This Week: It’s the most wonderful time of the year to visit a local museum! Below are just some of the current exhibitions on display across the city. Check out our Arts & Culture Guide for more — PLUS a stocking stuffed with Calls for Entry just for you. Happy holidays from the BmoreArt team <3
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Laura Ortman: Wood that Sings
ongoing through January 5
@ Baltimore Museum of Art
This exhibition puts Laura Ortman’s (White Mountain Apache) My Soul Remainer into conversation with a historic Apache violin by Amos Gustina. Ortman’s video work features the artist playing the violin against the dramatic backdrop of the Southwestern landscape, while her collaborator Jock Soto (Diné) assumes reverential postures. Ortman’s original score builds upon then radically departs from the overwhelmingly white, male canon of classical music—her score samples a classical Mendelssohn piece, which bleeds into an atmospheric and ethereal composition. The pairing of the piece with the Apache violin insists upon the ingenuity and enduring community traditions of the Southwest.
Preoccupied: Indigenizing the Museum is a wide-reaching project that proposes Indigenizing interventions to address and refuse the oppressive hierarchies of coloniality that pervade the realm of culture and serve as the underpinning of museums. The project encompasses community engagement, a series of nine monographic and thematic exhibitions, institutional interventions, public programs, and an untraditional catalog.
Baker Artist Portfolios: Off the Web
ongoing through January 15
@ The Peale
Over 200 Baltimore-area artists bring some of the region’s newest art to America’s oldest museum building.
Each year, up to 1000 artists create a Baker Artist Portfolio, making it one of the largest digital collections of artwork from the Baltimore region. This biennial OFF THE WEB exhibition invites any artist with a Baker Artist Portfolio to share one piece of art at The Peale, Baltimore’s Community Museum. Artists of all disciplines were invited to participate in an exhibition and series of live events. Visiting the museum and all OFF THE WEB events are free for everyone.
Art and Process: Drawings, Paintings, and Sculptures from the 19th-Century Collection
ongoing through March 2025
@ The Walters Art Museum
The typical experience for a museum visitor involves a lot of close looking, but no amount of observation can quite reveal to a viewer how an artist arrived at their final composition. So, what becomes of the numerous sketches a painter creates before they touch oils? Or the meticulous measurements a sculptor makes before a bronze is cast?
The Walters Art Museum’s extensive collection of 19th-century works on paper offers insight into painters’ and sculptors’ artistic practice. Drawings and sketches often record the choices made by an artist, however, preparatory studies often don’t survive, and those that do are rarely exhibited due to their light sensitivity. In Art and Process: Drawings, Paintings, and Sculptures from the 19th-Century Collection, visitors can experience 60 works from the museum’s permanent collection, including 30 works on paper (pastel, graphite, charcoal, and watercolor) and 23 oil paintings, as well as works in bronze, porcelain, and terracotta, reminding us that when we view an artwork in a museum, what we’re really seeing is the endpoint in a dynamic process that may have been long, and involved many twists and turns.
Art and Process also affords visitors the opportunity to experience new acquisitions that have never before been on view at the Walters, including Two Students in the Life Room of the Heatherley School of Fine Art by Nellie Joshua (1877-1960).
Good Sports: The Wisdom & Fun of Fair Play
ongoing through August 2025
@ The American Visionary Art Museum
“As AVAM approaches its third decade of operation since first opening Thanksgiving Weekend 1995, our GOOD SPORTS exhibition will weave together art created by global and local visionary artists focused on both sports and play imagery, film, photography, sculpture, fascinating sports medicine factoids, and the wisdoms of sports legends – accessible and fun for kids, jocks, social activists dedicated to fair play in all its forms, fans, couch potatoes, fitness nuts, and basically everyone everywhere who has been or ever fantasized being a player – be it on the field or just fully engaged in the great game of life!
AVAM’s Curator, Gage Branda, brings a wide and creative view of both the history and current state of sports – one full of fun, wisdom, and passion – all to exalt sports as one of humankind’s most fabulous avenues for becoming our very best selves.”
iWITNESS: Media & The Movement
ongoing through September 2025
@ The Reginald F. Lewis Museum
iWITNESS: Media & The Movement is a compelling exhibit that will examine how media—Radio, Television, Photography, and the Press—impacted the modern American Civil Rights Movement. This exhibit commemorates the 60th anniversary of the monumental Civil Rights Act of 1964, and explores the efforts of activists, community leaders, and organizations in the state of Maryland who leveraged the power of media to open the eyes, hearts, and minds of many, forcing them to bear witness to injustices while compelling them to seek change.
Collective Action: Labor Activism in 21st Century Baltimore
ongoing through 2025
@ Baltimore Museum of Industry
Now open: COLLECTIVE ACTION: LABOR ACTIVISM IN 21ST CENTURY BALTIMORE is a bold new exhibition exploring the historic and contemporary organized labor movement.
Central to the experience of workers has been the long fight for labor rights–higher wages, improved safety, shorter hours, and a seat at the bargaining table. Currently, there is a surge of activism by a new generation of workers who are galvanizing the labor movement. Through the stories and experiences of working Baltimoreans, this exhibit will shed light on why they are organizing and explore the historical roots of this struggle.
The story of industry and labor is not a singular narrative. The complicated relationship between politics, work, class, and economics makes this topic perfect for the Baltimore Museum of Industry to explore, as a place where people come to make sense of what is happening around them in the realm of work and labor.
The exhibition will be open through 2025.
Existence Beyond Code
@ Maryland Center for History and Culture
The exhibition Existence Beyond Code is a visual exploration of identity, visibility, and existence in the digital age, focusing on the experiences of Black communities. We challenge viewers to confront the paradoxes of the digital world, where technology can be used to create and manipulate identities while simultaneously denying the humanity of marginalized communities. A series of digital portraits of Black individuals were created using AI generative tools like FLUX, Gemini, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion. These portraits challenge our understanding of existence by blurring the lines between the real and the virtual and highlight how algorithmic settings can influence representation.
2025 Salisbury Prize
deadline December 31
posted by Maryland State Arts Council
Artists, architects, engineers, and all sorts of creative teams are welcome to participate in the 2025 Salisbury Prize public art competition. Thanks to funding provided by the Maryland State Arts Council, this annual competition will award $10,000 with an additional stipend for materials up to $5,000 (reimbursable).
The City of Salisbury’s Public Art Committee and the Arts, Business, and Culture Department are seeking proposals for a substantial freestanding artwork. The Committee is especially interested in proposals that address one or more of the following themes: kinetic work, inclusion, disability access and awareness, and/or community engagement.
NEW this year! Reviews will be done in two rounds.
Round 1: Review of initial application submitted using the form below. The top three candidates will be offered $500.00 each to submit an extended proposal.
Round 2: In-person or virtual presentation of the extended proposal to the Public Art Committee.
If interested, you’re invited to review the rules below and submit a proposal.
Annual Call for Submissions and Exhibition Proposals
deadline December 31
posted by Rochester Contemporary Art Center
Applications should be sent with USBs and printed materials by mail. Special topic of interest: video, sound art, new media, environmental issues, mental health, Gentrification. In terms of video work, We are primarily interested to receive proposed programs consisting of several, single-channel video artworks curated around a theme or topic. We will consider all forms including but not limited to: experimental, documentary, animation, narrative, non-narrative, virtual reality, etc.
Leonardo Journal Open Call: Special Sections on Diverse Perspectives
deadline December 31
posted by MIT Press
Published by The MIT Press, Leonardo journal has become the leading international peer-reviewed journal on the use of contemporary science and technology in the arts and music and the application and influence of the arts and humanities on science and technology. We’re interested in a broad expansion of ideation and research that activates creativity to push the boundaries of today and unleash the possibilities of tomorrow. This is a moment to curate your vision and expand the field of art and science beyond what we could imagine.
We seek proposals from interested Guest Editors to craft and shepherd themed special sections that invite diverse and intersectional perspectives. The ideal Guest Editor can help to grow and decolonize Leonardo’s contributor network by attracting authors from historically underrepresented demographics including Brown, Black, Indigenous and People of Color; marginalized genders; geographic underrepresentation; and additional historically underrepresented groups.
Leonardo is interested in work that crosses the artificial boundaries separating contemporary arts and sciences. Featuring illustrated articles written by artists about their own work as well as articles by historians, theoreticians, philosophers and other researchers, the journal is particularly concerned with issues related to the interaction of the arts, sciences and technology. Leonardo focuses on the visual arts and also addresses music, video, performance, language, environmental and conceptual arts—especially as they relate to the visual arts or make use of the tools, materials and ideas of contemporary science and technology. New concepts, materials and techniques and other subjects of general artistic interest are covered, as are legal, economic and political aspects of art.
The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation (RRF) Archives Research Residency
deadline January 3
The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Archives Research Residency is an opportunity for researchers and scholars interested in visiting the Rauschenberg Foundation and its Archives in New York City. The program provides partial support for incurred costs related to travel and lodging expenses related to the visit.
The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Archives, consisting of Robert Rauschenberg’s personal papers and the records from his Florida and New York studios, is the most comprehensive body of information on the artist’s life and career. The Archives Research Residency supports continued scholarly and investigative use of these materials by supporting individuals that demonstrate a compelling need to use the archives and addressing financial barriers that may prohibit onsite access to the archives. In addition, the application is open to all individuals, thereby encouraging research opportunities that move beyond traditional art historical discourse.
Call for Poets! Poetry Residency 2025
deadline January 6
posted by Bethany Arts Community
Call for Poets!
To apply, see our Submittable page: https://bethanyarts.submittable.com/submit
In recognition of the 29th anniversary of National Poetry Month in April 2025, Bethany Arts Community (BAC) in Ossining, NY is offering its fifth annual residency focused on poetry.
Bethany Arts Community designs its residencies to provide an environment where artists can work near each other, creating opportunities for cross-pollination, collaboration, and connection. Residents will find both solitude and community with a small cohort of other poets and artists sharing the residency. Residents will be surrounded by opportunities for uninhibited creativity during their time at BAC, in the form of other Poetry Residents, local studio artists, BAC staff and board members, those presenting programs on campus, and more!
A unique component of residencies at BAC is Community Programming. As part of a residency, we ask each artist to develop and facilitate a Community Program related to their residency plan. This part of the residency is an opportunity for artists to share with the local community in Ossining and Westchester County, and for the local community to engage with artists through their work.
The Poetry Residency is for one week: Monday, March 31 to Monday, April 7, 2025.
Artists are provided room & board, a private studio, 3 basic meals a day (see note below)*, and a $225 stipend upon completion of the residency. Artist is responsible for transportation to and from BAC and any supplies or materials needed for their practice. We ask that you only apply if you can stay for the entire length of this residency.
Please note for the 3 meals included during the residency, Bethany Arts Community is only able to accommodate for vegan, plant-based, vegetarian, dairy-free, and/or gluten-free diets. Please contact [email protected] with any questions or if you have any further allergies/dietary needs not listed.
UCLA Film & Television Archive’s Artist-in-Residence Program
deadline January 6
The UCLA Film & Television Archive’s Artist-in-Residence Program will host an emerging artist for two weeks on-site at the Archive’s locations in Santa Clarita at the Packard Humanities Institute and in Westwood on the UCLA campus during the late spring of 2025 to activate the Archive’s collection in their artistic practice. The 2025 artist-in-residence will work exclusively with one or a combination of three specific collections: the Hearst Metrotone News Collection, In the Life LGBTQ+ Collection and KTLA Newsfilm Collection. The program will provide the artist with the time and support necessary to access and work with these unique collections, creating a project that will reach new audiences and make connections with Los Angeles’ cultural community. To support these core activities, the Archive will provide an honorarium of $10,750 for the selected artist-in-residence. The artist-in-residence will be responsible for booking their travel and lodging, and may use their honoraria for these expenses at their discretion. There is no application fee.
Golden Triangle Business Improvement District Request for Qualifications: Art at the Intersection
deadline January 8
The Golden Triangle Business Improvement District (“BID”) is well-regarded for its impeccable streets, vivid landscaping, engaging activations, and world-class public art. The BID is seeking qualifications from an artist or artist team to design, fabricate, install, and ultimately de-install a two-year temporary public art installation at the prominent intersection of Connecticut Avenue and K Streets, NW, to be installed in 2026. This bustling urban location, known for its high visibility to both pedestrian and vehicular traffic, offers a prime opportunity for impactful and iconic public art. The intersection has previously hosted public art projects, and the BID maintains the area’s dynamic and vibrant atmosphere through rotating artworks and lush landscaping.
The selected artist should bring fresh energy to this location while contributing to the site’s ongoing reputation as a landmark for public art. To ensure visibility from multiple vantage points, the artwork must include elements of height and scale, enhancing the experience for all who pass through this vibrant urban corridor.
The artwork design should reflect the energy and diversity of the city, while creating a lasting visual and cultural impact during its installation period.
The selected work will serve as a landmark, connecting the public to contemporary artistic expressions that reflect the vibrancy and spirit of Washington, DC.
VisArts’ Emerging Curator Program
deadline January 10
VisArts’ Emerging Curator Program offers a unique opportunity for an Emerging Curator to work with an experienced Mentoring Curator to develop and present an exhibition and assist in the presentation of the mentor’s exhibition.
VisArts provides the Emerging Curator with an exhibition budget of $10,000. Additional funding and staff support for printing, promotions, and execution of exhibition programming is available.
The program is one year and begins every January. The selection panel includes VisArts’ curators, the Artist Advisory Council, and the Mentoring Curator.
The Emerging Curator and Mentoring Curator work together to expand education programming and enhance visitor experiences by developing tools, templates, technological enhancements, and funding strategies to support public programming that promotes social interaction, creative exchange, and audience engagement.
The Emerging Curator Program provides Emerging Curators with practical, hands-on experience at a community arts organization.
It’s designed to support diverse exhibitions presenting a broad spectrum of ideas and curatorial approaches, and to enhance the VisArts exhibition experience by developing educational initiatives, public programming, and opportunities for community engagement through expanded use of interactive, interpretive media.
VisArts’ Emerging Curator Program is generously supported by a grant from the Windgate Foundation.
Media Quilt Call for Entry
deadline January 11 *extended*
posted by Maryland Art Place
This large-scale participatory media project will utilize the concept of a traditional quilt through submissions and the lens of current video technology.
Through this OPEN CALL (for Baltimore City and Baltimore County residents) Media Artist Mandy Morrison with Curator Aleem Allison, will select a collection of uploaded short videos that explore themes commonly portrayed in traditional quilts, such as comfort, friendship, love, gratitude, history, family, inequality, emotional and physical scarring, and loss. Using video mapping, these individual short videos will be organized into a large projected time-based “Media Quilt” to be projected in Gallery 410, a downtown (Bromo Arts District) gallery space with large street-facing windows. The installation is set to run from February 4 – April 6, 2025, with an opening on February 4, 6-8:30 PM
The gallery’s location on the corner of Mulberry and Eutaw Streets, is an area with significant car and foot traffic. The all-glass windows of the gallery will create an immersive and dynamic display, especially during the dark evening winter months (January-March) when the projection will be most striking.
This is a project that portends to bring a wide range of individual art and arts-adjacent communities into dialogue that will consist of one singular and evolving piece.
Along with the exhibition and opening, there will be community engagement initiatives involving both contributing artists and local communities with a primary focus on those who live in or have businesses in the Bromo-Arts District.
These include: Intermittent media-jam sessions with refreshments during the exhibition of “A Media Quilt Project” and an Artist Talk and Roundtable with participants hosted by Allison and Morrison.
All selected artists will receive a modest honorarium, and be listed in publicity/promotional materials.
To be considered for this project please complete the application HERE. DEADLINE for submissions be on January 11, 2025 (11:29PM). Notifications on January 14, 2025
Call for Submissions, Form & Figure
deadline January 11
posted by SE Center for Photography
Form & Figure, an exhibition featuring 2D works- paintings, drawings, printmaking, photography and mixed media works that explore the overlapping territories of portraiture and visual storytelling.
The only requirements are that the artwork is current & original, Artwork may be 2D work; painting, drawing, photography, and printmaking. Original artwork only. No giclées or reproductions. No size restrictions.
Our juror for the Form & Figure is Michael Pannier. Pannier is an internationally shown fine art and commercial photographer now located in Greenville, SC. Previously based in Maryland, Michael has spent over 30 years in photography and 35 years in the gallery and art world, opening his first gallery in the Washington, DC, suburbs in 1987.
Michael is represented in galleries across the country, a frequent exhibition juror and curator, portfolio reviewer, and speaker on the business of fine art. When not in South Carolina he can be found leading photographic expeditions in Death Valley and the Eastern Sierras.
Relocating to South Carolina, The SE Center for Photography was born as an exhibition and education venue for fine photography. Following the success of the SE Center for Photography, the SE Center for Art was founded. With an emphasis on presenting the work of emerging and mid-career artists, the SE Centers have hosted more than 150 exhibitions.
25-35 selected images will hang in the SE Center’s virtual gallery space for approximately one month with the opportunity to be invited for a solo show at a later date. In addition, selected images are featured in the SE Center social media accounts (FB, IG) and an archived, online slideshow. A catalog will be printed for each exhibition, and awards for Juror’s Choice and Peoples Choice will be awarded.
48th Annual Baltimore Farmers’ Market Call for Vendors
deadline January 12
posted by BOPA
BOPA is proud to announce that the 48th Annual Baltimore Farmers’ Market is now accepting submissions for the 2025 season. The Baltimore Farmers’ Market is a producer-only market; vendors are required to grow, make, or create what they sell. We also prioritize local vendors in our application process to ensure we’re providing local options for shoppers. The Market operates on Sundays from April–December, rain or shine, from 7:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. There are applications for Farms, Food Vendors, Alcohol Vendors, & Artisans.
Call for Performers & Presenters – Asia North 2025
deadline January 15
posted by the Asian Arts & Culture Center and Central Baltimore Partnership.
Are you a Baltimore/DMV-based APIMEDA (Asian, Pacific Islander, Middle Eastern, Desi American) identifying musician, dancer, drag performer, comedian, spoken word poet, etc who wants to perform at the seventh annual ASIA NORTH Festival?
We are looking for performances of all kinds – from hip hop to traditional music, interactive cooking classes to spoken word poetry, drag shows to dance offs. ASIA NORTH celebrates Baltimore’s Charles North – a.k.a. Station North – neighborhood’s constantly evolving identities as a Koreatown, arts district, and creative hub.
This year’s festival runs from May 2nd to 31st.
For info on previous years, visit: www.towson.edu/asianorth
Locations: Arts venues in Baltimore’s Station North Arts District:
16 W. North Ave (former ICA Gallery)
Motor House, 120 W. North Ave
Other locations TBA.
2025 Mid-Atlantic Juried Show
deadline January 15
posted by McGuffey Art Center
You are invited to apply to McGuffey Art Center’s Mid-Atlantic Juried Show. McGuffey Art Center is located in downtown Charlottesville, VA, in a historic elementary school building, and is one of the oldest artist-run cooperative art centers in the country. The theme-free competition is open for the following categories: painting, drawing, photography/printmaking, fiber, sculpture and mixed media. 2D Entries should not exceed 6 feet in any direction. No entry that requires the artist to be present for moving or assembly will be accepted.
Any artist residing in Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Washington DC, or North Carolina may enter. All work must be original and completed within the last three years.
McGuffey Art Center’s Mid-Atlantic Juried Show runs from April 4 – April 27, 2025
Opening Reception Friday, April 4, 2025, 5:30 – 7:30pm
Questions: email [email protected]
Mary E. Nyburg Fund for Artist Development
deadline January 15
posted by Baltimore Clayworks
Baltimore Clayworks artists, don’t miss this chance to deepen your craft with a $1,500 grant honoring Mary E. Nyburg, a cherished artist and advocate for the arts. Created in her memory, this annual stipend provides one artist with the opportunity for focused study, travel, and work in a new community outside of Baltimore. The selected artist will return to share their experience with our Clayworks community, fostering growth and inspiration. Eligible applicants include active Baltimore Clayworks artists, with priority for those currently engaged in our community.
The Adolph & Esther Gottlieb Foundation
deadline January 15
Applications for the 2025 Individual Support Grant will open on October 14, 2024. The application deadline for the 2025 grant cycle is January 15, 2025, at 11:59 pm EST.
The Foundation wishes to encourage artists who have dedicated their lives to developing their art, regardless of their level of commercial success.
Please note that these grants are available only to individual painters, sculptors, and printmakers who have worked in a mature phase of art for 20 years or more.
The Gottlieb Foundation does not fund organizations, educational institutions, students, graphic artists, or those working in crafts. The disciplines of photography, film, video, or related forms are not eligible unless the work directly involves, or can be interpreted as, painting or sculpture. The Foundation does not fund exhibitions, installations, or projects of any kind.
Last year, the Foundation awarded grants of $25,000 each to 20 artists.
This program was conceived in order to recognize and support the serious, fully-committed artist, and we hope these individuals will consider applying. 20 grants are awarded each year. Applications are reviewed by a panel of five professionals in the arts who have no affiliation with the Foundation.
The NSMA Painting Competition
deadline January 15
The NSMA Painting Competition is a celebration of artistic excellence, inviting global artists to showcase the finest in contemporary realist painting. This competition stands as a testament to the enduring allure and expressive power of representational painting. It provides artists with a prestigious platform to showcase their talent, engage with their peers, and contribute to the rich tapestry of representational art.
The competition, with its emphasis on artistic excellence, integrity, and engagement with peers, stands as a radiant beacon within the contemporary realist art movement.
FS25 Call For Proposals
deadline January 15
posted by The Furniture Society
Conference Overview
The Furniture Society invites you to submit proposals for FS25: You Are Here: Makers, Place, & Impact — a conference that will explore the intricate relationship between makers, their creative processes, and the places that shape them. Join us as we delve into the powerful interconnectedness of individual and community, creativity and place, and how these interactions foster creativity, economic development, and social impact.
We are accepting proposals for the following presentations:
Pre-conference workshops
Artist talks
Panel discussions
Demonstrations
Other — You tell us! What would you like to see/do at the conference to engage attendees?
Possible Themes
Individual Impact/Place Impact: How do makers influence their communities through their work. How does location inspire and shape creative endeavors? What are the unique qualities of a place that impact creative work?
Community Influence/Community Building: How do communities foster and support creativity?
Design and Innovation: How are new materials and techniques in furniture making influenced by place?
Sustainability: How do eco-friendly practices minimize environmental footprints?
Accessibility and Inclusivity: How are universal designs and ethical considerations reflected in furniture today?
Historical Preservation: What impact does heritage have on contemporary design practices?
The Digital Age: What is the role of technology in furniture design and production?
Submission Guidelines
We invite individuals, groups, and organizations to submit proposals that align with the conference themes and questions. Please complete the submission form which will include:
Title of your session
Abstract (150 – 250 words): A brief overview of your session’s content and objectives.
Format: Specify whether your proposal is for a presentation, panel discussion, pre conference workshop, artist talk, etc.
Bio (100 words): A brief biography highlighting your expertise and relevance to the topic.
AV Requirements: Any audio-visual needs for your session.
Women by Women, Call for Submissions
deadline January 15
posted by SE Center for Photography
The history of photography has a long tradition of representing women as subjects but has less to say about women as artists. Today, the roles of women in photography are both behind the camera and in front of it. Who understands women better than women? The female perspective offers an important view of the many facets of womanhood and women’s role in society. This exhibition seeks women photographers who explore and celebrate the myriad ways that they render female-identifying subjects.
Hambidge Center Residencies
deadline January 15
The Hambidge Center is situated on 600 forested acres in the mountains of north Georgia and offers miles of nature trails, meadows, waterfalls, a swimming hole and an abundance of wildflowers.
The oldest residency program in the Southeast, Hambidge provides a self-directed program that honors the creative process and trusts individuals to know what they need to cultivate their talent, whether it’s to work and produce, to think, to experiment or to rejuvenate. Residents’ time is their own; there are no workshops, critiques, nor required activities.
Each resident is given their own private studio which provides work and living space with a bathroom and full kitchen. The studios are designed to protect residents’ time, space and solitude.
Resident groups are intentionally kept small enough (8-10 people) to gather around the dinner table each evening, Tuesday through Friday, for delicious vegetarian meals prepared by our chef. These communal meals are an essential part of the Hambidge residency experience. Serious topics are discussed (and light-hearted ones, too), experiences are shared, and encouragement is given. Many a collaboration and life-long friendship have begun at the Hambidge dinner table.
Members of each resident group come from different walks of life and work in different creative disciplines; from musicians, culinary artisans and scientists, to visual artists, writers, dancers and arts & culture administrators. Each year, residents of all ages come to Hambidge from over 30 states across the U.S., as well as internationally.
Specialized equipment and facilities include the Antinori Pottery Studio, and a beautifully rebuilt turn-of-the-century Steinway grand piano housed in Garden Studio.
2026 Sculpture Space Artist Residency Program
deadline January 15
SCULPTURE SPACE in Utica, New York offers two-month residencies for sculpture artists from February to November 2026. You’ll have access to a 5,500 sq. ft. shared studio with specialized equipment, along with six semi-private studios. Our on-site Studio Manager provides ongoing assistance, and the Executive Director can help with special requests. Basic English communication skills are required. Each residency consists of five to six artists during four two-month periods: February/March, April/May, July/August, and October/November. You’re expected to stay for the full two months. Housing is provided a block away in a renovated multi-level home with private bedrooms, washer/dryer, TV, internet, shared living space, and kitchen. You’ll be responsible for your materials, specialized tools, and food. Since 1976, Sculpture Space has supported over 650 national and international artists, fostering collaboration, dialogue, and creative connections. We host Open Studio receptions and welcome visits from artists, curators, and writers. A Review Committee selects artists based on the quality, originality, and potential of their work and proposed projects. The current stipend for this residency is $750 USD, with the possibility of an increase depending on additional funding.
2025-26 The Kenneth R. Trapp Craft Assistant/Curatorial Fellowship
deadline January 15
posted by Arrowmont
Arrowmont is committed to the education and furtherance of the careers of artists and crafstpersons including those in careers that support artists and their work. The Kenneth R. Trapp Craft Assistant /Curator Fellowship is designed to provide an early career curator, art researcher, or art historian with the opportunity, resources, and access to the collection to utilize and hone the skills they gained through their graduate education.
The selected candidate will work closely with the Galleries & Collections Manager to identify the needs of Arrowmont to craft the fellowship, which may include some or all of the following: developing and mounting exhibitions (on-campus or traveling); artifact and craft preservation; gallery and exhibition marketing; researching artifact provenance; care and maintenance of the collection; writing/publication/public speaking; development of educational materials; and developing acquisition and de-accession policies and procedures.
This is an eleven-month residency at Arrowmont. There is a $30,000 stipend, room and board in one of Arrowmont’s studio apartments, access to experts knowledgeable in the field of their particular project, and materials and supplies. The successful candidate will work 40 hours per week under the direction of the Galleries & Collections Manager and will have access to experts in the medium with which they are working and the involvement of additional experts as the need arises. The fellowship runs from June through May.
The ideal candidate will have recently completed graduate work in art history, museum studies, curatorial practices, or a related field. Basic knowledge of craft, current practices and innovations in collections management, excellent artistic judgment, strong interest in and desire to advance craft knowledge and preservation, and computer proficiency including collections management software knowledge are required.
Artistic Research Fellowships
deadline January 15
posted by Folger Shakespeare Library
Folger Institute Artistic Research Fellowships are open to all artists whose work would benefit from significant primary research related to the histories, concepts, art, and objects of the early modern world (ca. 1400-1800) and its legacies. Artistic applicants are not required to hold a formal degree, but should describe their training and level of industry-specific experience in their CV.
Artistic applicants may apply for one, two, or three months of research support and have the option to take their fellowships fully onsite, fully virtual, or a combination of the two. Fellowship awards are $4,000 per virtual month and $5,000 per onsite month, and may be taken any time between July 1, 2025, and June 30, 2026. Applicants may propose the research schedule that best fits their project’s needs. A final art deliverable is not required upon conclusion of the fellowship residency. However, we do require all fellows to complete an evaluation survey to help us continue to improve our program.
The Baker Artist Portfolios
deadline January 17
The Baker Artist Portfolios were created to support artists and promote Greater Baltimore as a strong creative community. The online portfolios are open to artists working in all disciplines who live and work in Baltimore City and its five surrounding counties. Artists who create a Baker Artist Portfolio are automatically eligible for one of six Baker Artist Awards, which include significant monetary prizes, an exhibition at the Baltimore Museum of Art as well as a feature on Maryland Public Televisions “Artworks.”
header image: Laura Ortman: Wood that Sings (installation image) from the BMA
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