ROCKELLA SPACE SEPTEMBER OPPORTUNITIES:
CURATED LIST BY THE ROCKELLA TEAM
OUR CURATED LIST
Our monthly top picks of upcoming deadlines in September are curated by the Rockella Space Team for creatives from various industries.
POET AWARD
The Academy of American Poets First Book Award is a $5,000 first-book publication prize. The winning manuscript, chosen by an acclaimed poet, is published by Graywolf Press, an award-winning independent publisher committed to the discovery and energetic publication of contemporary American and international literature.
DEADLINE: September 1st, 2024
EXHIBITION OPPORTUNITY
Founded by Kimberly Salib in 2005, Art Gotham is a cutting-edge art gallery representing early and mid-career contemporary artists. With locations in Soho and the East Village, Art Gotham is dedicated to providing a platform for emerging talent and fostering a vibrant artistic community in New York City.
DEADLINE: September 2nd, 2024
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
In tandem with the 2024 Center For Architecture festival, Tracing the Future invites submissions that reflect a visionary gaze towards what lies ahead. Create a design for a postcard that is representative of the New York City you envision. Award $500 cash prize.
DEADLINE: September 2nd, 2024
CALL FOR PAPERS
This special issue of Women’s Studios Quarterly takes this question as the starting point to consider the ways in which the physical body (re)defines feminist scholarship, art, and activism in light of environmental, political, and global emergencies and transformations taking hold at the present moment.
DEADLINE: September 2nd, 2024
CALL FOR PHOTOGRAPHY
Submit your best photographs using the theme “shapes.” Winners will receive $1,000 in cash, and their winning image(s) or full portfolio will be published in AAP Magazine Vol.42.
DEADLINE: September 3rd, 2024
PRINTMAKING OPPORTUNITY
New Voices is Print Center New York’s annual open call program, which provides opportunities for a curator-selected cohort of six to eight U.S.–based artists to present their work and develop their practices through a group exhibition, artist-led public programming, focused conversation and community-building, and individualized resources for artistic and professional development.
DEADLINE: September 6th, 2024
EXHIBITION OPEN CALL
The Society of American Graphic Artists’s Mini Gems is a national, juried miniature print exhibition, held in our gallery in Union Square, NYC since 2022. Two hundred miniature prints will be on show on Saturdays from December 7, 2024 to January 4, 2025, giving over $1000 in awards. This is a call open to all print artists across the country.
DEADLINE: September 6th, 2024
GRANT FOR PUBLISHING
The Printed Matter Publisher Work Grant offers an unrestricted award in recognition of past work that publishers may determine how to best utilize in support of their future book projects and life as an artist.
DEADLINE: September 10th, 2024
LMCC GRANTS
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Creative Engagement, Creative Learning and UMEZ Arts Engagement programs provide technical support to applicants and award grants to enable hundreds of arts projects in all disciplines, serving communities in New York City from Inwood to The Battery.
DEADLINE: September 10th, 2024
RESIDENCY
SU-CASA is a community arts engagement program that places artists and organizations for collaborative residencies at senior centers across the five boroughs of New York City. The program provides selected artists with a stipend in exchange for the creation and delivery of arts programming for older adults.
DEADLINE: September 10th, 2024
EXHIBITION OPPORTUNITY
Open Call for the 2025 Summer Exhibition period at Wassaic Projects in all mediums, including 2D work, sculpture, video, new media, site-specific installation, performance, text, poems, essays, publication-specific work, etc.
DEADLINE: September 20th, 2024
CALL FOR FILMS
The Wavestock Film Festival is accepting short film submissions in the following categories: documentary, fictional narrative, and music video. Films must be between 1-21 minutes in length and be made after January 1, 2018.
DEADLINE: September 28th, 2024