The City of Calgary Public Art Program invites members of the Blackfoot Confederacy to apply for this curatorial opportunity. Individuals with curatorial experience are encouraged to apply.

This opportunity is open to Blackfoot/Blackfeet curators. Individual artists, artist teams, and collectives are eligible to apply.

The selected curator or curatorial team will work closely with the Indigenous curator, public art conservator, public art liaison, and collections specialist to curate a Blackfoot-specific, loanable exhibit that will be available for communities and schools to host.

The curatorial opportunity will include all aspects of working on a public art exhibit, including (but not limited to) budgeting, artist visits, exhibit design, and curatorial writing. The curator will collaborate with artists from the community to reflect their voices through the exhibit. The curator’s own artwork will **not** be eligible for inclusion.

The curated exhibit must be created within a set budget and will include between 4–12 artworks or art objects. The curator will work with the Indigenous curator to develop a theme and select artworks for purchase. They will also collaborate with the public art team to ensure the exhibit is portable and that the artworks are protected during transport.

Public art exhibition in Calgary.

  
The curator receives an all-inclusive maximum budget of $12,000.00 + GST (if applicable), which covers travel and expenses. This does **not** include an artwork purchase budget.

The total budget includes, but is not limited to, supplies and materials, consultation, public engagement, travel, insurance, and design fees.

The curator is responsible for managing their project budget and will be paid based on deliverables as outlined in their Scope and Fee contract.

Blackfoot Curator: Indigenous public art

This retreat is offered to three artists, each from a different creative discipline. We encourage artists of all disciplines to apply; visual artists, writers, musicians, composers, jewelry makers, graphic artists, animators and more. This residency is self-directed. There is no requirement to share your work. You can use your time as you wish. Any materials your artistic practice requires you must bring with you.

  
**Multi-Disciplinary Residency Dates**

Monday, August 11- Friday, August 15

  

**Hospitality**

* A private bedroom (with writing desk) in the Farm House
* A shared bathroom
* Additional work spaces include: the Barn, the Milk House, the Bull Pen, front porch, sun room and more
* High speed fiber optic internet in the Farm House
* There is no wi-fi or cell reception in the Barn, the Milk House or the Bull Pen
* Three meals a day prepared by the resident chef
* A $500 honorarium per artist
* Depending on each artist’s circumstances and individual need, we can discuss reimbursement for RT Amtrak tickets and/or cost of gas up to $100 per artist

  

2025 Multi-Disciplinary Residency

Looking Glass Arts understands that some writers come to their craft as very young people, others begin writing as mature adults. For many reasons, including obligations and hardships, it can be challenging to consider writing as a career. 

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The Goldfinch Writers’ Retreat is a fully-funded residency established to support writers who demonstrate a unique commitment to their craft who have not made it a career and are not yet published by a major outlet.

  
**Goldfinch Writing Residency Dates**

Monday, August 4 - Friday, August 8

  

**Hospitality**

* A private bedroom (with writing desk) in the Farm House
* A shared bathroom
* Additional work spaces include: the Barn, the Milk House, the Bull Pen, front porch, sun room and more
* High speed fiber optic internet in the Farm House
* There is no wi-fi or cell reception in the Barn, the Milk House or the Bull Pen
* Three meals a day prepared by the resident chef
* Depending on each artist’s circumstances and individual need, we can discuss reimbursement for RT Amtrak tickets and/or cost of gas up to $100 per artist

  

2025 Goldfinch Writing Residency

We are delighted to support the next generation of filmmakers with the inaugural Vimeo Short Film Grant, presented by Nikon | RED.

  
We're supporting five filmmakers with money, mentorship, and equipment for their next short film project. 

**$30,000 cash grant**

To be put towards an original short film

**Camera loans**

Nikon and RED will loan camera equipment and provide product education to winners for use in their film production

**One-on-one mentorship sessions with jury members and the Vimeo Curation Team**

Sessions on scriptwriting, editing, film festival strategy, film financing, distribution, and more

**Promotion and distribution**

Online distribution with dedicated promotion on Vimeo

**In-person screenings**

Vimeo-hosted community screenings in NYC and LA

**Vimeo products**

* One-year Vimeo Standard Subscription

Short Film Grant

The Arts Council Korea (ARKO) has launched a new International Art Studio program for 2025 to promote global artistic activity and cultural exchange. The program will not only provide a platform for domestic and international visual artists to create and research, but also serve as a space to expand contemporary artistic discourse. We look forward to receiving applications from talented artists to share their creative vision and explore new possibilities.

  
Residency Period : Please apply for only one term

  
* 1st term : May 2025–September 2025 (5 Artists)
* 2nd term : September 2025–January 2026 (5 Artists)

**International artists** : Private studio (free of charge), accommodation (1,000,000 KRW/660 USD per month), round-trip airfare (up to 2,000,000 KRW/1,300 USD), stipend (500,000 KRW/330 USD per month), and production support (500,000 KRW/330 USD per month)

  
**Domestic artists** : Private studio (free of charge), production support (500,000 KRW per month)

  

ARKO Art Studio 2025

WELCOME TO THE SIGLUFJÖRÐUR COMICS FESTIVAL

  
Iceland’s first-ever (and probably the world’s northernmost) comics festival

  
The charming fishing town of Siglufjörður, Iceland’s northernmost town, is surrounded by mountains and steeped in history and creativity. It is in this picturesque fjord that we proudly host Iceland’s first-ever comics festival. Siglufjörður holds a special place in the heart of Icelandic culture for many reasons, including serving as the birthplace of Icelandic comics publication. It was here that the pioneering publishing house Siglufjarðarprentsmiðja made history in the 1930s as the first to publish comics in Icelandic, igniting a passion for visual storytelling that continues to thrive today all over Iceland.

  
Now history is being made yet again, as the Siglufjörður Comics Festival becomes Iceland’s first-ever comics festival. Proving that the world of comics thrives in the most unexpected of places, and makes the most unexpected of places thrive. Our festival is a celebration of comics: featuring an Artists’ Alley and Drink and Draw evening with live music, exciting exhibitions and lectures, cartoon screenings and more, there is something for everybody. Held across multiple locations in downtown Siglufjörður, you’ll get a chance to explore the world of comics while exploring the town itself.

  
Whether you’re an aspiring creator, comics enthusiast or just curious to know more about The 9th Art, this comics festival will surely be a unique experience!

  
We look forward to you joining us from both near and far for this special occasion.

siglufjörður comics festival

The immemorial cosmogonies that have come down to us all say that the origin of life is linked to water. Contemporary science confirms this. And yet, the mysteries of water cannot be exhausted. We now know that it has been omnipresent in the Universe since its very origins and that it played a decisive role in the formation of stars and galaxies. Outside our planet, the molecule has only been formally identified in its solid or gaseous states. This makes its presence in liquid form on Earth all the more remarkable. Our planet’s unique conditions allow water to trickle down. It is in its liquid form that it has been, and will continue to be, the primordial home of all life.

  
Every organism on Earth, from the simplest to the most complex, is “a creature of thirst”. Its unique properties, including capillarity, dissolving power, and permanent trickling make it, according to Gaston Bachelard calls it “the eye of the Earth” or “the organ of the world”. To the rhythm of its cycles, it passes from one state to another, crosses materials, connects elements, ravines mountains, draws plains, drains minerals, elevates plants, vitalizes animals, composes the climate, cooling the atmosphere and capturing carbon. Every drop of freshwater brings life to life, whether it comes from groundwater, wetlands, or surface water. Marshes, mangroves, ponds, lakes, springs, rivers and streams all play their part in biological existence.

  
Yet freshwater represents only a few hundredths of the water on Earth. In temperate zones, we live in the illusion of its abundance; in arid zones, we live in the knowledge of its scarcity. Water can only be shared. Anthropogenic pressure on water cycles, linked to intensive agriculture, industrial activity, urbanization, energy production and the production of most of our consumer goods, is seriously disrupting the balance. Extreme droughts and major floods, as well as chemical and plastic pollution, are the most visible indicators.

  
Our thirst for growth is compromising the only source capable of quenching our thirst. Aux pollutions In addition, inequalities of access – over a quarter of humanity is still deprived of drinking water – engender increasingly extreme conflicts. Thinking about a freshwater policy can only be done on a planetary scale, with a shared vision of its uses, and with a concern to repair and protect all the places where water is found: the aquifers and glaciers that store it, the wetlands that capture carbon, the mangroves that slow erosion, the rivers that drain life… More than a common good, a fundamental right of all living beings, today we need to consider it as a subject endowed with rights.

  
How can we envisage an ecology and politics of water without a poetics of water? Protecting water also means regenerating the imaginaries, narratives, representations and practices that condition the way it is shared and used in our lives and actions.

  
**The COAL Prize 2025 dedicated to freshwater is a call to fight against the drying up of our sensitivities towards it, to elevate it to its rightful place at the heart of general attention, to rehabilitate it in its symbolic and sacred prerogatives, to consider it as the ally and partner of our existences. It’s also a call to protect it, to play our part in restoring its natural cycles, to repair places that have been damaged, in solidarity with those, human and non-human, who are irreparably affected.**

– The winning artist of the COAL Prize receives an endowment of 12,000 euros and a creative residency at the heart of the Domaine de Belval, owned by the François Sommer Foundation, led by the scientific and educational teams of the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature and the Domaine de Belval.

  
– The winning artist of the Jury’s Special Prize receives a prize of 3,000 euros.

  
– The winning artist of the Ateliers Médicis receives a residency in Clichy-sous-Bois/Montfermeil, in association with the Bondy regional forest.

  
– The winning artist of the mention Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles/Paris aka Le vaisseau will receive 2,000 euros and be invited to exhibit at the Paris institution.

CALL FOR PROJECTS COAL PRIZE 2025: Freshwater

Brittany is one of the richest regions in the visual arts sector. Its large pool of artists is supported by a network of highly engaged professionals across the country. While there are plenty of opportunities for artists to produce, exhibit, or be collected, professionally developing their work internationally remains a very difficult step to take.

  
The Frac Bretagne and Art Norac have long been involved, through different and complementary histories, in the construction of an artistic landscape in Brittany, with the constant attention to bringing what our region contains in terms of talent and initiatives in resonance with what is happening elsewhere, at the national and international levels.

  
In 2020, they decided to join forces to support artists by creating the Prix du Frac Bretagne – Art Norac. The aim of this award is to support creators from the regional art scene in pursuing international experience, thereby fostering the professionalization of their careers beyond our borders.

  
Each year, a partner structure in Europe or around the world, ready to welcome the winning artist to produce a personal exhibition, is associated with the program. For this fifth edition, the international partner venue is the Röda Sten Konsthall in Gothenburg, Sweden.

**For the 4 Finalists:**

* **Exhibition** at Frac Bretagne, Rennes.
* **Financial Support**:
* Artist fees (conception, presentation, reproduction).
* Transport of artworks (France ⇄ Frac Bretagne).
* Travel expenses within France.
* Curatorial guidance.
* Critical text by an art critic.
* One-year access to "Artist for Ever" training platform.

  
**For the Winner (Lauréate):**

* **Solo Exhibition** at Röda Sten Konsthall, Sweden (2026).
* **Financial Package** (€3,460 total):
* €2,200 for exhibition conception.
* €1,200 for public presentation rights.
* €60 for reproduction rights.
* Up to **€3,000** for production costs.
* Round-trip travel.
* Living allowance and accommodation during setup.

  
**For the 3 Non-Winning Finalists:**

* **Corporate Residency** at Norac Foods (2026).
* **Grant (€1,500)** for project development, workshops, and final presentation.
* Material costs covered.
* Travel, meals, and lodging if needed.

  
This prize ensures professional exposure, financial support, and career development opportunities.

The Frac Bretagne – Art Norac Prize

Dear artists and designers,

  
Thank you for all your mails and for the overwhelming interest you show about ICEHOTEL, and about the process leading up to next winter. We can now confirm that we will build ICEHOTEL 36 in November 2025 and that the International Design Competition is open for application. We look forward to seeing your creative and innovative ideas. Below you will find all the information you need to submit a contribution to this year´s design competition for Icehotel 36.

  
We are confident that this decision will ensure the high quality experience ICEHOTEL is known for, and will preserve the tradition of working with art and design by international professionals.

  
Jukkasjärvi is located on the shore of the Torne river, 17 kilometers outside Kiruna. The name comes from a Sámi word that roughly translates to “meeting place by the water”. With its impressive length of 520 kilometers, the Torne river runs from the ancient mountains in the west down to the coast in the east, where it flows out into the Bay of Bothnia. As the largest of Sweden’s four national rivers it is rare – indeed, unique. One of the last untouched rivers in Europe. A wild river. It’s the Torne River that provides Icehotel with its ice in winter – and in the summer when the hotel melts, the water returns to its source. For us the natural beauty and unique story of each individual block of ice provides inspiration that can never be found in artificially frozen ice. Weather in Jukkasjärvi in November and December can be extremely cold with temperatures reaching below -30° C.

Artists' honorarium:

* a one time payment of SEK 36 200, total for a suite with one (1) participant (excl 25% VAT)
* a one time payment of SEK 49 400, total for a suite with two (2) participants (excl 25% VAT)
* a copyright fee of 1940 SEK/ participant (excl 6 % VAT)

  
Travel reimbursement:

* up to but not exceeding SEK 4 000/ participant, for Swedish residents
* up to but not exceeding SEK 7 000/ participant, for European residents
* up to but not exceeding SEK 15 000/ participant, for non-European residents

  
In addition, Icehotel will cover accommodation (shared) and full board during your stay in Jukkasjärvi (until Dec. 13th 2024).

  
Icehotel will provide a “basic-kit” of tools and warm clothes, but artists are encouraged to bring their own equipment to satisfy any special need they might have.

ICEHOTEL 36 –  International Design Competition

Artist's books receive little support, both financially and in terms of distribution, despite the prominent place these works occupy in the history of art and in the careers of creators. This is why ADAGP – the French society for the collection and distribution of copyright in the field of visual arts – and SGDL – the Société des Gens de Lettres – have launched a creation grant intended to encourage the realization of artist's book projects. **Thus, the Arcane grant is a grant for the design and production of an artist's book bringing together a visual artist and a written author.**

The winning project will receive €9,000.

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