Category: artists

2026 MoAD Emerging Artists Program — Applications due Oct. 31, 2025

Call for Artists: 2026 Emerging Artists Program (EAP)

Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD)

San Francisco, CA

The Emerging Artists Program (EAP) reflects the Museum of the African Diaspora’s commitment to supporting, exhibiting, and amplifying the work of Black artists living and working in the Bay Area. As a leading contemporary art museum focused on the global African Diaspora, MoAD is proud to incubate innovative practices and foster long-term artistic growth.

We are now accepting applications for the 2026 cycle. Four artists will be selected to present solo exhibitions in MoAD’s Salon space and will each receive a $10,000 award along with comprehensive institutional support.

Program Overview

Incubation

Selected artists will receive:

Direct mentorship and guidance from MoAD’s curatorial and exhibitions team

Writing and design support for wall text, labels, and marketing materials

Access to career-sustaining professional development workshops led by artists, curators, scholars, gallerists, and financial experts

Exhibition

Each artist will present a two-month solo exhibition in MoAD’s Salon, a multipurpose space used to showcase stellar artwork as well as for deep engagement through public programs, workshops, and community events

Artists will be given up to three days each for installation and deinstallation

All artists will work with the same set of institutional tools and resources provided by MoAD

Public Programming + Publicity

MoAD will organize and support at least one public program (e.g. artist talk, conversation, or workshop) for each exhibition

Artists will receive dedicated marketing and press support from MoAD’s communications team

Additional Award Opportunity

One of the four exhibiting artists will receive the EAP Excellence Award, a $25,000 grant awarded in recognition of outstanding work

Application + Selection Timeline

Application Deadline: October 31, 2025 Final Selections Made: December 15, 2025 Finalists Announced: January 5, 2026 First Exhibition Opens: March 20, 2026

Apply via SlideRoom: https://moadsf.slideroom.com/#/permalink/program/84758

Terms & Conditions

Applications must be submitted through the official SlideRoom portal.

Submission does not guarantee selection.

MoAD will insure exhibited artworks up to a maximum of $15,000, from delivery through deinstallation.

Artists are responsible for shipping, delivery, and retrieval of artworks.

All non-installation-based works must arrive ready to hang.

Artists must be on-site for both installation and deinstallation, which may take up to three days each.

Artworks left at MoAD more than 30 days after exhibition close will be considered abandoned.

Artists release MoAD from liability for damage or injury during transportation.

Visitors may photograph artworks for non-commercial use. Artists grant MoAD permission to photograph and use images for marketing, publicity, and educational purposes.

Please note: The Salon is a multi-use space. Food and drink may be served, and the space may be rented for private events during or after museum hours.

For questions or additional information, please contact: exhibitions@moadsf.org

We look forward to reviewing your proposal and continuing to build a vibrant future for Black art in the Bay Area.

Apply Now

This program contains:

  • Forms (1)
  • Media (up to 10)

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Forgotten Histories of New Deal Art in Florida — Living New Deal Webinar (Mar. 25, 2025, 5PM PST/8PM EST)

Forgotten Histories of New Deal Art in Florida

Tuesday, March 25, 5:00PM PST/8:00PM EST

Here is the link to register for the webinar: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/forgotten-histories-of-new-deal-art-in-florida-tickets-1257489247189?aff=oddtdtcreator

Description:

As one of the largest and oldest states in the American South, Florida, the Sunshine State, is a powerhouse of industry, leisure, entertainment and politics in the twenty-first century. It is also crucial for understanding the diverse history of New Deal art and public works. This webinar describes how New Deal emergency relief and recovery programs impacted Florida, particularly programs that funded the construction of public space and public access to art.

Co-hosted by Dr. Mary Okin, Living New Deal’s Assistant Director and head of the Advocating for New Deal Art initiative, and Jeff Gold, Member of LND’s New York City Chapter, the webinar features Dr. Mary Ann Calo and Dr. Keri Watson in conversation with one another about their research into Florida’s New Deal history. The talks will center on confronting the complex legacies of New Deal public works and public art programs in Florida in the twenty-first century, and the challenges of researching this era of Floridian history, as both scholars reconstruct the regional diversity, range of local participants, and just how many of Florida’s New Deal projects survive.

Speakers:

Dr. Mary Ann Calo is the Batza Professor Emerita of Art and Art History at Colgate University where she taught courses on the art of the United states, Modern and Contemporary Art, and the Arts and Public Policy. She is the author of numerous publications on the critical and institutional contexts that shaped discourse on African American art in the interwar decades. Her recent book, African American Artists and the New Deal Art Projects (Penn State University Press, 2023), explores the African American community’s participation in the “projects” in terms of intersecting issues of race, access, and opportunity.  The book includes extensive archival research and new insights into the history of the Federal Art Project in Florida. 

Dr. Keri Watson is an Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Central Florida and a specialist in the history of American art. Her most recent book Florida’s New Deal Parks and Post Office Murals (History Press, 2024) introduces general audiences to the history of New Deal public works with a general audience, exploring the rich history of state parks and post offices built in Florida between 1931 and 1946 under the auspices of the Civilian Conservation Corps, Public Works Administration, Civil Works Administration, Works Progress Administration, and Treasury Section of Painting and Sculpture. Looking at Florida’s Depression-era parks and post offices in concert elucidates how the natural and built environments work together to constitute the cultural landscape and provides insight into the role of the federal government in Florida’s construction as an exotic and tropical paradise.

Jeff Gold, Living New Deal New York City Chapter 

Jeff Gold is an urbanist who has earned his living as an acquisitions editor, a partner at new media partnership JIA, and director of the Institute for Rational Urban Mobility (IRUM), an eco-transport nonprofit. He also chairs the steering committee of the Metro New York Health Care for All Campaign and serves on the board of the National Jobs for All Network. And he’s active in electoral politics at the local, state, and national level.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/forgotten-histories-of-new-deal-art-in-florida-tickets-1257489247189?aff=oddtdtcreator

“Pathways to Rochester Institute of Art: Art and Design Edition” — Academic Open House, Wed., Aug. 14, 2024, 1-2:30PM EST (via Zoom)

Pathways Art and Design Edition

Log into an “academic open house” to learn more about faculty career paths and opportunities within the Rochester Institute of Technology College of Art and Design (Rochester, NY, USA). RIT encourages historically underrepresented minority and women MFA or PhD candidates and graduates who are practicing artists, designers and photographers to register. This session is aimed at those interested in exploring a faculty role at RIT.

  • Learn about the College’s strategic plan and areas of growth
  • Get your job search questions answered and discover what search committees look for
  • Find out about anticipated or current faculty openings 
  • Understand expectations of incoming faculty
  • Hear from faculty and administrators about the culture and working environment at RIT 

Artists in the following disciplines represented within the College of Art and Design are invited to register:

3D Digital Design | Ceramics | Film and Animation | Fine Arts Studio | Furniture Design | Glass | Graphic Design | Illustration | Industrial Design | Interior Design | Medical Illustration| Metals and Jewelry Design | Motion Picture Science  | New Media Design | Photographic and Imaging Arts (Advertising/Fine Art/Photojournalism/Visual Media Options) | Photography and Related Media | Photographic Sciences | Studio Arts | Visual Arts-All Grades | Visual Communication Design.

Register here: https://bit.ly/PathwaystoRIT

Questions can be directed to: LOSOFR@RIT.EDU.


JOB OPPORTUNITY: Assistant Professor in 2D Studio Practices and Histories of African American Art, African Art, or African Diaspora Art—John Jay College/City University of New York (Application deadline: Jan. 8, 2023)

Information is here at: https://cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/assistant-professor-in-2d-and-african-american-artafrican-or-african-diaspora/FFB5504F9D1648D2B9618AAA0452F942/job/

“ONE PRESS, MANY HANDS: Diversity in the History of American Printing,” Oct. 25-27, 2019, University of Maryland (College Park)

Sign up for APHA’s first conference expressly devoted to the rich history of printing and publishing in America from diverse groups, with presentations that explore the intersections of printing history and the studies of Black, Jewish, and Latinx cultures, gender studies, and queer theory. Through lectures, panels, and workshops, participants will have the opportunity to engage with a critical exploration of the history of printing among America’s underrepresented communities.

REGISTER NOW! 

All are welcome; current APHA membership is not required for attendance. Please forward this e-mail to anyone you think might be interested in going. Registration fee: $150. Student rate: $100.

The conference this year has two keynote speakers: Kinohi Nishikawa, author of the 2018 book Street Players: Black Pulp Fiction and the Making of a Literary Underground; and the graphic designer and writer Colette Gaiter. Conference presentation subjects include: Spanish-language publishing in early 19th century New York; the construction of gender in early publishers’ bindings; slave labor in the print shop; the feminist possibilities of print; Fraktur and German nationalism in early American print culture; engravings and the illustrative renderings of skin color; hand-coloring in the production of 19th century Native American portraiture; and much, much, more.  

SEE FULL SCHEDULE HERE

APHA hopes to see you in College Park in October. Please don’t hesitate to contact them if you have any questions about the conference, or about APHA in general.  

Call for Applications from Recent MFAs and PhDs: Future Faculty Program at RIT (Deadline: May 15, 2019)

The Rochester Institute of Technology’s Future Faculty Career Exploration Program (FFCEP) is currently accepting applications for the class of 2019. This program is design for historically underrepresented minority scholars to explore potential faculty careers.

Participants will:

network with faculty, chairs, deans, and administration;

hold a job talk presentation on their research; and

learn more about the culture and values of the institution straight from RIT’s diverse faculty and students; and so much more.

The application deadline is Wed, May 15, 2019.

Please remember that you will need to upload four documents with your application:

  • CV
  • Cover letter that includes your diversity statement
  • Research statement (MFA scholars submit an artistic statement)
  • Teaching statement

The Future Faculty Career Exploration Program provides an opportunity to find out what it is like to be a faculty member at the Rochester Institute of Technology. This all-expenses paid program is an opportunity for historically underrepresented minority scholars, artists, and researchers to visit RIT for a prospective look at a faculty career. The program will take place September 25-28, 2019.

RIT has seen nearly 300 scholars participate in the program since its inception 15 years ago.  The feedback is amazing – the program helped to prepare them for the rigors of the job search, and also enlightened them to opportunities at RIT.

To learn more about the program and to apply click here.

 

New resource about artist Maud Sulter (1960-2008)

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Maud Sulter. Les Bijoux (The Jewels), 2002. Large-format, colour Polaroid photograph. Source here and discussed here.
There is a newly published website about the late, Scottish-Ghanaian artist and writer Maud Sulter:
The publishers of the site make this request:
“Please have a look round the site, there are lots of embedded links leading to more information on Maud’s exhibitions, publications and what’s happened in the past few years.
We need your help in circulating the website.  Please click, like and share the link with everyone who would be interested.”

Call for Author: essay on Carroll Parrott Blue

Carroll Parrott Blue, MFA
carrollpblue@hotmail.com

I am looking for an art scholar who specializes in late 20th and early 21st African American Art who is interested in contributing an introductory chapter on a 60-year review of the works of my work. As artist Carroll Parrott Blue, I am assembling my archive and am open to an interview by the author.

From the 1960s to the present, my work encompasses published written works, still photography, film, video, public art, digital media, digital stories, interactive multimedia, ARC GIS Story Maps, production notes and other materials associated from many of the productions.

The essay that will support the completed archival report should be roughly 6,000-8,000 words with notes and references included. The interview as a transcript will be separate. The main focus of the essay is on an overall or comprehensive analysis of the work. The author should be prepared to engage formal analysis, the history of the technological changes from analog to digital, race and gender theory, and biography.

JOB: Program of Art and Technology @ CalArts

Full Time Faculty Position MFA Art and Technology

The School of Art at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) invites applications for a full time faculty position in the Program of Art and Technology. The MFA in Art and Technology is a unique studio based program within an Institute that offers undergraduate and graduate programs in the performing, visual and musical arts.

The Art and Technology curriculum is centered on the student’s studio practice, creative research and an exchange of dialogue between peers, visiting artists and faculty. Technical instruction is offered in the creative use of computer programming, digital media and sound, immersive installation, interactive media and hybrid performance. This wide range of instruction is augmented with critiques, lectures and seminars that set out to challenge conventional ideas about what constitutes an art practice in the 21st century.

Requirements and Duties:

A cross-disciplinary studio practice is required, along with a significant record of exhibitions, the ability to engage in creative research and critical theory, art history and five years of professional experience using digital technology and software. At least three years teaching experience at the graduate level within the field of art and technology is expected.

Responsibilities include:
-The successful candidate will be expected to teach a full-time workload that is the equivalent of four (4) courses per semester in the Program in Art and Technology.
– Mentoring graduate students
-Conducting mid-residency and graduation reviews
-Participating in curricular planning, admissions review and assessment for the Art and Technology program
-Attendance at program, school and Institute events
-Sustaining a vibrant exhibition record and achievement in the field of art and technology
Qualifications

-Three (3) or more years teaching at the graduate level.

-An MFA or terminal degree in a field relevant to the position
How to Apply

To apply please submit the following:

-CV
– Letter of application (include teaching philosophy)
– Names and addresses of three references
– Work samples that exhibit a technical and creative use of technology within a contemporary art practice. These work samples should include a relevant combination of the following: published writing samples, relevant websites, up to ten digital images and/or five video excerpts no longer than three minutes each.
-Brief course proposals are also encouraged.

Please submit all media and forms to SlideRoom –

https://calartsfaculty.slideroom.com/#/permalink/program/41975

Review of applications will begin immediately, and will be considered until April 6, 2018

Equity & Diversity

CalArts is proud of its diverse student body and deeply committed to supporting the cultural and artistic aspirations of all its students. A commitment to increasing opportunities for low-income students and currently disenfranchised groups is necessary, as is the desire to work to support institutional goals of equity and diversity in an ongoing way. CalArts is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE).

Further Information

CalArts has a multidisciplinary approach to its studies of the arts through six schools: Art, Critical Studies, Dance, Film/Video, Music and Theater. CalArts encourages students to explore and recognize the complexity of the many aspects of the arts. It is supported by a distinguished faculty of practicing artists and provides its Bachelor and Master of Fine Arts students with the hands-on training and exposure necessary for an artist’s growth. CalArts was founded in 1961 and opened in 1969 as the first institution of higher learning in the United States specifically for students interested in the pursuit of degrees in all areas of visual and performing arts.

 

Residency (Orange Co., CA) for Artists and Art Historians–Apply now through Dec. 15, 2017

The 36 Chase & Barns Residency is extending its application deadline for all  interested art history/curatorial studies candidates.  The 36 Chase & Barns Residency offers spaces to up to three visual artists and one art history/curatorial studies candidate each term. 
We are still actively looking for strong applicants from diverse backgrounds, working in the areas of curatorial studies and arthistory research. We will continue to accept applications to fill this vacancy for the March- May 2018 residency until Friday, December 15th.  
Art historians and curatorial candidates of color and/or any applicants who are conducting research and writing criticism specifically addressing the many overlooked contributions of female artists, artists of color and artists from the LGBTQ communities are strongly encouraged to apply. 
We are no longer accepting applications from visual artists for the March- May 2018 residency term. Our next residency term will begin in July of 2018.
Click here to apply or go directly here.