ROCKELLA SPACE SEPTEMBER OPPORTUNITIES:

OUR CURATED LIST

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

ALL ABOUT PHOTO CALL FOR ENTRIES

Submit your best photographs within 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.34.

DEADLINE: September 5th, 2023

NEW YORK PRINT CENTER

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 8th, 2023

DANCER EMERGENCY GRANT

New York Foundation for the Arts‘ Rauschenberg Dancer Emergency Grant program will provide one-time grants of up to $3,000 to professional dancers in need, who are in dire financial emergency. Common circumstances include canceled performances, cutbacks or cancellations of dance engagement contracts, loss of touring opportunities, and ongoing shutdowns due to the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact.

DEADLINE: September 8th, 2023

BEAM CENTER OPEN CALL

Beam Center seeks design proposals for ambitious public artworks that will be brought to life through collaborations between youth and creative big thinkers. Selected project artists receive a $5,000 award and an approximately $15,000 fabrication budget.

DEADLINE: September 11th, 2023

LMCC GRANTS 

Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Creative Engagement, Creative Learning and UMEZ Arts Engagement programs provide technical support to applicants and awards of up to $16,000 to enable hundreds of arts projects in all disciplines, serving communities in New York City from Inwood to The Battery.

DEADLINE: September 12th, 2023

CALL FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS 

The Design Trust for Public Space is looking for photographers to apply for its Photo Urbanism Fellowship. This year’s fellow will work with the Green Space Connections project, documenting community-designed green space at NYC public housing developments. The fellowship includes a $15,000 stipend and a solo exhibition.

DEADLINE: September 12th, 2023

WOMEN'S STUDIES QUARTERLY CALL FOR PAPERS

Women’s Studios Quarterly is a peer-reviewed journal and open to interdisciplinary submissions that explore the literary, theoretical, and cultural lifeworlds created by and about unbearable being(s) for an issue published in the fall of 2024.

DEADLINE: September 15th, 2023

HRAF CALL FOR PAPERS

The International Human Rights Art Festival (IHRAF) is now accepting submissions for Queer Voices of the World: An Anthology Responding to Worldwide LGBTQ+ Criminalization, a printed anthology of queer writers from around the world who have been impacted by anti-LGBTQ+ legislation or authoritarian movements over the past ten years.

DEADLINE: September 15th, 2023

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 20th, 2023

CALL FOR NY MURALIST

The Haverstraw River Arts Fund Inc. requests submissions for consideration to create an original mural design in conjunction with the Haverstraw African American Connection (HAAC)’s Haverstraw African American Memorial Park in Haverstraw, NY’s Historic Downtown District.

DEADLINE: September 22nd, 2023

INTERNATIONAL OPEN CALL $10,000 PRIZE

The Foundwork Artist Prize is an annual juried award to recognize outstanding practice by emerging and mid-career artists working in any media.

DEADLINE: September 26th, 2023

EXHIBITION PROPOSAL

The selected candidates will be awarded an honorarium, production budget, materials budget, programming and logistical support to organize a six-week-long exhibition at EFA Project Space. For more information please see tabs below.

DEADLINE: September 29th, 2023

EXHIBITION OPPORTUNITY

A.I.R. Gallery is currently accepting submissions for the 2024 CURRENTS Exhibition, Free Expression and the Inexpressible. This exhibition invites work from artists working across all forms and disciplines who are interrogating the edges of free expression, mining its history, and positing new ways of thinking about what we can and cannot express.

DEADLINE: September 30th, 2023