We are excited to announce an open call for submissions for **Slanted Magazine #46–Cairo**, dedicated to exploring the vibrant and diverse design scene in Cairo and across Egypt. The issue will highlight the work of creatives from Cairo, other Egyptian cities, and those based abroad, showcasing a range of contemporary design practices and perspectives that shape the cultural landscape of Egypt today.

  
From graphic design, typography, and visual communication to architecture, digital design, and product design, we are looking for exceptional work that reflects the dynamic creative energy of the region. Whether it’s innovative branding projects, experimental design practices, or impactful visual storytelling, we want to see the work that is driving the conversation in Egypt’s design community. We encourage submissions from both emerging and established designers.

  
Graphic designers, illustrators, journalists, authors, and artists are encouraged to submit their work along with a statement or quote explaining their work. Text submissions in form of essays and articles about cultural and creative topics dedicated to Egypt/Cairo are also welcome. 

📅 Editorial Trip Cairo: 22.—28.02.2025

📅 Publication: End of October 2025

Call for Entries: Slanted #46—Cairo

The SCAF Emerging Artist Award has been created to acknowledge up and coming artists of all ages who are living in the Yorkshire region. The intent of the award is to bring recognition and awareness to outstanding visual artists in the region who are at the early stages of their career or who have not yet established a reputation as an artist amongst art curators, buyers and critics.

  
**This years subject: Time**

  
As you are reading the words that make up this paragraph, you are generously donating some of your time to SCAF. Time has a value to us, it is limited, it passes, and we can never regain the time that we have spent. We measure the passing of time, keeping diaries, celebrating birthdays and anniversaries, marking the changes of the seasons and the phases of the moon. Many of us run our lives constantly watching the clock, filling our calendars with time critical appointments and events planned for the future, fearing being late or feeling within us that we never have enough time.

  
Everything in the earthly physical realm is subject to change with the passage of time including the planet we inhabit, which had a beginning and will eventually die over a time course that is vastly different from that of a human life or a snowflake. Art has the power to transcend time. Artists throughout history have captured fleeting moments in time, represented events, people, places, and the nature of time itself in a myriad of different media and representative forms. What does TIME mean to you as an artist? How would you choose to represent this subject in your own piece of art? The subject is yours to ponder and interpret in your own unique way.

There will be 10 awards overall with the winning artist receiving £1250, 2nd £500, 3rd £250 and 7 further awards of £100 each to the remaining shortlisted artists. The awards will be presented to the recipients at the opening of the SCAF Emerging Artist Award Exhibition to be held at SCAF, The Fire House, (Former North Yorkshire Fire & Rescue), Thurston Road, Northallerton, DL6 2NA.

Emerging Artist Award

Bangkok International Performing Arts Meeting (BIPAM), Kyoto Experiment and the Japan Foundation (JF) are launching ‘Shifting Points’, an incubation project for the next generation of performing arts artists in Thailand, Japan, and Southeast Asia, jointly organised by the three organisations.

  
BIPAM, Kyoto Experiment and JF will select a group of emerging performance-making artists from different backgrounds in Japan, Thailand and Southeast Asia to join a three-year incubation programme. Applications are open to artists, art practitioners who create works that are related to performing arts based in Thailand, Southeast Asia, and Japan. In the final selection, a total of 6 participants will be selected from Thailand (2), Southeast Asia (2), and Japan (2).

  
The participating cohort will gather both online and onsite to expand their ways of thinking and practice by engaging with performing arts practitioners in Southeast Asia and their socio-cultural ecosystem. Thus, they will create a collective learning experience that will result in a performative outcome. The programme will be facilitated and advised by a facilitator and guest mentors.

2025 Timeline:

  
* February: Online introductory sessions
* 10–17 March: Onsite research, exchange, and idea development in Bangkok and BIPAM2025 with programme mentors
* October: Onsite research, exchange, and idea development in Kyoto and Kyoto Experiment 2025 with programme mentors

  
The process may continue to phase 2 and 3 in Jan-March and October 2026 and March 2027\. The application process will be renewed and participants will also be reselected to suit each phase of the programme.

Selected participants will receive travel (domestic and international transportation), accommodation, travel insurance, and per diem (1,500 THB per day for Bangkok period) support for each on-site activities.

'Shifting Points', Open call for Artists

The Talent Leadership Programme (TLP) is a Creative Europe-funded training programme, created by Keychange—a global movement supporting underrepresented talents and leading collective actions to create a better, more inclusive music industry for present and future generations.

  
The six-month training is for women and gender-diverse individuals ready to lead change in the music industry. The programme equips future leaders with the tools to drive diversity, inclusion, equity and accessibility (DIEA). Through workshops, mentoring, and hands-on projects, participants gain practical skills, fresh insights, and the confidence to inspire change locally and globally.

  
The programme begins at Tallinn Music Week (Estonia) 3–4 April 2025 and wraps up at the Reeperbahn Festival (Germany) 17–20 September 2025\. Successful applicants will be required to commit to the below:

  
* Mandatory attendance at the two in-person events
* 24 sessions, 2 hours per week, between April 2025 and September 2025, with every fourth week being ‘free from activities’.
* An estimated average time of 4 hours of work a week (live sessions + independent work).

**Each participant will get a baseline travel bursary. The programme also allocates extra funds to participants based in Canada (to cover extra travel costs)**, participants with childcare needs and participants with accessibility needs.

  
As a participant in the Talent Leadership Programme (TLP), you’ll gain: 

  
* Knowledge and Tools: Training in leadership, innovation, and driving social change with a focus on DEIA.
* Hands-On Experience: Develop your own initiative or contribute to impactful projects.
* Personalised Mentorship: One-on-one guidance from an experienced leader to shape your leadership style.
* Supportive Network: Collaborate with fellow participants, experts, and the Keychange team in a safe and inclusive environment.

Keychange Talent Leadership Programme

The Artist in Residence Program at Recology King County (RecologyKC AIR) is a unique opportunity for King County artists to expand their existing studio practice by working with reusable resources to create a new and impactful body of work. Modeled after the Artist in Residence Program at Recology San Francisco, RecologyKC AIR encourages the conservation of natural resources while inspiring artists to think about habits of consumption, waste disposal, and sustainability.

  
At the conclusion of each residency, RecologyKC hosts a public exhibition and artist talk at Mutuus Studio in conjunction with the Georgetown Art Attack. Artists contribute one piece of art to RecologyKC AIR’s permanent collection. The collection is shown in off-site exhibitions and public venues that serve to promote the artists, recycling, and reuse.

  
Residency: May 1 – August 31 

Program orientation: May 1 - 9th 

Exhibition: September 5 – 13\. 

Opening reception Friday, September 5th; closing reception and artist walk-through on September 13 in conjunction with the Georgetown Art Attack.

RecologyKC AIR is a juried program that selects two King County artists for a four-month residency, providing artists with a $1300 monthly stipend, administrative support, studio visits and access to the Recology recovery facility in South Seattle, Recology Stores, and the City of Seattle’s North Transfer Station. On occasion artists will have the opportunity to speak to school classes and adult tour groups about the experience of working with recycled materials.

  
Exhibition in Mutuus Studio.

2025 Artist in Residence Recology King County

For 35 years, BCA’s **BRIO** Award has recognized artists from a wide range of creative disciplines who have the ability to showcase their artistic practice through technique and knowledge of their craft. Each year, BRIO provides direct support of $5,000 to individual Bronx artists who create works in the literary, media, visual, and performing arts. Artists who have received a BRIO award represent the vast diversity of Bronx residents, inclusive of all ethnicities, ages, and genders. Over the years, BRIO has become one of the most coveted distinctions amongst artists residing in the Bronx. 

BCA highlights BRIO’s core emphasis of recognizing outstanding artists in the Bronx and has distributed over $2 million to over 550 artists in more than three decades. Peer review panels for BRIO are comprised of seasoned artists and arts professionals from outside the borough who are guided by discipline-specific criteria and experience, review submissions anonymously, and select grantees for distinction whose work demonstrates the following: 

* An innovative approach to the discipline;
* Probing and pushing of boundaries;
* Technical expertise and high level of skill;
* Ingenuity and rigor in its production;
* An awareness of the medium within a historical context; and
* Compelling vision and original voice.

  

Bronx Recognizes its Own (BRIO)

At Columbia’s Zuckerman Institute, we believe that understanding how the brain works — and gives rise to mind and behavior — is the most urgent and exciting challenge of our time. The Education Lab, a custom-built street-level space located in the Jerome L. Greene Science Center at 605 W 129th St, is where science and community come together for public and education programs. We host programs in the space and in partnership with local organizations such as the National Jazz Museum in Harlem, BioBus, and the Studio Museum in Harlem, for students, teachers and the general public. Our aim is to invite our community to access and enjoy science in fun and inventive ways.

  
**Project expectations**

Artists are invited to submit a proposal for an artwork to be installed in the Zuckerman Institute Education Laboratory, located on 129th Street and Broadway, or artwork that can be presented digitally via our web page or in another creative format (including talks, workshops, or interactive events). All media are acceptable; however, any traditional art pieces (non-digital) must be free-standing. (Due to the limitations of the space, we may not be able to accommodate works that need to be hung or mounted.) We encourage innovative ideas that propose novel ways to display the art in or on the windows of the lab. The work must be publicly accessible. Visual, audiovisual, digital or installation artists are all welcome to apply.

  
We seek an artist to create a work that will invite and inspire community members to explore science through an artistic lens. Artists will be invited to spend time meeting with scientists at the Zuckerman Institute to inspire the creation of artwork that helps bring science to the public in novel and thought-provoking ways. We particularly seek artwork that will engage our local community in Upper Manhattan and the South Bronx. 

  
The selected artist will meet with scientists and produce an artwork proposal based on conversations with the scientists. The final proposal must be completed by the end of March 2025\. The artwork itself must be completed by June 30, 2025, and will be publicly displayed for a minimum of one year after installation.

  
The Public Programs team and a selection committee organized by the Zuckerman Institute will review applications. Shortlisted artists will be selected based on the creativity of the artist statement, the proposed engagement with scientists and the community, and the feasibility of the project within the timeframe and budget. The final selection will be made following a brief interview. The selected artist will be expected to work closely with the Zuckerman Institute Public Programs team during the process.

**Budget:** $10,000, inclusive of all costs related to the project, including but not limited to artist fee and expenses, supplies and installation.

  
Artwork exhibited in Zuckerman Institute Education Laboratory.

Art in the Education Lab 2025: Call for Artists

_What is a monument? Who do we choose to memorialize? How can our public spaces reflect what is important to us?_

  
We’re collaborating with artists, local cultural organizations, and community members to imagine ways of commemorating the people, places, and events that are important to our communities.

  
**The Basics:**

For the second year of _Un-monument,_ the Mayor’s Office of Arts & Culture, via the Boston Art Commission, is commissioning temporary monuments from groundbreaking artists. 

Through partnerships with artists and celebrated cultural organizations, _Un-monument_ is presented through a series of interconnected activations including public art, free public talks at _The Embrace_ with the Hutchins Center, writing with the Boston Art Review, and hands-on workshops at Emerson Contemporary. 

The _Un-monument_ initiative includes six curatorial approaches to commissioning temporary monuments across the City. Some _Un-monument_ temporary monuments will be selected through this open call to artists led by the Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture. Others are the result of direct commissions by five organizations serving as curatorial partners: Boston Public Art Triennial, Emerson Contemporary, National Center of Afro-American Artists, North American Indian Center of Boston, and Pao Arts Center.

This open call ensures that this opportunity is available to all artists. With multiple curators, we hope to create opportunities for more perspectives to join the conversation. Commissioning local organizations also supports Boston’s creative ecosystem and allows for participation in this dialogue at multiple levels.

**Open Call: Two Artist Opportunities:**

In this Call to Artists, we present two distinct opportunities for artists. First, we are looking for proposals from artists or artist-led teams for new temporary monuments, as well as “un-monuments” that are socially responsive and transform public places to reflect the city’s cultural vibrancy in dialogue with Boston’s collection of existing monuments during summer and fall of 2025\. All temporary monuments must all be free and accessible to the public in Boston. Projects may be proposed in any City of Boston neighborhood. The second opportunity is to take a Projection Mapping Artist Workshop hosted by Emerson Contemporary.

  

**Award Amount per Grant:** Grants will be awarded in 4 different budget tiers: 

* Tier One: $9,999 or less
1. Budgets under $9,999 will fund artist fees and artwork fabrication, installation, maintenance, de-installation costs, and related programming for projects of smaller scale or shorter duration, such as new media projects, social practice projects, smaller murals, and brief interventions.
* Tier Two:  $10,000-$30,000
1. Budgets above $10,000 will fund artist fees and artwork fabrication, installation, maintenance, de-installation costs, and any related programming, for projects of medium scale or a mid-range duration, such as medium-sized murals and interventions.
* Tier Three: $30,000-$60,000
1. Budgets above $30,000 will fund artist fees and artwork fabrication, installation, maintenance, de-installation costs, and any related programming for projects of medium to large scale or with a recurring series of programming. At this tier we encourage at least one community engagement partnership during the planning, development, or production stages. Examples of potential projects in tier three include medium to large-sized murals and interventions.
* Tier Four: $60,000-$100,000
1. Budgets above $60,000 will fund artist fees and project costs of tier three as well as artworks that require larger scale and longer-term production, such as a large-scale sculpture installation, and/or a standing residency on site with events offered throughout the installation. This tier must also include regular maintenance plans and community engagement partnership during the planning, development, or production stages. This grant amount will be awarded to no more than two applicants total each year.

  

Un-monument: Call to Artists—Temporary Monuments 2025

**ISLAND CONNECT** is a collaborative program between seven performing arts organisations, working with residencies located on (or associated with) European islands of different countries. United in the project by a common interest in contributing to the creation and consolidation of performing arts, the network partners of the international exchange residency program, wish to address an important ambition. The project aims to support the artists and arts companies in their personal and professional development within the project’s framework, and therefore is launching these open calls.

Island Connect II (**2024-2026**) is a further evolution of the project, funded by Creative Europe, and will announce three open calls per year of the three-year project.

**Theme:** All artists wishing to participate will be asked to critically engage with the themes of insularity, islander identities or island socio-political realities in a wider European context comparing the similarities and difficulties that emerge from diverse island regions of the project. Working on something related to these themes is a vital part of participating in the project. Artists are not required to have an existing project in development, and new proposals are equally welcome.

Artists are encouraged to interact with the island area and community. Artists’ work-in-progress presentations are organised at the end of each residency and presentations of finished works of selected artistic companies can be performed at partners’ festivals. All presentations are followed by an artist-audience feedback session.

The objective is to provide the artists with a much-needed space for research and free experimentation, and time for reflecting and posing questions. At the same time, partners’ artistic directors may provide them with specialised feedback and dramaturgical advice. This is facilitated through fully-funded residencies for each of the artistic companies.

  
**The residencies will take place across seven islands (Bornholm – Denmark, Vis – Croatia, Ireland, Mallorca, Corsica, Sardinia, or Tenerife) at different times throughout 2024-26.**

  

The residencies provide and ensure both working and living conditions which include: working venue/space and basic technical conditions at a selected island community, paid pre-arranged accommodation (twin rooms), local and international travel expenses to residency and capacity building locations, travel expenses to the residency, per diems, and fee.

  
**Open Call #1 – Artistic Residency Exchange 2025**

* This call is open to artists or groups/companies of up to 3 artists. Each artist/group will receive 2 weeks of residency in their country of origin or domicile. They will then be sent to a partner country for a further 2 weeks of residency.

  
* Artists/companies will receive a total of €1200 per 2-week residency (€2400 total) regardless of group size, and per diems of €50\* per person. Accommodation and travel is provided.

  
**Open Call #2 – Co-Creation Residency 2025**

* This call is for 1 performing arts creator from each of our regions to participate in a joint co-creation residency on the island of **Mallorca, June 23rd-29th 2025**. The residency will be organised by C.IN.E. and facilitated by Biel Jordà, in collaboration with another professional facilitator from the Balearic Islands.

  
* Each artist will be paid €800, per diems of €50 per day during the residency, and approved travel expenses will be covered. C.IN.E. will provide accommodation and workspace for all the participating artists.

  
**Open Call #3 – Islander Focus Residency 2025**

* This open call is for one artist, who will be sent internationally to two separate residencies of up to two weeks each. These residencies may also include locations outside of the seven core partner countries, which may only send artists to one location.

  
* The artist will receive a fee of €600 per 2-week residency (€1200 total) and per diems of €50\* (€1400 total). Accommodation and travel is provided.

  
\*Croatian artists receive per diems of €28 while in Croatia.

Island Connect Programme for Performing Artists

Paint the profound beauty and captivating textures of water through art. TERAVARNA welcomes you to exhibit your skills in the 7th WATER International Juried Art Competition. It is a showdown of the best water-based artworks in 2D and 3D forms. Artists are emboldened to represent watercolor painting portraits in various forms. Savor the moment to win cash prizes of up to $3500 and a certificate of recognition with an entry fee of $15 per artwork besides certificates of recognition and social media promotions. Hurry up artists, the submission closes on 15 January, 2025\. For further questions, write to the organizers at: info@teravarna.com.

Entangling paint, water, and paper| Water Art | TERAVARNA

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