Spring 2022 Plyspace Artist Residency Applications are now open. Apply by July 1. Click the above graphic to learn more.

PlySpace Artist Residency Accepting Applications

PlySpace is an artist-in-residence program in Muncie, Indiana, that is dedicated to offering visual artists, writers, performers, designers, and other creative individuals time and space to investigate and pursue their own practices. Additionally, it serves as a platform for experimentation and provocation by catalyzing conversation and collaboration with various Muncie communities. PlySpace facilitates opportunities for residents to engage with the public through partnership and programming that is tailored to their area of interest. PlySpace is funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.

The Spring 2022 Residency Term Application is now open, with a deadline of July 1, 2021 at 11:59 PM. All applications are submitted here. 

Click here for more information about this opportunity. 

The author of the blog post documenting a moment during COVID-19 quarantine, painting in progress. Photo by Zoë Lintzeris.

How Processing COVID-19 as an Artist Transformed My Arts in Health Practice

Excerpt from a blog post by Zoë Lintzeris for Americans for the Arts

No one living in New York last spring will forget the tension and the morbidity that enveloped the city when COVID-19 hit. In that period, all I heard were sirens and birds—an eerie silence for a metropolis that “never sleeps.”

My roommates and I fully dealt with contracting the virus that April—from extreme fatigue and chest pressure to headaches, fever, and the loss of taste and smell. In this milieu, I was attending virtual classes for my Arts in Health graduate certificate program, and observing my savings dwindle as work contracts and opportunities disappeared.

While my body physically healed, feelings of uncertainty and anxiety overpowered me. Some days were an absolute struggle, but thankfully, I knew I wasn’t alone in my reaction and circumstances as many of my friends and peers were down and out. Even though all my work was canceled—including my first invitation to curate and co-produce a show in Manhattan — I knew I had to release what I was feeling.

Read the remainder of the blog post here. 

Hancock Health Seeks Fabric, Visual Artists to Create Head Scarves Designs with Cancer Patients

Hancock Health, in collaboration with Well Done Marketing, seeks a Central Indiana-based artist skilled in fabric art or visual art to provide a hands-on arts experience for up to four Hancock Health patients who have completed their oncology treatment. Candidates must provide a portfolio of work and demonstrate a background in or previous experience in art therapy and/or teaching adult students of any ability. The selected artist will receive up to a $2,000 stipend ($500 per participating patient) plus the cost of materials. The project must be completed between August and October 2021. Applications are due Wednesday, June 30, 2021.

Learn more here. 

Members of a previous On-Ramp cohort gather at the workshop. Click the image to learn more about On-Ramp and the application.

On-Ramp Creative Entrepreneur Accelerator Application Deadlines Approaching

Applications for On-Ramp will be closing soon! The On-Ramp program teaches entrepreneurship to artists and creative professionals by focusing on a portfolio career, 10 key business concepts, and a community-engaged artistic practice. Applications for the Marion On-Ramp are due June 16, and the applications for Munster, Bloomington, Huntington, and New Albany are due June 24.

Apply Here

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