Artist Opportunities
Explore grants, residencies, open calls, and career opportunities for artists working in all disciplines.

Hayama Artist Residency
Hayama Artist Residency
Launched in 2020, the Hayama Artist Residency offers visual artists from around the world a unique opportunity to spend four weeks in Japan, for rest, reflection, and creative inspiration. Selected artists will receive roundtrip airfare, a private bedroom, and a $800 USD stipend to support meals and local transportation.

Creative Capital Artist Lab
Creative Capital Artist Lab
Creative Capital Artist Lab is a suite of online courses designed to help artists build thriving practices at any career stage and in any discipline. Free for individual use, courses are created by art professionals, industry experts, and fellow artists who share vital concepts, skills, and tools to help grow artists’ careers.
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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.
The Clemente Discounted Rehearsal Space Program
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.
Steel Yard Micro-Residencies
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.
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grants
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.
Musicians Foundation Grants
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).
ART14 Residency
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 Artist Grants
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.
Indigo Arts Alliance Mentorship Residency Program
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).
Gottlieb Foundation Emergency Grants
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.
Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grants
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.
Arts in California Parks Artist Directory
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 Residencies
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 Grants
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.
Adobe Creative Residency Community Fund
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.
Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts Residency
Located in the historic Old Market, Omaha’s arts and culture district, Bemis Center's 110,000 square foot facility accommodates a broad range of artistic activity. Selected artists-in-residence enjoy generous sized, private live/work studios complete with kitchen and bathroom, a $1,250 USD monthly stipend and $750 travel stipend. There are no expectations placed on residents to create. Artists who are interested in applying to any 2026 open call opportunity (Jan–April, May–August, or September–November) will be required to submit a separate application and application fee for each designated session. Fee: $40.
2026 Art on the Outside Temporary Art Project Proposals
The City of West Hollywood invites artists, curators, and non-profit arts organizations based in the U.S. to submit proposals for temporary public art projects to the Art on the Outside (AOTO) program. AOTO funds the display of temporary public art at City-owned parks and facilities. Past projects include sculpture, murals, digital screen-based artwork & projections, exhibitions, and performance art.
Atlantic Center for the Arts
Atlantic Center for the Arts offers immersive, inter-disciplinary, three-week Mentorship residencies several times a year. The upcoming Residency #195 takes place October 5–25, 2025. There are many generous scholarships available, and the residency features the following artists: Fatimah Asghar (Emmy-nominated writer, poet, performer), Molissa Fenley (choreographer, dancer), and Jeremy Kittel (Grammy-nominated violinist, fiddler, composer).
James Castle House Artist Residency
The James Castle House Residency is open to emerging and mid-career artists and professionals working in any field. Each residency provides one participant with private furnished living quarters, studio access, and a stipend to assist with living expenses and supplies necessary to the creation of the work.
The Golden Foundation Residency Program
The Golden Foundation will be offering six Exploratory Residency sessions this year. Each session will last four weeks, with up to three artists per session. Residencies are based on the exploration of innovative uses in waterborne materials, oil paint technology, and PanPastel. Fee: $30.
Charles Adams Gallery Priority: International Juried Exhibition
Charles Adams Gallery invites artists worldwide to submit flat, unframed, two-dimensional artwork for Priority: International Juried Exhibition, juried by Leslie Moody Castro. This open-themed exhibition embraces the full range of 2D practices—across media, scale, and intent—while emphasizing immediacy, material presence, and global exchange. Fee: $35.
Keyholder Residency
The Keyholder Residency Program offers emerging artists free 24-hour access to printmaking facilities to develop new work and foster their artistic careers. It takes place in the shared Artists’ Studio, including the solvent/etching area and the darkroom.
A total of 8 artists are awarded the residency annually. Artists based in the New York City area and without access to a studio space are encouraged to apply.
East End Arts Council: Juried Fiber Art Exhibition
Entangled is the first ever exhibition of contemporary fiber arts to be held at East End Arts Council gallery in Riverhead, Long Island. This national open call welcomes work of all fiber art techniques using traditional or non-traditional materials, including installations, sculptures, and wall pieces.
Wassaic Project 2026 Summer Exhibition Open Call
The Wassaic Project is holding their annual Open Call for their 2026 Summer Exhibition 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. The Wassaic Project's 2026 Summer Exhibition will be free and open to the public every weekend from May 16–September 12, 2026. In an effort to be more W.A.G.E. certified, all accepted artists will receive a modest honorarium to participate in the exhibition. Artists interested in creating a site-specific installation for the 2026 Summer Exhibition are also eligible for an Exhibitions Fellowship to help realize their work. Fellows will be offered a no-fee residency for 1–4 weeks in April or May 2026. Artists interested in making site-specific work for the exhibition should still apply regardless of whether or not they are interested in or able to be in residence in April or May. Fee: $25.
Banff Deep Winter Writers 2026
This 19-day self-directed residency in Banff, Alberta, Canada offers the opportunity to work away from the constraints of everyday life, delve deep into a creative project and take advantage of a community of artistic peers.