Artist Opportunities with Upcoming Deadlines in July and August, 2020
Photo taken at Tusen Takk Foundation in North Michigan
Finding time and space to be creative has always been challenging, but the difficulty has become more pronounced during the pandemic and economic shut down. As COVID-19 continues to affect the world around us, we have made it easy to find the residencies that are still hosting artists, open calls, and grants with open applications this summer.
Individual artists in financial need due to the COVID-19 outbreak can apply for unrestricted emergency funding of $5,000.
Frieze Impact Prize
Deadline: July 3, 2020
This prize recognizes artists’ role in the movement to end mass incarceration in the US. $25,000 will go to an artist for an existing work of art that can contribute to the movement to end mass incarceration.
Belonging in Oakland Grant
Oakland, California
Deadline: July 13, 2020
Anne LaBastille Memorial Writers Residency
Big Moose, New York
Deadline: July 15, 2020
This two-week residency annually in October allows poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers to stay at a lodge in the heart of the Adirondack Mountains. The opportunity includes indoor and outdoor writing spaces, family-style meals, and fireside discussions.
Varuna Residential Fellowships
Katoomba, Australia
Deadline: July 29, 2020
This residency program for creative writers offers two to three weeks of full board and accommodation in Australia, including a prepared evening meal, uninterrupted time to write in your own private studio, more.
McColl Center Artist-in-Residence
Charlotte, North Carolina
Deadline: July 30, 2020
This artist-in-residence program is open to visual, film, new media, and interdisciplinary artists who are interested in the healthcare system as both site and subject for their work. Artists work in a medical setting in order to explore how the arts can extend or enhance healthcare and healing.
PEN/Jean Stein Grant for Literary Oral History
Deadline: August 1, 2020
This $15,000 grant recognizes a literary work of nonfiction that uses oral history to illuminate an event, individual, place, or movement. The project must be an unpublished work-in-progress with oral history as a significant component.
Halstead Grant for Jewelry Artists
Deadline: August 1, 2020
The Halstead Grant is an annual award worth $7,500 for emerging silver jewelry artists to help jewelry entrepreneurs create a strategy to kick-start their careers.
National Park Arts Foundation Residency
Gettysburg National Park, Pennsylvania
Deadline: August 6, 2020
Artists, including those who are veterans, can apply to this one-month program, open to any artistic media. The residency comes with a stipend of $1,000.
LMCC Governor’s Island Artist Residency
Governor’s Island, New York
Deadline: August 6, 2020
Studio Residency at MASS MoCA
North Adams, Massachusetts
Deadline: August 8, 2020
Artists can apply for MASS MoCA‘s residency that comes with studio space on the museum’s campus, housing across in newly renovated apartments, as well as need-based financial aid.
Shall Make, Shall Be
Deadline: August 8, 2020
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Oak Spring Garden Foundation Residency
Upperville, Virginia
Deadline: August 12, 2020
This five-week interdisciplinary residency is designed to support artists, conservation practitioners, researchers, scholars, scientists or writers who are pursuing work inspired by plants, gardens and landscapes. Residents have access to a 700-acre landscape, a Biocultural Conservation Farm, a formal garden, and a library of art.
Rubys Artist Grants
Deadline: August 15, 2020
This $15,000 grant is open to artists living in Baltimore City and Baltimore County working in literary, media, performing, or visual arts. The program is open to artists at any stage of their career and favors projects that have significant creative work left to accomplish.
Tusen Takk Foundation Residency
Leland, Michigan
Deadline: August 15, 2020
Artists who participate in the Tusen Takk residency in north Michigan will receive free housing, an honorarium of $625 a week, and more.
Belonging Institute Artist Residency
Berkeley, California
Deadline: August 20, 2020
Artists or artist collectives are eligible to apply for the @oandbinstitute Belonging Artist Residency. Residents will receive a $15,000 honorarium, materials and travel budget, and other forms of support.
Firehouse Art Center Open Call
Longmont, Colorado
Deadline: August 30, 2020
Artists can apply to this open call for a group exhibition at this gallery in East Boulder County, Colorado. Cutting edge contemporary work and multi-disciplinary artists are strongly encouraged.
Illuminations Grant for Black Trans Women Visual Artists
Deadline: August 30, 2020
This $10,000 grant sheds light on the under-recognized contributions of Black trans women visual artists and provides critical support to their continuing work.
Wallace Stegner Grant for the Arts
Eastend, Canada
Deadline: August 31, 2020
This grant for published Canadian writers consists of $500 and one month free residency in the Wallace Stegner House in Eastend, Saskatchewan.
Green-Wood Cemetery Artist Residency
New York, New York
Deadline: September 2, 2020
This residency, designed for emerging or mid-career, visual or performing arts artists based in New York, gives the opportunity to create a new project or body of work inspired by natural landscape, stunning monuments, and compelling history.
Stochastic Labs Summer Residency
Berkeley, California
Deadline: rolling basis
The Stochastic Labs offers fully-sponsored residencies to engineers, artists, scientists, and entrepreneurs from around the world. Residencies include a private apartment at the mansion, co-working and/or dedicated work space, shop access, a $1k monthly stipend and a budget for materials.
Rauschenberg Emergency Grant
Deadline: rolling basis
NYFA and the Rasuchenberg Foundation have teamed up to offer visual and media artists and choreographers in the US grants of up to $5,000 for medical related emergencies.
Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant
Deadline: rolling basis
Do you have an unanticipated opportunity to present your work? Did you incur an unexpected expense that you didn’t budget for? The Foundation for Contemporary Arts offers Emergency Grants between $200 and $2,500 for visual and performing artists. They review applications once a month, so you can quickly take advantage of momentum or solve any budget errors.
Joan Mitchell Emergency Grant
Deadline: rolling basis
The Joan Mitchell Foundation provides grants of up to $6,000 to US-based visual artists who have suffered significant physical losses after natural or man-made disasters.
Gottlieb Emergency Grant Program
Deadline: rolling basis
This emergency grant provides financial assistance to painters, printmakers, and sculptors whose needs are the result of an unforeseen incident, and who lack the resources to meet that situation.
Rhizome Microgrant Program
Deadline: rolling basis
The microgrant program awards $500–$1,500 to proposals with a compelling vision for net art, which considers political radicalization and the internet.
Other Resources
Artists that have lost income, health-related expenses, or any other issues related to COVID-19 should check out our list of resources, updated daily.
Residency Listings:
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Artist Communities
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Every month, Creative Capital compiles a list of residencies, grant, and award opportunities as part of our commitment to sharing resources and opportunities for artists working in all creative disciplines. These opportunities have deadlines in December 2024 and January 2025.