ROCKELLA SPACE FEBRUARY OPPORTUNITIES:
CURATED LIST BY THE ROCKELLA TEAM
OUR CURATED LIST
Our monthly top picks of upcoming deadlines in February are curated by the Rockella Space Team for creatives from various industries.
PERFORMANCE OPPORTUNITY
The HERE Artist Residency Program (HARP) provides a commission, developmental support, career planning, and an opportunity for a full production to cross-genre artists within a collaborative environment of peers working across disparate art forms. Each HARP artist receives $125,000 and services over 2-3 years to tailor each residency to each artist’s individual needs.
DEADLINE: February 1st, 2024
FELLOWSHIP
New America’s National Fellows Program invests in thinkers—journalists, scholars, filmmakers, and public policy analysts—who generate big, bold ideas that have an impact and spark new conversations about the most pressing issues of our day. Stipends generally fall between $15,000 and $30,000.
DEADLINE: February 1st, 2024
VISUAL ARTS GRANT
The Virginia A. Groot Foundation Grant was established so that ceramic sculpture artists or sculptors of diverse mediums may have the opportunity to devote a substantial period of time to the development of their work. The first-place grant is $60,000; the second-place grant is $30,000; the third-place grant is $20,000.
DEADLINE: February 1st, 2024
PHOTO EXHIBITION OPPORTUNITY
Filter Photo hosts an annual call for proposals for the exhibition calendar at Filter Space. We welcome photography proposals of all types, whether traditional or experimental or coming from an emerging curator or a veteran artist.
DEADLINE: February 2nd, 2024
MEMBERSHIP OPPORTUNITY
Established in 2007, the NY Handmade Collective is the nonprofit artisan and maker guild of NYC. When you join as a NYHC member, you’ll become part of a knowledgeable and supportive community of fellow entrepreneurs. The NY Handmade Collective—NYC’s nonprofit artisan and maker guild— is accepting new member applications for a limited time
DEADLINE: February 2nd, 2024
BANNER ARTWORK
The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum announces its third annual Open Call for Artist Banners. Emerging artists based in New York City and self-identifying as Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) are invited to submit designs for the Museum’s three outdoor banners, in response to the theme love and labor.
DEADLINE: February 4th, 2024
VISUAL ARTS GRANT
Café Royal Cultural Foundation NYC will award an exhibition/project grant to New York City artists creating paintings, drawings, sculptures, and photographs. Artists in all genres of visual arts are eligible to apply. The award amount is up to $10,000.
DEADLINE: February 6th, 2024
PERFORMANCE OPPORTUNITY
The Hybrid Arts Lab is a program supporting trans, non-binary, and women artists working at the intersection of performance and technology. This support includes a $5,000 stipend, creation and exhibition space, technical resources, training, and mentorship for the exploration, development, and expansion of their practice and new artwork.
DEADLINE: February 11th, 2024
BANNER ARTWORK
In collaboration with the Port Authority Bus Terminal (PABT), CHASHAMA is accepting applications from artists looking to promote themselves in a public setting. Artists will be asked to print a large vinyl artwork at their own cost, covering a section of the windows alongside other artwork.
DEADLINE: February 12th, 2024
PROPOSAL FOR ARTWORK
Wormfarm Institute will commission original artworks for the Farm/Art DTour in Sauk County, Wisconsin. Proposals from artists who are interested in creating works that engage with the landscape, farmers, landowners, and surrounding rural communities are encouraged. Selected artists will receive a stipend ranging from $5,000 – $10,000.
DEADLINE: February 12th, 2024
FELLOWSHIP
Forge Project offers six Indigenous artists, scholars, organizers, cultural workers, researchers, or educators will each receive $25,000, full access to the Forge Project site, libraries, and a lending collection of living Indigenous artists during a residency stay of up to three weeks
DEADLINE: February 15th, 2024
FILMMAKER AWARD
The Sony Future Filmmaker Awards are aimed at breakthrough artists and independent filmmakers worldwide. The shortlisted filmmakers are flown to Los Angeles for a four-day event gaining insight into all aspects of the filmmaking process, followed by a four-day workshop program. There are six categories: fiction, nonfiction, environment, animation, student, and future format.
DEADLINE: February 15th, 2024
EXHIBITION OR PERFORMANCE OPPORTUNITY
CHASHAMA is seeking proposals for both visual arts exhibitions and live performances for a window display on 37th st.
DEADLINE: February 19th, 2024
FILMMAKER GRANT
This partnership between Netflix and NewFest supports emerging LGBTQ+ filmmakers. Four filmmakers with documentary, narrative, animated or episodic projects by and about the LGBTQ+ community will each receive a $25,000 grant.
DEADLINE: February 22nd, 2024
OPPORTUNITY FOR COMPOSERS
The New Jersey Symphony is now accepting applications for the tenth annual Edward T. Cone Composition Institute. Winning composers will have their music performed by the New Jersey Symphony and will participate in in-depth career development sessions with industry leaders.
DEADLINE: February 23rd, 2024
CALL FOR ART
Ourboroughs is a celebration of the Year of the Dragon and calling for art of all backgrounds and creative mediums (including but not limited to fine arts, photography, musical performance, and poetry) that reference the dragon. Submissions are also open for vendors who would like to participate.
Art/Performance Application: https://forms.gle/9y6Gkas26ZW8SVUw8
Vendor Application: https://forms.gle/LaprtoQePjAJRLuWA
DEADLINE: February 23rd, 2024
COMMISSION
MTA Arts & Design seeks images of artists’ previous work to review in consideration for a new permanent Percent for Art project, in conjunction with the renovation of the New Lots Av station in Brooklyn. An approved fabricator will translate the final artwork designs into a durable medium.
DEADLINE: February 23rd, 2024
COMMISSION
MTA Arts & Design seeks images of artists’ previous work to review in consideration for a new permanent Percent for Art project, in conjunction with the renovation of the Junius St Station and Transfer Bridge in Brooklyn. An approved fabricator will translate the final artwork designs into a durable medium.
DEADLINE: February 23rd, 2024
EXHIBITION OPPORTUNITY
The Sculpture Center is seeking applicants for its 2025 Revealed Emerging Artist Series. Early career artists of the greater Ohio region (Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Kentucky, West Virginia, western Pennsylvania, western New York, or Ontario, Canada by birth, residency, or education, but need not be currently residing in the area) whose practice includes sculpture, installation, mixed and expanded media, relational aesthetics, and performance are eligible to apply.
DEADLINE: February 26th, 2024