U.S. National Deadline: June 28, 2021 – Harper College’s annual Small Works juried exhibition highlights work selected from entries by artists from across the U.S.. The show features a wide array of media. Top juror…
Submitted by Carmen Graciela Díaz on May 13, 2021
The Joyce Foundation launched recently a new grantmaking strategy through 2025 for its programs, focused on racial equity and economic mobility for culture and other funding areas.
Submitted by Carmen Graciela Díaz on May 13, 2021
PolicyLink recently released “10 Priorities for Advancing Racial Equity Through the American Rescue Plan: A guide for city and county policymakers,” suggesting municipal strategies for deploying ARP funds equitably, efficiently, and strategically.
Developed in partnership with community leaders, chief equity officers, policymakers, economic development practitioners, research and policy organizations, and philanthropic partners, PolicyLink explains the guide “lays out a framework for equitable decision-making around ARP spending and investments with prompts that local leaders can use to not only ask hard questions around racial equity, but also seek to address them.”
Submitted by Carmen Graciela Díaz on May 12, 2021
New York City has established a new $25 million program, the City Artist Corps, to provide funding to artists, musicians, and other performers “to create works across the city, whether through public art, performances, pop-up shows, murals or other community arts projects,” The New York Times reported.
As the Times explains, Gonzalo Casals, the city’s cultural affairs commissioner, said “the initiative would help ensure that artists were not left out of the city’s recovery from the pandemic.”
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International Deadline: June 21, 2021 – Site:Brooklyn’s exhibition ‘Black and White’ will explore the movement between freedom and restraint arising from the absence of color. Open to painting, drawing, more…
It has been made abundantly clear that the digital realm is now intrinsically tied to the economies of the world. With the ever-valuable status of Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies still aloft and the vastly growing interest in NFTs, the digital economy is also making firm ties to the world of art. So it comes as no surprise that major art brokers and institutions would want to open their doors to these ever-growing avenues of finance, and Sotheby’s accepting cryptocurrency for an upcoming auction of a Banksy is a clear sign of these changing times.
The piece up for auction is Banksy’s Love is in the Air (2005), an iconic work by the anonymous artist, depicting a masked rioter standing poised to lob a bouquet of flowers. This particular iteration is oil and spray paint on canvas, the colourful hand-painted bouquet unique to it. It’s perhaps the image most synonymous with Banksy, even being used as the cover for his book Wall and Piece and reproduced constantly worldwide. Not only does it capture the artist’s signature skewing of contextual presumptions and wit, but it also brims with the hopeful and active energy for positive change that seems to drive so much of Banksy’s career.
Sotheby’s announced that through a partnership with Coinbase Commerce, a cryptocurrency transaction facilitator, they would be accepting bitcoin or ether for the hammer price on this piece. It is the first time that, not only Sotheby’s, but any major auction house, has accepted cryptocurrencies for an auction. Although they have only stated this allowance for this particular auction, with trends as they are, there is a good chance cryptocurrency will find a regular place within Sotheby’s. And as NFTs are still just beginning their rise it likely won’t be long before other major institutions follow suit.
The auctioning of Love is in the Air as well as Sotheby’s accepting cryptocurrency for it comes on the heels of the recent Burnt Banksy incident, in which the titular group destroyed the physical copy of I can’t believe you morons actually buy this shit in order to increase the value of the piece’s NFT. There certainly seems to be an air of awareness to Sotheby’s choosing this piece as its first auction with cryptocurrencies, and without a doubt, there will be an appeal for this auction to such NFT enthusiasts.
Sotheby’s accepting cryptocurrency in a lot of ways feels like an inevitability. Bitcoin has held steady over the past decade and is likely in the digital pockets of many who can afford to hang a Banksy in their home. NFTs have had a much more streamlined path with the vast success cryptocurrency has had, and the two seem poised to take a long seat at the upper echelon of art trading. But for now, at least, there is still some desire for buyers to walk away with a physical work of art.
U.S. Regional Deadline: May 24, 2021 – Be part of one of the oldest juried exhibitions in New England. Apply to the 85th Regional Exhibition of Art & Craft at the Fitchburg Art Museum. The exhibition opens…
U.S. Multi-State Deadline: May 24, 2021 – Gallery 115 at the Y announces an open call for artists to enter our upcoming exhibition, ‘Bloom’. Artists living in the Mid-Atlantic region are invited to submit works…
Submitted by admin on May 6, 2021
On Thursday, March 11, President Joe Biden signed the American Rescue Plan (ARP) Act of 2021, a $1.9 trillion package in response to the COVID-19 crisis. Of the more than $122 billion allocated for K-12 schools, at least 90 percent of funds are required to be used by State Education Agencies (SEAs) to make subgrants to Local Educational Agencies (LEAs). Under the bill, SEAs and LEAs are required to allocate a significant percentage of funding towards evidence-based interventions – such as summer learning or summer enrichment, extended day, comprehensive after school programs, or extended school year programs – that address the social, emotional, and academic needs of students, particularly those disproportionately impacted by the pandemic.
The U.S. Department of Education (ED) has emphasized through its COVID-19 Handbook, Volume 2: Roadmap to Reopening Safely and Meeting All Students’ Needs, the importance of ensuring students have access to an enriched and well-rounded education (which includes the arts) to support efforts to recover from the impact of COVID-19 and re-engage students after more than a year of disruption. ED’s handbook further points to the Arts Education Partnership’s ArtsEdSearch as a resource for evidence-based practices to SEAs and LEAs as they seek to address inequities in access to a well-rounded education.
At this time, states have already received two-thirds of their ARP Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) allocation ($81 billion) and will have access to the remaining $41 billion after the Department approves states’ plans. On April 21, the ED released the application that states will need to submit by June 7, describing how they will use resources under the ARP ESSER fund in order to continue to reopen schools safely, sustain their safe operations and support students.
What does this mean for you as a funder group or organization engaged in arts education work?
Seize this opportunity now to reach out to your state department of education or local school districts as they are engaged in planning. Explore with them how you can help schools use these funds in ways aligned to their priorities and the requirements to support students’ social and emotional needs and ensure access to the arts in this time of ongoing recovery. This is also an excellent opportunity for you to work with your state or local school district not to simply build back what was there, but to help them analyze whether pre-pandemic arts and arts education was equally serving all students, including low-income students and students of color.
While these funds must be obligated (or committed in Federal budget speak) by SEAs in one year and by LEAs by September 2023, they do not necessarily need to be spent by then. That means while some of this money will go into summer and the new school year, it can also support efforts beyond this immediate time frame. The bottom line here is these new funds can not only help school districts recover from the pandemic, but also move them toward more equitable access to the arts and enriching arts education experiences.
U.S. National Deadline: May 24, 2021 – Emory University invites applications for a Arts Fellowship in the Visual Arts. We seek an emerging artist whose work involves Social Practice or New Media. $45,000…