residency opportunity: ArtCRAFT @ Empire of Dirt with Emily Neufeld and Marnie Temple
Call for Applications Deadline: May 8, 2026.
Three early career artists will be selected for a one week residency at Empire of Dirt during the week of August 8 to 15, 2026.
What’s the residency about?
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This residency is for earlier career artists who want to take their final artwork from nearly complete to ready for installation, or who want to learn how to consider the final installation at the beginning of a project.
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Learn techniques for installing your work and troubleshooting those details that really matter at the very end of the creation process.
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Have you been to an exhibition where the way the work attaches to the wall is more visible and glaring than the work itself? Have you made a small sculpture and don’t really want to put it on a plinth, but don’t have other ideas?
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This is a time research, exchange, and reflection in a rural space without the distractions of daily life, so bring ideas for a project you want to start or bring artwork that you need to finish.
What is offered:
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$300 travel stipend
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One week stay at EoD in your own live/work studio
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Four half days of skill sharing workshops with Emily and Marnie
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A quiet exchange with nature
About the Facilitators Emily Neufeld and Marnie Temple
Emily Neufeld’s practice investigates place and the layers of memory and psychic history that accumulate in our material world. She is committed to examining her own Mennonite and Scottish settler colonial histories in understanding her relationship to this place as Indigenous land. She received her BFA from ECUAD in 2013. Emily is the installation technician at Gordon Smith Gallery.
Marnie Temple’s practice explores her lived experiences in relation to the aftermath of the Transatlantic Slave Trade. She is a Black biracial person who grew up in the Prairies before settling in the Kootenays and co-operating EoD with her partner. She recently received her MFA from ECUAD in 2025. Her experience with building materials comes from her work at the residency and the creation of the buildings at EoD.
How to Apply
Please send the following to [email protected] by Friday, May 8, 2026.
1. A Statement of Interest (250 words max). Please describe your practice, state why this residency would be impactful for you, and what you hope to glean by visiting Empire of Dirt.
2. A short (50-100 word) biography describing your relevant background.
3. Portfolio (10 samples of work) compiled in one PDF file, and/or link to a website to show past work or projects.
https://www.empireofdirtresidency.ca/artcraft
call for entry: Oak Spring Fellowship for Distinction in Fine Crafts & Design
Announcing the inaugural Oak Spring Fellowship for Distinction in Fine Crafts & Design.
Generously supported by Tiffany & Co., this fellowship supports early-career makers and designers across disciplines such as fiber and textiles, wearable designs, woodworking, ceramics, jewelry, furniture design, and more.
The award includes a $10,000 grant and a 2-5 week residency at Oak Spring Garden Foundation.
🗓️Apply by May 31, 2026 Full details here.
call for entry: Convergence, a juried ceramic exhibition through Clay Festival 2026.
This juried ceramic exhibition invites artists working in clay to share work that reflects the meeting of many voices, ideas, and approaches within contemporary ceramic practice. Clay carries traces of place, memory, culture, and imagination, and in the hands of different artists it becomes something endlessly adaptable. Convergence celebrates the moment where varied perspectives, forms, and materials come together in one shared space. Rather than centering on a single aesthetic or narrative, the exhibition welcomes a broad range of work, allowing unexpected relationships and quiet dialogues to emerge between objects. Through this gathering of ceramic works, the exhibition creates a landscape where difference is not only present, but essential to the beauty of the whole.
Jurors: Bradley Klem, Stephanie Seguin, Penelope Van Grinsven
WHERE: Light Art Space
209 West Broadway, Silver City, NM 88061 https://lightartspace.com/
WHEN: June 4 – 20, 2026
Submission deadline: May 10, 2026 11:59 MST
call for artists: Cultivate Art Commons
Cultivate Art Commons welcomes emerging and mid-career artists—local, national, and international—from diverse cultural communities, working across all media, to apply. Selected exhibitions will be presented in 2027 and early 2028.
As a non-profit artist-run centre in Katarokwi/Kingston, we’re dedicated to supporting contemporary artists through equity-rooted, community-engaged practices. We’re looking for proposals that explore a wide range of aesthetic approaches and engage with conceptual, formal, socio-political, and cultural ideas.
We welcome submissions for:
🎨 Solo + group exhibitions
🎭 Performances
🌀 Curatorial projects
🤝 Collaborations
We’re also excited to share an update: as part of our commitment to being member-led, members now have access to a dedicated submission stream—with one exhibition selected per cycle (Fall, Winter, Spring/Summer) from this pool.
Not a member yet? We encourage you to join while applications remain open—though we warmly welcome submissions from non-members as well.
Learn more + apply: www.cultivateartcommons.org
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Craft Ontario – Call For Exhibition Proposals for 2027
Deadline: Friday, May 22, 2026 at 11:59 PM EST
Craft Ontario is currently seeking proposals for solo and two-person exhibitions to take place in the new Craft Ontario Gallery, 401 Richmond St West, Suite 108, Toronto, in the 2027 calendar year.
Craft Ontario is devoted to the support, advocacy and promotion of Ontario craft and craft artists. Our services and programs provide support for craft artists at all levels of their careers from emerging to established, while raising awareness of, providing access to, and growing appreciation for their work.
Craft Ontario welcomes submissions in all craft media by artists at any stage of their career (emerging, mid or established). Submissions of both existing work and projects that have not yet been realized will be considered.
Craft Ontario provides curatorial support, installation assistance, insurance, and pays artist fees in line with CARFAC (Canadian Artists’ Representation / Le Front des artistes canadiens) guidelines.
If you have any questions about this call for entry or application process please contact [email protected].
In preparing your proposal, please review the gallery floor plan and images. Images of past exhibitions are also available here.
Conditions
- Craft Ontario has updated our Membership Structure, including Program eligibility. Please note that you no longer need a Maker Membership to apply for an exhibition at Craft Ontario. Non-members will need to pay a $10 Admin Fee to apply and, if your exhibition application is successful, you (and your co-applicant, if applicable) will be required to purchase a Maker Membership prior to your exhibition. If you have questions about membership please contact Member Relations & Program Manager Elycia SFA at [email protected].
- There are no residency requirements to apply (i.e. you do not need to be a resident of Ontario or Canada to apply).
- Applications will only be accepted through this online form (see below for more details). Hard copy or email submissions will not be accepted.
- **NEW**: No AI-generated works will be accepted, nor should applicants use AI to generate material for the exhibition proposal.
Exhibition Information
- The Exhibitor will be responsible for shipping or delivering the work to the Gallery and for insuring the work while in transit.
- Craft Ontario will insure all items for theft and damage while on the Gallery premises.
- Any work included in the exhibition that is available for sale (at the artist’s discretion) will be sold at Craft Ontario’s usual consignment split of 50%.
- Selected artists will receive an artist fee in line with CARFAC (Canadian Artists’ Representation / Le Front des artistes canadiens) guidelines.
Selection Criteria
Craft Ontario will consider the following when reviewing proposals:
- Quality of work
- Quality of proposal
- Career Level – Craft Ontario aims to show artists at all levels, from emerging through to established
- Disciplines – Craft Ontario aims to show a breadth of material practices
- Identity – Craft Ontario considers the Ontario Arts Council and the Toronto Arts Council’s priority groups
- Suitability of proposal to gallery space
- Access for members that have not shown in the space before or recently
Submission Requirements
- Applicant Information
- Contact information
- Website (if applicable)
- Career level
- Artist Bio (max. 500 words),
- CV (max. 2 pages, max. 2MB, PDF only)
- Voluntary Self-Identification
- Co-Applicant Information (if applicable)
- Same as for primary applicant above
- Exhibition Proposal
- Exhibition Description (max. 500 words) – Clearly describe the project you are proposing in concrete terms, including approximate number of pieces, scale, materials, and themes. Is this work existing, new (not yet produced) or a combination thereof? You do not need to propose an exhibition design unless it is integral to the work.
- Images – 5-10 images showing examples of works to be presented, or of related work (max. 3MB each)
- Non-members only: $10 Admin Fee payable by credit card or PayPal
https://craftontario.com/blogs/participate/call-for-exhibition-proposals-for-2027
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