C3 Issue 5 - Event and Multi-art form Resource Roundup!
February 19, 2024 😷
Hey COVID conscious creatives,
Happy Year of the Dragon! We’re starting off this Lunar New Year with the goal of bringing you more resources and opportunities as well as building more ways for you to connect. We’re going to be trying some new things in our coming newsletters. Let us know how things are landing and if there’s anything we can adjust to help you accomplish your creative goals by filling out our new anonymous feedback form or by shooting us an email at covidconcreatives@gmail.com! We’re so glad to see this community growing and can’t wait to continue serving you.
- The C3 Team (Danielle, Zach, and Laura)
VIRTUAL MIXER — Next: 3/31 @ 1pm PST / 4pm EST / 6pm GMT
Moving forward, due to our capacity, virtual mixers will now be bi-monthly. Please fill out the below poll to help us determine which day of the month is best.
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Events
IN-PERSON
If you’re near the Minnesota Museum of American Art before February 25th, check out ‘CURRENTS: Adaption, Brilliance, and Joy’, a group exhibition, curated by Drew Maude-Griffin, showcasing mixed media artwork made by disabled artists (Victoria Dugger, Ariella Granados, Aurora Levins Morales, Kelley Meister, and Lynda Mullan). ‘CURRENTS’ “references the strength, influence, and adaptability of disabled people and our communities.” ‘The M’ has mask mandatory hours on Fridays from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m!
VIRTUAL
Black to the Future | ALL ONLINE. Feb. 19-23. Free to attend. – a week-long celebration of Black Screenwriters.
Check out the livestream of Maya Cade’s examination of tenderness in Black film this Wednesday (Feb. 21) at 12pm EST. Register here.
The National Portrait Gallery has Participate@Home programs on Zoom! Additionally, they have a pretty extensive online collection of portraits you can browse.
CREATIVE OPPORTUNITIES —
Things we think you should apply for! (global, many virtual)
We’re doing a lot of work to find resources and opportunities that people throughout our community, globally and in various industries/art forms, can take advantage of. But, we don’t have eyes everywhere! Have an opportunity that the community could benefit from? Share it with us at covidconcreatives@gmail.com. We’d love to include it in our next newsletter/resource roundup!
Screenwriting/Playwriting/Filmmaking
Humanitas New Voices Fellowship (early deadline: Feb. 26) – an approximately six-month mentorship program for emerging television and screenwriters who are exploring the human condition in a nuanced, meaningful way.
Film Independent’s 2024 Episodic Labs are currently accepting applications! Nearest non-member deadline is Feb. 26 (with mid-March extended deadlines for Film Independent members). The 2024 Producing Lab applications OPEN Mar. 4. “Until further notice, all Film Independent Labs will be held online.”
NO DRAMA (deadline: Feb. 29) – a global short-film development and production initiative for writer-directors with a passion for telling horror-centered stories.
The Coletta Preacely-Garcia Diversity Fellowship (deadline: Mar. 10) – for diverse screenwriters with at least 2 polished original features and/or TV pilots in their portfolio (with at least a 3rd original script in the works) who are ready to tackle the marketing aspects of their career.
The Black List (various, earliest deadline: Mar. 15) – has various labs and programs available that you may qualify for (film/TV/theatre). In-person lab components require COVID-19 testing prior to arrival.
Are you a Native media-maker? Check out Vision Maker Media’s various opportunities. There are multiple application periods. Upcoming deadlines are Mar. 31 (Finished Acquisitions), Jun. 30 (Creative Shorts Fellowship, Public Media Fund) and rolling (Native Youth Media Project).
Writing (non screenwriting)
Alabama State Council of the Arts Literary Arts Fellowships (deadline: Mar. 1) – at least two fellowships of $5,000 each are given annually to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers who have lived in the state of Alabama for a minimum of two years.
National Endowment for the Arts, Creative Writing Fellowship (deadline: Mar. 13) – offers $25,000 grants in prose (fiction and creative nonfiction) and poetry to published creative writers that enable recipients to set aside time for writing, research, travel, and general career advancement.
Irene Yamamoto Arts Writers Fellowship (deadline: Mar. 17) – $5k each grant to two emerging writers of color who write critically about theater, dance, and/or performance art.
Music
Reel Change Film Fund (deadline: rolling) – a five-year grants and mentorship program for composers of diverse backgrounds who have been marginalized in film composition. Four to six grants averaging $20,000 are allocated each year of the program.
Craft/Fine Arts
Artadia Awards (nearest deadlines: Chicago, Mar. 1; NYC, Apr. 1) – a great unrestricted grant opportunity for contemporary artists ($15k-25k), but it **does require a studio visit from local jury members** during the second round of application.
Augusta Savage Grant (deadline: Mar. 4) – an unrestricted prize of $2,500 awarded annually for Excellence in Sculpture to a talented emerging sculptor who self-identifies as Black or African American. Works inspired by nature are preferred.
Craft Emergency Relief Fund (deadline: Mar. 5) – provides individual craft artists grants up to $1,000 to conduct activities that will help safeguard their studios, protect their careers and prepare for emergencies.
Performing Arts
The Democracy Cycle (deadline: Apr. 1) – a new commissioning program designed to support new works that illuminate the promise, practice, imperfection, and opportunity of democracy, $30k commission and additional $30k toward the awarded projects’ development process.
Multi-artform
The Greene Fellowship (deadline: Feb. 29) – The Greene Fellowship will award one Denver Metro/Boulder area artist with a $28,000 unrestricted fellowship to support their creative practice, studio space, and professional development goals. **Requires an in-person interview.**
Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program (deadline: Mar. 15) – provides gifted studio-based visual artists with the unique opportunity to concentrate on their work in a supportive, collegial environment for an entire year. RAiR offers six artists a place to live and work for a year (Roswell, NM), with a monthly stipend and no strings attached. Artists-in-residence have the opportunity to mount a solo exhibition of their work at the Roswell Museum, and to have an artwork purchased for the permanent collection of the Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art.
Residency a Mainframe Studios (deadline: Mar. 15) – designed to provide artists of all mediums with an opportunity to focus entirely on their work for an extended period of time (8 or 12 weeks), in a comfortable work and living environment (in Des Moines, IA). Highlights include: a dedicated studio, housing, travel stipend, and an upgraded building ventilation system!
USArtists International Grants (deadline: Mar. 27) – supports performances by artists from any state or territory in the U.S. at engagements at international festivals and global presenting arts marketplaces outside of the United States. The program funds individuals and ensembles across all performing arts practices and disciplines with grants of up to $15,000 toward eligible travel expenses.
Creative Capital Awards (deadline: Apr. 4) – welcomes innovative and original new project proposals in visual arts, performing arts, film/moving image, technology, literature, multidisciplinary, and socially engaged forms.
RESOURCES
Job Searching
If You Could – London/UK, some remote, many design based jobs
Grant Funding / Fellowship + Residency Database
If you don’t already know about Fractured Atlas, you should! They put out a monthly roundup of opportunities, much like Creative Capital.
Check out Flushing Town Hall’s Grant Opportunities for Artists page! It’s organized by discipline with domestic (US) and international resources.
The Field has a great grants and opportunities page that allows you to search by discipline, geographic area, or keywords.
Poet & Writers’ ‘Writing Contests, Grants & Awards’ page is a great resource for creative writing opportunities!
Writer Lauri Donahue has put together an awesome list of screenwriting opportunities! Scroll through to find opportunities relevant to you.
Career/Social Enrichment
Check out the Writers Guild Foundation’s list of where to read scripts online.
American Cinemathique’s PROOF FESTIVAL Talks are all online – a great resource, CHECK OUT this panel with masked moderator, Kate Hagen, from The Black List!
Hammer Channel has tons of artist talks and programming from various artistic disciplines.
Google’s Arts and Culture Collection – check out select museum exhibits from all the world, all in one place!
COVID News+Resources
Heard of Mask Blocs? They provide masks, COVID-19 tests and other equipment to their communities for free. Find your local one here. (A global resource.)
Check out LitCOVID, a hub of research papers on COVID-19: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/research/coronavirus/.
Covid Tips – a document helping folks talk to their loved ones about COVID.
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QUESTIONS? COMMENTS? FEEDBACK? — NEW anonymous feedback option!
Have feedback for us? Things you’d like to see? Submit it via this anonymous feedback form or drop us an email at covidconcreatives@gmail.com! We’re always happy to hear from you.