BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//The Grant Desk//Calendar//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH NAME:The Grant Desk - Design\, Remote X-WR-CALNAME:The Grant Desk - Design\, Remote deadlines X-WR-CALDESC:Paid open calls\, fellowships and residencies in AI\, tech\, r esearch\, and digital and mixed-media arts\, sorted into the right pile. U pdated as new calls land on the desk. Filtered to: Design\, Remote. REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT12H X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT12H BEGIN:VEVENT UID:surface-design-association-air-2026-27@artificialnouveau.github.io DTSTAMP:20260816T223307Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260814 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260815 SUMMARY:Deadline: Surface Design Association: Artist in Residence 2026-27 ( virtual) DESCRIPTION:The Surface Design Association's Artist in Residence programme is built to develop skills\, open up relationships and support fiber and t extile artists through a studio project that pushes their practice. The re sidency is entirely virtual and runs across a full year\, which is the poi nt: it removes the travel\, housing and time-away barriers that keep many practitioners out of in-person residencies. One artist is selected annuall y by a panel of SDA staff\, board members and committee volunteers. WHAT I T INVOLVES: studio visits across the year\, social media programming\, and meetings with the SDA community\, plus further programming shaped around the resident's own skills and interests\, which can include teaching onlin e workshops\, contributing to SDA publications\, jurying exhibitions or jo ining panels. FUNDING: a $2\,000 studio stipend for the project\, plus up to $2\,000 in additional compensation for programming work\, targeting abo ut $4\,000 total. ELIGIBILITY: emerging\, mid-career and established artis ts\; US-based and international applicants welcome\; students and professi onals may apply\; applicants must hold current SDA membership (from $85 pe r year\, $60 for students). APPLICATION: a portfolio of 10 images with ful l artwork information (title\, year\, materials\, technique\, dimensions\, photo credit)\, a detailed CV\, essay responses on artistic goals\, progr amming interests and professional development\, and demographic informatio n. No application fee. The 2026-27 cycle closes 14 August 2026.\n\nOrganis ation: Surface Design Association (SDA)\nLocation: Fully virtual. Open to US-based and international applicants\; current SDA membership is required .\nAward: $2\,000 studio stipend\, plus up to $2\,000 further compensation for programming work (SDA aims for roughly $4\,000 in total per resident) . No application fee\, but applicants must be current SDA members (members hip from $85 per year\, $60 for students).\nDuration: One year\, virtual\, October 2026 to August 2027\n\nMore: https://www.surfacedesign.org/air_fo rm/?utm_source=artificialnouveaugrantdesk&utm_medium=referral URL:https://www.surfacedesign.org/air_form/?utm_source=artificialnouveaugra ntdesk&utm_medium=referral LOCATION:Fully virtual. Open to US-based and international applicants\; cur rent SDA membership is required. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:impart-nalli-fellowships-2027-28@artificialnouveau.github.io DTSTAMP:20260816T223307Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260831 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260901 SUMMARY:Deadline: The Impart & Nalli Fellowships 2027-28 DESCRIPTION:A research fellowship from Impart\, an online platform building accessible resources on South Asia's art histories\, in collaboration wit h Nalli Silks\, a heritage textile brand established in 1928. The programm e has supported two research projects a year since 2024-25\; for the 2027- 28 cycle two fellowships are awarded\, each carrying a grant of up to INR 5.5 lakhs for one year of independent research and project development. AR EAS OF FOCUS: underexplored textile-related histories\, practices and trad itions across South Asia. Any textile-centric subject may be proposed\; th e call particularly encourages textiles in religious\, literary\, liturgic al and mythological contexts\; the environmental impact of textile product ion and consumption\; endangered or disappearing textile traditions\; crit ical perspectives on textile revivalism\, digitisation\, archives and mate rial afterlives\; labour in textile production with attention to caste\, c lass and gender\; relationships between textiles and other cultural forms including storytelling\, poetry\, music\, architecture and material cultur e\; techniques\, technologies and tools tied to specific traditions\; Sout h Asian textiles within the contemporary global design economy\; intellect ual property\, ownership and cultural rights\; and socio-cultural perspect ives on the relationship between handmade and industrial textiles. ELIGIBI LITY: open to anyone aged 18 or over residing anywhere in the world\, prov ided the project engages with textile practices in the wider South Asia re gion (Afghanistan\, Bangladesh\, Bhutan\, India\, the Maldives\, Myanmar\, Nepal\, Pakistan\, Sri Lanka\, Tibet). Early- and mid-career researchers\ , designers\, archivists\, journalists\, writers\, educators\, practitione rs\, collectives and small organisations are all welcome\, and collaborati ve projects are permitted provided co-creators are credited and listed in the application. Both new and ongoing projects are eligible\, but applican ts must specify which part of the project the grant will develop and discl ose any current or previous funding from other organisations. SUPPORTED FO RMATS: journalistic inquiry\, documentary film\, archive activation\, prac tice-based research\, archive generation\, digitisation and documentation initiatives\, and exhibition or book projects. DELIVERABLES: a comprehensi ve project report at the end of the grant period\; a research dossier deve loped from that report in collaboration with Impart\, presenting key quest ions and findings and hosted on Impart's website for public benefit\; and a set of final project outputs\, which may be audio-visual (interviews\, s hort films)\, visual essays (photographic or process-based documentation)\ , written pieces (essays\, features\, interviews) or curatorial work (exhi bition or digital curation). Fellows also take part in periodic check-ins and submit progress reports. Copyright is settled case by case\, but all f inal outputs must be made openly and freely accessible to the public. APPL ICATION: a Google Form structured as a full project proposal\, plus a proj ect budget (percentage-based allocation is acceptable\, but be as specific as possible)\, a project timeline for the one-year period with key phases \, activities and milestones\, and a single supporting PDF containing an u p-to-date CV\, selected work samples\, and up to two letters of support or recommendation. The form is in English\; applicants who would prefer anot her language are invited to write to Impart to arrange an alternative. NOT E: the fellowship has a strict no-tolerance policy on the use of AI or LLM s in the application form or any submitted materials\, and any violation r esults in rejection. KEY DATES: applications close 31 August 2026\; awarde es notified December 2026\; fellowships run January to December 2027. No i ndividual feedback is given on unsuccessful applications.\n\nOrganisation: Impart in collaboration with Nalli Silks\nLocation: Remote and self-direc ted\; applicants may reside anywhere in the world. Projects must engage wi th textile practices across South Asia: Afghanistan\, Bangladesh\, Bhutan\ , India\, the Maldives\, Myanmar\, Nepal\, Pakistan\, Sri Lanka and Tibet. \nAward: Up to INR 5.5 lakhs (INR 550\,000) per fellow towards project exe cution\, covering research-related expenses including travel\, fieldwork a nd documentation subject to approval. Two fellowships are awarded. No appl ication fee.\nDuration: One year\, January to December 2027\n\nMore: https ://imp-art.org/fellowship-grant/impart-x-nalli-fellowships/?utm_source=art ificialnouveaugrantdesk&utm_medium=referral URL:https://imp-art.org/fellowship-grant/impart-x-nalli-fellowships/?utm_so urce=artificialnouveaugrantdesk&utm_medium=referral LOCATION:Remote and self-directed\; applicants may reside anywhere in the w orld. Projects must engage with textile practices across South Asia: Afgha nistan\, Bangladesh\, Bhutan\, India\, the Maldives\, Myanmar\, Nepal\, Pa kistan\, Sri Lanka and Tibet. END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR