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Bulletins
Listing of grants and calls for Seattle artists in this local online arts guide.
Art Detour
Seattle's largest open studio event featuring major buildings where artists work as well as private studios around the city. For the basic $50 registration fee, you'll be listed on the Art Detour map, on the web site, and in other promotional materials where appropriate.
Artist Trust See MULTIDISCIPLINARY
Seattle Public Library Informed Artist See MULTIDISCIPLINARY
Pilchuck Glass School
Emerging Artists-in-Residence Program
Offers four residency programs for independent artists with records of outstanding artistic accomplishment. Glass is the primary medium. There are also opportunities for artists working in metal and wood.
Pratt Fine Arts Center
Offers scholarships and fellowships to students enrolled in their programs.
Regional / National / International
Art and Design Exhibition Information
National calls for entries, craft shows, gallery listings, and opportunities for photographers in this Northern Michigan University Web site.
Arts For the Parks
Celebrates our nation's parks by holding a yearly competition of two-dimensional artwork depicting subjects governed by the National Park Service. Depending on the category, the prize ranges from $3,000 to $1,500.
Artists Register.com
A wide variety of opportunities including national calls for competitions, exhibitions, festivals and fairs, and residencies for visual artists.
Calling Marcel
Offers instantly updated Calls for Entry, Jobs, Grants, Residencies, Auditions and more, Calling Marcel is where artists, writers and performers go for the information they need to get ahead. It's also where arts related organizations come to discover the creative people they need to be successful.
Flintridge Foundation
Biennial Awards for Visual Artists program provides grants of $25,000 each
to mature visual artists in WA, OR and CA who have been working for 20 or
more years.
Jerry McCollum's Art Calendar
Lists competitions, shows, festivals, job opportunities, scholarships, and other events throughout the country.
The Pollock-Krasner Foundation
The dual criteria for grants are recognizable artistic merit and demonstrable financial need, whether professional, personal or both.
Visual Artist Information Hotline Factsheets
Factsheets on a variety of topics, including listings of private foundation and state arts councils that provide direct funding to artists working in painting, drawing, sculpture, printmaking, photography, and crafts. Scroll down to Funding. Also includes listings of galleries, public art programs and organizations that maintain slide registries. From the New York Foundation for the Arts.
Subscription Sites
Art Calendar
A monthly subscription magazine that includes hundreds of listings of juried shows, residencies, grants, galleries reviewing portfolios, and publishing opportunities in each issue. Yearly subscriptions range from $33 to $47.
ArtAnnouncements.com
A trilingual art portal that provides visual artists
with art Deadlines and Call for submissions, as well as complementary
information such as Slide list registry programs and Ongoing portfolio
review programs for Europe, USA, Canada and Australia.
ArtDeadline.com
Monthly subscription based resource of hundreds of national and international announcements for artists of all disciplines. Membership to the site costs $24 per year.
Art Deadlines List
Free monthly print and e-mail newsletter announcing national funding, calls, competitions, auditions, and more for artists of all disciplines. You receive a more extensive listing if you pay to subscribe.
Global Art Competitions
Listings of international art competitions, funders, and art residencies. Annual cost is $24.
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