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Here are the upcoming opportunities for April 2024. Best of luck!
Empire State Fellows Program
The Empire State Fellows Program is a full-time leadership training program that prepares the next generation of talented professionals for careers as New York State policymakers. Fellows receive an annual salary of $85,000 and a benefits package.
Geographic Focus
New York State
Deadline
April 1, 2024
MFAH Core Program
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) Core Program awards residencies to visual artists and critical writers who have completed their undergraduate or graduate training and are working to develop a sustainable practice. The residency term is nine months and includes a $21,500 stipend and private studio or office.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
April 1, 2024
Franklin Furnace FUND for Performance Art
Franklin Furnace annually awards grants to early career artists to enable them to produce major performance art works in New York City. Grants range between $2,000 and $10,000.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
April 1, 2024
Artadia Awards: New York City
The Artadia Awards provide financial support, exposure and recognition to artists. The awards include $15,000 in unrestricted funds. Applicants must be a contemporary visual artist, marking artowrk for presentation in a contemporary art context.
Geographic Focus
New York City
Deadline
April 1, 2024
Bemis Center Artist-in-Residence
The Bemis residency is a process-based experience—residents have the ability to research, experiment, and explore free from expectations. US-based residents receive a $1,250 monthly stipend and an additional $750 travel stipend, while international residents are eligible to receive reimbursement of qualified expenses. There is a $40 application fee.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
April 1, 2024
Bayard Rustin Residency
The Bayard Rustin Residency at Penington Friends House in New York City's Lower East Side is envisioned as an ongoing ladder to empowerment for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) working to end systemic racism and to create a culture of anti-racism and intersectional equality in the United States.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
April 1, 2024
Fire Island Artist Residency
Fire Island Artist Residency is the first residency in the US exclusively for artists identifying as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, nonbinary, intersex, two-spirit or queer. Emerging visual artists demonstrating new perspectives in contemporary visual art are encouraged to apply. There is a $40 application fee.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
April 1, 2024
The Democracy Cycle
The Perelman Performing Arts Center (PAC NYC) is launching The Democracy Cycle, a new commissioning program designed to support new works that illuminate the promise, practice, imperfection, and opportunity of democracy. Proposals are requested for new performing arts works from artists working in theater, dance, music, opera, and multidisciplinary performance. A $30,000 commission will be awarded to each selected project.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
April 1, 2024
WaveMaker Grant
Locust Projects' WaveMaker grants program awards up to $6,000 each in three categories: New Work/Projects, Long-Haul Projects, and Research & Development + Implementation. Miami-Dade County visual artists, curators, arts writers, cultural organizers, collectives, collaborators, and artist-run spaces at all career stages are encouraged to apply.
Geographic Focus
Miami-Dade County, Florida
Deadline
April 1, 2024
American Library in Paris Visiting Fellowship
The American Library in Paris Visiting Fellowship offers writers and researchers an opportunity to pursue a creative project in Paris for a month or longer while participating actively in the life of the American Library. The program includes a $5,000 stipend. Researches, journalists, writers (both fiction and nonfiction), poets, screenwriters, playwrights, directors, and documentary filmmakers are encouraged to apply. There is a 30 € application fee.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
April 1, 2024
Annmarie Summer Residency
Annmarie Sculpture Garden and Art Center's residency program in Solomons, Maryland, invites artists to submit a proposal for a community art project that will engage visitors of all ages. Preference will be given to projects that use some or all recycled or repurposed materials. Professional and emerging visual artists, musicians, and literary artists may apply.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
April 1, 2024
BICA Microgrant
The Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art (BICA) is giving out a $300 good-faith grant for artists and curators who are realizing a project in the greater Buffalo, New York area. This program funds exhibitions, performances, and other projects that contribute to the visual arts in Buffalo.
Geographic Focus
Buffalo, New York
Deadline
April 1, 2024
Brain Bridge Lab Art Contest
The Brain Bridge Lab at the University of Chicago is accepting submissions to its Art Contest. Submissions should fall in one of two categories: memorable or forgettable. Cash prizes will be awarded to the top five places in each category.
Geographic Focus
Continental United States
Deadline
April 1, 2024
Self as Universe: Mending Our Collective Ecosystem
Self as Universe residencies at A Studio in the Woods in New Orleans, Louisiana, invite artists to explore the connections within our collective ecosystems and use the power of imagination to heal the wounds in the relationship between ourselves and our communities. The program is open to artists of all disciplines who have demonstrated an established dialogue with environmental and cultural issues. Residents will be provides $3,000 as a stipend and $2,000 towards materials. There is a $25 application fee.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
April 3, 2024
Creative Capital Award
Creative Capital welcomes innovative and original new project proposals in visual arts, performing arts, film/moving image, technology, literature, multidisciplinary, and socially engaged forms. The award provides unrestricted project grants which can be drawn down over a multiyear period, bespoke professional development services, and community-building opportunities.
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
April 4, 2024 [Letter of Intent]
Al & Mickey Quinlan Artist Residency
The Al & Mickey Quinlan Residency at the Dome House in Door County, Wisconsin, is an 8-week program for emerging and mid-career Midwest artists focused in the areas of drawing, painting, printmaking, photography, and other fine art mediums. The program includes a $500 stipend.
Geographic Focus
Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, and South Dakota
Deadline
April 5, 2024
SOMA Summer
SOMA Summer is a three-week intensive program in Mexico for international artists, curators, critics, and art historians, conducted in English. This cycle will be structured after Argentinean decolonial philosopher Enrique Dussel's subject-subject relation categories to deal with entanglement as its object of study.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
April 7, 2024
The Brooklyn Artists Exhibition Open Call
The Brooklyn Artists Exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum will feature artworks in all mediums, spotlighting artists who have lived or worked in Brooklyn during the last five years (2019-2024). There is no submission fee.
Geographic Focus
Brooklyn, New York
Deadline
April 7, 2024
Sound Art + Experimental Music Residency / Alumni Artist-in-Residence
Bemis Center offers two specialized residency programs in addition to their standard residency program. The Sound Art + Experimental Residency is for artists working in sound, composition, voice, and experimental music. There is a $40 application fee. The Alumni Artist-in-Residence program is for artists who have already participated in the Bemis Residency or have exhibited at Bemis. There is a $15 application fee.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
April 8, 2024
Fernland Studios Artist Residency
Fernland Studios' artist residencies provide people with time, financial support, and a network to honor how their work contributes to a larger body of activism, artistry, community, and research. The program includes a $1,000 stipend. US-based artists from all stages of their practice are eligible to apply, while participants in the Pacific Northwest are prioritized.
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
April 8, 2024
NEH Fellowship
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowships are competitive awards granted to individual scholars pursuing projects that embody exceptional research, rigorous analysis, and clear writing. Projects may be at any stage of development. NEH invites research applications from scholars in all disciplines.
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
April 10, 2024
Visual Arts: Banff Artist in Residence
The Banff Artist in Residence program offers visual artists the time, space, and resources to engage in intensive, self-directed research and studio practice, build community, and learn new skills in a supportive learning environment. There is a $65 application fee.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
April 10, 2024
Velvetpark Visual Artist Residency
Velvetpark Residency is a project-based live-work studio in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. It is open to LGBTQ+ visual artists to complete a proposed project. The residency is for a six-month term. There is a $25 application fee.
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
April 14, 2024
Hambidge Residency
Hambidge provides a self-directed program in the mountains of north Georgia. Creative professionals of all backgrounds are encouraged to apply. There is a $30 application fee.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
April 15, 2024
STK Foundation Grant
The STK Foundation provides support for Maine communities by funding projects that address the underlying causes of social and environmental problems, as well as those that address the consequences. Any 501(c)(3) organization in the state of Maine is eligible to apply. Grants range from $500 to $50,000.
Geographic Focus
Maine
Deadline
April 15, 2024
Dexter Jones Award
National Sculpture Society's Dexter Jones Award grants $5,000 to a sculptor based on an outstanding work of sculpture in bas-relief. The use of figurative or realist sculpture or sculpture that is inspired by nature is of greatest interest. Applicants must have been born between 1984 and 2005 to be eligible.
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
April 15, 2024
Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship
Jerome Foundation's Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship supports early career Minnesota- and New York City-based generative artists who take creative risks in exploring, expanding, imagining, or re-imagining creative practices and experiences; reclaiming or reviving traditional forms in original ways; and/or questioning, challenging, or disrupting cultural norms. Fellows receive $60,000 over three consecutive years.
Geographic Focus
Minnesota and New York City
Deadline
April 15, 2024
Call for Entries: Meet Me There, Another Time
Queer and trans people are invited to submit to the anthology, Meet Me There, Another Time: Letters to Places Queer and Trans People Left Behind. The prompt: Write a letter to a place you've had to leave to preserve your own sense of safety. No pieces will be turned away.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
April 15, 2024
Mudflat Year-Long Residency
The Mudflat Year-Long Residency provides clay artists with a private studio space at no cost with access to Mudflat's facility, a monthly $75 materials stipend, a monthly $800 housing stipend, and opportunities to teach and sell work.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
April 16, 2024
Anonymous Was A Woman Environmental Art Grant
New York Foundation for the Arts' Anonymous Was A Woman Environmental Art Grant distributes up to $20,000 per project to support environmental art projects led by women-identifying artists in the United States and US Territories.
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
April 16, 2024
Fellowship for Digital Publication
National Endowment for the Humanaties' Fellowship for Digital Publication is granted to individual scholars to support interpretive research projects that require digital expression and digital publication.
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
April 17, 2024
Independent Residency: Leighton Artist Studios
Banff Centre's Leighton Artist Studio residencies are geared to professional artists working on major research-creation projects or new bodies of work. Artists working in the following disciplines are eligible to apply: writing for the stage and screen, composing and songwriting, literary arts, visual arts, critical and curatorial writing. There is a $65 application fee.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
April 17, 2024
PASS: Open Call
Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden in Staten Island, New York, announced its open call for the Performing Arts Salon Saturdays (PASS) artist residency and performance program. This program will support the creation and development of new works in dance, music, theater, and multidisciplinary performance. Selected artists receive a $1,500 honorarium.
Geographic Focus
New York City metropolitan area
Deadline
April 18, 2024
Abbey Mural Prize
The National Academy of Design's Abbey Mural Prize awards grants to support the creation and restoration of public murals in the United States. Grants range from $10,000 to $40,000. Artists and organizations are eligible to apply.
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
April 22, 2024
Challenge America
The National Endowment for the Arts' Challenge America program offers support primarily to small organizations for projects that extend the reach of the arts to underserved groups/communities. Grants are set at $10,000.
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
April 25, 2024
Taoyuan International Art Award
Established by the Taoyuan Museum of Fine Arts, the Taoyuan International Art Award stands as a biennial exhibition initiative dedicated to cultivating international art networks and expanding global perspectives.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
April 26, 2024
American Art Exhibition Competition
The Henry Luce Foundation's American Art Program supports scholarly loan exhibitions by museums and institutions that contribute significantly to the study and understanding of art of the United States, including all facets of Native American art. Eligible projects may address any time period and/or medium, with the exceptions of performance art, film, and the work of emerging artists.
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
April 26, 2024
Harpo Foundation Grant for Visual Artists
The Harpo Foundation Grant for Visual Artists provides direct support to under-recognized artists 21 years or older. Awards are made up to $10,000. There is a $15 application fee.
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
April 29, 2024
Virginia Humanities Rapid Grant
Virginia Humanities grants support projects that explore the stories of Virginia—its history, people, communities, and cultural traditions—as well as issues and questions that impact the lives of Virginians in the present day. Rapid grants award up to $5,000 to Virginia-based nonprofits.
Geographic Focus
Virginia
Deadline
April 30, 2024
Wolfsonian Creative Fellowship
Wolfsonian creative fellowships invite artists of all kinds—visual artists, designers, performers, writers, filmmakers, and musicians—to immerse themselves in the Wolfsonian collection and draw visual, conceptual or storytelling inspiration from its wide range of historical materials. The program includes a stipend, round-trip travel, accommodations, and access to the collection and collections staff.
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
April 30, 2024
Jacki Apple Award in Performance and Artist Projects
Franklin Furnace's Jacki Apple Award in Performance and Artist Projects grants $10,000 to fund projects in performance, media, exhibition, and/or publication. Mid- and late-career artists are eligible to apply.
Geographic Focus
New York City
Deadline
April 30, 2024
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