The following resources are organized chronologically and include grants, fellowships, residencies, and other opportunities for artists with deadlines in April, May, and June. 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 March 31, 2026
April
Franklin Furnace Fund - Franklin Furnace annually awards grants to early career artists selected by peer panel review to enable them to produce major performance art works in New York City. FUND grants range between $2,000 and $10,000 based on the peer review panel allocation of funding received by Franklin Furnace. Artists from all areas of the world are encouraged to apply; however, artists selected by the panel are expected to present their work in New York City. Full-time students are ineligible.
Application fee: None
Deadline: April 1, 2026
Vineyard Arts Project - Vineyard Arts Project (VAP) invites applications from small budget organizations (under $1 million), collectives, or individual artists for its 2026/27 Artist Residency Program. VAP is a performing-arts residency and creative incubator dedicated to supporting the development of innovative new work in dance and theatre by emerging and established artists from around the world. The program provides dedicated time, housing, and studio resources in a collaborative environment designed to foster experimentation, artistic dialogue, and meaningful engagement with audiences.
Application fee: None
Deadline: April 1, 2026
Exponential Festival - Exponential is a month-long January festival dedicated to New York City-based artists working in experimental performance. The participants in this multi-artist, multi-venue festival are committed to ecstatic creativity in the face of commercialism. Exponential is driven by inclusiveness and a diversity of artists, forms, and ideas coupled with utopian resource-sharing, mentoring and the championing of risky, rigorous work in eclectic fields.
Application fee: None
Deadline: April 1, 2026
BAX Artist in Residence - BAX’s AIR program centers artists at a generative stage of development, offering time, space, and sustained institutional support to develop projects-in-progress before their work enters larger production ecosystems. Rather than prioritizing polished outcomes, the program emphasizes inquiry, process, and peer exchange. Artists are supported through sustained advisory, production, and administrative guidance and are embedded within BAX’s multigenerational artistic environment.
Application fee: None
Deadline: April 2, 2026
Creative Capital - The 2027 Creative Capital Open Call seeks proposals from individual artists in all 50 states for new artistic works in the Visual Arts, Performing Arts, Film, and Literature. The Creative Capital Award provides unrestricted project grants of up to $50,000 to individual artists to create new work. The new State of the Art Prize provides unrestricted artist grants of $10,000.
Application fee: None
Deadline: April 2, 2026
Blue Roof Residency - Inspired by the words of author Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own provides women artists with financial resources and a space to work so they can explore materials, investigate ideas and create in a dedicated space outside of their homes free from distractions and everyday responsibilities. Our definition of who is an artist and what is art is broad, untethered to an established art world definition and advanced degrees are not required. Mothers, self-taught artists and artists whose practices are informed and acquired by familial legacies of making are encouraged to apply.
Application fee: None
Opens: April 7, 2026
Baldwin Fellowship - Baldwin For The Arts prioritizes fostering an intergenerational community of artists of the Global Majority. The term “Global Majority” is a positive (re)framing of diverse and historically marginalized communities. Rather than view people of African, Asian, Caribbean, Indigenous, Hispanic/Latino/a/x, and dual-heritage backgrounds as minorities, the term recognizes that ‘Globally’ these populations are the Majority. Emerging and established artists of the Global Majority who specialize in the following disciplines are encouraged to apply: Literature, Performance, Visual, and Interdisciplinary.
Application fee: $15
Deadline: April 18, 2026
Hambidge Center 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. Each resident is given their own private studio which provides work and living space with a bathroom and full kitchen. The studios are designed to protect residents’ time, space and solitude.
Application fee: $30
Deadline: April 15, 2026
Anonymous Was A Woman Environmental Art Grants - The Anonymous Was A Woman Environmental Art Grants (AWAW EAG) will distribute a total of $300,000 in funding—up to $20,000 per project—to support environmental art projects led by women-identifying artists in the United States and U.S. Territories. 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: None
Deadline: April 7, 2026
More Art Engaging Artists Program- The year-long Engaging Artists Fellowship is designed to help emerging NYC artists and community organizers develop and sustain a socially engaged and public art practice. Through mentorship, peer exchange, workshops and artist talks responsive to the cohort’s interests, and access to programming opportunities across New York City, Fellows deepen their work within a collaborative learning environment. This laboratory-style framework brings together 6–8 emerging and underrepresented artists to engage critically with the history and evolving vitality of public and socially engaged art while strengthening and expanding their own work.
Application fee: None
Deadline: April 9, 2026
ChaNorth Retreat- The ChaNorth Artist Residency, situated in the Hudson Valley, was established in 2006 by Chashama in Pine Plains. Running in parallel with our core residency program, ChaNorth is pleased to introduce the Residency Retreat Program. This new initiative offers four dedicated houses designed to support artists seeking a focused live/work environment within a natural setting. Each house is unique, and applicants may apply for the entire house or for individual bedrooms, making it ideal for artists, couples, art groups, and collectives. This is a fully self-directed retreat, giving residents the freedom to structure their time independently and focus deeply on their creative work.
Application fee: None
Deadline: April 12, 2026
SOZO Fellowship - SOZO Fellowship is a groundbreaking, six-month virtual coaching program (June–December 2026) designed to equip busy, full-time, mid-career independent artists with the tools to build sustainable, thriving careers. Through a structured cohort experience, SOZO Fellowship supports creative practitioners in leading with their expansive vision and unlocking their fullest potential. In response to systemic gaps in artist support, SOZO developed the Artist In(ter)dependence Matrix framework to foster resiliency and entrepreneurial mindset for independent artists. Through this holistic approach, fellows engage in conversations and workshops with leading experts in fundraising, brand partnership, artist management, and more.
Application fee: None
Deadline: April 12, 2026
Rancho Linda Vista Artist Residency - Rancho Linda Vista (RLV), located in Oracle, Arizona, invites visual artists to apply for its 2026 Summer Artist Residency Award. The Summer Artist Residency, which is available for the month of July, offers serious artists the opportunity to explore new directions in an extraordinary desert setting. The Award includes a furnished one-bedroom house, separate studio, and $1,000 stipend. The selected artist will share their work in an open studio at the conclusion of their stay.
Application fee: None
Deadline: April 17, 2026
Works & Process - Works & Process invites New York City-based dance artists and dance companies to apply for paid, week-long, out-of-town residencies. Taking place between October 2026 – May 2027, in collaboration with over a dozen partners in six states, residencies may be used to start a new project or continue developing an existing work.
Application fee: None
Deadline: April 21, 2026
Harpo Foundation Grant for Visual Arists - The Harpo Foundation was established in 2006 by artist Ed Levine to support emerging and under-recognized visual artists. The Foundation currently makes grants directly to artists to support their development. Applications are evaluated on the basis of the quality of the artist’s work, the potential to expand aesthetic inquiry, and the ability to fulfill the Foundation’s priority to provide support to visual artists who are under-recognized by the field. Additionally, The Impact Award focuses on amplifying the contributions of under-recognized Native American contemporary visual artists.
Application fee: $15
Deadline: April 27, 2026
2026 Creative Nonfiction Grant - The 2024 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant of $40,000 will be awarded to as many as ten writers in the process of completing a book-length work of deeply researched and imaginatively composed nonfiction for a general adult readership. It is intended for multiyear book projects requiring large amounts of deep and focused research, thinking, and writing at a crucial point mid-process, after significant work has been accomplished but when an extra infusion of support can make a difference in the ultimate shape and quality of the work. Projects must be under contract with a publisher in Canada, the UK, or the US by April 23 to be eligible.
Application fee: None
Deadline: April 30, 2026
The Iowa Poetry Prize - The Iowa Poetry Prize, open to new as well as established poets, is awarded for a book-length collection of poems written originally in English. Manuscripts should be 50 to 150 pages in length.
Application fee: $20
Deadline: April 30, 2026
‘Ace Exploration Residency - The Exploration Residences provides 4 weeks artistic “time out” emphasizing the process over the presentation of the results. This format encourages residents to get inspiration from the new experiences achieved through the interaction with other residents and the rich cultural environment that the city of Buenos Aires provides. The Exploration Residences are part of a professional program that assists residents with the research resources and local contacts necessary for their specific projects. Participants receive reviews of their projects by specialized professionals and enrich themselves with the vision of the ´ace team, as well as colleagues-in-residence, during our frequent “Brainstorming” meetings. For their part, SUB30 residents also receive academic tutoring and critiques.
Application fee: None
Deadline: April 30, 2026
May
The Ordinary Group Exhibition - The Ordinary begins with a simple premise: being queer is ordinary. Not invisible. Not assimilated. Not quietly tolerated. Ordinary — in the sense that it requires no justification, no performance, no special occasion. It is a fact of life, like any other. What we are looking for is work that carries that same quality of certainty. Work that engages — formally or conceptually — with queer experience, or work that arrives with a strong, singular point of view.
Application fee: $30
Early deadline: May 4, 2026
The Hopper Prize - The Hopper Prize is now accepting entries for our Spring 2026 artist grants. We have recently increased grant amounts to $4,500. We are offering 2 grants of $4,500 and 4 grants of $1,000 to artists & photographers worldwide working in all media. In total, 6 artists will receive unrestricted cash grants totaling $13,000. Our open call provides you with a direct path to get your work in front of an international community of curators, artists, gallerists, and arts administrators. In addition to grants, 30 artists will be selected for a shortlist. Additional exposure is available via our online Journal as well as our Instagram feed, currently reaching an audience over 165k.
Application fee: None
Early deadline: May 12, 2026
Montreal International Poetry Prize - The Montreal International Poetry Prize is committed to encouraging the creation of original works of poetry, to building international readership, and to exploring the world’s Englishes. The Montreal Prize awards one prize of $20,000 CAD to a poet for a single poem of 40 or fewer lines. A jury of internationally reputed poets and critics selects a shortlist of approximately 60 poems, from which a judge chooses one winner. The shortlist is published in The Montreal Poetry Prize Anthology.
Application fee: $28 CAD
Early deadline: May 15, 2026
The Jacki Apple Award in Performance and Artist Projects - Franklin Furnace is honored to present the inaugural Jacki Apple Award in Performance and Artist Projects, celebrating the enduring impact of Jacki Apple on the New York art scene. This award is expected to be an annual award given over the next ten years and reflects Jacki Apple’s commitment to nurturing artistic talent, demonstrated through her multifaceted career as a writer, educator, radio host, and artist since the early 1980s. Franklin Furnace and sister organization LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions) will each distribute one $10,000 award per year for a total of 20 awards over the coming decade.
Application fee: None
Deadline: May 1, 2026
Monira Residency, Chicago - Since 2011, the Monira Foundation (formerly Mana Residencies) has awarded rent-free, non-living studio space to artists in Chicago, Jersey City, and Miami. This residency is the gift of time, space, and community for artists. Our mission is to provide a stimulating, rigorous, and contemplative environment where talented and committed artists benefit from a large studio workspace and the support of a vital creative surrounding community. Studio space is still critical to the practices of the overwhelming majority of artists but remains at a premium, especially in major Urban areas like Chicago; a residency at Monira facilitates production and helps strengthen professional and intellectual bonds among diverse individuals.
Application fee: $15
Deadline: May 1, 2026
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. We also support art writing that engages criticism through interdisciplinary methods or experiments with literary styles.
Application fee: Unknown
Deadline: May 6, 2026
Bethany Arts Residency - Bethany Arts Community (BAC) offers residencies to emerging and established artists for the development of both new works and works-in-progress. BAC welcomes artists working across any discipline and medium, including visual artists, sculptors, writers, playwrights, choreographers, musicians, composers, performance artists, filmmakers, and more to our Fall Multidisciplinary Residency. Any and all artistic mediums are encouraged to apply. Enjoy an environment where artists from different disciplines and walks of life can work in community and near each other, creating opportunities for generative collaboration and cross-pollination.
Application fee: None
Deadline: May 6, 2026
Ragdale Residency Program - Ragdale is a non-profit artists’ community located on architect Howard Van Doren Shaw’s country estate in Lake Forest, IL, 30 miles north of Chicago. Today, Ragdale annually hosts nearly 140 visual artists, writers, dancemakers, composers, and interdisciplinary artists at all stages of their careers for 18-day residencies, making it one of the largest interdisciplinary artist communities in the country. Ragdale offers a retreat setting where at any given time, up to a dozen creative individuals experience uninterrupted time for dedicated work, a supportive environment, family-style dinners, and dynamic artist exchanges within a backdrop of 50 acres of idyllic prairie.
Application fee: $35
Deadline: May 14, 2026
Peyton Evans Artist Residency Program - The Studios of Key West, the premier arts organization at the Southernmost Point of the United States, offers a residency program for emerging and established artists and writers from around the world. We provide residencies to visual artists, writers, composers, musicians, media artists, performers, and interdisciplinary artists. The program grants nearly 40 artists each year the time and space to imagine new artistic work, engage in valuable dialogue and explore island connections.
Application fee: $45
Deadline: May 15, 2026
Haunted Barn- The Wassaic Project accepts proposals for their annual Halloween event, the Haunted Barn. This year they are accepting a few types of proposals: site-specific installations in Luther Barn, outdoor installations, and performances. They will prioritize interactive and immersive proposals. They want to see your haunted games, your creepy trick or treat stations, and all of the spooky experiences you dream up. For installation artists, they offer housing in one of our residency houses (for 1–4 weeks between October 2 and November 3) alongside private studio space in Maxon Mills, and additional studio space in Luther Barn. They offer all participating artists and artistic teams a modest honorarium.
Application fee: $25
Deadline: May 18, 2026
WSW Studio Workspace Residency - The Studio Workspace Residency is an opportunity for artists to create new work and fully immerse themselves in WSW’s supportive environment. We invite applications from artists at any stage of their careers. This residency gives artists the gift of time, an uninterrupted period to live and work away from the stresses of daily life. Artists may choose to work in any one or more of our studios: intaglio, letterpress, papermaking, screenprinting, darkroom photography, or ceramics. As of 2019, all workspace residencies are fully subsidized! This means that while artists are still responsible for their own travel, materials, meals, and other personal incidentals while in residence, WSW provides housing and studio space at no cost.
Application fee: None
Deadline: May 15, 2026
Monson Arts Residency - Monson Arts’ residency program supports emerging and established artists and writers by providing them time and space to devote to their creative practices. During each of our 2-week and 4-week programs throughout the year, a cohort of 5 artists and 5 writers are invited to immerse themselves in small town life at the edge of Maine’s North Woods and focus intensely on their work within a creative and inspiring environment. They receive a private studio, private bedroom in shared housing, all meals, and $1,000 stipend ($500 for 2-week programs). The Abbott Watts Residency for Photography offers access to the photography studio and darkroom of Todd Watts in nearby Blanchard, adjacent to the former home of Berenice Abbott. Applications for a residency at Monson Arts are open to anyone at any stage of their career, working in visual arts, writing, and related fields (i.e. audio, video, photography, movement, screen and playwrights).
Application fee: None
Deadline: May 15, 2026
NPN Creation & 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. The fund provides a framework for relationships to develop, over time, among diverse artists, arts organizations, and communities. Through the investment of commissioning funds from arts organizations and NPN direct subsidies, each project is eligible for multi-level support. Relationships are central to the Creation Fund, which supports new work in early stages.
Application fee: None
Deadline: May 18, 2026
Austin Film Festival - Our Conference and Festival offers participants the perfect environment to open up the creative senses to more forms of storytelling. It will also offer an action-packed arena for networking and crossover events that can lead to exciting new job opportunities.
Application fee: $75
Deadline: May 20, 2026
VIA Art Fund - VIA’s Artistic Production Grants fund the production of newly commissioned works of visual art exhibited beyond museum walls, in the public realm, or in non-traditional exhibition environments. These grants are awarded to projects that best exemplify VIA’s three core values of Artistic Production, Thought Leadership, and Public Engagement. Grant amounts range from $25,000 to $100,000.
Application fee: None
Deadline: May 21, 2026
June
Artadia Awards: San Francisco Bay Area - The Artadia Awards provide financial support, exposure and recognition to artists. The awards are unrestricted, allowing artists to use the funds in any way they choose.
Application Fee: Unknown
Deadline: June 1, 2026
BRIClab Film & TV: BRIClab offers emerging to mid-career artists essential support and opportunities to share their work. All residents receive a $2,500 stipend, mentorship, skills-based learning and professional development, and documentation of their work. Additional support, in the form of funding, space, access to equipment and media classes, and other resources vary according to tracks. BRIClab artists will also have the opportunity to share their work through public programming that will take place in Spring and Summer 2026.
Application Fee: $6
Deadline: June 5, 2026
Lincoln Road RFP: Lincoln Road invites artists to submit proposals for its rotating public art program, reflecting the district’s commitment to bringing culture, creativity, and meaningful artistic experiences to the community and its visitors. As the City of Miami Beach’s only pedestrian commercial corridor and one of its most iconic public spaces, Lincoln Road serves as an open-air platform for temporary public art that engages diverse audiences and enriches the public realm. Artists working across a range of media are encouraged to apply.
Application Fee: None
Deadline: June 8, 2026
Stoveworks Residency - From February through November of each year, Stove Works’ Artist Residency invites eight artists to live/work for one to three months at a time. Our residency serves as a moment away from the rigamarole of life and an opportunity for artists (for you) to take advantage of the dedicated time, space, resources, and community we have to offer.
Application Fee: $10-$30
Deadline: June 15, 2026
Rolling
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
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