“One doesn’t arrive—in words or in art—by necessarily knowing where one is going. In every work of art, something appears that does not previously exist, and so, by default, you work from what you know to what you don’t know.” —Ann Hamilton
I hope you’ve been enjoying the holidays and finding some time to take it easy, too. It’s been relatively calm in my neck of the woods this year, as the family in town tends to alternate depending on where people are located—and how far. My youngest sister is in Australia, for example, and my aunt and her family are all down in Peru. Getting everyone back in one house for a meal is always a bit of a feat. But the chill years are also great, and I’m getting better at figuring out how to portion dinner for different size crowds—also, weirdly, a feat!
I’ll be relatively brief here, as this is kind of a brief digest. With many galleries closed through the holidays, I’ve skipped featured exhibitions this week, but I’ll be back with more next week. Emphasis today is definitely on opportunities because there are lots of deadlines coming up in the next few weeks. I’m also excited to launch a series of occasional Q+As, more information about which you can find below.
Wishing you a wonderful and fresh start to 2025, and I’ll see you next week.
—Kate
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What you’ll find below:
Featured artist: Zach Harris
A new Q+A series!
Seventeen opportunities for artists with deadlines coming up soon
Featured Artist: Zach Harris
Zach Harris’s marvelous, uncannily architectural paintings are begun with a carved wooden surface, creating myriad textures and relief details over which he paints. His current show Karma Cloud evokes “altered states of consciousness, where utopia and dystopia intertwine in a dialogue between the familiar and the otherworldly.” Glyph-like motifs repeat throughout some of the works, while rich sunset gradients, stars, and other symbols interact in an interplay of flatness and depth; dimension and meaning.
Karma Kloud, curated by Domenico de Chirico, is on view at ABC Arte in Milan through January 18.
Q+A: Alexis Hyde
“I love potential. I love grit. I love people doing their own thing, because those are the themes that resonate with me most.” —Alexis Hyde
Los Angeles-based advisor and curator (and many other wonderful things besides) Alexis Hyde has the best opening to a bio ever. She “sweats art, willingly, and it’s not always pretty.” I can relate. Hyde has worked as a museum director, art dealer, podcast host, and writer, and she is also the current director of the Quinn Emanuel Artist-in-Residence program, which hosts artists in both its London and LA offices.
In the inaugural conversation in a new Young Space Q+A series, which heads your way on Sunday, Hyde speaks about finding her footing in the Los Angeles art scene; collaborating with collectors, artists, and organizers; and taking the work of art seriously.
Paid subscribers, you’re first to see this new series of Q+As with artists and art world professionals-at-large that will go out in addition to this digest. (I’ll open to all subscribers within a couple of weeks.)
Artist Opportunities
Young Space emphasizes fully-funded opportunities with low or no entry fees and programs that focus on creative and professional development for visual artists and curators. Deadlines are coming up soon to apply for these grants, fellowships, residencies, and more.
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ISCP Pollock-Krasner Foundation Residency 2025
Deadline: January 3
The International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) is pleased to announce an open call for a fully-funded residency, with a monthly stipend of $3,050, for visual artists who live and are eligible to work in the U.S. ISCP is currently accepting applications from late-emerging to mid-career painters, sculptors, photographers, and artists working on paper, including printmakers, who would like to engage with ISCP’s unique and dynamic programming and creative community. The residency program includes 24-hour access to a private, furnished studio space; monthly meetings with visiting critics; field trips to museums, galleries and other cultural venues; and participation in public talks.
Submission fee: none
Filter Photo CONTEXT 2025 Open Call
Deadline: January 5
All types of photographic work will be considered for this annual survey exhibition of contemporary photography. This open theme allows for the widest understanding of current photography practices. Context 2025 will open on March 7 and will remain open through April 19. A juror’s choice award and an honorable mention will be awarded. The juror’s choice award includes a $500 cash prize.
Submission fee: $35 for up to five entries
Yaddo Residencies
Deadline: January 6 for residencies starting in May
Yaddo offers residencies to professional creative artists from all nations and backgrounds working in one or more of the following disciplines: choreography, film, literature, musical composition, painting, performance, photography, printmaking, sculpture, and video. An abiding principle at Yaddo is that applications for residency are judged solely on the quality of the work. Yaddo places no publication, exhibition or performance requirements on artists in residence. Modest Access Grants are available, applications for which are sent with invitations to attend.
Submission fee: $35
Larry Lederman Photography Fellowship at New York Botanical Garden
Deadline: January 6
The New York Botanical Garden (NYBG)’s Humanities Institute cordially invites applicants for a nine-month Larry Lederman Photography Fellowship, awarded to an outstanding photographer whose work focuses on gardens or landscapes. The grant is awarded annually to an established or emerging photographer whose work demonstrates excellence and a creative approach to the art of landscape photography. The selected Fellow will receive a $20,000 grant disbursed in two installments for a nine-month term (March 15 to December 15, 2025) during which time the Fellow will have complimentary access to NYBG’s 250-acre landscape and historic collections.
Submission fee: none
Asian American Art Alliance "What Can We Do?" Grant
Deadline: January 7
What Can We Do? (WCWD?), presented by the Asian American Arts Alliance (A4), is a grant opportunity for artists looking to support the Asian and AAPI communities in NYC with engaging, creative projects rooted in care. For this program, a minimum of 15 NYC-based artists will be selected as project awardees by A4. Each artist will receive $1,500 to create and carry out ideas to engage, aid, and care for the Asian New Yorker community with a focus on Chinatown, Manhattan; Flushing, Queens; and/or social justice projects focused on the support of NYC-based Palestinian creators and their communities. The project engagements must be completed within a four-month period (February 4 to June 3, 2025).
Submission fee: none
Powerhouse Arts Artist Subsidy Program for NYC-based Artists
Deadline: January 8
The Artist Subsidy Program is designed to subsidize fabrication services for New York City–based artists facing financial barriers in realizing their projects, with an emphasis on supporting low-income artists with other marginalized identities, specifically Black, Indigenous, artists of color, LGBTQIA+, disabled, and refugee artists. Artists receive subsidized labor costs up to $6,250 for fabrication services, including materials, in one of the Powerhouse Arts shops.
Submission fee: none
Royal Society of British Artists 2025 Exhibition Open Call
Deadline: January 8
The RBA Annual Exhibition brings together the Society's members, among the finest artists in the U.K. and beyond, to showcase their work alongside a selection of works by non-members. The exhibition offers major accolades, including The Huaicun Zhang Award. For the first time, this award of £10,000 will be divided into two rewards: £5,000 for a work by a member, and £5,000 for a work by a non-member exhibitor. Numerous other prizes are also offered.
Submission fee: £20 per work, or £14 per work for artists aged 35 or under. The submission fee includes free admission to the exhibition (normally £5)
VisArts 2025 Emerging Curator Program
Deadline: January 10
The VisArts Emerging Curator Program offers a unique opportunity for an emerging curator or artist with an interest in exhibition-making or curating to work with an experienced mentoring curator to develop and present an exhibition and to assist in the presentation of the mentor’s exhibition. VisArts will provide a $10,000 budget to cover exhibition costs and curatorial fees. Additional staff support for printing, promotions, and execution of exhibition programming is available. The program is one year and will begin in January 2025.
Submission fee: none
The Derek Hill Foundation – Glenveagh National Park Artists Residency
Deadline: January 10
The Derek Hill Foundation with the Glebe Gallery, Glenveagh National Park (National Parks and Wildlife Service), and Regional Cultural Centre invite an artist to spend three weeks immersed in the remote landscapes of Donegal between March and April 2025. Visual Artists are invited to explore all aspects of Glenveagh including the natural ecology, heritage, culture and local communities. Accommodation is provided in a comfortable cottage and a payment of £2,000 is available to cover expenses. Participating artists will be expected to deliver at least one publicly engaged event as well as written and visual reports of how their time was spent. Artists must be based in the U.K. or Republic of Ireland and have a minimum of 3 years professional practice experience.
Submission fee: none
Artist Residency Center Athens NOLA/NYC Research Fellowship
Deadline: January 12
ARCAthens supports visual artists, curators, and scholars through its artist residency program. By expanding the program's scope to include cultural exchange between Greece and the United States, they aim to foster international dialogue, cooperation, and understanding. The NOLA/NYC Research Fellowship invites artists and curators based in Greece to spend two months in two U.S. cities: New Orleans and New York City. The fellowship prize is $2,000; the cost of basic coach air travel is provided; and a stipend of $250/week is provided in addition to the fellowship prize to offset food and local transportation expenses.
Submission fee: none
Kali Baker Memorial Call for Public Art (Omaha)
Deadline: January 12
The Kali Baker Memorial Call for Public Art is open to Omaha-area artists working to express community care, curiosity, resilience, and joy in sculpture and other three-dimensional mediums. This Request for Qualifications (RFQ) is the first phase in selecting an artist who will be awarded a project budget of up to $40,000 to create a new public artwork in memory of Kali Baker, an arts advocate, community builder, and beloved friend and family member who died in 2020 due to complications from breast cancer.
Submission fee: none
ChaNorth International Writers + Artists Residency
Deadline: January 15
ChaNorth is Chashama's international upstate artist residency has been located in the Hudson Valley since 2006. The program offers networking, exhibition and teaching opportunities and promotes awareness and understanding of visual arts in a rural community through engagement with the artists. ChaNorth also sustains a successful partnership with McEnroe Organic Farm to supply healthy, fresh produce for the artist residency through a work exchange program. Seven sessions run between April and November 2025. Four-week sessions are $1,300; a new two-week session in April will be $650. Fellowship and exhibition opportunities include a solo show award; an annual curated alumni show; one fellowship award, per season, for a young artist under 30; and one Paradice Palase fellowship (for an existing member of at least 6 months).
Submission fee: none
De Ateliers Open Call for Emerging Artists
Deadline: January 15
De Ateliers is an artists’ institute open to artists at the beginning of their professional career. It offers a two-year studio and tutoring program centered around weekly individual studio conversations, with regular and guest tutors, most of whom are practicing artists. To facilitate and support their stay in Amsterdam, participants at De Ateliers are able to get access to shared housing and stipends to cover basic costs of living. This application is for the next working period, which runs from September 1, 2025 to August 31, 2027.
Submission fee: none
Island Press Artist Research Fellowship
Deadline: January 15
The Island Press Artist Research Fellowship is a biennial residency open to artists who are in any stage of their career, who are under-recognized, and whose voices reveal significant potential. Paramount to the review of each proposal is an assessment of the quality of the artistic work. Island Press welcomes the opportunity to support projects that embody diverse perspectives. Fellows receive lodging for the residency period and half of the print edition(s)/project. All material expenses for the project are covered. Transportation to St. Louis and meals are the responsibility of the artist/fellow.
Submission fee: none
NSMA International Painting Competition
Deadline: January 15
Open to professionals and students, this competition focuses on contemporary realism in painting, and all subject matter is welcome. One winner will receive $25,000, and finalists will be exhibited at the New Salem Museum and Academy of Fine Art.
Submission fee: $50 per painting, unlimited entries
Women's Studio Workshop Anita Wetzel Residency Grant
Deadline: January 15
The Anita Wetzel Residency Grant is an opportunity focused on mature artists (45 years old and up) to create new work and fully immerse themselves in WSW’s supportive environment. Artists may choose to work in any one or more of our studios: intaglio, letterpress, papermaking, screen printing, darkroom photography, or ceramics (facilities reopen 2025). This residency is fully subsidized. WSW provides housing and studio space at no cost. Additionally, the selected artist will receive a stipend of $350 per week for the four- to six-week residency, up to $500 for materials used during the residency, and up to $250 toward travel within the Continental U.S.
Submission fee: none
Women's Studio Workshop Studio Residency Grants
Deadline: January 15
The Studio Residency Grant is a six- to eight-week residency for artists to create new work in any of WSW's studio disciplines: intaglio, letterpress, papermaking, screenprinting, photography, or ceramics (facilities reopen 2025). WSW invites applications from artists at any stage in their careers. This grant includes a stipend of $350 per week, up to $500 for materials used during the residency, up to $250 for travel within the Continental U.S., free on-site housing, and 24/7 studio access. WSW can also provide technical advice and production assistance.
Submission fee: none
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