Artist Opportunities

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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 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.

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).

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.

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.

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 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 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.

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.

The TMT Institute is a cohort of artists who seek to radically disrupt and re-examine their existing practice without any goal or expected result. The Institute gathers for three short intensive sessions to help each Fellow advance this process. TMT supports fellows with space, material resources and a $2,000 stipend. The Institute is open to artists from any artistic discipline within or outside of theater, and is also open to production, technical, and administrative workers in the arts. Fellows must have an established, existing practice in the arts which they are committed to changing.

The Arts Gowanus Fellowship Program is open to low-income and upwardly mobile artists and makers working in any medium and at all stages of their career. The program is open to all Brooklyn-based applicants who meet the financial criteria of being considered low-income. The program was created to provide studios free of charge and includes material and production support.

Miami's Fountainhead Residency seeks exceptional visual artists who are at a pivotal point in their career where connections and conversations are the catalyst needed to evolve their art practice. Open call applications for 2026 residencies will be accepted until July 23 or until 300 applications have been received.

The Alta Community Enrichment Artist in Residence Program provides an artist the opportunity to reflect, relax, and create in the inspiring mountains of Alta, Utah, a small, quiet mountain community located at the head of Little Cottonwood Canyon just outside of Salt Lake City. The 2025 application is open to the art genre of Folk and Traditional Arts.

The Arkansas Arts Council is currently accepting entries for the 2026 Small Works on Paper juried art exhibition. The exhibition is open to all artists who reside in Arkansas and are 18 years old or older. Small Works on Paper is a competitive art exhibition featuring artwork no larger than 18 x 24 inches. An out-of-state, independent juror selects up to 40 pieces to tour the state. Fee: $15.

Kala’s artist-in-residence programs offers 24-hour access to the printmaking workshop, digital lab, black and white darkroom, sculpture annex (textiles, wood shop, kiln and slab roller), individual storage space, access to Kala’s gallery with potential exhibition opportunities, professional development resources including classes, and participation in a vital, international artist community. Project spaces and housing are available for artists coming from outside the San Francisco Bay Area. Artists working in various printmaking techniques, photo processes, book arts, sculpture, public art and community engagement, and digital media, including film/video, are encouraged to apply to become an Artist-in-Residence. There is a range of subsidized artist residency rates and some funded opportunities as well.

Three early to mid-career art critics from around the world will receive €250–€1,000 cash prizes for essays in the theme “Imaging / Shaping / Re-Thinking the Global South through Art.” First place will be invited to read their essay via Zoom at the AICA-Int. Congress.

Locust Projects invites local, national, and international artists to propose ambitious, installation-based solo exhibitions for its 625 sq. ft. Project Room in Miami. Selected artists receive a $5,000 production budget, $3,100 artist fee, curatorial guidance, documentation, promotional support, and optional accommodations for out-of-town artists. Proposals must be for new work that pushes the artist’s practice forward and is uniquely suited to Locust’s experimental, non-commercial space. Applications are reviewed by a rotating jury of past exhibiting artists and a local curator.

The Feminist Press welcome submissions by, among others, political theorists, creatives, scholars of feminist studies, queer and transgender, and Black studies, creative writers, artists, and activists engaging the question of what it means to participate in constructing portals to elsewhere, bridges from this world to the next (along temporal, geographic, epistemic, institutional, political, and spiritual lines), and how portals can be throughways to either more or less habitable worlds.

Pullman Yards, Atlanta’s historic 27-acre creative campus in the Kirkwood neighborhood, is launching a residency program designed to support innovative artists. Two residencies will take place per year with four artists selected annually (one regional, one national/international per cohort). Residents receive private housing, studio space, and a $500 weekly stipend, as well aspProfessional development with curators, collectors, and industry leaders.