American Library in Paris Visiting Fellowship
Deadline: April 1, 2024
The Visiting Fellowship offers writers and researchers an opportunity to pursue a creative project in Paris for a month or longer while participating actively in the life of the American Library. The $5,000 award, to be spent at the discretion of the Fellow, is designed to cover travel to Paris, accommodation, and expenses associated with the month in Paris.
Artadia 2024 Awards Cycle
New York City, NY
Deadline: April 1, 2024
Artadia Awards grant three artists Awards of $15,000 in unrestricted funds annually in seven major U.S. cities with high concentrations of creative workers—Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, New York City, and the San Francisco Bay Area. This deadline is for the New York City application only.
The Bayard Rustin Residency at the Penington Friends House
Deadline: April 1, 2024
The Bayard Rustin Residency at Penington Friends House (PFH) is envisioned as an ongoing ladder to empowerment for Black Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) working to end Systemic Racism and to create a culture of anti-Racism and intersectional equality in the United States of America. It will provide up to one year of room and board to a person who demonstrates a strong creative project ( arts or activist based) that addresses ending Systemic Racism. They will reside at the Penington Friends House located in New York City’s Lower East Side of Manhattan.
Bemis Center Artist-in-Residence Open Call: Spring 2025 + Summer 2025
Omaha, NE
Deadline: April 8, 2024
Both Spring and Summer Open Calls are located in the historic Old Market, Omaha’s arts and culture district. Bemis Center’s 110,000 square foot facility accommodates a broad range of artistic activity. Selected artists-in-residence enjoy generous sized, private live/work studios complete with kitchen and bathroom, a $1,250 monthly stipend and $750 travel stipend. Fee: $40.
Coined in the South: 2024 Biennial
Charlotte, NC
Deadline: April 1, 2024
Southern U.S. artists can submit work to this juried exhibition at the Mint Museum in Charlotte, North Carolina. The exhibition transcends any singular aesthetic, theme, or medium, striving to mirror the rich diversity and creative spirit of the southern arts community. Prizes range between $1,000 and $10,000. Fee: $40.
Fire Island Residency
Cherry Grove, NY
Deadline: April 1, 2024
The first residency in the United States exclusively for artists identifying as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, non-binary, intersex, two-spirit or queer, annually accepts applications for its prestigious and internationally recognized summer program. Now in its 12th season in the secluded beach community of Cherry Grove, NY, an historic LGBTQ settlement of Fire Island, emerging artists will share a live/work space for a four-week program marked by intimate studio visits with, and public lectures by, renowned leaders in contemporary art, scholarship, activism and curation.
Franklin Furnace FUND for Performance Art
New York City, NY
Deadline: April 1, 2024
Franklin Furnace annually awards grants to early career artists selected by peer panel review to enable them to produce major performance art works in New York City. Grants range between $2,000 and $10,000. Artists from all areas of the world are encouraged to apply; however, artists selected by the panel are expected to present their work in New York City.
Locust Project WaveMaker
Miami, FL
Deadline: April 1, 2024
WaveMaker supports Miami’s visionary artists with incubator grants for innovative projects that are shared with the public in unconventional spaces. Grantees receive up to $6,000 each in three categories: New Work / Projects, Long-Haul Projects, and Research & Development + Implementation.
KaniniFest
Bentonville, Arkansas
Deadline: April 1, 2024
This festival celebrates the talent and creativity of BIPOC playwrights, striving to combat the current underrepresentation they face in the industry. This competition will grant six deserving winners the chance to have their remarkable plays fully produced and showcased during a captivating three-day cultural festival.
PAC NYC The Democracy Cycle
Deadline: April 1, 2024
The Perelman Performing Arts Center (PAC NYC) and Galvan Initiatives (Galvan) launched The Democracy Cycle, a new commissioning program designed to support new works that illuminate the promise, practice, imperfection, and opportunity of democracy. Proposals are requested for new performing arts works following that theme from artists working in theater, dance, music, opera, and multi-disciplinary performance.
Recess Art – Session Artists Open Call
New York City, NY
Deadline: April 1, 2024
Session provides artists a 1200 square foot workspace in Brooklyn and 6–10 weeks to develop a new inquiry-based project meant to push the boundaries of their practice. They will receive an artist honorarium, planning meeting fees, project expenses, technical support, and mentorship collectively valued at approximately $22,500–$25,000.
Self as Universe: Mending Our Collective Ecosystem Residencies
Louisiana
Deadline: April 3, 2024
Southeast Louisiana’s land and inhabitants are continually scarred by the effects of environmental degradation. A Studio in the Woods encourages artists to guide our collective response as the caretakers and caregivers to our universe while bringing wisdom, integrity, optimism, and even humor to intentional and timely projects seeking transformation for our species and planet. Open to artists of all disciplines who have demonstrated an established dialogue with environmental and cultural issues.
Creative Capital Open Call
Deadline: April 4, 2024
Creative Capital welcomes innovative and original new project proposals in visual arts, performing arts, film/moving image, technology, literature, multidisciplinary, and socially engaged forms. Our goal is to fund individual artists creating conceptually, aesthetically, and formally challenging, risk-taking, and never-before-seen projects.
The Shed Open Call
New York City, NY
Deadline: April 4, 2024
Born out of The Shed’s commitment to act as a platform for NYC-based, early-career artists working in a range of artistic disciplines, Open Call selects, fosters, and presents new work. The Shed supports selected projects with a commissioning fee of up to $15,000 of producing stewardship per artist or collective.
The Dome House Al & Mickey Quinlan Artist Residency
Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin
Deadline: April 5, 2024
The Residency is open to one artist residing in the Midwest working in the fine art mediums of drawing, painting, printmaking, photography and other mediums. The residency aims to provide the space and support to create work in an inspiring and unique location, in addition to providing opportunities for public access to an artist at work through public programming and educational content for the community. The Residency is an 8-week fall program created and led in partnership with the Miller Art Museum.
KODA
New York City, NY
Deadline: April 5, 2024
KODA offers an artist residency program on Governors Island, NY, for two mid-career, female-identifying and/or non-binary artists who create conceptual and socially engaged work. The Fall 2024 residency program is placed under the theme of Mental Health. KODA is a Brooklyn-founded nomadic social practice nonprofit arts organization focusing on conceptual mid-career artists ingrained in social justice.
Minnesota State Arts Board Creative Individuals
Deadline: April 5, 2024
These project grants help individual artists and culture bearers develop or sustain their creative practices and meaningfully engage with Minnesotans. Open to artists working in dance, media arts, music, photography, poetry, prose, theater, two-dimensional or three-dimensional visual art; or culture bearers trained by traditional elders or master artists and whose artistic practice is reflective of the cultural life of a community.
Project Space Residency
Rochester, NY
Deadline: April 5, 2024
The 4-week residencies are open to artists at any stage of their career and take place at Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, NY. Residents receive 24/7 access to a private studio, digital printing equipment and an analog darkroom. They also receive a stipend of $1,000, plus $250 for supplies, and a $500 travel budget for those traveling from outside the region.
Soma Summer
Deadline: April 7, 2024
SOMA Summer is an intensive three-week academic program in Mexico for artistic inquiry that welcomes a cohort of international artists, curators, critics, and art historians interested in collaborative pedagogical models.
The Brooklyn Artists Exhibition Open Call
Deadline: April 7, 2024
Brooklyn Museum is hosting an open call for a forthcoming exhibition celebrating the Museum’s 200th Anniversary. The Brooklyn Artists Exhibition is open to artists who have maintained primary residence and/or an art studio in Brooklyn during the past five years (2019–24).
Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowships
Deadline: April 8, 2024
These $50,000 awards honor poets of literary merit appointed to serve in civic positions and to support them in creating new work, as well as to enable them to undertake meaningful, impactful, and innovative projects that enrich the lives of their neighbors, including youth, through responsive and interactive poetry activities.
Sound Art + Experimental Music Open Call: 2025
Omaha, NE
Deadline: April 8, 2024
This opportunity offers a unique experience for two artists working in sound, composition, voice, and experimental genres and tools. National and international artists participating in the program receive financial, technical, and administrative support, along with dedicated facilities for rehearsing, recording, and performing new works that expand the field of sound art and music. Selected artists will enjoy a generously sized, private live/work studio.
Bethany Arts
Ossining, NY
Deadline: April 10, 2024
BAC offers short-term residencies attracting artists at different stages of their careers from around the world for the development of both new works and works in progress. BAC welcomes artists working across most disciplines, including visual artists in any medium, writers, playwrights, choreographers, musicians, composers, performance artists, filmmakers, and lighting, projection, costume and sound designers. During their time on site, artists will develop new works while engaging with local artists and the public.
Creative Arts Grant Program
Bothell, WA
Deadline: April 12, 2024
Art grant proposals are selected based on innovative projects by artists; or community/arts organizations that hire artists for their projects. These projects showcase artistic and cultural diversity, community building activities through the arts, and an appreciation for the creative spirit. Every project must end in a culminating event that is accessible to residents and visitors of Bothell.
North Dakota Council on the Arts Accessibility Grant
Deadline: April 12, 2024
The program provides up to $2,000 for arts and non-arts organizations and unincorporated groups to make arts programs/facilities more inclusive of all audiences and artists. Organizations led by persons with disabilities or programming that includes paid opportunities for disabled artists will be prioritized.
Velvetpark LGBTQ+ Visual Artists Residency 2024
Deadline: April 14, 2024
Running from July to December 2024, Velvetpark’s 4th Annual Visual Artist Residency will award one resident with a six month live/work studio in Brooklyn to begin or develop a piece of a complete body of work. Artists across the United States working in various mediums who are emerging, mid-career, or established are welcome to apply.
Artist in Residence at The Latinx Project
Deadline: April 15, 2024
The Latinx Project Artist-in-Residence program is open to emerging and mid-career artists based in the United States. The selected artist will present a solo exhibition on campus with the option of curatorial support and a public program. The most compelling applications engage with larger contemporary or historic dialogues in Latinx Studies.
Meet Me There, Another Time Anthology
Deadline: April 15, 2024
Queer and trans people are invited to write a letter to a place you had to leave behind to preserve your own safety or parts of yourself. Brought to you by the same editor and publisher behind Lambda Literary Finalist, Written on the Body, Meet Me There, Another Time responds to the rise of fascist thinking and forced alienation of our community members while centering on our voices and healing process as we seek to belong where we can.
Mid-America Arts Alliance Interchange Program
Kansas City, MO
Deadline: April 15, 2024
The Interchange program is designed to strengthen individual artists in the region (Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Texas) who have a history of impactful work with a socially engaged creative practice by providing practice-based grant funding, professional development experiences, peer network access, and one-on-one mentoring. Interchange fellowships of $25,000 will be awarded to 16 regional artists.
Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships
Deadline: April 15, 2024
The Poetry Foundation awards five Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships annually. Among the largest awards offered to young poets in the US, the $27,000 prize is intended to support exceptional U.S. poets between 21 and 31 years of age.
Anonymous Was A Woman Environmental Art Grants
Deadline: April 16, 2024
The Anonymous Was A Woman Environmental Art Grants (AWAW EAG) will distribute a total of $300,000 in funding—up to $20,000 per project—to support environmental art projects led by women-identifying artists in the United States and U.S. Territories.
SCAC Emerging Artist Grants
South Carolina
Deadline: April 16, 2024
This grant assists emerging artists in South Carolina through project funding as well as mentorship and professional support during the grant period. The combination of funding and mentorship is intended to deepen artistic practice; encourage career growth; foster artistic growth, relevance, and sustainability; and provide professional development and opportunities for collaboration.
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for Digital Publication
Deadline: April 17, 2024
Fellowships for Digital Publication are competitive awards granted to individual scholars to support interpretive research projects that require digital expression and digital publication. Competitive submissions embody exceptional research, rigorous analysis, and clearly articulate a project’s value to humanities scholars, general audiences, or both.
SOZO Fellowship Pilot
Deadline: April 18, 2024
This 6-month coaching program (June-Dec 2024) is designed to equip full time working, mid-career independent artists with sustainability and entrepreneurship training to reach new heights in their livelihood and creative endeavors.
Folk and Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program
North Dakota
Deadline: April 19, 2024
The Folk and Traditional Arts Apprenticeship program honors and encourages the preservation of North Dakota’s diverse living traditions by providing funding up to $4,500 for master traditional artists to pass on their skills and knowledge to an apprentice(s) over an extended period of time. Forms of traditional expression include craft, technical skill, music, dance, and ritual celebration.
Strokes of Genius Fellowship
Deadline: April 21, 2024
Invested in the creativity and cultural production of Black artists and arts professionals, this open application program provides artists, curators, journalists and scholars with funding to develop new creative projects.
National Academy of Design Abbey Mural Prize
Deadline: April 22, 2024
Artists, architects, designers, arts and community-based organizations, and other nonprofits can apply for grants ranging from $10,000 to $40,000 to create or restore public murals in the U.S.
Collage as Street Art Residency – New Orleans 2024
Deadline: April 28, 2024
A week-long, in-person residency that coincides with Kolaj Fest New Orleans (June 2024), during which artists will explore the city, learn about the history and materials of street art, and make artwork for public display that Kolaj Fest attendees and New Orleanians will be able to view.
Harpo Foundation
Deadline: April 29, 2024
Impact Award for Native American Artists
A $25,000 fellowship will be rewarded to amplify the contributions of under-recognized Native American contemporary visual artists.
Grants for Visual Artists
Visual artists may be awarded up to $10,000. Fee: $15.
Jacki Apple Award in Performance and Artist Projects 2024
New York City, NY
Deadline: April 30, 2024
One New York City-based artist working in performance art will receive $10,000 to fund projects in performance, media, exhibition, and/or publication. The artist selected for the inaugural 2024 grant must be a mid or late-career artist.
Cleveland Arts Prize
Northeast Ohio
Deadline: May 1, 2024
The Cleveland Arts Prize promotes creativity in Northeast Ohio by honoring artists for artistic excellence and recognizes community leaders who help regional arts flourish. Established by the Women’s City Club in 1960, it continues today as the nation’s oldest municipal arts award and an ongoing platform for celebrating Northeast Ohio’s exceptional arts community.
Lillstreet Art Center Artist in Residence
Chicago, IL
Deadline: May 1, 2024
Lillstreet offers year-long residencies in Ceramics and Metalsmithing, and nine-month residencies in Drawing & Painting, Printmaking & Book Arts, and Textiles beginning in September 2024. Resident artists have 24-hour access to facilities and equipment, free classes, paid opportunities to teach and/or assist classes, participation in a group exhibition, and a monthly stipend.
Ohio Arts Council
Deadline: May 1, 2024
Artist Opportunities
Artist Opportunities grants support Ohio artists who have opportunities that will significantly impact their professional growth or have projects that will contribute to the vitality of their community. This grant is open to artists of all disciplines, at any stage of their career, and includes all types of artistic practice.
Artists with Disabilities Access Program (ADAP)
The Artists with Disabilities Access Program (ADAP) provides funding that gives individual artists with disabilities the resources they need to further their artistic development. ADAP awards help artists with disabilities advance their practices, making Ohio a more accessible and inclusive place to build an artistic career.
Fireline Fellowship
Corvallis, OR
Deadline: May 3, 2024
The Fireline Fellowship invites writers, artists, and thought leaders in the humanities to become part of a thinking community that, for two and a half years, will explore issues related to wildfire at the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest (the Andrews). Fellows will meet in person with scientists and stay at the Andrews, and then will meet quarterly online. Fellows will receive a stipend, opportunities to learn alongside scientists in the field, and up to four weeks of residency time at the Andrews. Fellows will develop new projects for a public audience and/or involving public engagement.
Sista Creatives Rising The Sistas Uprising Fund
Opens: March 28, 2024
Deadline: May 5, 2024
Sista Creatives Rising (SCR) is a project founded by Black, invisibly disabled mother-daughter duo Claire Jones and Amaranthia Sepia. Seven women of color and femme-expressing creatives of color in any medium, based in the US and Canada, will receive a $200 micro-grant by submitting a two-minute video about how funds will help, artwork, and additional details.
Wassaic Project Winter Residency
Wassaic, NY
Deadline: May 6, 2024
Artists receive 24-hour access to an adaptable, semi-private studio space in a historic grain elevator in Upstate New York, accommodations, and more. Fellowships with honorariums and no residency fees are available. Fee: $25.
Howard County Arts Council Rising Star Performing Arts Competition
Maryland
Deadline: May 6, 2024
Each year, up to 10 emerging performing artists with roots in Howard County are chosen to perform at the Celebration gala — with the winner voted on by the audience.The competition is open to performers, both individuals and ensembles (up to four members), ages 18-35, who live, train, work or perform regularly in Howard County or have done so in the past.
Hopper Prize
Deadline: May 14, 2024
The Hopper Prize provides unrestricted cash grants in the amount of $3,500 and $1,000 to artists around the globe. We view the field of visual art in its broadest and most inclusive sense and therefore make awards available to artists working in any media.
James Laughlin Award
Deadline: May 15, 2024
The James Laughlin Award recognizes and supports a second book of poetry forthcoming in the next calendar year. The winning poet receives $5,000, an all-expenses-paid weeklong residency in Miami Beach, Florida, and distribution of the winning book to approximately one thousand Academy of American Poets members.
Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize
Deadline: May 15, 2024
This $25,000 award recognizes the most outstanding book of poetry published in the United States in the previous calendar year. The prize includes a ten-day residency at Glen Hollow in Naples, New York, and distribution of the winning book to hundreds of Academy of American Poets members.
Ploughshares
Deadline: May 15, 2024
The Emerging Writer’s Contest is open to writers of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry who have yet to publish or self-publish a book. One winner in each of the three genres is awarded publication, $2,000, review from Aevitas Creative Management, and a 1-year subscription.
Sawtooth Residencies in Ceramics and Woodworking
Winston-Salem, NC
Deadline: May 15, 2024
The year-long Artist-in-Residence programs encourage the development of new skills, connections, and bodies of work while assisting with studio operations. Ceramic Residents are given 24/7 access to studio space, materials at cost, free firings, and the opportunity to teach, inspire, and energize our community. The Woodworking Resident will receive round-the-clock access to Wood and Lathe studios, a semi-private studio space, and a $3,000 stipend in exchange for working several hours per week.
The Studios of Key West
Florida
Deadline: May 15, 2024
The Studios of Key West, the premier arts organization at the Southernmost Point of the United States, offers a residency program for emerging and established artists and writers from around the world. Residencies are available to visual artists, writers, composers, musicians, media artists, performers, and interdisciplinary artists.
100 Voices of Florida
Deadline: May 18, 2024
100 Voices of Florida offers an unrestricted prize of $1,000 for Floridian-based filmmakers with completed short films of any genre to promote and encourage storytellers to keep creating. There will one winner for every 100 submissions.
Anne LaBastille Memorial Writers Residency
Saranac Lake, NY
Deadline: May 19, 2024
The Adirondack Center for Writing offers a free, two-week residency annually in autumn to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers at a lodge on Twitchell Lake in the heart of the Adirondack Mountains. Six residents will be chosen: three from the Adirondack region (“The North Country”). Residency dates: September 22–October 6, 2024.
On::View Artist Residency Program
Savannah, GA
Deadline: May 28, 2024
This residency provides a free, high visibility studio space for an artist to complete a new project, to continue an in-progress endeavor, or to conduct research exploring conceptual, material, performative, and social practices. Residencies take place from August to October.
PLAYA
Summer Lake, OR
Deadline: May 30, 2024
PLAYA’s residencies are open to the global community of scientists and artists whose work promotes dialogue and positive change in the environment and the world. We encourage naturalists, biologists, musicians, designers, sustainability leaders, social practitioners, musicians, visual artists, writers, and performing artists to apply. PLAYA welcomes applications from both emerging and seasoned professionals.
Eliza Moore Fellowship for Artistic Excellence
Upperville, VA
Deadline: May 31, 2024
The Eliza Moore Fellowship for Artistic Excellence is awarded annually to one outstanding, early-career artist who is developing new works that address plants, gardens, or landscapes in the broad sense. This award is open to visual artists, literary artists, dancers, and musicians. The award includes a $10,000 individual grant and requires a 2–5 week stay at Oak Spring.
Silver Foundation 2024 Grant for Writing on Sculpture
Deadline: May 31, 2024
This grant from the Jonathan and Barbara Silver Foundation encourages and supports sculptors, whether emerging or established, and writers about sculpture. In 2024 the Foundation will award a $20,000 grant to a writer who demonstrates fresh thinking on the history, aesthetics, and/or purposes of sculpture.
Adobe Creative Residency Community Fund
Deadline: Rolling
The Adobe Creative Residency Community Fund provides support to creators during times of extraordinary hardship. Current Fund efforts are focused on supporting creators who have been directly impacted by the 2022 invasion of Ukraine. If selected, you will receive $10,000 from the Adobe Creative Residency Community Fund.
A.I.R. Studio Paducah Residencies
Paducah, Kentucky
Deadline: Rolling
These residencies are open to visual artists, composers, architects, improvisational dancers, poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers. Residents are provided with a private efficiency apartment and studio space, located in the Lower Town Arts District of Paducah, Kentucky, six blocks from the Ohio River. The cost of the residency is $700 for two weeks and $1,000 per month. Admissions are made on a rolling basis.
The Awesome Foundation
Deadline: Rolling
The Awesome Foundation is a global community advancing the interest of awesome in the universe, $1000 at a time. Each fully autonomous chapter supports projects through micro-grants, usually given out monthly. Projects include initiatives in a wide range of areas including arts, technology, community development, and more. Many awesome projects are novel or experimental, and evoke surprise and delight.
Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grants
Deadline: Rolling
Emergency Grants is the only active, multi-disciplinary program that offers immediate, project-based assistance of this kind to artists living and working anywhere in the United States, for projects occurring in the U.S. and abroad. Grants range in amount from $500 to $3,000, and the average grant is $1,900.
Gottlieb Foundation Emergency Grants
Deadline: Rolling
The Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Emergency Grant program provides interim financial assistance to qualified painters, printmakers, and sculptors whose needs are the result of an unforeseen, catastrophic incident. The maximum amount of this grant is $15,000; an award of $5,000 is typical.
Indigo Arts Alliance Mentorship Residency Program
Portland, ME
Deadline: Rolling
This program brings together artists from diverse backgrounds of the African Diaspora to engage in their creative process, while building lasting relationships rooted in co-mentorship. Artists of all disciplines are encouraged (painting, sculpture, illustration, writing, dance, music, theater/performance, photography, fiber/textiles, etc). Currently accepting applications from the North Eastern region (Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island).
Stochastic Labs
Berkeley, CA
Deadline: Rolling
Stochastic Labs awards fully sponsored residencies to exceptional engineers, artists, scientists, and entrepreneurs from around the world. Residencies are of variable length and include a private apartment at the mansion, co-working and/or dedicated work space, shop access (laser cutter, 3D printer etc), a monthly stipend, and a budget for materials. Residents may apply as individuals or as teams.
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