The following resources are organized chronologically and include grants, fellowships, residencies, and other opportunities for artists with deadlines between March and May. There are opportunities for visual artists, filmmakers, writers, poets, performers, curators, and more. The resources are arranged chronologically by their submission deadline. Where the information was accessible, we have also included the cost to apply for each opportunity.
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Last Updated: May 4th, 2022
March
Institute for Electronic Arts Experimental Projects Residency Programs - 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.
Application Fee: Unknown
Deadline: March 1, 2022
Chautauqua School of Art Residency Program - The Chautauqua School of Art residency program welcomes artists who have yet to receive wide recognition of their work, including those as young as 21 years old. College enrollment is not a requirement to attend our program. Artists who engage in all media are encouraged to apply.
Application Fee: Unknown
Deadline: March 2, 2022
Gibney Dance-in-Progress (DiP) Residency - DANCE IN PROCESS (DIP) IS DESIGNED TO PROVIDE EXTENSIVE, HOLISTIC SUPPORT FOR MID-CAREER NEW YORK-BASED DANCE ARTISTS WHO ARE IN THE MIDDLE STAGES OF WORK ON A NEW PROJECT.
Application Fee: Unknown
Deadline: March 14, 2022
Baldwin for The Arts Residency - Baldwin For The Arts is an artist residency program. Named for the writer, James Baldwin, BFTA nurtures the arts by offering creative BIPOC individuals an inspiring environment in which they can produce enduring works of the imagination. A Baldwin Fellowship consists of exclusive use of a private studio, accommodations, and three prepared meals a day anywhere from one week to four weeks. BFTA does not offer classes or instruction.
Application Fee: $15-17
Deadline: March 15, 2022
Black Realities Grant - The Black Realities Creative Grant was created in 2020. Amid the ongoing social injustice andviolence against Black Lives, this grant was designed to empower Black storytellers and inspire Black creative artists to boldly create. The grant awards a monthly cash prize for projects that explore the varied conditions, experiences, resilience, and joy within the Black global community. All formats, genres, and categories of screen-based projects will be considered including films, episodic stories, games, apps, VR/AR experiences, photojournalism, and more. There are only two hard requirements: first, the lead creators must be Black, and second, the perspective of Black folx and the centering of Black thoughts and characters must be the core of the project.
Application Fee: Free
Deadline: March 20, 2022
Artist Employment Program - Creatives Rebuild New York’s (CRNY) Artist Employment Program (AEP) will fund employment for up to 300 artists, culture bearers, and culture makers (artists) in collaboration with dozens of community-based organizations across New York State for two years. Participating artists will receive a salary of $65,000 per year, plus benefits, with dedicated time to focus on their practice. Participating organizations will receive funds that range between $25,000 and $100,000 per year to support artists’ employment. Note: Artists must apply collaboratively with a community-based organization.
Application Fee: Free
Deadline: March 25, 2022
CUE’s Solo Exhibition Open Call - The Solo Exhibition Open Call provides emerging and under-recognized artists the necessary resources to present an exhibition at CUE in 2023. The selected artists will receive valuable mentor support from an established artist or curator on the selection panel, including a studio visit and installation guidance in preparation for the exhibition. In addition, exhibiting artists each receive a $5,000 honorarium and an accompanying exhibition catalogue with an essay written by a participant in CUE’s Art Critic Mentoring Program.
Application Fee: $10
Deadline: March 25, 2022
Guaranteed Income for Artists - CRNY’s Guaranteed Income for Artists program will provide regular, no-strings-attached cash payments for 2,400 artists who have financial need. Each artist will receive $1,000 per month for 18 consecutive months. Note: Artists cannot apply to both the Guaranteed Income and Artist Employment Program.
Application Fee: Free
Deadline: March 25, 2022
Recess Session Open Call 2022 - Session provides artists a 1200sf workspace in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn and 6-8 weeks to develop a new inquiry-based project meant to push the boundaries of their practice. They will receive an artist fee, project expenses, technical support, and mentorship collectively valued at $20,000.
Application Fee: Free
Deadline: March 28, 2022
Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity Fellowship - Artists, media makers, and writers whose work focuses on race, ethnicity, and/or indigeneity in the United States can apply to be a Practitioner Fellow for the Spring 2023 academic semester.
Application Fee: Unknown
Deadline: March 31, 2022
April
Artadia Awards (NYC) - The Artadia Awards provide financial support, exposure and recognition to contemporary Visual Artists. The awards are unrestricted, allowing artists to use the funds in any way they choose.
Application Fee: Unknown
Deadline for New York-based artists: April 1, 2022
Bayard Rustin Residency - This residency, hosted by the Penington Friends House, provides up to one year of room and board to a person who demonstrates a strong project that addresses ending systemic racism and who has a necessity to be in New York City for up to one year.
Application Fee: Unknown
Deadline: April 1, 2022
Bemis Center 2023 Sound Art + Experimental Music Artists-in-Residence Open Call - Embedded within Bemis Center’s renowned international Residency Program, this opportunity offers a unique experience for two artists working in sound, composition, voice, and experimental genres and tools. National and international artists participating in the program receive financial, technical, and administrative support, along with dedicated facilities for rehearsing, recording, and performing new works that expand the field of sound art and music. Two selected artists-in-residence will enjoy a generously sized, private live/work studio complete with kitchen and bathroom.
Application Fee: $40
Deadline: April 1, 2022
Creative Capital Wild Futures 2023/2024 Awards Cycle - Creative Capital provides grants to support the creation of groundbreaking art by innovative and adventurous artists across the country through our national, open call process. Grants are awarded through an annual competition open to citizens, permanent residents, and O-1 visa holders of the United States. Candidates must apply to Creative Capital in order to be considered.
Application Fee: Unknown
Deadline to Submit Letter of Intent: April 1, 2022
De Ateliers Artists Institute Residency - De Ateliers is an artists’ institute open to artists at the beginning of their professional career. It offers a two-year studio and tutoring programme that is best tailored to the needs of highly motivated artists who wish to strengthen their artistic foundation, develop their ideas and deepen their practice in a focused, critical environment among peers from around the globe.
Application Fee: €50
Deadline: April 1, 2022
Franklin Furnace Fund - The Franklin Furnace Fund awards grants annually to early-career artists to enable them to produce major performance art works in New York. Grants range between $2,000 and $10,000 based on the peer review panel allocation of funding received by Franklin Furnace.
Application Fee: Free
Deadline: April 1, 2022
Seattle Queer Film Festival - Seattle Queer Film Festival has been an important part of the Seattle queer film community since 1996, and has remained the largest of its kind in the PNW. Since then the festival has expanded to intentionally showcase stories reflecting the vast spectrums and intersections of our queer communities. SQFF has evolved to be a hybrid festival, including in person screenings, dazzling parties, engaging community meetups, virtual and IRL conversations, panels with filmmakers, and inspiring educational workshops.
Application Fee: Unknown
Early Deadline: April 1, 2022
WP Theater Lab - WP Theater is looking for early career Women+ playwrights, directors, and producers who crave an artistic home, professional support, and the resources to launch them into the next phase of their careers to join the WP Lab. The Lab provides up to fifteen artists with community, a vital professional network, entrepreneurial and leadership skill-building, free rehearsal space, and, most significantly, tangible opportunities for the development and production of bold new work for the stage.
Application Fee: Unknown
Deadline: April 1, 2022
Bemis Center 2023 Artists-in-Residence Open Call (Summer) - Selected artists-in-residence enjoy generous sized, private live/work studios complete with kitchen and bathroom, and a $1,000 USD monthly stipend. Due to the limitations of B2 visas (touring/visiting), international artists-in-residence are eligible to receive reimbursement of qualified expenses, such as airfare, ground transportation, and meals. Selected artists are responsible for organizing travel to Omaha to attend the residency. Artists-in-residence have 24-hour access to extensive installation and production spaces and the Okada Sculpture & Ceramics Facility, a 9,000 square foot industrial space used for large-scale sculpture fabrication; and a Sound Studio for rehearsing and recording. This is an independently-driven, process-based residency in a communal environment, fostering creative growth, experimentation, and supportive exchange. There are no expectations placed on residents to create or promise of an exhibition in our first-floor galleries.
Application Fee: $40
Deadline: April 8, 2022
Fire Island Artist Residency - This residency offers five emerging artists who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer a shared live/work space in the secluded community of the historic LGBTQ settlement of Fire Island. The four-week program includes studio visits with, and public lectures by, renowned leaders in contemporary art and curation.
Application Fee: $40
Deadline: April 15, 2022
Bethany Arts Community Residencies - Bethany Arts Community offers residencies to emerging and established artists for the development of both new works and works in progress. BAC welcomes artists working across most disciplines, including visual artists in any medium, writers, playwrights, choreographers, musicians, composers, performance artists, filmmakers, and lighting, projection, costume and sound designers. Enjoy an environment where artists from different disciplines can work near each other, creating opportunities for cross-pollination.
Application Fee: Unknown
Deadline: April 15, 2022
Flux Factory Open Call - Flux Factory is seeking artists and mariners for the inaugural project at our upcoming venue, “Flux IV,” a new artist-run site for creating and exhibiting unique new works and gathering community. Flux will activate the waterway and surrounding green space at the crux of the Newtown Creek and East River in Queens; Hunters Point South Park throughout the late Spring and Summer of 2022 with an event series of artworks, performances, and creative interventions.
Application Fee: Unknown
Deadline: April 15, 2022
KODA Artist Residency Racial Justice Open Call - KODA offers an artist residency program for two mid-career, female-identifying artists who create conceptual and socially engaged work. The Fall 2022 residency will span from August 1, 2022, to October 31, 2022 (with a possibility of a one-month extension). The program is placed under the theme of Racial Justice. Proposals related to mass incarceration are encouraged.
Application Fee: Unknown
Deadline: April 15, 2022
Yearbook of Type Call for Entries 2022/23 - The Yearbook of Type presents a selection of new typefaces created all over the world—from larger publishers to smaller, independent typographers and foundries. It is possible to submit several typefaces as well as custom fonts. Latin and non-Latin typefaces are most welcome! Every submitted typeface must have been published within the years 2019 to 2022.
Application Fee: € 229 - € 249
Deadline: April 15, 2022
Austin Film Festival Feature Screenplay Competition -
Application Fee: $65
Deadline: April 18, 2022
Austin Film Festival Short Screenplay & Teleplay Competition -
Application Fee: $55
Deadline: April 18, 2022
NYC H2O Ridgewood Reservoir Mural Contest - NYC H2O is now accepting entries for a Mural Contest for our new storage container at the Ridgewood Reservoir. Artists and students (college and below) from Brooklyn and Queens are invited to submit their mural ideas.
Application Fee: Free
Deadline: April 18, 2022
Movement Research Artist-in-Residence - The Movement Research Artist-in-Residence program was launched in 1991. In 2001 it became a two-year Artist-in-Residence program. It provides commissions, rehearsal space, performances, professional development opportunities and peer dialogue, all of which are designed to support the individualized creative process of movement-based artists.
Application Fee: Free
Deadline: April 20, 2022
Studio Museum Artist Residency - Studio Museum offers an eleven-month residency for three local, national, or international artists working in any media. Artists receive institutional guidance and professional development, research support, and a stipend.
Application Fee: Free
Deadline: April 30, 2022
aGLIFF / Prism Film Festival - The All Genders, Lifestyles and Identities Film Festival (aGLIFF) cultivates the Texas LGBTQIA+ community by enlightening, educating, and entertaining our clients and patrons through programs that enrich the LGBTQIA+ and ally communities while developing LGBTQIA+ awareness.
Application Fee: $20 - $35
Deadline: April 29, 2022
Harpo Foundation Grants for Visual Artists - The award provides direct support to under-recognized artists 21 years or older.
Application Fee: $15
Deadline: April 29, 2022
Sci-Fi & Fantasy Screenplay Competition - The best visual effects in the universe count for nothing if a story doesn’t have a world or characters that we care about. It takes unrestrained imagination to explore new worlds and character connections through timeless fantasy and awe-inspiring science fiction, and the best scripts in these genres are nothing short of magical. Whether you’re writing a contained science fiction drama or an epic fantasy saga, we want to read your feature screenplay or TV pilot!
Application Fee: $49 - $119
Deadline: April 30, 2022
New American Paintings Competition - We sponsor six juried competitions per year. The forty winners of each competition receive a four-page, full-color spread in New American Paintings. Five of the annual competitions focus on geographic regions (Northeast, South, Midwest, West and Pacific Coast), and the sixth is only open to current Masters of Fine Arts candidates who are attending schools based in the United States, and current year graduates.
Application Fee: Unknown
Deadline for Western Region: April 30, 2022
May
Braiding Seeds Fellowships - Honor and respect to our ancestral grandmothers who braided seeds and promise into their hair before being forced onto transatlantic slave ships. They believed, against odds, that we, their descendents would exist to inherit, plant, and pass on that seed. The Braiding Seeds Fellowship, a project of Soul Fire Farm Institute in collaboration with the Federation of Southern Cooperatives, carries on the legacy of the braided seeds by providing beginning farmers with resources, professional development, and mentorship to support their livelihood on land. The inaugural cohort was drawn from the southeast and northeast, along certain corridors of the Underground Railroad and the Great Migration. We are working to bridge north-south and legacy-returning generations of farmers. Braiding Seeds fellows receive a $50,000 stipend; a menu of professional development opportunities including 1:1 mentorship, workshops, farm finance and business plan support; cohort gatherings; and individualized coaching.
Application Fee: Free
Deadline: May 1, 2022
NOT REAL ART Grant - The grant provides $2,000 each to six contemporary artists working in the visual arts. Applicants must be at least 21 years old and reside in the US or Canada.
Application Fee: $19.95
Deadline: May 1, 2022
Salento International Film Festival - The Salento International Film Festival Is a celebration of films and filmmakers, promotes international independent films, in recognition of the fact that movies are the most powerful form of cultural communication and link between cultures' and peoples'.
Application Fee: €40.00 - €55.00
Deadline: May 3, 2022
Jerome Hill Artist Fellowships - Jerome Hill Artist Fellowships support Minnesota and New York City-based artists across 8 artistic fields who generate new work that takes creative risks in expanding, questioning, experimenting with or re-imagining conventional artistic forms. This Fellowship supports artists who embrace their roles as part of a larger community of artists and citizens, and consciously work with a sense of service, whether aesthetic, social or both. Support is directed to artists who are at an early point in their careers in creating such work, generally in their 2nd–10th year as a generative artist.
Application Fee: Unknown
Deadline: May 4, 2022
Smack Mellon Exhibition Program - Smack Mellon's Exhibition Program is at the center of the organization. Designed to advance public interest in the visual arts, the program focuses on providing opportunities for artists to create site-specific works that creatively respond to our space, and work that explores innovative uses of both new technologies and traditional materials. The gallery space provides for large, ambitious shows that allow our artists ample room to explore and present their work. Exhibiting artists also have unlimited access to Smack Mellon’s in-house media equipment. On average, Smack Mellon produces five exhibitions a year showcasing the work of more than 50 artists for 20,000 visitors. We also produce on average one exhibit per year by an emerging guest curator. The gallery, which is free to the public, is open five days a week.
Application Fee: Unknown
Deadline: May 4, 2022
Reeling: The Chicago LGBTQ+ International Film Festival - Reeling: The Chicago LGBTQ+ International Film Festival is the second longest-running film festival of its kind, and prides itself on showcasing the best LGBTQ+ films each year. From award-winning international feature films to social documentaries to experimental shorts, Reeling has always presented a range of genres that demonstrate the rich diversity of work being produced. Not only has Reeling become one of the most important cultural events for Chicagoans, it also attracts audiences from throughout the Midwest who consider the festival to be the highlight of their cinematic year.
Application Fee: Unknown
Deadline: May 5, 2022
OUTSOUTH Queer Film Festival - OUTSOUTH Queer Film Festival, formerly The North Carolina Gay and Lesbian Film Festival (NCGLFF), has consistently been ranked among the largest LGBTQ+ film festivals in the United States, attracting thousands of patrons yearly. OUTSOUTH celebrates a worldwide glimpse of today’s Queer life by bringing community together and showcasing entertaining and sophisticated films and filmmaking. The festival features a diverse array of juried new shorts, documentaries, and feature films.
Application Fee: Unknown
Shorts Deadline: May 10, 2022
Feature Deadline: May 30, 2022
National Performance Network Creation and 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.
Application Fee: Unknown
Deadline: May 23, 2022
Marble House Project Residency - Marble House Project is a multi-disciplinary artist residency program that fosters collaboration & the exchange of ideas by providing an environment for artists across disciplines to live and work side by side. Our residency program is uniquely curated to bring together a diverse group of artists to facilitate exchange of different expertise, histories, techniques and perspectives. Applications for the artist residency program, family friendly residency and culinary residency open February 1, 2022, for the 2023 season.
Application Fee: $35
Deadline: May 15, 2022
Ragdale Fellowships - Fellowships help pay for the cost of residency, public programs, travel, and materials. Our fellowships recognize exceptional achievement as well as advance cultural exchange, emerging talent, social justice, and artists with special needs. The majority of our fellowships are underwritten by individuals on an annual basis. Fellowships support important new works, and they bring artists to our community who might not otherwise be able to join us.
Application Fee: Free
Deadline: May 15, 2022
Austin Film Festival Fiction Podcast Script Competition -
Application Fee: $45
Deadline: May 16, 2022
Creative Time Open Call 2022 - Do you have a bold, ambitious, maybe even impossible seeming idea for a public art project? We’re ready to dream with you. We want to know what you would do if there were no constraints. Proposals for speculative concepts are welcome, and we only ask that, if selected, you will work with us to translate a version of the idea that can be realized.
Application Fee: Unknown
Deadline: May 17, 2022
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.
Application Fee: Unknown
Deadline: May 18, 2022
The Beverly Art Writers Travel Grant to Australia - The Beverley is a US$10,000 grant awarded annually to an established American freelance writer who has an outstanding reputation for art journalism. The purpose of the grant is to foster cultural exchange, discussion and coverage of the Australian contemporary visual arts community and its programs.
Application Fee:Unknown
Deadline: May 31, 2022
New York City Short Film Festival- The NEW YORK CITY SHORT FILM FESTIVAL (NYC SHORTS) is an international short film festival dedicated to the short form. Following our first-ever virtual festival in 2020, in 2021, NYC SHORTS will celebrate its 17th annual edition. The festival screenings will once again take place in-person (pandemic-permitting) at the Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theatre at Symphony Space, a storied arts and film venue in Manhattan.
Application Fee: $20 - $40
Deadline: May 31, 2022