Happy Friday y'all. If your weekend is reserved for working to get your work out there and applying for grants - I bet at least part of it is, (hopefully Darius' encouraging words were/are a good motivator) - I have good news! Kara's filled you in on the Emerging Photographer Fund (thank you Kara!) and I have two more upcoming opportunities:

1) LMCC's Workspace Residency Program's Open Call for Applications

Workspace is a studio residency program for emerging visual artists and writers focused on the creative process. Residents receive free studio space in Lower Manhattan for nine months, a modest one-time stipend (depending on funding), access to a community of peers, professional development in the form of weekly group and individual meetings with arts and literary professionals called Salon Evenings, and exposure to new audiences through presence on LMCC's website and public programs like the final Open Studio Weekend.

Workspace is open to emerging professional visual artists and writers working in a range of disciplines and genres.

Applications due April 9, 2009. Apply here.

2) Rhizome Commissions 2010

Rhizome awards grants to emerging artists for creation of new media art. By new media art, we mean projects that creatively engage new and networked technologies to works that reflect on the impact of these tools and media in a variety of forms. Commissioned works can take the final form of online works, performance, video, installation or sound art. Projects can be made for the context of the gallery, the public, the web or networked devices. Rhizome Commissions awards generally range from $1,000 to $5,000.

Applications due April 2, 2009. Apply here.

In the next couple days we'll also be making an announcement about the opportunities we offer photographers right here ...