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Here are the upcoming opportunities for April 2025. Best of luck!
Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest
Now in its 24th year, the Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest seeks today's best humor poems. No fee to enter. Submit published or unpublished work. This is a contest for humor poems, not serious poems. Serious poems will not be judged. The poem you submit should be in English. Inspired gibberish is also accepted. No application fee.
Geographic Focus
Geographic Focus: Global (see website for exceptions)
Deadline
April 1, 2025
Artadia Awards: New York
The Artadia Awards provide financial support, exposure and recognition to artists. The awards are unrestricted, allowing artists to use the funds in any way they choose. Applicants must be a contemporary visual artist, making artwork for presentation in a contemporary art context: museum, galleries, arts non-profit, the public art realm, etc. Artadia Awards are $15,000 and are unrestricted: The award money can be used however the artist sees fit. No application fee.
Geographic Focus
New York
Deadline
April 1, 2025
Fire Island Artist Residency
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 dedicated to emerging visual artists.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
April 1, 2025
Colors 2025 Art Competition
Fusion Art invites submissions for the Colors 2025 Art Competition for an online exhibition during the month of April 2025. For this competition, both 2D and 3D artists, worldwide, are invited to submit their best art and photography using a concentration of colors. One color or a multitude of colors meets the criteria for this competition.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
April 1, 2025
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Core Residency Program
The Core Residency Program at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston awards residencies to emerging artists and critical writers committed to developing a sustainable practice. The residency term is 23 months, during which receive $100,000 ($50,000 per year) plus a health stipend. At least one fellowship is awarded to a Harris County–based artist or critic when qualifications are comparable. Limited administrative support is available for successful international applicants seeking J-1 visas through the program’s partner organization, International Arts & Artists. No support is provided for other visa types. There is a $12 application fee.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
April 1, 2025
The BICA Microgrant
The Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art in Buffalo, NY offers The BICA Microgrant, a $300 good-faith grant for artists and curators who are realizing a project in the greater Buffalo area. This is no-strings-attached money that an artist or curator can use in whatever way they feel it’s needed.
Geographic Focus
Buffalo, NY
Deadline
April 1, 2025
Institute of Museum and Library Services Native Hawaiian Library Services Grant
The Native Hawaiian (‘NH’) Library Services Grant program is designed to assist Native Hawaiian serving organizations in sustaining and improving library services with their communities. Grants range from $50,000 to $150,000 over the course of one to two years. Projects must begin September 1, 2025. The NH program supports organizations across the islands and country to address their individual information needs and priorities. No application fee.
Geographic Focus
Hawaii
Deadline
April 1, 2025
Bedford Gallery Library Community Art Gallery
The Walnut Creek Library Community Art Gallery was created to encourage the development of artistic expression and to foster greater appreciation for art in our community. The Walnut Creek Library invites artists living or working in the greater Bay Area to submit proposals for the Library Community Art Gallery. Based on the number of applications, priority will be given to Contra Costa County artists.
Geographic Focus
Bay Area, CA
Deadline
April 1, 2025
Franklin Furnace Fund
Franklin Furnace annually awards grants to early career artists selected by peer panel review to enable them to produce major performance art works in New York City.UND grants range between $2,000 and $10,000 based on the peer review panel allocation of funding received by Franklin Furnace. Artists from all areas of the world are encouraged to apply; however, artists selected by the panel are expected to present their work in New York City. No application fee.
Geographic Focus
New York
Deadline
April 1, 2025
Jazz Road Creative Residencies
Jazz Road is a 4-year national jazz initiative directed by South Arts, funded by the Doris Duke Foundation with additional support from the Mellon Foundation. Jazz Road features a coordinated partnership with the other five Regional Arts Organizations. All work together to deliver technical assistance and grants that enhance jazz artists’ livelihoods through residencies in communities across the country.Grant amounts range from $5,000 to $40,000. Grants are awarded directly to artists.
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
April 2, 2025
The Terry Tempest Williams Creative Nonfiction Prize
The Terry Tempest Williams Creative Nonfiction Prize is intended to recognize the finest essay writing. We welcome all forms of previously unpublished fiction—one essay per submission. We welcome all work painted with creative nonfiction’s broad brush: the lyric essay, the hermit crab essay, the braided essay, the memoir, the personal essay, literary journalism, and everything in between. Food essays, travel writing, nature essays, sports writing, and literary criticism will also be considered but should have a personal component. There is a $23 application fee.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
April 3, 2025
The Minnesota Filmmaker Mentorship Grant
The Minnesota Filmmaker Mentorship Grant provides Minnesota-based early career film directors, working in short and/or long form experimental, narrative, animation or documentary genres, or in any hybrid combination of these forms, up to $10,000 to engage in self-designed mentorship with experienced directors or other film professionals to strengthen their film directing craft and/or professional skills in connection with a specific film project
Geographic Focus
Minnesota
Deadline
April 3, 2025
New York City Film Production Grant
The Jerome Foundation New York City Film Production Grant supports eligible New York City-based early career film directors whose work takes creative risks in expanding, questioning, experimenting with, or re-imagining filmmaking with production grants of up to $30,000.
Geographic Focus
New York
Deadline
April 4, 2025
New York Theatre Workshop 2050 Administrative Fellowship
The 2050 Administrative Fellowship is named in celebration of the U.S. Census Bureau’s projection that by the year 2050, there will be no single racial or ethnic majority in the United States. This projection provokes thoughts at New York Theatre Workshop about the transformations that will take place in the American landscape—technologically, environmentally, demographically, economically and artistically—now and in the future. The NYTW 2050 Administrative Fellowship is a year-long, paid, part-time fellowship for emerging theatre administrators interested in one field of interest including Artistic Workshop, Development, Education & Engagement, Executive, Finance & Operations, Literary, Marketing, Producing and Production Management. There is no application fee.
Geographic Focus
Global (Must Live in NY During Fellowship)
Deadline
April 4, 2025
WFF Housing Stability Grant
The Woodman Family Foundation Housing Stability Grant for Artists (WFF HSG) provides grants of $30,000, distributed over three years, to NYC-based visual artists in need who are seeking support for stable housing. In its inaugural cycle, the WFF HSG will award grants to five artists. Recipients may use the funds for new housing which reduces their rent obligation, guarantees a stable rental obligation such as a lengthy lease in their existing or new housing, and/or provides greater access to live/work space.No application fee.
Geographic Focus
New York City
Deadline
April 8, 2025
The Image Flow Queer Conscience Exhibit Call for Entries
The Image Flow invites photographic artists closely tied to the LGBTQIA2+ community to submit work to their 3rd Annual juried photography exhibition Queer Conscience 2025.This call is open to all photographers who consider themselves members of the LGBTQIA2+ community. This national call for entry is open to all photographic artists living or working in the United States and its territories. All entries must be original works of art and entirely the work of the entrant. Accepted entries will be exhibited at The Image Flow in San Anselmo, CA and in our online gallery. There is a $35 application fee.
Geographic Focus
New York City
Deadline
April 12, 2025
Bemis Center Artist-in-Residence Open Call
Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts offers a unique experience for two artists working in sound, composition, voice, and experimental genres and tools. National and international artists participating in the program receive financial, technical, and administrative support, along with dedicated facilities for rehearsing, recording, and performing new works that expand the field of sound art and music. There is a $40 application fee.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
April 14, 2025
Hambidge Center Residency Fall Session
The Hambidge Center nurtures creativity through a multidisciplinary residency program, innovative workshops, environmental initiatives and community programs in the North Georgia Mountains. Residents’ time is their own; there are no workshops, critiques, nor required activities. The residency is open to the following categories: arts and culture administration, ceramics, dance, music, science, and visual arts. There is a $30 application fee.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
April 15, 2025
Mudflat Studio Artist Residency
The Mudflat Studio in Boston offers a one-year residency position to clay artists. This highly competitive program provides a private studio space at no cost with access to Mudflat’s facility, a monthly materials stipend, a monthly housing stipend, and opportunities to teach and sell work.
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
April 16, 2025
Harwood Art Center Residency Program
The Harwood Art Center Residency Program supports the creation or continuation of original projects and their culminating public exhibitions. These projects must be socially, politically, or community engaged and may include artworks in any media; pieces made by individuals and/or collectives; installations with collaborators and/or community members; etc.The year-long program begins in January of 2026. There is a $10 application fee.
Geographic Focus
New Mexico
Deadline
April 21, 2025
Lux Center for The Arts Call for Entries
The LUX Center for the Arts is interested in supporting community connection and art accessibility in line with our guiding principle that “art is for everyone”.We feature work by new, emerging and experienced artists, students and working professionals, non-traditional and established artists. We feature many local and regional artists, as well as hosting art from around the world.
Geographic Focus
Nebraska
Deadline
April 28, 2025
Chianti Artist in Residence
Chinati is now accepting open call applications for the 2026 Artist in Residence Program.Four to six artists are hosted annually for two-month residencies. Resident artists are provided with an apartment on the museum grounds, a studio in downtown Marfa, and access to Chinati’s collection and archive. A stipend of $4,000 is provided for honorarium, travel and art materials. The program is open to audio/sound/dance/performance/video artists and visual artists.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
April 30, 2025
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