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The best art books to enjoy in the summer of 2022

Creative Boom

Philip Guston (1913-1980) was a Canadian American painter, printmaker, muralist and draftsman who's now considered one of the most important American painters of the 20th century. Black Artists in British Art: A History since the 1950s by Eddie Chambers. What Artists Wear by Charlie Porter. I Paint What I Want to See by Philip Guston.

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

Colossal

2024 Booooooom Art & Photo Book Award (International) Artists, photographers, and illustrators are invited to submit cohesive bodies of work they’d like to see turned into a book. Six projects will be selected for publishing at no cost. Deadline: June 1, 2024. Deadline: June 7, 2024. Deadline: 11:59 p.m.

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Barnett Freedman “saw no difference between commercial work and fine art”

Design Week

His first major commission in 1931, for publishers Faber & Faber was to design and illustrate Siegfried Sassoon’s Memoirs of an Infantry Officer. But he also studied portraiture and painting at the Royal College of Arts, lending his design work a fine art quality.

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

Colossal

Open Calls The Aperture Portfolio Prize (International) Photographers are encouraged to submit innovative bodies of work that haven’t been previously published or exhibited. The first prize winner will be published in Aperture and receive $3,000 in cash, a $1,000 MPB gift card, and an exhibition in New York City.

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

Colossal

The Adolf and Esther Gottlieb Emergency Grant (International) The Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Emergency Grant program provides one-time interim financial assistance to qualified painters, printmakers, and sculptors whose needs are the result of an unforeseen catastrophic incident and who lack the resources to meet that situation.

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

Colossal

Virgin Islands) This portrait competition is open to all media, including painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, printmaking, textiles, video, performance art, and digital or time-based art. Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $5 per month. Deadline: Rolling.

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

Colossal

This annual international competition is designed to discover, exhibit, and publish new talents in photography. The first prize winner receives $3,000, an exhibition in New York, and publishing in Aperture magazine. This grant is open to painters, sculptors, and printmakers working for at least 20 years with current financial needs.

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