Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts Residency
Nebraska City, Nebraska
Deadline: March 1, 2025

This residency offers a $175/week stipend and a private studio. Established and emerging visual artists, writers, composers, and interdisciplinary artists from across the country and around the world are eligible to apply. Application fee: $35.

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apexart International Open Call
Deadline: March 1, 2025

Anyone can submit a 500-word proposal describing a focused, idea-driven, and original group exhibition for a chance to have an apexart exhibition.

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Millay Arts Core Artist Residency
Deadline: March 1, 2025
Late Deadline: March 8, 2025

From August through December, Millay Arts invites 6-7 multidisciplinary artists for two-week to month-long stays at Steepletop, the historic estate of poet/activist Edna St. Vincent Millay. Fee is $45 for regular deadline and $65 for late deadline.

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SFCB Book Arts Mentorship Award
Deadline: March 2, 2025

San Francisco Center for the Book has partnered with two esteemed artists and educators to offer two, five-day, one-on-one mentorships for mid-career and established artists from underrepresented communities outside of the SF Bay Area. Applicants should have a foundation in book arts. Selected mentees receive a $,3000 stipend.

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2025 Artlab Editorial Fellowship Open Call
Deadline: March 3, 2025

This Fellowship is open to art writers from anywhere in the world, and at any stage of their career. The two selected Fellows will be provided $10,000 each to produce three pieces of writing every other month for Artlab Editorial in 2025 and will be paired with one of this year’s Fellowship Advisors for regular one-on-one guidance and mentorship throughout the program.

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NXTHVN Fellowship
New Haven, Connecticut
Deadline: March 3, 2025

Each year NXTHVN welcomes up to seven artists and two curators to participate in its paid 10-month intensive Fellowship Program. Each Fellow will receive studio or office space, a stipend, and subsidized housing.

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National Endowment for the Arts: Creative Writing Fellowships
Deadline: March 13, 2025

The (NEA) Literature Fellowships program awards grants in prose (fiction and creative nonfiction) and poetry to published creative writers that enable recipients to set aside time for writing, research, travel, and general career advancement.

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BRIC 2025-26 BRIClab Residency
Deadline: March 14, 2025

This multidisciplinary program supports NYC-based artists and media-makers across Contemporary Art, Film + TV, and Video Art, offering space, resources, and mentorship to develop new work. All residents receive a $2,500 stipend, mentorship, skills-based learning and professional development, and documentation of their work.

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2025 Massachusetts Poetry Festival First Poem Contest
Deadline: March 15, 2025

Mass Poetry wants poems from New England poets or poets with ties to New England to open the first headline event of the 2025 Massachusetts Poetry Festival, held May 31 and June 1, 2025. The winner and two honorable mentions will be invited to read their poem in person at the Festival. The cash prize is $250 for the winner and $50 for honorable mentions. Fee: $10. There is a fee-free submission option for students and those for whom a submission fee would represent a barrier.

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Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program
Roswell, New Mexico
Deadline: March 15, 2025

The Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program offers six artists a place to live and work for a year, with a monthly stipend of $1,100 and no strings attached. Artists-in-residence have the opportunity to mount a solo exhibition of their work at the Roswell Museum, and to have an artwork purchased for the permanent collection of the Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art.

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Bayard Rustin Residency at Penington Friends House
Deadline: March 15, 2025

This residency is envisioned as an ongoing ladder to empowerment for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) working to end systemic racism and to create a culture of anti-Racism and intersectional equality in the U.S. The residency provides up to one year of room and board to a person who demonstrates a strong project that addresses ending systemic racism and who has a necessity to be in New York City for up to one year.

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Salad Days Artist Residency 2025-26
Deadline: March 17, 2025

Watershed selects an artist annually to create 500 plates or shallow bowls for the following year’s Salad Days. Over the course of seven months – from September to April – the artist lives and works on campus making their Salad Days pieces and becoming integral member of the Watershed community. Fee: $25.

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Prospect Art 4th-WALL International Video Biennial Open Call
Deadline: March 22, 2025

Prospect Art is looking for video works for their 2027 programming, “Change/Exchange.” Entries will be considered for physical exhibitions and screenings presented in Los Angeles, Lisbon, and Budapest, a series of online screenings on their BROADCAST program, as well as the publication of articles on their ONE WORK program.

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Asian American Arts Alliance Fellowships
Deadline: March 24, 2025

A4seeking Asian American artists in their early career, 30 years old or younger, who are seeking to make an impact on the community.

Jadin Wong Fellowship
A4 is seeking one NYC-based Asian American choreographer and/or dancer to award with a cash stipend of $7,500 and eight-month fellowship with career coaching and technical support opportunities.

Van Lier Fellowship 

A4 is seeking two NYC-based Asian American musicians in the categories of music composition and music performance to award with a cash stipend of $7,500 and an eight-month fellowship with career coaching and technical support opportunities.

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Decorative Arts Trust Publishing Grants
Deadline: March 31, 2025

These two grants support book-length academic publications based on completed dissertations or by first-time authors seeking to publish a scholarly work, as well as book-length publications tied to collections, exhibitions, and conferences that increase the awareness and appreciation of important areas of research in the decorative arts including catalogues, and compilations of conference papers.

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2025 WOPHA Artist in Residence
Deadline: March 31, 2025

The residency provides a transformative, month-long opportunity for emerging and mid-career women and non-binary artists working with lens-based media to develop their creative practice within Miami’s dynamic cultural landscape. It offers a $2,500 artist stipend, private accommodations, shared studio space and a curated group exhibition with a $3,000 exhibition production budget. Application fee: $50.

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New York Public Library Picture Collection Artist Fellowship
Deadline: March 31, 2025

This Fellowship supports artists or scholars engaged in the research, development, and/or execution of a new creative or scholarly work based on the Collection’s holdings. Fellowship stipends are awarded on a sliding scale from $2,000 to $5,000.

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She Built NYC Open Call for Artists
New York City, New York
Deadline: March 31, 2025

The City of New York seeks artists interested in creating public monuments that honor women’s history.

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PAC NYC The Democracy Cycle
Deadline: April 1, 2025

The Perelman Performing Arts Center (PAC NYC) and Galvan Initiatives (Galvan) launched The Democracy Cycle, a new commissioning program designed to support new works that illuminate the promise, practice, imperfection, and opportunity of democracy. Proposals are requested for new performing arts works following that theme from artists working in theater, dance, music, opera, and multi-disciplinary performance. The Cycle will provide $60,000 in support to each awarded project, consisting of a $30,000 commission as well as an additional $30,000 towards each commissioned project’s development process (research, readings, workshops etc.).

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The American Library in Paris Visiting Fellowship
Deadline: April 1, 2025

The Fellowship offers writers, researchers, and creators the unique opportunity to spend a month in Paris working on their own creative project while contributing to the cultural life of the Library. In addition to working on their own project, Fellows present a public program during their residency that engages our audience and members around a central theme. The theme for 2025-2026 is “Ways of Seeing.”

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Fire Island Residency
Cherry Grove, Fire Island, NY
Deadline: April 1, 2025

The first residency in the United States exclusively for artists identifying as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, non-binary, intersex, two-spirit or queer, annually accepts applications for its prestigious and internationally recognized summer program. Now in its 15th season in the secluded beach community of Cherry Grove, NY, an historic LGBTQ settlement of Fire Island, emerging artists will share a live/work space for a four-week program marked by intimate studio visits with, and public lectures by, renowned leaders in contemporary art, scholarship, activism and curation.

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Jerome Foundation Film Production and Mentorship Grants
Deadline: April 3, 2025

Minnesota Filmmaker Mentorship Grant
Providing eligible Minnesota-based early career film directors up to $10,000 to engage in self-designed mentorship to strengthen their film directing craft and/or professional skills in connection with a specific film project.

Minnesota Film Production Grant
Supporting eligible Minnesota-based early career film directors whose work takes creative risks in expanding, questioning, experimenting with, or re-imagining filmmaking with production grants of up to $30,000.

New York City Film Production Grant
Supporting eligible New York City-based early career film directors whose work takes creative risks in expanding, questioning, experimenting with, or re-imagining filmmaking with production grants of up to $30,000.

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The Dome House Al & Mickey Quinlan Artist Residency
Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin
Deadline: April 7, 2025

The Al & Mickey Quinlan Residency is an application-based 8-week program for emerging and mid-career Midwest artists focused in the areas of drawing, painting, printmaking, photography, created and led in partnership with the Miller Art Museum from August to September, 2025.

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WFF Housing Stability Grant for Artists
New York City, New York
Opens: February 11, 2025
Deadline: April 8, 2025

The Woodman Family Foundation Housing Stability Grant for Artists (WFF HSG) provides grants of $30,000, distributed over three years, to NYC-based visual artists in need who are seeking support for stable housing. In its inaugural cycle, the WFF HSG will award grants to five artists.

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Mudflat Year-Long Artist Residency
Deadline: April 16, 2025

Clay artists are invited to apply for a one-year residency position at Mudflat Studio in Somerville, MA. This highly competitive program provides a private studio space at no cost with 24/7 access to Mudflat’s facility, a $75/monthly materials stipend, an $800 monthly housing stipend, opportunities to teach and sell work, and a solo exhibition and reception at Mudflat to showcase work created during the residency year. Residency dates: September 1–August 31 annually.

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Jonathan and Barbara Silver Foundation 2025 Grant for Sculpture
Opens: February 1, 2025
Deadline: May 31, 2025

The grant program of the Jonathan and Barbara Silver Foundation encourages and supports sculptors, whether emerging or established, and writers about sculpture. In 2025 the Foundation will award a $20,000 grant to a sculptor who demonstrates an exceptional commitment to sculpture and an imaginative engagement with its materials, histories and situation.

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The Clemente’s Discounted Rehearsal Space Program
New York, NY
Deadline: Rolling

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.

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Indigo Arts Alliance Mentorship Residency Program
Portland, Maine
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).

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Breck Creek Artist-in-Residence Program
Breckenridge, Colorado
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

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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).

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Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
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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Employment Opportunities

The University of Tennessee – Knoxville: Assistant Professor of Photography Fall 2025
Deadline: Rolling

The University of Tennessee School of Art seeks candidates for a full-time, tenure-track position in Photography at the rank of Assistant Professor. Primary responsibilities include undergraduate and graduate instruction, an active creative research agenda, and service to the department, university, and profession.

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The Luminary: Deputy Director
Deadline: Rolling

The Luminary, an independent space based in St. Louis, MO, seeks an experienced and passionate Deputy Director to support the organization’s operations and programs. This role will focus on grants writing and management, overseeing financial systems, and fostering cross-team collaboration to support public programs.

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