Awards - General
Awards - Ceramics
Awards - Jewellery
Awards - Textiles
Awards - International
Artist in Residencies - International
Artist in Residencies - Ceramic
Exhibition Opportunities
Awards - General
Artists to Antarctica Programme
This Programme is open to applications from serious scholars of the humanities including writers, illustrators, musicians, photographers,
sculptors, choreographers and anyone who beleives their art fits the criteria.
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Montana Wearable Art Awards - Nelson
06 May 2002 - entry forms due
23 June 2002 - garments due
Categories: seven sections - each section has $3,500 prize money. Additional supreme and special awards. Approximately NZD$60,000 total prize pool.
Open to both national and international designers. Entry forms can be obtained by calling 03 548 9299 or by checking out our extensive website.
Write to: P.O. Box 9037, Annesbrook, Nelson.
Email
Website
Norsewear Art Award - Waipukerau
Entries close March each year
Categories: Painting, Ceramics/Glass, Wood/Fibre
The winner of each catagory receives $4,000 with up to nine certificates of merit each worth $250
Contact: P O Box 37, Waipukerau, Hawkes Bay
Ph: 025 221 3761
Website
Book Craft Competition
Annual bookbinding competition for Ass. of Book Craft members.
All books then exhibited at Auckland Public Library mid Oct each year.
Contact: Elizabeth Steiner
P O Box 60026
Titirangi, Auckland
Fleece - Design Award and Fashion Parade
July - 2002
To encourage crafts people, designers and artists to create garments, furnishings,
and art forms, using yarns, fiber, leather, fur, bone, and stone that are
available in New Zealand and overseas.
Entries must be at least 90% natural fibres.
Sponsored Awards to the value of $15,000
Contact: Fibre and Fleece Trust, PO Box 168, Opotiki, Bay of Plenty
Website
Hermanans Art Award - Sydney
Big awards for works of excellence, unusual and provocative design linked only by their association to shoes!
Entries for 2001 have closed, but to find out about future awards contact:
Harmanns Art Award, P O Box 1235, Mornington, VIC 3931, Australia.
Email:souci@arawak.com.au
NCC Art Award
NCC Art Award - Christchurch.
For artworks using secondary materials.
Sponsered by NCC, with further support from Recovered
Materials Foundation and the Canterbury Employers Chamber of Commerce.
First prize: $7,500,
Four merit prizes: $1,000,
People's prize $500
Entries close April 2002
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The Commonwealth Arts & Craft Awards
The Commonwealth Arts and Craft Awards is a biennial award sponsored by the Commonwealth Foundation. Ten awards are made to crafts people and artists between the age of 22 and 35. Closing dates end of October.
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Awards - Ceramics
Portage Ceramics Awards
Premier Award $10,000
Merit Award $3,000
Emergent Artist Award $2,000
Waitakere City Artist Award $1,000
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Norsewear Art Award - Waipukerau
March of every year
Categories: Painting, Ceramics/Glass, Wood/Fibre
The winner of each catagory receives $4,000 with up to nine certificates of merit each worth $250
Contact: P O Box 37, Waipukerau, Hawkes Bay
Ph: 025 221 3761
Website
Awards - Jewellery
'Contemporary Wearables'
Bi-annual Jewellery Art Award and Exhibtion
First prize - $5000
Second prize - $3000
$7000 allocated for acquisitions
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The Gold Award - Jewellery
Valued at NZ$10,000.
Hosted by the Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt.
Funded by the Thomas Foundation, Australia
Applications due 26th October 2001
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Awards - Textiles
Quilt Awards
Both national and international awards are regularly listed on the National Quilters Association's website.
NANZQ website
Norsewear Art Award - Waipukerau
March of each year
Categories: Painting, Ceramics/Glass, Wood/Fibre
The winner of each catagory receives $4,000 with up to nine certificates of merit each worth $250
Contact: P O Box 37, Waipukerau, Hawkes Bay
Ph: 025 221 3761,
Website
Montana Wearable Art Awards - Nelson
06 May 2002 - entry forms due
23 June 2002 - garments due
Categories: seven sections - each section has $3,500 prize money. Additional supreme and special awards. Approximately NZD$60,000 total prize pool.
Open to both national and international designers. Entry forms can be obtained by calling 03 548 9299 or by checking out our extensive website.
Write to: P.O. Box 9037, Annesbrook, Nelson.
Email
Website
Fleece - Design Award and Fashion Parade
July - 2002
To encourage crafts people, designers and artists to create garments, furnishings,
and art forms, using yarns, fiber, leather, fur, bone, and stone that are
available in New Zealand and overseas.
Entries must be at least 90% natural fibres.
Sponsored Awards to the value of $15,000
Contact: Fibre and Fleece Trust, PO Box 168, Opotiki, Bay of Plenty
Website
World Quilt Competition
Catogories: Best of World, Traditional
Design, Innovative Design, Best of Country.
Contact: Bernina New Zealand Ltd, PO Box 30673, Lower Hutt,
Email
Art of Stitch
An International Open Exhibition
Slide entries by June 26th bi-annually.
Work in any media stitched, or derived from stitch. Organised by the Embroiderer’s Guild of the UK in
association with Coats Crafts.
Contact: Embroiderers Guild, Apt. 41 Hampton Court
Palace, Surrey KT8 9AU, UK Website
The World Competition of Arts - Kanazawa
A Japanese biennial competition held
in September. Categories include weaving, papercraft,
dolls, leatherwork, dyeing and others.
No entry fees. International jury of four and
four very substantial prizes.
Website
Awards - International
Excellence in Craft Awards
AU$15000 in prizes. Mounted by The City of Redcliffe (Brisbane, QLD)
Categories in ceramic, textile and wood.
Entries close 3 August 2001.
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2nd Cheong Ju International Craft Competition Korea. Oct 5 - 21, 2001. Open to all contemporary crafts.
Theme: "The Breath of Nature. 15 Prizes US$1,000 - US$20,000. No registration fee. Slide submission by July 2nd 2001.Email
Website/entry forms
Annual October International Competition -
$5000 in prizes. Juried by slides. Open to all media. Entries close 14th July yearly.
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Artist in Residencies - International
International Residencies
Creative New Zealand calls regularly for applications from New Zealand visual artists for international residencies.
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Printmaking in California
Annual Printmaking fellowship. Six months residency, $1000 cash award, and an exhibition.
Kala Art Institute
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International Residency - Visual Arts
I-Park Artists Community.
P.O.Box 124
East Haddam CT 06423
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Women's Studio Workshop
Residency in New York
Fellowships are available for a variety of media.
Contact: Women's Studio Workshop
Box 489, Rosendale NY 12472,
Ph: 845-658-9133
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Stewart House, Sydney
Stewart House on South Curl beach
has a program of residencies for a
period of ten weeks. Visual artists from all media and all stages of career
are invited to apply.
Stewart
House is a charity, a school and hospital for disadvantaged children.
Applications close November of each year.
Website
Artist in Residencies - Ceramic
The Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park, Japan
Artists in residency at The Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park, Japan.
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Women's Studio Workshop
Residency in New York.
Fellowships are available for a variety of medias including clay.
Contact: Women's Studio Workshop, Box 489, Rosendale NY 12472,
Ph: 845-658-9133,
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Exhibition Opportunities
Wood
Contemporary Wood Exhibition
October 2001. Submit up to 5 slides including dimentions, wood origins and price. Artist statement and cv required.
Deadline: July 9, 2001. Contact Sara Levine Petroff, A Show of Hands Contemporary Craft Gallery, 1016 Eglinton Ave. W,
Toronto, ON M6C 2C5. (416) 782-1696, fax (416) 782-1890,
Website
Textiles
Threads and Webs
Invitation to textile artists from around the world to create miniature works of
art (6" x 6") square/diamond shape, which reflect Marconi's use of a kite to raise his antenna. Entries
close end of Nov 2001. Contact: Sharon LeRiche, Gallery Coordinator, (709) 753-2749,
email
website
Material History - A Cultural Exploration in Fibre and Glass.
Entries required by Sept 9th, 2001. No entry fee, up to ten slides.
Write to: Starr Gallery,Jewish Community Center of Greater Boston, 333 Nahanton St,
Newton MA 02459 OR,Ph: 617-558-6484
2001 Fibre Competitition Exhibition
Works will be exhibited at Perc Tucker Regional Gallery in Townsville, North Qld from 9 - 25 November 2001.
Work completed in the last 2 years and must be original. Up to three pieces considered. Contact: Chris Jakku ph: Australia 07 4772 4386,
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Jewellery
2001 International Craft Exhibition
Itami, Japan. Theme: JEWELLERY. Work must be
original, never previously shown and for sale (max price 300,000 yen) 30% commission applies.
Work must be sent in a box 30 cm sq or less, weight 2 kg or less.
Closing date August 8th, 2001. Registration fee for up to 3 works - 8000 yen; student: 4,000 yen.
7 awards from 500,000 - 200,000 yen.
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Photography
International Photography Exhibition
Sept 2001
Open to all black and white or colour photographers.
More info contact:
Chinese Photographers Assn, 61 Hongxing
Hutong, Dongdan, Beijing 100005, China
Ph:86-10-65131859,
Email
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