RESIDENCIES
Tokyo, Japan: Artists invited to apply for International Creator Residency Program via Tokyo Wonder Site from 1/7-3/29. Deadline to apply: 8/2.
Lithuania: Nida Art Colony offers CURATED and INDEPENDENT 2 to 6-month Arts Residencies for invited or selected open call professional artists, designers, architects, curators, art critics and art researchers from Lithuania and around the world. Apply by 6/15 for Jaunary-May residencies.
FELLOWSHIPS/GRANTS
The Society of Architectural Historians’ prestigious H. Allen Brooks Travelling Fellowship will be offered for the first time in 2013 and will allow a recent PhD graduate or emerging scholar to study by travel for one year with a $50,000 grant. Apply by 10/1.
The Christianson Grant awards $2,500 – $10,000 to individuals, 18-28, who have arranged their own work abroad programs. Proposed programs must be at least six months in length and emphasize a work component. Application deadlines: March 15, July 15 & October 15
CREATIVE CONTESTS
2013 NatGeo Traveler Photo Contest now accepting entries until 6/30. Grand Prize wins 10-day Galápagos expedition for 2.
Aspiring Travel Photographers: Go on an assignment to Greenland from 8/26-9/6 with a NatGeo photographer in World Nomads’ 2013 Travel Photography Scholarship competition. Amateur photographers only, 18+. Enter by 7/12.
Creative Nonfiction and Arizona State University’s Global Institute of Sustainability are looking for remarkable (unpublished) true stories that illuminate and present the human side of environmental, economic, ethical and/or social challenges related to the state of the planet and our future. All essays submitted will be considered for publication in a special “Human Face of Sustainability” issue of Creative Nonfiction magazine. One writer will be awarded the $10,000 Walton Sustainability Solutions Best Creative Nonfiction Essay Award. Submit by 5/31.
The Cord Prize is an international contemporary art award established to support and acknowledge the practice of early and mid-career photographers. The award comprises an individual first prize of $10,000, second prize of $1,000 and third prize of $500. $30 entry fee; deadline to apply: 6/9.
Have a taste for travel? A passion for food? A talent for sharing life’s greatest moments? Then 2013 could be the year you help share the story of the people and place behind DaVinci Wine using your unique Storytelling abilities. Storytellers across four disciplines (Language Arts, Culinary Arts, Visual Arts, Documentarian) are strongly encouraged to apply for the chance to experience a week of world-class education, exploration, and entertainment, with a focus on all things Chianti. Apply for DaVinci Wine’s 2013 “A Course in Chianti” competition to win a week-long trip to Tuscany, Italy by 5/31.
Do you have great travel tips for New Mexico? Enter your “New Mexico True Story” in this contest from New Mexico Tourism Department to win the $5K grand prize or weekly gas card prizes.
