Artist Opportunities

Venture to the rural rolling hills of Appalachia in the Western Highland Rim—one of the best light-pollution-free zones in the region. Explore the flora and fauna of the biodiverse region of midsouth Tennessee. You'll have access to seventeen acres with a variety of habitat, furnished housing, space to work, and interactions with the camp donkeys, chickens and roosters, camp cats, two farm dogs, and a peafowl couple.

Belgrade Art Studio Residency is a nonprofit international art program designed to bring artists, creative practitioners, researchers, and writers from around the world to experience a unique cultural environment dedicated to art. Selected artists are invited to live and work in a specially designed studio for a period of up to six months. By bringing artists into a unique setting, the program aims to situate art at the very heart of historical Belgrade.

Taleamor Park welcomes applications from scholars, artists, scientists, writers, humanists, and remote workers in all fields or from those with no specific product-oriented project in mind other than to simply unwind, walk, and reset. Taleamor Park offers a creative, contemplative, and safe environment free of distractions in which to pursue a scholarly, artistic, personal, or work-related project.

La Porte Peinte residency centre is designed to enable creative exploration, concentrated work, and exchange in an inspiring and supportive environment. La Porte Peinte USA, as a nonprofit branch of the larger LPP project, aims to widen the field of opportunity to increase diversity, with a focus on individuals or groups who might otherwise lack access to such resources. LPP aims to extend support to these artists through residencies, masterclasses, collaborations, or exhibitions.

Studio Faire offers two- or four-week residencies between April and October to artists and writers. Residents are provided with a private workspace and bedroom, as well as use of a shared kitchen, dining room, bathroom, and garden area. The space is less than a ten-minute walk to shops, cafés, and bars, as well as the Château de Nérac castle and riverside walk.

Designed with artists and creative women in mind, Yellow Residency seeks to facilitate and support the art-making, writing, app-developing, poetry-making, graphic designing and many other inspired endeavors for two amazing women…and many more to come. It is our goal that the shared studio space will foster creativity, collaboration and connection. $50 Application fee

The Museum of Outdoor Arts’ Design and Build Fellow is responsible for leading our Design and Build summer internship participants through a set of collaborative art making projects. These projects provide lessons in working with new materials and techniques and inform participants in the public art process.

The Grant Wood Fellowship is a prestigious, year-long opportunity offered exclusively at the University of Iowa, designed to support bold and innovative artists in painting and drawing, printmaking, and interdisciplinary performance. Each year, three fellowships are awarded through a competitive national selection process.

The Hambidge Center hosts the region’s oldest self-directed residency, offering private live-work studios that support uninterrupted creative time. Residents shape their own process without required activities. Small cohorts share chef-prepared vegetarian dinners that foster community and collaboration. Participants span diverse disciplines and come from across the U.S. and abroad. Facilities include the Antinori Pottery Studio and a restored Steinway grand piano. $30 Application Fee

The Factory’s AIR program is designed to support emerging artists with a place to live for up to 3 months. During this time selected applicants can focus full-time on further developing their creative practice as they take steps to cross the bridge into becoming career professionals.

Art Omi supports a wide variety of artistic disciplines through five distinct residency programs. Their residencies include: visual/studio art (via Art Omi: Artists), architecture (via Art Omi: Architecture), dance / choreography (via Art Omi: Dance), music and composition (via Art Omi: Music), and writing & translation (via Art Omi: Writers).

The Creativity Grant for Projects is available to independent artists and arts organizations. There are two options to choose from: the Planning & Development grant is intended to support the early stages of research and development for a proposed project; the Implementation grant is intended to support the execution of a specific arts projects/event/program.

"ECRAC Resiliency Grant - Supporting Artists Through Change The East Central Regional Arts Council (ECRAC) offers the Resiliency Grant to help artists, culture bearers, and arts organizations respond to unexpected challenges or seize sudden opportunities."

The East Central Regional Arts Council (ECRAC) developed the Mid-Career Artist Program with McKnight Foundation funding to provide financial support to artists or culture bearers committed to personal artistic growth.

The East Central Regional Arts Council (ECRAC) Essential Artist Award program is designed with McKnight Foundation funding to recognize, reward, and encourage outstanding professional artists and culture bearers. The Council will fund artists at various stages in their professional careers.

The Minnesota State Arts Board and Minnesota's designated regional arts councils are entrusted with stewardship of funding through the State of Minnesota's Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund (ACHF.) Proceeds from the fund may be spent only on arts and arts access, arts education and arts and cultural heritage. The fund is intended to create a strong arts legacy in Minnesota.

These grant programs are funded in part by appropriations from the Minnesota State Legislature, with money from the State's general fund and its Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund. This fund was created by a vote by the people of Minnesota on Nov. 4th, 2008. These programs are also funded in part by the McKnight Foundation.

The goal of the Creative Project Grant (CPG) is to provide up to $12,000 to support art projects for Illinois artists, eligible not-for-profit organizations, municipal entities, or colleges and universities. CPG projects must include a public release or presentation of the work accomplished during the grant period

This fund has been developed through years of conversations with artists and residency leaders about safety and support in residency environments. While residencies are often sites of deep restoration and growth, sometimes there are moments when artists face crises or harm to their safety, and need to leave before completing their stay.

The University of Utah School of Dance and the Department of Film & Media Arts invite applicants for a full-time, tenure-line Assistant/Associate Professor position to begin July 1, 2026. This faculty line holds a teaching and research focus in the interplay of movement and media, including Screendance practice and theory, as well as potentially related areas of scholarship, performance, and production.

Arquetopia’s My First Arquetopia Residency supports emerging artists ages 20–25 in defining or reframing their creative foundations through contextual immersion and guided observation. Held in Puebla, Mexico between March and July, participants engage closely with local museum collections, deepen critical reflection through weekly meetings, and take part in field visits that situate artistic practice within wider social, historical, and material contexts.

Anderson Ranch’s Artists-in-Residence Program fosters creative, intellectual and professional growth for emerging and established visual artists. Residents have access to world-class facilities and studio time, free from everyday pressures. Residents can pursue interdisciplinary projects among a community of working artists, and gain feedback from prominent Visiting Artists and Critics. $30 application fee applies.

Fire Island Artist Residency (FIAR), 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. Emerging artists will share a live/work space for a four-week program in the secluded beach community of Cherry Grove, NY, an historic LGBTQ settlement of Fire Island. $40 Application Fee.

Kala Fellowship is an artist residency for international, national, and local artists producing innovative work in and across multiple media. For over 40 years, Kala Art Institute has provided artists with equipment, time, space, and financial support to develop their ideas and work. The Fellowship is geared towards supporting artists in completing specific projects or bodies of work that benefit from Kala’s specialized equipment. Each year, Kala provides fellowships to artists from various disciplines based on conceptual creativity, originality, and artistic excellence.