CALL for an AIR Residency

The Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle and the City of Warsaw invite art professionals: curators, organisers, researchers and managers to apply for one-month long residencies in frames of Artists-In-Residence Laboratory programme at the CCA Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw. The A-I-R Laboratory has been organizing an international residency programme at the Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw since 2002. The notion of "RE-DIRECTING" refers here to a need to facilitate collaborations with art initiatives from regions with which the A-I-R Laboratory hasn't had an opportunity to collaborate so far. This open call is the first phase of the project, and will shortly be followed by artistic residencies and small exhibitions. These will be jointly prepared by the invited art professionals and CCA's curators on the basis of mutual recognition and research into the respective artistic and socio-political contexts giving rise to the artistic and cultural activities of all parties concerned.

Eligible countries:

Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Belarus, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Mongolia, Moldova, Oman, Palestine, Pakistan, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan and Yemen.

We will be offering:

Marjorie Susman Curatorial Fellowship, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago

The Global Film Initiative Winter 2012 Feature Film Production Grants

Emerging Artist Fellowship (EAF) 13 Artist Residency and Exhibition

Emerging Artist Fellowship recipients are granted financial support in the amount of $5,000, a residency in the outdoor studio (beginning in May 2013), and access to facilities, materials, equipment, and technical assistance to create a work for the annual Emerging Artist Fellowship Exhibition.  A printed brochure and an electronic publication will accompany the exhibition and program.

Fellowship artists are selected through an open application process. Proposals are reviewed by Socrates staff and curatorial advisors composed of prominent curators, artists, gallerists, and arts administrators.  Following the first round of selections, Socrates staff members will contact applicants individually to discuss proposed projects before final selection and confirmation of fellowship.

Fellowships are awarded to artists who would benefit from the opportunity and are New York State residents. Artists who are enrolled in a school, college, or university are not eligible for the Emerging Artist Fellowship program. Artists who have applied before (but never shown at Socrates) are eligible to apply again.  For more information and to apply, click here.
 

Bertha Britdoc: Documentary Journalism Fund

The new Bertha BRITDOC Fund for Journalism is an international film fund dedicated to supporting long form feature documentaries of a journalistic nature.  We are looking for films that break the important stories of our time, expose injustice, bring attention to unreported issues and cameras into regions previously unseen.

This new fund recognizes such films are often delicate and protracted, making them difficult to fund. With a mission to enable in-depth analysis of issues through long-form investigative filmmaking, we are particularly looking to work with filmmakers with a journalistic background or those who are collaborating with journalists.  It is key that the journalistic intent is embedded within the film itself rather than the film simply being about a journalist or journalistic institution.  Funding is awarded on a rolling basis within four weeks of application, unless your project is an urgent response to events. 

To learn more and apply, please click here.
 

Ford Foundation: JustFilms Grant

Open Society Foundations: Arts and Culture Grants

The Open Society Arts and Culture works at the nexus of arts, culture, human rights, and social advocacy. Through its grant program, the program strives to encourage broad-based critical reflection and catalyze social action in parts of the world where open societies are absent or weak, and where the cultural rights of minority groups are endangered.

The aim of this call for proposals is to strengthen alternative and autonomous cultural infrastructures and innovative arts initiatives, to raise professional standards in the art world in the Arts and Culture Program’s regions of activity, and to promote reform in the arena of cultural policy.

Projects that aim to draw on the power of culture to help build open societies in Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan), the Caucasus, Afghanistan, Moldova, Mongolia, and Turkey, and that involve one of the following activities:

cultural production
creating or strengthening cultural platforms
professional development and capacity-building.

Purpose and priorities:

Projects that address one or more of the following priorities of the Arts and Culture Program will be considered to bring added value.
Capacity building: strengthening the capacity of individuals and organizations to implement and sustain good practices and effective ways of working.
Collaboration: building alliances and networks with other projects and organizations to encourage knowledge sharing within the country of operation and beyond.
Diversity: promoting greater equality and access to cultural goods and activities for the most marginalized beneficiaries.
Public Engagement with Critical Social Issues: using the power of arts and culture to promote discussion, debate, and critical reflection on social issues of importance to target communities and beneficiaries.

For complete eligibility and application information, please click here.

AFAC EXPRESS

The objective of AFAC Express is to provide artists and small and young institutions that are actively engaged within their artistic communities and aspire to expand their activities in response to new realities across the region with financial support for projects and operational expenses.
 It also aims to initiate a quick-response process using a rolling deadline to funnel emergency financial aid to artists-in-need and institutions and organizations whose resources are being stretched due to the dramatic events taking place in the Arab region.

An open call for proposals with no deadline and a rolling selection process will be posted online from September. Applicants will be limited to individuals and small cultural institutions that require urgent support or supplementary funding as a result of the new political and social realities brought about by the latest events in the Arab World. 
Proposals will be processed and assessed quickly by a jury made up of AFAC board members as well as experts from specific localities.

Pollock-Krasner Foundation: Rolling Grants Available

The Awesome Foundation: Monthly Grants

The Awesome Foundation for the Arts and Sciences is an ever-growing, worldwide network of people devoted to forwarding the interest of awesomeness in the universe. Created in the long hot summer days of 2009 in Boston, the Foundation distributes a series of monthly $1,000 grants to projects and their creators. The money is pooled together from the coffers of ten or so self-organizing “micro-trustees” and given upfront in cash, check, or gold doubloons. The chapters are autonomous and organized by the trustees around geographic areas or topics of interest.

The Foundation provides these grants with no strings attached and claims no ownership over the projects it supports. It is, in the words of one of our trustees, a micro-genius grant for flashes of micro-brilliance.

For more information please click here.

Baltic Writing Residency in Latvia

Both established and emerging writers are encouraged to apply. For more information, please click here.

National Geographic Film Grant: All Roads Seed Grant

The Seed Grant Program funds film projects from indigenous and underrepresented minority-culture filmmakers year-round and from all reaches of the globe. The program awards up to 16 film projects annually with grants ranging from $1,000 to $10,000. Submission deadlines are quarterly on the 15th of each March, June, September and December.

This grant is open to indigenous and underrepresented minority-culture filmmakers, as well as filmmakers who can demonstrate that they have been designated by indigenous or minority communities to tell their story.

For more information and to apply, click here.
 

The Marc de Montalembert Grant

The grant is awarded to projects which focus on discovering other Mediterranean cultures and getting a sense of their richness and diversity. Candidates are asked to propose a study project in the cultural field of their choice. They must already have given proof of the seriousness their vocational choice at whatever academic or professional training level s/he happens to be at.

The crowning point of the project will be an original account - written or expressed in any publishable and distributable form - of the knowledge and experience acquired during the journey. To make this work possible, the Foundation, if the beneficiary so desires, will make available lodging in its seat at Rhodes for a period of not more than six months.

The call for application is published on October, 1 of every year. Those interested to apply shall request an application form before December, 15. The full application shall be dispatched by December 31, latest. The winner of the grant is then invited to come and receive his grant on April 25, the day of the Foundation's annual opening in Rhodes. The beneficiary will be required to present the product of his project on April 25 of the next year. Should the quality of the beneficiary's account of his experience warrant it, the Foundation could envisage assisting in its publication. 

For more information, please click here.
 

Gyeonggi Creation Center (GCC): Residency Program 2013

The studio program consists of the creative residency for artists and the research residency for curators and theorists. Resident artists are selected through open applications and invitations. The call for application is announced through public media and GCC’s homepage around November. Invited artists are selected among artists recommended through the director’s approval.

For the resident artists, GCC offers various programs such as mentoring, lectures, seminars and workshops, supporting active and in-depth creations and research activities. The outcome of the residency takes different forms, including exhibitions, performances, open studios and publications. The artists are provided with work space, lodging, and in many cases funding for creation. GCC is equipped with exhibition spaces, facilities, workshops, and practice studios for artistic activities in various fields.

Mentoring programs invite world-famous artists, curators, art theorists and philosophers, offering critic session and discussion tables that transcend the limitation of genres for resident artists.  For more information and to apply, click here.
 

Gucci Tribeca Documentary Fund: Grants for Production and Post-Production

The Gucci Tribeca Documentary Fund provides finishing funds to feature-length documentaries, which highlight and humanize issues of social importance from around the world. Funded films are driven by thoughtful and in-depth storytelling, bolstered by a compelling visual approach.

The fund is available for films that are in production or post-production with the intended premiere exhibition in late 2012 or 2013. It is open to filmmakers based anywhere and grants range from $10,000 to $25,000. 

To learn more, please click here.