ROCKELLA SPACE DECEMBER OPPORTUNITIES:
CURATED LIST BY THE ROCKELLA TEAM
OUR CURATED LIST
Our monthly top picks of upcoming deadlines in December are curated by the Rockella Space Team for creatives from various industries.
EXHIBITION OPPORTUNITY
Visionary Art Collective is partnering with Warnes Contemporary Gallery in New York City to present our annual in-person juried group exhibition, Those Who Tend, curated by Kaylan Buteyn. This call is a reflection for “those who tend”—an invitation to submit work created amidst the challenges of balancing a life full of responsibilities. Artist parents who are juggling their art practice, careers, domestic tasks, caregiving, and carving out time for self-care are invited to submit their work.
DEADLINE: December 1st, 2024
EXHIBITION OPPORTUNITY
Smack Mellon seeks artwork submissions for a summer group exhibition to be guest-curated by New York City-based writer and curator Pallavi Surana.
DEADLINE: December 1st, 2024
WRITING SUBMISSION
Philadelphia Stories Fiction Contest is a national short fiction contest that features a first place $1,000 cash award and three $250 runner-up cash awards. The winner stories will be published in the print issue of the Winter/Spring 2025 issue of Philadelphia Stories.
DEADLINE: December 1st, 2024
TOUR GRANT
South Arts’ Jazz Road Tours supports small, three- to six-site tours at an array of venue types, often in rural communities and other areas traditionally underserved by the genre. Grant amounts generally range from $5,000 to $15,000. Professional jazz artists, working solo or working with a composer-led or collective jazz ensemble, are eligible to apply.
DEADLINE: December 1st, 2024
WRITERS GRANT
The goal of our Venturous Capital Grants program is to support writers of bold, experimental, and/or large-scale new plays by giving theaters the ability to say “yes” instead of “no” to writer-driven projects that are unusually heavy lifts, i.e., that are perceived as especially challenging.
DEADLINE: December 2nd, 2024
EMERGENCY GRANT
The Foundation for Contemporary Arts offers Emergency Grants between $200 and $2,500 for visual and performing artists.
DEADLINE: December 4th, 2024
SEEKING ART
The Bronx River Art Center is pleased to announce an open call for artists who maintain collections of any kind to participate in an upcoming exhibition that explores the intimate relationship between artistic practice and collecting.
DEADLINE: December 5th, 2024
CHOREOGRAPHER'S GRANT
The goal of the NYS Choreographers Initiative is to develop and support choreographic talent in the WNY, Central NY, Capital District/North County and Hudson Valley/Long Island regions of New York State. Applicants must show evidence of commitment to producing original choreography, in any dance genre.
DEADLINE: December 7th, 2024
CURATORIAL PROPOSALS
The Latinx Project at New York University announces an open call for curatorial projects. Interested applicants are invited to submit specific proposals to be considered for an exhibition to be held in Spring 2026 and Spring 2027.
DEADLINE: December 9th, 2024
CALL FOR EXHIBITION PROPOSALS
The Alexander Brest Gallery at Jacksonville University (Jacksonville, FL) is seeking exhibition proposals for the upcoming 2025-2026 season.
DEADLINE: December 15th, 2024
NYFA FELLOWSHIP
NYFA provides unrestricted grants of $8,000 to New York-based artists through the NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship program. First launched in 1985, the program has provided over $30 million to artists in 15 disciplines at critical stages in their creative development. Award disciplines for 2025 are; Architecture/Environmental Structures/Design, Choreography, Music/Sound, Photography, Playwriting/Screenwriting
DEADLINE: December 17th, 2024
LITERARY AWARD
The Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence is initiated by Donors of the Baton Rouge Aread Foundation to Honor Mr. Gaines. The award is designed to inspire, recognize rising African American writers of excellence as they work to achieve the literary heights for which Ernest J. Gaines is known. The Annual Award of $15,000 cash prize is to support and enable the writer to focus on writing.
DEADLINE: December 31st, 2024
POETRY PRIZE
The Poetry Society of America has a variety of awards, ranging from $250 to $2,500, for poetry and manuscripts.
DEADLINE: December 31st, 2024
GRANT FOR MAKERS
Brooklyn Brewery is looking for people creating the future in five categories: Food & Drink Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Arts, Music, and Activism. Awardees will be granted $10,000, a session with your category judge, promotion, and more!
DEADLINE: December 31st, 2024
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Bristol Community College and its Holocaust & Genocide Center in Fall River, Massachusetts, invite artists and artist teams to submit proposals for a public artwork that incorporates Bristol’s collection of 1.5 million buttons, each representing a child murdered in the Holocaust.
DEADLINE: December 31st, 2024