Upcoming Deadlines for Artists: Summer 2025

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, poets, performers, curators, and more. The resources are arranged chronologically by their submission deadline.

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Last Updated July 8, 2025

July

Austin Film Festival - At Austin Film Festival, it is our ongoing mission to champion the work of writers and filmmakers, and this goal has never felt as urgent as it does today. Our film competition has grown year after year and so have our efforts to serve as an avenue into the ever-evolving entertainment industry. Known as the “Writers Festival” since its inception 31 years ago, Austin Film Festival recognizes the importance of narrative at the core of filmmaking. By celebrating the work of storytellers - those committed to crafting intricate worlds, fully-formed characters, and diverse perspectives - AFF bolsters its reputation as a champion for the creator.
Application fee: Varies
Extended deadline: July 10, 2025

Project Involve 2026 - This robust program provides invaluable hands-on filmmaking experience from project inception to completion. Participants are paired with mentors at the top of their respective fields, and receive personalized guidance to help move their projects and careers forward. Each year, 30 filmmakers from diverse backgrounds are given the opportunity to hone skills, form creative partnerships, create short films and gain industry access needed to succeed as working artists.
Application fee: Unknown
Deadline: July 14, 2025

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: July 14 - September 22, 2025

Ucross Fellowships for Native American Visual Artists and Writers - Our dedicated fellowship supports the work of contemporary Native American visual artists, writers, and performers. Selected fellows are offered a four-week residency, which includes uninterrupted time, private studio space living accommodations, meals prepared by our professional chef, a stipend, and the experience of the majestic High Plains. The Fellowship for Native American Artists also includes an award of $2,000 and the opportunity to present work publicly, such as a featured exhibition in the Ucross Art Gallery, a reading, or a performance. 
Application fee: None
Deadline: July 15, 2025

Imagined Histories: A Folio for the Margins - Who are you and whom do you love?” asks Bhanu Kapil in The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers. In this polyvocal collection, Kapil weaves personal and imagined histories into a tapestry of women’s postcolonial experience, moving back and forth between South Asia and the diaspora. Abstraction, collage, docupoetics, and the prose poem are just some of the formal devices that allow for this movement. We invite you to submit to “Imagined Histories,” a new folio to be published in The Margins in late 2025. We want your best poems (ghazals, free verse, sonnets, prose poems, hybrid forms, all styles welcome) or visual art (think photo essays, maps, collages, drawings). Experimental and hybrid works are welcome as are traditional forms. Our mission to catalog our collected visions, confessions, and dreaming. 
Application fee: None
Deadline: July 15, 2025

Grand Canyon Artist in Residence - The Artist in Residence program at Grand Canyon National Park (Arizona) offers artists of any discipline the opportunity to work at one of the world's most beautiful sites. Through impactful community-engaged programming, our residency inspires visitors and locals to deepen their connection to Grand Canyon National Park. We seek inspiring and resourceful artists who engage contemporary, interactive, immersive, and/or socially engaged methods to make positive environmental and cultural impacts through their work. Annually, three artists are selected to live and work on the South Rim of the Grand Canyon in Arizona for 3-10 weeks.
Application fee: None
Deadline: July 15, 2025

WSW Artist’s Book Residency Grant - The Artist’s Book Grant is an eight- to ten-week residency for artists to produce a limited edition book work. Working intensively in our studios, artists print and bind their own books, and are encouraged to create an edition size no larger than 100 and no smaller than 50. The grant includes a stipend of $350/week, up to $1000 for materials, up to $250 for travel within the Continental US, free onsite housing, and 24/7 studio access. WSW can provide technical advice; training on new equipment, techniques, and materials; and production assistance.
Application fee: None
Deadline: July 15, 2025

Loghaven Artist Residency - Loghaven Artist Residency’s mission is to serve artists by providing them with a transformative residency experience and continued post-residency support. The residency is located on ninety acres of woodland in Knoxville, Tennessee. Artists live in five historic log cabins that have been both rehabilitated and modernized to create an ideal setting for reflection and work, and they have access to new, purpose-built studio space. All Loghaven Fellows are awarded stipends to support the creation of new work during the residency.
Application fee: $25
Deadline: July 15, 2025

New Jersey State Council on the Arts Individual Artist Fellowships - Individual Artist Fellowships are awarded to practicing New Jersey artists through an anonymous, competitive application process to help them pursue their artistic goals. Mid Atlantic Arts administers the application submission, review, and post-award process on behalf of New Jersey State Council on the Arts through an ongoing partnership. Past awards have ranged from $3,000 – $31,000.
Application fee: Unknown
Deadline: July 15, 2025

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 third annual shorts program will take place at Nitehawk Cinema (Williamsburg). It will include TWO screenings on September 17 with each featuring 7-9 short films selected only from FilmFreeway.
Application fee: $25
Deadline: July 18, 2025

MC Cultural Arts Incubator - The Cultural Arts Incubator is a new paid program for performing artists ready to take risks, push boundaries, and experiment across disciplines. Designed for artists working in dance, music, theater, and other performance-based art forms, this program prioritizes creatives who are exploring multidisciplinary and innovative approaches to their craft. Artists will receive a $5,000 monetary stipend, free rehearsal space, and a fully-produced culminating performance at the Montgomery College Cultural Arts Center, complete with professional lighting design, technical support, and professional documentation. With the support of a dynamic cohort of fellow artists, the Cultural Arts Incubator offers the opportunity to experiment, refine, and present daring new work in a collaborative environment.
Application fee: None
Deadline: July 20, 2025

Slamdance Screenplay Competition - The Slamdance Screenplay Competition is dedicated to discovering and supporting emerging writing talent. We welcome screenplays in every genre, on any topic, from anywhere in the world. We provide a small paragraph of constructive feedback for every entrant, free of charge. More in-depth coverage is available for an additional fee. Our Screenplay Competition Readers are veteran readers with oodles of experience. They are comprised of previous screenplay award winners, professors, script consultants and of course they are all writers. This award winning team is extremely diverse and located all over the world. We pay all of our readers competitive rates and truly value the work that they do.
Application fee: Varies
Late deadline: July 21, 2025

Midwest Culture Bearers Award - The Midwest Culture Bearers Award will honor and amplify the work of nine Midwestern folk arts and culture practitioners each year. This award seeks to financially support folk arts and culture practitioners, as well as create opportunities for further recognition and relationship-building across the region. Selected individuals will each receive a $5,000 unrestricted, non-matching award. Additionally, we will offer professional development and networking opportunities, and stories featuring awardees and their work.
Application fee: Unknown
Deadline: July 21, 2025

Tasveer Film Festival - The Tasveer Film Festival (TFF) is the world’s only Oscar-qualifying South Asian film festival, based in Seattle, Washington. For two decades, it has been a vital platform for showcasing diverse and compelling South Asian stories, fostering cross-cultural understanding, and inspiring social change. Celebrating its 20th annual edition this year, TFF offers a dynamic hybrid experience, blending the energy of in-person screenings with the accessibility of digital presentations.
Application fee: Varies
Late deadline: July 26, 2025

Kala Artist-in-Residence Program - Kala’s artist-in-residence programs offers 24-hour access to the printmaking workshop, digital lab, black and white darkroom, sculpture annex (textiles, wood shop, kiln and slab roller), individual storage space, access to Kala’s gallery with potential exhibition opportunities, professional development resources including classes, and participation in a vital, international artist community. Project spaces and housing are available for artists coming from outside of the Bay Area.
Application fee: $15
Deadline: July 26, 2025

The Canopy Program 2025-2026 - Canopy artists will develop their studio practice through mentorship, critique, artist talks + Q&As, seminars, and workshops and a final pop up group exhibition in Chelsea, NYC. The Canopy Program is a year-long commitment; each curated cohort will meet for three consecutive semesters: Fall 2025, Winter 2026, and Spring 2026. Artists in the Canopy Program have access to additional mentors through in person and virtual salons spread out throughout the year.
Application fee: $5
Deadline: July 27, 2025

BCA Activate Residency - The ACTivate Residency of Boston Center for the Arts is a seven-day, site-responsive artist residency in Boston’s historic Cyclorama building, designed to support artists in the exploration of an idea or concept without the requirement of a finished product or piece at the culmination of their residency. The ACTivate Residency is open to all Boston-based visual, performing, and interdisciplinary artists with priority given to Boston BIPOC, Immigrant, New American, and historically underrepresented artists and their collaborators. Artists participating in this program receive support for research, development, rehearsal, marketing, and mentorship.
Application fee: None
Deadline: July 28, 2025

BDC Films Fellowship Program - The BDC Films Fellowship is a free, year-long program designed to support traditionally underrepresented documentary filmmakers. Through mentorship, professional development, and hands-on training, Fellows gain the skills and resources needed to advance their careers in documentary filmmaking. The Fellowship was established to help expand opportunities for Bronx-based filmmakers from underrepresented backgrounds, providing them with access to the industry and pathways to employment in creative fields.
Application fee: None
Extended deadline: July 30, 2025

Pérez Art Museum Miami Open Call for Digital Art Commissions - Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) announces the inaugural open call for digital art commissions from the crossroads of the Americas. The program offers financial support to produce experimental digital artworks across South Florida, Latin America, the Caribbean, and African Diaspora. Selected artists may receive awards ranging from $1,000–$15,000 during an estimated 12-month period. Applicants can submit proposals for original projects in any phase of production, including pre- to post-production. Successful digital art proposals will use the internet and digital processes to conceptually and practically shape their projects, including many disciplines spanning video art, film, augmented reality, net art, 3-D sculpture, video games, virtual reality, generative art, as well as forms yet to be discovered.
Application fee: Unknown
Deadline: July 31, 2025

Performing-Artist-in-Residence Program - As the United States approaches the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence in 2026, we are prompted to reflect on the meaning of independence today. What does it mean to declare independence—not just from nations, but from expectations, erasure, silence, and imposed identities? In a country built upon a founding declaration, what new declarations are necessary today? For the 2025 Performing Artist Residency, MOCA invites artists to critically and creatively explore the theme Declaration of Independence. We welcome proposals that interrogate what it means to be “American,” to seek self-determination, or to stake a claim to visibility, freedom, and belonging—especially within diasporic, immigrant, and historically marginalized communities. Artists must conceive and develop a new project during the residency. Each selected artist will receive $3,000 honorarium 
Application fee: None
Deadline: July 31, 2025

Nicholas Dahl Visiting Artist Scholarship - The scholarship will fund a one-week creative experience in Provincetown during the “off-season” (November-April), including lodging, a workshop at PAAM and associated materials, use of a PAAM studio, a PAAM Membership, and the opportunity to visit the Fine Arts Work Center, the National Seashore, and artist and writer studios. The scholarship is offered to LGBTQIA+ individuals 30 years of age and under who demonstrate a passion for the arts in the form of writing, poetry, painting, theater, music or other artistic mediums. 
Application fee: None
Deadline: July 31, 2025

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
Regular deadline: July 31, 2025

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: July 31, 2025

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, 2025

Henri Cartier-Bresson Creation Award - The Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson is a state-approved non-profit institution dedicated to the preservation and transmission of the work of Henri Cartier-Bresson and Martine Franck. Awarded every two years, the Henri Cartier-Bresson Creation Award (formerly known as HCB Award) supports a photographer in the realization or pursuit of an ambitious project. The Henri Cartier-Bresson Creation Award is aimed at established photographers, who already have a strong documentary-inspired body of work. The recipient of the Henri Cartier-Bresson Creation Award receives an allocation of 35,000 euros, to be used for both an exhibition at the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson and a publication.
Application fee: None
Deadline: July 31, 2025

AXS Film Fund - AXS Film Fund was founded to support documentary filmmakers and non-fiction new media creators living with disabilities from a range of backgrounds, particularly those from historically underserved communities. The events of 2020 highlighted the need for change as society faced an increase in violence, particularly against communities of color, a divided nation, and a global pandemic. It became clear that elevating diverse voices in media was more important than ever.
Application fee: None
Deadline: July 31, 2025

August

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. Known as the filmmaker's festival and the people's festival, where it's all about celebrating and supporting amazing independent film, Urbanworld will host its 28th year in Manhattan, which has been a home for the festival, since inception in 1997. 
Application fee: Varies
Late deadline: August 1, 2025

Sydney Brenner Research Fellowship - The Sydney Brenner Research Fellowship, endowed by the Francis Goelet Charitable Trust in 2006, is one of three opportunities offered by the CSHL Center for Humanities & History of Modern Biology. It offers stipends of up to $5,000 to fund travel and other expenses associated with work on a significant research project in the history of the life sciences. Ideal projects will be advanced and broad in scope, with at least some relevance to collections in the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Archives. 
Application fee: None
Deadline: August 1, 2025

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: $35
Deadline: August 1, 2025

Black Atlantic Editorial Fellowship - The Republic is pleased to announce the Black Atlantic Editorial Fellowship, a six-month fellowship programme designed towards the commissioning, writing and curation of stories rooted in Blackness and the African experience. This fellowship will support five early- to mid-career editors, writers, researchers and/or journalists based in the different regions of Africa—West, East, Southern, North and Central. Fellows will receive mentorship, stipend and editorial support to commission original writing, produce original written content and curate local conversations around the most urgent themes shaping the African experience. Over the course of six months, fellows are required to commission two original essays per month, produce one story of their own each month and host one public engagement event in their African city at the end of the fellowship term.
Application fee: Unknown
Deadline: August 3, 2025

2026 Sunroom Project Space - The Sunroom Project Space offers artists in the New York City area and in the early stages of their careers—regardless of age—a chance to create and showcase a site-specific, solo project in the Sunroom or Sun Porch of Glyndor Gallery. For the 2026 season, Wave Hill is especially interested in projects that center non-human life and offer new perspectives on the concept of nature, particularly as it challenges speciesism—the belief that humans are inherently superior to other living organisms, a view often reflected in how we treat non-human animals, plants, fungi, bacteria, and other life forms. Proposals should consider the defining characteristics of living organisms—including energy use, growth and development, reproduction, responsiveness to stimuli, adaptation, homeostasis, and metabolism—as well as their complex behaviors and cognitive capacities. Four to six artists will be selected for solo presentations. Artists will receive an honorarium of $2,000 each, exhibition and professional development support, and will have six to twelve months to research and develop their ideas. 
Application fee: None
Deadline: August 3, 2025

Bemis Center: Artist-in-Residence Open Call - 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 4, 2025

James Castle House 2-Week or 2-Month Artist Residency - This residency invites artists to immerse themselves in the historic site where James Castle lived and worked for the last 46 years of his life. Artists are asked to 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 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 stipend to assist with living expenses and supplies necessary to create work. At the end of their term, residents will donate a selected piece reflective of their time at the James Castle House and congruent with the quality and style of work portrayed in their application. This piece will be a part of the larger collection owned by the City of Boise. 
Application fee: None
Deadline: August 6, 2025

Investing in Artists: Tools & Equipment 2025 - The Investing in Artists: Tools & Equipment program supports individual craft artists in purchasing artistic tools and/or equipment that support their ability to make object-based work. Competitive applicants will present a clear request, demonstrate a sustained commitment to their craft discipline, and illustrate how funding will provide linchpin support, such as enabling the artist to meet demand, address safety requirements or other regulations, replace outdated or damaged equipment, or reach a higher standard of quality or craftsmanship. In other words, funding will support craft artists’ careers and their ability to make work. A total of $60,000 is available in the 2025 funding round. For the 2025 Round: Eligible applicants must reside full-time in Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas, West Virginia, or Wisconsin.
Application fee: None
Deadline: August 8, 2025

Banff Deep Winter Writers 2026 - This 19-day self-directed residency offers the opportunity to work away from the constraints of everyday life, delve deep into a creative project and take advantage of a community of artistic peers. Deep Winter Writers provides opportunities for consultations with exceptional mentors Holly Pester, Divya Victor, and Nasser Hussain and professional guest Joshua Rothes (Sublunary Editions), and optional group sessions that allow writers to explore useful literary tools, aspects, and devices. 
Application fee: $65
Deadline: August 10, 2025

Slamdance Film Festival - The Slamdance Film Festival accepts films in every genre, on any topic, from every country around the world. We spotlight low-budget Narrative and Documentary Features by first-time directors, Breakout Features from non-first time directors, Unstoppable (shorts & features) highlighting filmmakers/films with/about disability, short films across genres, and episodes. Additionally we accept a vast variety of projects through our Digital, Interactive and Gaming category (DIG). We do not disqualify any films based on premiere status or date of completion. It is an Academy Award, BAFTA and Canadian Screen Award qualifying competition. 
Application fee: Varies
Regular deadline: August 11, 2025

Black Appalachian Storytellers Fellowship - he National Association of Black Storytellers (NABS) is proud to announce the Black Appalachian Storytellers Fellowship to honor, celebrate, and support Black storytellers representing the Appalachian counties (as designated by the Appalachian Regional Commission) of Ohio, West Virginia, Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky, and North Carolina. NABS Black Appalachian Storytellers Fellowships will provide six (6) $5,000 awards (with limited restrictions) to support experienced practitioners and culture bearers with opportunities to examine, research, develop, perform, and/or document the Black Appalachian storytelling tradition. One fellowship will be awarded to represent each of the six eligible states.
Application fee: None
Deadline: August 11, 2025

CERF+ Get Ready Grants - CERF+ offers Get Ready Grants, providing craft artists with grants up to $1,000 for activities to safeguard their studios, protect their practices, and prepare for emergencies. Priority is given to applicants that have been underrepresented in the craft community including BIPOC and folk/traditional artists. Eligible activities include studio safeguards, emergency/disaster readiness, business protection and support, and practice protection.
Application fee: None
Deadline: August 12, 2025

Yale Drama Series Playwriting Competition - The Yale Drama Series is seeking submissions for its 2026 playwriting competition. The winning play will be selected by the series’ current judge, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins. The winner of this annual competition will be awarded the David Charles Horn Prize of $10,000, publication of their manuscript by Yale University Press, and a staged reading at the Schwarzman Center at Yale University. 
Application fee: None
Deadline: August 15, 2025

CALI Catalyst 2025 - CALI Catalyst provides unrestricted* grants of up to $7,500 to California changemakers who are creating tangible impact within the arts and culture sector by shifting power and influence to underrepresented voices. CALI Catalyst launched in 2021 to provide financial support and validation to individuals whose frontline work to upend the status quo in the arts and culture sector is creating tangible change and moving the needle towards greater equity and inclusion. When individuals take bold steps to challenge entrenched systems or practices, they risk sacrificing their jobs, social status, and reputation, and more often than not, their hard labor goes unpaid. CALI Catalyst recognizes that this is precisely the time when the arts and culture sector needs to support these changemakers who are ensuring that historically underrepresented communities, such as BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, and people with disabilities, and those in rural areas, continue to be represented and included.
Application fee: None
Deadline: August 15, 2025

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 15, 2025

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: August 15, 2025

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 20, 2025

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 22, 2025

Early Career Banff Artist in Residence 2026 - Early Career Banff Artist in Residence (BAiR) 2026 is an immersive program of studio practice, creative exploration, critical feedback, and mentorship for visual artists in the early stages of their careers. Open to artists working in all visual arts mediums, this program is faculty-led while providing space, time, and support towards the development of an agreed-upon studio project. As well as having the opportunity to research, experiment, and create, participants are part of a community of emerging artists committed to developing and expanding their practice. They will participate in faculty-led conversations around the contexts that artists establish for the production and presentation of their work.
Application fee: $65
Deadline: August 27, 2025

Liu Shiming Artist Grants - Artists from any country may apply, but the application and supporting materials must be submitted in English. To be eligible for consideration, applicants must have either received a degree in studio arts between 2015 and 2023, or had their debut show at a gallery or juried art exhibition between 2015 and 2023. Successful applicants will be notified via email by December 2, 2025. Grants will be disbursed in two payments, with $3,000 by January 15, 2026 and the remaining $2,000 upon completion of the proposed project.
Application fee: None
Deadline: August 31, 2025

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, 2025

Corning Museum of Glass BIPOC Studio Residency - BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Color) Residency is an extension of The Studio's Artist-in-Residence program. Through this dedicated residency, the Museum aims to welcome underrepresented artists while actively fostering a culture and community of inclusion that promotes, respects, and celebrates diversity. Artists spend five weeks at The Studio exploring new directions in glassmaking or expanding on their current bodies of work while using the immense resources of the world’s leading glass museum. The Studio facility is equipped for furnace working, flameworking, kiln working, and cold working processes, and can support other glassworking and fabrication methods upon request. Transportation, as well as room and board, is provided to those awarded residencies. 
Application fee: $30
Deadline: August 31, 2025

September

McColl Center Artist-in-Residence Program - McColl Center's Artist-in-Residence Program is an internationally acclaimed program that serves as a catalyst for artistic growth for emerging and mid-career artists. We offer flexible residency terms throughout the year, with a dedicated summer session for parents and/or educators. During our annual application period, artists can indicate their preferred dates and duration, allowing for curated cohorts and adaptable residency lengths that meet their needs. 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 1, 2025

KHN Residency - Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts awards up to seventy-eight juried residencies per year to composers, writers, visual and interdisciplinary artists from across the country and around the world. Residencies are 2 to 8 weeks in length. Each resident receives a $175 stipend per week, housing, and a private studio. 
Application fee: $35
Deadline: September 1, 2025

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, 2025

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, 2025

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 $93,000 a year stipend is provided. Fellowships are not intended to fund work leading to an advanced degree.
Application fee: None
Deadline: September 9, 2025

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, 2025

Banff Digital Constellations: Production & Post-Production Residency 2026 - The Digital Constellations Residency offers Indigenous digital media artists, filmmakers, and animators dedicated time and a supportive environment to advance the video and audio production and post-production aspects of their projects. With guidance from faculty and support from our Media Production team, participants will refine their work, create high-quality samples, and further develop their projects throughout the program. Applicants may apply as individuals or with a collaborator.
Application fee: $35
Deadline: September 10, 2025

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, 2025

Hambidge 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: Unknown
Deadline: September 15, 2025

Banff Dancers Intensive 2026 - This two-week immersive residency offers individual dancers the opportunity to explore and embody the unique choreographic languages of three internationally acclaimed dance artists - Kirsten Wicklund, Marie Gyselbrecht, and Cyril Baldy. Participants will rotate through choreographic labs with each faculty artist, taking part in daily technique and improvisation classes that support embodied exploration.
Application fee: $65
Deadline: September 17, 2025

QM-Jerome Foundation Fellowship for Emerging Artists - The Queens Museum (QM) is pleased to launch its seventh QM-Jerome Foundation Fellowship for Emerging Artists in New York City. Two visual artists will receive $20,000 each, professional development consultations, and close mentorship from QM staff members working toward an artist’s project. The fellowships will culminate in solo project exhibitions at the Queens Museum in 2027. The duration of each fellowship is one year, culminating with the opening of the fellow’s exhibition.
Application fee: None
Deadline: September 22, 2025

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 26, 2025

Ox-Bow Culinary Artist in Residency - The Ox-Bow Culinary Artist in Residency is a unique program designed to support and elevate artists working at the intersection of food and art. Application and participation is not limited to creators with traditional fine arts training, but open to anyone who identifies as having a creative practice that considers food material – whether as research, or as a conceptual, sculptural, performative, and/or event based practice. The program takes place in two parts over the course of a winter and summer season. First, a cohort of up to 6 artists will collectively gather on Ox-Bow's campus for a 10-day residency in late January/early February (dates are determined with final cohort). During the following summer, artists return to campus to create a culminating public program through our culinary series, Taste of Ox-Bow. Collaborators/collectives are welcome to apply.
Application fee: None
Deadline: September 30, 2025

Rolling 

FCA Emergency Grants: Cancellation Funds - Foundation for Contemporary Arts (FCA) is expanding the scope of its Emergency Grants program in July 2025. With the generous support of Jerome Foundation, Emergency Grants: Cancellation Funds begin to address the financial impact of cancelled engagements stemming from sudden, and continuing, losses of federal funding. Cancellation funds are available to early-career, NYC-based experimental artists with previously confirmed public presentations including exhibitions, readings, and performances. Recognizing that artists and venues need to rethink budgets, redirect resources, and limit or eliminate programming, cancellation funds aim to mitigate the loss of financial commitments and outlays made prior to the cancellation. The grants are accepted on a rolling basis and distributed monthly in amounts up to $3000.
Application fee: None

Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Emergency Grant - The Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Emergency Grant program is intended to provide interim financial assistance to qualified painters, printmakers, and sculptors whose needs are the result of an unforeseen, catastrophic incident, and who lack the resources to meet that situation. Each grant is given as one-time assistance for a specific emergency, examples of which are fire, flood, or emergency medical need. The maximum amount of this grant is $15,000; an award of $5,000 is typical.
Application fee: None

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

Musicians Foundation - Our application for one-time financial assistance grants is open to professional musicians across all genres. You must be a professional music performer, composer/arranger, or educator in a specific time of need caused by an unexpected hardship (e.g. medical or dental situation, natural disaster, or certain housing crisis).
Application fee: None

Arts Gowanus Fellowship Program - Launching in 2025, The Arts Gowanus Fellowship Program is open to low-income and upwardly mobile artists and makers working in any medium and at all stages of their career. Though this program is open to all Brooklyn-based applicants who meet the financial criteria of being considered low-income, we are prioritizing applicants from Local Affordable Housing based in Gowanus and Red Hook (Gowanus Houses, Warren Houses, Wyckoff Gardens and Red Hook Houses).
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: $50

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

Reel Change: Fund for Diversity in Film Scoring - Responding to the fact that the vast majority of films are scored by white men, Reel Change is a grants and mentorship program for composers of diverse backgrounds who have been marginalized in film composition. The fund, initially established as a five-year grant and mentorship program in 2020, has been renewed for another three years. It supports film projects currently in production, where additional funding and mentoring would help composers at a pivotal moment in their careers. Four to six grants averaging $20,000 will be allocated each year of the program.
Application fee: None

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

Film Independent Nonfiction Works-in-Progress Series - Film Independent’s Nonfiction Work in Progress Screening Series offers documentary filmmakers a place to share their projects to receive constructive feedback. Audiences are invited to watch films as they enter the final stages of editing, offering feedback via in-depth surveys and a moderated discussion, helping to ready their projects for festivals and distribution.
Application fee: Unknown

Upcoming Deadlines for Artists: Spring 2025

The following resources are organized chronologically and include grants, fellowships, residencies, and other opportunities for artists with deadlines in May and June. There are opportunities for visual artists, filmmakers, writers, poets, 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 April 28, 2025

May

Library of Congress Lavine/Ken Burns Prize for Film - The Library of Congress Lavine/Ken Burns Prize for Film (Prize for Film) is an annual national prize that provides recognition and resources for exemplary documentary films that tell compelling stories about American history. In 2019, the Library of Congress and The Better Angels Society, a national nonprofit dedicated to engaging Americans with their history through documentary film, created this prize to support enduring educational assets for all Americans. Bestowed annually by the Librarian of Congress in partnership with The Better Angels Society, a cash prize of $200,000 is awarded to one winner, a secondary prize of $50,000 to one runner-up, and $25,000 to each of four finalists. 
Application fee: None
Deadline: May 1, 2025

Noemi Press Book Prize - A prize of $2,000 and publication by Noemi Press is given annually for one book-length poetry collection. The editors will judge. Poets at any stage in their career may submit a manuscript (no page limit).
Application fee: $25
Deadline: May 1, 2025

2025 Ragdale Residency Program - Ragdale provides up to 150 residencies annually to artists working in a variety of disciplines including dance, music, writing, and visual art. Residencies are 18 days long and include individual accommodations plus private workspaces, all located on a celebrated campus listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Application fee: $25
Deadline: May 1, 2025

Create & Connect - The Bed-Stuy Create & Connect Fund is a hyperlocal micro-grant program offered annually and directly managed by The LP. The Fund aims to enrich community life in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, by resourcing the creative ideas or civic actions of artists, cultural practitioners, community organizers, activists, and neighbors. For the 2025 cycle, we will grant up to 20 project proposals with $1500 each. We are looking for creative initiatives or civic projects that emerge from community needs, foster meaningful connections, and ignite socially conscious conversations. In other words, we aim to support community building amongst neighbors through community-led action.
Application fee: None
Deadline: May 1, 2025

Processing Foundation Fellowship - The Processing Foundation Fellowship Program proudly announces its return for 2025, featuring an invigorating theme: Data Storytelling. We invite individuals and collectives working across creative coding, interactive fiction, time-based media, and live performances to propose artistic or technical projects that explore innovative approaches to telling stories through data. Fellows will receive support through a $10,000 stipend, mentorship, workshops, public programs, and community engagement opportunities.
Application fee: None
Deadline: May 2, 2025

Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant - The Arts Writers Grant supports both emerging and established writers who are writing about contemporary visual art. Ranging from $15,000 to $50,000 in three categories—articles, books, and short-form writing—these grants support projects addressing both general and specialized art audiences, from short reviews for magazines and newspapers to in-depth scholarly studies. We also support art writing that engages criticism through interdisciplinary methods or experiments with literary styles.
Application fee: None
Deadline: May 7, 2025

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 residency is a competitive program that is open to applicants who seek the resources to support ongoing projects or the creation of new work. Residents are also expected to deliver a free public program, performance, exhibition, or other creative presentation in order to share their Martin House-inspired work with the larger public. Residency proposal must relate directly to the Martin House.
Application fee: None
Deadline: May 9, 2025

Cavendish Arts Science Fellowship - The Fellowship offers opportunities for playful experimentation and the space to re-imagine beyond conventional artistic and scientific boundaries. It is conceived as a transformative artistic fellowship, designed for artists to explore new approaches and ways of thinking through engaging with scientists and beyond, and motivated by such explorations, to experiment with and develop new artistic work-in-progress. The one-year Fellowship will begin in October 2025 and end in October 2026. It includes a residency period in Cambridge, typically of at least six months up to one year. 
Application fee: None
Deadline: May 10, 2025

Twin Cities Arab Film Festival - Mizna's Twin Cities Arab Film Festival (TCAFF) is seeking films for our upcoming festival scheduled for SEPTEMBER 24-28, 2025, as well as our new ongoing quarterly film series. We accept narrative, documentary, experimental, animated films of feature and short lengths. We seek films made by SWANA, Arab or Arab American filmmakers or films relevant to these communities. 
Application fee: $15-$20
Deadline: May 11, 2025

PAiD Artist Council - The Artist Council is an eight-member group of artists selected to create temporary public artworks and to provide recommendations to help shape the future of Los Angeles County’s public art policy and processes. The group of artists will participate in an 8 to 10-month long, two-part program of dialogue and art creation. Artists selected for this program will engage in a series of discussions around LA County Arts & Culture’s current public art, equity, and inclusion policies and procedures. The discussions will be led by the PAiD program art consultant, Dyson & Womack, and other arts and culture leaders and advocates. Through the course of these discussions, the Artist Council will develop a set of recommendations that seek to address historical barriers to participation and expand support for artists working in the field of public art. In addition, each selected artist will create a temporary public art project.
Application fee: None
Deadline: May 12, 2025

CultureHub Residency Program - The CultureHub Residency Program supports artists experimenting with emerging technologies in search of new artistic forms. We are seeking artists developing new projects that are both critically and imaginatively informed by technology. This year, we are accepting proposals in two tracks: ON LOOP (Interactive Installation track) and IRL/URL (Hybrid Performance track). The key difference between the tracks is how projects engage their audience. Projects can utilize technologies such as telepresence, virtual reality, augmented reality, artificial intelligence, robotics, creative coding, live web, game design, etc. and can be at various stages of development.
Application fee: None
Deadline: May 12, 2025

Bandung Residency - The Bandung Residency, presented by the Asian American Arts Alliance (A4) and The Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA), is an opportunity designed to uplift the work of artists, educators, and organizers whose practice is intended to foster solidarity between Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander (AANHPI) and Black communities.
Application fee: None
Deadline: May 14, 2025

James Laughlin Award - Offered since 1954, the James Laughlin Award is given to recognize and support a second book of poetry forthcoming in the next calendar year. The award was endowed in 1995 by a gift to the Academy from the Drue Heinz Trust. The winning poet receives a prize of $5,000, an all-expenses-paid weeklong residency at The Betsy Hotel in Miami Beach, Florida, and distribution of the winning book to approximately one thousand Academy of American Poets members.
Application fee: None
Deadline: May 15, 2025

Peyton Evans Artist Residency Program - The Studios of Key West, the premier arts organization at the Southernmost Point of the United States, offers a residency program for emerging and established artists and writers from around the world. We provide residencies to visual artists, writers, composers, musicians, media artists, performers, and interdisciplinary artists. The program grants nearly 40 artists each year the time and space to imagine new artistic work, engage in valuable dialogue and explore island connections.
Application fee: $45
Deadline: May 15, 2025

NYPL Dance Research Fellowship - Cerebral and provocative, Bill T. Jones is one of the most fearless artists working in the U.S. today. The Jerome Robbins Dance Division acquired the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company Records in 2017. We now invite applications for the Dance Research Fellowship from dance scholars and practitioners interested in exploring the legacy and ongoing work of Jones. We welcome both written and performative responses to research. Fellows receive a $10,000 stipend, dedicated support from a dance librarian as they work in the archive, and an opportunity to present their projects at our annual Dance Symposium in January 2026.
Application fee: None
Deadline: May 15, 2025

Ploughshares Emerging Writer’s Contest - In the spirit of the journal’s founding mission, the Ploughshares Emerging Writer’s Contest recognizes work by an emerging writer in each of three genres: fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. We consider authors “emerging” if they haven’t published or self-published a book in any genre. One winner in each genre per year will receive $2,000 and publication in the literary journal. The winners will also receive a conversation with our partnering literary agency, Aevitas Creative Management, regarding their work and writing careers. The 2025 contest judges are R . O. Kwon in fiction, Joshua Bennett in poetry, and Elisa Gabbert in nonfiction.
Application fee: $30 (for non-subscribers)
Deadline: May 15, 2025

Monson Arts Residency - 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. Applications for a residency at Monson Arts are open to anyone at any stage of their career, working in visual arts, writing, and related fields (i.e. audio, video, photography, movement, screen and playwrights).
Application fee: None
Deadline: May 15, 2025

Leeway Transformation Award - The Transformation Award (LTA) provides unrestricted annual awards of $15,000 to women, trans*, and gender nonconforming artists and cultural producers living in Greater Philadelphia who create art for social change and have done so for the past five years or more, demonstrating a long-term commitment to social change work.
Application fee: None
Deadline: May 15, 2025

Gwaertler Grant - The Gwaertler Grant supports work in the arts that seeks to make a concrete difference to the context in which it is presented. The grant is specifically geared towards practitioners in all of the arts who are getting started on a project and need support for a wide range of activities, such as: archival research; connecting with people from other disciplines; active fieldwork; cross-cultural collaboration; conducting interviews; taking courses; organising workshops; experimenting with techniques voluntary apprenticeships; durational exercises; and more.
Application fee: None
Deadline: May 15, 2025

Working Assumptions Project Grant - Each year, Working Assumptions awards six $10,000 Project Grants to support visual storytelling projects that inspire audiences and/or participants to look at family in new, meaningful ways. We invite proposals that employ photography or photo-based art for journalistic, artistic, therapeutic, educational, and research purposes. Our funding is unrestricted, allowing recipients complete creative freedom—provided that the project is intended for public consumption and that work on it began prior to the grant application deadline.
Application fee: None
Deadline: May 15, 2025

NPN Creation & Development Fund - The Creation & Development Fund supports the creation, development and mobility of new artistic work that advances racial and cultural justice and results in live experiential exchange between artists and community. The fund provides a framework for relationships to develop, over time, among diverse artists, arts organizations, and communities. Through the investment of commissioning funds from arts organizations and NPN direct subsidies, each project is eligible for multi-level support. Relationships are central to the Creation Fund, which supports new work in early stages.
Application fee: None
Deadline: May 19, 2025

2025 Craft Archive Fellowship - The 2025 Craft Archive Fellowship will foster archival research on underrepresented and non-dominant craft histories in the United States, such as feminist, intersectional, queer, Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian American and Pacific Islander, and other communities and approaches that may not be specifically listed here. The fellowship will support a range of scholars, including independent artists, and emerging to established researchers. Up to 6 Center for Craft Archive Fellows will receive a $5,000 stipend to conduct research in an archive of their choosing. These Fellows may engage in both conventional and innovative approaches to archival research. The Fellows have their research published in an article on Hyperallergic in September 2026, making their research accessible to national and international audiences.
Application fee: None
Deadline: May 20, 2025

Banff Artist in Residence, Fall 2025 - Banff Artist in Residence (BAiR) - Fall 2025 is designed for visual artists at any stage of their career to focus on their practice in a supportive learning environment. Over five weeks, participants are encouraged to self-direct their research and time, as well as cultivate new directions in their work. The experience of artists in residence is further supported through individual studio visits with faculty, workshops, and lectures. In addition, participants have the opportunity to build community, create connections, and share their work with other artists-in-residence and the public.
Application fee: $65
Deadline: May 21, 2025

Banff Mountain Writers Intensive - Mountain Writers Intensive is a three-week residency for eight writers working on mountain narratives, environmental journalism, stories of adventure, or projects with an environmental theme. Writers can work in any genre (fiction, nonfiction, journalism, or poetry), and will enjoy dedicated, uninterrupted writing time in a spectacular mountain setting, the communality of a small group of artistic peers and support from renowned faculty. This program overlaps with the Banff Centre Mountain Film and Book Festival where visiting authors, editors, and publishers will offer inspiration.
Application fee: $65
Deadline: May 28, 2025

Exploratorium Artist-in-Residence Program - The museum works with individuals and artist groups who are drawn to collaboration, interested in interdisciplinary dialogue, and open to developing new working methods. Projects have taken countless forms, such as multimedia performances, theatrical productions, animated filmmaking, immersive installations, walking tours, and online projects. While the museum allows room for variance, residencies typically unfold over two years and include both an exploratory and project-development phase. Applicants to the program should be inherently curious and deeply invested in inquiry as a part of their practice. Exploratorium AIRs receive a $15,000 annual stipend, support for travel, project management and financial support for residency projects, and access to Exploratorium facilities and staff expertise.
Application fee: None
Deadline: May 30, 2025

Joan Mitchell Center Residencies - At the Joan Mitchell Center in New Orleans, we offer artists dedicated time and space for the creative process through residencies ranging from 6 to 14 weeks in length. Artists have opportunities to engage with arts professionals, partner arts organizations, and others in the community. Eligible artists must either be based in New Orleans (for the last five years) or native to New Orleans, or be a former grant recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation based anywhere in the United States. 
Application fee: None
Deadline: May 30, 2025

Ars Electronica State of the ART(ist) - State of the ART(ist) is aimed at artists working under existential threat – be it through political repression, war, surveillance or social inequality. The initiative highlights the urgency of the drastic situation for artists in many countries in order to raise the global question of where political influence and aggression prevent artists from fulfilling their important role for and in society. The aim is to make visible and support those whose artistic work is endangered by political repression, social inequality, war, environmental disasters or the effects of digital surveillance. In addition to financial support, the initiative offers visibility, international networking and digital and physical presentation opportunities – including as part of the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz.
Application fee: None
Deadline: May 31, 2025

2026 Art/Sci Awarded Residency - All of PLAYA’s programs focus on expanding and deepening the field of art and science to empower the human motivation necessary for a healthy and whole future on this planet. We believe if human society is to maintain vibrancy of culture and biodiversity, it needs new ways of seeing the world. Surrounded by the richness of both the Fremont National Forest and BLM public lands, PLAYA’s programs provide ample space for study, exploration and inspiration within the high desert’s living laboratory. Art/Sci Awarded Residencies are funded opportunities available through an application process and awarded to artists and scientists actively working to promote dialogue and positive environmental change. Residents are awarded a residency in a cohort made up of 6-10 artists and scientists spanning many disciplines.
Application fee: $30
Deadline: May 31, 2025

Eliza Moore Fellowship for Artistic Excellence - The Eliza Moore Fellowship for Artistic Excellence is awarded annually to one outstanding, early-career artist who is developing new works that address plants, gardens, or landscapes in the broad sense.  This award is open to visual artists, literary artists, dancers, and musicians. The award includes a $10,000 individual grant and requires a 2 - 5 week stay at Oak Spring. While at OSGF, the Fellow will be able to meet with staff, explore our 700-acre landscape and our efforts in sustainable land management, and visit our rare book library that holds over 19,000 objects, including many examples of botanical art.
Application fee: Unknown
Deadline: May 31, 2025

The Jonathan and Barbara Silver Foundation 2025 Grant for Sculpture - In this grant program, the Jonathan and Barbara Silver Foundation’s goal is to encourage and support sculptors as well as writers on sculpture, both emerging and established.
Application fee: None
Deadline: May 31, 2025

June

Bard Fiction Prize - The Bard Fiction Prize is awarded to a promising emerging writer who is an American citizen aged 39 years or younger at the time of application. In addition to a $30,000 cash award, the winner receives an appointment as writer in residence at Bard College for one semester, without the expectation that he or she teach traditional courses. The recipient gives at least one public lecture and meets informally with students.
Application fee: None
Deadline: June 1, 2025

Artadia Awards: San Francisco Bay Area - 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: June 1, 2025

PEN/Jean Stein Grants for Literary Oral History - The PEN/Jean Stein Grants for Literary Oral History recognize literary works of nonfiction that use oral history to illuminate an event, individual, place, or movement. Past winners include Sharony Green, Loida Maritza Pérez, Nyssa Chow, and Aleksandar Hemon. We’re pleased to announce that beginning with the 2021 grant conferral, we will confer two PEN/Jean Stein Grants for Literary Oral History with increased cash prizes of $15,000 each. All of the submission materials and guidelines will remain the same.
Application fee: None
Deadline: June 1, 2025

Wassaic Project 2026 Residency Program - The Wassaic Project accepts proposals for our 2026 Residency program, which includes the Winter Residency program (Jan – April 2026) and the Summer Residency program (June – September 2026). This call is for individual artists, collaborative teams, groups of two or more individual artists, and artists applying through our Family Residency program. The residency fee is $900 (the fee is per artist/collab group/artist team/family). The fees cover: semi-private studio space(s), private room in a shared house (our Family program receives a private house), access to our wood shop, print shop, and kiln, staff support, and programming such as our visiting artist program, artist talks, studio visits, open studios, artist presentations, etc. 
Application fee: $25
Deadline: June 2, 2025

Headlands AIR Program - The Artist in Residence (AIR) program awards fully sponsored residencies to approximately 50 local, national, and international artists each year. Residencies of four to ten weeks include studio space, chef-prepared meals, housing, travel and living expenses. AIRs become part of a dynamic community of artists participating in Headlands’ other programs, allowing for exchange and collaborative relationships to develop within the artist community on campus.
Application fee: $45
Deadline: June 2, 2025

Guest Curators Program - Stove Works and a panel of outside Jurors select two Guest Curators to curate shows in the main gallery space for their 2026 season. The Guest Curators will be provided a Curator’s Fee, an exhibition budget, and support from Stove Works staff. Additionally, Guest Curators are invited to participate in the Stove Works Residency program for 1-3 months leading up to and during the exhibition.
Application fee: $10-$30
Deadline: June 15, 2025

WSW Studio Workspace Residency - The Studio Workspace Residency is an opportunity for artists to create new work and fully immerse themselves in WSW’s supportive environment. We invite applications from artists at any stage of their careers. This residency gives artists the gift of time, an uninterrupted period to live and work away from the stresses of daily life. Artists may choose to work in any one or more of our studios: intaglio, letterpress, papermaking, screenprinting, darkroom photography, or ceramics. As of 2019, all workspace residencies are fully subsidized! This means that while artists are still responsible for their own travel, materials, meals, and other personal incidentals while in residence, WSW provides housing and studio space at no cost.
Application fee: None
Deadline: June 15, 2025

Stoveworks Residency - From February through November of each year, Stove Works’ Artist Residency invites eight artists to live/work for one to three months at a time. Our residency serves as a moment away from the rigamarole of life and an opportunity for artists (for you) to take advantage of the dedicated time, space, resources, and community we have to offer.
Application fee: $10-$30
Deadline: June 15, 2025

Prairie Ronde Artist Residency - Prairie Ronde is hosted by The Mill at Vicksburg, a redevelopment project of the former Lee Paper Company mill, in the historic village of Vicksburg, Michigan. We’re looking for individuals who are highly independent, engaged and curious. We do not limit our residency to any specific medium, but rather are looking for diverse artists who can creatively interact with The Mill. We host three sessions annually and accept 2 – 4 residents per session. Accepted residents receive a stipend of $2,000 for 5 – 6 weeks, a $500 travel grant and private housing. We work with residents to share their work with the community (a gallery show, public workshop or other).
Application fee: $25
Deadline: June 15, 2025

Ryan Hudak LGBTQ+ Dramatic Writing Award - The Ryan Hudak LGBTQ+ Dramatic Writing Award is an $8,000 cash grant to be awarded to one (1) New York State-based playwright or screenwriter who self-identifies as LGBTQ+. The Award honors the life and work of Ryan Hudak. Ryan was a gay playwright, theater maker, filmmaker, and a valued member of NYFA’s staff who served on the executive and development teams.
Application fee: None
Deadline: June 17, 2025

2025 Theater Production Awards - The Gerbode Foundation is pleased to announce a $400,000 fund for the creation and development of new theater productions by California writers, playwrights, spoken word artists, and theater-makers. The new works will be commissioned and produced by Bay Area nonprofit artist-centered organizations with annual budget sizes of $60K to $3M that can apply for grants of $50,000 each. We do not accept applications from individual artists or collaborative teams. An eligible organization is the applicant.
Application fee: None
Deadline: June 18, 2025 

Pine Meadow Ranch Center for Arts & Agriculture Residencies - Pine Meadow Ranch Center for Arts and Agriculture (PMRCAA) offers two-week and four-week residencies from March to mid-November. 2026 Theme: Adaptation. All living things respond to a changing environment through adaptation, but what is the mysterious alchemy behind it? What catalysts lie within our world that spark individuals and whole species to adjust their characteristics? Adaptation is a demonstration of flexibility, openness and a desire not just to survive, but to thrive. Whether it takes milliseconds or millennia, a lifetime or generations, the process of adaptation holds infinite hope for the future. Join us in 2026, exploring the theme of Adaptation and all of its potential.
Application fee: None
Deadline: June 20, 2025

Public Artists In Residence - The NYC Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA) is seeking three (3) artists to join the Public Artists in Residence (PAIR) program in 2025. One (1) selected artist will be placed in residence with each of the following City agencies/offices: Office of Housing Recovery Operations, Small Business Services, and the Mayor's Public Engagement Unit.
Application fee: None
Deadline: June 30, 2025

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Reel Change: Fund for Diversity in Film Scoring - Responding to the fact that the vast majority of films are scored by white men, Reel Change is a grants and mentorship program for composers of diverse backgrounds who have been marginalized in film composition. The fund, initially established as a five-year grant and mentorship program in 2020, has been renewed for another three years. It supports film projects currently in production, where additional funding and mentoring would help composers at a pivotal moment in their careers. Four to six grants averaging $20,000 will be allocated each year of the program.
Application fee: None

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

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

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: $50 deposit

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