ROCKELLA SPACE NOVEMBER OPPORTUNITIES:

OUR CURATED LIST

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

GRANT FOR WOMEN

The NYC Women’s Fund for Media, Music and Theatre provides grants to encourage and support the creation of digital, film, music, and live or online theatre content that reflects the voices and perspectives of all who identify as women.

DEADLINE: November 1st, 2023

PUBLIC ART COMMISSION

More Art’s Engaging Artists Commission is an opportunity for early career artists focused on the incubation and commissioning of a public art project and carries an $8,000 award to realize the project, plus cuartorial, conceptual, budgetary, and logistical mentorship.

DEADLINE: November 1st, 2023

LITERARY

The PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers recognizes 12 emerging writers each year for their debut short story published in a literary magazine, journal, or cultural website, and aims to support the launch of their careers as fiction writers. The winning writers each receive a $2,000 cash prize and will be published by Catapult in their annual anthology, Best Debut Short Stories: The PEN America Dau Prize.

DEADLINE: November 1st, 2023

VISUAL ARTS AWARD

Café Royal Cultural Foundation NYC will award an exhibition/project grant to NYC artists creating paintings, drawings, sculptures, and photographs.

DEADLINE: November 6th, 2023

SCULPTURE AWARD

The Stanley Bleifeld Memorial Grant is a prize of $5,000 sponsored by the National Sculpture Society. It is awarded annually to a sculptor who has demonstrated outstanding ability as a sculptor and who has created a body of work inspired by nature which includes works of sculpture in the round and in bas-relief.

DEADLINE: November 6th, 2023

PRIZE

The David Prize is a celebration of New Yorkers with ideas for extraordinary change. New York City’s best and biggest resource is its people and New Yorkers who are proximate to the City’s greatest challenges will build the best solutions. Open to any individual working in the five boroughs, the Prize welcomes those with the vision and conviction to change our communities, our culture, and our future for good.

DEADLINE: November 13th, 2023

EXHBITION OPPORTUNITY

The 2024 edition of the Every Woman Biennial is fast approaching! This is the 5th edition of the world’s largest all-women and non-binary art biennial which was founded in 2014 by artists C. Finley.

DEADLINE: November 15th, 2023

POETRY SLAM

The WADEintoACTIVISM Festival is looking for twelve (12) female-identifying poets* for their inaugural Poetry Slam event to be held at Arts on Site (12 St. Marks Place) on Saturday, December 9th.

DEADLINE: November 15th, 2023

QUEENS ARTS GRANT

Queens Arts Fund (QAF) offers project-based grants to Queens-based artists, artist collectives, and small non-profit organizations to support the local production of artwork and cultural programs that highlight, engage, and bolster the diverse communities of the Queens borough.

DEADLINE: November 21st, 2023

EXHIBITION OPPORTUNITY

Locust Projects invites local, national, and international artists to apply for the opportunity to access the space and resources to create ambitious, large-scale new work in our 625 sq ft PROJECT ROOM in our new space at 297 NE 67th Street.

DEADLINE: November 30th, 2023

OPPORTUNITY FOR PLAYWRITERS

Sundog Theatre‘s longtime series “The Originals” is seeking plays that actors will read, broadcast live on the web and be heard throughout New York City, the US, and worldwide. Sundog will pay a remuneration of $150 for each play that is used. There is no submission fee.

DEADLINE: November 30th, 2023

FELLOWSHIP

The Asian Cultural Council (ACC) has four distinct grant types to support immersive cultural exchange. The New York Fellowship is a six-month program that aims to foster grantees’ understanding of New York City’s many diverse cultures.

DEADLINE: November 30th, 2023