Art For Change Prize, Young Masters & €750k Berlin Commission
$20k Youth to the Front Fund, The Art of Selling Art group, £23k Arts Science Fellowship, arts jobs...
Hi! Let’s begin with the free to enter Art for Change Prize from M&C Saatchi Group & Saatchi Gallery’s sophomore outing with a total prize fund of £20,000 split between six regional winners - five win £2,000, the overall winner £10,000.
Winning works will be shown at an exhibition at Saatchi Gallery, London in Nov-Jan.
Open to artists from around the world within their first five years of practice. Artists must creatively respond to the theme ‘Regeneration’.
Last year’s overall winner was Nnorom Samuel, UK winner: Felix Chesher, Americas Winner: Rachel Zhang, Asia Winner, Sharon Cheung, Europe Winner, Jaroslaw Lisicki and Australia Winner, Clare Jaque Vasquez.
There are 18 judges, 3 from each region. Find out more. (closes 17th July 2023)
Decolonial Memorial - global contest to create a sketch and conceptual plan for an artistic work dealing with decolonisation to be installed at the Berlin Global Village. 20 selected artists will each receive €4,000 to be part of the 2nd phase to put together a more detailed proposal with a budget of up to €750,000. (7 May)
New Art Competitions
Newly opened on MoMa…
Summerhall Courtyard Commission Project - £2,000 to create a site specific work on theme ‘hope’ to be launched at Edinburgh Fringe & exhibited on a permanent basis at Summerhall arts venue, free to enter (28 May)
Young Masters - £5,500 prize fund, contemporary art inspired by art of the past, separate ceramics prizes, London show, £38 entry, global (11 Jun)
Closing soon:
WAC 2023 Gallery Show - Less than 10 days left to enter Wells Art Contemporary and exhibit in @wellscathedral, the only entirely gothic cathedral in Britain. £3,500 of cash prizes, a residency in Provence, France, artist mentoring and more. Open to all artists over the age of 18, working around the world in all mediums and styles. £17.50 entry per work, £10 for fine art students aged under 26. (10 May)
UK Art Competitions - 40 prizes open
Photography Competitions - 10 open
Illustration Competitions
New section on MoMa (will grow over coming weeks)…
BO it! - €1,500 prize fund & Bologna exhibition, propose your vision of the city of Bologna, Italy in the shape of the city’s outline. Free to enter, global (15 May)
Japan Illustration Award - £4,000 prize fund & Chaoyang, China exhibition, any genre, £29 entry, global (30 Jun)
Illustration Competitions - 2 open
Kids Competitions
Newly opened on MoMa & elsewhere…
This Is Art! - €10,000 prize fund, for Ireland based young people age 18 or under, theme: “This Is Inspiration! We want to see what inspires you.” (8 May)
King Pin Competition - win a bowling pin with your design and a family annual bowling pass at Hollywood Bowl, UK based children ages 6-11. (8 May)
Children’s Art Competitions - 16 open
Master stone carver Simon Smith shows us how Renaissance sculptor Donatello might have approached carving a piece from marble (7 mins, via Kottke)
A Substack worth subscribing to: Tender Photo - thoughtfully crafted and curated newsletter on African photography by writer and art critic Emmanuel Iduma.
Art Opportunities
New arts jobs this week in England, Scotland, Wales, NI, Ireland & UK wide.
Art opportunities worldwide from Art Deadline, Art Rabbit & ArtistOpenCalls.
Community Artist Open Call - £4,000 fee + £1,000 materials, from Healing Justice Ldn, 3 individuals/collectives sought to run projects responding to the brief: ‘How do we practise collective liberation? How can we rehearse freedoms together?’ (15 May)
Youth to the Front Fund - Apply for grants up to $20,000, BIPOC or BIPOC-ally under 30 years old, free entry, global (18 May)
Cavendish Arts Science Fellowship - £10,000 stipend + £10,000 production budget + £3,000 travel budget + accommodation & meals. 1 year fellowship at Girton College, Cambridge, seeking “adventurous artists whose practice resonates with the Cavendish Arts Science ethos of questioning, collective imagining and decentring. The selected artist will bring alternative ways of knowing the world, artistic practices immersed in communities that are not privileged in the mainstream, and an enthusiasm to collectively imagine new possibilities”, free entry, global (21 May)
Sell Out: The Art of Selling Art - new private Facebook group from the printspace ‘to share stories, best practices and marketing insights that fuel art career growth’.
Odds & Ends
Is This A David Hockney Painting? Rupert Maas of The Antiques Roadshow meets a man who thinks he owns a Hockney Painting.
Meet the 4 artists on the Turner Prize shortlist.
7 months on, still has the juice…
See you next week,
Grant