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What Is an Artist Practice Notebook? A Year of Weekly Creative Practice

Artist Practice Notebook is a year-long series of weekly essays and creative exercises that help visual artists, performers, writers, choreographers, musicians, and interdisciplinary artists build a sustainable creative practice.

August 2, 2026

Residencies·Artist Opportunities·Featured·Fellowships·Grants/Funds

Funded Germany Artist Residency 2027 | Stiftung Künstlerdorf Schöppingen

Apply for the Funded Germany Artist Residency 2027 at Stiftung Künstlerdorf Schöppingen. €1,500 monthly fellowship for artists, authors, and composers. Deadline August 31, 2026.

July 14, 2026

Fellowships·Artist Opportunities·Featured·Grants/Funds

$2000 TMT Institute Fellowship 26/27: Performance Makers

TMT Institute fellowship offers Brooklyn artists space, material resources, and a $2,000 stipend. Apply by July 22, 2026, 11:59 PM EST.

July 9, 2026

Artist Development·Artist Opportunities·Featured

9 Things Artists Wish They Knew Starting Out

Artists share nine lessons about visibility, relationships, documentation, sustainability, and building a long-term creative practice.

June 5, 2026

Open Calls·Artist Opportunities·Featured·Festival Calls

Performance Open Call Portugal 2027, €2,000 Support

Present your completed performance project at Hypertextile 2027 in Portugal with artist fee, production support, travel, and accommodation. The Performance Open Call Portugal 2027 invites artists and collectives to present completed performance projects as part of Hypertextile 2027, the first Alentejo Contemporary

June 1, 2026

Featured·Artist Opportunities·Grants/Funds

$15,000+ Artist Grant, NPN Creation Fund 2026

$15,000 Artist Grant through the NPN Creation Fund supports new performance and interdisciplinary work. Apply by May 18, 2026.

May 12, 2026

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Workshops/Courses·Artist Opportunities

Artist Summer Intensive – CPP Contemporary Performance Practices, Dubrovnik, Croatia

Artist Summer Intensive – CPP Contemporary Performance Practices, Dubrovnik, Croatia Train with SITI Company and Punchdrunk artists in Croatia The CPP / Contemporary Performance Practices International Summer Intensive returns in 2026, offering a two-week training program in Dubrovnik with internationally recognized artists.

April 8, 2026

Grants/Funds·Featured

Artist Grant – Creative Capital Award $50,000 Project Grant

The Creative Capital Award offers a $50,000 grant and professional development support for artists in the United States. Deadline April 3, 2026.

March 13, 2026

Residencies·Featured·Open Calls

Open Call: Mabou Mines SUITE/Space Residency, NYC 2026

Mabou Mines SUITE/Space Residency offers $4,000 stipend, rehearsal space, and performances for artists developing new work in New York City.

March 10, 2026

Featured·Grants/Funds·Open Calls

Open Call: 2026 Franklin Furnace Jacki Apple Award, NYC | $10,000 Deadline May 1, 2026

Open call for mid and advanced-career NYC-based performance artists. The 2026 Jacki Apple Award provides $10,000 for a project. Deadline May 1, 2026.

February 12, 2026

Featured·Open Calls

Open Call: BAX Artist in Residence, Brooklyn | Deadline April 2, 2026

Open Call: BAX Artist in Residence (AIR) 2026–2028, Brooklyn, NY 18-month multidisciplinary performance residency for NYC-based artists, deadline April 2, 2026 Opportunity Snapshot Why You Might Apply If you are an artist working across embodied, movement-based, and multidisciplinary performance practices and seek

February 9, 2026

Featured·Open Calls

Open Call: Kyoto Retreat, Japan | Artist Retreat Deadline July 15, 2026

Open Call: Kyoto Retreat, Kyoto, Japan International retreat and research-based program for artists and cultural practitioners, deadline July 15, 2026 Opportunity Snapshot Why You Might Apply If you are looking for sustained time to think, research, and recalibrate your practice outside production

February 8, 2026

Performers arranged in sustained movement and proximity during my tongue is a blade by Okwui Okpokwasili and Peter Born at The Dark Festival.

Featured·Featured Stretched·Highlights

The Dark Festival Highlights | PS21 Winter Performance Festival

Festival Highlights from The Dark 2026 at PS21, featuring works by Okwui Okpokwasili, Autumn Knight, Trisha Brown Dance Company, and Sister Sylvester across Columbia County, New York.

February 5, 2026

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Reviews·Featured·Featured Reviews

Fragile Bodies: Geumhyung Jeong’s Under Construction

At the Holland Festival, Geumhyung Jeong’s Under Construction turns robotics into ritual, revealing tenderness, care, and fragility between human and machine.

November 20, 2025

Reviews·Featured·Featured Reviews

Oh! The (Body) Horror: Susie Wang’s Burnt Toast at Skirball Center

Is it a hotel? Is it Hell? Why is everyone obsessed and slurping on the complimentary eggnog drink? Burnt Toast at The Skirball Center in NYC, by the Norwegian company Susie Wang, opens inside an all-red hotel lobby that feels like No

November 6, 2025

Scene from Łukasz Twarkowski’s ROTHKO at the Holland Festival featuring a mirrored Chinese restaurant set with actors performing live while a stylized close-up video feed is projected on a massive LED screen above the stage.

Featured Reviews·Featured·Reviews

Łukasz Twarkowski’s ROTHKO at the Holland Festival: A Copy of a Copy of a Copy

Łukasz Twarkowski’s ROTHKO, seen at the 2025 Holland Festival, blurs the line between original and fake, theater and screen. Live-feed video, rotating Chinese restaurant sets, and a double-timeline narrative fracture theatrical time into something disorienting, dazzling, and deeply of this moment.

September 25, 2025

MFA in Theatre and Performance in New York

Featured·Artist Opportunities·MA/MFA Programs

Transform Your Practice: MFA in Theatre and Performance at Sarah Lawrence

Apply now for Sarah Lawrence’s MFA in Theatre and Performance. Interdisciplinary, collaborative, and based near New York City.

September 12, 2025

Isabelle Huppert kneeling in a pleated peach gown beside a white radiator in Castellucci’s Bérénice at the 2025 Holland Festival.

Featured·Featured Reviews·Reviews

Image, Ritual, Collapse: Romeo Castellucci and Isabelle Huppert’s Bérénice at Holland Festival

Romeo Castellucci reimagines Racine’s Bérénice at the 2025 Holland Festival in a stunning performance of image, ritual, and collapse.

June 21, 2025

Participants in Lucia Monge’s Plantón Móvil walking through Lima

Featured·Reading the Field

Choreographies of Collapse: Performance in a Time of Climate Reckoning – Reading the Field – June 2025

Explore how contemporary performance artists engage climate collapse through site-specific rituals, ecological movement, and embodied environmental resistance.

June 6, 2025

Featured·Highlights

Kunstenfestivaldesarts 2025 Highlights: Ecstasy, Grief, Resistance

From ecstatic choreography and queer slow time to rituals of repair and unlearning, Kunstenfestivaldesarts 2025 brings together performances that challenge, unravel, and reimagine how we live together. This feature explores five standout works from this year’s program and the urgent questions they

May 16, 2025

Learn how to protect and replenish your creative energy using two frameworks: The Well of Creativity and the Power of Productive Boredom.

Artist Development·Featured

Creative Capacity: What Fills You, What Drains You, and Why Boredom Matters

Not all time is equal. As artists, we need to recognize what drains us, what restores us, and why boredom might be the missing piece in our creative capacity.

May 6, 2025

Artist Opportunities·Featured·Festival Calls·Open Calls

Opportunities: OPEN CALL: INVERSE Performance Art Festival 2023 (Bentonville, Arkansas) Deadline – July 12, 2023

INVERSE 2023 is a three-day performance art festival in Bentonville, Arkansas. Employing liveness, experimentation, and radical approaches to the important issues of our moment, the festival seeks artists and projects who are in constant interrogation of material, form, and gesture to offer

June 21, 2023

Artist Opportunities·Artist Development

4 Steps to Writing a Successful Artist Statement

Learn how to write an artist statement that wins grants, residencies, and exhibitions using a proven structure, template, and real examples.

January 20, 2021

In Performance·Featured

In Performance: p r i s m (Prototype)

p r i s m Composed by Ellen Reid Libretto by Roxie Perkins Directed by James Darrah Music Directed by Julian Wachner Prototype, La MaMa January 6-12, 2019 CW: Sexual assault, rape, PTSD p r i s m is an opera about

January 11, 2019

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