Every month, Fractured Atlas provides a list of upcoming grants and opportunities for artists and arts-based projects so that you can discover more opportunities to get financial support and other resources for your work. As a fiscal sponsor of over 3,500 artistic projects, we provide access to grants for artists in every discipline.
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Here are the upcoming opportunities for May 2025. Best of luck!
Ohio Arts Council Artists With Disabilities Access Program
The Artists with Disabilities Access Program (ADAP) provides funding that gives individual artists with disabilities the resources they need to further their artistic development. The ADAP awards help artists with disabilities advance their artistic practices, making Ohio a more accessible and inclusive place to build an artistic career. Grants are awarded to individual artists at both the emerging artist level ($500) and professional artist level (up to $2,500).
Geographic Focus
Geographic Focus: Ohio
Deadline
May 1, 2025
Nevada Arts Council Artist Fellowship Award
The Fiscal Year 2026 Artist Fellowship Award from the Nevada Arts Council awards $5,000 to a literary or performing artist. The Fiscal Year 2026 (FY26) Artist Fellowship Award from the Nevada Arts Council recognizes committed artists living in Nevada reaching pivotal moments in their artistic practice who demonstrate sustained excellence in their work. This year's grant application is open to literary and performing artists
Geographic Focus
Nevada
Deadline
May 1, 2025
Lavine/Ken Burns Prize For Film
The Librarian of Congress in partnership with The Better Angels Society awards the Lavine/Ken Burns Prize for films that focus on an American historical subject, issue, or person within a time frame occurring at least twenty years prior to submission that present a variety of perspectives grounded in extensive and thorough research. The majority of the film must be historically focused to qualify.
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
May 1, 2025
Waterston Desert Writing Prize
The Waterston Desert Writing Prize provides financial and other support to writers whose work reflects a similar connection to the desert, recognizing the vital role deserts play worldwide in the ecosystem and the human narrative. The Prize will recognize the winner with a $3,000 cash award and a reading and reception at the High Desert Museum in Bend, Oregon on September 25, 2025.
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
May 1, 2025
Ellis-Beauregard Foundation Visual Arts Award
The Ellis-Beauregard Foundation awards $50,000 award to a United States artist working in the visual arts. In addition to the cash award, The Ellis-Beauregard Foundation invites the awardee to bring a presentation of their choice to our Exhibition/Performance space in Rockland, Maine.
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
May 1, 2025
Neukom Institute Literary Award For Playwriting
The Neukom Literary Arts Awards Award for Playwriting awards a $5,000 honorarium as well as a weeklong workshop and a public reading produced by Northern Stage in Vermont for plays and other full-length theatre work addressing the question “What does it mean to human in a computerized world?”.
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
May 1, 2025
PEN America U.S. Writers Aid Initiative
The U.S. Writers Aid Initiative assists fiction and nonfiction authors, poets, playwrights, translators, and journalists in addressing short-term financial emergencies. To be eligible, applicants must be professional writers based in the United States, and be able to demonstrate that this one-time grant will be meaningful in helping address a short-term emergency situation.
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
May 2, 2025
Martin House Creative Residency Program
The Martin House Creative Residency Program provides creative individuals a designated time and space to develop new works of the imagination inspired by one of the great examples of 20th century architecture.The residency is a competitive program that is open to applicants who seek the resources to support ongoing projects or the creation of new work. Creative makers who are selected to participate will generally spend 2-4 weeks onsite either consecutively or incrementally within the specified residency term.
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
May 5, 2025
2025 Abbey Mural Prize Call For Proposals
The Abbey Mural Prize awards grants to support the creation and restoration of public murals in the United States. The Abbey Mural Prize supports projects with grants typically ranging from $10,000 to $40,000. Grants are awarded to create or restore public murals, especially those that promote accessibility and serve local audiences.
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
May 9, 2025
Yéigo Action Grant
The Yéigo Action Grant provides support for the growing landscape of Native artists and culture bearers who need financial assistance with a professional development opportunity or towards a hardship that is hindering their creative practice. This program offers grants between $100 and $5,000 for individual Native artists and culture bearers
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
May 10, 2025
The Hopper Prize
The Hopper Prize provides unrestricted cash grants in the amount of $3,500 and $1,000 to visual artists around the globe. For each grant cycle, a new cohort of artists is selected to receive financial support and widespread exposure. Grant winners and finalists are chosen solely on the basis of artistic excellence and the promise of future potential.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
May 13, 2025
Ploughshares Emerging Writers Contest
Ploughshares Emerging Writer’s Contest recognizes work by an emerging writer in each of three genres: fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Authors are considered “emerging” if they haven’t published or self-published a book. One winner in each genre per year will receive $2,000 and publication in the literary journal.
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
May 15, 2025
Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize
Established in 1975, the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize recognizes the most outstanding book of poetry published in the United States in the previous calendar year. The prize includes $25,000, a ten-day residency at Glen Hollow in Naples, New York, and distribution of the winning book to hundreds of Academy of American Poets members.
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
May 15, 2025
James Laughlin Award
The James Laughlin Award is given to recognize and support a second book of poetry forthcoming in the next calendar year. The winning poet receives a prize of $5,000, an all-expenses-paid weeklong residency at The Betsy Hotel in Miami Beach, Florida, and distribution of the winning book to approximately one thousand Academy of American Poets members.
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
May 15, 2025
Peyton Evans Artist Residency Program
The Studios of Key West, the premier arts organization at the Southernmost Point of the United States, offers the Peyton Evans Artist Residency Program for emerging and established artists and writers from around the world. The program grants nearly 40 artists each year the time and space to imagine new artistic work, engage in valuable dialogue and explore island connections.
Geographic Focus
Global
Deadline
May 15, 2025
2025 Aurora Polaris Award in Creative Nonfiction
The Trio House Press Aurora Polaris Creative Nonfiction Award is open to all living authors, regardless of publication history. Award winners receive $1,000 and twenty copies of their book, along with assistance in marketing the book.
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
May 15, 2025
NPN Creative Development Fund
The National Performance Network Creative Development Fund supports the creation, development and mobility of new artistic work that advances racial and cultural justice and results in live experiential exchange between artists and community. The fund provides a framework for relationships to develop, over time, among diverse artists, arts organizations, and communities. Through the investment of commissioning funds from arts organizations and NPN direct subsidies, each project is eligible for multi-level support.
Geographic Focus
United States and Mexico
Deadline
May 19, 2025
Anne LaBastille Memorial Writers Residency
The Adirondack Center for Writing offers the Anne LaBastille Memorial Writers Residency, a free, two-week residency annually in autumn to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers at a lodge on Twitchell Lake in the heart of the Adirondack Mountains. Six residents will be chosen: three from the Adirondack region and three from anywhere in the world.
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
May 19, 2025
Film Independent Documentary Labs
The Film Independent Documentary Labs support filmmakers who are in post-production on their feature-length documentary films. In the spring, the Document Story Lab helps directors hone their story as they dive into the editing phase of their feature documentary. The Documentary Producing Lab in the fall is designed for producers working in the nonfiction space with projects in active development, production or post-production
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
May 20, 2025
Austin Film Festival's Script Competition
The Austin Film Festival’s Script Competition invites screenwriters to submit their original scripts. This opportunity is open to all genres and is aimed at writers from across the United States. Competition categories include: Feature Screenplay, Short Screenplay and Teleplay, Fiction Podcast and Playwriting. Winners receive up to $1,000 and the AFF Bronze Typewriter Award.
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
May 27, 2025
Tulsa Artist Fellowship
Tulsa Artist Fellowship is a place-based, durational award that aims to support visionary arts practitioners.The fellowship is open to national and local artists and/or arts workers of any medium and/or discipline with a minimum of five years of arts field experience. The award includes $150,000 stipend paid over three-years for awarded project deliverables and general artistic practice costs.
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
May 28, 2025
Art Omi Critic-In-Residence
The Art Omi Critics/Curators-in-Residence opportunity is open to critics, curators, and art writers, who have been professionally active for the past 5 years, as demonstrated in their resumes and through their website, blogs, or published articles and reviews. Art Omi offers the Critics/Curators-in-Residence a travel grant and a $1,500 honorarium.
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
May 31, 2025
Da Vinci Art Alliance Fellowship Program
The DVAA Fellowship Program serves the DVAA Membership and the arts communities of Philadelphia through support of underserved artists with innovative ideas through four distinct Fellowship tracks. Fellows accepted into the program are encouraged to develop and pursue experimental concepts and themes within their exhibition with the support of DVAA staff and resources. The fellowship includes a three-week long exhibition in DVAA curated by the Fellowship artist.
Geographic Focus
Philadelphia, PA
Deadline
May 31, 2025
Jonathan and Barbara Silver Foundation 2025 Grant for Sculpture
The grant program of the Jonathan and Barbara Silver Foundation encourages and supports sculptors, whether emerging or established, and writers about sculpture. In 2025, the Foundation will award a $20,000 grant to a sculptor who demonstrates an exceptional commitment to sculpture and an imaginative engagement with its materials, histories and situation.
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
May 31, 2025
Eliza Moore Fellowship for Artistic Excellence
The Eliza Moore Fellowship for Artistic Excellence is awarded annually to one outstanding, early-career artist who is developing new works that address plants, gardens, or landscapes in the broad sense. This award is open to visual artists, literary artists, dancers, and musicians. The award includes a $10,000 individual grant and requires a 2 - 5 week stay at Oak Spring.
Geographic Focus
United States
Deadline
May 31, 2025
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