The following resources are organized chronologically and include grants, fellowships, residencies, and other opportunities for artists with deadlines in January, February, and March. There are opportunities for visual artists, filmmakers, writers, poets, performers, curators, and more. The resources are arranged chronologically by their submission deadline.
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Last Updated January 9, 2024
January
Yaddo Artist Retreat - Yaddo is a retreat for artists located on a 400-acre estate in Saratoga Springs, New York. Its mission is to nurture the creative process by providing an opportunity for artists to work without interruption in a supportive environment. Yaddo offers residencies to professional creative artists from all nations and backgrounds working in one or more of the following disciplines: choreography, film, literature, musical composition, painting, performance, photography, printmaking, sculpture, and video.
Application fee: $30 (additional fees may apply for media uploads)
Deadline: January 10, 2024
Provincetown International Film Festival - The Provincetown International Film Festival is dedicated to showcasing new achievements in independent film and honoring the work of emerging as well as acclaimed directors, producers, and actors. Taking place in America's oldest art colony, PIFF continues a long tradition of supporting and connecting artists by providing easy networking opportunities and access to filmmakers and industry in one of the most culturally rich and naturally beautiful towns on earth.
Application fee: Varies based on category
Late Deadline: January 12, 2024
Ucross Residency Program - The Ucross Residency Program is open to visual artists, writers, composers, choreographers, interdisciplinary artists, and performance artists, as well as collaborative teams. Applicants must exhibit professional standing in their field; both mature and emerging artists of promise are welcome to apply.
Application fee: $40
Late Deadline: January 15, 2024
Film Independent Documentary Story Lab - Taking place in the spring, the Documentary Story Lab helps directors craft the best story possible for their documentary film. Over the period of one week, participants attend multiple workshops and sessions with guest speakers, established documentary directors, institutional funders, legal professionals, festival programmers and distributors. Fellows are paired with an experienced Creative Advisor and Editing Advisor who provide one-on-one support. The Lab culminates in a final pitch event that offers further opportunity for individualized feedback and discussion with industry executives.
Application fee: $65 (for non-members)
Late Deadline: January 15, 2024
StudioWorks Artist-in-Residence Program - Founded in 2013 and now in its twelfth year, The StudioWorks Artist-in-Residence Program at the Tides Institute & Museum of Art (TIMA) offers residency opportunities to visual artists from the U.S. and abroad to deepen and develop their practice within a community setting. Our studios, museum and housing are located within the historic downtown and working waterfront of Eastport, Muselenk (Moose Island), Maine and overlook the U.S./Canada boundary. TIMA’s downtown StudioWorks building contains private studios, common work areas, and a ground floor printmaking and letterpress studio.
Application fee: $25
Deadline: January 15, 2024
Pocoapoco / Sur o No Sur - Sur o No Sur is a proposal for collective learning — an experiment in sharing and rethinking knowledge between us through guided practices, dialogue, and exploration. Modeled as three-week residency learning programs held during the summer of 2024 in Oaxaca, the program brings in a selection of visiting artists to act as guides and facilitators.
Application fee: None
Deadline: January 15, 2024
ICI Curatorial Research Fellowships - Conceived to foster independent research, ICI’s Curatorial Research Fellowships offer a framework tailored to each curator’s field of critical inquiry. The fellows will receive mentorship specific to their research interests, as well as $10,000 in financial support. They will have access to ICI’s international networks of collaborators and programs to create opportunities for continued learning. Fellows may be based anywhere as mentorship sessions will be held virtually. The fellowship period is eight months, between March and October 2024.
Application fee: None
Deadline: January 15, 2024
Folger Institute Artistic Research Fellowship - Folger Institute Artistic Research Fellowships are 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. Artistic applicants are not required to hold a formal degree, but should describe their training and level of industry-specific experience in their CV. Artistic applicants may apply for one, two, or three months of research support, with a stipend of $4,000 per month, taken any time between July 1, 2024, and June 30, 2025. For the 2024-25 fellowship year, artistic fellows will have the option to take fellowships fully onsite at the Folger, fully virtual, or a combination of the two.
Application fee: None
Deadline: January 15, 2024
The Luminary Open Call for Research-led Practices - The Luminary's 2024 Residency Open Call supports creative practitioners who engage with the pressing issues of our time. As a residency focusing on process and research, The Luminary will provide individuals, small collectives, and collaborations with the space and time to rest, reflect and relate around a line of inquiry. This year, the open call residency will be offered in two sessions: one in Spring, and one in Fall. Cohorts of three will be selected, with the opportunity to engage as a group with The Luminary’s staff for visits to local art-centers, studios, and destinations around the city.
Application fee: $15
Deadline: January 15, 2024
2025 Sculpture Space Residency Program - SCULPTURE SPACE in Utica, New York offers two-month residencies for sculpture artists from February to November 2024. You'll have access to a 5,500 sq. ft. shared studio with specialized equipment, along with six semi-private studios .Each residency consists of five to six artists during four two-month periods: February/March, April/May, July/August, and October/November.
Application fee: $35
Deadline: January 15, 2024
Monson Arts Residencies - Monson Arts’ residency program supports emerging and established artists and writers by providing them time and space to devote to their creative practices. During each of our 2-week and 4-week programs throughout the year, a cohort of 5 artists and 5 writers are invited to immerse themselves in small town life at the edge of Maine’s North Woods and focus intensely on their work within a creative and inspiring environment. They receive a private studio, private bedroom in shared housing, all meals, and $1,000 stipend ($500 for 2-week programs). The Abbott Watts Residency for Photography offers access to the photography studio and darkroom of Todd Watts in nearby Blanchard, adjacent to the former home of Berenice Abbott.
Application fee: $25
Deadline: January 15, 2024
Orchard Project Lab - The OP empowers creators of dramatic stories through its Lab programs, providing support in flexible, collaborative environments that empower artists to create new works. Our annual Performance, Episodic, Audio, and Greenhouse Labs all return in full form in 2024, including various threads based on the needs of various projects and the resources available (cohort based development vs in-person rehearsal room development).
Application fee: None
Deadline: January 16, 2024
The Gottlieb Foundation Individual Support Grant - The Foundation wishes to encourage artists who have dedicated their lives to developing their art, regardless of their level of commercial success. Please note that these grants are available only to mature individual visual artists. The Foundation defines maturity in this case as having worked for 20 years or more in a mature phase of art.
Application fee: Unknown
Deadline: January 17, 2024
Byrdcliffe Summer AIR Program - Every year, Byrdcliffe’s 1-month to 5-month artist residency program provides over 75 artists of exceptional talent uninterrupted creative time within the serene natural setting of the Byrdcliffe Arts Colony. Communal residencies offer artists individual studio space and living accommodations in shared residential buildings amidst the serene natural setting of the Byrdcliffe Arts Colony located in Woodstock, New York. Cottage residencies offer artists live/work space within the larger creative community of the Byrdcliffe Arts Colony. While cottage residencies are more autonomous by nature, during the summer months (May – September) artists-in-residence living in the cottages are welcome to participate in all community-wide gatherings and programmatic offerings including practice shares, excursions, community dinners and our monthly summer Open Studios events.
Application fee: $30
Cottage Residency deadline: January 19, 2024
Communal Residency deadline: February 16, 2024
Frameline: The San Francisco International LGBTQ+ Film Festival - Founded in 1977, the San Francisco International LGBTQ+ Film Festival is the longest-running, largest, and most widely recognized queer film exhibition event in the world. Frameline48: the San Francisco International LGBTQ+ Film Festival will return to the Bay Area with its signature showcase of the world’s leading queer cinema.
Application fee: $50
Deadline: January 22, 2024
Hambidge Center Residencies - The Hambidge Center is situated on 600 forested acres in the mountains of north Georgia and offers miles of nature trails, meadows, waterfalls, a swimming hole and an abundance of wildflowers. The oldest residency program in the Southeast, Hambidge provides a self-directed program that honors the creative process and trusts individuals to know what they need to cultivate their talent, whether it’s to work and produce, to think, to experiment or to rejuvenate. Residents’ time is their own; there are no workshops, critiques, nor required activities. Each resident is given their own private studio which provides work and living space with a bathroom and full kitchen. The studios are designed to protect residents’ time, space and solitude.
Application fee: $30
Deadline: January 22, 2024
Trillium Arts Residencies - Trillium Arts is an artist residency center where artists of many disciplines can find a creative home away from home, offering secluded space for creating and rejuvenation in a beautiful, remote setting in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Our current facilities are best suited to the disciplines of literary arts, photography, visual arts and arts administration.Individual artists who do not require a rehearsal studio (such as writers and photographers) are encouraged to apply for a one week residency. Performing artists (such as choreographers and theater artists) are also welcome to apply, with the understanding that the Red Barn Studio may be available but for an additional fee starting at $35 per day.
Application fee: Unknown
Deadline: January 22, 2024
Haystack Open Studio Residency Program - Haystack's Open Studio Residency will be held May 26-June 7, 2024. Haystack residents include established and emerging artists working in a range of visual art and craft media. An independent committee reviews applications to the Open Studio Residency and both national and international artists working in a variety of disciplines are eligible for consideration. Participants can choose to work in one particular studio or move among them depending on their interests and the nature of their work. There are no private studio spaces.
Application fee: $60
Deadline: January 28, 2024
Guernica Poetry Fellowship - The Guernica Poetry Fellowship is a virtual program for beginning poets who have not published books or entered MFA programs and who wish to gather with other poets in learning communities outside of academic institutions. The fellowship, supported by a one-time grant, will allow poets to revise and reimagine their own poems through intensive mentorship. From February to June 2024, four fellows will receive one-on-one mentorship from a leading working poet, attend workshops/talks led by guest speakers, and work with other beginner poets in a cohort led by the poetry editors of Guernica.
Application fee: None
Priority Deadline: January 31, 2024 (rolling until filled)
Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program - The Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program awards rent-free non-living studio space to 17 visual artists for year-long residencies in DUMBO, Brooklyn. The program is open to professional visual artists, 21 years or older who live in the US, as well as US citizens or permanent residents living abroad.
Application fee: Unknown
Deadline: January 31, 2024
Soros Justice Fellowships - The Soros Justice Fellowships support outstanding individuals—including lawyers, advocates, grassroots organizers, writers, print and broadcast journalists, artists, filmmakers, and other individuals with distinctive voices—to undertake full-time projects that engage and inform, spur debate and conversation, change policy or practice, and catalyze change around the U.S. criminal legal system at the local, state, and national levels. Fellowships can be either 12 or 18 months in duration, may be undertaken with the support of a host organization, and should begin in the fall of 2024.
Application fee: Unknown
Deadline: January 31, 2024
Weir Farm Artist-In-Residence Program - Weir Farm’s Artist-in-Residence (AIR) Program is envisioned to be an outstanding National Park Service residency program that reflects the values and character of Weir Farm National Historical Park (NHP) by continuing the creative conversations started by the Weir Family through the work of contemporary artists. Weir Farm’s AIR Program fosters contemporary artistic expression on site and prioritizes experimental and thought-provoking approaches to examining and interpreting our world through the medium of contemporary visual art practice. The Weir Farm AIR Program hosts 6 established or emerging visual artists per year to spend one month living and working at the Park (May-October). Housing and studio space are provided. Artists will receive a stipend of $400.
Application fee: $35
Deadline: January 31, 2024
February
Fine Arts Work Center Visual Arts Fellowship - 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.
Application fee: $65
Deadline: February 1, 2024
Middlebury Bread Loaf Writers’ Conferences - The Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, founded in 1926, is one of the oldest and finest of its kind in the country. It is the cornerstone to the three Bread Loaf Conferences, which include the Writers’ Conference, the Environmental Writers’ Conference, and the Translators’ Conference. In all the programs, you’ll experience the Bread Loaf model, which includes small-group workshops scheduled among enriching readings and lectures. Each summer, our faculty members include some of the world’s most notable writers and translators.
Application fee: $20
Deadline: February 1, 2024
U.S.-Japan Creative Artist Fellowship Program - Longtime partners, the Japan U.S. Friendship Commission (JUSFC) and the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) extend an invitation to contemporary and traditional artists from the United States to apply for a unique collaborative artistic residency. This fellowship is designed to shine a spotlight on the rich tapestry of U.S.-Japan artistic collaboration during the 2025 World Expo in Osaka. JUSFC and the NEA are committed to supporting and selecting up to five collaborative projects involving diverse artists from the United States and Japan, representing a wide range of artistic genres and regions from both countries. By living and working in Japan for at least 3-5 months, their interaction with the Japanese public and the outlook they bring home provide exceptional opportunities to promote cultural understanding between the United States and Japan.
Application fee: None
Cover Sheet deadline: February 1, 2024
Narrative Application deadline: March 8, 2024
Wave Farm Radio Art Fellowships - In 2024, Wave Farm Radio Art Fellowships will be a one-month engagement, commencing with a 10-day stay at Wave Farm’s Study Center for research and immersion. The rest of the fellowship engagement will take place remotely. Fellowships will be awarded in three distinct categories: The Research Fellow: will make a minimum of five additions to the Wave Farm Radio Art Archive. The Community Engagement Fellow will design and lead a multi-session workshop (or listening series) with WGXC programmers and interested members of the public. The Arts Writing Fellow is a critic and/or curator who will select three artists/projects from Wave Farm’s Residency Program now in its 20th year.
Application fee: None
Deadline: February 1, 2024
Philip Roth Residence in Creative Writing - Named for Bucknell's renowned literary alumnus ('54) and initiated in fall 1993, the Philip Roth Residence in Creative Writing offers up to four months of unfettered writing time for a writer working on a first or second book. In the current application season, The Roth Residence is open to writers in any creative genre in the literary arts, including fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, hybrid work, graphic novel, etc. The residency provides an apartment in Bucknell's Writers' Cottage and a stipend of $5,000.
Application fee: None
Deadline: February 1, 2024
Watershed Center Summer Residency - Watershed’s summer residency sessions offer artists uninterrupted time to focus on their practices in our state-of-the-art ceramics studio. During a session, up to sixteen artists form a creative community while living and working on campus. Participants enjoy 24-hour studio access, comfortable accommodations, and delicious meals. Organizing artists develop the themes for each session and invite a small group of artists to anchor the session with them. Additional artists with an interest in the session theme then apply to join them for two weeks at Watershed.
Application fee: $25
Deadline: February 1, 2024
The Playwrights Realm Writing Fellowship and Scratchpad Series - The Playwrights Realm Writing Fellowship Program awards four early-career playwrights with nine months of resources, workshops and feedback designed to help them reach their professional and artistic goals. Scratchpad Series jumpstarts The Realm’s relationship with early-career playwrights from around the country. Participants will spend a week in New York City for a developmental reading of their play with top-notch professional collaborators—director, cast, and The Realm’s artistic staff.
Application fee: None
Deadline: February 5, 2024
Tofte Lake Center Artist Residencies - This year we are offering two Individual Artist Residencies. These residencies are focused on individual artists and/or small collaborative teams of all disciplines (literary, performing and visual arts) who wish to create work in the natural environment and in community with other artists. There is also time for play and rejuvenation - all in support of each artist’s goals, needs and interests. Additional residencies include: Minnesota BIPOC Artist Residency, Minnesota BIPOC Arts Educators Residency, and Minnesota Family Artist Residency.
Application fee: Unknown
Deadline: February 5, 2024
AT&T Untold Stories - Untold Stories is a multi-year, multi-tier alliance between AT&T and Tribeca Festival that awards $1 million dollars, mentorship, and comprehensive support to systemically underrepresented filmmakers to produce their films. At the 2024 Tribeca Festival, 5 new talented and diverse filmmaking teams will pitch their original feature scripted film projects to an esteemed Greenlight Committee of industry professionals to decide who will be the next $1 million dollar prize recipient. The winning film will be guaranteed a premiere at the 2025 Tribeca Festival, subject to timely delivery of the film, and dedicated distribution support. The additional 4 teams will receive a $15,000 grant for development support.
Application fee: None
Deadline: February 6, 2024
MacDowell Fall/Winter Residencies - MacDowell's mission is to nurture the arts by offering talented individuals an inspiring residential environment in which they can produce enduring works of the imagination. We encourage applications from artists representing the widest possible range of perspectives and demographics, and who are investigating an unlimited array of inquiries and concerns.
Application fee: $30
Deadline: February 10, 2024
Foundation House Artist Residency - Foundation House, located in back country Greenwich, CT, will open its doors for 10 days to six residents, allowing residents the time and space for concentrated creation in beautiful and inspiring surroundings. Foundation House’s mission as a non profit center for learning is to focus on health, wellness, the environment, and social justice. To that end, we will host residencies, workshops, lectures and other meaningful gatherings on these topics. Each resident will be given a stipend, private bedroom and private or semi-private bathroom, all meals plus full kitchen access, and access to studio space, a wide variety of common areas, and 75 acres of land to explore and enjoy. Residents will eat dinner together every evening to ensure that they are building relationships and are familiarizing themselves with each other's work, facilitating feedback and collaboration.
Application fee: None
Deadline: February 11, 2024
Teiger Foundation Curatorial Research and Development Grants - Grants of up to $50,000 support the early stages of a project. Every curator begins differently: Some start in archives and collections, others in artists’ studios, and some develop ideas alongside programmatic partners. This grant is meant to offer support for these critical exploratory phases of curatorial work, independent of a public-facing component of the future project. We do not require that research and development grants lead to an exhibition or public-facing project.
Application fee: Unknown
Deadline: February 14, 2024
The Bush Films - Since its creation in May 2018, The Bush Films has exemplified inclusivity, safety, and representation for queer women and trans and non-binary people. The Bush Films is the only consistent monthly queer film festival in New York City that focuses exclusively on films for, about, and by queer women, trans, and non-binary people.
Application fee: $14
Early deadline: February 15, 2024
Forge Project Fellowship - The Forge Project Fellowship is a cohort of six Indigenous individuals that represent a broad diversity of cultural practices, participatory research, organizing models, and geographical contexts that honor Indigenous pasts as well as build Native futures. Two of the fellowships are awarded to enrolled tribal members, First and Second Line Descendants of the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohican Indians in recognition of the peoples on whose homelands Forge Project is situated and to encourage site-specific and relational projects. Each Forge Project Fellow receives a total of $25,000 toward their practice and will have full access to the Forge Project site, libraries, and lending collection of living Indigenous artists during a residency stay of up to three weeks.
Application fee: Unknown
Deadline: February 15, 2024
Ambroggio Prize - The Ambroggio Prize is a $1,000 publication prize given for a book-length poetry manuscript originally written in Spanish and with an English translation. The winning manuscript is published by the University of Arizona Press, which is nationally recognized for its commitment to publishing the award-winning works of emerging and established voices in Latinx and Indigenous literature, as well as groundbreaking scholarship in Latinx and Indigenous studies.
Application fee: Unknown
Deadline: February 15, 2024
Visual AIDS Artists Support Grant - Since 1996, Visual AIDS has awarded grants to artists living with HIV who are in need of financial assistance in obtaining materials to create their artwork. Beginning in 2023, our grant program has expanded to support artists living with HIV through unrestricted grants, recognizing that artists need more than just art materials to make their work. Visual AIDS has distributed over $670,000 in grants to artists living with HIV since the program began.
Application fee: None
Deadline: February 15, 2024
CAAPP Book Prize - Founded in 2020, the CAAPP Book Prize is a publishing partnership between the University of Pittsburgh’s Center for African American Poetry and Poetics and Autumn House Press with the goal of publishing and promoting a writer of African descent. The prize is awarded annually to a first or second book by a writer of African descent and is open to the full range of writers embodying African, African American, and African diasporic experiences. The book can be of any genre that is, or intersects with, poetry, including poetry, hybrid work, speculative prose, and/or translation. The winning manuscript will be published by Autumn House Press and its author will be awarded $3,000.
Application fee: None
Deadline: February 15, 2024
Trans Justice Funding Project - The Trans Justice Funding Project is a community-led funding initiative founded in 2012 to support grassroots, trans justice groups run by and for trans people in the United States, including U.S. territories. We center the leadership of trans people organizing around their experiences with racism, economic injustice, transmisogyny, ableism, immigration, incarceration, and other intersecting oppressions.
Application fee: Unknown
Deadline: February 15, 2024
Nawat Fes - Nawat Fes offers funded residencies in the eighth-century medina of Fes, Morocco to U.S. and international creators in multiple disciplines. The initiative engages art to cultivate understanding among multifaceted cultures through the exchange of ideas. Two Nawat Fes artist residents at one time live and work in the ancient medina of Fes, which is considered one of the most extensive and best conserved historic cities of the Arab-Muslim world.
Application fee: 250 Moroccan Dirhams
Deadline: February 15, 2024
TRANSlations: Seattle Trans Film Festival - TRANSlations showcases films by, for and about our Trans+ community (Trans, Non-Binary, Gender Non-Conforming, Intersex and Two-Spirit). Launched in 2006, TRANSlations is one of only nine Trans+ focused film festivals in the world, providing an innovative space for creation and connection for under-represented and marginalized identities. A vital community space, this hybrid festival unites audiences and filmmakers from around the globe. Through virtual and in-person screenings, parties, panels, workshops, and community meet-ups, TRANSlations invests in relationships that build bridges and advocate for a more equitable future.
Application fee: Varies based on category
Early deadline: February 16, 2024
Martin House Creative Residency Program - The Martin House Creative Residency Program is a project-based residency that provides creative individuals a designated time and space to develop new works of the imagination inspired by one of the great examples of 20th century architecture. The primary goals of the program are to: nurture creativity by offering individuals from multiple disciplines a thought-provoking environment in which to produce works and present them to our community; expand interpretation of our site through active solicitation of diverse perspectives and voices; provide audiences across racial, ethnic, and economic lines an opportunity to discover and engage more fully with the Martin House and the creative arts; and strengthen the Martin House and the region as a center for architecture, art, design, and culture.
Application fee: Unknown
Deadline: February 16, 2024
PROOF OF CONCEPT - The Proof of Concept Accelerator is designed to be the pre-eminent accelerator for work that gives voice to the perspectives of women, trans and non-binary people. The program focuses on the support that rising talent needs to be successful in the industry. Successful applicants to the Proof of Concept program will receive $50,000 in funding and participate in a mentorship program to support the development and production of a short film. Participants will be required to attend meetings in Los Angeles for one week in May 2024. The rest of the mentorship program can be completed remotely.
Application fee: Unknown
Deadline: February 16, 2024
New Voices Filmmaker Grant - NewFest’s New Voices Filmmaker Grant, in partnership with Netflix, supports emerging LGBTQ+ directors by providing funding to make new work, assisting in getting their work more widely shared, and propelling their careers forward through mentorship, networking and professional development opportunities. In addition to the $25,000 grant and industry mentorship, fellows will also participate in events and have their work showcased at NewFest’s New York LGBTQ+ Film Festival, one of the largest queer film festivals in the world. Fellows will also have the opportunity to travel as guests of NewFest to other North American film festivals. Submissions are accepted from emerging LGBTQ+ directors who make documentary/nonfiction, narrative, and/or animated film/episodic projects for and about the LGBTQ+ community.
Application fee: Unknown
Deadline: February 22, 2024
Film Independent Episodic Lab - Designed to support writers with original long-form episodic projects, Film Independent’s Episodic Lab will accept a diverse group of 6–8 writers or writing teams and provide them with critical support and mentorship. Through personalized feedback from experienced showrunners, creative producers and executives, Fellows will gain the tools to revise and refine their pilots and navigate a changing industry landscape.
Application fee: $65 (for non-members)
Deadline: February 26, 2024
Aspen Summer Words - Recognized as one of the nation’s top literary gatherings, Summer Words is a six-day celebration of words, stories and ideas held annually in an idyllic Rocky Mountain setting. Summer Words 2024 will return to Snowmass Village, Colorado, a vibrant community just 9 miles from Aspen, with incredible mountain vistas in addition to 2.8 million adjacent acres of wilderness open for activities and exploration.
Application fee: $35
Deadline: February 28, 2024
Association of Writers & Writing Programs Award Series - AWP’s Award Series is an annual competition for the publication of excellent new book-length works. The competition is open to all authors writing in English regardless of nationality or residence, and it is open to published and unpublished authors alike.
Application fee: Unknown
Deadline: February 28, 2024
Vancouver Queer Film Festival - The Vancouver Queer Film Festival is one of the largest queer arts events in Western Canada, located on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. We illuminate, celebrate, and advance queer lives through film, education, and dialogue. We seek content in all genres, authored by 2SLGBTQIA+ creators and centred on 2SLGBTQIA+ protagonists.
Application fee: Varies based on category
Deadline: February 29, 2024
March
Dallas Museum of Art Awards to Artists - In 1980 the DeGolyer and Kimbrough families established two funds—the Clare Hart DeGolyer Memorial Fund and the Arch and Anne Giles Kimbrough Fund—for the purpose of recognizing exceptional talent and promise in young artists residing in the southwestern part of the United States. Ten years later, the Otis and Velma Davis Dozier Travel Grant was established to honor the memory of these two Dallas artists, who strongly believed in the enriching experiential and aesthetic influence of travel on an artist’s work. Together, these three funds created what is now known as Awards to Artists. Since its establishment, Awards to Artists has given out nearly $950,000 across 407 awarded grants
Application fee: Unknown
Deadline: March 1, 2024
KHN Center for the Arts Residency - The Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts awards up to seventy juried residencies per year to established and emerging visual artists, writers, composers, and interdisciplinary artists from across the country and around the world. Residencies are available for 2 to 8 weeks stays. Each resident receives a $175 stipend per week, free housing, and a private studio.
Application fee: $35
Deadline: March 1, 2024
La Napoule International Artist Residency - This residency offers up to ten artists of all disciplines a four week period to live and work at the Château de La Napoule. At its core is a belief in the value of the shared experience of personal, professional, and artistic discovery that takes place within a supportive environment of peers. This program promotes opportunities for cross-cultural dialogue, artistic exchange, and exploration of a shared interest in the greater good.
Application fee: $30
Deadline: March 1, 2024
Center for Craft Teaching Artist Cohort - Twenty mid-career craft artists who teach will receive $10,000 grants and join a 6-month cohort experience that supports their artistic and teaching career development with programs, mentorship, and peer-to-peer learning.
Application fee: None
Deadline: March 11, 2024
NYSCA/IEA Experimental Projects Residency - These one or two-week residencies are supported with an artist stipend, travel-funds, lodging, technology access, certain materials, and technical assistance. Two-week residencies are given out based on the scope of the proposed project and the submitted work samples. Artists have access to a combination of emerging, contemporary, and historical media arts tools and materials, many are unique and not ordinarily available in a studio setting.
Application fee: None
Deadline: March 11, 2024
Kala 2024-2025 Fellowship - The Kala Art Institute Fellowship is an artist residency for local, national, and international artists. Artists producing innovative work in and across mediums including printmaking, photography, digital media, social practice, media installation, and book arts are encouraged to apply. Each year Kala conducts an international competition that awards Fellowships to six artists from a variety of disciplines based on conceptual creativity, originality, and artistic excellence. In addition, in partnership with the Sustainable Arts Foundation, we support parent artists through one of our six fellowships designated for a parent artist (with a child under 18 at home).
Application fee: $20
Deadline: March 15, 2024
Residencies at Sitka - Sitka residencies provide time and space for self-paced work and reflection in an inspiring natural setting. Residents from a broad range of art, writing, performance and science-based practices come to Sitka to create and explore away from the familiar contexts and constraints of daily routines, and free from external expectations. Located within the unique ecosystems of Cascade Head and the Salmon River Estuary on Oregon's central coast, Sitka is a place where natural curiosity is sparked and creativity is unleashed. Since our founding, we have hosted hundreds of visual artists, photographers, writers, journalists, musicians, composers, filmmakers, educators and a broad range of natural scientists and interdisciplinary creatives. We currently invite 30-50 practitioners to stay at Sitka each year.
Application fee: $30
Deadline: March 15, 2024
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Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grants - The Foundation provides financial resources for visual artists to create new work, acquire supplies, rent studio space, prepare for exhibitions, attend a residency and offset living expenses. The Foundation welcomes, throughout the year, applications from visual artists who are painters, sculptors and artists who work on paper, including printmakers. There are no deadlines. Grants are intended for a one-year period of time.
Application fee: None
Stochastic Labs Residencies - 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 $1k monthly stipend and a budget for materials. Residents become part of Stochastic’s creative community, participating in weekly dinners and invitation events. Residents may apply as individuals or as teams. While applicants may be at any stage in their career, the selection is highly competitive.
Application fee: None
Welcome Hill Studios - Welcome Hill offers creative women a beautiful, nurturing place in the woods to gather their thoughts and inspiration. A residency is open to women visual artists, writers, composers, and interdisciplinary artists. Applicants must be over the age of 18, mature, self-motivated and directed. Project proposals must be compatible with available working spaces, facilities and resources. Residency is open to those who identify as female regardless of their sexual assignment at birth. We are open to having one on one conversations with any individual who is interested in attending a residency.
Application fee: $35
CUE Art Critic Mentoring Program - CUE’s Art Critic Mentorship Program (ACMP) pairs emerging writers with art critic mentors to produce original long-form critical essays about the work of artists exhibiting at CUE's gallery space. Essays commissioned through the program are published by CUE in print exhibition catalogues distributed at the gallery for each exhibition, and are also made available and promoted online on CUE’s website and social media. Writers receive an honorarium of $600 for their participation, along with editorial support from their mentor and CUE’s staff.
Application fee: None