The following resources are organized chronologically and include grants, fellowships, residencies, and other opportunities for artists with deadlines in July, August, and September. There are opportunities for visual artists, filmmakers, writers, performers, curators, and more. The resources are arranged chronologically by their submission deadline.
Have an opportunity you would like to add to the list? Email reya@queer-art.org
Last Updated July 17, 2024
July
The Future of Film is Female: Shorts Program - The Future of Film is Female is a non-profit organization whose mission is to amplify the work of women and non-binary filmmakers through our twice-annual Short Film Fund, commitment to exhibition screenings, and building community. Our new initiative, The FOFIF Shorts Program, is a combination of our two loves: short films and exhibition. Our second annual shorts program will take place at Nitehawk Cinema (Williamsburg) and will feature 7-9 short films selected only from FilmFreeway.
Application Fee: $25
Deadline: July 19, 2024
International Mediterranean Film Festival Montpellier (Cinémed) - All the registrations for the feature length fiction, the short films, the feature length documentary competitions and for the Development grant are open!
Application Fee: Unknown
Deadline: Varies, July 19- August 23, 2024
Hi-ARTS 2024-25 CRITICAL BREAKS and SKY LAB Residencies - We offer Artists of the Global Majority time and space to space to experiment and focus on their creative process through our CRITICAL BREAKS and SKY LAB residencies. CRITICAL BREAKS is a residency program for Artists who are in a pivotal phase of developing new theater and/or performance work. SKY LAB supports artists who center the community in their artistic process. SKY LAB is for artists who center the community at the root of creative development, research, and consideration.
Application Fee: None
Deadline: July 20, 2024
2025 Sunroom Project Space - The Sunroom Project Space provides an opportunity for New York City-area artists at the early stages of their career, irrespective of their age, to develop and present a site-specific solo project at Wave Hill. Wave Hill seeks proposals for artist projects that engage with the site of Wave Hill (the plant collection, histories and other aspects of the grounds) and the intertwined relationships between nature, culture and site. For the 2025 season, Wave Hill is particularly interested in projects that provide new perspectives on constructs of nature as they shape, inform and relay histories about the Bronx, including but not limited to, Riverdale where Wave Hill is located, the surrounding neighborhoods and the diverse neighborhoods and communities of the Bronx. Five artists will be selected for solo exhibitions and will receive an honorarium of $2,000 each.
Application Fee: None
Deadline: July 21, 2024
Center for Curatorial Leadership Fellowship - Twelve curators are selected each year for the core CCL fellowship. Applicants must be full-time art museum curators; the ideal candidate demonstrates a track record of success with and commitment to the full range of the curatorial endeavor – management, care, and scholarly study of collections as well as the development and execution of exhibitions, publications, and community programs.
Application Fee: Unknown
Deadline: July 22, 2024
The Stowe Story Labs $50,000 Short Film Production Grant - The Stowe Story Labs $50,000 Short Film Production Grant will award a Stowe administered grant of $50,000 to support the development of a 10-minute short film. Executive Producer Liz Cardenas will be available to work with the winning writer or writing team on all aspects of the production and sign-off on requests for disbursement of funds. This competitively awarded grant presents a life-changing opportunity for a screenwriter or production team to make a well-financed short film with mentorship throughout the process, including support on building a festival campaign and post-festival distribution program.
Application Fee: $75
Late Deadline: July 22, 2024
AAWW Flash Fiction Open Call - In 2025, we are excited to once again publish stories in our Flash Fiction series, featuring emerging and established Asian, Asian American, and Asian diasporic writers. The series has been on hiatus for the past six months—a time for us to plant the seeds for future creativity, to let the garden lie fallow and rejuvenate its soil. We are only accepting submissions from writers who have not already been published in the series.
Application Fee: None
Deadline: July 22, 2024
Grand Canyon Artist in Residence - The Artist in Residence program at Grand Canyon National Park offers artists the opportunity to practice and share their discipline with park visitors at one of the most beautiful sites in the world. The program is tied directly to the National Park Service Interpretation and Resource Education goal of inclusive storytelling and Grand Canyon Conservancy’s goal “to inspire generations of park champions to cherish and support the natural and cultural wonder of Grand Canyon.” Contemporary artists focused on site-specific community engagement, social practice, and immersive or interactive artworks are encouraged to apply. In 2025, three artists will be selected to live and work on Arizona's South Rim of Grand Canyon. Artists in Residence are expected to deliver an interactive project with programming to our guests and/or community during their stay.
Application Fee: None
Deadline: July 25, 2024
Proof of Concept Short Film Grant - Black Film Space is partnering with cliveRd., an agile startup studio focused on producing and building projects focused on futurism. We are accepting one short film script under 15 minutes/pages that aims to serve as a teaser for a feature film or episodic series. All genres are welcome. The project will be selected based on the filmmaker’s ability to present a strong short script and a treatment that shows great promise as a feature film or series. We are looking for ideas that showcase unique, novel perspectives of Black life and identity. We will also consider other factors such as the merit of previous work and financial need.
Application Fee: $35
Deadline: July 26, 2024
Urbanworld Film Festival - The Urbanworld Film Festival is the largest internationally competitive festival of its kind, hosted in New York City. The five-day festival includes narrative and documentary features, short films, web originals, branded content, spotlight screenings and conversations, and live staged screenplay readings. Since its inception, Hollywood studios, indie film distributors, and established and emerging filmmakers have consistently chosen Urbanworld® to premiere box office and award-winning hits.
Application Fee: Varies
Final Deadline: July 26, 2024
SPRING/BREAK Art Show Curatorial Application - SPRING/BREAK will return for its 5th edition in Los Angeles February 2024 and its lucky 13th New York City edition later in the year. The 2024 New York City and Los Angeles theme is INT./EXT. (interior/exterior). We are now accepting applications for our New York City Curatorial section.
Application Fee: $100
Extended Deadline: July 28, 2024
Queer Men Artist Lab: New Orleans 2024 - Produced in concert with Art Meets History, Labs include specific discussions about the medium of collage including the challenge of creating large work and issues of appropriation, copyright, and fair use and explore how the artist’s choice and understanding of material shapes the narrative of the artwork. The goal of the Queer Men Artist Lab: New Orleans is to equip artists with tools and strategies for picking up the unfinished work of history and speak to contemporary civic discourse around social, economic, and environmental issues. The cost of the Queer Men Artist Lab 2024 is $750 USD. A limited number of grants are available in order to offset the fee and reduce barriers to participation to those with a demonstrated financial need.
Application Fee: None
Extended Deadline: July 28, 2024
The Canopy Program 2024-2025 | Mentorship Intensive - The Canopy Program is a year-long mentorship intensive program, providing artists access to work exclusively with a Faculty Mentor and a Cohort of 10 artists for 3 consecutive semesters [Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025]. Artists will meet regularly throughout the program’s year for critiques, discussion and resource building in professional practices and art history lectures. Each Cohort will receive the opportunity to engage in special workshops, lectures and critique with Guest Speakers, Visiting Artists + Critics. Each Cohort will culminate in a pop-up group show with an opening reception the The Canopy Studio in Chelsea (NYC) at the end of the program!
Application Fee: $5
Deadline: July 28, 2024
La Femme Film Festival - La Femme International Film Festival will support and nurture the artistic entertainment productions of women for the benefit of distribution to an international and domestic audience.
Application Fee: Varies
Extended Deadline: July 29, 2024
Sundance Film Festival - The Sundance Film Festival brings together the most original storytellers and the most adventurous audiences for its annual program of dramatic, documentary, and short films; New Frontier films, performances, exhibitions, and virtual reality experiences; episodic storytelling; lively filmmaker conversations and panel discussions; and dynamic music events. Since 1985, hundreds of films launched at the Festival have gained critical recognition and reached worldwide audiences eager for fresh perspectives and new voices.
Application Fee: Varies
Deadline: Varies, July 29 - September 23, 2024
BDC Films Fellowship Program - The BDC created the Fellowship Program to help broaden the pipeline of traditionally underrepresented Bronx documentary filmmakers into the film profession and enable them to gain employment in creative industries. We invite proposals from filmmakers who will be engaged in Bronx communities and committed to creating in-depth documentaries based on the lives of community members and/or the issues affecting them. The Program includes a $3000 stipend for the year; documentary filmmaking courses and professional development workshops; mentorship from BDC staff and visiting filmmakers; documentary film screenings and panel discussions; equipment loans and low-cost rentals; access to free meeting and workspace; and a video editing suite. BDC Films also works to strengthen BDC’s artistic community by creating a peer-to-peer support network that empowers Bronx filmmakers.
Application Fee: None
Extended Deadline: July 30, 2024
EFA SHIFT: A Residency for Arts Workers - Since its inception in 2010, SHIFT residency has been providing peer support, mentoring, and studio space for over ninety artists who work in arts organizations in New York (as administrators, educators, accessibility consultants, etc.), to advance the artists’ creative practices in balance with their careers. The SHIFT residency honors these artists’ commitment to the arts community with a supportive and collaborative environment. Each year six New York-based artists receive a shared studio space, artist honoraria and production fee, career development opportunities, group catalog production, as well as monthly peer critiques and guest studio visits. The residency period starts from January 2025, and ends in July 2025, culminating in a curated group exhibition at EFA Project Space.
Application Fee: None
Deadline: July 31, 2024
Hulu/Kartemquin Accelerator - Providing a pathway to first look consideration as a Hulu Original, Kartemquin supports documentary features in production, specifically encouraging filmmakers who are working on at least their second feature film to apply. The Accelerator provides structured, supportive guidance and consultation from Kartemquin staff and invites external filmmakers and industry consultants as guest speakers. Selected participants will receive $30,000 in funding, mentorship, a custom-designed “braintrust lab” to give an intense deep dive into their projects, and an opportunity to pitch to Hulu executives. For selection, we prioritize filmmakers that have been historically excluded from the documentary space and we have a continued interest in supporting Midwest-based makers and stories.
Application Fee: None
Deadline: July 31, 2024
Visionary Fellowship - The Visionary Fellowship is a year-long program that invests in disabled filmmakers with the funding, mentorship and community they need to make a short film and leverage it into their first feature film. Disabled filmmakers have historically been drastically undervalued by the entertainment industry, and this program reverses that trend by providing significant resources to promising and highly-resourceful disabled writer/directors. The program is uniquely designed to cover the transition between making a short and preparing and packaging a debut feature, ensuring they have ample support to connect the dots between the two.
Application Fee: None
Deadline: July 31, 2024
Sarabande July Open - Sarabande is pleased to offer an open reading period for book-length manuscripts of poetry (hybrid and visual poetry, book-length poems, and experimental poetry), short fiction (micro/flash fiction, short stories, novellas, and short novels), and literary nonfiction (essay collections, book-length essays, and hybrid and experimental works).
Application Fee: $29
Deadline: July 31, 2024
2025 HUMAN Residency - Ragdale is pleased to announce the HUMAN (Humanities Understanding of the Machine-Assisted Nexus) Residency Fellowship, an exciting new partnership with Lake Forest College made possible by the Mellon Foundation. This multi-year collaboration invites artists from diverse disciplines to explore the intersection of the humanities, artificial intelligence, and social justice. Ragdale encourages applications from individuals whose work addresses questions about the impact of bias on AI outputs, the influence of dominant historical narratives on current AI technologies, and the ethical considerations for integrating AI into daily life. Emerging, midcareer, and established writers, dancers, musicians, composers, and visual artists are encouraged to apply.
Application Fee: None
Deadline: July 31, 2024
Climate Action Together - Climate Action Together is a new Impact Distribution Campaign Fund & Accelerator from Together Films. In our inaugural year, we can support two film teams who are releasing their films to public audiences (whether via Festival, Theatrical, Non-Theatrical, Digital or Broadcast) between 1st Jan – 30th June 2025. We are seeking applications from filmmakers (with finished films ready to release in 2025) who have ambitions to raise awareness of the climate crisis and recommended solutions to inspire public action and policy change within the UK and/or US. The fund is open to both documentary and scripted projects.
Application Fee: None
Deadline: July 31, 2024
POV Call for Entries - POV accepts documentaries / non-fiction films in the following categories:
* STANDARD: For completed films & fine cuts.
* SHORT: For films 35 minutes or less.
* ROUGH CUT: For invited feature rough cuts ONLY.
Application Fee: None
Deadline: July 31, 2024
SQUARE Open Call: Mapping the Atlantic - The open call for musical artists and bands wishing to participate in the first edition of SQUARE is now open. The festival is seeking artists who work and reside on the three continents bordered by the Atlantic Ocean (Africa, Americas, and Europe). Proposals in any musical genre, with any lineup configuration, and featuring music produced in any language will be considered. This open call aims to select musical proposals to be featured in the showcase lineup of the first edition of SQUARE, taking place between January 29th and February 1st, 2025, in the cities of Braga, Barcelos, Famalicão and Guimarães (North of Portugal). Selected projects will receive a performance fee of €750 (upon presentation of a receipt or invoice), catering, accommodation (for artists residing more than 60 km from the festival), technical rider, and backline.
Application Fee: None
Deadline: July 31, 2024
Pan African Film Festival - From 100 million dollar blockbuster premieres to newly emerging Hollywood talent, The Pan African Film Festival (PAFF) showcases a broad array of Black creative works from the world over, highlighting those that reinforce positive images and help to destroy negative stereotypes. Nowhere else can audiences find this unique opportunity to come together through film and art to explore new worlds, meet new people and acquire new information and ideas. PAFF is designated as an official qualifying film festival for narrative live action and animated short films for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences.
Application Fee: Varies
Regular Deadline: July 31, 2024
August
Yaddo - We offer 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. You may apply individually or as members of collaborative teams of up to three artists. Peer review is the keystone of our selection process, with different panelists each season. Residencies last from two weeks to two months and include room, board and a studio. There is no fee to come to Yaddo, and we have access grants to help offset the costs of attending a residency.
Application Fee: $30
Deadline: August 1, 2024
Penland Winter Residency - Penland’s Winter Residency program is a short-term residency opportunity for artists seeking to work independently in one of our 16 media specific studios during Penland’s quiet season. Practicing artists of all backgrounds and at any stage of their career are encouraged to apply for a 2-week or 4-week session. Shared studio access is provided to a small number of artists each session; we invite enough people to encourage conversation and creative camaraderie, but not so many that focused time in the studio is compromised.
Application Fee: $30
Deadline: August 1, 2024
Bemis Center Open Call: Fall Session 2025 - Founded in 1981, by artists for artists, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts facilitates the creation, presentation, and understanding of contemporary art through an international residency program, exhibitions, and educational programs. Located in the historic Old Market, Omaha’s arts and culture district, Bemis Center serves a critical role in the presentation and understanding of contemporary art, bridging the community of Omaha to a global discourse surrounding cultural production today.
Application Fee: $40
Deadline: August 1, 2024
Performing-Artist-in-Residence Program - The Museum of Chinese in America’s Performing-Artist-in-Residence Program will invite a cohort of 5 performing artists to individually generate ONE theme-based new project, by utilizing the resources and collections at MOCA. Throughout the residency, artists will be invited to participate in artist-led workshops and will be required to give 2 work-in-progress presentations to the public, one in December 2024, and the other in February 2025. Theme: Heteroglossia. Each selected artist will receive $3,000 honorarium, in addition to rehearsal space, MOCA collections, and additional financial support for the work-in-progress presentations.
Application Fee: None
Deadline: August 1, 2024
Nickelodeon Writing Program - Founded in the year 2000, the Nickelodeon Writing Program is a full-time, paid, yearlong development Program for television comedy writers with unique voices and from underrepresented communities. Join us at the studio in Burbank for classes and workshops to sharpen your skills, executive mentorship and networking to build your professional relationships, and the opportunity to work in the iconic live-action and animation writers’ rooms at Nick.
Application Fee: None
Deadline: August 1, 2024
Femme Frontera Film Grant/Beca de Cine Femme Frontera - As part of an on-going initiative to increase, inspire, and support short form content made by filmmakers from and currently residing in El Paso, Las Cruces, Juarez, and Chihuahua, Femme Frontera will fund new works made by emerging and established women and gender-expansive filmmakers. The funds will assist these filmmakers in the creation of their short films in the Borderland region. One grant of $4000 will be awarded to each country.
Application Fee: None
Deadline: August 1, 2024
Black Embodiments Studio Arts Writing Incubator - Participants in the Arts Writing Incubator meet to discuss contemporary black art, sharpen our understanding of the practice of arts writing, and to develop our own publishable arts writing. This year will feature a single cohort of 5 people who convene October 2024 - May 2025. The cohort will convene virtually every month to discuss assigned arts writing and to workshop writing-in-progress. They are tasked with seeing black art in their own locales on their own time, maintaining a writing practice that engages this art, and will be expected to pitch and ideally publish at least once during their session. Their writing will also be collected in the annual BES journal, A Year in Black Art. The cohort will also gather for an in-person convening—details TBD—where they will participate in closed-door sessions with invited artists, arts writers, and arts workers. Cohort members will receive a humble $1,000 for their participation.
Application Fee: None
Deadline: August 2, 2024
BCA Playwright Residency - The Boston Center for the Arts Playwright Residency supports rising playwrights by providing space to write, rehearse, and workshop a new work. Support is tailored to the selected artist, including mentorship, professional development to create, produce and reach expanded audiences, as well as further their creative process. This program aims to provide a container for playwrights who are invested in developing experimental work that sheds light on underrepresented stories and narratives. The playwright must create a new work while in the program. As part of the program, the awarded playwrights will have access to free space for a mid-year workshop, as well as a final staged reading.
Application Fee: None
Deadline: August 4, 2024
SculptureCenter In Practice Open Call - We invite artists who have not yet had an institutional solo exhibition in New York City to submit proposals for solo exhibitions in designated gallery spaces at SculptureCenter. Artists are also invited to propose off-site projects, publishing initiatives, performances, and nontraditional formats, which will be considered based on feasibility. Up to seven artists will be selected to participate in the program from spring 2025 to winter 2026. Each exhibition will be on view for approximately four to six weeks.
Application Fee: None
Deadline: August 4, 2024
“My Time” Fellowship for Parent Writers - The Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow is pleased to announce the 2024 "My Time" fellowship funded by James Dean. Writers who are parents of dependent children under the age of 18 are invited to apply. Work may be any literary genre: poetry, fiction, plays, memoirs, screenplays, or nonfiction. The successful application will demonstrate literary merit and the likelihood of publication. Prior publication is not a requirement. Four fellowship winners will receive a one-week residency to allow the writer to focus completely on their work. A $500 stipend will be provided to cover childcare and/or travel costs for each recipient.
Application Fee: $35
Deadline: August 5, 2024
Alaska Literary Awards - The Alaska Literary Awards were established in 2014 by the Alaska Arts and Culture Foundation. The Alaska Literary Awards recognize and support writers of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, playwriting, screenwriting, and mixed genres. Any Alaska writer over the age of 18 who is not a full-time student is eligible to apply. A select number of $5,000 awards will be awarded annually.
Application Fee: None
Deadline: August 8, 2024
James Castle House Artist Residency - Boise City Department of Arts & History invites emerging and mid-career artists in any creative field to apply for a 10-day residency at the James Castle House in Boise, Idaho. The historic home site, where American artist James Castle lived and worked for over four decades, stands today as a testament to the artist's unique talent, lifelong practice, and artistic legacy. This residency invites artists to immerse themselves in the site, explore the house, its history, and the surrounding landscape, and respond to their experience through the creation of new works. Residents will share their creative practice and process with our community through several public in-person and hybrid events throughout their stay, including, but not limited to, workshops, open studios, and presentations. Each residency cycle provides one participant with private furnished living quarters, 24-hour studio access, and a $500.00 stipend to assist with living expenses and supplies necessary to create work.
Application Fee: None
Deadline: August 9, 2024
Through a BIPOC Lens: Decolonizing Feminism Exhibition Open Call - This exhibition seeks to provide space for an inclusive voice in the struggle for representation of BIPOC women in the art world. For 32 years Woman Made Gallery’s vision has been to “ensure the equal placement of women’s art in the world. WMG hosts conversations on issues that matter most to women, helping them make sense of the world through a feminist lens.” WMG would like to take a critical look at feminism. We want to hear the voices and view the work of those who have been systematically marginalized.
Application Fee: $30
Deadline: August 10, 2024
2024-2025 Photo Urbanism Call for Fellows - We are looking for photographers to apply for the 2024-2025 Photo Urbanism Fellowship to contribute with their unique lenses about an equitable water future for New York. The 2024-2025 Photo Urbanism Fellow will create a self-driven photography project related to an equitable water future for New York. The role of the Photo Urbanism Fellow is to use artistic and journalistic photography/videography to capture the human, personal narratives related to New York City’s water and public space.
Application Fee: Unknown
Deadline: August 11, 2024
Slamdance Film Festival - The Slamdance Film Festival is a showcase for raw and innovative filmmaking that lives and bleeds by its mantra: By Filmmakers, For Filmmakers. Thirty years strong, Slamdance has created a track record for showcasing breakthrough artists that is beyond dispute. Filmmakers who first presented their work at the festival are now amongst the biggest names in the entertainment industry.
Application Fee: Varies
Regular Deadline: August 12, 2024
Narrative Initiative Changemaker Authors Cohort - The Changemaker Authors Cohort is a yearlong intensive coaching program supporting full-time movement organizers and social justice practitioners to complete books that create deep, durable narrative change to restructure the way people feel, think, and respond to the world. This 12-month virtual program begins on March 1, 2025 and supports cohort members to make significant progress with their project at the end of each 4-month term. This can include manuscript completion or having a submittable manuscript or proposal ready for an agent or publisher, through coaching, regular writing cafés, craft talks, and resources about crafting stories and the publishing industry.
Application Fee: Unknown
Deadline: August 15, 2024
Trillium Arts Individual Artist 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 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. One week residences are available in the months of November and December.
Application Fee: None
Deadline: August 16, 2024
Center for Book Arts: Small Press Incubator Program - The Small Press Incubator Program is a unique opportunity for BIPOC individuals to learn and develop their skills in different aspects of the book-making system. Recognizing that the book arts have a long history of being used by marginalized artists looking for ways to showcase ideas without relying on the exclusive systems of conventional publication or gallery representation, the goal of this incubator is to provide a platform for poets to take their ideas for poetry publishing from abstraction to reality by providing participants with the skills, context, and community to start a small press. From conception to production and distribution, participants will receive support and guidance to bring their creative projects to fruition.
Application Fee: None
Deadline: August 18, 2024
Los Angeles Artists-in-Residence Program - This residency is open to emerging and mid-career artists working in all disciplines across Greater Los Angeles. For four months the artist-in-residence will be given a studio in the Quinn Emanuel Los Angeles office to support their existing practice or a new project as appropriate. At the end of the residency an exhibition will be held to display the works of the artist and at least one work will be incorporated into the permanent collection. A supporting stipend will be provided, as well as materials allowance.
Application Fee: None
Application Deadline: August 19, 2024
Toronto Black Film Festival - The Toronto Black Film Festival is dedicated to giving unique voices in cinema the opportunity to present audiences with new ways of looking at the world. A dynamic, refreshing and audacious Festival whose ambition is to encourage the development of the independent film industry and to promote more films on the reality of Black people from around the Globe.
Application Fee: Varies
Regular Deadline: August 20, 2024
Vashon Artist Residency - Vashon Artist Residency offers artists space and time to create, connect and live in a community of artists on spectacular Vashon Island on the shore of the Salish Sea in Washington State. This opportunity is a self-directed residency and we welcome artists at all stages of a creative career. We strive to make this opportunity accessible and include artists of varied economic, cultural and geographic backgrounds to stimulate an insightful, respectful and compelling communal experience.
Application Fee: $25
Deadline: August 23, 2024
On the Brinck | Places Prize - A collaboration between Places Journal and the On the Brinck program at the School of Architecture + Planning at University of New Mexico, the prize supports ambitious public scholarship focused on the Southwestern region of what is now the United States. The winner of the On the Brinck | Places Prize will receive an honorarium of $7,500 to research and write a major work of public scholarship for publication in Places Journal, and present a related public lecture at the SA+P at University of New Mexico. The prize is open to institutionally-based and independent scholars.
Application Fee: None
Deadline: August 30, 2024
Liu Shiming Artist Grants - The Liu Shiming Art Foundation is now accepting applications for a new round of Liu Shiming Artist Grants designed to support the work of visual artists during the first decade of their careers. Up to five grants of $5,000 each will support the creation or completion of new projects.
Application Fee: None
Deadline: August 31, 2024
New American Paintings Competition: Northeast - Our competitions are open to all artists working within the United States. We define the activity of painting broadly, and all styles and media are welcome, as long as the work is singular. There are no educational requirements to apply to our regional competitions
Application Fee: Unknown
Deadline: August 31, 2024
Storyknife Writers Retreat for Women Writers - Storyknife offers writing residencies for two and four week periods. Each accepted woman writer will have her own cabin where she can write and reflect, sleep and dream. All meals are provided onsite by Storyknife's chef. Breakfast is prepared by the writers from ingredients in the main house’s kitchen. Our chef manager will bring a nutritious lunch to each cabin, and in the evening, the writers will gather at the main house for a shared meal. Each woman will establish her own writing schedule and projects, and together, they will be able to form the kind of supportive writing friendships that last a lifetime.
Application Fee: $40
Deadline: August 31, 2024
The Big Sky Documentary Film Festival - The Big Sky Documentary Film Festival is the premier venue for non-fiction film in the American West. Big Sky offers an ideal setting for filmmakers to premiere new work and develop lasting relationships with fellow filmmakers and industry. The festival hosts over 200 visiting artists, presents an average of 150 non-fiction films and offers a variety of exciting events throughout downtown Missoula, Montana. In addition to screenings, Big Sky hosts DocShop, a five-day industry event that includes panels, master classes, workshops, and the Big Sky Pitch session.
Application Fee: Varies
Regular Deadline: August 31, 2024
September
100 West - Corsicana Artist & Writer Funded Residency - 100 West - Corsicana Artist and Writer Residency advances the production and presentation of new work and ideas by an international community of artists and writers by providing an arena of generous support and historic space. Since 2012 alongside downtown rejuvenation, founders of this project have established a collection of sites – 100 West, Storefront, Anteroom, Writers House – and the Corsicana Artist & Writer Residency supports international creative work inside this architecture and narrative bridging the cultural and geographic American South and West. The Residency shares this work in programs for education, exhibition and publication to develop transformative dialogue with audiences near and far.
Application Fee: $30
Deadline: September 1, 2024
Keyholder Residency - The Keyholder Residency Program offers emerging artists free 24-hour access to printmaking facilities to develop new work and foster their artistic careers. It takes place in the shared Artists’ Studio, including the solvent/etching area and the darkroom. Keyholders work independently, in a productive atmosphere alongside other contemporary artists. Artists from all disciplines are eligible to apply; printmaking skills are not required, but some familiarity with the medium is recommended. Basic instruction in printmaking techniques is available for new Keyholders.
Application Fee: None
Deadline: September 1, 2024
Bloedel Reserve Creative Residency - The mission of the Creative Residency program at Bloedel Reserve is to foster creative thinking that is inspired by nature and that explores the connection between humans and the environment. Selected artists and innovative thinkers are provided a three-week stay on the Bloedel grounds, with unlimited access to the Reserve’s 150 acres of sculpted gardens, forests, meadows, and wildlife habitats.
Application Fee: $20
Deadline: September 1, 2024
2024 UVP Regional Video Commission - We're looking for artists from Central New York** to create new work for the UVP architectural projection site on the facade of the iconic Everson Museum of Art. UVP Regional Commission is a non-residential program providing a commission fee of $3,500, facilities access, and in-kind support toward the creation of new media-based work. The exhibition of the resulting work will take place in summer 2025.
Application Fee: $10
Deadline: September 9, 2024
MacDowell Fellowship - About 300 artists in seven disciplines are awarded Fellowships each year and the sole criterion for acceptance is artistic excellence. There are no residency fees, and need-based stipends and travel reimbursement grants are available to open the residency to the broadest possible community of artists. MacDowell encourages applications from artists of all backgrounds and all countries in the following disciplines: architecture, film/video arts, interdisciplinary arts, literature, music composition, theatre, and visual arts.
Application Fee: $30
Deadline: September 10, 2024
Princeton Arts Fellowship - Princeton Arts Fellows spend two consecutive academic years (September 1-July 1) at Princeton University and formal teaching is expected. The normal work assignment will be to teach one course each semester subject to approval by the Dean of the Faculty, but fellows may be asked to take on an artistic assignment in lieu of a class, such as directing a play or creating a dance with students. Although the teaching load is light, our expectation is that Fellows will be full and active members of our community, committed to frequent and engaged interactions with students during the academic year. A $92,000 a year stipend is provided. Fellowships are not intended to fund work leading to an advanced degree.
Application Fee: None
Deadline: September 10, 2024
Banff Musicians in Residence Winter 2025 - This program provides space and focused time for musicians of all genres to concentrate on artistic development while working on projects that can be either individually or group/ensemble based. You may be working in your established genre(s), or exploring a new one. While this program is largely self-directed, there will be opportunities to gather as a group for lectures, seminars, and collaborative jam/listening sessions with esteemed faculty the Kronos Quartet and others. A personal studio space is provided, accessible 24 hours per day, while production spaces are shared among all participants in the residency.
Application Fee: $65
Deadline: September 11, 2024
Banff Center Winter Writers Residency - This 12-day self-directed residency offers the opportunity to work away from the constraints of everyday life. Delve deep into your creative project and take advantage of the artistic community of your peers around you. This program provides opportunities for consultations with exceptional mentors Danez Smith and Omar El Akkad and professional guest Samantha Haywood (Transatlantic Agency), and optional group sessions that allow writers to explore literary tools, aspects, and devices that you may find useful in your practice.
Application Fee: $65
Deadline: September 11, 2024
Write Over Here: Indigenous Screenwriting Residency 2025 - Write Over Here is a screenwriting residency where dedicated Indigenous writers are invited to engage with faculty to support the development of their scripts for feature or short films, series and narratives. Participants will meet with the faculty team for both group gatherings and one-on-one sessions; online in Week 1 and in-person for Weeks 2 - 4. Writers will deepen their artistry and technical application with screenwriting mentorship and access to Final Draft Pro. They will create peer relationships, expand their professional networks, and have the opportunity for possible collaborations following their time at Banff Centre.
Application Fee: $35
Deadline: September 11, 2024
Atlanta Film Festival - The Atlanta Film Festival (ATLFF) is the area’s preeminent celebration of cinema. Our 11-day festival presents over 120 films from all over the world, representing 110+ countries, selected from over 6,000 submissions. Each year, 90 to 95% of ATLFF’s program is composed of submitted films. ATLFF actively strives to provide a diverse slate of programming with spotlights on filmmakers of color, LGBTQ+ films, women and gender non-comforming filmmakers, and filmmakers from the Georgia. For the 2024 festival, 49% of the program selected from submissions was directed by women and gender nonconforming directors and 59% by BIPOC directors, as well as 24% of selected films coming from Georgia filmmakers.
Application Fee: Varies
Regular Deadline: September 13, 2024
Artadia Awards: Boston - The Artadia Awards provide financial support, exposure and recognition to artists. The awards are unrestricted, allowing artists to use the funds in any way they choose.
Application Fee: Unknown
Deadline: September 15, 2024
Center for Book Arts Artist-in-Residence - Each year, Center for Book Arts awards up to six New York-based emerging and mid-career artists with space, time, and financial support to explore the production and exhibition of artists’ books and related work in a year-long residency. This program promotes experimentation in book arts — thus artists from all disciplinary backgrounds are encouraged to apply. We especially encourage applications from artists of culturally diverse backgrounds.
Application Fee: None
Deadline: September 15, 2024
Summer 2025 Parent + Educator Artist-in-Residence - The McColl Center's internationally acclaimed Artist-in-Residence program serves as a catalyst for growth for emerging and mid-career artists. Summer 2025 Artist-in-Residence Program is offered to parents and educators who otherwise would not have the opportunity to participate in McColl Center residency because of their responsibilities during school/university periods. This residency will support their practices, give you the chance to bring your family with you, use the facilities, and equipment offered by the Center on our Labs. Artists-in-Residence receive private housing adjacent to McColl Center, a large-scale private studio in our historic building in Uptown Charlotte, curatorial guidance, marketing and PR support, and a generous stipend.
Application Fee: $35
Deadline: September 25, 2024
Aspen Shortsfest - Aspen Shortsfest is an Oscar®-qualifying film festival recognized as one of the premier short film festivals in North America. Each April, enthusiastic audiences, filmmakers and special guests from around the globe gather to participate in public screenings, panels, workshops, and other festivities that spotlight the art and craft of short form cinema.
Application Fee: $80
Regular Deadline: September 27, 2024
Acadia National Park Artist-in-Residence - The Artist-in-Residence (AiR) program at Acadia National Park invites accomplished and emerging artists to help create new and interesting ways for visitors to experience the park through the arts. Invited participants are asked to lead a public outreach activity for park visitors and the community and to complete within a year one finished work of art based on their experience.
Application Fee: None
Deadline: September 30, 2024
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NARS Residency Program for International Artists - The New York Art Residency and Studios (NARS) Foundation Artist in Residency Program supports emerging and mid-career artists and curators working across all disciplines. NARS offers 24/7 access to furnished, private or shared studio spaces (250 – 300 sq ft) in our diverse artist community in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. As a studio based residency, the focus is on the artistic process and the experimentation that results from working alongside other artists, within New York’s cultural and sociopolitical context. International Applicants may apply for three-month, six-month, or twelve-month residencies. Three month residencies are the length of one season, six-month residencies will span across two seasons, and twelve-month residences will span four seasons. For residencies longer than six months, please contact us prior to submitting an application.
Application Fee: None
MOtiVE Brooklyn Monthly Space Grant Program - Starting in May, MOtiVE will offer month-long space grants to a small cohort of New York-based artists (8-10 artists per month). The grant includes 26 hours of reserved studio space in the MOtiVE studio at the reduced rate of $260 per month ($10 / hr per studio hour) and 3.3% + $0.30 processing fee for each monthly booking transaction and/or refund. This space grant is ideal for artists who have an upcoming project / performance and need an intensive time in the studio, wish to host an ongoing class / workshop, want to maintain a daily practice, or are looking for a consistent studio space where their materials can be stored.
Application Fee: None
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
The Authors League Fund - The Authors League Fund helps authors, dramatists, journalists, critics, short story writers, and poets. We help career writers with a substantial body of work. The Authors League Fund is an emergency fund providing non-taxable charitable support. We help in times of urgent need, when a writer cannot afford to pay for necessities. We help writers at all stage of life, though priority is given to sick and/or older writers, and to mid- and late-career writers. We have limited funds for younger and/or emerging writers whose emergency is solely related to insufficient income.
Application Fee: None
DGF Bridge Grants - The Dramatists Guild Foundation’s Bridge Grants are need-based awards of up to $500, now available to support dramatists with non-emergency and essential daily life expenses. It is vital to support writers in times of need so that they can get back to doing what they do best. DGF provides emergency financial assistance to individual playwrights, composers, lyricists, and librettists in dire need of funds due to severe hardship or unexpected illness. Housing Grants are one-time grants to help theater writers with accumulated housing expenses. DGF is committed to preventing evictions and displacement of dramatic writers and helping them rebuild their lives during difficult times.
Application Fee: None
Loisaida Artist in Residence (LAIR) - The Loisaida Artist in Residence (LAIR) program has a local focus yet is universal in scope; selection criteria support projects that explore a shared LatinX, multi-cultural sensibility and reflect the diversity of NYC.
Application Fee: None
Apapacho CDMX Residency - Apapacho is PROArtes México’s residency and studio space in the heart of Mexico City. This international program of art-based residencies has been launched to provide space and time for artists, curators, art historians, etc, to research and network in one of the most historically and culturally profound cities in the world. As an artist founded and operated space, we strive to provide an increasingly diverse group of artists an affordable international residency experience. As the name ‘Apapacho’ reflects, our interest is in developing a thoughtful and caring interaction unique to each resident’s curiosities, needs, and area of focus.
Application Fee: None
PerformVu Artist Submissions - PerformVu is creating the digital home for video & performance art; connecting global audiences to incredible video work, while driving a new funding route for artists. If you are an artist working across performance or video art, we'd love to hear from you and consider your portfolio for our next round of curation. Artists on our platform benefit from direct tips, a share of subscriptions, and many community opportunities!
Application Fee: None