ROCKELLA SPACE MARCH OPPORTUNITIES:
CURATED LIST BY THE ROCKELLA TEAM
OUR CURATED LIST
Our monthly top picks of upcoming deadlines in March are curated by the Rockella Space Team for creatives from various industries.
EXHIBITION OPPORTUNITY
Anyone can submit a 500-word proposal describing a focused, idea-driven, and original group exhibition for a chance to have an Apexart exhibition.
DEADLINE: March 1st, 2025
Writing Fellowship
Artlab Editorial Fellowship is open to art writers from anywhere in the world, and at any stage of their career. The two selected Fellows will be provided $10,000 each to produce three pieces of writing for Artlab Editorial in 2025. Additionally, each Fellow will be paired with one of this year’s Fellowship Advisors for regular one-on-one guidance and mentorship throughout the program.
DEADLINE: March 3rd, 2025
PUPPETRY GRANT
The Jim Henson Foundation awards grants for the creation of innovative new works of contemporary puppet theater. There are three grants: workshop grants ($3,000), production grants ($7,000), and family grants ($4,000). Individual artists must apply through a fiscal sponsor.
DEADLINE: March 3rd, 2025
SCULPTURE AWARD
National Sculpture Society‘s Augusta Savage Grant is an unrestricted prize of $2,500 awarded to an emerging sculptor who self-identifies as Black or African American. Works inspired by nature are preferred.
DEADLINE: March 3rd, 2025
CALL FOR EXHBIITION
Artspace, Raleigh, NC seeks exhibition proposals from visual artists and curators across the U.S. for the 2026 exhibition cycle through early 2027 in Gallery 1 and Gallery 2. Open to professional, mid-career and established artists and curators residing in the U.S. Two-person or group proposals by artists are also welcomed.
DEADLINE: March 6th, 2025
FELLOWSHIP
Creative Catalyst Fellowship provides opportunities for independent artists to engage the public in critical issues impacting Asian American and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) across the country. Up to eight artists will receive $30,000 contracts to produce work with the potential to break through mainstream media and catalyze conversations around the following three themes: In it Together, Belonging, and Voting Together.
DEADLINE: March 6th, 2025
SCULPTURE COMPETITION
National Sculpture Society‘s Richard McDermott Miller Competition asks artists to successfully model a bust from life (from the neck up), working from a live model. Modeling will be done in front of an audience (sculptors, patrons, and others who are attending the Sculpture Celebration).
DEADLINE: March 10th, 2025
EMERGENCY GRANT
New York Foundation for the Arts‘ 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: March 11th, 2025
FELLOWSHIP FOR PHOTO AND MEDIA-BASED ARTISTS
The En Foco Artist Fellowship Program is designed to support artists of color who utilize lens-based mediums and digital media technologies in their creative processes. This program merges the previous Photography Fellowship and Media Arts Fund, creating a unified opportunity for photographers and media-based artists in New York State.
DEADLINE: March 13th, 2025
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Feminist Press is calling for Scholarly articles and Artistic works for a special issue of WSQ, which will consider the social, affective, and political consequences of living with chronic illness. WSQ is soliciting personal and researched essays that reflect this variety and map the critical and scholarly intersections of chronic illness with disability and critical race studies, notably in relation to lupus, but also related to health and healthcare issues.
DEADLINE; March 14th, 2025
MURAL COMMISSION
Artists are invited to submit past work samples to be considered for mural projects on NYC DOT property including pedestrianized asphalt space, concrete bike lane barriers, and other site types. NYC DOT Art may provide selected artists with up to $20,000 towards direct project costs dependent on project scope, including but not limited to all labor, paint, materials, and equipment.
DEADLINE: March 16th, 2025
CALL FOR ART
The MACRO Project invites New York State artists to submit original artworks to be selected for display on billboards located on well-trafficked roads in the Finger Lakes region.
DEADLINE: March 16th, 2025
WRITING FELLOWSHIP
The Daniel K. Inouye National Center for the Preservation of Democracy (Democracy Center) at the Japanese American National Museum (JANM) is thrilled to announce the 3rd annual Irene Yamamoto Arts Writers Fellowship. This year’s fellowship will award $5,000 unrestricted awards to two emerging writers of color who write critically about music.
DEADLINE: March 17th, 2025
EXHIBITION OPPORTUNITY PHOTO
Baxter St is proud to announce an open call for mid-career lens-based artists. This new initiative supports those artists who fall in between the categories of emerging and established artists.
DEADLINE: March 20th, 2025
CALL FOR VIDEO ART
Prospect Art is looking for video works for their 2027 programming, “Change/Exchange.” Entries will be considered for physical exhibitions and screenings presented in Los Angeles, Lisbon, and Budapest, a series of online screenings on their BROADCAST program, as well as the publication of articles on their ONE WORK program.
DEADLINE: March 23rd, 2025
CALL FOR PHOTOGRAPHY
Woman Made Gallery Open Call invites submissions for an exhibition exploring how women and non-binary artists use photography to engage with the pressing issues of our time. The exhibition seeks to highlight how the photographic medium—whether central or complementary to an artist’s practice—can be used to confront, question, and navigate contemporary socio-political challenges, innovative processes, and evolving technologies.
DEADLINE: March 29th, 2025
PUBLIC ART COMMISSION
The City of New York seeks artists interested in creating a public monument that honors women’s history.
DEADLINE: March 31st, 2025
FILM GRANT
The CAPE x TAAF Rising Filmmakers Finishing Fund provides 2 Asian American, Native Hawaiian, or Pacific Islander (AANHPI) filmmakers with $50,000 post-production finishing fund grants for their 2nd to 5th feature film.
DEADLINE: March 31st, 2025
FELLOWSHIP RESEARCH
The New York Public Library’s Picture Collection, part of the Wallach Division of Art, Prints, and Photographs, is pleased to offer the Picture Collection Artist Fellowship. The Fellowship supports artists or scholars engaged in the research, development, and/or execution of a new creative or scholarly work based on the Collection’s holdings. Fellowship stipends are awarded on a sliding scale from $2,000 to $5,000.
DEADLINE: March 31st, 2025
T SHIRT DESIGN RESIDENCY
The Tombolo Artist Residency is your opportunity to collaborate with Tombolo: we will design shirts based on your artwork as you work towards a solo exhibition that we host in New York City. The residency culminates in a solo show in New York City where Tombolo will take 0% commission; along the way, we will create at least two unique Tombolo shirts from your work, from which you will receive royalty payments for each shirt sold. We will also provide a stipend and marketing exposure via Tombolo’s channels, and mentorship from Tombolo’s founders.
DEADLINE: March 31st, 2025