster Health Systems.

For a free copy of What Storm, What Thunder, visit the Circulation Desk in the Albin O. Kuhn Library and Gallery.

Participation is free. Campus participants are encouraged to r.s.v.p. on myUMBC.

Attendees are encouraged to read the book in advance of the discussion.

 

 

Image courtesy of Morel Doucet and Galerie Myrtis.

A Conversation with Morel Doucet and Myrtis Bedolla
Wednesday, October 16 :: 5:30-8pm
@ Hillwood Estate, Museum, and Gardens

This is the first program in the Fragile Beauty: Art of the Ocean exhibition lecture series. 

Join artist Morel Doucet and gallerist Myrtis Bedolla in an engaging and insightful conversation moderated by Wilfried Zeisler, chief curator and deputy director of Hillwood.

This conversation will explore Doucet’s artistic practices and inspiration behind his work, including his pieces The Christening of Land and Water and Olokun, both on display in Fragile Beauty: Art of the Ocean, as well as Bedolla’s career as a curator, art consultant, and founder and owner of Galerie Myrtis, and her specialization in works created by 20th and 21st century African American artists.

There will be time for a Q&A session at the end of the program.

HYBRID PROGRAM

This lecture will be presented in the theater in the Ellen MacNeille Charles Visitor Center and will be livestreamed via Zoom. Visitors can submit questions for the speaker from any location.

IN-PERSON TIMELINE
5:30–6:30 p.m. | Explore Hillwood

6:00–6:30 p.m. | Members-only wine and cheese reception. Join today!

6:30–7:30 p.m. | Conversation in Ellen MacNeille Charles Visitor Center Theater.

 

 

Pecha Kucha: A Night of Visual Storytelling
Wednesday, October 16 :: 7pm
@ Current

Pecha Kucha is visual storytelling format where each presenter prepares and shares exactly 20 slides. The presentation is set to automatically advance every 20 seconds, ensuring a fun and fast-paced night of engaging talks. Get a glimpse into the past, current, and future musings of folks doing creative, inspiring, and unique work here in Baltimore!

Talks begin at 7, but the Current Space Garden Bar is open starting at 5, with happy hour from 5-7pm.

Including:
– Andrew Thorp (Artist, Sommelier)
– Andy Lowrie (Jewelry Artist)
– Jimmy Joe Roche (Filmmaker and Sound Artist)
– Marceline White (Activist, Poet, Writer)
– Margot de Messières and Tsetso Naydenov (Stop-motion Artists)
– Matthew Anderschat (Artist, Photographer)
– Michael Benevento & Julianne Hamilton (Co-directors, Current Space)
– Nadia Nazar (Sculptor, Animator, Musician, Climate Organizer)
– Olivia the Sea Turtle (Virginia Warwick)
– Rachael London (Artist, audio producer, researcher)

Bios:
Andrew Thorp is an artist living in Baltimore who also is a wine professional. Thorp has worked in several of Baltimore’s best restaurants and has been certified by the Court of Master Sommeliers.

Andy Lowrie is a jewelry artist who makes wearable, sculptural and functional objects, as well as works on paper. He is an Australian maker, living and working in the United States. Andy pursues contemporary expressions of jewelry and object making that interrogate and reflect his life and experiences while drawing on the power of a wearable object to act as an extension of a maker/wearer’s intentions and desires. Narratives of queerness, labor and environmental catastrophe are currently feeding this work. The potential of process and material as metaphor is also important to his practice, expressed through experimentation with surface finishes that include paint, powder coat and enamel. His work has been exhibited in Australia, China, Europe and North America, and has been professionally recognised with awards from Brooklyn Metal Works in New York and My-Day By-Day Gallery in Rome. From 2020-2023 he was the inaugural Teach Fellow at the Baltimore Jewelry Center. He is currently an adjunct faculty member at Towson University & Johns Hopkins University.

Jimmy Joe Roche is a Filmmaker and Sound Artist residing in Baltimore, MD. He runs the cassette tape label Ultraviolet Light and co-curates New Works, a screening series dedicated to showcasing Film and Video artists based in Baltimore. Roche is a professor of Film and Media at Johns Hopkins University. He has two children Marlowe and Otto.

Marceline White
An award-winning consumer advocate, Marceline has dodged bullets and hid aid under lacy underwear in El Salvador, been arrested and jailed in protests against U.S. involvement in El Salvador and Haiti; tear-gassed protesting global free trade agreements in Seattle, WA; Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Quebec, Canada, as well as protests in support of Black Lives Matter.

Margot de Messières and Tsetso Naydenov work in sculpture, painting, drawing, metalwork and film. Tsetso grew up among the urban towers and train yards of post-Soviet Sofia. Margot grew up with sheep and chickens on a small farm in Maryland. They met over chisels in Bulgaria and have been a team and a family ever since. With widely different individual practices, they unite as a team for public art projects, drawing from their wide ranging skills to develop unique sculptures which respond to community and place. Their sculptures have been installed throughout Maryland and their collaborative stop motion film was recently shown at the DC Shorts International Film Festival.

Matthew Anderschat is a photographer and artist hailing from Silver Spring, Maryland. His work explores metaphysical concepts including spirituality, consciousness, and identity. Matthew often employs a variety of experimental techniques such as solarization, multiple exposures, and photomontage to give his work a dream-like effect.

Michael Benevento & Julianne Hamilton are the Co-directors of Current Space, an artist-run, member-supported gallery, studio, outdoor performance space, and bar, nourishing an ongoing dialogue between artists, activists, performers, designers, curators, and thinkers. Celebrating its 20th year, Current Space is committed to showcasing, developing, and broadening the reach of artists locally and internationally.

Nadia Nazar (she/her) is a sculptor, animator, climate organizer, and musician based in Baltimore, MD. Her work delves into her relationship with the lands she has resided on, and the structures in place that have impacted and exploited both the land and (her) people.

Olivia the Sea Turtle
After finding out that Olivia’s beloved wife, Ariel the Mermaid, cheated on her with a merman, Olivia was distraught. She went out with Flounder and got black out drunk and suddenly found herself on shore. Now that Olivia is on land, she can’t seem to face her past or Ariel again. Olivia is navigating her way on land the best she can, and has found her knack for art, and even a love again. But things aren’t all smooth sailing, as you may imagine.

Rachael London (she/her) is an evolving multi-media producer, artist, designer and researcher based in Baltimore, MD.

 

 

October Art Around Hampden
Thursday, October 17 :: 5-8pm

Explore our neighborhood’s creative spaces this Third Thursday of October! Peruse all kinds of visual arts in local venues (with snacks and drinks! live music!) from the Mill Centre, across the Avenue, up Falls Road and into Woodberry! Plan your next dinner date at one of Hampden’s excellent eateries and Art Around Hampden!

 

 

Pride and Prejudice
Thursday, October 17 | Ongoing through November 10
@ Baltimore Center Stage

Love is a serious game of strategy and survival—and not just for the headstrong Lizzy Bennett and her sisters in Regency England. In Kate Hamill’s bold and playful take on Jane Austen’s beloved romance, this PRIDE AND PREJUDICE brings a decidedly progressive view of the expectations of and about women, suggesting “enough unsettling similarities between the 18th century and now,” says TheaterMania.com, “to make us pause thoughtfully between laughs.”

 

 

Queer Climate Cabaret
Thursday, October 17 :: Art Mart 5:30pm / Performance 7pm
@ Creative Alliance

Why a Queer Climate Cabaret? The increasing threat and devastation of climate change and the rising homophobic and transphobic violence in various states have common historical roots in colonial, gendered, racialized violence. Our ability to thrive as a species depends upon our ability to engage with all expressions of gender and sexuality, in ourselves and in the more-than-human world. From a queer ecology perspective, queer, transgender, and nonbinary points of view are essential to understanding how ecology and the natural world (including humans!) actually work. They imagine ways of being and doing that will be vital as we navigate the ever greater challenges presented by the climate crisis.

This event celebrates the generative connections between climate, queerness and performance, and has creative fun with unlikely cross pollinations. Performers will reimagine drag as an interspecies affair, invite you to a KiKi with kin you didn’t even know you had, stage a special kind of Karaoke inspired by the 400,000 million year history of the horseshoe crab, engage you in a specially commissioned act that brings a queer lens to the Maryland Climate Plan, and much more! Pretty Rik E. and Chris Jay of Pretty Boi Drag emcee this event, whose lineup includes dance, theatre, performance art, drag, poetry/spoken word, burlesque, and more. Featuring: Jacob Budenz, Unique Robinson, Michele Minnick,, Jacob Marrero, Nigel Semaj, Susan McCully, Bao Nguyen, Laurie Rollins Anderson, Lady Bladie, Hairy Poodini, Leonina Arismendi, Nicola Norman, and special guest Eli Nixon.

Doors open at 5:30 p.m. for an art mart featuring queer artists, craftspeople and small business owners in Baltimore. Talk to folks from local climate and environmental justice organizations to find out how you can get involved.

Stressed about the election? You can also sign up to help get out the vote for key candidates in Maryland, and to reach out to folks in swing states, where the presidential election really counts. Use your vote to help ensure that queer youth, and all youth have a future!

Show Starts at 7 p.m.

 

 

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OUT LOUD A Celebration of Onscreen LGBTQ+ Changemakers
Friday, October 18 – Saturday, October 19
@ SNF Parkway

OUT LOUD is a weekend-long exploration of the legacy of queer representation in film, filled with laughs, frustration, love, and activism.

Inspired by Baltimore Pride’s 2024 theme of “Power of the Past, Force of the Future” we’re teaming up with our good friends at the Club Car to reflect on iconic moments in LGBTQ+ film history – celebrating our progress while acknowledging the work that still lies ahead.

We’ve picked four films that span queer cinema’s more experimental and underground roots through to contemporary favorites with big named stars. The Watermelon Woman’s wry humor and playful grittiness and the anger, eroticism and poetry of Marlon Rigg’s Tongues Untied both offered groundbreaking critiques of queer representation on the screen – while laying the foundation for new forms of empowered expression from within the community. Call Me by Your Name and Close to You, offer a striking contrast – showing Hollywood’s turn toward embracing and amplifying LGBTQ+ stories.

On Saturday, join Tramour Wilson from the Pride Center of Maryland as they lead a public discussion on the evolution of LGBTQ+ representation in film, featuring cinema experts and activists, including Faridah Gbadamosi, Senior Programmer, Tribeca Enterprises, EK Outlaw, Mosaic Cooperative, and Kenneth Moore, Jr., founder of the Baltimore International Black film Festival and board member of the Pride Center of Maryland.

Each day, kick off with happy hours in the Parkway lounge and wrap up the night with after-parties – and after after-parties – at the Club Car.

Get your tickets now!

OUT LOUD FULL SCHEDULE

Friday, October 18

5:30pm – Happy Hour – Come early for drink specials and community networking!

6:30pm – Tongues Untied

8pm – Call Me by Your Name 

10pm – After-Party at The Club Car

Saturday, October 19 

3pm – Watermelon Woman

5pm – Out Loud Panel: “The Past, Present, and Future of On-screen LGBTQ+ Representation”

6pm – Happy Hour – Keep the conversation going in our lounge!

7pm – Close to You 

9pm – Out Loud House Party

11pm – After After-Party at The Club Car

 

 

THE CRADLE WILL ROCK by Marc Blitzstein
Friday, October 18 – Sunday, October 20
@ Baltimore Theatre Project

This piece became a thundering work of American history when governments and unions alike tried to ban its legendary first performance. Artists defied those orders to bring this searing work that celebrates the labor movement to life from the seats of a packed theater while the work’s composer and librettist Marc Blitzstein sat alone at the piano onstage. Originally directed by Orson Welles and dedicated to Kurt Weill, this imaginative new version honors the story of this rarely heard classic’s origin with new energy, humor, melody, and a thirst for justice. The production features a cast of the area’s best young vocalists, led by the newly named Artistic Director of DC’s own Theater Alliance, Shanara Gabrielle, and IN Series Head of Music Emily Baltzer (THE PROMISED END).

Showtimes:
October 18 @ 7:30pm
October 19 @ 7:30pm
October 20 @ 4:00pm

Tickets:
General Admission: $30
Students: $20

 

 

2024 Sweaty Eyeballs Animation Festival!
Friday, October 18 – Sunday, October 20
@ MICA + Towson University

Toon In, Baltimore! Sweaty Eyeballs returns for the 6th Annual international festival of animated short films.

The 6th Annual Sweaty Eyeballs Animation Festival offers in-person screenings at the MICA Falvey Hall Theatre and TU Van Bokkelen Hall Theatre with individual screenings ($12/ea) showing from October 18-20, 2024. Along with individual tickets there is an all-access festival pass option ($80) that allows access to all of the screenings and events of the festival. As always, the festival will focus on independently produced short animations from across the globe, with a lean towards the quirky and boundary-pushing.

“I am always amazed at the vibrant animation scene right here in Baltimore,” says Phil Davis, the festival’s founder and creative director and professor of animation at Towson University. “We Strive to highlight animated short films that are wacky, thought-provoking, unique and can’t be seen on your normal streaming platforms.”

Since 2012, Davis and his “Sweaty Eyeballs” moniker have been carrying the torch of the animation scene in the Mid-Atlantic with original, one-night-only, animation programming and live performances in Baltimore. Many of the series’ veteran artists have gone on to earn critical acclaim at large festivals like Sundance and the Academy Awards. Now in its 13th year, the beloved series partners with nonprofit, Central Baltimore Partnership  to once again launch a multi-day festival of animation in theaters around Baltimore city and in Towson, with programming supported by area universities, arts organizations and businesses.

Sweaty Eyeballs Animation Festival’s 6 Program Blocks include 92 animated short films in total, hailing from 20 countries around the world. The festival’s opening night, however, will showcase local talent, with a juried showcase of work created exclusively by Baltimore area artists. A  family-friendly “Young Audiences” showcase returns this year, along with 4 blocks of international juried programming, a FREE visiting artist talk by Miguel Jiron (Los Angeles) who worked in the story department of the hit Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse films. The festival screenings will conclude with a closing night FREE performance by Duo Kinetica (Eric Dyer and Jiayin Shen) who will be playing live piano with live animation turntablism. The festival also includes Sweaty Eyeballs: Animation Adjacent, a corresponding exhibition of animator process work and expanded animation curated by Corrie Francis Parks at the Area 405 gallery. Area 405 will also feature a Variety Show and Film Screening including work by artists in the exhibition on October 11th at 7pm, supported by a BOPA Freefall Grant. The festival concludes each night with after parties, free screenings and DJs at the Area 405 Gallery space.

For more information on Sweaty Eyeballs Animation Festival, visit: www.sweatyeyeballs.com

 

 

Danny Simmons | The Journey to Everything
Friday, October 18 | Ongoing through December 15
@ Reginald F. Lewis Museum

The Reginald F. Lewis Museum in partnership with WESTWOOD GALLERY NYC is pleased to announce a solo exhibition for artist Danny Simmons. “The Journey to Everything”will feature recent works from 2021-2024. As Simmons finds himself constantly drawn to and inspired by his personal collection of African cultural objects, a curated selection of these tribal objects will also be on view–allowing visitors to experience the spiritual potency latent within the visual elements that encompass the artist’s inspiration. The title of the exhibition and its accompanying poem represent the cultural history and symbolism in Simmons work: “through loose woven lace & hanging trails & patterned veils.” For over four decades, Simmons has created paintings, works on paper, and assemblage informed by cross-cultural history and spirituality embedded within indigenous and African cultures. As the founder of the artistic movement Neo-African Abstract Expressionism, the artist seamlessly integrates traditional African motifs, textiles, and markings with gestural symbols reclaimed from modernism. Throughout his artistic career, Simmons has been invested in the power of art and visual culture to draw out commonalities across temporal, linguistic, and spatial boundaries. Embodying the harmonious intersection between mediums and cultural symbolism is “A Uphill Climb” (2022) – the artist’s most monumental work on view. Spanning twelve feet, the painting melds together vibrantly painted patterns alongside fragments of Ghanaian Kente, Malian mud cloth, and other textiles. Simmons’ mixed media collage embrace not only differences across space but also speak to the many layers that comprise the artist’s own identity as well as the complex and multiplicitous history of black diaspora. In his newer 2023 paintings “Aunties” and “Behind the Scenes,” Simmons introduces the heads of African American figures that peer out between thick fabric collage. Fragments of lace, felt circles, and Ankara wax print cloth celebrate beauty in interwoven cultures. In “Long Way Home” (2023), fabric bridges the gap between two painted canvases, holding each in stasis as a passageway between connecting cosmoses. Simmons’ other recent pieces continue exploring themes of diaspora, geography, and spirituality as a bridge between time and space. In particular, “Nappy Headed Witches and Grandma’s Duppy” (2024) combines African fabrics, figurative abstractions, and repeated dot patterns to convey the pervasiveness of the ancestral spirit. Simmons says: “From the oldest aboriginal cultures, dots have always represented spirituality and the relationship between humanity and the natural world. Through dotting, I was able to bridge the distance between Africa and the U.S.” The mention of witches and “duppies”–a Caribbean word for ghost–as well as the biomorphic abstractions, further stress the role of art as a spiritual and cultural connector. “Ituri Forest” (2024) and other bark cloth paintings make specific reference to the tribes of the Ituri Forest in Congo. Drawing on the artistic legacy of (primarily women) artisans, Simmons underscores the common visual language across nature, art, and geographic boundaries. “The Journey to Everything” represents the artist’s personal journey and a culmination of the ongoing journey in the migratory lives of people throughout the world. The exhibition will be on view in the DeSousa Gallery, Oct 18 – Dec 15, 2024.

Danny Simmons: The Journey to Everything is curated by James Cavello; coordinated by Terri Lee Freeman/President, Robert Parker/Chief Curator and Director of Interpretation, Visitor Experiences, and Education, Imani Hayne/Curator, Crystal Turner/Director of Communications & External Relations, Jose Alvarado/Exhibit Designer & Preparator; and with support from The Roberts Family Fund.

Danny Simmons is a visual artist, poet, author, curator, collectors and community philanthropist. He is the co-founder and co-producer of Def Poetry Jam, and won a Tony Award for the Broadway version of the show. He is also the co-founder of the renowned Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation which has provided exhibitions, arts education and opportunities for hundreds of emerging, developing and underrepresented artists of color since 1995. His artworks have been exhibited nationally and internationally and collected by major institutions and private collectors. Simmons is represented exclusively by Westwood Gallery NYC. Selected museum exhibitions include the Houston Museum of African American Culture, Ghana National Museum, Parish Gallery, Washington D.C., Noel Gallery, Charlotte, North Carolina, among others. His artworks are in museum and institutional collections such as the Brooklyn Museum, Montclair Art Museum, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, The Smithsonian, US State Department (Suriname), Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and other collections.

 

 

Fire Fest 2024
Saturday, October 19 :: 5:30-8:30pm
@ Baltimore Clayworks

With ceramic firings reaching temperatures of molten lava, flame-broiled burgers, folk music, festive libations, and a fun and frenzied Clay Olympics, Fire Fest is an exciting celebration of fire.<

Fire, both seductive and wild, is essential in creating ceramic wares. Join the Baltimore Clayworks community for the unexpected during our expedition of firing techniques from around the world.

Watch live demonstrations! Experience Raku kiln firings, with origins tracing back to China and Japan, and an Obvara kiln firing, lead by professor Trisha Kyner of CCBC, with origins in the Baltic region of Eastern Europe.  Both ceramic firing processes are thrilling and involve pulling clay vessels from a 1650°F kiln and then quickly plunging them into cooler materials that shock the glaze and create mesmerizing markings.

Test your clay skills! Sign up to participate in the Clay Olympics, multiple competitions and feats of strength that will take your clay skills to new heights – literally. Winners will earn handmade clay prizes.

Throughout Fire Fest and the weekend, guests can also experience Baltimore Clayworks’ Community Woodfiring of our Noborigama kiln, the first urban Japanese ascending kiln operating in the Baltimore region. Wood Kiln Technician Jeremy Wallace will lead students from Towson University, Community College of Baltimore County, Anne Arundel Community College and Morgan State University through the two-day firing process. During this time, the kiln must be fed wood, day and night, to reach 2300°F. Vessels take on a rich variety of colorful flashing and unpredictable glaze effects from either the wood ash or soda chamber. After a week of cooling, pieces emerge with markings from their nights spent dancing with fire.

Proceeds from this event will ensure the continuation of the incredible artistic and educational programs housed at Baltimore Clayworks’ Mt. Washington studio and gallery and in locations around Baltimore City through our Community Arts program. Enjoy a fun-filled evening with friends and family and make a difference by supporting clay artists of all ages and abilities across the Baltimore region.

 

 

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Call for Volunteers
posted by Area 405

Become a volunteer with us and enjoy a behind-the-scenes look at AREA 405! Plus, as a volunteer, you’ll get free access to the Station North Tool Library 🛠️

We’re currently looking for help with:

-Gallery Hours Docent
-Exhibition Installation & Deinstallation
– Event Receptions
– Gallery Decoration
– And more…

 

 

Lor Neighborhood FilmFest Call for Submissions
deadline October 22
posted by MRI Studios

The Lor Neighborhood FilmFest is a showcase of raw creativity, bold storytelling, and community connection. This festival will feature short films, documentaries, and web series, all crafted by talented Black filmmakers from the Baltimore area and beyond.

​Sponsored by MRI Studios Inc., this 4.5-hour event will feature two sessions of visual projects, each concluding with a live Q&A with our featured filmmakers and local podcast hosts. Dive deep into our filmmakers’ journeys, challenges, and successes while gathering invaluable insights for aspiring Black visual artists.

After the screenings, join us for a networking mixer to connect with fellow creators and industry professionals.

Are you an emerging filmmaker looking to showcase your work? We are accepting submissions for short films, documentaries, and web series. Whether your project is complete or a work-in-progress, we want to see it!

Submission Requirements:

Black & Brown filmmakers encouraged to apply

Projects can be completed or works-in-progress

Short films, short documentaries, and web series accepted

 

 

Artist Get Ready Grants
deadline October 22
posted by CERF+

CERF+ offers Get Ready Grants, providing craft artists with grants up to $1,000 for activities to safeguard their studios, protect their practices, and prepare for emergencies. Priority is given to applicants that have been underrepresented in the craft community including BIPOC and folk/traditional artists.

Eligible activities include studio safeguards, emergency/disaster readiness, business protection and support, and practice protection. To qualify for a Get Ready Grant, applicants need to be craft artists who are 18 years of age or older. They must have been living and working in the U.S. or U.S. Territories for the past two years. Additionally, they should not have received a Get Ready Grant in the previous year.

Grant funds must be utilized within six months and recipients must document and share project outcomes with CERF+.

 

 

Loewe Craft Prize
deadline October 30

The LOEWE FOUNDATION launches the eighth edition of the LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize, an international award celebrating excellence in craftsmanship.

The LOEWE FOUNDATION seeks to recognize uniquely talented artisans whose artistic vision and will to innovate set new standards for the future of craft.

The Prize for the winning entry is 50,000 euros. The shortlisted and winning works will feature in the exhibition and accompanying catalogue in Madrid in Spring 2025.

 

 

2025 Post-Graduation Residency at Torpedo Factory Art Center
deadline October 31
posted by The Torpedo Factory

Free, Three-Month Residencies with Stipend

The Torpedo Factory Art Center Post-Graduation Residency is a competitive juried program that provides meaningful support and a three-month term studio space in the nation’s longest continually operated community of publicly accessible artists’ studios in a converted industrial space.

The 2025 Post-Graduation Residency offers four term opportunities:

February – April 2025
May – July 2025
August – October 2025
November 2025 – January 2026

 

 

Attention: Mosaic Artists – Request for Qualifications
deadline November 1
posted by Baltimore Clayworks

Baltimore Clayworks is accepting Requests for Qualifications (RFQ) from Maryland mosaic artists to design, create, and oversee the installation of an accessible outdoor mosaic seating area on Clayworks’ campus. The installation will be a distinct feature of the “Sacred Place” that Clayworks is currently developing in partnership with Nature Sacred.

 

 

2025 Museum of Glass Visiting Artist
deadline November 2

Applications are currently being accepted for 2025 Visiting Artist Residencies. The application deadline is Friday, November 1, 2024 at midnight PST (Pacific Standard Time).

Each year, Museum of Glass (MOG) invites artists to apply for a Visiting Artist Residency in the Hot Shop to explore new ideas and techniques or push the boundaries of a current series. Selected artists have full use of our state-of-the-art Hot Shop and the assistance of MOG’s Hot Shop Team. Applications will be selected to support a wide variety of project scopes, including one project that draws connects between science and art, which will be awarded the Sheldon Levin Memorial Visiting Artist Residency (details below).

Sheldon Levin Memorial Application Visiting Artist Residency

Sheldon Levin started his volunteer career with Museum of Glass as a charter docent, participating in the first docent and volunteer training in 2002. He quickly started emceeing on Thursdays in the Hot Shop interpreting glassblowing techniques, helping thousands of visitors understand the art of glassblowing from both artistic and scientific perspectives. To honor his memory, Museum of Glass invites artists who are inspired by connections between art and science to apply for the Sheldon Levin Memorial Application Visiting Artist Residency.

 

 

Studios at MASS MoCA Fellowship
deadline November 9

The Studios is MASS MoCA’s artist and writers residency program situated within the museum’s factory campus and surrounded by the beautiful Berkshire Mountains. Operated by MASS MoCA’s Assets for Artists department, the residency runs year-round and hosts up to 10 artists at a time. Artists of any nationality can apply for stays of 2 or 4 weeks.

 

 

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