ROCKELLA SPACE JANUARY OPPORTUNITIES | Rockella Space

ROCKELLA SPACE JANUARY OPPORTUNITIES:

Curated List By The Rockella Team

OUR CURATED LIST

Our monthly top picks of upcoming deadlines in January are curated by the Rockella Space Team for creatives from various industries.

BUFFALO AREA GRANT

A $300 good-faith grant for artists and curators who are realizing a project in the greater Buffalo area. This is no-strings-attached money that an artist or curator can use in whatever way they feel it’s needed.

DEADLINE: January 1st, 2025

EMERGENCY GRANT

PEN America is an organization of writers and their allies, and that solidarity is never more important than when members of our literary community face crises. PEN America’s U.S. Writers Aid Initiative, part of the PEN America Writers Emergency Fund, offers grants for writers in the United States facing acute financial need following an emergency situation. Visit the application page for more information and to view full eligibility guidelines.

DEADLINE: January 1st, 2025

GRANT FOR MOTHERS

Artists & Mothers is committed to supporting New York City-based artists who identify as mothers with children under the age of three with grants for $25,000 to be used for childcare expenses. Visual artists, performing artists, and artists practicing in socially-engaged forms are invited to apply.

DEADLINE: January 2nd, 2025

RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP

The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation is pleased to announce an open call for applications to the fifth annual Archives Research Residency, a one- to three-week research intensive at the Rauschenberg Foundation Archives in New York City. The program provides support for accommodations and other expenses related to the visit.

DEADLINE: January 3rd, 2025

PHOTOGRAPHY AWARD

Sony World Photography Awards the best single images in ten categories: architecture, creative, motion, landscape, lifestyle, natural world & wildlife, object, portraiture, street photography, and travel.

DEADLINE: January 3rd, 2025

VIDEO COMMISSION

The UVP Open Commission is an opportunity for media artists to come to Syracuse and make new video/electronic work for public exhibition at our projection site on the facade of the Everson Museum of Art.

DEADLINE: January 6th, 2025

FELLOWSHIP

The Loeb Fellowship is designed for civic leaders, journalists, architects, technologists, urban planners and designers, activists, landscape architects, policymakers, and public artists. The program is for people in mid-career, with a minimum of 5-10 years of experience in the field

DEADLINE: January 6th, 2025

CALL FOR ART

SaveArtSpace x Womxn in Windows is proud to present American Gurl: home — land, a group public art exhibition on billboard ad space in Los Angeles, CA, during Frieze Los Angeles, opening February 14, 2024, curated by Zehra Zehra & Kilo Kish.

DEADLINE: January 6th, 2025

FELLOWSHIP

The Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School is pleased to announce its 2025–2027 Focus Theme, Matter of Intelligence, and Open Call. Our newly envisioned Open Call, now spanning two rounds, is designed to welcome ideas and project proposals that find support and advance across a range of VLC’s programs and initiatives, including our signature fellowship program.

DEADLINE: January 6th, 2025

PHOTOGRAPHY FELLOWSHIP

The New York Botanical Garden (NYBG)’s Humanities Institute cordially invites applicants for a nine-month Larry Lederman Photography Fellowship, awarded to an outstanding photographer whose work focuses on gardens or landscapes. The grant is awarded annually to an established or emerging photographer whose work demonstrates excellence and a creative approach to the art of landscape photography.

DEADLINE: January 6th, 2025

ART FAIR

NADA is pleased to announce that applications are now open for the 11th edition of NADA New York, to take place May 8–11, 2024 at 548 West, located at 548 West 22nd Street in Chelsea.

DEADLINE: January 6th, 2025

GRANT

What Can We Do? (WCWD?) is an artist grant program that supports artists and their creative projects showing care to the Asian American Arts Alliance community in NYC. The program was created in response to the sharp increase in anti-Asian hate and violence during the pandemic which caused many people to experience grief, anxiety, and fear.

DEADLINE: January 7th, 2025

PHOTOGRAPHY PRIZE

The Aperture Portfolio Prize is an international competition that aims to identify trends in contemporary photography and highlight artists whose work deserves greater recognition. When choosing the first-prize winner and shortlist, our judges will look for innovative bodies of work that have not been widely seen in major publications or exhibition venues.

DEADLINE: January 10th, 2025

GRANT

For 35 years, the Bronx Council On The Art’s BRIO Award has recognized artists from a wide range of creative disciplines who have the ability to showcase their artistic practice through technique and knowledge of their craft. Each year, BRIO provides direct support of $5,000 to individual Bronx artists who create works in the literary, media, visual, and performing arts. Artists who have received a BRIO award represent the vast diversity of Bronx residents, inclusive of all ethnicities, ages, and genders. Over the years, BRIO has become one of the most coveted distinctions amongst artists residing in the Bronx.

DEADLINE: January 13th, 2025

 

EMERGENCY GRANT

Rauschenberg Medical Emergency Grant program provides one-time grants of up to $5,000 for recent unexpected medical, dental, and mental health emergencies to artists in financial need* who are creating in the visual arts, film/video/electronic/digital arts, and choreography.

DEADLINE: January 14th, 2025

CASTING CALL

Seeking actors for a senior thesis film from NYU Tisch School of the Arts. This festival-bound and online-distributed project explores the journey of a Vietnamese man navigating life in the United States after a painful divorce.

DEADLINE: January 18th, 2025

PRODUCTION GRANT

The Gottlieb Foundation wishes to encourage artists who have dedicated their lives to developing their art, regardless of their level of commercial success. Grants are available only to individual painters, sculptors, and printmakers who have worked in a mature phase of art for 20 years or more.

DEADLINE: January 15th, 2025

GRANT

The Staten Island Arts grant cycle includes five opportunities: DCLA Premier Grants, DCLA Art Fund Grants, NYSCA Encore Grants, NYSCA Arts Bring Change (ABC) Regrants and SU-CASA.

DEADLINE: January 31st, 2025