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This board broadcasts call for submissions for all artistic disciplines and is updated regularly. Are you looking to participate in a festival, exhibition, contest, creative collective, or art project? Scroll through the posts below for all kinds of open calls. Are you looking to list your opportunity for artists? To add a Call, visit our Contribute page or click the link below.
Located in the Dupont Arts Building, NAMARA Projects is a new venue for research, deliberation, and presentation of curatorial work.
NAMARA works around the fluctuating borders of the traditional art world. The explorations conducted in the Project Space inform both independent and commissioned presentations. Through our work, we celebrate thoughtful work by contemporary artists; challenge traditions, experimenting with untested methods; and welcome new collaborators and audiences.
We invite curators to respond to this open call for curatorial proposals. There is no criteria nor deadline but we ask that your proposal is tailored to the space. Digital or online components are also welcome. A maximum of four proposals per year will be accepted.
McIntosh Gallery, Western University, seeks applications from emerging and established curators for a one-year Indigenous Curator in Residence (ICiR) position.
The ICiR will be a one-year appointment situated at McIntosh Gallery. The position is expected to commence in September 2022, leading to an exhibition to take place in the Fall of 2023 or Winter of 2024. Proposals that include off-site research and remote components will be welcomed. A member of First Nations, Métis, or Inuit peoples, the ICiR will foreground contemporary Indigenous artistic practices through an exhibition, an accompanying publication, and related public programs. The gallery will also welcome advice on potential purchases towards the development of the permanent collection.
ArtsPond is seeking 12 equity-seeking curators and arts support workers to join our team in 2022 and 2023 for a new initiative on digital justice and the arts.
Together There is a creative thought residency and ecosystem building effort to collectively envision a caring and just digital future led with, by, and for equity-seeking creators, curators, educators, and producers in Canadian arts and culture. It is generously supported by Canada Council for the Arts’ Digital Strategy Fund.
Please take a look if you are from one of four equity-seeking communities, including:
• Indigenous
• Racialized (Black and other people of colour)
• Outside the core (suburban, rural, remote)
• Disability (D/deaf, blind, neurodiverse, and other disabled).
The opportunities include:
• Creative Thought Residency Curators (4 positions, $10,625 flat fee fee each)
• Symposium Curators (4 positions, $10,625 flat fee each)
• Working Leads (4 positions, $22,500 maximum at living wage of $28 to $38 per hour).
Got questions? Join us for an information session on February 7, 2022 at 1 pm Eastern. Positions remain open until filled. Desired start date is between mid March and early April 2022.
Xpace is accepting workshop proposals from emerging artists, curators and art administrators!
Workshop proposals of any topic will be considered and Xpace will prioritize projects that:
* Can be planned and hosted online
* Utilize free and PWYC resources and/or require minimal to no purchase on behalf of the participants (ie) paid software like Adobe, expensive equipment, tools or materials
* Engages with specific skills that benefit emerging artists and students
Workshop facilitators are paid a fee of CAD $328 to develop and execute their project, with an option of requesting CAD $50 for additional materials.
We are accepting proposals on an ongoing deadline.
Arts AccessAbility Network Manitoba, with funding from the Canada Council for the Arts, mounts monthly online exhibitions to showcase the work of Canadian artists with disabilities. Our goal is to increase awareness of the amazing artworks being created by artists with disabilities, and to decrease barriers to participation in the arts for both makers and audiences.
Emerging and established artists of all disciplines are welcome to submit work for consideration. Submissions are reviewed by an AANM committee. Selected artists will receive CARFAC artist fees, and limited assistance with documentation/presentation of work if necessary. We thank you for your interest. Only selected artists will receive notification, however we will keep all submissions on file for consideration for future shows.
To apply, send a brief proposal and three small examples of your artworks to programming@aanm.ca.
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