Artist Grants / Calls & Submissions
Deadline
May 19, 2020
Organization Name: The Hopper Prize
Organization Location: Dover, DE
Type: Calls & Submissions
Fee: $40
Discipline:
The Hopper Prize is offering multiple individual artist grants totaling $5,000 USD awarded through an open call art competition juried by leading contemporary curators.
The Hopper Prize was established in order to increase the recognition of artwork created by artists and photographers. Our aim is to advance artists’ careers by providing them with unrestricted financial support that is coupled with a platform for increased visibility. We accept submissions twice a year via an open call.
We are currently accepting submissions for the Spring 2020 grant cycle.
* Program Highlights
Total Awards: $5,000.00 USD for visual artists
— 5 artists will each receive $1,000.00 USD in unrestricted grant awards
— 30 artists will have their work archived at hopperprize.org
— Selected submissions will be featured on our Instagram feed @hopperprize
— Additional exposure will be available to winners through our Journal: Insights into Contemporary Art
* Connect with Curators
We collaborate with contemporary curators holding prominent positions at major institutions in order to select our grant winners. Our open call provides you with a direct path to get your work in front of these forward thinking exhibition makers. Jurors for the Spring 2020 awards are:
Amber Esseiva
Associate Curator
Institute for Contemporary Art VCU
&
Leila Groth
Associate Curator for Contemporary Art
Baltimore Museum of Art
Our jurors will be selecting 5 artists from our open call who will each receive $1,000. The jurors will also select a shortlist of 30 artists who will have their work archived at hopperprize.org.
Grant awards are unrestricted and may be used any way the recipients choose.
Additionally, when submitting, you will have the option to opt-in to be considered for possible Instagram features on our feed @hopperprize, where we currently reach an audience of over 33K. Our editors will be featuring select submissions on a rolling basis prior to the application deadline.
In addition to grant awards, our shortlist, and Instagram reach, we will be providing an additional platform for exposure via our online Journal Insights Into Contemporary Art. We launched this digital publication to give artists a new channel to amplify their voice while providing an in-depth look at their work, practice, and background. Grant recipients and shortlisted artists will all receive the opportunity to publish an interview to include any work of their choosing as a means of providing continued support beyond the open call.
* Eligibility
The Hopper Prize is open to all artists age 18 and older working in any media. There are no restrictions on genre, subject matter, or media. We welcome entries in all media.
We are committed to supporting artists from diverse cultural backgrounds at all stages of their professional careers. All artists are encouraged to apply.
* Recent Winners
We support artists working in all media, from diverse backgrounds, in wide-ranging geographic locations. Recent grant winners include:
Adrian Coleman, London, United Kingdom
Trish Tillman, New York, New York
Nicholas Moenich, Brooklyn, New York
Elena Bajo, Los Angeles, California
Vanessa da Silva, London, United Kingdom
Mark Baugh-Sasaki, San Francisco, California
Genevieve Cohn, Bloomington, Indiana
Sydney Cook, Baltimore, Maryland
Jinyong Park, London, United Kingdom
Isabel Yellin, Los Angeles, California
Alex Callender, Northampton, Massachusetts
Alicia Eggert, Denton, Texas
Daniel McCarthy Clifford, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Juan Giraldo, New York, New York
Maja Ruznic, Los Angeles, California
Letitia Huckaby, Benbrook, Texas
Tracy Kerdman, Saugerties, New York
Lebohang Kganye, Johannesburg, South Africa
Christopher Meerdo, Chicago, Illinois
Erik Parra, San Francisco, California
* Deadline
May 19, 2020
* Simple Application
We made our grant application simple to reduce the stress of submitting your work and save you time. The application is short and can be completed in under 20 minutes.
To apply for a grant, you only need to submit this information:
Name & Email
Instagram Username (optional)
Up to 10 Image or Video attachments
Artwork captions
Artist Statement & Biography (optional)
$40 submission fee
* Apply Now
Show us your work at https://hopperprize.org
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