The Present Group, a quarterly art subscription service, seeks proposals from artists for projects that are reproducible in intent. We are looking for projects that will result in a limited edition, artist multiple, or a single work that consists of multiple parts. Every year TPG subscribers receive limited edition works from 4 different contemporary artists.  A $500 honorarium is awarded to each season’s artist.  Artists must submit a proposal to submit[at]thepresentgroup.com or via USPS: The Present Group  Attn: Submission  593 8th St. #3  Oakland, CA  94607.    For more information please visit: www.thepresentgroup.com, to download full submission guidelines:  http://www.thepresentgroup.com/TPG-submissions.pdf

What is expected of the artists:
Propose a project where the final product will be reproduced art pieces.  This is an opportunity to branch out and test a different approach to art making.  If you already work in multiples, that’s fine too. What we send to our subscribers could be a piece from a limited edition or parts of a larger work.  The project will be made exclusively through The Present Group.  We understand that similar themes and images may be used throughout your other work, however you agree not to create the exact project again.

What we look for:
Most importantly, your work must be reproducible in intent.  There will be no “original”.  Each piece will be the work itself, or a part of the work.  Our editions are between 50-100
We choose based on the piece’s Visual, Conceptual, or Experiential interest.
In order to keep our subscribers exposed to a large variety of work, we keep in mind the progression in which they are released, in terms of media, themes, style.
Is it feasible?  Can we afford to make it? If we love your project but don’t think we can afford to do it now, we may ask to hold on to your proposal for a future possibility.

Appreciation for Selected Artists:
- $500  (This is an honorarium; this does not go toward the making of the pieces)
- 4 of the produced work for your own collection or to sell on your own.
- A captive audience of Art Lovers and Collectors
- All the contextual information we create for your piece, including artist info, critiques, and video will remain free on-line as long as TPG exists

Your proposal should include:
- Contact Information:  Name, Address, Phone Number, E-mail, Website (if it applies)

-Project Proposal:
1. What you want to do.
2. How this work will relate to/expand on current themes in your work
3. Anything (sketches, photos. . .) to help you explain your idea.

-Links to Artist Resume, Statement, Work Samples

Deadline:
The deadline for our thirteenth artist is November 9th. Applicants who follow the guidelines will be contacted by e-mail.

Email guidelines:
submit@thepresentgroup.com

Include all of your contact information in the body of your email.
You may also include your project proposal in the body or .PDF.
We much prefer links to web sites or files.  If you must use attachments, limit it to three.  We will not open more.  We prefer .PDFs or .JPGs.  We will not accept attached video.

Snail Mail guidelines:

The Present Group
Attn: Submission
593 8th Street #3
Oakland, CA 94607

Send us anything you feel will help us understand your background and/or proposal.  We will accept any form of media.  If you’d like your sample material returned please include a SASE with proper postage.

Deadline:  November 9, 2009

Too Much Chocolate is excited to partner with Kodak in offering its first-ever film grant program, with submissions opening September 1st, 2009.

This grant will provide 10 non-represented photographers with the film needed to execute a new or ongoing personal project, to be completed during 2010.

This partnership aims to recognize strong project ideas from talented and emerging photographers, allowing them to fully realize a body of work that may not have been achieved otherwise. At the start of 2011, the recipients’ final projects will be brought together and exhibited through a variety of online, magazine, and gallery showcases.”

In the spirit of assistance and approachability, and to guarantee that no photographer is priced out of applying for this film grant, the submission fee is $10.

The judging panel for the film grant will consist of:

- Marcel Saba, Director of Redux Pictures
- Clinton Cargill, Associate Picture Editor of the New York Times Magazine
- Conor Risch, Features Editor of PDN
- Andy Adams, Editor / Publisher of Flak Photo
- Alison Morley, Chair of ICP’s Documentary Photography and Photojournalism Program
- Audrey Jonckheer, Director of Worldwide Pro Photographer Relations at Kodak
- Jake Stangel, Founder / Editor of Too Much Chocolate

Kodak thrives on supporting as well as promoting talented photographers, and looks forward to developing meaningful and sustainable relationships with the recipients of the too much chocolate + Kodak film grant. Kodak will work with the photographers to promote their work on web sites, blogs as well as by photography trades.

Additionally, a selection of each grant recipient’s work have a chance to be exhibited on Kodak’s Times Square Jumbotron.

In return for providing film, Kodak asks grant recipients to mention Kodak for contributing the film in any media interviews, blogs, gallery shows, books and on their websites with a Kodak logo and a link to Kodak.com. In addition, Kodak will have the option to use 2-3 project images at no cost for a 2-year period for display at trade shows and maybe on the Kodak.com website.

http://toomuchchocolate.org/?page_id=1127

Working Artist / (Summer) Working Art Grant / Call for Applications

A small quarterly art grant to help serious artists keep working. Open to all visual artists including sculptors from all countries. Deadline for the (Summer) $500.00 Working Artist Grant is August 20, 2009.

For application guidelines please see: http://www.workingartist.org/art-grant-guidelines.html

Deadline: August 20, 2009

The Summer Solo Show is a nationwide open call for dynamic, inventive and provocative work of all mediums - sculpture, photography, painting, printmaking, illustration, installation, graphic design, video, and more!

The selected artist will receive:

* $1,000 cash grant
* A solo exhibition in 3rd Ward’s gallery, complete with a massive opening reception
* A 2-page spread in 3rd Ward’s quarterly publication
* 1-month residency at 3rd Ward with FULL facility access
* NYC wide exposure – post cards, flyers, press!

For this call we are joined by judges: Katherine Brinson, Curator at the Guggenheim, Amy Kisch of Sotheby’s and Jeremy Ortega Art Director at Juxtapoz Art & Culture Magazine.

All Submissions must be recieved by July 2, 2009, 11:59 p.

http://www.3rdward.com/summersoloshow09/

GRANT FOR EMERGING PHOTOGRAPHERS
Humble Arts Foundation established the Grant for Emerging Photographers in 2007 to help support fine art photography projects in the U.S. and abroad.

HOW THE GRANT WORKS
Given twice annually (fall and spring), the grant is a $1,000 cash award that recognizes the strongest new proposal in contemporary art photography as submitted to Humble Arts Foundation.

DEADLINE: FRIDAY, MARCH 27, 2009, 12AM

APPLICANT ELIGIBILITY
Applications will be accepted from photographers who are at least 18 years old and do not have gallery representation.

PROJECT ELIGIBILITY
We will fund projects that are new or ongoing. Applicants should submit no more than one proposal requesting support for one project.

REVIEW PROCESS
Humble Arts Foundation’s senior curatorial staff will review projects for visual strength and clarity of proposal.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Submit exactly five images. Each image must be:

– JPEG format
– 72dpi
– sRGB
– 650 pixels wide only

IMAGE SUBMISSION
Upon submitting your application, you will be directed to a page that will provde the image submission email.

APPLICATION FEE
A $15 application fee is due when you apply.

NOTIFICATION
We will announce the grant recipient to our email subscriber list on Tuesday, May 5, 2009. If you are applying, please be sure to join our list to receive up to date information.

APPLICATION PROCESS
Your application is finished after you have completed the application, submitted five images, and paid the $15 application fee. Under no circumstances will we consider incomplete applications.

http://humbleartsfoundation.org/main.html

Women in Photography, co-founded by Amy Elkins and Cara Phillips in June 2008 to showcase the works of female fine art photographers, is pleased to announce their first project grant, funded by Lightside Photographic Services/ and co-sponsored by LTI. The $3,000 grant award will provide funding to one female photographer to support project costs.

GRANT: $3000.00. One grant will be awarded

APPLICATION PROCESS OPENS: Wednesday April 1, 2009 12am
Link to online application will be made available on http://wipnyc.org.

DEADLINE: FRIDAY, MAY 1, 2009, 12AM

GRANT ANNOUNCEMENT: JUNE 10, 2009
Grant announcement will be made at evening event at the National Arts Club, Grand Gallery. There will be a reception for the grant winner and a slideshow presentation of their work. The Grant winner’s work will be featured in a wipnyc.org online solo showcase opening on 6/16/09.

APPLICANT ELIGIBILITY
Applications will be only be accepted from photographers who are at least 18 years old, and who are NOT currently enrolled in any full-time or part-time degree program.

PROJECT ELIGIBILITY
Projects submitted for consideration can be new or ongoing. Applicants should submit no more than one proposal in support for one project.

REVIEW PROCESS
WIP’s curatorial staff, Amy Elkins & Cara Phillips will review projects for visual & conceptual strength, rigor of purpose, and clarity of stated
project goals.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
WIPNY will only accept online submissions.
Applicants must submit exactly five images. Each image must be:

JPEG format
72dpi
sRGB
650 pixels wide

Contact Info
BIO (Under 200 words)
CV

**Please direct all grant submission questions to the email address which will be made available as APRIL 1, 2009**

PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
Describe the project in 300 words or less* ( IN PLACE OF ARTISTS STATEMENT)
Please include: Project start date, or in progress status. Estimated finish date?*
Please provide a detailed list of expenses. Itemize each expense and provide a dollar amount.*

Please list any estimated income or other funding sources.*

A $10,000 grant  will be awarded in early 2009 to a worthy emerging photographer from the readership here whose work is on the highest level. Funding would be designed to support continuation of  this photographer’s personal project. This body of work may be of either journalistic mission  or purely personal artistic imperatives…

The Emerging Photographer Fund grant  was initiated by David Alan Harvey in 2008, and is awarded by the Magnum Foundation, a non-profit created by the the  member photographers from Magnum Photos, Inc. A five person jury will be named to review your work.

The 2008 Emerging Photographer Fund grant was awarded to Sean Gallagher for his essay  on the environmental “desertification” of China.

The  DEADLINE for submissions is  MARCH 15, 2009. No exceptions.

For you  to submit to the  EPF,  we need a uniform way of presenting your essay to the jurors. We have chosen PhotoShelter as our partner for this. Submissions not following the process below unfortunately cannot be considered for the EPF grant. You will be notified IF you are one of the finalists for this grant.

in order to PREPARE an essay for submission to the EPF:

• you must create a PhotoShelter account. a free PhotoShelter account is fine.
  of course, if you already own a PhotoShelter account, that is fine.
• within PhotoShelter, create a separate gallery and upload your essay images to that new gallery.
• images must be at least 1600px on the longest side. file format doesn’t matter, as long as you can import it into PhotoShelter.

in order to SUBMIT the essay to the EPF:

• log in to PhotoShelter and create a lightbox for your essay.
• in the lightbox, add a title and a description of your project.
  also, you can also provide captions for each image if you wish to do so.
• share the lightbox with epf@burnmagazine.org, making sure to check the “allow to invite other users” and “allow to comment, rate and move images” boxes.
• you’re done!

Thanks, Erin.

The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) is accepting online applications for the next session of its Swing Space project-based residency program. Swing Space makes vacant spaces available to artists, arts groups, curators, and arts organizations for the development and presentation of new projects in the visual and performing arts. Swing Space artists and arts groups are also eligible to apply for stipends ranging from $300 to $3,000 to support project costs. Projects recommended by an independent review panel will be considered for placement from May through October 2009 for residencies lasting 2-4 months. Visit The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council for more information.
Deadline: January 21

The Working Art Grant is available to all domestic as well as international artists working in all media.

If you are interested in being considered for this grant, please send 5 digital images of recent work (please include artist’s name with file title - file size no larger than 2 MB please) via email. Include a written proposal describing your funding needs, a current resume or a short biography and send to: grant@workingartist.org. There is no official application form. Instead please provide current contact information in the headings of your documentation.

There is a grant application fee of $20.00
which helps offset the costs of this effort to fund meaningful work by serious artists.

Grant recipients agree by submitting their completed application to limited use of their images or other representation of their artwork and general information to be featured on this site. All rights will of course be retained by the artists.

Applications for the Quarterly (Spring) Working Art Grant must be submitted by March 20, 2009. One grant of $500.00 will be awarded no later than March 31, 2009.

http://workingartists.org

ASDF is offering One Hundred $1 Grants. Documentation of all completed projects will be available in a downloadable exhibition. Anyone is eligible. There are no restrictions on proposed projects. All forms of creative activity are encouraged. Money can be used for cost of production or for monetary compensation.

We are accepting applications on a rolling basis.

Projects should be completed one month of receiving the grant.

We will review each application.

click below to learn how to submit a proposal!

www.asdfmakes.com/onehundredgrants.html