This program provides six months of free leadership development and community support to 18 executive-level arts administrators in NYC. The program supports leaders who are uniquely positioned to influence the culture and operations of their organization, informed by guest workshop facilitators from BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) communities.

The 2025 program, for which we are currently accepting applications, will take place from April to September 2025\. It is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.

By fostering the professional development of leaders of Color, we aim to encourage the equitability and diversity of the arts industry. The program is slightly modified year-to-year to implement the learnings of the previous editions, which were generously supported by the Altman Foundation and Rockefeller Brothers Fund.

  
**Program Highlights:**

**Opening and Closing Intensive**

Bookending the program are two in-person intensives where participants connect with each other and delve deeply into leadership frameworks together.

**Virtual Workshops**

Led by expert consultants and other leaders, topics include conflict management, succession planning, and board and nonprofit management.

**Accountability Partnership**

Participants are grouped with each other to track and support their individual leadership goals.

**One-on-One Advising**

Participants are each paired with another Executive Leader of Color from the field who serves as their Advisor for the duration of the program.

  

Six months of free leadership development and community support 

The Incubator for Executive Leaders of Color

Hello writers,

**Ask a cat, and they’ll tell you: any time is the right time for more catnip.** And here at Broccoli, we’re listening. It’s time to make Volume 2 of Catnip—our joyful, sweet, sometimes silly but always smart celebration of all things cat—and we’re looking for your cat tales.

**The best way to understand the type of work we’re looking for is to read Catnip volume 1\.** If it has yet to cross your path, here’s a recap of some of the fiction, essays, interviews, profiles, and cat facts in it:

✦ Cattitude Adjustment: A Q&A with cat behaviorist Kristiina Wilson reveals why cats do the things they do 

✦ Pawparazzi: How Terry deRoy Gruber strayed into becoming “the cat photographer.”

✦ Catnap: The subversive art of sleeping

✦ On the Cat Walk: Chris Watson of @catluminati on how to make friends with your neighborhood cats.

✦ LOLcats: Before there was Grumpy Cat, Maru, or Oh Long Johnson, there was diabellalovescats dot com. 

✦ Fiction: “Cat Pictures, Please”

✦ Claws of a Viper, Feet of Cloudberries: Cats in folklore

✦ Do Robot Cats Dream of Wireless Mice?: On the ineffable embodiment of divine grace that is a cat's love

✦ From Catpricorn to Pawsces: What does your cat's astrological sign reveal about their purrsonality?

✦ Cough it Up: Antidotes, jewels, and talismans; a hair-raising history of hairball

✦ Caturday Night Fever: On dressing up like a cat.

✦ ASMeowRRR: The soundtrack of life with a cat

✦ Legal Claws: Codifying cats in medieval Celtic laws.

✦ Kitty Corners: Catty locations around the world

✦ Cat Calls: Ways to say cat in many different languages

✦ Kuroneko: Crossing paths with Japan’s black cats

✦ The Year We Became Cats: On transforming into someone else and being yourself

✦ Jardin du Chat: Plant a pleasure garden for a cat

✦ Wings of Desire: A brief history of winged cats

✦ My Cat’s Other Family: The story of a cat living a dual life

✦ Ghost Cat: Remembering a beloved pet

✦ A brief history of notable cat ladies

✦ Round-ups of cat-themed books and films

**Please note: We aren’t looking to repeat stories or themes in volume 02,** so please don’t pitch us something we’ve already covered. Scratch a different part of the sofa! 

**Some helpful notes about Catnip to keep in mind as you think through your pitches:**

✦ **It’s fun!** Catnip is a magazine of joy and appreciation, so stories exploring challenging themes that skew sad or problematic (think ethical quandaries around domestication, big cats in cages, etc) are not a good fit.

**Rates will be $.50/word, negotiated as a flat fee upon commission.** This means that we will set the rate based on the expected length of the piece. We do not recalculate the fee based on the final word count of your piece.

Pitch Call: Write for Catnip, Vol 2

How do we bring culture closer to people who are restricted in their freedom of movement in one way or another? Elderly people in a care institution, people in a detention center, people with a severe disability, people/groups in loneliness... How can we roll out culture or artistic trajectories within their living environment? Or do we have to wait until an artist ends up on the waiting list?

  
_With this call we are aiming at organisations or associations that can develop and realise a project themselves. DURF can provide communication support and help find partners, but for the effective realisation of the project you are responsible together with the partners. We refer individuals to Durf Jij? or the Gederfde projecten , unless an active collaboration with one or more organisations exists or can be entered into._ 

DURF invites organisations, artists, institutions to collaborate and get started with this call. Through the fund you can apply for **a maximum of €7500 for your project.**

The total budget that DURF provides for this call is €25,000.

Call: Artist on the waiting list

Minnesota Center for Book Arts is pleased to partner with the McKnight Foundation to offer two fellowships to beyond-emerging artists living and working in Minnesota who show sustained experience in the book arts.

They demonstrate achievement, commitment, and high level proficiency in their practice that contributes to the book arts field while impacting and benefiting people in Minnesota.

  
The McKnight Fellowship for Book Artists supports the conviction that the arts cannot flourish or enhance community life without the ideas, energy, and drive of individual artists, and that artists cannot make these contributions without unfettered creative time.

  
The goal of the McKnight Fellowship for Book Artists program is to identify talented, Minnesota-based book artists who demonstrate sustained experience and achievement and who are at a career stage that is beyond emerging. The fellowship program supports two beyond emerging artists per year by providing significant financial assistance, creating opportunities to meet with local and national art professionals, organizing a panel featuring the fellows and invited critics, and working with the fellows to create an individualized professional development plan.

* Unrestricted $25,000 award
* Studio visits from a national critic/curator
* $1,000 travel stipend to attend a conference
* Opportunity to participate in public artist panel
* $2,000 educational stipend
* Two years of MCBA studio access
* Opportunity to attend an artist residency with stipend
* Group exhibition in MCBA’s Main Gallery

Follow 2025 McKnight Fellowship for Book Artists

USArtists International® supports in-person performances by artists from any state or territory in the U.S. at engagements at international festivals, global presenting arts markets, and other eligible engagements outside of the United States. The program funds individuals and ensembles across all performing arts practices and disciplines.

  
Mid Atlantic Arts is committed to the development and expansion of both the careers and artistic goals of U.S. performers by providing connections to audiences, presenters, curators, and their peers through the USAI program. By elevating the voices that reflect a vibrant array of creative expression, we are able to celebrate and share the diversity and imagination of the United States.

  

**Grant support range:** Matching grants of up to $11,000 toward eligible travel expenses.

USArtists International

$20 USD Submission Fee - Artists can submit 2 separate pieces/images

Online March 1 - March 31, 2025

  
For this online group exhibition, we invite artists to submit any artwork that goes beyond the borders of our cosmos, celebrates our fascination with science, or transports us to other dimensions. Art has the ability to transport the viewer to far off planets, fantasize about the future, and question what, or who, might be out there.

We will accept artwork in any medium, from any year, and any size you are willing to ship to a potential buyer.

Non-Juried Online Group Exhibition.

GALAXY

We are inviting emerging, mid-career and established artists and photographers from any country to participate in PHOTO 2026 International Festival of Photography and have their work presented as part of the official program. Applications must respond to the PHOTO 2026 theme: 'Show Me Love'.

  
Successful applications will have their work presented as large-scale public artworks. Exhibited on building facades or freestanding frames, PHOTO 2026 will transform Melbourne's streets, laneways and parks into an outdoor gallery of inspiring photography, alongside exhibitions curated by museums and galleries.

  
**PHOTO 2026 Theme: Show Me Love**

  
At PHOTO 2026 we will explore and interpret the multifaceted nature of love and its absence as a lens through which to look at the world.

  
As we navigate an ever-changing global landscape, 'Show Me Love' seeks to uncover the profound impacts of love, or the lack thereof, on individuals, communities, and societies at large.

  
Love, in its many forms, can be a powerful force for connection, healing, and transformation. Conversely, the absence of love can highlight the gaps, inequalities, and divisions that exist within our societies. This theme provides a framework for artists to express their personal narratives, cultural critiques, and visionary perspectives.

  
The theme 'Show Me Love' is a basis from which to explore broad social issues and concerns; both light and dark, and woven through with pain and bliss, obsession and desire, passion and compassion.

  
PHOTO 2026 invites a deep dive into love in all its forms, and into where it is lacking, to inspire, challenge, and move audiences.

Selected applicants will receive an artist fee and have their work presented at PHOTO 2026 International Festival of Photography as an outdoor display.

PHOTO 2026 Open Call

The Stiftung Niedersachsen grant at the Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art supports a wide spectrum of media art, from video art and net-based projects to audio works and audiovisual installations. Each of the three grants will be awarded for the production of a new project in the area of media art.

  
An international jury will convene to select the grant recipients.

The Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art, Oldenburg, will award **three Media Art Grants of the Stiftung Niedersachsen (€12,500 each)**.

  
Beyond the grant amount of €12,500 and the possibility of using one of the guest apartments of the Edith-Russ-Haus, no further costs will be covered during the residency (such as technical means, production means, travel expenses, and living expenses incurred during the grant period).

  
On request and by arrangement, a furnished guest apartment is available to grant recipients. It is possible to bring a partner or children, and project collaborators (e.g., sound designers, editors) can also be accommodated by the Edith-Russ-Haus free of charge.

Stiftung Niedersachsen Grants for Media Art

The Bethesda Arts & Entertainment District once again invites local artists to submit work to the 21st annual Bethesda Painting Awards. This juried art competition awards $14,000 in prizes to four selected winners. The Bethesda Painting Awards was established by Carol Trawick in 2005.

**Awards:**

Best in Show - $10,000

Second Place - $2,000

Third Place - $1,000

Young Artist\* - $1,000

  
**Exhibition** at Gallery B.

2025 Bethesda Painting Awards Competition

**THE CALL FOR AL-TIBA9 ART MAGAZINE ISSUE18 IS NOW OPEN.**

**NEW DEADLINE - FEBRUARY 28th, 2025**

  
Al-Tiba9 Art Magazine is an internationally established publication that showcases experimental contemporary art through a diversity of mediums in Digital Arts, photography, painting, architecture, sculpture & installations, Film & Video Art, fashion design, interior design, and performance.

Al-Tiba9 Art Magazine features selected artists, architects, and designers from around the globe with a high focus on contemporary art and those holding a detailed vision of the future. This upcoming edition will count up to 116 curated pages of artworks, biographies, statements, and interviews with the highest level artists working with a vast range of different mediums in digital arts, photography, painting, architecture, sculpture & installations, film & video art, fashion, interior design, and performance.

After being included in the most important art events, art fairs, exhibitions, and museums, the Al-Tiba9 magazine became a unique space for artists and designers to freely express their artistic vision and - in effect - become the original media themselves. The selected artists will also benefit from international exposure thanks to our cultural partners, such as one of the most influential Contemporary Art fairs in the world, ARCOmadrid, and ARCOlisboa. In addition, the magazine will be showcased as a limited edition ArtBook in ArtsLibris Barcelona at the MACBA Contemporary Art Museum of Barcelona, and distributed worldwide. In addition, they will be engaged with our readers and followers every day through our social media, website, print, and digital issues.
  
  
**NOTES:**

• Edition: April 2025.

• ISSUE18 is 100% curated editorial content. No commercial Ads published.

• Selected artists get featured in the magazine with up to 6 pages in both print and digital versions.

• Selected artists benefit from international exposure in the artist book fairs in Barcelona, Madrid, and Lisbon.

• All selected artists will be promoted on our website and newsletters.

• Al-Tiba9 Magazine showcases up to 116 high-level designed pages, printed in high museum quality paper.

• Al-Tiba9 Magazine is distributed worldwide and available for purchase on our online store.

  
**ELIGIBILITY**:

\- Artists are welcome to submit their work. All techniques are welcome.

\- Artists from all countries are welcome to submit.

\- Artists featured in past Issues can submit new works.

  
**HOW TO APPLY:**

Visit the open call page and submit your application

CALL FOR ARTISTS | Al-Tiba9 Magazine ISSUE18

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