Artist Opportunities: December 2022 and January 2023
Yaddo Residency in Saratoga Springs, New York. Photo by Elizabeth Haynes.
Is a new residency or grant on your holiday wishlist? Our gift to you is the top opportunities for artists of all disciplines in a neat package!
Check out the Rauschenberg Dancer Emergency Grant, providing $5,000 to dancers in need; the Anna Rabinowitz Award for Poetry’s $1,000 prize for venturesome, interdisciplinary work combining poetry and any other art or discipline; and Aperture’s Portfolio Prize for photographers, providing a first place winner with $3,000 and exhibition in New York. Discover even more below!
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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
Currier Museum Artist-in-Residence
Manchester, New Hampshire
Deadline: December 1, 2022
This residency program, open to self-identified emerging artists focused on social practice, provides a stipend of $1,000 per week, travel allowance up to $500, materials support, and housing in a fully furnished home.
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.
Socrates Sculpture Park Open Call
Queens, New York
Deadline: December 4, 2022
The 2022 Socrates Annual Fellowship is open to sculptors with project proposals focused on the idea of ‘Transformation.’ Fellows receive a $8,000 production grant to support their project, a $2,000 honorarium, and access to fabrication facilities.
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.
Rauschenberg Dancer Emergency Grants
Deadline: December 9, 2022
This program provides one-time grants of up to $5,000 to professional dancers in need, who have a dire financial emergency due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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.
Connect India
Deadline: December 12, 2022
Geneva, Switzerland and Bengaluru, India
Arts at CERN and the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia offers one joint fully funded residency for two artists, one from Switzerland and one from India, to develop research towards an artistic project in dialogue with the scientists, engineers, and staff of the laboratories.
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.
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart and Sullivan’s Artist Residency
Los Angeles, California
Deadline: December 15, 2022
This residency is open to emerging and mid-career artists working in all disciplines across Greater Los Angeles. Artists will 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.
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.
Poetry Society of America Awards
Deadline: December 31, 2022
The Poetry Society of America has a variety of awards, ranging from $250 to $2,500, for poetry and manuscripts.
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.
Art Omi Residencies
Ghent, New York
Deadline: January 2, 2023
Art Omi has residency programs supporting artists working in dance and music. The residency is free to all artists with lodging and meals provided.
Wassaic Project Print Fellowship
Wassaic, New York
Deadline: January 2, 2023
This fellowship offers a 6 month residency managing Wassaic Project’s print shop, providing support on projects by artists-in-residence, and producing prints with 10 artists in their summer program. The Fellow will be provided $700/month, housing, and full access to a 24-hour print shop.
Wassaic Project Sculpture Fellow
Wassaic, New York
Deadline: January 2, 2023
The Sculpture Fellow manages the Wassaic Project’s wood and ceramic shops and helps support their year-round artist residency program, exhibitions, and other programs. The position comes with $15,000/year, housing, a semi-private studio space, and access to their wood shop, kiln, and print shop.
Yaddo Residency
Saratoga Springs, New York
Deadline: January 5, 2023
This 400-acre retreat in upstate New York offers two week to two month residencies to professional creative artists working in the following disciplines: choreography, film, literature, musical composition, painting, performance, photography, printmaking, sculpture, and video.
Skowhegan Artist Residency
Madison, Maine
Deadline: January 6, 2023
Skowhegan offers visual artists the opportunity to engage fully with their studio practice, with their peers, and with distinguished faculty and mentors in its nine-week intensive & residential program. Tuition is $6,000, and financial aid is available.
Aperture Portfolio Prize
Deadline: January 6, 2023
The Aperture Portfolio Prize is an annual international competition to discover, exhibit, and publish new talents in photography. The first prize winner will be published in Aperture magazine and will receive a $3,000 cash prize and exhibition in New York.
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.
The Studios at MASS MoCA Residency Program
North Adams, Massachusetts
Deadline: January 8, 2023
Artist and writers can apply for this 2-4 week residency program situated within the Mass MoCA’s factory campus and surrounded by the beautiful Berkshire Mountains. Fully-funded fellowships are available, including General Fellowships (for anyone expressing financial need), Black or Indigenous Artist Fellowships, Massachusetts Family Fellowship, fellowships for Oregon artists, and University-sponsored Fellowships.
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 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.
Hayama Artist Residency
Hayama, Japan
Deadline: January 15, 2023
The residency offers a roundtrip flight to Japan, shared accommodations with one other artist-in-residence for 4 weeks, and a weekly allotment of $200 USD for meals and local transportation. Open to visual artists over 21 years old, working in any medium. Application fee: $95.
MAXMachina 2023 Lab
New York, New York
Deadline: January 15, 2023
Media Art Xploration (MAX) invites storytellers, performers, and creative technologists to submit applications for projects that expand live performance through science and technology. Support includes funding up to $7500 and a 7 month project development period, which includes a workshop and final festival presentation.
The Folger Institute Artist Research Fellowship
Washington, DC
Deadline: January 15, 2023
This fellowship is open to artists working in all media whose work would benefit from significant primary research. The program supports artists with research resources, networking opportunities, and more. Fellowships may be conducted either virtually for one month or at Folger for one, two, or three months.
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
Amherst, Virginia
Deadline: January 15, 2023
National and international writers, visual artists, and composers can apply for time and space to work in the rolling foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Fellows are provided with a private individual studio, a private bedroom with en-suite bathroom, and three meals a day. Application fee: $30.
Media Arts Assistance Fund for Artists
New York state
Deadline: January 15, 2023
For individual New York-based artists, MAAF provides grants of up to $7,500 for the completion and/or public presentation of new works in all genres of sound and moving image art, including emergent technology.
Passepartout Photo Prize
Deadline: January 15, 2023
The Passepartout Photo Prize is a photographic contest that aims to support the development of talented photographers from all over the world by awarding €1,000 in monetary prizes, the opportunity to exhibit in Rome, and the possibility of publication in an annual catalog. Entry fee: €25.
Anderson Center Residency Program
Red Wing, Minnesota
Deadline: January 16, 2023
The Anderson Center offers three residency opportunities: a General Artist Residency Program for artists working across all disciplines and based anywhere in the world; an Emerging Artist Residency Program for early-career and emerging artists living within the state of Minnesota or in New York City; and a Salzburg Artist Exchange pen to a visual artist based in Minnesota.
Wurlitzer Foundation Artist Residency Program
Taos, New Mexico
Deadline: January 18, 2023
Painters, poets, sculptors, writers, playwrights, screenwriters, composers, photographers, and filmmakers of national and international origin can apply to stay in one of The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico’s eleven fully furnished artist casitas, or guest houses. Application fee: $30.
Gottlieb Foundation Individual Support Grant
Deadline: January 18, 2023
This grant is open to painters, sculptors and printmakers who have been engaged in a mature phase of their art for at least 20 years and who are currently in financial need. Last year, they awarded grants of $25,000 each to 20 artists.
Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program
Brooklyn, New York
Deadline: January 31, 2023
The residency program awards rent-free non-living studio space to 17 visual artists for year-long residencies in DUMBO, Brooklyn. Application opens January 1, 2023.
Wave Farm Artist Residency
Hudson, New York
Deadline: February 1, 2022
Artists are invited to propose visual and sonic projects that fall within the Transmission Arts genre to this radio-focused residency. Each resident will receive a $1,000 artist fee and spend 10 days on a 29-acre property in the northern foothills of the Catskill Mountain Park.
Fine Arts Work Center Visual Artist Fellowship
Provincetown, Massachusetts
Deadline: February 1, 2023
This 7-month residency for visual artists includes an apartment, a studio, a $1250 monthly stipend, and a $1000 exit stipend to support relocation at the end of the Fellowship. Application fee: $55-$65.
StudioWorks Artist Residency
Eastport, Maine
Deadline: February 1, 2023
Visual artists and craftspeople from anywhere in the world are invited to apply to this artist residency, which comes with a $2,000 stipend for a four-week term.
MacDowell Fellowship
Deadline: February 10, 2023
MacDowell encourages artists from all backgrounds and all countries in the following disciplines to apply: architecture, film/video arts, interdisciplinary arts, literature, music composition, theater, and visual arts. The sole criterion for acceptance is artistic excellence. Application fee: $30.
McKinney International Art and Design Residency
Bloomington, Indiana
Deadline: Feb 15, 2023
The Eskenazi School of Art Architecture + Design invites applications for a 4–6-week residency. Applicants must be an established artist or designer whose primary country of residence is outside the United States. Applications from practitioners of studio disciplines, as well as criticism, are welcome.
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.
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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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.