Artist Opportunities with Upcoming Deadlines in November and December, 2021
Amant Foundation in Brooklyn, New York. Photo: Rafael Gamo
Each month, we compile a list of residencies, grants, and open calls for artists working in all disciplines. This month’s list includes a $10,000 grant for Black women and Black non-binary photographers, a residency for LGBTQ+ writers working in poetry, fiction, and creative fiction, and a performance residency at the Abrons Arts Center in New York.
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, 2021
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
2021 Black Women Photographers x Nikon Inc.
Deadline: November 4, 2021
These grants are open to all Black women and Black non-binary photographers worldwide. Grants range from $10,000 in project support to $3,000 in business expenses.
Metropolitan Museum of Art Fellowships
New York, New York
Deadline: November 5, 2021
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is looking for applications from scholars of the history of art and visual culture, archaeology, conservation and related sciences, as well as those in other disciplines whose projects relate to objects in their collection.
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.
Un-Productive Solutions Call for Proposals
Deadline: November 12, 2021
Artists can submit imaginative and conceptually rigorous proposals imagining technologies. The technology will be presented as one of the products of the Un-Productive Solutions company. Imagined technologies may be digital, a combination of digital and analog, or post-digital. 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.
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.
Field Projects Residency
New York, New York
Deadline: November 14, 2021
This artist-run gallery offers a six-week residency with a studio in Chelsea, Manhattan’s Gallery District. Application fee: $45.
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.
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.
Cafe Royal Cultural Foundation Visual Art Grant
New York, New York
Deadline: November 15, 2021
This grant worth up to $10,000 is open to artists who are creating paintings, drawings, sculptures, and photographs.
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.
More Art Fellowship and Residency
New York, New York
Deadline: November 17, 2021
More Art has two opportunities, a fellowship and a residency, for New York City-based artists seeking to both develop and sustain their public art and socially-engaged practice. The fellowship allows artists to incubate their ideas over a year, while the residency supports artists with a $8,000 award to realize a project, and more.
Smack Mellon 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.
Call for Public Art in Key West
Key West, Florida
Deadline: November 21, 2021
The Studios of Key West is seeking proposals for public art at its art center with galleries, classrooms, a theater, roof terrace and bookstore.
The David Prize
New York, New York
Deadline: November 21, 2021
The prize awards five New Yorkers in any of the five boroughs $200,000 each to support their vision for a better, brighter city.
A.I.R. Fellowships Program
New York, New York
Deadline: November 22, 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.
CERN Collide Residency
Geneva, Switzerland & Barcelona, Spain
Deadline: November 22, 2021
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.
Wave Hill Van Lier Fellowship
Bronx, New York
Deadline: November 23, 2021
This one-year fellowship is awarded to two New York City-based artists, who are age 30 or younger. Each Van Lier Fellow receives a $8,000 honorarium, studio rental reimbursement, transportation stipend for the residency, and a solo show in Fall 2022.
Mozilla Foundation Creative Media Awards
Deadline: November 23, 2021
Mozilla is seeking artists and technologists who explore, interrogate, and reimagine the role of data in AI systems — and how that data can be better stewarded to empower people and communities to submit proposals for its latest round of Creative Media Awards, worth up to $30,000 each.
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.
The Aftermath Project Grant
Deadline: November 30, 2021
The Aftermath Project is offering a grant worth $25,000 open to working international photographers who are interested in creating work that helps illumine aftermath issues, and encourages greater public understanding and discussion of these issues. Four finalists each year will also receive a $5,000 grant.
Amant Studio & Research Residency
Brooklyn, New York
Deadline: November 30, 2021
Amant Studio & Research Residency Program awards artists from around the world with research-oriented residencies in its brand new campus. During the three-month duration of each residency period, artists are provided with studio spaces, an expense allowance, and resources to support long-term research projects and archival work.
Queer.Archive.Work Studio Membership
Providence, Rhode Island
Deadline: November 30, 2021
Queer.Archive.Work is nonprofit library, publishing studio, and residency. Their residency provides studio access to artists, printmakers, writers, and other creators working on queer, radical, and experimental printmaking and publishing.
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.
Currier Museum Artist-in-Residence
Manchester, New Hampshire
Deadline: December 1, 2021
The Currier Museum of Art invites applications for its Artist-in-Residence program. Resident artists receive a stipend of $1,000 per week, travel allowance up to $500, materials support, and housing in a fully furnished home.
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart and Sullivan’s Artist Residency
Los Angeles, California
Deadline: December 1, 2021
This residency is open to emerging and mid-career artists working in all disciplines across Greater Los Angeles. Artists will receive receive $5,000 a month over the course of four months, an allowance of up to $1,500 for purchase of art materials, and access to a studio space.
Guggenheim Poetry Residency
New York, New York
Deadline: December 5, 2021
This poet-in-resident focuses on public engagement to collaborate with the Guggenheim’s public programs department to design activations and experiences for the museum’s adult, teen, and youth audiences to engage with poetry as an artistic form. The position comes with a $20,000 honorarium.
Socrates Sculpture Park Open Call
Queens, New York
Deadline: December 6, 2021
Applicants to the 2022 Socrates Annual Fellowship and exhibition program are encouraged to submit proposals based on the prompt *Sink or Swim with the goal of presenting a public artwork for a group exhibition. Fellows receive a $8,000 production grant to support their project, a $2,000 honorarium, and three-months of seven-days-a-week access to the resources and fabrication facilities of the Park’s outdoor artist studio.
iStock Creative Inclusion Grants
Deadline: December 6, 2021
This inaugural grant is dedicated to promoting the work of emerging creative artists seeking to draw attention to, and depict, underrepresented communities through their commercial photography work. Artists will receive a prize of $5,000 in support of their ongoing creative work or a proposed project.
Plum Lime Residency
Brooklyn, New York
Deadline: December 6, 2021
The Plum Lime Residency offers a private studio space for artists to make create a body of work for a month, and will receive studio visits.
Bernheim Artist Residency
Clermont, Kentucky
Deadline: December 15, 2021
This residency encourages visual artists to examine environmental issues and severity of the climate crisis to promote dialogue and positive change for the natural environment and world at large. Up to four artists will be selected for this residency program, each with a $2,500 stipend.
Visual Art Open Prize
Deadline: December 15, 2021
International artists working in all visual arts disciplines are invited to apply for this UK-based award worth £10,000.
Atelier Mondale Residency
Deadline: December 15, 2021
This residency is open to visual artists of all disciplines and performance artists who reside in New York City. The program supports artists with $1,200 per month, travel expenses, and a studio space in Switzerland.
Elsewhere Funded Family Residency
Paonia, Colorado
Deadline: December 17, 2021
Elsewhere Studios provides artists with living and studio space, and a stipend of $1,000 for a 10-day residency. Artists can bring their spouse and family or attend on their own.
Anna Rabinowitz Award for Poetry
Deadline: December 31, 2021
This prize worth $1,000 is awarded to poets and their collaborators for venturesome, interdisciplinary work made in the previous year and combining poetry and any other art or discipline.
Art Omi Residencies
Ghent, New York
Deadline: January 2, 2022
Art Omi has five distinct residency programs supporting artists working in dance, music, visual art, architecture, and writing. The residency is free to all artists with lodging and meals provided.
Right of Return USA Fellowship
Deadline: January 14, 2022
This fellowship program supports formerly incarcerated artists in the creation of original works. Six artists will be awarded a grant of $20,000 each to support a project aimed at reforming our criminal justice system.
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.
Other Resources
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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.