Artist Opportunities | September 2025
- agaskins4
- Aug 27
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Scroll through a list of opportunities for September 2025!
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Sawtooth School for Visual Arts Spotlight Juried Exhibition + Holiday Market
Applications are due on Monday, September 1, 2025.
South Arts Grants, Advocacy, and Relief Funding - grants for individuals and arts organizations ranging from $1,000 - $30,000
Application Deadline: September 3, 2025
Application Deadline: Monday, September 5, 2025
500 W 5th Street's Holiday Market Holiday Market - limited vendor space available now
North Carolina Arts Council Support Grants - Panelist Application Deadline: September 12, 2025
SAWTOOTH SCHOOL FOR VISUAL ARTS
SAWTOOTH SPOTLIGHT
JURIED EXHIBITION + HOLIDAY MARKET
Applications are due on Monday, September 1, 2025.
Throughout the holiday season, Sawtooth School for Visual Art has long been a destination for showcasing quality, handmade works crafted by regional artists. The tradition continues this year with the inaugural Sawtooth Spotlight: Juried Exhibition + Holiday Market, a year-end celebration of fine art, craft, and community featuring one-of-a-kind artworks perfect for holiday gift-giving.
Juried Exhibition [November 22, 2025 – Jan 31, 2026]
Holiday Market [Saturday, December 6th, 2025]
Within the Juried Exhibition, you will find original, high-quality works by various regional artists, many of whom are Sawtooth students and instructors. Our Spotlight exhibition inspires pride and support for the talented, dedicated, cross-disciplinary Piedmont Triad community of artists. Most of the works will be available for purchase throughout the show. The exhibition is free and open to the public.
On Saturday, December 7, 2025 from 11am-4pm, Spotlight expands into a Holiday Market with artist vendors, hands-on activities, craft demonstrations, and fun for the whole family!
Artists from across the region will fill the studios across Sawtooth for a spirites holiday market like no other. Offering a variety of handcrafted items, including ceramics, jewelry, textiles, painting, photography, and woodworking, these artists make it easy to find something for everyone on your list.
Our Holiday Market event is open to all with a $5 suggested donation supporting Sawtooth’s scholarship and community outreach programs.
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SOUTH ARTS
GRANTS, ADVOCACY, AND RELIEF FUNDING
Applications open July 16 and close September 3, 2025.
Explore the full lineup of available funding below:
Accessibility Grants
Amount: Up to $1,000
For: Arts Organizations
This program offers up to $1,000 to arts organizations to make their programs more accessible to persons with disabilities.
Artist Creative Practice Grants
Amount: Up to $2,000
For: Individual Artists
Formally known as Individual Artist Career Opportunity Grants. Supports artists’ creative and professional development through milestone activities that lead to substantial career advancement, or a thriving creative practice.
Arts in Community Grants
Amount: Up to $10,000
For: Arts Organizations and Individual Artists
Formerly known as Presentation Grants and Traditional Arts Touring. Provides support to organizations, ensembles, artists, or artist collaboratives of any discipline in bringing arts and artists to a community.
Arts in Rural Places Grant
Amount: Up to $3,000
For: Arts Organizations
Formerly known as Express Grants. Supports organizations bringing arts and artists of any discipline into a rural community, administered through an expedited process.
New Arts Readiness, Relief, and Recovery Program
Amount: Up to $1,000
For: Individual Artists
A new initiative inspired by South Arts’ former ArtsReady and Emergency Preparedness, this grant supports artists impacted by Hurricanes Helene and/or Milton. Artists of any discipline may apply for funding to support their relief and recovery efforts, safeguarding their studios, protecting their practices, and preparing for emergencies.
Emerging Traditional Artist Program
Amount: Up to $5,000
For: Individual Artists
Supports artists in Central Appalachia through South Arts’ In These Mountains initiative. This multi-year program offers artists intergenerational opportunities to share, teach, preserve, and carry forward folk and traditional arts by offering grant funding, peer connections, and professional development workshops.
In These Mountains: Infastructure Grants
Amount: Up to $30,000
For: Arts Organizations
Supports foundational, non-programming expenses for organizations in Appalachian Regional Commission counties in Kentucky, North Carolina, and Tennessee to support non-programming expenses that are often not fundable by most grants or are financially out of reach for organizations.
Professional Development Grants
Amount: Up to $1,000
For: Arts Organizations
This grant offers up to $1,000 to support the professional development needs of arts organizations for increasing organizational capacity to achieve long-term sustainability, growth, and/or operational stability
SOUTH ARTS
EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES
President and CEO
A few months ago, South Arts announced their search for a strategic and visionary leader to shape the next chapter of South Arts. Interested in leading a dynamic arts organization? South Arts is still accepting applications for the next CEO!
The incoming CEO will guide the organization with purpose and imagination, driving impact across the region, championing the role of the arts in civic life, and ensuring South Arts work remains bold, responsive, and community rooted>
Development Manager
Help power the mission by securing vital resources and building strong relationships with donors and partners. This role is essential to sustaining South Arts programs and growing our impact.
Connect with South Arts:
ARTIST SUPPORT GRANT
Application Deadline: Monday, September 5, 2025 by 11:59 pm
About the Program
Artist Support Grants (formerly Regional Artist Project Grants) is a regional grant program that provides direct support to individual artists for professional and artistic development, either to enhance their skills and abilities to create work, or to improve their business operations and capacity to bring the work to audiences. This program will provide grants of $500 to $2,000 to support committed, gifted individual artists and small, unincorporated groups of collaborating artists residing in Forsyth, Davidson, Davie, Guilford, and Randolph counties and is intended to support a broad range of talented artists in the genres of visual arts, performing arts, literary arts, music composition, choreography, and interdisciplinary arts.
The program is operated in partnership with The Arts Council of Greater Greensboro, Arts Davidson County, Davie County Arts Council, High Point Arts Council and The Randolph Arts Guild. Funding is provided by the North Carolina Arts Council, a division of the Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
500 W 5THE STREET'S HOLIDAY MARKET
SAVE THE DATE
Location: 500 W. 5th
Event: Holiday Market and Christmas Tree Lighting
Date: November 22, 2025 at 2:00pm
Limited Vendor Space. Register now:
NORTH CAROLINA ARTS COUNCIL
SUPPORT GRANTS
Deadline for panelist application: September 12, 2025
Arts Council of Winston-Salem & Forsyth County (ACWSFC) is seeking panelists with content knowledge to review and score this year's Artist Support Grant (ASG) applicants.
ASG supports committed, gifted individual artists and small, unincorporated groups of collaborating artists residing in Davie, Davidson, Forsyth, Guilford, and Randolph counties and is intended to support a broad range of talented artists in the genres of Visual Arts and Crafts, Performing Arts, Writing/Literature, Music, Dance/Choreography, Film and Interdisciplinary Arts.
Panelists should be content knowledge experts who fit one or more of the following criteria:
Artists who receive 50% or more of their income from their creative practice.
Arts administrators, arts educators, arts and creative entrepreneurs.
Professional individuals with expertise in an artistic discipline but not recouping full time income from working artists.
A $100 stipend will be paid to selected panelists.
Arts Council of Winston-Salem & Forsyth County ASG Panelist Requirements
Panelists must reside in one of the following North Carolina counties:
Davie, Davidson, Forsyth, Guilford, Randolph
Panelist must commit to the panel schedule:
Training on Online Submission Portal (Onboarding via email and/or video calls) | September 15 - September 19 |
Individual Review and Scoring of Applications | September 22 - October 5 |
Scheduled Panel Meetings (via Zoom) | October 6 - October 10 |
If there are any questions, please contact Cécile Boynton at cboynton@intothearts.org
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