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# Opportunities in December 2020
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/opportunities-december-2020/
- Published: 2020-12-05T00:03:45.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T15:15:51.000Z
- Description: From job opportunities to grants, fellowships, and open calls, a list of opportunities that artists, writers, and art workers can apply for this month.
- Author: Hyperallergic
- Tags: Opportunities, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-large, #Import 2025-11-24 09:08 (2019, 2020, part 3)

Hyperallergic’s monthly [Opportunities Listings](https://hyperallergic.com/tag/opportunities/) provide a resource to artists and creatives looking for grants and paid gigs to further their work. As the arts sector navigates the coronavirus pandemic, these paid opportunities for independent artists and cultural organizations are more important now than ever.

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## Grants & Awards

**Puffin Foundation**  
2021 Grant Cycle  
Applicants seeking funding for video/film and arts-related environmental projects should request application packets from Puffin by December 15 and postmark their completed applications by the 31st.  
Deadline: December 31, 2020 | [puffinfoundation.org](https://www.puffinfoundation.org/faqs/?ref=hyperallergic.com)

**Sculpture Space** 
**Roundabout Monumental Sculpture**  
Apply for approximately $50,000 to create a permanent installation for the city of Utica, NY honoring essential workers. Designs that include metal and stainless steel are highly encouraged.  
Application Fee: $25  
Deadline: December 31, 2020 | [uticasculpture.com](http://www.uticasculpture.com/?ref=hyperallergic.com)

**Virginia A. Groot Foundation** 
**2021 Grant**  
Each year the Foundation offers three grants ($10,000, $20,000, or up to $50,000) to artists at any stage of career development with exceptional talent and demonstrated ability in ceramic sculpture or sculpture.   
Application Fee: $5  
Deadline: February 1, 2021 | [virginiaagrootfoundation.slideroom.com](https://virginiaagrootfoundation.slideroom.com/?ref=hyperallergic.com#/Login)

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## Residencies, Workshops, & Fellowships

**Featured Opportunity** 
**Tulsa Artist Fellowship**  
The two-year place-based fellowship in Tulsa, Oklahoma awards stipends of $40,000 plus fully subsidized living and studio spaces to artists and art workers of any medium or discipline. Read more on [Hyperallergic](https://hyperallergic.com/tulsa-artist-fellowship-provides-stability-40000-place-based-award/).  
Deadline: January 15, 2021 | [tulsaartistfellowship.org](https://bit.ly/2LaIlXN?ref=hyperallergic.com)

**Abrons Arts Center** 
**2021–22 Performance AIRspace Residency**  
Four early-career movement-based performing artists living in NYC will each receive a $5,000 commission for a new work to be presented at Abrons, 200 hours of full subsidized studio space, and more.  
Deadline: December 13, 2020 | [abronsartscenter.submittable.com](https://abronsartscenter.submittable.com/submit/178919/performance-airspace-residency-2021-2022?ref=hyperallergic.com)

**Anderson Center** 
**Jerome Emerging Artist Residency Program**  
Emerging and early career artists living in Minnesota or one of NYC’s five boroughs can apply for this month-long residency on a historic estate with a $625/week honoraria, a travel stipend, and more.  
Deadline: February 15, 2021 | [theandersoncenter.submittable.com](https://theandersoncenter.submittable.com/submit?ref=hyperallergic.com)

**Michigan State University** 
**Artist-in-Residence**  
MSU’s Department of Art, Art History, and Design (AAHD) seeks applicants for one nine-month residency position for an artist or designer who engages critically with issues of race through theircreative practice.  
Deadline: December 15, 2020 | [careers.msu.edu](https://careers.msu.edu/EN-US/JOB/504113/ASTASCFULL-PROF-FIXED-TERM?ref=hyperallergic.com)

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## Exhibition & Writing Opportunities

**Featured Opportunity** 
**Unlikely Journal for Creative Arts**  
*Unlikely* calls for proposals for guest editing of themed journal issues, books, e-books, and project space works. Email [info@unlikely.net.au](mailto:info@unlikely.net.au) to get involved and read the latest issue, ["Translating Ambiance,"](https://bit.ly/3lwe1nT?ref=hyperallergic.com) now online.  
[unlikely.net.au](https://bit.ly/2JVhkHb?ref=hyperallergic.com)

**LACE** 
**Emerging Curators Program**  
One curatorial project centered on performance and designed with a $5,000 budget will be selected for presentation in spring 2022\. (Projects that function live as well as virtually are encouraged.)  
Deadline: January 4, 2021 | [welcometolace.org/emerging-curators-program](https://welcometolace.org/emerging-curators-program/?ref=hyperallergic.com)

**Women's Center for Creative Work** 
**LA's Feminist Idol**  
WCCW is looking for proposals for creative projects to be included in the Music Center’s *For the Love of LA* programming. Projects must be presented digitally and adhere to a $1,000 budget.   
Deadline: December 15, 2020 | [airtable.com](https://airtable.com/shryp4dI5F9OSzmYF?ref=hyperallergic.com)

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## Job Opportunities

**Featured Opportunity** 
**Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts at ASU** 
**Assistant Professor, 3D Animation**  
Beginning August 2021, this full-time tenure track role will serve undergraduate students in the new BFA concentration in Animation and contribute to Arizona State University School of Art’s highly ranked MFA program.  
Deadline: January 15, 2021 | [apply.interfolio.com/81152](https://mountaintimearts.org/employment?ref=hyperallergic.com)

**Rhode Island School of Design** 
**Professorships in Race in Art & Design (Multidisciplinary)**  
RISD seeks 10 new full-time faculty members with expertise in the areas of race, colonization, decolonization, post-coloniality, and cultural representation, as well as in material practices of resistance.  
[careers.risd.edu](https://careers.risd.edu/postings/search?ref=hyperallergic.com)

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