Artist Trust Resources and Opportunities Digest – August 2021
Artwork detail: Britt Rynearson, 2018 GAP recipient
This is the August 2021 digest of resources and opportunities for artists during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Resources
COVID-19 Relief Grant
CERF+
Deadline: August 31
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COVID-19 Resources
Asian American Arts Alliance (A4)
During this rapidly changing and uncertain moment, we are doing our best to provide you with a list of helpful resources to support you and your work. We understand that many people in our community are facing what feels like overwhelming challenges so we are here to ensure you can also feel safe and supported. We are working hard to sort through the growing amount of information to offer you this list of resources and we will continue to communicate and update helpful information as we receive it. Links goes to financial, community, self-care, organizing and advocacy resources, socially distanced programs and projects, COVID-19 info and ways to give.
Deadline: Not Applicable
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COVID-19 Mutual Aid Directory
POSTB1NARY
Deadline: Not Applicable
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Organizations that Support Autistic Entrepreneurs
Art of Autism
Deadline: Not Applicable
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Caring For Yourself While Working as a BIPOC Creative
Foundation for Contemporary Arts
This article is not about how hard it can be, but rather some back-to- basics tips for how we can take care of ourselves as working creatives. If you are a BIPOC creative doing the work you love, you are an inspiration and a gift. I hope my words of guidance remind you that you are deserving of respect, protection and care in all aspects of your life, including your professional life.
Deadline: Not applicable
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Mindfulness Activities
Pratt Institute
Biweekly meditative and contemplative practices hosted by the Pratt Institute.
Deadline: Not applicable
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COVID-19 Resources
Washington Lawyers for the Arts
As our global community comes together to fight COVID-19, Washington Lawyers for the Arts (WLA) is committed to providing ongoing support of the work of artists and arts organizations, whose efforts enrich the quality of life in Washington State. WLA will continue offering legal services, including legal advice and legal education, to support Washington’s arts community, while doing our part to prevent the spread of COVID-19 by offering these services virtually.
Deadline: Not applicable
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WA Notify
Washington Department of Health
Washington Exposure Notifications (also known as WA Notify) is a new tool that works through smartphones, without sharing any personal information, to alert users if they may have been exposed to COVID-19. It is completely private, and doesn’t know or track who you are or where you go.
Deadline: Not applicable
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Free COVID-19 Testing Locations
Washington Department of Health
This is an interactive map of COVID-19 testing locations across Washington State.
Deadline: Not applicable
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Arts in Health Online Tutorials
ArtWalla
This is a collection of artists in Walla Walla doing online tutorials on various topics related to health and wellness.
Deadline: Not applicable
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Studio Space
Spaceworks Tacoma
Are you an artist or entrepreneur ready to move to the next level? Artists or artist groups, creative small businesses, and even non-profits can benefit from renting space in one of our coworking spaces. Get a great rate on office or studio space for your own creative venture. You could neighbor and collaborate with musicians, videographers, fashion designers, 2D artists, and others.
Deadline: Not applicable
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Washington State Food Bank Map
Artist Trust
This Washington State food bank map was created by Artist Trust as a resource for finding alternative food sources during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Deadline: Not applicable
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Artist Crowdfunding After a Disaster
CERF+
Tips and resources for creating a crowdfunding campaign from CERF+.
Deadline: Not applicable
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Artists’ Charitable Fund
Artist’ Charitable Fund
The fund is a small nonprofit with a narrow focus of assisting painters and sculptors by paying a potion of emergency medical bills directly to the medical providers. The fund is legally not able to pay artists directly. If coronavirus has adversely affected your income, we are very sorry but please do not contact us to ask for financial assistance due to loss of income or doe anything other than assistance with medical bills. Thank you for your understanding during this difficult time.
Deadline: Not applicable
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Art Lab
Gallery One
Resources provided include the following: Access to Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, InDesign, Lightroom, etc.) for resizing images, developing and updating websites, and designing materials for promotion and marketing (artist show cards, artist presentations, etc) five days/week. Access to a professional artist and graphic designer for assistance with the programs and equipment once a month during Open Art Lab sessions. Mini Confab professional development workshops scheduled throughout the year to deep dive into topics relevant to a career as a professional artist. Access to photography equipment such as lights, camera and backdrop in order to develop a professional art portfolio. Access to a conference space to facilitate meetings with artists, clients, etc.
Deadline: Not applicable
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Online Assistance Hub
Artist Up
Artists Up is partnering with the Seattle Office of Film and Music, King County, and Mentorly (an online arts mentorship platform) to provide assistance to members of the Washington State arts sector who have been affected by COVID-19. We are launching a free, online consultation hub to help artists and arts organizations connect with pandemic resources and navigate processes and forms for income assistance, unemployment, emergency services, housing, finance, taxes, healthcare, and more.
Deadline: Not applicable
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Opportunities
Juried Exhibition
Jansen Art Center
Juried Exhibitions showcase the variety of artistic talent in our region. Each season, artists are invited to submit up to five original pieces for consideration by a jury comprised of artists, curators, and other arts professionals.
Deadline: August 9
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McMillen Artist Community Fellowship
McMillen Foundation
The MAC Fellowship Program is designed to recognize and empower highly-motivated emerging and mid-career artists looking to transition from undiscovered to established, self-sustaining professionals. Aside from artistic merit, artistic excellence, and providing funding to help ensure artists thrive, the Foundation’s Fellowship Program looks to deepen personal connections with individual artists for the purposes of sending out ripples into communities, cities, and our great state. We are looking for artists who push boundaries, provoke and compel, are change makers, mentors, teachers, champions of issues of social justice, messengers, community builders, etc.
Deadline: August 11
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Artist-in-Residence
McColl Center for Art + Innovation
McColl Center’s summer 2022 artist-in-residence program is offered to educators and parents who otherwise would not have the opportunity to participate in McColl Center residencies because of responsibilities during school or university terms. This residency will support your practice, giving you the opportunity to bring your family with you, utilize our facilities, and access equipment in our artist labs.
Deadline: August 15
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International Theatermakers Award
The Playwrights Realm
The International Theatermakers Award recognizes the critical contribution of theatermakers from around the world to the American theater in spite of the barriers they face to work in the United States, and seeks to expand the participation of international theatermakers who are underrepresented in the American theater industry.
Deadline: August 15
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ABSTRACTED Prospectus
Art Fluent
The abstract process is a dance, where the development of a piece becomes interactive and intuitive. Shape, color, form, gesture, and imagination take center stage to create artwork essentially free from visual reality. With a solid compositional structure, abstract artwork exists entirely on an idea, feeling, or quality. Leaving the viewer with the challenge to understand truth and reality. Show us ABSTRACTED through your perspective.
Deadline: August 20
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The Toni Beauchamp Award in Critical Art Writing
Gulf Coast Magazine
The Toni Beauchamp Prize in Critical Art Writing seeks to address this lacuna by bringing exposure to writers who are dealing with the spirit of the age and unafraid to ask difficult questions.
Deadline: August 31
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2022 Residencies
Willapa Bay AiR
We offer month-long, self-directed residencies to emerging and established artists, writers, scholars, singer/songwriters, and musical composers. The Residency provides lodging, meals, and work space, at no cost, to six residents each month from April 1 through October 28 of the year. Applications are evaluated by selection committees comprised of working artists and professionals in the applicants’ respective fields of discipline.
Deadline: August 31
Read more about this opportunity here.
Open 4Culture
4Culture
Through this grant—which has no deadline—we award amounts up to $1,500 to cultural doers. Artists and arts groups operating outside of Seattle and those working in Heritage and Preservation anywhere in King County may apply.
Deadline: Rolling
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LHPAI Facility Grant
Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center
The LHPAI Facility Grant provides in-kind support for public projects, opportunities or events presented by individuals, groups, organizations or communities. The grant takes the form of up to 40 hours of staffed building use for a public arts or cultural event at LHPAI. The LHPAI Facility Grant consists solely of facility use and staff time.
Deadline: Rolling
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smART Ventures Grant
Office of Arts and Culture
As a small awards program, smART ventures encourages innovation and widens cultural participation, particularly by individuals, organizations and communities that may not qualify for other funding programs.
Deadline: Rolling
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Board Member
Artist Trust
Board members are volunteers who are responsible for governing the organization, establishing and upholding the organization’s mission and vision, and preparing for the organization’s successful future. Board members bring vital expertise and thought partnership to Artist Trust. They also work to broaden our network, introducing new community members, artists, and potential supporters of all levels to our organization.
Deadline: Ongoing
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Artist Roster
Spokane Arts
Are you an artist, maker, or creative based in the Inland Northwest region? Submit your information to join the roster of local creative talent so community members and fellow artists can find you and explore your work.
Deadline: Ongoing
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Call for Submissions
South Seattle Emerald
We strongly encourage all those who live, work and frequent the south Seattle area to aid us in adding to our story by contributing to the South Seattle Emerald.
Deadline: Ongoing
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Job Opportunities
Adult Education Manager
Hugo House
This position provides key vision for all of Hugo House’s educational programming, including lectures, workshops, community partnerships, our Coaching & Mentorship program, our Fellows program, and our Writers-in-Residence. The Education Manager works collaboratively with colleagues to implement the shared vision and mission. It is important to be able to balance detailed, data-driven planning and program implementation with higher-level strategy and leadership.
Deadline: Open until filled
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Art Maintenance and Supervisor
Chihuly Glass Studio
The Art and Maintenance Supervisor is responsible for annual planning, documentation and overall upkeep of the Exhibition’s galleries, artwork, collections, and garden maintenance. This position will supervise all operations – including scheduling, coordinating with vendors, communicating with Chihuly Studios, organizing all current documentation, annual planning, and other special projects that pertain to the maintenance of the exhibition/galleries, artwork, collections and garden. This position will support the Exhibition Department with a positive and professional attitude by supervising an Art Technician, small Custodial Team and small Garden Team. In addition, the Art and Maintenance Supervisor will provide excellent guest experiences with providing support to the Gallery Attendant Team when needed.
Deadline: Open until filled
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Bookkeeper
Hugo House
The person in this position is a key Hugo House staff member, responsible for the full accounts payable cycle, ensuring payments to vendors and independent contractors are processed in an efficient and timely manner. This position will also maintain records and tracking for contract signatures and W-9s.
Deadline: Open until filled
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Communications & Digital Media Coordinator
Northwest African American Museum
The Northwest African American Museum (NAAM) seeks a Communications & Digital Media Coordinator to support our President & CEO as well as Guest Services & External Affairs Director by ensuring that NAAM has consistent messaging and branding across all digital and printed collateral, social media, traditional media, and our website. This is a contract position at 32 hours a week.
Deadline: Open until filled
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Communications Manager
Artist Trust
We are looking for a creative storyteller committed to supporting artists to join our team! Currently reporting to the Acting Executive Director while collaborating across departments, the Communications Manager works intentionally with artists, staff, and community to share stories highlighting the impact of our work and the role individual artists play in creating a vibrant, resilient, and equitable Washington State. Using a variety of communications platforms and tools – including but not limited to social media, the Artist Trust website, media, and print – the Communications Manager promotes our programs, fundraising, and organizational initiatives, creates our annual communications plans, and builds our visual identity and brand.
Deadline: Open until filled
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Development Associate
Hugo House
Identify and apply for grant and foundation support to fund Hugo House programming. Engage and support Hugo House patrons, donors, members, and volunteers. Provide administrative support to executive and development staff, including database management. Requires occasional evening hours.
Deadline: Open until filled
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Director, Education + Programs
MoPOP
The Director, Education + Programs will be a strategic and collaborative leader who will serve as a confident and passionate advocate for the value of public and educational programming at the Museum. The Director will articulate a coherent vision with a clear set of priorities, framing the discussion around the development of the Museum’s education & programmatic agenda. The person will collaborate with curatorial and other departments to ensure the museum offers engaging and impactful experiences for all ages and abilities and with a central emphasis on equity and inclusion in all aspects of the work. The Director will also evaluate and measure public and education programs and multi-faceted initiatives that engage and support MoPOP’s wide audiences. This person serves as a member of the senior leadership team and leads the team that engages communities, serves students, teachers, and volunteers, and collaborates across the organization to develop content.
Deadline: Open until filled
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Education and Engagement Director
Northwest African American Museum
The Northwest African American Museum seeks an innovative and passionate Education & Engagement Director to lead our educational and public engagement activities. As a critical member of NAAM’s team, the Education and Engagement Director will report to and assist the President & Chief Executive Officer (President & CEO) with public and special events. In this role you will create experiences that enhance the understanding of the history, art and culture of African Americans in the Pacific Northwest and ensures the Museum’s collections and exhibits act as a learning resource for people of all ages.
Deadline: Open until filled
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Entrata Choir Director
Seattle Girls Choir
Part of Seattle Girls Choir’s strength as a program comes from the progression of skill building that occurs as a chorister moves through the organization. However, this can also make it difficult for girls to join SGC past the primary Dolcine years. Entrata is designed to help alleviate that transition into SGC by providing more focused musicianship instruction, so that slightly older girls’ skill levels will more closely match their peers that started younger. Entrata is an entry point for new choristers in grades 4-6 primarily. Entrata choristers learn and perform music, but there is slightly more emphasis on core musicianship and literacy skills. At the end of this year long program Entrata choristers usually move into Vivissimi or Allegra, whichever is most appropriate for their skill level and age.
Deadline: Open until filled
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Events Crew
Foss Waterway Seaport Museum
Under the direction of an assigned supervisor, this position is responsible for assisting with set up and/or clean up of the facility site and supervising rental groups of varying sizes. In the performance of their respective tasks and duties all employees are expected to conform to the following: perform quality work, interact professionally with other employees, customers and suppliers, and work independently while understanding the necessity for communicating and coordinating work efforts with
other employees and organizations.
Deadline: Open until filled
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Events Curator
Hugo House
To program high quality literary and arts events that enlighten, challenge, educate, and entertain audiences, and to raise the profile of Hugo House locally and nationally. To present a lively mix of readings, panels, craft talks, interviews, and other events featuring renowned writers, emerging and emerged writers, and talented new writers. Manage theater rental program.
Deadline: Open until filled
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Facilitator
Spectrum Center
Spectrum’s workshop facilitators are responsible for leading workshops, activities, and professional development focused on identity, inclusion, and bias reduction specifically around LGBTQ+ identities. While LGBTQ+ and gender focused, Spectrum recognizes that all forms of oppression are interlocking and expects facilitators to be prepared to address and discuss these complicated systems in the nuanced ways necessary.
Deadline: Open until filled
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Retail Program Manager
From Here
While the Retail Program Manager works to enhance customer, participant and staff satisfaction in relation to the day-to-day activities of the shop, they also understand From Here is a part of a larger organization with a strong mission. The Retail Program Manager works together with Terrain’s Executive Director and Operations Director, to ensure the shop falls in line with the rest of Terrain’s programming and activities.
Deadline: Open until filled.
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Teaching Artist
Coyote Central
Coyote is actively looking for professional teaching artists in the following mediums: Glass Flameworking, Metal Working (Welding/Forging), Wood Working, Animation, Acting, Culinary Arts, Jewelry Making, Filmmaking, Poetry, Printmaking, Podcasting, Fashion, Ceramics, Robotics, Comics, Music Production, Graffiti Art, Singing, Fine Art, and Dance.
Deadline: Ongoing
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Teaching Artist
Kirkland Arts Center
Kirkland Arts Center is seeking strong candidates for upcoming quarters. We look for experienced art teachers with an enthusiasm for teaching and mentoring students at a range of skill levels and backgrounds. Our ideal candidates are eager to support our efforts to reach new students using their own contacts and augmenting our outreach efforts.
Deadline: Ongoing
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Teaching Artist
Northwind Art
Our classes and workshops are taught by a diverse and skilled group of 50+ instructors annually. We invite online and in person lecture, class, and workshop proposals on a rolling basis. We seek to create a schedule that is balanced by medium, content, level, timing, and prospective audience. Northwind Art provides Zoom Pro hosting for our online classes. We have an online studio assistant who can be present during your class to change camera views and provide light technical help for you and your students. We provide administrative support and transaction processing for online classes, so our teaching artists need only focus on their teaching. This includes all student inquiries and communications ahead of the class.
Deadline: Ongoing
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Teaching Artist
Urban Artworks
We have no current openings but always looking to build upon our diverse roster of Teaching Artists. Our Teaching Artists have a wide variety of visual and public arts experience. We are looking for TAs with experience helping young people use art as a tool for social change. We seek teachers who reflect the communities we serve, including Black, Indigenous, People of Color, and those who identify as LGBTQ.
Deadline: Ongoing
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Project Artist
Urban Artworks
We constantly update our roster of artists and designers who we contract to complete commissioned projects throughout the city. We work with artists who bring a variety of styles, and we encourage those who also have collaboration and facilitation skills to apply.
Deadline: Ongoing
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