As a new year fast approaches, enjoy the downtime of the holiday season by applying to new artist opportunities! From public art open calls to poetry prizes, read the list below for new opportunities to further your artistic practice.
Stacey Kirby, 2024-2025 Roman Witt Artist in Residence. Photo by Alex Maness.
Sponsored
Roman J. Witt Residency Program at the University of Michigan
$20,000 Honorarium
Ann Arbor, MI
Deadline: December 15, 2024
The mission of the Roman J. Witt Residency Program is to support the production of new work at the University of Michigan. Open to both established and emerging artists and designers, the program awards one residency each academic year.
The 2025–2026 Witt Residency is organized in partnership with the University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA), specially themed to explore the upcoming United States Semiquincentennial (2026). The Witt Residency especially encourages social practice and performance artists with an interest in issues of national identity, commemorative practices and memory, and the history and future of the United States, to apply. The selected artist will work with partners at the Museum of Art and the Witt Residency to conceptualize, design, mount and produce a performance, activation, or intervention in the Museum of Art’s Lizzie and Jonathan Tish Apse in the Fall of 2026.
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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.
Alchemy Art Center 2024 Artist Residency Program
San Juan Island
Deadline: December 1, 2024
Alchemy’s AIR program is a unique opportunity to live in an immersive arts community on San Juan Island, connect with the wider SJI community via teaching and outreach activities, and have focused time to create art in an environment that supports collaboration, cross-pollination, and innovation. Programs include a Teaching Artist Residency, Artists in Community Artist Residency, and a Special Projects Artist Residency.
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.
Bernheim Forest 2025 Artist in Residence Program
Clermont, Kentucky
Deadline: December 2, 2024
This residency awards up to 4 residencies a year to artists whose art ignites wonder, sparks curiosity, and brings people closer to nature. The program includes a $2,500 stipend along with the opportunity to live at Bernheim Forest and create site specific work inspired by their total immersion experience in the natural environment. One residency is always dedicated to an artist currently living in Kentucky or nearby counties in Southern Indiana; and one residency is dedicated to an artist whose work addresses environmental issues and the climate crisis. They encourage visual artists of all mediums to apply.
Material Works Art Award 2024
Deadline: December 8, 2024
The Material Works Art Award supports artists through a one-time $2,500.00 grant in exchange for original artwork that will join our growing contemporary art collection. This award recognizes artistic excellence and aims to promote career advancement through increasing visibility and exposure.
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.
McColl Center Artists-in-Residence Programs
Charlotte, VA
Deadline: January 3, 2025
McColl Center Fall 2025 Artists-in-Residence
McColl Center’s Artist-in-Residence Program for Fall 2025 sparks artistic growth for emerging and mid-career artists. Residents enjoy private housing, a large-scale studio, guidance, marketing support, and a stipend. They have the freedom to focus on artistic exploration and engage with the local creative community. Access to shared labs: 3D, ceramics, media, and woodshop. The program runs from September 9 to December 15, 2025.
McColl Center Fall 2025 Artists-in-Residence in Partnership with Atrium Health
McColl Center invites local Charlotte and regional artists to apply for the Fall 2025 Artist-in-Residence program, with a focus on healthcare and healing. Artists may work in drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, film, video, new media, or interdisciplinary practices. Successful proposals should engage Atrium patients and/or staff. Residency includes private housing, a large-scale studio, curatorial guidance, marketing support, and a stipend. Access to shared labs: 3D, ceramics, media, and woodshop. The program runs from September 9 to December 15, 2025.
Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts Residency
Deadline: January 5, 2025 (announced in mid-November)
Saltonstall offers free residencies to artists and writers who are year-round residents of New York State and/or one of the Indian Nations located therein. Categories include Poetry, Fiction & Creative Nonfiction, Photography (film or digital) & Filmmaking, Painting, Sculpture, and Visual Arts.
The Saltonstall X Circus Culture Hupstate Residency
Deadline: January 10, 2025
This residency is designed to provide a generous and spacious environment for the development of the circus arts in NY State and/or Indian Nations based therein, and provides housing for 7 nights/8 days (Sunday April 7th- Sunday April 14th) with a private room, $100 travel stipend, access to up to 6 hours per day of shared circus studio time at Circus Culture, pantry staples, local vegetables for breakfast and lunch, and communal dinners provided by a private chef.
Luminarts Cultural Foundation Fellowship Open Call
Chicago, Illinois
Deadline: January 10, 2025
Luminarts provides opportunities for emerging artists in the disciplines of Classical Music, Visual Arts, Jazz, and Creative Writing. Applicants must be between 18 and 30 and live or reside within 150 miles of the Chicago Loop. Fellowship opportunities include project grants, workshops, mentorship, and facilitated conversations.
Anderson Center Opportunities
Deadline: January 14, 2025
2025 Anderson Center Residency
The Anderson Center at Tower View’s Artist Residency Program is an opportunity in August and October 2025 for early career, mid-career, and established artists working across all disciplines and based anywhere in the world. The program is interdisciplinary and the organization welcomes applications from a wide range of creative and intellectual genres, including those that don’t fit neatly into one category. Selected artists receive live/work space, fellowship & exchange within a 5-artist cohort, chef-prepared meals, and more. Fee: $30.00
2025 Early Career Artist Residency
The Early Career Artist Residency Program is an opportunity for early-career artists living within the state of Minnesota or one of the five boroughs of New York City in need of focused time and dedicated space in an inspiring residency work environment that empowers them take risks, embrace challenges, and utilize unconventional approaches to problem-solving. A month-long cohort of five artists will each receive a $625/week stipend, a travel honorarium, documentation support, and more.
Folger Institute Artistic Research Fellowships
Deadline: January 15, 2025
Open to all artists whose work would benefit from significant primary research related to the histories, concepts, art, and objects of the early modern world (ca. 1400-1800) and its legacies, applicants may apply for one, two, or three months of research support, with a stipend of $4,000 per month.
Adolph & Esther Gottlieb Foundation 2024 Individual Support Grants
Deadline: January 15, 2025
These grants are available to individual painters, sculptors, and printmakers who have worked in a mature phase of art for 20 years or more.
The Sculpture Center 2026-27 Revealed Emerging Artists Open Call
Greater Ohio region
Deadline: January 26, 2025
Emerging artists of the greater Ohio region (Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Kentucky, West Virginia, western Pennsylvania, western New York, or Ontario, Canada by birth, residency, or education, but need not be currently residing in the area) whose practice includes sculpture, installation, mixed and expanded media, relational aesthetics, and performance are eligible to apply. Revealed awards artists in the first ten years of their career the opportunity to create work for a solo show. This is a funded exhibition. An artist stipend will be provided in addition to gallery support.
2025-2026 Visual Arts Fellowship Application
Deadline: February 3, 2025
The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown has supported emerging writers and artists for over 50 years, granting 10 annual fellowships to visual artists and 10 annual fellowships to writers for a seven-month residency that runs from October 1 – April 30. Fellows are selected through a rigorous jury process. Visual Arts Fellows are provided with a private furnished apartment and a separate work studio of approximately 400 sq ft. Fellows are awarded a $1250 monthly stipend plus a $1000 exit stipend to support relocation at the end of the Fellowship. Fee: $40.00
McKinney International Art and Design Residency 2027, Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design
Deadline: February 16, 2025
The Eskenazi School of Art Architecture + Design at Indiana University Bloomington invites applications for a 4–6-week residency between February 1–May 1, 2027. An established artist or designer will be selected whose primary country of residence is outside the United States. Applicants should be actively engaged in a contemporary artistic practice and show evidence of a national and international exhibition record. Applications from practitioners of studio disciplines, as well as criticism, are welcome.
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, Maine
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.
The University of Tennessee – Knoxville: Assistant Professor of Photography Fall 2025
Deadline: Rolling
The University of Tennessee School of Art seeks candidates for a full-time, tenure-track position in Photography at the rank of Assistant Professor. Primary responsibilities include undergraduate and graduate instruction, an active creative research agenda, and service to the department, university, and profession.
The Luminary: Deputy Director
Deadline: Rolling
The Luminary, an independent space based in St. Louis, MO, seeks an experienced and passionate Deputy Director to support the organization’s operations and programs. This role will focus on grants writing and management, overseeing financial systems, and fostering cross-team collaboration to support public programs.
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