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Call for Artist – live drawing event at National Museum of Scotland
National Museums Scotland is seeking an artist to develop and deliver a live drawing event on Friday 8th and Saturday 9th July.
Deadline: 17 June

Anthology 2016 | Call for applications    
Ten finalists will be exhibited at Charlie Smith London and receive £2,000 cash prize.
Deadline: 18 June

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The RSA Barns-Graham Travel Award 2016
The Barns-Graham Travel Award (£2,000) provides a travel and research opportunity for graduating and postgraduate students.
Deadline: 9 August

The RSA William Littlejohn Award 2016
The RSA William Littlejohn Award (£2,000) is for artists working in water-based media (any pigment mixed with water).
Deadline: 9 August

The RSA Morton Award 2016
The Morton Award (£5,000) is for artists working in a lens-based media in Scotland.
Deadline: 9 August

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 Head of Marketing & Communications | Edinburgh
Collective are seeking an experienced individual to lead the strategic development of marketing, public relations and communications.
Deadline: 20 June

Digital Project Manager: Glasgow
Everyone are seeking an experienced digital project manager to assist with the running of our busy city centre studio.
Deadline: 24 June

Various Jobs at SFMOMA | San Francisco
SFMOMA are looking to recruit for various positions including marketing, communications & digital roles.
Deadline: ongoing

Graphic Designer | Shanghai
Experienced Graphic Designer required for NeochaEDGE, an expanding company based in China.
Deadline: ongoing

Volunteer Correspondents
Tribe magazine are recruiting for both international and UK based correspondents to write articles, interviews & features around the arts.
Deadline: ongoing

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Commission, Galoshans Festival 2016
Awards are available for proposals in any art form and which are inspired by or fit within the festival’s theme: ‘When Two World’s Touch’
Deadline: 20 June

Open Project Funding: Call for Applications
Individuals & organisations can apply for funding from £1,000 to £100,000 to support supports the arts, screen and creative projects.
Deadline: ongoing

Night Shift Residency
A peer group residency focussing on attention economy and the 24/7 sleepless society for artists, art practitioners and writers.
Deadline: ongoing

FUNDING: Go and See Fund – Imaginate
A fund dedicated to helping artists in Scotland access work & shows to help inspire their next project.
Deadline: ongoing

Team Effort! Residencies
Residencies last for a maximum of 3 weeks between September 2013 & August 2014 to fit within Team Effort!’s ethos of exploration, risk-taking & collaboration.
Deadline: ongoing

Open Access Residency | Aberdeenshire
This residency offers artists the time, space, facilities & technical support to realise their work & to develop their practice & research new ideas.
Deadline: ongoing

Mark Devereux Projects Associates Programme
MDP announce their revised Associates programme which supports early-career visual artists through events, opportunities & critical exchange.
Deadline: ongoing

Woodland Project Residency
The Residency takes place in Cyprus and seeks to expand outdoor practice and explore the relationship between woodland & human being.
Deadline: ongoing

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Products Wanted | Glasgow
We are looking for great new designs by current students, practising staff, recent graduates and established alumni of The Glasgow School of Art.
Deadline: 22 June

Spoken Word Submissions Sought
Lies, Dreaming are seeking audio recordings of spoken word pieces on the theme of ‘Do you want fries with that?’ for our bi-monthly podcast.
Deadline: 30 June

Open call: Faraway, So Close
Selected participants will work within teams and exhibit under the main exhibition umbrella accompanied by a dedicated catalogue.
Deadline: 10 July

Call out, Creative Workshop Facilitators / Makers
Kalopsia are seeking proposals from Creative Workshop Facilitators / Makers for participatory workshops and activities.
Deadline: 1 September

Tin Roof ϟ Zine Fair
Tin Roof invites submissions from artists, collectives, publishers and presses to sell, network and enjoy print.
Deadline: TBC

The Glasgow Photography Gallery: Call for Submissions
See your photography showcased on one of The Glasgow Photography Gallery’s online spaces.
Deadline: ongoing

Peep Show Coffee: Call for Proposals
Peep Show Coffee are looking for proposals & ideas for short-term and long-term use of their project space.
Deadline: ongoing

Callout to Artists Looking for a Venue | London
Ziferblat is a social experiment. The space is ours & yours. To use to create, collaborate, experiment and play; what would you do with the space?
Deadline: ongoing

Hold Me Dear: Call for Submissions
Send a photograph of the place you personally treasure and include a 50 words caption explaining the story behind why this place is important to you.
Deadline: ongoing

Gallery Unit Open Call
Open call for exhibition proposals for new artist exhibition/event space at The Savoy Centre in Glasgow.
Deadline: ongoing

The Facility Makers Call Out
The Facility shop seeks products made in Britain including jewellery, textiles, prints, glass, furniture & ceramics to sell in the Facility shop.
Deadline: ongoing

Exhibit your artwork at Tchai-Ovna
Open call for exhibitors: proposals wanted for monthly solo exhibition at Tchai-Ovna, House of Tea.
Deadline: ongoing

Write Shoot Cut: Call for submissions
Write Shoot Cut is a monthly short film night. They are currently seeking submissions for various programmes.
Deadline: ongoing

Open Submissions for Moving Image Makers
An unconscious & uncurated stream of work will be displayed at Summerhall, Edinburgh for the indefinite future.
Deadline: ongoing

A.L.L. Seaweed
An Lucht Lonrach is searching for articles & artworks on the uses of seaweed.
Deadline: ongoing

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Six Foot Gallery Jewellery Benches for Hire
Six Foot Gallery would like to offer jewellers the opportunity to rent our jeweller’s benches.
Deadline: Ongoing

WASPS Studios: Creative Office Space Available | Nairn
WASPS Studios have one creative industry/enterprise space to rent at Links Studios in Nairn please click link for further details.
Deadline: Ongoing

Open Studio Club: Rent, swap & collaborate studio spaces around the world.
Free Event/Urban/Unusual/Studio/Rehearsal Spaces: 16–25 with an idea, creative project or business? Need a space to help make it happen? We’ll find a space to help you — for free!

Glasgow:

SWG3 Desk hire in Design Studio
Full and Half Desk spaces available in Design Studio 223
Ongoing

Studio Spaces and Co-working desks Available
Two studio spaces available, a space for 1 person or for 2/3 people, and co-working opportunities too.
Deadline: Ongoing

Workspace available for fashion project | Glasgow
Do you have a fashion related project and need space or equipment to develop it? The Fashion Foundry studio is opening its doors.
Deadline: Ongoing

Modern Office Spaces: Spaces available include; a coworking desk space, an office for 3/4 people & an unfurnished whole floor for up to 15 people.
Titan Props: Multi-use spaces for film & photographic shoots.
South Block: Creative space in Merchant City.
MAKLAB: A digital fabrication studio offering use of machines for engraving, embroidery, cutting shapes and making 3d objects.
Studio/Office desk space: Three spaces are available in a bright, secure shared office/desk space five minutes from Central Station.
Shapes Of Things Studio Available for Hire : Studio hire is aimed at those with a fair amount of silk screen printing experience.
The Distillery: Creative freelancer looking for a place to work? The Distillery at The Whisky Bond offers open plan space, quiet areas & meeting rooms.
Toad’s Caravan: Collaborative, creative working space based in the west end with desk space available to rent.
De Anderen Studios: Three spaces are available within the studio in addition to hot-desking facilities
Desks to rent in Creative co-working office space Flexible desk rental from hot desking to permanent available now in Glasgow’s West End with relaxed meeting room available for separate hire.

Edinburgh:

Whitespace: A space for classes and exhibitions.
Media Education: A desk space for hire close to Haymarket station.
Rhubaba Studios Available: Any artist can apply for studios at Rhubaba. All studio artists have access to the gallery space between exhibitions.
The Facility Studios: Involved in textiles, fashion or design? Studios now available to rent at The Facility, Edinburgh.

London:
Project space available at Enclave: A long-term project space will be available from October for individuals/groups of artists/curators running contemporary art programmes.

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Writers:
Pinso | Our Penniless Write | Product Magazine | Fractured West | Colossal

Moving Image:
Write Shoot Cut | Pluspace | The Cutting Room | Soundry

Members:
Fleet Collective, Dundee | Project Slogan Consortium, Aberdeen |
Just Us Collective | Make Works Directory | VAU: Membership Scheme

Artwork:
tribe magazine | artpistol | Product Magazine | Moray Art Centre | Editions | a secret.

Jewellery graduates:
Vanilla Ink

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TRG3 is a project series from The University of Edinburgh’s Talbot Rice Gallery. The project showcases pioneering work and provides opportunities to young and emerging artists from home and abroad. Those involved in the programme have access to Edinburgh University’s resources and support from the expert curatorial and technical team to help make new ideas a reality.

So far the 2015 programme has included works from Steven Anderson, Jordan Pilling, and Michael Poetschko.

With a potential budget of £1,500, this opportunity is open to individual Scotland based artists or collectives working in any medium.

Details and conditions of application can be found on their website.

Deadline: 30 October

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CuratorSpace is a website which delivers the tools you need to manage art opportunities efficiently and stay in control.

A new website is making it easier for people and organisations to create exciting and well­-managed art opportunities all over the country. It’s called CuratorSpace and is the result of a collaboration between an artist and a web developer in Leeds.

The Art House, The Old Library Project Commission, Limited Edition Works for Fundraising, Ltd Edition Wall Panels by Daniel Heath. Photo credit: The Art House

CuratorSpace is an online resource for anyone who wants to organise art opportunities for exhibitions, residencies, commissions, and more. It allows people to set up and manage their opportunities, share the details with artists and other participants, select contributions and keep track of all the many different communications that often arise. It also makes it easier for artists and contributors to offer their work for selection.

CuratorSpace has been designed and built by Leeds­ based team Louise Atkinson and Philip Bennison. Louise is an experienced artist/curator herself, and Philip is an innovative web developer. The site helps manage open calls by dealing with some of the time ­consuming administration, whilst adding useful tools that make storing and sharing important data and information a simple, secure and efficient process.

CuratorSpace fulfils a need Louise identified from her own work. She said, “I’ve been working as an artist and organising exhibitions for about 15 years. Initially Facebook groups made organising shows easier, but soon opportunities were being shared on different networks, with responses coming back through email, Twitter, Instagram and Facebook etc. making it very difficult to manage, especially if I was organising more than one event at once.

East Street Arts, Open Studios 2014. Photo credit: East Street Arts

The Art House, SOMETIMES Residency, ‘The Inmate World’, video installation by Amelia Crouch. Photo credit: The Art House

“After a conversation with web developer Philip Bennison about how we could create simple tools to help people organising exhibitions to manage submissions from artists, CuratorSpace was born.”
CuratorSpace was launched last year and has already picked up a number of key users – including the complex multi­-site events of Saltaire Inspired and the prestigious East Street Arts, a Leeds­ based artists organisation with a national reach and reputation.

Bradford’s National Media Museum is using CuratorSpace to commission an artist in residence for The Season of Light 2015 – a series of installations and events responding to the UNESCO International Year of Light and Light Based Technologies. More recently, B­side Festival in Dorset have begun using it for their commissions and have been able to create a separate application form in French for French artists – which only goes to show just how adaptable the system is.

The Tetley, The Imaginary Museum curated by Louise Atkinson. Photo credit: Philip Bennison

East Street Arts have been increasingly using CuratorSpace to help manage their events. Lydia Catterall says “because applications remain outside individual email inboxes there’s no
risk of losing anything or missing anyone’s application. Everything is ordered, tidy and in the same format, and our staff can get access anytime they need. What’s more, CuratorSpace is flexible enough to meet our changing needs as we add new spaces, events and projects locally and nationally.”

June Russell from Saltaire Inspired said “managing a call­out online has simply never been easier, and we recommend CuratorSpace highly.”

Louise and Philip are constantly developing the site and its facilities, “we are delighted that the project is getting use by bigger organisations as well as smaller curators and artists – it is what the site was designed for”.

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Applications for Glasgow International 2016’s programmes are now open to both international and Scottish artists based in Glasgow.

Applicants are encouraged to be ambitious in their proposals for projects, events and exhibitions which are additional to their current programmes. Glasgow International exists to support artistic activity across the city and further details about our aims can be found in the handbook.

There are four strands you can apply to – Supported, Open Glasgow, Open Glasgow Bursary and Across the City. These are explained in more detail below.

Successful proposals are selected by the Director in consultation with Glasgow International’s Artistic Advisory Committee. Open Glasgow & Bursary will be selected by a small panel from Glasgow and further afield.

SUPPORTED PROGRAMME | Deadline: 1 June

The Supported Programme is a strand where organisations, groups or individuals can propose projects, events and exhibitions and request financial support from Glasgow International. Organisations need to demonstrate how this activity will be additional to their current programme, projects you would not otherwise be able to undertake.

OPEN GLASGOW | Deadline: 1 June

Open Glasgow is a fund specifically aimed at individual artists and curators to propose a project for Glasgow International. The total fund for Open Glasgow is £15,000 and this fund will be split across a number of projects as in previous years.

Artists should be currently based or have been educated in Scotland and should have at least 3 years professional experience.

OPEN GLASGOW BURSARY | Deadline: 1 June

The Open Glasgow Bursary is an award of £2,000 for a recent graduate or postgraduate who graduated two years or less from art school at the time of the festival in 2016.

Artists must be currently living or working in Glasgow and have studied for either an undergraduate or postgraduate degree in Scotland.

ACROSS THE CITY PROGRAMME | Deadline: 31 July

Glasgow International will consider proposals for any additional exhibitions, events, performances. Across the City programme proposals will not receive funding from the festival but form an integral part of the Glasgow International programme.

For more information and to apply online, please visit Glasgow International 2016.

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Following the success of their inaugural 2014 festival (80 artists, 32 venues), Glasgow Open House Art Festival’s (GOH) next event will take place from the 1 – 4 May 2015 with an ambitious programme of exhibitions and events taking place across a diverse range of venues in Glasgow.

Winter Bill by Alistair Gow, 2014, oil paint on board at CAVEROOM
Photo: Sam Dransfield for Glasgow Open House Art Festival

Glasgow Open House Art Festival 2014: 1 Royal Terrace

Glasgow Open House is an artist-led, not-for-profit organisation that was founded in order to meet the practical needs of the city’s grassroots art community. Taking its lead from Glasgow’s already prevalent ‘do-it-yourself’ culture in relation to visual art and music, GOH provides a platform for artists both new and established, opening up their practices — and in many instances their homes — to new audiences.

Glasgow Open House Festival 2014: Lynn Hynd and Sarah Barker ‘A Secluded Sketching Ground’

Glasgow Open House Art Festival 2014: Festival goers make their way around the exhibitions hosted in Glasgow flats

GOH seeks proposals from artists of every creative persuasion for its 2015 festival. Visual artists, musicians and performers are all invited to come up with exciting ideas for an event or exhibition to take place in an alternative venue or space in Glasgow. It is expected that a large proportion of venues selected by artists will be domestic spaces. Artists are encouraged to use any space they can get their hands on — their living rooms, bathrooms, sheds and basements. Also sought are proposals that aim to occupy unusual or alternative spaces across the city. Last year the festival featured an exhibition in a van and a sculpture park in an unruly wasteland (for other examples of spaces used in the 2014 festival, take a look at the GOH’14 website).

The Release by Altronix at STREETLAND Photo: Glasgow Open House Festival

2015 is an exciting year for Glasgow Open House Art Festival as it will be the first time that it will take place without the presence of other major events happening in the city at the same time (i.e. The Commonwealth Games Cultural Programme and Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art). GOH is expanding its festival programme to include an increased number of scheduled performance events including music, dance, theatre, happenings, readings and everything in between, ensuring that the festival reflects the breadth of activity happening in the city.

Glasgow Open House Art Festival 2014: James Sayer ‘Get your portrait done here!’ at Mono Cafe Glasgow

Kornelia Remø Klokk’s Glamorous Sun for Glasgow Open House Art Festival 2014

Next year will also see the introduction of performative ‘Art Walks’, artist workshops and outreach projects. The Art Walks will offer a new perspective of the city to those making their way round the myriad of exhibitions and events. More information about the Art Walks will be revealed once the GOH’15 venues are confirmed.

While GOH welcomes proposals from artists based outside Glasgow, all participants must source their own venues to take part. Although it is preferred that venues are confirmed by the proposal deadline, GOH will treat each proposal on an individual basis.

To apply to take part in next year’s festival follow the link.

Deadline: 18 December

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The collective was formed in 1998 by a group of eight artists who wanted to create a space dedicated to the support and development of students and emerging artists in Aberdeen. At that time, it was located in a small shop unit in the centre of Aberdeen. In 2005, the collective moved into our present premises in Torry, Aberdeen, which offered artists a larger gallery area to exhibit.

Earlier this year we were successful in further expanding the facilities on offer by opening a suite of five connecting project rooms. One of these rooms is available as a residency room with the opportunity of a closing exhibition in the gallery area.

Over the years Limousine Bull has seen many artists participate in our cultural evolution by staging diverse events and exhibitions, attracting artists locally and internationally. Board members typically serve up to two years, thereby contributing to the fresh, inventive and often spontaneous nature of the collective.

Our aim is to continue to promote and encourage contemporary art in Aberdeen with a varied programme of innovative events facilitated by students, emerging and other interested artists. We hope to build on and broaden links with other cultural bodies in Aberdeen and beyond, providing a unique space to collaborate, experiment and exhibit.

At this exciting stage in Limousine Bull’s history, it seems another leap in the creative, cultural vision and direction of the collective is on the horizon.

A natural development while creating an art practice is finding ones voice and having a sense of self worth and confidence to put it out there to a wider audience. There is no one way and if I believed that there was only one way I’d have probably given up a long time ago.

I have been building my community and confidence in small increments, learning about the well established art scene, artist run projects, private and public galleries, collectives, non-traditional art spaces, also by writing proposals, making work, more looking, attending lectures, talks, openings. It’s an overwhelming resource of creative wealth and opportunity. While trying to find my own artistic identity I have been my biggest obstacle, that little voice in my head created scenarios and negative responses before I had even really tried. A way that I have come to quiet this nuisance is to be as generous to myself as I am to other artists.

Individuals are at different levels and this diversity conveys prospects. A giant library of information to acknowledge. Something about silencing that inner critic is an important part of learning how to move forward. Fear is a terrible place to make work from, failure is a part of success, and what I am trying to sum up here is that it’s critical to explore ideas from a genuine place.

Radius is the result of considering other voices that are still refining themselves by taking risks, putting their work out their and confronting opportunity. It is a measurement along the path of discovery. To perceive in a radial fashion, moving from the centre out is exactly what I am trying to communicate, with this map and within.

Radius is a better explanation, and ethos of the project I am trying to make happen. Radius means events and exhibitions that are within a particular area in relation to something at the heart. The official Gi programme is at the heart, and all of the massive energy of Glasgow creativity generally sits within a radial area all round the city. No judgement values, just an indication of spread and ultimately inclusion. Fringe on the other hand means outer, marginal, extreme. And often unconventional. So it’s about other and difference.  

I feel a huge wave of relief and excitement for this year’s GI Festival. It is a bit of a personal journey to be involved in project Radius. I feel as if all the arrows are now pointing in the right direction.

Please look for the call open submission under the title Radius. Looking forward to your contributions!