From jobs, residencies, and open calls: here is an updated list of opportunities this August 2024 for artists, writers, and creatives.
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MENTORSHIP WITH LUCIA WALKER
The Academy for the Less Good Idea calls Johannesburg-based artists to apply for THINKING IN INSTANT COMPOSITION, a three-day mentorship led by movement artist, performer and teacher, Lucia Walker. The mentorship takes place from 4 to 6 September 2024 at The Centre for the Less Good Idea, Arts on Main, Maboneng. For this mentorship, Walker will be drawing on her experience of practising and teaching Alexander work and Contact Improvisation. It is the principles underpinning these ways of working that will be used to inform Instant Composition. While Instant Composition is primarily a movement-based practice, this mentorship is open to artists across disciplines. It encourages the participation of visual artists, musicians, writers, poets, and actors alongside movement artists. This mentorship also invites applications from artists across age groups, with a special interest in intergenerational movement and spatial dialogues.
Please send an expression of interest to: lessgoodidea@gmail.com
Deadline: 16 August 2024
2024 indigenous language Pendoring Awards
Celebrating 29 years in 2024, The Pendoring Awards create a space for freedom of expression in South African languages. Pendoring General Manager Eben Keun says, “The Pendoring Awards encourages the communications sector to allow people the freedom to receive their communication in the way they want to consume it. 30 years into democracy, so much is still communicated in English. Pendoring disrupts the status quo by awarding and rewarding indigenous language communication – making the Pendoring Awards truly unique in the communications awards ecosystem.” Pendoring’s categories cater to publishing houses, digital content creators, filmmakers, gaming and other innovative indigenous language content in addition to traditional advertising and design using indigenous languages.
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Deadline: 30 September 2024
SculptureCenter In Practice Open Call
Artists who haven’t had an institutional solo exhibition in New York City are invited to submit proposals for a solo show, off-site project, publication, performance, and more with SculptureCenter. The project budget is $6,000 with an additional $1,000 artist stipend.
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Deadline: 04 August 2024
RAISE YOUR ZINE! 3rd Edition
THE DOCKS invites photographers worldwide to submit to the third edition of RAISE YOUR ZINE! There is a €15 application fee. The prize is a production of a photographic fanzine and the opportunity to exhibit the editorial work, produced after the win, during the days of the festival RAISE YOUR ZINE! planned in Naples at the end of 2024. The competition is open to photographers of all nationalities, sexes and ages. Photographic works of any kind and technique (digital, analogue, photomontages and other experimental techniques) are allowed. The competition is a free theme, and individual authors, collectives and curators can participate. You can sign up with a photographic project in progress or already finished.
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Deadline: 01 September 2024
Amazon Senior Marketing Manager
This role will drive the creation, planning, management, and execution of advertising programs and marketing communications with the creative, media, portfolio planning, and research, and measurement. Key responsibilities include coordinating campaigns across channels and products to support teams in creating and executing innovative advertising and brand campaigns to achieve brand goals. Preferred qualification experience driving direction and alignment with large cross-functional teams and agency partners.
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Deadline: Unstated
TikTok Client Solutions Manager
Tiktok is looking for a client solutions manager. The Client Solutions team’s mission is to establish and build scalable, long-term client relationships by solving direct clients’ and agencies’ challenges through scalable, best-in-class campaign services. Client Solution Managers have a holistic understanding of TikTok’s ad products and are humble and open to change. You are joining a team of consultants and marketing and self-service platform experts, who proactively drive the client’s growth strategy, including upsells, renewals and campaign reactivations.
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Deadline: 15 August 2024
AAP Magazine 42 Shapes
All About Photo is seeking cohesive bodies of work for its 42nd issue centred around shapes and “the elements that abstract into light, texture, shape, and shadow.” Winners will receive $1,000 awards, and the submission fee is $30 per three images. All winners will have their work published in the 42nd printed issue of AAP Magazine, a free copy of the magazine and their portfolio showcased in the Winners Gallery of www.all-about-photo.com.
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Deadline: 03 September 2024
NSMA International Painting Competition
The NSMA Painting Competition is a celebration of artistic excellence, inviting global artists to showcase the finest in contemporary realist painting. This competition stands as a testament to the enduring allure and expressive power of representational painting. It provides artists with a prestigious platform to showcase their talent, engage with their peers, and contribute to the rich tapestry of representational art.Open to professionals and students, this competition focuses on contemporary realism in painting, and all subject matter is welcome. One winner will receive $25,000, and finalists will be exhibited at the New Salem Museum and Academy of Fine Art. Entrants must only submit original handmade paintings created within the past three years. Entrants are not permitted to use copyrighted images as the primary basis for their artwork. Paintings must be available for acquisition if awarded the Acquisition Award, as well as for the length of the finalist exhibition through May and June of 2025.
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Deadline: 15 January 2025
