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Join a drawing and painting course exploring the human figure through gesture poses, contour drawings, and longer poses using graphite, charcoal, and acrylic paint.
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deadline unknown, verify at source·$245·MoCA Arlington, VA
Submit watercolour or water-based media paintings for consideration in the RI 214th Exhibition, a juried show with prizes and awards totalling over £10,000.
Material Matters celebrates materiality in art-making, exploring how artists working across installation, sculpture, painting, and mixed media have experimented with materials and processes in response to defining historical, economic, and social events in the United States over the past fifty years.
acrylicinstallationmixed media
deadline unknown, verify at source·fee unknown·Museum Of Contemporary Art Arlington, VA
ResidencyFour-week residency including international and local transportation, meals, accommodation, materials, project-specific equipment, mentorship program, solo exhibition in central London gallery, possible feature at Cluster fairs, and custom artist profile on online shop with no sales commission for first three months for 25 selected applicants.
Photographers working with contemporary narratives and engaging with contemporary social issues are invited to apply for a four-week immersive residency in London including accommodation, meals, materials, mentorship, and a solo exhibition.
Visual artists apply for a 3-month residency at Cemeti Institute for Art and Society in Yogyakarta to develop their practice in dialogue with local art communities and social/political contexts.
annual cycle, check dates·fee unknown·Cemeti Institute For Art And Society
Apply for a 3-month fully-funded residency in Athens, Greece for visual artists or curators to live, work, and engage with the local and international art community.
Grants for professional Toronto-based visual/media arts organizations, collectives, curators or programmers to fund one-time or time-limited projects involving exhibition, distribution, residencies, workshops, screening series or lecture series of contemporary visual or media arts.
all media
annual cycle, check dates·fee unknown·City Of Toronto, ON
Artists from all disciplines are invited to apply for flexible residency stays of 2 weeks to 6 months at KIAR in India, engaging in artistic creation, cultural immersion, and community exchange.
Solo exhibition featuring Lou Haney's paintings and installations that explore excess, bright colors, busy patterns, and domestic interiors inspired by the Pattern & Decoration Movement, with a new installation examining the play between flatness and depth, interior and exterior, organic and synthetic.
installationlandscapemixed media
deadline unknown, verify at source·fee unknown·Museum Of Contemporary Art Arlington, VA
Submit a proposal for workshops in visual arts that provide tools for sustainable artistic production and financial planning to emerging artists aged 16+.
Visual artists, designers, and set designers are invited to submit proposals for a four-week land art residency creating ephemeral sculptures or installations using natural, organic, and biodegradable materials in the neimënster courtyard.
Submit between one and six still images responding to the curatorial theme exploring the meeting point between technology and imagination through the lens of synthetic creativity and temporal displacement.
ceramicsdigitalmixed media
deadline unknown, verify at source·free·Location TBD