Nomad Spirit – International Program 2025 invites Austrian, Finnish, French, and German artists to apply for public art program, to be held in remote places of the Gobi region of Mongolia, from Jun 11 to 29, 2025\. The program aims to raise public awareness of climate change through organization of public art events and creative activities. The project will select 4 international and 4 Mongolian artists.

Upon successful completion of the Nomad Spirit 2024, the initiators decided to carry out the second edition of the program and selected Tsagaandelger Soum in Dundgobi Province as a main place for the implementation of the public art events and activities. Before launching its public art program, the project will organize research trip to the remote places of the Gobi region, where artists can explore the traces of the climate changes and economic activities of the nomadic families.

Funded by EUNIC\*, the Nomad Spirit – International Program was initiated by EUNIC Mongolia and its implementing members, the Alliance Francaise Oulan-Bator, the Austrian Embassy in Beijing, the Finnish Embassy in Beijing and the Goethe-Institut Mongolia and will be implemented by the Mongolian Contemporary Art Support Association (MCASA) and its affiliate Nomadic Red Corner International Residency. The program is curated by Gantuya Badamgarav, the founder of the MCASA.

**Duties of Artists:**

The selected artists will work together with the project team and the local communities to design and implement public art events and creative activities in Tsagaandelger Soum. Artists are expected to be engaged with the creation of site-specific installations or paintings, organization of workshops for school children or present media works and performances to the public. The project will encourage artists to use discarded and handy materials to create art objects, but will also provide some materials such as wood, paint and other supplies upon need.

**Selection Criteria:**

* Experience in public art focused on environment. Forms include, but are not limited to, site-specific installations, mural paintings, street art, media art, and workshop for school children.
* Ability to communicate in English,
* Openness to different cultures, people, and conditions,
* Artists living and working in Austria, Finland, France, or Germany,
* Availability for 18 days (June 11 to 29, 2025)

A jury consisting of the curatorial team and representatives of the funding organizations will select one artist per country. Selected artists will be notified in the first week of April 2025\. Note: Open Call for the Mongolian artists will be published later.

**The programme offers:**

* International travel cost (economy class)
* Accommodation, food, and transportation during stay in Mongolia
* Production cost
* Renumeration of 1,000 EUR (gross)
* Research trip to Gobi region
* Networking with local artists and institutions relevant to the project

**How to Apply:**

Please send an email to NomadSpiritMongolia@gmail.com along with all documents (in English) in one PDF (max. 10MB):

* Short biography (200 words),
* Detailed Curriculum Vitae,
* Letter of motivation,
* Portfolio including artworks or projects that represent the candidate’s artistic practice,
* Links to websites and works.

Please mention “Application for Nomad Spirit” in the subject line.

**Timeline:**

Feb 15 – Mar 15th, 2025: Open Call

Mar 15th, 2025, 23:00 (Mongolian time): Application Submission Closing

Mar 15th – 25th: Jury Selection of Artists

Early April, 2025: Winners announced

Jun 11th – 29th, 2025: Realization of project in Mongolia

**Check Nomad Spirit 2024**

News on webpage: https://redcorner-mongolia.com/nomad-spirit-international-art-program-in-deren-soum-of-dundgovi-province/

**Websites of implementing organizations:**

https://mcasa-mongolia.com/

https://redcorner-mongolia.com/

https://www.goethe.de/ins/mn/de/index.html

https://www.afm.mn/

https://www.bmeia.gv.at/kf-peking

https://finlandabroad.fi/web/chn/mission

https://www.eunicglobal.eu/

\*EUNIC – European Union National Institutes for Culture – is Europe’s network of national cultural institutes and organizations, with 39 members from all EU Member States and associate countries. EUNIC – European Union National Institutes for Culture – is Europe’s network of national cultural institutes and organizations, with 39 members from all EU Member States and associate countries. EUNIC Mongolia aims to develop strong and sustainable ties between cultural stakeholders in the European Union and Mongolia by engaging in activities that are driven by the global challenges we have to respond to together.

Nomad Spirit – Fully Funded Residency Program in Mongolia 

Finding a language for life – the Arts Foundation of North Rhine-Westphalia and the Pina Bausch Foundation have been following up on Pina Bausch’s credo since 2016 with a co-developed grant programme and award the Pina Bausch Fellowship for Dance and Choreography.

  
**FELLOWSHIP 2025: Dream, connect, broaden your horizons!**

  
In 2025, the Pina Bausch Fellowship supports a wide range of cooperation formats: the fellowships can be realised on site with the cooperating partners, but can also take place virtually or in hybrid form.

  
Interested artists can apply with a cooperation format from January 15 until March 15, 2025\. Applications should be based on realistic evaluations of their implementation. Applicants apply with a self-selected cooperating partner whose artistic work they are interested in or with whom they would like to work. The fellowship aims at enabling further artistic and personal development of the applicants.

**The Pina Bausch Fellowship is not a project fund, nor is it aimed at the development of new pieces.**

  
The 2025 fellowships must take place between September 1, 2025 and August 31, 2026\. Artists can apply for a **full-time fellowship** (21 hours or more per week) or a **part-time format** (20 hours or less per week) in 2025\. The monthly allowance is 2,500 € for a full-time fellowship or 1,000 € for part-time fellowships. Each fellowship format is designed entirely by the applicants and their cooperating partners. The duration depends on the individually designed format, but should not be less than three months.

  
The participants themselves must calculate travel costs and state in advance within the application form. These travel expenses should cover travel to and from the fellowship location, and one visit to the German region of North Rhine-Westphalia for the final week.

  
In 2025, there will be a digital on-boarding for the new fellows in the second half of August. The total funding amount for all fellowships awarded in 2025 is 30,000 € and will be divided among the successful applicants. Travel expenses will be paid in addition to the monthly grant.

  
The fellowship is promoted internationally and aims at individual artists in the field of dance and choreography.

Pina Bausch Fellowship for Dance & Choreography

Each year Persea Books commemorates poet-activist Lexi Rudnitsky by holding two book contests sponsored by the Lexi Rudnitsky Poetry Project, an organization founded to memorialize Lexi and to promote the type of meaningful poetry in which she so spiritedly believed. 

  
The Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize competition is open to self-identifying women who have yet to publish a full-length book of poems.

The winner receives publication, an advance of $1,000.00, and publication of her collection by Persea.

  
In addition, the winner receives the option of an all-expenses-paid residency at the Civitella Ranieri Center, a renowned artists retreat housed in a fifteenth-century castle in Umbertide, Italy.

The Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize

**The FCCS Woodhaven Artist in Residence Program provides a paid residency opportunity for a diverse variety of visiting artists including writers, visual artists, digital media artists and performance artists. Artists stay between 2 – 4 weeks at our Woodhaven Eco Culture Centre in the summer months.**

  
We are seeking applications from artists or writers who are engaged in visual arts, digital arts, performance, social and community-based artistic practices. We particularly encourage applications from BIPOC artists and those from marginalized groups that are traditionally underrepresented in ecologically-focussed creative practice. 

  
**Residency Information**

This residency includes accommodation in a large two-bedroom home located at the Woodhaven Eco Culture Centre as well as full use of a studio on the property. The visiting artist/author/performer will be expected to spend time on their own art practice as well as part of their time on community engaged programming, and are invited to stay between 2 – 4 weeks, anytime between July 1 to August 15\. 

  
Artists who are engaged in visual arts, creative writing, digital arts, performance, and community-based artistic practices are invited to apply. Space on site is limited, and minimal equipment is available at Woodhaven. 

The Woodhaven Visiting Artist Residency is primarily designed to support site-specific artistic practice that engages with the space at Woodhaven (which includes forested areas and a creek), the Okanagan region more broadly, or local knowledge and expertise. 

UBC Okanagan campus is home to the Bachelor of Sustainability and has faculty working in multiple areas of climate and sustainability focused research and creative practice. This residency is a vibrant part of UBC Okanagan’s commitment to building communities, both locally and globally, that are committed to creating and sharing knowledge and creative practices dedicated to the mindful preservation and just stewardship of our world’s natural environment. 

Visiting Artists should be prepared to execute their project independently. UBC’s Okanagan Campus is a 30-minute drive away from Woodhaven and features resources that may be available, such as a staffed woodshop and metal shop (use of these spaces does require safety training and must be completed with one of our studio technicians). Bookings must be made in advance. Transportation will be the artist’s responsibility if use of these spaces is needed. 

This residency includes accommodation in a large two-bedroom home located at the Woodhaven Eco Culture Centre as well as full use of a studio on the property. 

  
The successful applicant will be paid $7000\. 

Woodhaven Artist in Residence Program

**This is 75**

**_“Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be.”_** – Robert Browning

  
In celebration of its 75 years of service to older adults, the National Council on Aging (NCOA) is hosting a photography contest to redefine aging as a period of vitality, purpose, and connections. Our goal is to break down stereotypes of aging in America by showing older adults who are engaged in life—interacting with others across generations, volunteering and working in their communities, and being physically and mentally active. NCOA invites photographers to submit images, and the personal stories of the subjects depicted in the photos as they reflect on what aging well means to them.

  
Timeline:

* Public Voting: Opens **May 15, 2025**
* In-Person Exhibition at the conference: **May 26-May 28, 2025,** at Crystal Gateway Marriott, Arlington, VA
* Public Vote Winner Announced: **May 30, 2025**
* Awards Mailing: **June 15, 2025**
* Additional Gallery Exhibition curated by mosaicARTs in DMV areas: **June—September** (TBA). The final exhibition will be displayed permanently at the NCOA headquarters in Crystal City, VA.

**NCOA will grant the following awards:**

1 First Prize: $1,500

1 Second Prize: $800

1 Public Vote Award: $600

7 Merit Awards: $300 each

10 Honorable Awards: $150 each

  
Exhibition at Crystal Gateway Marriott, Arlington, VA

2025 NCOA Photography Award Contest

**The Rubin x Research grant program aims to broaden research of Himalayan art with the goal of expanding knowledge, documentation, and general awareness of the field.**

  
**What We Support**

We support scholarship and research into Himalayan art in academic, educational, and exhibition contexts. Priority is given to projects that will result in publication(s), media projects, exhibitions, or are part of larger projects with a high degree of visibility.

We do not fund conferences, the cost of producing publications, infrastructural projects, for-profit projects, or exclusively contemporary art projects in this grant category.

  
**Timeline**

Grants through this program are offered once yearly. Grant proposals are reviewed by a committee of Rubin staff and additional experts as needed and appropriate. 

* February 15: Letter of inquiry opens
* April 15: Invitations to apply sent to select applicants
* June 15 (by 5:00 PM EST): Grant applications due
* September 15: Grantees notified by the Rubin
* Late October: Grants begin

  

Rubin x Research grants offer support of $2,500 to $25,000.

Rubin x Research

At 66,000 square feet, Cannonball Arts has the space to exhibit large-scale installations and sculptures. Our North Gallery is designed to house immersive, interactive and otherwise expansive works up to 4,000 square feet. Exhibitions would occupy the gallery for a period of (6) months.

Artist stipends range $10,000 to $30,000 including all creative, labor, installation and materials. Exhibition at Cannonball Arts would occupy the gallery for a period of (6) months.

Open Call for Large Scale Installations + Sculpture

Cannonball Arts will acquire a multi–car amusement park dark ride with 100 feet of track (think tunnel of love). We actively seek artists and technologists that work in virtual and augmented reality to create immersive environments geo-tracked to VR headsets. Visitors’ bodies will ride while their minds travel through designed environments limited only by the artist’s imagination. VR headsets provided.

Artwork exhibited with Cannonball Arts.

Artist stipends range from $5,000 to $15,000.

Virtual Reality Dark Ride

We are excited to announce an open call for submissions to _"Strip / Shift,"_ an upcoming art exhibition in Berlin in April 2025 **for Berlin-based artists.** As artists focused on social issues, empowerment, and marginalised communities, your voices are crucial to this exploration of the nuanced realities of stigmatised professions like stripping and sex work. This exhibition will challenge societal perceptions, foster critical dialogue, and amplify your voices.

**Concept & Objective**

_Strip / Shift_ seeks to examine societal attitudes towards marginalised and misunderstood professions. With a dual focus, the exhibition will explore:

1. **Choice vs. Coercion**: When these professions are freely chosen, how can society embrace and respect them? When they are forced due to economic or social pressures, what can be done to prevent exploitation and provide support?
2. **Empowerment & Misogyny**: As artists, we invite you to explore why such roles face heavy stigmatisation in an era that claims to be increasingly sex-positive. Your works can help us understand and challenge these societal attitudes.
3. **Trans Narratives**: Highlighting the unique struggles, fears, and resilience of trans sex workers within these spaces.

Through photography, video art, and performance, _Strip / Shift_ aims to challenge stereotypes, raise awareness of systemic issues, and advocate for dignity and rights for workers in these fields.

**Submission Guidelines**

We are seeking works in the following mediums:

1. **Photography**: Projects that visually narrate empowerment, struggle, or societal perceptions.
2. **Video Art**: Explorations of stigma, identity, and the duality of choice versus coercion.
3. **Performance Art**: Live or recorded performances addressing empowerment, misogyny, and resilience.

**Themes to Explore**

1. Female empowerment
2. Societal perceptions of stripping and sex work
3. Misogyny within these industries
4. Struggle and fear of trans sex workers
5. The balance between choice and coercion

**Details & Deadline**

1. **Exhibition Dates**: to be announced
2. **Venue**: Berlin, in a strip club setting during closing hours
3. **Duration**: One week
4. **Deadline for Submissions**: 15.03.2025

**How to Submit**

  
Please send us your submission using the online form

  
with the subject line: "Strip / Shift Open Call Submission." Include the following:

1. Artist statement (max. 300 words)
2. Description of the submitted work (title, medium, year, size, price and how it connects to the themes)
3. High-res images or links to your work (for video or performance submissions) (please name each image or link)
4. Bio (min. 200 words)
5. CV (optional)

We welcome submissions from both emerging and established artists. This exhibition is a platform for amplifying voices, breaking down stigmas, and sparking change.

Let's strip away assumptions and shift perspectives together.

For inquiries, please contact us at curationbygeorgina@gmail.com.

"strip/shift" art exhibition for berlin-based artists

Surrealism is an artistic exploration of the human psyche, dreams, and the unconscious mind. Through bizarre and fantastical scenes, juxtaposition, or symbolism, we challenge you to capture and present images that defy logic and question the boundary of perception. Invite us to a realm where the conscious and unconscious blur and reality transform into the surreal. The Surreal is an international open call for photographers ages 18 and older. ​​​​​​​All forms of two-dimensional images, traditional and non-conventional media, and conventional or alternative processes with a subjective analog or digital photographic base are welcome for submission.

The Surreal

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