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 February 11, 2025
LA Artists: if your home or studio was affected by the Palisades or Eaton fires, consider applying for support from the LA Arts Community Fire Relief Fund. Applications accepted through February 18, 2025.
January
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
Regular deadline: January 24, 2025
Late deadline: February 14, 2025
Haystack Fellowship - The Haystack Fellowship Program is a highly competitive opportunity supporting individuals participating in summer workshops at the School. Haystack assembles independent committees to select awards through a competitive review process. Fellowship recipients are provided with support for tuition, room and board (dorm accommodations - the cost difference to upgrade to a different housing is the responsibility of the individual), and a monetary award. Fellowship students are responsible for other expenses, including travel, shop fees, and studio materials.
Application fee: None
Deadline: January 24, 2025
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: January 28, 2025
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
Priority Deadline: January 31, 2025
Land Line: Artist Residency Program - Denver Botanic Gardens’ artist residency program, Land Line, is dedicated to supporting artists who foster appreciation, understanding and stewardship of the natural world. By celebrating individual perspectives and encouraging creative exchange, the residency program seeks to inspire and bring awareness to nature and explore humanity’s unique connection to the landscape. Land Line’s format allows artists to maintain other professional pursuits while being supported by the residency. Artists working in a variety of media in the visual arts will be considered. Botanical illustrators are included within this program to work with the School of Botanical Art & Illustration alongside the Gardens’ Research and Conservation team in particular.
Application fee: None
Deadline: January 31, 2025
R.A.R.O. Barcelona Multi-residency program - The key element in the Multi-Residency program is the opportunity to create, collaborate and explore different artist spaces in the city during the residency period. During the Multi-Residency the artists will spend the first two weeks of residency in the Casa R.A.R.O. studios where they will lay out the bases of their project and will have the curatorial guidance of the entire team for the optimal development of their residency. Afterwards, artists will be able to choose between one or two studios from the R.A.R.O. network specialized in different artistic techniques to delve into the technical aspects of the project. This will also allow them to get to know different artistic production spaces in Barcelona, while sharing their projects and generating connections with different artists, curators and other people involved in the artistic and cultural sphere of the city.
Application fee: None
Deadline: January 31, 2025
La Maldita Estampa Artist Residency - La Maldita Estampa creates the opportunity and the conditions to receive international artists in Barcelona with its Artistic Residencies program, offering its space formed by a fully equipped workshop and its gallery, an ideal place for the dissemination and promotion of the work of resident artists. We offer alternative spaces that support and respond to the needs of national and international artists; in addition to production, experimentation and interaction with other artists, we contribute to energize the artistic scene of the city by promoting the internationalization of Catalan culture.
Application fee: Unknown
Deadline: January 31, 2025
February
Wave Farm Radio Art Fellows - Wave Farm welcomes submissions from artists, researchers, tinkerers, and writers, from a variety of disciplines who will embrace this opportunity to create work for a terrestrial radio station that celebrates risk-taking work and prioritizes the uniquely urgent and intimate nature of the radio medium. Applicants should deeply consider the distinctive qualities of FM radio as opposed to online radio and/or podcasts. This is an opportunity open to international applicants. Radio Art Fellows will dedicate a month-long remote engagement researching and selecting radio artworks by historical and contemporary artists to comprise an episode of the The Radio Art Hour. Fellowships will commence with a brief, in-person visit to Wave Farm, and are awarded in three categories: Research, Community Engagement, and Arts Writing.
Application fee: None
Deadline: February 1, 2025
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, 2025
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: $25
Deadline: February 1, 2025
Paseo Project Artist in Residence - The Paseo Project Artist in Residence Fellowship provides an opportunity for artists to envision, develop, and execute their work with the community of Taos, New Mexico. This project-based residency is set within a rural environment steeped in history, art, and culture. The Paseo Project holds to the tradition of bringing artists from around the world to both inspire and be inspired. Artists are asked to conduct a community engagement project and share, present, or install their work at the culmination of their stay or during the annual PASEO Festival in the fall.
Application fee: $20
Deadline: February 1, 2025
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, 2025
Kala 2025-2026 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: $25
Deadline: February 2, 2025
Texas A&M New Work Development Artist Residency - Our New Work Development Artist Residency provides artists the opportunity to live and work outside of their usual environments, to explore and reflect, conduct research and network with artists and scholars, and develop a new work or body of works. The duration of the award is nine weeks, Aug. 4 to Oct. 4, 2025. In the first two weeks, residents will have extended access to college facilities and resources, before students return and the semester begins in Week 3.
Application fee: None
Deadline: February 3, 2025
AT&T Untold Stories - A long-term collaboration between AT&T and the Tribeca Festival, Untold Stories is an inspiring mentorship program that provides filmmakers with the necessary resources and support they need to bring their unique stories to life. At the 2025 Tribeca Festival, 5 new filmmaking teams will pitch their original feature scripted film projects to an esteemed 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 2026 Tribeca Festival (subject to timely delivery of the film) and the additional 4 finalist teams will receive a $15,000 grant for development support. Throughout the year, our Untold Stories winner receives unmatched guidance on the filmmaking process, demonstrating a holistic commitment from AT&T and Tribeca.
Application fee: None
Deadline: February 3, 2025
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: $55
Deadline: February 3, 2025
Shenandoah National Park Artist Residency - This program provides the artist with uninterrupted time to pursue their own body of work and also the opportunity to engage and inspire the public through outreach. The artist has the opportunity to create works that promote an understanding of the need to preserve our national parks. Our hope is for artists to seek and share their artistic inspiration as they explore and experience Shenandoah National Park. Artists will receive a $1,200 stipend and up to $100 to purchase supplies for public programs.
Application fee: $5
Deadline: February 5, 2025
ICI New York Curatorial Seminar - ICI's Curatorial Seminar is a free professional development program that supports emerging curators to advance their practice. It centers a first-person approach to curating, and focuses on strengthening curatorial practices that support overlooked artists and engage with local art communities while working outside of a large institution. In the 2025 New York Curatorial Seminar, six New York-based curators will meet monthly from March to July 2025 for discussion-based seminars and site visits across New York, led by ICI staff, guest curators, artists, and arts professionals. Over the course of the Seminar, each participant will also workshop a proposal for a project and receive individual advisement from selected mentors, who provide a unique perspective on the participant's curatorial practice.
Application fee: None
Deadline: February 7, 2025
Studios at MASS MoCA - The Studios is MASS MoCA’s artist and writers residency program situated within the museum’s factory campus and surrounded by the beautiful Berkshire Mountains. The residency runs year-round and hosts up to 10 artists at a time. Artists of any nationality can apply for stays of 2 or 4 weeks.
Application fee: None
Early Application Deadline: February 8, 2025
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, 2025
Pocoapoco / Sur o No Sur - Sur o No Sur is a three-week summer residency-learning program that brings in a selection of visiting artists to act as guides and facilitators, offering workshops that include writing, conversational & listening practices and hands-on experimentation as well as excursions, artist talks, studio visits and film screenings. Each session offers a platform for artistic exchange outside of traditional institutions to question and engage with the form in which we, our work & our world can exist and evolve.
Application fee: None
Deadline: February 10, 2025
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 10, 2025
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: None
Deadline: February 13, 2025
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
Extended Deadline: February 14, 2025
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: February 14, 2025
at Louis Place Artist Publishing Cohort - at Louis Place is a community for artists and writers. Through an accessible, collaborative online platform, at Louis Place is an ecosystem for artistic practice that values liberation, experimentation, cooperation, and shared leadership. Daily co-writing, weekly writing groups, monthly guest workshops, peer exchange, and other offerings connect participants to peers around the world. The Artist Publishing Cohort is a new initiative offering personalized support for eight artists with publishing projects in progress. Selected artists receive a $1,000 stipend, coaching and staff support, optional weekly workshop, and access to aLP resources.
Application fee: None
Deadline: February 15, 2025
Long Meadow Art Residency - Long Meadow Art Residency is a six week – three-month solo residency nestled in the Berkshire Mountains. LMAR offers studio space and housing, allowing time for artists to retreat and deepen their practice. The residency provides a $3,000 monthly living stipend, a $2,500 supply budget, as well as access to a vehicle for transportation.
Application fee: None
Deadline: February 15, 2025
Forge Project Fellowship - Forge Project is seeking a 2025 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 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: None
Deadline: February 15, 2025
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, 2025
Live/Work Residency in New Orleans - This is a live/work residency that is embedded in a small (9-room) hospitality business called Travelers New Orleans. At Travelers New Orleans, artists are provided housing on the third (top) level of a light-filled three-bedroom, two-bath apartment in the Lower Garden District neighborhood. A fourth room is available for office/limited studio space. Artists help run the hospitality business by committing to work about 15 (paid) hours per week, and the hospitality business, in turn, funds the residency. Hours may vary depending on season, but 15 is a solid average. Artists are encouraged to create onsite (there are some space limitations) and there are opportunities to showcase work in the lobby gallery, which looks on out world-famous Magazine Street.
Application fee: None
Deadline: February 15, 2025
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, 2025
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 ($45 for members)
Extended Deadline: February 17, 2025
Banff Centre: Jazz & Sonic Arts - The Jazz & Sonic Arts program is an innovative development opportunity for early and mid-career jazz and sound artists. It encourages participants to explore new directions in their artistic practice, become changemakers, and advance their creative potential as performers, collaborators, and creators. Engage with sound in innovative ways, using improvisation, experimentation, and technology to expand the sonic possibilities of music. The program welcomes both individuals and pre-formed ensembles to apply.
Application fee: $65
Deadline: February 19, 2025
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: February 21, 2025
Communal Residency deadline: February 21, 2025
ON::View Artist Residency - Located in the heart of Savannah’s Starland District at Sulfur Studios, the ON::VIEW Artist Residency provides a free, high visibility studio space for an artist to complete a new project, to continue an in-progress endeavor, or to conduct research exploring conceptual, material, performative, and social practices. Community events like workshops, performances, public art projects and artist talks, offer creative ways to interact with the public. The ON::View Residency supports artists from across the globe, working in all media.
Application fee: $50
Deadline: February 23, 2025
A Studio in the Woods: Self as Universe - The climate crisis is an urgent global concern. Self as Universe: Mending Our Collective Ecosystem Residencies at A Studio in the Woods invite artists to explore the connections within our collective ecosystems and use the power of imagination to heal the wounds in the relationship between ourselves and our communities. Southeast Louisiana’s land and inhabitants are continually scarred by the effects of environmental degradation. These injuries – the historical to the present – affect our bodies, families, communities, and cultures, as well as the land and its other creatures. We encourage artists to guide our collective response as the caretakers and caregivers to our universe while bringing wisdom, integrity, optimism, and even humor to intentional and timely projects seeking transformation for our species and planet. This new call reflects a desire to repair the disconnection and alienation between humankind and the planet that is hindering the climate movement.
Application fee: $25
Deadline: February 24, 2025
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 26, 2025
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 28, 2025
Center for Book Arts Research Fellowship - Researchers and scholars in art history, literature, book history, library science, or museum studies, conservation studies, or other relevant fields are invited to submit research proposals that draw upon CBA’s unique collections of materials related to book art. The individual(s) selected for the Fellowship will have access to CBA’s collections, provided institutional support during the research process, and receive a $1,200 stipend.
Application fee: Unknown
Deadline: February 28, 2025
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 28, 2025
All One One All Artist in Residence Program - All One One All (AOOA) Farm invites artists to join our vibrant community by applying for our Artist in Residence Program, which will include a July meet-the-artist and artist showcase and culminate in a fall art show. At AOOA, our work extends beyond the fields and kitchen and encompasses a vibrant community of individuals passionate about the interplay between nature, agriculture, and art. We invite artists who share our enthusiasm for exploring biodiverse and productive landscapes to join us! Located in Goshen, NY, our farm offers a lively, picturesque, and inspiring atmosphere to explore.
Application fee: None
Deadline: February 28, 2025
BBG Performing Artist in Residence - Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s Performing Artist in Residence program allows artists and visitors to experience the Garden through a different lens. Explore the relationship between humans and nature and their dynamic and sometimes fraught interdependence. Highlight how human actions reshape the environment, while nature’s responses and constant shifts influence human lives, ideas, emotions, and futures. Challenge the audience to think about their role and responsibility within this cycle, examining the human-nature relationship here in Brooklyn or beyond. One artist will be selected for a residency in 2025. During the residency, the artist will spend time creating work in and inspired by the Garden and the theme, Natural Connection. They will host two public classes, seminars, or activities, then showcase their final work in September 2025.
Application fee: None
Deadline: February 28, 2025
March
Media Arts Assistance Fund - For individual artists, MAAF provides support for the completion and/or public presentation of new works in all genres of sound and moving image art, including emergent technology. Grant awards assist artists in completing new work, reaching public audiences, and advance artistic exploration and public engagement in the media arts. Women, gender non-conforming people, and people of color are encouraged to apply. New York State Artists may apply for up to $7,500 to support the completion and/or public presentation of a new or recently completed media artwork.
Application fee: None
Deadline: March 1, 2025
The Steel Yard: Year-Long Artist Residency - The Steel Yard’s residency program can assist you in growing and strengthening your creative industrial art practice. Residents receive an all-access pass to our 10,000 square foot studio, tools, resources, and community. You’ll forge, mold, weld, shape, and create in a shared studio space alongside a cohort of artists and makers who work in the industrial arts. Additionally, you’ll participate in events and sales, exhibit work, have access to professional development opportunities, teach and take courses, as well and take part in cross-departmental critiques.
Application fee: None
Deadline: March 1, 2025
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 artistic residency—the U.S.-Japan Creative Artist Program. JUSFC and the NEA are committed to supporting and selecting up to five projects involving diverse artists from the United States, representing a wide range of artistic genres and regions. By intentionally engaging artists who have been historically marginalized and who can bring a wider, more diverse range of creative inquiries and perspectives, the program aims to stimulate new and critical conversations and to lay the foundations for important and necessary cultural exchange.
Application fee: None
Cover Sheet deadline: March 1, 2025
Narrative Application deadline: March 21, 2025
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, 2025
Millay Core Residency - Our Core Residency program, now in its 51st year, is one of the longest-running in country. Judged blindly by jurors who are practicing professionals and/or alumni, from April-November each year we welcome 6-7 multidisciplinary creators to come to Steepletop (the historic estate of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet/activist Edna St. Vincent Millay) for two-week to month-long stays.
Application fee: $45
Deadline: March 1, 2025
Quinn Emanuel Los Angeles Artist-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
Deadline: March 3, 2025
Banff Centre: Literary Arts - This two-week self-directed residency offers time and space for writers to focus, reconnect, and re-energize their writing practice. In addition to a single room and a small private studio, writers will be able to engage with other writers on the program. As a flexible self-guided program with optional elements, the Summer Writers residency allows participants to choose the amount of support they are looking for.
Application fee: $65
Deadline: March 5, 2025
Wyoming State Parks & Cultural Resources Artist in Residence Program - This program joins visual artists with the wonder and unexpected opportunities in Wyoming State Parks. This is a 10 day road trip residency in August or September 2025 where artists will have a choice of itinerary that includes visiting a minimum of 4 state parks where you can be inspired by the beauty of the state. Camping is required, no gear will be provided although cabins, yurts and dorm housing may be available.
Application fee: None
Deadline: March 12, 2025
Crafting the Future Artist Grants - Crafting the Future's Artist Micro Grants are $500 unrestricted grants to support BIPOC-identifying visual artists in covering artistic and living expenses as they pursue careers in the arts. These funds may be used for art supplies/materials, travel, housing, application fees, tuition, utilities, studio fees, or any other expenses that support an individual's art practice. Crafting the Future's Special Project Macro Grants fund new and pre-existing projects, which support multiple visual artists of color to access opportunities for art education, career expansion, networking, and personal development. CTF Macro Grants are intended to support the careers of underrepresented BIPOC visual artists by helping to offset potential financial hardships associated with underfunded positions including internships, assistantships, residencies, workshops, and other projects with the potential to elevate the artist(s) in their field. We will prioritize proposals that aim to provide opportunities for or propel the careers of multiple POC artists.
Application fee: $5
Deadline: March 15, 2025
Albee Foundation Summer/Fall Residency - The Edward F. Albee Foundation exists to serve writers and visual artists from all walks of life, by providing time and space in which to work without disturbance. Using only talent and need as the criteria for selection, the Foundation invites any and all artists to apply. The Center is open almost year-round and can accommodate four creative persons at a time. Residencies are for calendar-month periods (with rare, pre-approved exceptions). The standards for admission are, simply, talent and need.
Application fee: None
Deadline: March 16, 2025
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 17, 2025
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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
Foundation House Activist Residency - Foundation House, located in back country Greenwich, CT, opens its doors for up to 5 days to established teams of activists and change makers (up to eight residents total), allowing these groups the time and space to be together under one roof to make meaningful progress in these beautiful and inspiring surroundings. Foundation House’s mission as a non profit center for learning is to focus on environmental, community and mental health, food equity and social justice.
Application fee: None