Week of March 15th, 2025
The Resource Roundup is a twice-monthly blog series highlighting new and current opportunities for artists and arts and culture organizations.
FREE Marketing EDUCATIONAL resource
Marketing Tools of the Trade
Thursday, April 10, 2025 · 12 - 1:30pm EST
Learn tips of the marketing trade, prioritizing social media and analytics. Presented by the NVLAA and facilitated by Sub Arts.
Co-founders Rachelle Etienne-Robinson and Stan “Substantial” Robinson of Substantial Art & Music will lead a workshop on marketing. Topics include prioritizing social media networks and management tools, leveraging analytics to grow your audience and engagement, and how to build both passive income and monetization for both visual and performing arts.
About the Presenters:
Substantial Art & Music, LLC (SAM) is a multimedia organization that provides consulting services to the visual and performing arts community. SAM was founded in 2017, by husband-and-wife duo Stan “Substantial” Robinson and Rachelle Etienne-Robinson. Together they provide design and consulting services to emerging and established independent artists, entrepreneurs, and organizations. SAM offers professional advice and guidance through consultations, workshops, and webinars. Additional services include graphic design and special events. SAM has facilitated workshops at Amazon headquarters in Seattle, Washington, the Hawaii State Art Museum, Pratt Institute, and multi-genre conventions. SAM events have been featured on WTOP, Washington Informer, and Fox 5 DC.
https://www.subartandmusic.com/
Extended! art 180 seeking bike-inspired artwork for group show
ART 180 is looking for submissions from artists of all mediums and levels are encouraged to submit work inspired by the bike—its form, function, and the deeper meanings and cultural, personal connections it holds.
Submit visual, audio, kinetic, textual, sculptural works that explore 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝘽𝙞𝙠𝙚 as a force for equity, independence, sustainability, and resistance. We want to see your vision!
Submissions close March 17. No fee for entry. Selected artists must arrange delivery of their work to the gallery.
The exhibition will open on Friday, April 4th and run until April 21st.
Please email Jade Dickinson, jade@art180.org, if you have any questions about the open call.
ART wORKS mONTHLY aLL mEDIA sHOW
The monthly All Media Show is a focal point of all Art Works’ openings. It is a juried show with cash prizes for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place. The show is open to all artists and all mediums.
Every month there is a different juror who is a professional artist, art educator or curator. There is a small entry fee for each submission. You may submit up to 3 entries each month. If you join the gallery, the entry fee is discounted.
The work must be for sale and your original art. Prints and giclee are not permitted. Photography is permitted, mixed media, paintings, sculpture, pottery, clay work, jewelry, etc.. Works on paper need to be framed. Simple frames are the best choice.
Entry fees are $15 per entry. (Gallery Members and Art Works Studio Artists are $9 per entry.)
The art will hang in the gallery for about a month. Gallery commission is 40%.
Click here for more information.
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Spring 2026 Mt. San Angelo Residency Application Open
The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA) provides time and space for national and international writers, visual artists, and composers of talent and promise to bring forth their finest works, because the arts are vital, diversity is a strength, and creativity is essential.
Selected artists come to VCCA’s Mt. San Angelo in Amherst, Virginia or the Moulin à Nef in Auvillar, France for intense periods of creative work, free from the distractions of day-to-day life. During residencies lasting anywhere from a week to two months, VCCA Fellows enjoy private studios, private bedrooms, and meals. Whether sequestered in the rolling foothills of Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains or on the banks of the Garonne River in Southwest France, VCCA Fellows can work in concentrated solitude, then re-energize in the company of other artists.
VCCA Fellows are selected by peer review on the basis of professional achievement or promise of achievement in their respective fields. Panelists for each discipline and genre undergo periodic review and rotate regularly to ensure that VCCA admission decisions are guided by high caliber artists who represent a diversity of styles and tastes.
Deadline: May 15th, 2025
Click here for more information and to apply.
VISARTS ANNUAL ARTIST + WRITER RESIDENCY ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS
The Visual Arts Center of Richmond (VisArts) invites visual artists and writers to apply for the organization’s 11-month residency.
Three visual artists and one writer will be invited to spend the year at VisArts (September 1 – July 31) making new work which will be included in a group exhibition and reading at VisArts midway through the residency.
Click here to for more information.
Application deadline: March 31, 2025 at 7:59pm
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.
studio space available at artexchange in petersburg
Looking for affordable studio space?
The arteXchange collective in historic Old Towne Petersburg has studio space available.
Each studio is 100 square feet with a lockable door, 24-hour access, shared restrooms, lounge, retail space, and internet access.
All utilities are included. Flexible leasing options available.
Come be a part of a growing Petersburg! Create art, exchange ideas, make change at arteXchange!
Learn more at artexchangepva.com.
rICHMOND rEGION tOURISM — SPECIAL EVENT INCUBATION GRANT
Fueling Innovation & Growth for New Events in the Richmond Region
Richmond Region Tourism is pleased to launch the inaugural Special Event Incubation Grant funded by the Tourism Improvement District. The Special Event Incubation Grant is a unique funding opportunity open to any entity planning a new special event in the Richmond region.
To qualify for the grant, the special event must:
- Be a new special event, a special event that’s within its first three years of existence, or a newly created ancillary event that is designed to enhance an existing event.
- The special event must attract at least 25% of its attendees from outside a 50-mile radius of the Richmond area, with those attendees staying for at least one night.
Applicants can request up to $5,000, which will be reimbursed post-event for expenses directly related to the event. See attached grant application for more details and on reimbursable event expenses.
Click here to view more information.
Click here to view application.
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.