upcoming deadlines

January 28

Socrates Sculpture Park in Queens’ Long Island City neighborhood offers artists who are New York State residents the opportunity to create large-scale sculpture projects and multimedia installations in an outdoor environment. The Emerging Artist Fellowship is a residency of between two and six months in an outdoor studio with access to facilities, materials, equipment, and technical assistance to create a work for public display in September. Recipients also receive a grant in the amount of $5,000. Socrates Sculpture Park also offers a Spring Exhibition and an Open Space program for all artists, both with a January 28 deadline. For full guidelines on how to apply, visit www.socratessculpturepark.org.

January 29

The Washington University College School of Architecture’s Steedman International Design Competition invites applicants to submit proposals for adaptive reuses of abandoned industrial buildings on the waterfront of the Mississippi River, just north of downtown St. Louis. A comprehensive and sustainable approach is required. The competition is only open to individuals, not groups or firms. There is an application fee of $75. The January 29 deadline is for registration only; the submission deadline is March 13. For complete information on how to apply, visit www.steedmancompetition.com.

January 31

The Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation’s Space Program awards studio space in the Dumbo neighborhood of Brooklyn for the period of one year to visual artists over the age of 21. Applicants must be US citizens or permanent residents and may not be in school. Artists who presently have a studio of larger than 400 square feet are ineligible. The studios offered are non-living spaces and are available beginning September 15. For complete information on how to apply, visit www.sharpeartfdn.org.

The Center for Documentary Studies’ Dorthea Lange/Paul Taylor Prize is a $20,000 award given to collaborative work by a writer and photographer in the formative or fieldwork stages of a documentary project. Collaboration is required, and while more than two may apply as a collaborative group, at least one member must be a writer and one must be a photographer. There is an application fee of $35. For complete information on how to apply, visit http://cds.aas.duke.edu.

The Amy Foundation’s Writing Awards are grants of up to $10,000 given to the author of creative articles that present a biblical position on issues affecting the world today in a sensitive and thoughtful manner. Submitted articles must have been previously published in a secular publication during the past calendar year and must contain at least one passage of scripture. For full information on how to apply and the requirement of the award, visit www.amyfound.org.

The David T.K. Wong Fellowship is a £26,000 British pound award allowing a fiction writer seeking to write about the far east to spend a year at the University of East Anglica in Norwich, England. Applicants are required to submit a writing sample of no more than 2,500 words. Applicants may be of any nationality. There is a £10 application fee. For complete information on how to apply, visit www1.uea.ac.uk/cm/home/schools/hum/lit/awards/wong.

February 1

The American Music Center’s Composer Assistance Program makes project-based grants of up to $5,000 to help American composers realize performances and recordings. Composers must associate a specific work with their proposals. For complete information on how to apply, visit www.amc.net.

The Arrowmont School of Crafts in Gatlinburg, TN offers one-year residencies to American artists. Residents receive a private studio, accommodations and meals, a monthly stipend, access to workshops and professional development, teaching experience, and exhibition opportunities. There is a $25 application fee. For complete information on eligibility and how to apply, visit www.arrowmont.org.

The Common Counsel Foundation’s Mesa Refuge in Point Reyes, CA supports creative writing on the natural world. Projects should address the environment and economy. Nonfiction projects are generally preferred although novelists and filmmakers are also invited to apply. For complete information on how to apply, visit www.commoncounsel.org.

The Corning Museum of Glass’ Rakow Grants for Glass Research are awarded to scholars seeking to undertake projects that entail the use of the Corning Museum’s research library. Preference is given to projects that are able to be completed, as opposed to advanced, by the funding received. For complete information on how to apply, visit www.cmog.org.

The Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender and Women’s Studies’ Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for Fiction by an American Woman is a $5,000 given to a book-length work of prose fiction by a woman writer and US citizen. All entries must be submitted by publishers and must have been published in 2007. For complete information on how to apply, visit www.rochester.edu/College/WST/SBAI/kafka.html.

February 5

NYFA’s Strategic Opportunity Stipend (SOS) program awards mini-grants to New York State artists of between $100-$600 for specific, forthcoming opportunities that are distinct from works in progress. SOS funding is available to all New York State artists except those who live in one of the five boroughs of New York City. Literary, media, visual, music, and performing artists are all eligible. For complete information on how to apply, visit www.nyfa.org/sos.

Ongoing

Schermerhorn House—a joint project of Common Ground and the Actor’s Fund—is a permanent housing residence in Downtown Brooklyn reserved for local actors and artists as well as various low income and special needs tenants. The gross annual income of applicants may not exceed $29,760 and may not be less than $18,500. Rentals start at $600 per month. For full eligibility requirements and information on how to apply, call 212.221.7300 x264.