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The Julia Zagar Residency for Women Artists was developed in 2016 by community leader, entrepreneur, and arts supporter, Julia Zagar. A trip to Mexico when she was 19 years old ignited Zagar’s lifelong passion for the country and its culture, and she later received her BFA from The University of the Americas in Mexico City. This experience, followed by three years of service in the Peace Corps in Peru in the 1960s prompted her support of international folk artists and the collection of their work. For the last 50 years Zagar has cultivated relationships with artisans throughout Latin America, encouraging their work and exposing Philadelphia to their talent. The goal of the residency is to support contemporary female artists working in the tradition of handcrafting and folk art, with a particular focus on Mexican and South American artisans. Those selected are invited to stay in Philadelphia, engage with the city, and present an exhibition at Philadelphia’s Magic Gardens.

The Library’s art collection, permanent and rotating, has become a popular feature and sets the Cherry Hill Public Library apart from other public buildings. The CHPL Art Gallery (located on the lower level) showcases artists from the amateur to those whose work is known worldwide. The gallery exhibit rotates monthly. In addition to the gallery, other art is displayed throughout the building and many pieces on long-term or permanent loan. If you are interested in featuring your art in the Library, please contact Valerie Carita at (856) 903-1205 or vcarita@chplnj.org.

The Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts & Sciences, Loveladies, New Jersey, invites applications to "Works on Paper" 2024, our 26th Annual National Juried Competition & Exhibition. Works on Paper includes Drawing, Painting on Paper, Prints, Photography, Digital Works on Paper, and wall hung Paper constructions. A printed catalog of selected artwork is planned to accompany the Gallery exhibition. Juror is Kim Conaty, Curator of Drawings & Prints, the Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC. Three cash Prizes and three Honorable Mentions will be awarded by the Juror. The competition and exhibition is open to emerging as well as established artists working in the continental US. Sixty-five artworks will be selected. Prizes to be awarded and a printed catalog.

The Rutgers Film Co-op/New Jersey Media Arts Center proudly announces the 29th Annual New Jersey International Film Festival. The festival will be held between May 31-June 9, 2024 at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey and will showcase the best in independent film by featuring premiere screenings, special guest appearances by film directors, screenwriters, cast and crew and more.

Attention all artists! We are seeking your creativity to enhance and inspire our community through art in our art galleries! Throughout the year, we offer over 20 artful exhibits in 3 gallery spaces, many of which display the works of local artists. Every season will offer opportunities for artists to bring their work into the light and share their vision with the community.

Creative Capital welcomes innovative and original new project proposals in visual arts, performing arts, film/moving image, technology, literature, multidisciplinary, and socially engaged forms. The Creative Capital Award provides unrestricted project grants up to $50,000 which can be drawn down over a multi-year period, bespoke professional development services, and community-building opportunities. Grants are awarded via a democratic, national, open call, external review process. The first round of the application process consists of 6 questions. Our goal is to fund approximately 50 individual artists creating conceptually, aesthetically, and formally challenging, risk-taking, and never-before-seen projects.

Jazz Road Tours, a program of South Arts with funding from the Doris Duke Foundation and the Mellon Foundation, provides grants of up to $15,000 to jazz artists to develop tours into communities across the country. Support is provided for small, three-to-six site tours at an array of venue types anywhere in the U.S and its territories. Applications that include engagements in rural areas or that reach typically underserved communities, especially those that lack opportunities to present live jazz, will be prioritized. Individual professional jazz artists (as an individual, an artist-led nonprofit organization, or an artist-led corporation), working solo or working with a composer-led or collective jazz ensemble, are eligible to apply.

Grants of up to $7250 will be awarded to 24 performing arts organizations for the creation of individual institutional emergency preparedness or Continuity of Operations (CoOP) plans.

Rolling Deadline: submit between August 1, 2023 and March 1, 2024.

The Teiger Foundation provides grants for U.S.-based, curator-led initiatives in contemporary visual art. Supported initiatives may include group exhibitions, single-artist surveys, participatory and community-engaged art projects, digital exhibitions, live and virtual performance in the context of the visual arts, and as-yet-unknown curatorial forms involving contemporary visual art and artists. Grant categories include grants of up to $150,000 for single projects led by curators at organizations of all sizes; grants of up to $150,000 for three years of programming at organizations with annual budgets less than $3.5 million, including independent art spaces, contemporary art centers, nonprofit art institutions, kunsthalles, university galleries, and small contemporary art museums; grants of up to $75,000 for hosting exhibitions that originated elsewhere; and grants of up to $50,000 for curatorial research and development in the earliest stages of a project. 501(c)(3) institutions in the U.S. are eligible to apply. | Application deadline: Applications will be accepted from January 2 to February 14, 2024.

Grants for Arts Projects (GAP) provides expansive funding opportunities to strengthen the nation’s arts and cultural ecosystem. Grants are available for arts projects in a wide variety of artistic disciplines. Each discipline has identified the types of projects that are of greatest interest within this program as well as the characteristics of competitive applications.