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This Week: Baltimore Transfiguration International Film Festival, Mel Chin lectures at UMBC, Anonymous Was a Woman opens at the Kreeger, Unidos En El Arte artist talk at Creative Alliance, BALTIMORATORY performance at Peabody Heights, MdVLA’s 40th birthday party at 2640, Luis Ozoria’s Candor Collective and Nicoletta Daríta de la Brown at Peabody Library, Fire Fest 2025 at Baltimore Clayworks, Fleckenstein Gallery’s 25th anniversary party, opening reception for DISSENT at Atrium Artspace, Wide Angle’s 25 birthday party, and Extreme Heat artist talk at Crow’s Nest — PLUS Under $2500 returns to MAP and more featured opportunities!

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Baltimore Transfiguration International Film Festival
Tuesday, October 14 – Wednesday, October 15
@ 2640 Space

THE TRANSFIGURATION INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL is a film festival showcasing an eclectic variety of short films. Founded by Jonni Peppers. The Baltimore screenings (Oct 14th & 15th) of The Transfiguration International Film Festival is hosted by Animation Love Affair (@animationloveaffair).

Each night of screening ticketed separately. This ticket is for the first night of the two day screening (Tuesday, October 14). No one turned away for lack of funds. Any profit made from tickets will go toward paying screening artists! Sliding scale $7-$24. Cash accepted at door!

Night 1 Schedule:
Doors 5:30 pm
Introduction by Jonni Peppers 6:00 pm
Block 1 “Lucid Memories” 6:15 pm
Intermission 7:40
Block 2 “Historical Remnants” 8:00 pm
“Say Hi” after the show!
Venue closes at 10pm

Night 2 Schedule:
Doors 5:30 pm
Jonni Peppers Introduction 6:00 pm
Block 1 “Splitting Off” 6:15 pm
Intermission 7:40 pm
Block 2 “The Baltimore Special” Block 8:00 pm
Baltimore Bow 🙂 & “Say Hi”
Venue Closes at 10 pm

VENUE – 2640 Space (2640 St Paul St, Baltimore, MD, 21218)
Access Information:
Space: the Clark Room (Great Hall) is not ground level and requires a few steps, but there is a wheelchair ramp for the 27th St entrance
Bathrooms: There are 4 single user bathrooms, one of which is ADA accessible.
Parking: Street parking on St. Paul St; pay attention to signage
Buses: The MTA Silver route and Purple Circulator stop at 27th/St. Paul and 25th/St. Paul, respectively.

Transfiguration International Film Festival is a collection of contemporary experimental animation. It focuses on challenging, unmarketable, cheap, humorous, independent filmmaking that lives just out of line of sight. It believes in the filmmaker as an individual with a singular aesthetic vision, and aims to amplify the untempered, raw voices of people separate from the long arm of industry and money.

 

 

Mel Chin: Constructing Liberation
Tuesday, October 14 :: 5:50-6:30pm
@ UMBC CIRCA

Mel Chin (b. Houston, TX) is known for the broad range of approaches in his art, including works that require multi-disciplinary, collaborative teamwork and works that enlist science as an aesthetic component to developing complex ideas. Chin uses technology, collage, sculpture, and large-scale installations to create a body of work centered around environmental, political, and social issues, inserting art into unlikely places and forms, including video games, destroyed homes, toxic landfills, and popular television. Interested in creating greater social awareness and responsibility, and making a place for possible political transformation, Chin engages wide-ranging communities in the conception, execution, and success of his work.

In 1990, Chin created and implemented Revival Field, a pioneer in the field of “green remediation,” the use of plants to remove toxic, heavy metals from the soil. In 1993, Chin marked the success of the project by harvesting samples that showed the impact of hyperaccumulators on the land, to help confirm a scientific technology. The renewed ecology of the land is the work of art. From 1995-98 Chin formed the collective the GALA Committee that produced In the Name of the Place, a public art project conducted on the American prime-time television show Melrose Place. Over several seasons, artworks placed on the set strategically highlighted relevant issues such as reproductive rights, HIV/AIDS, the Gulf War, and domestic terrorism. In KNOWMAD (2000), the artist collaborated with software engineers to create a video game centered around a series of tribal rugs from Central Asia. With different obstacle courses to complete, the video game offers a digital reweaving of patterns that have been around for hundreds of years, with cultures now on the brink of extinction. The Fundred Project, which began as Operation Paydirt, was active from 2006 – 2019 when the (nearly half-a-million) drawings were gifted to the Brooklyn Museum. This was an artist-initiated project inviting children, families and communities to imagine, express and actualize a future free of childhood lead-poisoning. The Fundred Project, was a creative campaign advancing public education and community engagement through the creation and collection of Fundreds – original, hand-drawn interpretations of $100 bills. In 2018, Chin presented Unmoored and Wake in NYC’s Times Square, creating a visual portal into a future of rising waters, in conjunction with his 40-year-survey exhibition at the Queens Museum. Chin is one of the artists featured in the first year of the ongoing PBS Series art21: Art of the 21st Century.

Chin has received honorary doctorate degrees from the Maryland Institute College of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, and the University of North Carolina, Asheville, among others. He has been a visiting professor and fellow at several universities, including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, George Washington University, University of Michigan, and University of Georgia. Chin is the recipient of numerous grants and awards including from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council for the Arts, Art Matters, Creative Capital, Pollock/Krasner, Joan Mitchell, Rockefeller Foundation, Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, and the Nancy Graves Foundation. He was awarded a United States Artist Fellowship in 2010 and in 2019, Chin was awarded the MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship. In 2024, Chin was awarded the Hiroshima Art Prize. Established by the City of Hiroshima in 1989, the prize recognizes the achievements of artists who have contributed to the peace of humanity through art. His work is in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Art, Museum of Modern Art, High Museum of Art, the Menil Collection, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Cantor Art Center at Stanford University, among others.

 

 

Anonymous Was a Woman: Jae Ko | linn meyers | Joyce J. Scott | Renée Stout
Thursday, October 16 | Ongoing through December 31
@ The Kreeger Museum

The Kreeger Museum is pleased to present Anonymous Was a Woman: Jae Ko | linn meyers | Joyce J. Scott | Renée Stout, opening on October 16, 2025. Curated by Dr. Vesela Sretenović, the exhibition will feature the recent work of Anonymous Was a Woman grant recipients and DMV-based artists Jae Ko, linn meyers, Joyce J. Scott, and Renée Stout.

“It is an absolute honor to present this exhibition and celebrate these artists; we are thrilled to welcome Ko, meyers, Scott, and Stout back to our gallery spaces and commemorate their work and the Anonymous Was a Woman Grant program.” -Helen Chason, Director of The Kreeger Museum.

Anonymous Was a Woman: Jae Ko | linn meyers | Joyce J. Scott | Renée Stout, dovetails with the recent group exhibition, Anonymous Was a Woman: The First 25 Years organized by and presented at the New York University’s Grey Art Museum, April 1-July 19, 2025, and co-curated by Nancy Princenthal and Vesela Sretenović.

The Grey exhibition celebrated the first quarter-century of the Anonymous Was a Woman (AWAW) grant program, established in 1996 by visionary philanthropist and artist Susan Unterberg. The program is dedicated to supporting mid-career women artists living and working in the United States. Its name refers to a phrase in Virginia Woolf’s essay A Room of One’s Own, which underscores the challenges that creative women have historically faced in a male-dominated society.

The Kreeger Museum’s exhibition, curated by Sretenović, focuses exclusively on four AWAW recipients who reside and work in the Washington, DC metropolitan area: Jae Ko (AWAW 2012), linn meyers (AWAW 2023), Joyce J. Scott (AWAW 1997), and Renée Stout (AWAW 1999). While the Grey exhibition featured works created around the time of each artist’s award, The Kreeger Museum’s presentation spotlights the most recent work of its participating artists, picking up where the Grey show left off in 2020. Moreover, whereas the Grey offered a broader overview of artistic production by women-artists in the first 25 years of the award, The Kreeger Museum aims to present a more focused, in-depth look at the new works of Ko, meyers, Scott, and Stout.

In this respect, The Kreeger Museum’s exhibition not only celebrates artists based in the DMV area —aligning with the Museum’s mission—but also extends the reach of the AWAW program beyond New York City, further disseminating its mission: to support and bring greater visibility to the creative output of women artists.

FEATURED ARTISTS

Jae Ko (Korean American, b. Pyeongtaek-si, Korea; lives and works in Alexandria, VA and Piney Point, MD)

linn meyers (American, b. Washington, DC; lives and works in Washington, DC, New York, NY, and Los Angeles, CA)

Joyce J. Scott (American, b. Baltimore, MD; lives and works in Baltimore, MD)

Renée Stout (American, b. Junction City, KS; lives and works in Washington, DC)

 

 

Unidos En El Arte Year Three: Resilience Runs Deep | Artist Talk
Thursday, October 16 :: 6:30pm
@ Creative Alliance

On View: September 20 – October 25, 2025
View Online
Creative Alliance | Galleries Are Free & Open to the Public

For three years running, Unidos En El Arte has proven that art is more than expression—it’s survival, it’s community, it’s the bridge between where we’ve been and where we’re going. This year’s exhibition celebrates the resilience woven into every brushstroke, every story, every creative act that emerges from our vibrant Latinx and Caribbean community in Baltimore.

In a time when our stories need telling more than ever, Unidos En El Arte showcases how artists transform struggle into beauty, isolation into connection, and adversity into inspiration. These works celebrate the contributions of Latinx and Caribbean artists living in and around Baltimore, each piece a testament to the unbreakable spirit that defines our community.

Join us for the Artist Talk OCT 16 | 6PM

Artist Bios

Ayala
Ayala is an experimental animator from Baltimore, whose work can be seen in films such as “Boheme in the Heights”—a contemporary, Spanish Language adaptation of the opera La Boheme, produced entirely during the pandemic and rendered in an eclectic range of handcrafted styles—and “The Storydancer”, a documentary about actress and dancer Maria Broom, releasing this October. In addition to her freelance work, Ayala teaches Animation and Digital Arts classes at Baltimore School for the Arts and Anne Arundel Community College.

Baby Mango Friend
Baby is an artist working with an array of mediums and materials. Raised in a family that ran a neighborhood wholesale, it was some of their earliest learning of how to interact with people, how to serve. Outside that world of service and hospitality, Kingston in the 1990s and early 2000’s was their education in culture.

Daniela Godoy
Daniela Godoy is native of Ecuador. She holds a B.A, in Painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA). She was part of the original research team of the Jahuay sponsored by the Institute of Cultural Patrimony of Ecuador where she worked as a photographer, certified translator and painter. This project reconnected her to her maternal grandmother’s indigenous roots– who was part of this indigenous community, worked and lived through the hacienda period.Her twenty-piece series of the Jahuay paintings has been exhibited in solo shows in Hungary in 2013, a traveling series throughout 6 cities in Ecuador, culminating at Casa la Cultura of Baltimore Maryland in 2023. As a participant in The Exposure Award (Documentary Collection), one of her Jahuay portrait photographs was exhibited at the Louvre Museum in Paris in 2015. Her plein air work has recently been exhibited at the Kennedy Center and others reside in private collections, including Harvard’s Office for the Arts.

Lehna Huie
Lehna has participated in solo and group exhibitions both nationally and internationally at select institutions and galleries such as National Gallery of Jamaica, ACRE Projects in Chicago, Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Art in NY, Museum of Contemporary Art in Arlington, VA, Weeksville Heritage Center in Brooklyn, NY, Rush Arts in Philadelphia, PA, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Quartair Contemporary Gallery in the Netherlands and The Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art in NY. Additionally, she has been featured in exhibitions in Thailand, Italy, Jamaica and Germany.

Huie received her MFA at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) 21’ where she studied in Mount Royal’s Interdisciplinary Arts Program and at the Hoffberger School of Painting. Lehna has participated in prestigious residencies including the Joan Mitchell Center, Stoneleaf Retreat, ACRE, Chautauqua School of Art, Bandung Residency, Elsewhere Studios, Flux Factory, and Snug Harbor.

Lehna was named an Artist Changemaker with Global Fund for Women and has received multiple awards including the Space for Creative Black Imagination Makers & Research Fellowship and two Puffin Foundation grants. Lehna will be participating in upcoming residencies at Ma’s House and Wassaic Project in Upstate NY in 2026.

Trained through the Joan Mitchell Foundation, her practice includes work as a Legacy Specialist preserving intergenerational artists archives and oral histories.

Camila Leão
Camila Leão (b. 1990) is a Baltimore-based multimedia artist originally from São Paulo, Brazil. Her work spans illustration, murals, public art, and fine art, and is deeply informed by her connection to the natural world and her cultural roots. Raised between the dense urban energy of São Paulo and the wild Atlantic Forest of Boracéia’s coastline, she developed a lasting reverence for nature that continues to shape her artistic voice.

Leão earned her degree in Graphic Design from Centro Universitário SENAC in 2013. Her studio practice centers on vibrant, contemporary paintings that celebrate organic forms, biodiversity, and ecological connection. Through a mix of fluid & geometric lines, and bold palettes, she evokes the rhythm and celebration of nature, often drawing inspiration from Brazilian fauna, flora, and memory.

Alongside her fine art, she also creates public and commercial works rooted in community identity. Her murals and illustrations carry the same expressive visual language, adapted to reflect local narratives and shared environments. Her projects include public commissions across Maryland, editorial work for Baltimore Magazine, and the design of the Essex Gateway Monument.

 

 

BALTIMORATORY Presents: Michael Paradiso and Allen the Frog delivering Kermit the Frog’s 2025 Speech
Thursday, October 16 :: 7pm
@ Peabody Heights Brewery

BALTIMORATORY RETURNS with Baltimore puppeteer Michael Paradiso and his friend Allen the Frog presenting the University of Maryland Commencement Speech delivered this past May of 2025 by Kermit the Frog!

This will be an OUTDOOR SHOW in the Peabody Heights beer garden!

Thursday, October 16
Doors 6:00pm, Show 7:00pm
Peabody Heights Brewery
401 East 30th Street

Tickets $5 – 10 sliding scale
*no one turned away for lack of funds*

This will be an outdoor event. Please enter the building and turn left to get to the beer garden.

BALTIMORATORY is a regular series, curated by Lucia A Treasure, featuring historic speeches delivered by Baltimore performers.

 

 

40th Birthday Party for the Arts
Thursday, October 16 :: 7-9:30pm
@ 2640 Space

Come celebrate the big 4-0 with MdVLA at 2640 Space! Join us for a night of connection, music, and appreciation for the artists, volunteers, and partners who make our work possible.

Enjoy great vibes from Sounds by Seven, plus food and drinks from Corner Pantry and Sips of Soul. Leave with new connections and a deeper understanding of art and law’s intersection.

In honor of this milestone, MdVLA’s board members, staff, artists, volunteers, and partners have collaborated on a special book commemorating 40 years of impact. Through stories, reflections, and interactive elements featuring the community that makes us who we are, this limited edition publication celebrates the past, present, and future of MdVLA. Your ticket includes a copy!

Since 1985, MdVLA has made legal support accessible and affordable for Maryland’s creative community through free legal guides that actually make sense, free public workshops on topics relevant to creatives, and pro bono representation with dedicated attorney volunteers.

We couldn’t do this work without our community’s support. Thank you to Venable LLP, our Platinum Sponsor. Gold Sponsors include Gallagher LLP, Minnesota Lawyers Mutual Insurance Company, and Stephen Oliner. Silver Sponsors include Ally Amerson & Jeff Nover, the Arts Insurance Program, Clinton & Elizabeth Stieff, E. Scott Johnson, Kramon & Graham, McGuire Woods, Michael Westrate & Matthew Grant, the Piano Choir, Surrounded By Color, and Womble Bond Dickinson. Bronze Sponsors include Gordon Feinblatt LLC and Vivian Duker. Your support makes our work possible! Please contact Sarah Scalet (sarah@mdvla.org) to learn more about sponsoring the party.

 

 

In the Stacks: Luis Ozoria’s Candor Collective and Nicoletta Daríta de la Brown
Thursday, October 16 :: 7-8pm
@ George Peabody Library

This immersive evening will bring Latin American folklore to life through music and art. Luis Ozoria’s Candor Collective, a Pan-American jazz ensemble, will share original compositions inspired by Dominican folklore that blend rhythms of merengue, bachata, and dembow. Performance artist Nicoletta Daríta de la Brown will bring Panamanian folktales to life through movement and film, and a selection of Kara Walker’s striking artist’s books will be on display.

Join us for a celebration of folklore and rare books in one of the world’s most beautiful libraries!

 

 

Baltimore Clayworks Fire Fest 2025
Saturday, October 18 :: 5:30-8:30pm
@ Baltimore Clayworks

Join Baltimore Clayworks for Fire Fest 2025 – an exciting evening of fire, clay, and community! Experience live flame demonstrations including Raku, soda, and pit firings; shop local ceramic art; enjoy food trucks and live music; and explore hands-on activities for all ages. Celebrate the heat and creativity that bring clay to life.

 

 

25th Anniversary for Fleckenstein Gallery
Saturday, October 18 :: 5-8pm
@ Fleckenstein Gallery

Fleckenstein Gallery’s
25^th Anniversary Exhibit

Featuring over 25 Artists whose work
defined the gallery over the past 25 years

Reception: Saturday, October 18^th | 5-8pm

3316 Keswick Rd | Hampden, MD 21211
410-366-3669

Exhibiting Artists:

Denis Bourke, Rams Brisueño, Schroeder Cherry
Kini Collins, Emily Gaines Demsky, MK Dilli, Deborah Donelson
Jim Doran, Peter Dubeau, Joan Erbe, Erin Fostel, Mattye Hamilton
Andrea Huppert, Dan “King Gimp” Keplinger, Minas Konsolas
Cathy Leaycraft, Jack Livingston, Bridgette Guerzon Mills
Mary Opasik, Pamela Phillips, Nancy Scheinman
Dan Shapiro, Leslie Shellow, Stuart Stein, Mary Swann
Pamela Wesolek and others, and introducing Barbara Dale

Fleckenstein Gallery salutes the Baltimore Area Creatives
that make our city so CHARMING

Regular Gallery Hours:
11am- 6pm Tuesday through Saturday, and by appointment
The gallery is closed Sunday and Monday

www.fleckensteingallery.com
www.facebook.com/fleckensteingallery
https://www.instagram.com/fleckenstein_gallery

 

 

DISSENT | Opening Reception
Saturday, October 18 :: 6-8pm
@ Atrium Artspace

As fundamental rights are being rolled back and entire communities are pushed further to the margins, DISSENT offers an urgent chorus of voices. The exhibition invites each participating artist to respond to what feels most pressing, personal, or impossible to ignore in this climate. The result is an unflinching exploration of power, policy, and lived experience – and a collective reminder that dissent is a call to attention and action. The exhibit will highlight the Trump administration’s destructive actions targeting the poor, people of color, the LGBTQIA+ community and other marginalized groups through erosion of civil rights, over-policing, state violence, suppression of speech, environmental injustice, and inhumane immigration policies.

Susan Washington presents her Content Not Found series-images removed from federal agency websites during the 2025 DEI purge by the administration. By salvaging cached files and transferring them onto canvas, Washington confronts government erasure and preserves those who were meant to vanish.

Kim Rice uses craft-based media to expose how whiteness and systemic racism are woven into daily American life. Her disarming, labor-intensive works transform everyday materials into stark meditations on power and privilege.

Estéban Whiteside coined the term “concrete oppressionism” to describe his bold, street-rooted works confronting systemic injustice. Whiteside creates unflinching political imagery that demands response.

Momma Rain paints vibrant figurative works shaped by her experience as a first-generation Filipina American. Her cherub-like figures, at first whimsical, reveal grittier truths about race, separation, and identity in America.

Don Patron is an artist and a friend to social causes who creates art inspired by social issues and charities in the Washington D.C. area, often basing his work on politically sensitive narratives.

FOREVER FEARLESS, a project of Our Daughters’ Futures Fund, is a national public art initiative that uses creativity to spark civic engagement and amplify young women’s voices. Through its traveling exhibition of statues, the project invites communities to take action through art.

Reed Bmore is a street artist from Baltimore who installs wire drawings on traffic lights and electrical lines across America. These installations instill a sense of nostalgia and wonderment, using the negative space in the skies as canvas.

Alongside the visual exhibition, Atrium Artspace will host a series of panel discussions and community activations centered on current issues and the role of art as activism. Those scheduled include panels on Marginalization and Erosion of Civil Rights, Art as Activism, and Faces of the Transgender Military Purge: Who Our Nation is Losing, moderated by Bree Fram, one of the highest-ranking out transgender service members in the U.S. military. Bree will also be presenting her new book.

 

 

Wide Angle’s 25th Birthday Party
Saturday, October 18 :: 6:30-9:30pm
@Wide Angle Youth Media

Celebrate the future we’re creating!

Join us for a festive night of media making, music, drinks, art and more as we kick off 25 years of Wide Angle Youth Media! This isn’t just a party, it’s a celebration of the collective impact we’ve made together and the future we’re shaping for Baltimore’s next generation of storytellers.

Our Birthday Party will kick off a series of events commemorating this milestone year – from community media making days to screenings with artists, our 25th year activities will have something for everyone.

Time:

VIP reception: 6:30 PM (includes live music, first access to purchase art, special drinks and hors d’oeuvres)
Main event: 7:30 – 9:30 PM

Location: Wide Angle Youth Media, 2507 N. Howard Street, Ste 100, Baltimore MD 21218

Directions & Parking: see our website

Have questions: For information, reach out to info@wideanglemedia.org or call us at 443-759-6700.

We can’t wait to see you there!

 

 

Extreme Heat: Rowan Bathhurst, Kei Ito, and Rachel Stein address Climate Change through Science-Informed Art
Monday, October 20 :: 5:30-7pm
@ Crow’s Nest

Founded in 2024 by Leo Martinez-Diaz, Crow’s Nest is an art incubator in Baltimore that provides studio, social, and exhibition space for artists seeking to address the twin challenges of climate change and environmental justice through artistic expression and cultural production. In summer 2025, the Crow’s Nest launched the Extreme Heat Fellowship to support the work of three Baltimore-based artists, Rowan Bathurst, Kei Ito, and Rachel Stein to address the growing public health threat of extreme heat in Baltimore and in urban areas around the world. The three fellowship winning artists were given studio space, honoraria, and opportunities to work with researchers in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Johns Hopkins University. The artists will present their resulting works in artist talks and in an accompanying exhibition at Crow’s Nest.

 

 

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Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellowships in American Art
deadline October 29
posted by The American Council of Learned Societies

ACLS invites applications for Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellowships in American Art, which support graduate students pursuing research on the history of art and visual culture of the United States, including all aspects of Native American art, and who are at any stage of PhD dissertation research or writing. ACLS believes that humanistic scholarship is strengthened by the inclusion of a wide range of perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences. We encourage applications from PhD candidates from all degree-granting institutions in the United States.

The program offers seven fellowships for a non-renewable, continuous nine- to twelve-month term to be held between July 2026 and May 2027. The fellowships may be carried out in residence at the fellow’s home institution or any other appropriate site for the research. The fellowships may not be used to defray tuition costs or be held concurrently with any other major fellowship or grant. The entire fellowship term must conclude before the fellow receives the PhD.

The total award of $42,500 includes a stipend and additional funds for travel and research. This program is made possible by the generous support of the Henry Luce Foundation.

ACLS welcomes applications from all eligible doctoral students, regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, religion, national origin, disability, age, or any other aspect of identity.

 

 

Annual Community Call: Making Spaces
deadline October 31
posted by Baltimore Jewelry Center

Apply today for our 2025 Community Challenge, Making Spaces!

Where do you find camaraderie? What spaces do you frequent that make you feel connected to and part of a larger community?

For this year’s community challenge, the Baltimore Jewelry Center is asking members of our community to create work about the connections they find in third spaces.

The work might reference the people you meet in these spaces, the shared interests that lead you to them, or even the physical spaces themselves.

Applications are open through October 31.

 

 

Archives Research Residency
deadline October 31
posted by Robert Rauchenberg Foundation

The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Archives Research Residency is an opportunity for researchers and scholars interested in visiting the Rauschenberg Foundation and its Archives in New York City. The program provides partial support for costs related that individuals may incur in order to do one- to three-week onsite research intensives onsite.

The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Archives, consisting of Robert Rauschenberg’s personal papers and the records from his Florida and New York studios, is the most comprehensive body of information on the artist’s life and career. The Archives Research Residency supports continued scholarly and investigative use of these materials by supporting individuals that demonstrate a compelling need to use the archives and addressing financial barriers that may prohibit onsite access to the archives.

During a residency, researchers are provided with a dedicated workspace and comprehensive access to the archives materials, including expert staff to assist with research inquiries and help navigate the collections. Post-residency, residents are encouraged to share their research findings and engage with the wider community.

The application is open to all, and we welcome research that explores diverse perspectives beyond traditional art history.

 

 

XoXo Gallery Call for Exhibition Proposals
deadline November 1

XoXo Gallery invites artists, curators, and collectives to submit proposals for exhibitions to be considered for December 8, 2025 – January 11, 2026. We welcome submissions in all media, disciplines, and formats—solo or group exhibitions, curated projects, installations, and interdisciplinary works are encouraged to apply.

XoXo Gallery is located in the BROMO Arts District at 218 West Saratoga St. (Maryland Art Place), situated on the 3rd floor.

About this opportunity:

XoXo Gallery will rent its exhibition venue to the selected candidate for $600. The selected candidate agrees to rent the space and enter into an MOU with XoXo Gallery. All artwork will be covered under XoXo Gallery’s conditions covering loans – meaning artwork exhibited will be insured during the December 8 – January 11 exhibition window. All exhibiting artists will be required to complete an XoXo gallery loan agreement (if you would like an example of a XoXo Gallery Loan Agreement please email: goxxipgirlcollective@gmail.com). The selected candidate is responsible for hosting their own gallery hours, however, XoXo will work with the curator to ensure access to the space (we cannot guarantee that we will maintain normal hours of operation – i.e. Tuesday – Saturday from 12 to 4 PM). All sales will be brokered and the responsibility of the renter.

 

 

Call for Entry: UNDER 2500
deadline November 1
posted by Maryland Art Place

Deadline: Saturday, November 1 @ MIDNIGHT | Application
PROSPECTUS 

CALL FOR ENTRY: Have your work purchased by local buyers & collectors, just in time for the holidays! Maryland Art Place (MAP) is seeking artists for UNDER $2500, our upcoming winter benefit exhibition & affordable art sale. The exhibition will include approximately 1-3 works by each selected artist (scale dependent – in the case of smaller works more than 3 pieces may be accepted). Each individual piece must retail for $2,500 or less.

Why UNDER $2500? In the last 2 years inflation has been a huge contributing factor to rising artwork sales prices. Simply put, the cost of goods for artists to create their art is far higher than it used to be. The majority of galleries consider the most important contemporary artwork value segments to be under $5,000–$10,000 according to ARTSY (2023.) It is with that in mind that MAP is presenting UNDER $2500 as affordable.

In our 13th year of the sale, we look forward to showcasing a more diverse and broader range of artworks. Artists are encouraged to submit works retailing in both the UNDER $500 and UNDER $2500 categories to include original works, editioned prints, sculptures and more.

UNDER $2500 is MAP’s winter benefit. Proceeds from the sale of artwork will be split 50/50 between Maryland Art Place and the artist. The event is ticketed ($40) however participating artists are welcomed free of charge.

UNDER $2500 is a hybrid, physical and virtual exhibition event. The physical exhibition opens Friday, November 21  from 6pm-10pm. Artworks may be purchased by patrons and taken off the walls on a first come first served basis that night. All works will be wrapped in brown paper with MAP’s signature holiday bow.

he virtual sale will launch the very next day, Saturday November 22 at 10 am and run through BLACK FRIDAY, November 28, 11:59pm. The virtual sale will include more artists than the physical sale. *Please note: applications received will be selected for either the virtual sale (featured online) exclusively, or for both the physical (featured in gallery) AND virtual exhibition (featured online). Your acceptance letter will indicate in which capacity your work will be presented.

MAP will maintain gallery hours Saturday, November 22 from Noon-4pm for any remaining physical works that may be left for purchase.

 

 

 

 

Call for Mural Proposals
deadline November 2
posted by Public Art @ UMD

The Department of Art History & Archaeology, xFoundry and Mtech are pleased to announce a Call for Proposals for a new mural on our campus. The work will be installed on the first floor of the Herbert Rabin Technology Advancement Program Building, located at 4467 Technology Drive (College Park, MD). This initiative stems from a course on Public Art, taught by Professor Abigail McEwen, and is led by twenty-five undergraduate students who are invested in bringing new and diverse art to UMD and who will serve as jurors. The commissioned work will feature in the 2026 edition of NextNOW Fest, organized annually by the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center.

We invite submissions that express the multidisciplinary values of technology, innovation, collaboration, and entrepreneurship that are central to the mission of Mtech. We are particularly interested in vibrant, colorful designs that convey the creative process and social impact of Mtech’s fledgling ventures. Preference will be given to artists who have a personal connection to UMD (current students, alumni, faculty, staff, community members). Submissions should be new and original works and should be painted directly onto the wall. The mural is intended for a wall along the first-floor hallway and/or interior room of the Rabin Building (approx. 10×15 ft and 12×20 ft., respectively; see images here).

 

 

Between Bridges Residency
deadline November 2

Between Bridges is pleased to announce the open call for the next residency for visual artists. The residency will take place from July to December 2026 and includes a working phase as well as a one-month exhibition or public presentation.

The eighth recipient of the residency will follow previous artists Yalda Afsah, Didem Pekün, Lucy Beech, Harry Hachmeister, Wisrah C. V. da R. Celestino, Kristian Vistrup Madsen, and the publishing collective Viscose.

Eligibility

The residency is open to professional individual artists, artist duos, or small groups working collaboratively. Artists enrolled at a university at the time of application are not eligible, except for those enrolled in PhD programs. The primary criterion for awarding the residency is the quality of the application and submitted work.

Scope of residency

The residency provides access to the facilities at Keithstraße 15 in Berlin Schöneberg, located on the ground floor of a residential building near Wittenbergplatz subway station. The facilities include two large work and exhibition spaces, a storage area, an office, a small kitchen, and a bathroom, totaling 100 m². Please note that the rooms are not wheelchair accessible and are not suitable for living.

The residency offers a monthly stipend of €1,500 (regardless of the number of participants) and the opportunity for studio visits with art professionals from the Between Bridges network. An additional budget of €5,000 is allocated specifically for the exhibition or presentation. Independent work is expected. Between Bridges cannot provide assistance with installation but can support finding suitable service providers. The exhibition will be promoted through Between Bridges’ communication channels and documented on the website.

 

 

Artistic Production Grant: Spring 2026 Award Cycle
deadline November 6
posted by VIA Art Fund

VIA Art Fund invites applications for the spring 2026 award cycle of its Artistic Production grant program, which awards funding to individual artists, nonprofit organizations, and institutions to support new artistic commissions that take place outside museum or gallery walls, within the public realm, or in nontraditional exhibition environments. Individual artists or producing organizations seeking production funding must have a confirmed exhibition venue or presenting partner. Artistic production funding ranges from $25,000 to $100,000 per project. Grants are awarded to projects that best exemplify VIA Art’s three core values: artistic production, thought leadership, and public engagement.

 

 

Fellowship for Emerging and Underrepresented Women and Non-Binary Artists
deadline November 7
posted by A.I.R. Gallery

Established in 1993, the A.I.R. Fellowship Program for Emerging and Underrepresented Women and Non-Binary Artists has enabled more than 120 artists to realize their first solo exhibition in New York City with the support of the A.I.R. community. The Fellowship Program annually awards six local emerging artists with their first solo exhibition, professional development programming, curatorial support, and mentorship during a 12-month fellowship that runs September–August.

Intended to support artists in building sustainable and enriching artistic practices, the program provides participants with career-changing, lifelong resources and community in a space that encourages creative risk-taking and intergenerational dialogue. Central to the program are a series of professional development workshops on subjects such as grant writing and exhibition design, close collaboration with an A.I.R. artist mentor, and scheduled studio visits throughout the year, including one with a selection panelist.

Since 2009, A.I.R. has named one yearly A.I.R. Fellowship seat in memory of the artist, activist, writer, and feminist Emma Bee Bernstein (1985–2008). In recognition of Emma’s significant contributions as a young artist, the youngest A.I.R. Fellowship recipient receives the honor of holding the Emma Bee Bernstein Fellowship seat. Since 2024, A.I.R. has annually named one Louise H. McCagg Fellow in honor of artist, philanthropist, feminist, and mother Louise H. McCagg (1936–2020).

The A.I.R. Fellowship Program is made possible by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature, as well as the generous support of The Arison Arts Foundation, The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation, The Bernheim Foundation, The Teiger Foundation, Materials for the Arts, and individual donors to the Emma Bee Bernstein Fellowship and Louise H. McCagg Fellowship Funds.

Learn more about our current and past Fellows here.