Feeling energized this spring? We have hand-picked opportunities for you to pursue! Check out our growing list of residencies, grants, and awards for artists of all disciplines below.
1. CIRC Artist Grant
The Circ Artist Grant provides unrestricted funding to artists with a demonstrated commitment to their artistic work. For the Spring 2024 grant cycle, three artists will be awarded $1,000 each to enhance and further their creative practice.
Due: May 15, 2024
Apply: https://circartgrant.com/
2. Arts Access Mini-Grants
This grant provides up to $2,000 for professional fees and supplies for arts projects that focus on increasing access to underserved and underrepresented people which may include ethnic groups, people with disabilities, people aged 60 years and older, and active-duty military/veterans and their families.
Due: May 15, 2024
Apply: https://tnartscommission.org/grants/arts-access-mini-grant/
3. The Studios of Key West
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. Residencies are available to visual artists, writers, composers, musicians, media artists, performers, and interdisciplinary artists.
Due: May 15, 2024
Apply: https://tskw.org/pear-program/
4. Bibliothek Andreas Züst Residency
Twice annually , the Bibliothek Andreas Züst offers three studio residency stipends. The length of stay is a total of four weeks. Application for the Studio Residency Stipend is open to national and international cultural workers (individuals or teams of up to a maximum of four persons) across disciplines — visual arts, literature, new media, music, theatre, design, architecture, film, photography, and art-related disciplines. The Bibliothek Andreas Züst is especially seeking projects that deal with the library as a whole or one of its sub-areas. The Studio Residency Stipend program is to be considered in the tradition of libraries as places of knowledge in the sense of diversity.
Due: May 19, 2024
Apply: http://bibliothekandreaszuest.net/en/residency/
5. New York Foundation for the Arts JGS Fellowship for Photography
The Fellowship is awarded to five artists working in traditional and experimental photography or any form in which photographic techniques are pivotal. Open to New York State photography artists living and working anywhere in the following regions: Western New York, Finger Lakes, Southern Tier, Central New York, North Country, Mohawk Valley, Capital District, Hudson Valley, and Long Island.
Due: May 21, 2024
Apply: https://www.nyfa.org/awards-grants/the-jgs-fellowship-for-photography/
6. The Lumen Prize
Applicants may enter five categories, each with a $1,500 prize: Still Image, Moving Image, Interactive Immersive, Futures, and Impact. Up to 70 artists will become finalists, whose work will then be reviewed by the Jury Panel. There will be nine total prize winners.
Due: May 25, 2024
Apply: https://www.lumenprize.com/
7. Art in Odd Places: CARE Open Call
AiOP CARE invites artists, performers, agitators, and caretakers to enact notions of care for the 19th annual NYC public art festival scheduled for Friday, Saturday, & Sunday, October 18-20 along 14th Street in Manhattan. The CARE curatorial team seek individuals, collectives, collaborators, and those interested in joining forces with like-minded folks to design new team projects for the festival. CARE invites proposals to offer stations of care across the festival, where all are invited to stop and rest.
Due: May 26, 2024
Apply: https://artinoddplaces.org/care-2/
8. Prospect Art NEW WORK + ONE WORK Grants
Open to visual artists worldwide, Prospect Art is prioritizing works that explore environmental issues, climate change, and the impact of human existence on our planet. The NEW WORK program is a mini-grant of $1, 000 that provides support for the production of new artwork. The ONE WORK publishing program is dedicated to a critical dialogue that focuses on one specific completed work by an artist for Prospect Art’s monthly online publication.
Due: May 26, 2024
Apply: https://www.prospectart.org/new-work-grant
9. GHOSTMACHINE Gallery Open Call
This open call for a two-person exhibition that will be on view from July 12th, 2024, to August 3rd, 2024 in the Lower East Side is open to visual artists of all disciplines and demographics. Fee: $25.00.
Due: May 26, 2024
PLAYA Residency
PLAYA’s residencies are open to the global community of scientists and artists whose work promotes dialogue and positive change in the environment and the world. We encourage naturalists, biologists, musicians, designers, sustainability leaders, social practitioners, musicians, visual artists, writers, and performing artists to apply. PLAYA welcomes applications from both emerging and seasoned professionals.
Due: May 30, 2024
Apply: https://playasummerlake.org/apply-for-residency/
10. Artadia San Francisco
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. Applicants must be a contemporary visual artist making artwork for presentation in a contemporary art context.
Due: June 1, 2024
Apply: https://artadia.org/awards/
11. Cutty Hunk Island Artists’ Residency
On a small island off the coast of Massachusetts, CIAR offers twelve visual artists focused time and a uniquely supportive environment to develop their work. Full and partial fellowships are available for artists to attend the residency for free or at a lower cost.
Due: June 1, 2024
Apply: https://www.cuttyhunkislandresidency.com/artists-fallresidency
12. Light Work Artist-in-Residence Program
Each year Light Work invites 12-15 artists to participate in its residency program, including one artist co-sponsored by Autograph ABP and one artist commission for Urban Video Project (UVP). Artists selected for the residency program are invited to live in Syracuse for one month. They receive a $5,000 stipend, an apartment to stay in, a private digital studio, a private darkroom, and 24-hour access to their facility.
Due: July 1, 2023
Apply: https://www.lightwork.org/air/apply/
Bonus: Awesome Foundation Grant
The Awesome Foundation is an ever-growing worldwide community devoted to forwarding the interest of awesome in the universe. Created in the long hot summer days of 2009 in Boston, the Foundation distributes $1,000 grants, no strings attached, to projects and their creators. At each fully autonomous chapter, the money is pooled together from the coffers of ten or so self-organizing “micro-trustees” and given upfront in cash, check, or gold doubloons.
Due: Ongoing
Apply: https://tinyurl.com/2p89brte