CALL TO ARTISTS & COMMUNITY OPPORTUNITIES
- SAACA Arts, Creative & Maker Opportunities for makers, creatives, chefs, musicians and more
- Arts Based Job Opportunities
- Public Art
- Call to Artists
- Community Arts Engagement & Learning Opportunities
- SAACA Job & Internship Opportunities
The Southern Arizona Arts & Cultural Alliance is dedicated to the creation, preservation and advancement of the arts. By supporting and developing innovative community arts programming, we help create communities capable of positive, diverse and equitable public dialogue and action. We believe the arts provide a tool for mobilization and build community leadership and capacity.
We are proud to collaborate with local businesses, governments, arts and cultural organizations, and individual artists in our community to create custom arts partnerships and opportunities.
If you are a community member and would like to add an artist opportunity to our monthly updates, please fill out the link below.
We are proud to collaborate with local businesses, governments, arts and cultural organizations, and individual artists in our community to create custom arts partnerships and opportunities.
If you are a community member and would like to add an artist opportunity to our monthly updates, please fill out the link below.
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QUESTIONS?
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VISUAL ART OPPORTUNITIES
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The Southern Arizona Arts & Cultural Alliance is looking to our creative partners and individuals - musicians, crafters, artisans, makers and enthusiasts to help us deliver over 400 arts care packages to Southern Arizona individuals and Veterans living in isolated environments in local Assisted Living, Nursing and full time care facilities.
HOW CAN YOU PARTICIPATE Below is a list of the types of items we are looking to create, and provide. We are looking for 15-25 small kits or items per person to be donated. If you have a project in mind that is not listed below, just let us know!
The activities would have to be for individuals with limited dexterity and include clear instruction sheets, which SAACA can print out for you. If there is a designed coloring sheet, we can print that in-house for you as well. These would have to all be in-room, self-paced activities. Donated materials will be disinfected before delivery to the residents.
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Recycled Art Exhibition – Roche Tissue Diagnostics Community Gallery
Submission period open until April 15, 2020 In celebration of Earth Day, artists are invited to submit entries to a group exhibition celebrating the themes or reuse, re-purposing, and transformation. Entries should reflect this theme by use of non-traditional materials in the creation of the work. Taking items that would typically be thrown away and creatively up-cycling them into works of art. |
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CATALYST Visual Teaching Artist
The CATALYST Art & Maker Space offers classroom space for professional artists, design professionals, engineers, musicians and chefs and culinary makers to conduct workshops, lectures, or classes. Artists must apply and be accepted to the approved schedule prior to scheduling any classes or soliciting students. In this self-directed program, Creative Educators will determine their own class schedule, syllabus, and workshop content. SAACA will provide the space, tables, chairs, and access to shared studio equipment for students, depending on space used. SAACA will include Creative Educators’ classes and workshops on our Website, including description, date and time, fee, and sign-up directions. SAACA provides monthly, email advertising to 25,000+ list, social media, local print advertising promoting the facility, memberships, and classes. Specific class marketing is the responsibility of the artist. All supplies and materials are provided by the teacher. Art Educators have two choices for using space and offering classes/workshops: 1. Rental Space with hourly fee to CATALYST, without use of SAACA class registration system and promotions 2. Rental Space with hourly fee to CATALYST; SAACA facilitates class registration and payment portal, with marketing supplemental listed above. 10% fee on all class registrations kept by SAACA to cover marketing and registration processing fees. Teacher is paid within 7-10 business days following the class. |
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EMERGING ARTIST SCHOLARSHIPS
SAACA is dedicated to the creation, preservation and advancement of the Arts, providing more than 200,000 unique arts and cultural engagement opportunities for the community. Recognizing that all of this work begins with artists, we are proud to be offering scholarship opportunities for emerging artists to participate in three of our major art festivals this 2019-2020 event season. Any practicing artist who has been selling their work professionally less then 5 years, is 30 years old or younger, or is currently enrolled in an arts program is eligible to apply for a gratis booth space at the Holiday Festival of the Arts, La Encantada Fine Art Festival, and the Spring Festival of the Arts. |
OUTSIDE OPPORTUNITIES & CALL TO ARTISTS
COMMUNITY OPPORTUNITIES
Complete the form below contact information and artist opportunity details below to be considered for addition to SAACA's 'Calls to Artist' opportunities. There is no charge for listing an arts opportunity.
SAACA publishes our calls to artist in two ways:
Submissions must be received by the 25th of each month to be considered for addition to the website and email blast for the following month.
Any questions can be directed to the Cait Huble, Director of Programs & Community Outreach - cait@saaca.org
SAACA publishes our calls to artist in two ways:
- Monthly email blast on or close to the 1st of each month sent to our 'artist opportunities' distribution list.
- Hosting on SAACA website https://www.saaca.org/callstoartist.html.
Submissions must be received by the 25th of each month to be considered for addition to the website and email blast for the following month.
Any questions can be directed to the Cait Huble, Director of Programs & Community Outreach - cait@saaca.org
Arts For The Future 2020 International Student Art Contest
Organization Name: Arts For The Future
Location of Opportunity: San Francisco, CA
Deadline for Submission: May 15, 2020 01:17 AM
Arts For The Future is inviting students from all over the world to use their talents, imagination, and creativity to create original artwork. (https://www.artscontest.org). Calling Student Artists: Group 1 (Age 5 and under) / Group 2 (Age 6-9) / Group 3 (Age 10-13) / Group 4 (Age 14-18). Theme: Art & Tech
Requirement Participants' artwork must be original. Art can represent the following mediums: drawing and painting (i.e., pencil, charcoal, pastels, colored pencils, oil paints, acrylics, water media, mixed media). Arts For The Future 2020 International Student Art Contest is an international art contest hosted by Arts For The Future, organized by the Innovative Bay, supported by the Peninsula Museum of Art and other organizations.
How to Apply: Contest Official Website https://www.artscontest.org
Location of Opportunity: San Francisco, CA
Deadline for Submission: May 15, 2020 01:17 AM
Arts For The Future is inviting students from all over the world to use their talents, imagination, and creativity to create original artwork. (https://www.artscontest.org). Calling Student Artists: Group 1 (Age 5 and under) / Group 2 (Age 6-9) / Group 3 (Age 10-13) / Group 4 (Age 14-18). Theme: Art & Tech
Requirement Participants' artwork must be original. Art can represent the following mediums: drawing and painting (i.e., pencil, charcoal, pastels, colored pencils, oil paints, acrylics, water media, mixed media). Arts For The Future 2020 International Student Art Contest is an international art contest hosted by Arts For The Future, organized by the Innovative Bay, supported by the Peninsula Museum of Art and other organizations.
How to Apply: Contest Official Website https://www.artscontest.org
Flag Wool & Fiber Festival
Organization Name: From the Land - 2020 Flag Wool & Fiber Festival Fiber Arts Competition
Location of Opportunity: Flagstaff, AZ
Deadline for Submission: May 15, 2020 05:00 PM
Fiber arts practice is often rooted in place. From the fiber used to the inspiration given, the land around us produces both material and artistic vision.Land-based practices, livestock, plants, and the human hand come together to create textiles ranging from knitted garments to artistic tapestries.
For the 2020 Flag Wool & Fiber Festival Fiber Arts Competition,From the Land, we ask you to examine how the land around you influences your fiber arts practice. Whether you are influenced by local fiber or draw artistic vision from your environment, we want to see how the influence of land informs your work.
How to Apply: Full details and a downloadable entry form can be found at www.flagwool.com/fiberartscompetition.
Location of Opportunity: Flagstaff, AZ
Deadline for Submission: May 15, 2020 05:00 PM
Fiber arts practice is often rooted in place. From the fiber used to the inspiration given, the land around us produces both material and artistic vision.Land-based practices, livestock, plants, and the human hand come together to create textiles ranging from knitted garments to artistic tapestries.
For the 2020 Flag Wool & Fiber Festival Fiber Arts Competition,From the Land, we ask you to examine how the land around you influences your fiber arts practice. Whether you are influenced by local fiber or draw artistic vision from your environment, we want to see how the influence of land informs your work.
How to Apply: Full details and a downloadable entry form can be found at www.flagwool.com/fiberartscompetition.
The Hopper Prize
Organization Name: The Hopper Prize
Location of Opportunity: National, Online
Deadline for Submission: May 19, 2020 11:59 PM
The Hopper Prize is offering 5 individual artist grants in the amount of $1,000. This is an open call, all media eligible. Grant submissions will be juried by leading curators: Amber Esseiva, Associate Curator, Institute for Contemporary Art VCU, and Leila Groth, Associate Curator for Contemporary Art, Baltimore Museum of Art. Our open call provides you with a direct path to get your work in front of these forward thinking exhibition makers. In addition to grants, 30 artists will be selected for a shortlist. Additional exposure is available via our online Journal as well as our Instagram feed, currently reaching an audience over 33K.
How to Apply: Apply at hopperprize.org. There is a $40 submission fee due with your application.
Location of Opportunity: National, Online
Deadline for Submission: May 19, 2020 11:59 PM
The Hopper Prize is offering 5 individual artist grants in the amount of $1,000. This is an open call, all media eligible. Grant submissions will be juried by leading curators: Amber Esseiva, Associate Curator, Institute for Contemporary Art VCU, and Leila Groth, Associate Curator for Contemporary Art, Baltimore Museum of Art. Our open call provides you with a direct path to get your work in front of these forward thinking exhibition makers. In addition to grants, 30 artists will be selected for a shortlist. Additional exposure is available via our online Journal as well as our Instagram feed, currently reaching an audience over 33K.
How to Apply: Apply at hopperprize.org. There is a $40 submission fee due with your application.
Sculpture Tucson - Bird Houses and Nests Exhibition
Location of Opportunity: Tucson Botanical Gardens, Tucson, Arizona
Deadline for Submission: May 25, 2020 5:00 PM
Description of Opportunity
SculptureTucson (ST) and Tucson Botanical Gardens (TBG) are hosting a joint exhibition of outdoor sculpture related to the theme “Bird Houses and Nests.” All artworks will be on display in outdoor garden spaces, so artists are encouraged to create work that is large-scale in size. While there is no maximum size restriction, works smaller than 5 feet high will not be considered, unless it is mounted on a base, and the entire sculpture plus base is equal to 5 feet. Whether hanging or with a base all sculptures must be secured. To be considered for this exhibition, artists are invited to submit digital images of previously completed works. Based on those images, artists will be invited to create a new work for the exhibition. Each chosen artist will receive a $500 honorarium. This is a financial gesture, in addition to a possible exhibition sale, and should not be expected to cover the cost of fabrication.
How to Apply for Opportunity
Images must be 300 dpi in jpeg format. Only one image for each work with caption on the entry number on the Entry Form. One-page résumé in PDF format For more: https://sculpturetucson.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/TBG-ST-Exhition-2020-Final.pdf
Deadline for Submission: May 25, 2020 5:00 PM
Description of Opportunity
SculptureTucson (ST) and Tucson Botanical Gardens (TBG) are hosting a joint exhibition of outdoor sculpture related to the theme “Bird Houses and Nests.” All artworks will be on display in outdoor garden spaces, so artists are encouraged to create work that is large-scale in size. While there is no maximum size restriction, works smaller than 5 feet high will not be considered, unless it is mounted on a base, and the entire sculpture plus base is equal to 5 feet. Whether hanging or with a base all sculptures must be secured. To be considered for this exhibition, artists are invited to submit digital images of previously completed works. Based on those images, artists will be invited to create a new work for the exhibition. Each chosen artist will receive a $500 honorarium. This is a financial gesture, in addition to a possible exhibition sale, and should not be expected to cover the cost of fabrication.
How to Apply for Opportunity
Images must be 300 dpi in jpeg format. Only one image for each work with caption on the entry number on the Entry Form. One-page résumé in PDF format For more: https://sculpturetucson.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/TBG-ST-Exhition-2020-Final.pdf
Studio-Talk Saturdays (FREE dance education professional development group)
Organization Name: Ballet Arizona
Location of Opportunity: Phoenix, AZ
Deadline for Submission: May 31, 2020 12:00 PM
This free professional development group is for dance educators from all backgrounds – from public schools to dance studios. Each month, we’ll discuss different aspects of the dance teaching profession and explore the ways we can elevate our practice both individually as teachers and collectively as a dance community. Attendees are welcome to stay after the PD event and take a free adult ballet class at 11:30 am to brush up on ballet technique and take some time for movement self-care.
9:15a-9:30a Networking
9:30a-11:00a Professional Development Meet-Up
11:00a-11:15a Networking
11:30a-1:00p OPTIONAL free adult ballet class
How to Apply: This is a once-a-month event that is ongoing throughout our season. Sign-ups are encouraged online - please visit https://balletaz.org/community-engagement/studio-talk-saturdays/ to register. For more information, please email apapazian@balletaz.org.
Location of Opportunity: Phoenix, AZ
Deadline for Submission: May 31, 2020 12:00 PM
This free professional development group is for dance educators from all backgrounds – from public schools to dance studios. Each month, we’ll discuss different aspects of the dance teaching profession and explore the ways we can elevate our practice both individually as teachers and collectively as a dance community. Attendees are welcome to stay after the PD event and take a free adult ballet class at 11:30 am to brush up on ballet technique and take some time for movement self-care.
9:15a-9:30a Networking
9:30a-11:00a Professional Development Meet-Up
11:00a-11:15a Networking
11:30a-1:00p OPTIONAL free adult ballet class
How to Apply: This is a once-a-month event that is ongoing throughout our season. Sign-ups are encouraged online - please visit https://balletaz.org/community-engagement/studio-talk-saturdays/ to register. For more information, please email apapazian@balletaz.org.
Calling all Playwrights! Old Pueblo Playwrights Annual New Play Festival
Organization Name: Old Pueblo Playwrights
Location of Opportunity: Tucson, AZ
Deadline for Submission: Nov 30, 2020 07:00 PM
"Where words come first"
Submit your original dramatic work for consideration for Old Pueblo Playwrights 30th Annual Festival (Spring 2021) by joining OPP for only $36/year. But first check out our 2020 Festival, Mar. 26-29, at St. Francis in the Foothills.
Deadline for submission for 2021 Spring Festival: Plays must be "table-read" at least twice at our weekly Monday night meeting then voted on by the members. So start working on your script now!
A Tucson nonprofit, Old Pueblo Playwrights aims to inspire professional and aspiring writers of any age, race, religion, gender, ethnicity, or political persuasion to create new works for stage, film, radio, or TV.
How to Apply: Be our guest any Mon. evening at 7 at the Temple of Music and Art (330 S Scott Ave) where we meet to read and critique original member works in the upstairs Rehearsal Hall behind the Cabaret Theater. Visit us on Facebook at Old Pueblo Playwrights.
Location of Opportunity: Tucson, AZ
Deadline for Submission: Nov 30, 2020 07:00 PM
"Where words come first"
Submit your original dramatic work for consideration for Old Pueblo Playwrights 30th Annual Festival (Spring 2021) by joining OPP for only $36/year. But first check out our 2020 Festival, Mar. 26-29, at St. Francis in the Foothills.
Deadline for submission for 2021 Spring Festival: Plays must be "table-read" at least twice at our weekly Monday night meeting then voted on by the members. So start working on your script now!
A Tucson nonprofit, Old Pueblo Playwrights aims to inspire professional and aspiring writers of any age, race, religion, gender, ethnicity, or political persuasion to create new works for stage, film, radio, or TV.
How to Apply: Be our guest any Mon. evening at 7 at the Temple of Music and Art (330 S Scott Ave) where we meet to read and critique original member works in the upstairs Rehearsal Hall behind the Cabaret Theater. Visit us on Facebook at Old Pueblo Playwrights.
Coffee Shop Seeking Artwork
Organization Name: Crema Coffee
Location of Opportunity: Tucson, AZ
Deadline for Submission: On-going
Crema Coffee is a brand new coffee shop located on the NW side in the Bookman’s plaza on the SE corner of Ina and Thornydale. They are seeking new pieces of artwork and photography to showcase on their walls. Most mediums are welcome.
How to Apply: Please direct inquiries to Amy and Aaron at cremacoffee42@gmail.com or call 520-425-3257.
Location of Opportunity: Tucson, AZ
Deadline for Submission: On-going
Crema Coffee is a brand new coffee shop located on the NW side in the Bookman’s plaza on the SE corner of Ina and Thornydale. They are seeking new pieces of artwork and photography to showcase on their walls. Most mediums are welcome.
How to Apply: Please direct inquiries to Amy and Aaron at cremacoffee42@gmail.com or call 520-425-3257.