Artist Opportunities: September and October 2024
From poetry residencies to writing awards, look ahead to the cool days of fall with opportunities that serve you and your artistic practice. Read the list below for new artist opportunities in the form of grants, residencies, and more.
Bloedel Reserve Creative Residency
Bainbridge Island, Washington
Deadline: September 1, 2024
Open to professional and emerging artists, composers, writers, botanists, landscape architects, researchers, and others with work relating to nature, this residency program on the Bloedel grounds provides unlimited access to the Reserve’s 150 acres of sculpted gardens, forests, meadows, and wildlife habitats. Fee: $25.
Guggenheim 2025 Academy of American Poets First Book Award
New York, New York
Deadline: September 1, 2024
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.
True/ False Film Fest Artist Residency Program
Deadline: September 1, 2024
True/False is seeking original large-scale installations, projections, and performance works that have the flexibility to be modified to function in a variety of locations and unconventional venues within the theme “The Human Paradox.” Aimed at emerging and mid-career artists, this five-week virtual residency will culminate in an in-person exhibition of work at the 2024 True/False Film Festival.
Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts Residency
Deadline: September 1, 2024
The Center awards up to seventy juried residencies per year to established and emerging visual artists, writers, composers, and interdisciplinary artists from across the country and the world. Residencies are available for 2 to 8 weeks. Each resident receives a $175 stipend per week, free housing, and a private studio. Fee: $35
Lower East Side Printshop Keyhold Residency
New York, New York
Deadline: September 1, 2024
Lower East Side Printshop offers emerging artists free year-long studio residencies to develop new work and foster their artistic careers. Printmaking facilities are available for intaglio, relief, monotype, water-based screenprinting, and other techniques that employ the tools at hand. Residents receive a $1,000 stipend, free career development workshops and salons, and more.
Women’s Studies Quarterly Call for Papers
Deadline: September 2, 2024
This peer-reviewed journal is open to interdisciplinary submissions that explore the literary, theoretical, and cultural lifeworlds created by and about unbearable being(s) for an issue published in the fall of 2024.
OneBeat 2025 Fellowship Open Call
Deadline: September 6, 2024
This opportunity is accepting applications for a month-long U.S.-based music exchange scheduled for the spring of 2025, which will convene 25 musicians from up to 54 eligible countries and territories. OneBeat Fellows will spend approximately one month in an intensive residency which offers a chance for artists to write, produce, and perform original music, and develop strategies for arts-based community engagement.
Printed Matter Publisher Work Grant
Deadline: September 9, 2024
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.
MacDowell Residency
Deadline: September 10, 2024
This spring and summer residency offers a studio, accommodations, and three meals a day for up to six weeks. There are no residency fees, and financial assistance is offered to reimburse the costs of travel, rent, lost income, and childcare. The residency is open to artists of all backgrounds and all countries in the following disciplines: architecture, film/video arts, interdisciplinary arts, literature, music composition, theater, and visual arts.
Princeton Opportunities
Deadline: September 10, 2024
Princeton Arts Fellowships at Lewis Center for the Arts
Open to early-career artists demonstrating extraordinary promise, fellows receive a $92,000 yearly stipend and benefits to spend two academic years at Princeton as active community members, engaging in formal teaching or alternate assignments.
Hodder Fellowships at Princeton University’s Lewis Center for the Arts
Open to artists demonstrating “much more than ordinary intellectual and literary gifts,” applicants are selected more “for promise than for performance.” Fellows receive a $92,000 stipend to pursue an independent project over one academic year, no teaching required.
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
Deadline: September 10, 2024
LMCC awards public and private funding to Manhattan-based individual artists, collectives, and nonprofit organizations for the presentation of arts programming in any discipline in Manhattan. Apply for up to $16,000 for a single project in any discipline in 2025. Read more about guidelines and applications for Creative Engagement, Creative Learning, and UMEZ Arts Engagement.
Embodying healthy aging through the arts, SU-CASA is LMCC’s annual program placing teaching artists at Manhattan senior centers. Through this open call, LMCC selects individual artists and small collectives of two to carry out unique arts participatory projects they propose and lead from January to June 2025. Artists comfortable facilitating in Cantonese, Spanish, and Mandarin Chinese are highly encouraged to apply.
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Residency
Deadline: September 15, 2024
This residency provides time and space for national and international writers, visual artists, and composers of talent and promise to reside in either Mt. San Angelo in Amherst, Virginia or the Moulin à Nef in Auvillar, France lasting anywhere from a week to two months. Fee: $30
Center for Book Arts Artist Residency
Deadline: September 15, 2024
Each year, Center for Book Arts awards up to six New York-based emerging and mid-career artists with space, time, and financial support to explore the production and exhibition of artists’ books and related work. This year-long residency includes a cash stipend of $1500, tuition waiver for up to $6,000 in courses offered at CBA during the residency period, and 24-hour access to CBA’s printing and binding studios in Manhattan.
Hambidge Center Residency
Deadline: September 15, 2024
In the mountains of north Georgia, each resident is given their own private studio which provides work and living space with a bathroom and full kitchen. Residencies span from two to eight weeks. Disciplines include: Arts & Culture Administration, Ceramics, Culinary Arts, Dance, Music, Science, Visual Arts, Writing, and Multidisciplinary practices. Fee: $30.
Guggenheim 2025 Ambroggio Prize
New York, New York
Deadline: September 15, 2024
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.
Upstate New York
Deadline: September 15, 2024
Stone Canoe Journal is a nationally recognized literary and arts journal that showcases the work of a diverse mix of emerging and well-established artists and writers with strong connections to Upstate New York. This opportunity is open to all mediums and all artists over the age of 18 who have some connection to Upstate New York (Rockland, Westchester, and above).
ON::View Artist Residency Program
Deadline: September 16, 2024
Located in the heart of Savannah’s Starland District at ARTS Southeast’s flagship project, Sulfur Studios, 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.
CUP Making Policy Public Open Call
Deadline: September 16, 2024
This program brings together organizers, advocates, visual designers and illustrators to create a free project that breaks down a complex social justice issue, policy, or service into an easy to understand, visual explanation. Projects are created in collaboration with CUP staff, visual designers, and selected organizations. Designers must be based in the NYC metropolitan area and receive an honorarium of $4,000 or $7,000, depending on the length of the project.
Dedalus Foundation Senior Fellowship in Art History
Deadline: September 16, 2024
This program supports art historians, critics, and curators pursuing projects related to painting, sculpture, and allied arts from the 20th century. Stipends vary with need, with a $30,000 maximum.
Rough Gems Curatorial Program 2025 Call for Entry
Denver Metropolitan Area, Colorado
Deadline: September 20, 2024 at 11:59pm MDT
Wassaic Project Opportunities
Wassaic, New York
Deadline: September 20, 2024
Wassaic Project Print Fellowship
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 2025 Summer Exhibition Open Call
This Open Call for 2025 Summer Exhibition is for artists of all mediums, including: 2D work, sculpture, video, new media, site-specific installation, performance, text, poems, essays, publication-specific work, etc. If selected, your work will be showcased alongside a diverse range of pieces and performances in and around historic Wassaic and Maxon Mills.
2025 Adolf Busch Award
Deadline: September 20, 2024 at 5PM ET
The mission of the Adolf Busch Award is to recognize and honor organizations that use music to address social injustice, inequity and lack of opportunity. The Award grants $10,000 to one organization each year. Smaller awards are often given to additional compelling applicants.
The Institute for Public Architecture 2025 Spring Independent Project Residency
Deadline: September 21, 2024
The IPA Independent Project Residency program invites emerging and mid-career practitioners – whose work focuses on the public realm – to live and work during an eleven week live-in Residency at the IPA Block House on Governors Island. The Residency program is open to local and global applicants from diverse backgrounds, educations, experiences, and aspirations at any stage of their career. Applicants may be practitioners working across disciplines, with an emphasis on the public realm.
Tyler School of Art and Architecture Edgar Heap of Birds Family Artist Residency
Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
Deadline: September 23, 2024
This five-month residency (Jan-May 2025) in the Art Department will reward an artist whose work is primarily focused on the history and lived experience of North American federally recognized tribal citizens and who exemplifies the art and activism of the artist Edgar Heap of Birds in bringing attention to the lives, struggles and triumphs of Native Americans. The residency includes an individual studio, $1,500 materials budget, the opportunity to teach students, participation in a solo exhibition, and a $3,500/month stipend.
McColl Center Summer 2025 Parent + Educator Artists-in-Residence
Deadline: September 25, 2024
This residency is offered to parents and educators who otherwise would not have the opportunity to participate in McColl Center residency because of their responsibilities during school/university periods. This residency will support their practices, give you the chance to bring your family with you, use the facilities, and equipment offered by the Center on our Labs. Residents enjoy private housing, a large-scale studio, guidance, marketing support, and a stipend. Access to shared labs: 3D, ceramics, media, and woodshop. The program runs from June 3 – August 11, 2025.
2024 Foundwork Artist Prize: International Open Call
Deadline: September 26, 2024
Winners will receive an unrestricted $10,000 grant and remote studio visits with each of the esteemed jurors. The honoree—and three shortlisted artists—will also be invited for interviews, as part of our Dialogues program, to further public engagement with their practices. To be considered, artists need to register and maintain a published profile on Foundwork, with at least 6 artworks and an artist statement published on your profile page, throughout the 2024 selection period: 11:59 pm PT, September 26, 2024 to 11:59 pm, December 31, 2024
Hayama Artist Residency
Hayama, Japan
Deadline: September 30, 2024
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. Residency also includes an exhibition in Tokyo. Open to visual artists over 21 years old, working in any medium. Application fee: $95. Residency dates: June 1-30, 2025.
Alterwork Residency
Long Island City, NY
Deadline: September 30, 2024
This residency allows emerging contemporary artists time and space to create new work exploring their practice. The residency culminates in a solo closing reception that is promoted across an extensive network. Proposals should have a contemporary art focus showing experimentation and career reach for the artist. The program is especially interested in projects that involve conceptual art, practice or theory, or involve the public in their creative process.
The Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art Generator Fund
Erie and Niagara Counties, NY
Deadline: September 30, 2024
The 2024 Generator Fund is a grant initiative offering over $60,000 annually to visual artists across Erie and Niagara Counties. Supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, this fund aims to spark innovation and collaboration within the local arts community.
Rauschenberg Emergency Grants
Deadline: October 1, 2024
These grants of up to $5,000 support direct treatment expenses that have been incurred, or are needed, for medical, dental or mental health treatment. Artists practicing in the visual arts, film, video, electronic, digital arts, and choreography are eligible.
Artadia Awards
Atlanta, Georgia
Deadline: October 1, 2024
The Artadia Awards provide contemporary visual artists living or working in Atlanta 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.
Bennett Prize
Deadline: October 4, 2024
The Bennett Prize is a stipend/grant-in-aid program that supports the fine art practice of a woman painter working in figurative realism. The prize, administered by The Pittsburgh Foundation, provides $25,000 annually over two consecutive years and a solo exhibition to the winning artist. A runner up will be awarded $10,000.
Clark Art Institute Research and Academic Program Fellowships
Deadline: October 15, 2024
These fellowships are intended to nurture a variety of disciplinary approaches and support new voices in art history. Applicants should hold a PhD or demonstrate equivalent professional experience.
Smithsonian American Art Museum 2024–2025 Research Fellowships
Deadline: October 15, 2024
These fellowships are residential and support full-time research in the Smithsonian collections.
NYC Winter Film Awards International Film Festival
Deadline: October 18, 2024
This festival showcases emerging filmmakers in all genres from around the world. All selected films are screened at New York City’s Cinema Village.
Collective Imagination for Spatial Justice Grant
Massachusetts
Deadline: October 21, 2024
NEFA’s grants ranging from $2,000 to $5,000 support Massachusetts-based imagination teams that are dreaming up public art that can help us see, feel, experience, and imagine justice now without the pressure of having to predetermine a project that may come out of the imagination stage.
Rbhu Engineering: Rbhu Gives Back Grants
Deadline: October 28, 2024
The Rbhu Gives Back Grants offer $12,000 worth of free engineering services to artists in need. Any art piece that needs engineering services is eligible.
Keshet Makers Space Experience
Albuquerque, NM
Applications Open: September 15, 2024
Application Deadline: October 15, 5:00pm MST
This 10-day choreographic residency provides studio rehearsal space, daily peer-led movement classes, business workshops specific to performing arts entrepreneurs, and housing. Keshet does not cover travel or ground transportation, nor provide additional financial resources.
Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans
Deadline: October 31, 2024
This fellowship supports thirty New Americans— immigrants or the children of immigrants—who are pursuing graduate or professional school in the U.S. Each Fellowship supports one to two years of graduate study in any field and in any advanced degree-granting program in the U.S. up to a total of $90,000.
Mesa Refuge Residency
Point Reyes, California
Deadline: November 1, 2024
This residency supports writers, activists, and artists whose ideas are “on the edge,” taking on the pressing issues of our time. It offers writers a room in a home above a wetland in Point Reyes, California. Application fee: $50.
Artistic Production Grant
Deadline: November 4, 2024
VIA Art Fund is accepting letters of inquiry (LOIs) for their Artist Production grant program. The grant awards individual artists, nonprofit organizations, and institutions $25,000-100,000 in support of new artistic commissions that take place outside museum or gallery walls, within the public realm, or in nontraditional exhibition environments. Project must have a confirmed exhibition venue.
Right to Write Award
Deadline: November 12, 2024
The Right to Write Award covers full tuition for Monthly Mentorship, a celebrated 7-month program helping authors integrate writing into their lives in sustainable ways, deepen their craft, and become their own best editors—for life. Through Monthly Mentorship, writers experience support, community, and challenge, while bringing projects to completion.
NES Artist Residency
Skagaströnd, Iceland
Deadline: Rolling
As one of the largest residencies in Iceland, NES currently hosts between 90–120 artists per year. NES provides artists with a workspace and living quarters within Skagaströnd, and the freedom to create as they wish. Artists receive a $175 stipend/week, with housing accommodations.
Arts in California Parks Artist Directory
Deadline: Rolling
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.
Dramatists Guild Foundation Emergency Grants
Deadline: Rolling
Dramatists (playwrights, composers, lyricists and librettists in the theatrical genre) facing a financial crisis and needing financial assistance and/or support are eligible to apply for an emergency grant.
Indigo Arts Alliance Mentorship Residency Program
Portland, ME
Deadline: Rolling
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).
Breck Creek Artist-in-Residence Program
Deadline: Rolling
Open to regional and national artists of all disciplines, Artists-in-Residence spend 2-4 months in a live/work studio in cozy downtown Breckenridge, Colorado. Artists receive a biweekly stipend of $600
Musicians Foundation
Deadline: Rolling
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).
Pollock-Krasner Foundation
Deadline: Rolling
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.
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