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This Week: Reception + artist talk with Artemis Herber at Rosenberg Gallery, Kelley Bell presentation at UMBC, panel discussion on gender-based violence in art at The Walters, JCC talk with Sam Pollard at the BMA, book talk with Clara Bingham and Lisa Snowden-McCray at Pratt Library Central Branch, Trembling Grounds opening reception + live performance art at Area 405, Melissa Foss exhibiton opening at Creative Alliance, opening at Raoul Middleman Studio Museum, and BREATHE performance at 2640 Space — PLUS 2 calls from Creative Capital and more featured opportunities!

 

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Gaia Rise: Earthbound Offerings | Reception + Artist Talk
Tuesday, March 11 :: 6-8pm
@ Rosenberg Gallery, Goucher College

Exhibition Dates: February 13 to March 22, 2025. This exhibit, which is free, open to the public, and accessible to all, can be viewed Monday to Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Reception and Artist Talk: Tuesday, March 11, from 6 to 8 p.m. in the Rosenberg Gallery. Email [email protected] for more information.

ABOUT THE EXHIBIT
In Gaia Rise: Earthbound Offerings, the ancient and the contemporary converge, inviting reflection on humanity’s relationship with the land, time, and myth. This exhibition presents Artemis Herber’s Gaia Cycle alongside the Lekythos series, bringing together sculptural and painterly forms that explore the fragility of the Earth and the ways in which we memorialize and honor it.

Herber’s monumental Gaia Cycle accumulates and integrates industrial and organic materials, transforming landscapes into precarious, reformed mythical landscapes. These works, shaped by the forces of erosion, extraction, and renewal, embody the cyclical tension between creation and collapse.

The Lekythos series, with its references to ancient burial rites, underscores the act of remembrance as a necessary ritual in the face of environmental degradation. Drawing from ancient funerary practices and the mythological resonance of lekythoi—ceramic vessels used in Greek rituals of remembrance—the exhibition considers vessels not only as containers of memory but as symbolic offerings to Gaia, the primordial mother of all life. These forms evoke a deep-time perspective, connecting the Anthropocene to histories of ecological reverence and destruction.

Together, these works ask us to consider what we leave behind—not just in artifacts, but in the landscapes we shape, alter, and abandon. Gaia Rise: Earthbound Offerings is an invocation, a call to reimagine our stewardship of the land, and an elegy for the disappearing traces of our shared world.

Visitors are encouraged to explore to learn more about the artist’s practice through her website, https://artemisherber.com/wordpress/index.php/home/.

 

 

Kelley Bell: Projections, Inflatables, and Artistic Spectacles
Wednesday, March 12 :: 12-1pm
@ UMBC CIRCA

Kelley Bell is an artist/designer/educator celebrated for creating vibrant projection mapping works on a grand scale and gallery installations that emphasize joy, community, and human connection. In this presentation, she will take us on a tour of her best, worst and wildest art adventures and discover how delight and imagination can lead to contemplation and meaningful interpersonal connection, and how art doesn’t have to be big or in the public eye to be spectacular.

Kelley Bell is an Associate Professor in the Department of Visual Arts at UMBC. Blending mid-century design stylings, lively rhythms, and penny-arcade antics, her work radiates a distinctively playful energy that aspires to unlock deeper social potentialities. Bell’s large-scale projection mapping works and public installations have been featured in national and international festivals for almost two decades. Her experiences working behind the scenes while other folks are having fun inform the philosophy central to her artistic practice: that enjoyment and delight are essential aspects of human experience and growth. While many high-profile art spectaculars are often co-opted as fodder for social media, they are also potential opportunities for audiences to connect with themselves, with one another, and with the world in ways that are hopeful, meaningful, and enduring.

Bell’s career includes numerous prominent exhibitions and festivals across the globe. Highlights include: the MOMENTUM Festival in Toledo, OH (2019); Digital Graffiti in Alys Beach, FL (2024/2018); the Dlectricty festival in Detroit, MI (2017) and the Animafest International Animation Festival in Zagreb, Croatia (2017 and 2016). She has been a regular contributor to the MoCA Lights international light art festival in Patchogue, NY and the Artscape festival in Baltimore MD. In 2019, she studied under master woodworker and automata craftsman Matthew Smith in Falmouth, UK. In 2024, she was awarded the Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance’s Baker Artist Award in Interdisciplinary Arts and her work will be featured in the Baker Award exhibition at the Baltimore Museum of Art April – July, 2025. Professor Bell ​earned an MFA degree from the Intermedia and Digital Arts program at UMBC and a BFA in Graphic Design from Pratt Institute.

 

 

Depths of History: Gender-Based Violence in Art
Thursday, March 13 :: 6-7:30pm
@ The Walters Art Museum

Location: Graham Auditorium
Registration is required.

Works of art created by artists with reputations for sexual misconduct or reflecting gender-based violence have challenged museums to confront questions about display, context, and transparency. Should the bad behavior of artists such as Pablo Picasso be separated from their art? What role should institutions have in communicating about abuse perpetrated by artists, and how can they best prepare visitors to view art that depicts gender-based violence? How should museums consider the perspective of survivors in the display of potentially triggering works? Join guest speakers Hannah Brancato, artist, activist, and co-founder of FORCE: Upsetting Rape Culture; Ella Gonzalez, co-editor of Gender Violence, Art, and the Viewer: An Intervention; and Keonna Hendrick, Deputy Director of Learning and Social Impact at the Brooklyn Museum, in a conversation about these questions and more, moderated by journalist Christina Cauterucci.

REGISTER

6 p.m.: Introductions
6:10 p.m.: Moderated Conversation
7 p.m.: Q&A Session
7:30 p.m.: Program ends

Depths of History is a program series that investigates and interrogates the problematic histories of museums and other institutions. This series reflects the Walters Art Museum’s commitment to making accessible the histories of its origins and the art that it stewards to ensure an environment of anti-racism, inclusivity, collaboration, and welcome for visitors, volunteers, and staff.

Available resources: Accessible Seating, Assistive Listening Devices, Sensory Kits
Accessibility resources and accommodations are available for programs and events. Please email [email protected] with questions and requests. We will make every effort to provide accommodations. Visit our accessibility web page for more information.

Photo credit (clockwise from top left): Ella Gonzalez; Hannah Brancato; Les Talusan; Danny Perez for Brooklyn Museum, 2023.

About the Guest Speakers

Hannah Brancato, MFA, is an artist and educator based in Baltimore. Hannah’s art practice is grounded in collective storytelling and creating public rituals to bring people’s stories together. She is co-founder of FORCE: Upsetting Rape Culture, an art/organizing collective that produced creative interventions to create a culture of consent. FORCE is best known for the Monument Quilt, a collection of 3,000 stories from survivors of sexual violence on quilt squares which toured the United States and Mexico in 50 public displays between 2013-2019, which culminated in a large-scale installation on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Brancato lectures and holds workshops related to her art practice and research about trauma-informed pedagogy. A professor of art since 2011, Brancato is a doctoral student in American Studies, where she is researching the role of art and material culture in anti-sexual violence movements, with a theoretical grounding in Indigenous Studies, Women of Color Feminisms, and Disability Studies.

Christina Cauterucci is a senior writer at Slate, where she covers politics and culture. She hosted Slow Burn: Gays Against Briggs, season nine of Slate’s award-winning narrative history podcast, about a major California gay-rights battle in 1978. She also hosts Outward, a Slate podcast about queer life. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Washington City Paper, and NPR. She lives in Washington, D.C.

Ella Gonzalez is a PhD candidate in History of Art at Johns Hopkins University where she is currently writing a dissertation on caryatids, or female architectural supports, in ancient Greece through a feminist lens. Ella was a 2023–2024 Fulbright Fellow in Athens, Greece. Additionally, she recently co-edited a volume titled Gender Violence, Art, and the Viewer: An Intervention (Pennsylvania State Press, 2024) with Cynthia S. Colburn and Ellen C. Caldwell.

Keonna Hendrick (she/her/they/them) is a cultural strategist, educator and author specializing in promoting inclusive and culturally responsive practices in art education. Hendrick’s writing has appeared in numerous publications including the Journal of Museum Education (2017), Multiculturalism in Art Museums Today (2014), and the Journal of Folklore and Education (2016). Keonna serves as Deputy Director of Learning and Social Impact at the Brooklyn Museum where she oversees the museum’s public programs, education, and community engagement initiatives. She is the recipient of the National Museum Education Art Educator Award from the National Art Education Association in 2019 for her dedication to equity-centered approaches to community engagement and institutional practices. She holds a BA in History and Studio Art from Wake Forest University and a MA in Arts Policy and Administration from the Ohio State University.

 

 

JJC Talks: Sam Pollard
Thursday, March 13 :: 6:30-8pm
@ The Baltimore Museum of Art

The Joshua Johnson Council presents a conversation with award-winning filmmaker, editor, and producer Sam Pollard. Pollard will share insights into his storied career in film and documentary, which has included projects like Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes (2023) and August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand (2015).

This virtual conversation will be livestreamed on the BMA’s Facebook and YouTube pages.

About the Artist
Sam Pollard is an accomplished feature film and television video editor, and documentary producer/director. He recently partnered with his long-time collaborators Geeta Gandbhir and Alisa Payne to form a new film production company, Message Pictures. The company’s mission is to amplify quiet voices, throw light in the shadows, and share stories that dare to be told.

In December 2022 Peacock began streaming Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power, a film Pollard co-directed with Gandbhir, which tells the story of the courageous campaign of citizens and activists who faced violence and oppression in the struggle for the right to vote.

Pollard’s two-part documentary, Bill Russell: Legend, about legendary Boston Celtic and civil rights icon premiered on Netflix on February 8.

Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes, a film that Pollard co-directed with Ben Shapiro, had its world premiere at the SXSW Film Festival on March 12. The film follows Roach across a rich and complicated life and epic musical journey—from the revolutionary Jazz of the 1940s to the Civil Rights years.

South to Black Power, inspired by The New York Times columnist Charles Blow’s book, The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto, was co-directed by Pollard and Llewellyn Smith and will premiere on HBO in fall 2023.

Sam Pollard is represented by Cinetic and The Gersh Agency.

 

 

 

 

Clara Bingham: “The Movement”
Thursday, March 13 :: 7-8pm
@ Enoch Pratt FREE Library, Central Branch

A comprehensive and engaging oral history of the decade that defined the feminist movement, including interviews with living icons and unsung heroes—from former Newsweek reporter and author of the “powerful and moving” (The New York Times) Witness to the Revolution.

For lovers of both Barbie and Gloria Steinem, The Movement is the first oral history of the decade that built the modern feminist movement. Through the captivating individual voices of the people who lived it, The Movement tells the intimate inside story of what it felt like to be at the forefront of the modern feminist crusade, when women rejected thousands of years of custom and demanded the freedom to be who they wanted and needed to be.

This engaging history traces women’s awakening, organizing, and agitating between the years of 1963 and 1973, when a decentralized collection of people and events coalesced to create a spontaneous combustion. From Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique, to the underground abortion network the Janes, to Shirley Chisholm’s presidential campaign and Billie Jean King’s 1973 battle of the sexes, Bingham artfully weaves together the fragments of that explosion person by person, bringing to life the emotions of this personal, cultural, and political revolution. Artists and politicians, athletes and lawyers, Black and white, The Movement brings readers into the rooms where these women insisted on being treated as first class citizens, and in the process, changed the fabric of American life.

Clara Bingham will be joined in conversation by Baltimore Beat editor-in-chief Lisa Snowden-McCray.

About the Author:

Clara Bingham is an award-winning journalist and the author of The Movement, Witness to the Revolution, Women on the Hill, and the cowriter of Class Action. A former Washington, DC, correspondent for Newsweek, her writing has appeared in Vanity Fair, The Guardian, The Daily Beast, among others. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

About the Moderator: 

Lisa Snowden-McCray is the editor-in-chief and cofounder of the Baltimore Beat.  She is a former editor at the Baltimore Sun, Baltimore City Paper, and Real News Network.  Her writing has appeared in numerous publications, including Essence, The Washington Post, and Baltimore Magazine. 

 

 

Trembling Grounds: Push-Pull Practice curated by Rui Jiang | Opening Reception
Friday, March 14 :: 5-9pm
@ Area 405

Area 405 is pleased to present Trembling Grounds: Push-Pull Practice, an exhibition running from March 14 to April 11, 2025 that dismantles and reconfigures the boundaries of art-making. The show spotlights nine artists — Deborah Castillo, Roman Sheppard Dawson, Sasha Fishman, Elli Fotopoulou, Maya Gurantz, Scott Keightley, Lucia Shuyu Li, Andrew Luk, and Yuhan Shen — whose works delve into multi-centered discourses and span disciplines including performance, video, interdisciplinary sculpture, and site-specific installation. By bringing together these constantly evolving practices, Trembling Grounds examines the concept of “crossing” as a transformative act — crossing subjects, media, languages, physical walls, restrictions, and so on. Crossing is not merely a movement but a rebellion, an active, dynamic force that traverses media and unsettles the familiar.

In this space, objects and creators collide, occupying and reshaping one another, shedding fixed identities and embracing moments of chaos and flux. As creators, viewers, and objects cross these trembling grounds, they all become part of a constantly shifting web of relationships, in which they build up their own narrative autonomy and non-merged storylines, while in which nothing stays stable and everything is constantly up for renegotiation. Disorder becomes a generative force, challenging binaries and exposing the fluid dynamics of subjectivity and power.

Public programming invites visitors to step directly into the action and turns everyone into co-creators of the exhibition’s evolving story. Through hands-on activities, untraditional dialogues, and unexpected moments, audiences can explore instability as a source of creativity and embrace the collapse of rigid systems. Trembling Grounds invites creators, objects, and viewers into a shared process of becoming, turning instability into a stage for new possibilities.

Join us on Friday, March 14 for the opening reception of Trembling Grounds: Push-Pull Practice, featuring live performance art. Maya Gurantz presents Endurance Performance Proposition #2 (Lenny Bruce Live at Carnegie Hall), a durational engagement reanimating the raw volatility of Bruce’s infamous 1961 performance, interrogating the friction between comedy, free speech, and bodily limits. Lucia Shuyu Li’s SING!SING!SING! explores vocal endurance as both rebellion and release of body movement and functionality.

 

 

Kith & Kin: A rewilding of sound and form | Melissa Foss Exhibition Opening
Friday, March 14 :: 6pm
@ Creative Alliance

Exhibition On View: March 14 – April 18, 2025
Exhibition Opening: March 14, 6-9pm
Instrument Demo: March 22 & 29, 7pm
Artist Talk: April 10, 6:30pm

Kith & Kin, A Rewilding of Sound and Form is an immersive and multisensory exhibition where sculptural ceramic instruments, musical compositions, and multimedia installations invite us to connect with the profound beauty of our living world and explore our relationships with the more-than-human beings who are our kin.

 

 

Studio Companion: Raoul Middleman and the Foo Dog | Opening Reception
Saturday, March 15 :: 2-4pm
@ Raoul Middleman Studio Museum

March 15th – October 25th, 2025

Location:
Raoul Middleman Studio Museum
943 N Calvert St
Baltimore MD 21202

Allan Stone, Raoul’s long time NYC art dealer, not only exhibited such artists as Willem De Kooning, Franz Kline and Wayne Thiebaud, but was also a zealous collector of an eclectic range of arts and crafts. From African and Oceanic art, to jewelry and Bugatti cars, Allan Stone amassed a unique and sprawling collection. Allan would often give Raoul random items: jewelry for gifts to Ruth; cars to drive the family around; and objects to paint in the studio.

On an early visit in 1968, a ceramic figurine fell from a shelf in Stone’s famously cluttered gallery, damaging one of the more expensive contemporary paintings in his collection. Furious, Allan turned and thrust the Foo Dog into Raoul’s hands. While Allan fumed, Raoul immediately sensed a certain kinship with this insolent object. Thus began Raoul’s love for the little bulgy eyed ceramic creature.

For decades the Foo Dog stayed perched by Raoul’s easel and model stand, and is featured in many of his studio paintings from 1968 until his death in 2021. In our exhibition, “Studio Companion”, Foo dog appears in a cross section of Raoul’s work: nudes, portraits, still-lifes, self-portraits, and even drawings from the Covid lockdown depicting the adventures of Raoul and Foo Dog in an imagined dreamscape. Sometimes Foo Dog is the focal point, but often is discovered in the corner of a larger painting. Through the frame of reference of the Foo Dog, the exhibition explores the development of Raoul’s painterly style and his experimentation with the medium of oil paint over seven decades.

Foo dogs are a traditional Chinese architectural object. Though referred to as dogs, they actually portray lions guarding palaces and homes of the powerful. They represent energy and protection and are meant to reflect the emotion of the animal rather than the reality of a lion. While Foo dog could be seen as a guardian of the studio, in Raoul’s paintings he’s often more of a loyal companion. In the self portraits he even competes with Raoul for attention, and becomes a sort of alter ego.

 

 

BREATHE: World Premiere
Saturday, March 15 :: 7:30pm
@ 2604 Space

Experience the world premiere of BREATHE, performed by the eight women of Lorelei Ensemble alongside composer-performers Charlotte Greve, Wendel Patrick, Ken Thomson, and Jason Trueting.

BREATHE is a fully original experimental and cross-genre program, co-composed by and performed with an all-star instrumental quartet, exploring breath as a foundational and essential instrument, and the source of our individual and collective expression, inspiration, and survival. Communicating musical ideas through personal story-telling, improvisation, live electronics and processing the ensemble will take the audience to the edge of comfort, and back again, grappling with the power and vulnerability we derive from this increasingly endangered resource.

 

 

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Help us raise $25,000 by March 11 to keep our programs running as we transition to a new fiscal sponsor
posted by Baltimore Youth Arts

For the past decade, Baltimore Youth Arts (BYA) has served as a supportive community for talented young artists and youth seeking connection. Since our inception, we have engaged with over 2,000 young people and provided paid job training to more than 180 individuals through our Studio Apprentice Program. We offer mentorship, job training, arts education, and a welcoming space for youth, helping them develop creative skills, pursue career pathways, and foster a strong sense of belonging.

Now, we need your help.
Our fiscal sponsor, Fusion Partnerships, is dissolving, which means we must act fast to secure BYA’s future. To do this, we are raising funds to cover essential operating costs while moving to a new fiscal sponsor and taking the necessary steps to become an independent 501(c)(3) nonprofit.

Baltimore Youth Arts is excited to begin working with Uplift Alliance (UA) as we embark on this new chapter of our program. Alongside UA, BYA will work to strengthen our policies and procedures so that we are better prepared to become an independent organization in the future.

Funding Goals and Timeline
Our goal is to raise $25,000 by March 11, 2025, to cover immediate operational needs and ensure our programs continue without disruption.

We aim to fundraise an additional $35,000 by April 1, 2025, to secure the resources needed for a smooth transition to a new fiscal sponsor and set the foundation for long-term sustainability.

This funding will allow us to
Continue our programs for youth across BYA programs
Assess our long-term options as we transition to a new fiscal sponsor and prepare to become an independent 501c3
Ensure a smooth transition so BYA can keep serving youth without disruption

How You Can Help
 Donate Today – Every dollar helps us keep our programs going!
Spread the Word – Share this campaign with your network.
  Host a Fundraiser – Get creative, rally support, and work with BYA youth and staff!

Your support means everything to us! Together, we can ensure BYA continues empowering young people through the arts.

 

 

Helen Frankenthaler Foundation Residency Open Call
deadline March 14

The International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) is pleased to announce an open call for a six-month artist residency, fully funded by the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation. The residency is for visual artists eligible to work in the United States whose work in painting, drawing and/or printmaking is characterized by a spirit of innovation. Support includes a living and materials stipend of $3,050 per month. The residency program includes 24/7 access to a private, furnished studio space; monthly hour-long meetings with visiting critics; field trips to museums, galleries, and other cultural venues; and participation in a public talk.

 

 

Mural Project – JFX Underpass
deadline March 17
posted by the Mayor’s Office

Urban Oasis: An Immersive Mural Environment

The Mayor’s Office of Arts & Culture and Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts (BOPA) are seeking Maryland-based mural artists to produce vibrant, uplifting, and immersive mural designs that they will then apply to select pillars under the Jones Falls Expressway viaduct at Holliday and Saratoga Streets for Artscape 2025, May 24–25, 2025.

Project Overview

The Urban Oasis Mural Project reimagines the city as a living, breathing ecosystem—where nature and the built environment converge to create a visually stunning and immersive experience. Designed to transform the urban landscape, this mural will weave together elements of botanical life, organic textures, and environmental storytelling, offering residents and visitors a space of beauty, reflection, and inspiration.

Vision & Concept

This large-scale mural will infuse biophilic design principles into the cityscape, incorporating lush botanical imagery, native plant species, and flowing natural elements that evoke a sense of movement and life. By blending realistic depictions of foliage, water, light, and wind-inspired motifs with the geometric patterns of the city’s architecture, the artwork will serve as a gateway between nature and the urban fabric.

Through the use of vivid colors, layered textures, and interactive design elements, the mural will invite viewers to engage with their environment in a new way — offering hidden visual details, augmented reality features, and touchpoints for community interaction.

 

 

Principal Residency Program
deadline March 18
posted by La Becque

La Becque launched a new call for applications for its Principal Residency Program, seeking residents for 2026 and the first months of 2027 (January–March). The Principal Residency Program—La Becque’s core program—provides artists with the opportunity to work in a stimulating and immersive research environment. Located on the shores of Lake Geneva, and close to Switzerland’s main cultural and natural attractions, La Becque welcomes artists from all walks of life, inviting its residents to develop their project in an exceptional living and working environment.

La Becque’s residency is not primarily production-oriented; rather, it offers artists a dedicated period for deep reflection, exploration, and transition within their practice. Residents benefit from an exceptional setting and facilities, as well as strong local and international networks that can help further their artistic and research-based endeavors. The program is built on the belief that moments of transition and research are essential to the creative process, rather than placing emphasis on immediate outcomes or finalized works.

The Principal Residency Program offers three-month residencies to selected applicants, whether individuals, duos, or collectives. The complete calendar, along with detailed information on available residency periods, application criteria, and guidelines, can be found on La Becque’s website, which also provides a comprehensive FAQ and the application form (online until March 18, 2025).

 

 

SHIT SHOW | Call for Art
deadline March 22
posted by Goxxip Girl Collective

XOXO Gallery is pleased to present SHIT SHOW our inaugural benefit exhibition just in time for Women’s History Month (March). SHIT SHOW 2025 marks the FIRST year of our annual benefit exhibition. SHIT SHOW is modeled around the Salon de Refuse in an attempt to normalize and reclaim rejection. As a result we will exhibit rejection letters alongside the artwork (via QR code). SHIT SHOW is a FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED exhibition opportunity. There is NO jurying (say no to rejection!).

To participate please complete the below google form. Due to size limitations we will accept the FIRST 60 2D artworks submitted and the FRIST 10 3D artworks submitted. Submissions will CLOSE once the capacity is reached. Join the resistance and apply today!

As XOXO Gallery is an artist-run space founded by 12 members of the Goxxip Girl Collective, we support our initiatives through member dues. This benefit would help support our efforts to continue to create curatorial and exhibition opportunities for artists in Baltimore and beyond. XOXO Gallery is a curatorial initiative, not exclusive to the Goxxip Girl Collective, meaning anyone and everyone is eligible to apply to our open calls regardless of gender.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

Must be framed or ready to hang

Must be 24” x 24” or under (largest dimensions cannot exceed 24”) This includes sculpture – Pedestals are limited

First 60 2D artists are automatically accepted (form will close once this limit is reached)

First 10 3D artists are automatically accepted (form will close once this limit is reached)

Limited to ONE submission per artist

Upload a copy of an accompanying rejection letter (does not have to be for the work selected) to be exhibited via QR code next to the work

Sales are split 60/40 (usually 70/40) with majority (60%) going to the artist

Artwork must be for sale

All media welcome

If you plan to ship the work – please ship to:

℅ Caitlin Gill
218 West Saratoga St.
Baltimore, MD 21201

To submit please use the below google form(s).

2D Artist – SUBMIT HERE  | first 60 submissions accepted

3D Artist – SUBMIT HERE | first 10 submissions accepted

For more information about this opportunity please contact: [email protected]

TIMELINE:

Deadline to Submit: Submissions will remain open until the limit for submissions is reached

Notification of Acceptance: You are automatically accepted if you complete the form before the limit is reached (see above)

**You will receive an email acknowledging your acceptance once the form closes**

Artwork Drop Off: March 21 & March 22 | 11 AM – 4 PM
Exhibition on View: March 28 – April 24
Opening Reception: Friday, April 4 | 6 PM to 9 PM
Exhibition Closes: April 24 | 4 PM
Artwork Pick-Up: April 25 & April 26 | 11 AM – 4 PM

About XoXo Gallery:
Founded by twelve members of the Goxxip Girl Collective, XoXo Gallery is an up and coming artist-run space with a focus on curation. Committed to showcasing diverse exhibitions and programming, XoXo Gallery operates under a cooperative model, and challenges conventional perspectives, by fostering a platform for innovative artistic expression and incubation.

Exhibitions at XoXo Gallery change every six weeks, each curated by a different member of our collective. Our mission focuses on fostering community and encouraging collaborative partnerships. We invite inquiries and potential collaborations.

Located in the BROMO Arts District at 218 West Saratoga St. (Maryland Art Place), our gallery is situated on the 3rd floor.

 

 

2026 Artist-in-Residence Program
deadline March 31
posted by Bemis Center

Founded in 1981, by artists for artists, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts facilitates the creation, presentation, and understanding of contemporary art through an international residency program, exhibitions, and educational programs. Located in the historic Old Market, Omaha’s arts and culture district, Bemis Center serves a critical role in the presentation and understanding of contemporary art, bridging the community of Omaha to a global discourse surrounding cultural production today.

Bemis Center’s core mission has always been to provide artists from around the world dedicated time, space, and resources to conduct research and to create new work across conceptual, material, performative, and social practices. The independently driven atmosphere and communal environment encourage creative growth, experimentation, confrontation of challenges, and cultivation of new ideas. To date, more than 1,000 artists have participated in the residency program.

 

 

Red Lodge Clay Center Long-Term Residency (U.S.)
deadline April 1

About this Residency: September 1 – July 31 annually with up to 1 additional year renewal (2 years total)

This Residency is ideal for committed individuals interested in pursuing the development of their professional artistic careers through an immersive experience as part of the Clay Center community. LTR’s are awarded on an initial one-year commitment with the option for a second year renewal. Individuals searching for the time, space, and resources needed to explore new ideas and create work will enjoy our friendly community and the rural mountainous setting. Accepted residents will be provided numerous financial and professional benefits including a monthly stipend, annual material & firing budget, 24/7 access to a private studio space, furnished housing, as well as exhibition and networking opportunities in exchange for 20 hours of work per week at the Clay Center and regular participation in RLCC events. Responsibilities will include assisting in the retail operation of the gallery, teaching community clay classes, as well as cleaning and maintenance of the studio, gallery, and housing properties. Residents will be responsible for personal living expenses such as travel, groceries, vehicles, etc. Visit our Facilities page to learn more about the gallery, Resident Housing, and Fox Studio. Click here to see some of our former Long-Term Residents.

 

 

W.A.R.P. 2025 at The Weaving Mill (U.S.)
deadline April 1

We are delighted to open the call for proposals for the 2025 W.A.R.P. cycle! This year, we’ll be hosting one visiting artist for a 6-week residency. While in residence at TWM, the visiting artist will work independently on their own studio projects while simultaneously developing and leading collaborative workshops/projects with Westtown program participants (adults with developmental disabilities). Over the 6 weeks, the artist-in-residence will be asked to contribute about 10 hours of programming for Westtown participants, with lesson-planning and workshop support from TWM. Visiting artists will have workspace of their own (size/shape to be determined based on artists’ needs, though it won’t be private or enclosed), access to a selection of tools and supplies and 24-7 building access. We will work with the artist-in-residence to source materials and supplies for their workshops and the visiting artist will receive a $400 stipend. Collaborative teams are welcome to apply.

 

 

CALL FOR PAPERS |Commentaries for American Art Disabilities and American Art Histories
deadline April 1
posted by University of Chicago Press

American Art, the peer-reviewed journal co-published by the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the University of Chicago Press, seeks to publish papers that explore the intersections of disability studies and the histories of American art, architecture, and design. What perspectives, insights, and forms of redress does disability studies bring to American art history? Where does disability surface in American art and visual culture, and where do absences persist? How has art enacted ableism, spurred practices that challenge and move beyond exclusion and oppression, or combined divergent tendencies in complicated and generative ways? What are the responsibilities of art historians to advance disability justice in their scholarship, teaching, and museum practice? How do the histories of American art change when new ways of making or experiencing art are included?

We invite essays that center disability in American art history in compelling and innovative ways. We encourage authors to foreground critical disability studies methodologies and conceptualize disability broadly, recognizing that the meanings and terminologies of disability can vary across disciplines, experiences, identities, and histories. We welcome essays about how disability has been represented, conceptualized, and constructed via visual and material practices; how individual artists as well as communities, including those that reject the identity of disability, have defined themselves alongside and beyond changing understandings of abled-ness. We encourage authors to approach disability intersectionally and to center the histories of understudied peoples. We also invite reflection on how the discipline of American art and practices of extractive looking have perpetuated ableism.

Collectively these commentaries aim to reveal the centrality of disability and disability studies to our understanding of American art history, considering how such approaches can advance multiple fields and contribute to anti-ableist future practices.

 

 

The Creative Capital Award + State of the Art Prize
deadline April 3
posted by Creative Capital

The 2026 Open Call seeks proposals for new artistic works in the Visual Arts, Performing Arts, Film, and Literature.

The Creative Capital Award provides unrestricted project grants of up to $50,000 to individual artists to create new work. The new State of the Art Prize provides unrestricted artist grants of $10,000.

Apply now through the online application portal. The deadline for submission is Thursday, April 3, 2025 at 3PM ET.

In celebration of its 25th Anniversary, Creative Capital expands its support of individual artists with the 2026 Open Call for the Creative Capital Award and the launch of the new State of the Art Prize. 

The Creative Capital Award provides individual artists with unrestricted project grants for the creation of bold, innovative, original, and imaginative new artistic works. In addition to unrestricted project grants from $15,000 up to $50,000, the Award offers transformative professional development support including strategic advising, peer mentorship, industry connections, and community-building opportunities. Grants are awarded via a national, democratic, open call, external review process.

The State of the Art Prize aims to recognize and support one artist from every U.S. state and inhabited territory with an unrestricted artist grant of $10,000. Through the 2026 Open Call for the Creative Capital Award, Creative Capital will select recipients for the new State of the Art Prize.

 

 

The GRIT Fund
deadline April 11

Artists and cultural organizers create vital connections within our communities. But it can be difficult to find funding to create, collaborate, and make an impact. Grit Fund makes arts funding accessible for everyone. We focus on projects that bring artists and community members together to explore a sense of place and shared space.

Grit Fund supports projects that add to the vibrancy and development of Baltimore’s arts and culture community. Grit Fund awards money to collaborative, artist-led projects, that have a public facing element—up to $10,000.