Artist Opportunities - Summer 2024 Edition
Happy Summer! We’ve curated a list of exciting upcoming opportunities for you to display your talents. Remember, Akin is cheering for you!
Artist Project
Deadline: Sunday, October 20, 2024
The Artist Project is dedicated to supporting the development of students, new graduates and self-taught artists by offering free exhibition space at the show in the Untapped section. This application is open to first-time exhibitors at Artist Project. Apply today to enter this juried competition for an opportunity to participate.Applications are now open!
Read more and apply here
Tangled Art Gallery
Deadline: Friday, August 9, 2024
Tangled Art + Disability is now accepting applications to exhibit your artwork at Tangled Art Gallery. We invite submissions from Deaf, Mad, and Disability-identified artists and curators, as well as arts organizations and other cultural producers who practice Disability Arts and Curation. There are two different spaces you can apply to show your work: the main gallery space or the window vitrines.
Read more and apply here
StreetARToronto Partnership Program
Deadline: Wednesday, August 21
StreetARToronto (StART) comprises a suite of innovative programs specifically designed for streets and public spaces. StART programs encourage active transportation (walking and cycling), make our streets more inviting and safe, reduce overall infrastructure maintenance costs, showcase local artists, mentor emerging talent, and create opportunities for positive engagement among residents, business owners and operators, artists, and arts organizations. Individually and collectively StART murals are designed to celebrate the City of Toronto motto "Diversity Our Strength" and foster a greater sense of belonging among all. Mural by @leylandadams
Read more and apply here
Emerging Artists Over 30
Deadline: Tuesday, July 16, 2024
Arts Etobicoke is pleased to announce an open call for submissions for emerging artists over 30 years old based in West Toronto. This initiative aims to provide a platform for mature new artists to launch their artistic careers and showcase their work. This curated exhibition will challenge the common narrative that emerging artists must be under this age and seeks to address the gap by offering a space for artists who may have started thier artistic journey later in life.
Read more and apply here
Indigenous Youth Roots Community Grants
Deadline: Wednesday, July 31
Grassroot youth groups/collectives (comprised of Indigenous youth ages 15-29) are eligible to apply for funding to support community programs and projects while receiving innovative mentorship, training and capacity-building opportunities. Funding will be provided to projects/groups that seek to create impactful community change and increase the wellness, resiliency and engagement of Indigenous youth.
Read more and apply here
The Residency Project
Deadline: Tuesday August 20
The Residency Project (TRP) provides time and space in support of creative research and artistic experimentation, with an emphasis on creating opportunities for historically underrepresented artists—women, BIPOC and LGBTQ+ artists, artists with disabilities, and parents—as well as artists who actively pursue environmentally sustainable practices. Open Call for applications for 3-week funded residencies in winter/spring 2025 at TRP @ 880 in Pasadena, CA. Individual artists and partnered artists are welcome to apply!
Read more and apply here
Toronto Queer Film Festival 2025 Symposium Call for Proposals
Deadline: Monday, Sept 9, 2024
An in-person and online symposium organized by the Toronto Queer Film Festival. Everyone is welcome to apply. This is a paid opportunity for all involved if selected. The Toronto Queer Film Festival is seeking proposals for its annual Symposium around the theme of Collective Resistance. Today as we witness various forms of violence and dispossession, apartheid, the destruction of ecosystems and the war on poor and disabled people, to name a few, we, as queer and trans people, ask how we can come together to respond and resist.
Read more and apply here
Call for Proposals: Beyond the Tarmac at Downsview Airport Lands, Toronto
Calling makers, planners and creatives that think BIG.
Northcrest Developments @northcrestdev invites proposals for a high-impact festival, performance, installation, or activation on 600 metres of taxiway on the Downsview Airport Lands. The site is a blank canvas ready to be infused with creativity.
The proposed projects must be experienced or viewed from the Interim Activation Zone. They must be experienced from the outdoor areas, however, proposals can include the exterior of hangar buildings. Projects can utilize as much or as little of the Interim Activation Zone as they require. This total maximum space represents up to 290,000 square feet, which can support up to 50,000 people.
This is a two-stage process. In Stage One, a panel of seven local and city-wide arts and culture experts will review the submissions and select a shortlist of up to ten applications. In Stage Two, a shortlist of applicants will be invited to more fully develop their proposals and attend an interview. Shortlisted applicants will be given a $500 honorarium to prepare for and attend the interview.
Check out whats going on at Downsview Airport Lands here: www.northcrestdev.ca/whats-on
• Project Budget: $100,000
• Deadline: Thursday, June 20, 2024
To view all details and to apply: https://www.northcrestdev.ca/news-and-insights/beyond-the-tarmac
