Every week, we gather a variety of artist opportunities from the DC area and beyond. Find one below and apply today — good luck! Click here for recent opportunities posts, and submit your opportunity listing here.
Opportunities
Instructors Wanted at The Art League — Alexandria, VA
Deadline: Until filled The Art League is looking for skilled instructors in all visual arts disciplines. We’re particularly keen to recruit new hires for our sculpture, stained glass, and watercolor departments. Preferred applicants will have a personable and patient disposition, excellent communication skills, and the ability to teach their medium to groups of beginning, intermediate, and/or advanced level students. Class sizes range, depending on enrollment, from around 5 to 30 students. Experience teaching is helpful but not an absolute requirement. To apply, send a cover letter with statement of intent, resumé, and 6-10 tiffs or jpegs of current work to Ariane D’Souza via email at [email protected].
Call for Entries, New Photography III, Academy Art Museum — Easton, MD
Deadline: January 9 The Academy Museum’s acclaimed national juried photography exhibition returns in its third year with artist, publisher and editor Kris Graves as juror. The open call invites photographers at any stage of their career to submit a cohesive body of work comprising of five images, made between 2019 and 2021. The exhibition seeks to showcase the most compelling and relevant work made by photographers all over the US. Click here to learn more.
2022 Janet & Walter Sondheim Prize — Baltimore
Deadline: January 10 The Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts, Inc. (BOPA) is proud to announce the 17th edition of the Janet & Walter Sondheim Prize. The prize will award $30,000 to a visual artist or visual artist collaborators living and working in the Baltimore region. Approximately three finalists will be selected for the final review for the prizes; their work will be exhibited in the Walters Art Museum in June and July, 2022. All Sondheim Prize Finalists will receive a Finalist Award of $2,500 each, and ten semi-finalists will receive a $500 award and an exhibition during Artscape 2022. We will also be awarding two residencies to finalists not selected for the Sondheim Prize: a six-week fully funded residency at Civatella Ranieri, in the Umbria region of Italy, and a six month long residency at the Bromo Seltzer Art Tower in Baltimore. For more information, click here.
The Gottlieb Foundation Individual Support Grant
Deadline: January 14 The Foundation wishes to encourage artists who have dedicated their lives to developing their art, regardless of their level of commercial success. Please note that these grants are available only to mature individual visual artists. The Foundation defines maturity in this case as having worked for 20 years or more in a mature phase of art. This program was conceived in order to recognize and support the serious, fully-committed artist, and we hope these individuals will consider applying. Twelve grants are awarded each year. For more information and to apply, click here.
Call for Entries, 33rd National Drawing & Print Competitive Exhibition — Baltimore
Deadline: January 14 Gormley Gallery invites entries for the annual National Drawing & Print Competitive Exhibition, juried this year by Joy Davis, Director and Curator of Waller Gallery in Baltimore. A minimum of $1,500 is available in purchase prize money. Drawings and prints (not photography) in any medium up to 60 inches high (with frame) are eligible with no limitations as to color, surface or materials. The exhibition will be on view March 7 through April 14, 2022. Learn more here.
Call for Entry, McLean Project for the Arts Spring 2022 Exhibitions — McLean, VA
Deadline now extended to January 17 McLean Project for the Arts is seeking solo exhibition proposals for the Spring of 2022. Contemporary living artists working in the Mid-Atlantic Region are invited to submit exhibition or project proposals to be on display in the Emerson and Atrium Galleries. The dates for the exhibitions will be from April 14 – June 11, 2022. For more information, Click here.
Summer 2022 Denbo Fellowship, Pyramid Atlantic Art Center — Hyattsville, MD
Deadline: February 18 The Denbo Fellowship is designed to offer artists, from a range of artistic disciplines, an environment conducive to individual and collaborative creative practice. This Fellowship will provide a unique opportunity to complete a new body of work at Pyramid Atlantic Art Center. Selected artists will receive access to Pyramid’s printshop, paper studio or bindery; technical assistance; a locker and flat file for tools and materials; use of standard shop supplies; and a stipend for travel, materials, housing, etc. ($250 two weeks, $350 three weeks, or $500 one month). For more information, click here.
Call for Exhibition Proposals, Pyramid Atlantic art Center — Hyattsville, MD
Deadline: February 18 Pyramid is currently interested in proposals for exhibitions to run between July 2022 to June 2023. While the call is open to all media, Pyramid is particularly interested in exhibitions that tie to one of its core art forms: printmaking, papermaking, and book arts. Proposals may come from curators, individual artists, or artist groups. For more information, click here.
2022 Summer Internships, Pyramid Atlantic art Center — Hyattsville, MD
Deadline: February 18 Pyramid Atlantic offers studio internships for enthusiastic and serious-minded college or recently graduated art students. Our interns assist resident artists, renters, artistic staff, with printmaking, papermaking, and book arts projects, and in outreach education programs. In addition to hands-on experience with artistic projects, interns gain an understanding of the day-to-day operation of a non-profit art center and gallery. For more information, click here.
Vita Paper Arts Residency, Pyramid Atlantic art Center — Hyattsville, MD
Deadline: February 18 Created in honor of artist Gregory Vita, this artist residency offers a competitive opportunity for emerging and seasoned artists alike who hope to gain more knowledge, improve their skills, and explore new techniques in papermaking. For more information, click here.
Honfleur Artist in Residency 2022 Program, Honfleur Gallery — D.C.
Deadline: March 31 Honfleur Gallery is delighted to announce the invitation to apply for its 2022 Artist-in-Residence program. This program is open to emerging or professional artists in any artistic discipline, including (but not limited to) visual, performing, spoken word, literary arts, film as well as curation of an exhibition. The artist must live in Ward 7 or 8 pursuing research or in the development stage or production of artistic project/exploration. Learn more here.
Re-runs: These were previously posted, but it’s not too late to enter!
Call for Entries, DADA 2.0, Del Ray Artisans Gallery – Alexandria, VA
Deadline: January 10 This exhibit invites artists to express absurdity and discontent through the lens of Dada. All forms of art are welcome – particularly the mediums of collage, cut-up writing, and sculpture, which embody the spirit of original Dada. The more absurd, the better! DADA 2.0 is a Del Ray Artisans exhibit open to all area artists; however, Del Ray Artisans members pay a lower entry fee. For more information, click here.
Marian Treger Fellowship for Enduring Creativity — Amherst, VA
Deadline: January 15 This VCCA fellowship is intended to support women artists (fiction writers, screenwriters, or visual artists) emerging in mid-life and beyond, whose creative paths, like Marian’s, may have been detoured or hindered by chronic health conditions or disabilities. In addition to a two-week residency at VCCA, the fellowship will include a stipend to help support the artist financially in order to be able to take this time away from her daily life and focus fully on her creative project. For more information, click here.
Fall Residencies, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts — Amherst, VA
Deadline: January 15 The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts is currently accepting applications from writers, visual artists, and composers for Fall 2022 residencies to take place between September 1 and December 31, 2022, at Mt. San Angelo in the foothills of Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains. During residencies lasting anywhere from two weeks to two months, VCCA Fellows enjoy private studios, private bedrooms, and meals, sequestered in the rolling foothills of Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains. VCCA Fellows are selected by peer review on the basis of professional achievement or promise of achievement in their respective fields. For more information, click here.
Call for Mural Artists, miXt Food Hall — Brentwood, MD
Deadline: January 15 miXt seeks an artist to paint an interactive selfie mural inside our food hall. The purpose of the mural is to provide additional entertainment where guests can photograph themselves and post on their social media. Examples above. Work comes with a $1,000 honorarium plus maximum reimbursement of $200 in supplies. For more information, click here.
Call for Apprentice Curator, DC Arts Center Curatorial Initiative 2022 — D.C.
Deadline: January 31 The Curatorial Initiative reflects DC Arts Center’s commitment to curatorial practice as an integral part of supporting emerging and under-recognized artists. Each year, an apprentice curator is selected to gain experience in the process of planning and mounting an exhibition by working with an experienced mentor curator. The program results in two exhibitions each year at the DC Arts Center, located in the Adams Morgan neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Learn how to apply here.
