Artist Opportunities with Upcoming Deadlines in October and November, 2021
Image from Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park by National Park Arts Foundation.
Each month, we compile a list of residencies, grants, and open calls for artists working in all disciplines. This month’s list includes the Artadia Award, worth $10,000 for artists based in Houston or Atlanta, the National Park Arts Foundation artist residency in Hawai’i, and Black Mountain Institute Shearing Fellowship for writers that comes with a $20,000 stipend.
Mophrat Grants for Artists’ Practice
Deadline: October 1, 2021
This inaugural grant will provide 10 grants of between $2,500-5,000 covering periods of research, residencies, production of new work, curating and presenting shows, amongst other forms of artistic work.
Photo Green Book Residency
Deadline: October 1, 2021
This inaugural residency seeks artist scholars interested in engaging to conduct research and resource building that benefits the “People of the Global Majority” working within lens based mediums. Residents will receive a $500 stipend, and scholastic and professional development and more.
Dots Between Residency
Deadline: October 1, 2021
The Dots Between financial coaching program is a virtual program for artists and creatives who are motivated to address their financial practices, nurture their relationship with money, and establish the structures that will support their long term fiscal health.
Artadia Awards
Atlanta, Georgia
Deadline: October 1, 2021
The Artadia Awards provide financial support, exposure and recognition to artists in Atlanta. The awards are unrestricted, allowing artists to use the funds in any way they choose.
National Sculpture Society Grants
Deadline: October 4, 2021
National Sculpture Society awards grants of $5,000 to sculptors with a demonstrated commitment to sculpting and outstanding ability in their body of work. Artists working in figurative or realist sculpture, bas-relief and in the round sculpture, and animal sculpture are eligible to apply.
Craft Research Fund Artist Fellowship
Deadline: October 4, 2021
This fellowship awards $20,000 to two artists to support research projects that advance, expand, and support the creation of new research and knowledge through craft practice. There is a $15 application fee.
Jerwood Arts 1:1 Fund
United Kingdom
Deadline: October 4, 2021
Early-career artists, curators, and producers based in the UK can apply for this fund to strengthen existing or start new collaborations after the isolating impact of Covid-19. Awards worth £2,000 will help artists connect, develop their work, and generate new ideas.
NARS International Residency Program
Brooklyn, New York
Deadline: October 4, 2021
NARS Foundation hosts international and US-based artists residencies. Artists receive curatorial and project support, weekly studio visits, networking opportunities, and participate in a program designed to foster artistic experimentation.
NARS Exhibitions Open Call
Brooklyn, New York
Deadline: October 4, 2021
NARS welcomes exhibition proposals for solo and group curated exhibitions for their Main Gallery Space and the Project Space, designed for smaller and more dynamic programming.
Rauschenberg Emergency Grants
Deadline: October 4, 2021
These grants of up to $5,000 support direct treatment expenses that have been incurred, or are needed, for medical, dental or mental health treatment. Artists practicing in the visual arts, film, video, electronic, digital arts, and choreography are eligible.
Culture Strike Climate Woke Request for Proposals
Deadline: October 8, 2021
Culture Strike is looking to commission artists who make video friendly work that centers the experience of frontline communities most impacted by climate change and environmental destruction. Selected artists will receive a stipend of $1,500 for their work.
Mirante Xique-Xique Research Residency
Chapada Diamantina, Brazil
Deadline: October 10, 2021
This residency program is geared toward visual artists, curators, writers, architects, cooks, environmentalists, and academics who are interested in living, creating, or having an immersion experience in the Chapada Diamantina. The program is research-oriented, and it welcomes those who can establish their own working conditions in the area.
Foundwork Artist Prize
Deadline: October 10, 2021
For the first time, Foundwork will award two artists unrestricted $10,000 grants and studio visits with each of the distinguished jurors.
Art Omi Residencies
Ghent, New York
Deadline: October 15, 2021
Art Omi has five residency programs for artists (of all disciplines), writers, dancers and choreographers, architects, and musicians and composers. The program is located in the historic Hudson River Valley.
Artadia Awards
Houston, Texas
Deadline: October 15, 2021
The Artadia Awards provide financial support, exposure and recognition to artists based in Houston. The awards are unrestricted, allowing artists to use the funds in any way they choose.
National Park Arts Foundation Residency
Dry Tortugas National Park at Loggerhead Key
Deadline: October 15, 2021
The National Parks Arts Foundation invites artists of all artistic media to join their artist-in-residency program at Dry Tortugas National Park, which offers a $2,000 stipend, housing, and events.
Squeaky Wheel Workspace Residency
Buffalo, New York
Deadline: October 15, 2021
This residency is a project-based residency for artists and researchers working in media arts. Selected applicants will have tailored access to facilities, equipment, technical consultation from Squeaky Wheel, and a $1,000 artist fee.
Collective Imagination for Spatial Justice Grant
Massachusetts
Deadline: October 18, 2021
NEFA’s grants ranging from $2,000 to $5,000 support Massachusetts-based imagination teams that are dreaming up public art that can help us see, feel, experience, and imagine justice now without the pressure of having to predetermine a project that may come out of the imagination stage.
Public Art for Spatial Justice Grant
Massachusetts
Deadline: October 18, 2021
NEFA’s Public Art for Spatial Justice grants, worth $5,000 to $15,000, support Massachusetts artists and artistic collaborations to create public art in Massachusetts that fosters public imagination and contributes to more just futures for our public spaces and public culture.
Recharge New Surrealist Prize
Deadline: October 19, 2021
This $7,000 award by the Recharge Foundation was created for painters living in the United States who are working in the New Surrealist style.
Soft Residency
Brooklyn, New York
Deadline: October 22, 2021
Emerging artists who are interested in exploring their perspective on how their own cultural heritage can be understood through interactive media can apply for this residency. It comes with access to a studio and production shop.
Artistic Production Grant
Deadline: October 25, 2021
VIA Art Fund is accepting letters of inquiry for their Artist Production grant program. The grant awards individual artists, nonprofit organizations, and institutions $25,000-100,000 in support of new artistic commissions that take place outside museum or gallery walls, within the public realm, or in nontraditional exhibition environments. Project must have a confirmed exhibition venue.
National Parks Arts Foundation
Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park
Deadline: October 29, 2021
The National Parks Arts Foundation invites artists of all artistic media to join their artist-in-residency programs at Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park. The program supports artists with a $2,000 stipend, housing, and events.
National Parks Arts Foundation
Fort Union, New Mexico
Deadline: October 29, 2021
The National Parks Arts Foundation invites artists of all artistic media to apply for the Fort Union National Monument residency program. The residency comes with housing for one month, and more.
Dresher Ensemble Artist Residency
San Francisco, California
Deadline: October 29, 2021
This residency supports artists in Northern California who are in their early to mid-career stage with free studio space and up-to-date equipment to create new work in the time-based arts such as theater, performance, dance, movement, music, sound art, instrument invention, as well as collaborative and interdisciplinary work. Artists also receive a stipend of up to $1,500.
Black Mountain Institute Shearing Fellowship
Las Vegas, Nevada
Deadline: November 1, 2021
This fellowship is for emerging and distinguished writers who have published at least one book with a trade or literary press. The fellowship includes a stipend of $20,000, free housing, a semester-long letter of appointment, and more.
Forge Fellowship
New York, New York
Deadline: November 1, 2020
ForgeNYC seeks to support artists with diverse backgrounds, lived experiences, and modes of expression take the next steps with their work. Artists receive professional development assistance, two retreat weekends, networking opportunities, and more.
Wildacres Residency Program
Little Switzerland, North Carolina
Deadline: November 1, 2021
The residency program provides artists with a secluded, natural setting to work on their creative projects of all disciplines. Wildacres Retreat is situated on just over 1200 acres near Mt. Mitchell at an elevation of 3,300 feet. Application fee: $25
Abrons Arts Center Performance AIRspace Residency
New York, New York
Deadline: November 7, 2021
Performance residents are provided with a monetary commission, premium access to studios, and theaters for rehearsals towards the development of a live performance to be presented at Abrons Arts Center.
Baxter St Residency
New York, New York
Deadline: November 8, 2021
Open to emerging New York-based artists, working in photography or lens-based art. Residents shall have free use of the facilities and equipment at Baxter St at CCNY, as well as a secondary photo lab. Juried by a committee of distinguished art professionals.
The Opportunity Agenda Culture & Narrative Fellowship
Deadline: November 10, 2021
This fellowship is for artists and cultural strategists working to dismantle and replace the dominant narratives of our time—especially those informing racial justice and immigrant rights—for true economic justice. The six-month fellowship comes with a $15,000 award.
LMCC Arts Center Residency
Governors Island, New York
Deadline: November 12, 2021
The 2022 Arts Center Residency will offer short-term, project-based residencies to artists and creative practitioners whose work is concerned with the broader themes of equity and sustainability.
Un-Productive Solutions Call for Proposals
Deadline: November 12, 2021
Artists are invited to submit imaginative and conceptually rigorous proposals imagining technologies, including digital, a combination of digital and analog, or post-digital works. Five proposals will be accepted for artists to develop and complete the work. Artists will receive a $2,000 honorarium upon submission of the final work.
Mellon Foundation Gender and LGBTQ+ History Fellowship
New York, New York
Deadline: November 15, 2021
Hired for a two-year term, the Mellon Gender and LGBTQ+ History Fellow works as a public historian for the New-York Historical Society’s Center for Women’s History. This fellowship will receive a stipend of $70,000 per year, with benefits.
Velvet Park Writers Residency
Brooklyn, New York
Deadline: November 15, 2021
This writers residency is open to emerging and established LGBTQ+ writers working in poetry, fiction, creative fiction, and multidisciplines. A private workspace will be awarded to a selected writer.
A.I.R. Fellowships Program
New York, New York
Deadline: November 15, 2021
This program supports underrepresented and emerging women and non-binary artists in New York City. A.I.R. provides fellows with sponsored membership with A.I.R. Gallery for one year, professional development opportunities, a solo exhibition, an artist-mentor, and a stipend at the end of the program.
Women’s Studio Workshop Residencies
Rosendale, New York
Deadline: November 15, 2021
Women’s Studio Workshop offers Studio, Legacy, Art-in-Education Artist’s Book, and Artist’s Book Residencies for women and trans, intersex, nonbinary and gender-fluid visual artists. Their studios are housed in an historic building, located in the foothills of the Hudson Valley’s Shawangunk Mountains.
Sandy Crimmins National Prize for Poetry
Deadline: November 15, 2021
This annual national poetry prize is worth $1,000 for first place, and $250 for runners up. The prize celebrates risk, innovation, and emotional engagement, and encourage poets from underrepresented groups and backgrounds to send apply.
SMACKMELLON Studio Program Open Call
Brooklyn, New York
Deadline: November 20, 2021
The program provides six eligible emerging or early career artists working in all visual arts media a free, private studio space. Their facilities include a digital production lab and a fabrication shop.
Connecting Communities Digital Intiative Artist or Scholar Residency
Washington, DC
Deadline: November 22, 2021
This residency program will fund an artist or scholar, supported for $50,000 in their first year and $100,000 in their second year. Individuals selected will be those whose artistic or scholarly work connects with the intersections of technology and cultural heritage, and engages with the legacies of racial division in the United States.
Antenna Open Call
New Orleans, Louisiana
Deadline: November 30, 2021
Antenna welcomes artists working on creator driven projects taking place in 2022 to apply for the opportunity to exhibit at Antenna Gallery, have a book published by Antenna’s Paper Machine, or have a month-long residency at the Paper Machine publishing center.
2021 Foundwork Artist Prize
Deadline: November 30, 2021
This prize awards two honorees with an unrestricted grant of $10,000 and studio visits with distinguished jurors. The prize is open to artists working in any media.
PlySpace Residency Application
Muncie, Indiana
Deadline: December 1, 2021
This residency program offers visual artists, writers, performers, designers, and other creative individuals time and space to investigate and pursue their own practices. Each resident will propose a personal project as well as a project to be completed in partnership with a community collaborator. The application is free through November 15.
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 $1,000 monthly stipend and a budget for materials.
NARS Studio Relief Program
Brooklyn, New York
Deadline: rolling basis
NARS offers a program for artists who are in need of a temporary studio space and unable to afford it. The subsidized studio space is available for 3 months, and is a work-space only.
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.
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.
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.
Adobe Creative Residency Community Fund
Deadline: rolling basis
The Adobe Creative Residency program supports creators of visual digital work, offering grants of $500–$5,000 for either a portfolio project or a paid Adobe project commission.
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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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