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Cultural festivals for the soul: 2024 events that celebrate art, design, and creativity

Creative Boom

Whether at home or abroad, it'll allow you to travel somewhere new, immerse yourself in new ideas and fresh creativity, and recharge your imagination in the process. Singapore Art Week – Singapore, 19-28 January If you've never experienced the small but perfectly formed Asian city-state of Singapore, here's the perfect opportunity.

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May 2024 Opportunities: Open Calls, Residencies, and Grants for Artists

Colossal

DCASE Visual Arts Exhibition Program (Illinois and Indiana) Artists, curators, and arts organizations are invited to propose exhibitions for the Chicago Cultural Center galleries in 2025 and 2026. Flights, travel insurance, accommodation, per diems, and visa reimbursements will be provided. Deadline: May 6, 2024.

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10 best artist and illustration agents in New York City

Creative Boom

Within their ranks, you'll find first-rate artists such as Jamey Christoph , a freelance illustrator and designer based in Ohio, USA, whose work draws inspiration from vintage advertising and travel posters and a lifelong curiosity for the past. It also has an online store where iconic images of its artists can be purchased.

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Spinning a yarn: how Icelandic artist Ýrúrarí turns textiles into stunning works of art

Creative Boom

Nærvera © Ýrúrarí aka Ýr Jóhannsdóttir We chat with the brilliant Icelandic artist about sustainability, textile techniques and handing out wool pizzas to the public. But Icelandic artist Ýr Jóhannsdóttir, aka Ýrúrarí , has been turning them into stunning works of art. I’ve been studying textiles since I was nine," she explains.

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July 2023 Opportunities: Open Calls, Residencies, and Grants for Artists

Colossal

Franklin Furnace will make three copies of the book freely available to the public via its Artists’ Books Collection and will give one copy to the Library of Congress, each of the 50 State Libraries in the United States of America, and the Pratt Institute Libraries. Applicants must be from or living in the Arab world. Deadline: July 10, 2023.

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October 2022 Opportunities: Open Calls, Residencies, and Grants for Artists

Colossal

Massachusetts Design Art and Technology Institute (DATMA) – SHELTER 2023 Featured. This request for qualifications asks artists to consider themes of shelter for an outdoor public installation in New Bedford. Art Omi Residencies (International). Deadline: November 1, 2022. Lenore Tawney Fellowship Featured.

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F5: Jason Bird’s Favorite Chair + the Simple Things He Favors

Design Milk

” But given the chance to go back and do it all over again, he said he’d choose to focus more on conventional visual art. “It would be interesting to step into a creative space where the process wasn’t about producing something commercially or at scale, but just creating art for art’s sake.