VisArts welcomes artists ages 17 – 27 in the DC, Maryland, and Virginia area to submit their application for NextGen 5.0, our fifth exhibition in our Kaplan Gallery from July 11 – August 19, 2018. NextGen 5.0 is an opportunity for aspiring artists with little to no experience exhibiting their work in a professional gallery. VisArts is a non-profit organization whose mission is to transform individuals and communities through the visual arts. VisArts provides children, teens and adults with opportunities to express their creativity and enhance their awareness of the arts. Applicants should have little or no experience exhibiting in a professional gallery.
Previous NextGen participants are ineligible. Previous NextGen applicants who were not selected may re-apply for this year’s exhibition
Deadline: June 8
Entry Fee: $10
To apply, click here
Please use this budget form for the 2017 Municipal Arts Society Artist Travel Prize, and save as a PDF to upload on submittable.
Budget Template – MASB Artist Travel Prize 2018
Application available at https://promotionandarts.submittable.com/submit/118367/the-municipal-art-society-of-baltimore-city-artist-travel-prize-2018https://promotionandarts.submittable.com/submit/80849/
2018 National Small Works Competition and Exhibition at Washington Printmakers Gallery in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington DC.
Eligiblity: Hand-pulled prints, screen prints, digital prints, photographs, and three-dimensional work – including artist books – with print components, completed within the past two years. Image may be no larger than 100 square inches, with framed size of 256 square inches or less. 3D works are limited to 250 cubic inches. Open to artists 18 years and older.
Entry Fee: $35 for up to four entries.
Juror: Susan Goldman, master printmaker, film maker, and founding director of Lily Press LLC, a printmaking and education center in Rockville MD.
Exhibition: August 1 – 26, 2018
Grand Prize is a 2019 Solo Exhibition. Other prizes include art materials, gift certificates, and a $250 award for Best Screenprint. Exhibition catalogue.
Entry Deadline: June 7, 2018
To apply and find more info, click here.
Maryland State Arts Council
2019 Individual Artist Awards
Individual Artist Awards are grants awarded to Maryland artists through an anonymous, competitive application process to encourage and sustain their pursuit of artistic excellence.
Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation administers the application submission and review process on behalf of the Maryland State Arts Council through an ongoing partnership. Post-award, all aspects of the program are managed by the Maryland State Arts Council directly, including applicant notification, administration of the individual grants, and final reporting.
CALLING ALL BANDS
Applications Open for Sound Off Live! Competition for 2019 Festivals
Interested musicians must apply by Wednesday, August 15, 2018
Also known as Baltimore’s “Battle of the Bands,” Sound Off Live! Presented by Hard Rock Café Baltimore returns on Wednesday, October 17 and Thursday, October 18, 2018 from 6 to 10pm. Produced by the Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts, Sound Off Live! is a live audition for up-and-coming bands or musicians interested in performing at Light City, Artscape or the Baltimore Book Festival. At Sound Off Live!, competing bands/musicians have fifteen minutes to perform three songs in front of an audience and a panel of judges. The winners are guaranteed a performance slot at Light City, Artscape or the Baltimore Book Festival. Sound Off Live! is presented by and takes place at Hard Rock Café Baltimore, 601 East Pratt Street, Baltimore, MD, 21202. To apply, bands must submit an application complete with music samples no later than Wednesday, August 15, 2018. The application is available at http://promotionandarts.org/events-festivals/sound-live.
Only bands/musicians from the Maryland, Delaware and Virginia region that have never been booked at Light City, Artscape or the Baltimore Book Festival are eligible to apply. Applicants must keep the following dates open: April 2019 exact date TBA (Light City), July 19-21, 2019 (Artscape) and September 27-29, 2019 (Baltimore Book Festival).
School 33 Art Center is is now accepting applications from artists for its 2018 Fall/Winter Group Exhibitions in the first floor Main Gallery. Interested artists must submit recent work to the call no later than Monday, June 25, 2018, at 11:59pm.
Applicants will be notified of their status by Thursday, July 19, 2018.
The call for entry is open to all visual artists working in any medium. Through this open call, School 33 aims to present new work by emerging and mid-career artists from the United States and abroad. Two professional curators will select between five and ten artists for each exhibition, based upon individual artistic merit and curatorial vision. The resulting exhibitions will be on display Friday, October 12 through Saturday, November 24, 2018 and Friday, December 7, 2018 through Saturday, January 26, 2019. The fee to apply is $35.00 and includes a one-year membership to School 33 Art Center. Please visit http://school33.org/index.cfm?