Hi, friends—
Here we are in the latter part of January already! Projects are picking up steam—if not already in full swing—and it’s looking like an exciting year. My big news this week is that Dovetail, Young Space’s sibling project that features stories and interviews about contemporary art as it relates to place, is a recipient of a $15,000 grant from Arts Midwest for its inaugural Creative Midwest Media Cohort program. This opportunity will allow me to network with other independent and cooperative media outlets around the region and put into motion a project I’ve been wanting to get off the ground again for sometime: the print magazine!
Dovetail began as a print volume when my pal Vickie Vainionpää and I started it in early 2020, working remotely between my spot in Northeast Wisconsin and her studio in Montréal (mindbogglingly, we’ve never actually met IRL). We printed two issues before various things put it on hold, and although I’ve been wanting to dive back into print again since I relaunched the platform solo in 2022, the cost of doing that has, like everything, shot through the roof.
Now, I’m so pumped to be able to commission lots more stories with a particular emphasis on perspectives from the Midwest as a lovely way of kicking off what I hope will be an ongoing series that expands on ideas around contemporary art, nature, migration experiences, landscape, and more. Paying people and being transparent is so important, so being able to support artists and writers makes my heart feel so full.
With that, I just want to thank you so much for your support, and honestly, just being here. None of this means anything or would be any fun at all if you weren’t here to share it with.
See you next week!
—Kate
P.S. Paid subscribers, you can find a ton more opportunities further into February and beyond, now on yngspc.com/opportunities. I’m working on adding dozens more so that your lead time is greater. They’ll all eventually end up in the digest, too, but every once in a while I find out about one really close to the deadline, so bookmark that page! It’s updated several times each week. If you’re subscribed and still need the password, just reply to this email.
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What you’ll find below:
Featured artist: Vladan Sibinovic
From Dovetail: Ashley Garrett
Five exhibitions on view this week in Los Angeles, Milan, New York, and Stockholm
Fifteen opportunities for artists with deadlines coming up soon
Featured Artist: Vladan Sibinovic
“Happiness is always elusive, an ideal to which we aspire to. It is very difficult to define,” says Vladan Sibinovic, whose acrylic paintings capture pleasant if vaguely uncanny scenes in rich pastels. Shadows are cast in all directions as if the light source is directionless or moving all of the time, and various objects like vases and furniture sit in wide open, minimal architectural spaces, often featuring a window or a portal to another story or place.
“The internal-external duality that I encounter when trying to understand happiness is present in the paintings in the interior-exterior relationship,” Sibinovic says. “The viewer is placed inside a comfortable, safe, and seemingly perfect room where they can be lost in reverie. Surrounded by elements rich in symbolism that tell stories, a person is led to introspection,” while apertures and narrative devices transport them to another realm.
Sibinovic adds, “Through my paintings, I try to capture that thin line between the idea that happiness is outside of us and the concept that we need to find happiness within ourselves.” See more on his website and Instagram.
From Dovetail: Ashley Garrett
“The landscape is urgently calling for our attention, asking us to care for it,” says Ashley Garrett, whose gestural oil paintings recall the visions and sensations of walking through rural areas near where she lives and works in Upstate New York. Tuned in to damage that humans have wrought on the environment, she considers sustaining our emotional, physical, and spiritual connection to nature to be the most significant key to preserving it.
“My paintings are not literal depictions of landscape; they evolve from perceiving and experiencing physical aspects of place through marks and color,” Garrett says. Through swift brushstrokes and a vibrant palette, she describes them as “opening up” to feelings and connections to the land through the language of abstraction, evoking a certain kind of light or an interplay between blossoms and foliage that are blurred as they are in memory. She adds, “My focus is developing an empathy of the landscape that expands beyond human-centered perspectives.”
Continue reading and see more at dovetailmag.com.
Exhibitions
NEW YORK CITY | C L E A R I N G
Janine Iverson and Peter Shear: Find and Keep
Bold yet soft, direct yet brushy, quiet yet humming—these are some of the dualities that come to mind for this show by two phenomenal painters.
Runs through February 10
LOS ANGELES | MOSKOWITZ BAYSE
Matthew Gallagher: Impossible Apprenticeship
It’s been a while since I’ve seen a show title I liked as much as this one, but names aside, Matthew Gallagher’s ethereal graphite works are beautiful and mysterious. He often uses wax and drafting film, which adds an otherworldly effect.
Runs through February 10
STOCKHOLM | PUBLIC SERVICE GALLERY
Georg Wilson: Time Held Me Green and Dying
“In many Anglo-European folk tales, a protagonist must leave home for the unfamiliar outside world, on a quest or a journey, and resolution is only achieved by their return home.” In Georg Wilson’s solo exhibition, the artist considers ideas around belonging, nature, the seasons, and passing time.
Runs through February 16
NEW YORK CITY | CHART
Kiwha Lee: Light Punch
Daubs of color and the shadows of floating shapes meld with delicate geometric patterns in Kiwha Lee’s vibrant works, which draw on ancient Asian printmaking processes reinterpreted in oil paint.
Runs through March 9
MILAN | GALLERIA POGGIALI
Amy Bravo: Congratulations Hero!!!
The characters in Amy Bravo’s paintings and sculptural works always look like they’re overcoming an epic challenge in a world on fire, and Congratulations Hero!!! is certainly no exception for the artist’s first show in Italy.
Runs through March 22
Artist Opportunities
Deadlines are coming up soon to apply for these grants, fellowships, residencies, and more.
American Museum of Ceramic Art Residencies
Deadline: January 31
Short-term and long-term residencies at the American Museum of Ceramic Art provide artists with an accommodations stipend or furnished apartment, semi-private studio with 24/7 access, a $100-per-week living stipend, materials stipend, and firing stipend. Short term residencies, allocated for artists living in Southern California, do not include housing or an accommodations stipend.
Submission fee: none
The Field's Fiscal Sponsorship for Social Justice Arts Practitioners—Spring Cohort
Deadline: January 31 (next deadline for Summer Cohort is May 31)
This program is a subsidized fiscal sponsorship membership with special benefits for individual artists and art collectives or organizations who identify as members of a historically underrepresented or marginalized group and whose creative work puts into practice and furthers values of social justice, equity, and inclusion in their communities. Participation includes one year of fiscal sponsorship subsidized by The Field (value of $110) with all associated benefits including an artist profile where you can collect online donations, create crowdfunding campaigns, and request grant review; a one-hour consultation with a member of the Artist Services Staff (value of $75); and a virtual networking gathering hosted by The Field to connect each cohort’s artists.
Submission fee: none
Transmission Arts 2024 Residencies
Deadline: February 1
During a 10-day residency at Wave Farm, artists develop new transmission artworks, informed by access to a research library, equipment, unique workspace resources, and on-site staff support. In 2024, the Wave Farm Residency Program will emphasize “Live Performance for an Expanded Studio Audience.” Each residency will conclude with a public event at Wave Farm, which is also a live radio broadcast on Wave Farm Radio: WGXC 90.7-FM Radio for Open Ears in NY’s Upper Hudson Valley. An artist fee of $1,000 will be provided to each resident artist.
Submission fee: none
Artadia Awards: Los Angeles
Deadline: February 1
The Artadia Awards provide financial support, exposure, and recognition to artists. The awards are unrestricted, allowing artists to use the funds in any way they choose. Three Awardees receive unrestricted funds of $15,000, as well as access to the Artadia Network. Awardees are determined based on the sole discretion of the jury. Marciano Artadia Awardee receives unrestricted funds of $25,000.
Submission fee: none
U.S.-Japan Creative Artist Fellowships
Deadline: February 1
This fellowship is designed to shine a spotlight on the rich tapestry of U.S.-Japan artistic collaboration during the 2025 World Expo in Osaka. JUSFC and the NEA are committed to supporting and selecting up to five collaborative projects involving diverse artists from the United States and Japan, representing a wide range of artistic genres and regions from both countries. Each collaborative U.S.-Japan team will receive a $25,000 grant and will have one year to complete their project.
Submission fee: none
The Netherland-America Foundation Cultural Grants
Deadline: February 1 (round one of four in 2024)
The NAF is looking to fund exhibitions and performances for artists, promoting a high level of artistic and intellectual exchange between the United States and the Netherlands. A typical grant award is between $1,500 and $5,000, but higher or lower requests are considered. Applications must be submitted at least six months before the grant is needed.
Submission fee: none
Virginia A. Groot Foundation Grant for Ceramic or Sculpture Artists
Deadline: February 1
Each year, the Virginia A. Groot Foundation offers three grants to artists who have exceptional talent and demonstrated ability in ceramic sculpture or sculpture of diverse mediums. First place is $60,000, second is $30,000, and third is $20,000.
Submission fee: none
Fine Arts Work Center Visual Arts Fellowship
Deadline: February 1
Each year, the Work Center offers 20 seven-month residencies to a juried group of emerging visual artists, fiction writers, and poets. Each Fellow receives an apartment, a studio (for visual artists), and a monthly stipend of $1,250, plus an exit stipend of $1,000. Residencies run from October 1 through April 30. During this time, Fellows have the opportunity to pursue their work independently in a diverse and supportive community of peers.
Submission fee: $65
Sant Andreu Contemporani International Curatorial Residency
Deadline: February 1
SAC International Curatorial Residency Program 2024 is the residency program at Barcelona’s Sant Andreu Contemporani, co-organized with Institut Ramon Llull, in collaboration with Fabra i Coats - Fàbrica de Creació de Barcelona, available to international curators. The project must be presented at the country of residence of the curator or in another international venue that they decide. The residency covers €1,700 toward the expenses of jurying the prize and for the curatorial proposal, €2,000 for the production of the exhibition, and accommodation and travel.
Submission fee: none
MyMA Monthly Micro-Grant
Deadline: February 2
MyMA offers a monthly micro-grant of $500. It's free to apply with the creation of a free member account. This month's juror is Friend of The Artist.
Submission fee: none
Creative Australia Marten Bequest Traveling Scholarships
Deadline: February 6
The Marten Bequest Traveling Scholarships offer talented young artists (aged 21-35 at the closing date) based in Australia the chance to explore, study and develop their artistic gifts through traveling either interstate and/or overseas. In 2024, the scholarships will provide financial support for the disciplines of acting, instrumental music, painting, and poetry. In 2025, the scholarships will provide financial support for the disciplines of architecture, ballet, prose, sculpture and singing. Scholarships are each worth $50,000, payable in quarterly installments over two years.
Submission fee: none
Grilled Cheese Grant for Southeast Wisconsin Artists
Deadline: February 9
The Grilled Cheese Grant (GCG) is an annual community fundraising event and visual artist grant that provides financial support for undergraduate seniors and emerging artists in Wisconsin. Attendees to the event on March 23 donate $10 or more to receive a grilled cheese sandwich, and all attendees receive a ballot to cast their vote for one of five selected finalists, chosen through an application process by a jury of creative professionals. Each selected finalist exhibits work as part of the one-day event. The funds raised prior to and during the Grilled Cheese Grant are totaled and awarded to the selected finalists in the form of an artist/project grant to support their proposed projects.
Submission fee: none
MacDowell Colony Fellowships
Deadline: February 10
About 300 artists in seven disciplines are awarded Fellowships each year for residencies at MacDowell Colony, and the sole criterion for acceptance is artistic excellence. There are no residency fees, and need-based stipends and travel reimbursement grants are available to open the residency to the broadest possible community of artists.
Submission fee: $30 (a fee waiver may be available)
Mudflat Pottery School Artist of Color Summer Residency
Deadline: February 11
This residency at Mudflat Studio in Somerville, Massachusetts, includes studio space at Mudflat Pottery School; a $2,500-per-month stipend towards housing, materials, and expenses; opportunities to teach in our educational programs or workshops; and opportunities for retail sales of work. Residencies can be one, two, or three months long during the months of June, July, and August, to be determined by the applicant based on residency goals and schedule.
Submission fee: none
BBA Artist Prize
Deadline: February 19
20+ artists are selected by BBA's international jury to exhibit in Kühlhaus Berlin, a 600-square-meter venue in Berlin, in May 2024. BBA will award 5 prizes, including international exposure and cash prizes. First prize winner receives a solo show at BBA Gallery.
Submission fee: €39
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