“The Interrupted Sleep” (1750) by François Boucher
Every month, Colossal shares a selection of opportunities for artists and designers, including open calls, grants, fellowships, and residencies. If you’d like to list an opportunity here, please get in touch at .
Grants & Fellowships
Artists selected for a Creative Capital Award may receive up to $50,000 in funding for new projects, as well as a wide range of counsel, career development, and networking opportunities to make their work come to life. Deadline: March 1, 2021.
The Design Impact grant provides annual, project-specific grants to individuals and organizations using design or design principles to directly address pressing issues in Chicago communities. The program will award $25,000 in sum total. Deadline: March 12, 2021.
Calling all performing artists, musicians, actors, visual artists, and other creative scholars and practitioners! America’s oldest cultural institution, the Library Company of Philadelphia, welcomes applications for a new grant that seeks to critically and creatively engage our African American history collections. Fellows will receive a stipend of $5,000, a $2,500 research fund to be defined by the fellow and program director, and lodging at the Library Company’s Cassatt House residence for four to eight weeks. Deadline: March 1, 2021.
As part of a large-scale grant effort, the city of Chicago is allocating $500,000 to commission up to 10 public art projects, with another $250,000 given to partners for smaller, local projects. Learn more at the and the .
Open Calls
Creative Culture is seeking artists and designers to propose sculpture, installation, or interactive ideas for both their U.S. and U.K. light trail events. Deadline: February 19, 2021.
Brooklyn-based Ortega y Gasset Projects are seeking applications for two solo exhibitions to open in September of 2021: one in the main gallery at OyG and one in The Skirt, OyG’s dedicated space for site-specific installations. Deadline: March 5, 2021.
The Lumiere light art festival is soliciting ideas for the Lumiere 2021 program. You don’t need to be a practicing artist to apply, and winners will receive support to realize their concept. Open to the entire U.K. Deadline: February 11, 2021.