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.).

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.”

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.

Franklin Furnace FUND for Performance Art
New York City, NY
Deadline: April 1, 2025

Franklin Furnace annually awards grants to early career artists selected by peer panel review to enable them to produce major performance art works in New York City. Grants range between $2,000 and $10,000. Artists from all areas of the world are encouraged to apply; however, artists selected by the panel are expected to present their work in New York City.

Locust Project WaveMaker
Miami, FL
Deadline: April 2, 2025

WaveMaker supports Miami’s visionary artists with incubator grants for innovative projects that are shared with the public in unconventional spaces. Grantees receive up to $6,000 each in three categories: New Work / Projects, Long-Haul Projects, and Research & Development + Implementation.

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.

Creative Capital Open Call
Deadline: April 4, 2025

The 2026 Open Call seeks proposals for new artistic works in the Visual Arts, Performing Arts, Film, and Literature. The Creative Capital Award provides unrestricted project grants of up to $50,000 to individual artists to create new work. The new State of the Art Prize provides unrestricted artist grants of $10,000.

Print Center New York Curatorial Open Call
Deadline: April 6, 2025

Print Center New York invites emerging and early-career curators to submit letters of interest for exhibition opportunities. The program aims to generate new knowledge and understanding of printmaking’s potential. Guest curators receive financial support (including a curatorial fee starting at $5,000), mentorship from subject-area experts, guidance and feedback from curatorial staff, and full production and exhibition support.

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.

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.

Velvetpark LGBTQ+ Visual Artist Residency 2025
Brooklyn, New York
Deadline: April 13, 2025

Velvetpark’s 2025 Artist Residency will be awarded to two artists, One for a 6 week term (July – August) and another for a 4 month term (September – December.) Throughout the residency artists will have a dedicated live/work studio space to explore, develop, and refine their project. Applications are open to LGBTQ+ artists across the United States. Artists working in various mediums are invited to apply.

McColl Center Winter 2026 Artists-in-Residence
Charlotte, North Carolina
Deadline: April 14, 2025

McColl Center hosts three residency terms per year—fall, winter, and summer, for four artists per term. Artists-in-residence receive private housing adjacent to McColl Center, a large-scale private studio in Uptown Charlotte, curatorial guidance, marketing and PR support, and a generous stipend. The Winter Artist-in-Residence program runs from January 6–April 13, 2026.

Anonymous Was A Woman Environmental Art Grants
Deadline: April 15, 2025

The Anonymous Was A Woman Environmental Art Grants (AWAW EAG) will distribute a total of $300,000 in funding—up to $20,000 per project—to support environmental art projects led by women-identifying artists in the United States and U.S. Territories.

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.

The Better Angels Society Library of Congress Lavine/Ken Burns Prize for Film
Deadline: May 1, 2025

Open to documentary filmmakers focused on American history, the 2025 Library of Congress Lavine/Ken Burns Prize for Film is a cash prize of $200,000 awarded to one winner, a secondary prize of $50,000 to one runner-up, and $25,000 to each of four finalists

Ohio Arts Council
Deadline: May 1, 2025

Artist Opportunities
Artist Opportunities grants support Ohio artists who have opportunities that will significantly impact their professional growth or have projects that will contribute to the vitality of their community. This grant is open to artists of all disciplines, at any stage of their career, and includes all types of artistic practice.

Artists with Disabilities Access Program (ADAP)
The Artists with Disabilities Access Program (ADAP) provides funding that gives individual artists with disabilities the resources they need to further their artistic development. ADAP awards help artists with disabilities advance their practices, making Ohio a more accessible and inclusive place to build an artistic career.

The U.S. Writers Aid Initiative (USWAI)
Deadline: May 2, 2025

USWAI is intended to assist fiction and nonfiction authors, poets, playwrights, translators, and journalists in addressing short-term financial emergencies. Applicants must be professional writers based in the US.

Martin House Creative Residency Program
Buffalo, New York
Opens: April 14, 2025
Deadline: May 9, 2025

Frank Lloyd Wright’s Martin House’s Creative Residency Program provides individuals from multiple disciplines a thought-provoking environment for two to four weeks in which to produce new works. The Artist Program supports the development and presentation of creative works as they relate to Martin House. The Researcher Program provides opportunities to conduct research that will lead to published texts or projects in various fields, again as they relate to Frank Lloyd Wright and Martin House. Residents will receive a stipend of $5,000. Travel expenses of up to $1,000 will also be provided to residents who are from outside the Buffalo-Niagara region.

Hopper Prize
Deadline: May 13, 2025

The Hopper Prize provides unrestricted cash grants in the amount of $3,500 and $1,000 to artists around the globe. We view the field of visual art in its broadest and most inclusive sense and therefore make awards available to artists working in any media. Fee: $40.

James Laughlin Award
Deadline: May 15, 2025

The James Laughlin Award recognizes and supports a second book of poetry forthcoming in the next calendar year. The winning poet receives $5,000, an all-expenses-paid weeklong residency in Miami Beach, Florida, and distribution of the winning book to approximately one thousand Academy of American Poets members.

Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize
Deadline: May 15, 2025

This $25,000 award recognizes the most outstanding book of poetry published in the United States in the previous calendar year. The prize includes a ten-day residency at Glen Hollow in Naples, New York, and distribution of the winning book to hundreds of Academy of American Poets members.

Ploughshares Emerging Writer’s Contest
Opens: March 1, 2025
Deadline: May 15, 2025

The Emerging Writer’s Contest is open to writers of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry who have yet to publish or self-publish a book. One winner in each of the three genres is awarded publication, $2,000, review from Aevitas Creative Management, and a 1-year subscription.

The Studios of Key West
Key West, Florida
Deadline: May 15, 2025

The Studios of Key West, the premier arts organization at the Southernmost Point of the United States, offers a residency program for emerging and established artists and writers from around the world. Residencies are available to visual artists, writers, composers, musicians, media artists, performers, and interdisciplinary artists.

Anne LaBastille Memorial Writers Residency
Saranac Lake, NY
Deadline: May 19, 2025

The Adirondack Center for Writing offers a free, two-week residency annually in autumn to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers at a lodge on Twitchell Lake in the heart of the Adirondack Mountains. Six residents will be chosen: three from the Adirondack region (“The North Country”). Residency dates: September 21–October 5, 2025

Tulsa Artist Fellowship
Tulsa, Oklahoma
Opens: April 2, 2025
Deadline: May 28, 2025

For the 2026-2028 term, awardees will each receive a total stipend of $150,000 stipend paid over three-years for awarded project deliverables and general artistic practice costs, along with a $12,000 yearly housing stipend, $1,200 yearly health and wellness stipend, $1,200 yearly studio assistant stipend, $1,500 one-time studio move-in stipend, fully-subsidized studio spaces, and access to shared art-making facilities, and more.

Eliza Moore Fellowship for Artistic Excellence
Upperville, VA
Deadline: May 31, 2025

The Eliza Moore Fellowship for Artistic Excellence is awarded annually to one outstanding, early-career artist who is developing new works that address plants, gardens, or landscapes in the broad sense. This award is open to visual artists, literary artists, dancers, and musicians. The award includes a $10,000 individual grant and requires a 2–5 week stay at Oak Spring.

Jonathan and Barbara Silver Foundation 2025 Grant for Sculpture
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.

The Clemente’s Discounted Rehearsal Space Program
New York, New York
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.

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).

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

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 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.

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.

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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