ArteEast: Opportunities for Artists June 2014-Middle East

The Palestinian Museum

Deadline Ongoing

The Palestinian Museum team has begun working on the Museum’s opening exhibition, “Never-part”.  The exhibition explores Palestinian identity through the stories of ordinary people and personal objects they have kept with them throughout their lives. The museum hopes to discover how meaning is given to everyday material objects, and ultimately craft an alternative yet familiar narrative of 20th and 21st century Palestinian history through the remarkable stories it has collected.

For more information and to submit, please click here.

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  • The Abraaj Group Art Prize is now accepting applications for curators and artists from the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia for their annual prize.
    For more information and to submit, please click here.
    Curators' Deadline June 22
    Artists' Deadline June 29
  • The Queens Museum Studio Program invites all artists to apply for a subsidized studio at the museum, available for one year, with a possible extensiion for a second year.
    For more information and to apply, please click here.
    Deadline July 7
  • Frieze Writer’s Prize, an annual international award to discover and promote new art critics is now open for entries. Aspiring art critics are invited to submit one unpublished review of a recent contemporary art exhibition.
    For more information and to submit, please click here.
    Deadline July 21

Deadline July 8

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Sundance Documentary Fund and Awards

Sundance Documentary Fund and Awards are a core component of theDocumentary Film Program (DFP). The Fund provides creative and financial support to cinematic, feature documentaries from independent filmmakers globally. The Sundance Documentary Fund provides grants to filmmakers worldwide and accepts submissions in three categories:Development,Production/Post-Production, and Audience Engagement.

For more information and to apply, please click here.

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  • With the support of the Getty Foundation, the Fundación Cisners/Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros and Qatar Museums,International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art(CiMAM) offers 20 grants to support the attendance of modern and contemporary curators and museum or collection directors to CiMAM’s 2014 Annual Conference.
    For more information and to apply, please click here.
    Deadline June 30
  • The Magic of Persia Contemporary Art Prize (MOP CAP) will begin accepting applications in their worldwide search for the next generation of contemporary Iranian visual artists.
    For more information and to apply, please click here.
    Deadline July 31
  • The Arab Fund for Arts and Culture is now accepting applications for its 2014 cinema open call as part of its 2014 general grants program. The call is open to Arab directors and producers living in the Arab region or its diaspora.
    For more information and to apply, please click here.
    Deadline August 1

Deadline June 27

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Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies

The Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies at New York University invites applicants for a full-time, nontenure track position asAssistant Professor/Faculty Fellow to begin September 1st, 2014.

They are looking for an outstanding junior scholar in any social science or humanities discipline whose research offers a critical perspective on the contemporary Middle East and would complement the strengths of our existing faculty in Middle Eastern Studies. We are especially interested in receiving applications from women and minority candidates. 

For more information and to apply, please click here.

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  • Dia Art Foundation seeks a full-time Major Gifts Officer, a Part-TimeGallery Attendant, and a Full-Time Bookshop Attendant.  Based in New York City, Di
    a Art Foundations is committed to advancing, realizing, and preserving the vision of extraordinary artists.
    For more information and to apply, please click here.
    Deadline June 30

  • The Beirut Art Center is currently looking to hire a Communications Manager whose responsibilities would include management of the center’s daily external communication and the organization of its affairs.
    For more information and to apply, please click here.
    Start Date July 2014
  • Mathaf is offering job opportunities for full-time employment based in Doha, Qatar for: Curator, Publication Coordinator, Head of Communications, Translator specializing in art history and criticism, and School Programs Specialist. 
    For more information, please click here.
    Deadline Ongoing

Dates July 16-Sept 28

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New Museum

New York’s New Museum will present Here and Elsewhere, a major exhibition of contemporary art from and about the Arab world. Here and Elsewhere is the first museum-wide exhibition in New York to bring together more than forty artists from over twelve countries in the Arab world, many of whom live and work internationally.

For more information, please click here.

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  • The Human Rights Watch Festival in New York is taking place this week at IFC and Film Society Lincoln Center and features eight films from the MENA region.
    For more information, please click here.
    Dates June 12 – June 22
  • Parle pour toi is a programme of videos and films curated by Maria Muracciole dedicated to the representation and circulation of speech. This section, titled Transitions, will feature a talk with artists at the gallery.
    For more information, please click here.
    Dates June 27-July 4
  • Howard Greenberg Gallery in New York will show The Middle East Revealed: A Female Perspective featuring work by Boushra Almutakwakel (Yemen), Shadi Ghadirian (Iran), Rania Matar (Lebanon), and Reem Al Faisal (Saudi Arabia).
    For more information, please click here.
    Dates June 26 – August 30