As the summer rolls along, we catch wind of more artist opportunities coming down the pike. A gentle reminder to consider signing up for the weekly newsletter to stay updated on artist opportunities as we find them.
Here they are: artist opportunities with August 2025 deadlines. Maybe you'll find one or two of them particularly interesting to you. Good luck!
Ellis-Beauregard Foundation Opportunities
The Ellis-Beauregard Foundation announced its Project Grant program and an inaugural Artist Resident Program at its new campus on the coast of Maine. The Project Grant program offers five $10,000 project grants for Maine artists working in all genres. The Artist Resident Program offers one, two, and six month residencies to artists of any discipline and includes a $2,000 stipend.
Geographic Focus
Maine [Project Grant program]
United States [Artist Resident program]
Deadline
August 1, 2025
Art and Change Grant
Leeway Foundation's Art and Change Grant provides grants of up to $2,500 to fund art for social change projects by women, trans, and/or gender nonconforming artists and cultural producers living in Greater Philadelphia.
Geographic Focus
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Deadline
August 1, 2025
Yaddo Residency
Yaddo in Saratoga Springs, New York, offers residencies to professional creative artists from all nations and backgrounds working in one or more of the following disciplines: choreography, film, literature, musical composition, painting, performance, photography, printmaking, sculpture, and video. There is a $35 application fee.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
August 1, 2025
Bemis Center Artist-in-Residence
The Bemis Center residency is a process-based experience for residents to research, experiment, and explore in private live/work studios in Omaha, Nebraska. Residents receive a $1,250 monthly stipend and an additional $750 travel stipend. There is a $40 application fee.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
August 4, 2025
Dog Trot Writers Residency
The Dog Trot Writers Residency at Nook of the Woods Retreat Center in North Carolina is a one month residency for writers who exist on the fringes of the academic community, who have forged their own creative path, or feel as if they have no platform that will amplify their voice. There is a $20 application fee.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
August 4, 2025
Mentoring Artist-in-Residence
Atlantic Center for the Arts' Mentoring Artist-in-Residence program is a three-week, process-based interdisciplinary residency program in New Smyrna Beach, Florida, that provides artists with an opportunity to be mentored by, work and collaborate with distinguished artists. This cycle's mentors are dancer Molissa Fenley, musician Jeremy Kittel, and writer Fatimah Asghar. There is a $25 application fee.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
August 8, 2025
Open Call: Academic Book Showcase
The Latinx Project will organize an interdisciplinary showcase of academic books published within the last three years in Latinx studies for its second print media fair. Local authors will be invited to attend the fair.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
August 15, 2025
CALI Catalyst
The Center for Cultural Innovation's CALI Catalyst program provides unrestricted grants of up to $7,500 to California changemakers who are creating tangible impact within the arts and culture sector by shifting power and influence to underrepresented voices. Applicants can be artists or arts workers and may apply as individuals or teams.
Geographic Focus
California
Deadline
August, 15, 2025
Keyholder Residency
Lower East Side Printshop's Keyholder Residency program offers emerging artists free 24-hour access to printmaking facilities to develop new work and foster their artistic careers. Artists from all disciplines are eligible; printmaking skills are not required, but some familiarity with the medium is recommended. The program includes a $1,000 stipend.
Geographic Focus
New York City
Deadline
August 15, 2025
PAM CUT Artist in Residency
PAM CUT's Artist in Residency program offers emerging and mid-career artists the opportunity to spend three and a half months working on a new or continued project in the following disciplines: film, television, audio, immersive realities, performance, and animation. The program includes a $3,000 stipend. There is a $25 application fee.
Geographic Focus
Portland, Oregon
Deadline
August 22, 2025
Woodward/Newman Award
Constellation Stage & Screen's Woodward/Newman Award presents one unpublished play with a cash prize of $3,000 and a full production as part of Constellation's Mainstage season. There is no submission fee.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
August 31, 2025
Performing Arts Funding Grant Program
ETC supports the arts throughout the United States by awarding $5,000 cash grants to nonprofit performance groups. US-based 501(c)(3) nonprofits are eligible to apply.
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
August 31, 2025
Bryn Du Artist in Residence
Bryn Du's Artist in Residence program in Granville, Ohio, provides setting for the creation of artistic works by one artist of any discipline over an 8 or 12 week time frame. Residencies are open nationwide for artists of all disciplines to apply. There is a $20 application fee.
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
August 31, 2025
Willapa Bay AiR
Willapa Bay AiR in coastal southwest Washington state offers month-long, self-directed residencies to artists, filmmakers, writers, playwrights, scholars, singer/songwriters, and musical composers. There is a $30 application fee.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
August 31, 2025
Residencies at The Studio
The Studio at the Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, New York, is accepting applications for three residencies. The Artist-in-Residence program provides artists with focused time to explore new directions in glassmaking or expanding on their current bodies of work. The Black, Indigenous, & People of Color Residency aims to welcome underrepresented artists while actively fostering a culture and community of inclusion that promotes, respects, and celebrates diversity. The David Whitehouse Research Residency for Artists is open to artists who want to utilize the Museum's resources to inform their practice. There is a $30 application fee for each residency.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
August 31, 2025
Liu Shiming Artist Grant
The Liu Shiming Art Foundation Artist Grant supports early career visual artists with $5,000 grants. Applicants must have either received a degree in studio arts between 2015 and 2023 or had their debut show between 2015 and 2023.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
August 31, 2025
Storyknife Writers Retreat
Residencies at Storyknife in Homer, Alaska, provide women with the time and space to explore their craft without distraction. Residencies are either for two or four weeks. There is a $40 application fee.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
August 31, 2025
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