ROCKELLA SPACE JANUARY OPPORTUNITIES:

OUR CURATED LIST

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

VISUAL ARTS GRANT

The NOT REAL ART Grant for Artists is a $12,000 annual award designed to empower the practice of 6 contemporary artists, each receiving $2,000.

DEADLINE: January 1st, 2024

ART FAIR

NADA is pleased to announce that applications are now open for the 10th edition of NADA New York, to take place May 2–5, 2024 at 548 West, located at 548 West 22nd Street in Chelsea.

DEADLINE: January 5th, 2024

PHOTOGRAPHY PRIZE

The Aperture Portfolio Prize aims to identify trends in contemporary photography and highlight artists whose work deserves greater recognition. When choosing the first prize winner and finalists, Aperture’s editorial staff looks for innovative bodies of work that haven’t been widely seen in major publications or exhibition venues.

DEADLINE: January 5th, 2024

COMMISSION

CHASHAMA, in partnership with the MTA is calling for proposals for a window display. All 2D and 3D artworks are considered. Artwork must be appropriate for all ages and pass fireproofing standards.

DEADLINE: January 7th, 2023

VISUAL ARTS GRANT

The Asian American Arts Alliance (A4) invites NYC-based artists who will be selected as project awardees. Each artist will receive $1,500 to create and carry out ideas to engage, aid, and care for the Asian New Yorker community with a focus on Chinatown, Manhattan; Flushing, Queens; and Sunset Park, Brooklyn. The project engagements must be completed within four months (February 1–June 2, 2024).

DEADLINE: January 7th, 2024

PLAYWRIGHT AWARD

All emerging women, trans, and non-binary playwrights are eligible to apply to win a cash prize of $5,000, and a public reading and summer workshop as part of the Powerhouse Theater Program at Vassar College.

DEADLINE: January 8th, 2024

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 8th, 2024

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 8th, 2024

FELLOWSHIP

FABnyc‘s Lower East Side (LES) Young Artists of Color Fellowship invites artists of color in any discipline between the ages of 18 and 26 to apply. Each fellow will receive a $500 stipend.

DEADLINE: January 9th, 2024

MAGAZINE COMPETITION

Make-a-Mag is a unique competition that will award one winner the chance to launch their magazine idea with the first print run provided free of charge.

DEADLINE: January 12th, 2024

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 12th, 2024

EXHIBITION OPPORTUNITY

Bronx Council on the Arts (BCA) invites Bronx artists from all disciplines and independent curators to submit their proposals for the FY2025 Exhibition Season. This upcoming season’s theme is “The World We Want To Live In.”

DEADLINE: January 14th, 2024

PRODUCTION GRANT

MAAF provides support for the completion and/or public presentation of new works in all genres of sound and moving image art, including emergent technology. Grant awards assist artists in completing new work, reaching public audiences, and advancing artistic exploration and public engagement in the media arts.

DEADLINE: January 15th, 2024

VISUAL ARTS 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 17th, 2024

VISUAL ARTS GRANT

En Foco’s Media Arts Fund: Work in Progress (WIP) Initiative is a grant to support New York City based, early-career artists of color who engage with digital media technologies in their art-making processes. In collaboration with BronxNet, these $2,000 awards will focus on applicants needing support for the completion of a quality work in progress, as determined by a panel of professionals.

DEADLINE: January 27th, 2024

ART PRIZE

The Recharge New Surrealist Prize is a $7,000 award for painters who are working in the New Surrealist Style and living in the United States and/or U.S. Territories. The award, formerly known as the Recharge Foundation Fellowship for New Surrealist Art, is administered by NYFA, with funding provided by the Gu Family of the Recharge Foundation

DEADLINE: January 31st, 2024

TECH FELLOWSHIP

The Social Science Research Council is seeking applicants for the third cohort of the Just Tech Fellowship. This fellowship supports and mobilizes diverse and cross-sector cohorts of practitioners to imagine and create more just, equitable, and representative technological futures. Fellows have committed to identifying and challenging injustices emerging from new technologies and pursuing solutions that advance social, political, and economic rights.

DEADLINE: January 31st, 2024

GRANT

Through Staten Island Arts‘ grants process, individual artists, art collectives, and small-budget nonprofit organizations are eligible to receive funding for cultural activities. Funding is available for artists who are both Staten Island residents and creating projects on Staten Island during the year grants are issued..

DEADLINE: January 31st, 2024