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.

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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.

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Lillstreet Art Center Artist in Residence
North Adams, Massachusetts
Deadline: May 1, 2025

Lillstreet offers year-long residencies in Ceramics and Metalsmithing, and nine-month residencies in Drawing & Painting, Printmaking & Book Arts, and Textiles. Resident artists have 24-hour access to facilities and equipment, free classes, paid opportunities to teach and/or assist classes, participation in a group exhibition, and a monthly stipend.

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Studios at MASS MoCA
North Adams, Massachusetts
Deadline: May 1, 2025

​The Studios at MASS MoCA offers 2- to 4-week period residencies for artists and writers within the museum’s campus, providing private studios, housing, one group meal per day, and access to MASS MoCA’s galleries. Financial aid and fully funded fellowships are available, with resident contributions typically ranging from $0 to $450 per week based on need. Without aid, the rate is $650 per week. The application deadline for January–June 2026 residencies is May 1, 2025.

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2025 GALLIM Moving Artist Residencies
Deadline: May 1, 2025

Moving Artist Residency Program
This residency supports six early-career Black, Brown, Indigenous, Asian, Pacific Islander, Latine, people of color and people of global majority who are women, non-binary, transgender and gender nonconforming movement artists based in NYC. This two-week process-based residency offers fully-funded studio space, artist stipends, mentorship, professional photo & video shoot, and promotion via GALLIM’s channels.

Parent Moving Artist Residency Program
This residency supports two movement artists who are parents. This one-week process-based residency offers fully-funded studio space, artist stipends, mentorship, professional photo & video shoot, and promotion via GALLIM’s channels.

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Howard County Arts Council Rising Star Performing Arts Competition
Maryland
Deadline: May 1, 2025

Each year, up to 10 emerging performing artists with roots in Howard County are chosen to perform at the Celebration gala — with the winner voted on by the audience.The competition is open to performers, both individuals and ensembles (up to four members), ages 18-35, who live, train, work or perform regularly in Howard County or have done so in the past.

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Ragdale 2026 Residency Program
Lake Forest, Illinois
Deadline: May 1, 2025

​Ragdale’s 2026 Residency Program offers 18-day residencies to about 15 artists per session, providing uninterrupted time, private studios, chef-prepared weekday dinners, and access to an 80-acre nature preserve. Located 30 miles north of Chicago in Lake Forest, Illinois, Ragdale supports artists across various disciplines, including writing, visual arts, music, and dance. Fee: $25.

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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.

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ArtPort Kingston Emerging Hudson Valley Filmmakers Open Call
Kingston, New York
Deadline: May 4, 2025

Selected applicants from Hudson Valley or the NYC area will have their film screened as part of the Summer Film Series—a community-driven, donation-based event co-produced with Cellar Door Cinema Club and supported by Radio Kingston. This is a great opportunity for emerging filmmakers to showcase their work, connect with fellow artists, and engage with a passionate audience.

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Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant
Deadline: May 7, 2025

The program supports writing about contemporary art and aims to ensure that critical writing remains a valued mode of engaging with the visual arts. Open to any art historian, artist, critic, curator, journalist, or a writer in an outside field who is strongly engaged with contemporary visual arts.

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Banff Centre for Arts & Creativity | Indigenous Arts
Deadline: May 7, 2025

​The Banff Centre’s Aknumustiǂis: Ecological Engagement Through the Seasons 2025 is a five-week hybrid residency for 12 visual artists focusing on land-based themes, environmental sustainability, Indigenous narratives, and natural materials. The program runs online from September 2–6, 2025, and in person from September 8–October 3, 2025, offering self-directed studio time, workshops, on-the-land engagement, and access to Visual Arts facilities.

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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.

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CultureHub Residency Open Call
Deadline: May 12, 2025

This open call offers residencies for artists experimenting with technology in CultureHub’s NYC and LA studios. These residencies offer at least 1 week of studio time, opportunities for a public showing, and a stipend to be used how the artist sees fit.

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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.

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Josephine Sculpture Park (JSP) Call for Entry
Deadline: May 14, 2025

This funded residency will begin with a site visit in 2025 and a residency period of up to 10 weeks in 2026. JSP will provide up to 2 artists a career-boosting opportunity to make new outdoor work on a large-scale, with the physical space and technical and financial support to succeed.

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Cuttyhunk Island Artists’ Residency
Cuttyhunk, Massachusetts
Deadline: May 15, 2025

On a small island off the coast of Massachusetts, CIAR offers visual artists focused time and a uniquely supportive environment to develop their work. Full and partial fellowships are available that cover or offset the cost to attend. This year, CIAR offers two, weeklong sessions in September.

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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.

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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.

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Ploughshares Emerging Writer’s Contest
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.

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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.

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Sawtooth 2025-2026 Artist-in-Residence Programs in Ceramics, Printmaking, and Woodworking
Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Deadline: May 15, 2025

For 80 years, Sawtooth has been a creative hub for the central North Carolina region, fostering an energetic craft school environment in downtown Winston-Salem, NC. This year-long Artist-in-Residence programs encourage the development of new skills, connections, and bodies of work while assisting with operations. Residencies in ceramics, printmaking, and woodworking offer 24/7 access to studio space, material stipends, and the chance to gain valuable teaching experience, among other opportunities.

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Anne LaBastille Memorial Writers Residency
Saranac Lake, New York
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, with three from the Adirondack region (“The North Country.”) The Residency is from September 21 to October 5, 2025

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Tulsa Artist Fellowship
Tulsa, Oklahoma
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.

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Eliza Moore Fellowship for Artistic Excellence
Upperville, Virginia
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.

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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.

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Artadia San Francisco
San Francisco, California
Deadline: June 1, 2025

The Artadia Awards provide financial support, exposure, and recognition to artists. The awards are unrestricted, allowing artists to use the funds in any way they choose. Applicants must be a contemporary visual artist making artwork for presentation in a contemporary art context.

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Anolic Family Awards
Deadline: June 1, 2025

Early Career Visual Arts
The Early Career Visual Arts award offers $1,000 towards the completion of a specific project in painting, drawing, sculpture, or mixed-media. Active early career Jewish visual artists between the ages of 25 and 35 may apply. 

Jewish Book Arts
The sum of $1,500 will be awarded towards the creation of a unique or limited-edition work in the field of Jewish book arts. All active, professional artists, working in the field of book arts, who have exhibited within the last five years are eligible to apply.

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Florida Division of Arts and Culture Specific Cultural Projects
Deadline: June 1, 2025

The Specific Cultural Project grant is designed to fund a single cultural project, program, exhibition, or series. The grant activities must support the mission of the organization or artist and further the state’s cultural objectives. All applicants must be Florida-based.

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Wassaic Project
Wassaic, New York
Deadline: June 2, 2025

Wassaic Project 2025 Haunted Mill Open Call
Artists are invited to apply for a fully funded 1–5 week residency to create eerie, site-specific installations, outdoor works, or performances for the 2025 Wassaic Project Haunted Mill (Oct 24–26). Residents receive housing, studio space, and $500–$800 honorariums. Fee: $25.

Wassaic Project 2026 Residency Program
Open call for the Wassaic Project’s 2026 Winter (Jan–Apr) and Summer (June–Sept) residencies, open to individual artists, collaborative teams, and caregiving artists through our Family Residency program. Residents receive a private room, semi-private studio, access to shared facilities (wood shop, print shop, kiln), and participate in robust programming including studio visits, artist talks, and open studios. Residency fee: $900; Fee: $25.

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Headlands Center for the Arts

Artist in Residence (AIR)
Deadline: June 2, 2025
The program offers fully sponsored residencies and studios to local, national, and international artists working in all disciplines.

The Chamberlain Award
Deadline: June 5, 2025
This fully sponsored artist residency and $10,000 prize will support an artist working in the social practice discipline. The award supports artists employing non-traditional media to creatively engage with social concerns of the day. 

The Chiaro Award
Deadline: June 5, 2025
This fully sponsored artist residency and $15,000 prize will support a mid-career painter residing in the United States. The residency includes a private studio, and inclusion in a dynamic network of Headlands’ creative practitioners and thinkers.

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Jazz Road Tours
Deadline: June 4, 2025

Jazz Road Tours offer grants of up to $15,000 to develop tours in communities across the country. Support is for small, 3- to 6-site tours at an array of venue types, often in rural communities and other areas traditionally underserved by the genre.

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Great Meadows Foundation Artist Professional Development Grants
Kentucky and Indiana
Deadline: June 8, 2025

Applicants must reside in the Great Meadows Foundation region, which encompasses the 120 counties of Kentucky, and the Greater Louisville area of Clark and Floyd counties in Indiana. Grants range between $500 and $6,000.

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2026 Vilcek Prizes for Creative Promise in Fashion & Design and Fashion & Culture
Deadline: June 9, 2025

The Vilcek Foundation will award six Vilcek Prizes for Creative Promise in the amount of $50,000 in two categories: Fashion & Design and Fashion & Culture. In each category, three young immigrant fashion professionals who demonstrate outstanding early achievement in their field will individually receive an unrestricted cash prize of $50,000.

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Prospect Art: Open Call – In Flux
Deadline: June 15, 2025

Prospect Art invites visual artists worldwide to apply for a $1,000 NEW WORK commission exploring the theme In Flux. This opportunity supports new conceptually driven, self-contained projects that examine the liminal space between analog and digital, physical and virtual, handmade and algorithmic. In addition to the commissioned artist, select applicants will be featured in the ONE WORK online publication series or the 2026 BROADCAST online events program curated by Julianna Heller.  Application fee: $10.

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Prairie Ronde Artist Residency
Vicksburg, Michigan
Deadline: June 15, 2025

Prairie Ronde Artist Residency offers 5–6 week residencies providing artists with a $2,000 stipend, $500 travel grant, private housing, and opportunities to engage with the historic 420,000-square-foot former Lee Paper Company mill and its 80-acre property. Three sessions are hosted annually, accepting 2–4 residents per session. Residents are encouraged to share their work with the community through exhibitions, workshops, or performances. Fee: $25.

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Women’s Studio Workshop
Rosendale, New York
Deadline: June 15, 2025

Studio Workspace Residency
The Studio Workspace Residency is an opportunity for artists to create new work and fully immerse themselves in WSW’s supportive environment. We invite applications from artists at any stage of their careers. Artists may choose to work in any one or more studios: intaglio, letterpress, papermaking, screenprinting, darkroom photography, or ceramics.

Art-in-Ed Workspace Residency
The Art-in-Education (AIE) Workspace Residency is for artists interested in working with local school students while creating their own work in WSW’s supportive and immersive environment. This is an opportunity for artists with a range of teaching experience, from seasoned teachers and professors, to those with minimal experience and an interest in gaining skills and knowledge.

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Stove Works Residency
Chattanooga, Tennessee
Deadline: June 15, 2025

This residency invites eight artists to live and work for one to three months at a time in Chattanooga, TN. Six of the studios are designed to accommodate artists who require significant space in their practice, while the remaining two accommodate non-object based practices, i.e. writers, curators, and academics. Fee: $20–$30.

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Gerbode Foundation Special Awards in the Arts
California
Deadline: June 18, 2025

The Gerbode Foundation’s 2025 Theater Production Awards offers $400,000 to support new theater works by California-based writers, playwrights, spoken word artists, and theater-makers. Bay Area nonprofit, artist-centered organizations with annual budgets between $60K and $3M can apply for $50,000 grants to commission and produce these works.

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Grants for Artists’ Progress (GAP)
Washington State
Deadline: June 23, 2025

Grants for Artists’ Progress (GAP) are unrestricted grants of $1,500 for artists working in all disciplines across Washington State.

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Loghaven Artist Residency
Knoxville, Tennessee
Application Opens: June 1, 2025
Application Closes: July 15, 2025

Artists working in Writing, Visual Arts, Dance, Theater, Music Composition, Architecture, and Interdisciplinary Work can apply to receive room and board and an $850 weekly living stipend to support the creation of new work during a residency. Artists live in five historic log cabins that have been both rehabilitated and modernized to create an ideal setting for reflection and work, and they have access to new, purpose-built studio space.

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The Kyoto Retreat
Kyoto, Japan
Deadline: July 15, 2025

Founded by curator, Dexter Wimberly, The Kyoto Retreat offers artists, curators, and writers the opportunity to immerse themselves in various aspects of Japanese culture and to meet other creatives. Participants are not required to make new work during the retreat, which includes airfare and accommodations. The inaugural Kyoto Retreat will take place from October 16–November 13, 2025. Fee: $95.

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100 Voices of Florida
Deadline: July 31, 2025

Open to  writers, directors, and producers with a short film or script, this open call provides a $5,000 unrestricted prize.

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Adobe Creative Residency Community Fund
Deadline: Rolling

The Adobe Creative Residency Community Fund provides support to creators during times of extraordinary hardship. Current Fund efforts are focused on supporting creators who have been directly impacted by the 2022 invasion of Ukraine. If selected, you will receive $10,000 from the Adobe Creative Residency Community Fund. 

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A.I.R. Studio Paducah Residencies
Paducah, Kentucky
Deadline: Rolling

These residencies are open to visual artists, composers, architects, improvisational dancers, poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers. Residents are provided with a private efficiency apartment and studio space, located in the Lower Town Arts District of Paducah, Kentucky, six blocks from the Ohio River. The cost of the residency is $700 for two weeks and $1,000 per month. Admissions are made on a rolling basis.

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The Awesome Foundation
Deadline: Rolling

The Awesome Foundation is a global community advancing the interest of awesome in the universe, $1000 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.

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Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grants
Deadline: Rolling

Emergency Grants is the only active, multi-disciplinary 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 in amount from $500 to $3,000, and the average grant is $1,900.

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Gottlieb Foundation Emergency Grants
Deadline: Rolling

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.

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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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Innovate Artist Grants
Deadline: Rolling

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.

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Stochastic Labs
Berkeley, California
Deadline: Rolling

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.

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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.

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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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