The following resources are organized chronologically and include grants, fellowships, residencies, and other opportunities for artists with deadlines in October, November, and December. 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 October 9, 2025
October
Rhizome Microgrants 2025 - For nearly 30 years, Rhizome has supported digital art that has helped to shape contemporary conversations about technology and culture. Our 2025 Microgrants ($500-$1500) support creators experimenting with alternatives for digital culture, from community-owned platforms to algorithmic realities. We're looking for projects that fit four themes: Network Commons (reimagining how we connect), Public Personas (navigating fame and identity in algorithmic environments), Narrative Systems (breaking free from traditional interaction mechanics), and Synthetic Agents (collaborating with other intelligences).
Application fee: None
Deadline: October 10, 2025
Slamdance Film Festival - The Slamdance Film Festival is a showcase for raw and innovative filmmaking that lives and bleeds by its mantra: By Filmmakers, For Filmmakers. Thirty years strong, Slamdance has created a track record for showcasing breakthrough artists that is beyond dispute. Filmmakers who first presented their work at the festival are now amongst the biggest names in the entertainment industry. 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, short films across genres, and episodes. We do not disqualify any films based on premiere status or date of completion.
Application fee: Varies
Extended deadline: October 11, 2024
Edward Albee Foundation Residency - The Edward F. Albee Foundation maintains the William Flanagan Memorial Creative Persons Center (better known as "The Barn") in Montauk, Long Island, New York, as a residence for writers and visual artists of all media. Due to extensive, site-wide renovations, we are proud to be completely ADA-accessible and open our doors to all creative people. Writers and visual artists are offered individual en-suite bedrooms and separate working studios. Domestic residents are provided with a $2500 stipend; Foreign residents are reimbursed for verified expenses up to $2500.
Application fee: None
Deadline: October 13, 2025
Pedantic Arts Residency - Pedantic Arts Residency brings together an artist, a curator, and a writer under one roof for a collaborative arts experience. It is a unique invitation to open greater and more cross-disciplinary dialogue within the arts by re-embracing the significant impact that education, study, and structured contemplation can have on artistic output. It is focused on fostering artistic connections rather than production. Running for a period of 4 weeks, participants will be immersed in the creative communities of Pittsburgh.
Application fee: $20
Deadline: October 13, 2025
Art Omi Residencies - Art Omi: Architecture, Art Omi: Artists, Art Omi: Music, and Art Omi: Writers are currently open for applications. Through a competitive jury process, residents are invited to attend at no cost to themselves except travel. Abundant, catered meals and comfortable, beautiful lodgings are provided in a scenic location in Columbia County, New York.
Application fee: None
Deadline: October 15, 2025
Smithsonian American Art Museum Fellowship - The Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) and its Renwick Gallery invite applications to its premier fellowship program, the oldest and largest in the world for the study of American art. Scholars from any discipline whose research engages the art, craft, and visual culture of the United States are encouraged to apply, as are those who foreground new perspectives, materials, and methodologies. Fellowships are residential and support full-time research in the Smithsonian collections.
Application fee: None
Deadline: October 15, 2025
Wildacres Residency Program - In 1999, Wildacres Retreat opened our residency program for artists. Since that time, we have had the opportunity to host hundreds of writers, artisans, and musicians. Participants in the program stay in one of three self-catering cabins located just a quarter-mile beyond the retreat entrance. One of the cabins is completely ADA compliant and another can house two residents working on a project together. Using the space provided by the three cabins, Wildacres hosts approximately seventy artists each year for one-week residencies from April through October.
Application fee: $30
Deadline: October 15, 2025
Morgan Conservatory Artist in Residence - The Morgan's Artist in Residence (AiR) Program is funded by the Windgate Foundation to offer emerging and established artists from around the world who work with papermaking, book arts, and printing to explore focused projects in our facilities. As a working studio, gallery, gathering place for the community, educational hub, and purveyor of some of the finest handmade papers in the world, the Morgan offers AiR a variety of ways to grow their practice and build strong connections with the community. Artists accepted into the program will receive a stipend, 24-hour access to Morgan facilities, and more!
Application fee: None
Deadline: October 15, 2025
Dora Maar Artists Residency - In 1997, Nancy B. Negley purchased the former residence of Dora Maar. In a five-year effort, she rehabilitated and updated this spacious eighteenth-century, four-story stone residence in the village of Ménerbes. Her goal was to make it a retreat for scholars, artists, and writers, where they could work undisturbed on their research, art, or writing, for one to two months. Here outstanding mid-career professionals are offered fellowships that enable them to reside in the Dora Maar House and focus on the creative aspects of their work. A travel award is based on the average fare of travel from the resident's hometown to Paris. A $1500 stipend is awarded.
Application fee: $25
Deadline: October 15, 2025
Quinn Emanuel Los Angeles Artists-in-Residence Program - This residency is open to emerging and mid-career artists working in all disciplines across Greater Los Angeles. For four months the artist-in-residence will be given a studio in the Quinn Emanuel Los Angeles office to support their existing practice or a new project as appropriate. At the end of the residency an exhibition will be held to display the works of the artist and at least one work will be incorporated into the permanent collection. A supporting stipend will be provided, as well as materials allowance. Over the course of a year there will be 2 residency cycles, each with a four month residency and a subsequent exhibition in a location deemed appropriate for the work decided on between the artist and curator.
Application fee: None
Deadline: October 16, 2025
Fondazione Prada Film Fund - The Fondazione Prada Film Fund is an annual initiative that supports independent cinema. Every year, it selects films without any restriction on geography, theme, genre, or language. Projects can be submitted during the development, production or post-production phase.
Application fee: None
Deadline: October 17, 2025
Atlanta Film Festival - The Atlanta Film Festival (ATLFF) is the area’s preeminent celebration of cinema. Our 11-day festival presents over 120 films from all over the world, representing 110+ countries, selected from over 6,000 submissions. Each year, 90 to 95% of ATLFF’s program is composed of submitted films. ATLFF actively strives to provide a diverse slate of programming with spotlights on filmmakers of color, LGBTQ+ films, women and gender non-comforming filmmakers, and filmmakers from the Georgia. For the 2024 festival, 49% of the program selected from submissions was directed by women and gender nonconforming directors and 59% by BIPOC directors, as well as 24% of selected films coming from Georgia filmmakers.
Application fee: Varies
Late deadline: October 17, 2025
Artists Magazine Over 60 Competition - The Artists Magazine Over 60 Art Competition honors work from outstanding artists of every level. Not only are there cash prizes for award winners, but your artwork, stories and advice will be featured in an upcoming issue of Artists Magazine!
Application fee: $30-$40
Final Deadline: October 21, 2025
Tribeca Film Festival - The Tribeca Film Festival is a prominent film festival held in the Tribeca neighborhood of Manhattan, showcasing a diverse selection of independent films. Since its inaugural year in 2002, it has become a recognized outlet for independent filmmakers in all genres to release their work to a broad audience.
Application fee: Varies
Deadline: Varies; October 22, 2025 - February 24, 2026
at Louis Place Artist Publishing Cohort - at Louis Place is a community for artists and writers. Through an accessible, collaborative online platform, at Louis Place is an ecosystem for artistic practice that values liberation, experimentation, cooperation, and shared leadership. Daily co-writing, weekly writing groups, monthly guest workshops, peer exchange, and other offerings connect participants to peers around the world. at Louis Place was created by and for writers marginalized by conventional writing communities, including Black, Indigenous, immigrant, disabled, and over-50 writers, as well as writers outside urban centers; it is open to everyone who shares our values. The Artist Publishing Cohort is a new initiative offering personalized support for eight artists with publishing projects in progress. Selected artists receive a $1,000 stipend, participate in a weekly writing workshop for feedback and support, and have access to all aLP resources.
Application fee: None
Deadline: October 24, 2025
Center for Art and Advocacy Fellowship - The first of its kind, the Center's Fellowship offers an annual award of $10,000 in unrestricted funds and $10,000 in project development funds to formerly incarcerated artists. Fellows are invited to an annual retreat to network with previous fellows, advocates, industry leaders, and funders. During the retreat, they can present their project proposals to the cohort, receive feedback from their peers, and participate in New York City’s many cultural events.
Application fee: None
Deadline: October 26, 2025
Loewe Foundation Craft Prize - The aim of this Prize is to disseminate and raise awareness of the work of talented craftspeople, sharing their greatest achievements. The LOEWE FOUNDATION aims to recognise outstanding works that show artistic vision and innovation, and which reflect the personal language and distinct hand of their maker. The LOEWE FOUNDATION aims to support artistic craft and acknowledge leading artisans from around the world at the forefront of their fields. The winning work should reinterpret tradition to make it relevant now and demonstrate the continuing valuable contribution to the culture of our time. The Prize for the winning piece of work is fifty thousand euros (50,000 euros). The winning entry can be made up of either one single piece of work or one series of works.
Application fee: Unknown
Deadline: October 30, 2025
apexart Open Call - apexart's Open Calls are opportunities for artists, curators, and other professionals to turn their curatorial idea into an apexart exhibition, combined with inviting apexart’s international community to collectively determine our programming through an online jury process. Winning proposals become part of apexart’s next exhibition season and receive funding and staff support. apexart is not a granting organization-all exhibitions are part of apexart’s programming.
Application fee: None
Deadline: October 31, 2025
GRRL HAUS CINEMA - GRRL HAUS CINEMA, is a Nonprofit film festival, screening series, and collective dedicated to promoting the works of women, trans, non-binary, and genderqueer filmmakers in the realms of experimental, low-budget, and underground cinema. Our emphasis on low budget and DIY culture creates a space for underrepresented voices in cinema to be heard by promoting creativity and diversity of expression through film. Submissions are accepted continuously, setting GRRL HAUS apart from traditional film festivals. Rather than a singular large-scale event, we host multiple screenings throughout the year, aiming to bring high-quality short films created by women, non-binary, genderqueer, and trans individuals to a global audience.
Application fee: Varies
Deadline: October 31, 2025
Tallgrass Artist Residency - The Tallgrass Artist Residency is a unique program that offers individual artists/artist teams time and space to retreat and research in a rural, tallgrass prairie setting. Though the experience is rural, it is not meant to be isolating. Artists are provided lodging at Matfield Station in the small community of Matfield Green, Kansas — 20 miles from Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve and home to a number of artists and community builders.
Application fee: None
Deadline: October 31, 2025
November
Rome Prize - For one hundred thirty years, the American Academy in Rome has awarded the Rome Prize to support innovative and cross-disciplinary work in the arts and humanities. Each year, the Rome Prize is given to about thirty artists and scholars who represent the highest standard of excellence. Arts disciplines include: Architecture, Design, Landscape Architecture, Literature, Music Composition, Visual Arts.
Application fee: $50
Deadline: November 1, 2025
Mesa Refuge Residency - Mesa Refuge welcomes a diverse community of writers—both emerging and established—who define and/or offer solutions to the pressing issues of our time. Particularly, it is our priority to support writers, activists and artists whose ideas are “on the edge,” taking on the pressing issues of our time including (but not limited to): nature, environment and climate crisis; economic, racial and gender equity; social justice and restorative justice; immigration; health care access; housing; and more. We especially want writers of nonfiction books, long-form journalism, audio and documentary film. Occasionally we accept poetry, fiction (Young Adult/Adult Literary), screenwriting and playwriting, photojournalism, personal memoirs (as a vehicle to tell a larger story) and graphic narrative.
Application fee: $35
Deadline: November 1, 2025
Palm Springs International ShortFest - The Palm Springs International ShortFest is one of the largest showcases of short-form cinema in North America. The seven-day competitive festival is Academy Award, BAFTA and Goya-qualifying, annually screening hundreds of shorts from approximately 60 countries. ShortFest accepts submissions up to 40 minutes in duration, in the form of both fiction and non-fiction shorts. Categories include Animation, Documentary, and Live-Action.
Application fee: $45-50
Earlybird deadline: November 1, 2025
Workspacebrussels Studio Residency - The residency programme is aimed at Belgian and international artists working within the performing arts in the broad sense of the word (dance, performance, theatre, and crossovers with other disciplines). We support both research, experimentation and creation. We do not offer residencies in disciplines such as music or visual arts.
Application fee: None
Deadline: November 1, 2025
Theodore B. Olson Memorial Fellowship - Write On, Door County is pleased to offer the Theodore B. Olson Memorial Fellowship to a writer whose work focuses on how equal protection under the law is an inherent, sacred right belonging to all of our citizens and must therefore be robustly protected and applied. For if any right or any protection is denied to any one of us, then it is at risk of being denied to any one or all of us. Applications for the Theodore B. Olson Memorial Fellowship are accepted from writers--emerging to established--working in any genre, including journalism. The fellowship includes a two-week residence at Write On in late August/early September each year. For 2026, the dates are Sunday, August 30 through Sunday, September 13. The fellowship will provide a stipend of $700 along with funds to assist with travel and a grocery allowance.
Application fee: $40
Deadline: November 1, 2025
Hypatia-in-the-Woods Residency - We offer solo residencies of 1-3 weeks (two-week max summer quarter, so that we can accommodate more women who teach or have family commitments) in a well-appointed cottage in deep woods above Hammersley Inlet on Puget Sound. The cottage is five miles from Shelton, a small logging town. A loft bedroom has writing/drawing space, and there is a pull-out sofa bed downstairs for those who do not want to have to use stairs. The place is good accommodation for writers, visual artists, academics, playwrights and artists in other fields. There are paths in the woods and great hiking and saltwater access nearby. Residents are required to have a vehicle on the premises for their own safety in case of evacuation orders.
Application fee: $20
Deadline: November 1, 2025
Studios at MASS MoCA - The Studios is MASS MoCA’s artist and writers residency program situated within the museum’s factory campus and surrounded by the beautiful Berkshire Mountains. Operated by MASS MoCA’s Assets for Artists program, the residency runs year-round and hosts up to 10 artists at a time. Artists of any nationality can apply for stays of 2 or 4 weeks. We offer great studio space and housing (private rooms in shared apartments), one group meal per day, member-access to MASS MoCA's galleries, and access to professional development webinars though our "Assets for Artists" program, and opportunities to share your work with a cohort of international creative peers.
Application fee: None
Deadline: November 1, 2025
2026 Derricotte/Eady Chapbook Prize - The Derricotte/Eady Prize, named after Cave Canem co-founders Toi Derricotte and Cornelius Eady, spotlights chapbook-length manuscripts. Awarded to one poet annually, the Derricotte/Eady Prize recipient receives a monetary prize, the publication of their manuscript through O, Miami Books, a residency at The Writer’s Room at The Betsy Hotel-South Beach, and a featured reading at the O, Miami Festival in April.
Application fee: None
Deadline: November 3, 2025
Henry Ransom Center Fellowships - We offer funding to graduate students, current and former academic faculty at any level of career, and independent researchers such as journalists and artists, who require archival research at the Center for their projects. Research conducted by humanities scholars contributes to a dynamic body of knowledge that has the potential to reshape our understanding of archival collections—what is preserved and valued in our communities. The Ransom Center fosters a supportive environment so that researchers may explore, examine, critique, and better understand the cultural works in its collections. Fellowships of varying lengths (from one week to two months) are offered for research projects that require substantial on-site use of collections that span a variety of disciplines.
Application fee: None
Deadline: November 3, 2025
RiverRun International Film Festival - Named one of Moviemaker Magazine's "50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee" in 2018, the RiverRun International Film Festival is a regional festival based in Winston-Salem, NC and is principally known as a filmmaker-friendly event dedicated to showcasing the year's best new international cinema. Each spring, RiverRun screens new narrative, documentary, student and animated films of all lengths from established and emerging filmmakers around the world. RiverRun is also an Academy Award qualifying festival in the Documentary Short and Animated Short categories!
Application fee: Varies
Second deadline: November 3, 2025
Rauschenberg Medical Emergency Grants - This program provides one-time grants of up to $5,000 for recent unexpected medical, dental, and mental health emergencies to artists in financial need who are creating in the visual arts, film/video/electronic/digital arts, and choreography. Only generative artists are eligible—artists creating their own, independent work, with recent and ongoing opportunities for the public to experience that work.
Application fee: None
Deadline: November 4, 2025
A.I.R. Fellowship Program - Established in 1993, the A.I.R. Fellowship Program for Emerging and Underrepresented Women and Non-Binary Artists has enabled more than 120 artists to realize their first solo exhibition in New York City with the support of the A.I.R. community. The Fellowship Program annually awards six local emerging artists with their first solo exhibition, professional development programming, curatorial support, and mentorship during a 12-month fellowship that runs September–August.
Application fee: None
Deadline: November 7, 2025
San Francisco International Film Festival - San Francisco International Film Festival hosted by SFFILM. Be part of film festival history. In this vibrant city surrounded by stunning natural beauty—where imagination and tenacity creates the latest technology alongside boundary pushing art—SFFILM has hosted the San Francisco International Film Festival for nearly 70 years. And yes, we are the longest-running film festival in the Americas! Save the Date • Apr 23 –May 3, 2026; in 2026, we celebrate the 69th San Francisco International Film Festival with 11 days of film screenings, world-class talent, parties and receptions, captivating talks, a film industry summit, college days, and a schools program exclusively for local students and educators.
Application fee: Varies
Deadline: November 12, 2025
UCLA Film & Television Archive Artist-in-Residence Program - The UCLA Film & Television Archive’s Artist-in-Residence Program will host an emerging artist for two weeks on-site at the Archive’s locations in Santa Clarita at The Packard Humanities Institute Stoa and in Westwood on the UCLA campus during the late spring of 2026 to activate the Archive collection in their artistic practice. This year’s artist-in-residence will work exclusively with one or a combination of three specific collections: the Hearst Metrotone News Collection, In the Life LGBTQ+ Collection and KTLA Newsfilm Collection. The program will provide the artist with the time and support necessary to access and work with these unique collections, creating a project that will reach new audiences and make connections with Los Angeles’ cultural community.
Application fee: None
Deadline: November 14, 2025
Nightboat Poetry Prize - Any poet writing in English, including international Anglophone writers. Previous book publication is not a consideration for eligibility. Poems published in print or on-line periodicals, anthologies, or chapbooks may be included, but the manuscript itself must be unpublished. Original work only; translations are not ineligible for the prize.
Application fee: $28
Deadline: November 15, 2025
Sight/Geist: Film & Performance Open Call - The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation is excited to announce an open call for its sixth season of Sight/Geist, a series that supports emerging NYC-based film and performance artists. Sight/Geist supports artists working primarily in the realm of interdisciplinary studio and moving-image practices as opposed to dance, music, or theater.
Application fee: None
Deadline: November 15, 2025
Queens Arts Fund: New Work Grant - The New Work Grant supports emerging individual artists and artist collectives of all artistic disciplines in their creation of new work. “New Work” is defined as work that has not been produced or presented to an audience before. Applicants may submit grant requests ranging from $2,500 to $5,000. QAF offers project-based grants to Queens-based artists, artist collectives, and small non-profit organizations to support the local production of artwork and cultural programs that highlight, engage, and bolster the diverse communities of the Queens borough.
Application fee: None
Deadline: November 18, 2025
Miss Sarah Fellowship for Black Women Writers - The “Miss Sarah” Fellowship for Black Women Writers aims to provide Black women writers a restful environment conducive to reflection and writing. It also offers uninterrupted time to plant the seed of an idea for a new writing project or to develop or complete a project underway. For 2026, the Fellowship will focus on the genre of Fiction.
Application fee: None
Deadline: November 19, 2025
Mophradat New Agents - Through this open call, Mophradat will compose a group of six people from across art fields whose practices are singular, future facing, and committed to public engagement. What the participants also share is that they come from territories whose pasts are formed by overlapping cultural references and conditions, their present tainted by overwhelming violence, and their future unpredictable. Practically, the New Agents will collaborate and learn together and eventually co-develop and realize a proposal that would be made public, in the form of a live event such as a conference, festival, exhibition, or something else. Mophradat provides each participant with a stipend of 6000 USD to be used at their discretion, covers the retreat travel costs, and provides a budget for the public event.
Application fee: None
Deadline: November 20, 2025
Call for Artwork: 28th Annual Postcards from the Edge - Last year 1,583 artists from around the world lent their support towards our most successful event to date. We’re back and ready to do it again — our open call for artwork is now live! Donate your art, support Visual AIDS! We welcome artists of all backgrounds and career-levels to join us for this beloved exhibition and benefit sale to help us raise vital funds for our mission of supporting artists living with HIV, preserving the legacies of those who have been lost, and producing contemporary art programs—because AIDS is not over!
Application fee: None
Deadline: November 22, 2025
Open City Documentary Festival - Open City Documentary Festival creates an open space in London to nurture and champion the art of non-fiction cinema. Based at the UCL Centre for Public Anthropology, we deliver training programmes, an annual documentary festival, the bi-annual Non-Fiction journal and events throughout the year that aim to challenge and expand the idea of documentary in all its forms.
Application fee: Varies
Deadline: November 28, 2025
The Lafayette Fellowship - Designed to support the next generation of young leaders with a strong interest in the transatlantic relationship, the Lafayette Fellowship will fund one year of master’s-level study in France for up to 30 outstanding American students. Open to both Francophone and non-Francophone candidates, the program partners with leading French academic institutions across STEM, humanities, social sciences, and the arts, with courses taught in French or entirely in English.
Application fee: None
Deadline: November 30, 2025
December
Prairie Ronde Artist Residency - We’re looking for individuals who are highly independent, engaged and curious. We offer a unique environment for our artists to develop their craft: the 420,000 square foot former Lee Paper Company mill and its adjacent 80 acres of property. 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: December 1, 2025
Raindance Film Festival - Raindance Film Festival is the largest independent film festival in the UK. To be eligible for Raindance 2026, films must be completed on or after January 2025. The festival welcomes 16,000+ visitors annually, including buyers, distributors, festival programmers, financiers, producers, press, and film lovers.
Application fee: Varies
Earlybird deadline: December 8, 2025
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
Deadline: December 12, 2025
Inside Out - 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.
Application fee: $15
Regular deadline: December 14, 2025
Seattle International Film Festival - Running in-person May 15–25 at SIFF Cinemas and venues throughout the city, the 2025 Festival will spotlight new voices alongside established directors, films from more than 80 countries, sensational hit independents, and films that have yet to break through to the US audiences. The Seattle International Film Festival is consistently ranked as one of the top festivals in North America, and is an Academy Award-qualifying festival for short films, presenting more than 260 features, documentaries, and short films to an audience of roughly 90,000 each year.
Application fee: Varies
Regular deadline: December 18, 2025
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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: $35
South Porch Artists Residency - South Porch Artists Residency is a retreat space for working artists, scholars and clergy to pursue creative projects. Located on an historic property in downtown Summerville, SC, South Porch immerses residents in the evocative setting of a small Southern town, just half an hour from downtown Charleston. Up to six residents at a time are offered comfortable lodgings and studio work space, either in our 1835 Main House or contemporary Cottage Studio. Residents apply for stays of one, two, three or four weeks, arriving and departing on a Monday.
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
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
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
Lucid Artist Submissions - Lucid is creating the digital home for video & performance art; connecting global audiences to incredible video work, while driving a new funding route for artists. If you are an artist working across performance or video art, we'd love to hear from you and consider your portfolio for our next round of curation. Artists on our platform benefit from direct tips, a share of subscriptions, and many community opportunities!
Application fee: None
See NYFA’s list of Emergency Grantshere.