Jordan Film Fund (JFF): Call for Grant Submissions

The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Instituite: Clark Fellowships

The Clark offers between fifteen and twenty Clark Fellowships each year, ranging in duration from six weeks to ten months. National and international scholars, critics, and museum professionals are welcome to propose projects that extend and enhance the understanding of the visual arts and their role in culture.

A number of special fellowships are also offered, as seen below:
Beinecke Fellowship: The Beinecke Fellowship, endowed by the chair of the Research and Academic Program Trustee Committee, Frederick W. Beinecke, is awarded to a noted senior scholar for one semester.

Clark Curatorial Fellowships: The Clark Curatorial Fellowships are awarded to museum curators and provide a forum for exchange with academic counterparts.

The Clark/Oakley Humanities Fellowship: In conjunction with the Oakley Center for the Humanities and Social Sciences at Williams College, the Clark offers a fellowship for a scholar in the humanities whose work takes an interdisciplinary approach to some aspect of the visual. The selected fellow will have an office at the Oakley Center, be housed at the Clark scholars' residence, and participate fully in the rich intellectual life of both advanced research institutes.

Kress Fellowship in the Literature of Art: Funded by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, this fellowship is particularly directed to scholars whose work engages critically with the literature of art “before the era of art history” (i.e., before the formation of a discipline of art history in the mid-nineteenth century.) The Clark seeks applications whose focus might be theoretical or aesthetic treatises, anecdotes, histories, translations of texts, artists’ writings, or other material that might broadly be described as part of the literature of art or the pre-history of art history. Although the importance of the very act of uncovering and publishing such material to scholarship is obvious, the Clark-Kress fellowship is awarded to a scholar who is able to engage with it in such a way as to make its relevance and importance visible to the larger field of art history.

Kress Summer Fellowship in Museum Education: The Clark offers a summer fellowship for a senior museum educator who might benefit from contact with the resources of the Clark library, as well as the diverse international community of Clark visiting scholars. The fellowship is intended for an ambitious and imaginative educator whose project explores critically the relationship of scholarship to the public understanding of art, or who seeks to explore new avenues and innovations in museum education, understood in its broadest sense. This project could involve, for example, work on conveying the ideas of a complex thematic exhibition to a wide public; making fresh and challenging scholarship in the history of art accessible to museum-goers; investigating the underlying critical commitments of exhibitions or collections; exploring and challenging the assumptions of museum education itself. This is a six-week fellowship during July and August and comes with an office, accommodation, travel expenses, but no stipend.

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Residency Program at L'Association for Lebanese Comics Artists, Illustrators and Writers

Queens Council on the Arts: 2013 Grants for Individual Artists

New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) Decentralization Program for Individual Artists working in literary and performing arts
This grant, funded by the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), offers support for Queens-based individual artists to create new work directly involving the community. The artist must engage his or her community through active participation in the creation and/or production of the project. The funded project must culminate with a public exhibition or presentation in 2012 that occurs in and is accessible to the general public of Queens. This program is specifically intended to fund projects in any visual arts discipline, including but not limited to: fiber, folk arts/traditional, graphics, media arts – film/video, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture.

NYC Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA) Greater New York Arts Development Fund for Individual Artists working in visual arts
This grant is intended to fund individual literary and performing artists in the creation of new work, culminating in a public event that must be accessible to the general public of Queens County. This grant is specifically intended to fund composers, choreographers, playwrights, non-fiction and fiction literary artists, poets and spoken word artists. All individual artists are encouraged to apply, including those that represent various ethnic, social, and geographic areas.

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New York Art Residency & Studio Foundation (NARS): International Artist Residency Program

The NARS Foundation offers a residency program that supports emerging and mid-career artists as well as artists with established national and/or international reputations for whom a change of environment may offer refreshment and inspiration. The program offers full and partial residential fellowships for a minimum of one month and up to twelve months. The number of awards and the amount may vary depending on sponsorship available at the time of application. The artists-in-residence are offered a workspace that range in size from 200sq. ft. to 400sq. ft. with Wi-Fi connections and 24/7 access. The workspaces are located within one of the four NARS Studios, which house over 80 artist studios, located in the Sunset Park and Clinton Hill neighborhoods of Brooklyn. Other than the core residency artists, the artist-in-residence can also take advantage of the interaction with over 120 New York City working artists in these studios.

The NARS International Artist Residency Program offers professional development through panel discussions, lectures, workshops, artist talks and artist salons scheduled throughout the year. In addition, regularly scheduled studio visits with NYC art professionals offer the artists-in-residence the chance to meet with curators, critics, art historians, and gallerists to discuss their work in an intimate setting. Furthermore, open studios and group exhibitions at the NARS Gallery provide the opportunity to share new work and works in progress with the general public. Artists-in-residence are also expected to interact with the local community through public programs and community outreach programs offered in collaboration with other local not-for-profit organizations.

NARS currently offers 6-month residencies for U.S. based applicants and 3-month and 6-month residencies for international applicants. Only U.S. based artists are eligible for the Full and Partial Residency Fellowships at this time. International artists who need funding to cover the program fee, travel, materials, and accommodations should apply to other sources for this support. 

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A.I.R. Dubai: Curatorial Residency

Artist-in-Residence, Bemise Center for Contemporary Arts

Göteborg International Film Festival Fund (GIFFF): International Film Submission

Robert Bosch Stiftung Presents Co-Production Award to Filmmakers from Germany and the Middle East

The Robert Bosch Stiftung awards three Co-Production Prizes for joint short film productions by young German and Arab filmmakers. The prize, worth up to 60,000 euros, is awarded in the categories animated film, documentary, and short film. Young filmmakers in the fields of production, directing, camera, and screenwriting are given an opportunity to explore the methods and creative styles of their partner country.

The three Co-Production Prizes will be awarded at a gala during the Berlinale Talent Campus in Berlin in 2013. Up to two members of each winning team will have the opportunity to participate as guest in the Berlinale Talent Campus in the following year. The Berlinale Talent Campus will be represented in the jury.  Eligible are joint production teams of young filmmakers from an Arab country (one of the 22 member states of the Arab League) and Germany. The young filmmakers must be 18 years old. Applications must be made by teams, not individuals. The film should be produced in Germany as well as the partner country, stressing in particular the aspect of intercultural exchange. 

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The British Council in Egypt: "Grants to Artists" Fund

The British Council in Egypt is delighted to announce the recipients of the first round of its ‘Grants to Artists’ fund for 2012-13. The aim of the grants is to support young Egyptian artists in all fields. This year the focus of the grants is on work that engages with the wider community in Egypt.  By ‘wider community’ we mean specifically communities that don’t have a tradition of engaging with arts and cultural activity. Recipient artists will document their works and share their experiences through blogs, video clips or other media; interviews may be arranged by the British Council with Egyptian and UK media outlets.

The grants scheme is open to Egyptian citizens currently practising in one of the following art forms: music, film, theatre, literature, dance, visual arts and design. There are no strict age limits but applicants are expected to be in their final year of university or beyond. Artists who received grants in 2011-12 are not eligible to apply this year.

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Media Mundus: Call for Proposals

Los Angeles Center for Digital Art (LACDA): International Juried Competition

Townhouse, Cairo: Wednesday Wagbas, Open Call

Al Mawred Al Thaqafy: Mawa3eed Call for Proposals

ArtsFwd: Blogging Fellowship

ArtsFwd (ArtsFwd.org) is an initiative of EmcArts (EmcArts.org) that provides a place for arts leaders to share and learn about innovation and “next practices” in the sector. Since launching in December 2011, ArtsFwd has become a leading source of case studies and analysis on innovation and adaptive change in the arts and has been featured on Createquity, You’ve Cott Mail, The Chronicle of Philanthropy, ArtsJournal, and the Center for the Future of Museums blog.

Blogging Fellows will be expected to contribute posts of 500 to 750 words twice monthly for a four month term about topics including organizational innovation, adaptive leadership, and sustainability in the arts, with a focus on models of success. Fellows will also be expected to monitor comments on their posts and respond as appropriate. Topics for posts will be selected and edited in collaboration with the EmcArts staff, and may include analysis of sector trends and current events, interviews with arts leaders and non-arts innovators, book reviews, and roundups of news and events. Posts are expected to be thoroughly researched.

This is an opportunity to help shape the voice of a significant resource for arts practitioners, funders, arts management students, arts academics, bloggers, funders, policy makers, innovation experts and other users. With ArtsFwd, we seek to cultivate a community of users who share a commitment to organizational innovation in the arts, and remain curious, open and encouraging of exploration of new ideas. Our overall aim is to move the dialogue about the vital importance of innovation and adaptive capacities from the margins to the center of discourse about the future of our field.

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