Opportunities - Call to Artists

Applications are open until December 15 for the 2024 Artist Residency Program at Sertão Negro Studio and School of Arts, a space run by visual artist Dalton Paula, one of those selected for the 2023 edition of the Open Society Foundations' Soros Arts Fellowship.

The program aims to create a dialogue between the visual arts, the environment and traditional knowledge. This proposal offers five places (one international, two national and two local) and is scheduled to take place between May and September 2024 in both national and international modalities, will last four weeks, the first of which will be spent in a quilombo in the state of Goiás and three weeks at Sertão Negro, located in the Shangri-la neighborhood, in the northern region of Goiânia, capital of the Goiás State.

The local modality also includes this experience in the quilombola community, but lasts 12 months and is aimed at artists or people living in Goiás. For this, Sertão Negro provides structure, resources and guidance to enable training and improvement in contemporary art. Scheduled to begin in May 2024, this type of residency offers a monthly grant of two thousand reais.

By encouraging the local economy, community-based tourism and, above all, valuing traditional knowledge, this artistic residency program seeks to stimulate connections between quilombola communities (daily life and the relationship with the land, their cultural and religious expressions) and artists in their research processes, practice and artistic poetics in the most diverse media, pictorial components and languages.

During the three weeks at the Sertão Negro Studio and School of Arts, located in Goiânia/GO, the resident artists (national and international) have access to accommodation in individual chalets and food; and receive a subsidy of 1500 dollars plus the cost of airfare.

Sertão Negro began this residency program in 2022 with Carla Santana, an artist from Rio de Janeiro; then, in partnership with the São Paulo Biennial Foundation, it welcomed artists M'barek Bouhchichi (Morocco), Juliana dos Santos (SP), Mario Lopes (RJ/Munich) and Gaama Gloria "MaMa G" Simms (Jamaica), participants in the 35th São Paulo Biennial - choreographies of the impossible.

The call for proposals with application guidelines is available at the following link: https://abrir.link/4b6yD

LandEscape is launching a special Biennial Edition of “LandEscape Now!”, an open art event that comes to its 20th edition and that will once again introduce nine artists in various fine arts disciplines, with the goal of discovering talented creatives from around the world and supporting their art activities.

LandEscape is a career-enhancing opportunity for established and emerging artists to engage in professional critique and artistic introspection, to open the dialogue between artists and audience, between thoughts and their articulation.

The current edition aims to advance artistic practice by encouraging applicants to investigate the nature of their creative process and focuses more particularly on the theme of landscape in all the accepted meanings and the recognition of the fundamental role which surroundings of any kind have in the composition of an artwork. Selected participants will be featured in the special edition of LandEscape. The theme of landscape will be a recurring one but not the only one, since LandEscape is open to a large variety of disciplines including, but not limited to:

• Painting
• Fine Art Photography
• Video Art
• Installation
• Performative Arts
• Mixed media
• Public Art

There are no entry fees and the contest is open to worldwide artists as well as groups of artists and performers.

HOW TO APPLY

Please fill the application form at: https://landescapeart.yolasite.com or send your application via email directly to: [email protected]

Local artists are invited to re-imagine Commercial Alley as a site for artistic and creative expression. The work will be presented as a series of four, 4 x 8 feet plywood panels from October 2023 – September 2024.

This opportunity is open to early to mid-career artists – individual artists, collectives and/or groups – residing in the Capital Region including the Gulf Islands. We encourage a diversity of applicants. Submissions will be accepted until 4 p.m., Monday July 10, 2023