Artist Opportunities

South Arts offers Artist Creative Practice Grants to ensure that artists from our region can take advantage of a variety of career enhancing opportunities. The Artist Creative Practice Grant supports a variety of professional development opportunities including milestone activities in an artist's career that will likely lead to substantial career growth. Grants up to $3,000 are available for opportunities taking place between November 1, 2025, and June 30, 2026.

CultureSource is a Detroit-based coalition of cultural organizations and creative people that supports the vitality of Southeast Michigan's arts and culture community. This newly established Director of Programs role will work alongside the executive director and six program team staff members in guiding programmatic strategy and implementation and overseeing program operations that continuously improve.

Designed to support BIPOC artists and performing arts organizations from underserved and under-resourced communities, this program offers affordable rehearsal space in The Clemente’s 3rd-floor studio, Room 309, at a discounted rate of $15/hour for artists and organizations in New York City.

This residency focuses on helping artists grow and strengthen their creative industrial art practice with flexible time commitments of one to three months. Micro-residencies are an ideal opportunity to complete a specific project, commission, or prototype within a limited amount of time. One ceramics and one metals micro-resident are hosted at a time.

The Foundation welcomes applications from visual artists who are painters, sculptors, and artists who work on paper, including printmakers. Grants are intended for a one-year period of time. The Foundation will review expenditures relating to an artist’s professional work and personal expenses, and amounts range up to $50,000. Artists must be actively exhibiting their current work in professional artistic venues, such as gallery and museum spaces.

An application for one-time financial assistance is open to professional musicians across all genres. You must be a professional music performer, composer/arranger, or educator in a specific time of need caused by an unexpected hardship (e.g., medical or dental situation, natural disaster, or certain housing crises).

The ART14 Residency exists in conjunction with the L.a. Studio community’s art outreach and programming. During their stay, artists’ objectives are self-prescribed. The program welcomes all types of artists, writers, musicians, etc. of all skill levels, welcomes creators to explore new media and techniques, and encourages collaboration but does not require it. Residents are encouraged to explore and engage with the local community.

Innovate Grant distributes two $1,800 grants each quarter, to one visual artist and one photographer. In addition, 12 honorable mentions (six in art and six in photo), will be featured on the website and join a growing community of vibrant and talented artists. Fee: $35.

This program brings together artists from diverse backgrounds of the African Diaspora to engage in their creative process, while building lasting relationships rooted in co-mentorship. Artists of all disciplines are encouraged (painting, sculpture, illustration, writing, dance, music, theater/performance, photography, fiber/textiles, etc). Currently accepting applications from the North Eastern region (Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island).

The Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Emergency Grant program provides interim financial assistance to qualified painters, printmakers, and sculptors whose needs are the result of an unforeseen, catastrophic incident. The maximum amount of this grant is $15,000; an award of $5,000 is typical.

Emergency Grants is the only active, multidisciplinary program that offers immediate, project-based assistance of this kind to artists living and working anywhere in the United States, for projects occurring in the U.S. and abroad. Grants range from $500 to $3,000, and the average grant is $1,900.

The California Department of Parks and Recreation invites artists interested in creating public art in California State and/or local parks to join the Arts in California Parks directory. The directory is a resource available to all State and local California Parks staff, as well as the general public, to be used to search for artists based on location, art medium, or other considerations, in order to explore opportunities for collaboration.

Stochastic Labs awards fully-sponsored residencies to exceptional engineers, artists, scientists, and entrepreneurs from around the world. Residencies are of variable length and include a private apartment at the mansion, co-working and/or dedicated work space, shop access (laser cutter, 3D printer etc), a monthly stipend, and a budget for materials. Residents may apply as individuals or as teams.

The Awesome Foundation is a global community advancing the interest of awesome in the universe, $1,000 at a time. Each fully autonomous chapter supports projects through micro-grants, usually given out monthly. Projects include initiatives in a wide range of areas including arts, technology, community development, and more. Many awesome projects are novel or experimental, and evoke surprise and delight.

The Adobe Creative Residency Community Fund provides support to creators during times of extraordinary hardship. If selected, you will receive $10,000 from the Adobe Creative Residency Community Fund.

Sacatar offers fully funded artist residencies—including artists room, studio and board for 7- to 9-week residency sessions—on the island of Itaparica in Bahia, Brazil, the heart of the African Diaspora in the western hemisphere. The program invites proposals from individuals working across all creative fields. Since 2001, Sacatar has hosted over 550 artists from 75 nations.

The Publisher Work Grant offers funding to independent presses with a history of artists’ book publishing, acknowledging awardees' accomplishments in past work and providing the capacity-building funds to enable future book projects and publisher sustainability. Three unrestricted grants of $10,000 USD will be awarded to three independent artists’ book publishers, and selected publishers will also have the opportunity for a featured exhibitor presence at a forthcoming Printed Matter NY or LA Art Book Fair. The Publisher Work Grant is generously supported by the Wagner Foundation.

Located in the heart of Savannah’s Starland District at ARTS Southeast, the ON::VIEW Artist Residency provides a free, high visibility studio space for an artist to complete a new project, to continue an in-progress endeavor, or to conduct research exploring conceptual, material, performative, and social practices. Applications are now open for January–May 2026.

Center for Performance Research’s year-long Artist-in-Residence (AiR) Program seeks to support NYC-based artists working within various perspectives of contemporary dance, performance, and time-based art. The year-long residency will provide a cohort of eight (8) artists with research and presentation opportunities, subsidized rehearsal space, curatorial and project support, and peer dialogue. Each AiR receives a $1,500 stipend.

The Tyler School of Art and Architecture invites applications for a spring 2026 residency in the Art Department. The residency seeks artists whose work exemplifies the art and activism of the artist Edgar Heap of Birds in bringing attention to North American federally recognized tribal citizens. The residency duration is flexible, ranging from one to five months, and will be scheduled within the spring 2026 semester (January–May 2026) based on the selected artist’s availability. The residency will provide access to Tyler’s state-of-the art studio facilities and community of artists, designers, architects, and scholars, an individual studio, stipend of $3,500 per month, and $1,500 materials budget.

Two visual artists will receive $20,000 each, professional development consultations, and close mentorship from QM staff members working toward an artist’s project. The fellowships will culminate in solo project exhibitions at the Queens Museum in 2027. The duration of each fellowship is one year, culminating with the opening of the fellow’s exhibition. The QM-Jerome Foundation Fellowship is open to emerging visual artists living in the five boroughs of New York City.

The artist residency at nina is a queer-centered program dedicated to LGBTQ+ artists living in California. Located at nina's Idyllwild outpost in the San Jacinto Mountains of Riverside County, about 100 miles east of Los Angeles, the residency offers time, space, and creative refuge away from the city. Each residency supports either one artist or a creative duo/partnership—whether emerging or established— for a fully funded two-week stay.

The Foundwork Artist Prize is an annual juried award to support outstanding artistic practices. This year’s honoree will receive an unrestricted $10,000 grant, remote studio visits with each member of our jury cohort, and a published interview as part of the Foundwork Dialogues program. Three artists will also be named to the 2025 Short List.

This 2 month residency program at 500 Capp Street in San Francisco, CA will begin in the Spring of 2026 and end in Summer of 2026. Artists will have two months for research, which will culminate in a 2 month exhibition after the research period ends. The selected artist(s) will use The House as their live or work studio, have access to The Paule Anglim Archive Room and David Ireland Archive. There will be a $5,000 travel stipend, a $2,500 honoraria for the individual or collective, and up to a $10,000 production budget. $10 application fee.