Week of February 1st, 2025
The Resource Roundup is a twice-monthly blog series highlighting new and current opportunities for artists and arts and culture organizations.
CUltureworks opens 2025 annual grant application
The first component of the 2025 Annual Grant, the Letter of Intent (LOI), is open now through February 28th at 5:00 p.m. EST.
For more information on eligibility, grant guidelines, and frequently asked questions, please click here.
Richmond Region Tourism Marketing Summit
Richmond Region Tourism is providing an opportunity to strengthen your or your organization’s marketing capacity with a free marketing summit.
Selling the Richmond Region: A Destination Marketing Summit
Wednesday, February 19, 2025
8am–12pm
Greater Richmond Convention Center
Get ready for an information-filled morning hosted by the Richmond Region Tourism marketing team!
We'll share insight and helpful tips on a variety of topics including social media strategies, graphic design hacks, creativity on a budget, campaign building, media and influencer relations, and more!
Deadline to register: February 11, 2025
The Black History Museum & Cultural Center of Virginia — Call for Virginia Artists for New Exhibition
The Black History Museum & Cultural Center of Virginia is inviting Virginia-born or Virginia-based artists to participate in BHMVA’s upcoming exhibition “Bodies of Labor: Hands That Built a Nation” which will open April 2, 2025.
This is a call for painters, sculptors, illustrators, photographers, traditional printmakers, fabric artists, glass, and wood artisans, and is open to visual artists working in oil, acrylic, watercolor, film, paper, mixed media, fabric, glass, wood, stone, clay, pencil, and charcoal. Much like our ancestors, the options are limitless.
This is an invitation for artists to showcase perspectives of African Americans and labor over the 400+ years of inhabiting this continent. Depiction of labor through the artist’s lens will reflect the hopes, dreams and fortitude of utilizing their talents, aspirations and creativity.
Pre-Submission Review Date: Feb 15, 2025
Click here for the full announcement and details.
Virginia department of wildlife resources “restore the wild” artwork competition
Artists are welcome to create and submit an original piece of art (not photography) for the 2025 Restore the Wild Artwork Competition! Artwork for Restore the Wild should reflect Restore the Wild’s mission to restore and create natural habitats vital to the survival of Virginia’s wildlife.
For more information, click here.
Deadline for Artwork Submission: Tuesday, February 18th
Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation grant application open to non-profit organizations
Grants from the Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation are distributed in four focus areas (human needs, environmental stewardship, education, community vitality) and are limited to organizations defined as tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the IRS code.
Grant applications will be accepted online during two annual grant cycles, one in the spring and one in the fall.
Most grant awards range from $1,000 to $15,000, while higher amounts may be awarded when a program is an exceptional fit.
For more information, click here.
Fan arts stroll accepting vendor registrations
The Fan Arts Stroll is an opportunity to meander through the Fan to enjoy an array of art, music, happy crowds, and delicacies from local food vendors.
Registration opens Feb 1 for artists, vendors, musicians, food trucks, and home hosts on the Stroll path. Click here to register.
$75 early bird - Feb 1 through Mar 15
$125 Mar 16 through April 1
Registration closes April 1.
VIrginia Commission for the Arts Touring and Teaching Artist Rosters
Did you know the Virginia Commission for the Arts offers two Artist Rosters to support performing and teaching artists throughout the state?
Discover the Touring Artist Roster and Teaching Artist Roster today! If you’re a high-quality artist eager to share your craft with audiences and learners across Virginia, the Artist Roster could be the perfect opportunity for you. Virginia-based artists are invited to apply. Applications will be available in the VCA's online grant system starting April 1. The deadline for submission is June 15, 2025, by 5:00 p.m. EST.
For application guidelines, criteria, or more information, reach out to Artist Engagement Coordinator Lorraine Bruner at lorraine.bruner@vca.virginia.gov.
Find the VCA on Instagram or Facebook at @virginiaarts
Firehouse theatre seeking communications manager
The Firehouse Theatre seeks a creative, strategic, collaborative, dedicated, and enthusiastic full-time Communications Manager, starting on/around March 1st, 2025. Ideal candidates should have training and/or related professional experience in marketing and/or social media promotion, and be excited to work in the highly collaborative and unpredictable environment of professional theatre.
For more information, click here.
Please outline your qualifications and express why this position is of interest to you in a brief cover letter to Producing Artistic Director Nathaniel Shaw at nathaniel@firehousetheatre.org. Please include two references and attach your resume or CV. Letters of interest are due no later than February 7th, 2025.
Questions or concerns regarding non-CultureWorks opportunities should be directed to the organizing entities.
Have an opportunity to share?
Contact Community Engagement Strategist Calie Bain at calie@richmondcultureworks.org.