Artist Opportunities with Upcoming Deadlines in February and March, 2021

Every month we compile a list of artist opportunities with open applications for artists in all disciplines. From a residency for developing practices using radio as a medium, to a grant for creatives working in racial justice, the following is a roundup for artists looking for opportunities to make their work.

Artists in all disciplines can now apply for a Creative Capital Award through March 8 at 4pm ET.

Learn About the Creative Capital Award Open Application

Los Angeles Artadia Awards
Los Angeles County, California
Deadline: February 1, 2021

Artadia identifies innovative visual artists through an open application and supports them with unrestricted financial awards worth between $25,000 and $10,000. The Los Angeles Award cycle is open to visual artists living and working within Los Angeles County.

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Wave Farm Radio Artist Residency
Arca, New York
Deadline: February 1, 2021

Wave Farm allows artists to concentrate on new radio artworks and conduct research. Artists receive a $700, accommodations, and access to the institution’s resource library.

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Locust Project Open Call
Miami, Florida
Deadline: February 6, 2021

Artists can apply for the opportunity to access Locust Project’s gallery space and resources to create ambitious, large-scale new work. Artists receive curatorial guidance, a production budget, artist WAGE fee, documentation, and an opportunity to stay in the gallery’s residency house.

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The Petronio Retreat and Restore Residency
Round Top, New York
Deadline: February 8, 2021

This residency offers New York City-based dance artists space nestled within in Greene County’s Catskill Mountains. The program provides full room and board, a stipend, car rental for week, unlimited use of house and studio.

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Crystal Ruth Bell Residency
Remote
Deadline: February 9, 2021

Residents will receive $10,000, project feedback, in-depth workshops on budgeting and fundraising, mentorship. Artist project should address mainland China, Hong Kong, and the greater Chinese and Asian diasporas worldwide.

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Climate Story Lab Open Call
New Orleans, Louisiana
Deadline: February 9, 2021

Climate Story Lab is looking for nonfiction or fiction storytellers who are working on effective climate storytelling. Selected projects will convene at a climate conference in New Orleans, and will receive impact grants of $2,000.

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Soros Equality Fellowship
Deadline: February 11, 2021

This fellowship supports individual leaders influencing and transforming the racial justice field. The award provides individuals with $100,000 to support the production of an innovative racial justice project over the course of 18 months.

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Anderson Ranch’s Artists-in-Residence Program
Snowmass Village, Colorado
Deadline: February 15, 2021

Anderson Ranch offers residencies in ceramics, new media, photography, furniture design, woodworking, painting, drawing, printmaking and sculpture. It provides emerging and established visual artists with housing, studio space, and meals.

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Oolite Arts’ Cinematic Arts Residency
Miami, Florida
Deadline: February 15, 2021

This initiative will give one Miami-based filmmaker up to $50,000 to create a narrative micro-budget feature, along with a producer to oversee the project and a shared studio space for production.

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Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program
Brooklyn, New York
Deadline: February 15, 2021

Open to professional visual artists, 21 years or older who live in the US, this program provides access to a waterfront studios in Brooklyn.

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Bay Area Video Coalition MediaMaker Fellowship
San Francisco, California
Deadline: February 17, 2021

The MediaMaker Fellowship is devoted to supporting documentary filmmakers grappling with critical issues of our time. Filmmakers receive $10,000, professional mentorship and strategy sessions focused on documentary storytelling, career sustainability, fundraising, distribution, and more.

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Good Hart Artist Residency
Good Hart, Michigan
Deadline: February 17, 2021

This residency is designed for visual artists, writers, and composers. It provides full room and board including a newly completed residency building, a fully stocked kitchen, a $500 stipend, and quiet, natural surroundings to concentrate on creative work.

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Soros Justice Fellowships
Deadline: February 17, 2021

The Soros Justice Fellowships fund outstanding individuals to undertake projects that advance reform, spur debate, and catalyze change on a range of issues facing the U.S. criminal justice system. The fellowship is available through three categories: advocacy, media, and youth, and funding ranges from $57,500–$127,500.

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BRIClab Artist Residency
Brooklyn, New York
Deadline: February 18, 2021

BRIC’s newly reimagined residency program offers Brooklyn-based emerging and mid-career artists working in contemporary art, performing arts, and video art essential resources, mentorship, and opportunities to share their work.

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LACMA 2021 Art + Technology Lab Open Call
Los Angeles, California
Deadline: February 25, 2021

LACMA’s program is accepting proposals for artist projects that engage new forms of technology. Awards take the form of grants of up to $50,000 and as well as in-kind support from the museum and private partners in technology and science.

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LMCC Arts Center Residency
New York, New York
Deadline: February 28, 2021

Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) has an open call for short-term, project-based residencies for artists and creative practitioners whose work is concerned with the broader themes of equity and sustainability. The residency will take place in the open plan studios at LMCC’s Arts Center at Governors Island.

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ArtBridge Not a Monolith Open Call
New York, New York
Deadline: February 28, 2021

“Not a Monolith” aims to amplify a diversity of Black voices by providing New York City-based, emerging Black artists with prominent outdoor canvases in public spaces, guidance from art world professionals, a $12,000 artist fee, and more.

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Keyholder Residencies
New York, New York

Deadline: March 1, 2021

This residency program offers emerging artists free 24-hour access to printmaking facilities to develop new work and foster their artistic careers. Artists receive a $1,000 stipend, group exhibition opportunities, and more.

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Chicago Artadia Awards
Chicago, Illinois
Deadline: March 1, 2021

Artadia identifies innovative visual artists through an open application and supports them with unrestricted financial awards worth between $25,000 and $10,000. The Chicago cycle is open to visual artists living and working within any eligible counties.

Apply


Chautauqua School of Art Residency Program
Chautauqua, New York
Deadline: March 2, 2021

The Chautauqua School of Art residency program welcomes artists working in all disciplines who have yet to receive wide recognition of their work to apply for this residency. Curriculum is designed to break typically siloed disciplines from each other, embracing a full range of studio and pragmatic studies including professional development for artists, the art of pedagogy, archiving, and more.

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Creative Capital Award Open Application
Deadline: March 8, 2021

The application for a Creative Capital Award opens starting February 1. Artists working in all disciplines are welcome to apply for $50,000 in project funding, networking opportunities, career development sessions, and more.

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OneBeat Virtual Fellowship
Deadline: March 10, 2021

Musicians and sonic artists are invited to apply to this fellowship that comes with a $1,500  honorarium, a per diem for online work sessions, and, a small subsidy for technical support. Fellows will digitally convene with 70 musicians from up to 44 countries and territories in two separate virtual residencies.

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Thoma Foundation Publication Grant
Deadline: March 11, 2021

Thoma Foundation’s publication grants are designed for university and museum presses advancing scholarship in select disciplines like digital and electronic art. The grants assist with production-related expenses.

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Greg Grummer Poetry Prize
Deadline: March 15, 2021

Poets are welcome to submit multiple entries of their work to be published in Phoebe Journal’s “contest” issue. Winners receive $500.

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Headlands Art Center Bay Area Fellowship
Bay Area, California
Deadline: March 15, 2021

Artists based in the Bay Area are welcome to apply for this two-year fellowship which comes with access to Headlands’ studios, meeting spaces, and staff expertise. It also comes with an annual stipend of $15,000 and additional financial resources to cover the tax burden of that stipend, health insurance, and more.

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Cue Art Foundation Open Call for Exhibitions
Deadline: March 15, 2021

Emerging and under-recognized artists and curators can submit their ideas for a solo exhibition. Artists will receive mentor support, a studio visit and installation guidance in preparation for the exhibition, as well as a $5,000 honorarium and an accompanying exhibition catalogue.

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Experimental Projects Residency
New York, New York
Deadline: March 15, 2021

New York-based artists working in visual arts or electronic media can apply for this residency at the Institute for Electronic Arts at Alfred University. Artists receive a $1,000 stipend, travel support, lodging, technology access, materials, and technical assistance.

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Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity Fellowship
Providence, Rhode Island
Deadline: March 31, 2021

Artists, media makers, and writers whose work focuses on race, ethnicity, and/or indigeneity in the United States can apply to be a Practitioner Fellow for the Spring academic semester.

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Franklin Furnace Fund Grant
New York, New York
Deadline: April 1, 2021

This grant supports early-career artists interested in producing major performance art works in New York City. Grants range from $2,000 to $10,000.

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Bemis Center for the Arts Residency
Omaha, Nebraska
Deadline: April 1, 2021

Bemis Center has several opportunities for artists and curator to participate in their residency. Residents have access to private live/work studios, installation and production spaces, a 9,000 square foot industrial space used for large-scale sculpture fabrication, a sound studio for rehearsing and recording, and more.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Eyebeam Center for the Future of Journalism
Deadline: Rolling Basis

The Eyebeam Center for the Future of Journalism (ECFJ) is a grant-making program that supports artists producing innovative and revelatory journalistic work for major media outlets. Grant support will range from $500 to $5,000.

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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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Residency Listings:
Resartis
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Artist Communities
Trans Artists

Funding, Grants and other Financial Opportunities:
Foundation Center
Women Arts


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