The following resources are organized chronologically and include grants, fellowships, residencies, and other opportunities for artists with deadlines between January and March. There are opportunities for visual artists, filmmakers, writers, poets, performers, curators, and more. The resources are arranged chronologically by their submission deadline.
Thanks to the following Resource Lists for supplying many of these opportunities:
-Alliance of Artists Communities
Have an opportunity you would like to add to the list? Email greer@queer-art.org
Last Updated February 23, 2022
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Loisaida Center Artistic Residency Program - Loisaida, Inc. Center continues to provide a platform for contemporary emerging and under-recognized artists, cultural producers and artivists working in a variety of disciplines such as: sound/music, theater, film and video, performance art, poetry, dance, visual arts, creative writing, cultural research and socially driven art practices. The Loisaida Artistic Residency program has a local focus, yet is international in scope; selection criteria favors projects that explore/reflect a shared LatinX, multi-cultural sensibility, the challenges/diversity of our city and that engage a Spanish speaking or multi-lingual audience. Deadline: Rolling
NARS Foundation Studio Relief Program - NARS’ mission is geared towards creating community while fostering expansion and exchange of artistic and cultural practices. Since March 2020, we have witnessed the devastating impact that the current health crisis has had on the cultural sector and specifically in artists and in the development of their work. With this in mind we have decided to dedicate part of the NARS Studios to 2-3 individual NY based artists who are in need of a space but unable to afford it. The subsidized studio space is available for 3 months, and is a work-space only. Throughout this time, artists will have 24/7 access to their spaces and will be able to liaise with a diverse artistic community. The selection of artists works through an Rolling Application System, and is juried by NARS Staff and other arts professionals related to our organization (former Studio Visitors and Alumni). Deadline: Rolling, see application page for more details
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. Applications Accepted Year-Round
Silent Partners Grant - Each month, Silent Partners issues two $1,000 grants. Both are one-time payments awarded by our Decision Panel. These grants provide direct support to Brooklyn-based Black artists, activists, and community organizers to support their work. Deadline: Open all month, or until 100 applications are received.
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. Deadline: Rolling
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. Applications Accepted Year-Round
January
Yaddo Artist Retreat - Yaddo is a retreat for artists located on a 400-acre estate in Saratoga Springs, New York. Its mission is to nurture the creative process by providing an opportunity for artists to work without interruption in a supportive environment. Deadline: January 5, 2022
Seattle International Film Festival - The 48th Seattle International Film Festival will be a hybrid experience, with films screened at SIFF theaters and venues throughout the city as well as virtually on the SIFF Channel. Held April 14–24, 2022, the Festival will present the best in international and independent films from around the globe. Deadline: January 7, 2022
The Gottlieb Foundation Individual Support Grant - The Foundation wishes to encourage artists who have dedicated their lives to developing their art, regardless of their level of commercial success. Please note that these grants are available only to mature individual visual artists. The Foundation defines maturity in this case as having worked for 20 years or more in a mature phase of art. Deadline: January 14, 2022
Orchard Project Lab - The OP empowers creators of dramatic stories through its Lab programs, providing support in flexible, collaborative environments that empower artists to create new works. During the 10-day-long residencies, companies and artists are provided room and board, staff support, and technical resources including lighting and sound equipment, musical instruments, and access to local performance spaces. The program hosts eight to 12 projects at any given time, supporting up to 40 projects every summer. Participants range from playwrights working alone on drafts to full ensembles working in large rehearsal spaces. Deadline: January 14, 2022
Frankenthaler Climate Art Awards - Presented by Asia Society and the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, the Frankenthaler Climate Art Awards aim to foster climate change awareness through the imagination and insights of an upcoming generation of visual artists. Deadline: January 20, 2022
Forge Project Fellowship - Forge Project is seeking a 2022 cohort of six Indigenous individuals that represents a broad diversity of cultural practices, participatory research and organizing models, and geographic contexts that honor Indigenous pasts as well as build Native futures. Each Forge Project Fellow will receive a total of $25,000 toward their practice and will have full access to the Forge Project site, libraries, and lending collection of living Indigenous artists during their fellowship. Deadline: January 21, 2022
Residencias Rhizomaticas Remix 2022 - Rhizomatica #1: Inhabiting Paradox is an in-person, experimental, nomadic, performance residency lab led by Estrellx Supernova that centers the healing arts, choreographic excavation, and ritualistic cartographies. Estrellx is seeking to work w/ (5- 13) [BIQTPOC and Allied Creatives], in each of the following locations, who are interested in crafting performative interventions, digging into durational movement and endurance art practices, ritual, somatic installations, and having conversations around urgent, global, systemic issues. How can pleasure, embodied kinetics and choreographic acts support us with co-creating a regenerative future? Deadline: January 21, 2022
Zócalo Public Square Poetry Prize - Since 2012, the Zócalo Public Square Poetry Prize has recognized the U.S. writer of a poem that best evokes a connection to place. As with everything else Zócalo features, we are on the lookout for that rare combination of brilliance and clarity, excellence, and accessibility. The prize interprets “place” in many ways: A place may possess historical, cultural, political, or personal importance, and may be literal, imaginary, or metaphorical. Deadline: January 22, 2022
Ankara Queer Art Program - Kaos GL announces the open call of Ankara Queer Art Program – Artist Residency’s 2022 edition to host visual artists whose pratice explore intersecting particularities of artistic expression and queer politics. From Turkey and abroad each artist-in-residence will be hosted for a duration of 8 weeks in Ankara. Kaos GL’s Ankara Queer Art Program – Artist Residency provides stipend for the living expenses, covers the expenses of round trip travel, accommodation and costs considered required for the materials of possible production. According to their research themes and interests Kaos GL supports artists-in-residence by facilitating access to art institutions, initiatives and archives, and programs meetings with artists, activists, scholars and curators in Turkey to provide a ground for the exchange of ideas. Deadline: January 23, 2022
NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship - This grant is awarded in fifteen different disciplines over a three-year period (five categories a year) and the application is free to complete. The NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship is not a project grant, but is intended to fund an artist’s vision or voice, at all levels of their artistic development. The 2022 cycle includes the following categories: Architecture/Environmental Structures/Design, Choreography, Music/Sound, Photography, and Playwriting/Screenwriting. Deadline: January 26, 2022
Inside Out Toronto 2SLGBTQ+ Film Festival - For more than three decades, Inside Out has brought Toronto's LGBTQ community together in celebration of the best queer film from Canada and around the world. Through our annual Festivals in Toronto and Ottawa, our filmmaker initiatives, our youth engagement and our year-round events and screenings, Inside Out is engaged every day in challenging attitudes and changing lives. Late Deadline: January 28, 2022
AKO Caine Prize for African Writing - The AKO Caine Prize for African Writing is an annual short story award. The Prize is awarded for a short story by an African writer published in English, whether they reside in Africa or elsewhere. The winner is awarded a cash prize of £10,000, and the other four shortlisted writers will receive £500 each. Deadline: January 31, 2021
Asymmetry Open Call Curatorial Fellowship - Granted to one Fellow identifying to any extent with Greater Chinese heritage and culture, including Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, or Taiwan, and based in the region or internationally, we are offering a fully-funded Curatorial Fellowship in collaboration with Whitechapel Gallery and Delfina Foundation. This opportunity is geared towards a mid-career curator to gain training, skills, and experience, while embedded in the curatorial workings of Whitechapel Gallery. Deadline: January 30, 2022
February
ALTER Residency - What’s happening to the cycle of seasons in the Alps as the frozen earth thaws? How will the loss of glaciers affect water availability for farming and hydroelectricity? What do the valley residents remember about the plants and animals of their youth? What is gone, and what has taken its place? How can we live together with more-than-humans in the land we share? This is just a sampling of questions ALTER-, a three-month residency responding to the environmental crises in the Alps, invites each team selected annually to explore. Now, more than ever, we need transdisciplinary artists and researchers to challenge our perceptions of the rapidly evolving climate paradigm and motivate us to find new knowledge and new ways of living. 12 weeks. 1 team of 3 to 5 artists and researchers. 3 curators and coordinators. 6 villages. 6 to 11 summer events. 1 final presentation. Deadline: February 1, 2022
Byrdcliffe Artists-in-Residence Program - Since its founding in 1902, Byrdcliffe has welcomed artists—Bob Dylan, Philip Guston, Eva Hesse, and hundreds more—to and live and work surrounded by 250 acres of the Catskill Mountains’ serene natural beauty. Byrdcliffe offers several types of residency ranging from four weeks to five months to year-round for artists in multiple disciplines. The main criterion for acceptance to Byrdcliffe’s AiR program is artistic excellence and a demonstrated commitment to one’s field of endeavor. Byrdcliffe seeks to pull together artists from varying perspectives, ages, and demographics, and engage with a broad range of artistic practices. Creatives and craftspeople in all media including weavers, writers, musicians, composers, architects, filmmakers, playwrights, performance and visual artists, and artists in other disciplines are invited to apply. Emerging as well as established artists are invited to apply. Deadline: February 1, 2022
Fine Arts Work Center Visual Arts Fellowship 2022-2023 - The FINE ARTS WORK CENTER located in Provincetown, MA, offers a 7-month Fellowship to 10 emerging visual artists each year from October 1 through April 30. Visual Arts Fellows are provided with a private furnished apartment and a separate work studio of approximately 400 sq ft. Fellows are awarded $1000 monthly stipend plus $1000 exit stipend to support relocation at the end of the Fellowship. Deadline: February 1, 2022
Philip Roth Residency in Creative Writing - Named for Bucknell's renowned literary alumnus 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 of fiction or creative nonfiction. The residency provides lodging in Bucknell's "Poets' Cottage" and a stipend of $5,000. Deadline: February 1, 2022
StudioWorks Artist-in-Residence Program - Founded in 2013 and now in its tenth year, The StudioWorks Artist-in-Residence Program at the Tides Institute & Museum of Art (TIMA) offers residency opportunities to visual artists from the U.S. and abroad to deepen and develop their practice within a community setting. Our studios, museum and housing are located within the historic downtown and working waterfront of Eastport, Maine and overlook the U.S./Canada boundary. TIMA’s downtown StudioWorks building contains private studios, common work areas, and a ground floor printmaking and letterpress studio. TIMA is also developing a nearby larger scale North Church Project Space which provides additional studio workspace and exhibition opportunities. Deadline: February 1, 2022
Visual AIDS COVID-19 Emergency Grant - In response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Visual AIDS is temporarily replacing Materials Grants with $400 cash Emergency Grants. Emergency Grants are available to Artist Members who have lost income or face financial hardship due to COVID-19. Deadline: February 1, 2022
CUE Art Critic Mentoring Program Open Call - We are currently looking for writers in the New York, NY area to write an essay on Money Has No Smell, an upcoming group exhibition at CUE curated by Jack Radley and Constanza Valenzuela, mentored by Rosario Güiraldesand, and on view July 21 – August 24, 2022. The program is open to writers of any age in the early stages of their careers who meet the eligibility guidelines outlined below. The writer selection process consists of a nomination and open call hybrid. Writers are awarded a $600 honorarium. To read past essays, browse the archive. Deadline: February 7, 2022
MacDowell Residency - MacDowell's mission is to nurture the arts by offering creative individuals an inspiring 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. Deadline: February 10, 2022
The Playwrights Realm Writing Fellowship - 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. Deadline: February 13, 2022
Center for Craft Curatorial Fellowship - The Curatorial Fellowship is a year-long program created to give emerging craft curators a platform to explore and test new ideas about craft. Deadline: February 14, 2021
Ambroggio Prize - The Ambroggio Prize is a $1,000 publication prize given for a book-length poetry manuscript originally written in Spanish and with an English translation. The winning manuscript is published by the University of Arizona Press, which is nationally recognized for its commitment to publishing the award-winning works of emerging and established voices in Latinx and Indigenous literature, as well as groundbreaking scholarship in Latinx and Indigenous studies. Deadline: February 15, 2021
Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry - The Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry supports outstanding poets from the upper Midwest and brings their work to a national stage. Expanding on the Lindquist & Vennum Prize for Poetry, which was established in 2011, this prize awards $10,000 and publication by Milkweed Editions to a poet residing in Minnesota, Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin, or Michigan. Deadline: February 15, 2021
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 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. Deadline: February 15, 2021
Middlebury Bread Loaf Writers’ Conferences - With a rich literary and intellectual tradition, the 97th annual Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference brings together emerging writers to work closely with a diverse and talented faculty. For ten days in August, you’ll experience the intensity—and challenge—of working under the guidance of notable writers, including MacArthur Fellows, U.S. poets laureate, and recipients of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award. Our rural and scenic setting amid the Green Mountains on Middlebury’s Bread Loaf campus provides an ideal environment for discussing manuscripts, sharing insights, getting to know agents and editors, and becoming acquainted with the next generation of significant writers. Deadline: February 15, 2022
Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program - The Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program awards rent-free non-living studio space to 17 visual artists for year-long residencies in DUMBO, Brooklyn. The program is open to professional visual artists, 21 years or older who live in the US, as well as US citizens or permanent residents living abroad. Deadline: February 15, 2022
Trans Justice Funding Project - The Trans Justice Funding Project is a community-led funding initiative founded in 2012 to support grassroots, trans justice groups run by and for trans people in the United States, including U.S. territories. We make grants annually by bringing together a panel of six trans justice activists from around the country to carefully review every application we receive. We center the leadership of trans people organizing around their experiences with racism, economic injustice, transmisogyny, ableism, immigration, incarceration, and other intersecting oppressions. Every penny we raise goes to our grantees with no restrictions and no strings attached because we truly believe in trans leadership. Deadline: February 15, 2022
Good Hart Artist Residency - The Good Hart Artist Residency located in Good Hart, Michigan offers 2-3 week residencies to dedicated visual artists, writers, and composers. The residency provides a 1,150 sqft residency and a 24×14 detached studio, food, a $500.00 stipend, and a quiet setting to concentrate on creative work. The resident artist is housed in a rural area within walking distance of Lake Michigan and the village of Good Hart, along the “Tunnel of Trees,” a Scenic Heritage Route. The Good Hart Artist Residency offers a solitary experience by primarily hosting one resident at a time. The call for composers/songwriters is now open for fall 2022 and winter 2023. Deadline: February 16, 2022
Aspen Summer Words Writers Conference - Recognized as one of the nation’s top literary gatherings, Summer Words is a six-day celebration of words, stories, and ideas held annually in Aspen. Advanced workshops with renowned authors and teachers are an intimate place for writers to develop a manuscript. Literary agents and editors meet one-on-one with workshop participants. Public panel discussions and craft talks provide inspiration and insight for writers and readers alike. The annual Book Ball benefit dinner, held at the Hotel Jerome, is an evening celebration with a special guest author keynote speaker. Deadline: February 28, 2022
Association of Writers & Writing Programs Award Series - AWP’s Award Series is an annual competition for the publication of excellent new book-length works. The competition is open to all authors writing in English regardless of nationality or residence, and it is open to published and unpublished authors alike. The Award Series conducts an evaluation process of writers for writers by writers. AWP hires a staff of screeners who are themselves writers; the screeners review manuscripts for the judges. Typically, the screeners will select ten manuscripts in each genre for each judge’s final evaluations. Deadline: February 28, 2022
BAU Institute Arts Residency Award - The BAU Institute Residency offers international mid-career artists, who have been working independently for over ten years, apartments and workspaces at no cost. Hosted at the Camargo Foundation, the BAU Institute’s Residency award supports artists working in the visual arts, film, performance, and writing on a secluded campus in Cassis, France. Deadline: February 28, 2022
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. Deadline: February 28, 2022
Open Call 2023 @ The Shed - Born out of The Shed's commitment to act as a platform for NYC-based early-career artists working in a range of artistic disciplines, Open Call selects, fosters, and presents new work. The program showcases a wide, multiborough range of voices, lived experiences, and perspectives, demonstrating the multitude of ways in which artists are working today. It embraces proposals for new works in disciplines including the visual arts, theater, dance, music, performance, spoken word, literary arts, film, fashion, art and technology, social practice, and new media, as well as across multiple and new disciplines. Deadline: February 28, 2022
Translations: Seattle Trans Film Festival - Translations: Seattle Trans Film Festival is returning in 2022 for a hybrid festival featuring incredible features, shorts, and special events celebrating all things trans. Final Deadline: February 28, 2022
March
The Arch and Anne Giles Kimbrough Fund - The Clare Hart DeGolyer Memorial Fund and the Arch and Anne Giles Kimbrough Fund were created at the Dallas Museum of Art in 1980 for the purpose of recognizing exceptional talent and potential in young visual artists. These funds seek applicants who show a commitment to continuing their artistic endeavors. Must reside in Texas. Deadline: March 1, 2022
The Clare Hart DeGoyler Memorial Fund - The Clare Hart DeGolyer Memorial Fund and the Arch and Anne Giles Kimbrough Fund were created at the Dallas Museum of Art in 1980 for the purpose of recognizing exceptional talent and potential in young visual artists. These funds seek applicants who show a commitment to continuing their artistic endeavors. Must reside in the southwestern part of the US (Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arizona, or Colorado) Deadline: March 1, 2022
Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts - The mission of the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts is to support established and emerging writers, visual artists, and composers/musicians by providing working and living environments that allow uninterrupted time for work, reflection, and creative growth. Deadline: March 1, 2022
The Otis and Velma Davis Dozier Travel Grant - The Otis and Velma Davis Dozier Travel Grant was established in 1990 to honor the memory of Dallas artists Otis and Velma Davis Dozier, who strongly believed in the enriching experiential and aesthetic influence of travel on an artist’s work. The grant seeks to recognize exceptional talent in professional Texas artists who wish to expand their artistic horizons through domestic or foreign travel. The grant should not be used for conferences or residencies, but should instead fund opportunities to gain inspiration and broaden a view of the world. Deadline: March 1, 2022
Haystack Open Studio Residency - Haystack’s Open Studio Residency fosters a dynamic exchange of ideas among peers and provides two weeks of studio time and an opportunity to work in a community of makers. The program supports approximately fifty participants—from the craft field and other creative disciplines—who have uninterrupted time to work in six studios (ceramics, fiber, graphics, iron, jewelry, and wood) to develop ideas and experiment in various media. Participants can choose to work in one particular studio or move among them depending on the nature of their work. All of the studios are staffed by technicians who can assist with projects. Deadline: March 1, 2022
IEA Experimental Projects Residency - One or two-week residency, with artist stipend, travel support, lodging, technology access, materials, and technical assistance. Artists have access to a combination of emerging, contemporary, and historical media arts tools and materials, many are unique and not ordinarily available in a studio setting. The resident artists have 24-hour dedicated access to the IEA studio and equipment. The IEA research specialist will work with the resident artist. Additional technical staff and faculty are also available for consultation. Deadline: March 1, 2022
UCross Residency Program - The Ucross Residency Program is open to visual artists, writers, composers, choreographers, interdisciplinary artists, and performance artists, as well as collaborative teams. Applicants must exhibit professional standing in their field; both mature and emerging artists of promise are welcome to apply. Deadline: March 1, 2022
BRICLab: Contemporary Art Residency - The BRIClab: Contemporary Art track offers visual artists space, feedback, and resources to develop and advance their projects. Artist applications are received through an open call and reviewed by a panel of curators, artist alumni, and BRIClab program managers. Deadline: March 10, 2022
BRICLab: Performing Arts Residency - The BRIClab: Performing Arts residency track is for New York City-based performing artists to explore and expand the possibilities of their work in music, dance, theater, and multidisciplinary performance. The support of our staff and resources is at the heart of our BRIClab: Performing Arts program. Deadline: March 10, 2022
Armstrong Now Artist-in-Residence - The ARMSTRONG NOW 2022 Artist-in-Residence program contextualizes Louis Armstrong’s contributions within historical and 21st Century constellations of Black making, thinking, and vitality. The residency provides emerging artists with a platform to create new work inspired by the vast collection of artifacts and documents in the Armstrong Archives. Deadline: March 15, 2022
LIFT–Early Career Support for Native Artists- The Native Arts and Cultures Foundation (NACF) is now accepting applications for the LIFT–Early Career Support for Native Artists program, a one-year award and early career support program for emerging Native artists to develop and realize new projects. The program’s focus is to provide financial support and professional development to artists whose work aims to uplift communities and advance positive social change. Deadline: March 16, 2022