Artist Opportunities with Upcoming Deadlines in September and October, 2020
In Cahoots Residency in Petaluma, California
As COVID-19 continues to affect the world around us, we have made it easy to find the residencies that will host artists in the coming year, as well as grants, fellowships, and prizes 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.
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.
Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation Relief Grants for the Arts
Deadline: September 3, 2020
The Wattis Foundation has shifted all of their grantmaking in 2020 to provide unrestricted support to Bay Area arts organizations with grants of $2,500 to $10,000 for arts organizations and festivals with annual budgets $2.5 million or less.
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.
Open Call—The Grief Deck
Deadline: September 9, 2020
This open call is seeking original visual artwork and text-based ‘grief prompts’ to the Artist’s Grief Deck project: an artist-generated toolkit for processing loss in the age of COVID-19. Artists will receive a $250 honorarium.
Project Studios Art Residency and Solo Exhibition
New York, New York
Deadline: September 15, 2020
The Project Studios Residency is a work-only visual art residency focused on production of new artwork within a very well-equipped suite of studios for clay, metal, woodworking, printmaking, and photography.
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.
Tusen Takk Foundation Residency
Leland, Michigan
Deadline: September 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.
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.
Strange Foundation Election Fusion Grants
Deadline: September 16, 2020
The Strange Foundation offers $2,000 home-stretch funding and momentum for groups working on creative, strategic 2020 US Presidential Election-focused projects. Nominate organizers, collectives, mutual-aid groups, collaborations, or even yourself.
John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowships
Deadline: September 17, 2020
The Guggenheim Fellowships are intended for individuals who have already demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts.
BRIClab Film & TV Residency Program
Brooklyn, New York
Deadline: September 18, 2020
Atlantic Center for the Arts Master Artist-in-Residence Program
New Smyrna Beach, Florida
Deadline: September 20, 2020
Atlantic Center for the Arts is an innovative nonprofit artists-in-residence program that provides artists with an opportunity to work and collaborate with some of the world’s masters in the visual, literary, and performing arts.
Artivism Fellowship
Deadline: September 22, 2020
The Artivism Fellowship provides financial support, mentorship, and more to artist-activists who are using their tools to have an impact on the world around them. This year, the fellowship will specifically support Black women, cis- and transgender artist-activists focused on issues related to systemic racism and criminal justice.
Pioneer Works Artist Residency
Brooklyn, New York
Deadline: September 30, 2020
Creative Residency at Bloedel Reserve
Bainbridge Island, Washington
Deadline: October 1, 2020
Artists working in visual arts, performing arts, poetry, prose fiction & non-fiction, or research relating to or inspired by nature can apply for this three-week residency program with access to 150 acres of sculpted gardens, forests, and wildlife habitats.
Jan Van Eyck Academie Residency
Maastricht, The Netherlands
Deadline: October 1, 2020
Artists, curators, designers, writers, and architects are welcome to apply for this twelve-month residency. Participants receive a monthly stipend of €900 and a working budget of €2,000 annually.
In Cahoots Residency
Petaluma, California
Deadline: October 1, 2020
In Cahoots Residency in Sonoma County provides housing and studio space to both emerging and professional artists in a variety of mediums, with a focus on artists books, letterpress, printmaking, writing, and collaboration.
The HARPO Foundation Emerging Artist Fellowship Residency
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Deadline: October 1, 2020
This six-week residency at the Santa Fe Art Institute provides an emerging visual artist with the space and time to explore ideas and start new projects in a residency context at a pivotal moment in their professional development.
Craft Research Fund Artist Fellowship
Deadline: October 1, 2020
This fellowship awards of $20,000 to artists in order to advance, expand, and support the creation of new research and knowledge through craft practice.
Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park Artist Residency
Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park, Hawai’i
Deadline: October 4, 2020
The National Parks Arts Foundation invites artists of all artistic media to join their artist-in-residency program at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, which offers a $2,000 stipend, a studio, housing, events, and workshops.
Washington, DC
Deadline: October 12, 2020
The Bennett Prize
Deadline: October 16, 2020
The Bennett Prize awards $50,000 to a woman artist to create her own solo exhibition of figurative realist paintings, which will travel the country.
A.I.R. Fellowship Program
New York, New York
Deadline: October 21, 2020
This fellowship is designed to support underrepresented and emerging self-identified women and non-binary artists in New York City. Artists will receive a solo exhibition, professional development benefits, and more.
Antenna Gallery Open Calls
New Orleans, Louisiana
Deadline: October 22, 2020
Apply to exhibit at Antenna Gallery, have a book published, or have a month-long residency. All opportunities provide creators with both financial and logistical support.
Barbara Hammer Lesbian Experimental Filmmaking Grant
Deadline: October 31, 2020
This is an annual grant, now worth $7,000, that will be awarded to self-identified lesbians for making visionary moving-image art. Work can be experimental animation, experimental documentary, experimental narrative, cross-genre, or solely experimental.
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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