Artist Opportunities with Upcoming Deadlines in August and September, 2020
Chalk Hill Artist Residency in Healdsburg, California.
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. Individual artists in financial need due to the COVID-19 outbreak can apply for unrestricted emergency funding of $5,000 through Artist Relief.
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.
Jorge and Darlene Pérez Prize in Public Art & Civic Design
Deadline: August 14, 2020
This Americans for the Arts prize is open to artists working at the intersection of public art and civic design. An artist will receive a $30,000 award to support a project or projects, research and development, and more.
Ruby 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.
The McMillen Artist Community Fellowship Program
Deadline: August 15, 2020
This fellowship is open to emerging and mid-career artists who are residents of the state of Washington. Artists can receive between $5,000 and $10,000 grants.
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.
Bemis Center Artist Residency
Omaha, Nebraska
Deadline: August 15, 2020
Artist residents will receive technical guidance, access to interns, and an established network of resources. Participants have the opportunity to create networks, collaborate, and share their work with fellow artists-in-residence, and more.
Belonging Institute Artist Residency
Berkeley, California
Deadline: August 20, 2020
Artists or artist collectives are eligible to apply for the 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.
Headlands Community Rapid Response Fund
Deadline: August 31, 2020
Headlands Center for the Arts offers $1,000 grants to support work that is developed in partnership between artists and Bay Area businesses, organizations, or others that focus on health, safety, and risk management, reopening and recovery of local businesses, and other issues related to post-COVID economies.
Chalk Hill Artist Residency
Healdsburg, California
Deadline: August 31, 2020
Located in Sonoma County, this residency offers artists of all disciplines a creative space to work. The location includes oak woodlands, hiking trails, vineyards, and private access to the Russian River. Residency periods are between 2 and 6 weeks.
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.
Wendy’s Subway Open Reading Period
Deadline: September 7, 2020
Wendy’s Subway seeks submissions of innovative, hybrid, and cross-genre work that charts new possibilities and expressions of poetic form. The winner will author a publication, receive an honorarium of $1,000, a standard royalty contract, and 25 author copies.
Monson Arts Residency
Monson, Maine
Deadline: September 15, 2020
This residency at the edge of Maine’s North Woods support emerging and established visual artists and writers. Artists receive a private studio, private bedroom in shared housing, all meals, and $1,000 stipend.
Wachtmeister Award
Deadline: September 15, 2020
This award administered by the Virginia Center for Creative Arts is open to visual artists whose significant achievement in the arts is widely recognized. The award includes a fully-funded fellowship for up to 30 days at Virginia Center’s Mt. San Angelo in Amherst, VA, an honorarium of $1,000, and paid travel expenses.
Hambidge Center Creative Residency
Rabun Gap, Georgia
Deadline: September 15, 2020
Located in the north Georgia mountains, the Hambidge Center Creative Residency is open to all kinds of creative thinkers, offering each resident a private studio and living space, with communal meals provided four nights a week. Fellowships for first-time residents are available—they come with a $700 stipend and a free two week a residency.
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.
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