AMP connects artists and behind-the-scenes collaborators of all genres, including musicians, painters, performance artists, writers, dancers, and many more, with resources, opportunities, and personal connections. Many AMPers also provide free temporary lodging for other members. With thousands of members in 86 countries, AMP enthusiastically and energetically builds bridges between artists, audiences, and producers through our website, as well as at AMP-hosted parties and multimedia events worldwide. AMP is free to join. The only 'cost' is your energy and enthusiasm in building a global artistic community and helping fellow artists.
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Deadline Approaching: Travel scholarship for video makers open

interested in creating documentaries ... apply for a travel scholarship to Australia.

World Nomads is accepting applications for a travel documentary scholarship. The winner will spend seven days with the Arnhem Land Marine Rescue Program with World Expeditions, filming the remote Yolngu Aboriginal communities.

Only non-professional documentary makers are eligible to apply. Anyone over 18 with a valid passport is eligible to apply.

The winner will create their own short documentary under producer Trent O'Donnell to air on the National Geographic Adventure Channel. The value of the prize is approximately AU$5895 (about US$6,270).

For more information, click here.

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Photo contest about entrepreneurs open

Non-profit organization the Seven Fund seeks entries from around the world for a photo contest about entrepreneurs.

The goal of the photo competition is to inspire photographers and document entrepreneurs leading training programs and running for-profit businesses in ethical ways.

The Seven Fund is a non-profit organization that aims to change the terms of discourse surrounding poverty by presenting entrepreneurs in a new light.

The competition will award four prizes (US$250), one every three months, as well as a grand prize (US$1,000) that will recognize one of the final four photographs as the overall competition winner.

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photo contest accepting entries

Professional and amateur photographers are invited to submit photos illustrating the importance of development of sustainable energy and transportation.

Sponsored by OSCE, citizens of its 56 participating member states from Europe, Central Asia and North America are eligible. Each participant can submit up to three entries.

Lithuania, which holds the 2011 OSCE Chairmanship, is focusing on the promotion of sustainable energy and transport as one of its priorities. Because of this particular interest, Lithuania proposed "promoting common actions and co-operation in the OSCE area in the fields of development of sustainable energy and transport" as a theme.

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Voices of the Sea Artists Commissions: Call for expressions of interest

Voices of the Sea
Artists Commissions
Call for expressions of interest

Deadline: 11 July 2011

www.lighthouse.org.uk/opportunity/commissions.htm
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Voices of the Sea is a unique commissioning opportunity created by a partnership of arts organisations. In Brighton and Hove, UK: Fabrica, Blast Theory, Brighton Festival, Lighthouse, Photoworks, the University of Brighton and in France, the Musee de Beaux Arts Calais.

We seek to commission two artists, each with a strong track record, to create two major new works, responding to the coastal context and maritime heritage of South East England.

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Sam Prize for Contemporary Art 2011

Call for Applications

Sam Prize for Contemporary Art 2011

Deadline to apply: September 15, 2011, midnight

The aim of the prize is to allow the selected artist to carry out a project which they will conduct in an emerging country in the Southern hemisphere, and exhibit in France, at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, in the following year.

With its grant of 20 000 euros, this competition is open to all artists corresponding to each of the following criteria:

• over the age of 25
• french or who have been resident in France for at least 2 years
• who have a a signed contract with a gallery in France.

Every kind of expression and all the visual arts disciplines are accepted : painting, sculpture, installation, photography, video…

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Keyholder Residency Program at the Lower East Side Print Shop

KEYHOLDER RESIDENCY PROGRAM

The Keyholder Residency Program offers emerging artists free 24-hour access to printmaking facilities to develop new work and foster their artistic careers. Residencies are one year long, starting on October 1, 2011, and take place in the Printshop’s shared Artists’ Studio. Facilities are available for intaglio, relief, monoprint, waterbased silkscreen, digital processes, and other techniques that employ the tools at hand.

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GOOD AND GRITTY CREATIVITY

Literature doesn't get tougher than this!

HOT OFF THE PRESS! True crime, poetry from prison, gritty literature, dark fantasy, and more! Check out our TOUGH LIT III issue: http://www.ideagems.com/ Just click on the cover page to order print copy or PDF Download. Click on the Amazon Kindle button to order the Kindle version. Your purchase helps us in our mission to promote women writers and artists.

As always, I am looking for submissions of stories, poems, artwork, and photography. I'm proud to say that my little "penny dreadful" publication has become an internationally recognized magazine going on its 7th year. This 'zine--my painstaking labor of love--provides a platform for writers and artists to showcase their work! We have feature AMP artists Linda Kent, Maddy Rosenberg, and others.

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Literature doesn't get tougher than this!

Literature doesn't get tougher than this!
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NARS Foundation International Artist Residency Program (deadline August 12)

International Artist Residency Program

NARS Foundation
88 35th Street, 3rd Floor
New York, 11232
USA
Phone: 1-718-768-2765
Fax: 1-718-768-2765
communications@narsfoundation.org
http://narsfoundation.org/application.php

Deadline for International Artist Residency:
August 12th, 2011

Residency Term is from Jan-Jun, 2012

NARS Foundation International Artist Residency Program

The New York Art Residency & Studios Foundation is a not-for-profit arts organization founded in 2006 and based in Brooklyn. We seek applications from both emerging and established artists, for whom appointments as resident artists might either make a significant impact on their careers or for whom a change of environment may offer refreshment and inspiration.

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Gallery applications to Frieze New York are open

Gallery Applications to Frieze New York are now open.

applications.friezenewyork.com

Frieze New York will take place on Randall's Island Park, Manhattan, 4–7 May 2012.

Frieze New York is an international contemporary art fair that will include approximately 170 of the world's leading galleries. A temporary bespoke structure, designed by New York-based SO-IL architects, will be constructed on Randall's Island Park, overlooking the East River.

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