Artist Opportunities
Find residencies, grants, and award opportunities for artists working in all disciplines.
The Impact Award for Native American Art
The Impact Award for Native American Art
Harpo Foundation offers a $25,000 fellowship to amplify the contributions of under-recognized Native American contemporary visual artists. The Impact Award for Native American Art aims to further the Foundation's mission to expand creative inquiry through inclusivity and equitable representation in visual arts.
The Kyoto Retreat
The Kyoto Retreat
The Kyoto Retreat offers artists, curators, and writers, based anywhere in the world, an opportunity to spend four weeks in Kyoto, Japan, for research, exploration, and inspiration. Individuals selected for the retreat will receive a roundtrip flight, a private bedroom, and $800 USD to supplement meals and local transportation.
145 Results
145 ResultsThe Lighthouse Works – Fellowship
Our Fellowship Program supports a diverse range of cultural producers working in the vanguard of their creative fields. Fellowships are six weeks in length, occur year-round and provide fellows with housing, food, studio space, and $1,750 in financial support.
Krevolin Arts Foundation Residency
Artists in all media who are selected for the artist-in-residence program will have the opportunity to focus on their work while living in the K.A.F. headquarters, a stunning Florida beach bungalow. This includes at least 10 hours of consulting a week with Prof. Krevolin and allows the artist to develop their voices and new work in a safe, supportive space.
Rosemary’s House Residential Workshop Retreats
Rosemary's House offers signature residential workshop retreats, where each day unfolds with a group workshop dedicated to exploring the nuances of storytelling. Participants will benefit from personalized feedback, receiving insights from both the mentor-in-residence and their fellow writers. Rosemary’s house advocates for writers to select a cohort led by a mentor whose expertise aligns with their individual craft and professional aspirations.
Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow
The mission of The Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow (WCDH) is to provide uninterrupted residency time for writers of all genres, including culinary, composers, and artists without discrimination. The WCDH will foster an environment that allows writers to work, interact with the wider community, stimulate new thinking, and energize creative expression.
Renaissance House Harlem Residency Program
Renaissance House provides a safe and inspirational environment for artists with special talents. A residency at Renaissance House consists of accommodations, meals, lectures and fellowship meetings for up to two weeks.
Rockvale Writers Colony
Rockvale Writers’ Colony exists to support, promote, and educate writers of all backgrounds who write in any genre. They provide a safe, comfortable, and inspiring environment where resident writers can work on a writing project. In addition, they host themed retreats in which writers can learn, explore, and join in community with others who share the love of writing. Entry Fee: $15
IDA Emergency Assistance
IDA Emergency Assistance protects freedom of expression by providing direct support to filmmakers whose work puts them in imminent and extreme physical danger. Eligible filmmakers may request a one-time emergency grant between $500 and $5,000 (USD). IDA will respond to all applications within 24 hours and handle them with strict confidentiality.
The Basel House of Film Residency
The Basel House of Film offers residencies for artists working in the field of film and television. Together with supporters and partners, the association was able to create a place of inspiration for filmmakers and an opportunity for the city of Basel to spread its rich offerings into the world, using the medium of film.
Event Horizon Residency
Event Horizon offers residencies of two weeks to three months year-round to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers on five acres of olive groves in Crete, Greece. Residents are provided with lodging on site or in nearby affiliate housing, which includes a traditional Cretan house, a converted stone windmill, and two caravans, as well as workspace in modern studios built from converted shipping containers.
Prospect Street Writers House
Prospect Street Writers House’s philosophy is embodied in poet Donald Hall’s maxim, “The friendship of writers is the history of literature.” Up the hill from the village of North Bennington, Prospect Street celebrates written language and fosters literary discourse. Residents will find themselves among peers in a distraction-free environment designed for comfort and productivity. Entry Fee: $30
Brockport Arts Fund
To support performing arts events and public art installations in and around the Village of Brockport for the benefit of residents and visitors.
ISCP Helen Frankenthaler Foundation Residency
ISCP has two residency programs: the International Program for artists and curators, and the Ground Floor Program for New York based artists. All residents are offered an individual studio that is accessible twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. ISCP offers a direct application method for applicants who would like to secure sponsorship on their own.
Roswell Artist in Residence Program
Well known by visual artists as the “Gift of Time,” the Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program was established in 1967 to provide studio-based visual artists with the unique opportunity to concentrate on their work in a supportive, collegial environment for a whole year. This residency allows artists to work without distraction in an effort to break new ground and focus on individual goals. Entry Fee: $26.32
NEST Art Residency
NEST Art Residency (ICA Yerevan) is developed as an open, cross-functional network of people, ideas, and desires. Its Education, Project, and Theory Labs provide a comprehensive set of resources, facilities, and tools for understanding and operating in the contemporary art scene in Armenia and in wider global art contexts.
Residencia Corazón in Argentina
The Residencia Corazón Artist in Residency Program engenders the creation of a personalized and independent exchange among regional, national and international artists. The resident / visiting artists enjoy a dynamic and vibrant time frame for working; they have a studio and living space at their disposal to complete their projects. They also network with and within the local art community, cultural institutions and the public at large. Each artist, curator or writer receives exclusive and highly-personalized support from the Residencia Corazón team. Application Fee 700 US Dollar (USD)
PLAYA 2025 Self-Directed Residency
Self-Directed Residencies are for adults 18+ seeking time and space to immerse in their creative artistic or scientific work in an inspiring landscape and campus. They are fee-based residencies without the formal application process. They are available in 4-night or 10-night sessions on specific dates. Meals are not included.
ARCAthens Residency Open Call
We are a non-profit organization dedicated to hosting visual artists and curators from all parts of the world to live and create in Athens, Greece, and the Bronx, New York —thereby facilitating a diverse influx of expression, production, and learning. ARCAthens’ mission is to provide opportunity and support to Visual Artists, Curators, and Scholars to further their research to focus on bridging international dialogue, cooperation, and understanding.
Kaatsbaan Cultural Park Kaatsbaan Subsidized Residencies Open Call
Kaatsbaan residencies are in service of Kaatsbaan's mission to provide opportunities for artists of all genres to create, live, and collaborate in the idyllic countryside of the Hudson Valley. Providing a productive and creative working environment, Kaatsbaan residencies are individually designed between the artists, Kaatsbaan, and partners to fit the needs of the artists or company. Kaatsbaan is a year-round operation. All facilities are heated and air-conditioned.
Dorland Mountain Arts Residency Program
Dorland Mountain Arts is a beautiful retreat where artists, writers, musicians, and composers can create in a secluded and protected natural setting. Dorland is located near Temecula Valley Wine Country, about 100 miles south of Los Angeles and sixty miles north of San Diego. Application Fee 40 US Dollar (USD)
Sarasvati Creative Space Residency
Venture to the rural rolling hills of Appalachia in the Western Highland Rim—one of the best light-pollution-free zones in the region. Explore the flora and fauna of the biodiverse region of midsouth Tennessee. You'll have access to seventeen acres with a variety of habitat, furnished housing, space to work, and interactions with the camp donkeys, chickens and roosters, camp cats, two farm dogs, and a peafowl couple.
Belgrade Art Studio Residency
Belgrade Art Studio Residency is a nonprofit international art program designed to bring artists, creative practitioners, researchers, and writers from around the world to experience a unique cultural environment dedicated to art. Selected artists are invited to live and work in a specially designed studio for a period of up to six months. By bringing artists into a unique setting, the program aims to situate art at the very heart of historical Belgrade.
Taleamor Park Residency
Taleamor Park welcomes applications from scholars, artists, scientists, writers, humanists, and remote workers in all fields or from those with no specific product-oriented project in mind other than to simply unwind, walk, and reset. Taleamor Park offers a creative, contemplative, and safe environment free of distractions in which to pursue a scholarly, artistic, personal, or work-related project.
La Porte Peinte Centre pour les Arts Residency
La Porte Peinte residency centre is designed to enable creative exploration, concentrated work, and exchange in an inspiring and supportive environment. La Porte Peinte USA, as a nonprofit branch of the larger LPP project, aims to widen the field of opportunity to increase diversity, with a focus on individuals or groups who might otherwise lack access to such resources. LPP aims to extend support to these artists through residencies, masterclasses, collaborations, or exhibitions.
Studio Faire Residency
Studio Faire offers two- or four-week residencies between April and October to artists and writers. Residents are provided with a private workspace and bedroom, as well as use of a shared kitchen, dining room, bathroom, and garden area. The space is less than a ten-minute walk to shops, cafés, and bars, as well as the Château de Nérac castle and riverside walk.