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.

Have an opportunity you would like to add to the list? Email greer@queer-art.org

Last Updated: March 7th, 2023

March

Momus & Forge: An international Indigenous Art Criticism Residency - Forge Project and Momus are now accepting applications to Estuaries: An International Indigenous Art Criticism Residency led by Dr. Léuli Eshrāghi (Sāmoa) and Candice Hopkins (Carcross/Tagish). Seminars, workshops, and other activities will be conducted by leading writers, artists, curators, and scholars belonging to Indigenous communities around the world. Their respective approaches to mentorship will bring together multiple forms of Indigenous writing and voicing, coalescing with complementing one another under Eshrāghi and Hopkins’s leadership.
Application Fee: Unknown
Deadline: March 5, 2023

CERF+ Get Ready Grant - CERF+’s Get Ready program provides individual craft artists grants up to $500 to conduct activities that will help safeguard their studios, protect their careers and prepare for emergencies.
Application Fee: Unknown
Deadline: March 7, 2023

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 10, 2023

Lerman Charitable Trust Soaring Gardens Artists Retreat - Actively working visual artists, writers, instrumentalists, and composers with at least two years’ experience since graduation may apply. Residencies are for three weeks. (If scheduling permits, two- week residencies will be considered.) There is no application fee and no fee to attend. We encourage group applications (a combination of artistic disciplines is fine), although applications from individual artists are also welcome. When you apply as part of a group, you may pursue individual projects, collaborative projects, and/or both. Each application is reviewed separately, and the judges reserve the right to select or reject individual members of a group.
Application Fee: Unknown
Deadline: March 10, 2023

Residencies Rhizomaticas, Cycle #3: Glitch in the Crossroads - [Rhizomatica #3: GLITCH IN THE CROSSROADS is an explicitly [VIRTUAL], experimental, somatic-healing based performance lab co-led by Estrellx Supernova, june yuen ting, and Guest Instigators that centers the healing arts, choreographic excavation, and ritualistic cartographies. This cycle will dive more deeply into the realm of choreographic inquiry, divinatory performance, and ritual. Each session will include time for dialogue, movement, meditation, writing, and activation of somatic scores within public, virtual, and private domains. Guest Artists will come and pay the cohort a visit throughout the timeline of this experience to instigate further thought and deviations on the core theme.
Application Fee: Unknown
Final Call Deadline: March 12, 2023

American Composers Forum | Create - ACF | create supports the creation and presentation of new works and is an evolution of the Jerome Fund for New Music (JFund), which started in 1979. Through this program, ACF has supported the creation of hundreds of new works. This program is for music creators who are in the early stages of their creative development and are vocational artists that are residents of Minnesota or the five boroughs of New York City and have been residents for at least one year prior to application or program participation. Five commissions totaling $11,000 will be awarded: for each award, $8,000 is designated for the music creator’s time to create the work, and $3,000 is designated to help with production and promotion support.
Application Fee: Unknown
Deadline: March 14, 2023

McKnight Foundation Composer and Visiting Composer Residencies - The McKnight Composer Fellowships are open to composers who have been legal and continuous residents of Minnesota for at least one year prior to the application deadline and through the duration of the fellowship. Applicants must have a US Social Security Number or US Tax ID. The McKnight Visiting Composer Residency program is open to composers who are not Minnesota residents and have a US Social Security Number or US Tax ID.
Application Fee: Unknown
Deadline: March 14, 2023

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, 2023

CultureHub Residency Open Call - Serving as a catalyst for risk-taking and discovery, CultureHub’s Residency Program supports artists creating work through experimentation with emerging technologies. Resident Artists have full access to space, technical support, and other creative resources with an opportunity to present works-in-progress, teach workshops, develop their curatorial practices, and connect with other artists in the CultureHub network.
Application Fee: Unknown
Deadline: March 15, 2023

Kala Fellowship Award - For over 30 years, Kala Art Institute has awarded artists time, space, and financial support for their work through the Kala Fellowship award. The Kala Art Institute Fellowship is an artist residency award for local, national, and international artists. Artists producing innovative work in mediums including printmaking, digital media, installation art, social practice, photography, and book arts are encouraged to apply. Fellowship Awards will be given based on conceptual creativity, originality and artistic excellence.
Application Fee: $20
Deadline: March 15, 2023

Lexi Rudnitsky Editor’s Choice Award - The Lexi Rudnitsky Editor’s Choice Award competition is open to any poet who has previously published at least one full-length book of poems. The winner receives an advance of $2,000.00, publication of their collection by Persea.
Application Fee: Unknown
Deadline: March 15, 2023

Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program - Well known by visual artists as the "Gift of Time", the Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program was established in 1967 to provide gifted studio-based visual artists with the unique opportunity to concentrate on their work in a supportive, collegial environment for an entire year. This gift of time allows artists to work without distraction in an effort to break new ground and focus on individual goals. The Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program’s interest is in strengthening the vitality of the visual art in New Mexico and has been a catalyst in broadening community understanding of contemporary art for over fifty years.
Application Fee: $25
Deadline: March 15, 2023

Lucas Artists Residency Program - The Sally and Don Lucas Artists Residency (LAP) at Montalvo opened in 2004 as a new facility, designed especially for artists, consisting of ten unique live/work studios designed to accommodate many artistic practices including music, visual, literary and performing arts. The facility has a commons building that provides a flexible space where artists can gather for meals prepared by our culinary artist/chef, collaboration and social events. Lucas Artists Fellows can access and utilize Montalvo’s many buildings and grounds, including a workshop for woodworking and an adjacent ceramics studio.
Application Fee: $20
Deadline: March 17, 2023

NARS Open Call Residency - 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 through three and six-month residencies. The program is open to both International and US-Based artists, creating a shared space for artistic dialogue and international cultural exchange for an extended period of time. 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.
Application Fee: $35
Deadline: March 27, 2023

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
Regular Deadline: March 27, 2023

Artlab Editorial Fellowship Open Call - The future of art writing is transnational, multigenerational, and decentralized, and the structures that support it should nurture the diffuse, the diverse, and the local. As an extension of our mission to champion writing about today’s most compelling artists—and celebrate connectivity in all its forms, we’re excited to announce the Artlab Editorial Fellowship.
Application Fee: Unknown
Deadline: March 28, 2023

USArtists International - USArtists International supports in-person and virtual performances by American artists at engagements at international festivals and global presenting arts marketplaces outside of the United States. The program funds individuals and ensembles across all performing arts practices and disciplines.
Application Fee: Unknown
Deadline: March 29, 2023

Bemis Center 2024 Spring Artist-in-Residence Open Call - Located in the historic Old Market, Omaha’s arts and culture district, Bemis Center's 110,000 square foot facility accommodates a broad range of artistic activity. Selected artists-in-residence enjoy generous sized, private live/work studios complete with kitchen and bathroom, a $1,250 USD monthly stipend and $750 travel stipend.
Application Fee: $40
Deadline: March 31, 2023

Creative Capital Wild Futures: Art, Culture, Impact Grant for Visual Arts and Film/Moving Image - Creative Capital provides grants up to $50,000 to individual artists to support the creation of groundbreaking new projects. The new application process comprises only 6 short questions (reduced from 40 questions).
Application Fee: Unknown
Deadline: March 31, 2023

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, 2023

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
Regular Deadline: April 1, 2023

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, 2023

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, 2023

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: $15 - $40
Early Deadline: April 3, 2023

Wassaic Project Winter Residency Program - The Wassaic Project accepts proposals for our 2023-24 Winter Residency program (November 2023 – March 2024). 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 $600 per month artist/collab group/artist team/family, which includes: semi-private studio space(s), private room in a shared house (our Family program receives a private house), access to our wood shop and kiln, staff support, and programming such as our Visiting Artist program, Artist Talks and Studio Visits, open studios, artist presentations, etc.
Application Fee: $25
Deadline: April 3, 2023

IDA Enterprise Documentary Fund - The IDA Enterprise Documentary Fund provides production funds to feature-length documentary films taking on in-depth explorations of original, telling contemporary-relevant stories, and integrating journalistic practice into the filmmaking process. In addition to funds, grantees will receive additional resources and expertise tailored to the needs of the project. Inclusion and diversity with regard to the filmmaking team, subject matter, and geography are a priority of the fund.
Application Fee: Unknown
Deadline: April 4, 2023

Santa Fe Art Institute Sovereignty Residency - Sovereignty, the theme for the 2024 SFAI International Thematic Residency, calls for artistic and creative engagement at the multiple intersections of sovereignty as it pertains to the individual, jurisdictions, systems, and society as a whole. SFAI supports the expression of differing perspectives regarding the role of the artist, creative practitioner, and culture bearer in shaping and being shaped by social and political conditions. As the US Supreme Court and other international political bodies in the world debate, restrict, and claim autonomy over the body, community, and the ability to self-govern, we seek proposals that articulate a response as a creative call to action and challenge imperial and colonial concepts of sovereignty that have laid claim to land and personhood.
Application Fee: Free
Deadline: April 9, 2023

SOMA Summer - SOMA Summer is an intensive three-week residency program in Mexico for artistic inquiry that welcomes a cohort of international artists, curators, critics, and art historians interested in collaborative pedagogical models. Each SOMA Summer is organized around a different theme that provides a compelling conceptual framework for research and creative work.
Application Fee: Unknown
Deadline: April 9, 2023

Rising: Climate in Crisis Residencies - Rising: Climate in Crisis Residencies at A Studio in the Woods invites artists to be agents of change in guiding our collective understanding, response, and vision as we shape our shared future. Artists play a vital role in facing the climate crisis. We encourage artists to guide our collective response to this challenging issue while bringing wisdom, integrity, optimism, and even humor to intentional projects seeking transformation for our species and our planet. Southeast Louisiana’s land and inhabitants are continually challenged by the effects of environmental degradation. As sea levels and temperatures rise, our landscape acts as a microcosm of the global environment. We look for ways to reimagine our interactions with our shifting urban and natural ecosystems. Rising Residencies provide artists with time, space, funding, and staff support to foster critical thinking in the creation of new works – igniting our imaginations while illuminating our challenges and inspiring solutions.
Application Fee: $20
Deadline: April 10, 2023

Bemis Center 2024 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 14, 2023

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, 2023

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.
Application Fee: $30
Deadline: April 15, 2023

Anonymous Was a Woman Environmental Art Grants - The AWAW EAG will support environmental art projects that inspire thought, action, and ethical engagement. Projects should not only point at problems, but aim to engage an environmental issue at some scale. Proposals should illustrate thorough consideration of a project’s ecological and social ethics. Projects that explore interdependence, relationships, and systems through Indigenous and ancestral practices are encouraged to apply.
Application Fee: Unknown
Deadline: April 18, 2023

Austin Film Festival - At Austin Film Festival, we recognize both the accomplished and the aspiring storyteller alike. Our annual script and film competitions serve as catalyst to the ever-evolving entertainment industry. By championing the work of those with original voices and keen storytelling sensibilities, our festival, conference and competitions are a launching pad for creative careers often providing storytellers their first platform for exposure.
Application Fee: $45 - $95
Screenplay and Teleplay Regular Deadline: April 18, 2023
Film Regular Deadline: May 17, 2023

NEH-Mellon Fellowships for Digital Publication - Through NEH-Mellon Fellowships for Digital Publication, the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Mellon Foundation jointly support individual scholars pursuing interpretive research projects that require digital expression and digital publication. To be considered under this opportunity, an applicant’s plans for digital publication must be integral to the project’s research goals. That is, the project must be conceived as digital because the research topics being addressed and methods applied demand presentation beyond traditional print publication. Competitive submissions embody exceptional research, rigorous analysis, and clearly articulate a project’s value to humanities scholars, general audiences, or both.
Application Fee: Unknown
Deadline: April 19, 2023

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: $25-$40
Regular Deadline: April 27, 2023

Harpo Foundation Grants for Visual Artists - The award provides direct support to under-recognized artists 21 years or older.
Application Fee: $15
Deadline: April 28, 2023

Museum of Arts and Design Burke Prize - The Burke Prize is a biannual contemporary art prize for a new generation of artists working in a world of expanded media with a foundation in glass, fiber, clay, metal, or wood. Selected by a diverse and distinguished jury of curators, artists, and scholars through an open-call application process, the Burke Prize winner receives an unrestricted award of $50,000.
Application Fee: Unknown
Deadline: April 28, 2023

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, 2023

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
Regular Deadline: April 30, 2023

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, 2023

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, 2023

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: $1 - $20
Shorts Deadline: May 12, 2023
Feature Deadline: June 2, 2023

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 22, 2023

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: TBA, 2022 Deadline was May 15

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, 2023

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 17, 2023

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
Regular Deadline: May 31, 2023