Beers.Lambert Contemporary is proud to present an open call for our 3rd Annual International Summer Group Exhibition, held at Beers.Lambert in the heart of vibrant East London’s contemporary art district.

Do you have a unique perspective that deserves a chance at international exposure? Beers.Lambert is looking for progessive, cutting-edge art that continues to define and defy the rules of contemporary art. This is your opportunity to exhibit your work internationally in London, England!

ELIGIBILITY
Artists working in all disciplines from all parts of the world may apply.

ARTWORK
All media is accepted, including: two-dimensional, three-dimensional, installation, video, performance, new-media and other traditional and non-traditional media.

AWARDS
One (or more) of the artists selected for exhibition will be offered a solo exhibition with the gallery in 2012. Other artists may be invited for representation or further opportunities with the gallery.

TO APPLY
Click the web-link below and begin your online application now!

http://www.beerslambert.com/opencall2.htm

Residency Dates: May 2nd 2012 – October 31st, 2012

Deadline February 14, 2012 11:59pm

See our 2011 Residents and visiting critics and curators HERE.

Application fee is $15:

2012 Artist Residency Application 
2012 Writing Residency Application
2012 Music Residency Application

ABOUT
The Wassaic Project Residency Program cultivates and supports community for emerging and professional contemporary artists, musicians, writers and other creatives. Housed in a historic re-purposed livestock auction barn, the Residency Program offers nine artists the opportunity to live and work in the heart of a rural community and offers two local artists studio space. The Wassaic Project seeks a group of artists working in a diverse range of media who want to produce, explore, challenge, and expand on their current art making practices, while participating in a grass roots, community-based arts organization.

These festivals will take place in September 2012. The FREE application is online. Sign up and fill out the form here: www.young-artists-incubator.com

Notice: festivals are dedicated to artist up to 35. If you are older you can sign-up anyway to receive further information about future initiatives and events.

The final deadline is April 30 – 2012.

YAI needs many applications to find strong sponsors and to make the best selections from each category.

YAI will select 40 artists as follows: 10 from Visual Art; 10 from Music; 5 from Dance; 5 from Theatre; 5 from Literature; 5 from Culinary.

BENEFITS:

There is a planned refund for travel and lodging expenses for all selected artists. The amount of the refund will be published when they reach 15,000 applications and consequentially sponsors will decide the entire budget. There will be printed a rich catalog of the event with attached DVD and a CD. The catalog will be distributed free to the involved industry professionals and on sale in the bookshops.

SHARE this opportunity: more applications = more sponsors = more benefits

RULES.

1. This application is FREE.

2. All young people between 16 and 35 ages can participate.

3. The application is open to all types of artwork and all techniques are allowed. This includes videos, performances, dance, prose and poetry, installations, theatre projects, culinary recipes, music.

4. The artists can add up to 5 pictures of their work or video stills, up to 3 links of videos or mp3, text documents, and a link to their web-site and, as well, a general statement of their research.

5. The artists can time to time update their submissions.

6. These will be visible as changed starting on the next selection process.

7. The artist’s data will not be visible online, but  the organization’s staff, professional curators, publishers, talent scouts, record companies, galleries and institutions will have access to the information.

The selection will be made from international board of 20 experts when YAI reaches 20,000 applications.

Check the counter on the website.

Location (NYC area) and exact date still being determined.

Interested in participating or know someone who might be? Here's what we're looking for;

• Create a piece that joins your personal artistic style with Mono Mono's

• Mono Mono Character or logo etc. must be present in some form but doesn't have to be the full focus of the piece

• Include high contrast colors in pieces... anywhere from plain black and white to neon (think pop art)

• Think outside the box when it comes to medium (toys, skate decks, sculpture, graffiti, etc. again be creative)

• Sense of humor encouraged (no severely violent imagery)

It's your chance to show what you got and get some exposure!

** All pieces must be submitted and approved, sketch and/or idea with medium and dimensions included. Send all ideas to events@mymonomono.com ..... Call for participants ends March 5, 2012.

Interested in being involved, but not exactly an artist (own a bakery or dj etc..)? Email us at events@mymonomono.com with what aspect of the event you would like to contribute to!

The art is a very important part of the night, but there will be lots more! Everything from food, drinks, tees, music, giveaways and more. It's going to be a night to remember!

As always spread the word and Monkey Around!

more info: http://www.mymonomono.com/events

Young filmmakers with filmmaker Peter Bratt (left, back), WritersCorps manager Melissa Hung (left) and their teacher Peter Kim of Streetside Productions (right) at the 2011 festival. Photo by Lydia Gonzales.

Lights! Camera! Poetry! WritersCorps calls on filmmakers and video artists of all ages to create work based on youth writing. Videos will be screened during National Poetry Month in April 2012 at the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts and online at WritersCorps.org.

WritersCorps will award two $200 cash prizes, one prize to the best film made by an adult age 23 and over, and one prize to the best film made by a young person age 22 and under. Winning entries will be juried by special guests: filmmaker Barry Jenkins (“Medicine for Melancholy”) and San Francisco Supervisor David Campos.

In keeping with WritersCorps’ mission of helping youth through creative expression, the Poetry Projection Project engages filmmakers to explore the power of young people’s words and voices. See last year’s films here.

For more details, read the Call for Entries here.

The Sharjah Art Foundation announces the continuation of its prestigious Production Programme offering up to 200,000 USD in production grants to artists working in a wide range of media. The Foundation announces an Open Call for Submissions and invites applications for the funding of new work from artists working in a range of media including sculpture, installation, time-based media, artist publications, and performance. The aim of this programme is to encourage innovative and ambitious projects and to provide artists with a platform for experimentation. Selected projects will be developed and produced by the artist and Sharjah Art Foundation. The deadline for submission is February 24, 2012. All applications will be reviewed by a distinguished jury and selections will be announced in March during the Foundation's annual March Meeting (March 17–19, 2012)—a three-day symposium of artists, art professionals, and institutions from around the world who will gather in Sharjah to address this year's topic of artist residencies and commissions with a specific focus on the MENASA region.

Originally launched in 2008 in support of the Sharjah Biennial, the Sharjah Art Foundation later incorporated the Production Programme as one of its core initiatives in 2010. Recipients of the Foundation's 2012 Production Programme grants will join a list of distinguished artists whose work has been funded by the Foundation including Bani Abidi and CAMP, whose SAF commissioned projects will be first premiered at Documenta 13 in Kassel, Germany in June 2012.

http://www.sharjahart.org/

Sharjah Art Foundation President Hoor Al-Qasimi stated, "The support of artists and art production is one of the most important missions of the Sharjah Art Foundation. We hope this initiative will contribute to the cultural landscape by providing opportunities for artists both locally and internationally. We look forward to receiving proposals from different parts of the world and working with the artists selected."

About the Production Programme
The Sharjah Art Foundation Production Programme broadens the possibilities for the production of art in the MENASA region through a commitment to support innovation and excellence in artistic practice by encouraging risk and experimentation. This commitment places artists at the core of the Foundation's mission by offering grants and professional support for the realisation of projects selected from an open call for proposals.

The past decade has seen an extraordinary rise in artistic activity throughout the Middle East, resulting in an increased visibility for artists both regionally and internationally. Within this context, the Foundation hopes to promote and encourage an environment of public and private patronage for the highest level of artistic endeavour.

Art practitioners are invited to propose imaginative, ambitious and inspirational projects that will transform our understanding of what art is and how it can be experienced. With this initiative Sharjah Art Foundation hopes to engage and challenge the artists and audiences aesthetically, intellectually, emotionally, socially, politically or in ways new and unexpected.

For further information and applications please visit the http://www.sharjahart.org/ or contact productionprogramme@sharjahart.org

About the Sharjah Art Foundation:
Sharjah Art Foundation supports the flourishing arts environment in the Gulf by nurturing artistic opportunities and actively pursuing both a regional and international programme of cultural collaboration and exchange.

Sharjah Art Foundation builds on the pioneering role the Emirate of Sharjah has played in the artistic and cultural development of the Gulf region. Inspired by the cross-fertilization and rich cultural diversity of the Emirates, the Foundation provides both national and international leadership in the production and presentation of contemporary visual arts. Recognising the central and distinctive contribution that art makes to society, the Sharjah Art Foundation cultivates a spirit of research, experimentation and excellence while acting as a catalyst for collaboration and exchange within the Middle East and beyond.

ALL ACCEPTED IMAGES WILL BE EXHIBITED IN OUR GALLERY AND ONLINE. The North Valley Art League’s 2012 International Juried Photography Show will be exhibited May 1 – June 2 at the Carter House Gallery in Redding, California. The gallery is adjacent to the Sacramento River and major recreation areas attracting local and tourist foot traffic. Best of Show is $1000. The show is open to all photographers. All forms of photographic expression are encouraged: from film-based to digital capture–black and white darkroom to digital manipulation and alternative processing–out-of-the-camera images to hand-colored photographs and montanges. We are pleased to have an exceptional juror, Jennifer L. Daly, MFA with Distinction-Photography, who has exhibited all over the country. Her Juror Statement reads: “Photography has always been a diverse art form with evolving and emerging technologies, ideas, and styles. As a juror, I look forward to seeing the breadth of the medium from ‘straight’ photography to photo-manipulation, digital, traditional and alternative process and everything in between in order to facilitate an exhibition of interpretation of photography today.”

For More Information: http://www.theartlist.com/art-calls/nval-2012-international-juried-photography-show

The University Art Gallery at Cal State East Bay presents an Emerging Artists Exhibition. This juried exhibition is FREE and open to current Bay Area college students, graduate and undergraduates, who work in a 2-dimensional format in any of the following art mediums: Painting, Printmaking, Drawing, Mixed Media, Collage, and Alternative Process Photography.

This event is hosted by the University Art Gallery at CSUEB in Hayward.  Juror: Michelle Mansour, Executive Director of Root Division, San Francisco.

If you are interested in having your work considered for the exhibition, please email the following information to artgallery@csueastbay.edu by the deadline of February 5th, 2012, midnight (PST):
• Name, email, phone number, current school, major area of study, the title of each piece, dimensions, date created, and media used.
• Attach small jpegs, no more than 900 pixels in any direction, and label the file: lastname_firstname01.jpg    (For example: Smith_Robert01.jpg)
• Only one e-mail submission per student, however you can submit up to three works.

Prospectus: Emerging_Call

Website: http://class.csueastbay.edu/artgallery/Home_Page.php

Creative Capital is now accepting online Letters of Inquiry for grants in Emerging Fields, Literature and Performing Arts. The deadline for submitting inquiries is March 1 at 4:00pm EST.

Visit http://www.creative-capital.org/apply  to learn more about the application process, read the grant guidelines and access the Inquiry Form.

Creative Capital provides integrated financial and advisory support to artists pursuing innovative and adventurous projects. Acting as a catalyst for the development of exceptional and imaginative ideas, we support artists whose work is provocative, timely and relevant; who are deeply engaged with their art forms and demonstrate a rigorous commitment to their craft; who are boldly original and push the boundaries of their genre; and who create work that carries the potential to reshape the cultural landscape. Selected grantees receive up to 50,000 USD in direct support for their project and advisory services valued at more than 40,000 USD.

To be eligible to apply, an artist must be:
• A U.S. citizen or permanent legal resident
• At least 25 years old
• A working artist with at least five years of professional experience
• Not a full-time student

Applicants are invited to attend an in-person or online information session to learn more about the process.

Upcoming info sessions:
• Philadelphia, PA: Friday, February 3, 12:30pm, The Painted Bride, 230 Vine Street
• ONLINE: Thursday, February 9, 3:00–4:00pm EST
• Washington, D.C.: Friday, February 10, 12:30pm, Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater, 1101 6th Street SW
• Baltimore, MD: Saturday, February 11, 12:00pm, MICA PLACE, 814 North Collington Avenue
• New York, NY: Thursday, February 16, 12:30pm, New York Live Arts, 219 W 19th Street
• ONLINE: Friday, February 24, 12:00–1:00pm EST

RSVP to grants@creative-capital.org requested for in-person sessions. Link to access online info sessions will be posted on our Info Sessions page on the morning of each session. Please note that we are planning additional sessions in Houston, Los Angeles, Phoenix, San Francisco and Tucson for February. As new sessions are confirmed, details will be posted on our Info Sessions page.

Questions? Visit creative-capital.org/apply or email grants@creative-capital.org.
About Creative Capital
Creative Capital is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to providing integrated financial and advisory support to artists pursuing adventurous projects in five disciplines: Emerging Fields, Film/Video, Literature, Performing Arts and Visual Arts. Working in long-term partnership with artists, Creative Capital's pioneering approach to support combines funding, counsel and career development services to enable a project's success and foster sustainable practices for its grantees. Since its founding in 1999, Creative Capital has committed nearly 25 million USD in financial and advisory support to 372 projects representing 463 artists, and its Professional Development Program has reached more than 4,000 artists in 50 communities across the country. For more information, visit http://www.creative-capital.org/.

Creative Capital's core program receives support from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Toby Devan Lewis, the Robert W. Deutsch Foundation, the Lambent Foundation Fund of Tides Foundation, The Nathan Cummings Foundation, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Booth Ferris Foundation, the Muriel Pollia Foundation, the William K. Bowes, Jr. Foundation, Catharine and Jeffrey Soros, Paige West, and more than 150 other institutional and individual donors, in addition to support from the Kresge Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation for the Professional Development Program.