Gear up for colder weather with new artist opportunities! From film grants to fiction contests, read the list below for new opportunities to further your artistic practice.
Mesa Refuge Residency
Point Reyes, California
Deadline: November 1, 2024
This residency supports writers, activists, and artists whose ideas are “on the edge,” taking on the pressing issues of our time. It offers writers a room in a home above a wetland in Point Reyes, California. Application fee: $50.
Black Mountain Institute Shearing Fellowship
Las Vegas, Nevada
Deadline: November 1, 2024
For emerging and distinguished writers who have published at least one book with a trade or literary press, this fellowship includes compensation of $40,000 and housing.
Artadia Houston Awards
Opens: October 1, 2024
Deadline: November 1, 2024
The Artadia Awards provide contemporary visual artists living or working in Houston with financial support and exposure. Three artists will receive unrestricted funds of $15,000, and one artist will receive the Marciano Artadia Award of $25,000.
PEN America Literary Awards Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers
Deadline: November 1, 2024
12 emerging writers will be recognized for their debut short story published in a literary magazine, journal, or cultural website. The winning writers each receive a $2,000 cash prize and will be published by Catapult in their annual anthology.
National Sculpture Society Stanley Bleifeld Memorial Grant
Deadline: November 4, 2024
This $5,000 prize is awarded annually to a sculptor who has demonstrated outstanding ability in their field and created a body of work inspired by nature which includes works of sculpture in the round and in bas-relief.
California Documentary Project Grants
Deadline: November 4, 2024
The California Documentary Project (CDP) supports documentary film, audio, and digital media productions that explore California. Funding is available in three categories: Research and Development Grants up to $15,000, Production Grants up to $50,000, and DP NextGen Grants up to $15,000.
VIA Art Fund Artistic Production Grant
Deadline: November 4, 2024
VIA Art Fund is accepting letters of inquiry (LOIs) for their Artist Production grant program. The grant awards individual artists, nonprofit organizations, and institutions $25,000-100,000 in support of new artistic commissions that take place outside museum or gallery walls, within the public realm, or in nontraditional exhibition environments. Project must have a confirmed exhibition venue.
The Studios at MASS MoCA Artist Residencies
Deadline: November 8, 2024
Fully-funded fellowships are available to national and international artists for two or four-week residencies, including General Fellowships, fellowships for Black or Indigenous Artists, Oregon Visual Artists, a Massachusetts Family Fellowship and a number of University-sponsored Fellowships.
Right to Write Award
Deadline: November 12, 2024
The Right to Write Award covers full tuition for Monthly Mentorship, a celebrated 7-month program helping authors integrate writing into their lives in sustainable ways, deepen their craft, and become their own best editors—for life. Through Monthly Mentorship, writers experience support, community, and challenge, while bringing projects to completion.
All About Photo Open Call
Deadline: November 12, 2024
The 44th printed issue of AAP Magazine will feature the best projects showcasing the theme ‘Street Photography’.Winners will receive $1,000 in cash awards, their winning image(s) or full portfolio published in AAP Magazine #44, extensive press coverage and global recognition.
Wassaic Project 2025 Summer Residency Program Open Call
Deadline: November 12, 2024
The Wassaic Project’s 2025 Summer Residency program (June–September) is open to individual artists, collaborative teams, groups of two or more individual artists, and artists applying through their Family Residency program. The residency fee is $900 per artist/ group/artist team/family for a 4 week residency session, which includes: semi-private studio space(s), private room in a shared house, access to a wood shop and kiln, staff support, and programming. Fee: $25.00
Women’s Studio Workshop Residencies
Rosendale, New York
Deadline: November 15, 2024
Women’s Studio Workshop offers residencies in the categories Art-in-Education Artist’s Book, Artist’s Book, and Artist’s Book for Indigenous Artists for women and trans, intersex, nonbinary and gender-fluid visual artists. Their studios are located in the foothills of the Hudson Valley’s Shawangunk Mountains.
Dresher Ensemble Artist Residency
San Francisco, California
Deadline: November 15, 2024
This residency supports artists in Northern California who are in their early to mid-career stage with free studio space and up-to-date equipment to create new work in the time-based arts such as theater, performance, dance, movement, music, sound art, instrument invention, as well as collaborative and interdisciplinary work. Artists also receive a stipend of up to $1,500.
Tendrils Journal Call for Submissions
Deadline: November 18, 2024
Tendrils (a new art and literature journal focused on trauma) is seeking submissions of visual art and short-form literature for its premiere issue. The first edition of Tendrils will explore the profound theme of trauma and the body—how it’s held, manifested, and transmitted in physical form. They invite creators to interpret this theme in their unique way, whether conceptually in abstraction, or more realistically.
LSU SciArts New Play Festival
Deadline: November 22, 2024
LSU is accepting submissions for original plays that explore the intersection of science and art. They are seeking innovative stories where science plays a central role in the narrative. Selected playwrights will have the opportunity to workshop their plays, receive a $500 reward, and travel to Baton Rouge for our festival, which will take place from April 13-15, 2025.
Deadline: November 24, 2024
100 Voices of Florida offers an unrestricted fund for Floridian-based filmmakers and screenwriters with completed scripts for short films of any genre to promote and encourage storytellers to keep creating. There will be one winner for every 100 submissions.
Rauschenberg Emergency Grants
Opens: October 29, 2024
Deadline: November 26, 2024
These grants of up to $5,000 support direct treatment expenses that have been incurred, or are needed, for medical, dental or mental health treatment. Artists practicing in the visual arts, film, video, electronic, digital arts, and choreography are eligible.
Yale Call for Art Recognizing Enslavement
Deadline: November 30, 2024
Yale’s Committee for Art Recognizing Enslavement (CARE) is seeking artists with experience in public art, socially engaged art, or participatory art to create artistic interventions, permanent and ephemeral, and related programming in New Haven to address Yale’s historical roles and associations with slavery and the slave trade as well as the legacy of that history.
Smack Mellon Open Call for Emerging Artists: Summer Group Exhibition
Deadline: December 1, 2024
Smack Mellon seeks artwork submissions for a summer group exhibition to be guest-curated by New York City-based writer and curator Pallavi Surana. This exhibition conceptually departs from the salt marsh—a transitional zone between terrestrial and aquatic environments that provides critical habitat for a variety of species. As ecosystems, salt marshes carry an inherent tension and exist as intermediaries: between land and sea, and between a perceived desolation and vitality.
Philadelphia Stories Fiction Contest
Deadline: December 1, 2024
This national short fiction contest that features a first place $1,000 cash award and three $250 runner-up cash awards. The winner stories will be published in the print issue of the Winter/Spring 2025 issue of Philadelphia Stories. We especially encourage writers from underrepresented groups and backgrounds to send their work. Fee: $20.00.
EFA Studio Program New Membership Open Call
Deadline: December 1, 2024
This highly regarded program offers professional visual artists subsidized studios, curatorial visits, and a supportive community in Midtown Manhattan. Artists are selected by a panel of art professionals based on an anonymous review of images, videos, and a short statement. They welcome artists living within commuting distance of Manhattan.
Public Art for Spatial Justice
Massachusetts
Deadline: December 2, 2024
Massachusetts-based artists and organizations working with artists can apply for this project grant. Projects must take place in Massachusetts and creatively cultivate expressions or embodiments of spatial justice through public artmaking. All artistic disciplines are welcome to apply. Public Art for Spatial Justice grants range from $15,000-$30,000, for up to two-year grant period beginning March 2025 through February 2027.
Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant
Deadline: December 9, 2024
Do you have an unanticipated opportunity to present your work? Did you incur an unexpected expense that you didn’t budget for? The Foundation for Contemporary Arts offers Emergency Grants between $200 and $2,500 for visual and performing artists. They review applications once a month, so you can quickly take advantage of momentum or solve any budget errors.
Women’s Studio Workshop Internships
Rosendale, New York
Deadline: December 10, 2024
Women’s Studio Workshop offers a Studio Internship and a Non-Profit Management Internship to work on projects that may include printmaking, letterpress, papermaking, and book arts, in addition to assisting with the ongoing operations of the facility.
Furious Flower Poetry Prize
Opens: December 15, 2024
Deadline: February 15, 2024
Poets with no more than one published book are invited to submit up to three poems (no more than a total of 6 pages) for consideration for this prize. The winner and honorable mention receive $1500 and $750 respectively. Submission fee: $15
Newberry Library Artist in Residence Fellowships
Deadline: December 15, 2024
Apply for three different fellowships for visual and performing artists, writers, journalists, filmmakers, and other humanists, each with a $3,000 stipend.
Joshua Tree Highlands Artist Residency
Deadline: December 15, 2024
This residency awards an international community of artists the gifts of time and space amidst the extraordinary natural beauty of Joshua Tree National Park. Seven week residencies include scholarship funds, living accommodations, and studio space designed to accommodate a broad range of artistic activity and open studio events. Fee: $45.00
NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship
New York State
Deadline: December 17, 2024
The NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship is an $8,000 unrestricted cash grant available to artists living in New York State and/or one of the Tribal Nations located therein. The fellowship is not a project grant, but is intended to fund an artist’s vision or voice, at all levels of their artistic development.
Anna Rabinowitz Award for Poetry
Deadline: December 31, 2024
$1,000 is awarded to poets and their collaborators for venturesome, interdisciplinary work combining poetry and any other art or discipline. Fee: $10.
Dramatists Guild Foundation Emergency Grants
Deadline: Rolling
Dramatists (playwrights, composers, lyricists and librettists in the theatrical genre) facing a financial crisis and needing financial assistance and/or support are eligible to apply for an emergency grant.
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).
Breck Creek Artist-in-Residence Program
Breckenridge, Colorado
Deadline: Rolling
Open to regional and national artists of all disciplines, Artists-in-Residence spend 2-4 months in a live/work studio in cozy downtown Breckenridge, Colorado. Artists receive a biweekly stipend of $600
Musicians Foundation
Deadline: Rolling
Application for one-time financial assistance is open to professional musicians across all genres. You must be a professional music performer, composer/arranger, or educator in a specific time of need caused by an unexpected hardship (e.g., medical or dental situation, natural disaster, or certain housing crises).
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
Deadline: Rolling
The Foundation welcomes applications from visual artists who are painters, sculptors, and artists who work on paper, including printmakers. Grants are intended for a one-year period of time. The Foundation will review expenditures relating to an artist’s professional work and personal expenses, and amounts range up to $50,000. Artists must be actively exhibiting their current work in professional artistic venues, such as gallery and museum spaces.
Employment Opportunities
NYU Tisch: Visiting Assistant Arts Professor, Dance Technique: Contemporary Position
Deadline: November 18, 2024
NYU Tisch Department of Dance seeks an experienced dance educator and dance practitioner with expertise in contemporary ballet technique with a strong anatomical and somatic approach to their practice.
Atlantic Theater Company: Director of Development Position
Deadline: Rolling
Atlantic Theater Company seeks a Director of Development who can oversee an energized fundraising plan, collaborate with fellow Atlantic leaders, and guide a motivated and empowered department.
