The following resources are organized chronologically and include grants, fellowships, residencies, and other opportunities for artists with deadlines in January, February, and March. There are opportunities for visual artists, filmmakers, writers, poets, performers, curators, and more. The resources are arranged chronologically by their submission deadline.
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Last Updated December 22, 2025
January
Center for Contemporary Printmaking Residency Program - The Center for Contemporary Printmaking (CCP) Residency Program offers Artists-in-Residence the unique opportunity to live and work inside the recently remodeled Helen Frankenthaler Printmaking Cottage. Within this space artists can produce a body of work in a supportive atmosphere that fosters creative growth and development, for traditional as well as innovative printmaking techniques. The intention of the residency is to offer artists one to two weeks of uninterrupted, 24/7 time and privacy in a well-equipped studio with onsite living accommodations.
Application fee: $35
Deadline: January 1, 2026
Atlantic Center for the Arts Mentor Artist-in-Residence Program - The Mentor Artist-in-Residence is a three-week, process-based interdisciplinary residency program that provides artists with an opportunity to be mentored by, work and collaborate with some of the world’s most distinguished artists in literary, performing, visual arts, environmental arts and social practice. The essence of the program is to provide a collegiate environment for artists of all disciplines where they can engage in meaningful interaction and stimulating discussions, while pursuing individual or group projects. It is an ideal setting for the exchange of ideas, inspiration for new work, and cross-pollination experimentation of disciplines. The program includes shared studio space, group and individual advising, critiques, and voluntary collaborations.
Application fee: $25
Deadline: January 12, 2026
Queer Mvmnt Fest - Queer Mvmnt Fest showcases artists who identify as part of the 2SLGBTQIA+ dance community from San Diego and beyond. The festival features queer-focused spaces as well as events open to the general public, including performances, workshops, panel discussions, and movement-based short films. Queer Mvmnt Fest addresses inequity through an intersectional lens by centering the work of queer BIPOC and disabled artists.
Application fee: None
Deadline: January 12, 2026
Shenandoah National Park Artist Residency - This program provides the artist with uninterrupted time to pursue their own body of work and also the opportunity to engage and inspire the public through outreach. The artist has the opportunity to create works that promote an understanding of the need to preserve our national parks. Our hope is for artists to seek and share their artistic inspiration as they explore and experience Shenandoah National Park. Artists will receive a $1,200 stipend and up to $100 to purchase supplies for public programs.
Application fee: $5
Deadline: January 13, 2026
Banff Centre: Literary Arts - This two-week self-directed residency offers time and space for writers to focus, reconnect, and re-energize their writing practice. In addition to a single room and a small private studio, writers will be able to engage with other writers on the program. As a flexible self-guided program with optional elements, the Summer Writers residency allows participants to choose the amount of support they are looking for.
Application fee: $65
Deadline: January 14, 2026
The Watermill Center -The Watermill Center’s Artist Residency Program began in 2006 when the Center officially opened as a year-round facility. Each year collectives and individuals take up residence at The Watermill Center to develop works that critically investigate, challenge, and extend the existing norms of artistic practice. The Artist Residency Program is process-based, without the expectation or promise of a final exhibition of the work. The Watermill Center provides artists with the time, space, and freedom to develop their practice in a communal environment that encourages experimentation. Artists-in-Residence share their creative process with the community through open rehearsals, workshops, and artist talks.
Application fee: $12
Extended Deadline: January 14, 2026
Pocoapoco / Sur o No Sur - Sur o No Sur is a three-week summer residency-learning program that brings in a selection of visiting artists to act as guides and facilitators, offering workshops that include writing, conversational & listening practices and hands-on experimentation as well as excursions, artist talks, studio visits and film screenings. Each session offers a platform for artistic exchange outside of traditional institutions to question and engage with the form in which we, our work & our world can exist and evolve.
Application fee: None
Deadline: January 15, 2026
Media Arts Assistance Fund - For individual artists, MAAF provides support for the completion and/or public presentation of new works in all genres of sound and moving image art, including emergent technology. Grant awards assist artists in completing new work, reaching public audiences, and advance artistic exploration and public engagement in the media arts. Women, gender non-conforming people, and people of color are encouraged to apply. New York State Artists may apply for up to $7,500 to support the completion and/or public presentation of a new or recently completed media artwork.
Application fee: None
Deadline: January 15, 2026
Wijhat - Arab artists and cultural actors face major challenges when it comes to traveling within the Arab region or abroad for professional purposes. Foremost among them are insufficient funding to cover travel expenses, difficulties in obtaining visas and lack of opportunities to network with organizations that could potentially become partners in the creative processes in this region. Wijhat (Destinations) was developed to address these concerns. The program provides grants of up to €7,000 to artists and cultural actors from the Arab region to support their travels within the Arab region or to any destination abroad. It thereby contributes to acquainting others with the artistic and cultural production from this region while enabling the grantees to present their works to new audiences and to engage in diverse cultural exchange experiences.
Application fee: Unknown
Deadline: January 16, 2026
Provincetown International Film Festival - The Provincetown International Film Festival is dedicated to showcasing new achievements in independent film and honoring the work of emerging as well as acclaimed directors, producers, and actors. Taking place in America's oldest art colony, PIFF continues a long tradition of supporting and connecting artists by providing easy networking opportunities and access to filmmakers and industry in one of the most culturally rich and naturally beautiful towns on earth.
Application fee: Varies based on category
Extended Deadline: January 16, 2026
Banff Centre: Visual Artist in Residence - Banff Artist in Residence (BAiR) - Summer 2026 is a six-week program for visual artists at all career stages. Participants in this program are encouraged to develop their work in a supportive learning environment. They will be mentored by leading faculty who, working across a range of media and approaches, demonstrate a concern for environmental responsibility and ecological sustainability.
Application fee: $65
Deadline: January 21, 2026
Frameline: The San Francisco International LGBTQ+ Film Festival - Founded in 1977, the San Francisco International LGBTQ+ Film Festival is the longest-running, largest, and most widely recognized queer film exhibition event in the world. Frameline48: the San Francisco International LGBTQ+ Film Festival will return to the Bay Area with its signature showcase of the world’s leading queer cinema.
Application fee: $50
Regular deadline: January 26, 2026
Late deadline: February 14, 2026
Texas A&M New Work Development Artist Residency - Our New Work Development Artist Residency provides artists the opportunity to live and work outside of their usual environments, to explore and reflect, conduct research and network with artists and scholars, and develop a new work or body of works. The duration of the award is nine weeks, Aug. 4 to Oct. 4, 2025. In the first two weeks, residents will have extended access to college facilities and resources, before students return and the semester begins in Week 3.
Application fee: None
Deadline: January 30, 2026
Weir Farm Artist-In-Residence Program - Weir Farm’s Artist-in-Residence (AIR) Program is envisioned to be an outstanding National Park Service (NPS) residency program that reflects the values and character of Weir Farm National Historical Park (NHP) by continuing the creative conversations started by the Weir Family through the work of contemporary artists. Visual artists apply for residencies in all media and artistic points of view from traditional to experimental. Artists are chosen through an annual call for applicants followed by a competitive jury process. The Weir Farm AIR Program hosts established or emerging visual artists who spend one month (April-October 2026) living and working at the Park. Housing and studio space are provided. Artists will receive a stipend of $400, with $200 provided at the beginning of the residency, and $200 provided after all residency requirements are completed, including filling out the feedback questionnaire.
Application fee: $35
Priority Deadline: January 31, 2026
February
Watershed Center Summer Residency - Watershed’s summer residency sessions offer artists uninterrupted time to focus on their practices in our state-of-the-art ceramics studio. During a session, up to sixteen artists form a creative community while living and working on campus. Participants enjoy 24-hour studio access, comfortable accommodations, and delicious meals. Organizing artists develop the themes for each session and invite a small group of artists to anchor the session with them. Additional artists with an interest in the session theme then apply to join them for two weeks at Watershed.
Application fee: $25
Deadline: February 1, 2026
Byrdcliffe Summer AIR Program - Every year, Byrdcliffe’s 1-month to 5-month artist residency program provides over 75 artists of exceptional talent uninterrupted creative time within the serene natural setting of the Byrdcliffe Arts Colony. Communal residencies offer artists individual studio space and living accommodations in shared residential buildings amidst the serene natural setting of the Byrdcliffe Arts Colony located in Woodstock, New York. Cottage residencies offer artists live/work space within the larger creative community of the Byrdcliffe Arts Colony. While cottage residencies are more autonomous by nature, during the summer months (May – September) artists-in-residence living in the cottages are welcome to participate in all community-wide gatherings and programmatic offerings including practice shares, excursions, community dinners and our monthly summer Open Studios events.
Application fee: $30
Cottage Residency deadline: February 1, 2026
Communal Residency deadline: February 21, 2026
Philip Roth Residence in Creative Writing - Named for Bucknell's renowned literary alumnus ('54) 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. In the current application season, The Roth Residence is open to writers in any creative genre in the literary arts, including fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, hybrid work, graphic novel, etc. The residency provides an apartment in Bucknell's Writers' Cottage and a stipend of $5,000.
Application fee: None
Deadline: February 1, 2026
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. 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.
Application fee: None
Early Application Deadline: February 1, 2026
Film Independent Episodic Lab - Designed to support writers with original long-form episodic projects, Film Independent’s Episodic Lab will accept a diverse group of 6–8 writers or writing teams and provide them with critical support and mentorship. Through personalized feedback from experienced showrunners, creative producers and executives, Fellows will gain the tools to revise and refine their pilots and navigate a changing industry landscape.
Application fee: $65 ($45 for members)
Extended Deadline: February 2, 2026
AT&T Untold Stories - A long-term collaboration between AT&T and the Tribeca Festival, Untold Stories is an inspiring mentorship program that provides filmmakers with the necessary resources and support they need to bring their unique stories to life. At the 2025 Tribeca Festival, 5 new filmmaking teams will pitch their original feature scripted film projects to an esteemed committee of industry professionals to decide who will be the next $1 million dollar prize recipient. The winning film will be guaranteed a premiere at the 2026 Tribeca Festival (subject to timely delivery of the film) and the additional 4 finalist teams will receive a $15,000 grant for development support. Throughout the year, our Untold Stories winner receives unmatched guidance on the filmmaking process, demonstrating a holistic commitment from AT&T and Tribeca.
Application fee: None
Deadline: February 6, 2026
Fine Arts Work Center Visual Arts Fellowship - The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown has supported emerging writers and artists for over 50 years, granting 10 annual fellowships to visual artists and 10 annual fellowships to writers for a seven-month residency that runs from October 1 - April 30. Fellows are selected through a rigorous jury process. Visual Arts Fellows are provided with a private furnished apartment and a separate work studio of approximately 400 sq ft. Fellows are awarded a $1250 monthly stipend plus a $1000 exit stipend to support relocation at the end of the Fellowship.
Application fee: $55
Deadline: February 6, 2026
MacDowell Fall/Winter Residencies - MacDowell's mission is to nurture the arts by offering talented individuals an inspiring residential 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.
Application fee: $30
Deadline: February 10, 2026
Dallas Museum of Art Awards to Artists - In 1980 the DeGolyer and Kimbrough families established two funds—the Clare Hart DeGolyer Memorial Fund and the Arch and Anne Giles Kimbrough Fund—for the purpose of recognizing exceptional talent and promise in young artists residing in the southwestern part of the United States. Ten years later, the Otis and Velma Davis Dozier Travel Grant was established to honor the memory of these two Dallas artists, who strongly believed in the enriching experiential and aesthetic influence of travel on an artist’s work. Together, these three funds created what is now known as Awards to Artists. Since its establishment, Awards to Artists has given out nearly $950,000 across 407 awarded grants.
Application fee: Unknown
Deadline: February 14, 2025
Forge Project Fellowship - Forge Project is seeking a 2026 cohort of six Indigenous individuals that represent a broad diversity of cultural practices, participatory research, organizing models, and geographical contexts that honor Indigenous pasts as well as build Native futures. Two of the fellowships are awarded to enrolled tribal members, First- and Second-Line Descendants of the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohican Indians in recognition of the peoples on whose homelands Forge Project is situated and to encourage site-specific and relational projects. Each Forge Project Fellow receives a total of $25,000 toward their practice and will have access to the Forge Project site, libraries, and lending collection of living Indigenous artists during a residency stay of up to three weeks.
Application fee: None
Deadline: February 15, 2026
Visual AIDS Artists Support Grant - Since 1996, Visual AIDS has awarded grants to artists living with HIV who are in need of financial assistance in obtaining materials to create their artwork. Beginning in 2023, our grant program has expanded to support artists living with HIV through unrestricted grants, recognizing that artists need more than just art materials to make their work. Visual AIDS has distributed over $670,000 in grants to artists living with HIV since the program began.
Application fee: None
Deadline: February 15, 2026
All One One All Artist in Residence Program - All One One All (AOOA) Farm invites artists to join our vibrant community by applying for our Artist in Residence Program, which will include a July meet-the-artist and artist showcase and culminate in a fall art show. At AOOA, our work extends beyond the fields and kitchen and encompasses a vibrant community of individuals passionate about the interplay between nature, agriculture, and art. We invite artists who share our enthusiasm for exploring biodiverse and productive landscapes to join us! Located in Goshen, NY, our farm offers a lively, picturesque, and inspiring atmosphere to explore.
Application fee: None
Deadline: February 15, 2025
ON::View Artist Residency - Located in the heart of Savannah’s Starland District at Sulfur Studios, the ON::VIEW Artist Residency provides a free, high visibility studio space for an artist to complete a new project, to continue an in-progress endeavor, or to conduct research exploring conceptual, material, performative, and social practices. Community events like workshops, performances, public art projects and artist talks, offer creative ways to interact with the public. The ON::View Residency supports artists from across the globe, working in all media.
Application fee: $50
Deadline: February 16, 2025
Long Meadow Art Residency - Long Meadow Art Residency is a six week – three-month solo residency nestled in the Berkshire Mountains. LMAR offers studio space and housing, allowing time for artists to retreat and deepen their practice. The residency provides a $3,000 monthly living stipend, a $2,500 supply budget, as well as access to a vehicle for transportation.
Application fee: None
Deadline: February 18, 2026
Vancouver Queer Film Festival - The Vancouver Queer Film Festival is one of the largest queer arts events in Western Canada, located on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. We illuminate, celebrate, and advance queer lives through film, education, and dialogue. We seek content in all genres, authored by 2SLGBTQIA+ creators and centred on 2SLGBTQIA+ protagonists.
Application fee: Varies based on category
Deadline: February 28, 2025
March
Kala 2025-2026 Fellowship - The Kala Art Institute Fellowship is an artist residency for local, national, and international artists. Artists producing innovative work in and across mediums including printmaking, photography, digital media, social practice, media installation, and book arts are encouraged to apply. Each year Kala conducts an international competition that awards Fellowships to six artists from a variety of disciplines based on conceptual creativity, originality, and artistic excellence. In addition, in partnership with the Sustainable Arts Foundation, we support parent artists through one of our six fellowships designated for a parent artist (with a child under 18 at home).
Application fee: $25
Deadline: March 1, 2026
KHN Center for the Arts Residency - The Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts awards up to seventy juried residencies per year to established and emerging visual artists, writers, composers, and interdisciplinary artists from across the country and around the world. Residencies are available for 2 to 8 weeks stays. Each resident receives a $175 stipend per week, free housing, and a private studio.
Application fee: $35
Deadline: March 1, 2025
Millay Core Residency - Our Core Residency program, now in its 51st year, is one of the longest-running in the country. Judged blindly by jurors who are practicing professionals and/or alumni, from April-November each year we welcome 6-7 multidisciplinary creators to come to Steepletop (the historic estate of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet/activist Edna St. Vincent Millay) for two-week to month-long stays.
Application fee: $45
Deadline: March 1, 2025
The Steel Yard: Year-Long Artist Residency - The Steel Yard’s residency program can assist you in growing and strengthening your creative industrial art practice. Residents receive an all-access pass to our 10,000 square foot studio, tools, resources, and community. You’ll forge, mold, weld, shape, and create in a shared studio space alongside a cohort of artists and makers who work in the industrial arts. Additionally, you’ll participate in events and sales, exhibit work, have access to professional development opportunities, teach and take courses, as well and take part in cross-departmental critiques.
Application fee: None
Deadline: March 1, 2026
Residencies at Sitka - Sitka residencies provide time and space for self-paced work and reflection in an inspiring natural setting. Residents from a broad range of art, writing, performance and science-based practices come to Sitka to create and explore away from the familiar contexts and constraints of daily routines, and free from external expectations. Located within the unique ecosystems of Cascade Head and the Salmon River Estuary on Oregon's central coast, Sitka is a place where natural curiosity is sparked and creativity is unleashed. Since our founding, we have hosted hundreds of visual artists, photographers, writers, journalists, musicians, composers, filmmakers, educators and a broad range of natural scientists and interdisciplinary creatives. We currently invite 30-50 practitioners to stay at Sitka each year.
Application fee: $30
Deadline: March 10, 2026
Middlebury Bread Loaf Writers’ Conferences - The Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, founded in 1926, is one of the oldest and finest of its kind in the country. It is the cornerstone to the three Bread Loaf Conferences, which include the Writers’ Conference, the Environmental Writers’ Conference, and the Translators’ Conference. In all the programs, you’ll experience the Bread Loaf model, which includes small-group workshops scheduled among enriching readings and lectures. Each summer, our faculty members include some of the world’s most notable writers and translators.
Application fee: $25
Deadline: March 15, 2026
National Dance Project (NDP) Production Grant - NDP Production Grants annually support the creation/development and U.S.* touring/sharing of new dance projects. In recognition of NDP’s 30 years of dedicated service to the field of dance, this year’s Production Grant cycle will award 30 NDP Production Grantees and 30 NDP Finalists. Artists/choreographers and/or companies/collectives apply to receive a framework of support that includes: $45,000 for the creation of a new dance project, $10,000 in general operating support for the artist/company, $20,000 to support a U.S.* tour** of the project.
Application fee: None
Deadline: March 16, 2026
Albee Foundation Summer/Fall Residency - The Edward F. Albee Foundation exists to serve writers and visual artists from all walks of life, by providing time and space in which to work without disturbance. Using only talent and need as the criteria for selection, the Foundation invites any and all artists to apply. The Center is open almost year-round and can accommodate four creative persons at a time. Residencies are for calendar-month periods (with rare, pre-approved exceptions). The standards for admission are, simply, talent and need.
Application fee: None
Deadline: March 16, 2025
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La Maldita Estampa Artist Residency - La Maldita Estampa creates the opportunity and the conditions to receive international artists in Barcelona with its Artistic Residencies program, offering its space formed by a fully equipped workshop and its gallery, an ideal place for the dissemination and promotion of the work of resident artists. We offer alternative spaces that support and respond to the needs of national and international artists; in addition to production, experimentation and interaction with other artists, we contribute to energize the artistic scene of the city by promoting the internationalization of Catalan culture.
Application fee: Unknown
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grants - The Foundation provides financial resources for visual artists to create new work, acquire supplies, rent studio space, prepare for exhibitions, attend a residency and offset living expenses. The Foundation welcomes, throughout the year, applications from visual artists who are painters, sculptors and artists who work on paper, including printmakers. There are no deadlines. Grants are intended for a one-year period of time.
Application fee: None
Stochastic Labs Residencies - Stochastic Labs awards fully sponsored residencies to exceptional engineers, artists, scientists, and entrepreneurs from around the world. Residencies are of variable length and include a private apartment at the mansion, co-working and/or dedicated work space, shop access (laser cutter, 3D printer etc), a $1k monthly stipend and a budget for materials. Residents become part of Stochastic’s creative community, participating in weekly dinners and invitation events. Residents may apply as individuals or as teams. While applicants may be at any stage in their career, the selection is highly competitive.
Application fee: None
Welcome Hill Studios - Welcome Hill offers creative women a beautiful, nurturing place in the woods to gather their thoughts and inspiration. A residency is open to women visual artists, writers, composers, and interdisciplinary artists. Applicants must be over the age of 18, mature, self-motivated and directed. Project proposals must be compatible with available working spaces, facilities and resources. Residency is open to those who identify as female regardless of their sexual assignment at birth. We are open to having one on one conversations with any individual who is interested in attending a residency.
Application fee: $35
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
Foundation House Activist Residency - Foundation House, located in back country Greenwich, CT, opens its doors for up to 5 days to established teams of activists and change makers (up to eight residents total), allowing these groups the time and space to be together under one roof to make meaningful progress in these beautiful and inspiring surroundings. Foundation House’s mission as a non profit center for learning is to focus on environmental, community and mental health, food equity and social justice.
Application fee: None