The CLIM'ART 2025 Prize – CR CREATION & CONSCIENCE ATION & CONSCIENCE is the second edition of a figurative and literary art competition, organized by the Andurand Endowment Fund, for young artists across France.

  
The FDD Andurand aims to support and accompany young people in France in the educational, sporting and cultural fields, as well as taking action to preserve and protect our environment.

  
With a total amount of €50,000, the CLIM'ART-ANDURAND Prize is an event aimed at promoting responsible artistic creation in the fields of painting, sculpture, photography, digital art and writing, with the aim of permanently inscribing the theme of the climate emergency and the preservation of the environment in the consciousness of contemporary art. 

  
In order to promote the different aspects of current creation on environmental themes, the CLIM'ART Prize is presented in the form of a thematic journey, including a competition, an exhibition and a digital reverberation.

  
**The Contest Themes:**

  
⬢ Preserving our marine heritage : The ocean is a major concern in the climate crisis with major issues such as coastal erosion and plastic pollution.

  
⬢ Fight against fires and drought : Fires are on the increase in recent years, favored by climate change and increased drought.

  
⬢ Fight against river and marine pollution : Most marine pollution comes from urban, industrial and agricultural pollution.

A prize will be awarded for each category and a digital catalog will be published and distributed to coincide with the exhibition. From a total envelope of €50,000, an amount of €500 will be given to each of the 20 nominees. In addition, five prizes will be awarded:

  
 ⬢ A CLIM'ART ANDURAND Prize worth €4,000 for the Painting category

 ⬢ A CLIM'ART ANDURAND Prize worth €4,000 for the Sculpture category

 ⬢ A CLIM'ART ANDURAND Prize worth €4,000 for the Photography category

 ⬢ A CLIM'ART ANDURAND Prize worth €4,000 for the Digital Art category

 ⬢ A CLIM'ART ANDURAND Prize worth €4,000 for the Writing category

CLIM'ART 2025 CREATION & CONSCIENCE PRIZE

Henrik Igityan National Centre for Aesthetics (NCA) invites Iranian, Georgian, Italian, French, German and Chinese independent artists and art organisation representatives to submit project proposals for “NCA Cultural Crossroads: Artist Residency Program - Open Call for Artists from Georgia, Iran, Italy, France, Germany and China” program, which is implemented by Henrik Igityan National Centre for Aesthetics (NCA). The program is supported by the Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sport of the Republic of Armenia.

  
The aim of the “NCA Cultural Crossroads: Artist Residency Program - Open Call for Artists from Georgia, Iran, Italy, France, Germany and China” program is to foster the exchange of cultural heritage and traditional art forms through short-term artistic projects, strengthen intercultural ties between the neighboring, European and Asian countries and establish new partnerships by providing the participating artists with the resources and platform to share their work, skills, and knowledge with other international and local artists and communities. The participants will become acquainted with the cultural similarities and differences of Armenia, Georgia, and Iran and European and Asian artists will grow acquainted with the regional art sector and cultural heritage.

  
The program will be implemented at the National Centre for Aesthetics’ subdivisions in both the capital, Yerevan, and across other regions of Armenia - Tavush, Shirak, Lori, Gegharkunik, Syunik (10 days in Yerevan and 5 days in the regions), - enabling the art-loving communities of these remote regions to meet and work with international artists and help them to have a better understanding of the Armenian people and life in the regions. The selected projects will be matched with NCA subdivisions, taking into consideration their suitability with the areas of expertise of NCA subdivisions. The project outputs (exhibitions, open lessons, presentations, small-scale concerts, short performances) will be presented in Yerevan.

Travel expenses, accommodation, food, and in-country transportation expenses will be covered by the National Centre for Aesthetics with the support of the Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sport of the Republic of Armenia. Project materials will be provided by the National Centre for Aesthetics.

Cultural Crossroads Artist Residency Program

The peace, the light and the silence at the creative spaces of the Arvo Pärt Centre are welcoming artists from all over the world here to work, create and find inspiration. Our spacious residency room with views opening to the surrounding pine forest is open for composers and performers as well as creators from other fields – writers, visual artists, architects, film and dance artists. We welcome solo artists as well as smaller ensembles, collectives or small working groups (up to 4 people). Since 2023 the Arvo Pärt Centre residency is part of the Estonian Creative Residencies Network (LOORE).

  
Our aim is to offer the time and space for open-ended, creative processes. During the chosen residency period, the artist is welcome to work and practice at the APC building as well as the surrounding area with no fixed requirement for a completed work or project.

  
The Arvo Pärt Centre is located in Laulasmaa, 35 kilometres from Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, on a beautiful natural peninsula between the sea and a pine forest. As the centre itself does not include accommodation facilities, the residency will be combined with hotel accommodation in the area, 800m walking distance from the centre building.

  
The working space:

  
* The Arvo Pärt Centre’s creative room is a spacious white room with a large glass wall overlooking the pine forest. There is a large round table, desk, sofa and extra chairs. If desired, the large white wall can be used to set schemes or diagrams. It is possible to use a large screen and flipchart if required. There are 2 musical instruments in the creative room at all times – a compact digital piano (Yamaha Arius YDP S54) and a 88-key Una Corda. It is also possible to rent a MIDI keyboard (Studiologic SL88). The size of the creative room is 36 square metres (9m x 4m). During the residency period, the room is meant for one resident/working group only.
* It is possible for the resident to use other rooms at the APC if a prior agreement has been made. These rooms include the library, reading rooms and the concert hall.

  
By prior agreement, the resident has also access to the following musical instruments (available in different rooms of the APC):

  
* Steinway D Spirio | r (Hamburg)
* Estonia L210 (210 cm, 6’10”)
* Steinway K-132 (Hamburg)
* Harmonium, 440 Hz
* Harpsichord

Two residency scholarships are awarded every year, one for musicians and one for other artists.

  
The residency offers accommodation at the Centre’s new residency building, the Alina House (100m from the Centre’s main building), it is also possible to stay at the LaSpa hotel nearby.

  
The scholarship will provide an all costs covered residency by the APC, including international and local travel, use of residency facilities and per diems. 

  
The applicant is free to decide the duration for the residency between 1 to 4 weeks. Please note this residency is personal and does not include any accompanying persons. While it is possible for small ensembles, collectives or working groups (up to 4 people) to apply for the scholarship, the APC has funds to only cover the expenses of 1 person in a group.

2025 APC Residency Scholarship

_“My activism did not spring from my being gay, or, for that matter, from my being black. Rather, it is rooted fundamentally in my Quaker upbringing and the values that were instilled in me by my grandparents who reared me.” – Bayard Rustin_

  
**As of Dec 9th, 2024, we are currently accepting applications for the 2025-2026 Bayard Rustin Residency. This is our 5th Bayard Rustin Residency and will run from September 2025 to September 2026.**

  
Building on the social activist history of Penington’s founders, original board, and later residents, the Bayard Rustin Residency at Penington Friends House (PFH) is envisioned as an ongoing ladder to empowerment for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) working to end Systemic Racism and to create a culture of anti-Racism and intersectional equality in the United States of America. It is also intended to extend and strengthen the wider Quaker witness to equality.

Beginning in September of 2025, this residency will provide up to one year of room and board to a person who demonstrates a strong project that addresses ending Systemic Racism and who has a necessity to be in New York City for up to one year. They will reside at the Penington Friends House located in New York City’s Lower East Side of Manhattan. The Bayard Rustin Resident will demonstrate a need to live in Manhattan. Areas of focus of their work can include activism in the arts, policy change, human rights, community organizing, and other areas of activism focusing on ending racism and strengthening equality. Residents will meet regularly with the Residency Manager and will be expected to share their progress with the New York City community in the form of presentations or workshops.

The resident does not have to be Quaker but their work should be shaped by and in harmony with our tenets of Simplicity, Peace, Integrity, Community, Equality, and Stewardship. **_The resident will be expected to be a full-time resident of PFH and be participating member of this intentional community._** This includes eating chef prepared dinners with the other residents and participating in shared light house chores. ( 1 1/2 hour commitment per week on average.) 

  
**Here are a few types of artists and activists activities that we would be interested in considering:**

* An artist working on a body of art that addresses racism and/or intersectional issues.
* A writer working on a new book, play, screenplay, or collection that addresses racism and/or intersectional issues.
* A performer creating a new dance piece that addresses racism and/or intersectional issues.
* A community based artist designing or carrying out a community based project that addresses racism and/or intersectional issues.
* An activist organizing communities to address racism and/or intersectional issues.
* A social entrepreneur that is starting a non-profit focused on addressing racism and/or intersectional issues.
* An inventor or designer working on solving a problem associated with systemic racism and/or intersectional issues.
* A graduate student that has a strong and well defined anti-racism project that needs support and time to launch.

Accommodation: room and board, including food provided 5 nights a week

Bayard Rustin Residency 2025-2026

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

The Academy for Teachers is offering a unique artist residency in partnership with Foundation House, specifically for New York City teacher-artists. This 10-day residency, running from July 25 – August 3, 2025, provides eight full-time educators with an opportunity to immerse themselves in their creative practices. 

  
Foundation House, a nonprofit focused on wellness, the environment, and social justice, invites teachers from all artistic disciplines to apply. This residency offers a chance to deepen artistic work while fostering important conversations around these core values. 

  
Apply today to join a vibrant community of NYC teacher-artists! 

  

Each resident will receive a $500 honorarium after the session and can be reimbursed up to $100 for supplies necessary for the residency. Residents will have their own bedroom, a private or semi-private bathroom, studio space, three meals a day, and access to the property’s common areas and its seventy-five acres of land to explore.

Travel expenses will not be covered.

Artist Residency for Teachers

Located approximately two miles from the center of Montauk and the Atlantic Ocean, “The Barn” rests in a secluded knoll which offers privacy and a peaceful atmosphere. Writers and visual artists are offered individual en-suite bedrooms and separate working studios. Residents are responsible for their food, travel, and other expenses. The environment is simple and communal. The Center is open almost year-round and can accommodate four creative persons at a time. Residencies are for calendar-month periods (with rare, pre-approved exceptions). The standards for admission are, simply, talent and need.

Writer and Artists are offered private en-suite bathrooms and separate private working studios for calendar-month periods, year-round.

William Flanagan Memorial Creative Persons Center

No one turned away for lack of funds- email info@elycenter.org for waiver information

**This Open Call is not for just one opportunity but for our upcoming year of programming.**

**_We are pleased to announce Jared Quinton as our guest curator this year!_**

“I'm interested in the politics of form and believe the best art conveys its meaning or message through the artist's formal and material choices. This applies across all media and to the entire spectrum from figuration to abstraction. I'm less interested in art that represents an idea or narrative (illustration), rests purely on visual appeal (decoration), or relies on external information in order to be understood.” -Quinton

Jared Quinton is a curator, writer and currently the Emily Hall Tremaine Associate Curator of Contemporary Art at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, CT, where he oversees the pioneering MATRIX exhibition series and the museum’s postwar and contemporary collection and galleries.

  
**Submissions Considered For:**

* Exhibition curated by **Jared Quinton** to take place September 14 - October 26, 2025\*
* Flat File exhibitions
* Keyhole Workspace in Residence (Spring/Fall ‘25)
* Solo exhibitions
* Thematic group exhibitions
* Entry Project Space for mural, video, installation, and other experimental works
* _Digital Grace_, our online exhibition platform, as well as other online programming and exhibitions
* Special interviews and social media features
* Trash to Fashion programing

Artists are responsible for cost of shipping work

**Submissions Considered For:**

* Exhibition curated by **Jared Quinton** to take place September 14 - October 26, 2025\*
* Flat File exhibitions
* Keyhole Workspace in Residence (Spring/Fall ‘25)
* Solo exhibitions
* Thematic group exhibitions
* Entry Project Space for mural, video, installation, and other experimental works
* _Digital Grace_, our online exhibition platform, as well as other online programming and exhibitions
* Special interviews and social media features
* Trash to Fashion programming

**Eligibility & Terms**

* Artists may submit up to five works, any medium.
* Files should be 2 MB or smaller and labeled as follows: lastname\_firstname\_worktitle ex: Ely\_Grace\_VictorianMansion.jpg If submitting video upload a still image and provide a link to the video in the following work description section. If submitting sound upload up to one minute .mp3 file, you may include a link if works are longer than one minute.
* Artists working in new media, film, or video may be required to use own equipment for exhibitions as ECOCA’s equipment library is limited
* Artists are responsible for hand-delivery of artwork or are responsible for the shipping cost to and from the gallery.
* All artwork accepted must be ready to hang or install.
* Artists retain 70% of the proceeds from any work sold.
* **$35 application fee**: Includes 1 – 5 artworks
* No one will be denied a submission, if one cannot afford the $35 fee please email info@elycenter.org
* **Deadline:** March 16, 2025, 11:59 pm EST
* Please note ECOCA cannot insure any single work valued at more than $10,000.
* Please reach out to info@elycenter.org for any further questions.

For ease of application we suggest that you use Chrome when submitting your application. We also suggest that you have all your information/materials ready for copy/paste and uploading in order to finish in one sitting. If you have any issues email info@elycenter.org for troubleshooting.

\*Dates are subject to change

ECOCA Open Call 2025

**The Artiver AI Art Awards** present an exceptional opportunity for digital creators worldwide to showcase their innovative works at the intersection of human creativity and artificial intelligence. This prestigious event celebrates groundbreaking art across two main categories: **Static Art** (Digital Design, Conceptual & Fine Art, Photo Realistic, Future Spaces) and **Motion Art** (Storytelling, Future Visions).

Our mission is to foster collaboration between artists and AI, empowering creators to explore new artistic horizons. Artiver provides a global platform to exhibit works, connecting creators to a wider audience. Selected winners will gain recognition through a **New York physical exhibition** and a **Times Square billboard showcase**, symbolizing their contribution to redefining the future of art.

Join us in celebrating this **new era of art**, where technology and human vision unite to inspire and transform the creative world.

To learn more about the winners' benefits, please visit https://www.artiver.ai/awards

  
**Cash Prize**

Grand Prize

* Artiver Master of Static Arts: $2,000
* Artiver Master of Motion Arts: $2,000

Static Art Categories​

* Winner of Digital Design: $500
* Winner of Conceptual & Fine Art: $500
* Winner of Photo Realistic: $500
* Winner of Future Space: $500

Motion Art Categories​

* Winner of Storytelling: $500
* Winner of Future Visions: $500

  
**Times Square Billboard**

* Masters and Winners’ work will be shown on a billboard in Times Square, New York, with Artiver

  
**Exhibition & Showcase**

* Based in the vibrant art hub of **New York City**, Artiver will host an in-person exhibition in **Summer or Fall 2025**, curated by our team, to showcase the exceptional works of our masters and winners.

  
**Features & Promotions**

_Online Promotion_

* The works of Masters, Winners, and selected Finalists will be prominently showcased on our website and social media platforms.

_Featured Interviews_

* Masters, Winners, and selected Finalists will be invited to share their experiences and ideas through interviews featured on our website, social media, and in articles, videos, or podcasts.

  
**Trophies & Certificates**

* Masters and Winners of each category will receive a trophy or certificate with your artist name and the title to commemorate your achievement.

  
**Professional Networking**

* Masters, Winners, and finalists will be invited to online and offline events organized by Artiver to have opportunities to meet other professionals and creators.

  

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