Artist Opportunities: November and December 2022
Mesa Refuge Residency in Point Reyes Station, California.
Whether you’re looking for space to work on a project or funding to support your practice, your search ends here! Creative Capital is your go-to guide for residencies, grants, and opportunities for artists of all disciplines.
This November, check out Center for Craft’s Teaching Artist Cohort, which comes with a $10,000 stipend and 8 months of training for teaching artists; The Aftermath Project’s $25,000 grant for international photographers looking at the effects of war; and the Mesa Refuge Residency for writers and other creatives focused on “ideas at the edge” of nature, human economy and social equity. Discover even more below!
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NYSCA/NYFA Artists with Disabilities Grant
New York
Deadline: November 1, 2022
The program will distribute $1,000 to New York State artists with a disability who reside outside of the five boroughs of NYC and have experienced financial hardship due to the COVID-19 crisis.
A.I.R. Fellowships Program
New York, New York
Deadline: November 1, 2022
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.
Black Mountain Institute Shearing Fellowship
Las Vegas, Nevada
Deadline: November 1, 2022
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.
Artadia Awards
Houston, Texas
Deadline: November 1, 2022
The Artadia Awards provide contemporary visual artists living or working in Houston with financial support and exposure. Three artists will receive unrestricted funds of $10,000, and one artist will receive the Marciano Artadia Award of $25,000. Honorariums will also be provided to Finalists.
More Art Fellowship
New York, New York
Deadline: November 1, 2022
More Art’s year-long Engaging Artists Fellowship is designed to help emerging NYC artists and community organizers develop and sustain a socially engaged and public art practice. The fellowship includes mentorship, peer networking, access to programming opportunities, and workshops and artist talks tailored to the interests/needs of the cohort.
Stanley Bleifeld Memorial Grant
Deadline: November 1, 2022
The National Sculpture Society is awarding this grant of $5,000 to a sculptor who has demonstrated outstanding ability and created a body of work inspired by nature.
Artist at Sea Residency
California or Oregon
Deadline: November 1, 2022
Sitka’s Artist at Sea Residency provides the opportunity for a visual artist, writer, or musician to spend 14 days on an oceanic research vessel gathering data on mesozooplankton food webs off the Oregon and California coasts. A $1,500 artist stipend and optional 2-week stay at Sitka’s main campus afterwards are included.
Southern Prize & State Fellowships
Deadline: November 1, 2022
These opportunities are open to visual artists in the nine state region of the American South. The State Fellowship is a state-specific prize of $5,000 to each of the nine winners, who will then compete for one of the two Southern Prizes of $25,000 and $10,000. Both Southern Prize winners will also receive a two-week residency at the Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts and Sciences in Georgia.
PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers
Deadline: November 1, 2022
This prize recognizes 12 emerging writers each year for their debut short story published in a literary magazine, journal, or cultural website. The winning writers each receive a $2,000 cash prize and will be published in Catapult’s annual anthology, Best Debut Short Stories: The PEN America Dau Prize. Stories must be submitted by editors of literary magazines, journals, or cultural websites.
California Documentary Project Grants
Deadline: November 1, 2022
California Humanities’ grant program supports documentary film, audio, and digital media productions that explore California in all its complexity and tell stories from every corner of the state. Research and Development Grants up to $15,000 and Production Grants up to $50,000 are available. Eligible applicants must be nonprofit organizations or municipal/public agencies. Individuals may apply through an eligible tax-exempt fiscal sponsor.
BigCi Environmental Awards
Blue Mountains, Australia
Deadline: November 4, 2022
This opportunity is open to international and Australian artists from various fields – visual art, installation, multimedia, performance, literature, music, photography, film making, and curating. Two winners will each receive a four week residency in the UNESCO World Heritage-listed Greater Blue Mountains and $4,000 prize money.
GALLIM Moving Artist Parent Residency
Brooklyn, New York
Deadline: November 4, 2022
This program is designed to holistically support movement artists who are parents. It provides one week of fully-funded, exclusive access to a large sprung floor studio in NYC, a $750 resident artist stipend, and $600 childcare stipend.
Metropolitan Museum of Art Fellowships
New York, New York
Deadline: November 4, 2022
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.
Beam Center
New York, New York
Deadline: November 7, 2022
Beam Center seeks design proposals for ambitious public artworks that will be brought to life through collaborations between youth and creative big thinkers. Selected artists receive a $5,000 award and selected projects have an approximate $15,000 fabrication budget.
Abrons Arts Center Performance AIRspace Residency
New York, New York
Deadline: November 9, 2022
This opportunity supports 3 early career performing artists by providing them with a monetary commission, premium access to studios and theaters for rehearsals towards the development of a live performance at Abrons Arts Center.
VelvetPark LGBTQ+ Writers Residency 2023
Brooklyn, New York
Deadline: November 11, 2022
Velvetpark invites writers at any point of their career to apply for this six month workspace residency to develop and complete a body of work. Application fee: $25.
Lenore G. Tawney Fellowship
Deadline: November 14, 2022
This fellowship, at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, is open to scholars, artists, curators, and writers with projects that study overlooked aspects of works and movements related to pioneering fiber artist Lenore G. Tawney. Selected artists receive a $30,000 stipend plus up to $10,000 to support travel, accommodation, research materials, and translation.
Cafe Royal Cultural Foundation Visual Art Grant
Deadline: November 14, 2022
This grant worth up to $10,000 is open to artists who are creating paintings, drawings, sculptures, and photographs.
Bronx Council on the Arts Community Engagement Grants
Bronx, New York
Deadline: November 14, 2022
The Bronx Council on the Arts is accepting applications for three grants: New Work supports individual Bronx-based artists through a commissioning grant of $2,500 for new work in a community setting; Arts Fund supports Bronx-based individual artists, artist collectives and 501(c)(3) arts organizations with an organizational budget below $100,000; and Community Arts supports local arts projects and activities that enable Bronx communities to engage with the performing, literary, media, and visual arts.
The Hopper Prize
Deadline: November 15, 2022
This prize provides unrestricted cash grants in the amount of $3,500 and $1,000 to artists around the globe. All artists, ages 18 and older, working in any media, are encouraged to apply.
Amant Studio & Research Residency Program
Brooklyn, New York
Deadline: November 15, 2022
Amant invites artists from around the world with experimental practices in visual arts, cultural theory, performance, filmmaking, and writing to apply to their research-oriented residencies in Brooklyn. They provide artists with space, resources, and guidance to support long-term research projects and archival work.
Nightboat Books Poetry Prize
Deadline: November 15, 2022
Open to poets writing in English, this prize includes a $1,000 advance, a standard royalty contract, and 25 free copies of the published book. Entry fee: $28.
Women’s Studio Workshop Residencies
Rosendale, New York
Deadline: November 15, 2022
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.
Dresher Ensemble Artist Residency
San Francisco, California
Deadline: November 15, 2022
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.
Baxter St Residency
New York, New York
Deadline: November 17, 2022
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 Aftermath Project Grant
Deadline: November 18, 2022
The Aftermath Project is offering a grant worth $25,000 open to working international photographers who are interested in creating work that helps illuminate the effects of war. Four finalists each year will also receive a $5,000 grant.
Salt Lake City Arts Council Project Support Grant
Salt Lake City, Utah
Deadline: November 18, 2022
This grant provides $500 to $8,000 to individuals, groups, and nonprofit organizations to support arts projects and programs taking place in Salt Lake City.
Print Public Municipal Artist Residency
Berkeley, California
Deadline: November 18, 2022
Print Public, Kala Art Institute’s public art residency, will select two Bay Area artists or artist teams to work as cultural strategists within the City of Berkeley’s Planning Department. Selected artists receive $9,000 (and an additional $1,000 for materials) and a 16-month residency at Kala.
Circ Artist Grant
Deadline: November 20, 2022
The Circ Artist Grant provides unrestricted funding to artists with a demonstrated commitment to their art. Two artists per grant cycle are awarded $850 each to enhance and further their creative practice. Emerging, mid-career, and professional artists are eligible to apply in an international open call, several times throughout the year.
Bronx Dance Fund
Deadline: November 21, 2022
This program, administered by The Bronx Council on the Arts, supports individual Bronx-based dancers, choreographers, and dance organizations with grants of up to $7,500.
Dexter Jones Award
Deadline: November 21, 2022
This award of $5,000 is given to one outstanding work sculpture in bas-relief with a figurative subject matter, or work that is inspired by nature. Applicants must have been born between 1983 and 2004.
Arte Laguna Prize
Deadline: November 22, 2022
The Arte Laguna Prize offers artists the opportunity to exhibit in The Arsenale Nord in Venice, win a cash prize of up to €10,000, and be selected for residencies across Europe. It is open to artists working in painting, sculpture and installation, photography, video art and short films, performance, digital art, cartoon and graphics, environmental art and land art, urban and street art, art design.
Smack Mellon Studio Program Open Call
Brooklyn, New York
Deadline: November 23, 2022
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.
Black Women Photographers x Nikon Grant Fund
Deadline: November 25, 2022
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.
Bernheim Artist in Residence
Clermont, Kentucky
Deadline: November 28, 2022
This residency program provides multidisciplinary artists with comfortable rustic housing, access to studio space, and a $2,500 stipend to develop new site-specific artwork connecting people with nature. The recreational nature preserve is located 25 miles south of Louisville.
USArtists International
Deadline: November 30, 2022
This grant program run by Mid Atlantic Arts supports in-person and virtual performances by American artists at international festivals and global presenting arts marketplaces. It provides grants of up to $18,000 toward eligible expenses.
Sandy Crimmins National Prize for Poetry
Deadline: November 30, 2022
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 encourages poets from underrepresented groups and backgrounds to apply.
Moab Arts Re-Use Residency
Moab, Utah
Deadline: November 30, 2022
The Moab Arts Re-Use Residency’s mission is to challenge the perception of waste culture by providing a unique platform for artists at the intersection of art, community, and waste systems. This 4-week residency offers artists studio space, project and community facilitation, a stipend, access to materials at local waste disposal sites, and the time and space to focus solely on their art.
Teaching Artist Cohort
Asheville, North Carolina
Deadline: November 30, 2022
The Center for Craft awards a group of 21 mid-career craft artists an unrestricted grant of $10,000 and an 8-month guided training that encourages and sustains a generative practice as both artists and educators.
More Art Commission
New York, New York
Deadline: December 1, 2022
More Art’s Engaging Artists Commission is an opportunity for early career artists focused on the incubation and commissioning of a public art project. It carries an $8000 award to realize the project, plus curatorial, conceptual, budgetary, and logistical mentorship.
Mesa Refuge Residency
Point Reyes Station, California
Deadline: December 1, 2022
This residency is open to writers, journalists, and other creatives focused on “ideas at the edge” of nature, human economy and social equity. It offers writers a private room in a house that sits above a vibrant wetland. Application fee: $50
Atlantic Center for the Arts Residencies
New Smyrna Beach, Florida
Deadline: December 4, 2022
This residency provides artists with the opportunity to work and collaborate with world masters in the visual, literary, and performing arts. The three-week program brings together three Mentoring Artists from different disciplines to provide a collegial environment for artists to engage in meaningful interaction and discussions. Private accommodations are provided for each artist.
ArtsConnect Topeka’s Civil Rights Summer 2024
Topeka, Kansas
Deadline: December 5, 2022
For the 70th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, ArtsConnect is seeking US artists and/or artist collectives to create meaningful artwork centered on the landmark decision. The budget for the project will range from $200,000-$350,000.
The David Prize
New York, New York
Deadline: December 12, 2022
The prize awards five New Yorkers in any of the five boroughs $200,000 each to support their vision for a better, brighter city.
Visual Art Open Prize
Deadline: December 12, 2022
International artists working in all visual arts disciplines are invited to apply for this UK-based award worth £10,000.
LMCC Arts Center Residency
New York, New York
Deadline: December 13, 2022
This residency program by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) is open to New York City-based artists and creative practitioners who are in need of studio space to support their practice, and are interested in a short-term experience focused on experimentation, ongoing development, and interdisciplinary collaboration.
SU-CASA
New York, New York
Deadline: December 13, 2022
SU-CASA is a community arts engagement program by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) that places artists at senior centers across New York City. The program provides selected artists with a stipend in exchange for the creation and delivery of arts programming for older adults.
Elizabeth Murray Art Residency
Washington County, New York
Deadline: December 15, 2022
Located on a bucolic 77-acre farm, this residency program by Collar Works is designed to provide a diverse group of emerging and established artists an immersive, supportive, productive, and communal atmosphere for art-making and dialogue.
Fine Arts Work Center Writing Fellowship
Provincetown, Massachusetts
Deadline: December 15, 2022
This 7-month residency offers writers an apartment, a monthly stipend of $1,250, and an exit stipend. Fellows have the opportunity to pursue their work independently in a diverse and supportive community of peers. Application fee: $40–$65.
Anna Rabinowitz Award for Poetry
Deadline: December 31, 2022
This prize worth $1,000 is awarded to poets and their collaborators for venturesome, interdisciplinary work combining poetry and any other art or discipline. Application fee: $10.
Puffin Foundation Annual Artist Grant
Deadline: December 31, 2022
The Puffin Foundation provides grants to artists and art organizations who are often excluded from mainstream opportunities, and to emerging artists with work addressing environmental, social justice, civil rights, and other contemporary issues. They are accepting new proposals in the genres of theater, video/film, and climate/environmental art. Average grants are approximately $1,250; the maximum grant size is $2,500.
AnkhLave Garden Project Fellowship
New York, New York
Deadline: January 6, 2023
This program selects five BIPOC NYC-based artists to create site-specific work in a public space and a traditional gallery, in partnership with the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. The artists will receive an honorarium of $1,000 and will be reimbursed up to $1,000 in expenses. One of the five artists will be selected to receive up to $10,000 for the creation of an original treehouse. Applications open November 15.
Good Hart Artist Residency
Harbor Springs, Michigan
Deadline: January 11, 2023
This residency offers 10-21 day stays to visual artists, writers, and composers at any stage of their career. Each artist is housed in a private residence with a detached studio and provided with a $500.00 stipend, a kitchen stocked with basic foods, a few home-cooked meals from local hosts, and a quiet setting along the shores of Lake Michigan.
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
The Foundation for Contemporary Arts offers Emergency Grants between $500 and $3,000 for experimental 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.
Awesome Foundation On the Water Grant
Deadline: rolling basis
This grant awards $1,000 per month to a water-focused project that brings creativity, culture, and inclusion to the water or provides a new way of thinking about the water. Applicants can be based anywhere in the world.
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