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Scout reads your Artsume profile — your CV, portfolio, and statement — then finds opportunities on the web that match your work and experience.
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Open Studio Residency
Artscape · Residency
Exhibition Assistance Grant
Ontario Arts Council · Grant
Summer Group Show
The Gladstone Hotel · Exhibition
Digital Art Commission
Toronto Public Art · Commission
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Residency in Helsinki
Nordic Arts Foundation
Group Show: New Media
Contemporary Art Center
Public Art Commission
City of Austin
Emerging Artist Grant
National Endowment for the Arts
Photography Fellowship
Aperture Foundation
Juried Exhibition
SOFA Chicago
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Group Show: New Media
Contemporary Art Center
Emerging Artist Grant
National Endowment for the Arts
Juried Exhibition
SOFA Chicago
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Add your disciplines, artist statement, and portfolio to Artsume. Scout uses this to understand your practice.
Scout finds opportunities
Every day, Scout scans open calls across the web and scores each one against your profile.
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Your best matches appear in your Explore feed, ranked by fit. Apply to the ones that make sense.
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Every match tells you why it scored high: discipline overlap, career stage fit, geographic preference, compensation match.
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Tell Scout what you're looking for — opportunity types, locations, compensation — and it adjusts what it surfaces.
Profile-based scoring
Scout reads your CV, portfolio, and statement the way a human reviewer would. A stronger profile means better matches.
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How AI opportunity matching works
What is AI opportunity matching?
AI reads your artist profile and compares it against open calls to find the ones that fit your work, experience, and preferences. It scores each opportunity so you see the strongest matches first.
How does Scout find opportunities?
Scout scans open calls from across the web daily — grants, residencies, exhibitions, and commissions. It scores each one against your Artsume profile and surfaces the best fits.
What makes a strong Scout profile?
The more Scout knows about you, the better it matches. A complete CV, portfolio with tagged works, and a clear artist statement give Scout the most to work with.
Is Scout useful for emerging artists?
Yes. Many open calls specifically target emerging artists. Scout filters by career stage, so early-career artists see opportunities meant for them.
How is this different from searching manually?
Manual searching means checking multiple sites, reading every listing, and guessing whether you qualify. Scout does that work for you and ranks results by fit.
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“Having it right there in the wallet to scan is a big deal for artists meeting people at events. It's better than Instagram because they don't have to scroll through everything you've ever done — they see your professional résumé immediately.”
Ruth “Rutamfi” Burotte
Digital Artist · Miami, US
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